Followed by a drone!

James put her helmet back up, and raised a finger. "I'll go check it out, find someplace to lay low, uh..." She looked around, remembering that the walls were pretty open, with no ceiling. There wasn't exactly a place to hide anywhere. "Just, keep out of sight."

With a nod, Ivy turned to trot somewhere near the loading docks where she could hide behind one of the ramps. Since Lucas was still mostly connected with Ivy, he started to modify her again, encasing her torso with the same metallic black that made up the Meteor armor James wore. The Ascend headset also darkened to a blank screen, making Ivy look almost entirely a machine, save for her blonde hair.

James walked toward the source of the noise, reflecting on her current self as she went, given that she just assumed the noise she heard was like a generator or something outside, something that kicked on automatically for some sort of electrical systems along the perimeter of the unfinished warehouse. Since she didn't think it was an actual threat, she turned to focus inwardly. It was strange, what Luke did to her, although she had to admit she felt both sexy and powerful like this. She didn't mind being a woman--rather, it was something she hoped she could convince Luke to let her understand more, the same way Luke had weeks to do the same via Ivy. Couple that with what looked like shapely armor, like she was some sort of action hero... she shivered, enjoying the thought that she was like some superheroine. Despite having a younger version of Luke's mother's face--really strange to think about--it was still James in there.

Those thoughts were filed away when James located the culprit of the sound, when her HUD indicated something up a little higher than she expected to look.

A Yabusa drone hovered quietly in the sky, lazily drifting along and scanning the area.

"Oh, hell," James said to herself, before she clicked on the Ascend transmitter that Luke had embedded in her, speaking through Ivy's mouth from the spot she'd settled in. "Yabusa's got a drone scanning the area."

"What?!" Luke exclaimed, almost startling Ivy and James both by his outburst. "That can't be possible. I disabled all the trackers. ...I think. I think I disabled all the trackers."

"You THINK?" hissed James into the headset as she hurried along the wall back towards where she thought Ivy had gone, based on the sights she had seen through the Ascend connection. "Though, I think you're right. If trackers were on, that drone would probably be right on us instantly, those positioning chips are extremely accurate. If I had to guess, when you disabled the security here, that triggered a failsafe. That drone is going to look at every inch of this place though, and it's weaving its way closer to your location. We're going to need to find a window where the drone isn't looking, and just get out."

When James finally gets to Ivy, she immediately climbs onto the girl's back, on the footpegs and handlebars to hold steady. When James connected again to Ivy's Ascend, she could feel the nervousness in the pit of her stomach, and the rapid breathing that accompanied it. Ivy was frightened about the fact that she might be caught, half-embedded in millions of dollars of Yabusa Robotics tech. What would they do to her? Does Yabusa have their own jail? Or would she and James be secreted away to some sort of experiment facility to be subject to tests until the end of their days? At least James would be with her...

James watched the sky carefully, watching the drone peek over the side of the building nearest the group, before it came slightly closer, and then started to sweep back over the warehouse. When the drone seemed to vanish out of sight, James tapped Ivy's side twice. "I think we're clear. If we cross the street, there's some paths into wooded areas leading to the river. Then we can get home and put everything back and... shoot, I dunno. Mr. G said there would be pizza."

"Pizza, yeah, pizza." Ivy kept repeating that as she started to trot out, spurred on by James tapping her sides. "We'll go back to Luke's place, there will be pizza, and... then we'll do normal stuff, with two legs." It was clear to everyone that Ivy was a little stressed, so James hooked into the Ascend, taking more direct control of her body, locking her own body in place on the handlebars and footpegs while she controlled a thankful Ivy, who didn't want to deal with the stress of the situation.

This being the first time James tried being quadrupedal, it took some adjustment. She felt off-balance, unsteady, feeling a bit like her torso was going to just fall off the front of the Ichabod unit. She knew otherwise, but the sensation was still there. She looked back over her shoulder to make sure the drone wasn't following. That turned out to be a mistake, as one bad step caused her to step on an old board, which cracked under the hooves with a loud snap.

Immediately, the drone turned toward the source of the noise, and it saw something in the distance. It turned and began to fly at incredible speed for them!

"Run, go!" Ivy cried, as James took charge to really push the Ichabod unit to its maximum speed! The balancing mechanisms kicked in, to stabilize the running, and they hit some incredibly fast speeds! But with a drone fast approaching, it was hard to know if it would be enough before they could reach the thick forest where the drone couldn't easily follow.