Cutting Floor: Text Fragment Ch 27

TEXT FRAGMENT - NOT CANON

All lights went suddenly off and the towering machine before us stopped moving. "What just happened?" I asked as my suit switched to infrared vision. Xon spread his arms."Something just cut the main energy feed to this section. My sensors read nothing but a very faint energy signature inside that thing." He paused and said."Strange enough, that energy source as weak as it is, conforms to a TKU in standby mode." "Check it out, if you can. I need to find out where the other passengers of the TRAA are." Xon and two of our recent Y'All additions started to peel open the now immobile mechanism before us, and while they did that, I took the time to contact Narth. "Can you give me an update report?" "I was just about to contact you, captain. TheOther is with us and we have no casualties. The core system of this planet has been deactivated by a local associate of TheOther." "So, TheOther managed to gain control over some ancient system?" "No, a local  life form infiltrated the core control and operated the main power control." "A local life from?" "Yes, we are currently asessing the situation and  before you proceed with the destruction of this construct." "