"Yes," replied the computer with certainty, its voice resonating coldly across the empty, metal deck. "Reactor control rods have been manually removed by the intruder. Reactor core temperature is rising and will soon reach critical levels; maintenance and supervision systems have been compromised by the intruder and cannot function. Reactor control rods should be replaced immediately to prevent a catastrophic core melt accident."

Once Desmond was done speaking and making orders, the computer finally replied, bullet-point by bullet-point as only a computer would.

"The intruder has already escaped using escape pod #117 from reactor core corridor 4," reiterated the computer. "However, once the escape pod is nearer to Earth and its trajectory can be reliably calculated, planet-side forces will be sortied to intercept the intruder at his landing site."

Abruptly, it stated the next response.

"'Egg Pawns' are not designed or programmed for specialized repair and maintenance. Barring even that limitation, there are no remaining adequately-functional units able to access the reactor core at this time."

More security camera footage popped up to reinforce its message, showing a trail of carnage that went down the corridors, with shells of bombed-out-looking robots littering the floors everywhere. Doors leading to the core had robots tearing and blasting at them, but looked to have been welded shut, and in some cases simply obstructed by debris, leaving repair robots from other areas standing idly by, waiting for access while the core temperature continued to skyrocket.

Dropping his hands down to his sides, the words hit him like the bullets Seven was firing before. "Gone?" he asked aloud, unsure if he was talking more to the monotone A.I or himself. The thought of him getting away again tore a hole in his heart, like he failed at another task even though he didn't have much control over it. 

"Yeah" he answered in a defeated and slight careless tone to the A.I's option, "set the land forces closest to him on full alert" the ferret commanded while lazily flicking his hands in a "shoo" motion. The possibility of killing the man jolted into his mind temporarily, it was easy enough, he had the power at the beaconing of his call. Maybe it was his rationalization that the doctor would be more valuable alive, or maybe it was simply the slight thought that killing the doctor would be morally wrong in some way, whatever stopped him from placing a hit on the man continued with the disarming directive he placed on Seven. "Place him in some type of custody" he finished. 

Walking over to the stairs he went back to asking his previous question, "Computer" he called with a firm tone almost close to angrily yelling as he felt the A.I had ignored his question, "Do you have any means on how I could fix the reactor rods?" Maybe the A.I didn't quite comprehend his question, so he guessed a few tools that the doctor could have. "Maybe another one of those escape pods can be used to break open the sealed doors" going for something simpler, "Maybe a jackhammer or a drill?"

Mid sentence, an idea hit him, well more of a short picture of that white primate furiously typing on the keyboard a thousand or so floors below. "He knows something alright" as though he had caught someone red handed. Not looking behind him, he called for him as well as someone who was unbeknownst to a complete stranger. 

"Uh, white haired mohawk man, I need a hand here."   

The computer took a long time to respond.

"You did not design your escape pods to launch inwardly," it replied, heavily confused. "They are intended to launch free of the ship and travel to Earth."

Suddenly, all the camera feeds went out at once in a flash, the lights flickered and dimmed, and red emergency lights came on all over the place. A second or two later, the lightest of shudders shook the floor under Desmond's seat simultaneous to a very distant boom.

"... The reactor core has suffered critical damage," said the computer. "Now operating on emergency power. Evacuation is strongly advised."