Protect them...? But why hook them up in the first place...?

[Was it some kind of energy source thing, like that one movie? But it wasn't really an efficient way of harvesting energy... The entire situation left a bad feeling in his gut, if he were honest.]

R-Right-- a mainframe, something... [Something that could offer some explanation. He turns around, frantically searching their surroundings for some kind of console to check.] Ugh, it's not like it's laid out like a normal arcade...