Friday, December 5, 2008

Lock Down (6)

Nine levels underground Charlie Jordan gets a call from her Lieutenant. Her brown hair is tied up in a ponytail to stay out of her face and ears. Her earpiece lights up blue.
“Yes Bison, our unit will be on the look out,” she says to her caller. “The Intruder won’t get out of the building.” She hangs up the call. With her are five troops from her unit. She stands before them her with a riffle in her had. Dressed in grey and standing at five foot five, she is shorter than all the soldiers in front of her, yet they patiently wait for her to speak.
“We have gone into lock down… no one can get in or out of the building, we-” Charlie suddenly stops mid sentence and quickly raises her riffle and fires it. The shot narrowly misses one of her soldiers head. The soldiers duck and turn to see where Charlie had shot.
In the corner of the roof a figure dressed in black body suit from her to toe crouches holding a glowing blue tube. It leaps off the ceiling and dodges the bullet. The five soldiers grab their fire arms and begin to aim at the Intruder. The Intruder lands on the ground and slides sweeping two soldiers onto the ground. The guns begin to fire all missing the Intruder. The black figure rolls onto its side and with its arms pushes it body upright and stands facing another soldier. Before another shot is taken the Intruder head butts knocking the soldier unconscious. Still holding the Blue tube with one hand, the figure uses its free hand and grabs its opponent by the shirt before it can collapse to the floor. The Intruder swings the soldier around. Its legs are in the air and hit the other two soldiers in the face. The figure the releases the soldier and throws it to the ground. The only two left standing are Charlie and the Intruder.
Charlie charges towards the Intruder shooting with her riffle. The Intruder leaps up over her. The Intruder kicks Charlie in the face as it pounces past her. Charlie’s face is wounded but turns as the Intruder passes her. She keeps shooting but the figure is agile and misses the bullets and escapes out of the room.
Charlie looks around at her fallen troops, within ten seconds the Intruder had taken down five of her soldiers. She calls Bison with her earpiece.
“The Intruder is on the 9th basement level,” she states. “It’s fast, strong… and it has stolen another core.”

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