Thursday, December 25, 2008

Lock Down (8)

Liam, Alia and Bison are in the elevator heading down to the second lowest floor in the Tempest. As the elevator door opens Charlie is there with fifty soldiers.
“So it’s trapped on this floor?” Liam asks hurrying out of the elevator.
“It took down five of my soldiers without blinking,” Charlie replied.
“How can you see it blink? Apparently it’s wearing a mask.” Liam states bluntly. All fifty soldiers crowd around him. “I want everyone in groups of five. The Intruder is dangerous. We also want it alive, so we are using tazer bullets. One shot and it will be knocked out for an hour.”
Bison separates his troops into groups of five as ordered. Each group begins to scan the floor searching for the Intruder. Listening to the conversations the Intruder hides silently in the above air vent.

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Alia along with four soldiers all creep slowly through the hallways. All of them on high alert hunting the Intruder. With her heighten senses Alia is the one that locates it. She stands still and peers around the hall, the Intruder not in sight. She closes her eyes and listens. “Nobody move.”
All her troops halt. Alia hears the air running in and out of her soldier’s nostrils. A fly buzzes around down the hallway, about 10 meters away from them. Then Alia hears creek in the ceiling directly above one of her troops. She quickly spins around and shoots the ceiling making a whole in the roof revealing the Intruder. It swoops out of the vent down to the floor taking out two soldiers as it lands then leaps through the hallway away from those that found it.
Alia’s eyes turn yellow and beings chasing the black figure. She contacts all the other soldiers with her ear piece. “The Intruder is heading down the west corridor.”
Liam’s and Charlies troops are the closest to the Intruder’s destination in the West Corridor. The see it jumping down towards them and both begin blasting at it with their guns. It dodges every shot as it manoeuvres into a room on the side of the hallway. Liam and Charlie rush into the room following it. A large steel door shuts the entrance that the three entered into. Alia reaches the doorway as it shuts. She is furious punching the door making dents in the steel.
Alia turns to her soldiers that have crowded around her. “Get this door open!” she demands. She contacts Liam directly through her earpiece. “Liam what’s going on?” Static is heard then Liam replies.
“We have the intruder cornered.” Static interrupts. “It has taken down Major Jordan…” shots are heard. “Ahh!” Liam screams before the transmission ends.
Above the troops that congregate in front of the sealed door they hear something shuffling through the air vent. Several troops chase the noise above them, shooting at the ceiling. Then the shuffling stops and then there is an explosion in the vent. The ceiling crashes down as pieces of the roof lands on the floor. It is only pieces of roof that fall, the Intruder is no where to be seen.
Alia deactivate the lock on the steel door as it opens. In the enclosed room Liam and Charlie lay unconscious on the floor.

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