Sara almost ran out to him, but I held her back. I said, "Stay here! I'll get him!" I called over my shoulder, "Jazz! Lead the kids out of here! Viktor! Watch my back!" I turned to Sara. "Bud, I need you to tell the Psychic Tank to blow a hole in the wall so we can leave. OK?" She looked at me with big, tearful, pleading eyes. She said, "OK." I ran out towards where Thi-GABE wrestled the creature away from us, Viktor was close behind.
I could sense the last two Viper-wolves charging towards us. Viktor turned and let his blindfold fall. The flash of green light cut the mutant in half, I won't go into details. The other one was on me I slashed at it with fully extended claws as we wrestled each other to the ground. I found a way to wrap my arms around its neck. I forced the beast's head into a direction that, judging by that crackling sound, wasn't supposed to go like that.
I got to Gabe. I slid my arm under his head and the other under his legs. I turned and bolted towards the others. I noticed that my hands did not burn, but I couldn't think about that right now. The Commander fired at the wall, causing it to fall and become rubble. There was a hallway behind it. A way out! The kids piled through it. "Do not let them get away! Release all of the Viper-Wolves!"
I turned to see Bishop on the giant screens, looking majorly peeved. I might have had a grin on my face, but it would have disappeared at the site of more of those monsters pouring out of the cages. My heart sunk into my stomach. How are we supposed to out-run all of those? The Commander made himself known. He uttered, "Go." I hesitated. "Go!" He yelled. Viktor went ahead through the hole, saying, "C'mon Cyrus! We don't have time for this!"
The Psychic Commander had fired his main cannon and its front turrets, getting the attention of the new Viper-wolves. They started pouncing him, overwhelming him in almost an instant. The tank thrashed and spun to shake them off. I was already down the hallway feeling like I lost my best friend, even though I'd met him less than an hour ago. He had the Prowlers' full attention for now. We need to escape before they're done.
The bird was on Jazz's shoulder, and Jazz was thirty feet ahead of us with the kids. I got flashes in my head of where they were heading. Viktor said to me, as we were running, "We need to make a left up here." I got a flash in my head showing the gang taking a right. I shook it off and screamed ahead, "Hey! Guys! Wrong way!"
Sure enough, Jazz and the other kids ran across the hallway and we caught up with them. Viktor guided us through the maze of hallways. Dr. Ching's voice came through the speakers. "You think you can escape? There is no escape from this! The Archer Corporation will hunt you down and kill you like the dogs you are! What you have seen today will be nothing compared to what's coming!" Jazz threw a small disk, which flew to a nearby speaker and exploded. I looked over at her. "Can't stand it when people ramble." was her only response.
We burst through a set of double doors. We found ourselves standing in the parking garage. I looked over to Jazz. Without me asking my question, she answered, "I watched Tokyo Drift enough times." That's a real motivator. We ran to a nearby van. I could see the keys inside. I said, "Everyone, pile in." They did so. It looks like the van was made to carry a number of troopers. We fit inside just fine. That dang bird even had its own seat. Jazz hopped in the front seat, grabbed the keys and started the truck. I opened the back and genitally set Gabe in the trunk. I'll have to worry about our fallen comrade later.
I closed the doors, making sure I didn't hit Gabe. I made my way to the passenger's side of the van. "You are not authorized to take that vehicle." I spun around to a familiar, robotic face. "Annihilator." I snarled. I extended my claws and my fangs. The Annihilator only looked at me with a bored expression. "The last time, you could not defeat me." I never took my eyes off him. "The last time, it wasn't a legit fight."
It shrugged. "Then allow me to kill you with my bare hands." We both got into a fighting stance and we started to circle each other, both of us taking steps to our left. Not even five seconds into it, the van jerked backwards and hit the Annihilator. Through the open window on the passenger's side, Jazz screamed, "Are you done playing around? Let's go!" I jumped into the passenger's side of the van. Jazz floored it before I could even close the door.
We are on our way out.
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