>>5765719You and Chuck duck under the crackling energy beam carving through the slashers after the latter takes a few more potshots at the crowd for shits and giggles! Pepper joins you too, of course, but she doesn’t exactly have to crouch being… <span class="mu-i">vertically-challenged</span>... and all.
While Raj blasts away like a kid on an arcade machine, you and your friends waste no time in ransacking the place–as easy as it’d be to carve an exit with the <span class="mu-s">DEATH RAY</span>, that’d require taking pressure off of the horde just outside. Not exactly a good idea!
Pepper takes the far corner of the lab near the computer and desks while you and Chuck tackle the areas closest to the two original bodies. Though the walls behind the corpses are streaked with burns, scrapes, and bullet holes, you know there’s gotta be <span class="mu-i">some</span>thing you can u-
“THERE!” Announces Chuck as he points to a sizable <span class="mu-s">GRATE</span> in the floor, “Drain! Let’s move!”
For a moment you hesitate as you wonder just <span class="mu-i">what</span> exactly needed to be drained from these testing stations, but you’re not entirely sure you wanna know the answer… and you have a feeling you’re about to find out anyways.
Rushing over to the groundskeeper, you combine your strength to rip the cover off of its moorings just as a foul odor begins to emanate from what you assume is the <span class="mu-s">DEATH RAY’S BATTERY PACK</span>! Though it’s hooked up to that power conduit in the ceiling, you get the feeling it was never tested for this amount of mayhem…
Sending Pepper down first, you motion for Chuck to follow and give him an encouraging shove when he gestures for <span class="mu-i">you</span> to go instead! Damn old man! Raj, you shout as one of those <span class="mu-s">SPIDERBOTS</span> you saw earlier skitters over the pile of sizzling slasher corpses with murderous intent in its eye, time to go, dude!
“One sec, bro!” Hastily chewing a piece of <span class="mu-s">GUM</span> he snagged from his pocket, the skater sticks the wad onto the <span class="mu-s">DEATHRAY’S</span> trigger and rushes to join you in the poop chute!
Eeuugh…
A burst of green death whizzes past your cheek before you realize that it’s coming from your arachnid adversary–specifically the small turrets on its head! Returning fire of your own using the <span class="mu-s">CHINCHILL PUMP-ACTION</span>, you smile as your attack blows the <span class="mu-s">SPIDERBOT</span> away before slipping into the crawlspace! Rivka can add those damages to your <span class="mu-i">TAB!</span>
>CONTD. 