Your wings yearn to spread out from the restricting wetsuit as you explode forth.
It's like seeing red, running forward on pure instinct. You scramble up a corridor, leap down a ladder, left, right, left. The sound of fighting seems to get louder, swelling in intensity like a palpitating heartbeat, and you are utterly determined to follow it through to the very end.
[Your head spins and the entire tunnel seems to shudder. Previously moving walls settle nosily in place. TERROR level has increased.]
You hear a sharp metallic inhale. The reaction is instant. A pale arm reaches out of the corner, shoots right for your head, your hands move—
[FORCE 5 - EXCESSIVE] Big Iron cracks out a shot into the right arm and the offending limb sails off in an arc!
Sinewy wires and machine viscera spray into the air! The arm jerks back and fades into the concrete. A look of horror is written on the surfacing cyborg, but you don't stop to relish in its disarmament. You muscle past and rush straight ahead.
It is so, so close now. The sounds of steel crashing against steel, water splashing in a storm drain, the grunts and barking orders. You swivel your head and look down the grate you stand upon. There! In the darkened goggles and iron bowler hat!
<span class="mu-g"><span class="mu-s">IT'S THE CAPTAIN!</span></span>
He stands alone in the pipe, fighting off three operatives in blood-red armor. Just as you thought, somehow beating you to the punch, is the <span class="mu-r">RED</span> team! A giant in ant-like power armor advances upon your target, rearing back with his hydraulic claw for another strike. His comrades follow close behind, one aiming with a long rifle and one in a red beret holding his pistol at the rear.
The largest takes another forward lunge, but the Captain throws himself to the side and retaliates valiantly with a swing of his own! The blow from the war hammer causes the giant to <span class="mu-b">stagger</span> backwards, but you see the Captain suddenly falter. <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-r">Life-giving fluids are spilling from punctures in his pressurized suit.</span></span> Death is sure to come, if the RED team does not give it to him first.
You are currently standing on a sort of open catwalk above the incredibly narrow corridor below. If you drop down right now, you will fall in front of the giant, next to the Captain.
You have the element of surprise. What's the plan?
>Write in.>>5810045Sure thing, <span class="mu-i">old man.</span>
