>>5365609Muscles tensing like a lioness on the hunt, you make a motion to the others to wait for your signal. With no better of a moment than here and now, you leap down from the outcropping with the stormy wind whistling in your ear, your own departure enough of a cue for the others to follow suit.
Your body's in free fall as you aim yourself towards the back end of the data center-- a nigh-perfect blindspot whose entrance points towards the bay. Rocks and pebbles fly all around you as your body makes impact with the ground, and, just around the bend, you can sense at least a couple of goons.
Bernard, however, is already ahead of you, having already downed one of them, and you round the corner to find the second guard flying into the ground, courtesy of a swift punch to the jaw.
Valjean and Julia aren't far behind, the latter impaling one of the security cameras with her crystalline spikes. The next one becomes a heap of greenish, metallic sludge, courtesy of Boleski's acid. When he lands, he wastes no time in relieving both of the goons of their weapons, not having any of his own.
"If you wanted a gun, you could've asked," Valjean says to the other man, cocking his own tranq-gun.
"Nie ma sprawy," Boleski brushes him off.
In a mere matter of seconds, the five of you have the back entrance cleared. Not too far off, you sense more guards, but, since they don't seem to be coming your way, you're pretty sure they didn't hear the commotion.
While Eddie said this would be the easier of your two tasks, you're sure it's only a matter of time before any other security realizes what's up, and you don't have any clue what the inside of the building will be like.
"A retinal scanner. Nice." Valjean whistles before turning to Bernard. "Blink, can you get us all in?" He asks, well-aware of the teleporter's limits.
"Two feet? That's nothin.'" You don't think this should be an issue for the blonde. The real issue had been teleporting the five of you halfway across Konigsburg.
No matter, all of you place a hand on Bernard, and, in a flash, the five of you end up in the narrow, whitewashed foyer that had been just beyond the double doors. With the only way being forwards, the hall opens up to a reception center with a lone receptionist who'd clearly forgotten she had a job to do, neck-deep in a tabloid magazine, but, once she notices the five of you, the expression on her face becomes one of horror, obviously not expecting a surprise visit from some of the Konigsburg's most notorious mutants.
Sorely outnumbered, the woman quickly drops the magazine, rushing to the other side of her desk in a desperate scramble as she clearly tries to reach for something you can't see.
It's Valjean, however, who stops the woman dead in her tracks.
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