>>6014951You reluctantly rise to your feet as SHERRY motions for you to get up. Your legs feel unsteady on the already loose friable soil, your bare feet flattening the leaves as you stand upright. The adrenaline from being held at gunpoint still courses through your veins. You try to take deep calming breaths.
"I wouldn't relax just yet, half-pint. There's still a shit-ton of cow robots wandering about aiming to kill us. And since you're coming with, that includes you," SHERRY reminds you. "Terry, we're only a few more rooms away, yeah?" The old man nods at her.
"Mhmm. Technically, we're only a hallway away, but I'm not taking my chances on fighting. Like you said, Nellie and I aren't field trained. From here, we should only be a few rooms away from it." You look at the both of them and start typing.
<span class="mu-i">Where are. We going?</span> SHERRY looks more annoyed than angry at you after reading your message. That's an improvement at least.
"I guess you'll find out when we get there. You're on a need to know basis, squirt." You really wish she would quit it with the short talk, in both senses of the word. She grabs the phone from you and tosses it to TERRY, who seems to... freeze it in midair and let it drop into his hands? What the hell? No one else seems to react to this. You suddenly start to miss your boring old coworkers, even JERR— nah, that's too far.
The greenhouse leads to a nondescript lab room of some kind. It smells like piss. Thankfully, you quickly leave the room and enter a short corridor. You can hardly see in here; only a single flickering light illuminates the space. As TERRY leads the group to the second door on the right, you try and make out the names of the doors. GARDEN, CREATURE SANCTUARY, FILTERING, and MAIN HUB. You exit through the MAIN HUB door, and from that, another door leading into a small auditorium. Inside that room, a sign on a certain door reads "TERRY'S LAB, Authorized personnel only. Violators will be persecuted and tried.". SHERRY seems to frown at this.
"Terry, what have I told you about that sign?"
"I'm not taking it down."
"What do you think it reminds people of? We're not like the company, Terry!"
"I'm not about to let some brainless idiot rebel who wants to cause some mayhem into my lab."
"Maybe just remove that last part?" NELLIE suggests.
"No."
"But what if—"
"No."
"I think it would really be—" She's interrupted by an explosion in the not-too-far off distance. A pretty close distance, actually. TERRY opens the door.
"No."
