He nodded towards Daisy and pointed towards Aria. Daisy nodded back and increased her speed, catching up to Aria.
Daisy whispered something to Aria. There was a sudden crack ahead of them. Harry didn’t think twice. He charged forward, sliding between Ryan, Daisy and Aria. He pointed his gun at the darkness in front of him and squeezed the trigger.
The recoilless automatic laser rifle discharged with a happy whizz of electricity. Bright red beams of energy blasted forward, the century old weapon still having plenty of fight in it. Harry heard several shrieks from down the the corridor.
“Let’s get the hell out of here as soon as we can,” he said, gesturing forward.
“Didn’t I tell you not to do anything stupid?” yelled back Daisy, running towards him and sliding to a stop.
“Yell at him later, Daisy.” It was Aria. She charged forward. Ryan fired a volley from his weapon as he joined the charge, Kate not too far behind.
Whatever Harry’s shots had done; it had either scared the guards away or injured them badly enough to stop them from being able to fire. They ran through the next doorway, which turned out to be empty and then right to the next door.
There were the sounds of claws scraping and wood being ripped apart started to flood in from ahead of them but as they ran forwards, it seemed to get softer and softer as if the guards were retreating, not even giving thought to the fact that the humans would be able to hear them. That was both good and bad news. On one hand, they would be no immediate threat anymore from the guards, but now it meant they would certainly be back with reinforcements.Their escape was only going to get harder.
Soon they were coming to a halt near the main door that they had come entered this maze of rooms through. Harry let out a small sigh of relief. Checking his gun, he inspected the dial. The charge was at forty percent. Quite a few more shots before he would have to reload.
“Well, that was way too close,” he said.
“Yeah, no kidding,” said Kate, “that was the craziest thing I’ve ever done.”
“Well, it's only going to get worse,” said Aria, rather flatly “no point sugarcoating this. I can guarantee they're going to come at us hard and our chances of getting out this place just dropped dramatically.”
“But we still have a very good chance as long as we can get through that door,” said Harry, “it’s going to be much harder for them to mobilize a force once we’re out in the forest.”
“It’s going to be much harder for us to survive once we’re in that forest,” said Ryan,"but yes you have a valid point there."
“Well it should be a whole lot easier now that we ran into these,” said Harry, pointing to his gun, “funny how we ended up in like the best location we possibly could have down here. I was imaging some kind of secret lab or something.”
“Well, we can thank our lucky stars later. I would say the faster we get out of here, the higher our chances of dodging the extra guards,” said Aria, “so let’s get going already.”
“We’re just going to march in?” asked Kate, “sounds a little dangerous.”
“Well, Kate, here’s the thing,” said Aria, “if we were caught escaping there’s a chance they might have only imprisoned us, especially because of our ages. At the moment however, we have to realize the gravity of what we just did. We killed several guards. It’s now going to be kill on sight for them. So, as much as I don’t know if this will work, we’re going to die whether we hide or not. So I say, we give it our best shot and die trying rather than hiding.”
“That’s…that’s a lot,” said Kate, looking a little overwhelmed at Aria's momentary outburst.
“Let’s not think about that too much,” said Harry, “I know the chances sounds terrible but we still have a chance. Remember we’re not alone. There are people out there looking at what’s going on and you can bet that they will be doing some sneaky moves of their own. They might already have cooked up something to help us. We just have to do our best.”
“Yeah, don’t get disheartened,” said Aria, dialling back on her tone a litte, “I’m not saying we’re doomed, I just want to make sure you guys understand just how serious this is.”
“Consider me informed on that,” said Kate.
“Shall we then?” said Ryan.
“Follow me,” said Aria, "Be careful on those broken crates. Wooden splinters are the stuff of nightmares."
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