As McDaniels was making her way out of the machinery, she was nearly blinded by a burst of laser fire striking the ground directly in front of her. Dodging back the way she came, She tried to get a fix on her assailant, only to come up blank. The only conclusion she could come up with was that someone else had a similar suit to hers. She didn't think anyone else had camo like this in a full battle armor yet. "It couldn't be someone in a simple sneaksuit, that was a support laser I was nearly hit with," McDaniels thought to herself.
McDaniels searched for another way out, since her planned route was obviously a bust. Faintly her suits systems picked up the tread of someone's pace, but she saw nothing. The feeling of being hunted was never pleasant, but she knew that is what was going on. McDaniels began climbing machinery up to another level, with an inkling to try for the roof and climb down the outside.
Suddenly, a loudspeaker sounded, booming a sweet and cheerful voice throughout the building. We know you are here, and in Blake's holy name, you will not leave here unless you surrender immediately. "Fat chance of that," McDaniels thought to herself. Whatever is hunting me must be having some trouble. She heard the tread again, below her, and as quietly as she could she pulled herself up to the level she was approaching. It must not have been quite enough though, because seconds later, fire shot up from below her, consuming the are she had just occupied in flames.
"What the hell is wrong with them, are they going to burn down the whole structure just to get me? It's a damn HPG, not even they could afford that," McDaniels thought to herself. Trying a door near her, she found it was locked. "Probably the whole facility is locked up tight," she thought. Entering an emergency pass-code she had been given, "This will unlock anything in there, but they will catch on and disable it after once or twice," they had told her during the briefing for the mission. Fortunately it worked, as the door opened, she slipped in, and it began closing. Looking back she saw a huge hulking form pull itself onto the walkway she had just left. It was hardly a silhouette, but it was huge. Much larger than her power armor. It was at least as big as an elemental, or bigger. It was hard to make out, and she only got a glimpse.
Knowing she only had seconds, she took up sprinting for another section of the building. Myomer musculature in her suit's structure enhancing her stride far higher than a person can usually go. Behind her she heard a thud on the closed door, followed by the shriek of metal as the huge battle armor behind her simply tore it away. She dodged around a corner just in time to miss machine gun fire. "Either that thing has a huge arsenal or they've deployed a full level one to hunt me" McDaniels though, assessing her situation. The windows would be alarmed, she knew, so she moved out of the corridor she was in, and opened one, moved into the room across from it, opened another, and then back into the corridor, and climbed the wall, and held onto several pipes and conduits that were following the hall on the ceiling, hoping they would hold her and her suit's weight. Holding position, she waited for her pursuit to catch up.
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