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As they entered the chamber, they came on the Illuminated Ones at the tail end
of their evac. The wags were gone from the mat-trans units, and the main hall
itself was stripped of all except the junk that could be allowed to remain,
smashed to useless pieces. Only a skeleton sec force remained, headed by
Jorgensen himself, who had elected to stay. They were overseeing the evac of
the last of the Illuminated Ones, with themselves to follow if possible.
The Gate charged in with their blades ready to taste blood, and their
handblasters firing at anything in a brightly coloured one-piece uniform.
The Illuminated Ones were outnumbered, and up against a superior fighting
force, but they still had their laser blasters, and these were causing the
most problem. The erratic firing hadn't as yet claimed any Gate lives, but
they were causing them to scatter and not be able to take good aim.
Margia, with Doc at her side, skidded to a halt.
"They think they can get the better of me, do they?" she screamed
belligerently at Doc, shouldering the laser blaster she had already used to
some effect. She leveled it and squeezed the trigger.
But her luck had just run out. The blaster spluttered, and the nose glowed
white hot before the whole length of the object seemed to implode in her
hands, engulfing her in a sudden and violent shower of intense white light.
Doc saw her scream, but didn't hear the sound as it was buried beneath the
screech of white hot metal rending unto flesh.
For the briefest moment it seemed as though the whole world stopped down in
the main chamber, frozen in action by the incredible sight. And then the
moment
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Gloria howled in anguish and pain. She might always have been at odds with her
sister, but blood was thicker than anything, especially in a tribe like the
Gate, and the sight of her sister being claimed by the tech of the
enemy albeit at her own hands was more than the Amazon queen could bear.
Her panga became a whirl around her head as she strode into her astonished
enemies, drawing blood with every vicious sweep of the razor sharp blade. A
whirling dervish of violent chilling, she claimed the lives of many of the
remaining Illuminated Ones, ripping through their flesh and flimsy defenses
with ease.
Spurred on by the sudden intensity of their queen's attack, the Gate and their
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allies strode farther into the attack. J.B. used his Uzi, set on short bursts,
to chop into the packs of sec men. Mildred, Dean and Krysty took aim and
picked off individuals with their ZKR, Smith & Wesson 640 and Browning
Hi-Power respectively. Meanwhile, Doc used the LeMat to wreak havoc on a small
group while Ryan strode into the remnants with his panga running as red as
that of the
Amazon queen, and as fiery crimson as her hair, which flowed like ribbons of
blood from her wildly tossing head.
There were other casualties among the Gate, but nowhere near as many as those
suffered by the Illuminated Ones. Not least among those to fall was Petor.
Both he and Jon, as the only Gate men to join the attack, were in the thick of
the action. But their lack of training was beginning to tell, and when a laser
blast was aimed in their direction, Petor was just a little too slow to twist
away. The beam caught him full in the ribs down his left-hand side, frying the
flesh through
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organs and searing nerve endings for a second before killing him with burns
that went too deep to cause pain.
The young man screamed and went down into his friend's arms.
"Petor? Fuck it, man. Don't die on me," Jon screamed as the light in Petor's
eyes dimmed and faded. Looking up at the group from which the laser blast had
come, Jon no longer saw reason. Screaming wildly, he let Petor's corpse drop
and charged forward.
Dean had seen the death of his friend, and also saw the laser rifle leveled
again, this time drawing a bead on Jon, who was too distracted and raw to see
what was happening.
Without thinking, Dean showed the warrior instinct that marked him as a true
Cawdor. Throwing his body weight behind a change in direction, he snapped off
a shot with the Browning that hit the laser sharpshooter directly between the
eyes, drilling into his frontal lobe and negating any threat he might pose. At
the same time, to save Jon from any further threat, Dean threw himself across
the young man's path, charging him onto the concrete floor.
The violent jarring of the fall seemed to snap Jon out of his anguished
trance, and he looked up at Dean.
"What the& Shit, I really lost it there."
"Just don't again," Dean snapped. "Bad enough Petor chilling, without you, as
well. C'mon, let's get the bastards."
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Meanwhile, Jak was cornered. Carving his way through a group of Illuminated
Ones, he had caught his foot on a piece of twisted metal from a comp storage
frame that had been dismantled by the wrecking crews. His heavy combat boot
caught on the upthrust metal, and his momentum carried him just that little
too far off balance. Normally Jak would be able to roll with the fall and
spring to his feet immediately, but this time fate intervened. A sec man who
had been driven backward by Gloria cannoned into the albino, knocking him over
into the group he had just skipped through.
Jak fell into the midst of a melee and felt hands grab at him, fists pummel
into him. Temporarily off guard and flailing, Jak tried to defend himself but
found his eye closed by a blow that opened up the flesh over his brow. The
blood spilled down into his eye, blinding him.
Jak knew he was in trouble, but was saved by the wild eyed Gloria. Screaming
wildly, she flew into the midst of the crowd, slashing away at the hands that
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plucked at Jak's clothes and skin.
Jak pulled himself to his feet, hitting out at the Illuminated Ones around
him, turning back-to-back with the wild and flaming warrior queen. Together
they chilled four of the Illuminated Ones, and watched the others turn and
flee into the inner chamber, where the rest of their sec squad were in the
process of retreating.
Gloria turned to Jak, her eyes red and flaring like her hair. Jak felt a flash
of electricity between them, knew that they were bonded by blood and fire.
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