Sonya looked down the
shaft again. She looked up for anything she might be able to use to climb down
the shaft with. She saw a metal loop protruding from wall but had nothing to
repel down with. “Computer, suit thing?” She said out loud.
The readout in her visor
responded. [GRAYSCALE ONLINE] it flashed.
Technarious rocked
violently and she held tightly onto the wall. “I need a way to repel about a
hundred feet” She requested.
There was a pause as the
suit went through the available options. [CALL FOR SCALING ARM] The visor
flashed.
Sonya held out her left
hand. “Scaling arm!” she commanded.
A reasonably sized
gadget with a clasping hook at the end of it appeared around her left arm. She
reached up and clasped the hook onto the loop above her. She looked down one more
time and took a deep breath. “Here goes nothing.” She lept over the edge and
the hook held her weight. Even with Technarious moving chaotically fighting
Blinding Light she only bounced around a little as she walked backwards down
the shaft as quickly as she dared.
She got to the bottom of
the shaft and stepped into the next hallway. “How do I get this off my arm.” She
asked her suit.
[COMMAND: RELEASE] The
visor instructed.
She looked down at her arm. “Release” She commanded and the contraption opened like shuttle bay doors and dropped off her arm. Hung for a second in the air and then disappeared. She turned and ran the last little bit of hallway until she came to the room where the power core and the backup energy systems for Technarious were.
The room was filled with
neon blinking lights, cords that had blue light running through them, and the
main power cell which was a giant red monolith in the middle of the room.
Her visor showed her
where the backup power was and once she had destroyed the connectors to all
three Technarious began to shudder violently.
She was thrown against
the wall but kept her eyes on the red monolith power supply. She made her way
up the now slight incline to reach the power supply. She tried to lift it out
of its slot but it would not budge. “Guys I can’t get the power supply out of
its socket!” She updated the rest of the shades.
There was silence for a
second before she Heard Kelly’s voice. “You have to destroy it Sonya. We’re
getting killed up here and the city is in ruins!” she said over explosions and
static.
