Debacle R update CHAPTER 16 Warrior
Debacle (R)
Summary:
All his life Dib has wanted to capture Zim and gain the victory and fame he always wanted. When his wish comes true however, not everything falls so comfortably into place.
Chapter 16: Warrior
Every corridor, room and hall flashed red with alarms. Taking the elevator wasn't an option when he had disabled it, leaving the multiple stairwells as the only means to get around. But he knew all the shortcuts, many of which were now open, and he doubted even the scientists knew every shortcut when so many areas were strictly prohibited.
He paused just long enough to check his watch. Seven minutes and twenty seconds...
He hurried down the next two levels, head pounding, ears ringing with real and phantom sounds. When he heard a team of men clatter towards him in the dark he threw another smoke grenade in their general direction before blindly flying down a corridor, through a door and into the next atrium while the shouting, bickering men were still trying to orientate themselves in the smoke and dark. He was almost unsure as to where he had ended up, his mind desperately recalling the blueprints he had seen on his laptop.
The fire alarm bells were ringing like the old brass bells in school. He double backed on himself, his memory a ghost he couldn't pin down.
Right! Straight down! Left, I'm pretty sure it's left from here...
The alarms and general disorientation made him second guess his memory, a dangerous thing to do when he was on a countdown. Carlson and his men would be torn between trying to stop the animals trying to get in from below, the hazard of the boiler, and the chaos in-between, but if he spread his men out, cut down the animals, restored power...
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