Alone But Not Out

"Put your weapons down." There were four of them, they looked less armed and armored than the mutants outside, but lesser weapons were no less deadly. Xanthiana reached down to where her pistol was on her hip, they had gotten to her so fast she didn't even have time to draw it to the ready position.

"How's my adrenaline Elly?"

"You are in the safe zone as far as usage, if you are wanting to use a burst your health would not be in any danger."

"Excellent."

"WEAPONS DOWN NOW!" The mutant snarled and Xanthiana removed the pistol and in one swift motion tossed it and dove after it just as the adrenaline hit. The mutants were caught off guard from her sudden position change, they didn't even bring their rifles around by the time she put them down. The last one alive managed one errant shot as he died. Xanthiana felt the adrenaline pulsing some more, but it abated as Elly brought her back to normal levels.

"Well I'm so glad I didn't dump that extra pistol ammunition earlier." The bunker was dark, but the EGO overlays made it manageable. Xanthiana was able to see her way forward, and see no one else was coming.

"It would be unwise to leave ammunition lying around Xan." Elly still hadn't gotten a hang of rhetorical statements and that brought a smile to Xanthiana's face. It was like dealing with a really smart child that was somehow stuck in her head and didn't understand people.

"Do we have a map of this bunker available Elly?"

"One second let me try and access the internal servers, yes I do have an overlay, crosschecking with recent power usage finds the most likely room location for our operative here." Xanthiana got a mental image of a room deeper into the bunker.

"Its weird to have an internal gps system Elly."

"I don't find it at all strange, I have several internal diagnostics I'm constantly evaluating." Xanthiana started making her way down the corridor, Elly highlighted areas she considered to be more dangerous than others. Xanthiana went as stealthy as she could, and it appeared successful. Either the mutants were still too engaged with the forces outside the bunker, or this group wasn't as large as their presense outside hinted at.

Xanthiana came upon the room with the operative. It looked like some kind of lab, there were discarded drained bodies near the front of the room and a bunch of tables with drips set up. On one of the tables was the operative. He wasn't Von Bach, but she wasn't going to allow him to die like the rest of the drained corpses like an animal. There was only one other occupant in the room, a huge bioman dressed in a scientists overcoat, the coat was way too small for the Bioman but that apparently didn't bother him. She was however completely confused by what he was doing.

"Producing a drug based on Adrenaline that was developed during the war, in the war they used criminals to produce it, the draining is fatal." Elly answered before Xanthiana could even articulate the question.

"Monstrous."

"It was war is the justification VBI lists in the books, I'll admit it does look fairly horrible when seen like this." Xanthiana didn't know how this wouldn't look horrible when seen some other way, but she didn't want to get into an argument in her own head. On top of that the blueman scientist had spotted her and snatched up the operative.

"Come any closer and this one dies, drop your pistol."

"Yeah that's not fucking happening, put him down and maybe I'll let you live." The creature sneered.

"Your pistol can't even attempt to penetrate my ski..." Xanthiana shot him through the eyes and his big hulk of a body collapsed to the lab floor. The operative was still out, but he was at least safe.

"Xan I hate to be the bearer of bad news."

"But the shots seemingly alerted the base to our presence."

"Correct."

"Swell."