"Get him up." Xanthiana had used the bodies and a stretcher to create a makeshift barricade, there were already two new dead to add to it and she knew there would be more.
"Xan he was just undergoing adrenaline removal, combat efficiency will be well below fifty percent."
"That's fifty more percent than I've got right now." Xanthiana pulled a rifle from one of the dead mutants, she meant to set it next to her but a hand grabbed it. She turned around to see the operative, he was still in a medical night gown, but looked no worse for wear outside of that.
"Operator Roeyka thank you for coming, I hope you have a better exit strategy than you did an entrance one." He was one of Von Bach's personal security, she could tell from the bar code on his arm.
"Figure they can't keep coming, eventually they'll run out of men." She had to admit it was not a very good strategy.
"Fantastic, the kind of plan I expect from someone being paid to shoot not to think, one moment." His voice was pretty gruff, most likely from smoking and not just having been taken off adrenaline stealing machines. Hair was black, going grey, decent shape though she could tell the muscle tone was fading, age was catching up like with his hair.
"I don't think this operative likes us very much Xan."
"Oh what gave you that impression?"
"His ego unit keeps using derogatory terms to refer to us."
"You know in another place that would be hilarious to hear." More mutants were coming, Xanthiana could hear the clank of heavy weaponry coming with them, it was what she feared.
"There is a hallway past this one, listed as closed off due to a Hellbug infestation, we can go that way." The other operative stole some clothes from a corpse, they didn't fit, but Xanthiana couldn't really comment on not looking regulation.
"Sure lets go from guys with guns to creatures that suck the marrow from your broken bones."
"Do you have a better idea?" The clank of a high explosive device ended the conversation, Xanthiana and the operative lept over her makeshift barricade and ran away from the mutants, their gunfire came zipping on by before the explosion let up the world behind them. The mutants seemed genuinely surprised about them running, or at least it seemed that way with how wildly inaccurate their gun fire was. The other operative was leading Xanthiana though Elly had also given her a map to their location in case he tried to leave her behind. They broke through a barrier into an area with quarentine written in an unsteady hand, and then the metal underneath their feet gave way. Xanthian landed right in hellbug shit, the other operative crashed into a cluster of eggs.
"Well I'm so glad we went this way." Xanthiana pulled herself up looked around saw they were in the middle of what appeared to be hundreds of hellbugs.
"Xan I think we were better off with the mutants." Elly piped up her ai voice almost sounding afraid.
"Don't worry Elly, I'm sure they don't eat AI's."
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