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There goes Mao dreaming of breaking it through to the big time with his FOLIOSIGNDESIGN stock..

Barnaby gave a soft chuckle..

You had to handed it to the guy - thinking of profits in this place .

he looked out the window and scanned up and down the side of the gore splattered train -scanning for enemies.An arm -torn and bloodied still dangled limp from the front of the train.Its integral blade still attached it dragged along the track in an annoying screech.

He ran a quick diagnostics on his suit systems and cycled the multibarreled gun .Everything A-ok .Ammo at approximately 50 % .

Some sparks flew from the front carriage buggy wheels were they hit an imperfection in the track .Barnaby shook his head.All those hundreds of vats containing people .And they had opened them .Naked defenseless people trapped underground with nightmarish creatures stalking them.He shook the bad thoughts away.He was good at that.This was no time for developing empathy. He looked around at the others .It hadnt been their fault .Hell,they were sent in to liberate a man from this awful place of horror.

Not that any of them had had only pure motives.None of them were clean .They had all killed and taken money for it.Forfeited their souls - if you believed the good book. .Many times.
And worse .He looked at Melchett and Romanov.

Much worse.

At least he had tried to have Mao program the computer to close of a corridor to safety for the unfortunates .He had atleast tried to get the others to save some of the people in the laboratories.

Enough with the negativity. The job was on .

Yeah ,Mao was a card alright .Super intelligent and master of technology -but not the timid ,shy tech type.Rather a totally unpredictable ,ruthless fellow.

His ass still hurt like hell were Mao had nicked him with a bullet when he had blasted away with him in the line of fire.

Bastard.Maybe not so super intelligent after all...

But still .To think of stock holdings and money in a place like this...

An underground fortress of a laboratory , dark,dank ,filled with deadly traps and mechanical devices that were set to kill.

Filled with the dead and dying -and their killers - creatures vile and repulsive with fangs and claws that could tear a man limb from limb - and cold hearted inhuman guards that killed mercilessly and like machines .

And now - their only escape was deeper into the bowels of the place ,further down in to the darkness below the earth on a gore splattered electrical train ..

The electrical connector flared up and gave a bluish -white light as it sizzled and sparked and illuminated the macabre transport with a ghostly flash .The shadows on the tunnel wall danced like a dark,bizarre Wayang Kulit shadow theatre.

A sudden realization blasted through his head:

What if this wasnt " just" an evil corporation research facility gone wrong with horrible experimental weapons projects running around attacking everything and hundreds of innocents screaming in agony in the storm of blood and claws..

There were many omnious writings about places like this .




What if this was really was a descent to hell....