Chapter 60: Changing the Rules.
It took a few minutes for Seven to recover enough to get back to his feet but while he was resting both Shauna and Timothy were working on the blast door security controls, between the pair of them they managed to rewire it and popped the locks opening the door and no sooner had the massive block of steel began to lift than the noise of what sounded like alarms began to spill out from under it.
"The hostiles are breaching the bunker, all forces prepare to repel invaders, do not let them reach the labs or the launchers, it's got to be the Brotherhood and we cannot let this technology fall into the Brotherhood's hands!" a voice yelled through an intercom.
"Oh fuck here we go again everyone form up, we got some shit coming our way," Seven said checking his weapon.
Both Visa and Ven got into the front row along with Vess and her two daughters, all of them were dressed in Malakai's armour and it was like a scaled wall of anger, "Let's do this my pack! Let's show these Enclave tail holes who WE ARE!!!" Vess bellowed and the other claws around her bellowed roars that echoed off the walls of the tunnel and into the facility beyond.
The group began to charge down the fairly narrow concrete line tunnel, above them, red lights were swirling around bathing them all in crimson in time with the alarms that were screaming, as they ran Seven began to feel something was strange almost like a tickle in the back of his mind, it was like a voice reaching out to him in the darkness.
"I see you anomaly," a voice said in a very quiet whisper that cut through the alarms like fucking sword and Seven immediately stopped his group dead with a sharp command.
"There's a fucking empath here!" he exclaimed and Visa, Ven and Gregory went on instant alert, "It's it her again, is it number two?" Visa instantly demanded and Seven shook his head.
"No I don't think so, the voice is different and so is the presence, this is someone else and this one spoke to me," Seven said and the others looked confused.
"Who is this number two?" Vess demanded.
"She's like Seven and Wisp, a member of the project that created them and she's very dangerous, she can read minds and steal thoughts," Ven said and Vess looked both worried and appalled.
"This female can see into a person's private heart!?" she exclaimed and Seven nodded.
"So far she's only targeted me because she's working for Professor Chalmers who before you ask is the cunt responsible for me being the way I am, or at least I think so I have no memories other than waking up in that lab and being tortured by her every single day as she tied to understand the depths of my abilities, put it this way if I ever get my way I will put her so far into the ground fossils will be looking down at her, but that's a conversation for another time, right now we need to focus on the task at hand, unfortunately, Wisp is on a mission so we can't rely on her to keep this new empath out of my head, so if I begin to act strangely take me down by whatever means necessary, I will not let my powers be turned against those I love," Seven said defiantly.
Visa's mouth dropped open, "I-I-I could never hurt you my love!" she protested and Seven held up his hand and shook his head.
"I would rather wake up with the hangover from hell every day for the rest of my life than wake up and realised I'd hurt all of you or worse my love, so if it needs to happen just do it, we have no idea if this empath is simply a ride-along or worse so we need to be prepared, though she did call me something odd, she called me anomaly," Seven said.
With that final word said the group turned to press on but before they could Seven heard running feet coming down the corridor towards them, "Looks like things are about to heat up, Seven break out the big girl!" Gregory yelled and Seven grinned.
"I like the way you think my friend, everyone get behind me!!" he yelled reaching back behind him to bring the big gun up, in this narrow corridor this thing was going to be devastating.
The Enclave soldiers were packed tightly together as they ran and surprisingly none of them had power armour on, so either the guys that still had suits were either deeper into the facility or all of them were already dead on the surface, so the laser Gatteling gun his zero resistance other than flesh as Seven opened it up on the running soldiers.
The Enclave were so focused on reaching their targets that they had never for a single second imagined them standing still, so when they ran face-first into a wall of laser fire it stalled them as the front row stopped to try to seek cover in the tight corridor and those behind them simply ploughed right into them full force.
Seven's gun was emitting a super high pitched whine as he fired weaving it back and forth so that his shots reached from one wall to the other as he hosed the Enclave troops who had now formed what was rapidly beginning to look like a human pyramid as they crashed into the pile and fell over each other trying to escape the wall of fire from the juiced-up gattling gun.
The laser's burnt right through the unarmored men and women like they were made of paper, the constant red flashes issuing from the gun lit Seven up in a crimson flashing wash that made him look rather demonic in his repurposed Enclave power armour as he began to advance with the claws at his sides providing a bulwark against any potential return fire which their armour easily absorbed, not that there was much as rather rapidly the floor was becoming a carpet of fallen bodies that were full of smoking holes.
Seven was watching the charge from the fusion core that the gun was using and he could see it rapidly falling, the six laser rifles had been turned up for maximum damage so they were pulling an incredible amount of charge from it and nuclear or not it's capacity was still finite, so he braced himself for the dropout.
