by Narrator » Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:46 pm
Sam, Haley and Tosh hurry out of the lab and make their way to the sky-bridge connecting the hospital and research complex to the squat circular building that makes up the above ground portion of the prison. Rain is streaming down the windows of the connector and even when the occasional lightning illuminates the outside world it's distorted and warbled by the rivulets of water. They finally reach the other side and the automatic door hisses open in front of them. In the middle of the room the large elevator that leads down into the prison proper is yawning open to a yawning shaft illuminated by red emergency lights. The rest of the room is trashed. The visitor and personnel checkpoint is smashed to pieces, bars and reinforced glass shattered by god knows what combination of powers and brute force.
Guards are lieing on the floor and inside the checkpoint, some bleeding from their eyes and mouth, others with a thin stream of smoke rising from what used to be a communicator piece. On every single screen and monitor around the room a pink image is flickering through a couple of frames of animation. A crude yellow cartoon drawing of a short-haired girl with glowing eyes, one of which winks closed over and over while sticking out her tongue. It'd almost be cute if half the screen weren't cracked or had blood splatters on them.
As if their entrance triggered something a leg of scrap-metal grabs the edge of the elevator shaft and pulls itself into view. A robot kludged together from scraps of blast door, cables, cell bars, security cameras and who knows what else jerkily scrambles out onto the floor, a good 5 or 6 feet of animated scrap, here and there glowing with the same yellow colors as the 2-frame animation on the monitors.
At the same time Will makes his way through support tunnels, squeezing through places no one was really supposed to go until he gets to a particularly annoying barrier of reinforced steel. But it's no longer entirely flush against it's neighboring sheets of metal and it's just a matter of wriggling his clay through the gap to get to the other side, finding himself in a shaft barely illuminated by red lights, far up and below him the glimpse of regular lightning shining into the elevator shaft.