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30. Ambush
Fang and Claws are running, armored boots clanking against the new grid.
[ Base ] Spots : Control, this is Team Kitty.
[ Base ] Control : Team Kitty, this is Control. Go ahead.
[ Base ] Spots : We're chasing a possible new shell. Permission to leave patrol area if necessary?
[ Base ] Control : Which cam, Kitty?
[ Base ] Spots : Fang's, just now.
[ Base ] Control : Copy that, will check.
Fang. "****. I don't see them. They run fast."
Spots. "They must be off the grid, then."
Fang. "Yeah, they went inward."
Spots. "Uhn. Not toward the collider!"
Fang. "This way."
[ Base ] Control : Team Kitty, this is Control.
[ Base ] Spots : This is Kitty.
[ Base ] Control : Your footage is ambiguous. Stay in your patrol zone.
Fang. "Dammit! Come on, we're still in the area—"
They run, turn a corner. The corridor is empty.
Fang. "****, ****, ****! I saw it, I know I did!"
Spots, frowning. "Come on, we have to turn back."
Still cursing, Fang leads the way back around the corner...
...into a wall of crabs, so close they almost step into them.
Spots throws her arm up over her head, shield on. "Holy Mother!"
"****!"
"Shoot them, Fang! God!"
"They're too close—"
Spots. "Mmph, wish me luck!"
Fang. "What are you—****!"
Spots turns her shield to maximum breadth and power, walling in the corridor. She's using this to slowly push the crabs back. They are plastered against the shield, banging on it.
[ Team Kitty ] Spots : C-claws, now would be a good time...!
[ Team Kitty ] Claws : ****, Spots, I'm ****in' half the Warren away!
Fang, shooting now. "Keep going, keep ****ing going!"
Spots. "My power's half out—"
Fang. "—the shield?"
Spots. "—the suit. There's a fox-run in two meters, get ready to take it."
Fang, grim, shooting still. "I'm there. Keep pushing, Mama."
"Almost... there.... NOW!"
Fang bolts into the fox-run. Spots gives the crabs a good shove and then scrambles after her. Instantly the crabs are digging at the wall.
Fang. "Out! Out! Come on!" She hauls Spots out by the arm. "Run! There's a trap up-corridor, we can take them there!"
[ Team Kitty ] Claws : I'm on my way! ****in' don't DIE!
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