Dangerous by Default

63. Overflow

She was a woman possessed. Mina felt a force greater than her, greater than anything she had ever known, guiding her as she lunged with all her might towards White Wing. Her hands would not feel satisfied until they were beating and tearing at any part of the murderous bitch's body she could get. Her rage heightened her senses. Particles of dust swept by and the strong scent of copper

Mina is enraged, seeing red, and lunges for WW. Grabs her by the throat with both hands, the smell of Ami's blood in the air. They slip. WW stabs at Mina. Mina Punches WW while knife is stuck into ground. Artemis comes to Mina, she straps him on, have some kind of laser feature that she can use manually w him on her back. Eventually shoots big thing on ceiling or some kind of explosion that makes it seem that WW is defeated. Mina sees that Caine is still breathing. Opens sewer grate w Artemis' help, Artemis lowers Caine down into sewer. The Cote show up, still fighting pups. The cops are audible. Mina is then surprised by WW, gets kicked down into sewers by WW. WW says something mean n sassy as big rumbling is coming , Mina clutches onto Artemis and Caine for dear life, then big woosh of water washes Mina, Caine and Artemis away.

The fridge was the cold storage room they used to keep samples of goop inert for analysis and comparison. There had been many a distraction , it could only mean one thing: there had to be another sample of Goop.

"Caine!" Mina shouted. Caine had been stuffing Artemis into a backpack when the hulking meathead caught him in his sights and was mowing his way through the dogs to reach him. The dogs would not be avoided so easily. They quickly picked up on the sweeping arm movements and adapted, oscillating their squat bodies to fill in the gaps. Three of them had suddenly latched on his chest and torso like an exoskeleton. Their mouths poured over his brand-riddled skin like puppies licking their owner after a long absence, but instead of wet kisses they were searing ultrasonic blasts, causing him to shriek in pain. A sick smile cracked on his face from ear to ear as his hulking body toppled over onto the slick concrete floor. "The pain! I love these damn dogs!" He shouted in between high-peached squeals.

Caine tried to relieve Mina from carrying Ami, but she said no. "I need her to guide me in the fridge. I'll be right back."

Mina stepped onto the elevator with her friend and rode it to the second floor. Behind her office was a wide vault-like door that gleaned bright blue under the fluorescent lights. It's surface was covered in divots, like the wall of an ancient ice cave that had started to thaw. Mina whispered her name into the microphone while pressing her hand against a small clump of divets in the door's surface, the exact divets she touched being a second factor of authentication along with the scan of her fingerprints themselves. The heavy latch released and Mina pulled the door open. They stepped into the narrow frigidly cold storage room and pulled the heavy door closed behind them.

Ami was pale, but by now she had recovered enough from the anesthesia that she could stand on her own feet.

"We need to find the sperm samples. Where are they kept?"

"Not only that." Ami's eyes were fixed on a row of hundreds of vials. Mina recognized what she was after as Ami selected two that had been labeled with blue tape, her shorthand for marking the samples that were currently under analysis. "Thank god you kept a backup sample."

"Ever since you put the additional security protocols in place to safeguard against possible terrorist attack, I started keeping two small samples of every version for storage, with a tiny memory chip on the vial itself with a backup copy of the production technique and chemical formula. Each vial has not only it's own production instructions but those for every sample that came before, so we could recreate the entire experiment with only the latest vial. Mina, don't worry, if -- when -- we get out of here, it will only be a matter of time and money to rebuild."