The Terminal

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"V!"

I heard N scream as the elevator fell. My vision was fuzzy. But the burning in my chest was clear.

Rage.

I was no longer in control of my body. I teleported back to the top of the elevator. I saw V. Her limbs were strewn across the floor. Three sentinels were tearing her chest open. I flicked my wrist. Those sentinels no longer had heads. There were seven more sentinels in the room. 

"J-J-ac-c-k"

V spoke. It was a wonder that she was capable of doing that. Her voice skipped and repeated, barely managing to glitch out words.

V: Run-n-n-n.

"No"

A few more sentinels were attracted to our voices. One of them lunged at me, and got a mouthful of white code. I raised a hand. The floor panels started tearing themselves up and flying at the sentinels. Most of them were deflected, a few managed to cause injury. The sentinels roared, grabbing the attention of a couple more. Five sentinels surrounded me, lights flashing. Two leapt at me, trying to catch me between them. They both froze midair and were ripped apart from the inside out. I threw their internals to V, who caught enough to reconnect one of her arms. The pair was quickly replaced by the three remaining sentinels, slowly circled around me.

One of them decided to go for the still alive V, who was slowly but surely putting herself back together. Just before it reached her, it stopped moving and began to scream. It scratched at its own chest. It looked like it was trying to tear something out but couldn't. It reared its head back and screeched, before imploding into a NULL object, which floated over to me and hovered above my hand. I gently pushed it towards the rest of the sentinels. One of them tried to eat it. Its jaws closed around it, and the sentinel was stretched and pulled into the NULL. Disappearing into nonexistence. The rest of the raptors retreated from me, running into the halls.

I collected the rest of V's torn off limbs, bringing them over to her.

V: I do-o-o-n't-on't hav-v-v-ve enough.

I tore apart the remaining raptor corpses, allowing V to get the material she needed to reconstruct herself. She was going to need a lot. Fortunately, the raptors had a lot. I heard a sentinel to my right. I stuck my hand out, The Solver appearing at my fingertips. It fired a beam, which cut straight through the sentinel, and scorched the far away wall behind it. The robot dropped dead. I raised my hand to my face, inspecting the glyph, which was spinning in my hand. I didn't know that lasers were possible. There's nowhere to get that much power. But this is the Absolute Solver. I should have assumed.

V rose from the ground unsteadily. I offered a hand, which she took. Once she was steady, I pulled her into a hug.

V: Hey, it's all good. I'm alive.

Jack: You almost weren't. If I'd frozen up again, I could've lost you. N would've lost you. 

V: Well, you didn't. I'm all good.

I released her from my embrace.

Jack: Yeah. Okay. We've got another issue. Down the elevator.

She walked over to the hole and dove in. I followed. I tried to extend my wings. It didn't work. My head split open in pain. Just as I thought I was going to die, V caught me.

V: Now we're even. You good?

Jack: I'm fine. Let's get down there. 

We were standing on the roof of the elevator. I tore it open, and we dropped in. I looked around and was face to face with the barrel of Tessa's revolver.

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