Beacons in The Dark

Chapter 33 - Shine a Light

"Grab the lion's tail and the fangs are not far behind." - Leonine saying

Blue databursted commands through the central core - everything was on alpha level lockdown. All lifts unoperational, amantium sheets gliding down on every opening, making every single room, hallway, cafeteria, laboratoray, librarium, everything, its own isolated pod.

Groaning and motionless highjacked guards were scattered around Blue, so were the bodies of his two former comrades, the stench of copper and bloody meat hung heavily in the air. The light in the room vanished as the guardsheets came crashing down.

And now nobody was getting out, not until he could shake some answers out of these snakes.

Blue was in pain, but his eyes shown like sunfire refracted through nanotized crystalline glass, all encompassing anger possessed him as he leapt up and over the gigantic weirwood desk and grabbed Janette Bank by the throat, squeezing hard enough to snap her head direcly to the right, a loud crack as he neck broke in that one shattering grip.

He flung her broken corpse against the wall, where her head smashed upon the wall, the gray white slush of brains leaking out of her broken cranium, mixing with the gory heaps already upon the ground.

Her wound might have been reconstituted and herself reanimated, but Blue was not going to allow that. He turned upon Ex and Tylux, the fiery rage in his wrath directed immediately towards them.

There was bloody drool running down his mouth, his clothes had that matted wet look, meaning they were soaked with blood; his and others - but he did not feel weak in the least.

Quick as an Uskan Asp, he grabbed Tylux's injured hand with both hands and pulled, splitting it apart even more, up to the wrist, the man screaming in agony and pain as more blood spurted, Blue crushing the fingers in his hands.

"Tell me." he said, to both of them at the same time. "And you just may live."

"The Technomancers and some Outsider clans!" cried Ex, and Tylux nodded his head quickly in agreement, sobbing out tears and mucus at his ruined arm.

"Or maybe you won't." Blue said almost conversationally, his white teeth flashing in a grin.