CHAPTER 6: Fear That Gives Men Wings

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BALCONY OF ABANDONED BUILDING
"The boys had destroyed all the stairs up to Lupino's office. The alternate route led there by way of adjoining rooftops" Max carefully walks down the destroyed balcony stairs and back into the snowy ground. Makes needs to find a way up to the rooftops, a ladder or an elevator would of helped a lot. Across from where Max is, two junkies on Valkyr are seen talking to each other near a burning barrel

V JUNKIE #1: It's never been this cold. Never ever. It's like the sky's falling.
V JUNKIE #2: Yes sir, it's the end of the world as we know it.
V JUNKIE #1: I don't feel fine, I don't think feel anything, not anything.
V JUNKIE #2: I'm freezing my butt off.

As they are to distracted by the burning barrel, it shouldn't be a problem to sneak by them, after all they could attack at any moment. Max enters the near by building and comes to a map, a laundry mat was around the corner and there was an elevator there too. He walks down the hallway and finds the laundry mat door. Max decides knock on the door to get the attention of whoever is in there. A hatch in the door opens up and two eyes pop out.

MAX: Pizza Delivery.
THUG #1: Never seen you before, Buzz off Joker.

The hatch closes and Max tries the doorknob to see if it's unlocked. As he thought, the door was locked, there was no way in. He was going to have to find someone else who knew how to get in, otherwise he'd have to find another option to get to the rooftops. Max exits the hallway and back out to the snowy yard looking for another building to investigate. Not far from the junkies lies another door, he walks and enters the building quietly. The room is dark, rats running around and bricks broken on the floor. Many junkies were here, talking to themselves or other people speaking how the worlds going to end. It didn't bother Max and he continued upstairs until he reached the top room. He opens the door, gun up and a guy stands near the window.

GUY: No, don't shoot, I ain't..
MAX: Do you know the clowns at the Laundry?
GUY: Me, no?
MAX: You're no good to me then
GUY: What? No no no, the laundry, yeah, I know em, yeah.
MAX: Get me in there
GUY: No problem, man, I'll come to the laundromat with ya. I'll get ya in.

Max loses his gun and decides to move with the guy. They both go down the stairs and arrive at the laundromat. Max was tempting to kill the guy as he looked very suspicious but be kept his gun down. The guy walks up to the door and knocks.

GUY: It's me, open up. Lemme in quick.
THUG #1: Not so fast. The password.... John who?
GUY: Come on... Alright... John woo
THUG #1: Alright, come right in.

The door unlocks and swings open. Suddenly the guy gives Max away and screams for help. His senses were right, he couldn't be trusted.

GUY: It's a trap! It's Payne!!

They all run to the back of the room to hide. Max pulls out his gun and starts his search, their was more than one in the room. The thugs come out and begin blasting at Max, how was he going to take them down. Max looks around and sees a bucket of water and a wire hanging out of a washing machine. Electrocution was the only way to take them out. Max waits for a couple of seconds for them to tire out and looks up to see if they are concentrating. Some of the have lost focus, this was his chance. Max gets up quickly and rolls towards the table. He gets on it and kicks the water on to the floor. The water spills across the floor and floods the laundromat. The thugs look up and start laughing at Max, suddenly the water sparks and they start shaking really fast. They begin to smoke up and burn, electrocution has taken its place. One by one they fall to the ground, once again Max survives another battle. He carefully gets off the table and walks across some cardboard to get across to the laundromats elevator. He presses the up button and the elevator closes and goes up. Finally Max was getting somewhere, but it was going to get more dangerous from here on in. The elevator stops and the doors swing open, Max enters a room in which it looks like the Thugs were staying at. Sooner or later someone was going to check up on them so Max couldn't stay long. A TV was still responding so Max listened to the updates.

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