CONTINUUM Serrano Point: 2028

CHAPTER X

-Monday, August 14 2028 (11:51)

Hydroponics Lab IV

Choi stepped through a door into yet another room. It was filled with several large tanks of water with a bank of displays along the far wall. After a moment he went further into the room, Allison following a few steps behind.

“What do you suppose this is?” Allison asked.

“Water holding tanks.”

“How do you know?”

“Because,” Choi said making his way to the other side of the room, “It said so on the door.”

Allison wrinkled her nose. “Reading was never been one of my strong suites. Fucking unholy blurry lines.”

Choi bent over to look at one of the screens. “It looks like they’re monitoring water for something,” He shrugged. “What or why I have no idea. There’s a computer interface over there. Go see if you can find some kind of a map,” Nodding, Allison quickly made her way over to the computer. However after a few moments however she stepped away in defeat.

“No good. It needs security codes just to access the thing.”

Choi went over to her. “Let me try.”

As Choi worked Allison went over to stand next to one of the tanks, looking at the door they had just come through. “Hey, do you think it’s strange, we’ve been wondering around for about ten minutes now, but we still haven’t run into anybody?”

“Very,” After a few moments Choi shook his head. “Come on, this thing is useless. It doesn’t look like there’s another way out of here, well have to go back the way we came.” The two of the quickly made their way back down the corridor that had led them to the water holding room. After a little while they came back to the last intersection they had taken. To their left was the way they had already come, with the corridor continuing to their right.

“Well,” Allison said, “we had two choices, we tried going off this way, and since I don’t really want to go back the way we came, I guess that leaves…”

Choi nodded. “Agreed,” The two of them went right when they heard footsteps coming from further down the corridor behind them. “Come on,” Choi hissed, the two of them braking into a run as they heard the footsteps behind them increase there pace. After a few minutes they came to another door, this one ajar with a hole blasted in it. They quickly slipped through and looked around.

“Oh for the love of God,” Allison muttered. They were back in the same processing station the fighting had originally started in.

“At least we didn’t come back in through the same door,” Choi said. “Come on,” They had just gone past a large clear vat filled with some kind of thick, greenish brown liquid when there was a shout behind them and a moment later a plasma blast exploded against the vat, showering the ground next to them with molten plastic and steel, and a few moments later a torrent of nutrient filled water. Allison and Choi quickly ducked down further behind the vat and looked back behind them.

“Colonel Smith,” Allison said.

Choi nodded. “And the Sergeant who killed Harris. Looks like it’s just the two of them though,” he said raising his rifle. They both fired their weapons as the other two got behind a bank of equipment. “Come on. Getting in a fire fight with them doesn’t help us right now, and at least being in here again gives us a good chance of finding our way back to the entrance bay,” They quickly made their way towards where they thought the door they had originally come into the room had been, all the while on the look out for Caroline and Blitz. However it was more luck then anything else that the hail of bullets hit the display screen a foot away and not them.