Hostile Takeover
“After the first fifteen seconds, we didn’t hear anything out of the ordinary outside the stairwell. We also didn’t hear any internal building alarms, which they would have definitely deployed to evacuate employees. Alice and I looked at each other, both of us thinking the same thing. It was just too quiet, the kind of quiet that brings about paranoia because you know goddamned well it isn’t going to last. The farther down we went into the shaft, the more we could feel the air being sucked away ...into the vacuum of whatever was about to blow up in our faces. We stopped for a second to listen. And, of course, as soon as we noted the lack of response, that’s when it came.
Agents began rapid-firing up the stairwell. Slugs were bouncing all over, lighting us up like a pinball machine. We were two fish, shit out of luck in a barrel. Alice and I started popping smoke grenades like mad and hurling them down at the agents. We heard coughing, cursing, bodies falling.MoreLess
Agents began rapid-firing up the stairwell. Slugs were bouncing all over, lighting us up like a pinball machine. We were two fish, shit out of luck in a barrel. Alice and I started popping smoke grenades like mad and hurling them down at the agents. We heard coughing, cursing, bodies falling.MoreLess
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