51 Black Out part 2 (1/2)
The ride down the elevator was quite. So far the team had made down 100 floors without any problems. It was beginning to look as though they would get through this with about any issues and be back before the time limit.
Their target had begun to struggle a bit but with her hands and feet tied she was not going to be able to cause them any real problems. During one of her ”fits” Something dropped out of her pockets and landed face down on the floor of the elevator. The device started to blink red causing John to notice it.
Before he could pick what ever it was up Sharia came blaring arcoss the radio. ”Blue Team you have incoming! Multiple bogeys are converging on your position! What The Hell Happened!” John's mind went into overdrive as he stopped the elevator mid floor. He firgure the device had to be a sort of panic button, however he didn't know if who ever was responding to the button had GPS on the button or on the person it was ment for. ” New plan Everyone out of the elevator we are taking the side of the building out. Blue 5 and 6 out the top and clear the floor above. Blue 3 and 4 stay with the target and move behind me and 2. Let's move people”
The team moved with a purpose as Blue 5 and 6 opened the top hatch of the elevator and climbed out quickly followed by 4 and 3. Blue 6 forced open the door to the floor above them just enough so he could see what was beyond it. Like all of the other floors the elevator was in a closed room separate from the rest of the hallway.
Motioning for the rest of the Team they quickly made their way into the room. Well all but John as he set the elevator back in motion then jumped out of the moving elevator into the hands of Blue 2. He also left a little suprising in the elevator that if he had guessed correctly would find if they were tracking the beacon instead of the person. Climbing out of the elevator shaft John signaled for the group to moves they headed to the nearest window.
---Koto-Si Financial District---
It had been a normal night for Zal Emdi local sector police. It had been a slow night stopping a couple of kids from vandalizing a store front. A couple of speeding tickets here and there. It was almost time for his shift to end, hopefully he can make it to one of the late night restaurants so he could grab som- ” All units in the financial district converge on the CIC building. We have a level 5 alert this is not a drill I repeat converge on the CIC..” Zal's radio was on emergency repeat function. This was bad something big was going on and he couldn't get out of it.
Making it to the garage level of the building before he could bring his speeder inside he was stopped by some of the droids that had made it their before him. ” Hey what's the deal we were called in for the alert how can you stop the police from entering!” Yelled one of Zal fellow officers. The droid just stared at the man blankly as it repeated the same line, ” This is a matter that the military have taken over please secure the perimeter.”
Zal wanted to help his fellow officer but about 2 seconds later he would come to thank the droid for saving their lives. At that exact moment an explosion ripped through the garage level of the building. Anything that would have been inside of the building at that level would have been vaporized in a second. Thankfully all of the police had been forced to stay out side as only the droids had any casualties.
Before Zal could start to thank his lucky stars something caught his eyes near the 90th floor of the building. It looked as though some glasses had been busted out of the building. He couldn't be sure but he also didn't want to draw attention to himself if there was something. He was sure that the captain on scene would make him enter the building and check it out, and after witnesses that explosion that was the last thing he wanted to do.
So taking this opportunity to play stupid Zal decided he would fake an injury to get out of the area. Playing like he had gone slightly deaf from the explosion. He was taken out of the area to go get check out at a near by hospital. Later when Zal looked back at his actions he would come to say that single action had come to save his life. For out of all 60 police officers that had been called to that scene on 5 made it out alive. Those five had survived do to being hurt from the first explosion and removed from the area. It's still classified what killed the others that day, and Zal is smart enough not to ask questions about it.