168 Antoine Neurosurgical Industries II : Breaking In (1/2)
Though we would have very much left to leave a sign saying we did what we were about to do, or at the very least March up to the front gate and blast our way through, however the issue with Houki was a rather delicate situation. Until we were sure of all the cards we had in our hands it wouldn't be wise to make too much noise, so rather than barging in, we were sneaking in, at least until we have to come out of the building, then we might actually have to fight our way out.
We were huddled behind an apple tree on the edge of the lab's property boundary, Morrigan was in the lead and she had her eyes closed with her fingers placed to her temple. There wasn't really a need for computers when you had a telepath that could back technology with just her mind alone, so the current century we find ourselves in, has turned out to be Morrigan's play ground.
”There a motions sensors, proximity alert alarms, satellite imagining, finger prints and retinal scans, voice recognition systems, facial recognition and even DNA testing. This fucking place has it's security beefed up, it would be harder to break into this place than the Octagon, the KGB, Buckingham palace and the white house combined.
But not just that their security at of the special kind, while they're not super powered humans like us, we would be dealing with men and women who has had their bodies enhanced by the same material that's the cause for our powers. Even the men at the gate are the same, facing up to them would be a bit difficult, they're a bit stronger and than we are….hmmm there's a lot of chatter about some kind of monster being cooked in the labs below, so we should be careful about that. But all that aside, I'm disabling proximity alerts and motion sensors now, I can't hack the satellite imagining, but with your help boss, I think I can mask our presence. But not for long, we have to get into the building in 65 seconds.” Morrigan said to me, I was about to ask her how she needed me to help when she suddenly placed her hands on me, and I felt a pulse spread from my body.
It was a little disorienting, it took just about five seconds to realize that she just used me as some sort of freaking battery to super charged her ability, I didn't even know I could do that. And using that same connection she was able to render us invisible to surveillance by somehow hacking into my ability to see, and manipulate electrical currents. Seems like there were quite s few things I could do or learn to do, but this would take the top spot of being the weirdest.
We ran across 3 acres of open fields before coming up to a guard tower, it was empty at the moment, or rather the only thing doing the guarding was the search light and the machine gun it was mounted on top of. Antoine Neurosurgical seems to place quite a bit of value in this lab, anyone would be suspicious about this level of security, but even then no one could really question them without proper suspicion, and so far they've kept their tracks clean.
”There's a maintenance tunnel in this tower, it's also an emergency exit should the need arises, it would take us past the main gate and fence, however it comes up in the main compound, we might have to take down a few guards to be able to get in. Boss are you sure we're not allowed to kill?” Morrigan asked me.
”I never said you weren't allowed to kill, I said you should avoid it at all cost, this guy's aren't really our enemies, they just work for douchebags, and we're the ones invading. But if there's no other option, make sure they don't suffer, and make it clean, I'm talking to you Monkey King, keep your bloodlust on a leash kid.” The teen gave me a wide grin as his hair bunched up to make a fist with a thumbs up.
The wall of the tower we were standing by seemed to develop seams and a door showed up that wasn't there before, we walked in, going down the metal stairs that showed up in front of us without hesitation, it print the hissing sound behind us as the door moved back into position. There was a tunnel at the end of the stair case that was lit up with red lights, we ran through it's entire length before coming up to another set of stairs, however this was a bit wider than the first. The lab had two fences, like a prison, the first was just a really simple chain link fence, but after that fence is where thinks get tricky.
Lucky for us we already bypassed that hurdle, the real problems would be the guard towers within the main compound, they were bigger than the one we just used, so there are sure to be holding guards. Nuwa walked forward taking point, she wasn't the fastest attacker, but she was the only one apart from Monkey King with enough control over her abilities to not outright kill a person. The Monkey King had a bloodthirsty streak that wouldn't be curbed, but that's just in a fight, off of it, he was s really good kid.
Nuwa went up the stairs and barged into the tower, we followed close behind her and watched as she pointed her hands out, releasing a stream of frost from one end of the room to the other. There were four guards, and none of them were expecting such a move as the frost save carried them all to the other end of the wall and froze them to it. Nuwa's ice would probably last twice as long as normal ice, but that still wasn't very long. She made and opening for them to be able to breathe as we made our way to the entrance of the tower.
”We have to use the main entrance, it's less guarded than the side entrances. It almost as if they expect the people breaking in to use side entrances, so there are traps set for them, and the main entrance is an obvious one. Without proper access you won't even be able to place s feet on the first set of steps leading to it's doors before being shocked into unconsciousness. But no worries boss, I got this, let's go.” Morrigan said as we made a beeline for the entrance with no patrol in sight.
We got there without a hitch and the doors slid open for us, with it's security systems showing green. Morrigan had a happy smile on her face as we entered the lab, and right into the waiting arms of 4 armed guards. Nuwa reacted first, erecting a massive ice wall that intercepted the hail of gun fire that came flying at us.
*Thud! Thud! Thud!*
One of the bullets grazed Morrigan, but we all had on protective suits, with enough strength to stop a high caliber bullet, though at the cost not broken bones and a few internal bleeding. King made a move, his hair stretched so far up and latching onto a railing on the second floor, he pulled himself up and wrapped his hair around himself until he became what was literally a massive hair ball, then he landed in front of the guards, hardened his hair and began to rapidly spin.
The bullets being shot at him fell to the ground in spades, all of them crumpled and crushed. His massive hairball form spun into the midst of the guards, he was akin to the blades of a blender as the guns were actually shredded much to my surprise as multiple cuts appeared on the guards who were quickly thrown backwards or to the sides from the force of King's rotation.
To say I was shocked would be an understatement, how could hair be that hard or that sharp, or how could a massive mass of hair make such rotations. For one I know it was just his hair that was moving, King was standing still in the middle of that mass of hair, damn this kid was a freak, but a pretty well rounded one.
He had elements of defense and attack in his abilities, and at the moment his defense seems to be absolute, it could even stop bullets better than steel every would. I'm not sure any of the weapons In production could Pierce through his hair, not unless they were made with relaxer or conditioner.
Nuwa dropped the wall of ice and moved to stand besides King, the guards were injured, but it was lightly, so I guess we could all agree the kid held back quite a bit, it could have been worse, a lot worse as I've been told and even had the displeasure of watching once when I was going over his file. The kid could decapitated a man with his hair from a kilometer away...spooky.
Morrigan took the lead, this time we were running, no doubt the sounds of gun shots would have alerted the other guards to our presence. We turned around a corner and came up to a hallway with an elevator at the end, there were two guards waiting there with their guns pointed at the ready, Morrigan's telepathic abilities needed her to be a little it closer to her targets, and I was the closest to her.