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"Wouldn't you?"
Little Guy nodded, moved forward at the double-quick, waving for Meyerson to catch up. Meyerson did, went for the stairs: Little Guy waved him off.
Meyerson's eyes were surprised, his voice quizzical: "We're taking the elevator? It's a death trap."
Little Guy shook his head. "Cover me." When Meyerson had set himself up, Little Guy took out a palmtop. Looking over his shoulder, Caine saw a building schema...
"Can I give you a hand?"
Little Guy nodded at Caine, who followed him over to a panel between the staircase and the leftmost of the elevators. Jerking his head at the wall panel, he t...
About twenty seconds later, the last bolt came out and the panel sagged forward toward Caine-who lugged it away from the wall and lowered it to the floor. A h...
"Meyerson." Little Guy had the key in the lock; the access door swung open with a stiff squeal.
"Yeah?"
"Give us ten seconds, then follow us up. Close the door after you and keep watching below as we climb."
Little Guy stuck his head in the maintenance shaft, did a quick up-down check. Popped back out, looked at Caine. "Here's the drill. I go in first. Give me fiv...
"Got it."
"Okay. And good thinking about that blocking force."
Little Guy ducked under the top edge of the doorway and was gone. Caine counted to five and swung himself in.
Little Guy was already far above him. Down below was nothing but blackness, except for what sounded like a distant rush of falling water, the sound one hears ...
CALYPSO
Just ahead, through the torrents of water, Opal could see two elevators at a T intersection, flanking a large letter "B." So she was in the basement. Great.
And she wasn't alone. Approaching the elevators from the opposite direction were three figures. Running. In white coats. Workers.
She was about to wave, then ducked back as far as she could into the doorway, which was her cover: one of the workers kept looking back over his shoulder, pan...
The center of her white lab coat exploded outward into a red smear, followed quickly by another bloody eruption from where her appendix would be, and a third ...
Then, silence, except for the dull thunder of the water spraying down. She waited. Through the water, she barely heard footsteps approach, then stop about fif...
So she had to wait. If she went to the elevators now, and they turned around, they'd have her. So move as close to the elevators as possible, listen, maybe st...
Which she did, keeping her bare feet in gliding contact with the wet floor: anything else and she would sound like a kid playing in a puddle. She reached the ...
Using the cover of their noise, she limp-sprinted to the elevator, wedged her arm through the partially open door, braced her legs and pushed one direction wi...
Inside the elevator, she found what she had been hoping to find at a medical facility: handrail/bumpers lining the interior at about waist height. And at the ...
One last agony, now. Facing into the left rear corner, she raised her shaking left leg up onto one of the handrails and wedged her left hand into the crevice ...
But after three blows, the panel popped up, the sheared head of a single restraining screw dropping past her. Now, both arms through the access panel, palms t...
Guiding the access panel back with careful fingers, she snugged it in place, thought: I just might make it-
She heard a faint metallic squeak overhead, threw herself to the side of the elevator car's roof, almost tumbling into the gap between it and the wall. She wa...
Alongside her, disappearing up into the near shadows, was a ladder in a recessed channel. It was a pathway to salvation-or to death. The all-important variabl...
She leaned back against the ladder: wondering won't do any good. You have to think, and then you have to act. So she thought: this might be a secure facility,...
Probably not. Aerial insertion would be risky if they were in a developed area-and aerial extraction would be suicide. Local forces would be on the way in, an...
Unless this was a black op-where the "intruders" were actually the "men in black" from the government-in which case there was no hope either way. Local law en...
So it was either men in black and certain death, or honest-to-god intruders-which meant that the cavalry was probably be on the way, and they would almost cer...
She turned slowly, reached out for the rungs of the ladder and hoped her legs would hold her for what looked like-judging from the distance of that little bit...
ODYSSEUS
Little Guy's hand appeared in the shaft above him, waving sharply. All clear.
Caine yanked himself up the last five rungs, but, despite his eagerness to be outside, kept low as he came out. Little Guy, watching from a crouch, gave a nod...
A green and red light, blinking, about three kilometers away, and coming closer-rapidly. The roar of VTOL jets crescendoed: the approaching craft was swivelin...
"Our ride?"
Little Guy nodded, scuttled crablike to a spot a few meters away, where he set and adjusted a black disk about the size of a hockey puck.
"What is it?"
He didn't look up. "Multiphase UV beacon: can't see it without special goggles, set to see the right frequencies at the right intervals."
Meyerson burst out of the doorway, somewhat crouched, but ready to stand. Caine reached up, grabbed the front of his web-gear, tugged him down.
"Son of a-"
Little Guy interrupted. "Meyerson."
Meyerson looked away. "Okay. I just wanted to get the hell out of there."
"You'll get dead if you do it standing up. Stay low."
The VTOL roared closer, looming larger and on what seemed like a collision course.
"Hey-" began Caine.