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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4334848" data-attributes="member: 3285">Grey Matter: Part 3d – The AlienSmoke and halon gas filled the room, making identifying targets nearly impossible. Shotgun blasts blindly tore into the cryogenic tube, rocking it several feet backwards.  Hammer ducked around the left side and squeezed off several shots.  The Grey’s vacant gaze focused on the blonde assistant.  She grunted with exertion as her own limbs betrayed her.  After a brief struggle, she tore off her own gas mask.  The agent fell to the ground, wheezing.Jim-Bean grabbed his two bags. “We have to get out of here!” He shouted through his gas mask to Goodrich.Goodrich fired his pistol into the smoke and backed up to the door.  Jim-Bean crawled over to the security guard’s dead body and yanked the key off the corpse’s neck.More blasts echoed in the chamber.  Servers sparked as they were perforated by shotgun shells. Goodrich plugged his key into the wall.  Jim-Bean felt his way up the wall and found the opening for the key.  He plugged it in.“One…”Hammer dragged the cryogenic tube backwards on its wheels, firing around the Gray who sat placidly amidst the chaos.  “Two…”Hammer swung the cryogenic tube around, his back to his assailants for a terrifying moment.  He was relying on the smoke, confusion, and maybe even the Grey to keep him safe.“Three!”They turned the keys and Hammer shoved the tube forward.  The door whisked open. Two security guards who stood in the doorway were rammed out of the way.  Hammer hopped onto the back of the tube and, like a kid riding a shopping cart, rode it through the crowd of guards outside of the vault.Jim-Bean came through next.  He tore off his mask.  “Get in there, your boss is trapped!”The two nearest security guards looked at each other in shock and then rushed forward just as Goodrich tried to exit. “Get out of the way you morons!” screamed Goodrich.“Lunch time!” shouted Jim-Bean.  He tossed his lunch bag over the heads of the two guards.“Nooo—“ was all Goodrich got out before the reinforced door slammed shut again.The remaining security guards aimed their pistols at Jim-Bean.  He turned to face them, something clenched in his fist.“Put the weapon down!” shouted one of the guards.“It’s not a weapon,” said Jim-Bean.  He clicked the detonator with his thumb.The ensuing blast in the reinforced film vault turned the doorway into a cannon.  The door shrieked off its moorings, tearing through the crowd of security guards and blasting a path to freedom.Jim-Bean stepped over the unconscious bodies and corpses on his way to the exit.</blockquote>

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