The light envelopes him and their salvage and then he's outside and can see the base in the distance.
He lets out a choked noise, the kind of anguished sound someone makes when they've been stabbed in the heart. But he doesn't stand there in shock for long.
Out here, there are no zombies and the soldiers and Roboticans are milling around on high alert, but clearly not under attack. That's all about to change because of the zombies spilling up through that lab, and Pidge -
He has to believe that she'll find some way to hold out, to break through them so she can take cover. She's smart. She's one of the smartest people he's ever met. If anyone has a chance of holding out against the zombies without having powers that are particularly good for it, if anyone has a chance to survive on brains and sheer grit alone, she does.
So he gathers up the magnets with his teke, holding them all in a sphere and rockets towards the checkpoint so fast that the wind from his wake almost knocks some soldiers over.
He dumps the batteries in front of the soldier they were supposed to hand them off to and looks for the nearest Legionnaire. To his relief, it's one of the ones he wants to see most.
He runs up and tugs Wash by the hand.
"They got behind the lines and into the lab somehow! They just started spilling out of the vents and penned us in and blocked off our comms. We need to go back! Pidge is still in there!"
His words kick off a sudden shift in the checkpoint as they realize the zone's been compromised. The soldiers and droids start mobilizing to head to the labs, with the Coluan officers yelling out orders with clinical calm. In just a few seconds, it transforms from a guarded area, behind enemy lines, into part of an active war zone.
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He lets out a choked noise, the kind of anguished sound someone makes when they've been stabbed in the heart. But he doesn't stand there in shock for long.
Out here, there are no zombies and the soldiers and Roboticans are milling around on high alert, but clearly not under attack. That's all about to change because of the zombies spilling up through that lab, and Pidge -
He has to believe that she'll find some way to hold out, to break through them so she can take cover. She's smart. She's one of the smartest people he's ever met. If anyone has a chance of holding out against the zombies without having powers that are particularly good for it, if anyone has a chance to survive on brains and sheer grit alone, she does.
So he gathers up the magnets with his teke, holding them all in a sphere and rockets towards the checkpoint so fast that the wind from his wake almost knocks some soldiers over.
He dumps the batteries in front of the soldier they were supposed to hand them off to and looks for the nearest Legionnaire. To his relief, it's one of the ones he wants to see most.
He runs up and tugs Wash by the hand.
"They got behind the lines and into the lab somehow! They just started spilling out of the vents and penned us in and blocked off our comms. We need to go back! Pidge is still in there!"
His words kick off a sudden shift in the checkpoint as they realize the zone's been compromised. The soldiers and droids start mobilizing to head to the labs, with the Coluan officers yelling out orders with clinical calm. In just a few seconds, it transforms from a guarded area, behind enemy lines, into part of an active war zone.