The sparks of the railing bit at my mask as I continued up the elevator, and it wasn't I heard screeching ahead of me that I realized that the electric current under my palm had increased. An elevator was coming down, and, knowing my luck, the bottom of it would probably be crystallized, preventing me from cutting through the bottom. I looked to the side, and calculated when I would need to jump to get to the optimal floor. I started counting down in my head, and when I hit zero I disconnected my glove from the rail and jumped at the doors. I folded my arms over my head and busted the door open with my momentum. If it wasn't for my specialized armor, I would have broken my arms, and possibly my back from the force of the impact.
I slid across the ground with a bone chilling screech, and then rolled into the wall opposite the elevator. I looked back at the door, and knew that it was at least thirty maybe thirty-five meters. Shaking my head I tried to stand up, only to fall back onto the floor. I didn't expect killing this man would be very hard, but then again I probably should have just used a beam rifle from ten miles away, would have been easier. Shaking my head, I tried to stand up again, and succeeded. It wouldn't be long before some guards came, maybe thirty seconds, a minute if I was lucky. The hard-cases in my thigh armor opened up, and I took out two beam-guns, they weren't as powerful as my wrist-mounted energy disks, but they were rapid fire, and allowed me to aim without using my HUD interface. I ran towards the only open door in the room, and activated a mini-UAV. It was about the size of a fly, and had an AI mind of its own so it could act without my direct control.
"Ah, where am I?" It asked as it came online, it looked around, "Damn it, the little bastard tricked me again, I should stop sleeping in random charging ports..." They also had a faulty sarcasm module which I was supposed to fix, but never got around to. It flew around the corner, and showed me the next room.
There were three guards positioned behind the next pillars, and each of them was wearing advanced energy armor, meaning that I would have to go for a headshot to kill them. I activated the sonar pulse in my suit to confirm their positions and that they were actual people instead of just holograms used to distract me. Once prepared, I took a deep breath and dove out of the hallway. The three guards fired at me in unison, a mistake on their part since they had used beam-rifles. I popped out of cover and shot the two on the sides. Before I could aim at the third one however, he rushed me and knocked my guns away. Judging from how he was able to put me on my back without a struggle, I knew that fighting him with my fists would be a problem, and using my energy blades wouldn't work either. I kicked him off of me, and rolled to my feet. I grabbed the hilt of my sword and attached it to the blade.
Before I could draw it, he threw a quick trio of jabs at my chest, staggering me. He drew the blade and attempted to cut his arm off, only to find the blade deflected away. Judging from the strength of the reflection, his armor was also magnetic, forcing the metal of my blade away. It was effective, but held one flaw... I detached one of the super-magnets from me gloves, and threw it at the window. The man, taken by the force of the magnetic pull, flew out the window. I smiled as I picked up my beam-guns and put them back in their holsters. Before I exited the room, I grabbed one of the beam-rifles and examined it. The strength would have pierced through both layers of my armor, and killed me. The rifle tempted me to take it, but I noticed that it had a DNA scanner on the trigger.
I growled frustrated about not being able to use a good weapon, then did the second best thing. I scanned the weapon and uploaded the schematics to my suit's database. There was a small beep, notifying me that the mini-UAV had just returned to my suit, and uploaded detailed floor plans, and the most efficient path to the stairwell. I opened the next door when a helicopter appeared in the window the guard had just flown out of.
"Freeze! This is the Alpha sector Police! You are to cease actions of hostility..." I didn't have time for them, but killing them wouldn't help me either, I walked through the door, and closed it behind me, drowning out the noise of the helicopter.
I ran to the stairwell, thinking that it had been too easy for me to get here. I started running up the stairs until I heard a large crash, and looked up. The stairs above me were collapsing. Cursing, I ducked into the next floor, and hid behind an office desk. This place was too well protected to be an ordinary HQ for the Templars, there was something big here, and I was going to find out what.
