Jet walked along the tunnels, using chalk to mark her trail with arrows as she went. After 15 minutes of walking she noticed the air get really hot. She tread carefully knowing there maybe magma nearby or even under the floor. She didn't want to fall through.
She knew of course that wasn't the only thing she needed to worry about. Various creatures lived in these tunnels and if she got hurt, her team might not be able to reach her quickly enough.
She rounded the corner to only find a dead end.
"Well this won't work," she said to herself, "Hope the other way does."
She turned to go back when the ground in front of her crumbled and out leapt a lava monster. The air around became hot enough to almost burn her face. She began to sweat as well.
The lava monster threw back his fist. Jet flinched But the fist moved right past her. Smashing into a wall.
Jet shielded her face from bits of rock from the smash and looked to see the lava monster take out a fist full of energy crystals. It then leapt into the hole it had created.
Jet could see down below now and confirmed her suspicion. She was walking over a river of magma. To make matters worse the floor was crumbling.
Jet wasted no time she grabbed a grapple from her tool belt and grasped the ceiling with it. She swung across just as the floor beneath her fell away.
"How many times have I used this to swing over magma?" she wondered as she landed and undid the grappling hook, "give me a mask and I'm suddenly a female spider man...uhg...I've been hanging around Axel too much."
*she sighed and made her way back through the tunnel.
Her team wasn't there yet. They wouldn't be. They probably weren't at their vehicles yet.
Jet shook her head. she should continue but she wanted to check something first. now that she was out of the cavern, was she still dangerously over magma?
She walked over to the smashed transport truck and took out an ultrasonic thickness gage used to measure thickness of materials. Sparks had added some extra juice allowing it to also read how thing cave walls, floors, and ceilings were.
If the floor was too thin she's have to warn the team not to bring the drill here as it would fall through.
Luckily the floor was 3 meters and very stable. The drill would be safe.
Jet sighed with relief and put the tool back. If the second way didn't have a way out, the last thing she'd want is the drill to be unsafe. She wouldn't be stuck because she could be beamed up to the LMS, but Chief got annoyed if that was used too often to get out of bad situations.
She took out her communicator, "Jet to mining crew. The first exit was a dead end, but bring some cones. We need to mark off the area as too thin for vehicles. I'll mark with chalk which exit it is."
"Will do. You doing alright in there?" Bandit's voice asked.
"Hard to say. I made up a joke that sounded like one of Axel's," Jet told them.
She heard laughter on the side her friends were on at her comment.
"Are there any other possible exits?" Bandit asked.
"One more, but I haven't looked into it yet. If your interested bandit, it does have an underground lake,"
"Thanks. I'll keep that in mind," Bandit said, "right now keep trying to get yourself back to the processor.
"I'm trying. I'll see you soon," said Jet before putting the communicator away.
