As I walked into the hallway, I heard some shouting and footsteps. I hid behind the corner and waited to see who was coming. Some guys in black military-style clothing and bullet-proof vests ran down the hallway carrying machine guns and shot guns. As soon as they were near me, I popped out and started shooting at them. My machine gun's armor piercing bullets went through their "bullet proof" vests.

I shot down about 3 of these guys, and the rest of them started aiming their weapons. I jumped right and hid behind the other corner of the hallway. The door I came out of earlier was pelted with bullets. I looked to my left and there was an emergency exit staircase. I ran to the door, opened it, and leaped down the stairs.

After going down 2 floors, I went through the door. Inside was another hallway similar to where I just was. I headed down the hallway and went into a door 2 doors from where I started. This door was different than the other ones, which maybe compelled me to go into it. It was wider than most and was more protected. Good thing it wasn't locked.

I entered it and there was what looked like a heavyweight AC, but was about the same size as me. It was an MS! A Mobile Suit! These things are usually piloted by MT pilots. MSs can hover, run, boost, and shoot like an AC. The only downside is that they are almost always ΒΌ the strength of an AC. But they can fit in small places.

I got in and turned it on. The weapons indicator said that this MS was equipped with a laser blade, machine gun, mini-grenade launcher back weapon, and slug gun back weapon. I released the locks that held the MS in its place.

But before I could even take a step, the SWAT team burst in. Instantly, they all stopped with fear in their eyes. The 3 of them in the back ran back out the door, but the other two couldn't get out in time. I fired my machine gun and they were splattered against the walls.

When I walked out the door, the remaining 3 SWAT members opened fire on me. I switched to mini-grenades and fired a single round into them. There was lots of smoke, so I couldn't see how much I messed them up.

With all the SWAT members gone, I went to the elevator that was at the very end of the hallway. I opened the door and pressed the button to "HP research". That was basically the only place left to search.

When the elevator door opened, 3 BWs, which mean Battle Walkers because they were like automated soldiers, greeted me with some rifle rounds. Momentarily stunned by the rounds, I switched to slug gun and took a knee. I fired a single round. The BWs were still standing, momentarily stunned by the shot-gun-like blast. I fired another round and they exploded, blackening the walls and spreading sparking parts all over the floor.

I walked over the rubble and opened a door that seemed like it had high security. Inside were a bunch of cylinders that looked like cryo chambers. The inside was too foggy to see what was inside, but there were labels on the outside.

"HP-1409SB, HP-1412DQ, HP-1410SW, HP-1411SR.What the hell is this?" I said to myself.

I didn't know what any of these numbers meant, and there were like 20 of them in the room. I stepped back and looked at them all, trying to gain clues on what the hell these were. All of them except HP-1409SB had green lights. HP-1409SB had a red light. Well, so what? I tried pushing buttons to try and open the one with the red light, but it said I needed a pass code. So I tried opening it with my laser blade.

When I broke the glass, smoke came out as the thing depressurized. I couldn't really see what I was cutting anymore, there was too much smoke. I switched the MS's view mode to infrared and it revealed what was inside.

Nothing. Really, nothing was inside the thing. It was empty. Well, that was a waste. I proceeded to the next one, and tried opening it. As soon as I touched the glass, a warning came on.

"Major leak in cryo chamber 2! Enhancements incomplete! Life signs failing! Restore pressure immediately!" said the computer.

I still had to figure out what was inside. I pulled away the glass and inside was a human body! The body had all these wires in it, some flashy lights, and weird tubes in the back of its head. The lights began to flash faster and then turned red. Eventually the lights stopped.

"Life signs of human plus number 2 has failed. Commencing disposal procedures," announced the computer.

Human plus? I think I've heard about those in stories. The human plus were genetically engineered ravens who were given special skills to dominate the arena, missions, everything. I heard that the project was later abandoned due to the event that the human plus ravens became too powerful.

The body was flushed like a nugget of shit down a big tube. I decided not to mess with the other capsules either. But where the hell is Soni?