"Here's something I haven't seen before!"
"What is it?"
"I'm reading it as a handgun, but there's something else that I can't identify."
"Then take it with you."
Garrett headed back into the main room before everyone else and made quick work of three more sharks that had teleported in and waited by the newly unlocked door. Once Jackie and Eleanor caught up he headed through and into the hall. Instead of going straight, this time he turned left to the doorway of the still darkened room.
"Eleanor, since you're an android can you see in the dark?"
"To an extent. I don't think you can though."
"No, but our weapons have infrared scopes on them."
Garrett followed Eleanor into the room. He could faintly hear some of the beasts teleporting into the room, and swept his grenade launcher around the room, peering through the scope. He saw two that were farther away and saw a shot from Eleanor's rifle streak toward it. He turned farther and saw another closer shark. He pulled the trigger and saw it get torn apart. Jackie next to him got something in her sight and fired at it. However, an explosion lit up the room as she had used the grenade launcher on her submachine gun. Garrett turned and saw the remnants of something other than a shark or flower scattered about.
The door on the opposite side of the room lit up green. The light still wasn't on, so Garrett started looking around for a switch or panel to turn it on from. He saw some boxes in a corner of the room and walked over to those. There wasn't anything special in the boxes, just a saber and a healing item. However, there was another switch like the one that opened the door behind these boxes. Garrett hit the switch and some lights in the ceiling of the chamber turned on.
Now with light, Garrett could see that there was nothing else useful in this room. He, Jackie, and Eleanor headed through the door that they had not yet been through and was in a long, winding hallway. There wasn't anything unusual in this, so the three went through the next door. Now they were in a smaller room which was instantly filled with several green sharks, as well as a couple larger red ones. All three opened fire, Garrett with his grenade launcher, Eleanor with her shot, and Jackie with her submachine gun. The eight or so beasts were quickly cut down. However, there was something lying in the puddle of goo that had been one of the beasts.
Garrett stepped forward to see what had been left behind by the shark. He stepped forward and bent down to pick it up, but heard something teleport in right in front of him. He looked up to see a shark pulling back its claw to strike him. Before it hit, he was able to put his arms in front of him. Two small green shields deployed from the barriers, blocking the claw. Garrett kicked the beast sharply, but that didn't do anything. He also didn't want to use the explosive power of the grenade launcher so close to his head. However, the shark reeled back as several green photons struck it. Garrett got up and stepped out of the way of Jackie. She put a burst into the shark's head and neck. Garrett then leveled his rifle and shot past the dying shark at another one behind it.
The other door in the chamber flashed the green light and Garrett assumed the room was safe. He stepped forward again to see what was in the green goo of two sharks. He reached into the goo and felt something hard. He pulled out not one, but two small daggers. He stored this in his inventory and wondered for a minute why those were inside a beast. He decided that items could be sent through midair by scanning things that something could be misaimed and be directed into a beast. It was a good enough explanation for him at the time.
Garrett stepped up to the unlocked door. It slid open to reveal another short hallway. He stepped through this and then into another chamber. However, this one was different from the other ones. It was not lit from the ceiling. Instead, an orange glow filled the chamber from below. There was a huge crack running across the middle of the chamber. It ran the entire width of the chamber and separated the side Garrett was one from the other side by some twenty feet. Garrett stepped to the edge and looked down to where lava flowed only ten feet below him. On the opposite side of the chamber, there was a small narrow tunnel that led away into darkness.
With nothing to do in that wrecked chamber, the three turned back and headed all the way to the three way hallway. There, Garrett led them to the left and into the round chamber. There the three quickly worked through several more sharks and a few flowers to make the doors open. Garrett sent Jackie to the left door to pick up whatever was in the boxes there and he and Eleanor went through the right door. There was another long chamber through that door, but not nearly as large as the one at the beginning of the cave complex.
The first enemies to show up here was a wave of sharks that was already in the room. Eleanor used her shotgun to put rounds into the nearby ones, and Garrett switched to his sniper rifle to pick off a couple at the other end of the chamber. After this, something else teleported in on the other side of the room. This was a dragon, but one which was only a bit larger than a shark. Garrett set his sights on it and shot it. The round struck its wing and exploded. This tore a hole in the wing but by no means killed the dragon. It turned and stared at Garrett. Garrett wondered what it was doing until a blue beam shot from the dragon's mouth at him. He put out one of his arms to block it with the barrier.
The barrier took the hit, but after that it was showering sparks. Garrett quickly tossed it off and onto the ground a good distance in front of him. Unlike anything else he had seen so far malfunction, and much to his surprise, the barrier did not explode. Garrett quickly took aim at the dragon, but before he could get off a shot its head was knocked off by a round from Jackie's gun. Now that this dragon was dead, a door on the far side of the room unlocked. Garrett walked across the room and noticed that there was another healing item left in the puddle of blood where the dragon was.