Garrett headed into the next chamber, which was an L-shaped hallway. Eleanor stopped behind him.
"Wait, there's something there."
"I don't see anything."
"That's because it's camouflaged."
"Well what is it?"
"It's a trap."
"Can you do anything about it?"
"Back up."
Garrett backed behind Eleanor. She raised her rifle and fired at something. There apparently was something there, since there was a large explosion at the bend in the passageway. Eleanor stepped forward to the bend.
"It's clear."
Garrett once again took the lead. Jackie and Eleanor followed him into another chamber. This one was the size of the dead end ones, but it had three exits. One was the one which the three had just entered through. Another one was a door on the opposite side. The third exit was through a teleporter on the left side. Garrett stepped up to the teleporter and saw that it did not read what the destination was, just a bunch of numbers. He decided to not try that and headed through the door he had not been through yet.
This opened into a short hallway. Once the door on the other side opened, Garrett saw that it opened up into an immense cavern. This was a huge man made platform built over an exposed lake of lava. He started walking toward the middle. There were many boxes on either side of the platform. Tunnels on either side let lava constantly flow into the lake below. Garrett walked over to one of the boxes and opened it. Inside was another rifle. However, he quickly stopped himself from checking the other boxes. He heard the faint sound of beasts once again teleporting in, and then heard the crack of Jackie's SMG.
"They're everywhere!"
Garrett did a quick check and saw that they were indeed everywhere. There were sharks of varying colors, flowers, something that looked like a giant bug, and even a couple small dragons. He estimated there to be at least thirty enemies in the room, not counting the three that Jackie and Eleanor had just gunned down in a matter of seconds. More were teleporting in. Garrett quickly fired the last round in his grenade launcher at another nearby shark and switched to his MG34. He set this over Eleanor's shoulder, who flinched defensively.
"It's just me. Start backing to the door."
Garrett let out a long burst into several more nearby sharks, knocking some of them down and making some others flinch from the hits. After putting another burst into a nearby dragon and knocking it out of the air, he looked up to see that there were a couple more dragons circling down. He also caught a glimpse of a tall pillar of rock, clean of any flowing lava, jutting out of the lake next to the platform. He saw that there was a teleporter up on it.
The three reached the door safely, but they knew they were not heading back to Pioneer Two just yet. Garrett had seen the teleporter up on the high rock and wondered if that was the one the one in the small room led to. He decided on a small test. He took a piece of rock from the ground and set it on the teleporter. He then turned to Eleanor and Jackie, who were at the door and contentedly sniping away the rapidly appearing beasts with her photon rifle. He told them to watch the pillar of rock to see if anything would happen.
Garrett put a piece of rock onto the teleporter and activated it. Just like he thought, Jackie confirmed that the teleporter on the rock pillar had activated. Now Garrett stepped onto the teleporter and activated it. He appeared on the smooth surface at the top of the rock pillar. He knew that only the dragons would be able to get to him, so he quickly went prone and sent a flying that was near him spiraling down into the lava. He then switched to his sniper rifle and the other two off on the other side of the chamber were quickly killed.
With the immediate threat out of the way, Garrett looked around to see what could be causing all the beasts to teleport in. Through his scope he spotted a switch in the middle of the room. It was next to a railing which bordered a round hole in the metal floor. He figured that the switch could have something to do with it. Garrett turned around to go back through the teleporter, but he then saw a small bridge leading into a door in the wall of the chamber. The door was unlocked, so he headed up to it. This door opened to a turning hallway.
The hallway led to a set of metal stairs that headed up. Garrett went up these stairs and came into another hallway. This one he figured went straight across the top of the chamber. He found out he was right when he came across a bit of metal plate over the floor. Upon moving this he could see straight down some hundred feet to the chamber below. Taking opportunity of his height advantage, Garrett loaded the large grenades into his grenade launcher and fired one down into a group of sharks below him. The explosion scattered parts of them about the area.
Garrett then continued down the hall to another set of stairs down, and ended up on a metal platform he had not seen on the opposite side of the room. For some reason, there was a photon machine gun up there, mounted on a post on the platform's railing. Garrett leaned on the railing and shouted down at Jackie and Eleanor in the doorway.
"Can you make it to the middle of the room?"
"Why?"
"There's a switch for something there! I'll give you cover fire!"
"Okay, are you ready?"
"Yeah! Go!"
Garrett set down his grenade launcher and got onto the machine gun. He set the scoped sight onto some targets ahead of the two walking forward below him and held down the trigger. Sharks and other beasts down on the floor of the chamber were wiped out from the combined firepower of the machine gun and Jackie's submachine gun and Eleanor's shot, and the two pushed forward steadily until they were in the middle of the room. Jackie hit the switch quickly and different from Garrett's plans, they stayed there. Beasts were still teleporting in at a slower rate, so Garrett held down the trigger of the machine gun. However, it soon stopped firing. A small panel next to the scope said that the machine gun was going into cooling mode.
Garrett picked up and stored his grenade launcher and took out his sniper rifle. He then started quickly gunning down beasts. However, he also noticed that it only seemed to be the ones that were already there that were attacking, no new ones. He fired the last round in his clip and started running over to the teleporter. Once he was over there he saw that there were only a couple beasts left and that Eleanor and Jackie were finishing those off. He went through the teleporter and in a minute was in the middle of the chamber with Jackie and Eleanor. He looked and saw that the door had unlocked.