"There is a glitch... Run!"
Signet ran for it, she span around and bolted down the street. "What just happened??" she yelled into the hands free set.
"I don't know, suddenly something changed and I lost control! We need to get you out of there!" Mitai didn't want this project to fail, but right now things just turned to the worse and it didn't look good.
"How?" Signet tried hard not to panic. She prayed that Mitai hadn't made the Agent as powerful as they were in the movies.
"A hard-line, of course! I'm afraid the closest one just malfunctioned, you have to keep running down that street and get to the phone booth on the other side of the railroad." Mitai spoke as fast as she could. Signet ran as fast as she could, but she could hear a gunshot ring out behind her. The Agent was after her.
"Why did you have to code him a gun??" Signet yelled as she seemed to approach a train station. She could hear a train approach in the distance, and there was a wide double track next to the station building. But as she got closer she saw a problem. The tracks were fenced in, but she saw a set of ramps on each side of the tracks that were in front of her. Signet then focused her mind on one specific task; jumping over the tracks. The Agent was catching up, so this was her only chance.
Signet wasn't tired from the run. She was very aware of the fact that this was like being in a dream, she should be able to manipulate like it was one. Right now that would include jumping over two very wide train tracks, and also right in front of a train... it was approaching the station. Signet ran up one ramp, and jumped... She closed her eyes the moment she was in the air, having that unreal feeling she had when she had a lucid dream. But this time it was slightly different. The agent had stopped by the fence, and fired two shots at her. Time seemed to slow down as she was in mid-air, and one bullet penetrated her right shoulder, and another whizzled past her arm and tore her skin up. The adrenaline kick dulled the pain, but the moment she landed on her feet on the other ramp, she yelled out some un-feminine words as she pain shot through her arm and shoulder. She had hardly paid attention to the train, but as it passed her she realised she had barely missed it.
The sound of a phone brought her back to her senses, and she spotted the phone booth further up the road. The long train passing gave her shelter from the Agent, and she was able to make her way to the phone. "I made it..." she mumbled to herself as she grabbed the receiver and put it to her ear. There was a weird suction feeling, and she opened her eyes wide in the real world. She had made it out.
"What do you think you are doing... get that spike out..." Signet gasped, her right arm still hurt, and there were purple bruises where the bullets had hit her. She tried to sit up, but she was strapped to the chair. Mitai was still sitting behind the computer screens, and her partner was standing next to Signet. "Set me free!" she yelled at him, and tried to move her arms.
"Easy Signet, it's almost over now..." Mitai said with a soothing voice to Signet who was struggling to break free. Suddenly Signet felt a rush of... something... in her mind, and again she passed out.