Inside were machines stacked along the wall and power units, alongside a glass cupboard bearing glowing canisters and a desk with a holocomm unit on top.
"You made it - good," Dr. Nassif appeared in the grainy image, and Gogo narrowed her eyes at the recent development. "The biomod canisters in the shelf are yours to install - "
Gogo glanced to the cupboard, which had no visible lock and punched through one of the panes, blood streaking the grooves in her arm as shards of glass splintered on the floor those which did not pierce her skin. Of the canisters within, Gogo took several and chucked them over her shoulder, where each fizzed with a crash upon impact.
"Gogo!" Dr Nassif said in alarm. "What are you doing?"
Gogo looked sharply to the director, and with the strangled cry of a cat swept the holocomm unit off the desk. She pulled the shards from her arms, walked over the remnants of her carnage and through the door at the other end of the room with a renewed sense of purpose.
"Thank God," Gogo noticed a female lab scientist, not one she had seen above her apartment but one nonetheless who made her blood boil. "We thought help would never come."
Gogo noticed a small window not unlike the one high above her apartment, and moved forth to inspect what was a one-way mirror through which she could see the rumpled covers of her bed.
"That's - " the female scientist paused, tensing upon sensing the hostility rising on Gogo's part. "Tarsus has a strict policy against voyeuristic behaviour… "
Gogo felt her fury build in all her body until it became a red haze in her mind and she leapt at the scientist, both their eyes bulging, but Gogo's in anger.
"P-please," begged the scientist.
Gogo felt the flash of light change and turned to the door across the room, where she could see a security camera whirring on its hinges. She dropped the scientist to the floor and saw that in the next room a turret lay dormant on the wall.
"We all need your help," the scientist remained frozen on the ground.
Gogo's shoulders shuddered and fresh tears brimmed to her eyes. The scientist in motherly instinct rushed to hug her, even as Gogo's flesh crawled from the intrusion.
"Help me," Gogo told the scientist.
"You must get past the camera," the scientist assured her, who had not expected to be the one to take charge in this situation.
"Y-yes," Gogo sniffed, pressing the button to the door and glancing behind. "You're not coming?"
"I'll take my chances," the scientist tried to remain brave. "You will have a better chance at survival."
At that, Gogo's mask slid on and her face became hard. "Coward."
Gogo wrenched the woman by the shoulder, thrusting her out into the room. She stumbled but managed to keep her balance, as the security camera flashed upon the scientist and turned red, noting the intrusion.
"No!" the scientist tried in vain to shield herself as the turret swung towards her, emptying its bandolier of bullets into her, and she fell limp to the ground, her white uniform pelted with black-red, smoking holes.
Gogo watched with a smile even as the turret swung towards her, and she matched glances with it as though it were her kin, an inorganic rival to be bested. She kicked off from the wall and leapt onto it, holding on like a basketball hoop, her fingers wrapped around the turret which swiveled in vain to get an exact reading on its target. With strain, she pulled and grit her teeth and the gun barrels were wrenched off their hinges, crashing to the ground as Gogo exhaled in relief, sweat lining her forehead.
She looked at the bloodied corpse of the scientist and kicked her where she bled as she went up a wraparound staircase which led to a narrow corridor, and she spotted the faces of the scientists whom she had seen peering down at her from inside her apartment.
"Gogo," spoke the man, holding up his hands. "Now's not the time for revenge - "
The woman cowered, to see this animal of a girl stalking towards them with all the fury of an Amazon. Beside her, a computer beeped and she glanced in alarm to the display.
"Seekers," the woman scientist blurted out, as though hoping to forestall the impending conflict. "They're going through the apartments - "
Gogo stopped all of a sudden, and both the man and woman sighed in relief.
"You must understand," the man urged with some haste. "We're trapped in here - the security's been configured against us."
Gogo noticed at the other end of the room, a passage blocked with gold laser beams. She reached out her hand to touch one -
"Stop!" urged the man. "They won't trigger an alarm - but they'll incinerate you as soon as you step through!"
"How do you know?" Gogo asked, turning to him with a sly smile. The man was perplexed.
She marched forward and grabbed the scientist by the scruff of his neck, dragging him towards the laser beams as the woman scientist let out a terrified cry. Gogo forcibly held the man's outstretched arm towards the laser beams and watched as his hand burned and curled to a crisp, his yells deafening her and with anger she pulled him back and tossed him through the passage, where he crumpled as he fell, engulfed in fire searing at his midsection and knees most of all.
Gogo turned to the footsteps of two Seekers who raised pistols, hoods covering their faces and blanching upon the sight they had just witnessed. At their feet the woman scientist cowered in fright.
Gogo calmly reached for a beaker and smashed it, gripping one of the shards in her hand so tight that blood dripped onto the white floor.
"Freak," spat one of the Seekers. The other raised his pistol and shot the woman scientist with a close range headshot.
Gogo's face hardened. "She was my test subject."
She flung the glass shard with sudden force towards the Seeker who had fired the shot, lodging in her forehead where she fell with a thud to the floor. The remaining Seeker fired just as Gogo hid round the corner of cabinets and medical storage, counting down even as his footsteps came close.
Gogo leapt out of cover as the Seeker's clip emptied and he made to whack her with his pistol but she grabbed his wrist and twisted so that he dropped it with a yell. She held him in a headlock and, frozen in his fear, felt his fear and bile rise as she brought him to the laser beams, the stubble on his face beginning to singe as she brought his face close.
"No!" he shrieked, as she held his head in the laser beams, but too soon there was nothing to hold, and she let the body lie limp, burning with embers.
Quiet and still was the laboratory. Gogo prised open a vent cover and crawled into the shaft, emerging through a door out into a corridor, to one direction which lead the charred corpse of the man who had watched her while she slept.
She headed in the other direction, where a medbot hovered but did not attempt to repair her wounds. She continued towards where a door led into another laboratory chamber, where a Seeker patrolled the ground floor amid the scanning of a security camera, and another upstairs on the landing.
Gogo wanted a long bath once she got free of this place.
The door slid open and Gogo leapt over the counter just as the security camera identified her, and landed on the Seeker who turned with his pistol raised, as she held him in a headlock. As the alarm sounded and the turret swiveled towards her, she held him as she might use a hostage as the turret fired upon the Seeker, his grunts of pain as she threw him to the floor like a discarded toy, and bolted over another counter for cover.
The turret's bullets peppered the walls and counter, while the Seeker on the landing above tried to find a covert spot in which to pick Gogo from afar. Adrenaline coursing through her veins, Gogo could see a crate of TNT secured on a wheel trolley and kicked it so that it railed across the floor unsteadily and fell, exploding in a bright mirage as the turret went up in flames.
Gogo got out from cover, heading up the staircase just as the Order Seeker appeared at the top, her pistol raised and fired, her bullet entering Gogo's cheek whose vision went black.