Not taking the time to watch as the other Guyver cut his attackers to pieces with his Vibration Blades, Agito killed the two remaining Gregole that stood between him and the last of Chronos' main computers. The few backups that existed in this facility would of course be taken care of, but right now these were the most important. Blowing the last of Chronos Denver's computer mainframes into shrapnel with a blast from his Pressure Cannon, Agito turned around.
He saw that Fukamachi and Crouger had managed to eliminate the last of the Zoanoids while he had been disposing of the last of the main computers. Crouger was looking around, evidently prepared for any other Zoanoids that might try to come after them, as more no doubt would. It was a prudent thing for the other Guyver to be doing, and Agito found his regard for Crouger increasing slightly. The boy may have been an annoying random factor in his plans, but at least Crouger had the intelligence to be a help rather than a hindrance in their battle. Still, his intelligence and tenacity could just as easily prove to be an obstacle for his future plans. Agito knew that it was still best for him to wait and watch to see if Crouger would present any weaknesses that he could exploit. Everyone had a weakness; it was just a matter of finding it.
But for now there were more important things for him to think about than how to deal with Crouger. This branch of Chronos still had a few things inside it that needed to be destroyed before the three Guyvers could leave this place.
+Fukamachi, Crouger, follow me to the lower levels. We will destroy the processing-tanks now.+
+Right behind you, big man.+
+Yes, Agito.+
Blasting a hole in the floor with the Pressure Cannon, Agito leaped through the hole and landed on the lower level. Concentrating on the Gravity Controller, he slammed his way through the floor below him with his feet. He could, through his Guyver's hyper-sensors, sense the presence of Guyver I and Guyver V just above him. Agito knew the standard layout of every Chronos building, and by extension he knew just how many levels he was going to have to get through before he made it to the processing labs.
It would take a while for them to reach the lower levels this way, but the added destruction they were inflicting on Chronos Denver was all the more reason for them to take this route. Agito slammed feet-first through another floor, followed quickly by the two other Guyvers. They fell past squadrons of Zoanoids—Zoanoids who had to have known where the Guyvers were ultimately going.
Once they had seen the three Guyvers pass them by, they turned quickly and headed for the nearest flight of stairs. There was no point in standing around and waiting for an elevator when each of them had far more stamina than a human could ever hope to have. Besides that, there was a better than average chance that the Guyvers had already destroyed all of the elevators.
They were now almost at the level where the processing-tanks were set up, and Agito was feeling the same kind of cold, calm fury that he always had when he was confronting the lower soldiers of Chronos. There were only two floors between the three Guyvers and the processing division, then one as Agito smashed his way through the floor. And then the three Guyvers stood inside the processing division.
+There are three levels of processing-tanks in this branch. We will be able to destroy them with ease.+
+Roger wilco,+ Ryan said.
Sho smashed his way through two floors, dropping to the third level of Chronos Denver's processing division. Agito took the first floor, which naturally left Ryan with the second. To Sho, the Zoanoids within the processing-tanks were strange and unfamiliar to him. They looked a bit smaller than Chronos' other stock. But, given how much time he had spent in that strange cocoon, the one that Agito had said was made from the remains of the Relic, it could have been possible that Chronos had developed new Zoanoid types.
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Ryan, since he didn't know all that much about Zoanoid types despite sharing headspace with Sho in that mondo-bizarro cocoon for who knew how long, didn't see anything special about these Zoanoids. They were just more targets for the Pressure Cannon as far as he was concerned. Without another thought, Ryan began charging the aforementioned gravity weapon. Stepping back from the processing-tanks to give himself a clearer shot, Ryan fired. The blast shattered two of the tanks entirely and caused those on either side of them to shake violently. Charging up the Pressure Cannon again, Ryan turned his sights to the other processing-tanks in the room.
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Agito also saw the rows of strangely underdeveloped Zoanoids, but, being Agito, he couldn't have cared less—they were merely targets to the Dark Guyver. Extending both sets of Vibration Blades, Agito started to calmly destroy both the processing-tanks and their unconscious occupants. When all of the processing-tanks in his area had been taken care of, Agito contacted Fukamachi and Crouger, wanting to know how their parts of the mission had gone.
+Things are all done on my end,+ Crouger reported.
+I'm all done now, Agito,+ Fukamachi reported, just a few seconds after Crouger.
+Good. Now follow me, we're leaving.+
+No arguments on my end, big man.+
Ignoring the inane answer that he had received from Crouger, Agito fired two more shots from the Pressure Cannon and then reactivated his Gravity Controller. As his feet slammed through the floors of the Chronos building, Agito saw Fukamachi and Crouger following him into the lowest levels. There were sewer accesses in that area, and Agito knew that those were their most promising avenue of escape. The sewers were not the most pleasant of escape routes, however they were one of the few leading out of the Chronos buildings that were not monitored in any fashion. The only other way was the air vents. However, it would have taken too much work to lose the Zoanoid patrols that were doubtless after them—that, and the fact that they were too large in Guyver-form to be able to escape through the vents.
Once the three of them had managed to outpace the Zoanoid teams that were no doubt tracking them, Agito landed on one of the lower levels, then turned to Crouger and Fukamachi.
+From here, we will need to be careful not to make ourselves conspicuous. Deactivate your Guyver units and follow me. I know a great deal of ways to escape from these kinds of facilities unobserved.+
+Sure thing, big man.+
+Yes, Agito.+
Agito watched as Crouger and Fukamachi dismissed their Guyver units before dismissing his own, since it would have been a tacit admission of weakness for him to be seen de-transforming first. Once the three of them were back in their human forms, Agito wordlessly led them down into the lower levels of the Chronos Denver building.
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Ryan almost thought it was funny, the fact that they'd been running rampant through a Chronos base only to have to sneak out through the back door somewhere. Not that he didn't agree with the need to get the hell out of Dodge without being spotted and beaten on by irate Zoanoids; he'd had more than his share of that, thank you very much.
And there were probably more of those allegedly specially processed Galma just waiting for the three of them to show up somewhere else. At least, Ryan figured that those things had been specially processed, since Sho had told him that Galma didn't spit acid. Moving through the lower hallways of the Chronos building, trying to be as quiet as he could, Ryan got to see a bit more of Agito's personality. So far, he hadn't really been impressed. Still, there had been some serious fighting going on, and he was still coming down off the high that it had caused for him. Maybe ol' Agito was just a hardass when he'd gotten done with a big fight. Ryan wasn't quite sure if that was the truth, but it was as good an explanation as he could come up with since he didn't know the guy very well. At least it was one that didn't make him want to punch the guy in the face.
As they walked softly down the infrequently used back stairs of the Chronos Denver building, Ryan looked around. The stairs were lit only by dull green lights placed at the top and bottom of the flights. It did give the whole place a suitably creepy air, but Ryan couldn't help thinking that that wasn't really why the back stairs were lit so badly. Agito had said that Zoanoids had better senses than any human, so the Chronos guys were probably just trying to save money on electricity. After all, there wasn't really any need for them to waste the money on extra lights if most of them could see in the dark anyway.
Crossing his arms behind his head, Ryan stretched to work the kinks out of his muscles. He hadn't really had the chance to think about what his decision to throw in his lot with these guys would really mean for him, but he was starting to appreciate it now. From how Sho had acted at his house to how Agito and Sho were acting right now, it meant that he'd never really be safe again. Basically he'd stepped into a Terminator movie, but without Skynet or the killer cyborgs.
It was going to take a bit of getting used to, especially since he wasn't sure yet if Agito was really as much of a bastard as he was in this little dust-up, but then this was what had happened. There really wasn't anything he could do about the situation but adapt now that he'd fully pissed off Chronos by helping to blow the hell out of one of their bases. Of course there was always the option of going into hiding.
With the Guyver's power to fly, he could hide out in a lot of places that normal people couldn't even get to. Then again, he'd seen that there were Zoanoids that could fly almost as well as he could now, so there went that idea. They didn't seem to be quite as maneuverable as his Guyver; still, there was no point in borrowing trouble. He already had enough of that as it was.