p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Listen, we find Parish, we can stop this whole thing from happening," said Bill. He was driving the SUV, Nina was sitting shotgun, and Kat, Skylar, Rachel, Clara, and the Doctor were stuffed in the back. They were practically on top of each other./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Okay, Bill, why would Parish go to Grand Central Station?" Rachel asked./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""'Cause with his freaky logic, he wants to be in the middle of everything when it goes down."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Yeah, and make sure it happens,"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""All right, so what's at Grand Central Station?" Kat asked./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Restaurants, the Apple Store..." Nina offered./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Trains, tracks..." Added Skylar./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""You know, if I were going to find a good place to put some huge back-up generators, I would put them in Grand Central Station," said the Doctor, his voice slightly muffled by Clara's hair. She was practically on top of him. Neither of them were complaining./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Yeah, good call. I checked, there's a generator that's designed to keep the trains running even if everything else in the city goes down, but that's just for trains." Bill said./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""No, that's just the M42. It's from the 30s. It can put out enough power or half of Manhattan." Kat said./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""How do you know this?" Skylar said. She looked doubtful./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Uh, I don't know. Somebody must've shown me. Maybe I took a tour. It's under Grand Central somewhere." Kat said. She shook her head./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""That sounds like our generator," said Clara./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""All right, hold on." Bill turned on the sirens and sped up./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Gary and Dr. Rosen were walking through Grand Central Station. "Doctor Rosen, I can't get very good reception here. It's all brick. I'll have to go up to the main box. I'll be able to see Parish on the security camera." Gary started to walk away from Rosen./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Gary, be careful!" Rosen called./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Yeah. Oh, Doctor Rosen, don't- don't get shot again." Gary disappeared through a crowd./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Dr. Rosen leaned heavily against a stone pillar, breathing hard. "Attention, Metro North customers." An announcement began over the PA system./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Lee Rosen?" Said a man in the business suit who had come up to Rosen. He held out a cell phone./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Mhmm?" Dr. Rosen turned in surprise. He looked at the phone, and took it. The man in the suit briskly walked away./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Seven fourteen express train to New Haven, making its first stop in Stamford, is now available for boarding on track twenty-eight." The announcer finished his message./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Rosen looked at the phone, and took several steps forward, looking around as he went. He slowly raised the phone to his ear./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Lee," spoke Stanton Parish. "You have no idea how glad I am to see you alive. I'd very much like you to stay that way."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Stanton, where are you?" Rosen asked, glancing about in case he was near. "We need to talk, face to face."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Soon. Something I have to finish first."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""No, no, you do not have to finish this." Dr. Rosen turned around in time to see Dani walking up to him. "You- haven't- haven't you seen enough blood?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Yes. Too much. But there won't be any blood. It'll be quick and clean."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""What? What, this is- this is your final solution?" Rosen's voice was getting hysterical./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""A new beginning. For this small island at least. There is a storage closet ten yards in front of you on the south wall- it's a gray door. Go inside, the light has been disabled." Dr. Rosen quickly located the door, which was next to an ATM machine. Dani was standing in front of it. "You're part of this future, Lee. So, shut the door, and close your eyes." The call ended./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Bill, Nina, Kat, Rachel, Skylar, Clara, and the Doctor entered Grand Central Station. "According to the briefing, the generator should be somewhere around here,"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Rachel dashed through the crowd, the Doctor rushing after her, changing the settings on his sonic as he went./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""You hear something, Rachel?" Bill asked. Rachel nodded and knelt down on the ground, pressing her ear to the cold, stone floor. She could hear a generator whirring beneath the rumbling train tracks./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""It's one hundred and fifty meters down. Through the Lexington Avenue subway tunnel. Skylar, Clara, Doctor," she gestured, and they followed her./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Bill," Nina said, "Parish wouldn't leave the generator vulnerable."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Bill nodded. "Yeah. I'll cover them, you find Rosen. Come on, let's go." He and Kat ran off, leaving Nina alone./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Everyone except Nina was in a freight elevator heading down. It was silent, except for the occasional sniff or scratch and the floors dinging past./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""I could sonic the controls to make the lift go faster," the Doctor offered./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Skylar shook her head. "No, that would probably strip the cables and send us all plummeting to our doom. If that's not where we're already headed." She added. /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a1a1a;"The Doctor put his sonic away glumly./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""So... Anybody have any gum, or..." Kat said, ending the awkward conversation./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Yeah..." Bill said, reaching into a pocket in his jacket./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Rachel suddenly tucked her hair behind one ear. "Everybody down!" She cried, as the elevator doors opened. Four of Parish's cronies fired their machine guns at them. The Doctor grabbed Clara and shoved her against a wall, shielding her with his body. Skylar and Rachel lay flat on the ground, and Bill and Kat hid behind the walls on either side of the elevator. They had both taken out their guns and were shooting. Kat pressed the 'Close Door' button, and the doors slid shut./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Rachel stood up with her hands over her ears. "The M42's down that passageway!" She yelled over the machine gun fire./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Awesome, we'll just skip past the guys with machine guns," muttered Kat./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Harken, break that!" Ordered Skylar, pointing at the button panel. Bill slammed a fist against it and it shattered. Skylar grabbed a fire extinguisher from its place on the wall. Realizing what they were doing, the Doctor started sonicking the button panel. "Thanks," said Skylar./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"The elevator doors slid back open and Bill tossed out the fire extinguisher. It landed right at the feet of one of the shooters, who looked at it in confusion. Skylar had affixed four buttons from the elevator to the extinguisher. They lit up one by one, along with the dings that signified each floor passing./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""What is that?" One of them said./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"The last button lit up, and they dove for cover just as the fire extinguisher blew up in a cloud of smoke. Bill fired shots through the haze, but failed to hit anyone. He and Kat ran out of the elevator, firing as they went. Rachel, Skylar, Clara, and the Doctor peeked out of the elevator./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Doctor, do something!" Clara cried./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Like what?! Screwdrivers aren't much help against guns!" He gasped as a bullet flew by his face./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Kat and Bill took cover behind stray barrels and crates./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Rachel, Skylar, take Clara and the Doctor and go!" Bill called./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"They ran out of the elevator, ducking behind boxes. Kat and Bill were still shooting. Kat motioned for Bill to come towards her. He waited until the gunmen were reloading, and dashed over to Kat./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""I need you to throw me," she demanded./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""What?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""I need you to throw me." Kat repeated, enunciating more this time./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" Bill crouched down and extended a hand. Kat stepped into the foothold. She nodded. Bill amped up and threw her into the air. Kat went flying, and landed behind the gunmen. She grunted as she hit the ground. Kat whistled, and the men turned around. They started swinging at her, but, since she had recently watched a video of advanced martial arts, Kat fought back hard. One of them picked her up, but she used that as an opportunity to kick one of his friends unconscious. She grabbed her assailant's gun and shot at another gunman. He dropped to the ground. She swung herself around and elbowed the man who had picked her up in the neck, hard./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"There was only one gunman left. He was turning in circles, trying to see through the lingering fog. Bill came up in front of him and punched him in the face. The man flew backwards into a metal container. He stopped moving./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Rachel was running past many machines, leading the group. They came out on a balcony overlooking the generator./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""It's old. Really old. Old tech is tough." Skylar said, dumbfounded./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""What did you expect?" Asked Rachel./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Not this old."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Let's get started," said the Doctor. He marched down the stairs, sonic blazing. Skylar and Kat followed suit. Clara lingered on the balcony for a moment, then quickly joined them./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Gary was outside Grand Central Station, waving his hands and scouring through the security feeds in the station./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Dr. Rosen slowly climbed a flight of stairs. He emerged on an abandoned track. In front of him was a man in a gray trench coat, with his back turned on Rosen. Stanton Parish. Dr. Rosen reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a syringe filled with Methotrexate. He popped the needle cover off and let it fall to the ground. Finger on the plunger, Rosen walked towards Parish./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="color: #1a1a1a;"AN: Dun dun dun dunnnnnnn.../span/strong/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Okay, Bill, why would Parish go to Grand Central Station?" Rachel asked./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""'Cause with his freaky logic, he wants to be in the middle of everything when it goes down."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Yeah, and make sure it happens,"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""All right, so what's at Grand Central Station?" Kat asked./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Restaurants, the Apple Store..." Nina offered./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Trains, tracks..." Added Skylar./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""You know, if I were going to find a good place to put some huge back-up generators, I would put them in Grand Central Station," said the Doctor, his voice slightly muffled by Clara's hair. She was practically on top of him. Neither of them were complaining./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Yeah, good call. I checked, there's a generator that's designed to keep the trains running even if everything else in the city goes down, but that's just for trains." Bill said./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""No, that's just the M42. It's from the 30s. It can put out enough power or half of Manhattan." Kat said./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""How do you know this?" Skylar said. She looked doubtful./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Uh, I don't know. Somebody must've shown me. Maybe I took a tour. It's under Grand Central somewhere." Kat said. She shook her head./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""That sounds like our generator," said Clara./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""All right, hold on." Bill turned on the sirens and sped up./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Gary and Dr. Rosen were walking through Grand Central Station. "Doctor Rosen, I can't get very good reception here. It's all brick. I'll have to go up to the main box. I'll be able to see Parish on the security camera." Gary started to walk away from Rosen./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Gary, be careful!" Rosen called./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Yeah. Oh, Doctor Rosen, don't- don't get shot again." Gary disappeared through a crowd./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Dr. Rosen leaned heavily against a stone pillar, breathing hard. "Attention, Metro North customers." An announcement began over the PA system./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Lee Rosen?" Said a man in the business suit who had come up to Rosen. He held out a cell phone./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Mhmm?" Dr. Rosen turned in surprise. He looked at the phone, and took it. The man in the suit briskly walked away./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Seven fourteen express train to New Haven, making its first stop in Stamford, is now available for boarding on track twenty-eight." The announcer finished his message./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Rosen looked at the phone, and took several steps forward, looking around as he went. He slowly raised the phone to his ear./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Lee," spoke Stanton Parish. "You have no idea how glad I am to see you alive. I'd very much like you to stay that way."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Stanton, where are you?" Rosen asked, glancing about in case he was near. "We need to talk, face to face."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Soon. Something I have to finish first."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""No, no, you do not have to finish this." Dr. Rosen turned around in time to see Dani walking up to him. "You- haven't- haven't you seen enough blood?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Yes. Too much. But there won't be any blood. It'll be quick and clean."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""What? What, this is- this is your final solution?" Rosen's voice was getting hysterical./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""A new beginning. For this small island at least. There is a storage closet ten yards in front of you on the south wall- it's a gray door. Go inside, the light has been disabled." Dr. Rosen quickly located the door, which was next to an ATM machine. Dani was standing in front of it. "You're part of this future, Lee. So, shut the door, and close your eyes." The call ended./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Bill, Nina, Kat, Rachel, Skylar, Clara, and the Doctor entered Grand Central Station. "According to the briefing, the generator should be somewhere around here,"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Rachel dashed through the crowd, the Doctor rushing after her, changing the settings on his sonic as he went./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""You hear something, Rachel?" Bill asked. Rachel nodded and knelt down on the ground, pressing her ear to the cold, stone floor. She could hear a generator whirring beneath the rumbling train tracks./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""It's one hundred and fifty meters down. Through the Lexington Avenue subway tunnel. Skylar, Clara, Doctor," she gestured, and they followed her./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Bill," Nina said, "Parish wouldn't leave the generator vulnerable."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Bill nodded. "Yeah. I'll cover them, you find Rosen. Come on, let's go." He and Kat ran off, leaving Nina alone./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Everyone except Nina was in a freight elevator heading down. It was silent, except for the occasional sniff or scratch and the floors dinging past./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""I could sonic the controls to make the lift go faster," the Doctor offered./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Skylar shook her head. "No, that would probably strip the cables and send us all plummeting to our doom. If that's not where we're already headed." She added. /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a1a1a;"The Doctor put his sonic away glumly./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""So... Anybody have any gum, or..." Kat said, ending the awkward conversation./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Yeah..." Bill said, reaching into a pocket in his jacket./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Rachel suddenly tucked her hair behind one ear. "Everybody down!" She cried, as the elevator doors opened. Four of Parish's cronies fired their machine guns at them. The Doctor grabbed Clara and shoved her against a wall, shielding her with his body. Skylar and Rachel lay flat on the ground, and Bill and Kat hid behind the walls on either side of the elevator. They had both taken out their guns and were shooting. Kat pressed the 'Close Door' button, and the doors slid shut./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Rachel stood up with her hands over her ears. "The M42's down that passageway!" She yelled over the machine gun fire./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Awesome, we'll just skip past the guys with machine guns," muttered Kat./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Harken, break that!" Ordered Skylar, pointing at the button panel. Bill slammed a fist against it and it shattered. Skylar grabbed a fire extinguisher from its place on the wall. Realizing what they were doing, the Doctor started sonicking the button panel. "Thanks," said Skylar./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"The elevator doors slid back open and Bill tossed out the fire extinguisher. It landed right at the feet of one of the shooters, who looked at it in confusion. Skylar had affixed four buttons from the elevator to the extinguisher. They lit up one by one, along with the dings that signified each floor passing./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""What is that?" One of them said./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"The last button lit up, and they dove for cover just as the fire extinguisher blew up in a cloud of smoke. Bill fired shots through the haze, but failed to hit anyone. He and Kat ran out of the elevator, firing as they went. Rachel, Skylar, Clara, and the Doctor peeked out of the elevator./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Doctor, do something!" Clara cried./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Like what?! Screwdrivers aren't much help against guns!" He gasped as a bullet flew by his face./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Kat and Bill took cover behind stray barrels and crates./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Rachel, Skylar, take Clara and the Doctor and go!" Bill called./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"They ran out of the elevator, ducking behind boxes. Kat and Bill were still shooting. Kat motioned for Bill to come towards her. He waited until the gunmen were reloading, and dashed over to Kat./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""I need you to throw me," she demanded./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""What?"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""I need you to throw me." Kat repeated, enunciating more this time./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" Bill crouched down and extended a hand. Kat stepped into the foothold. She nodded. Bill amped up and threw her into the air. Kat went flying, and landed behind the gunmen. She grunted as she hit the ground. Kat whistled, and the men turned around. They started swinging at her, but, since she had recently watched a video of advanced martial arts, Kat fought back hard. One of them picked her up, but she used that as an opportunity to kick one of his friends unconscious. She grabbed her assailant's gun and shot at another gunman. He dropped to the ground. She swung herself around and elbowed the man who had picked her up in the neck, hard./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"There was only one gunman left. He was turning in circles, trying to see through the lingering fog. Bill came up in front of him and punched him in the face. The man flew backwards into a metal container. He stopped moving./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Rachel was running past many machines, leading the group. They came out on a balcony overlooking the generator./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""It's old. Really old. Old tech is tough." Skylar said, dumbfounded./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""What did you expect?" Asked Rachel./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Not this old."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Let's get started," said the Doctor. He marched down the stairs, sonic blazing. Skylar and Kat followed suit. Clara lingered on the balcony for a moment, then quickly joined them./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Gary was outside Grand Central Station, waving his hands and scouring through the security feeds in the station./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Dr. Rosen slowly climbed a flight of stairs. He emerged on an abandoned track. In front of him was a man in a gray trench coat, with his back turned on Rosen. Stanton Parish. Dr. Rosen reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a syringe filled with Methotrexate. He popped the needle cover off and let it fall to the ground. Finger on the plunger, Rosen walked towards Parish./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="color: #1a1a1a;"AN: Dun dun dun dunnnnnnn.../span/strong/p