Just then Henry radioed,
"We're in position."
Breaking eye contact, and breaking the spell, Helen reached down and answered through her radio,
"We're almost there. Hold for my signal."
She turned and looked around the corner again, then back at Nikola who nodded, and they dashed across to the door of the warehouse some 50 yards away. Reaching it Helen went for her radio but Nikola raised a hand to stop her. A moment passed and when he nodded Helen pressed the button and said,
"We're in position. What's your situation?"
"Ready to go Doc."
Helen looked at Nikola who nodded again and she said,
"Ok. Be safe. Let's do this."
Putting her radio away, she drew her gun as Nikola watched. When she had it firmly in her hands Nikola turned his attention to the door. Raising both his hands he rotated his hands to the right and the crunch of metal sounded and a few seconds later the door separated from its hinges and fell forward at his feet.
"Not very stealthy," he noted "but they apparently know about my new ability as that door is not metal at all, I think it's actually plastic."
As Helen stepped on it and into the warehouse, she confirmed Nikola's suspicion with a crisp crunch sounding from where her foot was planted. Sweeping around one corner she led the way into the hallway. Soon, thanks to their not so stealthy entrance, they found themselves face to face with two men, one wielding a machine gun. Ducking back down the hallway they had just come from Nikola commented to Helen,
"How come you didn't practice with one of those on me?"
Peering around the corner and Helen fired off a couple shots before answering,
"I just didn't think you were ready."
Nikola scoffed,
"We'll see who isn't ready."
And with that he stepped around the corner, Helen calling a desperate, "NO NIKOLA DON'T!!" after him. The sounds of the machine gun firing drowned out her shout and deterred her from sticking her head out to see what was happening. A few, long, moments later the sound of the gun fire stopped and she heard the unmistakable sound of bodies slumping to the ground. Fearing the worst she stepped around the corner, gun at the ready, just in time to see the last of the bullets ping harmlessly to the ground around Nikola's feet and the bodies of the two assailants. A triumphant grin plastered across his face he said to her,
"Shall we press on m'lady?"
"Nothing ever deters you does it Nikola."
She noticed the grin slip for micro-second before he responded,
"A few things do, but nothing these little punks could throw at me."
They progressed in a similar fashion to the main laboratory; Helen leading the way and Nikola winding up killing most of the would be assailants with their own bullets. Once at the main lab ten minutes later, they met up with the others. They stood in a small semi circle around Nikola as he worked on the doors. He soon had those doors off their hinges as well and the team burst in the lab guns drawn to find,
"Nobody's here." Henry said shocked.
"That's good for us." Kate replied.
"Indeed it is." Helen agreed.
Henry quickly got to work downloading what he could from the various computers and Kate and Will began putting papers into files and boxes for transport back to the Sanctuary. Helen and Nikola stood by the doors, standing guard. Then Kate opened a small refrigerator at one end of the room.
"Jack pot."
Pivoting everybody turned to face Kate as she straightened up, a smile on her face and in her right hand a bag of blood labeled "Dr. Frankenstein." A grin spread across Helen's face as she said,
"See if you can't find a bio-cooler to put in."
Kate nodded, putting the blood back in the refrigerator until she found a cooler. Helen turned to look at Nikola whose eyes betrayed the mixed reaction he was having. On one hand Nikola felt hope at the prospect he could be revamped with his blood, on the other hand he was feeling this hand all been way too easy.
"Nikola be happy." Helen murmured to him, "Now you don't have to die."
"Only if I can find away to use my blood…" He said in an uncharacteristically unconfident tone.
"You're a genius remember?" Helen smiled broadly at him.
Then she abandoned her post by the door to examine something that Henry was asking her to come look at the security footage he'd been able to hack into. It appeared, to her relief, that they were now alone in the warehouse. Returning to her previous position Helen leaned against the doorframe, relaxing, back to the hallway. Nikola crossed to stand sideways so he could speak straight into her ear.
"Helen I'm not sure I like this."
"What do you mean?"
"Leaving this lab completely unprotected because five people have breached you're facility does not make logical sense Helen."
Will happened to overhear Nikola's comment. He paused in his task and said,
"He may be right Magnus. This is a bit suspicious."
"Maybe," Helen replied, "Or maybe you're forgetting we aren't dealing with the Cabal that I had to deal since I was younger than you. This was just a group looking to build an empire with that name."
Nikola, who had actually been listening, suddenly tensed up. Will noticed this and instead of replying to Helen opened to his mouth to ask Nikola what it was he was sensing but never got the chance. The very next second Nikola grabbed Helen and moved her from the doorway to the ground as shots rang out.