XANA was getting stronger, but this wasn't news to them. His latest attack involved a possessed illegal alien, rat poison, and a box of rusty nails.
Yumi had fallen into the trap immediately. It wasn't her fault, really; she'd been in such a rush to get to the factory that when the man attacked her, she was knocked so hard onto the field of nails that several pierced deep into her flesh. Of course, coated in lethal amounts of arsenic.
Please, she prayed as her consciousness began to fade away. Let them not have too much trouble deactivating the tower.