"That should be obvious..." says Ariadne.
I think you will find using a Fortune point for favourable circumstance at this point will serve you well Cloud!
I was trying to encourage people to perform spectacular stunts during their escape on the reminder that doing such things gives you Fortune points, remember?
The Agent grabs you bodily, Cloud, and throws you forcefully against the wall. However, the rotting frame of the wood and plaster hut is not up to this physics-pushing action, and the wall collapses, almost folding in half.
Including the phone that was attached to it. It falls to the ground with a crash, but is still connected... and the handset drops down and rolls to an inch of Cloud's hand.
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"Cloud's out," says Ariadne, as her upload completes.
"Got it," says Dallas. Still he waits.
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The Percy races through the tunnels of the Real, the sentinel cloud behind it by mere feet. Some leading elements of the sentinels have caught the tail end of it. A hover-engine part is nearly sliced off by their cutting lasers and clashes noisily to the floor.
"Down! Down!" yells Finn.
"I'm losing control," says Marduk. "I'm trying my best. How much longer?"
"That's the last turn!" says Finn. "Cloud's out!"
"Get him comfortable," says Marduk. "You've done all you can do."
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"Shut up, shut up, shut up!" yells out Dallas, to all the questions being asked to him. "This is important!"
He approaches a removable drive and hits the eject button. A computer chip comes out. Dallas picks it out nad looks at it.
"Ha-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" he yells out, picking up his hat and throwing it into the air. "We got you, you son of a *****! We got their codes, and the System don't know it! Dallas wins again!"
And as he says 'again', he twists the EMP activator, as a screeching sound comes from overhead.
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The Percy has flown to the Shez's position. At this very moment, the smaller ships passes at full speed over the Shez. The EMP wave explodes outwards at high speed, misisng the Percy by inches, as oit tears on by and outruns it.
The sentinels chasing the Percy, however, fly slap bang into it. For the next ten seconds, heavy metallic sounds are heard througout the Shez as the sentinel husks drop onto it.
Thirty seconds later, the Percy wobbles uneasily to a stop nearby, the remaining sentinels still cutting away at it... before the Percy's guns smash them into oblivion.
"Smooth..." says Marduk.