"You're taking too much time," invisible Niki replied as she fought with the algren soldier. "There are twelve more algren on the way, They'll be here any second."

     "I had it," he replied. Not really, though, Trevor had to admit to himself even as he got one of his hands free to slide one of his blades into the abdomen of the algren soldier he fought. 

     The fourth algren soldier, though, somehow managed to come up behind him, even though Trevor was still invisible, to pin Trevor's arms to his side. He commanded his blades to return to his wrists. They were useless to him for the time being. 

     He did have something he could use to slice with, though.

​     He still had his laser-knife.

​     He kept it strapped to one of his calves. 

     He went to reach for it when he felt the soldier release its grip on him to drop dead to the ground...

​     without a head. 

     "Hi," Niki said, and with that she turned visible.

     Trevor did the same. "Hi. Did the Azure send you to come help me out?"

     "We decided together. You went in the exact wrong direction when you first dropped out of the clouds, and you didn't even go invisible."

     "They threw me into this sim before..."

     "Fuck excuses."

     "It's not an excuse. It's..."

     "What's almost the first lesson we learned when we got here? Unknown situation, go invisible."

     "I'm tired of acting in the same old way in the same old..."

​     "We'll talk on the move. Let's get out of here."  

                                                   CONTINUE