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“Yeah” Striker took Friday’s hand “Stay low Run fast Keep to my side no matter what happens Got it?”

“Got it” Her voice was shaky She’d never felt more useless in her life

He looked over her shoulder at his teammate, his friend “Now!”

Mace pointed his gun over the fountain and started firing Striker was on his feet in a second, running fast, dragging her along behind hied fallenit hard to see Striker fired into the s her forith the other He was fast, ni him down

They ran behind the truck Two deadthe rubble One had lost part of his face from a laser blast

“Don’t look,” he ordered

But she couldn’t help looking He’d been soone

“They deserved it It was the area under the apartments

With oneopen He rushed her inside It wasn’t the biggest of buildings, and there weren’t a lot of vehicles to choose from Plus, most of the cars were controlled by biolocks to ensure no one could steal the the same DNA as the owner, it would be impossible to take one

“There” He pointed to the far corner, where a fa, bulky, and obviously designed to seat a lot of people It also had a biolock

“It’s got a biolock They all have” This was hopeless

“This un at her “Ai that comes in”

“What if it’s Mace?”

“He’ll forgive you”

He lay on his back and shimmied under the vehicle Friday kept her eyes on the door as fighting from the street echoed around the cavernous area