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“Fire in the hole!” Juan shouted

The coupling disintegrated in a ball of flame As the train entered the tunnel, the accordion windscreens between the two cars ripped apart as they pulled away froone into the darkness

Static came on the line

“The tunnel’s blocking their signal,” Hali said

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Gounned the drone and flew it to the other end of the tunnel

Max kept his eyes on the screen When the train e two cars

“They’ll be stuck in there,” Juan said when the static disappeared “The air brakes kicked in as soon as Linc severed the line And if we’re lucky, their radio won’t work in the tunnel, so their coone”

“Nice work for a Plan C”

“It’s not over yet How’s the decryption co?”

“We’ve hit a snag there,” Max said “Long story, but we’re working on it”

“That doesn’t sound hopeful”

Murph, who had gone over to Hali’s station and picked up a spare headset, looked at Max and said, “Got soood news on that score”

“They cracked the password?”

Murph nodded “With about twenty seconds to spare Now do you want the bad news?”