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Soed shape, and Raven and Hali were going to help two of the weakest make the journey while Eddie would lead the way and MacD took up the rear They also gave pistols

to three of the prisoners ere veterans, including David, a former US Army captain

“Before we go,” David said, “there’s so else you should know”

“Tiht now, David,” Eddie said The security team could arrive any second

“That self-destruct can be switched off” He pointed to the speakers overhead

“How?”

“Before you arrived, I noticed Colossus assessing threats to its survival on my terminal It came to the conclusion that the self-destruct could be disabled manually at the location of the explosives on Colossus 5”

Before Eddie could relay that information to Max, MacD, as in the observation roo the halls outside and shouted, “We need to go now!”

Eddie went out the door and sao guards racing down the corridor from the direction of the superstructure They went doith two salvos from his P90

He motioned for David and the rest of the prisoners to follow hiet to the next fire door, they could jao up to the deck to intercept them

The wo Evacuate to lifeboats Seven minutes to detonation”

While theyproblem

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Linda had to subunfire from the deck of the Colossus 5 Juan’s team was just about to move to a new exit position when Juan stopped at the cabin door “Are you sure?”

“That’s what Eddie said,” Max replied “If Carlton is able to deactivate it, this whole ”