Tock and Jester returned to the inside of the SUV as their superiors walked down to the second level. Tick rotated her turret like an evil villain to talk to all of them.

"So, it would seem that the sergeant is now the First Claw's secretary."

Jester took in a joyful gasp of air, but before she could say anything. Tock put up a shaking finger as her voice cracked with fear.

"No, no, no. Don't say it."

Tom altered his vision to infrared as Zabel walked next to him. Dull red lines of electricity or water ran through the cold dark concrete as he examined the walls. On the other side of the garage, there were rows of different type parked vehicles. Two large ogre girls patrolled in between them and a third was standing over by a fire exit door. They held huge wooden clubs and had a flood light on their shoulders. Zabel asked over the mental link.

'Sr. should I take them out?'

'I got them.'

All three of the orges fall over with a echoing rumble.

'What did you do to them Sr?'

'I crushed their brains. Don't know if the hivemind picked upped what happened to them or not.'

'A hivemind is here? Can just the two of us do this mission Sr?'

'Yeah, we got the dakka for it.'

They slowly ambled to the door that was being guarded. Tom pulled out a small mirror and box of fireworks poppers as he let the microgun hang on its sling. He placed the mirror against the door and used some divination mana.

'There are five guys with P90's and one of them is sitting behind sandbags with a 50-cal. After them is a staircase that goes down. Seems like the hivemind knows we're here.'

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Zabel got to one side of the door as Tom put away the mirror.

'Breach and clear Sr?'

'I'll pull the door out of the wall-' He flourished the box of poppers. 'and then toss in some of these.'

She set Tom the memory of him fire balling her jeep off the road.

'Is it going to be like that Sr?'

'Um, no. It should be more like a flash bang and sorry about that.'

'Its ok Sr. I world have done the same thing.'

Tom did a three count and wrenched the filthy door off its hinges with a magnetic tug. The three poppers shot into the dingy room like angry hornets and then exploited with force of TNT. This cause a tiny chain reaction as some of the ammo inside cooked off. Tom stomped his foot as he emitted an EMP through the under ground floors and Zabel entered the smoking room. She finished off one of still living men and put two HEAT rounds into a minotaur run up the stairs. Tom fell in behind her as walked across the small room.

'That was not a flash bang Sr.'

'I way have overdone it a bit.'

As they walked carefully over the dead minotaur, Tom dropped another popper down the chipped and cracked  stairs. Using a unique mix of fire and Electromagnetic Mana™, he got the favorable reaction he was looking for. Random gun fire shot up at them after the flash bang. Zabel leaned over the railing and shot two round bursts into an armed man and zombie. Even after losing the lower half of her decaying body, the zombie kept firing her gun. Zabel put one more explosive round into her deformed skull. They levelled their guns at the heavy metal door at the bottom of the staircase. Steadily advancing all the way down, Tom asked.

'Should we blow it open or knock?'