A Key Emergency

[stardust47]

Terrwyn's night vision came on almost immediately. Remaining calm, she scanned the base. There seemed to be something down in storage. She activated the tactical cloak and slipped silently away, through an air vent.
The storage room was pitch black and there were no life signs, on any scans. Either the thing she had seen was a glitch or they (it?) knew that she was there and knew the weaknesses of her scanners.
She heard movement. There was something coming up behind her.
Terrwyn ducked away behind a crate. A high-velocity shell tore through the crate, missing her head by a few inches. She jumped away, bullet holes on the crates behind her marking her path. She readied her Ageira AA-12 assault shotgun, loaded with a high-capacity drum magazine and opened fire. tearing the droid apart.
The droid was a small, four-legged spider droid, with a gun mounted on it like a tank.
Another droid popped out behind her and opened fire. A bullet hit her power pack, causing the cloak to come down, not that it had meant anything in the first place. Terrwyn scrambled back to the vent and clambered through, over what appeared to be swarms of droids. There was a sharp electromagnetic burst, followed by nothing.
The EMP had disabled Terrwyn's implants, leaving her blind, deaf and immobile. A specially-shielded transmitter started beaming a distress call out to the rest of the base, in the hope that someone would come and help her.

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