Feign grimaces, as if Tasu's words have hit a nerve, "I remember...  I remember it all, when Delilah betrayed us to the Project.  You and I, we held them off while the rest of our family escaped...  She tried to turn us into humans, she tried to cure us like some kind of disease!"  The screamed words seem to echo out in the form of a shockwave of air that has little effect, as it's not well focused like the previous attacks.<br/><br/>From behind Tasu, Delilah is beginning to slowly get back up, "I didn't, you couldn't understand...  The cure was for me...  But the director, she betrayed us all.  She's the one we should be fighting, and, and our egg! We can't forget what we're escaping for, Tasu.  Please, we all just have to get out of he-EEP!"  She retratcs back as Tasu slams the necromancer again, though there seems to be something wrong.  Beneath the dormant mage, the floor caves in under the force of Tasu's strike, and Nephanim lands on his feet in the corridor revealed one floor below.<br/><br/>"You are late, Overseer...  You leave five minutes, whole place goes to Hell."  The necromancer looks up at the patch of moving scales as a nondescript man forms from the dust next to him.<br/><br/>"I apologize, I lost myself for a bit." He looks up and the whole hallway begins to rumble ominously.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>As Serene makes her attack, the creature stops as if it has slammed into a solid wall.  At first it seems completely immobilized, frozen as a statue of ice.  Strangely, it is much harder to manipulate the water inside of it, as if the water itself is getting a mind of it's own.  After a moment, the googirl starts moving again, still in the form of otherwise solid living ice.  This time, Serene can feel a resistance, not just physically, but magically.  As if it is learning how to actively fight against her magic.<br/><br/>The concentration is broken as both the mouseboy and the doctor let out startled screams, the newly forming slime is wrapping itself around his arm and is pulling him in!  The mouse is clearly scared, though the look on Lex'd face is almost something like a hypnotized daze.  Just as the adult slime starts to fight the magic with full force, there is the sound of a very distant rumbling down the hallway, like something huge rolling towards the group.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>As soon as Lance gets to the top of the ladder, it's obvious there is something very wrong with the maze.  On one side, it looks somewhat orderly and straight, as far as a maze would be, but on the other, a whole section is missing, like the maze was made of wax and one part had been melted away.  The material of the maze in the area is deformed into cave-ins, divots, and bubbles, some of which intersect with the catwalk itself, making several places where one could simply slide right into the maze.  Far behind, the sounds of running human footsteps make an escape seem fairly urgent.<br/><br/>Just as the footsteps turn to clanging on the ladder, there is a loud rumble, and the melted portions of the maze slowly start to repair themselves.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>With a mighty smash, the steel door falls inward, a few mechanical bits clattering to the ground from the ruined sliding mechanism.  The noise once again sends the lights scattering, though this time, many of them impact with the walls and floor, popping like firecrackers and blasting away enough pockmarks to start sending the floor behind Wil crumbling.<br/><br/>As the floor starts to cave, the dust seems to get thrown up again into the air...  until it forms into a nondescript human shape with features that look a little bit like Wil's human form.  For a moment it glares at him before looking up exactly at the source of the magical disturbances Wil had been sensing.  It darts up into the ceiling, vanishing  with a distant rumble.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Kine looks over at Mac, "She'll take us out if your head ain't in the game, buddy.  You're new here, aint'cha."  Kine looks at the small points of blood where the darts had hit Mac.  "Or were you in a cell before?  Takes a lotta guts to come over to tha good side after that kinda stuff, but I know a lot who ha-" He cuts off as they come to a corner, keeping his weapon ready and pointed to cover it.  When there's nothing, he relaxes a bit, "That girl, she'll eat ya faster than ya can blink if she's in a fightin' mood.  Has some kinda voodoo that can shrink people to bite size." The memory of the two guards that simply disappeared comes to mind, and the fact that she had swallowed something just after she did that.  "Not that it matters too much, everyone here's pretty much a newbie until they've had to get rezzed by the Reclamation guys."<br/><br/>He's quiet and alert again as you get to a fork in the path.  Seeing nothing either way he looks both ways and shrugs "You outrank me, newbie.  Which way?"  Just after asking, there is a rumble from above and the lights in the corridors start coming back to full brightness.  "Oh, 'bout damn time."