”Oh. Look who decided to finally join the fun. I was starting to worry the turrets had scared you off.”  Nine grinned and stepped around the corner, he’d been waiting for Kirk to make his way inside. He’d caught a branch on fire and tossed it skyward to set off the auto-turret’s heat sensor long enough for him to run inside and do some scouting while he waited for equipment. He hadn’t been inside even ten minutes when Kirk showed up but even so he’d been able to figure out someone had set the security on max, and it’d vaporize anything on sight. As far as he could tell they used plasma turrets to do the job. He’d not been able to scout too far; the first security checkpoint had a pair of the turrets stationed next to the only doorway through to the lower levels.<br/><br/>He offered a hand to shake Kirk’s, ”Don’t worry too much; we’re relatively safe for now. I assume anything more dangerous is on a different level. Everything here is either dead or moving downward. Come on, the way down is this way.”  He motioned for them to follow and then lead them towards the security checkpoint. He stopped around the corner from the checkpoint and took a peek at the pair of turrets guarding it.  He was a few feet outside their range right now, and they weren’t big turrets, just a pair of funnels in the wall, so they were hard to spot unless you knew what you were looking for.<br/><br/>”Take a peek. Right down there near that door. Those two spigots on the wall spout superheated plasma. I would have missed them myself had I not seen a fly try to pass the get incinerated a few minutes ago. I… aa… well actually, you wouldn’t have happened to have brought my sniper rifle with you would you?”  He’d been about to say he didn’t know how to take them out but he bet a shot right down the barrel of the hoses would rupture the line the plasma traveled through to get to the spigot and then the next time it tried to shoot flames it’s instead flood out inside the wall and ruin whatever gadgetry made the thing set off in the first place. He’d need a good sniper to make that shot though; even with his enhanced eyes and training he couldn’t make the shot with a pistol.<br/>