<em>Branch. Take evasive action. Execute forward roll.</em>Nine’s body twisted forward into a roll, turned 90 degrees and slid, back against the muddy swamp ground, under the roots of a tree.<em>Path clear, resume course.</em>He turned back towards his proper course, started a roll and pushed off the ground with his hands. He flipped once in the air and landed back on his feet, his momentum never lost for a second and still running.<br/><br/>His mind forgot all but getting to his path as soon as possible. Obstacles he easily could have walked around he instead rolled under of jumped over. His mind didn’t think about how much energy the moves wasted him or how easy it would be to walk around, it simply knew that She as on the other side of each obstacle and he would surpass them all, by whatever means necessary.<br/><br/>An hour or so of running later he was sweating heavily and breathing hard. Usually it took a lot more to tire him out but he’d wasted so much energy in his run that he was starting to tire early. But he didn’t slow down or stop in the least, he’d run his body to the point of fainting before he’d stop. The continual call of Her overwhelmed his better judgment and will. Nine knew he was close when he saw the bodies of dead GenMods but it didn’t slow him down like it should have. He should have stopped and looked for a trap but in his arrogance he didn’t even falter, he was better than them and he could best these defenses, no problem. He would have run right into the automated guns if not for a green-haired, green-skinned girl asking him for assistance. He skidded to a stop and stared for a few seconds, he knew he should help her, which was important to him for some reason he was having trouble remembering. Then his sanity slowly started to return, she was like him, a GenMod. He turned towards the base and stared, realizing just a second later that he’d nearly walked into a trap.”I… aaa…” He blinked as his mind continued regaining control of itself, fighting the want to run straight into the trap. He realized Maya would run straight in and die if he didn’t stop her and he turned back before yelling, ”Maya! Don’t get close to the base! It will shoot you!” He sniffed the air, trying to find her scent and find her before he turned back to the GenMod that had unwittingly saved his life. ”Thank you. Stay here. Keep others from going forward. Beat them back with a stick if you have to. They’ll die if they get too close.”<br/>