Pressing the holographic button, the case closed and the slab was sucked into the vent above.

"We found another piece of Rosetta." Isaac said over the comm. "I'm sending it your way."

"Which, uh, which piece is it?" Ellie asked uncertainly.

"Hard to tell by the cross section but it doesn't look like anything I recognize." He replied looking back at the door to the room with the specimens.

"Okay, I'll get it prepped when it arrives."

As he cut off the link, him and Babs stared at the lasers for a moment, listening to the hum of them running. Sighing, Isaac nudged Babs with his boot and nodded towards the door. When it opened, a Unitologist soldier of Daniks variety caught sight of them.

As Isaac shot him, two more rounded the corner. They fired but he ducked and rolled behind the closest specimen. While their attention was on him, Babs took out her Plasma cutter and fired the miniature shotgun on the bottom. It went into the back of one of them, killing him with a pitiful cry; the second only got hit in the arm and was clutching it on the ground. As he was raising his gun to fire at her, he got his head bashed in by Isaac when he slammed the side of his Gatling gun against it.

"Give up, Isaac!" Danik shouted through the speaker. "You're not getting out of there alive!"

"Oh would you shut up, Danik!?" Isaac yelled back as the speaker was cut again. "I hate that asshole."

"Me too." Babs said. "Should we go and find the guard and my cousin now?" She asked looking at the exit.

"I guess," Isaac shrugged. "Who knows if he's still alive."

Pressing the button herself, Babs exited first and then Isaac. Letting the door slide open, they entered and Isaac pressed the holographic button. It spun around and stopped, stepping out into the snow again, Isaac shivered slightly as the snow began to collect on his shoulders immediately.

"Ellie," Isaac said opening his comm while they got back into the lift. "How do we know this is even going to work? Did you find out how they make a codex from all this?"

As the lift went down, there was a second pause in the comms before she replied.

"Yeah, it looks like they used magnetomic forensic neurology, which produces a data stream stored in the codex. It's like they lifted the codes for the machine right out of her brain."

"Well that sounds familiar." He snorted in amusement. "At least they didn't poke her eye out. We'll be there soon. We just need to find the guard and Applebloom."

He cut the link when the lift stopped. Stepping back into the snow, he looked around at the Stalker corpses littered around. Taking Babs on his shoulders again, he strode through the snow, staggering whenever a strong gust of wind hit them. Going to the previously locked door, he was about to press the button when Babs spoke.

"Isaac, look at the vent above us. The bars look like they've been taken out."

"What?" Steeping back, he saw the bars to the right one had been removed. "How did we miss that before?"

"The visibility is terrible out here; I just noticed because I'm higher up now." Babs said.

"Alright, time to get off me, my back is starting to hurt." Isaac said setting her down before entering the elevator.

Setting her down, he threw his arms up and stretched eliciting a series of small pops from his back. Stretching herself, Babs cracked her neck making a series of pops.

When the doors opened, Isaac stuck the barrel of his shotgun out and looked around. The room was a dark brown, stained with dirt, rust, and blood. The lights weren't as filthy as the ones above, these gave off a light yellow instead of the brown as they had seen above. There were two doors, one on the left that was unlocked, and one ahead leading to a locked elevator. To the right, the wall had five yellow lockers, two of them locked, one open, and the last two unlocked.

Further to the right, the room opened up and a suit-kiosk was wedged into the right wall, turning a corner a bench was sitting in a small space by it. Past the suit-kiosk, a tram was sitting idly on its rail.

Isaac opened the closest one and pulled out a small pile of scrap metal, storing it he opened the other. Taking out a semiconductor, he pocketed that too before turning his attention to the other elevator. Pausing, he pulled his hand back before looking around the corner at the tram.

"Hey, Babs," he said. "Do you think we should take the tram, or the elevator?"

"The elevator." She said. "They would probably be using the tram to ship supplies."

He reached out and pressed the button, the door slid open, they entered, and the doors shut. Standing with his back against the wall, Isaac raised his gun up while they went down, Babs took out her Pulse rifle and did the same. When the door opened, they waited for a few seconds before Babs poked her head out.

"Just a hallway." She said stepping out.

There was a small corner to the left that led to a dead-end, a vent sitting on the wall next to the elevator on the right, and going down hall further there was a single door with a dim, blue light glowing in the middle of it.

Going down the ramp, Isaac opened the door and poked his head through. Just as soon as he had, he jumped back as an axe cut through the vent by the door. Putting his shotgun into the hole where a pair of red eyes of a suit were, he blew the head off the Waster as it was shot back in the vent. Shooting it once more in the leg, he looked down and saw Babs staring off towards a dark corner where her cousin was.

Before either of them could say something, more Necromorphs began to come out from the vents, Applebloom was thrown back as the lone guard ran out into the open, and as he began shooting his way to them while Applebloom was cutting them to pieces with her axes.

Author's Notes:

I'm trying not to make these updates long, I'm just not feeling good right now.