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With a loud screech and a grinding of metal, the thick steel door swung open revealing a dark, damp tunnel that led downward. Quickly, Axus rushed down the narrow path to another door. This entrance was much like the first, but the outside was not coated in a thin film of rust, like the one before it. Axus jammed his thumb into the green button next to the door, and spun around as the opening behind him started to close. The bright lights from the city above were extinguished as the door slowly creaked shut.
As soon as it was fully closed, lights spaced evenly across the carved rock walls, turned on to fill the passage with a hazy, yellow glow. Axus turned around to face the second door. After pressing the red button, he slipped through …show more content…

Almost immediately, an electronic voice came from outside of his bedroom doorway.
“Yes, sir?”, said a crab-like robot as it crawled into his room.
“I would like you to secure the outside door, and turn on all of the safety protocols. Are there any ways to turn on a hovership map jammer?”
“Yes, sir. Hold on one moment please.”
The robot left the room and crossed the living area. Axus followed closely behind. “ A upper-world hovership was following me. It can’t be allowed to find this place or it will be destroyed.”
“Yes, sir.” said Maxwell as they walked into a small room with thousands of blinking lights set across multiple holo-computers. Maxwell climbed over to one of the computers and began to type, the pointed tips of its legs clicking as the tapped the keys. “Outside door is locked,” it announce in its metallic voice. “The outside laser turrets are all turned on, and the rest of the safety protocols are warming up. I am now looking for a way to jam holographic maps, such like the maps that form in a hovership.”
Axus turned away and had started to walk back to the living space, when a series of sharp zaps went off. He spun around, raced to the nearest computer and powered it on. After several seconds, he had a live vid-stream of the happenings of outside the thick, metal door.
The scene showed several bursts of greenish light that shot from somewhere off camera. The shots were all directed at a

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