And just like that, Forge took Lenny to the room and gave him the prototype her friend was secretly working.

Lenny used it to try to communicate with anyone that was somewhat close by, but he didn't manage to get any help.

Right when he decided to try again, another Miniknog agent appeared out of nowhere in the room.

It just happened that the communicator's signal went through the jamming device by the Miniknog and found its way towards John.

Lenny swiftly disposed of the soldier while he screamed at the device so that John could hear past the gunshots.

After asking for help, the communicator failed and broke. It was, after all, a prototype. Forge was surprised it worked as she knew how incomplete was the device.

Despite incomplete, it could still achieve such results, so, Lenny decided to take it with him, better than falling into Miniknog's hands.

It was only now that Lenny remembered to ask for Forge's name, and she said it to him.

Forge Umbra was her name.

Storing the device into his PIPS, he asked Forge to carry Saito.

He dragged both of them out of the room, as he heard from the Miniknog's radio that they lost communication with the team that was with their target and as such a squad was sent to investigate what happened, to retrieve the target, and bring him back as fast as possible.

They couldn't take the emergency stairs, or else they would have to face a lot of soldiers.

Lenny quickly changed his plans and dragged Forge and Saito with him towards the elevator.

"Wha-what are you thinking?" Forge asked as soon as she realized that they weren't taking the path towards the stairs.

"The stairs should be swarming with soldiers by now." Lenny answered without turning his head, "I don't know how many of them there is here. I don't want to risk going there."

"But...the elevators should not be working."

"Of course, they aren't."

"Then...how do you expect to go towards the escape pods?"

Hearing her question made Lenny briefly turn around to flash a wide smile, "By falling!"

"Eh?" Forge was surprised for a moment and almost fell on the ground the moment Lenny's answer entered in her ears, "Ehhhhh!?"

...

"Such weakling..." Lenny glanced at Forge that was on the ground, trembling and foaming from her mouth.

"What the hell!!!!!" The moment she heard Lenny's criticism, she sprang up from the ground and glared at him, "You are insane, you know! Why would you throw me down the elevator's hole! I almost died!!!!"

Lenny laughed as he remembered Forge's screams as she fell for about three floors, about 12 meters.

It happened just a few moments ago when they got near the elevators that were deactivated.

When Forge saw that gaping pitch-black opening in their path down, she hesitated and got scared.

Lenny was in a hurry, so he decided to grab Saito from her and directly threw her down.

Of course, he also dropped down and used a Grappling Hook to descend.

Just as Forge was about to splat on top of an elevator that was on the way, Lenny grabbed her and stopped the Grappling Hook.

He looked down at Forge to see if she was alright, but she had already passed out.

Lenny couldn't help but laugh then and now.

After he was done mocking Forget and seeing her angry face, he grabbed Saito and walked forward, "Let's go. We are close to our destination."

Forged humphed and unhappily followed behind.

...

It took about three minutes to Lenny to get to the designated floor that had some escape pods.

For the case of an attack, the space station was built in a way that has almost an entire floor with escape pods after every ten levels. This way, the people in the station could swiftly get to the nearest pods.

But this time, it didn't work because the Miniknog knew about the infrastructure of the station and sent some incognito troops in advance to get control of the essential places before the main soldiers got there.

In the floor 20, where the nearest pods were, more than five soldiers were guarding the place.

Although they were separated from each other by walls and hallways, they kept constant communication with each other.

Five people were way too low of a number to guard such a huge floor, but the other soldiers went up to search for the missing squad that Lenny killed to take Saito.

The emergency lights barely lighted the hallways of such floor; it was almost complete darkness in some spots.

This was highly disadvantageous for Lenny because of how much light his own body made of yellow plasma emanates.

It was easy to spot such yellow beacon in dark environments.

So, to keep themselves hidden, Lenny found a safe spot and started to think in a plan on how to get to one of the pods.

Despite thinking for a few seconds, he couldn't come up with a good plan.

If he kills a single soldier, the others would realize the situation in almost no time and swiftly charge towards the last location in which they lost communication with their comrade.

Although he would undoubtedly survive and kill all four of them, it would take some time, and he couldn't guarantee the safety of Forge.

As for Saito... he would not be harmed, he's their target from the looks of it they need him alive... probably...

"What do you think, girl?" Lenny gave up and turned his head to ask Forge that was unusually silent.

Forge was surprised for a moment when Lenny suddenly called her.

She never expected that Lenny would ask for her opinion. Until now it Lenny was calling the shots and deciding the plans.

"Hum..." Forge entered in deep thought and caressed her Yello fur.

Lenny frowned as she was taking too long to think about something.

He was about to reach for some whiskey in his PIPS when he saw Forge's eyes brighten.

"Came up with something?" He asked.

"I think... I'm not sure if it will work..." She said somewhat hesitantly, "It's a very crazy idea, and I don't think we have some high chance of success."

Lenny thought for a second before saying, "Let's hear it out. What's your plan?"