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Screams echoed through the open building, raw with panic.
Siyeon barely had time to register what was happening before a body slammed into her, sending her stumbling and further into the building.
Her eyes widened at the sight in front of her.
The sleek, pristine lobby was in havoc, ruins. Overturned chairs, shattered glass, pink and green flashes coating the interior, and in the air an acrid scent of burning wires.
The Æ were everywhere.
Their perfectly pixelated bodies moved with inhuman precision. Their faces eerily devoid of emotion as they advanced on the humans trying to escape.
Some of the æ were shoving the humans, some were throwing them across the room, and others were delivering swift, strong attacks.
Lifeless bodies littered the room. Most were on the floor, but some people laid up against the wall, others sagged against the table- pools of blood spread beneath them all.
Siyeon's breath hitched, her stomach dropping at the sight.
"What the fuck-" Haechan said and Jeno yanked at the girls arm, pulling her behind one of the fallen tables just before an Æ sent another body flying into the wall.
Jisung crouched beside Renjun, his face pale, eyes widened in horror and his breath was rapid. "W-what is happening? They aren't meant to do this?"
Mark grabbed at the gun strapped to his back, checking the ammo within before clicking the magazine closed. "Well they are, and we need to find a way out," his voice was sharp, controlled, but Siyeon could see his jaw clenched.
An alarm blared overhead, an automated message looping in a robotic voice.
The doors in the far back opened, revealing gun shot after gun shot as shells bounced off of the floor.
They were walking backwards, shooting at the æ that had worked in the back section of the building. Just when Siyeon thought the security had a grip on the Æ, they glitched and teleported behind them, shooting and sending the security to the ground.
Siyeon's heart dropped.
"We'll need to get to the exit, now!" She exclaimed.
Jaemin nodded, his eyes scanning the chaos. "We're gonna have to make a run for it."
Siyeon sucked in a breath as she looked at the path to the door, shattered glass, furniture, and bodies- both human and Æ alike littered the floors.
She peered over the table, flinching in shock as a body collided with the floor- thrown from one of the upper levels.
"We've gotta go," Mark shook Siyeon's shoulder, gaining her attention and the girl nodded, swallowing the dryness in her throat.
"On three," he stared into her eyes, adjusting his positioning as he held onto his gun.
