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"Sir, we have a security breach."
Sudo pauses before answering.
"What kind of security breach, Elliot?"
"I ... I don't know."
"What's that sound?"
The group, who had begun raising their voices and reaching for their communicators, quickly grows silent again. A shrill buzzing sound, barely perceptible at first, is growing steadily louder.
"Elliot lock this room down!" Sudo screams.
"Yes sir."
A solid steel gate comes crashing down over the door of the windowless laboratory. The group is panicking. Someone's calling in a helicopter. Someone else is on the ground praying. The buzzing grows louder.
"Kill the power, Sudo!"
"I killed the power as soon as the security breach was called in. Shiva's not on."
The buzzing stops right outside, and suddenly switches in tone and frequency. A whole orchestra of white noise rattles and clicks outside the door.
"Barricade it!"
Two men scramble to push a large table toward the door. They freeze in their tracks as the bolts in the steel gate begin whirring out of their sockets and falling to the floor in quick succession.
The gate falls to pieces and comes crashing inward.
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