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[color=8882be]"I always do, kid."[/color]

Lauren released Luke's head at last with a final ruffle of the martial artist's head before turning back to the group at large. Her confident grin was back.

[color=8882be]"Alright, [i]at-ten-shuuuuuun[/i] distillery employees! Please follow Jack to the elevator as planned and try to stay frosty. I'll be right after you in a second with Priscilla here, and we can all get outta here together. Cian, Luke, with me."[/color]

After bumming a few lightning pins off Jack, Lauren led the two Jumpercables (a spur-of-the-moment moniker which now looked much more like a sick euphemism) back to the generator room, where the machinery still looked as cold and lifeless as it had since they'd arrived. This time, however, the end of their mission at this horror show of a distillery was just about done. Lauren just had to take her own advice -

[color=8882be][i]Stay frosty.[/i][/color]

The streaming feature on her BaSTEEL Cinema-specs flared to life. Normally she could broadcast video to each pair of sunglasses in the network, but if Ben and Amy were up there fighting whatever was on the roof, they didn't need to see Luke being wired up like a suicide bomber. She decided to broadcast to them in audio-only (just to let them know she and Sangue were okay) while Sangue received the full audio-visual package.

[color=8882be]"San-[i]guuuuue[/i]. Hey, baby girl, it's Lauren. I'm down here in the generator room."[/color] The camera panned over to the empty dumbwaiter for a second. [color=8882be]"See this? The other end should come out right at the room you're in right now with Ivor and the Popsicles. There should be a battery somewhere in that room, too. Be a babe and plop it down into the dumbwaiter for me so we can wire it up."[/color]

Lauren's feed turned towards the powerless generator and zoomed in on it momentarily, then unfocused.

[color=8882be]"We're rigging up a temporary power source now, long enough to get the survivors outta here, but the battery will be a lot more effective and should run a while longer. And uh, Sangue...I don't like to be a hardass, but..."[/color]

The BaSTEELs panned over to Luke Schwarz, being wired up with lightning pins and staring uneasily at copper wire as he gripped it with both hands and stretched out his arms.

[color=8882be]"...we could [i]really[/i] use it soon. Love ya. Bai bai."[/color]

Lauren turned off the streaming option and looked towards the two other Huntsmen in the room.

[color=8882be]"Keep an eye out for that battery between bullets, Cian. Don't shoot him more than you have to, he needs to be feeling okay enough to take you out on a date. Luke..."[/color]

The Jumpercable got the most charming grin she'd hustled at a Beacon student yet.

[color=8882be]"Deus volt."[/color]