...You know how in all of the movies whenever there's a chase scene, the person being chased will always take extra time to turn over carts or dump bookshelves or do fancy parkour tricks over walls and stuff? And how it never, [i]ever[/i] works? Yeah. This feels a lot like that. Every second Errant gains by putting whatever she can between her and Victoria she loses back by having to put it there in the first place. These poor cubicles don't even amount to speed bumps. The barricades she vaults over aren't faring a lot better. She sneers over her shoulder with every crumbling obstacle and corner.

"Amateur!" she snarls. Nobody respects how much work goes into being able to pilot a body like this well.

Which, great, yeah. Skill check Victoria into oblivion, Euna. You can afford a big fight right now, absolutely! It's not like the hundreds of other operatives in the vicinity are going to pounce on you while you deal with her or anything! Think, you idiot, think! For once in your life, just [i]think![/i]

...AEGIS operating procedure in the face of overwhelming superiority is to first break down the problem into its component parts. She gasps for air and starts from the top. Actually yeah, she starts with that. She has to breathe. Victoria... technically also does, but she's got a suit and rockets doing all of her heavy lifting, she's not even sweating right now. Errant on the other hand is rapidly reaching the limits of peak performance. She'll start slowing down soon. Worse than that, AEGIS will be fully mobilized and organized against her within a matter of minutes. The window for her to skate past rooms before her peers get blockades and ambushes properly set up is rapidly closing.

But reaching the exit in these conditions won't solve her problem. She's still going to have a furious Victoria on her six, and this time with nothing but straight lines between the both of them. So no, that's out. She needs a way to lose Victoria. The Reactor Room? No, too dangerous. The maintenance shafts? Even worse: she might shed one pursuer but she'd also be throwing up huge AROs announcing the exact spot she'd be popping up so everybody [i]else[/i] could blast her. 

Jeez. This hurts so much. There's something wet running under her nose. Urgh, god not again. It's blood. She can't keep this up. She can't. She just [i]can't[/i]. She needs to rest, she needs to clear the blockades before... Oh son of a bitch.

It kills her to do it. It absolutely [i]kills[/i] her to do it, but Errant grinds to a halt and launches herself like a laser bouncing off a mirror off to her right, deeper into the pyramid and closer to the barracks, where the highest concentration of trained personnel would be. Run, run! She springs off of a wall, and every time she hears a crunch behind her she turns to throw the kind of grin she stole from @SARAHPHIM. Try harder, dumbass! You can't measure up to [i]me[/i]. 

AEGIS Protocol for handling overwhelming force states that an operative should use the local terrain to re-establish advantage and deliver a decisive strike to the target. Corollary: do not show your hand before the strike falls. 

This is the hardest part. Errant skids to a halt in front of a full firing squad hiding behind riot shields. Just like she expected, they came loaded with E/Maulers and other anti-cybernetic weaponry. She stares at her coworkers, glaring at them through her visor while her chest heaves with the effort of not being caught this entire time. She spins on the ball of her foot and turns her back to them in time to greet Victoria. Her hair whips around behind her like a beguiling serpent. She plants her feet. Thumbs away a mess of nose blood and sweat, and flashes a feral grin toward the woman who would be queen. 

"This is it," she says in her absolute best Elvia impression, "I'm afraid you've lost, milady." 

Victoria hurtles toward her. Errant waits. When she finally leaps, she can feel the tingle of EMP waves just barely missing her. There's one satisfying crunch as she slams her fingers through the ceiling to make a handhold, and a second even more satisfying crunch as Victoria's suit seizes and crashes to the ground. She swings forward, and takes the window reloading provides her to give all of AEGIS her very best princess curtsy before vanishing around a corner again. 

Good work, Soldier. 

[Errant gives AEGIS influence to use +Soldier to Provoke: [b]11[/b].]