[center][h2]Kitsune[/h2][/center]

“It’s cliché, but it keeps them hidden I guess.” Besides, given the size of the building they were entering it kind of had to be an underground lair; if this operation was of the scale that they could produce and hold dozens of experimentally enhanced individuals then they weren’t all going to fit on the second floor or a pain clinic. “Still, seems like a waste of money to build all this when you could just buy a larger building.”

Kitsune began to descend the stairs, skipping two or three at a time as she hurried down multiple flights in pursuit of the lowest floor of this place. She’d made it maybe four or five floors down when the first bullet ricocheted off of the railing next to her hand, fired from somewhere below, and she pressed herself against the far wall to avoid the rest of the volley of shots. Below her, she heard heavy footfalls of booted thugs making their way up the stairs towards their location.

“Found the guards.”

She had yet to see any doors leading out of this stairwell, no way out other than further down or back up the way they came. Trying to outrun bullets up a flight of stairs didn’t seem like the best idea, but then neither did running [i]towards[/i] the source of the bullets either; if Kitsune had to pick one however, then the option that gave her a chance to fight her way out seemed like the better choice.

Ducking down, Kitsune braced herself with the wall behind her back and waited until she could see shadows dancing on the opposite wall. Pushing off the wall, she flung herself over the railing and the open stairwell below, narrowly avoid another gunshot from below, and crashed knee first into a group of armed men.