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Rescue in the City of Angles
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("So, what, we gotta take the elevator?")

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"Fine, so far. Dunno much Sideways, sounds normal here," but she pauses. "Stairs there. Picasso there... tenth, now, focused, not forget. People there," she points up, "going." Or at least they'd better be.

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"Wait, more people? We can't just leave them, we gotta make sure they're alright!"

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"Penny, come on—"

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("I think there are stairs over there...")

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("Let's go get a map.")

(The Picasso skips a floor. Twelfth.)

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Sounds like everybody gets what they want if they take the stairwell; she heads off in that direction. "Quick, Twelfth now."

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He sprints there, making sure Penny's following.

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And Penny starts running upstairs rather than downstairs.

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"Penny, darn it—!" He runs after her.

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(They find the map and make their way to the other stairwell, the same the other three are climbing.)

(Fourteenth.)

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She still has some sprint left in her. She's going to sleep for a week if she makes it out of this, though. She follows them up.

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Seventeenth floor: they meet up. "Whoa."

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Gregory Yates doesn't point the gun he's holding at the other two. He just sizes them up, then says, "Now can we go?"

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"Yes, let's go—hi, I'm Penny, nice to meet you two, there's a Picasso."

(Seventeenth floor.)

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"Picasso there," she clarifies, pointing straight across at the other stairwell.

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"Right, let's go."

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Down they go! Up the Picasso goes!

"So what were you two doing up there?"

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"Penny, run first, socialize later."

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Down and down and down. She's quiet, paying just enough attention to them that she'll notice if someone falls behind or tries to get her attention.

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Nope, the man is quiet and efficient and so is his daughter when she wants to be, and the other two follow the example.

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Good. And the Picasso is still messing around upstairs of them?

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The Picasso is hopelessly confused and mumbling about "those damn hooligans // damn those hooligans // those hooligans, damn // hooligans, those damn" but seems to have figured the paint thing out, covering the cameras.

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Also good. Bedlam will presumably be by shortly but in the meantime the more of a head start they can get the better.

 

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Bedlam doesn't actually show up! They reach the ground floor.

"You. Are we clear, here?"

He's looking at Denice.

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