"He's inside. Either you can wait here and let me handle it or you can do as I say."
Mistress stood as Alexandria went back to screaming as she was handcuffed. BB was shellshocked. He didn't want to leave. The same feeling didn't return as the door slammed open.
"He can turn groups into one."
"Pardon?"
Whilst Mistress was throwing objects from across the room at the man, BB read his file. He was a college dropout and didn't know how to drive. But that didn't matter. He wanted to know him in a fight.
"Can you read a little faster?"
"I'm reading at three hundred words per minute here!"
The mountain of a man without a top on his peak was winning as he had a wrist blade that stuck out of his cuffs. It was slashing through scalpels and beds and such. He already had some things in his arms and legs.
"Come on, BB!"
"Got it! When a group is near him, all besides him and one will die. The survivor will gain magical abilities that vary depending on how many are present as when two people are near him, they get twenty-twenty vision. If a hundred meet, then they become gods. The biggest collection he's made was a thousand."
"That doesn't specify how to stop him!"
He's trying to get closer so he can activate his abilities and kill most of us.
"Get everyone out!"
Sears fired a bullet at the enemy before dragging the wounded Joey and Alexandria out.
"Why do I have to do the heavy lifting?"
"Because some of us need to run for our lives!"
Scott's voice became faint as he opened the nearest door and ran down the hallway like there was no tomorrow.
"Dammit, Scott."
BB ended up jumping on top of Alexandria's hospital bed and rode it down the hallway with Sears and Joey hopping on as well. BB looked like George Washington crossing the Delaware river in that one painting. Mistress was alone now with her enemy. He wasn't going down, but he was absolutely being beaten to a pulp. Mistress was getting tired. Joey was still caught up, but he looked at the knife the other BB gave him. He saw a USB hidden in the handle of the knife. The words still echoed in his head, "It's that or you kill TODD, and we both know there's no way around that."
"There's no way around it. TODD, get us to different rooms!"
"If you say so. Separate the bunch of you."
Joey found himself in the lounge. He still had the USB. If there was a way of hooking up the wi-fi and downloading things into the USB, or maybe he could put something off the USB and into TODD.
"Where's the internet?"
"Why?"
Joey had learned a lot from BB and Scott's bickering. He learned how to use the internet and with guidance from TODD, found the port to place it in.
"So, I just put the chrome end in?"
"Yes, boomer."
He did so and TODD fell silent. Please work.
"Dad?"
"TODD?"
The voice was familiar. He remembered a lot of the things people said. One of which was how one of the personalities programmed into the machine was his own daughter.
"Why aren't you helping them?"
"Take us back to Backtown."
We need to finish them off before going back for Dials. Perhaps we can outplay them.