"Cover you… what the hell are you thinking?" Salvatore asked as Adam handed over the grenades.
"I'm going to run, full speed, towards that room, access the computer, and shut down the turrets. To ensure I make the sprint I want you to throw the EMP grenade at the turrets when the Robobrain passes underneath it, it should stall everything long enough to make it to the room. If not, that's what the pulse grenade is for."
"That is the stupidest idea I've ever heard you say." Salvatore scolded.
"Except for a standing fight this is the best plan."
"Really? Because to me it sounds like the best plan to get yourself killed."
"Look." Adam said, turning to face him now. "I'm the faster runner of the two of us, you are the better shot, and I know how to hack computers, it really is the best way to pan out our resources." Adam said, firmly.
"Yeah but-" Salvatore said before Adam cut him off.
"I wouldn't trust this to anyone else." He offered him a warm smile. "Besides… you once said you wouldn't follow me into a hallway full of turrets just to die." Adam chuckled.
"Yeah but I was speaking hypothetical." Salvatore sighed. "Alright. We can do this. But you better not fucking die. I'm good, not 'get your body out of the middle of that mess' good." Adam grinned.
"If I go down, just leave without me. I don't have any friends or family to mourn me, no one will care." Adam said with a jovial tone. Salvatore frowned. It looked like he wanted to say something in response to that but held his tongue. One could only guess what it was, perhaps something snarky?
"Alright. You tell me when you are going and I'll make sure to give you the chance to make it to the room." Adam nodded, let out a big exhale and then stood up walking over to the doorway but staying against the wall to not yet be spotted.
"Alright, on three." Adam said. Now it was his turn to count down. He steeled himself for the dangerous act he was about to embark on.
"One." Adam took a runners pose, ready to start at a full sprint.
"Two." He took a deep breath, wanting to do this all on one long breath.
"Three." Adam sprinted, full speed, towards the room, not even looking at the robot or turrets that had certainly taken notice of him already.
"Intruder alert, Intruder alert." The Robobrain began, its highly synthesized yet moderately feminine voice speaking in a cold way as it tracked Adam's movements. It began to raise its arms to fire but just as it did the EMP grenade went off above its head, and below the turrets on the ceiling.
Adam did not get to see the effect. A normal EMP grenade would have little to no effect, if it was truly modified like Eve said it should hopefully buy him sometime. Judging by the fact no laser blasts followed after him as he sprinted through the main floor, it was safe to say it worked.
Adam began hearing Salvatore firing his rifle, assumedly at the robobrain, since the turrets were largely out of sight from his angle. But still he did not stop running.
Just as he was a few feet away from the door into the room with the computer he heard the sound of the machines turning back on and a laser blast hit him directly in the shoulder. It stung.
But Adam held on as he did not break for a moment from the full sprint as he ran into the room as a second stray laser round hit near his feet, right where he was only a second ago. Now in the room he was safe from the turrets.
In the distance Adam could hear the pulse grenade going off. Assumedly Salvatore was engaged in a firefight. He didn't have time to dawdle.
He threw the pulse mine he had at the doorway, letting it land on the ground without even checking it and then got to work on the computer.
He was a fast hacker, honestly, if someone needed a professional to do this, Adam was precisely the kind of man they would call. He also was good under pressure, he could keep his cool in most situations. But he was a bit panicked, this was a life or death situation, if he didn't work fast Salvatore could be fried.
One attempt, two. Adam's attempts to break the code were taking a bit longer than he had hoped. Third failure. It was now getting desperate, he had one more chance to get the password before the computer locked him out. Of course when he was not pressed for time this was a non issue, there were many workarounds but right now he didn't have time for them, he needed to get it right on this last try.
Adam could hear the sounds of a gatling gun going off in the distance hitting into the brick building assumedly where Salvatore was. He had no idea what was making that sound, but whatever was making the noise certainly couldn't be good. He had to move. Fast.
On his last attempt before the lockout he got into the system.
[System Control][Col. Travis Personal Log][Brewery Support Systems]
Adam wasted no time. His only thought was shutting down the turrets. And so he accessed the [System Control]
[Turret 1: offline, Turret 2: functioning, Turret 3: functioning, Turret 4: functioning, Turret 5: functioning][Turret Systems]
There were 5 turrets? No wonder the people who attacked this place in the past couldn't break in, but once more he didn't have time to delve into that, he needed to stop this.
Selecting [Turret Systems] Brought him to the familiar menu. All he needed to do now was tab down to [Deactivate System] and the turrets would be off.
However as he was about to do that the pulse mine exploded next to him, taking him out of his concentration as he looked to the door next to him.
The Robobrain was rolling into the doorway, shot up, damaged, and now stunned momentarily due to the pulse mine ravaging its internal systems. It was in bad shape but it still looked more than ready for a fight.
Adam moved quickly, he unsheathed the knife from his holster and planted it right into the shoulder of the robobrain, right where its tube arm met with its cylindrical body, the arm went limp as it seemed to flicker back to life, ready to fight after shrugging off the effects of the pulse mine.
However Adam was not going to give it a chance. As it slowly lifted up its working arm Adam unholstered his 10mm pistol and sidestepped the robobrain, using its treads against it. Then he unloaded the entire clip into the same joint where he stabbed the knife into but on the other arm.
By the time the clip was spent that arm too was quite broken, no longer functioning.
Adam broke from the robobrain, it no longer threatened him, he needed to turn off the turrets, he was uncertain what was going on over with Salvatore, but until he got the turrets off he couldn't even go and help him if he was in trouble.
Adam ran back to the computer and began to tab down to the [Deactivate} option, however before he could select it he was hit by a heavy force from the side. The force knocked him against the wall hard. It knocked the wind out of him for a moment as he looked up at what happened.
He saw the robobrain, both arms dangling uselessly by its side as it had just finished ramming Adam full speed with its body.
"You could run, I am trying to kill you, after all." The Robobrain said, in an almost pleasant tone as it seemed to be preparing to ram Adam again, this time to crush him into the wall.
Adam had just enough time to catch a tiny bit of air and roll out of the way as the robobrain went careering into the brick wall.
Adam stood up quickly, he unslung his rifle and then jammed the barrel into the gaps between the tread links. The robobrain tried to back up but found the barrel of the gun to be an effective means to lock one of its treads still. All it succeeded in doing was spinning around but making no distance.
"That wasn't very nice." The robobrain said again, still with its almost pleasant voice.
"Shove it!" Adam said as he pulled out his laser pistol and fired at the links on the other track until it literally melted the links causing it to fall off. It didn't take more than a few seconds. With the robobrain completely immobilized now he ran back over to the computer again and hit the button for system deactivation.
He wasted no more time, leaving his rifle in the tread he gripped his laser pistol in his hand and bolted back down the corridor towards the main foyer where Salvatore hopefully still was.
As he turned the corner up the ramp that led to the main floor he saw what he feared most when he heard the gatling gun go off in the distance. A Sentry Bot.
Sentry Bots were the undisputed heavyweights in the robotic combat market. They were huge, bulky, heavy armed, and mean. Each variant was equipped differently but the arms could be outfitted with rockets, gatling lasers, gatling guns, or a heavy melee hammer. Sometimes a mix of all of them. They were more like turret platforms that could roll around on their tripedal balls on the ground than any other kind of robot. But they were easily the most feared robot the US Military ever put out. Until the Assaultron came along the title was undisputed. After it had it became a topic of discussion, though most would still agree the Sentry bot was scarier.
All this to say, that as he came up that ramp and saw the back of the Sentry bot rolling towards Salvatore who was firing rounds at it as he backed up towards the wall, the scene seemed to play out in slow motion.
Adam acted fast, he pulled out his last pulse grenade from his bag and threw it at the robot as he could hear the sound of the gun spooling up. The explosion that followed stalled the bot's advance and the gun it was about to murder Salvatore with.
Adam didn't waste this chance, he ran up behind the sentry bot and blasted the back panel where the power core was located over and over with his laser pistol until he could hear see the metal melt and the laser shots beginning to hit the core in the center. Then he began to hear the telltale signs of an overload.
"Salvatore, get out of here!" Adam yelled as he too dove out of the room, back down the ramp he had entered in as the Sentry bot began to meltdown.
A moment later a small shockwave rocked the building followed by sparks of lightning, a tell tale sign it was dead.