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Evros winced at Chris' shouts, but ignored her otherwise.

"You can't give me what I want, Imperator. I have what I want." He glanced over at the Centrifuge. "I just can't have anyone knowing about it, and as it is all of you know far too much."

He let go of Kaok's wrist, but his gun was still pointed at her temple - her face stuck in an unreadable expression. The doctor removed a syringe from his coat pocket and before the Faun knew what was happening, the contents were being emptied into her veins. She didn't feel a thing off at first, but then her legs started feeling wobbly and in the seconds following she promptly fell to the floor. It all happened so fast that she just barely managed to put her hands out in front of her. She hit the floor and landed right on one of the security system's pressure plates.*

A metal door closed over the original door of the lab - reminiscent of the lock-down they underwent in the sky-mansion. Evros quickly placed one of the gas-masks - which had been in one of his larger pockets - on his own face. The other still resided on the other side of the room.

The lab began to vent with poisonous gases, and the only door that seemed to go anywhere was the door with stairs leading down to the basement. It was opened invitingly, and was quite possibly their only salvation for the moment. James tried to, covering his mouth as best he could, motion to the others to get Kaok and go through the door. They could just be walking into Evros' trap, but it was better than dying.

((*Lawl remember that? :'D))

((Skip me. Just assume that the nobles go with the rest, still silent and very, very angry.))

When on the other side of the door, it slammed shut, and would appear to be made of the same sort of material as the lab's front door - made to keep them in rather than out. Though that was probably for the best, as no gas would appear to be able to enter the basement.

It was pitch black inside for a moment, and then lights began to turn on automatically to reveal the whole room. James nearly gagged when he saw it. This whole time that he had been working here, there had been what could be described as very similar to a morgue. Only, he was quite sure that these were test subjects for things like the Centrifuge and the Window, and whatever other manner of experiments the doctor had been conducting.

There were people who had been split in two, like Kaok, but just barely put together again (and now looked like conjoined twins). People who looked to be perfectly alive, but whose minds were off elsewhere, in another dimension perhaps. And a few people in a section called Projector who were dead, but whose arms jerked every once in a while like they were trying to stop being dead. And not all of them were so well preserved.

The elf could barely move for shock - again.

Remus looked at the horrors around the room. He couldn't believe that such atrocities were being committed in the center of the Galactic Roman Empire, right under his nose. The Imperator still had Kaok in his arms.

"You weren't aware of this, James?" he asked the elf.

The Imperator looked around, seeing if there was a way out. If there wasn't one, he would make one. Remus had no intention of sitting down in this basement to rust. Or let those close to him stay trapped in here.

"So, is there any way to escape? I want to stop this maniac before he starts taking more lives for his sick experiments."

The Imperator gave the elf a strange look wondering what he had seen, but Chris' idea for escape took his mind off of it.

"It's certainly an idea Chris, but those doors are well reinforced. Even Perseverance would have difficulty smashing through them. Though a hammer...with a bit of magic help might do it, perhaps?" Remus looked toward Hrothbert.