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The pair made it to the next pump station and activated it without trouble. They were heading back to the elevators when Saul heard something. A cracking, snapping sound filled the air around them, and they suddenly fell through a hole that opened up in the floor. Both lost all of their guns in the fall, and landed face to face with swarms of angry cultists brandishing guns, as well as several full-grown Corrupter's. Saul turned and shoved the girl into the next hallway, and they ran through the labyrinthine, tunnel-like hallways with the hordes hot on their heels. Saul dropped a grenade, one of two he'd made it through the fall with, collapsing the ceiling behind them, giving them a moment to catch their breath.

They kept going, hearing the debris pile already starting to give way as they ran, and entered the main generator room for the depot's lower levels. A massive, high ceilinged room, filled with machinery, including the pump station. Saul started for it, then the lights snapped to life, revealing the room's contents.

The center of the room, sitting like a massive, fat, bug-worm thing, was the Corrupter Queen. As Saul watched in disgust, it excreted several fat, goo-dripping eggs, filled with full-blooded Corrupter offspring, using its almost useless rear legs to push them into the mound of eggs behind itself. It turned its huge, fly-like head towards them, and trumpeted a deafening noise, its huge wings flapping in agitation, not having enough power to have ever lifted that massive creature off the ground.

Both of them were jumped by cultists, and shoved towards the Queen. They encircled them, shoving them towards each other while baying out a strange language neither knew. From reports alone, Saul knew what they wanted. Another Corrupter came up behind the girl, and he felt another needle-appendage stab through the rent in his armor, and knew right then that another was behind him. He palmed the grenade, and manged to gasp out a warning.

"Take cover...I'll be right behind you...they want to infect us and then use us as breeding tools.."

He tore himself free of the Corrupter behind him,and lobbed the grenade at the queen, the explosion hurting it only slightly, but enough to disrupt the hive mind every creature in the room shared. Saul ran tot he pump and kicked it into life, before grabbing the girl and making a made dash for the elevators. With the hordes snapping at them as the doors closed and began to take them back to the hanger bay to set off the gas, they both breathed a sigh of relief.

Saul finally collapsed in a heap, bleeding profusely from his reopened wound. He shoved the girl away when she tried to help.

"I'm infected...Take my ship and put me in the stasis cell I have inside... leave me at the Staging Point base, then get over to Cumuria...and old buddy of mine will meet you there..."

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...all I have is revenge.