The elevator reached its end after less than a minute of descending. Before everyone could reach the hexagonal door and advance to the dock, metallic rotors hissed and rumbled above.
“Enemy contact up the walls!” cried a soldier.
Two spherical robots like the ones on Vita Nova rolled through the tilted walls of complex encryptions and tiny lights. Didn’t the Soku call them Koe?
“Keep moving. We’re going out!” ordered John.
They raised their rifles as they retreated, John and Derek pushing everyone to the bud-spreading hexagonal door. The spheres halted their rolling and stopped on the walls, spreading their weaponized arms.
The humans unleashed fire and tore through their shields, but the red lights of the machines intensified. They shot red bursts of laser at them. John and Derek
