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Akiko flew upward into the dark abyss above her, finding no end in sight. No ceiling, no sky....but suddenly in the murkiness there was noise. Small, but noticeable. CRACK! Within the wall of darkness before her, jagged lines began to form across it's tenebrous surface, resembling cracked glass. Light suddenly shone through the cracks, but quickly vanished again as Akiko could hear something scraping, clawing, scratching to get out.

The "glass" then shattered, it's pieces falling to the floor as Akiko briefly got a glimpse of what lay outside the shadowy walls. It flashed from day to night, light to darkness, all in rapid succession, but before she could see anything further, perhaps luckily, a large figure overshadowed her vision, crawling through shattered shadow.

"KLIK..."

Akiko would see a large limb lash out at her to strike her down. Whether it did or not depended on Akiko's own quick thinking. The thing would not remain in the shadows for long however. The red flashing light emitting from it soon illuminated the room, for sparse moments at a time, in a crimson hue, revealing it's hideous visage.

It was reddish-brown in hue as far as they could tell as it jerkily descended the wall of darkness it emerged from, occasionally flapping translucent wings emerging from it's armored carapace. It moved at absurdly fast pace, covering much ground until it hit the junk covered ground with a Thud! From it's six legs it quickly stood on two, standing at around eight feet tall and revealing the flashing light was attached to one of it's wrists. Long antennae, mandible jaws the size of dinner plates and blank unblinking ebon eyes.

It was a roach. A massive one at that. It seemed to stare the group down before it for a moment, it's head occasionally twitching violently. "Residue of 2045. Make -KLIK- no sudden moves. Make -KLIK- no attempts to escape..." it raised two of it's middle arms, a firearm in each hand, like none they had ever seen before, like miniature chrome corvettes with glowing red radiator. "You have -KLIK- no rights here. You -KLIK- have nothing to live for -KLIK- except to serve. Your time is at an end. ALL time is at it's end.-KLIK-..."

Henry narrowed his eyes in disgruntled bewilderment than the massive talking roach, trying to process it's words as he was trying to figure out a way to reach his blaster without being caught.