Rad - Three-Way breaks tunnel

A bullet whizzed past his shoulder and smashed into the wall ahead of him. Jack dodged a huge chunk of stone that fell from the ceiling, just missing his head.

Then the hard, cold truth hit him. This tunnel was going to be his grave. If the bullets didn't get him, the old stones would be broken up and bury him alive. He had to stop those bullets from blasting apart the tunnel in front of him.

Jack reached for a flare bomb in his commando jacket and tossed it behind him. In its red glare, he saw twenty Badd soldiers, toting semiautomatics. Jack pulled the three-way gun from his back and retreated a few yards further into the passage.

He had a plan. He would blast away a section of the tunnel to create a barrier between himself and the enemy. Then he could run ahead and find a way out of this place.

Jack turned around and fired off a round of ammunition into the ceiling and walls of the tunnel between him and the Badds.

Suddenly, it sounded like the whole earth was caving in. Stone after stone crumbled down in a shower of dust and rock that blockaded the tunnel. Jack jumped to the side as a horde of frenzied rats raced past him.

Jack looked at the pile of rubble and smiled. There was no way the Badds would get through that. Then suddenly he realized why the rats had been running. The stones in the ceiling hadn't stopped falling. Foot by foot, the whole tunnel was collapsing!

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Worlds of Power: Bionic Commando, Chapter 16