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- Jensen steeled himself and kicked open the access door, ready to duck back inside
- if Magnet was lying in wait. But instead, he saw the gang leader running along
- an elevated catwalk toward the rear of the warehouse, where a sky bridge
- connected it to the rest of the manufacturing plant. His escape route.
- If Magnet made it across and down into the back alleys of Milwaukee
- Junction, he was as good as gone. Ignoring the plumes of smoke rising up
- from the skylights, and the dangerous creaking of the fracturing roof,
- Jensen let the Hurricane drop on its sling and sprinted after Magnet, the
- synthetic muscles in his augmented legs reconfiguring into sprint mode for
- maximum speed across the short, straight-line distance.
- He was on the gang leader in a heartbeat, kicking off a guide rail to
- propel him up and then back down. Magnet whirled, firing as he moved,
- and a hot gush of exhaust gas seared Jensen’s face as the blast narrowly
- missed taking his head off. He landed a powerful blow on Magnet’s
- shoulder where his aug arm connected to his torso, and the shock of impact
- knocked them both apart again.
- Jensen recovered faster, reacting with reflex-boosted instinct, and
- slapped away Magnet’s weapon. The Widowmaker spun over the guide rail
- and skidded away across the sloped rooftop. The gang leader staggered
- back, triggering the heavy-punch piston again, cocking it to throw a strike
- at Jensen’s head – but his opponent’s arm bent back on itself in a move that
- no human limb could have made, snatching at the grip of the dangling
- machine pistol.
- The Hurricane came up to aim at Magnet’s broad chest and Jensen blew
- out a breath. “End of the line,” he snarled. “I want to know who is running
- you.”
- - Deus Ex: Black Light, Chapter 6 pg. 113
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