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- The sliding hatch on the side of the cab squealed open on poorly
- oiled runners and a huge arm made of steel and corpse-pale flesh came
- through the gap, grabbing at him. The thunderous, constant bellow of the
- engine filled the compartment on a gale of damp air as Thorne’s pet cyborg
- squeezed in through the narrow hatchway. Arms swinging wildly, the ogre
- connected with Jensen’s shoulder and even the glancing blow was enough
- to make the motors in his cyberlimb stutter.
- If it had been difficult to battle an opponent in the confines of the narrow
- train cars, then here in the locomotive’s cab it was like fighting inside a
- phone booth. There was no room to maneuver, and the long assault rifle in
- Jensen’s hand was exactly the wrong kind of weapon to use. He tried to
- bring it around, firing wildly into the ceiling, letting clusters of razor-sharp
- flechette rounds whicker and keen off the inside of the metal cab – but the
- big cyborg was too close, trying to back him into a corner.
- “Ach,” muttered the ogre, as if he was disappointed with something, and
- he swatted Jensen away toward the rear of the compartment.
- The blow kicked the air out of Jensen’s lungs and shook the teeth in his
- head, pitching him up off his feet and into a support frame. Agony erupted
- down Jensen’s spine and he belatedly realized that he had lost his grip on
- the rifle.
- Burning through the pain, reacting more than thinking, Jensen shot off
- his feet and dove back at his opponent, deploying his nanoblades as he
- went. One snapped forward from across his knuckles, the other back from
- his elbow, and he pivoted in the tight space.
- - Deus Ex: Black Light, Chapter 12 pg. 221
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