Snippet #2813361

Sonia and Charles laid down the suppressive fire as instructed, while Anna and Margaret burst out of the back of the operator's office. Sure enough there were a few men waiting outside for them, but she and Anna acted faster then then, mowing down their would be assassins in a hail of gunfire. The three men fell to the ground, but Margaret paid them little mind as she and Anna rushed out into the open street, and down a nearby alleyway.

Sonia and Charles followed after them soon after, and for the next while they were all running hastily through alleyways and side streets, all in an effort to avoid their pursuers. They heard shouts and yells after them, but with their head start, they were able to quickly lose their assailants.

After a good ten minutes passed by with no gunshots or shouts, the group finally came to a stop, crouching by the back of a butcher's shop in the downtown district of Abernathy. There was no one around at the moment, though how long things stayed that way remained to be seen. And in a city where anyone was a potential enemy or informant, when they didn't know who they could trust...

"Well," Sonia began, once she'd caught her breath. She was getting far too old for all this running about. "We've got ourselves in quite the situation, haven't we?"

"To say the least," Margaret replied, leaning back with a sigh. "Still, at least we've got a moment to catch our breath, and plot out our next move."