Norman looked round at the assembled. He cleared his throat again
“Er… I work….er worked…..in the Server room- I was responsible for making sure all the computers and stuff worked. I had to shut down the power over the levels around this one on orders, however I left a backdoor in the system” he held out his tags. “These swipe cards will get us out to the powered levels again. From there we can take the lifts up and out”
“There will be guards on the first few levels by now, they will be waiting” Billy said with a small growl.
“Yeah, but if we go up to the level below we can mount an assault on the front desk” George said. “The men are good, but they don’t stand a chance against us 10. We will have guns, claws, strength, and the desire to get out on our side. There is no alternative other than staying here and becoming experiments ourselves”
“What about Summers?” Scott said. “He has total access to the cameras and stuff, he can stop us”
“The power is out on their level” Norman said plainly.
“Wasn’t Dace around Ian?” Ivers said
“Yeah, I heard he was. There was something about his crew taking over security just before we left” Scott said turning to his fellow Bear man.
“Who’s Dace?” Anton asked his big eyes wide.
“The bad men you meet earlier” George said “Cleaners- they will be here to take over, contain and control or if that fails sanitise”
“What about the non security people? “ Billy said “where they likely to be?”
“Well those that did not go home won’t have been able to bus out yet. I guess they would be together in the Level 1 Conference suite waiting for dawn and a secure bus out. Probably know they little about what’s going on. Probably best to avoid them”
“My wife might be one of them!” Ivers cried.
“You really think she’d want to see you now?” Billy said, the image of his own family in his head.
“Damm yeah! She’s got this thing about Bear, follower of a totem and all that. She’d be well up for being Bear too.” Norman nodded; he knew what that was like.
“Lucky you” Billy said sarcastically. Iver's half turned towards Billy
“Hey, guys!” George commanded “listen we can worry about all that once we have Level 1 under our control. There may be others from the staff, or even the security force who want in. we have the sample of various animals anyway. BUT for now we need to focus on getting there. I have a rough plan, but I want to know what Mac had planned. So for now let’s head back and find out what he had planned.” There were no dissensions so the group headed back towards the control post.