A Complicated Web

Chapter Sixty Two: Waiting

The first man shrugged as he handled a pipette. He had a petri dish in one, the lid off, as he used the pipette to siphon off some of the contents. "Best we can do is use the materials we've got here. Worst to worse, they find another egg donor, though it won't be the same. Either way, all we get is samples."

Okay, they were definitely talking about her and Hiro. She had no doubts now. The question was did they have all the genetic material there in that lab or was more of it stored elsewhere? Man did she wish she had Loki's ability to disguise herself as someone older! She could somehow slip into the room, get the answers by blending in, but that was definitely not going to happen. However, she couldn't let whatever materials they were working on continue to exist. She still didn't know why Hiro was so scared of the idea of them using his DNA, but she knew she didn't like the idea any more than he did that they were playing with hers.

Decision made, Kally wiggled the screwdriver out of her pocket and set to work removing the vent cover. With luck, they wouldn't even look up and she could get in there before they knew anything was going on. It helped that she'd managed to bring her metal rods along with her. But, worse to worse, she could use the tools in the room to subdue her foes.

"I heard they tried to get that one kid's robot to make him more cooperative," the first man continued, heedless of Kally in the vent above. "But it didn't go well. Man, I'm so glad I wasn't in Kendrick's warpath when that blew over."

"Tell me about it," the other replied. "As is, I overheard someone upstairs saying they'd sent out a detachment to get the aunt and bring her here. Guess she's easier to get at."

Kally almost gasped out loud. They were going after Hiro's aunt? Oh crap. Things could go horribly wrong if that happened. They had to get out of there before that happened or it would make things ten times worse.

With a few more jiggles, she managed to get the vent cover free. She held it away from the hole, turning it so she could slide it in ahead of her where it would be out of the way. The next part was more tricky as she tried to slide herself out of the opening without falling. It helped that it was larger than the one going into the engineering area where she'd left the others. But it still made things difficult that it was up as high as it was as she clung to the frame like a spider, one hand holding her metal weapons.

The two men were now bending over a test tube and a microscope, their attentions obviously back on their work, whatever it was. Kally inched just a little bit more into the opening as she planned out her line of attack. She could see two cameras pointing down at the lab, though she doubted her location showed in their field of vision. Well, she was about to let them know exactly where she was. Would it be worth it in the long run? If she could destroy those and any other samples they had on hand, the answer was undeniably yes.

Taking only one more moment to make sure she had a decent backing, Kally sprang downward, pulling out her rods as she went. She didn't cry out as she landed on top of the closest man to her previous location, slamming his head into the worktable. Before the other could react, she swung her baton around and into his head.

Alarms would be sounding soon, if they weren't already. Chances were good she'd been noticed by one of those camera-watching goons. That only meant she had to be more on her guard and hurry that much fast. All she had to do was contaminate the DNA. She didn't have time to outright destroy it.

Kally looked around to see what materials she had available to her. There was a fridge off to one side with various test tubes and other implements in it. It probably held all the samples available to this lab. And, from what she could recall, it didn't look like all the ones they'd taken either. Well, she'd just have to make sure they all went up in smoke. She grabbed the samples the two techs had been working on and shoved them into the fridge.