Adventure of Ahora 1

Ahora arrives inside the cloning lab as Dunn forces open a warped maintenance passage. Emergency lights pulse across sealed equipment racks and rows of dormant growth chambers.

The marine sergeant braces his medium-built athletic frame against the door, close-cropped blond hair bright beneath the red strobes. His weathered face tightens around the scar crossing his features.

Beyond the sealed chamber, the jump gate flashes in disconnected intervals. Each flare briefly reveals a corridor, then collapses into static and blackness.

Ahora drives through the warped maintenance passage, their massive frame forcing bent panels aside as hot dust and insulation spill around their armored silhouette.

The passage opens into a service junction beside the failing gate controls. Three Marines, three young adult men in battered gray Marine armor: one lean with dark skin, one broad-shouldered with brown skin, and one stocky with pale skin and a red beard huddle behind a ruptured equipment rack, alive and clutching their recovered gear.

Dunn scrambles after Ahora and reaches the junction, one hand raised against the strobing glare. Beyond them, the gate corridor flickers in unstable intervals.

The trapped Marines move toward Ahora through the cramped junction, gear secured against their bodies. Their helmet lamps sweep across cracked conduits and sealed chamber doors.

Ahora stands with the team at the controls, having reached them before the return path collapses. Dunn tears open the access panel and begins working.