The escape route dies in a flash. Electricity races through the walls, the maintenance hatch welds shut, and emergency red strobes fracture the chamber into jagged snapshots.
A ceiling panel buckles. A battered cleaning bot drops through it, hits the floor hard, and rises with one optic burning white. Its welding torch ignites.
The Janitor Bot
Unauthorized movement. Contamination persists. Purge protocol engaged.
The bot lunges at the nearest motion, torch carving a bright arc through the air. Zaya, Vex, and The Heavy Guard break formation as the machine pivots toward the data key's signal.
Zaya
That thing is blind to sides. Keep moving, or it will weld us into the walls.
The bot's damaged sensor locks onto Cafari Kaine's position. Its torch arm rises, and the sealed hatch throws the red light back across its scarred chassis.
✓ Quest Accepted
Survive the janitor bot attack and escape the chamber