Chapter 19 - The Desperate Gambit
Alistair let out a dry, rasping laugh that quickly dissolved into a wet, violent coughing fit.
He wiped dark blood from his pale lips with a silk handkerchief and looked greedily at little Lily.
He calmly explained that the highly invasive bone marrow extraction would begin in exactly ten minutes, proudly boasting that the fresh, uncontaminated genetic material would successfully grant him another twenty years of ultimate, unchecked power.
Clara forcefully shoved Lily into a glass observation room, locking the heavy door securely behind her with a digital keypad.
I looked desperately at Ethan, silently begging him for a miracle.
His piercing eyes suddenly darted toward a highly pressurized cluster of volatile oxygen tanks strapped heavily to the wall directly behind Alistair's medical chair.
He gave me a barely imperceptible, tiny nod.
I knew exactly what he was going to do, and it was a highly suicidal, completely desperate gamble.
I slowly dropped to my knees, aggressively pretending to break down into hysterical, uncontrollable sobs to draw Clara’s cold attention directly toward me.
As Clara sneered in deep, mocking disgust at my emotional display, Ethan moved with blinding, impossible speed.
He didn't lunge for the armed nurse; he dove violently across the floor and aggressively snatched a discarded scalpel from a surgical tray.
In one incredibly fluid, desperate motion, he violently hurled the sharp blade directly at the highly pressurized valves of the massive oxygen tanks.
The heavy blade struck the brass valve with a massive, catastrophic impact, instantly shearing the safety nozzle completely off the volatile tank.
A deafening, explosive hiss filled the room as the highly pressurized oxygen vented violently into the confined space.
The massive, heavy steel tank instantly became an uncontrollable, highly destructive missile, launching violently across the room and smashing brutally into Alistair's expensive medical machinery.
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Clara shrieked in genuine terror as the heavy equipment violently sparked and exploded, plunging the entire room into total, blinding darkness.
In the chaotic, screaming confusion, Ethan aggressively tackled Clara to the ground, viciously wrestling the lethal silver handgun away from her grip.
