Chapter 8 - The Steel Mill Trap
The heavy iron door locked with a deafening, metallic clank, completely sealing them inside.
Orion aggressively examined the locking mechanism, realizing it was completely reinforced with solid steel.
Silas mocked them cruelly through the intercom, laughing at their highly predictable, foolish rescue attempt.
He announced joyfully that Meadow was absolutely not in the mountain estate at all.
She was being heavily guarded at the old, abandoned steel mill on the very edge of the city.
Silas challenged Orion to come face him at the mill, completely alone and unarmed, to save the girl.
Ren stubbornly refused to let Orion walk into a deadly suicide mission entirely by himself.
She used a highly concentrated acid from her medical kit to entirely melt the hinges of Caesar's cage.
The massive mastiff bounded out happily, licking Ren's face with desperate, happy affection.
Orion found a loose ventilation grate near the high ceiling and forcefully pried it open with a metal bed frame.
They crawled exhaustingly through the dusty, narrow air ducts, barely escaping the locked room.
They successfully bypassed the remaining estate guards and drove straight to the rusted steel mill.
The massive industrial complex loomed terrifyingly in the dark like a silent, metal monster.
Orion and Ren crept silently inside, hiding securely behind massive steel beams and ancient machinery.
They spotted Meadow tied securely to a chair on a raised metal catwalk directly above the factory floor.
Dozens of Silas's heavily armed mercenaries actively patrolled the area, forming an impenetrable wall.
Orion knew he was vastly outgunned, and a direct, loud assault would mean absolute, instant death.
He told Ren quietly to take Caesar and sneak up the back stairwell to free her terrified sister.
Orion stepped boldly out into the open, drawing absolutely all the enemy fire toward his own position.
Bullets sparked wildly and dangerously against the rusted metal beams as he fought like a cornered lion.
He took down five highly trained men with precise, lethal shots, but he was quickly running out of ammo.
Silas watched safely from a high balcony, smiling as his men slowly closed in entirely on Orion.
Just as Orion prepared bravely for the bitter end, the massive factory doors violently blew open.
Aldrich drove a heavy, massive armored truck directly into the mill, smashing entirely through the enemy lines.
Dozens of Orion's true, fiercely loyalists poured out of the truck, heavily armed and seeking absolute vengeance.
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The old mafia boss had brilliantly rallied the loyal factions to save his son and his entire empire.
The final, brutal battle for the absolute control of the city had officially and violently begun.
