The lower levels of the Scarlet Sanctuary are used for prisoner holding, torture, and disposal primarily. Its also where most of their armaments and supplies are kept. It looks nothing like the rest of the beautiful citadel, as most every room is caked with dried blood and other bodily secretions and seems designed in every way to increase the prisoner's discomfort and punishment.

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Aaron awoke with a inward groan. A quick look through his visor showed that he was no longer at the crash site. He looked around the best he could without moving, in case there was something waiting for him to start moving. All he could tell was that he was inside something and was currently in a puddle. "Shaft? You here with me?" he whispered into his comm.

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"What" Tavish said in a voice that growled in deep wrath "is it... with people... kidnapping me." He wasn't moving either, he'd closed his eyes after a moment of opening them; don't move, don't do anything until he's found contact and some way out. So he'd waited for Aaron to contact, and seethed.

Aaron checked his statuses and alerts on his HUD and it seemed like his weapon had been forcibly removed from his suit. "You got your weapons still? Mine's been ripped off."

"I think all the pockets on mine confused them. I haven't got my weapons, but I've got at least one full tool belt" Tavish mumbled; it was only mechanic's tools, but most were big and heavy, and usually had some sharp surface or point. He was silent for a moment before saying "I think those mines transport people. This much blood has to come from somewhere."

"Blood?" Aaron said as he looked around again. It wasnt till now that he noticed the blood splatters on the walls and the ceiling. "I really hope the puddle im in isnt what I think it is." With that he slowly began to lift himself up, and brought himself to his feet. The puddle was just water, much to his relief, but they werent alone in the room. "We got survivors." He said as he looked over the group of people standing along the side of the walls.

"Wonderful, people to carry" Tavish muttered as he peeked open an eye to look around slowly. He was scanning for anything that could be considered a threat. Was the thing that attacked them doing this? If they were a new species of alien, they weren't very nice.

Tavish's eyes caught two very noticeable threats next to the only door in the room. They appeared to be suits of armor similar to Spartan Mjolnir armor except these were made out of carved and shaped rubies. If one looked hard enough you could see wires, circuits, and metallic joints inside the ruby armor. They both held large spears of similar color, with a large tip that went from one piece into two prongs, there were also several wires running from point to point and a few went to the spear head. The oddest thing about the armor was that there was no place for the wearer to see out of.

"It looks like they are all standing on their own, so most likely no one will need carrying." Aaron said as he walked over towards the group.

"Alright, we've got two guys in here, in armour" Tavish muttered into the microphone "No eyeslits, so maybe robots. Their weapons are most likely a form of tazer, though if we both attack we might be able to just rip their heads out and survive with our shields barely scratched." He tried to peek out from beneath his eyelid to get a scan of the robotic guards "How are your shields holding up?"

"All my other systems are up and running fine, just my guns gone." Aaron said as he looked over the guards. "We probably could, but we dont wanna underestimate them and get ourselves, or the other prisoners killed. Lets find out some more info first."

Tavish groaned and leant his head back, his eyes closed as he thought "Lets see... what is there to remember? Crashed ship, squiggley alien, another ship, huge beam of light... Here. Nope, nothing useful there. I should have left that sound running though." He groaned and stirred, rubbing his helmet slowly with one hand, wishing he could take it off but knowing that if he did the smell of blood wouldn't leave for days.

After several minutes of talking to the other prisoners, Aaron walked back over to where Tavish was. "Sounds like they all were out doing different things around the planet, mostly convoys, and they were suddenly teleported here. All woke up in this room, and every so often another group of armors will come in here and grab a few of them and leave again."

"Right, so we shouldn't really wait for them to double up. If we take out those two, them wait by the doors, I'm sure our armour will give us a split second camoflage, enough to crush the people who come in and getting an escape" Tavish was twitching his left foot as he thought, trying not to make any noise but the soft whisper into his mike "But then we won't know which way to go after we leave."

"How about we ask directions first then." Aaron said as he sized them up. Its gonna be a coin toss on whether we can take them or not. "And we dont know if there might be more then two that come this time to get someone. You take the one on the left then?" He added as he started moseying in that direction.

Tavish tensed up, eyes focusing on the left hand side one. The moment Aaron made his move it would turn to do something, he'd rush and crush it against the wall in an instance. He hoped that they wouldn't have incredible reactions... even if they did Tavish would probably be unstoppable by the time he reached it.

Aaron walked over to the prisoners, and quickly filled them in on what was going on so they would do anything stupid. After that he walked towards the two guards trying to appear nonthreatening. The guards still lowered their weapons and pointed the tips in his direction. As he continued they pressed, what appeared to be, a button and they were sheathed in a blueish-green energy. "Ish vasaoth mar'tori!" the voice came out of the helmet as it took a step forward. "Im sorry, I couldnt hear make out what you said." Aaron said as he continued forward. The armor repeated what it said before thrusting with the blade of its spear. Aaron quickly twisted his body out of the way by an inch and grabbed the shaft of the spear. Not giving the creature a chance to react he quickly spun, while holding the spear and flung the armor into the wall and making it lose its grip on its weapon. When the creature hit, there was a loud cracking sound and the armor did not get up.

When Aaron grabbed one armour clad guard, the other had spun around, weapon aimed to strike at the fleshier parts of Aaron's body. It would have succeeded as well if Tavish hadn't taken off at full pelt towards it. Before it could stab at his boss, Tavish did a running clothesline of the enemy's entire face, lifting the body off it's feet and cracking it agaisnt the wall with tremendous force. It was like seeing a walnut be caught between a block of solid steel and a sledgehammer. Tavish lowered his fist slowly, letting the figure drop down to the floor "Well that was fun."

"Oh yea, makes me long for the training days in the sparring ring." Aaron said as he looked over the armor from where he stood. That is when he noticed an ooze like substance coming out of one of the massive cracks. It hit the ground in a puddle and sat there for a moment befpre taking off like light towards a small space under the door. "Oh hell no." he said as he hefted the spear and threw it at the ooze, striking it and causeing it to boil and sizzle before it stopped wriggling and laid there in a cooked and burnt pile. " Well...they can be killed."

"Or stunned" Tavish said, holding the other's stick thingy in his hands and looking at the fried goo in front of him. "Pretty silly of them to give us weapons that can harm them as well" Tavish muttered, looking at the spear like object in his hands "Well, that's them dealt with. Should we wait for the others to come in or... should we go for a little exploration?" He chuckle and began to twirl the spear between his fingers, as if it were a cane.

"You dont make weapons you cant use on your own kind." Aaron said as he pulled the spear from the ground and the ooze. "Then you cant make a good defense against it in case your enemies get a hold of it." He looked over at the prisoners, who appeared relieved as if they had already been rescued. "We're gonna have to wait till the other armors come in here, unless they haul off some more people while we secure a way out."

"You've got a point" Tavish sighed, twirling the stick still and gazing down at the fried puddles. "Does anyone know what these things are?" he called out to the people in general, letting his loud voice be heard through the visor. He COULD have taken the helmet off, none of them were wearing oxygen masks, but it would smell of blood and fear in here. And probably fried alien.

Tavish's guess on the smell of fried alien appeared to be accurate, as several prisoners where covering their noses with their shirt collars or hands. "No idea. They just stand there, or come and go only talking when one of us gets to close or struggles. Most of the time they'll just stick ya and be done with it." one of the miners said.

"Great, probably can't understand us" Tavish muttered, poking the spear into the puddle again to see if it twitched any or if it really was dead. "Alright, so after we've got the others down and probably got some more spears, we'll head out, try and clear the place and you lot can guard here with your own stabby prongs. That sound like a good plan?" He wanted to check with his boss first.

"I think its the only real plan we have." Aaron said as he looked over the crumpled armor, kicking at it with the tip of his boot. "Other then hauling all these people around behind us as we stumble about in the unknown hallways."

Tavish groaned softly and twirled his spear slowly as he watched the door "So... just wait here until they appear? How often do they come around here?" He pressed his teeth together inside the helmet, this was feeling very unfullfilling, to just wail on a creature with nothing really there to give in beneath the armour. He wanted to crush something.

"Dont really know, dont have much of a concept of time down here." The miner said. "They just show up from time to time and take some away. They havent been back in awhile though."

"Right, how about" Tavish was looking at the armour on te floor "I give this stuff a once over, see if there's anything I can find of note about it, while you guard to door boss, then we switch places, you can give the area a look-see and I'll guard incase of intruders?"

"Sounds good." Aaron said as he moved over to the door. "Let me know if you find anything of use."

Tavish sat down next to the piles of armour, staring into the mess of armour, wires and goo. He began to prise it apart, ripping the armour away and starting to examine the pieces he was pulling away in his hands.

The armor plating appeared to be solid ruby that had been carved or formed into its shape. Under all the ruby plating was a thin metallic frame of tubing.

"Weird" Tavish muttered, cracking the ruby in his hands and glowering down at the strange casing that had held their attackers. "How does that interact with those puddles?" he whispered, checking to see how the metalic frame might have hidden weaknesses they might have. If you shocked it, it would go right through everything, he knew that much, but he wanted to know if there was a place that was the weakest in the armour.

There did not appear to be any weak spots or thin spots in the armor other then the joints that allow for easier movement. The metal tubing seemed very durable, as there was only a small hole in a dent on one of the pipes that allowed the ooze to escape.

"They move in and out through here" Tavish said, tossing the plate towards Aaron and glaring at the rest of the armour "The bendable parts are the most vulnerable, like always, so we would be able to twist off an arm without any difficulty. If we disable the suit, then plug up THAT hole they would be trapped inside."

Aaron looked over the piece Tavish had thrown him. "You sure this is always there? Looks like battle damage to me." He said as he poked at it with his finger. "And if it isnt battle damage then how are we going to find the little hole on the suit of armor and plug it?"

"The hole is too circular. I smashed it, you whacked it, nothing would make that shape" Tavish said "I look at lots of different impact marks and pressure marks and dents in vehicles every day, and this stuff is almost like glass, it's hard but it'll shatter, not bend. That, is made for a purpose." He shrugged "As for plugint it. I don't know."

About that time there came a loud knock at the door, three bangs. Aaron froze and pressed himself up against the wall next to the door. He gestured for Tavish to get against the wall on the other side of the door. Before he opened the door he use his foot and scooted the ruined armor out of view of the door. He then gave Tavish the "You ready?" gesture.

Tavish was holding the spear one handed and the other was held back, ready to punch out the person who came through. He wasn't scared, he just hoped that there was at most two more coming through, three would be a stretch, but two they could easily murder. He also hoped they had weapons, otherwise they'd have to leave one of the spears behind.

Aaron reached out and unlatched the door allowing the armors in. He wasnt surprised when two more Rubies walked in, but was quite concerned when a clear armor walked in, having to put his hand on the top of the door frame and duck to make sure it didnt hit its head. It stood about 2-3 foot taller then Aaron was and the coloration of its armor pointed towards diamond. Luckily they didnt appear to notice Aaron and Tavish and walked right passed. One of the Rubies pointed at several prisoners, "Prak tso'th mor-ar!" it shouted and the Diamond walked forward and grabbed them. "Now." Aaron said and charged forward, quickly covering the ground between him and the armors. He jammed the spear into and through the abdomen of the first Ruby he got to.

Tavish ran forward as well, slamming the spear through the chest of the other ruby and grabbing the diamond's arm. As he pulled back, his foot came forward and slammed into the diamon's back; he was pushing and pulling at the same time, it would either overbalance the armour and slam it into the wall at a painful speed and angle, or it would rip the arm right off of the suit. Tavish wasn't expacting any lash back, it was trying to grab people, it didn't have any hands free. He was trying to free his spear the moment he was sure the Ruby was dead, he'd find a gap and stick the head of this spear deep into the diamond's body.

The Diamond was pulled downward at an angle from his hip as Tavish pulled at his arm. The armor turned and looked down at him as it released the prisoners it had in its other hand. The armor balled its fist and swung it, aimed straight for Tavish's head.

Aaron threw down the spear impaling the Ruby and ran over, putting his hands out to stop the Diamond's fist from pounding Tavish. "Get the spear! Cram it in its neck joint!"

"Dammit!" Tavish yelled, pulling the spear free from the other bot and trying to keep one hand locked on the diamond's own, so both arms were busy. He slashed around, aiming the tip of the spear at the neck joint of the armour, hoping to pierce the weak joint with ease.

The spear went into the Diamond's neck at a downward angle causing the creature to stumble backwards in pain. It used its free arm to try to remove the spear, but couldnt. The arm Tavish was holding went limp as if the creature had lost control of it. It let out an audible roar before spinning its body around to slam its limp arm, and Tavish, into the wall.

Aaron went to try and help once the armor back up, but ended up having to dive out of the way of its arm. "Let go Shaft!" he yelled as he came up out of his roll to see what would happen to Tavish.

Tavish didn't act fast enough, wincing as he was slammed into the wall with a hearty thud. The attack didn't have incredible force behind it, the arms were limp and half the mementum had been spent just getting Tavish to move. Still, his attacker earned the "ow" that he muttered, even if Tavish now had both arms around the limp one that had hit him. He twisted, trying to throw the diamond armour against the wall and slam the spear deeper into the neck, maybe even sever the head.

The creature was thrown off balance and collided with the wall as Tavish twisted. The creature bounced off and landed on the floor, with seemingly no damage down to the creature. The wall was cratered now and crumbling from the armor's impact.

Aaron leaped on the creature as it tried to get back up. "Die you big goo filled bastard!" He grabbed the spear and pulled it out and began stabbing the creature repeatedly in the neck area. "Pull the damn thing off Shaft!" he said as he continued stabbing and dodging the creatures arms as it attempted to dislodge Aaron.

Tavish grunted, grabbing hold of the head of the creature and twisting it as he pulled, trying to wrench it clear off and leave the inner body exposed. At the very least he'd crack it like an egg. He should keep this armour stuff, ask if they could make him some armour out of the same materials.

The creature's head made an awful rending snapping sound before separating from its body. Unfortuneatly this just upset it more as it grabbed Aaron and flung him across the room and against the wall. It stood up and fumbled around trying to grab a hold of anyone that was nearby.

This was jsut foolish now. Tavish dodged around, grabbed the spear, grabbed it by the back of the collar as it flung it's arms around, then pulled it backwards while kicking the back of it's knees in. As it toppled he brought the spear around and jammed it down, going right down into the spine of the creature and hopefully stabbing the thing inside.

The spear went down through the now exposed neck. The creature began to flail madly, but seemed less like it was trying to escape and more as if it were in horrendous pain. The flailing became less and less and after a minute the armor laid motionless.

"Good job Shaft." Aaron said as he walked up and kicked the creature. He immediately regretted it as he noticed the creature's armor had removed a chip from his boot. "Even in death it hurts me."

"Nasty piece of work" Tavish admitted with a soft grunt as spear was pulled free "But damn affective. Just hope this is a rare one of this lot and it's not just a hundred diamond guys waiting for us outside this room."

"Reminds me of those Hunter things the Covenant had." Aaron said as he rotated his shoulder to make sure it wasnt dislocated. "Probably just a heavy unit for special moments."

"Then why send it out here for normal people?" Tavish asked as he edged his way over towards the door "Alright... lets leave this lot with the new spears and head out shall we? I doubt they're expecting us."

Aaron yanked his spear from the body of the Ruby he impaled and tossed it over to one of the prisoners. "Stay here and kill any Armor that pops in here, that isnt us." Aaron moved over to the door, opening it a crack and peering out. "Looks clear right now." With that he poked his head out further before stepping out.

Tavish stepped out, spear in hand, a grimace across his face as he looked around. He wasn't done being violent yet, so far he'd faced somethings he'd had to take out quick and a massive monster of an enemy. He wanted to have some time alone with a fragile one where he can reinact some real revenge.

The walls out here in the hallways werent that much better then the walls to the cell they were just in. Aaron marked the door by scratching away the top layer of grime from it in the shape of an "X" so they could identify it. "Less blood out here." He mumbled as he cautiously walked down the hallway.

"Why is there so much blood around? What are they doing with it? Painting their bases?" Tavish grimaced, looking at the blood covered walls "All this blood and not a single piece of a body. It's as if they're draining it out of the person and slopping it all over the walls."

"They might be killing anyone who struggles where ever they are." Aaron said as he peeked around a corner and then ran across to the other side. "Then taking the body with them to a certain room?"

"But all this blood and not a single hint? What, do they clean up every inch for scraps but leave the walls coated?" Tavish muttered as he followed his boss, going cautiously and glowering up and down the halls. He hadn't killed anything in new and interesting ways yet, just stabbed it to death.

"Who knows? Maybe on top of being cold hearted killers, they are neat freaks as well." Aaron Said before stopping and putting himself against the wall near another hallway. The one they had been following ended at this intersecting hallway. He peered caustiously and slowly around the corner and then whipped back. "Looks like two lone Rubies coming down the hall. Hopefully they will just pass us by. If they stop or turn towards us, we take them quick and silently."

Tavish grunted in responce, unsure if he was planning on the quickly part, but silently he might have a go at. The thing is these weren't very fleshy, so while being quite cathartic he couldn't get really deep in there to a worrying level to work out his death issues. How could you relax by beating in someone's skull when they didn't even have a skull.

The Rubies came into view, they took three steps and then stopped. The one nearest them slowly turned and looked at the two Spartans pressed up against the wall.

"Fuck." Aaron said before quickly moving into action. He lunged forward and grabbed the closest Ruby's neck and squeezed before lifting it up and slamming it down on its back on the ground and giving it three quick, hard punches to the head, reducing it to rubble. He knew he wasnt going to able to kill it outright till Tavish was done with the spear, so he had to keep it down till then.

The one left to Tavish was lifted up in the air with one hand, then the head knocked clear off with the other, bouncing on the floor and shattering. The spear was actually on the wall right now, Tavish was holding the ruby with one hand and right now shoving his other hand down the neck of the creature, grabbing hold of a tangle of metal inside the robotic suit and pulling hard. He essentially turned the suit inside out, getting it through it's own neck.

With Tavish's mighty yank he ripped out a good portion of the metallic tubing, which quickly expelled the ooze organism that lives inside it. That in turn took off and tried to flee.

Tavish reached down and grabbed the spear from the wall. He paused for a moment... flexed his arm... then tossed. The puddle found itself being fried on the spot, burning in a screaming bubbling hiss. "Damn things" he muttered, looking up and down the corridor again before jogging over to go pick up the spear "Yours still in the armour boss?"

"Yea, crushed the open tube and trapped the little bastard." Aaron said as he continued holding down the struggling armor. "I could use that little spear you got there."

"Here" Tavish said, tossing the spear so it slid along to beside Aaron "Told you it was an escape valve thing. Wish they could speak though, it would be good to get some information on what's going on."

Aaron grabbed the spear off the ground and jabbed it through the Armor's chest. The creature tensed before convulsing a bit then went motionless. "Well if that wasnt the strangest of things." He said as he stood up and tossed the spear back to Tavish. "Its like the bastards detected us or something."

"Well... they don't have any eyes" Tavish pointed out, rubbing his armoured hands together slowly "Maybe they just have sensors? Like our radars, but more advanced. It will make sneaking about quite useless. We probably only got a jump on them before because they didn't expect us to attack."

"True, but if they do have a kind of radar then why havent they already came down on us?" Aaron asked as he pulled the body out of the middle of the hallway and towards a nearby door, which he hoped was a supply closet. "It didnt seem like they knew we were there till they got really close to us, and even then not till after they passed us."

"Short range? And it might be LIKE vision, just all around. Like it can't see through walls but can see behind it?" Tavish really needed a long time staring at the innards of these things to figure out what was inside. He looked up at the door... supply closet, guard station, who knows. "I'll bring back the corpse and give it a look. Shame they're stupid enough to attack humans."

"You make it sound like they are wild animals in a forest or something." Aaron said as he opened the door to the mysterious room to dump the corpse he had. "They seem like a very intelligent race of blobs, must have some reason." He turned around to check the room and froze, starring into the room. "Found what they are doing with the bodies."

Before the two Spartans was a sight that would have put the most iron stomached individual on a one way sprint for the nearest vomit catcher. It was nothing but a huge gory mess of blood, innards, and body parts. Crawling around all this nasty was a multitude of oozes.

Tavish stared at the mess, swallowing hard and clenching his fist around the spear. "Are you sure they're not animals?" he asked Aaron, standing up straight and stepping into the room as he held the spear up in front of him. "I'm going to stab every single one of you for what you'd done here!" he yelled out as he stabbed towards the first goo on the floor.

"Damnit Shaft!" Aaron said as he grabbed the Spartan's arm and pulled him, forcibly from the room. He shut the door behind them and then put his fist through the control panel, hopefully that will seal them in there. "We are trying to be covert here and you go and start stabbing the little gooey bastards!"

"Did you not see what was in there!" Tavish was bordering bloodlust right now, he was flexing his hand, the spear almost shattering in his hands from the sheer pressure "I could stab every single one of those things! They're crawling over dismembered bodies of people! I'm paid to kill stuff, and now I can't even do that."

"Your paid to help keep mankind and Earth safe. Those humans were already dead and gone so we cant do much for them now." Aaron said as he moved back over to the hallway. "We arent going to be able to help those people in the cell if we get killed and thrown in that room for food now can we?"

"You think BLOBS could kill us?" Tavish growled softly, stabbing the spear into the floor before he snapped it, it wouldn't do good to ruin their only weapon. "If they're using us as FOOD I'm going to slaughter every single one of those damn things. I don't care if they're intelligent, I don't care if they have amazing tech, I don't even care if they start BEGGING, they're EATING people and they will face BLIND RAGE!"

"Blobs, no. We can burn them a million an hour. Those big ass Diamond looking bastards? I would guess it would take four or five of them, but they could take us apart." Aaron said as he finished peaking back around the corners. "How about I promise to get a bombing order set up before we leave? And I will make sure you are manning one of them so you can personally oversee the destruction of whatever this place is?"

Aaron could practically hear Tavish grinding his teeth together inside his helmet. "Lets just... go" he almost growled, he didn't like the idea of not doing it with his own hands "Though I don't know where you think we're going. Striking while they're all outside the suits would be the best thing to do, and it was only blobs in that room."

"Too high a chance of one of 'em escaping or them doing that weird little light communication thing." Aaron said as he picked a hallway at random. "And I honestly havent a clue where we are going, but this is the only way I can think of to find a way out."

"Might as well just wonder down the halls singing" Tavish grumbled "They'd spot us the moment they're near and we don't know our way around. After you kill enough of them I'm sure they'd start running for the exit."

"We cleared entire planets of the Covenant and they always came back." Aaron said as he came upon two door near each other with strange symbols on a few buttons. "Maybe elevators? That would be damn convenient."

"we'll have to take it one at a time" Tavish pointed out, looking at the two doors and frowning "Kill whatever's inside this time. We can't have the entire place knowing we're out." He took a deep breath and gripped the spear "These could be elevators... or could be toilets. His and hers."

Aaron reached out and pushed one of the buttons with seemingly no result. It was a few seconds later and a few button pushes later that he heard a strange sound coming from inside. "That sounds slightly bad."

"Why do you always press? Smash it man, smash it!" Tavish groaned, gripping the spear firmly and glaring at the damned door. You had to move fast in these places, move fast and hit hard and hope that the enemy is one of the things that get hit along the way.

The sound came down to their level and stopped. There was silence for a moment and then the doors opened to reveal an empty lift. "Well thats a relief." Aaron muttered as he stepped in and looked up. The lift wasnt an enclose space and was nothing more then a small, round platform in a long tube that went up and down the building. "Feels safe doesnt it?"

"Are we sure this is a lift and not say... a trash compactor?" Tavish asked, carefully planting a foot on the floating platform and pressing down against it with his large boot. He didn't want to trust his life to "perhaps this is a lift that can get us out of here". At least other countries had recognisible signals, who knows what they could be stepping into up here.

"Because its not filled with trash or other gross stuff?" Aaron said as he looked over the control panel in the lift. It was a little rectangular box attached to the lift by a pole. "You are a Spartan, you have to take risks sometimes, and if that means mistaking a trash compactor for a lift then that is what we do."

"I take risks that involve being able to punch my way out using someone else's leg as a bludgeon. The risk of stepping into an unknown chute isn't one I'd like to have down as the cause of death" Tavish grumbled as he carefully stepped onto the platform "What happened to stairs? Or grav lifts?"

Aaron pushed a button that he thought resembled an up arrow and the lift bounced gently before rising up the tube. "I've seen lifts like these before in a picture of some Forerunner building. I guess stairs are too slow for people now a days."

"after we've found a suitable exit, permission to rip out the floor so the little buggers can't get out of the floors below?" Tavish said softly, trying to think of a way they could immobilise their enemy. "No" he sighed after some thought "Then the trapped people couldn't get out."

"The best way to trap them down there would be to destroy this elevator once the prisoners are out, but that wont stop them from just putting in another." Aaron said, looking up and watching their ascent for any sign of compacting.

"Not if they don't have access to the tools to make one they won't" Tavish pointed out "When we're searching for other prisoners, we could run across the place where they have all their tools. Then throw them down the elevator shaft. For giggles."

"I dont think anything we could do would be more effective then a bombardment from the Stratavarius." Aaron said as the lift eventually drifted to a stop. He gestured for Tavish to get on the other side of the door like they had in the prison room. The door popped open and after a few seconds of nothing, Aaron poked his head around. Once it was all clear he stepped out into the Ortega - The Scarlet Sanctuary (Ground Floor)