"Betty!"
She stared up at him. A block away he could hear the Guards coming and he kept on running. He yelled back.
"Get a jeep. Get Brogarth, Cardoza, Nemerov, anybody. We're breaking out of here."
"Where?" he heard her yelling after him as he went around the corner.
He glanced back around the corner and saw the herd of mechanized human beings slogging toward him.
"Near the gate," Lewis said.
He ran toward the Pit.
He ran down the steps, into the console room and looked into the lenticular disc where a ghostly blue radiance shadowed the walls.
"We're going to do ourselves some good after all, Monster," Lewis said tightly.
He gripped the controls and sent the Monster its last set of orders. It hurled tons of drone plane motors into the shielding walls, and its huge mandibles ripped open the shielding and peeled it away like a food canister. Smoke began to boil. Flames crackled in blue arcs. Steel beams crumbled like wax. Globs of concrete fell in a cloud of dust swirling debris.