The TechWolf Factory - 5

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As the first wave smashed him onto the floor, Jake made a quick mental calculation.  The volume of water above was greater than the size of the room he was in, if he couldn't find a way out he was going to drown.
Using all of the strength he could muster, Jake swan to several of the generators and retrieved the coins.  When he had five the water was already ten feet deep and rising fast.
Desperately he tried to orient the outside world in his head, which wall would lead to the outside?  The South, he was certain.  A quick check of the compass in his watch told him which of the walls the South was.
Twenty feet deep, the room was half full now.
Diving under the water Jake attached the coins and swam away to shelter behind one of the generators Robin had wrecked.
The explosion sent a shockwave through the water that rattled his organs, it also opened a huge hole in the wall which the water started to flow out through.  Jake let the tide pull him out.
The flood carried him out through the hole in the factory wall and over the sharp drop of the cliff-side it was built on, the sea waiting below.
As Jake fell from the cliff, he saw the remaining TechWolf burst through the deluge and dive at him.  Having no choice he began firing up at it.  Falling through the air made aiming nearly impossible and shot after shot went wide as they both hurtled downwards.
Just before he smashed into the sea, a bullet found its target and Jake saw the TechWolf's head ripped into shreds.
The landing forced all of the air from his lungs and he struggled to reach the surface again, the TechWolf's body sank past him.  When his head broke water he looked up at the factory, now a raging blaze of destruction. 
"That should slow them down some."
Satisfied the mission was a success, Fisher struck out for shore.

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