They burst into the central laboratory. It was a chaotic forest of glass vats and bubbling conduits.
"Security's here!" Lily yelled.
A squad of elite "Grey Guards"—human soldiers enhanced with Catalyst—swarmed from the upper catwalks.
"Lily, the compounds!" Adrien shouted.
Lily grabbed a beaker of reactive catalyst and tossed it into a vat of liquid nitrogen. BOOM. A massive cloud of freezing fog filled the room, blinding the guards' thermal sensors.
"Now!" Ashley commanded.
In the mist, they were ghosts. Ashley's red hair was a blur of lethal intent as she moved through the fog, taking down guards with surgical strikes.