Shawnacy, Estelle and Gramps​ did another tuck and roll kind of deal as they came back to the ground. Now the three of them were less than fifty feet from the exit with Brock overhead. The other true human visitors who fought to get out the exit? They fought to get out of the Valids' way. They wanted no part of the Valids. 

     Which left only the aliens and the cowboys and the...

     Gramps and Estelle fought their way to the door. Estelle no longer bothered with weapons. She just waded into the simulates with both fists swinging. Gramps blasted anyone or anything that came at them from behind. Nacy flew towards the exit at skull level, cracking skulls as she went. She met Brock at the exit door. Estelle and Gramps caught up a second after that.

     The biggest alien in the place, a stony looking bastard two stories high, blocked their way out.

     Cool. Estelle grabbed the nearest boulder she could find amidst all the rubble and pitched it like a football at the alien's midsection. The alien came apart like it'd been hit with a grenade before it dissolved into goo, then mist.

     Out the door they went.

END OF CHAPTER EIGHT 

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