After Justin made his frantic retreat, a door near the one he had been trying to unlock slid open, its lone occupant having reawakened.
And a different kind of machine emerged from the darkness beyond that door. Narrow, malevolent infrared optics glowing from within as sensors picked up on Justin’s residual trail. Tank-like tracks started rolling as it reactivated its weapons systems.
As was the case with all previous Intruders, none of the gateways had been compromised. As before, the subject simply appeared in a random point in the sector without apparent origin. As was always the case before, its reported movements were already taking on a random, disorganized, apparently aimless, series of directions. And, as all others before it, this one was also going to be terminated with extreme prejudice.
For the first time in many years, it had an Intruder to hunt.
Chapter Bonus! A Few Words (200, To Be Exact) On Why Arbitrary Word Limits Fail
Please pardon the editorial intrusion, as I kinda ran out of chapter, but I felt compelled to point out that the single greatest weakness of imposing arbitrary word limits is that they do nothing to address the inherent quality or substance of what is being written. After all, typing the word “Naruto” 200 times would certainly fulfill the word limit, but would it constitute quality writing? I think everyone here can agree that it would not. Much like how most of us would agree that over 80 episodes of filler were a massive waste of viewers' time, simply functioning as a placeholder for a series that was on hold for over a year. By the same token, it seems pointless to require people to write-- and thus, others to read-- potentially dozens of sentences' worth of pointless filler text that exist solely for the purpose of adding up to a certain number, and ultimately contribute nothing of worth the final piece. This is art, not homework, and any chapter will be as long or as short as it needs to be in order to
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