"Okay well what are we doing?" Lyra asked, "Watching Cable TV?"
Pride gave her a weird look, "What are you yapping about now? No we are not watching TV."
I watched the cables continue to move. Some were slowly rising not knowing what awaited at the top was probably a 50% chance of death depending on Pride's mood. Maybe 100% was more accurate? But the others had left just fine, so maybe 20%. I shook my head slightly. Forget it trying to rationalize Pride's behavior was probably more random than a random number generator.
These elevators though, I stared at one. What was the rich person thinking? Did he buy off the inspectors, these were most definitely not up to code. The main cable and a back up, plus a third drop cable as a backup, except the backup wasn't connected at all and the second one had backwards clips. A very safe design, as long as the main cable was stable.
Only one, I noted the one to my left, had a backup brake to slow if the cables broke. The rest had an older model that was faulty and had a recall. The way rich people build shabby expensive things, truly a masterful art of stupid. The only identifying mark on the extra break was the letter N. Funny, I never would have thought a side hobby of learning elevator models in grade school would be so useful. I've used it a total of seventeen times in my career now.
The elevator with the extra break had a group of what appeared to be elementary school kids in it. One was pointing exactly at us as the elevator rose. The teacher with them paled and slammed her hand on a button. Pride gave them a toothy grin as the box started to descend again.
Then he waved a paw at them. My eyes widened slightly, Pride waved at them? He waved? Like what? A bad feeling crossed me. I mean, I may be a bit evil, and most adults totally deserve it, but maybe, just maybe, I have a small, and I mean very, very small soft spot for kids.
Are we going to be hunting grade school kids after this? I walked over and watched it descend for a moment. Sorry kids, Pride probably already has your scent.
The elevator next to it had a different box a bit lower. I glanced over at it briefly when I saw movement I couldn't from my original position. A lady was loading what appeared to be, blood? I focused on the letters on the side.
Sky Tower's Annual Blood Drive.
Well now I've seen it all. Give blood, nah that's not cool enough anymore, you have to give blood half way up the world's largest tower if you want to be cool.
Weirdos. Well whatever, if she was loading packs of blood to take all the way down again, who am I to judge. Inefficient, stupid, behavior, but who am I to judge. Haha, so much blood she can't even fit herself into the elevator. Oh that's entertaining. I watched the blood begin its solo trip down.
"This will be the test." Pride stated. "These here are the cables, obviously, we are going to crash some elevators." He flicked the third drop cable safety free from its binding on the one elevator that actually had it attached.
"All you have to do is pick an elevator and claw up the cables." Pride's ears flicked in an evil fashion. "That will tell me that you are ready to destroy the world, or at least that you aren't a, what was the human phrase? A chicken?"
"Not a problem." I purred back surprising myself a little with the purr.
I moved to the elevators I had looked at a moment ago.
I flicked out my claws, they gleamed menacingly in the low light. I paused for a half second, what if I was wrong about the model number.
(Come on, as we cats like to say, claws in or claw it up! Oh if you choose to retract your claws, Pride will kill you, so claw it up, or claw it up!)
Psycho, was I a psycho now too though? Was I ever not a psycho? Thinking is too difficult. I held my breath and slashed a paw across the cables. These claws made the thick cable look like butter as it snapped in half sending the elevator below plummeting downward.
Screams of children filled the air as they plummeted toward certain death.
"Aww snap." I muttered watching.
A small part of me had hoped that the wire wouldn't break. Shoot I had said that out loud. I glanced at the others. They were laughing?
"Good joke Snow, snap goes the cables!" Dart laughed with Lyra looking hesitant.
A loud screech resounded through the air. I had been petrified to look over the wall again but I slowly did along with the others.
Keep your face blank Cody, you can do it, this doesn't faze you at all. You are just murdering innocent people, completely against protocol. Pride will kill you if you show any hesitation. It can bother you all you want, but you cannot let it show. You're good at acting, no other way to stay alive in this career field.
I put my game face on and smiled along with a laugh.
"Oh tragic." I said seeing the fourth brake had thankfully kicked in on the elevator saving me from my sketchy moral dilemma, the kids were climbing out now looking shaken but alive.
"Hmm indeed, would you mind dropping another elevator just for proof beyond a doubt?" Pride glanced at me.
Stupid murdering cat. Oh well.
I shrugged my shoulders and didn't even look behind me as I slash a second cable with my back foot. This time there were no screams but a thundering crash made the whole building shake.
Pride pushed past me and glanced down at the one I had been slightly blocking from sight. Enough blood for a mass murder was strewn across the pavement below.
Pride smiled in a sinister fashion. "You Snow really are the purrrfect right paw for a team."
He turned to Dart and Lyra. "You two are next then, get to it!"