That was a lie. I wasn't helpless.
I crawled forward onto my knees and began to beseech God like I never had before, but the only thing that came out over and over was Jesus's Name and yet my meaning ran far deeper. In a way saying the Name encapsulated my raw need for help in a way that couldn't be said in any other way.
Flicker's heart beat a mile a minute, as she cleared the bulkhead door. She had the time to close it, but there was no way she was going to lock that thing in there alone with Utah. She raced on as with a shout of triumph, odd for an animal to utter, the monster squeezed through the door after her, free from its dungeon at long last.
Flicker didn't look back. She cleared the blast door and was out of the building and on the ground level within moments and speeding out across the surface headed for the aircraft. She'd blow this aberration of nature to kingdom come from the safety of airspace. That was unless it caught her. Surely it wouldn't though?
She glanced back and screamed in horror. The monster was but twenty feet behind her and it was gaining ground fast, with only one intent in its glowing red eyes that were fixed on her like lasers.
She'd never reach the aircraft in time let alone have a chance to get it into the air!
She was going to have to fight this thing somehow. God give her strength!
Flicker dodged to the side unexpectedly and swung out with a sword arm down low. She caught the surprised beast on a robotic arm and sent it tumbling, but it was back up and at her within a second. One taloned finger raked across her cheek slightly, but a fisted punch slammed into her middle and sent her flying backwards through the air.
Flicker landed flat on her back thirty feet away gasping for air, without the conscious ability to move. It was too late anyway. The beast thing sprang upon her and anchored both of her sword arms to the ground with its robotic forearms. It growled out in fiendish delight, as it prepared to gore her.
Flicker cried out in her newfound faith in desperation, "Oh Jesus help me!"
Something massive and white slammed into the gorilla tearing it off of Flicker. It was a massive male polar bear. It sank its teeth into the back of the gorilla's armored neck beneath the skull cap and pulled it upright, as it hugged it with its massive paws from behind.