He focused on his arm weapon and made it transform. Ones who would become his greatest lieutenants in the coming war. Ones with whom he was connected through Maggie Walsh. And yet he had viewed Finn and Miller and the others as. He had trusted that his asset would be able to stop the team in the elevator, but that team was now reinforcing the weakpoints of the base's layout, and his asset's weapon was now being wielded by Riley Finn. The other Vampire Slayer was simply too effective, and had too much support. He was going to have to win this battle and then retreat, since he could see from his remote cams that he was cut off from the exits until he defeated this Slayer, and he could see that his troops were losing their battles outside the holding cells.
And the tables were still folded into the walls, so he had clear sight lines. The mess hall was designed to feed as many people as the original hydroponic gardens and long-term food storage and water recycling system of the bunker could support. If she had deduced any of his weakpoints, it could be a problem, and he had clearly underestimated the effectiveness of her planning team.
He did not want to have to fight her in a confined space where he could not use any of his ranged weapons, and he would not be able to defend himself effectively from close-in attacks when her reach was so much less than his. He darted up the corridor into the mess hall where he would have enough room to engage the tiny blonde nuisance at range. He would have preferred to have all twelve such assets, but the Slayers and their teams had undoubtedly dealt with the other ten.
He made sure he had control of the security cameras and the mechatronics of the facility, along with his controllable assets 9 and 12. He swiftly extracted his physical connections to the computer systems, and he let his wireless systems synch up properly with the encrypted broadcasting hubs. Adam accepted the intel and reacted at once. Events have now veered off from canon, so you may need to read earlier chapters first. A/N: Disclaimer, author’s notes, etc., are at the beginning of chapter 1 spoilers are through “Primeval”.