Predator If It Bleeds 81

And then the crowd went absolutely wild. Forty guards with shock rods came trotting out of a side corridor and surrounded the pentangle. The creature turned its head to watch them and there was hatred and something else in its eyes. Not fear, Fix thought, but a wariness. The kind that comes from experience. It remembered those shock rods and seemed to understand the odds against it. Forty big men in full riot gear. A moment later a ceiling vent opened and a turbo-cannon dropped into sight, its laser sight finding and locking onto the Nightmare Kid. The creature looked down at the spot where the laser sight hovered and then he looked at Chiba, who stood a few yards away.-pg.434 chpt.16