Wrath of the Snowmen Part 9

They materialised with luck right where they had vanished earlier. Right in the middle of trouble. “Right! Time to get out of here quickly!” said Kit.
“You’re telling me.” murmured Hannah, pulling Kit out of the door and down a maintenance shaft to the right.
“How’d you know this was here?” asked Kit as they sprinted down the corridor.
“Oh I noticed it on my quest to escape. This look like a control panel to you?” she asked, pointing to a large box shaped metal cover on the wall.
“It’s as close as we’re going to get. Open it and turn the dials the other way.”
Opening it to do as Kit suggested, Hannah found herself looking at a maze of wires and sockets. “Um Kit, you know what you were saying about dials?”
Kit turned to look at her, “Yeah?” Her face fell as she realized the complexity of the situation. “Hey, wait! Smash it.”
Hannah gave her a very strange look, “Okay… what with?”
“Ice axe! And for once I get to mean it literally!” she grabbed one from the wall opposite the box and winced as sparks flew from where she hacked away the wiring.
“These must be very nice people if they keep weapons on their corridors,” Hannah said in a sarcastic tone as she followed suite. An alarm started above their heads. “Time to go!” she yelled over the din, dropping her axe and tearing down the shaft again.
After once more pushing the teleport button, while trying to ignore the screams of hundreds of dying snowmen, they stared at each other and the carnage that had been caused worldwide, gas fires and screams, as they waited for the world around them to go up in flames.
After several minutes, Kit ventured to speak, in a small voice that she didn’t trust, “What, happened?”
“The ship must have disintegrated. The shields contained the heat.” Hannah suddenly felt a huge feeling of relief and pulled Kit into an enveloping hug, unspeakably happy at being alive.
Unable to escape, Kit felt she may as well keep talking, “What about the space it was in? Is it ashes?”
“Probably. Otherwise we’d have fallen six hundred feet by now.”
She laughed, “Yes we would! Yes we would”