Crow spread out his arms, begging for one of them to make the first move. Jack and the others remember what happened the first time, and they weren’t going to fall for the same trap again.

“No one!? Fine then!” Crow said before quietly cackling.

Crow ran full speed at Jack and the rest of the group and started throwing rapid punches as well as kicks. The punches sent the twins to the floor while the kicks managed to cause the group to fall backward all the while Anakin and Ellie were too distracted by disarming the bomb. Jack was struggling to keep up with Crow's speed, but thankfully Troy saw a perfect window in the fight and took Crow's attention.

He pulled out his knife and proceeded to stab him in the right side of his chest. Crow turned his head clearly, showing that the blade didn't have any effect on him.

“Oh, you’ve got to be shitting me,” Troy said.

Crow looked at the blade and took it out of his side and started swinging it at Troy. Troy skillfully managed to avoid all of Crow’s swings by weaving left and right, but little did he know that Crow was playing games with him; the real attack was yet to happen. As Troy moved over to the right, Crow passed the knife into his other hand and lodged the knife into Troy’s stomach.

Troy felt the pain and kneeled on the floor. Thankfully, the new upgrades began working and removed any pain as well as the wound in his stomach. This took Crow off guard, as he was expecting to see Troy drop to the floor dead.

“New upgrades?” he commented.

This moment of confusion allowed Jack to get a cheap shot behind Crow. He stomped on the back of Crow’s right leg, which took him off guard.

“Please! This isn’t a bar fight! Have some class!” Crow said before he shot up and landed a devastating punch in Jack’s face, sending him to the ground. Crow locked eyes with Troy again and gave him a swift and painful spin kick in the head that disorientated him.

Before he could continue attacking Troy, the bullets from Anakin and Ellie’s guns hit Crow again, not affecting him.

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“Guns? So uncivilized.”

He started walking towards the two, disregarding any of the bullets that the two fired. Crow grabbed Anakin’s gun and bent the barrel before he delivered devastating elbow hits, each one getting faster and more powerful. Ellie started firing her pistol, unloading all bullets into Crow’s back, but this only managed to stagger Crow. He turned around and was ready to attack Ellie, only to get punched in the face by Jack’s left arm.

“Don't worry about him. Worry about the bomb.” Jack said to Ellie.

Anakin's incapacitation left Ellie feeling a surge of panic, but she forced herself to focus on the ominous bomb. The digital timer seemed to taunt her as it counted down, the numbers plummeting closer and closer to zero with every passing second. With precision and determination, Ellie identified each crucial component of the bomb and expertly disarmed them, swiftly diffusing the imminent threat.

With the bomb now deactivated, Ellie meticulously detached it from the wall, handling it with the utmost care and attention. As she lifted the bomb, she felt the weight of responsibility pressing down on her, driving her to be even more cautious with each delicate movement. She carefully placed the disarmed bomb in a secure location, ensuring that it was a safe distance away from any potential harm.

“Bomb’s disarmed!” She yelled out.

With the main mission completed, all the group had left to do was take care of Crow.

“Argh! I grow tired of these games!” Crow yelled, “If you want to continue using cheap shots, then fine! I’ll play that game as well.”

He looked up to the sky, which had a crow fly past them. Before Jack and the rest knew it, they felt a sharp pain in their backs. They looked behind them and saw six people behind them holding a blade.

“Allow me to introduce you to you, my elite. The best of the best. Hand chosen by me... I’ll let you finish them off... But not him!” Crow pointed at Jack. “This one belongs to me.”

With those last words, Crow walked away from the scene, leaving the elite with Jack and his team. Jack and his team rose to their feet and prepared themselves for the fight. The first go after the elite was the twins; they used their speed and managed to get a few slices on them. The elite looked at the wounds and brushed them off as if they were nothing. Jack was the next to get in of the fight; he threw left and right before Troy would join in with the punches.

It was clear that the elite were struggling against Jack and his team, as they were getting beaten up easily. One of the elites had enough and pulled out a grenade and threw it on the ground. Jack ran over and threw the grenade over the wall and waited for it to explode. Once the grenade exploded, they went to face the elite, only to find that they had run away.

“Cowards!” Troy said.

Jack got on coms with Harry and proceeded to tell him that the bomb had been safely defused and that they would be returning to HQ as soon as possible.