Chapter 6
"Commander, we've collected the androids and we didn't spot any irregularities at the surroundings. Looks like the androids just had a system malfunctions. They look perfectly fine, though." the Alpha Group leader said, on no one but to the person on his advance transceiver device.
The mission was a top secret, thus they would do anything just to ensure the secrecy of it, even if they must kill a civilian. The advance transceiver only had a single frequency installed, and it was the Command Center of Floran Military.
"Good. Don't remain there any longer. Return here as soon as possible. That's an order, Agent Alpha." the Commander stated.
"Roger!" replied, Agent Alpha, before turning off the device.
Then, one of his men approached him. "Leader, what are the orders?"
The leader looked at the man and spoke. "We are to return at the Command Center immediately. That's the order. Tell Adders and Droner about it, and be cautious. We aren't at the Command Center; we're still in the mission. Something might always happen... Colin, Bellec, I'm serious."
"Yes, Sir!" the two said in unison.
"Hehehe, relax leader." the man named Colin said and left with Bellec standing nearby, leaving only the leader on the site with the four androids.
After seeing them neglect his advance, the leader's face became helpless as he signed. "They didn't know the seriousness of the situation."
In his past missions, his guts were one of the reasons he was still alive. It saved his life many times, he would always believe in his guts no matter what, and his guts said that they were in danger.
He could feel it. The concealed killing intent that the whole forest emanated, which was strange. Usually, he would felt killing intent at a certain direction, but sensing killing intent on the whole forest was out of his experience. It was new, more like the most dangerous kind as he could say that he might die this time.
Vanz was only watching them, but now that the leader was alone, he could make his move. Concentrating his killing intent at one point, Vanz had successfully caught the leader's attention.
The leader's heart beat faster as he heard a rustling sound from behind, at the same time, the direction his senses were telling him to avoid.
With all his courage, the leader exposed his back on the four androids which the timing when the four androids stepped forward and attacked the leader. They all rushed at the leader with their foot raised in the air, aiming at the leader's wide back.
At that instant, the leader's instinct was screaming to evade, but the four androids were much faster as the leader felt pain on his back. Being a Level 7 Elite Martial Artists, the most common 9mm handguns wouldn't be able to injure him, but the force of the android's kick was way beyond it.
The first kick connected as the leader coughed up, but it hadn't ended yet as another foot reached the leader's back, followed by another kick which caused his back to crack and by the fourth kick landed the leader was blown away for few meters.
The leader didn't have time to warn his teammates as he fell behind the bushes, unconscious.
By the time the four men came back, their leader was nowhere to be seen and the androids were still standing at their initial position, with no sighs of movement.
They wondered where their leader was, but seeing no difference on the place, they didn't suspect that something bad had happened to their leader.
As they let their guards down and became too lax, it was the time when the four androids moved. They walked towards the four men in black suits, slowly. Seeing this, however, the four men didn't even moved and only watched the four androids.
At first they were perplexed, but even so they only kid about the four androids.
"Look..." the man named Droner that was the shortest, pointed his finger at the four androids.”They are walking. Nothing seems wrong with them. By the way, do you know where the leader is?"
"I don't know. But he's just around, you know discarding." another man named Adders said as he lit a cigar with a lighter, which slipped out of his hand and fell on the ground. He grumbled and crouched as he retrieved the lighter that fell.
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"It's getting late, I'll find the leader." Bellec said as Colin left with him.
Searching for the lighter on the ground, Adders spoke. "They are always like that. If I didn't know that they have wives, I would have suspected them as homos. Hahaha! Oh found it."
Droner chuckled at his words and saw the androids standing behind Adders as he stood. He was alarmed and shouted. "Adders, behind you!"
However, it was too late. One of the androids threw a kick on Adders as he flew towards Droner and they bumped on each other.
Adders had fainted. Droner pushed him away and stood with his senses active. Droner sensed something behind as he threw a kick at the incoming android and their foot connected. The android flew back as Droner's kick was more powerful. It was imbued with Chi which destroyed the shoe of the android and pelted its skin as the metallic foot came into view.
However, the androids had no senses to feel pain, thus it stood up immediately after being knocked down. It wasn't seriously damaged, only bent toes and deformed foot, pointing on opposite direction.
The problem wasn't completely finished yet. The four androids rushed at Droner simultaneously and it was astonishing, seeing them run towards him he thought something was controlling them. The only one he could think of was the Command Center... But the Command Center would not treat them as disposable.
Thus, Droner thought that it was their enemies, but whom? They had many enemies in the underworld and none of them had the capability to sabotage the four androids.
"Argh!" Droner imbued his fists with Chi and punched the income android, but it dodged like it had its own mind.
Tilting its body in the air and the punch missed its body with hairs breath, skin on its face had felted. Landing beside Droner, it swung its leg at Droner's ankle to destroy his center of gravity. Knowing this, Droner quickly evaded the attack by jumping, but he didn't sense the other android behind him.
The moment he jumped, another android attacked and gave him a flying drop kick at his back, sending him flying at the tree trunk as he fell unconscious.
Not long after, the two men, Colin and Bellec returned, alarmed as they saw the beaten state of their teammates. Unlike Adders and Droner, Colin and Bellec draw their high caliber handgun as one of them approached the unconscious Droner beneath the tree.
They knew that whoever beaten the two unconscious men, was stronger than them, thus they needed an assurance and they also thought that their leader was already taken out as well. Something that they wouldn't be able to believe until they hadn't saw it in their own eyes.
Group Alpha was an elite group composed of five members. They had two people skilled in guns, and another two in close combat, while their leader was all around. They had already completed much higher death rated missions and they were still alive because of their leader.
If their Commander knew of their failure, he wouldn't be pleased. They were beaten in a simple retrieve mission. That's a blow in their pride and to the commander as well.
"Bellec, above you!" Colin warned as he saw something on the tree branch flew down and he was astonished at what he saw.
Bellec that was helping Droner, didn't know what to do. He pushed the unconscious ally while he rolled over the ground, successfully evaded the attack of the android that foot had broken the ground.
"Shit!" Colin cursed as he fired at the android.
*Bang! Bang!*
Two bullets flew and the android fell on its back with two holes on its forehead. But when they thought that it had died, it immediately jumped back up on its feet and rushed towards them.
"Fuck!" seeing the android unharmed, they rained it down with bullets, until it fell on the ground full of holes and smoking.
However, the two didn't let their guards down as they knew that there were another three more of it around.
Seeing one of the androids down, Vanz was amused.
"So it can't still withstand a rain of bullets. I'll nurture them after this. I'm fortunate to encounter such puppet. I'll finish this then. It's about time the class ended, I need to head on home or Ms. Sera will be mad." Vanz mumbled in his hiding spot.
While sending orders to the androids, many ideas were passing through his mind. He decided to do some with the use of his androids.
Sounds of rustling filled the area as Colin and Bellec stood at their spot with their back facing each other. They were following the movements of the bushes as they readied themselves to shoot. When the rustles ceased, their hearts were filled with caution and anxiety as they didn't know if they could made it out alive.
They knew that the androids that were made by the Command Center shouldn't be underestimated. Its body was made of flexible metal. It couldn't be easily pierced by 9mm bullets, but their bullets couldn't even dealt a heavy damage on it.
As they waited for the androids to come out, the bush behind them rustled as they showered it with bullets. Unknown to them, another was above them. A shadow loomed over them, which they easily noticed, thus the two were able to evade the kick of the android as they rolled on the ground.
But the assault of the androids didn't ended yet as the other two rushed at Colin and Bellec. They couldn't evade the attack this time, but they were able to block the round kick of the androids with their arms.
"Arghhh!" they shouted. The bones on their arms got fractured as the forced carried by the round kick was beyond on what their bodies could withstand.
Even in pain, they didn't surrender as they retaliated with a round kick as well. The androids were small, only around their waist, thus a simple tilt of their bodies was enough to dodge the attack.
Colin and Bellec were about to take some distance after wasting their chance as they knew that they were at disadvantage in close combat.
However, Vanz didn't let them. He controlled the two androids as it rushed forward, faster than before and made an axe kick. Colin was hit at the chest as he heard some of his bones cracked and fell unconscious, while Bellec was able to evade the flying kick of the android he was facing and rolled on the ground to negate the his momentum.
Even though Bellec had evaded, he was focused on the opponent before him that he disremembered the another android behind, waiting for him if ever he was able to evade the attack.
Bellec sensed somethingbehind, but he was too slow to react as he felt a pain on the back of his face as the foot of another android slammed him on the ground before fainting, burying his head with its foot.
Vanz smirked as he felt he had a good time playing with them. He came out of his hiding spot as he ordered the four androids to collect the unconscious men at one place and tied them at a tree trunk after stripping them naked.
One of them had an engagement ring that had just been bought recently, handguns, advance communication devices, dangerous looking knives and gold plates at the size of his thumb.
After seeing the gold plates an idea came to his mind. Since Vanz made the four androids as his minions, he had been thinking where to hide them. Of course, he couldn't just hide them in his room because they were too noticeable.
He thought of using Concealment Formation to hide them, but seeing the gold plates he changed his mind. He would instead make a Spatial Storage for them.
Weaving pure qi into his hand, Vanz began writing the formulas on the surface of four gold plates in his hand. After several minutes, he had finished laying the Spatial Imprisonment Formation on the gold plates.
Tiny holes became visible on the surface of four gold plates and pulled the air around towards the inside of it. Vanz immediately laid the gold plates on the ground and commanded the four androids to jump on the gold plates.
The four androids were sucked in each gold plate, but the suction still didn't stopped. Vanz wove pure qi on his hand as he wrote down the final formula to lock the space inside the gold plates.
Indescribable letters flew and wrapped the gold plates as it slowly suppressed the force of the suction and everything turned back to normal. The wind became a mere soft breeze, while many green leaves littered the ground.
Vanz returned the men's clothes, as well as the engagement ring to its rightful owner as he didn't had any use for it. Apart from it, he brought everything with him, stored inside the gold plates as he left the place, leaving no traces of himself