Wait a minute. How does Johann know the BID is coming? I only knew because of SpookyErind.

“Is HQ alright?” I had Ento ask. This question served two purposes. One, it made me look like a caring hero. Two, it was to check if our getaway vehicle was currently being shot at by the BID.

“How are you doing HQ?” Dario asked. “He’s doing fine.”

Then that probably means he just hacked into the cameras and saw the BID was coming. My ticket out of here was still okay.

“We should get going then right?” Myra asked us.

Before Dario could respond, Deen ran up to us and shouted. “Okay, I convinced these guys to follow us. We can help lead them out of here now!”

“About that,” Dario said. “We might need to leave them behind.”

“Wha- what??!!” Deen panicked. While I couldn’t see her face, it must have been something funny to look at.

“They’re too slow,” Dario said. “We have to leave now. They’ll be fine on their own. They’re not Adumbrae, so the BID won’t go after them.”

“But the Panderton Act!” Deen said. “It doesn’t matter they aren’t Adumbrae. The BID will kill everybody here!”

Look at that. Deen actually remembered what I taught her. She originally used it to convince Bianca that we weren’t part of the BID. Now she was using it against Dario.

“Pythia,” Dario said, walking up to Deen. “They’re still too slow. We won’t make it out in time, especially with how fast the BID agents will be. Please think about this.”

“But… but… we can’t leave them here to die!” Deen cried out. Okay, this hero complex was getting annoying. And I doubt Deen would give it up anytime soon. Dario was wrong. The freed people wouldn’t slow us down. Deen’s incessant arguing would.

Ugh. I considered just ditching everybody here, but my main body was still attached to Myra, and pulling it out just to leave everyone would seem very out of character.

Wait a minute, that’s it! Not the leaving everyone part, but the Myra part.

“Wait, Blank,” I had Ento call out. “I think we can take everyone with us.”

“They’re too slo-” Dario started as I cut him off.

“No, Barb can take everyone here just like she’s taking my main body,” I had Ento point out. “Just use vines to carry everyone.”

“Barb?” Dario asked, turning towards her.

“Yeah, I can do that,” Myra said.

Look at me. Helping to lead the group. May as well make me the leader.

Anyway, the more important point was that it helped to build my hero face. I was showing ‘compassion’ for the humans while being seen as a problem solver. The people we just freed should be thankful I, Erind Hartwell, have saved their lives.

Myra began tying everybody up, which was definitely a sight to see. A giant tree monster was wrapping everybody in vines. Deen had originally tried to convince everybody of my plan, but of course there was some hesitation. Hard to agree to getting tied up to a giant tree monster. I imagined Deen’s prescient pet helped out a bit to convince them. Some of them whined as they were lifted, but I didn’t really care. The faster Myra wrapped them up, the faster I could save my ass by getting out of here.

Meanwhile, SpookyErind growled at the BID forces coming in. Several small agents the size of mosquitoes flew around the base. Many of them broke into the buildings. Two large ComExos came in. They were probably around two stories tall, but SpookyErind was more like four. Although, she looked like two since she was down on all fours.

With Red Hood’s enhanced vision, I could clearly see through SpookyErind body that the two ComExos each had six arms. Four of them had giant cannons attached to them, while the middle pair had hands holding some kind of sword. Sparks jumped around the sword. Some type of electroshock weaponry.

All cannons immediately fired on SpookyErind. Large blue laser beams hit SpookyErind. Some of them hit her in the eyes. All of the impacts made burns that hurt more than the slime. But it wasn’t enough to kill her. SpookyErind growled as her eyes began to regrow and she started charging towards them. The pain simply fueled her rage and the growth of her muscles. Her enhanced hearing began trackign the two ComExos. They turned as each one parted from each other, looking to ambush SpookyErind from her sides.

SpookyErind simply charged towards the ComExo on her left. She growled as ComExo fired four more laser beams. They stinged and they burned. More lasers hit her in the back. Kill those prey! I could feel the strong predator instinct rise in SpookyErind’s body. SpookyErind opened her mouth wide to try and chomp the ComExo, but the ComExo simply raised one of its electroswords to block SpookyErind’s mouth while sliding back. SpookyErind bit down hard and was met with a painful shock coursing through her body. Shit. Her muscles started to spasm. The ComExo brought it up it’s other sword. She tried biting down on the sword with more force. The sword broke and SpookyErind pushed with all her might as the other sword came raining down. It missed her head and hit her torso instead. More painful shocks went through her body.

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This fucker has to pay for harming me. Harming me? He was harming SpookyErind. But still, I didn’t want her to get hurt. Huh. Why was that? Well it was still my clone technically. And I didn’t like the feeling of pain. Was the bleedthrough of emotions affecting me that much?

SpookyErind chomped down on the head of ComExo as the sword was still stuck in her torso. She ripped off the head but it tasted disgusting. There wasn’t any flesh in there. Where was the human piloting it? Maybe in it’s torso? SpookyErind simply grabbed the torso of the ComExo, breaking off the right sword arm. The sparks of pain quickly ended.

More laser fire hit her in the back. SpookyErind quickly turned around and launched the torso of the ComExo at the other ComExo. There was so much force it nearly that it seemed that SpookyErind launched a bullet. The two ComExos collided, causing an explosion. The hunger subsided within SpookyErind.

Myra broke a hole through the building as she dragged a couple dozen people with vines behind her. To be honest, I didn’t count but it was quite a lot.

The night sky was lit up with stars. And behind us were explosions. The BID was blowing up the rest of the base.

Through Ento’s eyes, I could see a few flying objects headed toward us. Shit.

“Guys, they’re here!” I had her yell out. “Emcee, help please!”

The BID agents quickly came into view. Massive laser cannons were on their side. I had Ento throw needles at each of them, but they quickly dodged out of the way. Everett threw a fireball into the sky, which they also dodged, but it exploded and caused one of them to fall.

Lasers quickly came out of their guns, targeting both me and Everett. I tried to get Ento to jump out of the way, but her right shoulder was hit by the laser. The rest of arm fell off, leaving a splattering of blood on the ground. She fell to the ground in pain. Blood poored out of her stump of an arm. Shit.

“Ento!” I heard Deen call out. I could see a series of pebbles flying through the air, pelting one of the BID agents. The final remaining agent turned to the side, ready to fire on Deen.

I heard laser blasts, but sadly couldn’t see anything through Ento’s eyes. Oww. Why was poor Ento always being harmed. I guess the BID agents would target the people who attacked them first. But still. Harming a child? Shame on you BID. Shame on you. I should call child protective services on them. What the fuck am I talking about?

SpookyErind galloped towards us. Five more BID agents decided to make our lives miserable. From her eyes, I could see the rest of the group try and take cover behind the nearby buildings. Dario was carrying Everett, who lost part of his hand to the laser blast. Deen was comforting Ento.

“Are you alright Ento?” Deen asked, her eyes teary. She scooped her up. My hero. Ewww.

“Could be better,” I had her say. “Do you mind picking up my arm?”

“Uhh sure,” she replied. Damn it Deen, I was just making a joke to lighten up the mood. But she grabbed Ento’s bloody forearm off the ground and held it next to Ento’s stump. It wasn’t bleeding anymore.

Dario told of us how he healed both his legs after reattaching it. I imagine most of it wasn’t missing though. Deen ran behind a building.

The BID agents were chasing her since she was the furthest behind. Before they could turn the corner and chase her, SpookyErind loudly growled. They all turned around and fired their lasers at her, but they didn’t even make a scratch. SpookyErind swatted at them like they were flies. A couple of them got hit. Two of them continued to fire at SpookyErind. The last one turned the corner

Deen raced down the alleyway as the other BID agent started chasing us.

“Blubber!” She called out. Reo’s fairy?

“Ento hold your arm,” She told me. I had Ento grab onto it with her left hand. Why the fuck am I holding this? Is this bitch about to try and save Reo’s fairy? Fuck that.

She grabbed Blubber and threw him at the BID agent. The BID agent that was about to fire, simply flew backwards a bit, dodging the fairy projectile. Before he could fire, a set of massive teeth imprisoned came crashing down on him.

SpookyErind tried chewing him up, but her tongue quickly met the taste of fire. This fucker just self-detonated inside of her! That sounds inappropriate.

Deen stared in silence. From Ento’s point of view SpookyErind was massive. A giant furry creature with massive teeth. And it just tried eating a BID agent.

The other two agents were still firing at SpookyErind, and she quickly swatted away both of them.

SpookyErind simply stared at Deen before turning around.

“Thanks…” Deen said. “Oh Blubber!”

She ran back a bit to go pick up the fairy. “Don’t worry, I got you guys!” At least we were safe for now.

SpookyErind returned to the warehouses. Nearly every warehouse was basically demolished. Some of the agents began firing on her, but it still had no effect. A massive aircraft could be heard in the distance.

SpookyErind began swatting at all the BID agents. But before she could finish them all off, a massive BOOM sound filled the air, and SpookyErind was met with paralyzing pain. She turned around and saw that her entire torso was teared open, with two of her legs missing. Whisps of fire were all on SpookyErind’s body. She turned up and saw the aircraft fire two missiles at her. The missiles exploded into a bunch of white foam. Did they just use a fire extinguisher on her? But rather than extinguishing the fires, more burning pain entered SpookyErind’s body. I could feel the desire to rip that prey in the sky to shreads, but SpookyErind couldn’t move her body.

The giant aircraft in the sky had a giant cannon pointed at SpookyErind. It aimed towards her head and fired. I quickly lost my connection to SpookyErind.

Why did she do that? She could have lived a lot longer as the giant werewolf. I don’t imagine Adumbrae are suicidal. Technically, she could be resummoned. But why not stay with us to make sure there are no BID agents?

Wait a minute. That giant aircraft would have pulverized us. Did she go back to the base to make sure the rest of the BID would only blow her up?

A feeling surged in my chest. I couldn’t really place what it was. It felt like gratitude… Yeah, I was thankful she protected us. SpookyErind really did care for my wellbeing. I didn’t know what the purpose behind it was. Did she still want to take over my body? I was skeptical of her true intentions. But at least she cared about my health. For the present, that was the most important. I’d deal with losing my body later.

Speaking of bodies, my main body started to wake up. Finally. I was wondering when that was going to happen.

I was immediately met with the sound of police sirens.

“Release the hostages and turn away immediately,” a voice said on a megaphone. “Or we will be forced to shoot you!”

Hostages? I looked around, Myra’s branches keeping me secured on her back. Several people were wrapped up in vines behind her. The people we freed.

Wait a minute, these police fuckers think we kidnapped all these people!