Chapter 19
Everything looks like a nail
Location: Warehouse of Gangcheori, Seoul, Koya
Day 25th of Jan 5027
The manager shakes his head to regain his senses.
Although he didn’t expect them to know his plan, that changes nothing, all he needs to do is kill them to get the artifacts back and maybe he could even get the bounty for their heads.
He points at the trio and shouts to his men.
- GET THEM –
Ken splits the demon blade open to reveal the plasma blade beneath readying himself for battle.
Through her link with the mask, Daxia becomes instinctively aware of the mask's abilities and how to use them. She activates one of the mask’s abilities turning herself invisible.
She intends to try out all of the mask’s abilities in this fight.
Many employees rush toward the trio while others aim their weapons at them.
RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE
The entire underground warehouse begins to shake violently.
The sudden shaking stops everyone in their tracks.
- what is this? An earthquake-
- now of all times? -
the employees begin to wonder in confusion at the sudden earthquake.
Ken pauses for a moment and then realizes the true identity of the shaking; he then immediately turns towards Saiko and shouts.
~ NO, SAIKO WAI-
Before he can finish his sentence, he sees Saiko raise her hand up a few inches gently.
The reinforced floor and walls of the warehouse all crack before bursting open, as water comes flooding in.
A barrage of spells is immediately fired by the employees; some were aimed at Saiko but were blocked by water that gathered around Saiko and solidified forming a multi meter thick wall of ice, some were defensive spells rock shields, force fields, metal walls, but all were crushed under the heavy water pressure, some tried to escape but there was nowhere to run as water rushed in from all directions.
All is meaningless in the face of a natural disaster.
In a matter of seconds, the entire warehouse was completely flooded by water.
The water then gently embraced the manager and all of his employees suffocating them till they pass out.
then the water continued to tunnel upward until it reached the surface.
The water then released the passed out manager and his employees.
The water recedes and in a matter of seconds, it all disappears as fast as it first appeared.
The once full warehouse is now completely empty except for Saiko, a pissed of Ken, and Daxia who appeared after deactivating the mask’s invisibility.
- Man, I was really looking forward to trying the mask in battle how unlucky-
Ken taps on his watch and the car turns on and drives to him.
~ we are leaving ~
Daxia raises an eyebrow confused.
- what? But we have the whole warehouse to ourselves now we could take as many artifacts as we want –
~ doesn’t matter most of them are useless since we can’t sell them and we don’t have time to look for useful ones since Miss Hammer over there just exposed our location to the government ~
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_ miss hammer? _
Saiko asks confused at the weird title.
~ it’s because you are a hammer and you see everything as a nail. you only have one answer to every question. we used to have more than 40 mins now we only have 2. Now everyone, get in the car ~
_ I mean it’s a very effective answer is it not_
Saiko chuckles as she gets in the car with Daxia.
Ken glares at Saiko and then sighs.
~ haaaaa, you are lucky we don’t have time to argue, Rin, can you open the exist for us ~
- negative, the entrance tunnel collapsed because of the water –
Daxia chuckles and nudges Saiko.
- looks like you overdid it this time. –
_ I guess, I am sorry about that _
Ken pauses for a moment to think.
~ I don’t think we can escape at this point so instead let’s go to a place that’s advantageous to us ~
Ken switches the car to drill mode.
The car contorts, as its many parts begin to move around and morph.
The roof lowers down, the car sides move inward shrinking the car further then steel walls come up to cover the windows and the windshields and car tires grow metal spikes to help it dig through the ground.
Four large steel arms come out of the car and connect to form a large drill, then finally a display screen appears in front of Ken inside the car that’s connected to cameras on the front and back hood of the car.
Ken starts to tunnel underground; he uses a map of the city provided by Rin as a guide to reach a lake in the middle of Seoul.
Once they reach the lake, he switches the car to submarine mode and then looks at Saiko.
Saiko looks at him confused.
_ why a lake? _
~ because we really need a hammer right now ~
_ you were just complaining about me being a hammer less than a minute ago? _
~ that’s because most of the time you don’t need a hammer but sometimes you do, it’s about when to use the hammer and right now a really strong hammer is our only way out of this~
SWIFT BOOOM BOOM BOOM
Multiple rockets zoom through the air then fall inside the lake and explode sending the submarine zooming through the water from the explosion.
~ we won’t last long at this rate I need you to buy time ~
Ken shouts at Saiko urging her to fight.
_ Fine, but you know you didn’t need to take us to a lake I can summon ground water _
~ we didn’t come to the lake for you. We came here to prevent them from swarming us. This lake is used for tourism and doesn’t have police robots or machinery and while they can quickly deploy land and air robots, since there are no large bodies of water nearby, it will take them a while to transport water robots here, we need to escape before then ~
Saiko looks at Ken impressed by his ability to think and make decisions so quickly and begins to clap.
_ Impressive you deserve a clap and a half_
BOOM BOOM BOOM
Another round of explosions rattles the submarine.
~ this is not the time for that, focus. Rin, we need visuals. ~
- you got it –
Rin hacks the cameras surrounding the lake and links them to the display screen inside the submarine.
The display screen shows the situation around the lack.
Thousands of police robots and unmanned vehicles surround the lake from all directions with more arriving by the second and hundreds of drones fly above the lake and are constantly shooting rockets at the lake.
Saiko observes the screen and then smiles.
_ nice _
Daxia looks at Saiko confused and raises an eyebrow at her.
- I am sorry, what is nice about this exactly? there is an entire army out there -
Saiko smiles confidently.
_ Well, there doesn’t seem to be any people around which means I can let loss _
Saiko raises her hands up and her eyes begin to glow with a faint blueish white light.
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Location: Seoul police station
- sir, we have the suspects surrounded but the underwater robot unit won’t arrive until another 7 minutes should I send a sapiens unit to arrest the suspects? –
A police dispatcher informs the police chief of Koya.
- no keep everyone on standby but don’t send any sapien units. we received information that the suspects are highly dangerous and possess illegal weapons-
The door to the office of the chief of police suddenly opens and another dispatcher comes running in with a shocked expression.
- SIR, WE LOST A THIRD OF OUR UNITS –
- WHAT? –
The first dispatcher exclaims in shock it hasn’t even been 5 minutes since he left his post and they already lost a third of the units there which means that at least 800 bots and vehicles were destroyed.
-GIVE ME A LIVE FEED IMMEDIATELY –
The police chief immediately shouts and a large screen is lowered from the ceiling of the office displaying a hellish scene.
- is, is that the lake? Th, there is no way, right? Right?-
One of the dispatchers questions while looking at the scene in horror.
‘Are all living weapons like this? Why would we even need something like this? ‘
The chief of police knew that the suspect was an escaped living weapon but even if he knew, nothing would prepare him to sight in front of him at the moment.
He was told that living weapons were powerful but how could one person have so much power? Why would one person have so much power?
The screen shows a massive water giant that towers over the city.
It’s as though the entire lake came to life and took the form of the upper half of a vaguely feminine humanoid figure. Thousands of spells, rockets, and bullets fly at the massive giant every second but it seems to only be a mild inconvenience to the massive giant.
The giant swings its massive arm clawing at the ground and sending bits of crushed machinery into the air and causing a small earthquake.
Numerous water tentacles come out of the giant and out of the ground crushing bots and vehicles alike.
-w, we need to nuke it –
One of the two dispatchers suggests while taking a step back away from the screen from fright.
- no, we need to use the aether gun –
The other one counters.
- SHUT UP YOU FOOLS DO YOU WANT TO DESTROY THE ENTIRETY OF SEOUL? CALL THE STRIKE FORCE IMMEDIATELY –
-y, yes, sir-
The police chief shouts at the two dispatchers causing them to rush out of his office to contact the strike force.
The chief of police continues to watch the water giant decimate the machine police units with ease.
‘we have to make sure that none of the other living weapons escapes nor gets kidnapped otherwise using a nuke would no longer be an absurd suggestion’