"Target secured. Over." One of Miniknog's soldiers said on the radio while he lifted the unconscious blue Hylotl from the ground.

*Bang, bang, bang...*

Around him, there were six more soldiers carrying assault rifles and shooting the corpses of the Hylotl's security to make sure they were indeed dead.

"Objective completed. Bring the target to the hanger to be safely extracted, and we will proceed to turn off the Life Support System of the space station." A female voice said over to all the invaders in the station, "Also, we lost communication with four men in the stairwell, be careful on your way there, it might still have enemies around. Over."

"Roger that." Another soldier answered as he motioned for the three other soldiers to follow him, "Send the message for all troops to start regrouping and placing the explosive charges in the Life Support System."

With him taking the lead, the other two behind him readied their weapons while the last one was with just a pistol in his hand and carrying the Hylotl kid over his shoulder.

Lenny that was hiding by the emergency stairwell heard the announcement through the radio he caught from one of the soldiers he killed.

"We need to hurry," Lenny whispered and hurried Forge that was transpiring all over her body, and breathing In rapid succession due to exhaustion.

She was a scientist, a person that never bothered to train her own body. Running around and climbing stairs was very exhausting to her.

Lenny frowned and forcibly grabbed her by the lab coat, dragging her outside the stairwell and into the dark hallways barely bright enough to see with the emergency red lights on the ceilings.

With one hand in at Forge's coat, Lenny crouched and dragged her with him into the nearest room that was by the stairwell's exit.

Lenny placed Forge down and returned to the door.

He leaned in and opened the door only enough for him to see the situation outside.

*Plop, plop...*

Footsteps were approaching after each second.

From the sound, Lenny could guess that their boots were wet, most probably with blood.

Although the soldiers were careful to make the minimal amount of noise, Lenny heard every step they made as they were almost by Lenny's hiding spot.

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Seeing that the enemies were close, Lenny closed the door and waited by only hearing the sound.

Lenny readied the shotgun on his hand and aimed at the door while carefully hearing for the footsteps.

*Step, step, step...*

When the noise was just at the other side of the door as the soldiers were walking down the hallway towards the emergency exit, Lenny pressed the trigger.

*Bang*

A yellow flash briefly illuminated the darkroom, along with the roaring sound of the shotgun being fired.

The pellets fired from Lenny's weapon smoothly went through the metal door and directly pierced the helmet of the closest soldier.

Without the chance to scream for help or react, one of the four Miniknog's soldier was killed.

Lenny didn't plan to give the other three time to process what happened and adequately react.

He followed by opening the door and shooting once again, this time at another soldier.

Just like the previous ones, faced with a shotgun at close range, they were blasted backward while blood splattered everywhere when the pellets mercilessly went through their flesh.

By the time the two survivors reacted, it was too late for them to fend off Lenny, as he had pumped up another bullet in the gun and aimed at the soldier carrying the kid.

*Bang*

At the distance of less than a meter, the head of the soldier, along with the helmet, was blasted, splattering metal shards, brain matter and blood all over the place.

*Bang, bang...*

Despite his speed, Lenny couldn't dodge bullets from an energy assault rifles at close range and was shot two times in his back by the last soldier.

Since he chose to take out the guy that was carrying the kid first to stop him from running away, he showed his back to one of the soldiers.

Lenny flinched a little because of the pain, but proceed to send a kick at the last survivor.

*Whoosh*

With the swift back kick, Lenny disarmed the guy and turned around with his shotgun ready to fire.

*Bang*

The last gunshot echoed throughout the empty hallway.

Lenny walked past the bodies and retrieved the blue Hylotl kid from the ground.

Although the kid was uninjured, it was drenched in blood from when Lenny exploded the end of the soldier that was carrying the kid.

Yellow plasma leaked from Lenny's wound and mixed with the small pool of blood.

Lenny paid no heed for his injuries as he carried the kid back to the room where he was with Forge.

Ending four more lives was nothing for Lenny, but as for Forge, she was close at her limit as she watched more people die before her eyes.

She crouched by the door, closed her eyes, and covered her ears.

She didn't want to witness bloodshed again.

"We have to go." Lenny said to Forge that was trembling by the destroyed metal door.

"Right..." Forge weakly stood up, "I have remembered something that could help us."

"What is it?" Lenny asked as he carried the kid with one hand and applied some bandages on his injuries.

He won't show his power in front of strangers, who know what could happen if information about what he could do spread.

"There's a lab on this floor that has the prototype of a communication device created by a friend of mine. It was created to bypass some of the commonly used jamming devices." She said.

Lenny stopped applying the bandages when he heard what she said, "It won't hurt to give it a try. We just a few minutes until the Miniknog realize that something happened to the soldiers with their target." Lenny glanced at Forge, "Lead the way."

"Okay..." Forge answered and forced herself to walk forward with her weak body.