Hawk Pulled Eto through the panic of the crowd while TYO drove right behind them. They could hear alarm bells ring everywhere and Hawk wasn’t surprised. A giant fight between Eto and Generation Zero and later him shooting in an open space. Chaos was sure to break out.

Hawk didn’t want to try the elevators because those were points where they could be stuck so he searched for the stairs to get to another platform.

‘You alright?’ he asked Eto who he kept his arm tight in his hand.

‘Yeah,’ Eto mumbled and he looked troubled. He looked at Hawk and Hawk could see the distortion in his eyes. It was a sight he didn’t want to see but he tried to ignore his feelings.

‘Can you run on your own?’ he asked Eto and he nodded.

Slowly he released Eto who started running besides Hawk. TYO drove behind him.

‘It is still 73% of our route to the harbor,’ TYO yelled with a squeaky voice.

Eto quickly grabbed TYO and held him in his arms of which TYO made a sigh sound that he was happy for getting carried.

The crowd they ran through here was more quiet but still aware that something had happened close by. They could hear the different aliens talk to each other.

‘I got a notification that the soldiers are deployed. Do you know what happened?’

‘I heard there was a big fight somewhere. Do you think the war has come all this way?

‘I need to get home to secure my children.’

Hawk heard the people talking to each other and he felt responsible for the commotion but it was the only way to disappear in a chaotic crowd with Eto.

‘There!’ Hawk said and he pointed with his robotic arm to the harbor that came in front of them. Eto recognised the building from where they had landed their ship.

‘What about Veronica?’ Eto asked, wanting to know where she was for a while. Hawk gave a little smile in hope of calming him.

‘Don’t worry. Veronica is handling our new transport. They will meet us here soon.’

‘They?’ Eto thought and he figured they had found someone to help them. Even though he should be happy with their plan being successful, he couldn't help but feel weird after his battle with the vulture knight.

‘What happened to him and why was the armor of the knight empty after Eto pulled the helmet off?

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Djon sneaked through the room to the door of his ship. While he ran, he took a look at his ship, appreciating the fact that he was together with her again.

The Tortoise was in the same shape as the animal.

The body of the ship was round like a tortoise shell. The two parts at the back which resemble the legs were the engines and at the front there were two little cockpits with firearms. In the middle where the head of the animal is, the main cockpit to control the ship was placed. Jon even let the ship be painted with blue lines over the silverwork to resemble the seas where those beautiful creatures live. A quick reminder of home went through his mind.

He came to the door and quickly pushed his password to open it.

Inside he made his way through the halls to the front to find the cockpit.

It was round with one main chair behind the wheel and two smaller chairs behind them for co-pilots.

He sat down and started the ship. Now was the moment he had to handle it quickly. When the engines would start, he would alert all the soldiers in the shipyard and he still had to wait for the girl.

First he checked the scanners for the best way to fly out of here and he put in the coordinations for the landing platform. luckily, It wasn’t that far.

Djon looked out the window and through the small hall he could see that Veronica was still laying on the floor with the soldiers near her.

It was now or never. He checked if the door still was open before he pushed the buttons that turned on the engines. He could hear the sound he knew from his ship blasting outside.

Veronica made it look like she had twisted her ankle.

‘Better get you to a medic center,’ the soldier proposed while he tried to grab her.

‘No wait, I think I can walk,’ she said and slowly she pretended like she needed to find balance while standing up.

She tried to figure out how long she could keep this act up but then she heard some engines going on.

While the soldier in front of her was still busy looking how she could stand, the other soldier turned his head towards the hangar with the ship.

‘What is that?’ he asked slowly and that was the moment Veronica had to act.

She quickly put her leg behind the soldier in front of her and pushed him so he tripped. After that she grabbed her baton and made it with the push on a button longer before hitting the other soldier at his helmet.

He was surprised by the attack and also fell down after which Veronica made the jump for it.

‘All soldiers in the area. we have a violation for violence against soldiers and use of a ship marked as prohibited entry. Please respond,’ the first soldier screamed while pushing a button on his helmet.

Veronica couldn’t believe what she just did. A rush of adrenaline went through her as her feet felt heavy from the rush of excitement.

She tried not to look behind her as she gave it her all to run towards the hall.

Veronica ran through the door but she could hear the clicking sound of guns being prepared. She tried to wiggle while she ran, in hopes that they couldn’t have a clear shot but she didn’t hear anything.

In front of her, a huge tortoise shaped ship started to lift off, turning so an open door came clear in front of her.

The door was lowered as a drawbridge and it was hanging slightly above the floor, waiting for her to jump in.

‘Stop her!’ the soldiers behind her said and without looking, Veronica could tell there were more soldiers.

Their footsteps could be heard in the hallways.