It was the moment to act, too much thought would lead them to lose their mission, so Miles took Richard to a safer place, leaving the bedroom;

But just at that moment, the enemy on the outside, hanging from the rope acted as soon as Richard was being taken away,

With a mysterious force, the rope that was holding him moved, moving the man himself from that window to the other side,

The way he moved made Mike understand something, telekinesis variant.

That's why his bullets missed, those were moved using telekinesis.

As soon as the man outside moved to the other window, the enemy inside took the chance to shoot towards Mike,

*BANG* *BANG* the man stopped with the second shot.

Mike already moved out of the room while he understood what the telekinesis user was up about,

Their objective was Richard Stone, not he; and Mike's objective was to protect Richard, not to lose time with the one there.

As soon as Mike left the bedroom, in the living room's suit, Richard was floating mid-air, it was clearly the man with the ability, he already got inside quick and without effort since the window was left open.

*RAT-A-TAT-TAT* More bullets were shot, it was Miles' pistol, and it was automatic,

The control over Richard faded somehow a little, and once the control faded just a little somehow, Mike rushed towards Richard and got him free from the telekinesis control of the man.

The masked man with telekinesis deflected all bullets but still lost control of the subject he was supposed to deal with.

The masked one inside the bedroom finally got out while Mike was leaving the suit already, it was fast, very fast, like nobody could react so quick to the events.

But still, everyone there in the suit had their minds on the action already and acted quickly.

It all happened in just a few seconds, and Miles was the only one left alone in the suit with those two; but Mike's mind was, sadly, focused on protecting the man who was the bad guy at the end of the day.

"Fuck this luck!" He cursed, he was guiding Richard out of the place.

He heard more shots from inside the suit.

One of those was Mile's automatic pistol, but he heard another weapon too.

Two against one, Mike could not imagine how Miles could survive, more when he had no antiPhySEC pistol on him.

He was for sure fucked in Mike's mind.

But he reached the stairs with Richard, not wanting to use the elevator. Obviously, there were more people involved in it; nobody could know what would happen in situations like these.

And life confirmed Mike's thoughts,

*BOOM!* it was an explosion, looks like the people started using the heavy weapons.

Richard was about to insist on using the elevator, but hearing the sound just now, how could he insist on using it?

So, in the end, they rushed downstairs, some people could be seen around them, but it was mostly people running in fear.

Some tried to use the elevators, those who usually don't know how to act in situations like these,

And could be the first ones to face danger.

Richard followed Mike by giving his all, but he was a normal person and although not being out of shape, Mike's stamina was greater than Richard's.

Anyway, Mike adjusted his speed to match Richard's speed.

They reached the base floor soon, the floor they were in before was really not that high, but the situation made everybody think it took longer than usual to reach downstairs,

Even when it was actually the opposite.

But downstairs, Mike thought about what to do, he had not much experience in this field.

He had military experience in many situations but had never been taught about these kinds of situations to protect someone, so his thinking was his own deduction entirely.

They need to reach help, police? Might work, but they reached downstairs and Richard was being watched, so why did they not reach the hotel yet?

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"Sir, follow me, we are leaving the place"

"What? What about... where should we go? What about the police? Or military, isn't this a terrorist attack?" He tried to ask about calling the authorities.

But anyway, Richard followed Mike, despite him cursing Richard's words in his mind.

"Bastard, you are the terrorist here!" He guided Richard towards the backdoor.

He tried to not catch attention since the idea was to not be seen.

He guided Richard to a place mostly devoid of people, in a parking lot, it had a few floors and from there, one could see the disaster at the hotel.

*Pant* Richard was clearly tired.

"Can't we take a break?" He asked Mike, and got a positive answer.

"Rest for a while, the police or army would arrive soon" Or so was what Mike wished for.

The police were nowhere to be seen yet.

And he thought what could happen in a situation like this.

"Sir, you need to rest in another place, follow me" Said Mike, he had a plan.

He was scanning all the places around him when was running here and never stopped using his ability.

"What? Can't be that far right?"

"Don't worry, I want to let you stay in a safer place, just behind that wall, there the vegetation is high enough to hide you"

"What?"

"Sir, they are following us, please go hide there now that they have no clear sight of us inside this building"

Mike not long ago saw strange moves behind them, it looked like some people were not hunting Richard actively but still kept participating in the operation.

For common civilians to be helping a terrorist group to search for Richard, just how much this man fucked the people?

"Tsk tsk, I am the bad guy then, everything will be fucked when I finish this mission, the success of not" He said after Richard went to hide where Mike told him to.

Now, Richard could not be found while Mike kept rushing toward the last floor of the building, it was a big parking building;

And on the last floor, it had no roof as expected.

Mike knew it, this was a parking place the Aotheles' agents used to keep an eye on Richard when he arrived in their territory.

But now it was empty.

"As expected, they allowed the attack after all" But Mike already knew about it, he thought it may be the case.

So all in all, it was not a surprise for him, he stood still on there, looking at the hotel's direction, still no police around, but the fireman department looked quite active in reaching the place fast.

It was already clear before, so he thought not much about it.

To start with, the telekinesis user was too powerful, to easily deflect bullets from an auto gun, and on top of that he showed confidence in not even wanting to use his weapon, only his power.

It was not possible to do so unless you had high confidence in your ability.

He soon heard the sound of steps getting closer, he already was scanning the stairs with his ability and was looking towards the ramp too.

The one showing up was Miles, he looked happy to just see Mike.

"I finally found you, you can't believe how hard was to get away from those people"

"How did you survive the explosion?" Asked Mike, he had a cold voice, he already guessed what happened.

"I left the suit just before, can't believe they used explosives"

"They had c-4 or something like that?"

"I can't believe those people, using things like that, just why did they not use it at the start?" Miles was talking while started to get closer to Mike. "Where is boss? You saved him?"

While looking relaxed, Mike showed a smile, it gave Miles confidence in the situation and relaxed, but out of nowhere...

*SHINK* the sword was pointing towards Miles' neck, just a finger away from him.

"Don't move! And tell your friend downstairs to not do anything stupid" Mike said with still a smile, a cold smile.

He had his pistol in the other hand in case someone was in the car ramp.

Everything was clear to Mike, but there was one question still in his mind.

"If you were with them, why did you decide to act now?"

"Mike, my friend, I was not with them..." Miles was nervous.

"But now you are, no need to answer more"

"Common men, you are getting it wrong..."

"Stay still! Let's see how much Aotheles can hold their army in this mess" Mike had the advantage and was planning to keep it that way.

But he could not guess the other's plans.

On the car ramp, someone showed up.

It was the telekinesis user.

He then felt a move from the stairs, the other person was there, covering with the wall while aiming his gun at Mike.

Miles took what he thought was Mike being confused or shocked and then tried to get his weapon.

But in the blink of an eye, the edge of the sword touched his neck and...

*SWISH* blood poured out of Miles; Mike used his sword's move to aim his gun at the stairs after killing Miles.

*BANG* *BANG* Two shots were made, one from each of them; they both fired once at the same time.

In a fight with any kind of firegun, the aim was important, but the reaction speed was equally important.

In Mike's mind, he was really the bad guy here, just the situation and adrenaline would not allow him to think in irony this time.