In the centre of the shelter, a tough battle was continuing to take place. After Nate’s little display with the Squad leader, before he could finish him off and take him down for the count, another had come in, giving him a flaming kick.
It was fast and unexpected. Using his ability, Nate was able to harden his whole body, but the hardening weakened after time. What made Nate so skilful with his ability, was through his years of fighting and martial arts, he was able to predict where someone would hit him before they did, and he could harden just that area extra hard.
These people weren’t like the ones he would usually go up against, and he was caught off guard slightly. He was whacked while holding off the other squad leader and was now facing two of them at the same time.
Megan, rather than fighting those that were strong, was more concerned about the Crow’s people. She was trying her best to help them fight, sticking to the plan and buying time until the others finished with what they were doing. Still, it seemed like a lot more people from the Sunshields then they had predicted were fighting in the centre of the shelter.
"Sam, we really need help soon, I don’t think we can last much longer!" Megan said.
"I know," Sam replied. "But Blip and Dennis are still busy fighting. The Sunshields are stronger than we first thought. The squad leaders are just a bit much at the moment."
On their side, they had six squads who were led by the stronger members of the Crows. Meanwhile, on the enemy side, they had come down in twenty ships. With them, smaller teams of ten each with a squad leader and a head squad leader. Which meant each of their strong fighters would have to fight multiple enemies at a time which was unexpected.
When the Eagles had fought them, they only brought five ships with twenty men each. This was what Sam had based his calculations off, which was why his plan wasn’t working out exactly how he thought it would.
"Fex, how are things on your end?" Sam asked.
The fight from the centre had spread out, going through buildings and spilling into the nearby streets. Fex’s group had been moving in, and working on dowsing the fires as planned. From time to time they would help some strays fight, and send the injured back to the teleporter, but there was a problem much worse than all of this.
"We’re still evacuating some of the citizens who are leaving now," Fex said.
Stubbornness. There were some people who were far too stubborn to even listen to the Crows about leaving their homes, and they had remained thinking the Sunshield would do no such harm. They just couldn’t believe if they were under the protection of the Graylashes, why would they attack?
Their minds quickly changed as soon as the battle had started. Because of this, Sam was ordering Fex and his group to go around, saving the few remaining people before going to the centre to support Nate and Megan’s team.
They would save a few of them, and a couple of people from their side would go the long way round to escort them back to the base and head through the teleporter.
"Help! Help me and my family!" Someone shouted.
It was a middle-aged man’s voice. He was in a burning building that had already been consumed by the flames too much. The only thing they could do was isolate the building, so the fire didn’t spread.
The man was on the third floor, and the fire looked like it had already engulfed most of the building.
"Please, just protect my family!" The man shouted.
"That idiot, why risk your families lives, you should have listened," Fex said, as he was ready to head into the burning building, but before he could, he saw a female with two round balls on her head run past.
"What is she doing, the fire is too strong, she’ll just get herself killed!" One of the water users said, as she was trying her best, to create more water to take out the fire, but she had run out of MC cells at this point.
A few moments later though, over her shoulders were two bodies, and in each of her hands, she was carrying two children as well. She was carrying them as if they were pillows and her face had severe burns in several places, but it looked to not hurt her at all.
Slowly, the wounds started to heal away naturally.
"Kazz?" Fex said, half confused, but at the same time, he wanted to be thankful to her.
She dropped the two bodies on the floor and chucked the ones over her shoulder to the ground. It was a bit rough, but they couldn’t complain given the circumstances.
"I have repaid my debt to this man." Kazz said, looking at Paul.
When Paul looked at who was on the floor, it took him a moment to recognise the man. He was the merchant who Kazz had used her influence skill on to steal some earrings. Paul was just telling her off at the time, and he didn’t think it would stay with her.
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