In a moment's notice, as everyone drops to the floor, the window immediately shatters. Thousands of bullets spray into the building all at once. Chips of wood and metal scatter all across the room as the bullets hit support beams and walls. The immediate force from the bullet's impacts shatter all of it in seconds, like a cutting saw!
I jump on top of Cadence to protect her as the debris crashes into the floor. I am cut multiple times, leaving my exposed shoulders and arms covered in dust and blood. The shooting has finally stopped. The constant sound or moans and cries are for help are left to fill the room. A burning sensation from the cuts seep into my back causing me to yell and roll off of her.
Cadence crawls to me. Dillon does the same, though he seems to be taking the pain better than I am after protecting Stella.
"Dammit!" I yell attempting to stand to my feet.
"Are you okay, Demi."
"I think."
"Melena, Darrin, report!"
Melena arrives first, scanning the area and with her weapon as Soul arrives to assess the situation. Two other men arrive shortly afterward. One announces himself as Darrin and assists Melena in the perimeter. The other doesn't say a word, he just bends down to help the princess Stella to her feet. Soul reaches down to help up Cadence.
"Is everyone ok?" Soul asks.
"I think so. Demi?"
"I am fine, I think."
"What happened? Who attacked us?"
"No, Idea ma'am. We are still working on it."
"Right now, we need to get out of here." I said. "Soul, where is the nearest shuttle bay?"
"Below the falls, ma'am."
As we continue to make plans, I couldn't help but notice Stella as she blankly stares at the other man with us. Something felt off with her. Darrin approaches her and finishes helping her to her feet, before noticing her cold stare as well.
"Is everything ok ma'am." Darrin asks
She points at the guy, "Who are you?"
The other man doesn't say a word. Instead, he just looks around.
"Answer me!" She says again, "Who are you?"
He continues to look around before looking off and past us, like he's looking at someone behind us. For a long moment, no one does anything. It was nothing but dead silence, then suddenly, in one synchronized motion, multiple people pull out a pistol. All of them aim in different directions around the room. All of them were aiming at someone important. The man in front pulls out his rifle, yelling, "Burn it all!" Then he pulls the trigger.
Soul is able to knock him down before any bullets could hit anyone and Melena shots him in the head. Everyone on the room ducks down again, taking cover behind the rows of chairs in the room.
"Shit!" Melena yells. "How many are there?"
"Unknown ma'am." Soul says.
"Damn, Demi, take this!"
She slides a small caliber pistol across the floor. As I pick it up and pull back the slide, chambering the round, Stella and Cadence take cover on the fall end of the row of chairs toward the wall. Soul, Dillon, Melena, and I return fire.
Hundreds of bullets fly across the room. Wood splinters in all directions, crashing into the floor and walls. I spot Phoenix across the row from me. He too fires his weapon and takes cover behind the bench. Suddenly a bullet penetrates the wood in front of me and narrowly misses my eye.
"Crap!" I yell, "Phoenix? How are you holding up?"
"Doing what I can, kid."
"We need to get out of here, we are sitting in a death trap."
"Couldn't agree more." Melena says. "Soul, give us an exit!"
"Yes ma'am."
His back opens up and a small cylindrical object rises out of the opening. He kneels into a crawling position, aiming the cylinder into the air, and fires multiple smoke bomb in al directions. The bullets slow down enough for Soul to deploy a small rocket from his wrist, and fires it at the wall beside us. More dust and debris kick up into the air. Soul turns his attention to Phoenix. He twists his wrists, deploying multiple small guns, two on in corner, all facing the same direction. He aims toward the hostiles and calls out to Phoenix.
"On my signal, Go!" He yells.
Phoenix nods his head. Soul stands up and fires. His guns have to be firing thousands of rounds a second as the muzzle fire lights up the room to a near blinding level. Phoenix ducks his head and runs across as we all exit the building. We run across the bridge over the waterfall, arriving at the main government tower. We pass through the doors and stop to take a rest.
"What is going on?" Cadence asks.
"I don't know, ma'am." Darrin said. "Until we can secure the area-."
Before he could finish his thought, an immense pressure surrounds my throat. I am pulled backward. Hard enough for me to loose my balance, yet I am still held on my feet. We are ambushed. Six men surround us and grab Cadence and I. Everyone backs off but aim their weapons straight at us. A cold barrel is posted against my head. I cannot move and am slightly hanging off the ground.
"Let me go!" Cadence yells.
"Silence." the man yells.
"I order you to let me go! Do you know who I am?"
"I said, silence!"
"What do you want?" Darrin yells.
"The king needs to pay for what he has done!"
"Which is...?"
"You already know the answer."
"What?"
Cadence starts to fight off the man folding him, using all her strength, but to no avail. Phoenix turns his attention to me. A whole different look has grown across his face. His eyes were focused and calculated, though I can see the anger and rage build up inside him. His fists squeeze close and shake a little as if his mind and body were at war with one another on how to act. He catches the eye of my kidnapper, who pulls out his weapon on Phoenix and saying, "Don't try anything."
Phoenix just smiles, saying, "I didn't plan to...however."
At the same moment, I use my feet and kick the man in the knee. He yelps in pain and looses grip of me. I break free from him and run toward Phoenix. I tuck under his arm as he pulls out his pistol and shoots him in the head. Everyone watches has his body hits the ground. He doesn't say a word, he just pulls me in closer and aims at the rest of the them.
Before they could open fire, everyone fires at them. Cadence at the same time, breaks free of her kidnapper by punching him in the stomach. She deploys a blade from her wrist and plunges it straight into his month. Multiple sharp teeth deploy along the blade and begin to spin along it. The teeth pierce through his mouth and exit the other side. Cadence then swings the blade out, decapitating him. His body and head fall in opposite directions spilling blood all over the white floors.
Everyone watches her in horror as she retracts her blade and whips off the blood. She is now covered in it from her shoulders down her her knees. She turns around and smiles, almost unfazed by the carnage she just did.
"What?" she asks.
"Nothing. Melena, where is your ship?"
"Down the hall. But its the only ship there. We cannot take everyone."
"Ok. Then take Demi, fly up to the Boseman."
"Wait. What?" I ask
"We need more support and eyes in the sky if we are going to coordinate an evacuation, understand?"
"What about you?"
"We'll find another ship, but we wont make it out of here without the Boseman."
"Uhm."
"This is your chance to prove yourself. Make me proud!"
Melena and Soul run down the hall, looking back to make sure I follow. Phoenix pats me on the head then kisses it, before separating from me and runs in the other direction. Soul calls out to me, and I turn back around to catch up with them.