District 42-Chapter 253: Sieged part 2
Before Casper could fall on the ground he pressed the buttons placed in his gloves with both thumbs. It was just a light and brief press, but that was capable to activate his boots for a moment.
That alone already helped him to lessen his fall and don’t break anything when landing on the ground. The only disadvantage was that he made a lot of noise when using that, but he wasn’t going to panic there. After all, the noise was on purpose.
A few criminals were surrounding that building. They needed to keep there since Casper could return. Just a few of them were left there, which would already be helpful. They were still thinking that Casper had the same disadvantages he had before.
When they heard that sound coming from behind the building, they hurried up towards there. One of them was pressing an earphone in his ear to be able to talk and hear the other members of his group.
"We heard something coming from behind the building. Maybe he returned here. We will check what’s up there quickly." After his report, he pushed his body forward with all he got, finishing to round the building with his partners.
They raised their guns and prepared themselves to start an exchange of fire at any time. However, when they faced the backside of the building, they saw nothing. No sound could be heard as well and there was no signal of anything around that could have made the loud noise they heard just a while ago.
’That’s not logical at all. If it was him, then it is not possible to leave this place so quickly. But, if the noise was made by something else, then we would be able to have a hint of what it was, at least.’ The criminal looked to all sides, moving his gun together with his head. The others did the same, always alerted for whatever could come.
"Do you think he is still around here?" One of them asked, breaking the silence.
"I think that there is no other place where he should be other than here. Except if he is some kind of superhuman."
The man breathed deeply and held the air in his lungs. He couldn’t afford to get controlled by the anxiety. He could not fail there.
’Maybe it’s safer to assure that he is a superhuman, then.’
He was going to turn and walk away, but then he felt a cold sensation on his back. Immediately, he stopped to move. No matter how much he tried to do so, his body won’t respond to him properly. Soon, this cold sensation turned into a sharp pain.
The other criminals were looking towards that scene in astonishment. Their minds lasted to absorb what was happening.
Now that Casper was moving, they could distinguish the silhouette of his body from the other things around. A knife was floating in middle-air, in which his camouflaged hand was holding firmly. Drops of blood were splattered around his body.
No one there could believe that the White warrior had such technology at his disposition, so they were taken by surprise.
Casper rushed towards them, willing to end that battle as soon as possible. He had resolute and cold eyes. His killing intent could be felt for all those criminals.
Shots started to echo as those men tossed off their hesitation and focused on what was happening. They pulled their triggers and tried to end the threat as fast as they could.
Nonetheless, the bullets barely arrived at the soldier before he could activate another device. This one was in the shape of a necklace and it made a blue shield appear around him, just like a dome. It lasted less than 10 seconds but was enough to make him ignore the rain of bullets coming on his way and don’t stop to run towards those guys.
The criminals didn’t wait for him to come too near and started to disperse in different directions. Some of them used their technologies to run away to distant places. They wished they could go at full-throttle against the White warrior, but they couldn’t kill him. If they did so, Rat would end with their existence.
However, the soldier was expecting that they would do so. His objective never was to kill or beat them up. In truth, the fight was never on his plans. The only thing he wanted there was to run away!
Once the enemies split up in all directions, though always keeping an eye on him, the soldier activated again his boot, but this time with its full capacity. Its sole began to eject fire like a flamethrower, propelling his body forward at a high speed.
The criminals were the ones expecting an intense battle and got flabbergasted once they saw him taking flight and going away with those fire boots.
Each second that passed they were faced with a new technology helping the White warrior. It was not in their plans at all.
Casper lasted sometime before he could take the grasp of how to fly with those things. In the process, he nearly crashed with numerous buildings.
Looking back he saw that the criminals were managing to give chase on him. Some of them had the same boots as him, others with a variation. The soldier also noticed that they had their hands positioned over one of their ears.
’Those guys have a different way to talk with their partners. It’s nothing like the Ridires need to do when contacting someone. I wonder how they could have access to all these types of technology.’
Casper crossed the skies with all those criminals on his tail. There weren’t too many people on the street at that hour, so just a few could see all that crazy situation happening.
Soon, the shots began, and the soldier no longer could fly in a straight line. He needed to choose different paths to take, deviate from buildings, and sometimes run for a while. It was difficult because the boots seemed to strain his ankle and calf every time more. After all, their propelling strength was high, and it was needed a lot of power to make him stay stabilized in the air.
’My body is still not used to this kind o pressure! In the end, the strength it exerts on my muscles is very different from what usually happens when using an exoskeleton!’
He heard another rain of bullets coming on his way. He turned his body to face them again but continuing to fly towards his home. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞
Casper activated the shield once again. That spheric blue energy formed on the surroundings, similar to a dome made of energy. The bullets struck it, being deflected.
’It won’t help me forever either. I have 4 charges on this necklace. Once I run out of charges, it will be useless! I am just starting here but I am already exhausting my resources.’
The soldier didn’t know whether he kept escaping in the air or went down and tried to sort out what to do when on the ground. He wouldn’t fly better than those people who probably trained a lot to do it. His lack of experience was showing on that escape since they were just some meters away to catch up with him.
’Another point here is that it’s harder to avoid the bullets when in middle-air. That’s why I needed to use my shield so many times like this.’
The attacks of the enemies turned more overwhelming. Once they started to close their distance, they stopped to economize bullets and fired with all they have got.
And that wasn’t all, more criminals appeared from aleatory spots of that floor, taking flight and trying to intercept Casper. His pursuers probably alerted the others about his escaping.
Casper was speeding up his boots, in a way that was somewhat harmful to him, but not enough to be debilitating. The soldier was aware of his previous injuries, so he wouldn’t push himself so much without any restraints.
’Even though I won’t be going at full throttle not to harm myself, I need to give my all to survive here! I need to find a way to fight back...’
Looking behind and on his sides, all he could see were enemies pursuing him in both middle-air and ground. Rat sent a lot of his troops to capture Casper, which left explicit that the soldier was an important resource for him.
’I am sieged here. It wasn’t just my building, but the entire floor was mobilized just to prevent me to run away... I could keep on flying for hours, but it wouldn’t do any good...’ He closed his eyes for a single moment, thinking.
’I am sorry, everyone. But we will have to change the plans before we even start.’
After he thought it, Casper opened his eyes, facing another building. But he didn’t avoid it. His body collided against it!
