"Extract knowledge…erase memory…the hell are these people saying? How are they able to stand atop such a scary creature and speak to it. Wait…how is that creature even talking? Is it a rare kind of Meta…?" Yũxuãn mumbled to himself as he fell on his butt; his legs turning to jelly.
"Time to get this over with", Samuel said as he lifted the chopper closer to his head. His eyes glowed and after a few seconds, all the passengers of the chopper fell to the ground unconscious.
"Did you get anything good?" Delgato asked. Quite a lot. I'll have Lisia record everything when we return", Samuel said as he started flying down towards the ground. Reaching the icy ground, he let go of the chopper, letting it slide towards wherever…he honestly didn't care.
"The Institute covers an area of two thousand square meters, stretching to a depth of a quarter mile underground. All security sensors and anti-breech weapons have been disabled. Coming up on the institution's front door now,", Delgato announced as he tapped away on his palmtop.
"In that case, let's be proper gentlemen and ladies and knock", Samuel said as he stopped advancing and hovered.
Understanding Samuel's action, they all flew off his back; the non-fliers using the gear in their power suits to fly. The brothers Edward and Thomas, with only a few hours of training under their belt, struggled to stabilize themselves in the air. It took Sylvester and Delgato to support them from the side, giving them the chance to stabilize themselves.
Samuel then transformed back into his prime emergence form and allowed his body to be covered in his custom power suit; similar to that of Catherina's and having the appearance of a menacing flying demon. He flapped his wings and flew closer to the base.
"Be sure not to blow the whole place up!" Sylvia shouted to him. "I know! Don't worry! I'm only going to take a little bit off the top", Samuel said he began charging flames before his mouth.
"Knock-knock!" he shouted as the charged breath of fire shot towards the hidden institute.
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Evangeline sat behind her desk doing paperwork while still mumbling curses at Chen Yũxuãn. "Why have those fuckers still not contacted me yet?" she cursed questioningly as she turned to pick up her phone.
'BOOOM!!' a sudden loud explosion shook the entire underground building, causing Evangeline to fall out of her seat onto the hard tiled floor. "What's happening?!" she yelled out.
"Ma'am, we are under attack! We just lost the roof of the first floor! We are totally exposed!!" the assistant shouted as she burst through her door.
"Who's attacking?! Which agency?!" Evangeline asked in a panicked tone. "We're not sure, but they appear to be Metas", the assistant replied.
"So, they finally found us huh? I guess that's why we lost contact with the mercenaries. They are probably not too happy with what our organization is up to with their fellow Metas", she said arrogantly.
"What do we do ma'am?" the assistant asked. "What do you mean what? We have thousands of well-trained guards for this reason. Let them take care of the intruders. Try to capture them alive…we need new test specimens after we lost our last two high grade ones. Also, make sure to secure the other Metas we have in captivity", Evangeline instructed confidently.
"Yes ma'am. It shall be done", the assistant said and run out.
"I better take a look for myself. These Metas are quite rare but they shouldn't be able to overwhelm the thousands of well-trained anti-meta soldiers", Evangeline said as she left her desk and walked out the door.
"INTRUDER ALERT!! INTRUDER ALERT!! THE BASE IS UNDER ATTACK!! ALL NON-COMBAT PERSONNEL ARE TO EVACUATE TO THE TENTH FLOOR BUNKER!! ALL COMBAT PERSONNEL ARE TO REPORT TO THE FIRST FLOOR TO ENGAGE THE ENEMY!!" an alert rung out throughout the institute repeatedly as both combat and non-combat personnel run around purposefully.
The anti-meta combat units quickly gathered on the first floor with their specially designed anti-Meta weapons. They were stunned with the scale of destruction that was capable of being the result of an intercontinental ballistic missile strike. This may have been an over exaggeration but they couldn't imagine what kind of Meta's ability could cause it.
Flying above the exposed institute were a group of nine masked individuals. They all appeared to be in suits of uniform design and color. In the center of the group were two that had large wings and tails behind them but the male one looked scarier than the female.
"Hold it right there! If you try anything, we'll open fire!", the commander of the combat units shouted to the group floating above them as all his men on the ground aimed their weapons at them.
"Ho! They all have anti-Meta weapons. It's impressive what a lot of research funding can do for psychotic researchers with nothing else to do", Delgato noted after scanning the weapons with the display hub of his mask.
"They probably developed them through countless experimentation with the Metas they had in captivity. Isn't that, right?" Sylvia asked turning to Thomas and Edward.
"You're right, and since the two of us supposedly had the strongest Meta abilities, we bore the brunt of the experiments", Thomas replied.
"From what little I gathered from their conversations because of my sensitivity to sound, I learnt that the captured Metas were kept on different floors for experimentation in relation to the levels of strengths of their abilities. As the strongest, we were kept on the last floor so we couldn't easily escape", his brother explained in addition.
"That's quite insane. How many Metas do you think they have locked up in here", Sylvester asked the brothers. "We are not quite sure. With how rare we are, there shouldn't be more than twenty trapped in the entire institution", Thomas answered.
"Well, this has turned into a rescue mission as well. Let's get it done quickly…I want to go back and see Helen", Catherina whined.
"You are right. Let's get started. Lisia…if you will", Delgato said as he tapped a screen on his wrist and mini drones the size of a thumbs were released from their all their power suits.
"ACKNOWLEDGED! COMMENCING OPERATION!" Lisia said and took control of the mini drones and scattered them in the air.