Still four ’copters, and a dozen of men in black from the MCCA firing at us from behind the trees.
“They are not evil. They are doing what they believe is good. They are misled by their superiors, but not evil…” whispers Naecken, like if talking to himself.
“Their bad! Now I’m gonna wipe them all!” shouts Mr. Mxy, with a sarcastic smile on his face.
“No, wait!” I say, putting my hand firmly on the five dimensional being’s back. “If we kill them, their colleagues will want to avenge them, and we’ll be their target forever. It’s their leaders our true enemy, we have to harm them the less possible. Just like Danny is showing us”.
Naecken turns to me: “Very noble intentions, comrade… but how can we possibly do it?”
“We must disarm them, and leave. I will take care of two helicopters, I can’t go near the snipers, because they have that electrical gun that can harm me. You, Naecken, will take care of the other two. Danny will retrieve the pilots from the lake, while you, Mxy, and Tobias will disarm the snipers in the wood. But you must be less destructive than a tornado… Tobias can use his supervelocity to take the guns without being seen… while you… please don’t turn them into cow… maybe… can you animate the trees to scare them off?”
The man in top hat just smiles and walks off. Naecken transmits with his telepathy my suggestion to both Tobias and Danny, and then spreads his wings and flies off toward two of the helicopters.
Time to enter into action. The adrenaline pumps inside my veins. There is a broken glass still hanging from the surviving wall. The man looking at me is not the Edulcore I knew. Inside my old runner vest, with full red mask for enhanced aerodynamics, I look impressive. The old days of my glory are not so old anymore, I guess.
I turn lighter than air, and begin to rise toward the sky. I float in the direction of one of the ’copter, and then stop right in front of the pilot, just outside the glass.
The face of the pilot is hard to describe. And a scream of terror he emits when I pass trough the glass, and trough himself, to turn denser that diamond right in the place occupied by the engine.
The helicopter falls straight down, and I see Danny flying to rescue the pilot before the dive inside the gelid waters of the Michigan.
The second helicopter is turning back, maybe the it has been order to retire.
Sorry, not now.
No time to scary the pilot. I just touch the shell of the helicopter, and it turns ghost. The pilot suddenly realizes he is sitting over nothing, and falls. Well, after all I have scared him nearly to death. Danny catches him only inches above the water surface.
I have completed my part. What are doing Mxy, Naecken and Tobias?
But, before I turn to watch them, a sparkle very distant from the lakeside catches my attention. It’s a boat, and the sparkle was the reflection of the sun over… what? The lenses of a camera? A binoculars? Better to investigate…
