Last Time We Will Be Here

Their biggest fear, seeing Rosa restrained with a chain in the bathroom. She had cuts on her entire body and Gerald saw something different on her head.

"Is she?..."

"Yes... I think so. I never expect this to happen."

"What should we do now? It must be a capital crime that we rescue a demon."

"Hmm, I have an idea. I was a spy in a relatively peaceful kingdom. I can call in a few favor," Laura said.

"Get to the ship and bring our combat uniform. Wear yours and make sure that you don't make a ruckus before I get the princess out. Our rendezvous should be anywhere, my watch should show my location. I will deal with the cuffs that she wore, " Gerald said as Laura got out of the room.

Rosa was strangled with a chain across her whole body and a chain on her feet and hands. She had wounds on her bodies and her clothes were torn apart. Gerald pulled a small pin from his watch.

"Jeez, poor you, " Gerald said as he unlocked the cuffs one by one.

"Gerald... Is that... You?" She asked Albeit blood was coming out of her mouth.

"Shhhh, be quiet. You shouldn't be talking for now, " Gerald said as he unlocked the cuffs on her hands.

He unlocked the cuffs and Rosa fell on the ground. She fell in the ground and dropped on the bloody pool that she made by her blood. He carried her on her back and began the procedure of exfiltration for a governmental person from a dangerous environment.

"Princess, got an idea where I should get out of here without anyone noticing us?" Gerald asked.

"Why... Are you... Rescuing me?" She asked as she pointed her finger at a door.

"It's what a friend should do, " he said as he goes through the door and put a bullet in a guard's head.

Laura: "I have finished retrieving the clothes and dumping the evidence. You should be careful, the palace is under lockdown now. Nobody gets in and nobody gets out. I will head there, ETA 200 seconds."

Gerald: "Much appreciated sweetheart."

"Clarisse, Could you triangulate my location for teleportation?" He asked his watch.

"I can't. Rosa is too unfit for teleportation, " His watch said.

"Thanks for nothing, " He said as he ran through an empty room and hid there from the guards.

"I HEARD A FOOTSTEPS, THIS ROOM!" he heard the knights shouting.

"Ah fuck me, " He said as he aimed the pistol with one of his hands to the door direction.

Loud and heavy footsteps could be heard from the door directions. It could six, it could be twelve, it could be a whole battalion behind that door. Anyway, here they come.

A guard kicked the front door and Gerald put a bullet inside his head. Another entered the door and he shot it again and the guards became smarter and took cover behind the door where the bullets couldn't reach them.

They weren't stupid too, they brought in the mages which had the area of effect damage. They started to fire fireballs in the room and it started burning their room.

"Clarisse, predict how much time I have left, " He asked his watch.

"150 seconds before Rosa run out of oxygen, " she said.

Laura: "ETA one minute."

Gerald: "Quickly!"

The fireball slowly engulfed the whole room and smoke started to enter Gerald's lungs. It was suffocating his lungs and messed up his coordination. Occasionally, he shot at the door to kill someone that tried to peek into that room.

"That's it. I'm running out of ammo, " Gerald said as he holstered his pistol inside his pants and started throwing things through the door to barricade it.

Then he noticed something from the window, a group of elf archers started firing arrows at that room in incredible intensity. The window of that room got broken into several pieces as arrows were raining in that room.

"Arrgh, my arm, " Gerald got hit by an arrow on his arm.

Gerald: "Laura!"

Laura: "I can see the window. Jumping now!"

A figure suddenly appeared from the broken window. It held an FR-90 and carried a large rucksack on its back. It killed everyone that was attacking Gerald and Rosa. It turned into bloodbath quickly as the figure started ripping the bodies of the guards and torn the head of the mage. The elves' arrow rain stopped and the sound of bodies dropping to the ground could be heard from the trees next to the room.

Laura: "Are both of you ok?"

Gerald: "Not really."

He showed his arm to Laura and nanomachine appeared from her suit and treated his wounds. Laura dropped the rucksack. "Sir, we need to hurry. I need to bring her unscathed, but I'm going to need a heavy amount of distraction."

He grabbed the rucksack on his back and he nodded at Laura, "Hit me on the speakerphone. I can do some distraction, " Laura applied a large amount of bandage at Rosa's body and carried her on her back.

"Sure, make sure you get out alive, " She said as she jumped from the roof.

"Better keep that wish for the others, " Gerald referred to the guards that he was going to kill.

He stripped and replaced his clothes to the light combat armor that Laura gave. He inspected his new weapon and armor, he also reloaded his smart pistol.

[Welcome back Sir]

"Yeah, nice to meet you too."

[Initiating damage scan. Damage detected, repairing... Repair complete]

The hand was repaired and he was ready for another action. He checked his energy rifle, ammo loaded, capacitator charged, all set.

[Scanning for biometric activities. Scanning civilian, target marked.]

The radar displayed the number of guards that were there and also their location. He burned his new clothes with Thermodium grenade which could be burned to 25000K.

He dashed from that room and went straight to the party where most of the people were gathering. Several guards were trying to catch him, but they were dreaming. They got put down by his laser assault rifle before posed a significant threat.

"Guards! Stop the demon!" The guards shouted before his face got melted by an ionized particle rifle.

He went through the large door that was opened by the princess. It was locked again, but this time, he brought the perfect tool. He attached an explosive to the door and blasted it. The dust started to fill the hallway and the jazz music in the party hallway stopped.

The next thing that he heard was a large amount of screaming and shouting from the ballroom. He also had some good news from Laura.

Laura: "I have arrived at a safe place. On the very far edge of the floating island. No guards in pursuit. The corvette will arrive in 2 minutes. Will you tag along?"

Gerald: "Thank you, sweetheart, for the offer, but I prefer to geto when everyone is safe."

Laura: "Aye aye sir."

He ran to the ballroom and the guests were in chaos, most of them were running and stomping against each other while the guards were busy calming them down. It was true chaos.

He started shooting everywhere, the lamps, the windows, and the glass tableware. He shot at anything that could scare the crowd and attract the guards.

[Displaying Attention Meter]

A digital meter appeared in front of the HUD, it displayed the amount of attention that Gerald could pull away from Laura. It would deplete once Laura was safe or he got the maximum amount of attention.

Thousands of red plasma bolt melted multiple things at once. The guards we're covering the royalties that were trying to escape. That was expected considering their honest motives, but Gerald had to make havoc.

"Shield in front. Archer cover them from behind!" A commander shouted behind a shield formation.

A rain of arrows started falling again to him, but this time he had a better counter.

[Countermeasures Deployed]

The arrows got blown in the air. The guards were looking at it in silence. Its just fear, plain and simple.

He pulled the trigger again and obliterated that shield formation. He melted everyone including the commander. Though, the king couldn't be found.

Laura: "The Battlecruiser has arrived. We have to get out of the hot zone. Thanks, dad."

Gerald: "Did you just call me dad?"

Laura: "Yes, please get out there Father."

Gerald: "Copy that sweetheart."

Clarisse: "Need a lift commander?"

Gerald: "Nah thank you, I prefer the long way down."

Knowing that Rosa and Laura are safe, he proceeds to get out of the ballroom and headed to the garden where his next enemies were waiting. There were 30 different mechs that were waiting for him.

There were many kinds of them, but he got the idea that most of them resembled a foot infantry, shield, swordsman, archer, mage, cavalry, etc. He looked around and found that he was surrounded.

"Demon! Surrender now and we will let you free!" One of the mechs said that.

"That's too bad, I'm not planning to do that," he fired a grappling hook to one of the mechs head while melting the cockpit with his rifle. The other mechs were standing in shock due to his fast reaction time. But it was too late, Gerald had reached the edge of the floating island.

"Surrender now! We are surrounding you!"

"Too bad. I'm taking a long way down," he said as he jumped from the floating island that had an altitude of 100 km from the ground.

[Exfiltration complete]

"Not that fast you demon!" A mech jumped from the floating island and followed by multiple wyverns.

"Oh Gawd," he started blasting the mechs as he freefalls to the ground.

[Altitude: 98 km]

In that dark night sky, the mechs and Gerald were exchanging fire against each other, but Gerald had every single advantage. He shot at every mech that followed him using his rifle.

"Get some!" He shot his rifle at the mech and obliterated it in the sky that killed multiple wyverns at once.

Clarisse: "Commander, can you see us?"

The HUD told him to look left and he saw it in the distance. A giant two kilometers long spaceship that was diving towards the ground. He was so little compared to that monstrosity. It was approaching him at almost the same speed as the mechs.

Laura: "I'm here sir. You have 70 seconds."

Gerald: "Copy that sweetie."

He continued to blast to the mechs, but as the space ship came closer to him. The wyverns and the mechs were obliterated into small pieces by the ship's automatic defense system.

[Exfiltration complete. No enemies in pursuit. Mission complete commander]

He grabbed on the handle of the spaceship and the spaceship adjusted its thruster to stabilize itself and tried to fly horizontally. He sat down on top of the exterior of the spaceship and looked up to the sky as he saw many flying ships were escaping from a floating island.

Boom boom, he saw the explosion. 'Looks like I've done it again."