Escape

"Do it!" Dharma orders Hyker and everyone who has supported the plan.

Chaos broke out in the great hall just after Hyker activated the plane's main engine. Several people who did not agree with the captain jumped out of the plane's four main doors—two on the left and two on the right. Most of them were driven away by Fraya, Guntur, and their colleagues, including the supervisory robots.

Once Aios is under Ryan's control, the robots no longer have the power to go against the captain's will.

Inevitably, the spacecraft began to lift off the hall.

The fat ruler hastily lifted the curtains of the window in his room, his eyes seemed to be about to pop out of their sockets when he found the spaceship he had bought at a not cheap price was about to take off.

"Damn you, Dharma...!" he shouted in a booming voice.

He rushed out of the room. Several guards accompanied him. Swearings and curses like rain poured out of the distended man's mouth, echoing along the corridor.

"Stop them…!" said the fat ruler loudly as soon as he was on the third-floor balcony overlooking the great hall.

Shot after shot from various types of firearms sounded so deafening at that very moment.

For the guards, if someone hijacked the plane, their chance of leaving Earth would be lost. Although they would not have thought at all that the ruler only gave the wind of heaven. Thinking to defend the right people, the bodyguards desperately fired at the hijackers. Others jumped into the fuselage to enter the plane.

Their actions were in vain. In addition to the fuselage that would be impenetrable by bullets from the weapons of their caliber in their hands, even if they brought down the plane—by damaging the GEU engine under the fuselage—most likely, the plane would be severe damage.

However, they still shot the plane. Moreover, the ruler himself ordered them.

"You son-of-bitch!" cursed the ruler. "Shoot them! Don't let them take off! You're all stupid! Just destroy the planes!"

The ruler snatched a weapon from the hands of someone beside him. The ruler, who was very angry and pissed off, shot his guard to death.

"Stupid!" he cursed.

Pissed off at being deceived by the captain of his plane, the ruler shot blindly. If he can't leave Earth, neither can Dharma nor anyone.

The humanoid robots that were unrelated to the Aios program moved quickly. Jump and hang on the sides of the fuselage. The program in their bodies can only be stopped if the castle's guard system itself can be controlled. And this was not a small matter for Dharma and his companions on board.

The four main doors on the sides of the plane moved to shut, several guards and robots managed to reach them. Fraya was at the door on the left side, assisted by some of her colleagues they fought desperately to stop the guards and robots.

The same thing happened at the door on the right. Guntur and half a dozen comrades were there, trying to stop the steps of the figures filled with anger.

The four doors on both sides of the plane were tightly shut. Slowly, the plane was getting higher and higher.

"Asshole…!"

The cursing of the fat ruler was crushed by the sound of the roar of the engine. He continued to fire at the plane until his magazine was empty, while the plane was in a position past the height of the roof of his castle. The ruler let out a long scream, like a man who had lost his mind.

"Chasing them…!" he said as he headed for a chameleon.

"We almost died silly!" said Dharma in the cockpit.

Hyker chuckled as he adjusted the plane's flight path. "Relax, Cap. Don't worry about that!"

"Do you really think this is a game, huh?"

Hyker ignored the captain's words, he laughed even more. Dharma gives up, this one of his men is indeed a weirdo, that's all he can conclude.

"Activate the intercom!" the captain ordered.

Beep!

"Guntur, Fraya, are you guys okay?" Dharma smiled, the cheers of joy from some of the voices he heard explained more than a single word to him. "Indra, Jenny?"

"Never better, Captain."

It was Jennie's voice between Indra's laughter and several other voices. Dharma breathed a sigh of relief.

"Doc, are you okay in there?"

"Say what you want!"

Hyker chuckled at the doctor's annoyance, and Dharma didn't know what else to do but hold back his laughter.

The next second, Hyker brought the large plane flying west to pick up Ryan and the others.

Dozens of chameleons and fighter jets followed by opening fire at the spaceship that had been hijacked by its captain.

Dharma activates the weapon system of the spacecraft, especially the large weapons at the stern of the plane.

Gunfire broke out between the spacecraft and the pursuers. Explosion after explosion accompanied the pursuit, the Pangandaran Lord men did not seem to want to give up. One fall, another two come.

"Don't get your hopes up just yet!" Dharma said to everyone in the cockpit room, also heard almost everywhere in the big plane. "Focus on taking them down or all of our efforts will be in vain!"

Hyker returned to his serious face to control the plane. Several of his comrades in the cockpit concentrated on shooting down the pursuers. All done from a large screen and levers in front of each, including the captain himself.

"You won't be able to run away from this, Dharma…!" shouted the fat lord from a level-7 chameleon. "Take them down…!" he ordered his men.

"Keep fighting!" shouted Dharma to his comrades. "For the sake of each of us, keep fighting! Gather your spirits!"

Ka-boom…!

A chase plane was brought down by Dharma. The plane exploded instantly, debris bouncing in all directions.

"Keep shooting!" he shouted even more excited.

Blarrr!

A chameleon was crushed by a gunshot from one of Captain Dharma's men. The young woman smirked.

"Yeah!" she exclaimed. "Eat that, damn it!"

The fat lord grew even more furious. "Keep firing…!" he shouted.

Meanwhile, Hyker drove the spacecraft very skillfully. Sometimes he carried the plane almost vertically. Other times, it twisted in a zig-zag way to avoid being fired upon by the pursuers who could have damaged the plane itself later.

"Hyker…!" shouted the captain. "Stop circling! You make me dizzy!"

And Hyker responded to the captain's protest with a laugh. "Yu—huu…!" he shouted.

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TO BE CONTINUED ...