"Hell yeah! Finally our turn to blow something up!" Coughing on smoke laced with gunpowder, Karl couldn't help but shout with excitement. Th
"Hell yeah! Finally our turn to blow something up!"
Coughing on smoke laced with gunpowder, Karl couldn't help but shout with excitement.
The gear they'd bought back in Dogtown had finally paid off. Just as expected — when facing heavy targets, you needed heavy weapons.
"We're not done yet!"
V lowered the man-portable anti-air launcher, eyes narrowing as another hovercraft emerged from the explosion's aftermath. "There's still one left!"
The surviving Scorpiontail had already lined up its autocannons, aimed squarely at the team riding in the Skytower Hera.
Warnings were over. Now that they'd engaged first, Militech's protocol was simple: fire back.
A downpour of rounds capable of shredding the Hera in a single volley came crashing down. At the last possible moment, Oliver activated the Sandevistan and yanked the steering wheel. The vehicle jerked violently, skidding out of the line of fire.
Karl, caught by the momentum, slammed into the side of the car. The unsecured door nearly flew open, threatening to eject him. He barely managed to grab onto the seat in time. Where they'd just been, the ground erupted with dust and smoke, a solid trail of destruction trailing behind them.
"Fuck! That cannon's insane! We take one direct hit and we're done!"
Jack pulled out an EMP grenade and hurled it toward the hovercraft. But the Scorpiontail ascended quickly, evading the blast with ease.
"If it hit Jack, maybe he'd walk it off. But us? We'd be toast," Karl muttered.
He watched the Scorpiontail drop altitude again, realigning its cannons. Still unsteady, Karl forced himself upright. "V, give me a boost!"
"Karl, wait, are you—?"
V didn't even finish. He saw Karl leap.
Jumping on a moving vehicle meant your body retained its momentum — you stayed in sync with the car's motion until gravity pulled you back. But if you wanted to break that path — you needed help.
V understood instantly. He cupped his hands.
Karl's boots landed squarely in them.
"Go get 'em, Karl!"
With a solid push from V, Karl was launched high into the air — straight toward the incoming hovercraft.
Inside, the Militech soldiers watched through internal monitors, stunned. For a second, they all thought the same thing:
A moth to the flame?
That thought didn't last. Midair, Karl twisted his body.
Double jump.
Compressed air blasted downward from his boots. The counterforce boosted him higher, now eye-level with the hovercraft.
The cannons had him locked — but they didn't get the chance to fire.
Karl inhaled.
Time slowed.
A flicker of silver pulsed at his wrist.
The monowire. Like a crescent moon, it snapped forward.
Karl had never bothered to name it — but it was his. Sharp, energy-efficient, and unmatched. Nothing on the market came close.
Certainly not the armor plating on a Militech Scorpiontail.
It sliced through the air like a hot knife through butter. Two meters of the hovercraft's front section were cut clean through. Under the stress of motion and wind, the structure warped — air tore through the split, peeling the vehicle in half like an egg cracked open.
One of the soldiers inside, face contorted in terror, was thrown forward by inertia — straight toward Karl.
He landed neatly through the opening, as if the hovercraft had invited him in.
Time resumed.
Beep—beep—beep—WHRRRR—!
Alarms blared inside. The hovercraft was going down.
Karl stood amid the chaos, flashing the soldiers a calm smile.
Ten meters wasn't far — a boosted jump could reach it easily. But for these soldiers trapped in a tumbling metal coffin, it was a death sentence.
"Brace yourselves," Karl said gently.
No one responded. They clung to anything they could find, silent with fear.
Karl shook his head. "It's just a fall, guys. Airbags'll cushion the hit. You'll be fine. Look — I'm standing right here, aren't I?"
But just to be safe...
He reached into his gear and pulled out a small device. Under the soldiers' horrified gazes — he pulled the pin.
Falling wouldn't kill them. But this just might.
BOOM!
The hovercraft smashed into the ground. Airbags deployed, metal groaned, the hull cracked. The soldiers were bloodied, but alive.
And then they saw it — a grenade, carefully placed between them.
"Pleasure meeting you," Karl said casually.
Then he vanished.
Reappearing five meters away, he looked back.
"Now… goodbye."
Behind him, the hovercraft exploded — torn apart in a fiery blast.
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