POV ZHU YUAN
What is going on?
One minute, I was going to notify the rest of the squad to look out for another missing person, the next, the toy factory broke open.
And multiple toys were running out of the building. Yes, actual toys, they were somehow moving on their own, and all of them had weapons in their little hands.
This had to be some sort of dream, literal toys were attacking the civilians, and there was no hollow to be seen.
I had one half stay behind to keep these toys away, while the other half focused on evacuating the people.
"Qingyi, how are we with the evacuation?" I asked while kicking a toy in her direction.
"The evacuation is nearly complete, but the other officers are having a hard time slowing down the vermin." She slammed the end of her staff at the doll I kicked at her, and the sound of bone breaking could be heard.
I shivered as soon as I heard the sound, it was something I kept hearing as we all destroyed one toy after another.
I didn't want to think of the worst, but each time I heard the sound of bones breaking, I couldn't help myself but think, were these the missing victims?
Were they forced to be turned into these toys, harming their loved ones, could they be reasoned with?
But I was forced to drown those thoughts, the people here needed to evacuate, if not, who knows how many of the people would be turned into toys.
"Qingyi, call for reinforcements, we need to close off the streets!" I shouted while shooting down more of the toys.
[Sorry, but I can't let you do that~! This isn't your story ;)]
"I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but something is jamming my signal, so we're on our own." She then split her staff into the three staffed mode, slamming both ends around her to strike at any toy that tried to run pass her.
However, as we destroyed one toy, ten more showed up. They were multiplying too fast for us to handle, we had to pull back to not overwhelmed.
"Officer Zhu Yuan, we need assistance!" One of my colleagues had shouted through the radio, with gunfire in the background.
"What's the problem?" I I shot a few more toys and kicked a few more towards Qingyi, who took them out effortlessly.
"We're engaging in a fire fight with toy solders, we need reinforcements." I had just kicked another toy away, and froze with my leg in the air.
'Toy solders, toy solders with actually working guns?' I forgot where I was since what I had heard seemed impossible, it should be impossible.
How were toys solders able to fire back, no, how did they have functioning guns?
"Zhu Yuan, look out!" I snapped out of my stupor and noticed one of those toy sliders had appeared in front of us.
Not only was it the size of a person , both the skin and clothing were blue, and in its hands was a rifle.
It raised its gun towards me and pulled the trigger, sending bullets to where I stood. I just stood their, shocked to see an actual toy solder firing bullets.
But before they could reach me, Qingyi stood in front of me and caused her three section staff to become one whole staff.
She then spun the staff in her hands, blocking the bullets that were flying towards me, and the sound of metal hitting metal could be heard.
The bullets began to litter in front of us, and when I looked down at the bullets, I saw that the bullets themselves were blue.
I couldn't understand it, first toy dolls moving and using weapons, now toy solders with working guns.
As soon as the toy solder fired the last bullet, it began to replace the empty magazine, however, as soon as it pulled back the chamber, I was in front of it with my own gun raised.
It then reacted by smacking my arm away with its own gun and pulled out a combat knife.
It swung the knife towards my stomach and I was forced to jump back to avoid getting cut, it may look like plastic, but I saw it fire its gun, I didn't want to risk anything to check if the knife was fake as well.
Once I was far enough, the both of us began it circle one another, the solder with their gun aimed at me, and me aiming back.
However, it lunged straight towards me from below, brandishing their knife to cut me, however, instead of jumping back, I ran towards it.
Yet when I tried to go for a high kick, the solder rolled to the side and swung its knife to cut me on the leg.
Instead of cutting me, I was pushed myself into the air and fired a few rounds.
However it took the chance to run behind some rubble that was close by, hiding from my line of fire.
I soon did the same., hiding behind some rubble to reload my gun. I wanted to peak around the corner to see where it was, but I had to pull back to avoid getting shot.
"Qingyi, I need some assistance!" I called out to her and fired a few stray shots to where the toy solder was.
"Sorry, but I'm facing my opponent, two of them to be exact!" I took the chance to look on what was happening and I felt my stomach drop.
I saw Qingyi facing off two toys, one of them was blue, while the other was red. Yet both of them had boxing gloves instead of hands, what's worse, both of them were twice her size.
The only silver lining about this, was that she was only facing one of them, while the other boxer stood to the side, watching the whole fight.
The toy Qingyi faced was throw in different types of combos here and there, but with its body being twice her size, it was slow.
Qingyi was able to doge each attack with ease, jumping around the boxer while also attacking it from behind and sides.
The boxer had trouble keeping up with Qingyi, it soon raised both arms up and brought it down onto the ground.
I thought it was going to be a small tap, yet a large spiderweb ran across the ground as the fists made contact with the ground.
Seeing this Qingyi began to quickly run around it, slamming both ends to subdue it, but at the last moment, the toy boxers upper body spun in a full circle.
Knocking Qingyi back and it ran towards the second boxer, looking at the first one, I saw that it's body was littered with cracks and burnt marks from Qingyi's staff.
Both boxers tapped their gloves, and the red boxer slammed its gloves together, taunting Qingyi.
"I see, so this is how boxers taunt one another." She then spun her staff a few times and soon separated her staff into a three section staff again.
She then held up her hand and gave the boxer a taunt of her own, daring it to approach her.
I however soon had to look away when I heard the sound of footsteps getting closer, and I recalled on who I was facing.
I grabbed a small piece of stone and tossed it in the air, as soon as I heard the sound of gunfire, I dashed out of the cover and saw the solder in front of me.
The solder tried to aim its gun, but it was too slow, I had already reached in front of it and kicked it's gun away, forcing it to pull out the combat knife once again.
Only this time, I made sure to stick close to him while firing a few shots to keep it away from its gun.
It tried to swing a few times with its knife, aiming for my joints or any vital areas to slow me down, but it acted more like it was new.
So it was easy for me to take it down and subdue it, I had grabbed the arm that held the knife and pinned its arm behind it, and swept its leg, forcing it to face the ground.
However, it kept struggling, trying to escape my grasp. I wanted to talk to it, to reason with it and ask why it was attacking civilians.
Instead, I heard a pair of footsteps approaching us, looking up, I saw a girl that looked no more than twelve years old.
The girl wore a mask to hide its face, and on the center of the mask, it had what looked like a chess piece, a bishop to be more specific.
"Don't waste your breath, it wont listen." The child's voice was warped, probably using a device to disguise their voice.
"Kid, it isn't safe here, you need to go and find your parents." I said with urgency, but the child ignored me and stared at the toy solder.
"Nah, here, let me deal with that." The child's shadow then began to bubble, and out came what looked like a shadow tentacle.
It didn't move at first, but it soon dove into the back of the solders head, piercing through the entire thing with ease.
I was confused, scared, and cautious at the sight, I instinctively jumped back and raised my gun at the child, my finger on the trigger and ready to fire.
"Wow, no thank you? Rude." The child huffed but they didn't say anything more, I wanted to apologize.
But with how she was acting, and how quick she killed the solder, I didn't want to take any chances.
"Put your hands above your head, I'm taking you in for questioning." I ordered the child, however, I had a feeling the child rolled their eyes.
"Seriously? Man, you adults are always the same, you always point first then ask later." She said with annoyance and began to walk away.
"Stop, or I will shoot!" I shouted, but the child didn't respond, only glancing at me over their shoulder.
"Don't you have a partner to help?" I soon remembered about the fight Qingyi was in, but I wanted answers to what is happening.
In the end I chose to help Qingyi, she was not only an impressive android, but also my friend, even if she is blunt.
And I was glad that I chose to help her, Qingyi was facing the blue boxer once again,
Meaning the red boxer must be standing to the side healing. I didn't have a choice but to face it myself in order to make things more even.
I rushed towards the boxer and began to fire my gun, and it responded by raising its arms to block.
The bullets barely made a dent to its arm, but the markings were there. It then began to walk towards me, both arms raised and ready for a fight.
As it walked towards me, I did the same, walking towards it while firing one shot after another.
Yet it kept walking with no hesitation, as soon as it stood in front of me, it threw a jab towards me, barely missing me as I dodged it at the last second.
I had no choice but to pull back from its reach, and I looked down to check if there was any damage, only to widen my eyes in fear.
It hadn't touched me, yet when I looked at my uniform, there was a large cut. It tore through the jacket with ease.
No signs of tearing, no strands of thread was loose. Only one large clean cut through the side.
I knew that I had to be cautious, if not, I would have a piece of me thrown far away. I rushed forward once again, but this time I made sure to stay low.
Using their speed against them, I had felt multiple blows on their lower joints, but it didn't phase it one bit.
It only kept swinging its arms wildly, trying ti strike me, but with no luck, it didn't land a single it.
We were at an impasse, neither causing damage, yet it had one advantage, it was neither human, not thiren, it could keep swinging as much as it wants, as long as it wants.
But I on the other hand was a human, someone with limits, so I had no cloche but to pull out my supressor and placed it on my k-22.
"I really don't want to do this, but I got no choice!" I shouted and fired, watching as the missiles and ether lasers flew towards the boxer.
Seeing all of this, it widened its stance and raised both of its arms, slamming them together.
Finally, all of the missiles and lasers soon struck it, creating a large explosion and kicking up a large dust cloud.
I thought that it was enough, since all the ether that was stored caused this. I sighed in relief and reloaded my gun, while discarding the now empty supressor.
But the second I turned my back to help Qingyi, the cloud had parted and the red boxer was their, its arms raised and fully pulled back.
I only had the chance to look, and soon saw it close to my head. And I began to see my entire life.
The first time I planted my tomatoes, the birthday I had that was tomato themed, and even the moment I saw my mom before I moved out.
'Ah, didn't mom invite me for dinner tonight? Guess there going to be sad, sorry mom, sorry dad.' I closed my eyes and was scared.
Yet I felt peace, like I knew what I was doing was going to affect a lot of my friends, not in a negative way, but in a more impactful way.
I soon heard the sound glass cracking and I didn't feel any pain. I opened my eyes to see what had happene, and I felt my entire body go slack.
In front of me was a man with a long grey trench coat with a hood that covered his hair, and in front of him was a large red crystal.
It looked like it had cracked, but the crystal didn't budge, instead, it stood in front of us, its red color intimidating not only the boxer, but me as well.
I hadn't seen anything like this at all, there was no ether flowing from it, instead, it was something worse.
I could feel it, the man then turned towards me, and on his face was a mask, but looking at the top, it has the chess symbol of the king.
"Are you alright?" The man asked me and held out his hand, I was speechless on what had happened, and I didn't react.
Instead, I could only nod my head at his question. Seeing the lack of strength, the man soon pulled me up, what he didn't expect, was for me to still be weak.
I ended up leaning against his body, and he had to place his entire arm around my waist. Not only was he strong, but he was gentle, as if he carried me like I was a piece of glass.
This was a first for me, since I had never felt this vulnerable before, not ever since the incident.
"Bishop two, I need you to take this officer with the rest of the group." He spoke with the same warped voice, and a woman stood by his side
"But king, who will deal with this?" The woman motioned to the red boxer that was punching the crystal over and over.
"Rook one can deal with it, our focus is the civilians and officers." He replied and began to carry me away.
The boxer soon broke through the crystal, and ran towards us, but the man named king didn't look back, he just kept walking forward with no regards.
I was about to warn him on the oncoming attack, but a third woman came in from behind, slamming her fist against the boxer's glove.
I closed my eyes to prevent any dust or dirt from entering, but I felt something cover my entire body.
Opening my eyes, I saw that the man had used his trench coat to block the dirt and dust, and soon looked down at my face.
"Are you alright? We don't want anything bad happening to you." I felt my entire face heat up, I tried to speak, but no words escaped my mouth.
"Ah uweh… eheheh…" I didn't know whether I wanted to be transformed into an ethereal, or to just hide in my home for the rest of my days.
"King, she must be in shock, it's best if we take her to the rest of her companions." Spoke bishop, the king nodded his head at bishops advice and turned to rook.
"Rook two, you and rook one deal with the boxers, me and bishop one will get the officer with the rest of her squad!" He shouted and both king and bishop began to run.
"Fine, but you owe me!" The rook slammed both her arms together and slid on the ground, barely moving a few feet away.
"W-wait, my partner is dealing with the other one." I finally spoke, but my worries didn't last long when I saw her running next to us, holding her arm.
"Relax, it seems the reinforcement has arrived, albeit suspicious for knowing about the situation at hand, their assistance is appreciated." She stared at the two of them with caution, but didn't say more.
"Don't mention it, but for now, its best of you call me king." He introduced himself to Qingyi, which made me worried about him.
"Ho, does that mean you are the leader of the organization?" She asked, but king didn't respond, he didn't need to.
After running for a few more minutes, we were able to meet with the rest of our squad, king then placed me on my feet and was about to leave, but not before I grabbed his sleeve.
"Thank you, for not only saving me, but my partner." King only glanced over his shoulder, staring at me.
"We both protect the people, but our way to protect them is different from yours." He placed his hand on mine, and gently pried it off him and ran towards the chaos.
"Captain, do we stop them?" One of my subordinates asked, aiming their gun at the back of king.
"No, they have an idea on how to deal with this, for now, locate any survivors and set up a perimeter, we're going hold down until reinforcements arrive!" I shouted the entire squad saluted at my words and began to locate any survivors.
Guiding them away from the chaos behind us, Qingyi soon stood by my side, staring at me.
"It seems you changed, was it because of the man?" She teased l, hiding her mouth behind her hand.
I only coughed and composed myself, but the heat I felt on my ears gave me away. I decided to walk away as quick as I could, and focus on the problems at hand to distract myself.
[Hohoho seems police girl got shot through the heart, seems the ring just got bigger, but will the police win, or will it be the proxy, stay turned for dragon bal… wait, what do you mean I'll get copyrighted?!]
[Fine, fine, anyways, send them rocks to show support, bye bye!]