Inside the wrecked military vehicle, silence loomed like a shroud of burning iron. Black smoke rose from the engine, and the smell of fuel mixed with blood filled the place. Suddenly, with a heavy screech, the rear doors of the vehicle opened.
Outside stood three men and a woman, their features tense but resolute.
Daisy raised her head, her eyes glowing with confusion, and asked in a trembling voice:
— "Who are you?..."
Simon smiled slyly, as if trying to break the heaviness of the moment with sarcasm:
— "We… are superheroes."
His sister Hana looked at him in shock:
— "What?!..."
Mosta, exhaling angrily from behind him:
— "I told you to stop these fantasies, boy!"
But a firm voice ended the discussion, as Commander Khaled spoke:
— "Enough!"
He then turned and looked directly at Daisy:
— "We are like you… poisoned by the toxic radiation."
A silence of shock swept among the wounded inside the vehicle. Their features faltered, and Daisy's breath trembled. She had not yet grasped what it meant for them to be "like her."
Khaled's men moved quickly, helping the wounded out one by one from the twisted iron. In the background, the sound of the team's aircraft grew louder, its engine preparing for takeoff.
Mosta shouted near the plane:
— "Hurry before reinforcements arrive!"
Khaled raised the communicator at his ear and spoke firmly:
— "Almy, give us time."
Her voice came through the device, tense but steady:
— "The army is about ten minutes away from you, from the south."
Daisy felt the world collapsing with every second. As she stepped toward the plane, she caught sight of a human figure amidst the wreckage. She quickly turned—there was the vehicle's assistant, still alive. His body smeared with blood, chest heaving with difficulty, a weak wheezing escaping him.
A stab struck her heart… a harsh pang of guilt. She couldn't turn her back on him. She rushed to him.
Simon shouted from behind:
— "Hey! Where are you going?!"
But she didn't answer. She pulled the injured man from the debris and knelt beside him, burying her hands in blood as she tried to stop the bleeding, searching for the wound. Her helplessness gnawed at her like a rusty blade.
Simon stood behind her, his voice hesitant this time:
— "I don't think we can save him…"
From afar, Mosta yelled nervously:
— "What the hell are you doing?!"
Khaled approached with firm steps, his eyes narrowing as he felt time slipping through his fingers. He placed his hand on Daisy's shoulder and spoke in a stern tone:
— "I know it's hard… but we don't have time."
She lifted her tearful eyes to him:
— "Why can't we take him with us? You can't leave him to die here!"
He replied with military coldness:
— "He'll die on the way."
Mosta's voice echoed from the plane, shouting:
— "Five minutes left!"
Khaled stood sharply and decisively, his voice cutting like a knife:
— "If you don't come with us, your fate will be like his."
He stepped back with Simon, preparing to withdraw. In the cockpit, Hana was receiving an urgent message from Almy:
— "A large force is moving toward you, hurry!"
Daisy felt everything collapsing. Her heart pounded wildly. Should she leave him to die? Should she betray her humanity? The conflict exploded in her head like lightning.
Suddenly, without realizing it, her hands rose above the soldier. Her eyes now glowed with green light. Energy began to surge from her palms, a blazing beam piercing the darkness. The air itself quivered around her.
The soldier, who had been on the verge of death, began to convulse. His wounds slowly sealed, the bleeding stopped, and his chest rose with deeper breaths.
Mosta, from afar:
— "Wtf...?!"
Simon, smiling lightly:
— "Looks like we've got our own doctor."
Khaled, despite his sternness, couldn't hide his astonishment:
— "Her abilities… are unique."
As for Daisy, she looked at her trembling hands in shock, her eyes reflecting fear. She couldn't yet understand what she had just done.
But time showed no mercy. The aircraft engines roared louder, and the glow of the army's lights drew closer on the horizon.
The reinforcements reached the crash site, but the sky shook as the aircraft took off. It had left barely thirty seconds earlier, leaving behind a clamor of sirens and the rumble of armored wheels that had come too late.
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