Darian felt something wrong when the car suddenly accelerated. A few minutes after, he heard some gun shots from the rear. The four escort cars from the back is embroiled in fighting. When he thought things can't get anymore rougher, a motorcycle appeared from their side and the rider pointed the gun to his side and shoot. Fortunately, the bulletproof window held off. This happened so fast that the royal guard only managed to react after the rider first finished firing.
The guard lowered his side of the window and began to target the rider. The rider managed to avoid the bullets then fired another to guard.
Finicke, his assistant, is also preparing to fight. Although he's not as good as a royal guard but he was still trained to carry out basic protection. He saw that the enemy is increasing. This totally different from the information they received. They didn't expect that the enemy would want to eliminate Prince Darian so bad that they invested a large amount of resources for the killers. Something fishy is going on but this is not the time to ponder over things.
Suddenly, they heard someone knocking at the window. At first they thought that it was another enemy, but why would the enemy knock instead of bombarding them?
They were shocked when they noticed a young lady in a combat suit riding a skateboard is keeping up with the vehicle's speed.
Darian recognized the young lady as the same one who saved him yesterday. What is she doing here? He pushed the button to lower down the window.
"Prince what are you doing, she could be an enemy!" Finicke was horrified when he saw what the prince is doing and didn't realize he actually shouted at him.
"It's okay, she's the one who saved me yesterday" his curiosity actually get the better of him that's why he risked opening the window, and somehow he trusts that this lady won't do anything to harm him.
"Plan B" Ember said while looking at the assistant.
When Finicke heard what the lady said, his doubt vanished away but his brows can't help but twitch whenever he looks at the skateboard.
Plan B is when the operation gets compromised and they have to separate from the prince. The people from the organization said they will send someone to pick up the prince and lead him to the safe house they set up without anyone knowing but several key persons.
He just didn't expect them to send a young lass riding a skateboard. Then the lass took something from her pocket and throw out on the other side.
In just a matter of minutes, around five cars are already catching to them. But the cars slowed down and some got thrown away due to the bomb the lass had thrown. The tremor even reached their car.
"We don't have time to dilly dally" Ember is getting annoyed. She, for the second time yanked the prince, and placed him on her back.
"Hold on tight" she didn't wait for the prince to reply before she zoomed into the forest.
The Black road was called such because it is surrounded by black birch trees. It's a perfect cover to escape especially that the sun is already setting.
When they made a detour to the forest, several motorcycle came in after them. But Ember activated the traps they set up in advance.
They scouted the forest few days before the mission and choose possible ambush points and set up some traps. Fortunately, the area the enemy decided to attack within the area they chose so she can utilize the traps.
Land mines are triggered in chain reaction. The riders are helpless about it. But still, some are smart enough to get past the land mine area by going exactly where she had driven.
She felt the prince's arms tightening in her waist. He's been silent the whole time so she didn't know if he's already scared stiff but there's no way of bothering about it for now as long as he didn't let go.
The riders began to shoot but she managed to dodge all of them.
"You, change position with me" Ember told the prince.
"What, what will I do? I don't know how to maneuver this thing" as if woken up from stupor, the prince immediately denied her.
"You don't have a choice. My baby is on autopilot, so you don't need to worry" Ember declared proudly. She was the one who designed her skateboard with AI function and have her Big bro Yogi fabricate it. He specialized in inventing weird weapons and stuff.
"Here we go" as if dancing, she gracefully twist around and instantly swapped their position.
Without further ado, she grabbed a palm sized box and tapped it twice before it transformed into an assault rifle. The rifle is packed with enough force to blast through an armored tank.
One by one the enemies fell down.
Ember was very satisfied with the portable assault rifle performance. She clearly have to report it to her big brother.
Unfortunately, she didn't immediately notice that someone survived her shooting. The man actually threw a knife but then it was a futile effort. It only managed to graze a bit of her ankle, still, some blood flowed from it.
She shot the man in the head to ensure his death.
But before she can even celebrate her victory, she suddenly lost consciousness.
Darian heard a thud from the back. He didn't dare look back at first in case they bumped into a tree but he noticed that some weight was lifted off from the skateboard. To his horror, he saw the lady unconscious from afar.
He unconsciously thought about wanting to go back and to his surprise the skateboard made a U turn. When he's already in front of the lady, he willed it to stop and it did. He tried to set aside his awe and immediately attend to the unconscious girl.