Chapter 222 - Chapter 222 Evacuation Of Hope

As Zoey stood up she said "I'm ready to leave now we have been here for half an hour, we are wasting valuable time." Poppy glanced at her and said "He's fallen asleep just relax for a while." Zoey slapped Thomas in the back of the head and said "Then I'll just wake him up." As her hand made contact he spit up blood into the water and mumbled "Are you trying to kill me?" Poppy stared at Zoey and shouted "Why did you do that!" Zoey pointed at him and said "Get us out of here right now." Thomas stared at the red water in front of him and wiped his haw as he said "This is starting to get really annoying." Thomas glanced at her and said "Just give me a few minutes." After another five minutes the three of them walked out of a mana door and seen Sam doing push-ups with the vest on. Zoey stared at Sam and said "You better not have been slacking off while we were away." Sam glanced at Thomas and asked "How's the rookie?" Zoey glared at Thomas and said "He's still a disobedient good for nothing bastard." Thomas began to walk away as he said "Say what you want I'm leaving." Zoey grabbed onto the back of his jacket and said "Not quite." Thomas glanced at her and asked "What do you want now?" Zoey pointed at the building and said "You are to rest at headquarters, understand?" Thomas scratched the back of his head and said "I was just gonna sleep in an alley or something but I guess I'll do that." As he walked into the building with Poppy Sam smiled and said "Despite being known as a Sadist you still value others needs." Zoey glanced at him and said "Keep talking and I'll I force you to do five thousand with the boulder strapped to you." Sam glanced at her and said "Shutting up now." As Zoey walked off she said "I expect you to do more then just the push-ups by the way." Sam sighed and said "Yeah I know, you expect me to do all of the exercises." Thomas sat down at a table with Poppy and said "Before I go to sleep I'd like to know if you got anymore information on these Zeta creatures?" Poppy nodded and said "I have quite a bit of info on them." Poppy jumped onto the table and said "These creatures suddenly appeared when an earthquake happened, Sam says that no one else knows much about it but if you ask me I'm pretty sure there's something causing these things to appear." Thomas leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms as he said "We can probably wrap this up within a week." Poppy nodded and said "Potentially but if we want this to be a guaranteed success we better stay a while longer and you should continue your training." Thomas sighed and said "I better avoid getting to friendly with Sam though." Poppy nodded and said "Your right, it's probably best not to get too involved with people that aren't from the usual dimension." Thomas yawned as he said "We'll just continue and leave things as is for now." Poppy nodded and said "Yes that would be best." As they sat there a speaker activated and said "All soldiers available please report to the city walls and prepare for battle." Thomas glanced at Poppy and asked "What do you think that's all about?" Poppy stared at him and said "If I had to guess Zetas are attacking the city walls and are trying to get in here to exterminate what's left of humanity." Thomas stood up and picked Poppy up as he said "Well it said all soldiers do we better get going." Poppy held onto his shoulder and said "If we really are under attack you better hurry." Thomas nodded and said "Yeah but they never said which side of the wall." Poppy stared at him and said "Just rush to the nearest one." Thomas shrugged and teleported there as he said "Running sounds like a waste of time." As he appeared he seen that an army of Zetas surrounded the city and were now approaching the city. Thomas stared at them all and mumbled "Let's see they out number us by about, more then I can count." Poppy glanced at him and said "Nows not the time for fighting them just quickly find commander Zoey I have a plan." Thomas teleported back to Headquarters and grabbed a microphone as he said "I'm pretty sure I seen one of these on that tv at Kate's place." Thomas raised it to his mouth and shouted "Hey Zoey come back to Headquarters we have a plan." Thomas glanced at Poppy and said "That should do it." As Zoey walked up behind him she shouted "Who the hell gave you permission to use that!" Thomas stared at her and said "Just sit there and shut up for a moment." Poppy stared at Zoey and said "We can evacuate everyone here into Thomas's subspace, it won't be permanent but it should keep everyone safe for the time being." Zoey walked over and grabbed the microphone as she said "At this point we're surrounded, we may not make it out alive, but with your current plan we might make it through and live another day." Zoey lifted the microphone up to her mouth and said "Everyone head towards the headquarters we have just gotten word that we all have an immediate escape and can all make out alive, I repeat head to headquarters now." Zoey grabbed Thomas by the back of his jacket and began to drag him as she said "Let's go we need your abilities." Thomas sighed and said "This is gonna draw a lot of unwanted attention." As they stood outside of headquarters a crowd began to form in front of them as a few hundred panicked people began to ask "Where's the escape?" As Sam pushed his way through the crowd he stared at Zoey and asked "What the hell are you talking about, immediate escape?" Thomas creates a mana door and mumbled "Just go through I'll explain later." Zoey stood beside the door and opened it as she shouted "Everyone through this door now!" Thomas yawned as he said "Glad your so enthusiastic about this." As a flying Zeta dived down from the sky towards the crowd Sam chopped it in half and said "I'll stay on this side of the gate for the time being and keep watch over you guys." Zoey nodded and said "Very well but when the time comes we must leave no matter who hasn't made it back, we must assume the worst has happened to them." Zoey picked up a rifle and said "I suppose it's about time I show the rookie why I'm the commander." Zoey began to fire into the air taking out dozens of Zetas as she smiled and said "Its gonna take a lot more then this to wipe out the human race." Thomas glanced at her and asked "What about me?" Sam glanced at him and said "In all honesty I don't think these things would be able to catch you with an ability like this." Zoey shot past Thomas's head and hit a Zeta as she said "Right now your sitting duck and the mostly likely to be wiped out so we'll guard you for the time being." As a Zeta popped out of a building behind Thomas he turned around and said "I'm hardly a sitting duck, I'm just a bit distracted is all." Thomas raised his hand to the Zeta and shouted "Blaze!" Once the creature was on fire it turned around and began to run in the opposite direction. Poppy stared at Thomas and said "That reminds me these things are incredibly weak to fire." Thomas aimed his hand up into the sky and said "Then let's give these bastards a show." As a Zeta flew above Thomas he used his blaze spell to create a pillar of flame that could reach a flying Zeta as he said "Let's watch what happens when one of your burning corpses fall on top of your friends." Once everyone was through the door Thomas, Zoey, and Sam stood there back to back with the door as Sam asked "Is that everyone?" Zoey nodded and said "Now we can fall back." As they stood there inside of the subspace Thomas collapsed to the ground and mumbled "I used a lot of mana in one go, my body is suffering the after affect." Poppy ran over to him and asked "Is he okay?" Zoey nodded and said "It turns out he's not just some useless bastard." Thomas glanced at Poppy and asked "How is everyone else?" Poppy looked around and said "Well everyone got through safely, the worst injury here are just some bruises and scrapes but that's mostly because people fell when they were pushing and shoving to get through." Thomas put his head back on the ground and said "Well that's a relief."