I was too worried about Raptor getting away to think about the state of my friends.
Everyone wounded, lied on the ground. I got up with all my strength and helped them up too. "We lost." Oliver sighed. I was really ashamed of my battle with Raptor. "Only if I could have stopped Raptor…" I said, almost whispering. Everybody looked at me with their eyes wide. "Are you kidding?! Blaze, you did your best, better than any of us could. Don't blame yourself. We all are responsible. The DELTAs failed." Xavier said and tried to console me.
I kept Magnum (who was still shining a bit) back on my scabbard. We sat there for a while, remembering our big failure. There was no intention to follow Raptor because we knew he was gone too far. After a while, we got up to leave when Xavier's phone rang. He picked it up to see it was Rock Flames's call. He put the call on speaker mode. "Um-Mr. Rock Flames, we have a bad-" He was interrupted and Rock Flames's panicked voice could be heard.
"Come quickly! The Headquarters…" He stopped in between to have a little cry of pain. "What are you talking about?" Lily enquired. "Raptor arrived here just a few moments ago. He is destroying everything. I bet he is searching for me." He said. A question arose in my mind that how did Rock Flames know Raptor was searching for him. I assumed it was all connected but the puzzle was yet to be finished.
"Unfortunately right when the teleport gates opened for me to enter the real world, Raptor found it and entered the Headquarters. I am going to try to get him out into the real world. But Darknorians shouldn't be harmed. You have one more chance to kill him. Be here as quickly as possible." Saying so, he immediately cut the call. We all were stunned, looking at each other in awe, shocked to get another chance.
Though we all looked like we hadn't had a bath since a year, we rushed out of the jungle. While walking, we talked in a hurry. "How will we reach the Headquarters so fast? We will at least require two hours!" Lily exclaimed. "Flying taxi, that's how!" Oliver replied. All of us stopped for a moment, thinking that Oliver had gone nuts. But then it struck that we didn't have any other choice.
We knew the route and walked out of the jungle, into Saggron Town. We searched for two flying taxis. One was right in front of us. Oliver and Lily climbed aboard and quickly rushed off. Xavier and I had a hard time finding one. We finally found one after five minutes and rushed to our destination.
Though we were half dead after the fight, we hurried quickly to Foster Plaza. It was 8:36 pm. In about fifteen to twenty minutes, we reach the building. Foster Plaza was half destroyed, mainly the top part. People were hurriedly escaping from the area. We found Lily and Oliver on the roofless eighteenth floor with another figure. Lying half dead on the floor with everything destroyed around him, we saw Rock Flames.