"So what is your plan?"
Asked Jacob.
"I have thought about it. But, there is a risk."
"Risk? What kind of risk?"
Dan asked eagerly. Obviously, anybody would think twice before taking any risk. And nobody would want to put their lives in danger.
Arman hesitated before telling them that "You guys might die if we fail in our operation."
Jacob and Dan started sweating heavily.
'Die? He is saying such words so easily. Does he hate us!'
Dan then said, with cold sweat on his face.
"Is it possible that we stay out of this and you save your brothers without us?"
But Arman was persistent. "Come on guys! There is no plan without you. You have to help me out."
Arman kept on insisting, and they agreed in the end.
"So the plan will be...
**************
The next morning,10:30 a.m. Arman's old house.
"Why isn't he here yet?" Soso cried.
"I will go and have a look around." H.E.X.A. leaved.
He pressed some buttons on a device on his hands. "Send me his location Boss."
"Alright"
Soso started to rapidly type something on the keyboard of his computer.
Soso sent H.E.X.A. the location.
It was the same restaurant where Arman met Jacob Dan yesterday.
Jacob, who was hiding behind a tree, saw H.E.X.A. flying by.
He quickly ran towards where Arman and Dan were sitting. "Arman, as you said, a robot did come flying."
"Didn't I tell you? Now get onto the plan."
H.E.X.A. landed with some distance between himself and the restaurant, so that he won't get spotted. But he was unaware of the fact that they already knew that he was here. No, they wanted H.E.X.A. to come here.
"H.E.X.A. , share your vision with us." Said Soso. And H.E.X.A.'s sight was being shown on the screen in Soso's spaceship. Even Ali and Jamal could see it. And due to H.E.X.A.'s high perception microphones, they could hear Arman and his friends even with such a distance.
"So Arman, aren't you going to save your brothers?" Asked Dan.
"Nah, I don't need them. It feels like my headache has gone. Those I truly care for, are my friends. You, Jacob and Dan. I will never leave you." Arman said as if he didn't care.
"But still, they are your brothers." Said Jacob.
And their conversation continued on.
Meanwhile
"A headache? Are we a headache? I won't spare you Arman." Ali was very angry.
Whereas Jamal was crying, befitting to the boys of his age. "Big brother, how could you do that to us?"
Soso thought for a while.
"I get it. Arman purposely didn't appear on the spot. He lured H.E.X.A. to where he is. And now he knows that he is under H.E.X.A.'s surveillance right now. He thinks that I will let go of his brothers, and kidnap his friends. Such a cheap trick! He thinks I would fall for that? Now I will kidnap his friends too. Then, we will have both his brothers and his friends as hostages. H.E.X.A. to come back immediately."
H.E.X.A. turned around and the thrusters in his legs let out huge fumes.
And boom!
H.E.X.A. soared straight into the sky, and then changed the direction of his flight.
Arman and his gang saw H.E.X.A. leaving.
"Will it work, Arman?" Dan asked anxiously.
"Dunno, but pretty sure that if we try hard enough, no one can stop us. You guys go get prepared."
***************
A park
The park was unusually silent. The grass was overgrown and the swing was rusted.
One could even see large boulders that were lying on the ground here and there.
Perhaps, it was a park which didn't have many visitors.
Jacob and Dan, with a backpack, were sitting on a bench.
Arman, at a distance was communicating with them through a Bluetooth earplug.
And swooooooosh.
H.E.X.A. came flying. He left behind a large tail of gases as he was flying. It was almost as if a plane was flying, except for the altitude was low.
"Guys, he has come. So do as I instructed you earlier." Arman ordered
"Yes." Both the twins, stood up. Collected their wits. They then headed towards the public toilet.
Creak
The toilet door was opened. There were only two of them.
Jacob and Dan started the countdown.
"Three, two and one..."
Thud! Thud! Thud!
With his metallic arm, H.E.X.A. threw a rapid spree of punches on the rooftop of the public toilet.
And BOOM!
H.E.X.A. broke the roof and entered.
Jacob and Dan stood silent, staring at H.E.X.A.
"What are you doing? Start screaming orelse he will get suspicious of you guys." Arman, who was at high altitude so as to get a view of the scene, shouted at Jacob and Dan through the earplug.
And they did so.
"Ahhhhhhh ahhhhhhh ahhhhhhh!"
It was clear, but H.E.X.A. failed to perceive that they were faking.
He grabbed Jacob and Dan and flew away.
Arman, who was witnessed the sight, formed a grin. "Idiot, didn't even find it wierd that both of them went to the toilet at the same time."
**********************
Swooooooosh.
Jacob and Dan could feel the strong winds blowing through them, as they were flying with H.E.X.A.
And soon, behind the mist, a dark sillouhette started to appear.
After coming near it, Jacob and Dan realised that this was the spaceship Arman talked about.
As H.E.X.A. approached the spaceship, sounds of many pistons and motors working together to open the door could be clearly heard.
And soon, the door lowered. H.E.X.A. threw the twins inside the spaceship, and then he too entered.
Jacob and Dan stood flabbergasted. They couldn't believe their eyes.
As they didn't move, H.E.X.A. gave them a forward push.
They walked in and soon, they could see a dungeon. And in one cell of it, Ali and Jamal were kept.
And then H.E.X.A. threw them inside a cell nearby the cell in which Ali and Jamal were kept.
H.E.X.A. locked the door.
Jacob and Dan formed a grin as they saw H.E.X.A. leaving.
*********************
"So what next, sir?" Asked H.E.X.A.
"This time we will strike firs..."
Thudaak!
The spaceship experienced heavy turbulence.
And it didn't stop here.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
"Who is it, go check it out." Soso commanded.
And it was Arman. He formed many fireballs and launched them at the door of the spaceship.
Thuuuud!
A final blow and the door was blasted away Arman then dashed in.
"Enough of your hide and seek, you alien. Reveal yourself!"
Soso came, with a giant gun in his hand. H.E.X.A. also appeared from behind.
Soso fired his gun.
Pew! Pew! Pew! Pew! Pew! Pew!
Arman suffered heavy injuries. And soon, the attacks got combined with H.E.X.A.'s attacks.
It was only because of the barrier that Arman had conjured, that he could survive.
But, the ammount of damage the barrier could absorb was limited.
Soon,
Arman was blasted away.
And then, a few cone - shaped light emitters on the spaceship gathered at a point.
They all launched a laser beam, stronger than the combined attacks of Soso and H.E.X.A.
The brilliant beam of light fell straight towards the direction in which Arman was falling.
As Arman was caught in the beam of light, he suffered many injuries on various parts of his body.
Arman fell straight to the ground, hot blood continuously pouring out of his mouth.
Soso gained an upper hand in the fight, and his victory now was easily visible.
Soso jumped down from the spaceship. His body was experiencing a free fall. But then, a something came flying from inside of the spaceship and came right beneath Soso.
It was a hoverboard. Soso landed on it safely and his feet got locked on the hoverboard.
"What is happening? Why can't I beat them? I am stronger than back then."
Arman asked the Flame king.
"Kid, it is not like what you think. You weren't stronger than him in the first place. Back then, when H.E.X.A. was beating you, you caught him off guard. And also, their Boss wasn't armed too. Not to mention that this is his area. He has the control over here.
But, I don't think so that he knows that you are weaker than them."
Soso prepared another round of attacks. He fired them at Arman. Arman quickly rolled to his right. He stood up.
"Listen kid, with your current strength, you will die of you get hit by that beam again. You have to avoid them. And find the easiest way to enter the spaceship."
"Right."
Arman stood up, and took a stance. Not one of fighting, but of running.
Arman tried to dash towards the right end of the spaceship, but he got gunned down by Soso in an instant. The beam of light also caught up.
Soso thought that he had pulled it off.
He also was confused. Arman, who easily defeated Soso back then, was now being overpowered by Soso.
But to his surprise, the one he shot wasn't Arman.
Arman quickly formed blazes of flame around him. And then the Flame king helped him give it the shape of a human.
And Arman made it dash towards the right end of the spaceship, which was at a distance from the door. As Soso couldn't get a clear vision of the figure, he thought that it was Arman.
Once Soso was distracted, he quickly entered the spaceship.
"H.E.X.A.! Quick, inside our ship." Soso change the trajectory of the flying hoverboard he was riding.
Arman randomly ran on different paths, as he was being chased by Soso.
He ducked down to dodge a few shots from the EMP, while a few others which couldn't be dodged were blocked with the help of a barrier.
And soon, he found himself in the control room.
There he saw an entire mapping of Soso's spaceship.
"If I go two floors below this floor, I will find the fuel tank."
Arman's lips curled up. He now precisely knew what to do.
Arman clenched his fist and brought it head level. The fist then caught fire out of nowhere.
Arman punched the ground, where he stood. And he fell down.
And Soso, who arrived at the scene just realised Arman's intention.
But, by the time Soso came, Arman was already standing on the fuel tank.
"Arman! Your brothers and your friends will die with us if you destroy the fuel tank. Just surrender! We now know that your strength does not exceed ours." Soso gave one final warning.
"My beloved idiots, did you check my friends' bags?" Arman asked Soso.
****************
Yesterday afternoon, Mount. Fujiyama.
"So Ali and Jamal have been kidnapped?" Asked Dan.
Arman nodded sadly.
"So what are we going to do?" Jacob asked Arman.
"I have thought about it. I won't show up tomorrow. We will show it this way that you guys are more dear to me than my brothers..."
Dan freaked out and interrupted.
"And they will abduct us, and then they will let go of your brothers. "
"It is not what you think"
Jacob controlled the anger that was brewing in his mind and said.
"You think we are a kind of.. livestock? Are we just sheep or pigs according to you?"
"Calm down, calm down. Let me explain."
"Let's think for a second that we cooperated with you, which I promise won't happen, will he fall for a fool's play you have set-up? Huh?"
"Enough, now I won't listen to you. You listen to me."
Jacob then insisted Dan on once listening to what Arman has to say.
"So, after listening to our conversation, he will think that he is 'smart'. But we are way more smarter than he is. He will think that we are playing this drama so that he would let go of my brothers and take you guys. He will come to abduct you guys, and we shall give them the opportunity to do so. And, at that time, you will be wearing these backpacks. There are parachutes inside. And these zips on the both sides have metal cutters. So, you guys will use them to cut through the walls, and then you will take my brothers and jump down using the parachutes."
Jacob and Dan couldn't help admiring Arman's foolproof plan.
******************
"My brothers might have long left this spaceship of yours."
Saying so, Arman set his fist on fire and punched the fuel tank.
The fist penetrated through the metal door and made the fuel tank blast.
BOOM!
As he himself is the Flame king, what could these fires do to him.
As a major part of the ship was blasted away, Arman also came out of the spaceship.
From the top, he could see the parachutes left behind by Jacob and Dan.
He formed a grin.
On the other side, Soso was burnt to ashes, and H.E.X.A. and the another robot might have been molten.
[You have an unvavering resolve and excellent intelligence. You retain your composure and can use your intelligence to defeat those stronger than you. You have achieved a feat not easily achieved.]
[Your assimilation will now progress.]
[10%]
[11.52%]
Arman became happy to see that he's getting stronger.
"It's good that I am the Flame king, fire cannot harm me—"
Arman then had a good look at himself
"—But my clothes are not Flame king."
Arman was completely naked, as his clothes were burned till the very tip of his
shoes.
*****************
At some distance, a photographer was yawning, with his camera in hand.
As his body curled, the button of his camera got pressed by his fingers.
"Oh, I took a picture by mistake. Let me delete it." He said to his companion.
While he was deleting it, he once had a look at the photo.
It was something, which had caught fire falling to the ground.
It was Arman.
"Is it a kind of celestial object?"
The photographer quickly ran towards the spot, he told his companions to follow him.
They asked him why, but he didn't reply.
******************
Arman who was standing naked, heard the sound of the shutter of a camera.
Click click click click.'
'What the——'
He quickly hid his face and his body.