Location: Planet Nihtel (Former Sentinel Outpost),
In the outskirts of the 64th District.
"Keon…. Keon get up, we gotta go. Those bastards followed us here too." Keon gained consciousness as he was helped up by Ezerth.
"It's no use. Leave me and take Marc somewhere safe." Keon groaned in pain "I'll hold them back for you using the Valiant's defenses."
"Okay. I'll keep him safe. He should live as the 'Evolving Indominus'."
Ezerth helped Keon to the manual railgun defense at the tail of the Valiant. Then he left a comms device with Keon, took the infant, and ran.
As soon as he stepped out of the Valiant, Ezerth was attacked with energy blasts. He evaded them somehow with the power he had left. After sprinting for a distance, a squad of assassins found him and cornered him. Ezerth tried to attack them but his current stamina couldn't keep him safe against the assassins.
A man came running from behind him. This took Ezerth by surprise. 'What!!! I couldn't sense him at all he thought.
But the man attacked the assassins in front of Ezerth instead of him. The man blew every single assassin's head with his blaster.
"What the hell do you think you're doing? Don't space out. Let's get out of here."
The man and Ezerth ran as fast as they could. But by now Ezerth had realized that running was not an option. He dashed towards a door of the residential area and knocked violently. They then led the assassins away from the child.
Ezerth contacted Keon and confirmed that he was still alive. The man and Ezerth then returned to the Valiant to make it look like they're trying to flee from Nihtel too. As Ezerth was getting on the Valiant, he was sniped by the enemy and the energy blast hit his left arm which was then completely dismembered. Another similar energy was finding its way towards Ezerth but was blocked out by Keon's aura. Keon cast his aura on Ezerth just in time.
They took off and zoomed out to the end of the atmosphere to activate the warp engine. But unfortunately, enemy ships found them first and engaged. The Valiant exploded in the next instant. By sacrificing their lives, they had saved Marc, the infant who Ezerth called the 'Evolving Indominus'.
The child cried in the dark of the night just to be greeted by the warmth of the room from which a middle-aged man came.
"Ahhh, such a lovely child. Left out alone in the night." the man took the child in.
The man settled the child on the bed and went to the next room for some clean towels. Returning with some, he took the child and changed his wet clothes quickly, and covered him with warm towels.
"You…. it's strange. I feel an Indomini's aura from you and it's really powerful too."
At that time, the child's aura was so powerful that the man could even see a faint reddish aura surrounding his body.
"Who are you?" said the man. Then he noticed the pendant-like object that was lying on the floor with the child's wet clothes.
MARC - was embossed on the pendant that now glowed in the light that came from the fireplace.
"Marc, huh. That's what your name is? Very well, I'm Adrihel. This is your new home. I'll take good care of you."
"Huh, this woman did all this," Zandr said, inside the cave on Elvurus from where Keon and Ezerth escaped.
"We lost too many men today. I did not expect them to put up a resistance of this kind. Be careful, that woman is extremely valuable. Try to inflict as little damage as you can when you lot find her or if you can take her alive then that's great. Salvage whatever you can and return to base."
'To think that the power of Indomini was this great. Unbelievable, the three of them took out three legions by themselves. As expected of the people from whom the power of Indomini was cultivated.' thought the man with a horrid smile spread all over his face.
'I'll get my hands on this power, whatever it takes. For the power of the Indominus, this was a small price to pay.'
"Zandr, tell your men to mobilize. We've confirmed the location of another Indominus. We couldn't get these three, at least bringing back this one would at least make up for our losses." said Agoth.
"Yeah, we'll nail this one for sure. But that woman's mine. I'm going to see the power that caused this."
Before Zandr was the clearing in which the three of them made their stand before going to the cave. A slaughter, bodies everywhere. A whole legion of assassins was lost here.
'Now, this is going to be fun.'