After the bomb went off.
The group of cloaked individuals were thrown to the ground in the explosion. They got so caught up in lunch that they completely forgot about the bomb they placed in the underground area by the pipes.
They were trusted by their organization to plant the bomb a few hours ahead of time and make a clean get away. But now that they were stuck inside the mall when it was going down, if they were killed or severely injured here it could lead back to the organization.
They stumbled to their feet and tried to find an exit, and leave before the firefighters and cops saw them.
That was when one of the men noticed Alex in the corner of his eye lifting heavy rubble off people and rescuing them. He noticed how Alex looked familiar, that was when he remembered that their organization took a big hit when they attacked the UISF earlier. All because of that man.
He let the others know that Alex was there and that they should take him out, but the slightly smarter members disagreed and just wanted to get out of the crumbling mall. All of them made there way through the shadows and eventually found their way out of the mall. They made it out towards the back where there were no emergency vehicles around. They all limped out of the building to find their van and get as far away from the mall as possible.
A few minutes later they found their van covered in little rocks, lots of concrete dust but ultimately still standing. All of them filed in and started to drive out of the back, that was when they came around front and say Alex leading fifty people to safety and going back in to save more.
The group pulled off the road a little ways away, but they could still see the entrance to the crumbling mall. They say their in the car and watched for hours as Alex made multiple trips in and out of the mall with the firefighters saving more and more people.
Each time the group saw Alex saving another person they become more and more enraged, everyone was supposed to be in mourning about the death of all the people at the mall and remember their organization. Now Alex was ruining all of their plans, they would not let this slide, they would make everyone fear their organization today no matter what.
After some more time of Alex saving people the group grabbed the spare weapons that were in the van for emergencies and got out of the van to attack.
The put their cloaks over their heads covering their faces. Walking fast up to the police officers standing guard at the perimeter, they took action.
"BANG"
"BANG"
Two gun shots rang out startling everyone nearby, as two police officers fell to the ground dead.
"THUD"
"THUD"
The group of cloaked men stood their with their guns out ready to kill more people.
****
Alex was alerted to the group of cloaked men making a disturbance, he heard the gunshots and saw the bodies fall. Alex wasted no time and made his way over to the group, as the police officers sprang into action opening fire on the men.
However no matter how many bullets were fired at the group, none of them hit. They were all stopped by a weird invisible barrier. Alex knew that they must have had a magic shield around them, this only made him smile more and his eyes start to glow blue.
The news crews were capturing all of this unfold.
The police officers were taking cover behind their cars, taking heavy fire. Alex walked and kept walking past them until he was infront of the police and staring at the men.
The news was capturing all of this.
Alex easily dodged all of the bullets when he was walking up so he was perfectly fine l, which only made the men even more mad.
"Hey! What the hell are you doing!" Alex yelled at the group of men.
At this the men grew even more enraged.
"You! This is all your fault. You just had to play hero and save everyone! These people were supposed to be sacrifices for the return of the great Demon Lord. How dare you get in our way!" The leader of the group yelled at Alex, basically confirming they were with the group that attacked the UISF.
Meanwhile their speech was broadcasted live for the world to see.
"Oh so you are crazy that's good to know. Ok let's get this over with." Alex said with an easy going look on his face.
Alex started to stretch his neck and body, loosing up for the fight. He then took his black coat off that was covered in dirt and handed it to a nearby cop for safe keeping.
"Keep that safe. It's from my sister."
Now everyone could see his mechanical arms, which had a futuristic and way more technically advanced look to them.
"Ok I am ready. Let's go. Come at me." Alex said with a sly look on his face.
"tch"
The men are snickered and brought their guns up and started to fire at Alex. He didn't even bother to move.
"BANG"
"BANG"
"BANG"
"aaahhhh!"
Everyone freaked out and took cover, everyone except Alex who was being pelted with rounds of bullets, tearing through his body.
"Cease fire!" The leader of the group yelled to his men, seeing that Alex was full of bullet holes.
"Hahaha! Man that was easy. You shouldn't have played hero, because now your dead! Haha!"
All the men started to laugh thinking that they have won, that was when things changed.
"Oi, is that all you got." Alex said as the bullets that wre in his skin started to get pushed out as his skin started to heal itself.
Everyone fell silent when they saw his body healing on its own. It was unnatural, supernatural even to them. Little did they know that was only the start of what they were going to see before the day was over.
Alex's body was fully healed now, it only took a few seconds. He stepped forward got into a battle stance and his eyes glowed an even fiercer blue now.
"Now it's my turn." Alex said as he went on the offensive.