With a little bit of black blood on his hand from the one-tailed wert he had just killed, Jake looked around at the number of werts running towards him and Sasha and used his super speed to move from one place to another.
Sasha was also doing the same thing Jake was doing, running around the base and when the opportunity arises, they kill any wert they can.
Jake was evading the three-tailed werts because he knew he could not kill them without slowing down and getting distracted. In the situation he was in, a single moment of distraction was all it took for a wert to deliver a good hit on him.
After a while of running around and killing the werts, a three-tailed wert was finally able to punch Jake on his head from behind.
Jake had skidded away before regaining his balance. He was ready to start running around again until a four-tailed wert came from above and landed right in front of him. Its wings still beating continuously and spreading dust.
"I guess it's time." Jake said and quickly looked towards Sasha then nodded.
Seeing the four-tailed wert fly towards him, Jake prepared himself to take the hit but before taking the hit, Jake threw a punch at the wing of the wert and his fist passed through it just as the fist of the wert landed on his forehead.
Flying through the air and crashing into buildings and debris, Jake slowed the speed at which he was flying by putting his feet on the ground and skidding for a while before falling to the ground and pretending to have lost consciousness.
After hitting Jake, the four-tailed wert had gone after Sasha and Sasha had made herself an easy target, not putting up a fight. She had passed out from the hits of the four-tailed wert and had fallen to the ground.
Blood was trickling down the side of Sasha's head while Jake was bleeding profusely from in between his eyebrows. Jake's wound was already healing up and as a two-tailed wert dragged both of them deeper into the base, towards the center, his eyes were a little bit opened.
While being dragged on the floor through all the rubble and debris, Jake's mind wandered back to the period when himself and Sasha were still running towards the wert base.
"Sasha." Jake said. "For my plan to work, after we kill a couple of werts we'll let ourselves get caught."
"Get caught?" Sasha asked. "What makes you think they won't kill us immediately?"
"They won't because if those five-tailed werts have a brain, they'll want to know why two people would just walk into their base." Jake explained. "After they capture us, they'll want to get answers and during that time, that's when Anna will show up and Sky will definitely be with her."
"And if the werts don't have a brain?" Sasha asked.
"Don't worry." Jake said. "I'm sure I can get us out of there anytime I want to."
'Don't disappoint me now Anna.' Jake thought as his head hit a large stone on the floor while he was being dragged from his leg.
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Finally arriving at the wert base that Jake and Sasha had attacked, Sky and Anna could see the damage and the destruction that had been done to the base.
As they stepped into the base, they could see a large portion of the surrounding wall completely destroyed. There was dust, rubble and debris everywhere, along with the dead bodies of a lot of werts.
Among the dead werts, there weren't many three-tailed werts. At most there would be only five dead three-tailed werts.
The base was very large and there was still a huge part of the base that had not been affected by the destruction that had occurred.
"Damn." Sky said, looking around transfixed, at the condition of the part of the base that had been destroyed. "I guess they came in with a loud bang."
"The question is, where are they?" Anna said. "I can't hear sounds of people fighting and I'm a hundred percent sure they didn't come in here and kill every single werts by themselves. It's not possible."
"You sure?" Sky asked. "I mean, it's Jake we're talking about here."
"Of course I'm sure." Anna replied. "There are two five-tailed werts here and even Jake can't beat that."
"Then let's go in." Sky said. "They clearly left a huge part of the base unexplored."
Going farther into the base, Sky and Anna had stopped seeing the dead bodies of the werts and they still hadn't found Jake or Sasha.
They were going into what was left of some of the buildings that were still standing, looking for Jake and Sasha, but they were nowhere to be found.
Anna had even shapeshifted into a Peeler, a four-winged animal, and was flying around, trying to use the aerial view as an advantage but she still was unable to see anything.
"See anything up there?" Sky asked from the ground. Seeing the peeler shake its head, Sky got the message.
The only thing Anna could see were the buildings begin to condense as it got closer to the center of the base. The space between each building was reducing as they moved closer to the center and they couldn't see any wert. Dead or alive.
Going back to the ground to land, Anna shifted back into her normal self and turned to face Sky. "We need to be prepared for anything. I couldn't see any wert at all and that most likely means they're all in one place."
"This is gonna be tough." Sky said as he brought out four blades from his holsters and held them in between his fingers in both hands.
Using her magic again, Anna began to grow slightly larger in size and her blue hair began to retract inside her head as her eyes became slits. She had shapeshifted into a bear-like beast that had no hair or fur, four legs, a jaw capable of crushing bones and long claws stretching out from the paws of each leg.
"That's a nice looking beast Anna." Sky said as he followed Anna.
Rolling her eyes which could barely be seen through the slits, Anna was walking forward before suddenly coming to a stop.
"What's wrong?" Sky asked, looking around and readying himself for anything.
They had just walked into a building which was the only way there was to keep going to the center of the base and Anna was sniffing the air, as if she could smell something.
The building had a very sturdy appearance and it had multiple doors on different levels of the building. Coming out from behind the multiple doors were a lot of werts and in a few seconds, Anna and Sky had been completely surrounded.
Two four-tailed werts had also entered through the entrance which Anna and Sky had come in from and they were dragging in something with them.
Jake and Sasha had just been dragged in by the two four-tailed werts and they both had blood all over their bodies.
The blue sweatshirt Jake was wearing had claw marks and blood all over it and it was practically in shreds while Sasha didn't look like she was in a better condition. Her hair was bloody and messy while she had a few wounds on her body.
Jake's ankles were broken and he was bleeding profusely from his left ear but he still had a smile on his face. "Nice of you guys to join the party."
On seeing Jake, Anna was about to rush towards him but seeing another wert walk out from behind the two four-tailed werts, she stopped.
"Not so fast." Now standing in front of the two four-tailed werts was a wert whose five tails were spread out on the ground. It had curves like a woman and long black hair flowed to its waist level.
"It's a five-tailed wert, I know." Jake said, seeing the surprised looks on Anna and Sky's faces.