The police head assistant reached for The Destroyer's hand to check his pulse when all of a sudden The Destroyer grabbed his hand. The Destroyer quickly stood up and wrapped his left arm around the police officer. The blood stopped flowing from his head, and all his injuries started to heal up. In no time, he returned back to his healthy form with no trace of bruise or wound. Fear took over them once again as everyone on the scene reloaded their guns and aimed them at the formidable enemy.
"What's with those faces? Is this the first time you saw someone self-regenerate?", The Destroyer said with sheer arrogance. He knew the authorities had no fight left in them and decided to make things easier for them.
"You want this guy? How about a deal?", he locked his eyes on the police head.
"What kind of deal do you want?", the police head asked. All his past experiences in dealing with this kind of situation helped him remain stoic and sensible.
"Let's exchange people.", The Destroyer said. He positioned his right hand near the neck of the hostage, mimicking a gun.
"Give me Martin, and you can get this guy back.", he added.
"And if you don't, tonight will be the last time you'll see this guy.", he moved his right hand in a shooting gesture at the police head assistant's neck.
"What do we do?", the captain stared at the police head with deep concern. The police head did not answer, he looked at Martin and then his assistant. He wanted his partner back but didn't want anybody else to get harmed in the process.
"Just give me a second.", he finally uttered a word. He looked down, trying to avoid seeing the faces of the people around him. He went quiet as he carefully weighed up the situation.
"Fine, but make it quick.", the captain looked at the police head and then took a glance at Martin.
"Why do you want Martin?", Jess walked a few steps forward from her spot and directly asked The Destroyer.
"Ask him.", The Destroyer tilted his head to Martin. Martin remained quiet, but his anger was evident in his eyes.
"I know you know this guy, but is there something else we don't know about?", Axel chimed in.
"There's nothing, I-I just stumbled upon him once, while patrolling.", Martin replied with a poker face and avoided looking at anyone.
"Is that it?", The Destroyer raised an eyebrow.
"Not betraying your partner is part of the oath that we took as law enforcement agents. Is there something that you were hiding from us?", Jess walked toward Martin and stared at him deeply into his eyes.
"This is taking too long, just make a decision.", The Destroyer shot a rage energy projectile at the foot of the hostage. The hostage screamed in pain.
"Officer Jackson!", the captain yelled at the police head.
"If we don't play this right, we're gonna lose both of them. You have no experience in handling hostage-taking so keep quiet!", Officer Jackson yelled abruptly.
"Okay, we'll exchange Martin for August.", Officer Jackson took a deep breath and made up his decision.
"Martin, I'm sorry.", he whispered as he grabbed Martin by his arm.
"See, it's not that hard.", The Destroyer said. He let go of August and handed him over to Officer Jackson. Officer Jackson walked Martin to the enemy, but before The Destroyer could grab him the police head shot him with the S tier gun in the chest. The captain sneakily passed him the weapon earlier while the others were talking.
"You can't even follow a simple negotiation.", The Destroyer backed off a few steps back. Before he could retaliate, August used his signature ability to pull three trucks behind them and smashed them into their enemy.
"Why did you-", Martin said as the other police officers pulled him away from the fight.
"Just go!", one of the police officers replied.
"I hope everyone is ready for another fight. If the head can't kill him, maybe shooting him in the heart will.", Officer Jackson ordered his people.
"This one takes a few minutes to shoot again, next time I'll make sure to directly hit him in the heart.", he looked at his weapon before hiding it in his pocket.
"All of these efforts, just for one guy?", The Destroyer emerged from the attack by pushing away the trucks with his rage energy. The wound in his chest healed up again in just a matter of seconds.
"I don't like leaving anyone behind.", Officer Jackson covered his entire body with rage energy, preparing for a fight.
"What is this, another one of those stupid oaths you took as a cop?", The Destroyer slowly walked toward him.
"No, this is my personal conviction.", rage energy swirled in his fists as pieces of rocks from the ground orbited on his fists. He punched forward, and the enraged rocks on his hands lunged at the enemy. The Destroyer obliterated the rocks as soon as they touched his rage energy. The Destroyer pushed forward. Officer Jackson controlled the ground beneath him, summoning a spike made up of the material that was used in making the road of the highway. The spike was destroyed by the enemy's rage energy. The Destroyer grabbed the rest of the spike and threw it at the police head officer. Officer Jackson controlled the spike and split it into many pieces. He threw the small pieces of rocks all at once at the enemy but they all got dusted as they reached the range of his rage energy.