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Chapter 4 - Planning...

"Wait, why are calling me captain?" Aldric spoke while the three idiots kept on looking at him. 

"Because you... um... just have the three of us" Rajesh tried his best to explain, "Like a captain only has 3,4 people in his...-"

"We are about to get kicked from the military..." Mukesh spoke quickly, " No captain or you can say elite soldier takes us in"

"What??? Seriously, you all are so.... bad" Aldric shook his head in disappointment. 

"I mean no problem... now we can say that we work under our captain who is the Prince of the country, who can stop us now?" Suresh started laughing. 

"No need to be in the military, we will not work with them... We will be on our own" Aldric's one sentence took all their excitement out of their body.

"No problem but what is the trouble... Captain? What is the need to get out of the military?" Mukesh raised his voice trying to get answers and the other two agreed upon that.

"We will not work with them, they will be trouble and I know that... What are you worrying about... money? I am the prince of the world's most powerful and wealthy country... where is the worry?"

"Yeah... Yeah... where is the worry...? We have no problem" said Mukesh like he figured it out and the other two agreed with him immediately. 

"Now we just need to find another person and after that, we will be all set..." 

"Ayee... Ayee... Captain..." Came in sync from all three of them.

....

A while later without paying the bill all three of them were about to leave at least that was the plan but then a thud sound came from the ceiling above them.

"What?? is someone fighting up there?" Mukesh said.

With another sound the ceiling broke, just before it could hit any of them Aldricnau used the powers of the Phantom Path and saved the three idiots, even caught a falling man, doing another Superman moment in a single day(song- all the stars was playing in the background). The ceiling only fell on their table and soon everyone else even from the first floor started gathering.

The man that Aldric caught was in his 50s and if we see him we would say he was in his 30s. He wore the uniform of a construction company and had a yellow colour helmet on his head, " Hahaha.... nice catch boss." That man was trying to make this funny, "What is that a new set of artefacts or something... But it was insane and very good reflexes."

'Whatever I need to get out of here as fast as possible... I made a big mess this time, ' That man was calm inside and was planning to get the hell out of that place as soon as he got a chance.

'This is a big thing and we need to get the hell out of here before city guards come in…' Aldric thought while making plans to kidnap the last guy. 

City guards are like Police. They are there to maintain law and order, except that never happens anywhere in this world or any other.

"Is everyone alright?" Rakesh said and saw Aldric minimising the damage to his cafe and felt yet another Superman moment with the background song still going on.

"We need to go. " Aldric whispered to the three idiots. 

"You... what happened? Are you alright?" Aldric said to the man you fell for the broken ceiling.

"It is all thanks to the little hero or I would have been dead... I was with a few of my friends and we were just doing our work and then the ceiling just collapsed..." 

"Wait... Only I hear those thuds" Mukesh said like he was questioning himself.

"Those sounds that you heard...Haha... they have to do nothing with the ceiling collapse. "

"Look something's falling... Watch out... Run away..." shouted the man who had fallen from that ceiling hole. It was enough to create havoc in the cafe. People started rushing out of the building with this cover both Aldric and his squad and that mysterious man were nowhere to be found. It was like no one saw them getting out.

Aldric and his squad were running in an alley and they were going towards the slum area of the city where poor people live. 

"Captain, What now?" Suresh asked while he was trying to catch his breath.

"Now we have to find someone and then get the hell out of this city to find, Dreadbane"

"Great idea if you ask me... by the way who is the last person we are trying to get"

"...um... You'll know soon" Aldric hesitated.

They ran for a little while and after a while Aldric couldn't run anymore with his body so they started walking. After about 25 minutes they reached their destination where they were about to kidnap a person at least that was the plan. 

The house was situated just at the edge where the slums started. Locals would say that the house comes under the area of slums.

This house looked like it was painted years ago and had many cracks on the walls as well. This house was two stories tall and had a small garden inside the house. The house didn't look very good... it actually looked awful. 

The four of them entered the alley behind the house., from there, Aldric climbed onto Mukesh, while Suresh climbed onto Rajesh, this way they looked from a window to only find two people, inside one was a girl in her 20s and another was a boy of the same age. They looked like twins. 

The boy had glasses and was reading a book while the girl was doing cleaning.

"So we are here to kidnap that girl, right captain?" Rajesh said with a smile.

"What were you thinking? You thought we were here for that nerd" Mukesh spoke with one hundred per cent confidence. 

"Yeah, this bloody nerd-" Suresh was also about to add something when he was interrupted by Aldric.

"We are here for that nerd" 

"What?? That nerd...."

"Just because he can read two more books than a normal person"

"That nerd will spread the nerdy virus, Captain..."

All three of them spoke in turn with disappointment.

"We are here for that nerd and then we will leave." Aldric made it clear once again.

"Now wait here for me" Aldric instructed them and then went inside by opening the backdoor of the house, with his Phantom Path powers which can take any shape, it was as easy as breathing.

"I am here for you Ner... Mohan" For them Aldric just spawned out of nowhere," You can struggle or you can leave with me peacefully. " 

"Who are you? Why are you here? We have no money" Mohan's sister spoke, and both of them fell into panic.

"What do you want?" Mohan spoke while instructing his sister to get out of the house.

"You can get out," Aldric said like a villain," I only have business with him"

"No, leave him alone" She shouted.

"I just want to take him with me," Aldric spoke like he wanted to clear misunderstanding," Don't tell anyone but I am Aldric, the Prince of this nation and I was instructed by the great mother to take help of your brother to stop something bad from happening." yet another lie that was way too convincing for that girl. 

"You can't be him and Why? Why my brother? What did the great mother give us?" the girl became furious," She took our parents away and she gave us nothing, we need money but we got nothing from her..." 

"Stop it" Her brother yelled.

'What is the deal with her? The great mother card works always... She is just not happy' Aldric thought and said," Let me tell you the great mother did not cause your current conditions, she doesn't even claim to be god yet she loves everyone equally, she considers your pain and let me tell you better not underestimate the great mother" yet another one like water flowing in the river calm and easily," She told me to give you some money and to tell you, everything will be fine"

She fell to her knees in tears, thanking the great mother. Her brother, Mohan comforted her. Aldric came near them and gave them over a hundred thousand gold coins. Yet another Superman moment in a single day without even trying to help he was doing good things to others.

"Can we leave now?" Aldric said to Mohan looking into his eyes while Mohan nodded. They also packed all the food items there was in the house of Mohan and any other thing they thought might be useful.

'I gave her hundred thousand... I gonna need more money' Aldric thought while going outside with Mohan,' Maybe I should have just kidnapped him... Why I had a change in the mood'

"Captian... You are insane..."

"You are cyanide" Mohan spoke while moving his head in disbelief.

"You are... Wait... What did you say?" Suresh was puzzled, "Cyanide?"

"Like we say very strong... um... that is the same way we say, Cyanide..."

"Seriously anyways, Captain you are the best"

"Right now we have to get out of the city..." Said Aldric with a plain expression.

"Where to Captain?"

"10 km away from the ending of slums there is an underground city which will become our main base till the time we get a hint about his location"

"Who'es?" asked Mohan who was puzzled.

"Dreadbane".