The men had no need to cover the proof of their crimes, they used bandana masks to cover their faces, but still felt no need to hide more.
It wasn't their first time trespassing on private property. Two of them tried to break into the house a week before but couldn't, now they convinced their "friend" to use his PhySEC ability to take down the house door. Also, he could deal with the telekinesis variant guy if he was in the house.
What they could not expect was that the man said it was a strong security door, and the ability user would take some time to break in, and would maybe need to search for another entrance, which annoyed them but still would not get back after reaching the place.
But before the guy could get close to the door again after discussing it with the others, the door quickly opened. From inside they saw another door, but could not help but forget it when they noticed the two persons getting out.
-Special home service? That's a good receiving- Said one of the guys from behind, but he quickly noticed the beauty getting out of the house, and he and the others couldn't help but whistle.
The guy was about to take the pistol and threaten the people, but the woman, who was just the android Claire, quickly went straight to them at an insane speed.
...
From the point of view of Mike, when they opened the door and the people outside saw them, they got stunned by Claire, so it was good to take advantage of the situation.
Luckily, Claire calculated everything before Mike could suggest and quickly took action. Mike, after receiving the military training needed no more words and went right to fight the ability user.
He could only trust Claire and let her take care of the other two while he should concentrate on the man before him. So, before the other man could do something Mike tried to attack, using a stance similar to boxing, he launched the first punch.
The man was already stunned by Claire's actions and before he could think about it he was already being attacked. He quickly defended and without trying to give a chance activated his ability, heat emission.
Abilities like that were dangerous in close combat, but because when developed, the ability could allow the user to throw fire. Anyway, the man before Mike could not reach that level yet.
The fight just started and the man used heat to keep his distance, anyway Mike already thought of a method quickly. He kept attacking the man with punches, but the punches exhausted more energy than before since he increased the speed.
The plan was that using full speed would allow him to not get the heat from the man. But the man kept defending, and the rage of being attacked made him increase the heat, and even counterattack.
Getting counterattacked was hard for Mike, one thing was to withdraw quickly and the other was to defend while receiving intense heat. At first, punches were received, and his skin started to burn in the heat.
Mike could not think of sarcastic words in his mind, he was totally focused on the man. Every moment the man used a move he would need to evade since defending would get him hurt badly anyway, so for the first time in a long time, he was all serious. For a minute or so they kept exchanging punches or defending, or evading in Mike's situation, but he could not evade all.
What could he do in this situation? he was at a disadvantage, at least in close combat, he had the normal pistol received from his work but he never took it from his room while rushing outside, and would not use it anyway nor even the special antiPhySEC pistol.
Then Mike thought of his ability, it could not help him in the fight aside from showing hidden tricks, but the man before him had no tricks, just pure advantage. How could he use it? It took him some time to think, and in the meantime, the opponent took him by surprise, going to hold Mike's left arm which he was withdrawing.
He got his arm burning in pain, but the pain only allowed him to go all out; without worrying about his burning arm nor getting badly injured, he used his right fist, striking not only once but twice and even aiming for more, at the face of his opponent.
The man was sure he could see Mike crying in pain, and he was enjoying the view while catching Mike's arm, but still got surprised by the counterattack. Anyway, the man would not withdraw his holding and went right to hold Mike's collarbone or shoulders with his other hand, but before he could do it Mike counterattacked with the most forbidden action a man could do in a fight, a strong kick in between legs.
There were no dishonest moves in a fight involving life and death, at least in Mike's mind. His arm was charred and God knows how he was still able to hold a great part of his scream. But he still would not give up, although injured he still took a chance to attack the man.
The clothes in the man could not resist his owner's heat and started getting destroyed, but Mike was no different, part of his skin and clothes were both ruined, but still insisted on attacking, or if he gave the man the chance, he would get burned alive.
Some plants in the front garden were already burned or burning, the already unattended garden was already in a sorry state.
Mike could not help it, he took a rock from the garden and prepared to finish the work, whether the man survived or not it was his luck, he was unsure of killing someone even by accident, but already made up his mind years ago, that if he is in the edge one day, would no doubt it.
Still, it was easier to say than do it, he still doubted. Killing was never his intention, and with a mistake and doubt in his mind, he failed the hit with the rock, not because the man tried to evade, he tried, but still it was Mike's fault, anyway the rock could not hit the head directly at full force.
Instead, the rock still hits the face of the man, exactly in the jaw.
The man still didn't show any sign of surrender and while on the ground before Mike could hit again, he got a rock too. Just how many rocks were left in the garden? It was right that it was a garden, but why so many rocks? It was a rocky garden before, but nobody would care anyway.
Mike could barely react and evade the first but just before he could counter any attack, Claire reached him and helped him evade, the speed of that android was above any human he could see before. All in the mind of the man was to kill, but before he could do something, a hit finished it all. Specifically, a kick, one and only, lonely kick, fast enough to leave him unconscious or dead, got the work done.
Claire was the one kicking the man in the head in the blink of an eye, even Mike was stunned, wasn't Claire just a normal android assistant from the Guild? Are all assistant androids from the guild this broken? What about the soldier ones?
Before he could do or say anything, the android bowed to him - Sorry for interrupting, master, but my calculations showed no sign of you getting out of the situation safely, the damage you received is already the limit I can allow.-
-It's... fine, thanks- Mike could barely express to it his thanks since the pain poured out of his scorched arm.
Claire carried Mike to the basement, well, it tried since Mike insisted that he could walk, the house had medicine to heal wounds, but the most effective method was in the underground laboratory.
The ways developed by the guild to deal with wounded soldiers varied, but all of those methods were cost-effective. In the laboratory, there were a diversity of tools and machines everywhere, and on the 3rd lower floor stood Mike inside with his arm in some kind of capsule, the liquid in the capsule could not allow him to see what was happening below the liquid surface, but the weird sensation in his arm was not that painful, clearly the liquid was responsible for that.
Besides Mike, the android was applying the same kind of liquid on gauze and placing it on Mike's scorched areas of his body. But still, his body was in pain.
-I thought I would be put in a cylindrical capsule and start recuperating there like in fiction movies- said Mike while trying to relax his mood.
-That's possible, still is too expensive to use on this kind of wound.-
-... somehow those words make me feel cheap-
-Not cheap, master, your wounds are cheap to heal.-
-That doesn't help.-
-I know.-
-...-
Why could he not win against sarcastic assistants? Or maybe it was only this assistant?
-And... -
-hm? -
-You used your ability incorrectly during the combat, you cannot get anything out of this combat. So, either you train more or fight again. And you are not using your ability as I suggested, use it anytime until you get used to it...-
-You are heartless, you know? -
So, yes, all the combat was for nothing, Mike could get the chance to fight and get action and learn from the combat itself, but still got nothing out of it related to his ability. Wasted time cannot be recovered, and... the answer from the android? A simple "I know".