{White Box}
......An hour before the departure of the buses...
"So that's why we need your help." Miss Anna said to Leo whom was on the other side of the prison bars, more like prison glass to be more accurate.
"Let me get this straight. You need me to help you protect the academy from a group of children kidnapping psychos and if I do this, all charges would be dropped if I am not mistaken." Leo said.
"Yeah, that sums it up."
"And if I refuse?"
"You serve your remaining sentence."
"I was never judged in the first place and a sentence was not given!."
"True! That is why helping us will be a very wise choice or else you would want to spend twenty years of your life in jail."
"I'll do it, it was never a choice in the first place." Leo sighed.
*Beep!*
An alarm rang across the underground facility as the door to Leo's cell opened.
"Finally!" Leo yawned, while stretching his body.
"Let's go!" Anna said, as she hurriedly walked away.
"What about Flynn, don't you need him too?" Leo asked as he trailed her.
"Grater went to get him."
"That sly bastard!" Leo muttered
"Whatever your strategy is, be wary of that man!" Leo added.
"I know you don't have to tell me."
"You don't understand. I don't know what sort of scheme they had, but they were willing to kill Adrian for eavesdropping ."
"I don't know what to say, but let's hope your just paranoid ." Anna said, as she arrived at a grey metal door.
"Time to get your inhibitor collar deactivated ." She concluded before pushing open the door.
. . .
The path from the academy was a tarred road spanning four kilometers in length and no more than fifteen meters in width.
A scenery of rocky hills, scanty trees and shrubs in an almost desert like environment were fed to the eyes of the passengers of the buses as they drove by.
Each bus contained an average number of six mid B-rank soldiers and a low A-rank soldier as it's driver. The colour of the buses were not just for fancy, as each one was built with tungsten alloys strong enough to withstand a point blank shot from an armored tank.
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"Yo Duke!" The driver of the first bus called his colleague.
"What is it Mark?" Duke asked.
"Don't you think the principal and his vice are overestimating this guys?"
"I don't understand." Duke replied.
"What I mean is, why are seven of us guarding a single bus? For crying out loud, even a low S-rank would find it difficult to kill just seven of us not to talk of......."
"Eyes on the road!!" Duke yelled, causing Mark to hit the brakes.
*Screech!!!!!*
The bus came to an abrupt halt, causing the line of incoming buses to also halt.
"I think we hit her Mark." Duke anxiously said before he and some other members of his group immediately dashed out of the bus.
The students all got up from their seats as they earnestly tried to see what had occurred through the windows.
"Shit, shit, shit!" Duke muttered repeatedly as he ran to the little blonde haired girl lying on the ground.
"Is she alive?" One of his counterparts asked.
"I don't know, let's take her into the bus." Duke said, as he tried to carry the little girl.
The hairs on Duke's body stood straight immediately he touched the girl. Every biological alarm built in him warned him to back off, to run as far away as he could.
Instantly, he jumped back; putting quite some distance between himself and the girl.
"What the hell is wrong with you Duke?" Another of his counterparts asked.
"R_r_un! Get away from her! She's one of them" Duke screamed, his hands and entire body trembling in fear.
"What the fuck are you talking about?" Mark spoke up as he joined the group.
"Hahahahah!!!" Nefertiti laughed in a cute yet sinister manner as she got up from the ground.
"I got you!" She stretched out her arms.
[Mind manipulation: Human puppet!]
"Shit!" Mark muttered as members of his group dropped to the ground one by one.
"What did you do to them?" Mark roared, clenching his fists.
"Your older than me but I am smarter than you." Nefertiti said.
"That doesn't answer my question you bottle sized demon!" Mark lashed out.
"Did you not here the name of my move dumb ass!" She chuckled.
"Free them from whatever you did and I would only cut of your limbs." Mark's gaze turned sharp.
"You there!" Nefertiti pointed to one of the persons on the floor.
"Arise!"
"Not you Duke!" Mark cursed.
Duke's eyes had no colour in them. His eyes were completely black as if he was devoid of any life.
"Kill him slowly Mr Dukey." Nefertiti giggled while Duke replied with a simple nod as he was without any thinking ability.
"Am sorry Duke, but I'll have to hurt you to take down that evil witch." Mark apologized as he released his aura of fire.
[Fire style: Flash fire!]