Zane's outburst disorients the military police and the SWAT teams but some of them still stand up and try to shoot at the exterminators. The exterminators walk backwards through the middle corridor towards the exit with Ben in front of them to defend from the bullets.
"c'mon let's get down." Rodney says.
The group go down to the rear of the hospital and run towards corridors of ICUs and exit from the back into the parking lot.
"Pierre come in" Rodney says on the walkie-talkie.
There is no response and Rodney assumes the worst. But as they try to escape the parking lot, an exterminator stands between the six. Rodney notices the insignia on his shoulder and figures out that he is from the 12th group, the 6th strongest of the groups in the 4th division. the exterminator raises his Talum, a large set of mechanical hands with some sort of leather padding on the palms and claps with both of his mechanical hands. In the ensuing moment a massive shock of air blasts the exterminators of the 40th group, throwing them in the air like ragdolls. The exterminators are injured heavily and Harold, Ben and Robert fall unconscious. The Zane, Rodney and Archie get back on their, albeit injured and in pain.
"What the hell was that?" Rodney says.
"That was the sonic clap sweethearts" a feminine voice says from behind.
Archie looks back to see a slender little girl sitting atop perimeter wall of the hospital. Her shoulder also has the 12th group's insignia.
"40th group, hand over Private Zane Raphael and return to your base" says the man with large mechanical arms.
"You got some balls to attack your own guys" says Rodney.
"You are charged with involving yourself with a deserter, I don't think you need balls to serve justice lieutenant" says the exterminator with large mechanical arms.
That's when Zane looks around and notices that they have been surrounded by the 12th group's complete complement of exterminators, making escape impossible for the 40th. There is no sign of Pierre, Yousaf or Greg.
"Where are our comrades?" Archie asks.
"Surrender and we tell you, and if you don't well, we hope you fight well" says captain of the 12th.
Looking around as most of their comrades have been knocked out, the crew take defensive positions. Zane grips his spear as hard as he can. The majority of the 12th are in front of Archie and Rodney as the shield Zane with the unconscious bodies of Harold, Ben, Robert lay in front of them. The are pinned against the corner with 3 of the exterminators on the perimeter wall guarding the rear. Rodney looks at Archie, eye to eye as if they were conversing through their minds. Zane looks at them. Archie then reaches for his pocket and removes 2 grenades, one was a smoke bomb and the other was a concussion grenade. The opponents notice this and rush towards them before Archie crushes them with his claws
A bright spark and a huge plume of smoke erupts, disorienting everyone. Zane feels a tug on his neck and whoosh of air followed by landing hard on a rooftop. Lieutenant Rodney had saved them both.
"WAIT ARCHIE!" Zane yells.
"WE DON'T HAVE TIME WE NEED TO RUN NOW!!" Rodney yells.
Zane gets up and runs, not even having the chance to process the fact he had left his friend behind.
"We can't keep running!" Zane yells to Rodney.
"Your right we can't but we just gotta wait for Captain Will!" Rodney replies
The duo run as fast as they can while looking back to seeing them being pursued. They parkour from rooftop to rooftop before Rodney jumps down with Zane to reach the truck.
"Once we get in, we drive very fast" Rodney says.
The truck comes closer and closer, filling Zane's eyes with its image before he sees a shine in the sky. It was as if a meteor rained down, the truck was smashed and crushed into the ground by a large, ape-looking man covered in armor and insignia of the 12th. He stared directly at the duo jumping again.
Rodney and Zane try to dodge but it is too late for Rodney and he is pinned down by the weight of the giant man, injured heavily.
"RUN ZANE!" Rodney yells.
Zane is bashed by the shoulder by a mace wielding exterminator, embedding him into the wall of a café and falls down.
He tries to stand up quickly but is pushed and pinned on the ground on his back by the slender girl as she points her long thin saber at his neck.
"bye-bye sweetheart" says the girl as she lifts her arm and brings down her saber on Zane's neck.
Zane, looking at his last moments again, witness a vision of the angel again. He lost his spear somewhere and can't defend himself. That is when his entire body crackles, glows in a golden light and then a giant blast of force, as if a nuke had exploded, throws away the exterminators of the 12th group.
The girl on top of Zane ironically is thrown and embedded on the brick wall of an apartment building and falls down on the ground from the 3 story building, seemingly dying as pool of her blood forms around her head.
The exterminators and Rodney look in awe as Zane stands up, his body still crackling and shooting out beams of golden light. Zane then feels the searing sharp pain in his back grow. He feels something moving inside him.
Then he screams with pain, gripping his back as it bleeds and paints the ground beneath him red with his blood. His armor is then tore open and two large spiny bones rip out of his back. The long bones come directly out of his lats and Zane feels and keeps screaming in pain as the bones keeping coming out, ripping his skin and pulling his back. Both the pair of bones are curved and jointed on one end near his body.
Rodney looks at his comrade, not being able to process the event in front of him, he sees the bones first grow flesh, muscles and ligaments. Then a thin skin grow from Zane's back all the way to the tip of the bones and then from the skin a faint little boney stem grows out, that blooms into a feather. Zane falls on his knees and as the pain becomes unbearable, the boney stems keep growing out and feathers blossom as it fill the long spiny bones until they become into a pair of large white, beautiful, wings. The feathers fall onto the ground, taking in the red color of Zane blood. As the pain subsides, Zane rises on his feet with imbalance but gains his footwork as he sees behind him are two large glorious pair of wings.
He touches them and they feel as soft as cotton before he tries to flap them, and it spreads the blood around him in the air and creates a small storm of dust. Zane feels his power surging through his body, pulsating every muscle on his body. He raises his hand in towards the giant ape-man on pinning Rodney and lets out a massive beam of light, consuming the ape-man exterminator and flinging him across the block like a ball.
Zane looks at Rodney. Rodney looks at Zane.
"oh…god….your…an angel?" Rodney says, wiping off the blood from his mouth.
"I don't know" Zane says as he helps him up.
"Can you fly?" Rodney asks.
"I don't know dammit" Zane says.
Just as they group up, a huge clap from the exterminator with large mechanical hands heads towards Zane and Rodney.
Zane shields Rodney and himself with his large wings and surprisingly it deflects the sonic clap back at the exterminator, knocking him out.
"WOAH!" Rodney exclaims.
"That...was cool" Zane says.
But their celebrations are cut short as the rest of the 12th group surround them again. They ready themselves to attack.
"Zane do something!" Rodney says in a course voice.
"I don't have my spear!" Zane says.
"fly us outta here" Rodney replies.
"I can't!!" Zane says.
"well shoot a beam at them" Rodney says.
"well i can't feel my power its suddenly gone down!!" Zane says
The exterminators pounce on Rodney and Zane. But the attacks go silent. Was it Zane's wings, was it a force of nature? Zane and Rodney look ahead to see the silhouette of a large man, with a strange insignia. On his shoulder pads are the emblems of the USAEC and the 4th division and on his forearms are six chevrons. The man turns behind to look at Zane and Rodney. Large mustache, long black hair and sharp eyes and a sharper face and features, Zane and Rodney were confused about who this man was.
The sounds of struggling and screams can be heard from behind the tall man and suddenly Captain Will shows his face to his bewildered comrades.
"Huh looks like your safe" Captain Will says.
"You gotta be kidding me" Rodney says.
"You should stand up and salute to us" says Captain Will as he helps Rodney and Zane stand up.
The tall man keeps looking at Zane and eyes his wings even more.
"You weren't lying Captain Will" says the tall man while looking at Zane.
"I don't lie, Commander" says Captain Will.
Zane then locks eyes with the tall man.
"I'm sorry I don't recognize you sir." Zane asks.
The tall man then gives out his hand, gesturing Zane to shake his hand.
"4th Division Commander Elliot Abraham, Nice to meet you Private Zane Raphael" says the tall large man.