The man who was called the Devil sat in the room he liked to call the 'eyes of the city'. The two hundred and twenty five monitors that surrounded him were all connected to the CCTV cameras of the city.
He looked at the monitor that showed the footage of the advanced recuperation chamber present at the biochemistry block of orange star university. The footage showed a young man, not past his twenties, occupying the advanced recuperation chamber. He was conscious inside the chamber, his body floating inside convalescent fluid that he was submerged in. And when the deformed, monstrous form of the faceless man's body appeared through the room's doorway, the young man's eyes widened in terror.
The faceless man pointed one finger at the man's face, and then that finger extended into a sharp spear, cracking through the glass of the recuperation chamber and impaling the man's head right in-between his eyes.
The devil could sense the barrier that blocked the city from the outside world crumble. The university had been cleared, Good.
The devil turned to another monitor that showed his secretary sneaking across the amusement park ground. She hadn't found the bomb yet.
Turning his head to another monitor, he now saw the faint silhouettes of three people standing on the outer rim of the stadium. The camera was far from them, and no one would have noticed those three shapes unless they knew what to look for.
Two of those shapes were inhuman. They belonged to the pterodactyl brothers, runaways from a clan of anthropomorphic pterodactyls, the brothers possessed a large amount of ki and were perhaps the strongest fighters from their clan. The third was a man's shape. The bomb King, a fascinating man, who had discovered a method to link his ki to machinery.
It was surprising that the bomb King hadn't found the bomb yet. Nothing stayed hidden from him for long.
'There are no explosives placed in the stadium or the amusement park, those locations hold large escape routes for the terrorists, which is why they have been heavily occupied', the voice of the faceless man boomed into the devil's mind through the soul link that he had formed. So that was the reason that the bombs couldn't be found.
'That is good. I give you free reign. Kill any hostiles you see', the devil commanded Vixen and the trio at the stadium.
As soon as her master's command reached her, Vixen jumped up into the air from her hiding spot behind the trees. The seven gunmen that were standing in front of her a moment ago, now stood right below her, and each held an expression of utter shock when they saw a woman floating in mid air.
Vixen didn't give them much time to recover. She was bulletproof, but she had no interest in getting shot at, so she quickly killed them off with small energy beams fired from her fingers.
Then without sparing another moment she flew across the amusement park and shot down any hostiles she saw with ki beams.
All the hostages captured in the amusement park were herded into seven different locations at the amusement park. There were over a thousand hostages in each of these locations with nearly a hundred gunmen guarding them.
There was a high chance that she could be located, but she definitely wouldn't be recognized. She moved so fast that all that an ordinary human would see would be a vague blur.
Within a matter of twenty minutes she had cleared the entire amusement park of every hostile she saw. All the gunmen guarding the hostages were dead, and so all the hostages were now running in a panicked mob, trying to get out of the park.
The panic was probably as much as Vixen's fault as it was the gunmen. The average human couldn't help but feel afraid when they saw something extraordinary. And a blurry shadow flying over them and shooting laser beams had probably freaked them out far more anything the terrorists had done.
Vixen sighed at the stupidity of the average human, as well as at her weariness. She had used a large amount of ki to kill these guards as discreetly and as quickly as possible, and that had exhausted her.
She flew away from the park and landed on a building's rooftop a mile away. Vixen took a few moments to gather her strength again and then looked down at the streets below.
A small band of these terrorists were marching towards the amusement park. She took a moment to look at them properly, and noticed that their black bulletproof vest had a small insignia. It looked like a hour glass placed horizontally, with a stylized 'RR' printed at the center.
'Today is going to be a long day. Got a lot of cleaning up to do', Vixen thought to herself before flying down to the band of gunmen and slaughtering them with her bare fists.
She was nothing more than a blur to them. A blur that left behind corpses as it moved. In less than a few seconds, every one of the gunmen lay lifeless on the ground.
Vixen then flew away from her handiwork, hunting for her next band of terrorists to slaughter.
"Well you heard the boss man, we get free reign!", Gonon yelled.
" Hell yeah! Let's smoke these fools!", Finon yelled right after his brother.
Amelette Osparagus aka the bomb King sighed. He lifted the glass face guard of his helmet and rubbed his brows.
'Damn it's freaking hot today! Couldn't these damn freaks choose any other day to take over the goddamn city! Goddamn it! And then the devil dude has to go and team me up with these damn idiots!', the bomb King cursed in his mind.
"Oi! Stop yelling you damn idiots! Do you want those damn bastards to see us and then start killing those damn hostages! Have some goddamn consideration!", the bomb King yelled out himself.
"Don't think you our boss bomb dude! We our own bosses! After the devil boss man of course", Gonon said, and immediately his brother added, " Yeah Yeah! We our own bosses, we are! After the devil boss man, we our own bosses!"
The bomb King groaned, "Alright idiots! Just shut up for a second! Let me kill the gunmen around the hostages! Then you can murder whoever you want! Other than the hostages of course".
" Yes yes! Kill everyone we will! Other than the hostages, cos boss man said no to killing hostages ", Gonon said, and then his brother added," Yeah! Kill everyone! Except for everyone who doesn't have a gun!"
Sighing for the second time, the bomb King lifted his face guard and rubbed his brows again. He goddamn hated the goddamn pterodactyl brothers.
The bomb King extended his ki to every single one of his microscopic nanobots, and there were seven thousand of them floating in the atmosphere right now. He inserted a single nanobot into the body of every gunman standing in near the hostages.
There was a rugby match going on in the stadium before the terrorists showed up and took over the city. Amelette wasn't a big fan of rugby himself, but quite a few idiots in the city were. So the stadium was packed today, thousands of people occupied the seats of the large stadium. The bomb King calibrated the ki flowing through his nanobots, making sure that there was only enough ki to kill the gunmen and cause no harm to the bystanders.
Once he was sure the explosion wouldn't cause anyone else harm, the bomb King made the ki inside the nanobots expand and turn destructive. The ki caused the nanobots to explode inside the gunmen.
Several heads, stomachs, necks, and chests suddenly blew up, leaving a bloody mess behind. The explosions were followed by thousands of screams.
"Goddamn it, why do these losers always scream! Well whatever, free reign guys, rip their damn guts out", the bomb King told his two accomplices.
" Oh yes!", Gonon yelled and then he extended his wings and flew down.
"Oh yeah!", Finon yelled immediately after his brother and then he too flew down towards the army that occupied the stadium.
The gunmen tried shooting at the anthropomorphic pterodactyls, but unfortunately for them, the two brothers were bulletproof.
Landing on the stadium ground, the two brothers started to rip apart the terrorists, quite literally.
" Damn, I didn't actually mean you have to rip their guts out ", bomb King muttered to himself. Well, with the stadium cleared out and the hostages safe, his job was complete. He could finally go home now and read some manga.
'No. After you are done here, the three of you will hunt down the groups of terrorists spread across the city, and prevent them from reaching the stadium or the amusement park, do you understand boy? You can read your manga later', the voice of the devil commanded him in his mind.
'Uh…yes sir! Of course sir! As you wish sir!', the bomb king replied through the soul link.
Today was going to be a damn long day.
Videl parked her Hoover bike behind the burnt ruins of the police precinct. Right in front of the ruin was the mansion of Satan's city's Mayor.
It didn't take her long to restrain the men who attacked her house, and immediately after that she drove her bike towards the mayor's mansion.
It was a dangerous and time consuming journey. There were so many of these bastards all over the city! She had to drive carefully and evade any large group she sensed. Thankfully at least there wasn't any traffic. The roads were full of abandoned vehicles, with their owners hiding inside nearby buildings.
She couldn't have flown in her copter. She would have definitely been seen then.
Forty five minutes had already gone by since the terrorists first broadcasted that the city had been taken over. And that crazy blue haired bastard was going to kill someone in an hour! She only had fifteen minutes left before an innocent died inside the mansion.
Sensing gunmen on every rooftop surrounding the mansion, Videl groaned in frustration.
She unlocked her watch and then called Tristan. Videl was overjoyed when she learnt that Tristan was actually off duty when he had called her and when the police precincts exploded. Of course that mean quite a few cops had still survived the explosions.
But most were engaging the terrorists on the roads or trying to get into the stadium and the amusement park, and they were getting destroyed by the terrorists without mercy.
As soon as Tristan picked up the call Videl spoke,"Did you manage to gather the squad you promised?"
When Tristan had called her a second time today to tell her that he was still alive, he had also told her that he could gather a group of off duty police men in under an hour to assist her in saving the hostages at the mansion.
"Yeah Videl! We are ready! We are just a block away from the mansion, what about you?", Tristan replied to her.
" I am behind the precinct near the mayor's mansion. Listen Tristan, this is what I need you guys to do".
A gunfight had just began. The noise of the gunshots were clearly heard throughout the auditorium.
"Well looks like someone's attempting a rescue mission. How stupid of them. Oh and would you look at the time! Almost an hour! Alright you guys, have you decided who is gonna get capped first today? No? How unfortunate. Well looks like I get to decide myself then", the blue haired terrorist leader said.
Gohan growled. The man had told the reporters to decide among themselves on who was going to get shot first. Gohan could sense the terror that the men and women were in. He, his grandpa, and all the other sitters of the dias had been shifted to the seats of the audience. Sitting so close to these people who were consumed with fear and hopelessness made Gohan feel angry.
Nearly angry enough to publicly use his powers and exterminate the blue haired man and the rest of his wannabe red ribbon army himself.
And he would do that if he actually tried to shoot anyone. He won't not let someone die on his watch, not even if it comprised his secret identity.
If the man so much as even took aim at any of these reporters, Gohan would decimate him.
Whatever may happen when his identity was revealed, no one in this room would die today. No one except the members of the red ribbon army.
As the cops distracted the gunmen on the roof by firing at them, Videl sneaked across the street and jumped over the outer wall of the mansion.
She immediately sensed two men running towards the mansion's gates, probably to help the gunmen on the roof.
Videl pressed her back to the mansion's wall and as the two men started to run across her, she quickly jumped them and tasered them with her batons.
Knocking them both out with a hard hit to the back of their skull, Videl moved towards a nearby window. Not sensing anyone on the other side of the window, she punched the window trying to break it, but instead she almost broke her hand.
"OW!", Videl gasped. How hard was that bloody window. Videl gritted her teeth, then took a step back.
She then leapt forward and kicked out. The jump kick shattered the window, but Videl's foot hurt like hell.
She groaned as the stood up again. Videl flexed her toes to see whether they had broken, thankfully everything was intact. Suddenly Videl remembered reading somewhere that the windows of mayor's mansion were all bulletproof and tough enough to resist a sledgehammer.
'Naa. No way this window is actually bulletproof. Must have read that about some other building. I couldn't possibly break down something that tough', Videl thought to herself.
She then jumped into the mansion through the window.
She extended her senses, looking for any nearby hostiles. All the hostiles were present only along the eastern side of the mansion.
That was where the auditorium was.
Videl sensed twenty two men in all, sixteen of whome where in close proximity to each other. The other six were spread out, probably keeping guard outside the auditorium.
Videl only had ten minutes to spare. Ten minutes, to take down twenty two men, and save over forty hostages.
'This…..is either going to be the best day of my life….or the last day of my life', Videl thought to herself, as she felt the adrenalin flow throughout her body, like she always did before a challenging fight.