Just two minutes later…
The battle was in full swing. The army's fort was just a building in the middle of the city, a large, reinforced home that Markus planned to take with stolen guns and dreams. The siege wouldn't be successful, but Markus didn't give a shit. He was the one in front screaming the loudest and shooting the most.
In the heat of the moment, he didn't bother looking around him. The enemy was right in front, perfectly in sight for him to obliterate them. Not only did he not notice that most of his backup moved, he didn't hear Kara behind him.
And she got really close. Close enough to bang a gun over his head and make him stumble. In a daze, he couldn't fight back. Kara managed to knock him to the ground and only when Markus felt something strange poke around in his head he kicked out, grabbed Connor and threw him onto the ground. Markus got up and immediately stomped towards the deviant hunter. Connor was picked up by his collar and thrown far away, while Kara was unable to get to them in time and was similarly flung off the battlefield.
Markus was walking to Connor, who was just getting his bearings together to survive another onslaught, when the mad deviant suddenly fell to the ground. Connor had no idea what hit him, but the android landed in a way that allowed Connor to grab his arm. Markus twitched and struggled against the hunter searching through his mind, but he couldn't do much with one crippled arm.
Connor let go of his hand and immediately Markus got up and was about to punch the life out of him, but Connor spoke.
'Wait, Markus! You have more important things to do right now! I am not your main issue!'
'What did you do to me?!'
'I reversed a mistake I made. And you make sure you wouldn't have to do that by focusing on your main problem – your people!'
Markus looked back to see the deviants losing the fight. In the corner of his eye, he noticed movement and he saw Kara standing up with a gun in her hand.
'You were changed, Markus.' she told him. 'You were changed into something you wouldn't like. But you're back and we need you now.'
He was fuming inside. So many fucking traitors… But outside, he got up and ran towards the deviants, ordering them to retreat and run for their lives.
Only so many heard him and only so many lived.