Warning: There be death ahead for some minor characters. Don't read if this is a trigger for you!
The sliders and the group were stunned silent as they stared in disbelief. They stared at the blackened shell of the timer in utter shock and dismay. But it was Jason who broke them out of their shock when he yelled, "Come on! We ain't dyin' today!"
"He's right! You guys'll just have to come with us," said Wendy. With that said Naomi nods in agreement and tries to open her portal but is unsuccessful. Naomi's timer wasn't able to open the portal due to a piece of shrapnel being lodged into its side. "It won't open! It won't open!" exclaimed Naomi. At the lawyer's distress, Quinn felt ice crawl down his spine, but before he or anyone else could do anything else a fireball exploded only a few feet away from their crouched position.
This sudden explosion brought the group's attention back to the war raging behind them. Derek had absorbed some metal and coated himself in a metal coating and was currently engaged in hand to hand combat with the enemy. Alex was using her lightening bending and fighting the enemy in an almost acrobatic style. Also fighting, but using their respective bendings, Adira, Sokka, and Malcolm held their ground behind the crates to protect their group from any stragglers of the enemy. Also behind with them were Rembrandt, Jason, and Maggie who were desperately trying to hold their own with dwindling ammunition that remained. And for the most part, they were all successful; however, none of them knew how long this would last especially with the two combustion benders they were fighting against.
The constant back and forth of their respective ammunition caused much disarray to the hangar. The walls that surrounded them had puncture marks and large holes due to the either side's projectiles. The hangar was filled with smoke, fallen rocks were everywhere, and crates were broken and half melted.
Not caring about the scenery around them, Adira flings more earth projectiles toward the enemy. The firebenders met this attack with several strong blasts of fire. The two elements exploded on impact with one another. However, when another wave of fire was shot toward them, Malcolm deflected it with a strong gust of wind. Like Adira's attack, this counter attack also exploded. But this attack was much more explosive and, due to its power, Malcolm was thrown back and accidentally bumps into Naomi.
Due to Malcolm bumping into her, Naomi drops the timer and it clatters away from her and then the back of the timer falls out. At seeing this, Quinn quickly scoops up the timer and starts to put the timer back together.
As Quinn's attempting to put the timer back together, Adira earthbends a larger and stronger barrier between her group and the remaining firebnding soldiers; however, a man with a third eye tattooed on his forehead combusts the barrier with a thin and transparent energy bolt.
The barrier explodes while Adira and Malcolm try their best to keep any debree hitting anyone in their group. However, after the explosion of the barrier, a cry of pain shot out followed by a cry of anguish. From his position, Jason saw that a young woman, who also had a third eye tattoo on her forehead and had her hair pulled back into a long black braid, ran over to the motionless figure on the ground that was the combustion bender man and started to grasp his hand saying, "Pin! No! Don't you dare leave me Big Brother!" Sadly though, the man was already dead due to a small pebble that hit his third eye and sunk into his forehead. "No, Pin, noo..." sobbed the third eyed woman.
At seeing this distraction, Jason decides to grab another weapon that was laying on the ground a few feet away from their position. Without any warning at all, Jason makes a run for the weapon; however, the third eyed woman notices and becomes in rage. The third eyed woman then stood up from her dead brother's body and took a deep breath and aimed for Jason.
Unfortunately for the third eyed woman, Adira heard the deep breath and knew just what to do next. Due to her seismic sense and advanced hearing, Adira knew just where the third eyed woman was and metal bended a part of a metal crate toward the third eyed woman and had it wrap around the woman's head mere moments before the woman's combustion attack could leave the rage of her face.
This is turn caused a mild and gory explosion. One the sliders didn't have to thankfully stick around for because just as the explosion happened, Quinn was able to fix and open the portal. Without thinking, the sliders and Naomi's group jumped through bright vortex.
Just as the portal closed behind the travelers with a rushing sound, Rickman and the last five soldiers stood astonished. "No. This can't be happening," whispered Rickman as he walked numbly over to where the escapees had just been seconds before.
"NO!" Rickman roared in fury. As he died down though, the Colonel received a message on his AT RF40 handheld radio saying that the pulsar has just hit and if he wanted to leave this world he better get back to base for his group's evacuation.
Still angry at the sliders for escaping his grasp once again, Colonel Rickman didn't say anything for a moment. But then he picked up his radio and spoke into it saying, "This is Rickman. I'll be there in the next ten minutes. Over."
At hearing their leader's statement to the dispatcher, one of the few remaining soldiers asked, "Sir didn't you mean 'we'll be there in ten?"
Instead of answering the man, threw many throwing knives at his five soldiers, which in turn pinned them all to the wall they were standing in front of at that moment. Then in the seconds that followed, Rickman threw five well aimed throwing knives into each of their throats; killing them all instantly. None of the soldiers truly had a chance to defend themselves.
Unfazed as to what he had just done, Rickman finally responded to the now dead soldier's question, "No. I meant what I said." And with that statement, Rickman walked out and headed back to his base.
..:TBC:..