"Wild Card is an even bigger coward than I realized if he's willing to kidnap small children and use them as pawns." Marty snarled he and his fellow Guardians excited the Eagles passageway and re-entered the HOK.
"I wouldn't call that a coward tactic," Joseph began, and that surprised the blonde Guardian, "he knows we don't like civilians caught in the crossfire, so he's decided to take advantage that, just like you guys evolved to fight Sudden Death a few months back, Wild Card has now evolved to fight us, it seems to be a never ending cycle." Joseph said in a serious tone.
"Dude, that's just depressing." Troy said in his own serious tone.
"It's sad but true." Joseph said simply.
"Joseph is right," RZ began as he kept analyzing the glasses used to control three of his Guardians, "we should have known Wild Card would evolve to become better prepared to combat us since the last time we saw him." RZ said as he stopped his observing the glasses and turned to face his five Guardians, all of whom where still in their armor.
"How do we fight against this, I mean he now has kidnaped children, and is using them as mindless drones, as I said, how the heck do we fight against this?" Ish asked his leader.
"I'm trying to hone in on the others glasses signals, Wild Card broadcasts a signal from whatever hole he chooses to hibernate in, and he uses that signal to control the glasses, and give orders to the children, if I can lock unto the signal, we will find the kids, and be able to rescue them." RZ said as he kept trying to lock in on the signal from Wild Cards newest device.
"He's not just using them as drones, he's using them as a shield, he's pretty much dug in his heels and is daring us to come in after him." Joseph said with a snarl.
"Once again Joseph is right, we will have to take caution if we attempt a rescue mission-." RZ began before Ish cut him off.
"'If we attempt a rescue mission,'" Ish repeated his leaders words before pausing to take a breath, "why wouldn't we attempt to rescue them, it's not the first time we've gone into Wild Cards lair." Ish said in a determined tone.
"As much as I want to rescue them, as long as Wild Card has hostages, we cannot attempt to engage him, we have to be strategic about this, we cant rush in energy blasts blazing." RZ said wisely, and that earned a reluctant head nod from Ish.
Suddenly the Broncos passageway activated and Ricky walked into the HOK, still in his Guardian attire, "Sorry I'm late, Blitz Bots took a while longer than expected to destroy, at least the Broncos Megacore is safe." RIcky said with a smile that his teammates couldn't see from behind his red visor, but hat smile disappeared swiftly upon Ish informing the Mexican-American Guardian.
"Wild Card you coward, using children as human shields, when do we strike?" Ricky asked with a snarl.
"Not until we have a plan, Ricky." RZ said calmly, for he as well wanted to rescue the children, but he knew this would require the delicateness of a surgeons hand, and tracking this signal was harder than expected, but unknown to RZ, he was not the only one trying to get a lock on the signal...
"That foolish man, putting himself back on the grid like that," Angkoro began as he stood in front of a holographic display, while his two Anticorian allies where on opposite sides of him, "give him some credit that at least he took some hostages to make sure the Guardians can't come after him." Angkoro mused as he began typing commands into the display.
"If Wild Card put himself back on the grid, he want's it to be known," Stellaria said wisely as she removed a stray strand of green hair from her eyes, "but he's not the only one I'm worried about." Stellaria said with a hint of fear in her voice, and Angkoro knew what, or rather who his female ally was talking about.
"We do not have to worry about that-." Angkoro began as Stellaria raised a hand to silence her friend.
"You weren't the one who was wounded and almost squeezed the death." she snarled at Angkoro, which made Zich grunt, to which his allies understood completely since he only talked in grunts, but they could understand it.
"Even Zich agrees with me, maybe we should lay low for awhile and bide our time, we don't want to attacked again, seeing as how last time we captured a Megacore, it tracked us rather quickly." Stellaria proposed.
"Our only mistake was taking the Megacores out of the force field, otherwise we wouldn't have been found, and speaking of being found, I have found a rather powerful Megacore," he said with a smile beneath his face plate, "if we let it leak that the Carolina Panthers Megacore is rather powerful, it might draw Wild Card back into the open, and that will bring the Guardians to Carolina, and while they fight, we steal the Panthers Megacore." Angkoro said as he cracked his knuckles.
A few hours had passed and currently all seven Guardians could be found at the HOK, even Ash was there, be it she had to use crutches due to her severely sprained ankle, "What's up, RZ?" Ash asked her leader.
"I think Wild Card has played his next hand, surveillance Blitz Bots have been detected in Charlotte, North Carolina, I'm sending Marty, Ricky and Joseph to Carolina, the rest of you are going to storm Wild Cards lair since I've tracked the source of the signal from the glasses." RZ instructed his seven Guardians.
"Why the Panthers?" Ash asked.
"Unknown, but we cannot afford to ignore this, head to the targets at once." RZ ordered as one team headed to Carolina, while the other team headed towards Wild Cards lair, but little did RZ know that Wild Card and the Anticorians trap would not be the only obstacle to content with...