Max stood there staring at Kavi, not believing her own eyes, "how...?"
"How did you get out?" she stammered.
"I don't think now's the right time for explanations Maxie," Kavi replied looking at the approaching boats.
The sound of whirling chopper blades caught Max's attention, he was right; they had to get out of there and fast. There were gunshot fire, after which several canisters shot on deck...
"Tear gas," Kavi said stepping over Petrovic's corpse toward Max.
"Their trying to blind us so they can flank around," Max said covering her mouth with the crook of her arm.
Gunfire echoed throughout the large freight ship with Petrovic's men trying to repel the invaders, but they stood little chance against military proficiency. Men with heavy body armour and gas masks armed with 7.62mm assault rifles were now scurrying through the ship and picking off Russian thugs as they chattered on their radios informing command of their progress.
Lydecker's men were quickly covering the ship narrowing their search for the X5 female they were looking for.
"Let's move, Max," Kavi said, cocking his gun, "I got exit strategies for times like these."
Max had no idea what he meant; she was still trying to wrap her head around why he was here and how he could have shot Petrovic and Yasinski in cold blood. None-the-less, she followed him through the thick smoke caused by the tear gas holding her breath; ironically if it weren't for the genetic abilities Manticore had given they would not have been able to escape them. At present their enhanced vision allowed them to see clearly as they moved.
Four Manticore soldiers came around a container spotting them, they trained their riffles on Kavi who acted at a split-seconds notice; he ran up the side of the container and spun his body kicking one of them thru the face, the Perspex of his gas mask shattering. Kavi then moved at lightning speed grabbing two of the other soldiers gun nozzles and twirling his body, avoiding the shot of the other he hit the two over the heads with their own riffle buttes. He followed through gripping the other by the throat and slamming him hard to the ground before kicking the another against the container with a loud thud.
"Team command, come in, this is black leader, we have two Transgenic's, repea..."
"Errrgh."
Max had stopped the last soldier reporting to Lydecker by thrusting her foot into his back snapping the bones in his lower spine. Kavi pulled something out of his inner-jacket pocket and started moving again.
"A detonator, what the hell Kavi?" Max asked eyeing it.
"Desperate times Maxie," he replied, "got some C-4 rigged to gas drums down in the cargo bay in case of emergencies..."
"Now haul ass."
*
The shattering explosion ruptured, lighting up the night sky sending pieces of the freight ship flying in all directions...
Lydecker covered his face as the ship went up in flames. He looked up clutching his radio in anger.
"Did anyone make out the last broadcast from our team?"
"It sounded like he said there are two Transgenic's sir."
"Dammit! Get the chopper to circle around, I want lights on the water, we are not loosing these kids."
"Sir, we're three miles out from the mainland, they can't-"
"Don't fucking tell me what these kids can't do captain. Now I gave you an order."
"Yes sir; sorry sir."
*
Ten minutes later Max and Kavi immerged out of the sea water near the docks surveying the area for any signs of military presence. They heard the chopper fly over them after which their position was signalled by a blinding spot light.
"Stay where you are," said the amplified voice over the megaphone, "you will be brought in unharmed. Repeat, X5 soldiers stay where you are."
Max and Kavi used their speed to sprint down over the street, Max skidding over the hood of a car as they ran over and into a nearby alley. Kavi kicked off a wall and leapt up onto the fire escape then kicked the ladder down for Max who started scaling it.
Meanwhile Lydecker headed off the dock and got into a black military jeep, "Where are we Briggs?"
"We got the chopper after them sir, the male has been identified as X5-459."
"And the girl?"
"We have no identification sir."
"Let's move out, I want two teams mobilised, they do not leave this sector, tell black bird not to loose them," Lydecker ordered.
*
Max and Kavi moved across the rooftops leaping the gaps from one building to the next staying ahead of the chopper.
"We gotta lose the eye in the sky Kavi," Max said, the speed at which they were moving hardly affecting her.
"Stay on my tail," Kavi smiled.
He ran up to the edge of the roof but instead of jumping across he slanted his body weight and flung himself through a window breaking through into someone's bedroom. There was a scream as a girl jumped off a man covering her breasts with a sheet, then another as Max came crashing through the window too. Kavi broke the door in half with his sheer strength and then took the front door off its hinges moving through the hallway of the apartment building.
"Gotta keep going," Max said passing him.
They peered over the railing and down the stairwell as they heard footsteps making their way up the stairs.
"Fuck; Deck's task force is well trained," Kavi said eyeing the soldiers with his enhanced vision.
