We ventured through and only found a few items of importance that we needed, and there was no one to be seen and many of the objects were either missing or destroyed.

I then sensed something ahead of us and immediately halted the team by raising my arm with my hand closed as silence was in our midst as the building was deserted. We stood there, crouched for a moment and I heard light growling of Frost Walkers, demons with very little power but they are very aggressive.

I signalled Donny and Mary to head one way to search for an exit, while Dante and I headed the opposite direction for the same objective. As we went on searching Dante asked, "Hey Captain, don't you think it's a bad idea to split up?" I stopped in my tracks not because of the question he asked was the wrong one to ask me at that time but because there was something near us, and it was watching us, "Dante, do you feel that?" I asked intensely, "What?" he asked reaching for his pistol.

I felt that the air became denser and very cold, "Don't you think it has gotten colder?" I asked to make sure that I am not the only one feeling the temperature drop, "Yeah, come to think of it, it's freezing in here," he said try to warm himself up with his hands.

I looked around but couldn't see anything with just my open eye, I needed to use my left eye, so as to use spirit vision as it allows me to see things that humans cannot see, think of it as a third eye, I could see supernatural entities with it, but I could not risk being found out by the enemy.

So instead, I fired an electric round at where I presumed a Frost Walker was hiding at 60 degrees to my right and 10 degrees up and had it bounce off three wall surfaces and hit my target.

For the first time in my life I had shown a man who is infamously known for being a show off and also a man I knew a lot about, that he has competition and had challenged each other to see who the best skilled man is, "Okay, I see how it is," Dante said irritably, "Are you jealous much?" I asked as if an old part of me was awaking from long a slumber and with a smirk on my face.

While Dante and I were glaring at each other, Donny reported over the radio saying, "We found an exit but it's heavily guarded," the fact irritated me that we had to go up the building to find an exit, but we had no other choice. So, I told Donny and Mary to meet us at an open stairwell a few steps to our right.

As they arrived, Donny stated, "Leaving through the doors without a fight is impossible, because they are watching them like hawks," and this was not far from truthful, but I had no choice but to give an alternative that was much riskier than going the easy way, "Looks we have to go up to our exit then," I said, "What do you mean?" Mary asked curiously.

As I thought, the roof was not a very good exit but what else was there for us to use, only that I knew how things were going to play out from the very start, "Our exit is the roof and we got twenty minutes before things go south," I said with caution, "Hold on! You mean to say that we have to go to roof and what jump on over to another building?" Dante asked irrationally, "Precisely.

That is the plan anyway," I whispered to them, having that feeling that something or someone was watching us again.

Before they asked any more questions obnoxiously, I slightly nudged my head to the direction of the stairwell entrance, they looked at it and immediately moved toward it as if they knew what I meant.

I could not help but have a smirk on my face as I was slightly pleased with myself for the fun of it, because that is how I am.

So, we had went up ten floors and stopped on the way because the rest of the stairwell was blocked off and were forced out of it to find another that all the way to the top, at floor number 10, then bad luck struck as we had some 'friends' patrolling the area, "This is not good," Donny whispered, "We have to get to the other side of this floor, so we have to move quietly and do not get spotted, understood?" I whispered commandingly.

So, we waited for the right moment to move stealthily from one area to another to get to the other stairwell. We moved as swiftly as we possibly could whenever the patrol turned around, it did take a while to actually make it to the other side of the floor, then I took one of my supplements because I was very hungry, moreover I had my dispenser with me everywhere I go, and the supplements are just highly compressed food in tablet form to which keep me from being hungry for at least two days.

Once I had taken them, we went into the stairwell, luckily it continued on all the way to the roof, "Alright, let's keep going up," I said. After ten more floors, we made it to the top, but the door was automatically locked with quadruple encryption, and I peered over towards Donny and asked, "Can you unlock the door?"

Donny the looked at me and said enthusiastically, "Can I, of course I can but it will take me a couple of minutes," then proceeded to remove a cord out of his armour and plugged it right into the lock interface and a holographic keyboard appearing from his and started decrypting the lock.

Well would you know, he struggled a little bit while decrypting the lock as the encryption was on another level and other than that, Donny was very unfamiliar with this type of encryption, either way he cracked it and got the door unlocked. We went through and walked across helicopter landing platform to get the edge of roof on the building, aimed at the next building with our grappling guns and shot the grappling hook to the other building.

Since Dante did not have any of the equipment nor could he jump all the way to the roof, he held on to Mary to get to the other building, and yes, I did smile at how hilarious the situation was. After we made it to the other building, Dante moved away from Mary as quick as he could because he was embarrassed at the fact that a woman did a man's job, what a shame, isn't it (Don't answer the question)?

As I was planning where else for us to go in order to get closer to the centre of the city, the building started to shake, honestly, Mary thought it was an earthquake but there has never been one in Downtime City, ever! Donny the asked, "What was that?" right after the building shook, it then happened again but this time it was different because we felt a slight changed in our centre of gravity, and if you are wandering what the building was tipping over slightly, so we ran over to the edge on the other side of the roof.

We hadn't had the time to prepare our grappling guns, nor did we have the time to think of any to do and jumped.

Falling off a building is not exactly what a person would want to happen to them but hey, what other option did my team have, screaming like little girls except for Mary, she gets a pass.

Suddenly we got hit by a wave from an explosion, throwing us back to the building that was still falling over to one side.

Look, we were no longer falling, we were sliding on the side of the building, and then we felt a huge vibration that had jumping on the building and was not helpful in our situation, but we landed back on to it.

I had to think of a plan and quick because we were about to slide over to our deaths, wait, this feels familiar, doesn't it? Anyway, I came up with an idea and it was a one in a million chance of actually working, so I went and shouted out to my team that, "We have to do the back shot whip!" If you are wondering what the hell am I talking, well it is more of when someone is about to fall to their deaths, they see a ledge with some stones and they use their grappling hooks or whatever the hell and have it lodge itself on you know what and save their lives, it pretty much happens in movies or some video games, beats me where it actually happens but you get the point, alright you all caught up now?

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