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Zechariah held his fire for a moment when Viki said she was set. Seeing her work her spell to drop objects onto the rogues left him in astonishment until he recovered and continued shooting. One of the enemy headed in Viki's direction. He would have shot a stun beam had the clips on both pistols not run out of ammunition. Zechariah was about to get in front of Viki to take on the criminal in hand to hand combat when he noticed a swift-moving old man get behind the foe and stab him unconscious.

"What the...!? Who...!?" His latter question was answered before it was completed, since Viki exclaimed the swordsman's name. It left him briefly baffled. For one, she sounded as if she had a crush on the man. The other was, how could the Royal Knight get by with just a sword, if he were protecting the royal family? He would have to have uncanny stealth. It did not take long before Sir Hansel was deflecting beams with his sword at a rapid pace. That is a first.

Zechariah then heard Sir Hansel speak to him. " Young man, can you take down a few more of them? We should be able to fight our way out of this mess.”

That was when Zechariah refocused on the task at hand, reloading his plasma pistols. "On it!"

Once the reloading was complete, Zechariah leaped into the air as he shot a barrage of stun beams in the front enemy's direction, the majority reaching their mark. The barrage was just as much to distract the foes as to bring them down. landing in the middle of a smaller group, he wasted no time in evading each and every shot while blasting stun beams with incredible accuracy. He own speed nearly matched that of Sir Hansel while sprinting forward and bringing down several more rogues that were in the way. Whatever number of them were left over would be easy pickings for Viki and Sir Hansel.

"This way! To the docks!"

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Meanwhile, Benjamin quit his ranting when Oriana tried to calm him down. At the mention of the first attacks on the Benjlakki bases, he nodded. Those first attacks on the bases occurred more as skirmishes than anything else, with most of the fighting along the shorelines. At the mention of her being near his "base", he thought to himself, we were only at the base in Gatourshai for extensive training, then we transferred to the Seraphim, a capital ship our navy has. She really needs to catch up on some things. "Sure, Ori! And, Brown Wing Team no longer trains at the Gatourshai base, we transferred to the BRNS Seraphim after our training was complete, and right on time, too. I will meet you at the docks."

Hanging up, Ben got on a transport that took him to town, where he met up with her. He hugged her immediately, relieved she was okay and alive. Letting go, he blushed while looking at Oriana. [color]"There... there is something I have been meaning to tell you, Ori."[/color] Before he could say anything else, however, Benjamin received an urgent call from Zechariah's comm bot, T7-B, involving Zechariah and Viki fighting their way through some hostile war criminals in the more run down area of town. "Damn! Zechariah's in trouble! I will have to make this confession short!"

Benjamin then placed his hands on her shoulders, blushing even more and expressing a little bit of shyness. He realzed he had to hurry because of the urgency, so once he finally gathered the courage, he kissed Oriana on the lips in a passionate manner prior to sprinting towards his destination.

Knowing his brother, he would want him to set his weapons to stun, and that he did. Once he caught sight of the fighting and noticed Zechariah making his way through the war criminals, Benjamin fired his Plasma SMG with a loud battle cry. seven foes fell unconscious as more came to the immediate area.

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Zechariah recognized the shout in an instant, even before the knocked out men fell so he could see him. "Ben! Perfect timing!"

Benjamin shouted back, "T7-B gave the message about your predicament!" Only the Malachi brothers could understand the code T7 used to communicate, since it was customized by Zechariah while making that communications disk bot. Ben aimed at another rogue while saying, "But, enough talk, for now!"

"Agreed!" Zechariah went back to back with Benjamin due more incoming foes that were in the way. Benjamin roared his battle cry again as he blasted stun beam from his SMG at any hostile he spotted, Zechariah using his plasma pistols to accurately blast stun shots at enemies within his range of sight. Whatever number of foes left would be dealt with by Viki and Sir Hansel.

Once all was clear, it would only be a matter of getting to the docks. The part of town Zechariah, Benjamin, Viki, and Sir Hansel entered possessed more surveillance, thus with Naval Security around, it would be suicide for the rogues to pursue further. The docks were not far. Once there, Zechariah relayed the incident and the struggle to get to the docks, Naval Security sending some of their own squads to go retrieve the unconscious and other suspects. The Naval Security, of course, questioned the other witnesses, as well.

Once all questions were answered and Naval Security let the group go, Zechariah walked up to Viki and gave her a big, long hug. "I'll keep in touch, okay, Viki?" With that, he held T7-B as a communications disk and began to connect to the devices of all Brown Wing Team after he left a message for Admiral Lionel, reading: Admiral, some war criminals are headed towards a town in Metargo to destroy it. I am taking Brown Wing Team with me to stop and capture them.

The message he gave to Brown Wing Team was as follows:

Brown Wing Team, this is Zechariah Malachi! War criminals are attempting to destroy an entire town across enemy borders! All available Brown Wings, prepare your mechs to sortie!