VROOM!

VROOM!

As Arnold was looking for Alice on the first floor of the building, he heard a loud noise of starting a car and immediately rushed downstairs, towards the garage.

He completely ignored the three-way battle that was going on between humans, ogres and his summons, and kept running towards the garage. On his way there, he ripped off a piece of cloth from a dead mage and wrapped it around his head to protect him from the radiation as the garage was located outside the main building hence there was a chance he could get affected by it. Since he already knew that the clothes these church members wore, granted then immunity to the radiation, he felt safe to step outside.

By the time he reached the entrance of the garage, Alice along with a few others was already seating in a military hummer and they were about to leave the building.

"Oh, you're not getting away so easily this time!" Arnold exclaimed, as took out his guns and began shooting at the tires, as they tried to get away.

The driver, however, didn't stop, and accelerated, even more, only to lose the balance of the car and crashed into an old building, a huge part of the building fell on the top of the car and completely trapping the car. Since, now the car out of the question, the four of them had no choice but to step out of it, but even as they got out, rather than running away, three of them charged straight at Arnold, while Alice started running away from the scene.

"I've got two guns in my hands and these idiots are still charging towards me?" Arnold shook his head in disappointment, and aimed his guns at his targets, "Did she promised to give them a kiss in hell or something?"

BANG

BANG

BANG

The three people fell like dominoes in front of him, he then aimed his guns at Alice, "Looks like I'll have to resurrect you after I'm done with you... tsk, what a way to waste a precious slot for elite summons..."

But right when he was about to take the shot, half a dozen military vehicles surrounded her, while more were en route towards his current location. People immediately stepped out of their vehicles and handcuffed Alice while the remaining people made their way towards the area where the clash between ogres, humans and his summons was taking place. Not that there was much for them to do either way as his summons already had the situation under control.

A common factor among these people? All of them were wearing exactly the same hazmat suits as Arnold, indicating they were the members of the army. His doubts vanished once he saw the familiar face of the woman who was headed his way.

"I thought, I told you to stay away," Arnold said.

"I thought you'd like to see me for once!" Amanda replied, "I know what you said, and I was going to let you handle it all alone, but then I kinda lost your signal and then... I panic- I meant then, I decided to move out in case you were in trouble, however, you weren't in any type of trouble so that's good right?"

"Lost my signal? We did I-"

"Hehehe, for lecturing me on my intelligence, you're not the brightest yourself are you?" Amanda smirked as if she finally got a much needed and well-deserved payback.

Arnold smacked his head when the realisation dawned upon him, "Of course there would've been a tracker or something inside the hazmat suit."

"Ding Ding Ding! You're correct and you've won some stone-cold embarrassment!" Amanda chirped, "Well... when our soldiers started disappearing we had to do something about it, so we decided to equip the suits with trackers so that we could track them in case they went MIA, but we never got to test them on the field as the soldiers were rarely sent outside after the new suits were manufactured."

"You wish. I'm not someone who gets embarrassed from such minuscule things." Arnold replied, "So what are you going to do with her?"

"Interrogate her, what else? Hey! Don't tell me they seriously damaged your brain!" Amanda messed up with him a bit more.

Before Arnold could reply, a voice came out of Amanda's communicator, "Ma'am the ogres have been taken care of and the remaining humans have been arrested but... there are some weird monsters here as well. They are not attacking us but they look intimidating... we're not sure what to do."

Arnold knew exactly what the guy was talking about, thus he seized Amanda's hand and brought it closer to his mouth before speaking, "You do anything to them and I'll personally rip your hands of your sockets."

And then hurried off to the main hall to cancel him summoning before anyone tried to pull off a stunt.

***

LATER THAT NIGHT,

THE ALPHA BASE,

INSIDE AN INTERROGATION ROOM...

"What were the drugs you were using to brainwash our men into doing your bidding?" An intelligence officer who liked like the hulk was trying his best to intimidate Alice and force some information out of her, but so far he couldn't get a single answer out of her.

"It wasn't a drug." That's all Alice kept repeating.

"Then what was it?"

"Sorry, I don't know what you're talking about."

"Then tell me who are you working for?"

"I'm a priestess. Take your guess."

Arnold, Amanda, and a few high ranking officers, including the Brigadier General himself, were witnessing this whole ordeal from behind the one-way mirror. While the others looked desperate to get some information out of Alice, Arnold remained calm and quiet while he patiently waited for his turn to interrogate that bitch.

He had wanted to interrogate her as soon as they reached the Alpha base, but the higher-ups rejected the idea saying it was their job to do so, but when Arnold 'persuaded' them for a bit, they finally gave in and agreed to allow him to interrogate her after 3 hours, and it was already about that time.

'Just a couple of minutes more...' Arnold thought.

But then suddenly the atmosphere inside the room changed.

"What the hell is he doing!?" Amanda exclaimed, "Someone stop that man!"

Arnold immediately got up from the chair he was sitting on, to see that the man who was interrogating Alice, had pulled out his gun, and was a moment away from pulling the trigger. The soldiers rushed inside to stop him but before they could've stopped him and the man pulled the trigger.

BANG!

Alice's blood splattered all over the one-way mirror and in all of the chaos, the man took out a small flask from his pockets and emptied it in his mouth. It was poison. Soon the man started hyperventilating and fell on the ground, and spat out some blood before dying.

While the others were still processing what had just happened in front of them, Arnold was busy analysing everyone's faces. All of them looked genuinely shocked. All, apart from the one man.

'I thought it might have been you.'