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I continued walking out. I met up with Leo who wore the same expression as I and my eye twitched.

“If we didn’t need them all, we could kill them.”

“I mean, who says we need them ALL?” Was all Leo snarled and I could tell he was genuinely angry and suddenly I had an idea.

“Why don’t we see if it was just a fluke with the bots? Go against them ourselves and, if they manage to beat us, then we kill them for wasting our time down here.” I was only slightly kidding, but was serious enough that he heard it and was ready. In an instant Geoffrey was in front of me and looking as alarmed as I was. Leo grabbed him by the scuff of his neck and pulled him closer.

“We’re gonna go play in Eternal for a little while, there might be an issue with the calibration of those bots.” He winked at me before he was gone and I scoffed before teleporting a very shocked, eating Carmen.

“Anything I can do for you?” With an eye roll I grabbed her arm and teleported us to Eternal, entering the training room that Leo had picked on. I wasn’t surprised that it was his own personal one, meaning that they would be trained as hard as we had been. He pushed Geoffrey and I let go of Carmen.

“Survive. Keep yourself alive, and if you think that’s too easy then keep each other alive.” Was all Leo said before putting his hand on the wall and initiating the training.

Chapter 35

 

It got dark suddenly, and there were pine trees everywhere and it was freezing. Without needing anything more from him I scaled a tree, perching on a high branch so I could see everything without. They both looked confused but not as bothered as I imagined Leo would’ve wanted them to be. I felt the tree rustling and, instantly, Leo was next to me glaring at them with his arms crossed.

“Do you really think they can make it through this?”

“I barely make it through sometimes.” Was all he said, in barely a grunt. Rolling my eyes I sighed and watched them. They were equipped with armor and weapons, armed to the teeth and ready. They looked around then at each other and that’s when the shooting started. They ducked quickly, I watched as Geoffrey put up an Earth barrier around them as they crawled to safety. Smart, but taxing. It meant that the humans could follow your movement, but in the heat of the moment it was a good move. Suddenly they stopped moving and in instant the barrier was gone and they were shooting back and running towards the tree line. Carmen took one of the stun bombs and threw it at the humans, they kept shooting and merely picked it up and threw it back. I could almost taste her disgust as she kicked it away from them in any direction and slid into the tree line. I called on my wolf and watched as they ran from tree to tree, getting closer to them.

“What are they doing? Going directly for them? They’ll be expecting that.” Leo spat through the mental link, his body gearing up to run in and save them. I just kept watching, knowing they weren’t stupid enough to be reckless. The bots in this training room were, essentially, ideal human fighters. So, assuming that the humans were well trained and knew what they were doing, they would be able to fight hard. Almost as hard as us. I knew they were tracking Carmen and Geoffrey, and knew whatever plan they had it’d better be good, but I couldn’t interfere. They slowed down and dropped to ground level, before going deeper in the forest. Carmen’s wolf was out and I could smell Geoffrey’s lion, and knew they were acting on animal instinct. They were both predators now, and they knew how to track down powerful prey. The human bots played in, because they were human and had their own tactics; stupid ones, but tactics nonetheless. They aimed in the forest but walked in further, slow and calculated steps were being taken. Carmen cocked her gun and aimed it at them but Geoffrey simply crouched further to the ground, his muscles bunching and ready to attack. They had some link, some sort of connection that was driving them.

                I narrowed my eyes and sat up straighter, noting how well they were working together. One human crossed an invisible mental barrier for Carmen and she shot and continued shooting, hitting each of them with accuracy, until they were all down. She stood up and reloaded her gun, before cocking it and looking at Geoffrey who hadn’t relaxed yet. She closed her eyes and sniffed the air before her eyes shot open. Geoffrey tackled her to the ground as shots whizzed over their head. He growled and aimed at the enemy, still on her. She only hissed slightly and rolled onto her belly, as best as she could, and aimed too. The humans were going to start surrounding them if they didn’t get a hold of the situation. She took out another stun grenade and held it for a while, an alarming amount of time actually, before throwing it to the group in front of them who didn’t have enough time to do anything before it went off. They got up and took to the trees again, different ones that encircled the area they just fled. Slowly the humans that were going to flank them walked into their line of view. I raised a brow in interest to see how they would respond and they did not disappoint. Geoffrey slowly climbed down, making no noise thanks to his cat movements, and flanked them. They continued walking and he took the one at the back and snapped his neck, moving quickly to the closest human and doing the same. They suddenly stopped and Geoffrey stopped too, not fast enough and not nearly quiet enough. They turned around and before they could shoot him and the session restart Carmen launched herself from the tree, punching one in his ear and back handing another one which made them both fly and knocked both unconscious. They were shooting at her, but she wasn’t letting herself get hit. She used her air element to deflect the bullets. When she was ready she aimed her weapon and fired back, dropping the air defense and letting the bullets fly.

                Geoffrey pressed his back to her back and shot at the incoming humans that were running to the sound of danger, while also managing to occasionally use his earth defenses to throw them back or stop them completely. The sound of a sudden helicopter hurt my ears, but I didn’t care. They were magical to watch. My wolf was practically clawing at me to fight with them, but I had resigned myself to only watching. Suddenly the field was full, shifters everywhere and fighting. They were bots of course, designed to simulate the real deal, but that didn’t make watching death any easier. It threw the pair off and they looked to each other before looking around. They saw their family and friends surrounding them, and I felt the strength course through Carmen but also the pure and ramped anger that coursed through her. She looked around, probably looking for us, before she suddenly looked forward. Lilliana had gone down. I saw her body shake and I heard her scream throughout all the noise of battle. Geoffrey turned around at it and surveyed what was wrong with her. She fell to her knees and her gun dropped from her hand. I stood on the branch then, knowing her time was up if she’d dropped her gun. He crouched down and cupped her blank face.

“Listen to me, now is not the time to mourn them. That’s spitting on them and everything we’re working for now, if you give up. Bring out your wolf, and let’s get back to business.” He shook her face a little and I felt the resolve and tremendous power that she brought forward. She would still mourn her now, but she was on the back burner.

“No, no. It needs to be the both of you.” She listened to him, standing side by side with her wolf instead of just letting her wolf handle it. She looked up at the helicopter that was quickly coming toward them, I saw her scowl turn deadly and she looked to Geoffrey then.

“Give me a lift?” He simply nodded and gripped her waist before summoning his earth to him and making pillars of dirt to lift them both up. When they were close enough he leaped into the copter, taking advantage of them not seeing them, and ripped the human that was shooting out while she kicked the other two humans that weren’t flying out the other side.

“You know how to fly?!” She yelled at him, ripping the door to the cockpit off the hinges.

“It shouldn’t be that hard, plus you can just keep us up if I fuck something up!” He grunted as he ripped the pilot out and quickly assumed his seat. I was going to step in and stop them, because we weren’t aiming to kill the humans and a helicopter would ensure that’s what they did, but Leo held out his arm. I watched as they turned the copter around and Carmen aimed at the other helicopters. I knew her ears were probably begging to be ripped off but she still aimed proud and true. She held up an air defense around the helicopter to keep from regular bullets from getting in. If they were to throw a rocket or grenade launcher at the, they would have to jump out but something told me they knew that. I watched as they took down three helicopters before they were launched, but they jumped out Geoffrey protecting himself with earth and Carmen floating down.

“Enough.” Was all Leo whispered and the room became all white and the simulation was ended. They stood there slightly panting and looking at us.

“I didn’t think that was necessary.” She was looking directly at me and I shrugged.

“It’s war. Death is inevitable.”

“You’ve seen what I can do and you think it’s wise to piss me off?” My wolf came to the surface at being disrespected by an omega.

“You haven’t seen what I can do and you think it’s wise to talk shit out of your mouth?” She stood up straight and rolled her shoulders, a small sneer on her mouth.

“I’ve beaten you before.” A soft growl came out of my mouth and Leo put his hand out in front of me.

“Now is not the time. How many of you can actually fight?” They looked at each other and shrugged.

“All of us can fight pretty well, even the pregnant ones. If anything they’re more vicious. I’ve gone against your sister, and she’s a bit of an asshole.”

“What do you mean?”

“They’re not as good as us, it takes them a little while to process things in their mind so they don’t move as fast but it’s not fatal. They’re good though, all of them are fighters.”

“How many are as good as