Chapter 1697 It's A Dead Man's World:>11
- “Back inside!” the Captain yelled before the helicopters got within shooting range. The soldiers scrambled through the opening in the cargo dock and back into the prison, slamming the steel door behind them. Three X7 gunships came blasting over the island from the other side. “Crap those things are fast,” he screamed over the noise and the wind. “I kind of wish we hadn’t designed them.” Then the choppers started to turn back towards them.
- “Veronica, GO!” The blonde envoy took off back towards the prison, with Eliza and the Captain right behind. The Captain overtook the lead. Then Veronica tripped, her ankle apparently injured. Eliza grabbed her and pulled her along the ground until they were behind a rock. One of the choppers swung in low and tried to navigate around, but there was a grove of trees just behind that rock that made it impossible. So the X7 just hovered there, waiting for someone to poke his or her head out. Then, it exploded.
- Materializing from the brush behind them was Thug, who camouflage fell away as he leveled, aimed and fired his single-shot cannon at the low-flying, sitting-duck helicopter. The fire and wreckage was actually quite pretty. As Thug reloaded, Eliza grabbed her headset out of her pocket and put it on.