52nd Dimension:Kardinal's wake.

There were loud gunfire near Alex's position.

Alex ducked behind a dead tree and peeked around to see what was fired.

It didn't seem to be from nearby.

Alex decided it was best not to hang around and continued his way to the other side of the marsh

"Mom!" Messilita cried out.

"Yes,honey?" Elisa looked towards the stairs as Messilita started running down the stairs.

"Listen,I gotta go. Lucia and a few friends gotta go with me too."

"A few friends,you mean we have visitors?" Lucia said from behind her.

"Yeah,they don't mean any harm or anything like that.They are on the same team!"
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The woman panted furiously after firing the last shot at the final defender's head. She was one of the few survivors along with 2 construction mechs. She kept her cool and continued along the path...she anticipated an ambush.She was a bit paranoid.

"Indeed we... are?" Synthia reluctantly came out of her hiding place, smiling nervously.
"... Hi."

"Oh,hello there." Elisa greeted with a warm smile.

"So...how many of your friends are going to pop out of nowhere?" Lucia asked Messilita.

"Just me." Brego appeared behind Synthia, who jumped in fright.
"Stop DOING that!" She snarled at him, but quickly spun round to face the others, smiling.
"Don't worry about him." She replied, chuckling.

"Just 2." Messilita said before her phone rang again. She seemed to be alerted by the name who was making the call.

She took a few steps way from everyone and answered.
"Yes sir?" After that,she kept her voice at an in-audible level.

"If we get into any kind of horsecrap, I'm blaming you for everything." Synthia said to Brego.
"You agreed with her. I just got us here in the first place." He retaliated.
"She seemed like she needed our help!"
"You don't even know her." Brego snapped, frowning. He paused for a moment, then looked at his hand. Synthia looked at him, blinking.
"What?" She asked. Brego's hand seemed stiff.
"Wait... that isn't your--"
"Venaxia kicking in." He interrupted, quickly pulling out a syringe that had a deep blue liquid in. He quickly jabbed the needle into his arm and slowly squeezed a little bit into his arm. Synthia winced.
"You should really see a doctor with all these illnesses... how did you even get them in the first place?" She asked, worried. Brego ignored her, putting the syringe back in his inside coat pocket with the other syringes of his.

Alex carried on his way through the marsh.

As Messilita's expression gave away the nature of the conversation,it was obvious. The first defence was wiped out.

"Guys." Messilita said after she hung up. "I got bad news."

Alex's progress was halted a pit of deep swamp, "Great, no way I'll get through that without sinking, and the only way around is through the bushes," He muttered to himself while considering what little options he had.

The ground was rumbling a bit around Alex's area. The construction mechs were taking a shortcut which Messilita was supposed to cover up.

Alex felt the rumble and quickly looked around for anything to give him an idea.

It's a marsh,what can you expect than lots of bushes?! and toxic stuffs.

For lack of a better idea, Alex ducked into a clump of bushes.

Synthia perked her ears.
"What happened?" She asked.

"Whole part of the army got wiped out,it seems we're the only ones left in this area." Messilita said.

Synthia stared at Messilita, moments later her jaw dropping to the floor.
"That proves something." Brego mumbled to himself.

"We better hurry,the enemy doesn't stop and take a little refreshment break you know..." Messilita started towards the garage.

"Coming." Lucia followed.

"Hey,you two." Elisa said from the doorway of the living room. "Don't get yourselves killed,okay?" That was all she could say to her daughters at the moment.

"Sure."
"Yes,mom.You take care too."

Then Messilita motioned for both Synthia and Brego to follow.

Alex poked around the leaves to get a look of what's going on.

Synthia followed, hands in her pockets. Brego looked at them walking off, but followed from a distance.

In the garage was Elisa's vehicle and a jeep.

Messilita was walking towards the jeep than her mother's SUV...which is more than it looks.
"I wouldn't touch my mom's car if I were you." She said.

"Uh... okay." Synthia said, walking around it.