Escape from Europe

"The helicopter is here! We're saved at last!" Isrina sliced a black-clad commando with her laser-edged sword.

The Reaper Squad commandos stormed through the harbor of Lisbon, Portugal. They fired purple lasers from their bayoneted rifles at Isrina and her five companions, the last UICA survivors of the Kneapexist conquest of the Middle East and Europe. Isrina's team slashed their way through the firepower and felt the spinning wind from a helicopter. Covinski's chopper turned on the side as it hovered beside the docks, opening a ramp.

Naphthien thrashed chain claws at the secret police, cutting them with steel fingers and covering Saitori and Cecilius as they hopped inside the helicopter. When the commandos flung arsenic needles at them, Rahim drew his scythes to deflect the deadly projectiles and threw them at the soldiers. One by one, they fell as Rahim's deadly sickles pierced their heads.

Isrina swung her sword at the bullets, charging at the last Reaper Squad commando. She dodged the glowing bayonet of the soldier's rifle, bashing his head with the blade's hilt. Isrina finished him with a stab through the heart.

"Is that everyone?" A throaty voice shouted from the cockpit. "We can't stay here!"

"Thank you, General Covinski," Cecilius patted his shoulder. "We just need to wait for Oreic."

The group heard an explosion across the pier full of dead commandos. Oreic spun his flaming saxophone bo staff against SANDRA, the Machine Queen's Tessenjutsu war fans.

"Saitori, take this," Isrina gave her red backpack to Saitori. "I'll handle her!"

Oreic lunged his hand out, launching a fireball at the Machine Queen.

"Thy tricks art nothing compared to my sorcery," SANDRA caught the fireball, electrifying it into a shady sphere that vacuumed the surrounding air. "Arcane Cybernetics: Void of Proxima!"

She launched the black hole at Oreic, but Isrina slashed the shadowy orb in half.

"Thanks for the save, Isrina!" Oreic stood.

"Let's move!" Isrina flipped her sword across her grip.

"In the Supreme Herald's name, thou shalt be judged for thy sins! Arcane Cybernetics: Vector Lightning!" SANDRA raised her metal fingers to fire purple 90-degree lightning.

Oreic whirled his bo staff into a heat shield that protected them from the thunderstorm.

"We have to leave!" Saitori's voice sounded from the helicopter.

"Oreic! Get inside!" Isrina charged at SANDRA.

Covinski's helicopter flew close as Oreic jumped on board. Isrina attacked SANDRA with her blade until SANDRA caught it with a war fan, closing to break the weapon. Isrina unleashed rolling punches against the Machine Queen's Tessenjutsu.

"Avian Form: Flamingo's Talon!" Isrina kicked both feet into SANDRA's face before jumping into the chopper.

"Oh, my God," Cecilius saw three purple portals tearing through the sky.

"Chimaeras," Rahim grimaced.

Giant shark-shaped warships swam out of the dark miasmic voids with metal bodies glaring with the sunset.

"Let's get out of here!" Covinski swerved the helicopter over the sea.

The gray frigates fired their battleship fin cannons at the aircraft.

"Hang on!" Covinski frantically swung the chopper from the explosions.

"Can this go any faster?" Rahim shouted as Naphthien clung to his arm.

"I'm risking my life for you people! A thank you wouldn't hurt!"

"Defoliator cannons incoming!" Saitori yelled.

The chimaeras' heads opened sideways, revealing long cannons. They fired pairs of plasma fireballs that spun across each other like DNA molecules. Covinski sped the helicopter away as the aircraft shook. The plasma orbs exploded into the water beneath them, causing a Saturn-shaped explosion that made the water erupt like a volcano.

"Crap! It's SANDRA!" Rahim yelled.

SANDRA ran for the pier's edge, growling with rage as her electric powers healed her face.

"Thou shalt not escape!" She clapped her palms to create a colorful, mesmerizing barrier. "Arcane Cybernetics: Astral Kaleidoscope!"

The Machine Queen launched the spinning kaleidoscopic wall at the helicopter.

"Enbu Fenix! Burn away all unrighteousness!" Oreic extended his palms to summon a fiery phoenix that collided with the mystical shield.

The explosion flipped the helicopter across the air. Isrina clung to her backpack as the aircraft spun to the ocean. Covinski frantically pressed buttons across the cockpit, shoved levers down with all his strength, and straightened the helicopter before it could touch the water.

"Whew. Is everyone okay?" He asked. "Where's my thank you? I know I will get yelled at for helping you UICA folks!"

"General Covinski. You don't know how thankful we are," Cecilius wearily smiled.

"We finally escaped from all that hell," Rahim sighed.

Isrina hugged her backpack, looking around before deciding that it was safe.

"My Little Chickadee," She smiled, opening the backpack.

The group gathered around, looking at Isrina's sleeping baby holding onto a stuffed black-capped chickadee.

"Shien," Isrina stroked the baby's face. "You're my only treasure, my everything. As long as I live, Fanghui will never lay a finger on you."