The twins each fought an Eagle-Hawk, powerful Eagle-Hawks which clawed at them repeatedly, causing loud sounds to echo out from every time they blocked.
Meanwhile, many of the remaining Eagle-Hawks flew to the Carrier, firstly, due to its size which made it a much bigger target, secondly, due to Lei Shi and Leng Shi already being occupied by two Eagle-Hawks.
After seeing how they were struggling with them and how they were being pushed back after every block, the Eagle-Hawks thought that just those two Eagle-Hawks would be enough to kill them, since Leng Shi and Lei Shi looked to be in a weaker position.
Upon seeing the Eagle-Hawks rapidly approaching, the Carrier fired a powerful shot which killed about seven Eagle-Hawks at once. This caused the surviving Eagle Hawks to go berserk, to the point that the remaining Eagle-Hawks who were circling the battlefield and watching Lei Shi and Leng Shi's battle charged at them. However, as they approached the Carrier, it opened its doors and the Rank 3 and Rank 4 HTB suit wielders once more trooped out and began a frantic fight with them.
Their fight was bloody, but although the Eagle-Hawks repeatedly sustained losses, as the Acme Company guards were skilled at working together, the Eagle-Hawks still fought valiantly and viciously. Lei Shi and Leng Shi, after seeing the Acme Company guards fully infuriate the Eagle-Hawks, directly stopped their earlier pretense of being the weaker party and moved to kill their opponents.
*Bang*
After blocking an attack from the Eagle-Hawk he was fighting, Leng Shi shot an electric beam at the Eagle-Hawk using his other hand, stunning it.
*Bang*
*Crackle*
Before it could regroup and attack once more, Lei Shi hacked its neck with his saber, beheading it.
*Splash* the Eagle-Hawk's blood spurted out of its body as it fell to the ground.
*Caw*
The bird Leng Shi was fighting shrieked when it saw its fellow bird die, but before it could go berserk, Leng Shi fired a blue orb at it while it was still distracted.
*Bamm*
The blue orb froze the Eagle-Hawk's wings and feathers, but before it could react, Leng Shi directly slew it.
*Splash*
*Crash* the Eagle-Hawk's body fell together with its head.
Lei Shi and Leng Shi then glanced at the Acme Company guards, and after seeing that they were occupied, they decided to take that chance and escape. As they were dashing away, surprisingly, the Carrier moved and chased after them, ignoring the Acme Company guards and Eagle-Hawks.
"Fuck! Nothing gets passed you huh?!" Lei Shi asked irritably.
As their minds raced, thinking of how to shake off the Carrier, the twins saw, in the distance, something rapidly approaching their location.
In a blink, it got close enough that they could appraise it features. What they saw caused Lei Shi and Leng Shi to scream "Crap!!" "Fuck!!".
Then, contrary to everyone's expectation, they turned and flew in the opposite direction, towards the Carrier.
The Carrier didn't ask any questions or seem to feel any embarrassment as it directly fired a terrifying shot at them.
BOOM
Unfortunately, Leng Shi and Lei Shi were moving too fast to change directions. But right as they were about to be struck, Leng Shi, who was flying at Lei Shi's left, pointed his right-foot at Lei Shi while Lei Shi, who was flying at Leng Shi's right, did the same using his left-foot. At that point, they stepped on the sole of each other's foot and pushed each other, forcefully changing their trajectories and causing the Carrier's bullet to narrowly miss them as it ended up passing between them.
KABOOM
The bullet ended up hitting something else. And that 'something' was the same thing that caused them to turn around and face the Carrier.
It was a bird. Not just any kind of bird, but one of the most terrifying kind. It was the Iron Bone Black Eagle. It was ten-meters tall and had a wingspan of twelve-meters.
This Bird of Prey was the result of a cross between a bald eagle and an Iron Bodied Eagle which was one of the Beasts that invaded Earth. The Iron Bone Black Eagle, unlike its parent which had Iron bones, Steel feathers and tough muscles, only had Iron Bones. It seemed that was the only thing it inherited from that parent other than its size and Black color. However, just these traits made it a terrifying Bird of Prey superior to the Eagle-Hawks, to the point of being considered incomparable.
The smoke from the explosion blotted out everyone's vision on the Iron Bone, making everyone curious as to whether it was alive or not.
*Flap*
*Whoosh*
A single flap of the Iron Bone Black Eagle's wings created a strong gale that blew away the smoke from the explosion and revealed its features.
The Iron Bone Black Eagle was just as it was rumored. It had Black Feathers all through its body, together with a shiny Iron Beak and Iron Claws which were a testimony of its Iron Bones.
The difference was that it had some charred feathers, with some parts of its flesh burnt, other than that, the only other noteworthy thing was that it looked immensely pissed off.
*Caw*
The Iron Bone Black Eagle made an ear-piercingly sharp bird cry and flapped its wings as it charged at the Carrier with great vigor, speed and power, intent on piercing right through it.
Right when everyone thought the end of the Carrier had come.
*Swoosh*
*Hong*
A loud sound, similar to that of a gong, resounded right after a figure dashed out of the Carrier like a phantom and intercepted the Iron Bone Black Eagle.
The figure tumbled backwards while the Iron Bone Black Eagle was also pushed backwards.
Suddenly, they both abruptly stopped and faced each other, sizing each other up.
The figure was a man who wielded a large hammer, and he had an Ash-colored Rank 6 HTB suit donned. From the large hammer he was wielding to his well chiseled body, it was apparent that power was his forte.
It turned out the loud gong sound which they heard earlier was as a result of the man hitting the Iron Bone Black Eagle's beak with his hammer. And the fact that he was able to stop and rebound such a large Iron Bone Black Eagle which was traveling at such a speed meant that he wasn't a character to be trifled with.
The stare-down didn't last long.
Once again, bird and man charged at each other and began a fierce, blood-boiling battle.
*Bang Bang Bang*
Even though they seemed to be roughly even in power, neither side backed down in the slightest. The man even looked slightly heroic as he fought a Beast that was many times his size.
Leng Shi and Lei Shi who were watching at the side were dumbstruck. Never would they have expected that Acme Company would actually mobilize, together with a battalion of guards, a Rank 6 HTB suit wielder to hunt them, two Rank 4 HTB suit wielders, down, as if a single Research Rector wasn't enough. Shit! Just the battalion of guards was already overkill!
They were shocked, then terrified. They inwardly asked themselves: What if he came at them right of the bat? What if he directly used his top speed, crossed the distance between them as they were fleeing from the Carrier and killed them without letting the battalion give a shot at killing or capturing them? Why didn't he come directly? Was it pride or disdain? Upon thinking up to there, they felt cold sweats run down their spines.
Like the wise man who knew to quit while he was still ahead, they decided to directly leave. They were lucky once; over-stretching their luck would be tantamount to courting death.
They sped away. And since all their pursuers were hung up, fighting a Beast, they weren't blocked this time.
The man in the Ash-colored HTB suit saw them leave, but gritted his teeth and continued with his fight with the Iron Bone Black Eagle.
It wasn't that he couldn't outrun the Iron Bone Black Eagle, a frighteningly fast bird, but because if he left here without killing it, the battalion of guards he brought with him will definitely suffer heavy casualties in order to kill it, because this Iron Bone Black Eagle didn't come particularly because they trespassed over its territory; rather, it was because its fellow Eagles, though a different breed whom he seemed to be a King to, were suffering large casualties as they fought the Acme Company guards. So, if the man left, the Iron Bone Black Eagle will go on a rampage and put its life on the line to exert revenge.
After sometime, the Acme Company guards were able to wipe out the Eagle-Hawks, with none surviving.
It wasn't as if they didn't have they chance to; rather it was because they just refused to leave the battlefield in defeat. The pride of eagles was fully revealed to them.
After taking care of the Eagle-Hawks, the Acme Company guards then went to assist the Rank 6 HTB suit wielding man who was locked in a fierce battle with the Iron Bone Black Eagle, whose bones seemed indestructible and whose beak and claws seemed to be the sharpest weapons.
With their assistance, the man was able to kill the Iron Bone Black Eagle faster, however, the man didn't even spare a second to celebrate, as him and the battalion immediately returned to the Carrier and flew in the direction which Lei Shi and Leng Shi fled in, chasing them.