Rico felt a light poking as he moved slightly and the sword hit his left arm instead. Rico grabbed the sword with his left arm and now they were in an arm lock with their arms crossed. Black Beetle frowned as he looked down at their arms.
He looked back up just as Rico was rearing back his head. He then flinched and tried to pull himself out of the arm lock. But Rico's head slammed into his and his helmet cracked again. "Argghh!" He screamed in pain as some green blood leaked from the cracks in his armor.
Then as it began repairing Rico reared back his head and brought it forward again. This time parts of the helmet armor began falling off revealing the head underneath. "One more and you're dead." Rico chuckled as he reared back his head again.
"^*^%(($##^&(*)*&^%^%$&(!" Black Beetle spoke quickly in a language he did not recognize. He would have to see if he could learn it later.
But before Rico could smash Black Beetle's head in he felt another sense of danger and jumped back. Black Beetle had already been trying to get out of their arm lock. So Rico let go and jumped back just as a massive red laser scorched through the ground turning it into glass.
Rico looked to the side and saw a massive ship shaped like a beetle appear in the sky. He then looked at Black Beetle and saw him jump back and up into the air. His armor quickly repaired and he seemed ready to come at Rico again when he suddenly flinched and stopped. Then he looked toward the ship.
Rico did the same and saw as three jets flew right over it after launching missiles that hit the side and blew up a chunk of the ship and it began falling and crashing into the ground. Rico watched as the Bialyian jets flew back around.
Black Beetle clicked his tongue as he looked toward Rico. "I will see you again, Honey Badger." He then flew up into the air with a rocket. Heading straight up into the sky.
Rico grunted in annoyance as he looked around and noticed police and military coming out of the woodwork. Surrounding him and holding their weapons at him. Rico looked around for a route to escape and maybe a vehicle to steal when he heard a whistle and looked over to the source.
Walking over in her seductive armor dress was Queen Bee. "Hold your fire. There is no point." She informed her soldiers as she turned her attention to Rico. "Now then, usually I would be quite cross and demand reparations. But from what I can tell you were just defending yourself and they provoked you. So I am willing to let you go, mostly because I need the manpower to get all of this… alien technology."
Rico smirked and chuckled. His voice came out as the same animalistic tone since he was still transformed. "I have no issue with that. I hope you do not mind if I grab a few things. Spoils of battle and all that."
Queen Bee looked at him with suspicion and Rico rolled his eyes. "Just a few laser spears and some of those disguise pieces of tech. You will still have plenty to study and reverse engineer on your own."
Queen Bee nodded. "Very well. But in exchange I would like to know why you came here."
"Now as a mercenary, I do not believe I should share that information." Rico answered with a chuckle. "Not to mention I have a feeling you have enough to worry about rather than someone who stole money and sought refuge in your country." Rico answered, giving her the information he was given by the GCPD not the information that he and his mercenary company discovered.
"Hmm… I hope to see you again…" Queen Bee stepped toward a group that looked like her military and political advisors.
"Honey Badger." Rico answered with a chuckle as he scooped up some laser spears and some of those disguise devices. He did not want to risk it with anything else. Especially since the plane should be overfilled at this point.
Rico put them in the back of a vehicle and then hotwired it before driving past some rubble. Once he was a safe enough distance away he transformed back into a human and adjusted his seat before calling Coin.
"This is Coin." Coin answered with a sigh.
"Coin, I am on route. Are you ready? We have a short grace period before Queen Bee starts coming after us. She is going to be wrapped up with securing all of that alien technology." Rico told her as he drove out of the city.
"We are almost there. Should I call my contacts and let them know about the alien tech?" Coin asked as Rico sped up.
"No. We acquired some as well. We should not call attention to it until we completely isolate ourselves from this incident." Rico answered.
"Understood. But I doubt we could completely isolate ourselves." Coin pointed out.
"That is fine. As long as we buy enough time." Rico answered as he drove through a small village that was not that far from the city. His phone began ringing and he glanced at it before adding the person to the call. "Edgelady, what do you got for me?"
"Not too much. Lex Luthor's personal assistant came with several other women to try and 'convince' you to work for them." Edgelady answered. "There is also an explosive level of chatter on the net about an alien invasion in Bialya?"
"Not an invasion. A covert insertion by aliens to retrieve something. Put up information that one of them used armor similar to that new Blue Beetle." Rico told her as he thought up a plan to redirect people's focus. "Keep our name out of it as much as possible. Also see if you can find anything about the Bialiyan Archaeological digs. I think this all started there."
"How far back?" Edgelady asked.
"As far as you can dig." Rico answered as a plan was already forming in his mind. He could make quite some money with the evidence he gathered if he sold it to the right people. He would just have to build the evidence and then set up an auction to sell it. Maybe he should sell a few other things as well. It would certainly put them on the right people's radar.