Apocalyptic Rebirth: With a repairman system space, she rises again. - Chapter 365

Chapter 365: Race to rescue.
Officer Bride pointed them to one of the monitors. A camera had finally sighted the trucks, rolling up the mountain. They seemed to be struggling a little. Some were unbalanced, tires almost completely inflated.

Lisha zoomed in and they noticed Morris and Greg pushing the one at the back. Alfred was out there with them, trying to melt the ice, especially the big blocks. The snow was still falling through this, and the wind was strong. It was clawing at the trucks and the men, dragging them off their feet as they struggled to hold on.

“That is not good.” Someone said.

Sunshine’s heart slammed against her ribs cage; the squad was not going to make it back safely on their own. This was very obvious. Alfred was trying his best, but it seemed to be useless. His fire was a single flame in the middle of a storm of snow and ice. It was flickering, falling apart.

She did not want to wait another second. Sunshine bolted out of the command center shouting. “I have to go and get them_ someone has to.”

“Sunshine, get back here!” Hades sprinted after her.

“Not happening.” She shouted, looking over her shoulder once. “This is not one of those let’s take a moment to think moments.”

“So, you want to go out there without a plan? “He bellowed.

She skidded to a stop briefly. Knowing her husband, he would chase her all the way down the mountain if he had to. Taking a few seconds to explain her incomplete plan was for the best. “I am going to create a safe passage for them; it is the least I can do. The biggest problem out there is ice, and I am the ice queen. I am pretty sure I can handle this somehow. Don’t follow me. If the bubble gets any issues, get our children to safety.”

Sunshine pushed him back.

Hades didn’t argue, he wanted to, but he knew it would be futile. He took his walkie-talkie and shouted urgently, “Elio, Nicodemus, superhumans…I need you all ASAP.”

Major Elio, who had been resting on the back of a mountain truck, sat up instantly. His eyes gleamed; superhuman eyesight already adjusting. He jumped down from the truck, finding Hades easily as he happened to be in the same area. “What?” He bellowed.

“Urgent rescue outside and my wife is going out. Drive her.” Hades ordered. “You can clearly see through the storm.”

Major Elio nodded, hopped into the driver’s seat of the very truck he had been laying on. Sunshine vaulted into the truck behind him. The way she figured, it would not harm them to have two working trucks. Father Nicodemus slipped into that truck as well and some soldiers nearby jumped in the back.

Hades pivoted and rolled away, shouting more commands into the walkie-talkie. He needed an emergency rescue team near the gate.

Sunshine had one regret on her mind as the vehicles rolled out. She should have covered the entire mountain with a bubble shield. Leaving out parts of the sky above the roads had not been a good idea. They would start on that as soon as possible. Who needed a view of the sky in comparison to safety?

As if the sky sensed her plans, a violent roar tore through the air. More big sized frost stones fell from the sky.

Sunshine stopped the truck at the side, avoiding the main path. “Stay inside, I don’t want your wings to be shredded.” She said to Father Nicodemus.

She got out of the truck and stood in the snow, a small lone figure determined to fight against fate.

Focus, she told herself.

Major Elio also pulled his truck to the side. “They are almost here.” He screamed out of an open window. Frost stones fell inside; two small ones scratched his nose. A big one fell on the trunk. He rolled up the window, shuddering.

“There!” Major Elio shouted from the comms inside the vehicle. “The trucks!”

Sunshine saw them ahead_ struggling, Swerving, barely holding together.

Major Elio gasped. “There is a very bad ice–frost…whatever on the way. It is tall and….it is like a pillar. How fucking big are these things?”

The soldiers in the back of Sunshine’s truck shivered. They felt useless. They did not dare to go outside like her.

Sunshine’s breath crystallized, her eyes banned with focus. She raised her hands, bending all the ice crystals to her will. It was not taxing on her body as long as she controlled only a portion of the area. And that was her goal, to clear up a path for the trucks.

The small stones shattered first with ease, scattering harmlessly. The bigger ones resisted, especially the one which was shaped like a pillar. The air screamed as it split apart, exploding into small bits of ice.

“Another pillar, headed straight for Alfred.” Elio warned her.

She raised her hands again, finding Alfred by the flickering of his flames. Her hands were raised once again, and she dug her feet into the snow. The giant stone cracked_ deep fractures racing across its surface. Sunshine poured all her focus into it, cold shooting through her veins. With a final push, the monolith shattered into drops of rain.

“You can melt them!” Major Elio exclaimed.

Sunshine did not respond. She continued to clear the path for the trucks. The superhumans outside shielded their faces as they escaped into the Elio’s truck or Sunshine’s. The soldiers in the truck Morris had been pushing also made their way into one of the two trucks.

When the first truck crossed into the shield, it’s alarm lights flickered, tires smoking from strain.

Then the second.

The third barely made it_ Sunshine had to hold up a last-minute ice-wall to redirect a falling stone that could have crushed the roof.

Sunshine climbed on top of her truck and continued her fight. Father Nicodemus took the wheel, protecting the other trucks from the rear until everyone had made it inside.

Three trucks were abandoned on the mountain path. If they survived, they would be pulled inside later.

Inside the third wall, the medics and other emergency helpers rushed to the trucks to check on the people inside. Many came out panting, some pale, visibly sick. Two needed emergency oxygen.

Sunshine was mostly fine, but she had a few cuts on her shoulders. Not that she cared. But Hades did and he personally applied medicine for her.

While he was doing that, she nodded and smiled at men and women that were grateful for her timely rescue.

“I thought it was over for us.” Alfred whispered.

Hades tapped Alfred’s shoulder. Now that Alfred was not pursuing his wife romantically, he found that he liked the man. His actions on this trip were worthy of a commendation. “You did good out there.”

Alfred removed the oxygen mask for a second and whispered thank you.

“What about the others that have not returned? Are they safe?” Sunshine asked Hades. “We need to understand the impact of the frost stones on the bases where they stayed.”

Lisha popped up before Sunshine, tab in hand. Her eyes were mixed with worry and tension. “It is a slaughter fest out there Suni.”

Sunshine clenched her hands. “Please tell me it is not our people.”