Chapter 25: Trade-Off

QuickShot:

Firing rockets at the ground, Silent blankets himself in a cloud of smoke. Despite not seeing Silent or his giant robot suit, I can still clearly hear the sound of rockets.

I pull back my bowstring and scan the sky. I expect rockets to be shooting out and heading toward us any second now, but I'm wrong. Instead of rockets, Silent himself shoots out from the smoke cloud. He flies into the night sky before disappearing.

"He's escaping," I say, lowering my bow. "Come on, we can--"

Before I can finish, I stop when I see the smoke clearing away. There, lying on the ground right in front of us, hidden at first because of the smoke, is a man.

The man appears to be wearing some sort of weird, black and brown armor, with a large belt with a dozen pouches. He also is wearing a white mask with red eyes.

"A white mask," I think, "Red eyes? Guys, this is Silent!"

"Silent," SpeedBlade repeats, looking at the downed man.