41 Friendly?

"What's going on?" asked Pagan once he caught up to Lucius.

"Security threat," Lucius replied, his eyes scanning the forest for any trace of Alpha and his squad.

"Are they the ones from the old camp?" Pagan responded, suddenly on high alert as he began looking around as if to see whether they were already closing in on them.

"No, something else. We've never encountered anything like this before. But they're capable of flight, so they're probably going to be harder to deal with," Lucius replied.

"They? How many did you find?" Pagan asked, already wheezing from exhaustion.

~He's going to be the first to evolve but even Ghost has more stamina than him,~ Lucius noted, side-eying Pagan as he spoke.

"I only saw one. But it's safe to assume that there are more of them close by. That's why I want all of you to hide while I deal with them," he responded, zipping past a cluster of bushes.

"You...you think you can take them all by yourself?" Pagan asked, practically gasping for air.