The emergency protocol

Harry was already frustrated about the fact that he was not able to rest before coming on this mission.

And now that a truck was about to crush him flat, he couldn't help but sigh in frustration.

"I hate my life," Harry muttered.

[Isn't that a bit too much?]

"Look, if I hear your voice again, I'll rip you out of my head," Harry stretched his hand forward.

The moment the truck made contact with his palm, it scattered into a flurry of dust!

[I don't think that's possible]

"Please stop talking," Harry groaned as he held his head.

Every time the system spoke, he felt a headache. It had started since his talk with Nick.

At first, he thought it was just him being tired, and had not even associated it with the system. That was until it spoke again.

[The headaches are simply your body getting used to me. It'll stop in time.]

"How long will it last?" Henry asked.

[Uncertain. And by the way, watch out.]

"Uh?..." Harry looked forward to see multiple cars heading towards him!

He quickly rushed out of the way while running towards the mutant who kept throwing nearby cars and debris.

Anything he couldn't dodge, he decayed.

Everything was going smoothly and he was closing distance quickly when he spotted a bus sliding toward him.

He tapped it and it decayed, but behind the storm of dust was the mutant throwing out a punch!

Harry quickly shielded himself on instinct as he awaited the punch from the mutant whose fist was even bigger than him.

[Danger detected]

[Activating Emergency protocol]

.....

Harry groaned as he got up. His eyes darted around and he realized he was inside an abandoned building.

"Where am I?"

There was no reply to his question, but he could hear multiple gunshots coming from outside.

He followed the sound to a large hole in the wall where he could see Laura and the other agents shooting at the mutant while trying to dodge the projectiles he threw.

Harry ran over to Laura.

"Hey," He said when he reached her. "What's the situation?"

"How the hell are you still alive?" Laura asked in surprise.

"It would be a lie if I said I knew," Harry replied.

She looked at him from head to toe before turning back to continue shooting at the mutant.

Their bullets were not penetrating, but they still kept shooting since they couldn't do anything else.

"You did good by the way. Think you can pull off what you did again?"

"What I did?" Harry raised his brow. "Mind refreshing my memory?"

"What? You don't remember crippling the big guy?" Sarah asked with furrowed brows. "That hit must've scrambled your brain."

"I crippled him?" Harry asked in disbelief.

"Even the way you moved was surprising. Are you sure you haven't undergone some kind of special martial art training?"

"I'm so confused right now," Harry commented. "If I crippled him, then why is he still up and moving?"

"He can regenerate," Laura replied.

"Of course," Harry rolled his eyes.

It just had to get harder to handle.

He still didn't understand what Laura was talking about, but he guessed it had something to do with the emergency protocol.

Neither Nick nor Doctor Silvia knew much about it, but from the look of things, it probably took control of his body.

'Do you mind giving me an explanation?' Harry asked the system inwardly.

He waited a few seconds, but there was no reply.

'The one time I want you to talk and you keep quiet. Stupid little shit.'

[*Smirking emoji*]

"The fuck..."

"Hey," Laura snapped her fingers in front of him. "Get your head back in the game. We're getting our asses handed to us out here."

"Right, sorry. What do you want me to do?" Harry asked.

"We'll distract the big guy, you take it from there," Laura said.

Harry nodded and ran past the agents toward the mutant.

The mutant spotted him and ran to meet him while throwing things his way.

Harry narrowly avoided them but there were too many. He was hit by a car, and although he turned it to dust, the force pushed him back.

"Shit," Harry said as he sat up.

The mutant was still running towards him and the ground shook at it's every step.

[You're becoming more confident]

"I simply want to see how the emergency protocol works," Harry smiled.

The protocol seemed to activate anytime he was in danger, so what better way to test it than to enter one?

[I suggest you get up and run or you'll be flattened. You've run out of uses for the emergency protocol.]

Harry's whole being froze when he heard those words. If he couldn't use it, then that meant that he was practically dead meat because the mutant was now above him!

The mutant punched down at him and Harry rolled away. He got up to see the mutant swinging his other hand at him!

Relying only on instinct, Harry dodged all his attacks and was lucky enough to get out of the way in time.

He snuck in a few touches here and there, but the moment the mutant's skin began to turn black, the darkness would recede and his skin would turn back to normal.

The mutant was regenerating faster than he could rot!

Harry ducked and avoided a swinging fist, but he then saw the mutant's large feet heading his way.

He tilted his body to the side to dodge, but he couldn't do so in time. The mutant's feet kicked him away and he crashed into debris with a groan.

Blood flowed out of multiple cuts on his skin and he could feel that he had broken his hand.

A shadow cast over him and he looked up to see the mutant throwing a punch to finish him when suddenly...

BOOM!

A few meters away stood Laura with a rocket launcher!