First Encounter

Chapter 58

The plane take off exactly as the time arrival at 7:10 in the morning. The weather seems nice for monster hunting, well, it's in the middle of a deserted area so the temperature is hot even in the early in the morning.

*shezzz* (engine noise slowly reducing)

The back deck of the plane opened up slowly as the six of us waited for it. When the door opened up fully, we saw a bunch of people wearing military uniforms waiting for us outside. Coulson immediately confronts them with nice greetings.

"Hello General Rick. I'm Phil Coulson from the FBI, we are to assist you as you can see, we only this small team was permitted to go on this mission." As Coulson takes initiative to handshake.

'FBI huh!, that would really do the talk I see… then I can use that right? hehe' As I thought of something would be bothersome and use it on problems would occur.

The leader of the military only said to him "No problem, we are short of people this time. Ah, also I would like to introduce to you Colonel James Rhodes. He is the one who organizes for the team rescuing Tony Stark, but due under circumstances I pulled him out and halted the search and rescue operation." He said with a stern face.

Yes, that's right he is Colonel James Rhodes also known as the "War Machine". Right now, he's pretty similar to the actor, Don Cheadle. Not much bulky but pretty fit for a military personnel, having an aura of higher up similar to the general to his side.

After the introduction, we rushed to the headquarters for a small briefing, but hastily talked because we didn't have much time. Just exactly 30 minutes meeting, we have go to our vehicles, some of the military personnel are in choppers while some of them is using tanks.

As the vehicle starts its expedition towards the death zone area, Fitz talks to Coulson making us hear it inside the vehicle.

"Sir, I just... something just bothering me is that, would that work? There's still the possibility that that thing is able to get out of that kind of trap. Just like you said Ken, that thing has an ability to escape anything we fired at it. By the way you didn't say anything at that meeting" he said as he looked at me with contempt.

As Fitz said, that thing has a way to escape from our plan. Thirty minutes ago, the military gave us some info about their plan to make a trap.

It's pretty simple actually, it's just planting some bombs somewhere on Sanking's path toward the city, but that is not all, they are also planting some bombs if that thing will change its path.

Out of the blue, the driver told me angrily.

"Wait, did you say that thing can escape from our trap? Mr. Cruz, why didn't you tell us about this?!".

Coronel Rhodes is the one who's driving our humvee as me, Coulson and Fitz is with him as a passenger while the other three is the other humvee

"Sorry about that Coronel Rhodes but it's not that simple to them actually. First, would they believe me if I told them? Second, what would happen if I told them the truth? Yes, they would change the plan again that would be back to zero, we are also running out of time." I told them making them more depressed.

At that time, no one was talking , making it slower than other vehicles. As we arrive at the scene, we are only just a few kilometres but we can the great sandstorm that we can ever imagine. It is so huge that it almost covered the whole area.

According to the sources this sandstorm is around 2500 meters and it's speed is 35 km per hour, much slower than ordinary sandstorm but it's the most gigantic sandstorm that has ever been recorded yet so far.

Fitz gave remarks to us and said, "this is my first time to see a sandstorm but this is quite more massive than what I've expected. Huh.. what the...?!" As he was looking at the laptop at the front of the humvee, he was startled on what he just discovered.

A while ago Fitz already used his new drone to scout the area, and this made Coulson think that there must be something that he found. The team got close to him and even some military personnel for his response.

"What is it Fitz?" Coulson asked him.

"Sir, you know what is the cause of a sandstorm right?"

"Yeah of course! Isn't the wind causing it?"

"Then this is... at first I can't believe it but that sandstorm was not caused by natural phenomenon but it-...", before Fitz finished his explanation I cut him off.

"It was controlled, like the sand had its own minds. Heh... this thing is OP as f*cked!. I just hope that that thing will not use that skill and if it used that right now we would be dead in a matter of seconds"

All of them look at me with a scorn on their faces that wants to punch me any minute right now.

"How did you do all this stuff kid?" Rhodes questioned me and I answered

"I already defeated one of them, however, it's a small one, the same big as me". I have to make a lie, just not to make any suspicions.

"Well, tell us already what that trump card are you talking about?" Melinda chimed in.

"It's a quicksand..."

*ommmm*

A buzzing sound coming from the sandstorm giving them goosebumps as the sands make it seem called by a king. All the military personnel and the agents instantly took their all weapons, looking vigilantly at the storm.

"He's coming..." I alerted them as I looked at the minimap on my system.

The sandstorm is getting closer to the trap, all of a sudden it halts abruptly. It was like the time stopped for us, making us agape from what we are seeing right now except me, I have a feeling that thing must have high detection.

How could that thing know that there's a missile coming on its way and escaped perfectly? Then that means it can detect dangers or somewhat sense it.

"Holy Mother of Christ! Did the storm just stop? This is f*cking impossible, that's only a monster!" One of the military exclaimed with shock looking at his monitors.

"I didn't say that it dumb monster, you morons!" Their leader told them while frown on his face can be seen

Out of a sudden, the sand in front of our ground started to shake, the next thing that happened was a cold-blooded massacre. The first one overthrown is the planes and choppers, except for the fight jets that were able to escape from the merciless killings.

*ennnggg* *craashh*

Many kinds of aerial vehicles used by the military were like flies that had lost their life falling in the ground. The one causing it to fall is the sandstorm, even if it's a little damage it still causes a huge damage especially to any machines in the long run.

One of the general didn't take any chances and gave them order to retreat regretfully while losing some of their beloved comrades.

One of the battalion commanders contacted the base and told them "central command what the hell is happening up in the sky?!"

The command center answered them back with a bit of choppy, "Sir, whenever the aerial vehicles are within the sandstorm area, they can't control the vehicles anymore and it's still losing its pressure! The general also commands you to fall back already at full speed!"

"F*ck thay retreating command, even high speed chopper were destroyed only fighter jets weren't. Are you telling me to drive as fast as f*cking jet!!" The commander shouted at his communication device.

At our side Fitz is sweating nervously while checking the data on his laptop. He never expected that thing has intelligence similar to human do, what most of all is that it has too many abilities to know.

The drone is still up above and seems stronger than any aerial device ever made by him. And yet, he only managed to track him before it was shut down. As the humvee is speeding away from the sandstorm, I didn't care about what will happen to the truck in the future.

"Sir, this is really bad! That thing is catching up to us at insane speed! We would be in contact in... 2 minutes and counting!"

*sikkk* *Booomm!*

Out of a sudden, one of the tanks that have been left because of its low speed but it was impaled by a sand. It was more like a bone made of sand piled up neatly moving towards it's direction.

If you are a player of DOTA, this is the first skill of Sandking. This is also the way he escapes from those bombardment making the military to become desperate to make countermeasures on Sandking.

As Sandking is getting closer towards us, Colonel Rhodes made a right turn just to keep our distance against the spikes. Fitz beside me is already shaking with nervousness, while Coulson is still calm and collected but I can still feel his fear.

"Sir if I made it out alive from this mission, I wish to have a long vacation!... I've really regretted my decision to come here" Fitz silently cried on the corner. Coulson was annoyed by Fitz and said "Shut up fitz! What shall we do in this situation kid!?".

I was about to answer him, one of the humvees used by the soldiers was impaled by a spike made of sand. After we saw it, Coronel stop the humvee and Coulson exclaimed "why are we stopping?!"

"Save those maggots of course!" As he reversed back the humvee.

*siikkk* (impale sound) *ahhhhh!!!"

Boom!!

A tank shot towards us and almost got hit on our ride,and the soldiers were firing in many directions not knowing where that enemy was.

Five of us stopped and looked at the impaled humvee and saw one of the soldiers was impaled and lost one of his limbs. It was gruesome at first but because of the adrenaline they took it for granted.

"Sh*t! get the f*ck out from that car! Get the f*ck out now!". I shouted immediately while pulling one of the soldiers.

"What do you me-..."

*pufff*

Before Coulson asked me a question, one of the soldiers who lost his limbs because of the spikes, without any warning, the body just exploded piece by piece like a balloon just popped out.