Before Richard left, he took another 5 soldiers with him without Stan Edgar knowing.
Richard went to the forest where Damian was. The squad spread out around the forest and surrounded Damian. There were 8 snipers in every direction surrounding Damian, from north to northwest, and the other soldiers were spread around Damian.
"ARE YOU ALL PEDOPHILES OR JUST CREEPS?"
The present.
Damian stared at the man who introduced himself as Richard Brinkerhoff. He didn't seem to know who the person was.
"We came to have a talk with you, Damian," Richard said to Damian as he stepped forward slowly.
Damian reacted to being called by his name, which meant they investigated him. Damian was trying to figure out where they got his name from but remembered that he gave that nurse his full name.
Damian suddenly had a realisation. If they knew his name as Damian Cross, then what was his birth name, or wasn't he named, which could explain everything?
He either died at birth, or his parent died while giving birth to him. He didn't want to imagine if either or both happened.
"What could you talk about with a kid less than 10 years old?" Damian suddenly had a realisation as he shrugged his shoulders. "Wait, I don't even know how old I am."
"We look for children who ran away from home or don't have a home, and we offer them a home to live in," Richard said as he smiled while saying that.
'Bullshit,' Damian thought.
"So you come with a squad of trained soldiers to 'OFFER' a home for me. Nah, I'm good. Can you leave?" Damian said as he started to walk back.
Richard began to talk about something, and Damian realised they weren't leaving without him but did nothing.
Richard noticed Damian wasn't listening to him, and the soldiers noticed that as well. He signaled one of the snipers to take a shot at Damian, and the sniper did that.
Damian couldn't react to the shot and was hit with a tranquilizer dart in the back. Damian started to lose his strength immediately and pulled the tranquilizer dart out of him.
Damian was hit with carfentanil, a tranquilizer that can knock out an elephant, but it is extremely dangerous if used on a human. Damian's regeneration kicked in when he pulled the dart out.
Damian's regeneration is superhuman cellular regeneration. As long as his cells are damaged, his limbs are lost, or his cells are corrupted, the cells heal themselves as long as his heart and brain are working.
Damian held the dart in his hand. He looked at the sniper who shot him and looked at Richard.
"Is this your way of talking?" Damian said as he looked at Richard. Richard shivered when he saw a 6-year-old get shot by a tranquilizer that could put an elephant to sleep but did nothing to Damian.
He instructed the other snipers to shoot at Damian, and Damian was shot with 6 tranquilizer darts. Damian immediately pulled the darts out, moving his hands at super speed because he couldn't react to the shots fired at him.
He's fast but currently not faster than a bullet from a rifle. He's not even faster than a bullet from a 9mm pistol.
The snipers were carrying .308 Winchester rifles, and the rest of the soldiers were carrying either M4 or AR-15 rifles. Each sniper had one tranquilizer dart, and the rest were real bullets.
Damian fell to the ground after pulling the last dart out of his body. He lay there for 5 seconds before he stood up and stared at Richard with anger.
Richard wanted to gain control of the situation and looked at Damian with a smirk on his face.
"Look around you, boy. You're surrounded. What can you do all alone?" Richard said to Damian as he spread his arms wide.
Damian smirked and said, "Oh, really."
Damian went down and grabbed a pebble on the ground. All the soldiers held their guns steady as they watched Damian pick up a pebble.
Damian looked at the first sniper who fired the shot and threw the pebble with all his force straight at the sniper's scope. The pebble went through the scope as well as through the sniper's skull from his eye, and the sniper dropped dead.
The soldiers started shooting at Damian. He used his super speed to appear in front of a nearby soldier and punched a hole in his chest because he couldn't control his strength with all the anger he was feeling.
Damian can run a minimum of 172 meters per second (Mach 0.5) in his super speed and can go up to 309 m/s (Mach 0.9), but after 290 m/s, Damian can go into cardiac arrest because his heart can't keep up with that speed yet.
Damian couldn't outrun the bullets that were flying towards him, but he could outmaneuver them. He would let the bullets hit his non-critical body parts since he couldn't dodge them all, but let the others hit if he couldn't dodge them.
He went to the closest soldier after that and punched his head off his shoulders. The soldiers were seeing everything happen while they kept shooting.
One soldier threw a grenade at Damian, and Damian grabbed it before it could fall to the ground.
Damian kicked the other soldier in the ribs. The soldier flew towards a tree and crashed into it while Damian was still holding the grenade.
Damian punched another soldier in the back and ripped his spine out through his back while still holding the grenade.
He punched another soldier in the chest and ripped his heart out.
Damian realised he was still holding the grenade and made a shocked expression. He went to the guy who threw the grenade at him and said, "I'm sorry. I forgot to return this to you."
He shoved the grenade inside the bulletproof vest of the guy and ran to another soldier. He stood next to the soldier and said, "Ohhh, I like this part."
Damian watched the soldier get blown to pieces with a smile on his face and twisted the head of the soldier next to him. He then threw the soldier's head at one of the snipers who fired at him. The head collided with the sniper's head, but the sniper suffered only a concussion.
The sniper couldn't see straight after the concussion and fired a shot at Damian, but it hit his teammate instead.
Damian grabbed a rifle from the ground. With a few pebbles, he threw all the pebbles into the sky and made the rifle he was holding into a bat.
He went to the other soldiers and hit their heads with the rifle like he was hitting a home run.
Before the pebbles could fall to the ground, Damian hit each pebble toward all 6 snipers who shot at him, and the pebbles crushed their skulls.
He turned the rifle into a spear and threw it at one of the soldiers. The rifle impaled the soldier's chest.
He removed the hands of one of the soldiers and said, "I need helping hands. I'll return them to you."
He used those hands to hit the soldiers with them but realised they didn't do as much damage as he did. He returned the hands by hitting the soldier's neck with them, and the soldier died.
Damian punched another soldier and ripped out both of his lungs.
Richard watched in horror as Damian slaughtered every soldier he came with in less than a minute. Richard couldn't follow Damian's movements because he was extremely fast but noticed each soldier dying one by one.
Richard peed himself while watching everything unfold in front of his eyes.
Damian appeared in front of him while holding a heart in his hand. Damian tossed the heart aside and walked towards Richard.
Richard fell onto his butt while shivering in front of Damian. He looked at Richard and said, "Well, you can lock me up now."
Damian smiled when he said that.