What Do You Mean I'm The Captain Of A Yandere Mercenary Company?

Following the map once more, we made our way to the supposed 'bunker' of the ship where the supposed researchers this captain was escorting were hiding.

So far, we haven't seen that big guy that pulled those armoured men out yet so I'm still expecting to meet at least another group of these armoured men somewhere.

Judging by the map, we should be almost at the bunker already and yet there were still no signs of them.

Did they go in the other direction instead? That's the only explanation I could think of that explained that guy's absence.

Unless he found another airlock and vented himself out into space of course… But I doubt that's what happened.

We eventually arrived at an obviously fortified door and there was no one else in sight.

Huh… Did they really go to a different part of the ship instead of here?

I turned to the other two, "What do we do now?"

Amber shrugged, "Our job was to secure them right? They seem pretty secured at the moment so… Job complete?"

"I mean… There's still enemies on board right? I wouldn't really call that secure."

"Hmm… Then I guess we have to go hunt them down?"

I was just about to agree when Mara suddenly swivelled around to look down the corridor.

"They're coming…"

Amber immediately moved herself in front of me while I sank onto a knee to assume a shooting stance with my shotgun, peeking around her to aim down the corridor.

Soon enough, a group of four armoured men turned the corner, one of them being the larger sized one while the other three seemed to have different types of armour as well.

The one leading them had armour that looked like the ones we had been seeing except it was much sleeker and more skin tight in design.

Then the one diagonally behind him was someone wearing an armour that had various boxes attached to different parts of their body.

Lastly, the one in front of the guy with the big armour had weird spikes jutting out from various parts of their armour, making him look like some edgelord.

The one leading at the front stopped when he saw us, "So it's true then… Are you three from another family looking to take these researchers?"

Huh? What the hell gave him that idea?

None of us answered and he waved his hand at us, "Listen… We don't need all of them, so we can split them with you. There's no need for us to fight. And I know what you're thinking… You managed to take down my men easily but the four of us aren't the same. We specialise in taking down Psionics so it won't be easy for you either. We can just all walk away from this with what we want."

Ah… Seems like they managed to get the report out that we had Psionics on our side. I guess that's why they assumed that we were from a rival family since the idea that we were Mercs did not cross their minds.

Amber smirked at him, "Very tempting, but unfortunately what we want is everyone here so we'll have to ask you to leave instead."

The other guy did not sound amused, "We are on;ly offering this because we would like to avoid a fight if we could, but we will not hesitate to kill you if you insist on getting in our way.

"You can try."

"Very well then, you leave us no choice."

Amber immediately pushed her palm out in front of her, no doubt to throw them with her telekinesis.

However, the large guy immediately deployed the shield and the surface of the shield rippled like something had just struck it.

Amber frowned and pulled her arm back, the shield clearly having blocked her telekinesis.

The leader of the armoured men chuckled, "I take it this is your first time seeing it? I already told you we're specialised to take on Psionics, did you think we would be defenseless against Psionic attacks? This shield is designed to block off any Psionic attacks. And we all know that you Psionics overly rely on your Psionic abilities so once that's taken from you, you're pretty much defenseless. You could have just taken up my offer and we could both walk away with what we want, now I want you to step aside and we get all the researchers there."

Mara frowned, "I knew the Nobles were looking for ways to undermine each other… But to think that they had developed something like this that could also be used against them…"

The leader turned to her, "You must be really out of the loop if you didn't even know about this. This may be rare but it's been in use for a while now since these shields are hard to make. So what will it be?"

Amber laughed, "Hahaha! You really think I'm powerless huh? Why don't you come here and find out if I really am powerless?"

She then pulled out her dual pistols and gave them a come hither motion before pointing her guns at them.

The leader seemed quite exasperated but I guess he did not want to waste any more time because he pulled out two combat knives from his waist.

"I have already given you enough warnings," He growled, right before his figure shifted like a mirage and turned invisible.

The other three did not move, surprisingly, as though saying that their leader was enough to handle us.

I could not see the guy at all but Amber seemed to be able to sense him because she stretched out her right hand and fired a shot at the ceiling, her bullet ricocheting off the ceiling and leaving several sparks.

Her left hand then crossed under her right and she fired another shot aimed at the wall, still hitting nothing but the wall.

Her third shot was from her right again as she fired right in front of her, this time hitting something invisible that sent out several sparks.

The leader appeared for a brief moment with his two knives crossed in front of him, telling me that he had managed to block the shot using his knives.

Seems like he also has some skills.

Amber did not stop there as she levelled both her pistols at him and fired a quick burst at him but sparks flew in the air, indicating the guy had blocked all of them with his knives.

I decided to help her by loading in a buckshot round and firing it at him.

Despite my surprise attack, he seemed to have avoided it because the pellets did not hit anything and Amber started shooting to the left instead.

Mara then reached out her hand as if to try and grab something in the direction of where Amber was shooting.

Her brows furrowed, "He's too fast… I can't grab him…"

Eh? So you could avoid it by doing that as well?

Yet Amber's here tracking him and shooting at him like it's normal?

Just as I thought of that, Amber's guns clicked empty.

Instead of reloading, she spun her pistols around to hold them by the barrels before swinging them in front of her.

The two pistol grips smashed against something, causing more sparks to appear.

The leader once again reappeared for a brief moment to show that his knives had struck the bottom of Amber's pistols and got parried away.

Amber then shoved her hands in front of her and I heard a very distinct grunt of pain coming from in front of her before a crash came from inside the shield that large guy was projecting.

Amber then flipped her guns back into position before the two magazines from her pistols were ejected to float to her waist and slot themselves inside while two new mags flew out to slam themselves into her pistols without her hands moving.

The guns then cocked themselves and Amber once again pointed the guns down at the enemy in front of her.

"Powerless you say?" Amber mocked with a grin. "Do you want to try again?"

The leader deactivated his cloak and stood back up, "So you want me to actually seriously try to kill you huh? Or do you not realise that my companions didn't even move and only I did? If all of us were to attack you together, you wouldn't stand a chance. Give up, that's my advice to you."

"Pfft~ You really think you're all that special huh? I can tell you that even if all four of you were to attack us together, it wouldn't even make a difference."

Amber… Why are you provoking them? It's kind of obvious that they actually have the skills and equipment needed to actually take down a Psionic… So why are you still goading them?

Look, the three people behind him had also taken out their own weapons and they're now preparing to attack us too…

Argh fuck it, let's just kill them!