------------1 day ago------------

It was a peaceful day, no attack from Terraformars for the past six days. The members of the Annex expedition were resting peacefully, then Azat sat down close to Irina and asked in low voice.

Azat: Irina can you connect me with other members of our team. We need to discuss something without anime characters hearing it.

And instead of answer she just used telepathy to connect him to the other members of team Kazakhstan.

Clare: [Hey, the commander did you want to tell us something?]

Azat: [ Yes, and stop calling me commander, it is just a part of the legend that Game Master gave us in order to interact with characters.]

Clare:[ Yes, sir!!!]

Azat: [ Well, whatever. The main reason why I needed to talk with all of you without catching the characters. Tomorrow according to the plot we will reach the Annex. And that is a problem.]

Genghis: [ And what is the problem ?]

Clare: [ Wolfy, don’t you remember the plot, according to the plot a Chinese team had already reached the ship, and they are preparing the trap in order to capture Akari and Micheal.]

Azat: [ Correct, and as you may expect it is not good for us, if we move further according to the plot, there is a high chance of us separating from Akari, and Game Master will kill anybody who is more than 5 km away from him.]

Ali: [ And what do you suggest to do? Attack Chinese first and get rid of them?]

Azat:[ Correct, attack them and take over the Annex.]

Genghis :[ Hey, Are you are kidding. They are genetically modified and strong enough to fight us. On top of that they also have weapons of the 26th century and don’t forget, that there is still cockroaches, remember you yourself said that according to the plot they will attack at the same time as the battle with Chinese starts!]

Azat: [ Yeah, I said it, and there is also Chinese battleship that will reach Mars soon.]

Genghis: [ Great, then they will just blow us up, after all, they think about as just another team that should be eliminated in order to get rid of witnesses!!!]

Azat: [ Yeah, you are right they will try to eliminate us as soon as possible, and that is the key.]

Clare: [ What do you mean by key?]

Azat: [ Did you think about, why there is a restriction on how far from Akari we can move? The Mars is the territory of cockroaches, they would have found and attacked us even if we were on the opposite side of the planet. That means that this restriction is related to other enemy, humans. And if we consider that the main goal of Chinese is to capture Akari from whom we can’t move away and Micheal to whose team’s evacuation shuttle we were assigned, that all started to make a sense. They will not fire at them, but instead, they will send a landing party to capture them and that means that as long as we stand next to them we will be safe from space bombardment also by helping them in fight with Chinese and showing that we are not with Chinese and that will allow us to obtain at least bit of trust from main characters. After all, you yourself should have already figured out that they do not fully trust us and think that we may be cooperating with Chinese or Russians that suspected to be traitors. And after it becomes clear that the Chinese ship is coming we may use that fact together with trust that we gained to officially tell Captain Komachi and others that we will not move away from Akari and Micheal and that we are against our separation from them. We may argument it by the way of staying safe from the cannon fire of battleship.]

Ali: [ That all sounds fine, but what are you going to do with a battleship?]

Azat: [As I said they most likely to send a landing party, and to do so they will most likely lower their altitude and that gives us the chance to fight back, even if they will stay at height more than 5 km we may just let them capture Akari and attack when he is being lifted on the ship or already on the ship. I don’t clearly remember plot any further this point after all too much time has passed since I read the manga. So it actually does not make any difference to us change we plot or not, because we don’t know the plot at the first place. And I can lift every one with flight spell and shadow clones after all if I prepare clones in advance I may fully restore my mana to the time when battleship arrives]

Genghis: [ DO YOU PROPOSE US TO FIGHT A FREAKING SPACESHIP FULL OF TACTICAL WEAPONS AND MINI ARMY ON IT!!!!!! Forget, this plan is even crazier than the last one from the previous mission. I am out.]

Ali: [ It is not like you have any choice. The Spaceship will come anyway. And we will have to deal with it. And it is better if can strike back. However, let’s return to the point. What we will do when we reach Annex. Fight the Chinese or follow the plot? ]

--------Present time------------

Azat: Commander Liu. My offer is still valid. So what is your answer now?

Liu: Ha-Ha-Ha. How generous of you. Unfortunately, we can’t step back either.

Just after these words came out of communicator, a rocket flying on the speed several times of the speed of sound appeared over the horizon and was flying towards America-Japanese team However before the members of said team could even begin to understand what is happening around them a one more shell came out Ali’s handheld canon and with almost impossible precision landed directly into the rocket. And that was possible only due to Irina’s telepathy that transferred guidance of Azat’s biochip to Ali.

Azat: Damn it, they almost had us there. Never expected that they would have given up on the possibility of capturing Micheal and Akari so fast. Well, let’s move out. Captain Komachi, I hope you will help us, and Commander Micheal please take care of the noncombatants