Ties (5)

On the roof of the Vincent Building on the edge of the city, the Mayor’s personal helicopter touches down. The Mayor and team steps out as three guards await their arrival. The guards stand in a line each with a riffle strapped around them.
“Welcome Mayor Jones,” says the guard positioned in the middle. “We have been waiting for your arrival and-” he freezes as he begins to choke. His body jerks before he collapses forward onto the floor in front of the mayor bleeding from a wound in his back. Standing behind the fallen guard is a Stagger, a tall brown slender alien with coarse skin and small spikes all over its body. Protruding from its wrists are 12 inch blades made out of the alien’s cartilage.
The guard on either side instantly pull out their riffles and point at the Stagger about to shoot. The alien is in between the two and in one quick extension, stretches its arms out stabs each guard simultaneously with its blades. It retracts its weapons out of the men as they fall. The Stagger glares at the Mayor, turns its head to sneer at those standing behind him: Liam, the large man and the slender woman. It pounces leaping forward about to attack them when it is intercepted.
The large man leaps forward grabbing the Stagger in mid air and forcing it to the ground. The ground shakes as the Champion lands on top of the alien. The Champion, the Mayor’s personal body guard is huge at 6 foot 6 and 200kgs of pure muscle. The Champion holds the Stagger down with his legs planted on the alien’s body. He grabs the Staggers left arm and pulls it off its body. The alien lets out a deafening screech as blood spurts out of the aliens shoulder where there used to be an arm. The Champion throws the detached arm to the side then raises his fist about to pound him.
“Stop!” Liam orders. Liam Chambers is the Mayor’s right hand man and is respected by most of the Mayor’s men. His ash blonde hair, blue eyes and boyish features perceived him as innocent, but those who know him know he is anything but. “We need him alive. We will take him to the mind readers and find out who sent him.”
The Champion nods and looks down at the Stagger. It glares back at him furious. It lets out a second loud screech as the Champion disables its other arm.