Sapphire City's
Chapter 43: Punishment

    Mirna and Derec were supposed to go to the airport following the Frontline team there, but since they were both injured after the fight with the White lady, the whole team decided to return to the base.

    In the car, Gilang drives, while Andy sits in the front seat. Derec and Yuda are in the middle, while Mirna and Siska are in the back. Lia was not stopping to report that several senior Frontline teams were being deployed there.

    But when they arrived at the airport, the presence of matis that destroyed the sapphire gem was not found, and it made the entire headquarters operator become confused and several times scan the airport area to see the matis trail.

    “Derec I want to ask something” Ask Yuda “not the last time I had the same mission Mirna on the road Abdul Rahmataleh, he said at the airport there are no empty gems, why now there?”

    “oh about that, actually headquartered there are some spare sapphire gems” replied Derec “you may know every mission, surely it's a gem must be brought to transfer light but, but, but the more often in the transfer, the light will dim and turn into an empty gem, from the empty gem that some defense teams plant the gem in a place that has been conquered”

    “so sapphire gems at the airport are not real gems there?” Ask Andy..

    Derec nodded “rightly, as there are some of the most strategic places in the city of Bandung but it has no gems, so we have no other choice but to plant the headquarters gem in those locations”

    “but now the gem is broken” said Mirna.

    “what's the impact?” Ask Siska.

    “if the first sapphire is successfully destroyed by matis, then it will invite other matis to come to that place” Derec replied.

    Yuda, Andy and Siska are both shocked to hear that, it means that there is a possibility that the airport will fall again into the pig territory as before. He could not imagine if the battle he and Mirna experienced would happen again.

    But it feels impossible, because the pigs mengepet they have defeated, if there will be a bunch of matis that attack, certainly different types.

    “sorry I want to ask, but this is about the previous mission” said Gilang “ that time it was said there were civilians who were dragged equally matis, about where he was, where, we didn't find it in”

    Derec was silent for a moment, even Yuda had just remembered that and Gilang's words had a point, in the mall even as they ran away from the pursuit of matis, he said, the figure of civilians who were attacked by Matis was nowhere.

    In the end Derec spoke up “ by the time we came out of the mall, the surveillance team came and immediately secured the mall building, unfortunately they did not find survivors”

    Yuda was silent, as if he had not misheard.

    “do you remember the human headship found under the escalator?” derec's question certainly made everyone in the car shocked and could already guess the answer to Derec's question. “he was the civilian who was dragged, the head of the reconnaissance team had already reconfirmed his face, because he still remembers the face of the victim who was dragged in the same matis”

    “that means after he was dragged, the matis directly..” Andy was unable to continue his speech.

    This is really the biggest blow in the team, Yuda is too focused to avoid the attack of matis to forget about the figure of the victim who was dragged by the matis itself. precisely from the beginning they entered was already marked by matis, want to go looking was still difficult, even if decided to look for victims will not get any results, because the victim is dead.

    What Yuda felt, felt by everyone in the car, even Derec as the team leader was equally guilty.

    Sorry guys, the sound of Lia coming out of the car radio she sounded so slow and hoarse, the surveillance drone has done the scans many times and found no live human sensors other than the six of you, the surveillance drone has done the scan many times, not that I don't want to tell you guys….

    “nothing Lia” said Derec “again this is also my fault as the team leader because it is not quick to respond, let me only receive witness”

    At the headquarters, Yuda's team and Lia were immediately summoned to the top, facing the higher-ups, they were disappointed because Yuda and his friends did not manage to save civilians even though in this mission they managed to defeat A-level matis.

    So Derec and Lia were sentenced to 2 months in prison, in addition to Derec's confinement was not allowed to participate in the Frontline mission after being released, he was only allowed to be a defense team. Meanwhile, Lia, because of his injury after his confinement period is completed he will be transferred to the hardware team.

    Yuda, Andy, Gilang, Siska and Mirna were sentenced to 2 weeks in prison. The punishment they received was light thanks to Derec and Lia. A senior who bears the whole team's faults for the sake of juniors.

    “this organization is really firmly” said Yuda.

    Currently Yuda is locked up with Andy, Mirna with Siska and Gilang locked up alone beside the prison confinement Yuda and Andy. But the Derec and Lia prisons are located far away from them.

    “iya, they do not hesitate to punish us if there is a mistake” said Andy.

    “of course, Because this organization bears great risks and responsibilities” Gilang explained “makanya if there is a mistake, the punishment was not playful”

    “still lucky we are imprisoned not long” added Mirna “imagine if the punishment is 1 or 2 years in jail”

    “wah keburu Bandung city back to normal” said Andy.

    “ya no problem sih” said Yuda “emang deserve our responsibility”

    After all, Yuda still felt guilty about his last mission, and somehow the guilt was still rooted in him.

    “aku is also the same” Mirna agree with Yuda “ during my experience, this is the first time an event like this happened”

    Mirna who usually always looks strong, only this time she sounded faint as if helpless. Judah understood Mirna's words. Others still lament guilt.

    If possible, Judah did not want his sentence to be 2 weeks, if possible, but the decision had been taken and he could only accept it.

    But what about Derec and Lia, the two of them who bear the most faults of one team, especially Derec, he seemed to feel burdened the most, he was willing to disturb the toughest punishment as team leader. though Derec should not be like that, but when Yuda recalled Derec's words when he wanted to bear the entire burden of wrongdoing, inexplicably he was the one who felt the most guilty about this incident.

    “actually when we separated that time, I Derec and Siska have been trying to find victims” said Andy.

    “eh but why did Derec not say, then Lia too?” ask Gilang.

    “seems like they don't want to tell tau” replied Siska “ at that time we can't look for long considering the situation”

    Judah again fell silent to Siska's explanation, indeed at that time, both Judah and others were equally concerned with the matis movement, whether he was being worked or Andy, or, Siska and Derec are separated from Yuda's entourage.

    At the airport, the Frontline is traversing every corner of the airport looking for the presence of matis who until now has not found the figure of the nose stem. Even sought after rudeness does not exist.

    Precisely these Frontline are not aware that in fact they have been stalked since the first time they set foot in the airport.

    The Matis deliberately hid waiting for the right moment to attack, their figure was still hiding and left no trace whatsoever, making either Frontline or the operators difficult to track them.[]