Thilaila's powers were incredible because, even unintentionally, the guards seemed impelled to obey her. So, faster than one can imagine, they opened the cell. As they advanced with weapons in hand, Thilláila gently raised her hands and said, approaching them cautiously:
"Thank you very much for your cooperation, gentlemen. I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart."
And, by touching her hand on each of them, she made them immediately pass out. The first step of the plan was complete; Thillaila was free and now she would free her friend Kowalsk.
Another soldier appeared, armed and scared to see some of his friends lying on the floor. He still tried to sketch a reaction. But Thillaila focused and, calmly, asked him a question:
"Where is the master key to turn off all the lights in this base?"
The soldier, not wanting to answer, just thought:
"It's like I'm going to say that this place is close to Colonel Cleaner's room."
At that moment, Thillaila mentally ordered:
"Follow me immediately to that place."
And, by secretly inserting fear into his mind, the soldier followed ahead and, trembling with fear, disposed himself to help her, taking her to where she needed to go. Arriving at the place, Thilláila touched the tip of her finger to the soldier's forehead again, and he passed out almost at the same time as the lights went out all over the base.
Kowalsk was recovering quickly, and anyone who looked at him wouldn't believe how badly he had been beaten. But he remembered it well, and with the lights going out, he knew it was time for revenge. All he needed was to get out of there, and it would only be a matter of time before he found a way.
As soon as he finished thinking, a security guard came to his cell with lanterns illuminating the place. To their surprise, Kowalsk wasn't anywhere in the cell. Quickly, they came to open his prison to verify thoroughly, and as soon as they did, Kowalsk jumped from the top of the ceiling onto one guard and, on the other, with a flurry of punches, knocked him out. Just like the soldier who had softened his fall.
Then he left them locked after taking their weapons and locking them in the cell, hiding the key somewhere nearby. He went ahead into the darkness to seek his revenge on the soldiers he would find.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the base, also in the darkness, Colonel Cleaner was scared. In all the time he had served in the army, he had never heard of anyone escaping from a cell like that. He had watched it all from a safe distance because the monitoring system, along with the surveillance cameras, had separate power supplies.
For a moment, he regretted treating Kowalsk in such a cowardly manner. For an instant, he was angry with Sergeant Dugger for being convinced by his flattery. He reflected for a few moments:
"To what point did I come to accept the flattery of someone so false and untrustworthy as Sergeant Dugger?"
However, he came to the conclusion that it was too late for regrets. He armed himself with his pistol and, along with a flashlight, he headed towards the cell where Kowalsk should be. With poor vision because of the low luminance of the flashlight that Colonel Cleaner was carrying, he still managed to distinguish the shadowy figure of Kowalsk, who seemed molded in a corner of the wall.
Colonel Cleaner had no doubts and, as soon as he saw Kowalsk's appearance, he squeezed the trigger of his pistol repeatedly. He wanted to make sure he didn't miss, because there was no shortage of ammunition for that.
But that attitude came too late. Kowalsk had dodged and, before he could be illuminated again, he fell on Colonel Cleaner with violent punches that made him feel a lot of pain and regret for being on the opposite side of that experienced soldier.
Kowalsk kept punching him for a few more times until he knocked him out completely. Then, he dragged him by the arm and opened one of the adjacent cells, which contained two soldiers. He put them in there, throwing them suddenly.
Then, Kowalsk began his hunt in the dark. He crawled, infiltrated, and then attacked. Every two or three soldiers knocked out, he would take a break to drag them to the cell, which soon began to fill up.
Little by little, the cell was filling up: five, seven, nine, eleven, fifteen soldiers. Then he started filling up the other cell: two, five, seven, nine, eleven soldiers. Only the middle cell kept a special person: Colonel Cleaner.
Hearing so many nearby groans, Colonel Cleaner woke up and, to his surprise, realized that the cells next to him were being filled with the knocked-out bodies of his soldiers.
"But what's going on here?" he asked without receiving an answer. And five minutes later, Kowalsk came dragging along three more military men with his strong arms, opening a cell and throwing them in there however he pleased.
"You cannot do this to them!" Colonel Cleaner shouted indignantly.
"Is that really so?" Kowalsk said, being sarcastic.
"So that means they can beat me as much as they want, they can try to kill my friend, rape and have fun at will, and always under your express orders. And I, as a good and obedient citizen, cannot even defend myself, let alone retaliate, isn't that right, Colonel? I am amazed at how low you have fallen in the chain of command. I used to hear about your fame and how fair you used to be, and that's why I respected you so much. But after this whole fiasco, in which you delivered my flesh to the crows and my life to a scoundrel, even a rat is more worthy of respect than you, Colonel Cleaner."
Full of anguish and regret, the Colonel pleaded:
"Please, Kowalsk, you cannot do this... it's inhuman."
And approaching Colonel Cleaner's cell, Kowalsk shouted:
"Inhuman? Well, I'll show you what's inhuman when I fill all these five cells with soldiers and show each one of them how to beat a man."