A/N: This takes place two months after Inception. Please read and review!
Disclaimer: This wonderful world and all it's characters belong to Mr. Christopher Nolan.
Extracting Mr. Saito
Chapter 1
The signature scent of gunmetal filled her nostrils as a bead of sweat rolled off her nose. She slowly opened her eyes and saw that she was in a dark and dank looking warehouse. It was hot, extremely hot and she tried to remember where she was when her eyes connected to the gun next to her face. She looked up to see a man, who automatically grins upon seeing her awake. He turns around and shouts something in a foreign language – Japanese, she recognizes, and is confused as to how she got there in the first place. Where was Arthur? Weren't they safely hiding in a rented cabin 50 miles West of Rio de Janeiro? The door on the far right opens and enters a woman, not much older than herself, wearing uncomfortable looking black heels with bright red soles. As she approached, her figure was more intimidating. She was slim and only a few inches taller than herself, but carried an air of confidence that was not only familiar, it was cocky. The clacking sound of the woman's heels ended when she stood directly in front of her. She said something in Japanese to the man wielding the gun and he moved his weapon down.
"Ariadne James. 25 years old. American born graduate student in Paris working on an architecture degree." She said it as a statement, not a question. Ariadne looked up to the woman in front of her and felt some sort of familiarity. "Where is he?"
"Where is who?" Ariadne's voice was crackled and dry.
"A few months ago you were contracted to work for a man named Saito to perform inception on Robert Fisher under Dominic Cobb. What happened when you were in Fisher's subconscious?"
"I-I don't know what you're talking about," Ariadne lied. Arthur had gone over this situation with her several times; she had to deny everything.
"Oh really? Is that why you've been renting out rooms in small inns and hotels in several different countries for the past two months?" Ariadne said nothing, surprised that she would know so much. "Two days in Bulgaria, one week in Siberia, four days in Argentina, six days in Mongolia, one week in Costa Rica, one week in Congo, two days in Egypt, one week in Czech Republic, three days in Saudi Arabia, one week in Latvia, five days in Cuba, and four days in Brazil. My, my you have been quite busy. So you've been taking this random tour around the world by yourself?"
"Yes," Ariadne nodded, hoping that they didn't also have Arthur.
"Is that why we've found you in the company of Mr. Wilson?" Ariadne said nothing. "Look, I know who you are, and I know that you were hired as an architect for inception. I know because I work at Proclus Global. I have all your information about the job, and I know that Mr. Saito went in with you and I need to know what the hell happened."
"You work for Saito?" The woman smirked, finally getting some sort of admission from the girl.
"You could say that. The point is, two months ago, that plane landed with two men in a coma, Mr. Saito and Mr. Cobb. Both the men are in our custody but we need to know what happened in order to try and help them get out of the coma."
They have Cobb, Ariadne thought. But Arthur told me not to admit to anything.
"Fine, you want to do this the hard way?" The woman said something in Japanese and the door opened and a large, burley guard brought in a familiar face. Ariadne wanted to shout Arthur, but thought better of it. The guard dragged a handcuffed Arthur further into a room and dropped him next to Ariadne. He didn't look at her. "Now, since both of you are refusing to tell me what happened, I'm going to have to take some action. You didn't think you could get away with this did you?" The woman reached out and grabbed Ariadne's hair and looked at Arthur. "Now, tell me what the hell happened or she gets it." Arthur continued to look downwards. The woman shrugged and grabbed a pistol out of her back pocked and slammed it into Ariadne's face.
"Okay! Okay!" Arthur shouted as Ariadne let out a squeal of pain. "I'll talk, just don't hurt her." The woman smiled and tossed Ariadne next to Arthur. Ariadne looked at him and he gave her a look she couldn't distinguish. He seemed worried, angry, and tired all at the same time. "Going through your files, you found out that Saito was going with us to perform inception on Fisher. To perform inception, you need to go three layers deep. To do that, you need an extremely powerful sedative. What Cobb failed to mention was that once we were in the dream, if we died, we would go to limbo. Saito was shot in the first layer of the dream by the projections in Fisher's mind. We-we weren't prepared for him to be trained in extraction."
"So, you're telling me that he's in limbo?" Arthur nodded and the woman let out an extremely frustrated groan. She picked up a chair and threw it at a wall and walked out of the room, shouting something in Japanese to the guards. They locked the door behind her and maintained their posts as security.
"Does it hurt?" Arthur spoke, drowning out the sound of the guards talking. Ariadne rubbed where the woman had pistol whipped her. She nodded. "I'm sorry I couldn't prevent it from happening."
"No, it's not your fault," Ariadne said quietly, scanning the room. There were four guards total. Two standing at the door that the woman had just went through and the others were standing ten feet away from where they were sitting, each with guns in their holsters. "Mind telling me what's going on?"
"Proclus Global found us. We must have not covered our tracks well enough. They seemed to find out everywhere that we've been to. They have files on us, all the information that they got when they hired us to perform inception."
"What do you think they're going to do with us?"
"It's hard to say."
"That woman seemed pretty upset when you told her Saito is in limbo." Arthur gave her another hard stare in the dark lighting before turning and looking at the entrance again.
"She should be. She's Saito's daughter."
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