So...yeah, I just want to say - this started because I have a dirty mind. After that...yeah. Can I just say - sorry?
I'm also no good at sex or fight scenes (I'm probably no good at writing at all) But I'm still gonna try. So...be nice, maybe?
I own nothing. Urobuchi does and that's why our hearts are broken.
"So, we're all just...pawns?!" Hase Ryouji snapped, his fist slamming down on the table. Immediately, he gripped his shoulder as pain ran up it from the angry action.
After the Lock Seed Game – and once they had each recovered enough to travel – Kouta and Micchy had gathered the Armored Riders in Drupers to drop the bombshell Kouta had realized. Thanks to the still mysterious White Armored Rider, most of them would be out of commission. Pierre was absent, mourning over the sprained wrist that would keep him from working – and during the Christmas season, too! Oh! Quelle horreur!...so screamed Pierre when Kouta and Micchy found him.
Jonouchi placed a hand on his friend's arm, trying to calm him. Apparently, Jonouchi had taken the worse beating, knocked completely unconscious and not waking up till the next day. He wouldn't be fighting for a long time – just like Ryouji.
Ryouji was still cross about the broken belt. This new piece of information wasn't helping.
"Apparently." Kouta crossed his arms as he paced the cafe tiles. He didn't blame Raid Wild's leader. The words "guinea pig" still rang in his ears. This...the teams had been created to give kids and teenagers a place in this new world run by adults, to help them feel like they were important.
Or it was supposed to be. In truth, their game wasn't theirs at all. All they were doing was dancing right into the hands of heartless people. People that made Kouta question why he ever wanted to be an adult.
"It would seem Yggdrasil has been keeping secrets from the public for quite some time, wouldn't you say, Gaim?" Kaito said, fiddling with his deck and throwing a dirty look over his shoulder.
"What do we do? Those rips...cracks...are still popping up all over the city. Invess are still going to be coming in, and Yggdrasil will cover it up again. People are going to die and Yggdrasil..." The anger bubbled up in Kouta and just like Ryouji, he smashed a fist against the table.
"The best way to fight them would be if we knew what they did." Jonouchi chimed in. "What they had found out about the Invess, the Lock Seeds, and the Forest. We could contain the Invess better and fight Yggdrasil when we have to...and that Rider." He sighed, removing his glasses. Being awake for this long...his eyes were tired.
"If we could just get inside Yggdrasil..." Kouta whispered, more to himself than adding to Jonouchi.
"We can!" Micchy, for the first time since this Armored Rider Meeting had begun, spoke. The team leaders turned to him as he shot out of his seat. "I mean...there may be a way that we can get inside Yggdrasil Corp."
"Micchy..." Kouta stood, looking at his teammate. "It's not like we can just walk in through the front door. We could get into a lot of trouble if we try to break in."
"Trust me Kouta." Micchy smiled, pointing a finger to the ceiling. "I have an idea." He chuckled, getting quite used to the saying. "Everyone," He turned to the other Riders, "meet back here tomorrow. We will definitely have a way in." Confidentially, Micchy walked out of the cafe.
Twenty-four hours later, the riders were gathered all together (save for Jonouchi, who was once again, resting) in Druper when Micchy came in.
"Alright, so here's the plan." Micchy placed down three key cards, each with the same face on it reading 'Sanai Zai' "I managed to get these cards. They'll allow us entrance into the Corporation. But only the entrance. From there, we'll have to split into two groups." Micchy pulled his phone out, where blueprints were bright and ready.
"Micchy...how did you get all of these?" Kouta was astonished. He had always known Micchy was much, much smarter than any of the other Beat teams, but this...this was unbelievable.
Kouta's eyes were trained on the IDs and the blueprints. He didn't notice the pause that overtook Micchy's face and the swallow he took to force a smile once more. "I told you, Kouta-san, I had an idea." His hand pointed in the familiar gesture once more.
But Kaito had noticed. And it bugged him.
"I suggest that you, Kouta-san, go with Hase-san and head downwards into the basement. That's where they keep the archives. All their past research about the Invess Forest should be in there. At the same time, me and Kumon-san will go up to the Research Bay; figure out what they're doing and why they need us." Micchy, with laser-eye focus on the phone, explained with just enough timing to breathe.
"Why should I go with him?!" Ryouji snarled.
"Yeah...actually, Micchy, I think it'd be better if you and I stuck together." Kouta scratched at his head, saying sheepishly.
Kaito caught it once again – that change of emotion and the swallow that followed it before Micchy breathed in and got a hold on his emotions (it suddenly hit Kaito, as he observed. Micchy was experiencing fear. His actions frightened him...somehow.)
"Kouta-san, you and Hase-san are much better at fighting the Invess. You two should be the ones finding about what's been going on there." He smiled and clapped a hand on Kouta's shoulder. "I can handle myself, Kouta-san."
It took a moment, but Kouta smiled and clapped a hand back. Together, they looked at the others. "What do you guys think?"
Ryouji and Kaito looked down at the 'plan' that Gaim had laid out for them. "Do you think...if we do this...we'll be able to take Yggdrasil down?" Ryouji mumbled out.
Micchy quirked his mouth about. "They're pretty big...at the very least, this'll trip them up."
Ryouji smashed his fist in his palm, determination written on his face. "I'm in."
Kouta turned to Baron's leader. "What about you, Kaito?"
Kaito looked past Kouta at the wielder of the Grape Lock Seed. "You sure this plan will work?"
"We'll have to sneak past guards and security cameras. I'm sure we can accomplish all that."
"You're sure?" Kaito mocked. Micchy resisted the urge to glare in response. Kaito placed down his fiddling deck. "Alright. I'll go along with your plan. It'll be interesting to see what Yggdrasil has to hide."
Micchy and Kouta smiled from cheek to cheek. "Alright then. The plan is to go down there tonight."
And go they did. They gathered together down the street from the grand entrance. Of course, Ryouji was the only one basically still in Beat clothes, with his jeans and bright yellow shirt and leather jacket. Kouta was in his normal work clothes of a rolled-up button-up and khakis and Kaito was in an all-black version of Baron's uniform.
Micchy surprised them most of all. He approached them all (last to show up) dressed all in black: black dress pants, and oversized black sweater that draped very loosely across him.
"Micchy...are you feeling alright?" The words fumbled out of Kouta's mouth the minute he saw the teenager.
"Of course, Kouta-san. Why wouldn't I be?"
Kouta swallowed hard. His conscious was screaming at him to say how extremely moe Micchy looked at this moment. But he was quiet and they walked forward.
Kaito trailed at the back, sauntering with his hands in his pockets in his usual way. Kouta slowly drifted back there with him, walking side by side. "Kaito, uh...do you...do you think you could do me a favor?"
Kaito scoffed. "Since when have I ever been inclined to do you a favor?"
"Well never, but do you think you could just this once?" Kaito paid him no heed, "Kaito." Kouta grabbed his shoulder and stopped him. Kaito glared at the hand. "Sorry. It's just...can you please look out for Micchy? Like...I don't know, it's just..." Kouta sighed, "If this plan doesn't work like it should, make sure Micchy gets out with you, OK? Don't just leave him hanging like you did when the Invess attacked."
Kaito shrugged off Kouta's hand. He fixed the older man with his normal glare. But Kouta didn't back away like others did. He fixed Kaito back with his own look and if Kaito were to give it one word, it was a look of pleading. Kaito breathed deep, rolling his eyes. "Fine. I'll help him. But you'll owe me a favor in return."
Kouta's smile came back. "Thank you, Kaito."
Kaito rolled his eyes again, making on his way. "Don't forget about it, Gaim." With a quick jog, he caught up with Ryouji and Micchy. Once Kouta was done basking in the glow of getting Kaito to agree to something, he caught up too
Micchy approached the corporation first, swiping in the key he had. Ryouji, Kaito, and Kouta stared in awe as the lock clicked green and the door slid open. (Actually slid open. Not pulled open by a guard, but actually slid open.) They hurried inside, hugging a wall as so to not be noticed.
It was so...bright, inside Yggdrasil. Bright and white, with a hundred people walking about – never stopping, just bustling about. Some of them had files in their hands, some of them had nothing, and some of them were running to get from one side of the massive building to the other. The group took a moment to take it all in.
They were distracted when their phones all vibrated. "I've sent the building map to your phones so you'll know your way." Micchy interjected. "Let's go."
Still sticking to the walls, the four of them made their way to the staircase at the center. Ryouji and Kouta nodded in gesture, turning down the spiral down to the basement. Micchy nodded back and he and Kaito spiraled to the roof.