It happened so unexpectedly, so no one was prepared. One moment, all was normal; those agents not on defense duty were training while others were simply hanging out. However, in an instant, everything turned to chaos.
Miwa had been observing his teammates, specifically Yoneya at the time, in their individual training when an explosion rocked through the building and knocked him off his feet. His head slammed against the floor, causing him to black out momentarily. His vision was blurry, but he could hear the sound of shouting from all around him. He got up, swaying and struggling to stay on his feet. As quickly as he could, he went to the window to see if Yoneya, had been hurt. However, the teen appeared to be unhurt, only confused. The two made eye contact, and Yoneya quickly exited the room to meet Miwa.
"What the hell just happened?" he asked as the two exited the room. Seeing as nothing in the area was destroyed, Shuji made a beeline for the stairs, thinking if anything had happened, it had probably occurred below them.
"No clue," he replied to his teammate, walking even more quickly as they reached the stairs. They hurried down, but as soon as they reached the bottom, the two stopped, shocked by what they saw.
Near the main entrance to Border, a huge hole gaped the wall. Fragments of the building were strewn all around the floor, and few agents were on the ground, unmoving amidst the destruction. Those unhurt were quickly moving to the destroyed area with shock on their faces as well.
Getting over his surprise, Miwa bolted out of the hole, hoping to see whatever had caused this explosion. However, not to his surprise, whatever had caused the destruction had escaped with no trace of evidence left behind. He looked around for several more moments before returning inside to see if the other agents were okay.
To his relief, only five agents were unconscious on the ground, and Arashiyama's squad was efficiently tending to them. Jun made eye contact with Miwa and gave a grim nod.
"What happened?" Shuji asked, moving over to the A rank agent.
"I don't know," Jun replied. "Something just tried to attack us, or maybe they were just trying to scare us. Either way, we're lucky more people weren't injured. These agents are lucky they weren't closer to the entrance. They could've been killed."
Miwa opened his mouth to replied, but at that moment, Kazama's squad entered the building through the hole, and Kido and Shinoda entered the room from another part of the building.
"It was neighbors," Kazama stated to the two team leaders and the commanders, trying to be quiet as more agents filled the room. "We tried to follow them, but they got away. There was at least three of them, but we don't know anything else.
"Kikuchihara," Shinoda started, "you didn't hear anything they said or anything that could be of use?"
"No, sorry," he said nonchalantly. However, Shuji picked up on something in his voice, something that sounded almost hesitant. Was he lying?
"Arashiyama, get all the A-rank leaders to the conference room as soon as possible," Kido stated, removing Miwa from his thoughts. "While we have a brief meeting, I want the rest of the A-ranks to go out and search for any information on who or what just attacked us."
Jun nodded and immediately ran off, pulling out his phone to begin contacting the other agents. Kazama's team and Arashiyama's grouped together and began discussing a plan. Kazama motioned to Shuji, indicating they should begin heading to the conference room. Miwa nodded, quickly looking back at Kikuchihara before heading off. The agent appeared to be acting as he normally did. So then why did Miwa get the sense he had lied to Shinoda? He shrugged it off, heading with Soya to the conference room. It was probably just his imagination. After all, the teen had no reason to lie to Shinoda.
The two made it to the conference room and waited in silence until the rest of the leaders walked in. Finally, once everyone was there, Kido began to speak.
"We don't have much information yet," he began, his face revealing no emotion. "However, we do know we were just attacked by neighbors. We don't know who they were, in what numbers they came, or why they did it. Therefore, we are going to need to stay on high alert until we can uncover more information. While this just happened, I'm going to have Shinoda create shifts for the A and B-rank teams to patrol the area and try to seek out more information. Any information anyone discovers must be reported to me. Is this understood?"
The team leaders all nodded in response, understanding the reasons behind acting quickly. Miwa himself knew if they waited this out, they would be less prepared for a future attack. No, they needed as much information as they could get now.
"Good. The rest of your teams are out right now looking for information. I am going to make an announcement to everyone in Border so there is less confusion. If you would all make sure there are no other injured agents, that would be of great help."
With that, he strode out of the room, and the team leaders all looked at each other before following him out the door.
Kazama walked next to Miwa, the two moving quickly down the hallway in silence. Miwa thought to ask Soya about Shiro but decided it would be better to wait until the chaos was sorted out. And if it was only his imagination, he wouldn't want to let more people know about his suspicions if they weren't true.
The two moved quickly yet efficiently through the building, encountering many confused agents but no injured ones. They stopped several times to explain what little information they had to other agents, but otherwise, they finished their rounds rather quickly.
"I'm going to go check up on my team," Kazama said. "I'll catch up with you and the others in a little bit."
Miwa nodded, and Kazama strode off quickly, leaving Shuji alone. He stood there for several moments, replaying the events from earlier in his head, thinking about his best course of action right now. He wanted to go hunt down whatever had caused the explosion, but the lack of information made it impossible. With a sigh, he decided to go find his team as well, figuring he would be of most use out with them searching for any information they could find. Trying to push his frustration aside, the leader ran off to join his team.