Welcome to the Losers, part 2
Saber held onto Yukari's collar of her shirt and violently slams her onto the dining table. She pulls her up and Yukari trembled as she comes face-to-face with a furious-looking Saber.
"You called these men to come over here and kill us, didn't you, fucker?!" Saber roared right in front of her face.
"Saber, calm down!" Ricky cried as he and Rin grab Saber by her arms, but the leader held tightly onto the collar of Yukari's shirt.
"I don't know what you're talking about, I swear!" Yukari cried with her eyes widened, staring back at Saber with fear for her life.
"Don't bullshit me! I talked to one of the mercenaries we fought and he said that you called them!"
"Me?!" Yukari said incredulously.
"Yes, you swine!" Saber snarled.
"But I didn't-"
"SHUT UP!"
"Saber please! Calm down!" Ricky yelled.
"Why the fuck should I calm down?! This woman risked our lives!" Saber shouted furiously at him.
"Saber, listen! I was with her the whole day and I never see her took out any sort of device for communication whatsoever."
"What about you two?!" Saber barked as she turns her head to her left and stares at Chulainn and Illya. "Did she do anything suspicious while you guys were tying her up?!"
"We didn't see her taking out any sort of device too." Chulainn replied as he and Illya shake their heads.
"She was as obedient to us as a dog." Illya added merrily, holding up a finger in the air.
Saber gazes at the floor. "Then maybe…" Suddenly, she gasps and widens her eyes.
Mr. Kodama's eyes squinted as the front metal door of his cell opened and rays of light shine through the small openings of the metal bars.
Ricky holds up his revolver and aims at the prisoner with Saber, Yukari and the others standing behind him.
"Tell us the truth, Mr. Kodama. Are you the one who contact your company to send mercenaries here?" Ricky said.
"I…" Mr. Kodama trembled in fear as he remained sitting on the metal floor. "I don't know what you're-"
BANG!
Mr. Kodama squealed in terror as Ricky fires a shot. The bullet barely misses his head by an inch and hits the wall behind him.
"Stop it!" Yukari cried in horror as she tries to step forward, but Chulainn and Shirou restrained her.
"Don't test my patience, Mr. Kodama." Saber said icily as she wraps her fingers around the metal bars. "I am not in a good mood right now."
Mr. Kodama takes a deep breath and nods his head. "Alright." He said. "Yes. It's true. I was the one who contacted my company to send men to rescue me."
"But I'm sure he did it because he was scared!" Yukari protested to Saber.
"Will you just shut up?" Saber turns to Yukari and gave her a cold glare.
"How the hell did you contact your company?" Ricky said, still aiming his revolver at their prisoner.
"Back on the ship, before you guys found me, I made a phone call to Mr. Matou, telling him that I have been captured. I know you guys are after me because of the data I stole from Caspian Corporation so I requested Mr. Matou to not only sent mercenaries to come after you but also track down your boat signal." Kodama's explanation made everyone present widen their eyes and drop their jaws in shock. But the one who is shocked the most was Yukari.
"What?" Saber uttered under her breath.
"That's right. You guys may have confiscated my phone, but what you guys didn't know is that when you brought me into your boat, even when it's locked, my company phone was hacking into your boat servers, helping to track your location to aid my company's mercenaries to hunt you all down and rescue me. But if they were to fail their mission however, Miss Yukino here will be held responsible for their failures. You may have won this round, but as long as my company is still able to track down your boat signal, they will just keep sending more mercenaries to kill you all." Kodama said.
"Kodama-sama…" Yukari tried to say the words out of her mouth. "Y-y-you actually did steal important data from Caspian Corporation?"
"Yes, Yukino. I did." Kodama said to her with his eyes narrowed.
"Why?!" Yukari cried incredulously. "How could you do something like this?! I always thought you were one of the nicest people I've ever met and worked alongside with! I was glad that you were the first person I've met when I first joined Matou Industries and you cared for me when I was feeling upset over the loss of my previous job as a teacher…but now, I can't believe you would commit something illegal! Why, Kodama-sama?! I trusted and admired you!"
Kodama stares at Yukari for a few moments before he started to laugh. Yukari watch in horror as her higher-up throws his head back and cackled evilly.
"Oh Yukino…" Kodama said as he looks back at his co-worker with a wide grin now appearing on his face. "I can't believe you are such a daft fool for the last three years."
Tears instantly formed in Yukari's eyes when she felt her heart had been emotionally stabbed by Kodama's words. "I cared for you? Give me a fucking break. Low-ranking employees like you are nothing but grunts to us, higher-ups at Matou Industries. Those men that I've sent over here, you think they came to rescue the both of us? Hahaha, no! They were here to rescue only me, because I'm more important to Mr. Matou and not you! I only brought you along on our trip to Caspian Corporation headquarters because you are just leverage for me in case something like this ever happens. Because to everyone's eyes, you are nothing but a pathetic and disposable piece of shit!"
As Kodama laughed again, Yukari grits her teeth as hot tears are now freely rolling down her cheeks. She couldn't believe what she is hearing from the man she used to admire right now.
"Aww, what's wrong? Are you crying?" Kodama mocked with a sick grin on his face. "Crying because I'm being mean to you right now? That's right! Cry! Because that's all you're really good for, you slut-"
BANG!
Yukari gasps and widens her eyes as Saber fires a bullet through Kodama's chest. Kodama gasped as he falls to the floor and lands on his back.
"Shut the fuck up, asshole." Saber muttered as she lowers her Glock.
Kodama gurgled in pain and shook violently on the floor for a few seconds before finally, his body stops moving and his head slumps to the side. As his now lifeless body lies still, a pool of blood is formed behind his back.
Saber puts away her pistol and turns to Yukari. "It's alright, Miss Yukino." She said softly as she gently places her hand on her shoulder. "At least be glad you're now proven innocent."
She turns to Ricky and Rin. "Assassin, Rider, dispose his body." She ordered them. The two men nod their heads as Saber turns to Shirou and Illya. "Archer, Berserker, clean up the cell."
Shirou nodded as he releases his grip around Yukari's arm.
"Aye!" Illya saluted before she and Shirou walk away to grab the required cleaning equipment.
"Lancer, take Miss Yukino back to the room." Saber instructed Chulainn.
"Got it." Chulainn said as he removes the cell keys from his pocket. He tosses them to Rin who catches it. As Rin proceeds to unlock the cell doors, Chulainn escorts Yukari to the girls' room.
A few minutes later, Shirou and Illya are now cleaning off the blood around the cell while Ricky and Rin are at the port, carrying Mr. Kodama's lifeless body.
As they stood right behind the barricade, they swing the corpse and toss it overboard. The body splashes into the water below. Ricky and Rin casually wipe their hands as Saber approached them while lighting up the cigarette through her lips.
"Rin, can you try eliminating the tracking signal in our boat's servers?" Saber said as she closes the lid of her lighter and puts it away.
"I'll try." Rin said as she places her hands on both sides of her hip. "Hopefully it won't take a long time for me to track it down. But even after I find and eliminate it, I don't have the authorization to reset our boat servers. Only Shirou's dad does."
"Then I guess we better contact Kiritsugu about our current situation." Saber turns to the ocean and looks skyward. "We have to quickly meet up with him so that he and his men can completely reset the servers for us." She removes the cigarette from her mouth and blows out the smoke. Then, she narrows her eyes and stomps her foot as she muttered.
"Fucking god damn shit."
A bald and muscular man, dressed in a black bandana around his head, black long-sleeved jacket, black gloves, dark grey pants and black boots, is lying back on his chair with his legs placed above the desk in front of him and smoking a cigarette. The most distinguishable feature on his face is a long scar going through the top of the left side of his forehead and down to the bottom of his left cheek. When his desk phone rang, he removes the cigarette from his mouth, gets up and places his feet down on the floor. He picks up the phone and answers it.
He blows out the smoke from his mouth before asking, "Hello?"
"Gabriel Rorke, we got a job for you." Kirei said.
"What is it now, Mr. Kotomine?"
"We sent a group of men earlier to rescue Mr. Kodama and retrieve a flash drive containing valuable data to us, but they have not returned or made any sort of contact for the last four hours. We presumed that they are dead, so it looks like our enemies are tougher than we thought. So now, it's up to you to deal with them. We'll send you their exact current location. Find Mr. Kodama, retrieve the flash drive and kill these thugs."
An evil smirk takes form on Rorke's face. "You got it, boss. I'll rip these thugs a new asshole!"
After placing down his desk phone, a message appears on his smartphone. He picks it up and opens his message, showing a map that shows the current distance between his ship and his target. He puts down his smartphone on his desk and picks up his radio.
"Boys, turn this ship at two o'clock. We got some cold, hard cash to make."
As night falls, Shirou is carefully cutting a celery stick into many tiny bits with a kitchen knife. He wears a black apron over his body while he does his cooking.
Meanwhile, Rin is sitting at the right end of the dining table, working on the laptop. She finally tracks down Kodama's tracking signal and is now in the process of eliminating it. Unfortunately, even eliminating the threat won't stop their enemies from finding their current location.
Saber is sitting at the other end, resting her arms on the table and watching Rin doing her work while Chulainn is sitting between them, drinking a can of beer.
Illya walks out of the bathroom and enters the main room. She sighs as she stretches out her arms.
"Hey Shirou, what are we having for dinner tonight?" She asked wearily.
"Tomato soup." Shirou replied as he stops his cutting and turns to the girl.
"Ugh, again?!" Illya groans in frustration as her arms drooped at her sides.
"I could have make spaghetti bolognaise, but we ran out of pasta. Sorry." He smiled apologetically at her.
Illya growls as she turns to the stairs. She stomps her feet as she walks and Ricky moves aside as she angrily walks past him.
"Chillax, Fraulein." Ricky said before turning back to his front and enters the main room. As he walks over to the refrigerator, Saber turns to Ricky.
"Ricky, don't mind handing a bottle of water to Miss Yukino in our room?" Saber said.
"Sure thing, Boss." Ricky replied as he opens the fridge.
"Go easy on her. She might still be feeling traumatized over what had happened today." Rin added while her eyes are still fixated at the laptop in front of her.
"Oh? Everybody here is having sympathy for her now?" Ricky said after grabbing two bottles of mineral water and closing the fridge.
"Keep your nose in place, Ricky." Saber deadpanned. Lancer places the room keys on the table and slides them over to Ricky as he turns around.
"Sure do." Ricky said to her with a smirk before grabbing the keys.
He walks past everyone present at the dining table and heads over to the girls' room. He unlocks the door and slowly entered.
"Miss Yukino, would you like…to…" Ricky trails off with his mouth agape slightly as he sees Yukari sitting on the bottom bed, sobbing in despair and inconsolable grief. He stood there and stared wordlessly at her as she wipes the tears that are uncontrollably pouring out from her eyes.
Yukari couldn't believe the man she had worked alongside with and admired for three years was actually nothing but a monster. Her years working at Matou Industries have been for nothing. All of her thoughts about Mr. Kodama are now alienated and she is grimly reminded of the day she had lost her job as a teacher all over again.
"Hey…" Ricky whispered, attempting to comfort her. "What's the matter?" He slowly enters the room and closes the door behind him. He turns back to Yukari who looks up at him with puffy red eyes and took a hard gulp.
"I-I-I…I really am the m-m-most pathetic person in the world right now…" Yukari struggled to say between her sobs. "F-f-f-first my hometown was destroyed…t-then, I was publicly humiliated and lost my job as a teacher…a-a-and now, I learnt the person whom I admired actually sees me as a slut…I just…I…"
Having lost her ability to speak, Yukari buries her face into her hands and continued sobbing. Ricky lets out a sigh before he sits next to her.
"Hey, come on. Don't cry." Ricky gently places his hand on Yukari's back. He rubs her back until she eventually brought her sobbing to a halt. After wiping off the tears from her eyes and cheeks, Yukari turns to Ricky who stares back at her with a frown.
"Seriously ma'am? You think you're the most pathetic person in the world?" Ricky arches an eyebrow. He removes his hand from her back and turns his vision to the floor. "When I was young, I had dreams of being an Olympic athlete. I love swimming throughout my youth and I always hope one day, I can become a world-class swimmer and make my country proud." He lets out a sigh as his fingers curled up into tight fists. "But my dreams were dashed when my father passed away. And you know what happens after he died? My mother went blooming mental. She remarried herself to a crazy psycho stepdad who only sees my mom as a blown-up sex doll and never sees me as his son. He constantly abuses me and my mum until she really does go mentally insane. He refuses to pay anything for us until eventually I got expelled because my parents stopped paying for my school fees. And it's because of that asshole; I ended up being a mercenary so that I can support myself and my mom. I never wanted to become a mercenary, and I wish I never had to. But I can't."
Yukari stared wordlessly back at Ricky as he paused for a moment. After regaining his composure, he looks back at Yukari and continued, "But you? You on the other hand got to be a teacher and a white-collar worker. Those are actual jobs rather than the shit one I'm doing right now. So what the hell right do you have to say that you are more pathetic than me?"
Yukari went silent for a moment to contemplate what Ricky had said to her. She then lowers her head with shame and sorrow. Ricky gave her a pat on her thigh before handing her a bottle of water.
Rin places the laptop back into the drawer while Shirou places six stainless steel bowls of tomato soup onto the dining table. Saber, Chulainn and Illya grab their bowls just as Rin returns back to the table and sat on her own chair.
Shirou looks up and sees Ricky stepping out of the room with Yukari. They both enter the main room with Ricky holding onto Yukari's hand.
"Don't mind if she joins us for dinner too?" Ricky inquired everyone present at the dining table.
"Sure, go ahead." Saber shrugged.
"Luckily we have some leftover soup. I'll get another bowl for her." Shirou smiled. As he turns around and grabs a spare bowl, Illya gets up and goes over to her desk to grab her chair. She places it at the dining table and next to Ricky's chair. She gestures Yukari to sit down. Yukari gave her a wan smile and bows her head in gratitude before she sat down.
Ricky sat next to her on her left and he grabs his own bowl of soup. As Illya goes back to the other side of the table and sat back down on her own chair, Shirou places a bowl of soup in front of Yukari. The two smile at each other before Shirou sits down between Illya and Rin.
Saber, who sat between Chulainn and Ricky, leans forward and picks up her spoon. "Let's eat." She said to everyone.
Shirou, Rin and Yukari clasp their hands together and said in unison, "Itadakimasu."
Everyone present in the room pick up their own spoons and began drinking their soup.
"It tastes good." Yukari commented.
"Arigatou. I'm glad you like my cooking." Shirou smiled at her. "It sure is nice to have another Japanese here in our presence, eh Rin?"
"You mean another person who is 100 percent Japanese, right? Remember, I'm one-third English American." Rin said to him. Shirou chuckled.
Saber clears her throat, getting everyone's attention. She turns to Miss Yukino and said calmly, "Yukari Yukino, on behalf of everyone here, especially myself, we're sorry for the hostile behavior we displayed to you earlier and we really wish you could forgive us and start over our relationships." She frowns as she tries her best to suppress her blushing.
Yukino then gave Saber the widest smile she has ever made since stepping into the yacht. "I forgive you, ma'am." She bows her head. "And thank you…for your honest apology."
"So now that we are starting over our relationships with Miss Yukino, can we introduce ourselves to her?" Ricky asked Saber.
"Of course we can." Saber replied.
Ricky puts down his spoon and turns to Yukari. "Hello Miss Yukino, my nickname is Assassin." He greeted her as he extends out his hand. "But my real name is Ricky Blade. My hometown is London, England."
"Nice to meet you, Mr. Blade." Yukari said as she grabs his hand and they both shook. "My name is Yukari Yukino. My hometown is Itomori, located in the Japanese Prefecture of Gifu, but I later moved to Tokyo."
"Itomori?" Chulainn said as everybody in the room widens their eyes. "Isn't that the town that was destroyed by Comet Tiamat in 2013?"
"Yes. I was one of the many survivors." Yukari turns to Chulainn. She chuckled as she strokes her hair. "And I'm saying as if there were fatalities, but there weren't."
"Yeah, it's miraculous that not a single person died that day." Saber said. "And tin-foiled hat wearing Illya here still thinks there's some sort of conspiracy behind it."
"I'm telling you guys!" Illya snapped, waving her hands in the air frantically. "The ghost of the town's mayor went back to the past to warn his living self about the future! Why else would the mayor have been able to evacuate everyone before the comet struck, huh?!"
"Hahaha, yeah. That would have been very interesting. What a shame." Rin deadpanned as she rolls her eyes with her arms folded. Yukari couldn't help but laugh at their ongoing conversation. The two then turn and smile at each other.
"I'm Rin Tohsaka and I'm from Los Angeles, California." Rin said as she and Yukari shook hands. "My nickname in this group is Rider because heh, guess why." She gestures to the door to the yacht's bridge.
Yukari then turns to Shirou, who smiled at her and places his hand on his chest. "Konichiwa, Yukino-san. My name is Shirou Emiya. My nickname is Archer and I'm from Yokohama, Japan." He solemnly bows his head down to her. Yukari bows back to him.
Illya stood up from her chair and bows dramatically to Yukari as she picks up the sides of her skirt. "Illyasviel von Einzbern at your service. But you can just refer me as Illya. My nickname is Berserker and I hail from Leipzig, Germany."
Yukari chuckled as she watched Illya sits back down on her chair. Chulainn leans forward and extends out his hand to Yukari. "Nice to meet you, Miss Yukino. I'm Cu Chulainn and I'm from Dublin, Ireland. My nickname that's given to me by our boss is Lancer."
"If his real name confuses you, you can refer him as Cuchu if you want." Ricky said to Yukari as she shakes Chulainn's hand.
"You know I hate that, right?" Chulainn said irritably as he stares at Ricky in annoyance. Yukari laughed again before turning to Saber.
"And finally, my name is Arturia Pendragon. My nickname is Saber and my hometown is also London, England." Saber said, placing her hand on her chest. She extends out her hand to Yukari.
"It's nice to meet all of you." Yukari said before grabbing Saber's hand and shakes it.
Just as Saber smiled back at Yukari, a huge blast interrupted the moment. The impact rocked the yacht to the side so hard that everybody cry as Saber, Ricky, Yukari and Rin fall off their chairs while Shirou, Illya and Chulainn slam onto the table. Their bowls also fell off the dining table and its contents spill onto the metal floor.
Ricky looks down and sees his shirt stained by his own soup. "Aw, you're fucking kidding me!" He yelled in annoyance.
"What the hell just happened?" Chulainn shouted.
Illya gets up from her seat and rushes over to the window. She slides it open, pokes her head out and turns to her left. She widens her eyes and shouted, "Heilige Scheiße!"
"What?" Rin asked, not liking Illya's tone of voice at all.
"It's a god damn destroyer!" Illya shrieked as she turned around.
As he stood in the middle of the control room of his ship, Rorke cackled maniacally as he delightfully watched the yacht took a hit from one of his recently-launched missiles with his binoculars.
"Let's see these dead meats try to get their way out of this!" Rorke said with a smirk as he lowers his binoculars. He turns to the mercenary sitting behind the cannon controls. "Fire again!"
The mercenary obliged and pulls down the throttle.
"Yeah, it is a god damn destroyer." Rin muttered under her breath as she and the others stare at Rorke's large metal gray ship that looked five times the size of their yacht stationed in the distance. Everyone is currently in the yacht's bridge with Rin sitting at the driver's seat and Ricky, Saber, Chulainn, Shirou, Illya and Yukari standing closely behind her.
"Looks like our friends at Matou Industries are becoming more desperate in getting rid of us." Saber said.
Rin wraps one hand around the helm tightly and the other on the throttle. "HANG ON!" She pushes down the throttle and makes a sharp turn with the helm. This causes the yacht to make a full circular turn, desperately escaping from Rorke's ship before he fires another blast.
The main cannon on Rorke's ship made a slight adjustment to the right, aiming directly at the back of the yacht.
"Hahaha! Damn cowards, trying to escape from me, eh?! I don't think so." Rorke said, watching the yacht sailing away from his ship with his binoculars.
"Cannon ready, sir." The mercenary said.
"FIRE!" Rorke bellowed.
The cannon fired another missile. The missile directly lands right behind the back of the yacht and it flips upwards by the huge strong waves of water.
Everyone in the yacht scream as the impact causes them except Rin to fall forward. The yacht then falls back in place, making everyone back away from Rin's seat as they try to catch their balance.
"DRIVE FASTER!" Saber shouted at Rin.
"TRYING!" Rin yelled back, stepping on the gas pedal hard. Despite the yacht driving at its fastest; Rorke's ship is still trailing after it from behind at a considerable amount of distance.
Saber stares at the small monitor at the right side of the controls, clearly showing that the enemy ship is still behind and chasing them.
"Is there anything this boat can do to fight back?" Yukari inquired.
"Unfortunately no. This yacht ain't a warship." Ricky replied.
"Well, at least you guys must have something explosive on this boat."
"We got six propane tanks in the store room which we use to fill up the gas for our boat." Shirou said.
"Why are you asking these questions?" Saber curiously asked Yukari.
"Because we simply can't keep running away. No matter what, that ship is still going to be on our tail!" Yukari said.
"So what do you suggest?" Saber inquired.
Yukari lets out a sigh before she cups her chin, closes her eyes and takes a moment to think. Chulainn and Ricky turn to each other and the latter shrugs his shoulders.
After twenty seconds of thinking, Yukari opens her eyes and turns to the two men. "Are you two and Shirou strong enough to carry all six tanks?"
"We'll try." Chulainn said.
"Good. I want you all to take out the tanks from the store room, wrap them up together and carry them to the void deck. Then, I want Rin to drive towards the enemy ship." Yukari said.
"What?" Rin said incredulously as she turns her head to Yukari. The older woman turns to the driver and nods her head.
"It sounds crazy and we only got one shot at this. But I want all of us to throw the tanks right into the control room of that ship. Then, we'll be able to get out of this mess alive." Yukari said.
"What do you say, Boss?" Ricky turned to Saber. "It might work."
Saber closes her eyes as she removes her cigarette box and lighter from her pockets. She takes out the last remaining cigarette from the box and inserts it into her mouth. She then flips open her lighter and lights up the cigarette. After putting away her lighter, she inhales the contents and removes her cigarette. Right after she blows out the smoke out of her mouth, her eyes snapped open and her brows furrowed. She crashes the empty box that is still in her hand, throws the cigarette onto the floor and stomps on it. She lifts her head up, swings her other hand horizontally and shouts at the top of her lungs.
"LET'S SEND THESE FUCKERS TO KINGDOM COME!"
"YEEEAAAHHH!" The others shouted as they pump their fists into the air.
"The next cannon is ready, sir." The mercenary said to Rorke.
"THEN FIRE AGAIN!" Rorke shouted. "It's time for these chickens to die already!"
Rorke's ship then fires another missile and it heads straight towards the back of the yacht. Rin sees the incoming missile on her monitor and she swiftly turns the yacht to left. The missile barely misses the yacht as it lands into the water, but the impact sends the yacht rocking to the side.
Meanwhile at the store room, Chulainn, Ricky and Shirou yell as the latter two tipped over and momentarily lost their balance. Chulainn remained sitting on the floor as his arms are tightly wrapped around the propane tanks which are tied with ropes.
"These goddamn warships!" Chulainn shouted, now feeling extremely ticked off.
As Ricky and Shirou regain their balance, the door opened. Everyone turned to see Illya standing at the doorway.
"Are you guys done tying the tanks together?" Illya asked.
"Aye." Ricky said as he, Chulainn and Shirou nod their heads.
"Good." Illya grins devilishly as she holds up a remote, a proximity mine and a roll of masking tape. "Because it's time for me to add something extra special to it."
After Illya is done adding her mine onto the tanks, she and the three men carry them out of the store room and enter the dining area where Saber and Yukari are waiting for them.
"Come on!" Saber gestured them to follow her and Yukari. Ricky, Shirou, Chulainn and Illya hastily carry the tank over and they follow their leader and Yukari up the stairs.
As they step outside, Saber places her finger onto her earpiece. "Rin, we're outside. It's time to turn this boat around."
"With pleasure." Rin replied before hanging up her earpiece. She then swiftly turns the helm, making another full circular turn.
Ricky, Saber, Shirou, Chulainn, Yukari and Illya place their tanks down and hold onto the barricades as the yacht makes its turn.
When the yacht finds itself facing the enemy ship, Rin drives straight towards it. She then makes a slight turn to the right before she sets the yacht to auto-pilot mode and dashes her way out of the bridge.
"Sir!" The mercenary controlling the ship's helm and radar yelled to Rorke. "The enemy boat, it's…"
"What?!" Rorke barked.
"It's turning and heading straight towards us!" The mercenary replied.
Rorke grins like a shark as he turns to the front. Sure enough, he sees the yacht sailing straight towards his ship. "I guess our target has finally decided to surrender and commit suicide." He turns to the mercenary controlling the ship's cannon. "Fire at them one more time. The next one should be their last."
"Yes sir!" The mercenary said before pushing down the throttle.
Rin runs over to the port where the others are waiting for her. They all turn to the enemy ship and take their deep breaths. They know they only have one shot at this. If they were to miss, then this will be their final moments together.
"We're gonna make it, right?" Ricky asked Saber.
The blonde-haired woman turned to her second-in-command and smiled tenderly. "Yeah." She nodded before she and Ricky bump their fists together. She turns back to the enemy ship just as their yacht is now at a considerably near distance between each other.
"NOW!" She ordered. Everybody gathered around the wrapped tanks and they all groan heavily as they carry them up together and place them on their shoulders.
"Missile ready!" The mercenary said.
"FIRE!" Rorke shouted.
"GOOOO!" Saber howled. As soon as the yacht reaches near the left front hull of Rorke's ship, she and her team yell as they use all their strength to run over to the very front of their boat and toss the tanks over to the front window of the control room.
Before the mercenary could fire the next missile, the tanks smash through the glass windows and for a brief moment, Rorke widens his eyes with his mouth agape with horror right before they collided against his face, breaking his nose and teeth in the process.
As the yacht sails past the ship, Ricky, Saber, Chulainn, Shirou, Rin, Illya and Yukari make their widest smiles and hold up their middle fingers at the control room as the white-haired girl holds up her remote.
"Have a blast, motherfuckers." Illya uttered right before pressing the big red button on her remote.
BBOOOOOOOOMMMM!
The control room of Rorke's ship exploded. Everybody watch the spectacle they have created in awe as their speeding yacht sails past the now immobilized destroyer.
They continued staring at the burning ship until it is completely out of their sights. The seven let out their sighs of relief before turning to each other.
Suddenly, they all laughed triumphantly and gave each other pats on the backs.
"Well, this has certainly been one eventful night we'll be cherishing inside our minds for a long time, eh?" Chulainn smiled as he places his hands on the sides of his hip.
Ricky and Saber smiled at each other and said in unison as they nod their heads, "Aye."
Port of Long Beach, California, United States
By the time they finally arrived at their meeting spot, the sun has risen in the sky. After Rin safely parks their yacht next to the side of the port, several men dressed in black suits enter the boat to repair the damages and reset the servers.
While that is going on, Saber and her team stood at the docks in front of Kiritsugu and a middle-aged man with short blonde hair and wears glasses, brown suit, brown pants and black shoes.
"Here you go, Mr. Harding. Your company's data has been returned back to you, safe and sound." Kiritsugu said as he hands the flash drive over to their client.
"Thank you very much." Mr. Harding said with a wan smile as he takes the flash drive from Kiritsugu's hand. He turns to Saber and her team, who all look equally worn out after last night's encounter with Rorke's ship. "On behalf of Caspian Corporation, I thank you all for not only returning back our valuable data, but also saving countless innocent lives. Who knows what horrible actions Matou Industries could have done if they had gotten hold of this."
"Speaking of Matou Industries, you might want to not only cut ties with them but also relocate your headquarters somewhere else. I heard the CEO of Matou Industries doesn't take kindly to any sort of failure his company makes. And trust me; tightening cyber security won't be enough." Kiritsugu said with his arms folded.
"Right." Mr. Harding gave a solemn nod as he inserts the flash drive into the pocket of his pants. "The board and I will take your advice to consideration." He turns around and walks his way back to his limousine where an assistant is standing next to the open door. The assistant bows his head as Mr. Harding enters the back of his limo. He closes the door and makes his way to the driver's seat. He gets into the car and drives off.
Kiritsugu turned to Saber. "You know, you should have kept Mr. Kodama alive. We could have interrogated him further and handed him to the authorities."
Saber snorted with her hands stuffed in her pockets. "So what? Even if we handed him to the authorities, Matou Industries would either hire sleazy lawyers or bribe any corrupt police officers to get Mr. Kodama out of the hands of Justice. That's just how this fucked up world operates."
"I understand your past with the Justice system, Saber. But keep in mind, not everyone in this organization shares the same sentiment as you." Kiritsugu said.
A woman with shoulder-length black hair and dressed in a black suit, black pants and black shoes walks over to Saber and her team from behind.
"Your boat servers have been reset. Here's your new Wi-Fi password." The woman said as she hands Saber a piece of paper.
Saber takes the paper and glances at the letters and numbers before folding it and putting it into her suit's pocket. "Thank you Maiya." She said to the woman. Maiya bows her head before walking over to Kiritsugu's side.
"Well then, I guess our job here is done. See you all again soon." Kiritsugu waves his hand nonchalantly at Saber and her team before he and Maiya turn around and make their departure. The other men in black suits also step out of the boat and follow the two from behind.
Shirou sighed before briefly waving his hand back at his father. "Goodbye, dad." He mumbled.
Saber turns to Yukari. "Well, Miss Yukino. I gotta admit, if it wasn't for your quick thinking last night, we never would have survived and succeeded in our mission."
"Yeah." Ricky added with a smirk. "You saved our lives, and we thank you." Yukari glances at Chulainn, Shirou, Rin and Illya who all smiled back at her as well.
"But now, our work here is done. You're a free woman now, so you can just make your own way home from here. It's been nice knowing, Miss Yukino." Saber said.
But just as she turned, Yukari spoke up. "Actually…"
Saber stops and turns back to Yukari. The others widen their eyes in surprise. After getting everyone's attention, a tender smile plasters across Yukari's face.
"I'm thinking of staying with you guys a little longer. I mean, I've technically lost my job with Matou Industries and I really need a new one. So…do you guys have room for one more on your boat?" Yukari inquired.
Saber stared wordlessly at Yukari for a moment before her lips form into a smirk. She removes her hand from her pocket and extends it out to Yukari.
"Welcome to the team…Caster."
Yukari smiled back at her and grabs her hand. As they shook, Ricky, Chulainn, Shirou, Rin and Illya smile as well.
"Well…" Ricky said as he places his hands on the back of his head. "Guess we're gonna need an extra chair and bed."
Sovereign: I would like to thank NeoXen7 for favoriting and following this story.
And that's the story for now. I would like to continue writing this story after I've posted the first few chapters of my next main story So You Want To Be A Fantasy Hero? which will be coming out next month. I hope you all enjoy the story so far, leave a review and stay tune for more in the future!
Chapter Revised on 13th October 2017
