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Welcome to chapter 4 *^*Longer this time~ xD Hehe, this time you will be very surprised I guess-
And you might be feeling bad for Izaya, but hey, everything was planned neatly, what else could they have done? x`D
Hehe, I hope you like the twist to this story- after all, we didn´t even get to the "real" plot of the story yet C;
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Guest 2: xD haha maybe~ Also you kinda gave me a certain idea for this fic *^* or rather an idea for later on xD thank you for that~ cx also about the guilt- hehehehe I had a reason for naming this things different, but the guilt is still going to play quite a part ;3
If not, then enjoy~! xD
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ஜ Chapter 4: Level 0 ஜ
-Shizuo´s point of view-
Long and dull, that sound reached Shizuo´s ears. His gaze was fixed on the scene in front of him as he tried to make sense of what he was seeing, of what was actually going on, because this just couldn't be real.
It couldn't.
Not what he was seeing there. There must be something wrong; he was interpreting this weird screen wrong.
It wasn´t Izaya´s heartbeat.
It couldn´t be.
Because if it were, then he just-
Beeeeep
"IZAYA!" The chains clinked together, strained to their utmost, but they didn´t loosen at all- the strength that Shizuo had couldn´t do anything to free him from this place.
He used it all. Returning to the spot where the chains emerged from the wall, he punched it- tried to just pry that thing open, but it was useless- just as useless as it would be for a normal human with normal strength-
"IZAYA, OI!" His voice bellowed and resounded loudly through the halls-
The woman with the red glasses grinned, adjusting the lenses in amusement. She was watching the blond over the camera that she installed in her precious room.
It was on Izaya´s side, since she didn´t trust Shizuo not to destroy it once he found it.
And then it happened.
Shizuo´s eyes widened after another attempt of destroying the chains when he heard something move behind him.
The walls- were closing again.
Horrified, he looked at the flea- he was still sitting in that chair! His heart still wasn't fucking beating!
He would die! If he wasn´t already ... if...
FUCK
He dashed towards the walls, almost stumbling over the chains laying on the ground as he tried to keep those fucking walls open, but they were too fast. Before he could even do so much as reach them, they were closed.
His fist hit the white wall-
*CRACK *
His face contorted in pain- the wall wasn´t damaged at all- his hand, however, was.
He couldn´t see Izaya anymore.
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING TO HIM?!" Shizuo barked, locked into this room that now felt like a cage to him as he raised his fist anew.
He couldn´t give less of a shit if his hand was broken or not right now, he wasn´t going to just stay put- again his fist collided with the wall- the sickening crack turning louder, but the wall stayed undamaged.
"WHERE IS IZAYA?!"
Again he raised his fist.
Suddenly there was a slight creaking noise to be heard, sounding as if someone brushed over a microphone.
Shizuo Heiwajima, you have two options.
Hearing the voice just caused Shizuo´s rage to spiral higher-
"YOU SICK ASSHOLES!"
1. You let Izaya die.
The blond paused upon hearing Izaya´s name. No way.
That fucking flea- that line- It had been his heartbeat, hadn´t it?
Fuck-
...
FUCK
That obsessed idiot was going to die, wasn´t he?!
His eyes widened at the sudden realization dawned on him.
The voice moved on, not interested in the change of Shizuo´s behavior.
2. You let these two doctors implant a chip in your neck without harming them- in exchange, another pair of doctors will revive Izaya.
As if on cue, two doctors suddenly entered the room with a small metal cart. Lots of different instruments were displayed on it; none of them looked particularly friendly.
"What...?"The blond repeated, his mind still with the now probably dead Izaya. He saw the instruments, he heard the voice say that he would have to let them do something to him.
Without hurting them.
His undamaged hand balled into a fist as he glowered at the doctors- almost instantly they took a few steps back. They were the first in this place that actually seemed to be intimidated by the debt collector.
Tick tock- the chances of Izaya surviving are getting slimmer. Shizuo´s eyes widened as he realized what that person was saying.
That monster was serious.
"I will let them!" he barked- not giving a fuck what these scientists would do. A soft chuckle was heard before the voice spoke again.
Good choice.
Then it was quiet- warily, the blond eyed the doctors as they came over- he just was about to ask this person how he would know they are really helping Izaya, how he knew they weren´t just fooling him, but the question was ripped off his throat as a beam of light suddenly lit up a part of the wall.
Revealing no one else but Izaya.
Two doctors- nearly identical to the two that were approaching Shizuo- were standing around the raven. The screen´s line was still straight, making Shizuo think Izaya was dead-
But then there was a movement on it and Shizuo realized they were performing defibrillation on the flea.
They were trying to bring him back-
He felt something cold at the back of his neck- but didn´t turn away.
He sat there, frozen, as he watched Izaya being revived. He was going to make it, right? He was a fucking flea. Fleas don´t die easily. He had been so obsessed with Shizuo for all these years, there was no way he would just be gone like that.
There was just no way-
And then there were more of those lines. Slowly but surely, they were tiny and they kept fading away again after each shock from the doctors- but they increased.
Tense, Shizuo watched the scene unfolding in front of him, the back of his head hurt and he could feel they were cutting around or something, but he didn´t dare move.
"You should hear a certain tone once we connect this. Tell us when you do."
One of the doctors had stated that, the voice sounding muffled as he spoke behind his mask.
Shizuo barely even registered the words and hummed for a second to shut them up as his stare was fixed on the screen.
Two, three, more of them-
Ping~
A soft sound reached Shizuo´s ears.
"Heard it."
And the lines turned regular again just at the same time-
Izaya´s heartbeat was back.
The blond sighed, relieved, releasing the breath he hadn´t realized he had been holding. Noticing that blood was running down the back of his shirt, Shizuo was about to turn his head slightly. What the hell were they even doing-
If you move before the doctors are finished and out of your reach, we will kill him without hesitation.
The voice suddenly resounded, making Shizuo freeze once more. The projector´s light was still on the wall. A man suddenly approached the raven, a gun in his right hand.
Izaya had regained consciousness and was heaving himself up, only to freeze as he spotted the man with the gun.
It was one of the two bulky ones that Shizuo recognized from Ikebukuro.
Izaya narrowed his eyes, focusing on his surroundings-
He felt light headed- the screen next to him was still beeping, and he could see doctors standing around him. Or at least they looked like doctors.
A table was next to him, with instruments he would much rather not look at.
And then that guy with the gun in front of him- his body tensed as his stare fixed on the weapon aimed at him.
What was going on?
...
The doctors behind Shizuo shuffled, not quite sure if it was safe to move yet.
One of them was brave and took a step toward the blond.
He didn´t move a muscle. A tiny needle was resting in his hand and he poked it through the man´s skin, stitching shut the cut that he had opened. The other watched, quite terrified as he stepped farther and farther away from the blond.
The table was dragged toward the door they had come from.
And once the stitching was done- the other doctor stepped away as well, exiting the room.
Shizuo was alone again.
Still not moving a muscle.
Just like Izaya- who was staring at the gun.
And then the screen turned off- just disappeared-
The blond´s eyes widened and he moved again, his head snapping around to see if the screen appeared elsewhere, but it was gone!
"OI, what going on?!" he barked, glaring at whatever asshole was out there, whoever it was that the voice belonged to-
"What´s happening to Izaya?!"
Ahahaha~
A chuckle was heard, causing a vein to pop on Shizuo´s forehead, and he tugged at the chains in another useless attempt at tearing them apart.
How passionate you are about him. Were my observations of you hating him wrong, perhaps?
"Fuck you, where is he?!" The voice stilled, humming. The red spectacled woman grinned before deciding to answer Shizuo´s question.
Undergoing the same procedure.
The blond gaped- "What?!"
But the voice was already gone- no further information was given.
"OI?!"
No answer.
"YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES!"
-x point of view-
"Ah, that was rather cruel of you. Was it necessary to nearly kill our test subject for this?" An old man had appeared behind the woman´s seat, interested in watching the various screens, each showing his logo now since the first step was about to be taken.
Only two were actually showing Izaya and Shizuo.
The woman merely shrugged at the old man´s question.
"It was. How else did you expect to make the strongest man in Ikebukuro cooperate with us?"
Hmmm, true. He had to admit that.
"You could have just acted the part, though," he threw in, letting his finger trail along his long grey moustache. The huge glasses sitting on his nose reflected the light of the screens as he leaned closer, watching his interesting new test subject.
"No. From what I heard, this man has some very sharp instincts. He would have figured something was off if we didn´t do it for real."
"Hmmm. Sharp instincts, you say? And this strength, magnificent~!" the old man grinned, rotten yellow teeth revealing themselves.
"You should be happy." She grinned deviously. "Your new plaything is wired~"
-Izaya´s point of view.-
Fuck...
His shoulder hitting the wall in the corridor hard, Izaya paused for a second, just leaning there.
He was barely able to hold himself up. The two gorillas were accompanying him. Not forcing him to walk faster or anything, but not helping him, either.
Izaya was actually grateful they weren´t pushing him towards the room he came from. Only slowly the door came into reach-
A swift whooshing noise sounded as the doors flew open, quite like those of a supermarket, and he stepped into the room.
A moving mop of blond hair and a pair of brown eyes that met his own reminded him who was waiting here.
Without saying a single word, the raven stepped over to his chair like seat and sat down. He wasn´t going to appear weak in front of that brute.
Heh, must have been nice to be able to just wait here until he returned.
He damn well hoped they would shock Shizuo like that, too. For no reason at all.
"Are you okay?" The raven glared at the brute-
That idiot knew nothing of what had happened this past hour. And he surely wasn´t going to let him in on the fact that someone had been plain out torturing him with electric shocks while he was gone-
That brute would probably say he deserved it.
Thinking about how he had been after him on the streets, how he had gotten the vending machine to finish Izaya off in Ikebukuro before Varona appeared... heh...
That man would probably be delighted about what they did.
Silence ruled as Izaya just kept his mouth shut, not interested in talking to that monster.
Shizuo didn´t say anything, either.
The flea looked bad.
Really bad. Well, considering he had been shocked to the point it made his heart stop, there was no way he would be okay. But that wasn´t even all...
The stab wound, the still broken arms- those were his fault. Izaya looked really pale- almost as if he were about to pass out.
There was blood on the hem of his shirt. It seemed to originate from the back of his head.
"What happened to your head?" But a glare was all he earned from the flea.
"Shut up."
Now then, my dear experiments-
Shizuo perked his ears, frowning as he heard that hated voice again.
The old man behind the woman frowned a bit as he kept playing with his moustache.
"Don´t call them experiments, dear. I like to think of them as test objects rather than lab rats." The woman laughed.
"Of course you would." The button on the microphone wasn´t being pressed, so their two little fellows couldn't hear them.
"Who the hell are you?!" the blond barked- again tugging at the chains. Izaya just glanced at the brute for a second before scanning the room-
He was sure they were being watched. There had to be a camera somewhere, if not several.
That does not matter. Well then, let´s start with level 0.
The raven blinked slowly.
"What?" He didn´t like the sound of that at all.
A tutorial. I would say it´s the best to start with, no?
Suddenly, there was pain. So much pain-
The raven screamed as his head felt like it was being split apart.
Shizuo snapped his head towards the flea, watching as he seemed to be tortured by something-
He was about to ask what was going on- he would fucking bash their heads in- when a sharp pain suddenly filled all his own senses-
It hurt-
It was loud.
He couldn´t hear-
He opened his eyes-
He couldn´t see-
Couldn´t feel-
Couldn´t smell-
And suddenly everything went black.
The woman hummed to herself, watching the screen. The two had both finally passed out.
"You should work on the pain issue, or it won´t sell well," she stated, watching the old man as he made his way out of the room.
A disgusting grin spread over his features as he opened the door.
"Certainly. But for now, let me play with those two~"
-Izaya´s point of view.-
Dark.
That was the first thing Izaya saw.
Black, nothing.
But it wasn't that his eyes were closed or anything. He was pretty sure they were open.
But there was nothing to see. He could feel a floor beneath his feet. Smooth, giving off a high pitched sound at each step he made.
And his arms-
When he took a step forward in this weird blackness, he instinctively lifted his hands so as to not bump into anything.
He could move them.
He twisted them and touched alongside, checking for any pain. There was none.
Same for his side- actually, for his whole body.
He jumped, causing a louder sound, akin to a piano´s key, to resound from the floor.
His head didn´t hurt anymore, either- What was going on?
Another sound caught his attention. Sounds as if someone else was walking on this piano-like floor.
And suddenly, there was light.
Green square patterns suddenly appeared on the floor, causing everything to be dimly lit- Izaya, as well as-
"Shizu-chan?" With surprise, Izaya noted that the brute had been freed from his chains and was standing not too far away from him in this weird... room?
It had no walls.
Was it so huge he couldn´t see them from here?
No way.
Everything was way too mysterious for the raven, but the thing that drew his attention most was the fact that Shizuo was unchained.
Cautiously, he watched the blond as he moved over- What was he going to do? Izaya was only wearing some unfamiliar black and red clothes- there were no knives in his pockets, he could feel that much.
And even though Shizuo was dressed in the same attire, just black and blue instead of red, he was posing a much greater threat.
"Oi, Iza-" The raven had been about to turn around and run away- but then something happened that made him blink.
Shizuo bumped against something.
Something... that he couldn´t see.
The blond rubbed his forehead, stretching his hand out, only to meet an invisible wall between him and the flea.
Green waves were rippling away from every spot where he touched the wall.
He raised his fist, hitting the wall- only resulting in bigger glowing green waves.
Just what was going on...?
The raven frowned- Where were they?
Suddenly, there was more light. A white rectangular screen had appeared- a disgusting old man was sitting in a chair, his hands folded as he looked at the two.
"Welcome to NO escape!"
End of chapter 3 C:
Hehehehehe, well well, this is turning out different than you thought it to be right? xD
I´m curious how many of your figured out what´s actually going on xD And now... I guess I should start thinking about what I should write in chapter 5 x'DDD
Also, please do check out my other story, survival of the doomed- it´s a zombie story, but not as scary as you may think- it´s actually gonna turn really sweet and shit cx It´s really cute xD But somehoe only 4 people are reading it ;-; even though I give my bestttt-
Oh well~
I hope you liked this~ *0*
See you next sunday~! (ﾉಠヮಠ)ﾉ:･ﾟ.*
Ps.: You know what minna-san? xD I finally got enough confidence to actually write my book down ;/; well not everything yet, but chapter 1 got done yesterday *0* Perfecly done, it´s gonna stay just that way cx Now on to chapter 2 xDDD If I keep going like this it will be done until october 2016 ;/;
I kinda always doubted that I actually can write anything apart from Shizaya- but you guys gave me so much confidence over the course of time about my writing itself so, that the lil insecure me actually gained enough confidence to start x'D Thank chu ;/; Imma keep you updated in littel Ps.:- notes how my story gets along x'DDD