DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN MIRAI NIKKI/ THE FUTURE DIARIES.

Date Uploaded: April 11, 2016- Monday.

Note: Advanced apologies for the OOC's. And the OC's.

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WARNING! THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS VIOLENCE!

INTRO:
Ninth was walking in plain sight. She was walking calmly as if in a park. But she was actually NEAR the Past Diary Holders' sub-base.

"Missed me already?" Katzumi asked as he approached her with a cocky grin.

"Oh I couldn't stay away." Ninth replied, returning a mischievous grin.

"Then I take it that you missed the fun we had together." he said as he reached for the gun behind his waist.

"I sure did."

DAY EIGHT: Backfire
Ai, Marco and Twelfth are keeping an eye on her, making sure that Ninth will be alright. They didn't want Ninth to feel betrayed twice. Nor to lose anyone else.

"And they've begun." Marco said as he saw them fighting. Ninth and Katzumi started firing at each other.

"It's like a western showdown between two modern cowboys." Ai commented.

"My money's on the guy." Twelfth said and the two stared at him. "What? We've got our own perspective, don't we?"

"I'd cheer for him if he weren't so full of himself." Ai agreed and Marco raises a brow on her. "Twelfth has a point." she shrugged. "Besides, it's not as if he can take Ninth down. She's one of the wildest people I know."

"Who's the other wild people?" Twelfth asked.

Static.

Everyone picked up their diaries to see what had changed. But then they were startled to hear Eleventh's voice through the walkie-talkie. They all heaved a sigh of relief knowing it was just him. Not any DEAD END.

"What's up, Eleventh?" Marco responded.

"Fourth and Sixth caught a sub-diary holder. It's safe to assume that there are more."

"Sub-diary holders? You mean there are past sub-diary holders?" Ai asked.

"I'm afraid so."

"Okay, so assuming that our counterparts have similar diaries as ours, the sub-diary holders comes from their version of Eighth?" Marco said. "So, a guy with a big head. Or a guy with a small head but a big body."

"A-hem."

"Right, sorry." Marco remembered Eleventh has a thing for Eighth.

"Keep an eye out for sub-diary holders. We'll be back to check on you."

Meanwhile, Katzumi was wounded badly. His leg was caught by a landmine that Ninth had planted and now he couldn't run or walk.

"You might've won today, Uryuu, but you will die soon enough!" he said.

"You're already dying, the least you can do is beg me to kill you swiftly." Ninth teased and Katzumi tried to hit her but couldn't reach her. He lay on the ground, hopeless.

"You know I still hate you right?" he said, his eyes locked on the sky.

"I know a lot of people hates me." she said, her eyes looking down. "Or, doesn't like me at all."

"Even so.. you've got a team that doesn't abandon you." he scoffed. Ninth was curious what he meant, giving him a confused look. "Our team is different from yours. We're picked randomly and we don't like each other."

"It doesn't sound so different from us."

"We're loaded with defected members." he said with a chuckle.

Katzumi sounded.. nice? Friendly? Ninth was trying to think if there was any drug on her gun or the bombs she's planted. But then again.. he could be a really friendly guy before it all began. He was just driven to kill. But he held a grudge.. then what was wrong?

"You're not so bad, Uryuu. I gotta admit that I drove myself to blame someone for my son's loss."

"You knew it wasn't me?" she blinked.

"Yes."

"Wow. You must be one sick jackass." she scorned but Katzumi didn't seem to take it personally.

"When I found out I was to play this death game, I needed something to push me to fight. And I chose revenge to drive me." he said, his voice tired and weak, a sign that he was about to die. He's gotten pale. "I won't ask you to forgive me.. but I do have a different favor to ask of you."

Ninth knew what he would ask. She nodded at him and pointed her gun in his head.

The shot him in the head and he was gone.

Marco reported to Yukiteru that Ninth defeated Katzumi. Yukiteru was relieved that Ninth was alright. But Eleventh's plan was ongoing. There are three more baits that will do their job. Three more.

'Please let it work.' Yukiteru hoped.

Static.

Yukiteru picked up his phone to see what was about to happen, his eyes widened and immediately grabbed the walkie-talkie to contact Marco and the others.

"Yukii?" Yuno wondered what the expression in his face was about.

"Marco! They're coming! Get Ninth out of there! Get out of there all of you!" he warned.

Marco heard Yukiteru's warning and turned to Ai and Twelfth who was with him. They heard it too. They packed up their things and prepared for a run. Twelfth shouts at Ninth to leave. Ninth was too far but she heard faint shouts from afar.

Ai contacted Ninth through the earpiece Ninth had and warned Ninth about the upcoming reinforcements.

Ninth complied but before she could run, the sub-diary holders had arrived.

"Darn it, they were faster than we thought!" Marco cursed as he finds their group also surrounded by sub-diary holders.

Twelfth wasted no time and started shooting at the sub-diary holders. There was no justice in the death battle, he already knows that. What matters in a death battle is to survive and win.

Yukiteru dropped his walkie-talkie and prepared himself to join the fight in the battlefield but Fourth grabs his arm.

"You're not going anywhere." he said sharply.

"The others are in danger!" Yukiteru yelled.

"If they kill you we are all going to die!"

"How would you know that?! Your lives are NOT in my hands! You just rely on me to decide who lives and dies! I don't want that role!" Yukiteru yanked his arm away and ran exited the van.

Kurusu massages his forehead in frustration. He turned to Yuno, giving her the go-signal to assist Yukiteru, she nodded and ran after him.

At the battlefield, Noya Hamasaki and Akagi Kaede arrived. They were the ones leading the sub-diary holders in battle. Noya was excitedly running in the battlefield, holding a controller in his hand. Uryuu knew at once that they were the leaders of the attack. And she remembered very much who they are.

Noya Hamasaki was the boy she hated for wanting to kill Reisuke. And Akagi Kaede, her rival. Uryuu, bit on the lock of the grenade she's holding and threw it at them. Noya saw it coming from afar and clicked a button. One of the sub-diary holders caught the bomb and exploded with it.

"What the-?!" Did Ninth saw it right?

Noya laughed. "Think you can kill us off just like that?" he said.

"I've got more tricks than that, squirt!" Uryuu reached for a remote in her pocket and pressed three buttons at once. Noya's eyes widened knowing what it meant.

Akagi grabbed the boy by the collar and ran a distance. The sub-diary holders were caught in the blast and Ninth laughed at her victory. Smoke and broken pieces of the body parts of the sub-diary holders were all over the place.

She searched where the two have gone, wanting to finish them off already. But Ninth was attacked from behind. Akagi used the thickness of the smoke for her cover.

Ninth fell on the ground, her face facing the dirty soil while Akagi had a gun pointing at the back of her head. There was no hesitation to pull the trigger. Ninth could've died if Ai hadn't come to her aid. Akagi was shot in the leg, her hand bled when Ai shot her again.

Before the third shot, Ai fell unconscious when Noya hits her head hard with a steel pipe.

"Now we're even." Noya told Akagi.

Akagi eyed the unconscious Ai and smirked. She gestured for two sub-diary holders to grab Ai's body. Noya points a finger at Ninth who was about to get up but Akagi told him to leave her be.

Twelfth saw them taking off with Ai and came dashing towards them. Akagi took the remote in Ninth's hand. She saw the screen having red dots on certain locations. The red dots were marked as the bombs and yellow marks are heat markers that marks as living people. She smirked and waited for one yellow dot to pass by a red dot before pushing the button.

Noya was shocked to see Twelfth explode pieces the moment the button was clicked.

"Whoa. I gotta learn that one." he said in amazement.

"Let's go. Their reinforcements will arrive soon." Akagi called and they were gone when Yukiteru arrived at the scene, the fight was over.

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"They got AI!" Marco yelled. He's been yelling in anger ever since they got back from the mission.

"Calm down, you're not helping her in any way." Tenth said.

"It was all because of that stupid plan! Nothing was even accomplished!"

"Katzumi is dead." Eleventh said.

"A life for a life? Is that how it works?!"

"Marco," Yukiteru was cut off before he could start.

"I don't want to hear anything from you either!" Marco left the room in anger. He wanted to just scream and shout all day. But he knows he won't be able to do anything at all.

"Someone needs to restrain him." Eleventh muttered.

"But Ai is still alive, right?" Yukiteru said. "I mean, they have the Exchange Diary. So anything that happens to Ai- I mean will happen to Ai, he'll know."

"And everything Marco does, they'll know. It works both ways." Tenth sighed.

"But she could be a spy!" Eleventh said cheerfully.

"How can she be a spy if she's a prisoner?" Fourth reminded him.

"Yukiteru became a spy EVEN if he's a prisoner." he countered.

"He's got charms." Fourth shrugged.

"And the pretty girl, doesn't?" he raised a brow on him. Eighth clears her throat.

"We're all devastated of everyone's deaths and our continuous failures, maybe we need to relax." she suggested.

"Relax?! You want us to-!" Eighth cuts Bacchus off.

"We've been pressured of plans and deaths, we didn't have time to construct a perfect plan. We need to clear our head a little."

"You don't say." Ninth teased with a grin on her face. Eighth glared at her. It was the second time Ninth had insulted her unusually large head.

"I agree with that." Yukiteru says. He needed to think as well. If they rely on him he can't be lax. He can't rely on Eleventh's ideas. After all it's been a fail twice now. It was his turn to think.

"Let's just hope Ai will be fine for the meantime." Sixth said.

"And keep an eye on lover boy." Eleventh added. "He might do something rash and we'll lose more members. His diary says it all. We need him."

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