Chapter 10
The Beginning of Evil

The bus the Suicide Squad was on drove down the highway heading towards Tokyo. There was a bit of traffic, so they weren't able to go at a fast speed. While on the road, they continued watching the news to see how things were at Akibahara. According to the latest reports, there was a barrier of some kind surrounding the place, thus preventing anyone on the outside from going in. Everyone was confused as to what was causing this barrier. Some said it must be magic, but considering the lack of belief in magic in the outside world, most of them looked down on this idea and went for more technological and scientific explanations instead.

"I'm not saying I'm a coward or anything, but I think we may be biting more than we can chew," said Deadshot as he watched the news.

"Where's the fun if we don't bite more than we can chew? I love a good challenge!" said Harley with enthusiasm.

"Ya know?" said Captain Boomerang. "Considering that we're dealing with magic and voodoo and all, wouldn't it have been a better idea if we invited those girls to come with us? Magic is their specialty, right?"

"We're not going to involve people who have nothing to do with this," Rick told him while keeping his eye on the road. "We've caused them enough trouble already when we unintentionally dragged them out here with us."

Killer Frost suddenly heard something knocking on the window, so she looked and was surprised to see Marisa flying alongside the bus on her broom and waving at her. "Speak of the devil..." Everyone else looked to the side and was equally surprised to see the girls from Gensokyo following the bus as fast as they could, so Rick drove to the side and parked the bus there.

After that, they all got down from the bus to meet the girls. "Finally caught up with ya!" Marisa said to them.

"We meet again! And so soon!" Harley said to them happily.

"What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be back at your world?" Rick asked the girls.

"We've all decided to come lend you a hand," Marisa told him. "After all, you helped us get back to our world, so we thought we should repay you somehow."

"It's her idea, and most of us thought it was a good one," said Raiko.

"I tagged along because I want to get back at the Evil Dragon for sending his monsters after me," said Medicine.

"Furthermore, your opponent uses magic, right?" continued Marisa. "And since he's someone who came from our world, it makes all the more sense that we lend a hand. Perhaps we know more about him than you do-ze!"

Turning to Rick, Bronze Tiger said, "They have a point. Since the Evil Dragon comes from this world, they may know know more about it than we do and can therefore help us defeat it more easily."

"Some help wouldn't be bad," agreed El Diablo.

Seeing how the girls were so eager to help and how the rest of the squad were agreeing on letting them help, Rick finally agreed to things. "I guess you all have a point. A little help won't hurt anyone, and it's not like Waller knows what is happening now."

"All right! We have new teammates!" exclaimed Harley happily.

"Don't get things wrong. We're only sticking around until this is over," Alice reminded her.

"Who cares? You're still officially part of us! Welcome to the Suicide Squad!" Harley told her as she grabbed her hand and shook it.

A large crowd was gathered outside Akihabara, and the law enforcers were trying to keep them from getting past the police line, as they were unsure what sort of danger lied past the magical barrier. The entirety of Akihabara was surrounded by a purple dome-shaped energy that could not be penetrated in any way. Physical force and even explosives were used against it, but nothing worked. Nobody had seen anything like this before, so there were no explanations as that what was happening at the moment. Needless to say, this incident was making headlines all over the place.

From another area, the squad and the girls' bus arrived at the barrier, an area where there were no people and the perfect place for them to began their operation. Stepping down from the bus, the group headed over to the barrier, and Seiga removed her hair pin. "You said you can get us in there?" Rick asked her.

"The harder it is to get through, the easier it is for me to get through!" she told him. "Watch!" She lightly touched the barrier with one end of the hair pin, and just like that, a circle opening was created on it. Pointing at the opening, she said to the others, "There! Entrance created! Please go in before it close up after a few minutes!"

Everyone went inside the barrier, and then Captain Boomerang asked, "Pretty neat! It can make openings in anything?"

"It has problems creating openings on soft surfaces," Seiga told him. "It works better on hard surfaces."

"Neat! No vault will be safe from this that way!" said the Australian in delight.

"Oh, trust me; unless they make a vault out of tofu, there can be no privacy with this thing!" Seiga told him with a wink.

"Can we have enough of this thieving mindset and get to business?" Alice said to them.

"What's the plan, captain?" Deadshot asked Rick.

"We have to find out where the Evil Dragon is, and that's the problem, because he can be anywhere," replied the soldier.

"Don't worry; we magic users have the ability to sense magical powers and demonic presences, so we can help you track down the Evil Dragon-ze!" Marisa told him.

The group walked through the abandoned city, which seemed to be in a good state for the most part. There was occasional vandalism found here and there, but no major damage for the most part. Even so, the atmosphere felt unsettling and even eerie. Harley was complaining about how boring things were, however, and wanted something to happen fast.

They eventually heard some noises, ones that sound like it came from living things, so they went around a corner quietly to avoid arousing attention. Looking around the corner, they saw that this particular part of the place was in ruins. Buildings were partially torn done, cars were damaged and overturned, and street lights were down on the pavement. What was most striking was the presence of bizarre and even grotesque-looking creatures wandering the place. These creatures looked like humanoids made from piles of flesh. They mouths were filled with sharp, jagged teeth, and each of them had different numbers of eyes, some of them growing on other parts of the bodies other than the faces.

"What... What are those...?" asked Reisen, showing signs of fear.

"More summoned monsters by the Evil Dragon, I presume..." said Alice.

"There were reports about monsters on the news, so I guess these are the ones," said Rick.

"The Evil Dragon must be in this area, I believe," said Marisa.

"Then let's bust our way through!" suggested Captain Boomerang.

"Best not to get their attentions," Rick told him. "We don't know what they're capable of, so I suggest sneaking past them and only attack if they come after us."

The monsters wandered around the place slowly and seemingly aimlessly, none of them noticing the squad and the girls hiding behind a line of cars. One of the monsters looked at the side mirror of a car and noticed the reflection of those people looking up from behind their hiding places. Immediately, the monster turned around to confirm what it saw and then let out a monstrous cry to alert the other monsters, and then they all ran at a fast speed towards them.

"So much for sneaking past them..." said Deadshot as he readied his weapons, and then he turned to Rick. "Orders, captain?"

Rick signed and then said, "Yeah, permission to engage hostiles..."

"Yeah! I've been waiting for this!" exclaimed Harley happily as she raised her bat into the air, and then she was the first to get out from behind the cars and run towards the incoming monsters. With quick and powerful swings of her bat, she was able to smash the heads of multiple monsters, sending pieces of flesh and blood flying everywhere.

Killer Croc pushed aside the car he was behind and then ran towards the approaching monsters. He punched one in the head so hard that it was shattered, and then he lifted its body over his head before throwing it at another monster. He jumped at the knocked down monster and mercilessly pounded it in the face over and over.

Captain Boomerang threw several boomerangs at once, and their sharp edges sliced through the monsters' heads. As the boomerang flew back, they cut down a few more monsters, and the Australian was able to catch them all with ease.

Killer Frost created large ice spikes pointing forward on the pavement, and quite a few of the monsters ran into them, getting themselves impaled. The ones running behind them climbed over their impaled bodies to get to her, but she made icicles rise from the pavement, impaling them as well.

El Diablo released a stream of fire from his hands and burned down several of the monsters. Futo also performed a fiery attack involving shooting fireballs.

Though she didn't have her broom and hakkero with her, Marisa still fought the best she could. She kept her distances from the monsters and shot star-shaped projectiles from her hands at them, blowing them away. Unfortunately, these projectiles weren't strong enough to kill them. She was pounced on by one monster when suddenly it was pierced in the head from the side. Marisa turned and saw that Alice had one of her dolls fire a piercing beam at the monster, so the former winked at her as a sign of thanks.

Like a spitting cobra, Medicine spit out steaming purple liquid at some monsters. When the liquid touched them, their skins started to melt from the highly acidic properties of the poison.

Using the broken pair of sticks she obtained back in the village, Raiko charged them with electricity before striking the pavement hard to create an electric shockwave that zapped the monsters around her.

Reisen and Shou stood back to back while attacking the monsters. The former fired a combination of eye beams and energy bullets fired from her fingers, while the latter fired bright beams from her pagoda that easily incinerated them in one hit.

Seiga floated into the air and formed a ball of green energy in her hand, and it exploded, releasing laser beams that homed in on of the monsters below, piercing them.

Bronze Tiger attacked brutally with his claws to slice and dice the monsters. Due to being a skilled martial artist, he was able to easily dodge and counter their hand swings and take on several of them at once even when surrounded.

Deadshot continued hiding behind the cars and sniped the monsters from there. When one monster got close to him, he moved away from it fast before blasting its head off. He then put his sniper rifle away before getting on top of the car he was behind and started firing from his wrist guns at all the monsters he saw, shooting with such an accuracy that none of his teammates and the girls were hit.

After shooting down the last of the monsters approaching him, Rick looked around to see that there were no more monsters, as everyone else had finished killing them all. "Good work, everyone!" he said to them.

"That wasn't too hard!" said Seiga as she landed. "Wish I had Yoshika with me, though... I prefer letting her get her hands dirty."

Marisa looked around and was rather grossed out by the amount of blood and torn apart bodies lying around the place. "I'm no stranger to gore, since demons back home can do pretty terrifying things to humans, but this still freaks me out..."

"Get used to it if you're traveling with us," Killer Frost said to her. "Seeing stuff like this is normal for us. Well, not to this degree..."

Meanwhile, Harley was continuously hitting a dead monster with her bat. Reisen approached her and said, "Um... I think it's already dead..."

Harley stopped hitting the monster and said to her, "I was sure I saw it still moving." She then shot it with her gun. "Yeah, it was definitely moving just now."

"You love violence, don't you...?" Shou asked her.

"It's a part of everyone! You'll give in to it sooner or later, I tell you!" Harley told her with a wink.

There was a commotion at Gensokyo's underground lab. Two dead bodies had been discovered stuffed into a locker, one belonging to a white wolf tengu and the other a kappa. The staff members were horrified and talking with each other about who could have possibly killed them. Unfortunately, the security cameras provided nothing to solve the case, as footage of last night had been deleted.

Not only that, the chemical lab had clear signs of being touched. There were chemicals spilled onto the table and the floor and flasks that were fallen over. Once again, the security cameras provided no help due to having deleted footage.

Kanako, after learning out about what happened, gave orders for all the staff members to find out what happened. Since the chemical lab was touched, Rikako decided to find out if the culprit created anything dangerous using the substances there.

As she watched the dead bodies being taken away by some fairies, Suwako asked Kanako, "You think this has something to do with what happened two days ago? You know, the laughing gas incident?"

"Your guess is as good as mines..." Kanako said to her in a worried tone. "The culprit likely used the chemical lab to create more of that gas. I didn't see what happened at the village, but from what I've read on the news, it definitely seems horrible... Let's hope the tengu wasn't exaggerating what she wrote in her article..."

The folks at the Human Village continued on with their daily lives. The incident from yesterday seemed to have left their minds, as none of them seemed to be worried. Unknown to them, Seija and the Joker were hiding in an alleyway, and they had with them several gas canisters. "So... how are we going to start?" the amanojaku asked the clown.

"I'll start when I want to, so have a little patience," the latter told her with an evil smile.

TO BE CONTINUED

As you can see, the part with the Suicide Squad is based on the movie. Since this story is inspired by the movie, it only makes sense that I base the plot off it.