I originally planned this chapter be from the rescue team POV, BUT my brain failed me in the process. So I'm gonna write the escape now and think some more. Oh and don't worry, no one's gonna find out about them, not that early. How? I thought of something...
Chapter 11
"WE NEED BACKUP! REPEAT WE- urrgh!"
*thud*
"I think you need a new...you know."
Minako grinned. It would actually be more merciful to actually kill the man now. She bent down and searched through his pockets, a megidolaon going off in the background finishing the ASWs with the guns, katanas and practically every weapon you can think off or have seen in a movie. It was a pretty bad idea to equip one with tesla weapons as it shocked itself and the robots around.
The humans around had their machine guns. And now Minako had a nice souvenir.
"Oh you already have kids? Well, then you don't need that thing anymore, right?" she said as she looked through his pockets and finding some photos in the process.
The few conscious men around visibly flinched as they prepared themselves for the inventible to happen.
"Sis..."
Minato approached coming from the hallway and into Minako's cell room. Minako turned around and first things first, she hugged her brother, who hugged her back. He looked around, but found no one conscious or unconscious who could handle the PCs around.
"They must be all on the upper floors..."
"What did you say?" Minako asked.
"We need someone who has access to the PCs around and delete the footage, data and everything else which could lead to us being not normal."
His sister nodded, understanding her brother's reasoning. And they needed to get someone before he or she escaped. So much for being a god and never having any problems at all. If they tried to blow everything up, they might overlook something or the people could manage to recover something from the wreckages.
Knocking the rest out, the two proceeded to a long hallway, ignoring the auto-turrets, flamethrowers and they even had poisonous gas. Too bad, so sad, the two weren't in their human form at the moment, so the only logical thing the Group members should do was running away. Okay, they didn't know they were dealing with gods, rather they thought they were dealing with pretty strong shadows.
"Elevators. They haven't any stairs here, right?" Minato asked.
"No, didn't see any so far. How deep underground are we anyway? But I think I saw some emergency ladders."
"Too slim for our wings and armor. We might as well fly up with our wings."
After entering the elevators, the two were immediately trapped inside. Didn't they bother listening to the two? The siblings planned on flying up the ways the elevators went. After blowing a hole in the ceiling, the two flew up as high as possible and blew a hole in the wall. Wall not the door.
"Minako, why not the door?"
"Not cool enough."
Funny was the guards were positioned on both sides of the elevator. If the twins would have stepped out normally, they'd have gotten into the crossfire. Now one blockade was lying in shambles.
Not caring they hit their own personal, the rest started shooting. They had bigger calibers and after dealing with them on the other end of the hallway one of the men used a freaking rocket launcher. Now this was bad. Not because of the might of the weapon. It was bad because Minako wanted this weapon very badly. And she would do anything to get it.
"Minako?"
"Hmm?"
"Leave him his manhood."
"Aw..."
She started chasing the man, leaving a trail of dust behind her. Minato briefly wondered how this was possible, because the floor was made of metal and spotless. Shaking his head, he walked the other way busting every door he could find. Not that the stuff inside was uninteresting, it just wasn't useful in any matters to him.
He even found consoles which were working. The stuff he found out however was something that let him rethink of how he viewed Mitsuru's father. Especially after the incident ten years ago, the Kirijo group experimented on children, trying to locate any possible persona users. It seemed as they managed to force some children to become persona users. The downside was the personas tried to kill their hosts. For that matter special pills were designed, but as a matter of fact they were deadly themselves, after you've taken them for too long.
Minato wasn't dump. He knew stuff like this happens around the world every second. That didn't make him any less angry. This wasn't something Mitsuru's granddad did, hell no. This took place under her father's command. Minato smashed the screen with his bare fist and set some papers onn fire, activating some sprinklers.
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Minako meanwhile had her new favorite weapon without any ammo. And after carrying it for a few minutes, she noticed she couldn't take it with her, no matter how much she wanted, it would be only in her way.
Now she needed to find her brother and then someone who had access to the entire system. Whistling, she went down the halls, throwing anyone with Garudynes against the wall who would get in her way.
Like her brother she came into a room, which was filled with empty tanks. Confused she titled her head. The door had been locked with two auto turrets defending it. Why would someone defend an empty room?
Curiosity getting the better of her, she approached one of the tanks and touched it with her hand, the claws accidentally scratching the surface.
Master
She heard a voice. Shadows. Shadows were trapped inside those tanks and used for experiments. Since it wasn't the dark hour they weren't visible, but when she focused with her eyes, she could clearly see the shadows trapped inside the tanks. Briefly wondering what will happen, she smashed the tanks open, thus freeing the shadows.
Minako let out an 'aw', because there was no out of time dark hour like she hoped would happen. The shadows were gone, back in the time loop of the dark hour. Sighing she walked on, destroying some random things on the way. Why? Because she can.
She met her brother on the staircase and together they walked up. Again another blockade. This time those suckers even bothered closing the sections off. It took them a little to get through.
"We need to train some more." Minako mused, seeing as they needed a few seconds to get through the walls. Note: through normal walls they could simply walk.
"Ahh! Don't hurt me!"
"Gotcha!"
Finally Minato caught someone in a lab coat.
"Please spare me! I do anything you want, just-"
"SHUT UP!"
Minato's voice could be heard through the entire building. "Just shut up and do what we tell you and maybe I'll let you live. You're going with us, excess the system and delete everything, you got me?"
The man nodded, shaking uncontrollably. "W-we n-need t-to get t-to the server room. I-it's just o-one l-level a-a-a-above us."
Minako charged some energy and blew a hole in the ceiling. The dude screamed and he screamed some more, when the two took him up. It eventually got on Minato's nerves and he silenced the dude.
Protecting the man was tougher than they thought. By now they were so used in not getting injured at all, they completely forgot what it was to be human. What was a little worrisome was it didn't bother the two at all. Before they got in here, they would have been really worried, but after facing cold reality, they preferred it this way. Shoving the man to the ground, they used some quick megidolas. Turned out this was enough to get rid of everything in their way.
"They locked the door! We-"
The twin-gods smashed the gigantic door open.
"..."
Minato shoved the guy in the lab into the room and followed.
"Wow. Just how much is stored in here?" Minato mused as he saw the size of the servers. Except from the size, they looked like servers you could get for yourself at home, with a few more buttons. Carefully eyeing the guy, they followed him to a big screen, 3 times bigger than in the command room.
"Before you delete everything, let's have a little look what they wrote about us." Minako said to the man, who accessed the server with his personal ID, eye-scanner and fingerprint scanner.
Since the file was the newest, it didn't take long for them to pop up. Just, it didn't help much. Being a god and having godly knowledge were two different things and most of the words inside were words the twins never heard about, not even in the slightest. Persona and shadow researchers obviously needed to learn a whole new language.
From the little they understood the researches didn't find out anything and just made up some lies. Some stuff even contradicted each other.
"Alright, we've seen enough. Get to work and do it right." Minako growled.
The guy typed some buttons and a big screen with a loading gauge appeared.
"Did the data got send to some other place?" Minato asked.
"N-n-no. This place is isolated, so hackers can't get into the system from outside. The downside is to make backups we need to bring the data outside, b-but we're not allowed t-to bring a-a-anything out."
He seemed honest to Minako. She searched through his pockets and found he too had photos of his children with him. There was a knot in her stomach and she knocked the guy out, putting his stuff back into his pockets.
"Do we have to wait?" she asked, seeing as how long it took for the gauge to be filled.
"Better, else they might try to stop the process. Still, it goes faster, than I thought. From the amount they got here, shouldn't it take longer?" he wondered.
His sister shrugged. "Maybe they just have that awesome stuff. I mean, what do you think one would need to study shadows?"
Bored from looking at the screen, the two looked around. The humans seemed to have learned their lesson and weren't attacking anymore or maybe preparing a super awesome weapon. Whatever it was, no human made weapon could kill a god, especially not when death is your brother.
Some papers about wires and a manual of what to do in emergency situations, like fire or a safety measurement not working properly. The manual to shut the server down properly was five pages long. It seemed like just cutting the electricity off would cause more than just a few lost data bits.
A few smoke bombs were thrown in and a swat team came inside, shooting their magazines empty.
"Disappointing."
Minako just wanted to use a high word.
"Heads up."
Minato warned as a second team came from above. Not that this was a problem it just was really annoying. And finally after this little episode of screams and pain, there were no more ambushes. All they had to do was to wait and they finally could start blowing this place up.
We'll return here another time. Let's see how Takeharu spits out his morning coffee as he received the report and learns about things even he didn't know about.
Takeharu Kirijo was a man who did things in the order they came over his office desk. Of course there were exceptions, but he avoided them until it was truly necessary. So when he arrived in his office this morning, there was an envelope lying on his desk. Nothing special so far, since it happened all the time. It would end on the to do stuff, once he read from where it was and what it was about.
SEES
That was the only thing written on it. Now this had top priority, as it was the group where his very own daughter was fighting at the front against shadows. But why were only the four letters on it?
Opening the thing, his skilled eyes quickly saw it was a report even before he got the context.
Shadow incident
Twins escaped
Data lost
Facility 1-A-Delta Lost
His skilled eyes also got the important words within seconds. His eyes widened as he read which facility was lost.
"That was supposed to be shut down."
Lost? He had a very bad feeling about this. He turned on the television in his office, showing the news.
"-why the fire broke out. It is suspected that a camper is responsible for the outbreak. The fire brigade has the fire under control, but-"
Takeharu shut the TV off. He typed a number and waited for the other person to pick up, while impatiently hitting the desk with his finger. No one at home. He tried a cell phone number and read a little more. He stopped his call after only reading two words: complete isolation.
This was something that had to be discussed with him before it was executed, yet he hadn't been informed. Something like this didn't go under because of bureaucracy.
"Just what is going on?"