Well, things are about to go down hill for this part as Randy is about to find out.

Dramatic Escape

After what seemed like hours of power napping, I opened my eyes and I was no longer at the beach side, instead I was now inside some kind of facility.

BGM: Persona 3 OST - Fearful Experience

"It's been a while, hasn't it...Randall The Leecher!" A man's voice spoke, it sounded very low tone.

I looked up to see a man who was armed and a woman with a witch's attire, she must be the one I heard the laughter from.

"You know this human?" The woman asked.

"Yes. He's the man I've been following for nearly a year and now..." He aimed his gun at me. "...I finally have this sick son of a bitch."

*BANG*

"ARRRRGGHHH!" I screamed as I felt the gunshot hitting my left shin on the leg.

"This is Randall Mark Peters, a leecher who's been on the run." The man put his gun down and smiled at me. "Randall, never did I think I would see you like this."

I tried to fight through the pain. "H...how d-do you...know me?"

He aimed at me. "Don't play the stupidity card. You know who I am!"

"Ngh...ngh...no! You're Leon...aren't you?"

*BANG*

"ARRRRGGHHH!" I felt a bullet hit me in my right arm.

"That's Leon The Notorious to you, asshole!" He put his gun away. "There's been a high price bounty on your head ever since that night..."

"I'm not one for getting involved in this." The woman intervened. "But what exactly did this man do to earn such a fate?"

"Randall has a reputation of making moves towards females and it makes me sick! One night, he ended up trying to pull a girl who was the daughter of a wealthy CEO who runs an underground nightclub business. When he was caught, he ran like a coward and the girl's father vowed revenge. That's when I was hired as a bounty hunter. I follow the money and the price this leech has was too good to pass up."

"I see, so now that you have Randall here, you better hold up your end of the deal."

"Yeah, in return for helping me capture this creep, I'll help you buy time so your plan for Gamarket comes true."

"A pleasure doing business with you, Leon." The woman looked at me. "Hmm, what a shame for you."

"F-f-for me?" I asked.

"You are quite a catch, but even you cannot stop me."

I smirked at her. "You know...that's gonna trigger your defeat flag."

"Silence!"

She slapped me.

"Ngh!"

"Enough, Arfoire." Leon intervened. "This is my prey, not yours."

"Whatever, now if you excuse me, I have a castle to arise, ha-hahahahaha!" Arfoire left the room.

Leon stood close to me and he smirked at me. "Now, as much as I wanna kill you, I've been ordered to bring you back alive, so you can face the music yourself."

"W-well, isn't that nice..." I remarked. "...can I have fries with that?"

"Quiet! You're not funny and you never were!" He then drew out a knife. "And don't think of escaping either, because I will hunt you down like the animal that you are!"

"Ha ha ha..." I laughed with a hint of sadness. "...so this is how it's gonna end, this is how my story is going to end?"

Leon laughed. "That's more like it, seeing you fall into fear is what I want."

"Oh really, what else do you want, a cookie, a medal...or maybe a girlfriend of your own?"

I then felt the knife cut a bit of my skin around the lower left stomach.

"ARRRRGGHHH!"

"You have no damn right to suggest I deserve a girlfriend. I am a bounty hunter and I get paid with money, not whatever horn dog dreams you have!"

"Ngh...hah...ngh..."

"Oops...I guess I stabbed you too far and now you're bleeding." Leon grinned. "If I don't bring you back to your hometown soon, you might die of blood loss. You better pray that Arfoire takes over Gamarket fast."

"Arfoire?"

"Now, I'm gonna go and refresh...you better stay alive when I get back!" He then punched me hard in my wound.

"ARGH! NGH!"

End Of BGM

He walked away and left the room, there was now silence...I looked to my sides to notice that I was tied down with chains on my wrists and ankles.

"Th...this can't be...I'm the main character..." I said, shivering. "Why...I don't wanna die...hic...Noire...Neptune...Blanc...Vert...all the generals...I need you girls...hic..."

I then started to hear the rattling noises from up above and to my right, the vent was being shaken around before it was kicked from the hinges and fell to the floor, then someone crawled out and landed close to me...I gasped as I knew who it was.

"Lid?!"

"Randy!" She exclaimed before noticing my wounds. "This is extremely bad! You need medical emergency, ASAP!"

"No shoot..." I cried in response.

Lid sighed. "This is worse than I thought...Saori, you still with me?"

"Yes, I'm coming down from the vent now." A familiar voice replied before I saw Saori jump down from the vent with a medical bag on her shoulder. "Randy-san!"

"Saori..."

She also noticed my current state. "Gah! Oh my god...Randy-san...sniff."

"Keep it together, we don't have much time." Lid said.

"R-right."

Lid hacked into a small control pad and I was suddenly free from the chains. I laid on my back whilst Saori treated me to my wounds which took a while.

"Do you feel any better, Randy?" Lid asked.

"Yeah, I think I can move now...although I'll be hobbling." I replied as I struggled to stand up. "But why, I thought there was no chance?"

"You once came to save me, Randy-san." Saori said as she put my arm around her. "Now it's my turn to save you."

I laughed a little. "You're persistent as always."

"Let's get out of here, Vio and Generia G are inside this underground facility as we speak." Lid as she opened the door out of here.

I nodded. "Alright...ow!"

"Don't push yourself too hard, stick with us."

We left the room, hoping to find a way out.

BGM: Goldeneye OST - Severnaya Bunker

I stayed with Saori who helped me to walk along whilst Lid stayed in front, the floor we were on had very light security, we just had to avoid them. We made our way up a few stairs to the next floor where there was more security around, we would need a distraction of sorts. Lid, Saori and myself hid behind a stack of crates.

"We'll have to use silent force here." Lid whispered before she tapped on a phone. "Vio, are you there?"

"Yeah, I can see you and the guards." Vio replied on the phone. "Right on the balcony above you."

I looked up to see a balcony and someone's arm with a silenced pistol sticking out.

*Pew* *Pew* *Pew*

I looked behind to see the three guards fall down.

"Targets neutralized, they won't be getting up for a while."

"Roger that, Vio, make your way out of here."

"Got it."

We got up and passed the next floor, climbing up to another floor. This floor seemed like a hanger, we must be almost there.

"Hold still, Generia should be around here." Lid made another call. "Generia, follow the signal."

"Affirmative, unlocking the hanger doors now." Generia replied on the phone.

The hanger doors at the far end raised up, showing a view of an underground cave.

I sighed. "Well, so much for getting out of this one easily." I then checked myself, I had only noticed that I was in some kind of prisoners outfit.

"Randy-san..." Saori said who was still helping me walk.

"Oh, I almost forgot." Lid handed me a few things. "Here's the items that were stolen from you."

"Thanks." I replied before I was able to change into my normal clothes and put on my fighting gloves. "That's more like it."

"Just remember that you can't fight right now. Let's get out of here and rendezvous with the other generals."

We nodded in agreement and sneaking past the floating DSTTs, we exited out of the underground facility and into the caves, we would be out of here soon.

End Of BGM

After Generia and Vio grouped up with us outside the underground building, we carried on finding the exit, until we found a bright light at the end. We made a run for it and found ourselves in the outdoors with the sun still in the sky, it must be the late afternoon by now...how long was I out for I wonder?

"We should be safe for now." Lid said.

"Thank you girls...you're awesome!" I replied happily before kissing Saori on the cheek.

Vio smiled. "It's alright, we did what we had to do."

"When faced with a critical situation that threatens who we care most, we all work together." Generia added before saluting at me.

"Speaking of which, where's Noire?" I asked. "She's bound to be worried about me the most."

"I think she's...oh over there!" Saori pointed.

The rest of the generals were there and they were dealing with...wait, there's two Noires?!

We rushed over with me hobbling to get a clearer picture.

"Noire!" I exclaimed.

Noire then looked to see me and gasped. "Randy...thank goodness you're safe."

"Oh wow, isn't this a tender loving scene?" The other Noire remarked.

"Uhh and who are you, Noire number two?" I asked her. "Wait...are you a shadow, your true self?"

"Not quite, Randy." Resta answered.

"That is the fake Noire, she's the one behind you -pow- getting captured!" Lee-Fi added.

"And then she messed with our minds to fight against the CPUs." Sango said. "Such horrid action shall not go unpunished!"

"Hmhmhm, I'm surprised that your secretary escaped." The fake Noire smirked. "This complicates matters for my master."

"Your master...you mean Arfoire?" I asked.

"Huh? Who's Arfoire?" The real Noire asked.

"That's what she was called when I was captured, I'll explain more about that after this."

Noire nodded. "Alright...you better rest after this you know."

"I will...I won't fight against it."

"Good, one of you watch over him the rest of you, let's finish this fight!"

"Yeah!" All the generals replied.

Noire and the generals went to work on the fake Noire whilst Resta and Little Rain chose to heal me up around my body. I was able to now stand on my own again, but my body was still tired, all I need now is a very long rest. Noire then went into HDD form and beat the ever loving crap out of the fake Noire, bringing the battle to an end.

"Hehehehe, hahahaha!" The fake Noire laughed as she started becoming transparent. "Win or lose, I carried out my duty. Dying means nothing to me!"

"Your duty, huh?" The real Noire replied. "Something your master told you to do?"

"Wouldn't you like to know? All I had to do was buy enough time and I succeeded, hahahahahahaha!" She collapsed and varnished away.

"That sounds extraordinarily bad." I said. "We should get back to the basilicom fast."

"Yeah, we need to go and check with Histoire." Noire nodded. "But first..."

"Yeah I know...I gotta rest up."

All of us were back at Lastation and inside the basilicom, I was resting on the benches with a few bandages around me. The CPUs were looking over me whilst the generals were busy finding out what may have happened in their own cities. But...they don't know about Leon, should I tell them now or wait and see how it unfolds?

"Wow, you guys." Neptune said. "That was so much win back there!"

"Too right." I replied. "I'm very glad that you three are fine as well...to think that we were caught by surprise that easily."

"Worry not, Randy, we were able to bring everyone back together, thanks to our collective efforts." Vert assured.

"More importantly, how are you doing?" Blanc asked.

"Well, I'm still wrapped up in places, but I'm getting there." I sighed. "You don't wanna know what I looked like when I was captured."

"Then don't tell us." Blanc looked at at Noire. "So Noire, do you wanna talk to him?"

"You read my mind." Noire replied. "Oh and Neptune, if you interrupt us, I'll drown you in your beloved pudding."

"Ooof! Critical hit to Nep!" Neptune sighed.

"Let us leave them be, it's for our own good." Vert said.

"Okay, okay..."

The three of them left, leaving me and Noire for some alone time.

BGM: Gal-Gun Double Peace - True Feelings

"Randy..." Noire sighed as she felt sad.

"Noire..." I replied with the same emotion. "...for the first time in my life...I felt scared, like I was going to lose everything."

"Yeah...when we came to and found out that you were captured, I felt mad at myself." She sat by me. "I've made so many friends, I've gathered all the shares I lost, but still, I failed to protect you as a CPU, and that's something I can never forgive myself for letting that happen."

"Noire...everyone was caught by surprise, no one saw it coming." I looked down. "But as the main character, I should've seen it yet I completely ignored the worse scenario happening...now I'm filled with regret which was exactly what I did not want when I came here."

"What do you mean by regret?"

"I guess I should tell you something about my background. Long ago at a nightclub, I was being the charming guy you see today, but I ended up crossing the line with one girl who was the daughter of the man who owned the nightclub business. Since that night, I've been on the run and I've been chased by a bounty hunter named Leon. He's the reason why I'm in this state. I came to this island and hoping this vacation would make my past mistakes go away, now I can see that it hasn't and now my life is in danger."

"Randy..." Noire sighed. "...what about this Arfoire person?"

"As for Arfoire who was there to see it happen, I think she matches the description of the fortune teller we've heard about."

"Wait, you mean Eno is Arfoire?"

"Yeah, but I don't know who or what she really is, maybe Histy knows."

"Oh, good thinking. Let's talk to Histoire about it." Noire held her hand out.

I took her hand and we stood up. "Yeah...together...I'm sorry for getting you all mixed up in my issues."

"Don't apologize or anything. I mean yeah, you flirted with so many girls and you've teased me a bit" She paused and smiled. "But you haven't done anything to make me hate you. I could never hate you, not after what we've been through either."

"Thanks Noire, it means a lot to me when it's you saying that." I hugged her close to me.

Noire hummed and blushed. "It's no worries, Randy...I know you haven't made your decision yet, but if you ever do come back..."

"Yeah?"

"I want you to know that if you ever do decide that you've had your fun and you're ready to have just one girl in your life...c-can I be your one?"

I blushed a little and looked into her eyes. "I'll have to think about it and that's if I ever can afford the money to come here again."

"That's what I'm worried about. If you go back to your home, won't Leon come after you?"

"Well, if he does, then I'll just keep on running and never give up..."

She hugged me tight. "Randy, I don't want you to do that forever...why can't you just stay with us...stay with me?"

"Because at the end of the day, I'm still just a human with the gift of being a little special, I don't belong here."

Noire began to shed a tear, but she nodded. "I-I understand."

"I'm sorry, Noire, I really want to stay here and if I was a normal guy who was born here, I would definitely want to be with you and everyone else."

She showed a weak smile. "Randy...you've really grown and matured, haven't you?"

"Hmhm, I guess even a lewd guy like me has to learn to grow up someday...and hey, we can worry all about this once this land is safe."

She nodded and smiled. "You're right...we'll talk about this some more after we've saved Gamarket."

"Thanks, babe...now since it's just us two, want a good luck charm?"

"Yeah, go on then. Give me your best kiss!"

I laughed at her response before sharing a good luck charmed kiss as the sun began to set, but what was to follow later on was going to be a very bumpy night ahead...

End Of BGM

That was a close call for Randy, but he survives and as for towards the end, Randy's right. He's just a normal guy, he doesn't belong in Gamarket.

NEXT TIME! After Randy recovers, the party plans to raid Arfoire's Castle through all four entrances at once!