Chapter 26
Berwald vs. the Stewards
Bullocks, this job sucked.
Arthur had been on partol for well over 6 hours after his shift, he checked his watch. It was twenty after one in the morning, he sighed in frustration. Ever since one of his men snapped that photo of Berwald and Tino and had them labeled as 'rogues', he was ordered by his superior, Voir, to work over-time rounding up the two rogues as well as the other escaped patients. Roderich had apparently stressed to Voir about the dangers Ivan Braginsky could present, even though he was heavily restrained.
Arthur paused in his musings, he turned to look at a door that on the left side of the corridor, as he watched he heard a faint rattling sound coming from the closed door. He smiled, his night brightening a bit, he had found one of the escaped patients. Finally.
Smiling, he walked over to the door, pressing a button on the side, the door opened to reveal a trembling Italian male.
"C-Ciao, Mr. K-Kirkland," He stuttered, pushing himself as far back into the wall as he could, "You h-haven't come to take me back to Mr. E-Edelstein have y-you?"
" 'Fraid so," he sighed, trapping Feliciano in an anti-gravity bubble, "You haven't been deemed 'cured' yet."
"But you can't, Mr. Edelstein is so mean! He won't even let me Doitsu!"
He lifted the terrified Italian up and round into the corridor, ignoring his protests as he prepared to summon a car to have Feliciano escorted back to the clinic. Both men froze as they heard the sound of a plasma cannon being charged up, Arthur frowned and turned to look past the door, trying to locate the sound, only to be blown back as the wall suddenly exploded. Feliciano was freed from his temporary prison as the result.
"What the-"
Both men, covered in dust and debris, looked up to see Berwald standing there, cradling Tino in one arm as held out his plasma cannon, looking very intimidating The camera in his wrist-computer took an automatic picture of Berwald as he charged at the British man, ignoring Feliciano entirely. Arthur scrabbled to get to his feet as quickly as he could but he found himself lifted off his feet by Berwald as Mathias, Lukas and Ludwig appeared from the gaping wall.
"Doitsu!"
Feliciano ran past Berwarld, Tino and Arthur, wrapping his arms around Ludwig's neck, startling the German man.
"Feliciano?" He asked, craning his head to get a better look, "What are you going here? I thought you were interned in the clinic."
"I was..." Feliciano's smiled widen, "But Tino help me and several other escape!"
Berwald moved to the nearest door, which held Feliciano originally, and tossed the Britain inside. He scrambled to get up.
"Now, hold a dar-"
The door shut on Arthur's face as he approached Berwald, who had set the auto lock to remain in place for 30 minutes as the British man began to bang on the door.
"LET ME OUT THIS MINUTE YOU WANKERS! I'LL HAVE YOU ARRESTED FOR THIS, OXENSTIERNA YOU BLOODY BASTARD!"
"I'm sorry, Arthur," Berwald muttered as Tino coughed, "I'll explain everything to you later, but it had to be done. Forgive me."
With that Berwald turned to the other four and nodded, the other three returned his nod while Feliciano blinked in confusion, and sprint off after Berwald. The Italian gasped and started to follow them, as the automated voice rung in the corridors.
'Caution. Rogue men.'
"DOITSU! WAIT!"
"FELI? WHY ARE FOLLOWING ME?" Ludwig asked, briefly looking behind him.
"I WANT TO COME TOO!"
"It's going to be dangerous, Feli," Ludwig sighed, "There will be guns and maybe death involved, might end up like Tino over there..."
He hoped that would convince the Italian to back down, he didn't want to see his boyfriend (yes, his boyfriend) end up like Tino. No, this time he wanted Feliciano to run away. What he didn't expect was for the little Italian to keep after him with a determine look on his face, though he did hold a little fear in the expression.
"I d-don't care," he replied after a while, "I want to help. Tino helped me now I want to help him back!"
"What we are doing is called a 'mutiny', Feli," Ludwig replied, "Are you sure?"
"YEAH! Mune-tiny sounds fun!"
Ludwig sighed and didn't bother correcting or explaining the word 'mutiny'. If he was going to be that way-
"Stay close to me then."
"OKAY!"
They ran the long down the stretch of hallway passing Francis, who was flirting with a couple of women. He looked up as he saw the other six men run past him, sensing a foreboding aura about them, he turned to the two women.
"I'm sorry mes chéris, but I must go," He turned to follow the running group, he looked over his shoulder, "I'LL CALL YOU!"
They ran down the hall til they reached a three-way intersection and made a swift left turn passing by two other white clad men who turned their attention to the running group, one man had choppy chin-length blond bob cut hair and mint-green green eyes, Vash Zwingli. The second man was the same choppy dark brown haired youth with light brown eyes and thick eyebrows that originally nudged Tino closer to the guards, Wang Jia Long. Nudging the Asian man in the side, the both of them took off after the group.
They past another door that opened to reveal two more white cladded escaped patients, a man and a woman. The man had tousled silver-white hair with light purple eyes, his name tag read, Emil Steilsson. The woman was no older than Emil, her hair was long, brown with a wild curly strand hanging from the right side of her head and bright yellow-brown eyes, her name was Lin Yi Ling. Emil's eyes widen at the sight of his older brother (although he wouldn't be caught saying it) Lukas amongst the running crowd.
"LUKAS!" Emil called as they ran after them, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
"I'm causing a 'mutiny'." Lukas answered, looking over his shoulders briefly.
"Cool!" Lin smiled, "I always love a good rebellion."
They ran further down the corridor passing through another four-way intersection passing by Ivan Braginsky who was keeping the crowds in place at the other ends of the intersection, chanting, 'kolkolkolkol'. His expression changed as the group past him, turning down the only clear path. Ivan smiled and followed them, the chains on his back rattling with every step as they entered another corridor as images of Berwald dashing at the camera with Tino appeared down the hall, the group payed no heed.
'Caution. Rogue men.'
Soon the image popped up all over the place on the ship, holo-broads, holo-screens and projections, catching the attention of a certain co-captain, his eyes glaring darkly at the image projected in front of him.
"That's not possible..."
'Caution. Rogue men.'
A smile began to form on his lips as he watched as the computer calculated Berwald's trajectory through the Axiom ship map.
"Very well, Oxenstierna. I accept your challenge." He dragged his finger over a panel that called for the stewards, "They say you are able to take on 20 men, but how about an army or over 50?"
He smiled as all of the stewards call cards light came on, he watched them from the window as they rushed to meet the threat on level F. He smiled, now his directive was secure.
"VOIR! VOIR!"
Voir sighed as he looked down to the floor. Why can't the Captain understand that what he was doing was for the best of him and humanity? He turned back to the window, ignoring the shouts below deck.
"THIS IS MUTINY! YOU- Bastard-"
Gilbert was struggled with his binds, trying to free his hands from the very tight knot work of Voir. He paused, completely exhausted from his struggles, he stopped moving at the sound of an automated voice ringing out in the silence.
'Caution. Rogue men.'
Upon hearing it, he moved to the window to get a proper view until his rope reached his tether, halting him but he was able to see the image. His eyes widen and a large smile spread across his face.
'Caution. Rogue men.'
Tino and Berwald had the plant! He suddenly found a surge of energy and renewed his struggling and found after almost three hours, the knot on the rope came loose. He ripped his arms apart, the rope tore and fell to the ground, he smirked and looked up at the ceiling.
"Let's see who's helpless now, you unawesome butthole..."
Gilbert quickly dove underneath the computer in his room and removed the paneling underneath the console, taking a cable of wiring out. Smirking, he removed the cap on top the wiring cable, ripping the wires apart, and placed the ends together, he grinned when power came back to his room.
"Suck on that, douche bag!"
Berwald ran carrying Tino, desperate to get to the Lido Deck in order to engage Voir to get back to Earth to save Tino. He halted upon the sight of the holo-screen that appeared in front of him. He stopped once Gilbert came on.
'Testing, testing. Hey, is this verdammt thing on?'
He stopped to exam something over the screen. Looking satisfied, he turned back to the screen, lowering his voice.
'This is Captain Gilbert Beilschmidt. I am locked in my room.'
He looked over his shoulder quickly before returning to the screen.
'Berwald, Tino, bring the plant to the lido deck.'
He showed them a page from the manual, depicting a stickman placing the plant in a holo-detector.
'I'll activate the holo-detector and handle Voir. Now, hurry, Voir's probably going to cut me of-'
The message cut off before Gilbert could finish his sentence, like he said it would, leaving a group of stunned people.
"HALT!"
Berwald looked ahead of him, the entire path was blocked by a huge group of stewards, who held their positions. Getting over his shock, he growled and set his gun on 'stun' and shot the first man ahead of him. He fell over, paralyzed, the man next to him aimed the anti-gravity beam at his arm, trapping it and the gun, in its sphere.
"Tusan också!"
"HALT!"
"Blutige Hölle!" Vash yelled, pulling out a mirror deflecting some of the rays, "What I really need is my damned gun! But the damned bastards won't give to me til I'm 'cured'!"
"Feli, take Tino and get behind Lukas with Ivan!" Lugwig ordered as he ran forward.
Feliciano did as he was told, carefully he picked up the Finnish man and dashed behind Lukas who had a shield raised to deflect more rays. Ivan sat behind Lukas struggling to escape his bonds, to join the fight, he could see that they were being overpowered.
Ludwig, Lin, Francis and Berwald were already incapacitated, Mathias soon joined them after nailing one of the stewards with the handle of his axe handle, Emil and Jia joined Mathais is his submission. Tino weakly looked over at the Russian man while the Italian cradled him his arms, before calling to him.
"Mr... Branginsky... C-Come here, p-please..."
Ivan blinked at the Finnish boy, confused, but nonetheless, did as he was told. He scooted closer to the wounded boy, waiting for whatever it was he wanted from him.
"Turn around... Quick..."
Ivan obeyed and turned, revealing his chain system to Tino, who pulled a lock pick out of his backpack. He worked quickly to remove the locking systems to Ivan's bonds, soon the last lock fell off and the rest of the chain system fell with it. Ivan lifted his arms and brought them to his view, flexing them and massaging his sore wrists, he smiled at Tino.
"Спасибо малыш." He said.
He jumped over Lukas and his shield and right at the remain stewards, who looked horrified at the sight of the Russian man coming at them.
"OH GODS, NO!"
"Kolkolkolkolkolkol!"
Ivan ran at them beating them left to right, releasing those capture in anti-gravity beams as the rest of the group watched in awe.
Derp... I think my brain just derped.
Translations:
[Swedish]
Tusan också = Damn it!
[German]
Blutige Hölle = Bloody Hell
[Russian]
Спасибо малыш = Thanks kid.