Note: Sekirei belongs to Sakurako Gokurakuin and the only thing I own here is my OC.
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It would seem that the rest of our team are ahead of us, I thought as we walked through shattered blast doors which were strewn about in pieces of twisted metal. As we walked, Elizabeth studied the papers the archivist gave her and already admitted that I was right; the research labs are all accessible via the metro. It was actually a maglev train so our travel time would be minutes as opposed to hours. Elizabeth also read out the characteristics of each research facility from its size to amount of Sekirei related data it sent.
Our first target was a given though, a gigantic lab complex completely dedicated to studying Sekirei deep underground below the city of Atlanta. I wonder if the citizens would be able to feel us wrecking the research lab which was 75 meters below the surface level. Hopefully not, I'd rather prefer to avoid civilian casualties.
The one piece of information that really drew our attention was the nature of the data sent from there. The lab focused on the 'biological aspects' of Sekirei and that is kind of hard to do without a subject to study. But all Sekirei are accounted for except for the escapees so what was going on? Not to mention, the earliest reports on this were from 5 years ago and that was still back in the First Stage when MBI actively protected all Sekirei.
Regardless, this was to be our first target and time was of the essence now. We had to get to that lab as fast as possible before they finish their evacuation or purge protocols. It was with this thought that we arrived to the metro station to find out teammates playing cards. Strip poker to be precise it seemed. It also looks like Beni's luck was horrible as she was wearing nothing but panties now, blushing hard-core as her Ashikabi occasionally snuck appreciative glances at her lithe body when she thought Beni wasn't looking. Chiho herself was doing surprisingly well, if the pile of clothes beside her was of any indication and Kara was merely playing the dealer, an amused grin on her face.
"I can see Takami was quite right." I smiled widely as they all twitched before turning to greet us, Chiho's face going red. "Getting to 'know' your Sekirei better already, Chiho?"
"So…how do you like my student's firm, strong body?" I grinned after striding in and hugging a blushing Beni from behind, my hands slowly roaming across her naked flesh.
"Si-sister!" Beni looked like she was about to drop from the embarrassment and Chiho wasn't far behind in that regard as she stared at the scene. "S-stop it!"
"How disappointing" Haihane turned to Uzume with a pout. "To see such fine women like ourselves to be discarded in favour of 2 uncouth barbarians."
"Well, I guess we'll have to do something about it now that our Ashikabi abandoned us." A huge grin spread across Uzume's face before she leaned over and kissed Haihane before us. Haihane stared at her teammate in surprise and light panic before interest and pleasure took over and she kissed back.
We all watched in surprise, no one expected the scene before us and yet it made some sense that it would be the 2 perverts of the group to initiate it. Chiho began to pant heavily, her eyes lidded and her hand over her heart. Hmm, considering she can feel her Sekirei and the 2 of her Sekirei were currently doing more than kissing at this point, their hands roaming across each other's bodies…I felt quite surprised when Beni began to rub herself against me unconsciously as she too looked on.
This is…rather interesting. It would seem that the feelings Chiho got from Uzume and Haihane generated her own lust and pleasure which, in return, leaked over to us through our bond causing Haihane and Uzume to proceed further in this loop. I hugged Beni tightly, preventing her from moving further and fighting the feelings I got from my bond. I looked at Kara who had a slight blush and we both decided that it was time to end this; we could ill afford distractions at the moment.
However, before we could do so, Chiho gave a small gasp and passed out, a tsunami of pleasure washing over us making it incredibly hard to ignore or fight it. While Kara and I managed and Beni couldn't do anything because I was restraining her, Uzume and Haihane got hit the hardest. The fact that we could smell a sweet, alluring scent from Chiho at the moment really wasn't helping. Thankfully, help came from where we didn't expect it. Elizabeth, tired of watching the unfolding orgy, walked over and shocked the two Sekirei into oblivion with a combat shocker installed on her left arm.
"Harsh." I commented looking at the two Sekirei in spasm.
"We don't have time for this." Elizabeth sighed and picked up the two girls with a grunt, her power armour allowing her to lift such weights. "Come on, let's get on the train."
"You can let go now." Beni told me with a much calmer voice, the scene before her must've 'shocked' her into reality. "I need to get dressed."
I let her go and instead walked over to Kara with a snide smile. She and I may have resisted the bond's feelings but instead of weathering the consequences…
"…" Elizabeth sighed and chose to ignore our make out session to deposit her cargo into the maglev train. It's not like she could've done anything to stop it, Kara would kill her if she so much as twitched our way to interrupt our passionate kiss. Finally, after a minute or so we broke apart, the alien feelings gone. Although now they were replaced by our own lust and passion towards each other. Still, those feelings could be shelved until nightfall and we both knew it.
Climbing onto the train I checked the cart. The train itself was quite small, only 2 passenger wagons and a load wagon in the back. While it may be small but it was quite nice inside, the CIA apparently liked having leather seats and the like. Don't know about them, but I can clearly see that Chiho, Uzume and Haihane enjoyed the seats as they slept on them. As Kara decided to take a seat beside her sleeping pupil I instead walked over to the driver's compartment which was currently occupied by Elizabeth as she stared at the panel before her, clearly confused.
Right, I knew we were forgetting something. None of us knew how to operate a maglev train. Then I saw Elizabeth brighten up as she spotted a USB port on the panel. Not being sure about the importance of this, I looked on as Elizabeth grabbed a cable out of somewhere on her belt, attached a USB adapter to it and plugged it into the train. Instantly, a holographic interface popped up, transmitted by her armour before her.
"…Really?" I deadpanned as an MBI logo loaded up and then a simple GUI showed the train and all sorts of icons around it. "Your suit can hack stuff? Again, since when did this become a sci-fi story?"
"Oh shush, I am still working it out." Elizabeth didn't even bother turning to look at me, intent upon figuring out the GUI her suit offered. "And this was always a sci-fi story. You do know everything can be explained with science, right? Magic is merely science so advanced that we don't know what it is yet."
"Uhuh." I rolled my eyes as Elizabeth pocked and dragged a horizontal slider at the bottom of the GUI and suddenly the train began moving. "Great, how much time we got?"
"At max speed we will be there in about an hour and a half." Elizabeth pointed at a number beside the slider which was showing 119 and rising fast. "This train can go up to 600 kilometers per hour so we'll be there really soon."
"You call an hour and a half soon?" I stared at her incredulously. "They'll pack up half the lab in that time!"
"Mmm, something tells me they might try to fight it off." Elizabeth offered me the documents she got from the archivist. "Here, take a look, there's far too much stuff in that lab for them to evacuate it in anything under a day."
"Right." I sat down and began looking through the stapled pages. Elizabeth even folded the corner of the right page for me for ease of access, great. So, what do we have here…?
As I read I felt my eyebrows start rising and an urge for my jaw to drop. We are assaulting this!? This 'research complex' was bigger than the Headquarters! In fact, it was thoughtfully connected with the city infrastructure, draining power and all other necessities from it. Hmm, this is interesting, apparently the archivist felt inclined to add the 'personnel assigned' statistic and we are looking at around a thousand researchers and about 10 times more supporting personnel including guards.
"…Elizabeth, what the fuck?" I couldn't help but exclaim. "This base is going to be a bloodbath!"
"I know." She replied simply. "But we must capture it or destroy it in the worst case scenario. This many people working on the Sekirei…we can't allow them to continue. The chances of them finding something important aren't even great, they are a certainty! It's only a matter of time before they find something that would allow them to trash the entire contract and attack us outright."
"Tch, I know." I sighed. "This 'first mission' is turning out to be something crazy. Where the hell could they even get so many people to work for them secretly anyway?"
"According to those documents this base a joint project with a gigantic corporation that has been MBI's rival for decades." Elizabeth said with distaste clear in her voice. "Umbrella Corporation has been a thorn in MBI's side for a very long time. There was an incident back in the early days of MBI, something about an outbreak in one of their facilities and they even had to nuke a city to contain it. After that their stocks in the global market declined and MBI rose to power on their ruins. Or so it seemed apparently."
"You think the government bailed them out and assigned them to work with CIA?" I asked, interested.
"Not right away, no." She shook her head. "But after the First Kamikura Invasion, it would make sense for the government of USA, which suffered greatly from the disaster that was the invasion, to join up with Umbrella. After all, decline or not, Umbrella still shares the number 1 in the overall Biological Research department with us, but even MBI cannot get into the American Market because of them."
"So what awaits us in their lab?" Kara spoke up, startling us both as we didn't hear her approach. "What type of fortifications, defences, soldiers…"
"We are probably going to be facing their elite forces in that lab." Elizabeth sighed. "They are a completely different tale from the US regular forces, Karasuba. You must go in expecting anything and everything because this is the largest research lab they got. They won't give it up without a fight."
"I figured as much but what specifically are we talking about here?" Kara pressed on after sitting beside me, her hand on my thigh.
"Well," Elizabeth concentrated, thinking hard. "The few spies we do have in Umbrella have reported that the company was quite obsessed with 'improving' humankind. So, genetic manipulation, artificial implants, that sort of thing. I'd say we are looking at a very high number of Specialist-class soldiers stationed there, both as guards and as test subjects."
"They'd experiment on soldiers there? Why?" I asked, confused.
"Well, it beats making random criminals super-human and then have to deal with them trying to escape." Elizabeth shrugged. "The soldiers are mostly volunteers anyway…or they usually are I think… Regardless, that's the information we got but we don't really have any very highly placed spies in that corporation only mid-tier at best."
"And for base defences?" Kara asked after a second, digesting Elizabeth's answer.
"Hard to say." Elizabeth took off her helmet and scratched the back of her head. "On one hand it doesn't seem to matter what their doors are made of when we got Benitsubasa, Haihane and Rei…on the other hand, the reports the spies gave suggested that Umbrella is experimenting with AIs and that might be what we would be facing in this base."
"AI?" Kara tilted her head slightly. "What's that?"
"Artificial Intelligence." Elizabeth answered. "Theoretically, it's a computer that can think and improve itself, evolve itself constantly. A computer that is capable of true creation and art rather than randomized gibberish. I don't think anyone is quite there yet though, so I think the most we'd meet is a computer that can think and put up counters to whatever we do."
"Hmm, a worthy foe perhaps?" Kara whispered to herself in thought. "Let's see if this machine is a better opponent then the weakling humans."
"We don't know if that base even has one." We both sighed at Kara's pout. It was rather sad to see her act like a child whose candy just got taken away. After exchanging a glance, Kara and I made it back into the compartments, away from Elizabeth to avoid distracting her. However, our plans of getting some recreation were canceled when we saw Haihane, Beni, Uzume and Chiho all talking animatedly. Seems like while we were away they woke up, got dressed and were now talking about something.
"Ah! Rei, Karasuba!" Chiho waved us over with a smile. "We were just talking to get to know each other a bit more."
"Oh?" I smiled after a quick exchange of glances with Kara. "And here I thought you already 'knew' all there was to know about your Sekirei. Why, that event not even 30 minutes ago spoke of it quite loudly…"
"R-Rei!" Chiho and Beni turned scarlet while Haihane glanced at Uzume with a sly smirk who replied in turn.
"So what are you talking about then?" Kara asked as we both sat down as a pair opposing them all.
"Our wishes." Uzume said dreamily, her eyes roaming over her Ashikabi who looked just about ready to pass out from embarrassment. "What we will do if we are the ones to win."
"We will win." Chiho suddenly stood up and stared at us defiantly. "I will not allow any of you to die. You are all my family, you all pledged yourself to me and as your Ashikabi I will rather die than let any of you go!"
"And that is why you are my Ashikabi." Kara gave one of those extremely rare true smiles of hers. "You'll be here with us to the bitter end and beyond."
"There won't be a bitter end." Chiho stared at her with utter conviction. "I will not allow it."
We all smiled. It may have been simple reaction for me at first but Chiho's strength of will was what cemented it. Her purity, her acceptance, her love and her indomitable will which could even triumph over her own body.
"Can you handle our wish though?" Kara asked with a strange glimmer in her eyes. "Both Rei and I have shared the same wish for years and everything we've done to date brought it closer."
"Eh?" They all exclaimed in surprise. Mmm, now that I think about it, we never talked to Beni or Haihane about this. But first…
"I'd like to hear your wishes first through." I held up my hand, halting Kara who raised an eyebrow at me but yielded.
"W-well," Beni started first and looked at Chiho and us with a red tinge in her cheeks. "I just wish to be with my family forever and ever. So, with you guys."
"How cute," Uzume smiled. "My wish has already been fulfilled so all I have left now is to live with the light of my life forever."
"I-I don't really have a wish." Haihane looked away in awkwardness. "I just never really thought of it. Everything I want I will accomplish with my own strength and will and power. So I guess if I ever win, I'll think of something on the spot."
"S-so there y-you h-have it." Chiho stammered out, the emotions in Uzume's eyes causing her to stutter.
"Mmm," Kara stretched leisurely and glanced at me. After seeing me shake my head she turned back to the crowd and continued in a carefree tone. "To understand our wishes a little history session is in order."
"What do you know of our history on this world?" Kara asked to start.
"Umm…I don't actually know." Chiho admitted with slight surprise. "You just appeared in my life one day but I don't actually know where you came from."
"I know we crashed into the ocean on that ship of ours thousands of years ago and then the Director and Takami excavated us and brought us into this world." Haihane said with a frown, concentrating on what she knew. "And that's about it, I didn't really care to learn more as I was training to become worthy of becoming a Disciplinary Squad member."
"Same here." Beni admitted freely. "I didn't particularly care to learn more as I wanted to make Rei notice me."
"She considered me as unworthy of her attention when we first met." Beni explained at seeing the surprise on Chiho's and Uzume's faces. "So I did my best to make her notice me. And I succeeded."
"Indeed you have, little sister." I smiled gently at her expression of happiness. "But knowing your history is rather important so listen well later, ok?"
After Beni nodded, our glances all met on Uzume who shuffled uncomfortably.
"Well, I didn't particularly care much about this, alright?" She said with a cough. "At first I was looking around for my Ashikabi and then I spent all of my time worrying about Chiho and trying to find enough money for a cure."
"Very well." Kara ignored Chiho hugging Uzume in comfort. "So, in 1999 5 people found our ship on Kamikura Island when they went on an expedition on an island that just surfaced from the depths of the ocean. Dietrich Sweinog, Elizabeth Greene, Minaka Hiroto, Takami Sahashi and Takehito Asama, 5 friends who found us, sleeping in that giant ship."
"Pardon me, but what is this ship you keep mentioning?" Chiho asked in question when Kara paused.
"We are aliens who arrived to this world over 10 thousand years ago on 8 space ships." Kara explained. "Out of those 8 ships, the final one crashed into the ocean where it laid, forgotten, for over 10 millennia."
"…" Chiho's eyes turned huge as she looked at us. "…So you are actually aliens?"
"…" We all collectively paused and then looked at Uzume hard.
"What?" She scratched the back of her head in embracement. "I told her we aren't human."
"Moving on." Kara's tone left no alternative. "Out of the 5 friends, only 2 were let into the ship, Minaka and Takami. Later it was realized that the ship only let Ashikabi in at first. The first person they saw and later woke up from her slumber was number 01, Miya."
"Our Pillar." I said with distaste, my resentment mirrored on Kara's face. "Our so called Ruler."
"With her, they awoke 4 more," Kara steamrolled right through Chiho's uncertain attempt to ask a question. "02 Matsu, 03 Kazehana, 04 Karasuba and 05 Mutsu. We became to be known as the First Generation Disciplinary Squad who protected the island and all Sekirei who slept in the ship."
"The 5 of us defended the island from what later became known as the First Kamikura Invasion and we slaughtered all 100 thousand invaders." Kara gained a fond smile at the mention of the massacre. "After this, the 5 friends created MBI to protect and take care of Sekirei…or so it seemed at first. In this MBI, all 5 friends took up key positions: Elizabeth was the one responsible for counter-intelligence and psychology of Sekirei, Dietrich trained all Sekirei to defend themselves, Takehito studied the Sekirei biology and genetics while Takami applied that knowledge. And all of them answered to Minaka who took seat as the Director of MBI and led it to greatness."
"Seems like everything is nice and amazing and nothing could possibly go wrong, hmm?" I asked with a cruel smile. "The reality is a little bit different though…"
"It all began with the destruction of the First Disciplinary Squad." Kara continued where I stopped. "One by one, the Sekirei in it left, abandoning their duty. Those who did not abandon their duty were only me and 02 Matsu."
"Matsu? That pervert who hides in Izumo Inn?" Uzume asked incredulously. "She of all people didn't abandon her duty? But why isn't she here with us then?"
"When 01 Miya handed over her whole race to Minaka, the moron did something stupid right away." Kara's eye twitched and a hateful aura caused everyone but me, who was used to this kind of thing, to withdraw in fear. "He used the Jinki to sterilize us all."
"…That's new." I looked at Kara in surprise.
"What!?" Was the general reaction of everyone else.
"Oh? I didn't tell you?" Kara looked genuinely surprised at my reaction. "I thought I did. The reason why Matsu ran off with the 8th Jinki was to prevent Minaka from doing more crazy shit like that."
"Why would he do that to begin with!?" Beni asked heatedly, her face pale.
"He said that they didn't need Kazehana to go and get knocked up or something like that." Kara sighed at their expressions and explained. "Kazehana proposed to Minaka but he denied the woman her wings and so she left to travel the world and heal her broken heart."
"Well, it might make some sense." Haihane scratched her head in thought. "But why everyone?"
"Something about not being able to do such fine tuning without the Sekirei in question right in front of him." Kara nodded nonchalantly. "Irrelevant in the grand scheme of things."
"What do you mean irrelevant!?" Chiho exploded. "You can't have kids! This is horrible!"
"Oh? And you are saying you'd give us those kids?" I looked at the rapidly reddening Chiho with a mad grin, choosing to ignore the stunning revelation from Kara - it was irrelevant for the moment anyway. "My my, so bold already and we haven't even been married for more than a month."
"I-I would if I could." Chiho surprised me with that soft response. "I want you all to be happy."
"Then get all 8 Jinki and you can do it." Kara said seriously, her expression slightly vague as if she wasn't quite there with us. "You can reverse the change and make us happy."
"Regardless, that was the start of what is known as the Sekirei Plan today." I poked Kara gently to pull her back into the real world. "The beginning of the end..."
"And it is our wish to go back to that beginning…" Kara's voice joined mine.
"And save our race." We finished together.
"Minaka cannot rule MBI." I continued to the shocked audience. "He is smart, true, but he cannot be allowed to go uncontrolled, unsupervised. The damage he can cause without an iron hand is so great that it's easier to kill him and then declare war on the whole world."
"Why can't you just take over now then?" Beni asked with a raised eyebrow. "I mean, he's just a human right? Any of us can easily kill him if need be."
"True." Kara replied with a twisted smirk. "Except that the bastard tied his life to all Sekirei Tamas. If he dies, so do we…all of us."
"This…this can be undone right?" Chiho asked softly as the rest of the group sat in shock.
"If you collect all of the Jinki, yes." Kara nodded to the small girl. "The Jinki will give you Absolute Power over our race Chiho. You can do anything and everything you want."
"I don't want that." She shuddered. "I just want to undo everything that he did to you and set you all free. And then we can all live together, right?"
"That'll certainly solve the Sekirei Plan problem." I nodded with a smile. "But so long as Humankind exists, so shall there be a need for the Disciplinary Squad. We will never have peace, Chiho. We are the barrier that stands against the darkness and corruption and filth of Humanity and prevent it from touching our kind."
"The Disciplinary Squad will never know peace." Kara said grimly at Chiho's depressed expression. "I think you'll understand why after we finish this mission."
"Oh yea, where are we going by the way?" Beni asked as the rest of the group turned to Kara and I.
"We are going to an underground, top secret Research Complex where the 'Biological Aspects of Sekirei' are researched." I recited.
"Biological Aspects?" Chiho muttered in thought and then looked up at us in horror. "But that means-!"
"Yes." Kara cut her off with a wicked grin that promised much death and destruction. "They somehow got their hands on a Sekirei. And we are going in there to get them out."
"15 Minutes to destination!" Elizabeth's voice descended upon us from the speakers in the roof. "Might want to get prepared, from what I can see we are getting a Royal Welcome."
"Well then," Kara stood up and stretched, her hand straying to her blade. "Wouldn't want to show ourselves as bad guests now would we?"