Angel Beats: Harmonics girl
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Chapter 34
The Awakening
"Is that an earthquake!?"
"Don't be stupid! Earthquake never happened in Afterlife world before! Something must have happened to the Guild, we must hurry!"
"Even if you say hurry, what can we do when we are pinned down like this!?"
Akito complained before he took up his FN P90 SMG and started spraying fire over the enemy. Beside him, reloading her magazine while using the rock as a cover, Miu was in deep thought.
Judging from the sound, it must be an explosion, a big one at that. Damn! We need to get to the Guild as fast as possible but I never thought that we would actually encountered resistance here...
"Everyone cover us!"
Wha-
Turning her head back to the battlefield, Miu gasped as Shirayuki, Tachibana and Miyuki leapt out of their cover and started charging towards the enemy even while all the fire was going on. Miu wanted to call the three of them back but she knew it would be too late.
"Everyone give them covering fire quickly!"
"Roger!"
Under Miu's command, everyone started pouring fire towards the Black Hands, pinning them down before they realized that they were ambushed by the melee girls. Seeing that the Black Hands were occupied, Miu gave the order and charged.
"Akito and Sekai follow me! The rest give us covering fire!"
"On it!" Sekai and Akito responded and flanked Miu as they charged forward to where the other three girls were.
"That's Miu the traitor, get her!"
"Don't you dare to call her that!"
Even before the Black Hand could hide into his cover, Akito aimed and penetrated his body with bullets. Similarly, other Black Hands who came out to get a shot at Miu was either shot by Miu herself or filled with bullets by the rest of the SSS2 members.
"Chee! Fall back! We need more -"
"... ..."
Tachibana plugged her knife out of the Black Hand's throat and quickly dodged into a cover. So far, they have covered a lot of distance for the rest of the SSS2 to slowly proceed. The only group remaining was behind a significantly larger cover where quite a number of Black Hand were spraying fire from.
"Here Tachibana, do you think you can do it?"
Leaping into the same cover as Tachibana, Sekai hid beside Tachibana and handed her a grenade. Tachibana took it from him and smiled.
"Watch over me."
Immediately after, Tachibana leapt out and Sekai took out the RPK-74 and started spraying it over the enemy's cover, pinning them down. One of the Black Hand, either a smart one or an idiot, emerged out of the cover to find another cover to divide fire.
Of course, he would probably have succeeded if he did not emerge when Tachibana was already in front of the cover.
"Wait-Ahh!"
Without even hesitating, Tachibana stabbed the guy with the knife in her left hand and tossed the grenade into the cover before rushing back to Sekai's cover to evade the tragedy of the grenade.
"There's a grenade! Run!"
"It's too la..te? Ah, the safety pin is not pulled." The relieved voice of the Black Hand could be heard from where Sekai and Tachibana were.
"Tachibana!"
"Wait, you are suppose to pull that pin thing to use the grenade?"
"...Let's stick to the old fashion style."
Sekai gave up fighting against those pure and innocent eyes of Tachibana and continued to pin the Black Hands down so that the others could continue to advance. Kaito then quickly rushed and squeezed into their cover, just in time to dodge a few bullets that scratched him.
"Well that was an epic fail." Kaito teased as he reloaded his HK33K sub machine gun beside his friend Sekai.
"Shut up. Like you can do that." Sekai retorted as he searched his pocket for more grenades but only to no avail.
"Tachibana. Catch!" A bit further distance behind them, Miu threw a grenade towards their direction. Tachibana quickly dashed out, carefully avoiding the crossfire, caught the grenade and returned back to her cover with Sekai and Kaito.
"Remember to pull the safety pin when you throw Tachibana."
"Don't worry, I got-"
Boom!
It happened too sudden for any of the SSS2 to respond. Just as Miu and Akito were preparing to advance forward to find another cover, the roof of the tunnel in front of them exploded and collapsed, cutting Sekai, Kaito and Tachibana from the rest of the SSS2.
"Ah! Miu!"
"Wait Tachibana! The Black Hands are still here!"
Sekai held Tachibana back before a shower of bullets rained towards where Tachibana wanted to head out from. Sekai could not help but cursed at the situation.
"That's enough. You three have been surrounded. Just surrender and save me the trouble to find someone to carry you when you died."
This voice!
Tachibana swung her head and looked over the cover, standing openly in the tunnel was Youta. He was flanked by two Black Hands that carried machine guns facing towards them.
No. I can't be captured here-
Tachibana's trace of thought was interrupted when Sekai suddenly held into her hand. The sudden but comforting warmth made Tachibana blushed, but it also calmed Tachibana down to face the situation.
Giving Sekai a last smile, Tachibana pulled the safety pin from the grenade that she received from Miu and emerged out of her cover.
"Catch!"
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"We need medic here!"
"There's someone under here! Help me!"
"Damn it where are the shovels!?"
"Someone go and release the prisoners! We need more manpower now!"
Without even acknowledging the order, two HA members ran out of the Guild Base and to the Storage Base. the president, Otonashi Yuzuru struggled to maintain order as he tried to save as many people as fast as he could.
This was just like ''it'...
Disgust filled Yuzuru's mind when he remembered the train incident when he died. The situation reminded him how he took charge of the situation and helped to save everyone.
However the situation was a lot more severe than the train incident. Hundred of people were buried under the tunnels. It would take days to get everyone out, even longer time to confirm that they did not left anyone behind.
He had anticipated Ueda Ryuu to abandon the Guild but the thought of bombing it never crossed his mind. Ueda Ryuu...
...I should have stopped him before he grow powerful. It's thanks to my foolish decision to wait and see resulted this to happen.
"What happened...? What happened here!?"
"...Inoue Miu...the SSS2."
Just from the voice, Yuzuru recognised the voice of the leader of the battlefront he used to be in. To tell the truth, he was relieved to hear her voice. It meant that the SSS2 has managed to reach the Guild safely. Now he need to brief them about the situation-
"Where is Tachibana...?"
"...Wait...who are you..?"
Miu asked when Kanade appeared and confronted Miu. This was the first time the SSS2 knew about Kanade so it did not surprise Yuzuru that the SSS2 were in deep shock.
But.
Like Kanade said, he could not find Tachibana, Kanade's sister anyway among them. He also could not find the guy that faced Ken last time.
"Where is Tachibana and Satoshi Sekai!? Why are they not here with you!?"
Yuzuru fastened his steps and approached the SSS2. Upon seeing how hurried the Tachibana-look alike and the mysterious guy who wore the NPC uniform were, Miu quickly mumbled out the answer.
"We encounter Black Hands along the way. When we were fighting, the roof of the tunnel exploded and separated them from us. They should be here before us already!"
"What about Kaito...?"
"Kaito? ...You are..."
Another voice entered as a small figure of a girl of the Black Hands ran towards them. Even while patting heavily, the girl asked.
"What happened to Kaito!? Where is he!?"
"You are Hagaruya Chimemi, Kaito's yandere girlfriend!" Akito said out loud when he recalled the girl's name. "Don't worry. That guy is with Sekai and Tachibana right now. There are just a few Black Hands left, I am sure they will take care of them before they meet up with us here-"
"No that's not it! We must find Tachibana now! Kaito, Kaito has been-!"
Bang!
"Wha-Sekai!"
Tachibana shouted when she heard the gunshot fired just below her. The grenade she had just thrown caught the two Black Hands, except Youta, surprised and killed them. Looking below, Sekai's body swayed before he fell onto the ground, leaving a trail of blood from his head. Standing over Sekai was Kaito, his handgun still smoking from the previous shot.
"Kaito what are you-!"
"I got you!"
"Wha-Urgh Ahhh!"
A sharp pain tortured Tachibana's mind, killing every thought in her mind. Blood rushed into her mouth as she coughed out blood. A thin but long kunai was seen passing through her, she quickly tried to take out her knife but she was too late.
"Sweet dreams."
Youta pulled out his kunai from Tachibana. Blood was desperately flowing out of her body and she was losing her consciousness fast. She needed to do something-
What can she do?
"...Se...ka..i... ..."
Using her final strength to call out for the one she loved, her consciousness fainted as she dropped dead on the ground.
"... ..."
"Well done, Decoy-1."
"... ..."
Kaito did not respond to Youta as he continued to stare into space, as if he was waiting for further orders. However-
"-Urgh!"
Without saying another word, Youta thrusted his kunai towards Youta. Kaito did not even make an attempt to dodge and accepted the blow. There was no reason why Kaito to dodge, that's because he has under Ueda Ryuu's hypnosis right from the very start before the plan even begun.
Leaving Kaito behind with Sekai, Youta picked up the small frail girl and disappeared from the scene.
...
"Good work Youta. Now we can finally prepare the final phase of our plan. Tell Ueda Ryuu to begin Operation Lockdown.."
"Yes sir."
... ...arg... ...
"... ... ...Where...am ...I..?"
"This is the base of the Black Hand."
"!"
Tachibana widened her eyes when the familiar voice reached her. She remembered that night, the one that Sekai said that he has settle with himself that almost led to his death. That person was Sekai's friend...
"You are Ken? Sekai's friend?"
"The second one is wrong. We are no longer friends anymore."
Seating on a simple chair opposite of her, Ken said. Tachibana looked around the surroundings. She was being tied up and bound into a chair in a warehouse-looking building. However except Ken and herself, there seemed to be nothing else in the warehouse.
"Why do you say so? Even now, even though he would not admit, he wants to remain friends with you. So why did you leave him?" Tachibana asked.
"...It's a simple matter of choosing separated way, Tachibana-san." Ken answered. "Sekai wants to protect you from any harm. He does not want to destroy the 'present'. However I need you in order save someone I loved.
The feeling of saving the one you loved, you should be able to understand that right? Angel?"
Tachibana twitched her eye. She knew idle chat was over.
"What do you want to do with me? Do you really think I would listen to what you say?"
"Oh you would. Like how I controlled Kaito, I can easily hypnotize you when you are binded like this." Ken said and with mockery, tapped into the chain that held Tachibana to the chair.
"Hypnotism?"
So that's why Kaito betrayed us, the Black Hand has sent him as a trap from the start.
"Hmp, even if you have hypnotism, what can you do?" Tachibana said. "I know nothing. I am just a normal girl. You would be able to gain nothing even if you controlled me."
"No you are wrong Tachibana-san. You are no normal girl." Ken replied. "Except controlling others, it has another way of using it."
"Another way...?"
"Tachibana-san. You lost your memory, didn't you?"
"Yes...don't tell me-"
"That's right. I will make you mine after you regained all your memories. With your power, I will finally be able to save Midori."
Before Tachibana could say anything, Ken's eyes turned red. The last thing on Tachibana's mind was Sekai.
Will Sekai come and save me...?
However that thought was casted off as Ken's hypnotism started to take place. Her consciousness began to disappear as her mind started to accept the memories that was once lost.
Midori: Since the Author was quite in a hurry, I will do most of the talking. Exams are finally over, this means more updating maybe. He would appreciate some blessings...but well the result is out today (writing on morning, school time is arriving ) and tomorrow. Anyway please READ AND REVIEW. The author would appreciate more reviews to give the last push towards the third final phase of the story.
And most important of all, I am coming out in a few chapters. Yay!