Rebellious

Chapter Fifty Two – Sapphire's Tactical Strategy Performed

The metal doors slammed behind her after she was pushed into the cell with her metal cuffs still attached. She turned around and glared at them, just as they turned the key to lock the door. But they had wicked smirks on their faces that made Sapphire appear to be on a good day with her smirk. Depending on the intention behind the smirk, or how the light catches Sapphire smirking, they appeared to be scarier than her. She watched as they walked away, obviously believing that there was something going on in their minds. A shiver ran up her spine, a shiver she had never liked that left goose bumps on her skin and leaving a terrible warning in her heart.

She stepped back and allowed herself to fall onto the bed with a thud. It was chained to the wall, made of wood with a blanket thrown over. Hands cuffed behind her back, she was going to find this a little bit more difficult to perform a task that was absolutely needed in completion. She scoffed and rolled her eyes at herself. She shifted a little, but her bum on her arms and then slowly shuffled back as she got her hands underneath her knees. She brought her legs to her chest and then slowly eased her legs through her hands. When she jumped off the bed, she had both her hands in front of her and she nearly jumped for joy. The chain that dangled between her arms made it a lot more uncomfortable. She couldn't believe that they had chains between them. So old fashioned.

She raced towards the lock and examined the lock opposite her. Estimating it from looks; she pulled out a bendable metal hairpin from her hair and begun to reshape it. When she got it into a form she saw would possibly work. It was a little difficult for her hands to get around the bars, but she managed to get them through and started to work on the lock. Through feeling the way the hairpin was inside of the lock she could tell that there needed a few more adjustments to the shape of the hairpin, and so she performed that task and went to work on the lock again. When she heard the click, she knew she was there. She brought her hands back through the bars, reshaped her pin to its former state and pinned it in her hair, hidden once again. She pushed open the door and poked her head outside it to take a look around.

The corridor was long by the looks of it and with no one in sight and no sounds coming she walked out. Along the way she found there was no one else in the cells, all empty. She blinked her eyes confused. Did the Imperial Army really have no enemies or did they always wind up dead before they could be captured and held prisoner? Of course Rain would know the answer to that. She had once been a part of the Imperial Army, but she knew that it was impossible to turn it around. Whilst Prozen was to be the one to lead them, they would never see what he is doing and why. In truth, even she hadn't got a clue what Prozen was really doing, or what his goals were either.

But she believes and trusts Sapphire more than anyone else in the world.

It's possible that Sapphire could be more important to Rain than her own mother would.

That would be totally wrong in lots of words that tried to explain it.

But it definitely means that Rain valued Sapphire probably more than her own greatest treasure.

Firstly, let's get the organoids out of their little dungeon. Rain was surprised by her own wordings. Wow, I'm getting all sixteen hundreds now. So where's the night in shining armour? Trying to pretend she was looking around for such a person, she bumped right into a soldier. She stepped back a few steps, obviously pretending to be scared. "Oopsies…" Before he could even call out a word, her foot struck his sags and he choked on air, falling to the ground, holding it in pain. She kicked at his face, and he crashed to the ground, knocked out. She glanced at him for a moment, wondering if it had worked to how she planned it. She knelt down and poked his cheek but he didn't stir. Deciding that he really was out, she searched him for some keys and unlocked her cuffs, and decided to play devil for a change.

She picked up him by the back of his collar and dragged him all the way over to her cell. She placed his hands through the bars and locked the metal cuffs in place. So he was sprawled inside the cell with his hands through the bars, chained to them. She closed the door, locking the door with the keys, and she felt very proud of herself. As she walked she counted the keys that were on the large key ring. Happy that it looked like he had almost every key to every room, she stuffed them into her pocket and begun to hum as she skipped to the stairs that led up towards the actually outdoors. She raced up them and placed her back against the wall as she listened to the outside.

Peering around the corner she saw that there was no one around that could stop her. She quickly got outside and suddenly realized she hadn't thought through her plan at all. She quickly raced to the side and hid behind there and only realized yet again it was another open area. She gulped, hoping so desperately that nobody would come out and suddenly find her. After five passing minutes she released a heavy sigh, possessing all forms of relief and she took another look around. This base had many buildings inside them, but her mind was focused on three very important things. Being below in the underground base was Sapphire, one of Rain's prime sources of thoughts, the second were the organoids who were locked inside this very surface base she was currently exploring, but the last and foremost were the people of this city.

Sapphire had made sure that Rain knew of what she was planning.

Now then, if I were a metallic creature, where would I be? Rain slapped her palm against her head. Where wouldn't they be? I'm an idiot. If I were a superior commander, and had scientific researchers under my control, where would I put the organoids for testing? In a scientific room where it would be heavily guarded!

She raced off through the base and to a building she presumed, begged, pleading to the high gods, and hoped more than anything was the room where the subjects were being tested. The organoids would be good subject for testing because they hold many types of information within their cores, but there was Mai, Sapphire's organoid, damn what would be in her? She was like a more supreme being of organoid, could it actually be that? Because Mai really does seem to be more ancient and more upholding of information, intelligence and more of a heart than the rest of the organoids. Damn it, the organoid acted like a paranoid human when she's annoyed.

Yup, she would most definitely want to be taken apart so they could get answers from her core. Rain sighed. Damn it must suck being you Mai.

She opened the door and raced through the corridors. She had no clue where the steps would be, and she happened to stumble on them by change. She jumped up and down, clapping her hands in sheer delight. She really thought the god's were on her side today. She ran down the steps as quickly as she could, hoping that there wasn't any activity going on down there. There were no sounds currently so far so she preceded further inside. She was careful as she walked through. Knowing the silence wasn't at all great in such circumstances, she knew that the feeling was a little different though. Although she couldn't place her finger on it entirely, she knew that she had to be careful.

As she made her way down the corridor she decided to check through the glass windows for any clues. She happened to see empty rooms filled in with the darkness, but she managed to see what was inside the room thanks to the light on her side of the glass. Her eyes widened and she nearly did a victory dance. She had managed to get into the building that had all the science, research and experiments in. She decided to take a little run through the corridor, keeping her ears sharp on sounds, but none would come. Well a part from the tumbling of instruments that clanged on the floor. Thanks to that, she was able to know the destination of where to find it.

She banged open the room and saw the organoids standing there, fighting against the soldiers and its guards. No wonder it was empty. She kicked a man in the ball sack and then his head, knocking him unconscious. She square kicked the man in the face that went for her. Her foot connected to a scientist with a roundhouse kick to the head and she watched as he went sprawling on the floor, unconscious. She saw that Mai was having trouble with a male that held a dangerous looking electric thing that he was trying to jab at her. She was growling dangerously, and Rain begun to examine the floor for anything to use. She saw a metal bow, picked it up and hit him on the head, making a dong noise. He tumbled to the floor and when Rain looked up at Mai, she looked as if she was laughing.

Nodding at the organoid, Rain made her way to the door and out, holding it open as the three of them exited. She ran towards the stairs she had come out of and she ran up them to the outside. When she banged open the door and the organoids had exited, Rain managed to find herself into a rather sticky situation. There were soldiers everywhere with guns aimed at the ready. Mai looked to Rain, suddenly aware what was going to happen. Using her little organoid arms, she grabbed her, released her wings and flew in the air. As she took to the air the others knew and escaped from the circle and raced after as she flew over head.

Rain was most positive Mai knew what she was doing.

They flew over the city and Rain nearly would have said something to Mai if she hadn't already decided to descend. With her dragon like wings she slowed down and landed, releasing Rain from her grip. The people had gasped and stepped away in fear and the other two organoids arrived just in time. The army had already moved out for their attack on the republicans. The war was facing another battle, yet again. So there really wasn't anyone to govern this city. So manipulating it to leave was really good for Rain. Especially since that the concern of having to be killed was on their lives.

Mai backed her up by staying by her side, but she was clueless on how to get everyone out of the city. They all listened to Prozen, believing he was always right, but it wouldn't work for her if she tried to get them out of the place. She didn't know what to do. She really didn't. How was she going to do something for these people if they didn't want to listen to her or want to believe? She sighed heavily. Prozen had gotten them deep under his thumb. They wouldn't listen to any other beside him, so how was she going to get them the hell out of a city that was going to be destroyed during a waging battle beneath them? Jeez, Sapphire was really counting on her for this as well.

She was hopelessly stuck.