Alright! Chapter 3 is here and for this prompt for Aiball Week, it's horror! Be sure you don't wet your pants for what I just wrote.

Yusaku and Ai have been walking around the destroyed town for months now with tired feet and hunger pangs from the lack of food.

Ai suddenly sat on the ground and lets out a tiring sigh. "Yusaku, can we stop now? I'm tired…"

Yusaku turned to face the android Ignis with a serious look. "We can't stop now, Ai. We have to keep going."

Ai moans a bit when he said that. "Come on, Yusaku. I'm sore, hot, tired, hungry, and-" Ai stops for a moment, raises his arm, and sniffs his armpit, making a disgusted face after sniffing it, "sweaty smelly!"

"Ai, you're inside an SOLtis body. They don't get tired, or get hungry, or get hot and sweat a lot." Yusaku explained.

"…Um… does that mean androids have hormones? Or is that just my imagination?"

Yusaku shook his head a bit, walks over to Ai, grabs his hands, and pulls him up from the ground he was sitting on. "Come on. Let's keep moving."

Ai groans as they continue their walk.

They have no idea where they are going, but they do know they have to get out of Den City since everything has gone to hell.

As they keep on walking, Ai heard a noise with his super hearing that the SOLtis body has. "Wait. I heard something." Yusaku did what Ai said and stopped for a moment.

Ai scans around the area they are in. It turns out some thugs hang out here and these guys are bad business. Ai scans again to find a hiding spot for him and Yusaku and he found one. An ally. "Quick, this way!" He grabbed Yusaku's hand and went to the ally where they hid. "Stay quiet and don't make a sound."

Yusaku gives Ai a nod in a reply.

Ai listen in of what those thugs are saying with his super hearing mode.

"Damn. These military soldiers are really guarding this dump, aren't they?"

"Yeah. All because of the SOLtis androids going on a rampage. That sucks."

"Well, there is that one SOLtis android that isn't rampaging right now. It might still be there."

They're talking about Ai right now.

"Yeah. Why is that exactly?"

"Not sure myself. Might be a glitch or something."

Not a glitch. Ai is just a free-will Ignis.

Just as Ai is about to continue overhearing the thugs, he and Yusaku get grabbed by someone in quick speed, covering their mouths to prevent them from screaming for help.

"Hey guys! We've got some trespassers here!" The group of thugs came gathering around Yusaku and Ai.

"It's just two teenagers dude, no big deal."

"Hold on a minute. That other teen there is a SOLtis android. The one where it isn't rampaging right now."

"Hey, you're right! What's it doing here?!"

"Hey! I'm not an it! I'm a guy!" Ai tells the thugs very upset after managing to get the thug's hand out of his mouth.

"Whatever android! What are you two doing in our hangout?"

One of the thugs removed his hand from Yusaku's mouth and lets him speaks. "We-we were just trying to get out of Den City because of what's happening."

"Is that so?" One of the thugs, probably the leader, walks around Yusaku and Ai, staring at them. "Well, you guys should know that this is our turf and nobody ever comes foot of our turf. And you guys just made a huge mistake."

"We're not here to cause trouble. We just need to get out of here. That's all."

"You're not going anywhere." The thug's leader snaps his finger and one of the thugs grabbed Yusaku by the arms.

Ai's eyes widen when they did that. "Hey! Let him go!"

"Shut up, you piece of junk!" One of the thugs punches Ai in the stomach, which made Ai groan in pain and fell to his knees, clutching his stomach.

Yusaku is struggling from the thugs' tight grip. He is freaking out.

The thug leader approaches to Yusaku and pulls out a knife from his boot. "This is for trespassing our territory." He lunges the knife at Yusaku's stomach.

Yusaku's eyes widen when he felt the knife stabbed through his stomach. The blood leaks through his stomach and his hands shake by it.

Ai's eyes widen by the sight of Yusaku getting stabbed.

The thug leader keeps on stabbing Yusaku. Over and over and over while Ai desperately watches in fear. "Stop it! Please stop!" Ai plead, but the thug leader didn't stop. He just keeps on stabbing.

Yusaku's eyes became dull as the life in them are gone and fell to the ground.

Tears spilled out of Ai's eyes at the sight Yusaku's bloody body, then he lets out a horrifying agonizing scream.

Ai wakes up from that nightmare of one of the simulations he saw months ago, screaming.

Yusaku woke up by the sound of Ai screaming and sees him panicking so much. "Ai! Ai!" He grabs his partner/lover tight and holds him close. "Calm down! It was just a dream!"

Ai stops screaming and starts to breath to calm himself down.

"It's just a dream. I'm here. I'm still here." Yusaku said with a soothing voice as he keeps on holding him.

Tears started to streak down his face, then buries his face into Yusaku's chest and cries a bit. "I hate nightmares… I really hate them…"

"I know Ai. I know…" Yusaku just sits here holding Ai as he cries just like that before they went back to sleep.

Boy that story was kind of messed up. I put italics on the first half to make it look like Ai was dreaming. It's not just the army shooting at Yusaku to protect Ai, but also the thugs stabbing him repeatedly in front of Ai as well. These simulations Ai looks into are really messed up…

Anyway, that's it for Day 3's. I will post chapter 4 of this story, but it won't be tomorrow. I will post the next chapter on the 12th because I can't think of anything for a AU or a Reborn prompt for it tomorrow. Also, tomorrow will be my Grandma Harriet's birthday. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and let me know what you guys think of it.