Chapter 9
Shizuru in a company of two men was sneaking by the underground laboratory pretty quick, but still carefully, as she didn't want to be exposed and to fight these robots again. Kangaroo was doing well in sneaking, while Massimo seemed like an elephant in a China shop, however he tried his best not to be detected.
'This place is really big.' Shizuru thought peeping out of the corner, she noticed two men and ordered the other two to stand still, 'If there was a way to interrogate them.' she quickly put her hand onto her bag, which was on her belt and started to look for something, 'I must economy them.' she thought watching at the seeds, which she took out.
Then she quickly jumped out of the corner and threw them at the men, in no time they were tied with vines, they fell down and started to try to break free, but all their attempts were pointless.
"Now, we can receive some information." Shizuru said with a smile, "How about our kid will try himself in it?" she looked at the boy.
"Hey, just stop calling me that!" Kangaroo didn't like the attitude the woman showed him, "If it's needed, I'll show it." the boy came to the tied ones and exposed his claws in front of them, "Now tell were are Murasaki and Mechanic you captured." the boy ordered.
"Ha! Like we'll say something." one replied to the kid, "Soon you'll take the place with them."
"Yeah, I'll be obedient cyborgs as they'll be soon." the other one grinned, but felt how he was hit by his leg, then he quickly shut his mouth.
'So this is true.' Shizuru became frown, "We have no time to we are to find our friends fast." she came to the man and started to examine their clothes, suddenly she ound two similar cards and stretched one to Massimo, "I think this will give us an opportunity to open the doors here without any problem."
"Where should we start?" Massimo asked her, "The road is bifurcating."
"Right now we can separate." Shizuru pondered, "It'll be a suicide for us, but still we must be fast." she grabbed the collar of the man, who was closer to her and said with a warning eyes, "Listen! Which was is needed? And don't fool us or I'll put this whip in your ass."
The man gulped and pointed to the left. Shizuru suddenly noises from the opposite side, there were pretty much of them.
"This way quickly." she told to her comrades, and they both ran to the side where no steps were, but they still were well heard.
They met some cyborgs on their way, but they dealt with them quickly, as they weren't in big numbers, whilst was difficult to say about the noise behind them. There were pretty much doors, but they were running only by the main corridor. Shizuru was using the card in order to open the doors, but then the card didn't work.
"Damn!" she rapped out an oath, "The card doesn't fitting. Give me yours." she said to Massimo, the man stretched it to her, but it didn't work too, "What should we do now?"
"Stay away." Massimo said to her and came to the door; he went on some distance from it and then rushed and tried to break the door with his body. Somehow the door was broken and the man fall down onto it too, "Shit it was stronger than I thought." Massimo replied as he got up on his two, "I thought it'll be much easier."
"Have power no need intelligence." Shizuru chuckled and they continued the way by the corridor, Massimo only chuckled and followed them too.
The steps were closer and closer and then they found themselves in somewhat of a spacy room, where was a balcony almost on the roof top. They saw there were no other doors, they wanted to return, but they were stopped by a bunch of cyborgs, which separated them from the exit.
"We have big troubles don't we?" Kangaroo prepared for a tough fight.
"It seems so." the massive one said squeezing the hilt of his axe tighter, "Interesting, will we be able to deal with them."
"I'm afraid, not." they heard a voice somewhere above them, they raised their heads and saw a man above them on the balcony, who was wearing a strict black official suit, "However, I'm surprised, that you could make it straight to my hidden factory.
"Sasaki." Shizuru mumbled, "Where are our comrades?!" she shouted to him then.
"Not so fast my precious Taimanin." Sasaki laughed, "Let's make it interesting, you'll defeat one of my inventions if you defeat it, I'll let you to leave this place alive, but if you won't you'll become the part of my little project."
"That large piece of junk?" Shizuru asked him, and then heard loud noise, which was out of the room.
"Yes, but I'm surprised you're trying to stay calm and concentrated after he kicked your butts." Sasaki chuckled.
After his words a massive machine entered the room. It was a surprised how the cannon onto its shoulder allowed it to pass through the door way. The machine walked to the through the line of cyborgs, which gave the way to Destroyer.
"So this thing attacked you?" Massimo didn't like what was in front of him.
"It's the same size with you." Kangaroo smirked, "Interesting, if it drink it too much, will it fall down as you do?"
"Found time to joke." Massimo lectured the boy, "We must be careful we don't now will these bastards attack us or not."
"I have an idea." Shizuru said, "Try to fight it, I'll protect you from behind and think how I can take that scum." she said seriously.
"Got it." the man nodded.
Two male mercenaries headed to the machine on a great speed. Massimo did a large swing with his axe, then hitting the enemy, but it didn't give any affect.
"Huh? The hell is that?!" he exclaimed.
Then Kangaroo jumped out behind of him and attacked the head of his opponent with his claws. But he didn't leave a scratch too.
"No way!" he exclaimed too, "How is it possible?"
"Let's continue, maybe we'll be able to break at least something." Massimo said attacking again.
"Well, well it must be somewhere here." Mosquito said to himself flying around the main building, "As the map told it must be…" he looked at his display, "There." he pointed onto a small building next to the main one.
The lunatic with his robot quickly flew to the building and when they were by it, he started to listen.
'No one, I hope these hunters will take his attention for more time.' he came to the door, and started to examine it, 'But it won't be useless to prepare extra wings.' he pressed some buttons in his panel and returned his attention to the door, the cyborg was behind the man protecting him from unexpected things.
Mosquito saw that the door demanded a card, and there was no password panel.
"Well, this make things a bit more interesting." he chuckled, he put his hand onto his thigh and took something, he settled the object onto the steel door and then flew away with his cyborg on a distance, he returned his eyes to the panel and after pressing some buttons, the door exploded and was ripped away from the hinges.
After that they both flew in and started to investigate the corridor, which was in front of them, but at the same time the collector of information checked his way with his panel. First period of time, which wasn't big, they faced no one, but then they started to face some scientists with cyborgs, they changed their formation; Mosquito let his machine to deal with the meddlesome elements, while he was looking for a needed place. The cyborg was fast and the robots of the factory couldn't do anything against him.
'I'm surprised, we haven't been attacked yet, these Taimanin must be really interesting entertainment.' Mosquito imaged the picture in his head, 'I hope this massive thing is fighting them now, I wouldn't like to spend much time on playing with it.'
They suddenly stopped at some door, which was on their left. Mosquito opened it and saw a big computer in it; there were two scientists with two cyborgs.
"Finally." he said out loud.
The robots quickly attacked him, but the robot of the criminal protected him.
"Sasaki-san, we're…" one worker wanted to warn the director of the factory, but couldn't as several bullets get him.
The second one had the same fate. After that Mosquito helped his mechanical partner to deal with cunning opponents.
"Well, it seems these ones are more peculiar then the previous ones." Mosquito looked at the remnants of their opponents, then he came to the computer and said with a laughing voice, "Now, my dear, will you tell me all your secrets?" he quickly started to press one buttons after another, "Where, where this Destroyer you're proud of." he repeated to himself, "Here it is." he said as he noticed a massive thing on the screen of the computer, with all details, "Aha, so it's not so invincible after all, who could thought that you won't close the limbs mechanisms, just something to put there and it'll be just a unmovable statue. Now, for a trick." he exposed his finger and took out a flash driver, he inserted it and then quickly transported the needed information onto it, "And now let's put my special virus…" but he could finish his speech as he heard that someone entered the room too, and quickly attacked the cyborg, "Huh, what is it?"
The newcomer was wearing a cloak and a hood which color was fray, the person was fighting the machine with some daggers, which reminded needles, the person was very skillful with them and didn't give the machine an opportunity to attack; only making it to protect itself.
'Who the hell is that?' Mosquito thought, 'An ally of Sasaki?' he stretched his hand, but the quickly removed as the person was very fast and he didn't want to destroy his last cyborg.
Mosquito was thinking of what to do, but then he saw how the person jumped over the cyborg and pierced the daggers into the head of the cyborg. The robot fell down onto the ground convulsing.
'I don't know who it is, but he is very skillful.' the collector didn't like the result of the duel.
"Now your turn." a soft, but at the same time provoking voice said to the man.
"So you're a woman, huh? Have we met somewhere already?" he asked the person, "Are ou an ally of Sasaki or Taimanin?"
"Neither his, neither theirs." she replied to him, and quickly ran to him.
Mosquito took a wing and chuckled, "Sorry girl, but I have no time to play with you, I have to teach someone a lesson." then he threw something at the woman.
She quickly dodged it, but there was not effect of that. Mosquito used this confusion and flew at the doorway.
"Flying son of bitch." the woman spitted and looked at the object, she turned to the computer and quickly ran to it, "So that's where is the weak spot of that scum, it'll be difficult to deal with it, but if Kangaroo uses his mud, we'll have a chance, shit, someone have to hold him, while that shrimp is putting it there." suddenly there appeared some noise, "Huh?!" she looked at the object and heard it's pinging, "Mine?" she quickly ran to the door way.
When she was about to pass through it the mine exploded.
"Fuck, it was really close, one more second and I would join the obituary. Shit, the cloak is done." she looked at her attire, then she took it off, "Now, the game becomes more serious." She spitted and ran ahead the corridor.
The woman wasn't tall, she had black hair which was tied in two pig tails, her eyes were purple, her uniform consisted of a skirt, high heels, which reached till the middle of her thighs. The green skirt perfectly merged with her black heels. Her upper part was closed with a vest, which were combined with the skirt on her back, letting to see her opened stomach and the middle of her breast, which wasn't exposing too much.
The woman was running by the corridors of the hidden factory and killed everyone on her way.
'Where that freak flew?' she asked herself, 'On his place I would go to look for Sasaki, but where he should be?' suddenly she stopped and pressed herself against the wall.
"Yeah, boss told we should start the procedure over these two Taimanin." a male voice said, "I still don't know will it be good to start working when the factory is under attack."
"No need to worry, the cyborgs will protect it." the other person, who was younger replied to the first one, "If we do cyborgs out of them, they'll give us much more help, and at the same time I'll be able to see more of these Taimanin chicks."
'Taimanin are in captivity here?' the woman thought, 'They could become a perfect addition.'
The woman followed the men her moves were slight and easy so they didn't notice her. She put something into her mouth and started to chew it, while she was following them, 'It won't be extra too.' Their way wasn't long they entered the door and didn't go out of the place which they had just entered. The woman understood, that it was her stop so she came to the door and started to breath out a smoke out of her mouth, it could pass into the door way. She heard the coughing in the room and further movements.
The woman went aside from the door and when it was opened she saw how some people ran out of it. She quickly hid behind a near corner and when the last one left she sneaked into the room. The woman heard coughing, and when the smoke was vanished she saw two Taimanin, who were tide to some tables.
"I'm not created to save your ass Mechanic." she said watching at the man, who was closer to her.
"Man…" he coughed, "You don't even realize how I'm glad to see you Haze." he tried to catch his breath.
"Vice versa." Haze merely replied and watched at the woman, who was next to them, "And who the hell is that?"
"Is she your ally?" Murasaki asked the friend of her brother.
"Yeah, she is our comrade." he replied, "A pain in the ass."
"I'm leaving…" Haze said indifferently.
"In a good way." Mechanic added, "Just stop being like that and help us!"
Haze took out her dagger and started to break the lock of the chains they were tied with.
"As I remember I asked your name." Haze said to Murasaki not raising her head to the woman, Haze decided to deal with the lock of the Taimanin first.
"Murasaki." she replied coldly, "And if I remember it right I've already seen you somewhere before."
"You think wrong; we meet for the first time." Haze replied thoughtfully, "But I'm impressed, how one of the veteran Taimanin could get into that stupid trap."
"Haze, even you could be captured if you were with us." the man didn't like the attitude of his comrade.
"I would like to see how they could capture me." Haze chuckled, and then something crunched in the chain and the lock was opened.
"Finally." Murasaki moved with her arm, "It seems Shizuru joined forces with you men, I'm glad she decided to do this."
"I've never thought these bastards will join the trash like you." Haze said to working over the other lock of Murasaki.
"What did you say?" Murasaki glared at the woman, "Can you repeat it in my eyes?"
"I will if you want." Haze looked at the blue haired Taimanin
"Haze!" Paul raised his voice, "Stop being like that! The most important is where Kangaroo and Massimo."
"Who knows, they didn't consult me about where they will go." the black haired woman replied.
"What do you mean?" the man didn't understand the mysterious words of his partner.
"I've came here on my own, but as I get it these dumbs are somewhere here along with Mosquito." she answered his question.
"That lunatic." Murasaki mumbled.
"And the interesting thing is that he wants to bad turn to Sasaki."
"How?" Murasaki was distracted of irritation with these words.
"I don't know, but his acts only prove it." Haze replied freeing her other hand.
After some time Haze could free the hunters and when Mechanic and Murasaki stretched their muscles she finally said.
"Our next moves?"
"We must find my axe." Murasaki said to her, "Without it I won't be able to do much."
"Well, it's really a primal task, I hope these three won't have much troubles, while we are looking for it." Mechanic checked his robotic limbs.
"Move then!" Murasaki ordered and they ran into the corridor, 'I've diffidently seen her somewhere, but where?' Murasaki thought watching at the back of the woman with pig tails.
"Shit!" Massimo shouted, "How many times I must strike this piece of a shit in order to break at least of one damn nut?!"
"I don't know, but it's good these cyborgs don't attack us, if they were we would be done already." Kangaroo dodged the wire and of the machine.
Then Destroyer aimed his cannon at the kid and did a lunch. The boy could dodge, but he did it badly as his leg was captured with a wire. The cyborg pulled his arm dragging the boy to him, then he hit him straight at his stomach. The boy coughed and fell down onto the ground squeezing his stomach hardly.
"Kangaroo!" Shizuru exclaimed and ran to help the boy.
Massimo only stood between the boy and the machine he started to attack it again, but everything was pointless.
"Aren't you tired?" Sasaki smirked, "If you give up right now, I grant you painless turning into my servants."
"Scum." Shizuru spitted as she grabbed the boy and let him have a break, "Are you alright?" she asked him with a worried voice.
"Yeah, alive." he coughed, "I still can fight." He even tried to get, but his body was shaking.
"You're still young and can fight for a long period of time." Shizuru said to him, "Have a break I'll change you."
"No, I can't let woman to fight for me." the boy mumbled.
"Just do it, when you feel better yourself." she said with a smile to him and joined Massimo, the boy only sighed and listened to her.
Shizuru and Massimo fought perfectly, their team work was fast and well-coordinated. Massimo did strong hits avoiding the cannon of the machine. While Shizuru tried to take the attention of the big one.
'If only I was like then I'd be very helpful.' the boy thought.
Suddenly the wall not far from them started to crack. And when it was destroyed they saw a flying lunatic, who was flying be the room.
"So this is the project what is supposed to get Taimanin? Quite interesting." Mosquito chuckled as he threw a grenade at the bunch of cyborgs.
Some of the machine could dodge the explosion, while some others were destroyed with it. Mosquito flew to the balcony, where Sasaki was standing.
"Long time no see, Sasaki." he chuckled, "Will you try to talk with me again or will plead me to spare your pathetic life?"
"Don't make me laughed." Sasaki became frown; he took out a snipe gun out of the shelter of the balcony and quickly aimed at the man.
Sasaki started to shoot at the flying man. Mosquito was only dodging it and threw his grenades at the cyborgs. The number of the additional achiness reduced well. Kangaroo decided to deal with the rest ones, while they were trying to get Mosquito.
'This boy is really magnificent for his age.' Shizuru as surprised, 'He could do this without ordering, I think Yukikaze and Tatsurou are not coordinated as he is.'
Kangaroo felt himself well in such condition; the cyborgs were falling as broken toys. However the smallest part of them returned their attention to the boy and started to attack him back. Shizuru headed to help him, while the man continued to oppose Destroyer.
"It seems you've made everything perfect here, Sasaki." Mosquito said to the man, "But I can't understand one mere thing why my business is always keeping interrupted?"
"Have you heard of karma." Sasaki grinned, and took out a gun and started to shoot at the flying criminal.
When the number of cyborgs started to reduce more entered the room. They were the same, and their attention was turned to Taimanin and the mercenaries. Massimo started to give ground; his powers were on limits too. Shizuru and Kangaroo were busy with cyborgs. Mosquito sometime helped, but his help was equivocal, he didn't give them to rest too. At the same time he was avoiding the shots of the inventor.
"Sasaki, guess what I have." Mosquito said with a laughing voice, "I've got each piece of information about your almighty Destroyer. How do you think, how much money I'll earn with it?" he showed the flash driver which appeared in his hand.
"Damn bastard, I'll take this from your corpse." Sasaki replied him angrily.
Sasaki's hands started to tremble and his shots became chaotic. The man tried to aim perfectly, but the man was fast.
"Since your computer is nothing, but useless garbage, I think the price will be really good."
"It's the work of my whole life…" Sasaki became angrier, "Give that flash driver back!"
"Sorry, finders keepers losers weepers." the flying criminal laughed.
Sasaki took aim and when Mosquito was at gunpoint he shoot again. From the third strike he could get his jetpack. Mosquito started to fly chaotically, even his route became disturbed.
'It was a good strike.' Shizuru thought.
Mosquito tried to align his flight, but everything he could was just to fall onto the balcony, where was Sasaki. He fall down onto its floor and then pressed some buttons, but nothing worked. He even tried to hit it by the railing of the balcony.
"Who have you said is a weeper?" Sasaki smirked as he ran to the criminal.
Mosquito felt how the gun was aimed at him, so then did a quick turn pointing at the flash driver with his rocket on his hand.
"One wrong move and you won't be so merry." Sasaki was stumbled, "If it's needed I'll take it with myself. So? Where your pride has gone? Come on, I dare you." Mosquito came closer to the man, but Sasaki only stepped back, suddenly Mosquito could disarm his opponent with a kick, the man even fall down, "And you didn't belive."
Then he quickly turned and released his missile at the roof. It was destroyed and then something flew into the hole Mosquito quickly jumped and then it fixed to his back. Now he reminded a bat with black wings. Sasaki didn't leave behind and followed him jumping off the balcony too. The man could grab lunatic's leg.
"Huh?!" Mosquito was shocked of such act.
He even let fly the flash driver out of his fingers. Then he hit Sasaki with the leg in order to force down an excess passenger. Sasaki fall down, and then he headed to the flash driver, but he could image that it would be destroyed with the body of the cyborg which was thrown onto it.
"It seems the reason of my presence here is gone." Mosquito wasn't happy of the result of the game he wanted to play, "So I'll give you this, damn inventor." Mosquito leaned and a pretty big missile was shoot out of his wings.
"Look out!" Shizuru exclaimed to her partners.
Kangaroo and Massimo dodged to the different sides leaving Destroyer on the line of the shot. The missile hit the cyborg and exploded in no time, when the dust and smoke was vanished, they could see his cannon lying on the floor completely destroyed.
"So long, suckers!" Mosquito laughed and flew into the hole, which he created.
"What a noise one." Kangaroo mumbled.
"At least he gave us what we needed." Massimo chuckled watching at the shoulder of the massive cyborg, "Just some break in order to regroup." he glanced at the near cyborgs.
Suddenly something strong hit Destroyer from behind, it was Murasaki and Mechanic.
"Huh?" Massimo was surprised of this, "How the heel did you get here? I thought you're supposed to be captured."
"Well we have a little reinforcement." Paul pointed at the woman, who entered the room after them and started to attack Destroyer fast along with Murasaki.
"One of your friends?" Shizuru asked Kangaroo, as she didn't know who it was
"Yeah, a really good fighter." the boy nodded, "And fearsome too."
"I see." Shizuru looked at Haze, "Guys deal with the big one, will take the rest of the cyborgs." she shouted to the newcomer.
"Got it." Murasaki replied.
The team separated their tasks, the old team focused on robots, while the new one was dealing with the most tremendous one. Massimo felt relieved himself, now the other two were the ones who took the main part in action, while he tried to restore his powers. Massimo glanced at Murasaki and Mechanic, who were the main penetrating force, while Haze was only in help for them.
'Well since she is here, it'll be much easier to fight with her.' he thought, "Guys, take them I have an idea." Massimo ran to the second team, "Hey, bluenette!" he shouted to Murasaki, "I have an idea let's strike him at the same time, I think at least something should be chopped."
"Not a bad idea." Murasaki agreed, "Let's try."
Then both of them ran to the cyborg and did a big swing. The machine shot out its arms and could stop the axes of both hunters.
"Shit, it's still indestructible." Massimo spitted.
"Hey, percy-pants!" Haze shouted, "We need your aid!"
"Coming!" the boy replied destroying the last cyborg, "What is it?" he asked her, when he ran to her.
"Did you use your mud against?!" she asked him.
"Mud?" the boy widened his eyes, then he received a cuff on the back of his head.
"Hey, what that was for?!" the boy exclaimed.
"For your stupidity." Haze responded with a serious voice, "It's have weak spot on its arm pits so if you put some of your mud, I think it'll give us a result."
"Wait a minute; your mud can do this?" Murasaki looked at the boy with a surprised expression.
"Well, I can try, but it won't give me to use you're to make him unmovable." the boy replied.
"Do you think it will work?" Shizuru looked at him with a serious face too.
"I hope so." the kid nodded.
"We'll buy you some time." Murasaki said to him, "Just say when you are ready." the boy nodded and put his hands onto his bag on the belt.
Murasaki, Mechanic Haze and Massimo focused on attacking of the cyborg. While Shizuru decided to protect the boy and have a little rest too. She was watching at the focused boy and was only surprising.
'At this age and so confident, I wish everyone of our Taimanin could be like that.' she thought, 'If only he was one of us, he could become our new star. This 'Red Division' really knows how to get amazing cadres.'
The boy's hands were covered with clay, and when it started to move he finally shouted.
"Ready!"
Shizuru quickly threw a seed at the machine; the vines had quickly bound the whole body of it. Massimo and Mechanic quickly grabbed its arms in order to reduce its moving abilities. The boy used this opportunity and jumped onto the cyborg and put his right hand onto the panel which was next to the armpit. The clay quickly was sneaked into it, but the cyborg good rip the vines and then with a strong turn pushed back the man with sunglasses and stroke the massive, but the boy quickly jumped off of him, in order not to be harmed too.
"Blast!" Mechanic moaned, "And it was when we've just got him.
Haze wanted to distract Destroyer again, but when it prepared its right arm for attack, all of them were astonished a lot, as the arm didn't move at all.
"Hey, it worked!" Kangaroo was rejoiced of his work, "It's really worked!"
"Yeah, now we are to deal with the other one." Massimo squeezed his axe, "The same strategy?"
But then the cyborg stretched its arm and started to shoot at them. The hunters dodged the shots. All of a sudden the arm of the cyborg was tied with a whip. Shizuru wanted to pull it back, but the machine quickly pulled its hand ahead pulling the blonde to him; however Shizuru was grabbed by Mechanic and Massimo. The two could stop Destroyer and save the woman from it strike. Kangaroo quickly dashed and skipped onto the left shoulder and did the same procedure with the other one. The cyborg tried to move, but its arms were only trying to do small movements.
"Now we can have some rest." Massimo exhaled, but then saw, how Haze started to release smoke out of her mouth, peculiar thing about it was that it was green this time, the smoke surrounded the machine and then she shouted, "Out of the room!" she commanded, and took out a box of matches out of her pocket. She ran to the door way, she burnt several matches and threw them at the smoke. When she reached the main corridor there was a strong explosion.
Then they heard how something started to crumble to the floor. It was the details of the cyborg they had just fought.
"Wait, have we forgotten Sasaki there?" Murasaki suddenly remembered the true point of their mission.
"It seems so." Paul nodded as he tried to catch his breath, "But after such explosion, I don't think he could survive."
"It's true; there was only one exit from that room.' Shizuru agreed with him, "I don't think he is alive, no one could do that."
"Well at least one item of our mission is done." Murasaki sighed, "It was really an exhaustion mission in my life."
"Don't want to repeat it someday?" Shizuru chuckled at the statement of her partner.
"Not even in the scariest dream." Murasaki replied.
"Let's get out of here." Haze said to the team, "I don't think they will do nothing, cyborgs can come any moment."
"Yeah, let's do it so." Murasaki nodded.
Yukikaze opened her eyes, and stretched her limbs. Tatsurou was sleeping on the second bed and still didn't show any move. Yukikaze got up and rubbed her eyes and left the dorm of theirs. She walked by the corridor of the base of their new allies and in some ways friends. She yawned and walked further, she looked for the bathroom in order to wash up. Her thoughts were wandering around he mother, Rinko and her father.
'I hope Rinko won't worry too much about it.' she sighed, 'Knowing her, she can go after us. However, I still can't understand, what my father found in working with them, and why this information is all that secret. Maybe he killed some important businessmen and politicians for them?'
She tried to remember where the shower was. She noticed some people who were already got up. But still didn't decide to speak with them. Little number of them watched at the young Taimanin with interest, while the other part didn't pay much attention on her. She tried to see familiar faces, but still couldn't, but suddenly she heard a voice behind her.
"Hey, Yukikaze! Looking for something?" Yukikaze turned around and saw a blonde woman.
"Ah? Doppel?" Yukikaze was glad that at least someone had bumped at her, "Finally, I thought, I would never find a way to the shower."
"You went to the other way." Doppel said, "Let's go, I'll lead you there."
Their way started from silence, but then the woman decided to disturb it first.
"Well, what do you think of our base?"
"Just some ordinary base from games or some criminals." Yukikaze shrugged with her shoulders.
"Is it really so?" Doppel laughed, "Well, I thought it should be peculiar, by the way, where is that boy? Tatsurou?"
"He is sleeping." Yukikaze replied, "He usually likes to sleep long."
"By the way, is he really your boyfriend?" Doppel suddenly asked her again.
"Yes we are." Yukikaze nodded.
"And have you already had it?" Doppel narrowed her eyes.
'It?" Yukikaze looked at her, then her cheeks started to blush, "None of your business!"
Doppel laughed loudly. They attracted some attention; however it didn't make Doppel confused or worried. She continued in the same way. When they reached the shower they encountered Avalanche, with someone else.
"Oh, Doppel, good morning." the white haired man said to the woman, "And to you Yukikaze." he added then.
"Morning." they both replied to him, "Do you have a mission today?" Doppel asked him then.
"Yeah, we are leaving with Professor and Commander today, as Commander told me, you're leaving today too."
"To look for my mother?" Yukikaze asked him, the man nodded.
"Will we be in the same squad?" Doppel asked another question.
"As he informed, yes. Hush and Splash will be with you, and if everything goes right Drunkard will join you later."
"Even he will." Doppel pondered.
"Is it some alcoholic?" Yukikaze looked at her with worried eyes, "Is it really good to have him with us?"
"No need to worry." Doppel smiled, "He can drink a lot, but he is a very good person inside, and at the same time, he really great in all kinds of missions." then she turned to the man, "By the way, are there anything on our friends in criminal?"
"No, I didn't hear anything about them, since then." Avalanche sighed, "I hope they won't show themselves longer."
"I wanted to know, who are these guys from the damn law? I've heard a little about them, but still can't understand much."
"Tope criminal organization." Avalanche said, "They are as strong as we are." he said to her, "When someone hire us, the opposite side doing the same with them, and vice versa." he did a pause, "As I remember Splash helped you then?" Yukikaze nodded, "Then you fought with Richar and Archon. Not a weak team I must admit."
"Are they really that strong?" Yukikaze asked him, "When I wanted to burn the freak in the robe he could protect himself with a massive hand, he made after some injection."
"Yes, he can modify his body with these injections." Doppel said to Yukikaze, "It's a temporal effect, but still dangerous as this scum works with demon's blood."
"I see." the girl nodded.
"By the way." Avalanche turned to her, "I haven't go free time to say, you have worked really well together against Commander." Yukikaze turned to the man, "For your ages, you're quite formidable opponents. We have someone like you, but he is a bit younger and can show you some good tricks too."
"Thanks." Yukikaze smirked and raised her head, "After all I was trained really well."
"I have no doubt, since you're the daughter of Mizuki Yasuhiro and Shiranui." Avalanche turned around and waved them with the hand.
"Well let's go and take a shower first, we have a great day today, so it's important to be ready for it." Doppel said to her new partner.
They both entered the washing facility and saw that it was completely free. Yukikaze and Doppel took off their suits. When the girl saw the breasts of Doppel, she looked at hers.
'Why the hell everyone have bigger size instead of myself?' Yukikaze thought.
"What is it?" the woman asked the girl.
"Nothing." Yukikaze mumbled, however Doppel chuckled and quickly ran to the girl.
"No need to be worried that much." Doppel put her hands onto the breast of the girl, "You're still growing, so it's natural for them to be so."
"Hey!" Yukikaze exclaimed.
"However, if you want me to massage them, I wouldn't mind." Doppel licked her lips.
"Get off you pervert!" Yukikaze could break off out of her hug, "All, whom I know have much bigger sizes." she said after a pause.
"You shouldn't be bothered with it too much. You have a good figure and small breast suits you a lot, I think your boyfriend loves what you are, but not your breasts."
"But with them, I could do… lots of lewd things." Yukikaze said with red cheeks turning her face away.
"You can do them without it." Doppel said, "Your beauty compensate it and pretty much, I must say."
Yukikaze said nothing, but only came to the shower, she turned the water on. And her body was quickly covered with water. Doppel did the same. Yukikaze washed every inch of her body, as she wanted to wash away the sweat, dust and blood of demons she killed last this night. Doppel wanted the same as well too. Both of them were rubbing their bodies perfectly, the woman also washed their hair too.
After washing, Doppel picked her hair into a pony tail, while Yukikaze into her casual pig tails. They left the shower and walked ahead the corridors of the base.
"What are you going to do now? We have sometime before leaving."
"I planned to train or to play something, but as I understand you have nothing from this." Yukikaze sighed.
"No, we don't have playing facilities, but if you want to train, I can easily make you practical battles." Doppel looked at her companion, "But isn't it better to speak with your boyfriend? I think he will join you as well."
"No, I want to practice my skill alone in order to become stronger not keening on his presence." Yukikaze replied, "I must be strong to save my mum, and I can't rely too much on other people, I must do the main part myself."
"You're really serious for your age." Doppel smiled warmly, "I'm sure will return you mother back to you, at the same time, Splash will do everything for you."
"How he became friends with my father? I mean, my father was loud and noisy, and this one seems always irritated and nervous."
"How should I say it well?" Doppel pondered, "Almost all of us are nervous and easily irritated, "But life makes us so. The life of a mercenary isn't easy." she sighed, "While hunters like you are official, you can have friends, make love and do other stuff, while we can do such things, if you can see that we have warm relations with each other it doesn't mean we're a big family. Some of them have found home here, while others haven't."
"And what about you?" Yukikaze looked at her, "Have you found it."
"Kinda." Doppel smiled to the girl, "However, Splash didn't find it with the other two persons, I know well, though I hope they'll be able to see their mistakes."
Then they continued their way to the training rooms in order to get well prepared for the upcoming fights with strong opponents in near future."
When Yukikaze left the room, Tatsurou quickly got up and looked at the door, which led out of the room. Waiting for about five minutes, he jumped off from his bed, grabbed his katana and headed somewhere.
'I hope Yukikaze won't mind if I train alone.' the boy thought as he walked along the corridor, 'It'll be good to practice these seals, I'm not good in using them, as Oleg-sensei said I have to concentrate during putting my energy into them.' the boy continued his ponders, 'Interesting, how should I do this? Maybe using more of my blood will help? However, it must be in something else.'
He continued, his way, until something bumped at him. The boys raised his head and saw a man with blonde hair and the eye patch on his eye.
"Early bird, huh?" he heard the voice of the Commander.
"Huh?" Tatsurou looked at him, "Ah, Commander." the boy replied to him, he remembered how the other turned to him.
"No need to be so official with me, you're not a member of our division." Commander replied to the boy, "What do you want to do?"
"I… I wanted to have some practice." Tatsuro replied with a worried tone likewise he really was frightened of that man.
"Didn't you want to work on seals?"
"Huh?" the boy was surprised, "Yeah, I don't know much about them and wanted to find someone to explain me."
"Has Oleg told you something about them?" Commander asked him again, the boy nodded, "I think he said, that I'll help you with them, didn't he?" the boy nodded indecisively, "Fine let's go, I have some free time so I'll show some tricks, since your element is wind it'll be easy to explain."
"You really will train me?" Tatsurou was shocked of what he'd just heard.
"Faster, I don't have the whole day." he hurried the boy; Tatsurou nodded and quickly followed him.
Their pace was quick as Commander wanted to start practice immideately. He didn't show it, but the man wanted to see the potential of the boy a lot. The man saw how the boy used the seal during their fight, and wanted to know how far the boy can get thought their short training. The boy felt him uncomfortable because of this serious well self-controlled man. Commander saw this and decided to ask remove some stress from the boy.
"Have you ever trained with Igawa?" he asked him.
"Yes." he replied to him with the same voice.
"And? How was it?"
"Just an ordinary battle, student with a teacher." the boy replied again.
"I see, fighting me and Igawa, who is stronger for you?"
Tatsurou looked at the man, with surprised eyes, "I can't answer this answer."
"Why? Are you afraid I'll hit you?" Commander looked at him.
"No, I practiced with you only once so I have nothing to say about your powers and I can't compare them with sensei's."
"I see." Commander said and continued his way.
"Can I ask you something?" Tatsurou asked him, the man nodded, "Was it really sensei, who did that?" he pointed to his eye.
"Yeah, she was fearsome opponent, and in such a dangerous company, if not my comrades I would die there." the man didn't like the theme, but still suppressed his irritation.
"Got it." the boy mumbled, "By the way thank you."
"For what?" Commander asked him.
"For helping us to find aunty." Tatsurou added.
"Don't mention it, we're just doing what we must." Commander answered, "If not your appearance we would do it later, but since you're here, we can deal with this problem earlier."
The boy and the man came to an empty room; it was the room where they trained not long ago. Tatsurou and quickly went into the middle the man followed him. Commander hadn't his scythe with him.
"Well, let's see how you will draw the seal." Cyclopes said to his new apprentice.
"One second." Tatsurou exposed his katana and wanted to cut his cheek.
"No need." Commander put his hand under his vest and took out an ampoule with red liquid and threw it to the boy, "Demon's blood is good for it too."
'Of course, Oleg-sensei told about it.' Tatsurou remembered the words of his transferred teacher.
Tatsurou opened the ampule, and poured some onto his fingers; he squatted and started to draw a circle with some letters inside of it.
'Just an ordinary seal, which students supposed to know, nothing impressive.' Commander thought watching at the process, when the seal was drawn he said, "Put your hand in to middle and focus your wind power in it, Tatsurou nodded, and then closed his eyes, "Do you feel something?"
"Yes." the boy replied, "But it's difficult to say what that is."
"Don't try, just gather all your thoughts and release that energy in one moment."
Tatsurou nodded and did what the man commanded. After a second a strong puff of wind was released out of the seal. Commander could stand it, while Tatsurou lost his balance and fall onto the floor.
"How do you feel yourself?" Commander asked the boy.
"I'm fine, but…" Tatsurou stumbled for a second, "I don't feel any exhaustion at all, so when I used even the first seal I was tired a lot."
"There are two main secrets about it." Commander said with a strict voice, "First is in using demonic blood instead of yours, and the second one is not waiting a lot during the pouring your power into it. Didn't Oleg tell you this?"
"No, I think not, we only practiced in the main work of them." Tatsurou answered him.
"I see. Do it one more time." Commander said.
The boy nodded and poured the second part of the blood from the ampoule and did it again. He drew the seal, and started to focus his energy, "And don't lose your balance, in battle it can cost you dearly."
The boy nodded and then another strong puff hit the wall, Tatsurou was about to fall again, but Commander could support him.
"Thank you." the boy didn't wait something like that.
"You study really fast." the man looked at the boy, "As I understand you just need a special approach." he smirked, "How that Igawa could teach you and not to teach you the basics?"
"I disagree." Tatsurou protested, "Igawa-sensei, teaches well and during her lessons, I try to do everything what is needed of me."
"Whatever." Commander shrugged with his shoulders and ordered the boy to show his wind abilities using his katana.
Shizuru, Murasaki, Haze, Mechanic, Kangaroo and Massimo were standing on a rooftop of some pretty tall building. They were discussing their cooperative mission, the capturing and releasing. Shizuru continued to joke over Kangaroo, and Kangaroo didn't like that thing. Murasaki was talking to Mechanic, while Haze was keeping silence. Murasaki sometime looked at Haze, like she wanted to remember something important.
"You've came just when our butts started to burn." Mechanic chuckled, "Just some more minutes and we would be just garbage in his factory."
"Don't even remind me this." Murasaki flinched, "I don't want to think about it, only the fight with that Destroyer is enough for me." then she turned to Shizuru, "I still can't understand, could that freak take the data on that machine?"
"No, it was destroyed." Haze replied, "Now there will never be anything like that shit for some period of time."
"I hope you're right." Kangaroo sighed.
"By the way, who did that clay for you?" Kangaroo was asked by the blonde.
"I invented it!" the boy declared with a raised head.
"Such a young boy and created something like that?" she played surprising, "Maybe you saw how someone used it and you had just repeated it?"
"Stop thinking I'm a mere kid!" Kangaroo protested with his hands which were raised into the air, "I could eve save you several times!"
"Ok, I admit you're a skillful one." Shizuru hugged him pressing her breasts to his head, causing blushing him.
"By the way, why he didn't send Drunkard with you? I thought you work in pairs." Mechanic suddenly turned to the woman with pig tails.
"I'm working with him only when these damn missions are too dangerous, and this time there were you all."
'Drunkard? This nickname is also seems familiar.' Murasaki frowned.
"Fine, I'll go first, and you three idiots follow me faster." Haze said and jumped onto another building, Haze didn't want to spend her free time on waiting for them.
"Well, it's time to say good bye for now." Mechanic smiled a little sadly, "I hope the next time we meet it won't be that higgledy-piggledy."
"Yeah, I'd like to have a peaceful drink with you, blonde." Massimo winked to the woman and followed Haze.
"If you want we always wait you in our lines." Shizuru chuckled to Kangaroo, "We always have place for good hunters."
"Sorry, not interested." Kangaroo showed his tongue and followed the other two along with Mechanic.
"You seem too puzzled, is something on your mind?" Shizuru looked at Murasaki.
Suddenly Murasaki's eyes were widened like something was revealed to her.
"That's why I know her!" Murasaki exclaimed, "She was one I fought during the mission several years ago."
"What do you mean?" Shizuru didn't understand what her comrade was talking about.
"It was about disposing some scientist, if I remember it right." she started her explanation, "I fought her and while Asagi, Shiranui and Kuro were fighting another member of their organization."
"Really?" Shizuru was surprised of these words, "I didn't know that."
"Because that mission was top secret, and was banned to be announced." Murasaki continued her telling, "Having such strong members is really terrifying thing in them."
"And could they defeat him?" Shizuru asked, "The man these three were fighting."
"No, he could escape; I didn't belive that someone like him could escape from them, but as I was told someone else helped him to fight them all."
"I see." Shizuru pondered too, "Well, let's go to the base, I want to take a shower and have a long break after that mission." Shizuru said to her comrade, "Maybe I'd have several sessions of massage." Shizuru chuckled as she stretched her limbs.
"Let's go, I must report everything to Igawa-san and at the same time to speak about 'Red Division,' I don't think we can trust them too much."
"Because of that woman?" Murasaki only nodded, and then both of them headed back to their shelter.
