Chapter VIII - "Visions"

Enzan stopped running and came to breath behind a wall, he stared at Netto who was still holding his hand. "Ne, Netto-kun, you ok ?", he stared at him. The younger boy nodded slightly and leaned against the wall. "Enzan. we're gonna get killed, it's way to dangerous inside there.", his eyes were slightly red from the tears that had fallen. His Clothes held a few pieces of shattered glass and some bloodstains.

The older boy stared at him. He knew it had to be hard for him, all the casualties fallen allready, not able to promise no more kills. He sighed and lay his hand on the smaller boy's shoulder. "Netto-kun, we can't go back now, this is it, we're gonna kick their asses, especially Gail's"

Netto stared at his fellow operator, who scanned the perimesis well. It all seemed clear... "Okay, Let's go!", Enzan Said softly as he grabbed the younger boy's hand again and ran directing the Building's side entrances. He reached for the codealarm and typed down some things, then plugged in Blues.exe to hack the security systems.

He slowly opened the door and placed his hand over his gun. 'Anytime now...', he went on cautious and pulled Netto close to his body for certainty. "Enzan... Are you sure we're doing the right thing?" Netto asked whispering, still doubting the entire idea. Enzan stopped and stared at him. "Netto-kun, we HAVE to stop them, I don't want to grow up like this, I want freedom, don't you?" he softly said.

Netto looked away and closed his eyes. "Not at the cost of other people's lives...". The older boy narrowed his eyes for a second. "Their idea's are totally wrong, you know it!". The brown eyes met the blue again, once again teared. "In our eyes it is wrong, in their eyes we are wrong...". "Would you rather be on their side then?", Enzan spat out rudely. "No...", Netto looked away again and sighed.

Enzan looked up suddenly, he heard something, He pushed Netto in a corner and stood in front of him in the shadows. He kept looking at the hall... Netto felt Enzan's little ragged breath in his neck, it set shivers down his spine, once again closer then ever. 'How can I think of this at a moment like this...', he tried holding his breath when he noticed it started becomming a bit un controlled.

A single member of the WWW walked past carrying another fire weapon. Enzan took his chance and swiftly pointed the gun at the guy's back as he just walked past them. "Drop the gun backwards and be a nice guy, maybe I'll let you live..." Enzan spoke with his dark voice.

Netto stared at him with astonishment as the guy threw his gun back and Enzan still pulled the trigger on the guy's back. His eyes grew wider as he saw the face of the young WWW member, the guy wasn't older then they were, and now he lay, covered in his own blood, dead...

Enzan picked up the gun and threw it at Netto coldly, "Here you'll need it". The younger boy stared at the gun asif it was a ghost, he could just stop himself from throwing it away. "Enzan... I can't a-aim.... very well with this...", he stuttered. Teh blue eyes stared at his shaking hands holding the gun. He let out a sigh and walked over to him, taking the gun from his hands and tucking it in his pocket.

"It's okay Netto...", he said softly as he started walking into a dark corridor. Netto stared at him as he bit his lip, 'How can it possibly be ok Enzan... HOW can you just say it's OK?!... And maybe you're right... I'm just a pacifist... but I don't see what's wrong with it...'. When he woke up from his daydream he lost track of Enzan in the dark hall, he startled and started trembling, he couldn't just shout out...

"Enzan...?" he tried softly as he started walking the same direction as the older boy did before him. As soon as he noticed Enzan wasn't there to be seen he started feeling horribly uncomfortable. He was ready to faint as he suddenly felt a hand around his waist pulling him in to the wall.

"Netto-kun... will you just follow me closely instead of staying in the middle of the hall like that? You could've been spotted staring into nothing like you did... The young operator caught his breath again once he turned around and just hung into the arms of Enzan. The older boy stared at him calm but a little confused. As he just held him for a while he closed his eyes and just listened to the younger boy's breath and his surroundings.

'It's too quiet here anyway', he thought. He opened his eyes again and stared at Netto who appearantly dug his head into his chest. He sighed and layed his hands on his shoulders and pushed him from his body softly. "Hey, we have to carry on... we're a bit dangerously hidden here, things are horribly quiet, it seems like Gail sent out almost every member of his army except this base's security personell, and I'm also a bit worried about the systems, I hacked them and wasn't exactly carefull, I don't understand why they haven't spotted a thing..." Netto stared at him and nodded slightly, "Okay", he whispered and took a deep breath.

Enzan's eyes once again stared down the hall, something was terribly wrong, the entire base's lights where out, and strange sounds of moving machines filled his ears. The metal sounds almost sounded like a song, he could feel his heart beat on the rythm. Netto just stared at Enzan's every move and held his hand firmly. The only thing he felt was the freezing breeze that flew up against his legs and face... "E-Enzan... are you sure this is the right way?", he stammered softly. "I don't really... feel it's the right way, it keeps getting colder seems", he added to it. The older boy stopped suddenly, trying to control his breath as his eyes show wide open...

*FLASH*

The gunshot sounded again, he could feel the pain hit him. His eyes drifted from the black in his mind and the red slowly overtaking it. The metal sounds where louder then before and deformed. He shook his head but no prevail, only the stinging pain.

He heard his name being screamed loudly, a hard bang throughout his entire body as he felt a terrifying cold forcing it's way into his being. The only thing he could feel was a warm spot on his hands, The screams soon faded as his red sight did too...

"So far away..., So far away..."

*FLASH*

Netto stared at him, waved his hands infront of the fearfull blue eyes. Enzan regained his sense to the real world as he saw Netto's innocent face in front of him. "Enzan... are you ok? You almost stopped breathing just yet.", sounded the worried voice of Netto.

The older boy shook his head, "Yeah I'm ok...", he lied softly and started walking again untill the base turned a bit lighter at a crossing of 4 halls. They stopped. "Ok... now what?", Netto asked. Enzan stared down the halls untill he started walking into the right. "I'm positive it's this one, I remember it...", he said softly.
Gail sat in his room, his arms crossed on a chair, the deep green eyes shut tightly. His head had hurted since the morning, nothing else on his mind then the nuiscance, Ijyuuin. He switched position as he took a deep breath and held it for a second, he felt like spinning in his head.

He rose from the chair suddenly and felt a stinging pain in his neck, for a minute he wondered where it came from, then he reminded himself he fell asleep the day before in the same position. He opened his almost fluorizing green shaded eyes as he scanned the dark room with sad eyes.

Flashes entered his mind as he felt memories comming up from his past. He entwined his hands into his flaming red hair and fixed his eyes on the door, he heard gunshots but it didn't really bug him, he knew the end was near anyway, either his end or that of the Resistance Base. His goal seemed to fly out of his mind as he recalled the bleeding boy on the asphalt road.

It felt good to see his enemy in pain, but it also seemed to hurt him, as more images passed his eyes, countless deaths in the name of the WWW, spread on his name alone. Hunting down the Global Line for a bunch of kids, he never knew he was up to a simple group of children. Though Ijyuuin was like an adult, to smart for his age...

'Those eyes... It's the blue eyes', He thought while searching for a similiar shade of blue in his room. 'They seemed to show hope, like he believed he was gonna make it, and how odd... he even did. Would he be able to prodict his future? Is he a Psychic....?'. He shook his thoughtline out, 'Absurd', he added to it in thought, 'He could never be that, it's to crazy for words... Allthough he looks odd' He found the shade of blue in a book, he held it infront of him as he suddenly saw the image of the eyes again...

*FLASH*

Gail stared at Enzan, he smiled faintly as he saw tears sprung up in the fading eyes, the hands tightening around his neck he almost felt the life slipping from the boy's body. It felt great.... but on the otherhand hurted. As the man let go of the boys throat he narrowed his eyes a little and stared back at the Net-arena.

Another shade of blue, the threat in the eyes as he saw the gun pointed at his heart, he smiled and knew the boy wouldn't be able to shoot him anyway. and when he went down... there was nothing.

The last shade, the deep blue in the red surrounding, the boy lay in his blood, staring at him in pain, tears in his eyes. Only an icy laugh escaped his lungs...

*FLASH*

Gail sighed and threw the book away almost out of rage, he knew the boy was in his base, he knew the boy was here to kill him. The redhead looked around for a gun, picked it up and walked over to the black screen with of his computer. "Shadow... report of the base immediatly, find out where they are and where they're heading..."

The black Navi popped onto the screen and fixed the golden eyes on his operator and smiled. "Yes Gail, sir", he saluted and dissapeared as Gail took distance from the computer and smiled while lying down on his bed staring at the ceiling. 'I revised, you're gonna die Ijyuuin...hehee", he smirked and closed his eyes while waiting for report from Shadow Stalker. He slowly started to doze off a little....

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The man was hardhanded with the young boy, just turned 14 and ready for battle allready. "In ten years you'll be the leader Gail my boy...", an old man spoke. The little boy stared up at the man while the elevator took them deeper into the building. "What you're about to see is strictly secret, You will not tell ANYONE about it understand?", the man said a bit harschly.

Gail nodded and stared at the glass elevator doors as they seemed to enter a laboratory. Testtubes filled with Green liquid with bodies in it, it almost scared him. The doors opened and they walked in, Gail stared at a few testtubes, one had a baby boy in it, he narrowed his eyes and tilted his head a little, it looked a bit odd, not exactly like a human...

"W-What's this?", he stuttered softly as the old man walked up from behind him and smirked. "This my boy, will be my greatest creation ever, if the WWW fails... this is my backup plan..." Gail turned around and stared at him. "But I thought I was your backup plan..."

The man stared at him almost threatening. "In case YOU fail my dear boy... you are only human, humans make mistakes, but this young one won't ever make mistakes...", he said staring back at the tube again. Gail stared at it aswell, he felt uneasy. Soflty he lay his hands against the tube and took a closer look at the constantly moving wires plugged into the baby's body.... Fixated on the face as it suddenly opened it's eyes...

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Gail shot up, he shook his head and stared at the computer screen just the moment Shadow popped onto it. "Sir I've located them, they're heading towards the munition room, do I have to lock them up there?", the black navi asked. The redhead shook his hair back as a red flash and smirked, "Nahhh let them do what they want, eventualy they'll be on their ways to the main board room, where I'll be waiting for them... hehehehe". He started laughing loudly. Shadow only stared at him, he felt odd as he looked sideways a little at the Global Line entrance, dark... too dark...
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Enzan stared at the lineup of guns and munition, a faint smile overcame his face, "Netto-kun",he whispered as he pointed at a few bigger guns, "It seems these guys are planning some serious things...". Netto stared at it and tilted his head. He slowly picked up a gun from the ground and stared at it. "I really wonder why there are hardly any men in the base, you 'd think there is a tight security, but I'm really surprised Gail is gonna let himself get kiled so easily..."

The older boy stashed some Munition in his pockets and walked out, "Come on, let's kick his ass then.". Netto stared at him and followed him immediatly. "Ne, Enzan?", he spoke softly. "Yeah?" the older boy returned. "How big is our chance of winning?" Neto added to it. Enzan stared in front of him, he knew perfectly that it might aswell be the end to his 17-year-dured life, he didn't care much. "About 40% I think", he said coldly and walked on loading the gun.

Netto felt horrible, he could hear his heart in his troat, aswell as Enzan's calm breathing. He stared at Enzan, the way the black hair seemed to emerge from the white parts, he always was an odd one... 'Enzan... how can you possibly stay so cool in a tension like this, any boy your age would be terrified by now... but you remain to keep so cool, and managed to heal from a shotwound in less then a week.'

He wanted to see it from closer, reached his hand out to the back of the older boy's head but revised midway. It would be weird to just touch him like this. 'Why are you so different, and what about that time you yelled you felt so different and that noone would ever understand you. You're a total enigma to everyone, don't speak much, never join in with games or parties, you never even show any affection to anything tat lives around you, except for me lately...'

His thoughts suddenly took him back to a magazine he read, about a new upcomming race... 'Maybe you're not even human, the odd color of your hair would be a logical explanation, and the matching color of your eyes, that time I was so close to you I saw it wasn't dyed... Enzan Ijyuuin, your name... who are you Enzan... What are you....'

He was disrupted from his thoughts as he accidently walked up to Enzan's back and was forced to stop. Enzan was staring at a big door with a sign on it, 'controlroom'. He smiled, their destination was reached. Netto stared around his shoulders to the door. "Was this the place we were looking for?"

Enzan only nodded and looked around for something untill his eyes caught a big steel pipe on the wall. He pulled it off the wall after some effort. Netto stared at him a bit shocked, 'He pulled it off... just like that, I'm starting to believe more and more he's no human...' The blue eyes stared at the chain lock of the door, his grip tightening on the pipe as he gave a short powerfull hit at the chain. Parts of it allready became a little fragile as he pointed his gun at it and shot the chain off.

With a smile of triumph he kicked the door open and stared into the darkness, he had been here before. What they didn't know was that in the same room, Gail and some of his men were waiting for them...