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A journey to remember

2.  Plane crash

The flight had been uneventful so far. Thoroughly uneventful. Takao had fallen asleep after eating everything he could find and was keeping Kai awake with his snoring.

Max was sleeping to, as far as Kai could tell, because nothing was seen or heard from him. Soft klicking noises told him Kenny was awake, although not a single world was heard from Dizzy. Actually, Dizzy was talking quite a lot. But Kenny concluded, that his teammates when wanting to sleep would do everything to shut Dizzy up.

In consequence headphones became quite handy.

Kai couldn't find any sleep.

His discovery had left him restless and everything else so far hadn't helped to calm him. It had of course been a relief for him to find out they weren't the only passangers on this plane. They were about twenty alltogether – not very much.

Obviously who ever booked this flight had been more than just greedy. There wasn't any service on board. Some snacks and drinks were placed in some sort of closet and that was all. No personal running around, making sure the passangers were comfortable and everything was running smoothly. Neither had a word been heard from the captain.

But nobody seemed disturbed by that so Kai choose not to mention it.

Still, he couldn't close his eyes for longer than two minutes.

Not for the first time in his life he longed to be able to take things easier.

Or be able to simply shrug off any mysteries.

But, alas, he wasn't.

Even though he realized, that all the thinking wasn't helping him in the least. Even if he considered his suspicion confirmed –

- if it had really been the Biovolt logo painted on the plane –

What would that mean?

Most probably something bad.

And something bad was far away from being an exact description.

After all, there was no proof.

Kai sighed and shifted in his seat. This was getting him nowhere. He only succeed in making himself restless. It was actually quite a surprise, that he hadn't woken anybody yet with all his movements.

On the other hand – Takao was out like a light, nothing would wake him now. Rei had been exhausted and Max, well, ...

"Can't find any sleep, too?"

Well, Max wasn't asleep after all.

"No." ,Kai stated.

"Me neither. With Takao's snoring here – I'm surprised no one complained yet." ,Max said, trying to start a conversation. Kai supposed, that talking might be better than pondering once more – even if he wasn't in the mood.

"Hn."

Kai mentally scolded himself. That had certainly been the most original reply he had ever given. Especially, when wanting to signal he was interested in conversing.

Max however wasn't fazed. He grinned. "I just knew it was stupid to have that soda back at the airport. Should have known I wouldn't find any sleep."

'I wouldn't either.' ,Kai thought.

"I believe you had about five cans of soda..."

"Ah, one more or less..."

"..."

"Well, it doesn't matter now, does it?"

"I suppose so." ,Kai agreed reclutantly.

Max smiled. "So, what are you planning to do once we arrive? I really want to try out surfing. I already did it once or twice but that was way back, when I was visiting my mom... I haven't been standing on a board for seven years or something."

Kai shrugged and glanced out of the window.

"I don't know." ,he said.

"What?" ,Max was genuinely surprised.

"I haven't thought about it yet." ,Kai admitted, supposing no harm would come from telling that. In fact, he had no idea what he wanted to do. His former holidays had involved a lot of training, but this time...

he had had to promise Mr. Dickinson to train only once in two days, maximum.

And that left Kai with unusually much free time.

"Oh..." ,Max noted the shadow crossing Kai's features before deciding to ignore it, "Ah, there are a lot of things you can do. Just wait until we arrive. It's going to be a lot of fun. .. You could join me at surfing – it's exhausting in the beginning, but it's truly worth it. Or you could try snorkelling; everyone says that's great. ... Well of course you can also play beachvolley and do all those sorts of sport."

Kai simply nodded not sure if he would find something appealing. Or something where he wouldn't ridicule himself...

A sudden shudder went through the plane. Max was almost thrown out of his seat and Kai was suddenly wide awake. The engines sputtered.

"What's that?" ,Max cried, fear and confusion marring his face, a squeal was heard from Kenny. The plane shook again, rougher this time.

Cries sounded through the plane, bags were falling out of the overhead compartments. Kai was knocked back into his seat, while Max tumbled on the floor.

This time the plane didn't stop shaking. The soft humming of the engines did not return. It was ungodly silent.

Max felt his blood freezing. He did not want to understand the meaning of this. That wasn't just happening. This... this had to be nightmare.

A high pitched scream started the panic.

Kai blinked, his face still expressionless. No one had ever prepared him for a situation like this. What was he supposed to do now?

The movements got rougher and rougher, people were running around blindly, if they were able to move, others curled up in their seats, started crying, praying and cursing. Kai watched impassively, as a heavy bag fell out of an overhead compartment a few metres away from him and hit a young woman's head. She dropped down like dead.

She probably was, Kai realized.

"What's going on?" ,Rei asked softly, his eyes still closed. Kai would never have heard it, hadn't he been sitting right next to him. Before he could answer Takao yelled loudly.

"What the hell is happening?!"

"W-w-we... we are going down..." ,Kenny choked out.

At once, five heads turned to the windows only to find their worst fears confirmed. They were loosing height at a frightening speed.

"Oh my god..." ,Max whispered, being unable comprehend.

"What should we do? There's got to be something we can do! I don't want to die like this! We've got to something! Aren't there any parachutes on this plane? Or can't we just land somewhere? There's got to be a way!" ,Takao shrieked.

Another rough jerk went through the plane, making the metall screech and sending everyone to the ground. The shaking went from bad to worse, standing wasn't possible, the screams were getting louder.

A sickening crunch was heard and in the next moment, Kenny was hanging limply in his seat. A trail of blood was slowly oozing down his cheek.

"Kenny!" , Max screamed, shocked and devestated, fearing the worst. He scrambled forward, only to be brutally thrown to floor again. Desperation was seeping into his heart.

Rei tried to straighten up, wanting to help as much as he could. Even though deep in the back of his mind he realized it would be a futile attempt.

"Guys, calm down!" ,he yelled, trying his best to keep his voice steady.

The plane tumbled to the left side, sending Max flying head- on into another row of seats. More and more blood could be seen.

"Calm down?"  Takao was becoming hysterical.

"Calm down? Now? You've got to..."

He never got to complete the sentence because the next blow left them all unconscious.

And the plane tumbled down...

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