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Mask of Deception

Chapter 9: Unexpected Reunion

The Twister

Friday 6:34 PM

"Do we really have to go in?" TK asked Tai as they walked to the entrance of the twister.

"Think of this as a mission."

"And what mission would this be?"

"Hm… just go in okay?"

TK pushed open the door, and the once quiet air, was now blasting with music and the muttered sound of voices inside of the building.

"Crap, it's so loud in there." TK almost yelled. "Do we really have to go in?" TK asked again. Tai just pushed him in from behind.

"Yagami-kun, Takaishi, over here." The guy from earlier called out to them. The two of them walked over and joined the group around a table.

"So? What do you think?" he asked. "Is this place cool or what."

The two just nodded in response, while looking at their surroundings.

"This place is pretty huge." TK commented.

"Yeah, everyone comes here to hang out." he explained. [I better give this guy a name eh?]

"So, Fujisaki, do you guys come here often?"

"Yeah, most of the time."

"I see that not everyone came." Tai noticed as he looked around the table.

"Yeah well, Sora is off somewhere, and some of the others are dancing."

"So TK," a girl said, edging closer towards him.

After just a few days, TK had gotten very popular with the "ladies." Tai was too, but something about TK got the girls hooked. Someone once told him that he looked like a "certain" semi-famous rock star…

"Yeah?" He said nervously. "You are single right?" she said emphasizing the "are"

*gulp* "yeah"

"Why don't we get out of here? Just you, and me." She asked.

"B-but I just got here." He said with a nervous laugh.

"So?"

That's when Tai cut in. "We want to see the band, don't we TK." TK just nodded his head vigorously.

"I think I'm gonna go get a drink." TK said as he, quickly walked away.

"So Tai, I heard you joined the Soccer team." Said a boy by the name of Tsujiai [I'm running out of name ideas. lol] "Yeah, I did actually." "Cool, I'll be at the game next week."

Their conversation was interupted when Sora, and a few other girls, arrived at the table.

"Hey guys!!" She said excitedly

"Oh hey Sora." One of the girls said. "Is Matt on next?"

"Yeah he is, and you'll finally get to meet him Tai!!"

TK then came back with his drink, sipping at it as he looked at the new arrivals. Among them, he noticed Shuuko, the girl who he helped with math, was there among the girls.

"Oh, hey TK," she said in a flirtatious tone. TK replied with a nervous laugh, "hehe hey Shuuko, how did your Test go?"

"I did very well thanks to you." She said edging closer.

TK shot a glance at Tai.

Tai was about to say something, but then his cell phone rung, and he went outside to answer the call.

"Why don't you come and sit with me?" She said, taking a seat, and then patting an empty spot beside her.

"Give it a rest Shuuko, you're too old for him." The girl who was hitting on TK earlier said. Then she looked at TK and smiled sweetly. This caused TK to become even more nervous than before.

"Shut up Sayori, I saw him firs----"

"How is everyone doing tonight?" A person on the stage said. He was replied with a bunch of shouts and hollers.

'Thank You' TK thought looking up at the ceiling.

"We're glad that you're having fun. We would now like to bring up the band you have all been waiting for." Everyone started cheering.

The stage started to fill with mist, and bright lights from under the stage started to shine upwards. TK could only make out a few shadowy figures on the stage.

From all of the thick fog, a voice boomed from the microphone. "That's right. Give it up for Yamato Ishida the teenage wolves!" TK's eyes were wide open by now "Yamato…?". When the mist finally cleared, he saw who was standing on the stage.

The guy in the middle of the stage was….

"Matt?!…" He gasped, dropping his cup with a big crash, breaking the glass. "Oh my gosh….It can't be" He stood there dumb founded. Time seemed to stop for TK. A few of his friends were looking at him strangely as he trembled a bit.

"TK!!! TK!!!!" Tai was yelling as he crashed through the door. "TK!"

TK was still dazed but he turned his head towards Tai. "TK we have to go, NOW!!"

TK was becoming confused, the yelling and the talking all mixed in with the music. His whole world was spinning. He kept on chanting "It's Matt…My gosh... It's Matt…Matt…It's him….brother…" over and over.

"TK!!" Tai yelled one last time. It got the attention of all the people sitting at the table as well as TK. "We have to go!"

"What?" TK said, shaking to wake himself from the daze.

"Yeah, what do you mean you guys got to go, you just got here."

Tai ignored the others and gave TK a look, a look that TK knew all to well.

"TK" Tai said in a softer, but serious tone.

TK hesitated for a second, weather he should stay or leave. Finally, he grabbed a ten-dollar bill out of his pocket and threw it at the table, to pay for the cup then started to run.

"What's wrong?" Sora asked. She knew something was wrong. She saw it in Tai's eyes. She didn't know how, but she could tell.

Tai's car

Friday 7:13 PM

Tai was speeding down the streets of Odaiba, rushing to the scene. The call was a request. An urgent request.

"TK, what's gotten into you? You feeling okay?"

"I…I'm fine." TK pushed all of his emotions aside. He was at work now.

If there was one thing that he learned in this profession other that combat skills, it would be to never let your emotions get the best of you. And he didn't let it bug him. He pretended that he didn't know the boy up on stage. They were strangers now. Or at least for now.

"Are you sure?" Tai asked once again.

"Yes, now tell me what the heck is going on!"

"There's been an attack. Terrorist attack."

"Oh did a plain crash into a building?" He said sarcastically.

"TK!! Take this seriously."

"Sorry…"

"Someone has taken over a hotel building. There was a big party going on inside, full of rich people. Three people are already dead…"

Tai's eyes started to darken. "Those were only threats. They said that every hour, they would kill three people, if they didn't get their money, and if they didn't…."

"Didn't what?"

"Didn't get to see us…"

When they arrived there, there were no cops or reporters. It was completely deserted. It looked as if nothing had gone wrong. But then again, looks can be deceiving.

"Should we go through the front or the back?" TK asked Tai.

"We'll split. They should be expecting us, so be cautious. I'll go through the main entrance, you take the fire escape. The object of this mission is to disable those freaks and get the others to safety. I'm not sure if they will send back up or not, so don't expect too much help."

TK nodded and cautiously trailed to the back of the building. He climbed the ladder to the top of the building and stopped in front of the door.

TK was mad, really mad. He hated the thought of innocent people dying, and he was going to make sure that they would pay for it.

He slowly opened the door, peering inside. His gun was now in hand, pointed to the ground.

He saw that he was at the end of a corridor of rooms. He slowly walked down the hall, and when he spotted a security camera. He figured that the terrorist were watching through them, so he pressed himself against the wall, under the camera, and reached up to pull the wires and disable the camera. He checked all of the rooms on the floor, but found nothing.

He decided that he would take the stairs down instead of the elevator. It would be too dangerous to take a risk like that.

He searched the next floor, but again nothing.

Finally, on the fifth floor down, TK discovered a room with a big plate across it reading, "Security."

He opened the door so that there was enough space to see but not be seen. There were about five guys in there, and a counter was blocking the view of their legs, so he couldn't tell if anyone would possibly be sitting on the floor.

'Piece of cake' he thought.

He got onto the floor, so that he was flat on his stomach. Then he opened the door. The men on the inside looked at the door and were now cautioned.

"There's someone here!!" One man shouted.

"Hehe, if someone is out there, you better surrender to us, or else these security guards are gonna get it." The man laughed evilly.

TK kept silent.

"Are you sure there is someone there? We didn't see anyone from the cameras."

"Must be the wind or something." Another man suggested.

"Someone go take a look. Check all of the floors. And take the stairs, not the elevator. We rigged the elevator, remember?"

"We'll go." Two men volunteered.

TK backed up to the entrance of the stairwell and hid behind the door while fixing silencers onto his two guns. He decided to go a flight lower then the men, so that they wouldn't see him.

"I don't see why they are so scared, no one will dare to come in here." One of the guys said.

"But remember, the both requested for those two people to come. Maybe it's them."

"I doubt it. The only way in is through is the front entrance. No one would be crazy enough to travel up the fire escape. We would have seen an intruder through the camera's too. They're just too paranoid."

"Yeah" The other guy agreed.

They were about to head up the stairs. That's when TK put his plain into action. He clanked his gun against the rail of the stairs.

"What was that!?" One of the men asked.

The two of them were now alarmed and fully aware of TK's presence, or were they…

One of the men peered over the rail, and spotted TK underneath them. "There's someone down there!" The man alarmed. The man was about to shoot him, but TK effortlessly, and skillfully, shot the gun out of the man's hand. The other man took a while to react. "What!?" But the other man was on the ground clutching his hand, and was too occupied by the pain to speak.

The other man, carefully peered over top of the railing, but saw no one there. He was now shaking with fear. He was about to help his friend up when he felt something poking at him from behind.

"Don't you dare move." TK warned.

"Please, Please don't kill me."

"Why shouldn't I?" TK countered. "What about those people you killed downstairs. Didn't they plead for their life? Didn't they!!"

"Y-y-yes they did! Please don't kill me."

"But you still killed them, even though they did ask you to stop. You guys killed them!!!"

The man on the floor tried to reach for his gun.

"You on the floor, don't you dare move, or I'll shoot you!"

"Hehe, you wouldn't dare." The man said, still not looking at TK. The man quickly grabbed his gun and pointed it at TK once again, but was quickly shot down by TK.

"I warned you!" TK said.

The man cried in pain as he held onto his leg. Before the man passed out, he looked at TK's face. Although most of it was concealed, he saw the young boy's eyes. TK's eyes were cold as stone and showed a hatred towards the man. His intense stare scared the man. "but…you're….only a ….boy!?" the man exclaimed before he passed out. Luckily, no one could hear anything from the stairwell because all of the walls of the hotel were sound proof.

"You." TK said, nudging his gun into the man in front of him. "When I open this door, you are going to yell that everything is clear, and that you both need a bathroom break. Got it!?" The man started nodding.

TK opened the door, and the man did as he was told and shouts of "okay's" could be heard. TK lowered his gun, which caused the man to sigh in relief, but just as quickly as he had lowered his gun, he injected some tranquilizer into the man's arm, strong enough to keep him out for a whole day. When the man fell to the ground TK walked over to the man whom he had shot, and injected some tranquilizer into him as well, to assure that he was down, then he bandaged up his leg so that the man wouldn't bleed to death.

He went back into the corridor and walked down to the security room. He saw that their backs were all turned to him. They were watching some XXX movies on one of the monitors. 'Perverts' TK took this as an opening.

"If you move I'll shoot." He informed the men inside. They turned around and saw TK with both of his guns in hand. "I already took care of your two buddies, I wouldn't take your chances if I were you."

"Hehe," one of the guys laughed. "What are you going to do about it boy?" "This," and TK shot the three men with his gun, but this gun contained tranquilizers. TK didn't find any reason for why he should really shoot them after all, they were unarmed.

He walked into the room and saw that two security guards sat on the floor, blindfolded and bound by ropes. He untied them, and saw that they were knocked out. He then proceeded to the monitors.

He switched from camera to camera until he came across the room where everyone was held hostage. He saw not only adults, but children as well, then he looked to the corner of the screen. He saw the dead bodies of the three that had been killed earlier. He pounded his fist on the counter with anger.

*pft "Stealth you still there?"

*pf "Yeah, are you ready?"

*pf "Yeah, security is completely knocked out."

*pf "Good job. I'm going in now."

*pf "Hurry, we only have ten minutes before they kill the next victims. Did you get their money?"

*pf "Yeah, it's all here. There is no backup, we're on our own. The suspects pointed out that they would only allow us to go inside."

*pf "Falcon out"

*pf "Stealth out"

Tai walked to the entrance of the hotel, as TK got ready in position.

He walked through the glass doors, and into the main room where everyone was held hostage, and where the head hooligan was waiting.

"Ah…. So you have decided to join us agent "Stealth" we were just about to kill those three over there" he motioned to three people in the corner.

"Here's you money, now let them go!"

"You're in quite a hurry aren't you? By the way, where is your partner, we were hoping to see him instead of you."

"He is elsewhere at the moment."

"Oh? Is that so? I guess we are going to have to ask you to deliver the message to him then."

"Message?"

"Yes. A message from our superior. Tell him that the snake will bite him."

"What kind of metaphor is that, you should really practice your poetry mister."

"If I were in your position, I wouldn't piss me off! I can kill all the people in this room if I wanted." He motioned to the men in the room with the machine guns.

"See, it's useless." The man told him.

"Lets make a deal." Tai suggested.

"I'll get rid of all of my weapons, you call off your men and tell them to leave accept for two of them, leaving three of you in here. When everyone has left, I will give you the money and you may leave."

"What's the catch?" The man eyed Tai.

"No catch. My main objective is the people's safety."

"It puzzles me though." The man started. "Why would they send you on a mission like this all alone, without your partner. We specifically asked for the two of you."

"My partner wouldn't be here even if I wanted him to be. He's still in Hokkaido." Tai lied.

"Oh yes, that is right, you just moved here. Very well then."

He motioned for the men to leave. They all obeyed without hesitation.

When they all left, there were only the hostages, Tai and the three men left in the room. Tai slowly and cautiously took all of his weapons off and laid them on the ground. He then put the suitcases containing the money, down, and backed away with his hands in the air. Everyone watched what was going on.

The man walked up to the suitcases while the other men stayed behind. He laid his gun down and opened the suitcases, counting the money. "It's all here, the man said. He was about to reach for his gun when he herd to thumps from behind him. The two men who were with him had been shot down. "Don't move" Tai said, revealing another gun from inside of his vest. "YOU!!!" the man yelled. "It's the end of the line. "But how…!?"

"Oh, how did those other men get shot??"

TK then revealed himself from the crowd. He had snuck in and posed as one of the hostages on the ground.

"It's you!! Hehe, what a pleasure it is, to finally meet you, Falcon. I've heard so much about you from the boss."


"What?" TK asked

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Muahahaha, cliff hanger, well sort of… So?? What do you think?? TK surely wasn't expecting that. Didn't you find it weird that whenever Matt was mentioned, TK wasn't there? Lol. Pretty predictable eh? R&R please!!