Chapter 18

(Jin)

"We're late," I muttered and looked at the troop around the mansion.

The mansion went into defense mode as the force shield cloaked the mansion and lasers came up.

"We got to use the secret passage," I said.

Mitsui showed no sign of hearing me.

"Come on, Mitsui," I said.

"Go by yourself. I got business to handle," he said heatedly.

I followed his gaze to a girl, "Ok. Take care."

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(Ayako)

We began the evacuation process and on my way there, after rounding up all the people, I ran into Jin, "You're ok!"

"Yeah. Has everyone left?"

"Rukawa's holding up back making sure no one comes this way and he's also waiting for Koshino and Hikoichi."

"Is Hikoichi ok?" he asked.

The siren rung and red lights came on.

"You leave first. I'll go see what's going on," he said.

"I'll come with you," I said and ran with him to the closest computer terminal.

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(Rukawa)

'What's taking Koshino and Hikoichi so long?'

Footsteps. I turned.

"Long time no see, Rukawa Kaede."

"Fujima," I said and frowned at the man behind him, 'Sendoh.'

"You're going to die here today, in the hands of the man you love. How do you feel about that?" Fujima asked.

"I will not die because neither of you can kill me," I stated.

"Oh? We'll see."

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(Juri)

I focused my power on Sendoh so he'd believe the person before him was Eiji, I've already made sure he forgot the past four months, so he should hate Eiji very much.

"I found you."

"Mitsui?"

"I won't forgive you for what you did to Kogure."

I smiled, "Oh? If I'm not mistaken you're the one that hurt him. Not me."

A car flew at me. I blocked it, 'Since I'm done with Sendoh, guess I got time to play with him for a while.'

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(Sendoh)

Suddenly Eiji appeared before me, 'Nani? How? When?'

'Kaede…right…he's dead. And it's all his fault, Sawakita Eiji.'

"I'll give you a chance to leave."

I held the gun to him, "No."

"What do you think you're doing Sendoh Akira? Do you plan to kill me with it?"

"Yes," I stated.

The ground began to sink, 'Quicksand?'

I fired the rounds and one of them managed to hit him. I found myself stuck, I could move my hands and feet but they were below the ground and only me head was above it, 'Solid ground? Right, he can change the carbon structure of things all around him.'

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(Jin)

I looked at the top screen, 'There Koshino is.'

He was carrying Hikoichi but a man was in their way, 'Isn't he the guy Sendoh did research on? Maki, I think it was.'

They were talking but I didn't have audio. Koshino became invisible. I saw the compression on the skin of Maki's neck, 'Koshino's trying to choke him."

But he smiled and shot Koshino with a weird looking, flashing pistol. But no blood appeared instead, Koshino began flickering.

'Nani?!'

Maki smiled as Koshino became invisible again. Maki looked at Hikoichi and shot him too.

"Sendoh…Kaede's going to kill him," Ayako whispered.

I looked at the lower screen, "That can't happen."

"Why? He's a traitor, he's how they got here unnoticed, because of him…"

"You're wrong," I said, "we got to go stop it."

"You don't know what he-"

"I do," I interrupted her, "I'll explain what I found out on the way. First we got to run."

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(Sendoh)

He stared at me painfully. I dislike it, it made me feel like I did something wrong, 'No, it's only because I hit him in the shoulder, that's the only reason he looks like so.'

The ground beside me began to rise, 'He plans to suffocate me.'

I used my hands to form a time bomb, 'Time: Present. Destination: The floor above me.'

Eiji looked stunned as my body appeared above the ground. But then again it was understandable since it was a disturbing sight. I lowered my head into the portal and got up. I tapped on the clock so the portal would close, "You don't have to look so surprised. My portal allows things to only go one way, so if anything goes through from the wrong side it's immediately comes out where it went in, like light reflecting off a mirror."

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(Ayako)

"So why can't Sendoh die?" I asked.

"He couldn't have betrayed us. This Sendoh is from another timeline. He must've changed something and came back to find the world has changed from what he knew. That's why he knows us but we don't know him, and why he doesn't know anything about himself," Jin said, "because he doesn't know what he did in this timeline."

"So Sendoh doesn't exist in this timeline?" I asked confused.

"No. According to his mom, once they realized his powers and that mutants can't exist here, he went to another time with his dad, to before humans knew about mutants."

"So desu?"

"We got to save Sendoh because he's the only one that can undo the damage done."

"Then we better hurry," I said.

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(Rukawa)

I looked at the wound on my shoulder which hurt but it was nothing compared to how I felt, "You…I can't let you live."

"I should be saying that."

"Sendoh, I won't forgive you," I said coldly, "I hate you."

"You hate me? You won't forgive me? I should be saying that," he stated calmly, "with my powers I can't win you, but we can die together."

Then we were surrounded by darkness, 'This…it's not darkness, it's five portals opened at once. The ground, there's still-'

"Don't think about it, there's another portal under there. I told you I won't forgive you and that you must die," he said listlessly, "I intend to keep that promise, I just thought I might give you time to think of the wrong you done."

"Why? What have I ever done to you?! Why do you hate me so much?!" I demanded.

"What have you done?" he asked and looked at me coldly, "you killed Kaede!!"

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(Sendoh)

He looked shock, "I killed Kaede? Then who am I?"

'What question is that?' I wondered, "that'd make you a murder."

"My name."

"What game are you trying to play Sawakita Eiji?"

He looked thoughtful then actually smiled, "I see. You really care for that cold, arrogant do'aho?"

The way he said 'do'aho' reminded me of Kaede, which only pissed me off more, "You don't know anything about Kaede, so shut up."

"Which one of those descriptions is wrong?" he asked amused, "you're a bigger do'aho than I thought if you want to defend him."

"Stop smiling!" I shouted frustrated and began closing the portals towards us, "you're going to be suffocating in space soon."

He walked to me without any ill will it seemed. There was something about him, something familiar, "What do you want? I'm not going to set you free."

He looked at me and replied, "You know what? I'm not scared at all. I'm really, really happy."

"You're crazy."

"I don't want to be set free," he said, then grabbed the collar of my shirt and pulled me down, and kissed me.

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(Jin)

'Fujima?!'

"Too late. They're both going to die."

I looked at the shrinking black cube.

"No. Not yet," Mitsui said stumbling in, "kill Fujima…it'll end-"

Maki came from behind Mitsui, "You speak too much."

Mitsui looked surprised and grabbed his head.

"Even if you kill me now, he won't wake up," Fujima stated, "he's too deep in my nightmare now, he can't overcome Juri's implanted thoughts either."

"Ayako, be careful of that man's pistol."

She nodded, "Mitsui?"

"He's a psychic right? He'll be completely brain dead really soon," Maki said eyeing the cube.

Ayako gave Fujima a karate chop to the neck, not to kill him just to knock him out, "You the leader of NP?"

~TBC

A/N: Going to update the last 2 chapters soon.

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