Hi everyone! Thank you so much for the reviews and sorry for the delay. Before you start reading I want to say, that this has been the most difficult chapter to write yet. I'm not sure how good it is. Anyways... back to the story.
Chapter 9: Mission impossible
Kai woke up in a dark room and looked around to recognize the place, but without any use. The back of his head hurt. He remembered being at the airport and getting surrounded by Boris' men. After that he felt a hard hit and everything went black. Obviously he was captured by Boris. He tried to open the handcuffs, which were keeping his hands tied to a pole behind him, but once again without any use. He heard a mouse or a rat squeak and right after a scream.
"Get it off me, get it off me! GET IT OFF ME!" Hilary screamed.
"Quiet Hilary!" Kai snapped.
"Kai? Is it you?" Hilary asked, settling down.
"Yeah. It's me," he replied.
"Where are we?" she asked.
"In a some sort of warehouse I think. Captured by Boris," he said, muttering the last part.
"I'm so sorry. This is all my fault," Hilary said, trying to hold back the tears.
"You're darn right, it's your fault," Kai replied. "But we have to start thinking a way to get out of here."
"Right," said Hilary.
"If I know Boris, there are some pretty unpleasant things he could do to us," Kai stated.
At Kira's house in San Francisco (She has two houses):
"What are we going to do?" asked Anya, ready to burst into tears.
"Calm down first. You have to think clearly," Kira said, wrapping her arms around her friend.
"There is still the question. We don't even know where to start looking," said Max.
"Well, first of all. You don't seem to know anything about me," snapped Kira. "Do you know why Boris wants to get me so bad?"
"No," answered Max.
"For your information, I may not be as good as Anya or Kai in blading, but I'm one hell of a spy. There's probably nobody else outside BIOVOLT, that knows more about it then I do," she explained.
"You most know pretty much," stated Rei.
"I think I do, but most importantly, I know the location of a few hiding places, which are in the use of Boris," she replied.
"Well, how do we know, which one to search?" asked Tyson.
"By using your brains and thinking like the enemy thinks," Kira stated. "I'm going to my computer now to solve this out. We should leave as quickly as possible, Boris' men are looking for us."
With a certain evil person...
"What shall I do with the boy and the girl?" asked a mysterious male voice.
"Leave the girl to me and do what you want with the boy," replied another male voice.
"Anything you say," said the same voice as before.
Soon the door to the room, where Kai and Hilary were, opened. Inside stepped a grown man with a few other men.
"Take the girl to him," he said to one of the men.
He opened the handcuffs and locked them again, as soon as Hilary was up on her feet. She tried to hit him, but missed. Hilary was walked out of the room.
"Now for you..." said the man, grinning evilly.
"You mean to ask me where Anya is," Kai said.
"Smart kid," mocked Boris.
"I'm not going to tell you. NOT IN HELL," stated Kai.
"I would advise you to tell. You don't want to face the consequences," warned Boris.
"I'm not afraid of you," Kai snarled, throwing a death glare at Boris.
"We'll fix that," said Boris calmly. "Move him."
The men left in the room unlocked Kai and moved him to a different spot in the room and chained him to stand in an 'X' position. His hands were chained to the ceiling and feet to the floor. Kai could see Boris going to a closet in the corner of the room and coming back with something that looked much like a... whip!
He heard the whip whistle as it went through the air and a second later he felt a painful lash on his back. Biting his teeth together, he managed to stay quiet. There were a few more lashes.
"Still willing to stay quiet?" asked Boris in a mocking tone.
Kai didn't say anything.
"Still refusing I see," Boris said and let the whip fly through the air again.
This time it hit Kai harder then ever and made him cry out in pain. The second hit wasn't any easier.
Back with the Bladebreakers, Anya and Kira:
"Okay. So this is what I managed to find out," Kira began. "Kai and Hilary are held in an old deserted warehouse in Russia, near a town called Rodniki," she finished.
"How did you find out all that?" Tyson asked.
"That's my little secret. I haven't been trained as a spy for nothing," she stated.
"She is right, you should see her in action. But enough with this, we have a rescue to do," Anya said.
Once again they were leaving for the airport, but this time they would go to Russia, to tempt fate and take a huge risk.
In the airplane, on their way to Russia...
"We have to have a strategy and Anya here has just planned one for us," Kira stated.
"Hey, don't we get to say our opinions!" Tyson exclaimed.
"No. If my idea of you is correct, neither one of you has had any kind of training on how to manage in situation like this. So I suggest you leave it to the pros," Kira snapped.
"And you are it?" said Rei, in a slightly sarcastic tone.
"Oh please. I assure you. You don't want me to start a lecture on my abilities," Kira stated. "So back to the plan..."
"I was thinking of a tactic based on a diversion," Anya said.
"What kind?" asked Max.
"Well thinking of the high security and everything I thought that Kira should go with Rei and sneak in to free Kai and Hilary, while the rest of us provide a diversion. We will most probably make it out also," explained Anya.
"Probably? That doesn't sound too good to me," said Tyson.
"Well, it is the only way it will work," stated Anya.
"You're absolutely sure?" asked Max.
"Positive," Anya assured.
"Then let's blast the damn place!" shouted Tyson.
"Yeah!" they all replied in unison.
At the warehouse Kai was laying on the floor, his body beaten up and burned at some spots. All his clothes were ragged and he couldn't move. The pain was too much to handle. Hilary was brought back to the same room, although she wasn't beaten as badly and she had only one burn.
"You told him, didn't you?" muttered Kai weakly.
"I'm so sorry..." Hilary answered and started to sob.
Outside, near the warehouse:
"Okay. Everyone understands, what we are going to do?" asked Kira.
They all nodded.
"Let's get moving then," she said, as she and Rei left the others, to sneak into the warehouse.
Anya, Max and Tyson went silently as close to the warehouse as possible, trying not to get noticed too soon. From Anya's mark they all started running like crazy through the open square to get inside. The guards noticed immediately and went after them and leaving an unguarded route for Rei and Kira to sneak in through the ventilation shaft. The situation wasn't all clear though. There were security cameras and they had to move fast, not to be seen. Luckily they made it. Anya managed to lock the door from inside, before the guards got in. That was unfortunately the least of their problems because the guards had made a report of a security breach, which set of the alarms.
"Can you two make it on your own with the map?" Anya asked, preparing to launch her blade.
"Yeah," replied Max.
"Then I suggest you run, before I use this," she said, pointing to her blade.
"Right. Come on Tyson!" Max exclaimed as they left the room.
Max and Tyson had left the room a little while ago, when Anya heard steps from the other corridor and launched her blade. Four guards appeared into the room and looked surprised to see only one girl.
"Dremix, use Nightmare!" Anya yelled and the same screech as before filled the room, echoing through the corridors.
The guards lifted their hands to cover their ears, but without any use. Soon every guard was laying unconscious on the floor and Anya continued her way. She had agreed to try and find Kai's blade, which would for obvious reasons be taken from him and would cause a lot of damage in evil hands.
Meanwhile with Kira and Rei...
"We're almost at the end of the shaft," Kira said. "Try to stay quiet."
"Okay," replied Rei.
"There are security cameras inside too, so we have to move quickly and quietly. One wrong step and you will be seen or heard," she stated in a serious voice.
"And then we're toast," he said.
"Right," she confirmed.
"This is it," she whispered, when they reached the the end of the shaft. "I'm going to go out first and you follow me right after, but quietly. Go right to the corridor and to the corner, right under the camera and I will follow you as soon as I seal this shaft."
"How can you open that, without dropping the grating to the floor, on the other side?" Rei asked concerned.
"It's a little tricky, but I can pull it off," Kira assured.
"How?" Rei asked.
"You'll see. Go backwards a bit," she replied. " And be ready."
She held tightly to the grating and pushed it loose as she flipped down and landed silently on the floor. Rei hopped down right after her and resisted the urge to stop and ask her, how she did it and continued to the right corridor. Kira placed the grating back and dashed after Rei, making it just in time. The camera they were under was just turning.
On the opposite side of the building, Tyson and Max were in a awkward situation. They were running through random corridors, with a long line of guards on their tail. A gap was forming between them and the guards, when Tyson had enough of running and stopped to launch his blade.
"Go Dragoon!" he shouted. "Phantom Hurricane!"
The guards were soon sucked into the powerful vortex and slammed to the walls of the corridor. Almost all of them where knocked out.
"Nice one pal," said Max.
"Thanks," Tyson replied, as he caught his blade and they started running.
Anya had managed to the second floor and had just shaken of a few guards from her tail, when she noticed a room full of beyblades. She went inside and after noticing the ventilation shaft, she jammed the door and started looking for Kai's blade. It was a lot of work, since there were at least a 100 blades in the room.
At the same time Kira and Rei were in for trouble, as they had come a cross with a corridor full of lasers.
"This going to be a tough one," Kira said, worriedly.
"No kidding. Nobody human can make it through," Rei replied.
"Don't be so sure," Kira said. "There is a switch on other side, that turns off the lasers, but you have only 20 seconds before they go back on."
"That's crazy!" Rei exclaimed.
"There is no other way," Kira said
"Fine. Let's do it then," Rei agreed.
"I'll go to the other side to press the switch," Kira said.
Rei was amazed how agile she was as she went through the corridor, slowly but surely. They pressed the switches and let go as the clock started. Rei got through in ten seconds.
"That wasn't so hard," he said.
"Not now, but when we have to go through this again with my brother and your friend," she stated. "They're behind that door."
Kira started opening the lock on the door, which took some time, since it was quite complicated.
Anya had found Kai's blade and taken it with her and started to look for Tyson and Max. She ran into them at the stairs between the second and first floor.
"Anya! A little help please!" shouted Max, as he and Tyson were caught by the guards, who had surprised them by coming through the door to the landing.
"Brace yourselves," Anya said, as she launched her blade.
"Go Dremix! Nightmare!" she ordered and the guards let go of Max and Tyson as soon as they heard the horrible, echoing screech. But Max and Tyson were in no situation to start running because the screech affected them too.
"Stop Dremix!" Anya ordered, before Max and Tyson fainted.
"Run!" she yelled. Max and Tyson started running immediately and got away from the guards and lost them in the corridors. They stopped soon.
"So, what next?" Tyson asked.
"We go to Kira and Rei. We are supposed to meet them at the elevator in the third floor," she stated.
At the third floor with Rei and Kira:
"Just a little longer..." Kira muttered to herself, as she was opening the lock. "Almost there, don't fail me now."
Then there was a silent click heard and the lock opened.
"Got it!" Kira announced and opened the door. She and Rei stepped into the almost dark room.
"Hilary?" Rei called.
"Here..." they heard a voice say from the back of the room.
"Hilary!" Rei exclaimed in shock. "What happened to you!"
"Kai... he's hurt," she said pointing to Kai, who was laying on the floor, unconscious from all the blood loss.
"Oh Kai! What have they done to you?" Kira exclaimed and went to Kai and checked his pulse. "His pulse is very weak."
"We have to get going," Rei said, as he helped Hilary to her feet and supported her.
Kira lifted Kai to her arms and started to carry him.
"How are we going to get through the lasers?" Rei asked.
"There is your answer," Kira said, pointing to the other end of the corridor, where Anya, Max and Tyson appeared.
"Press the switch!" Kira yelled.
Tyson pulled the switch and the lasers turned off. They were in a hurry. Kira carrying Kai and Rei helping Hilary walk. They made it just by an inch, before the lasers turned on.
"Kai!" Anya exclaimed.
"His very hurt. We have to get to a hospital," Kira said.
They went to the elevator and took it too the bottom floor. Luckily they got out without much problems...
This is the point where I stop and leave you to worry about Kai and is he going to be alright. Are they going to make it to the hospital in time? Read and REVIEW to find out in the next chapter...
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