Is That You? By: OtakuSailorV

Chapter 13:: Plan of Action

The monsters chased the Gels as Genki and Holly ran as fast as they could for the power plant.

"We're not gonna be able to run all the way." Genki gasped for breath as he looked back at Holly.

Holly nodded in agreement.

Tiger appeared running between them, smiling. "Did I hear someone say they needed a ride?"

Smiling back at him, they let him carry them from then on.

"Which way?" Tiger yelled up at them as they came to a turn.

"Turn left." Genki ordered, seeing as he was the only one that knew the way to it.

Tiger turned swiftly, the humans holding tightly to him as he swung them from one side to the other.

Behind them, the Gels were letting out wild cries as they tried to beat back Pixie and the other monsters that were sending attack after attack at them. Though they were not working well enough as thousands of single units, they could hardly form into one powerful unit with the constant deluge of attacks.

"How much farther?!" Pixie's voice came from up above them. "We don't have much strength left to drive these things, Genki!"

"Not much farther now, just around the corner and across the street!!" He called back to her, pointing in the general direction.

Pixie looked up and spied the mountain of steel, her eyes picking up the faint blue light of electricity running through it.

Nodding, she flew back, and helped her monster allies in the last few yards that remained.

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Tiger stopped before a large wire-metal gate that was chained and locked. Genki grit his teeth as he looked up and noticed that there was barbed wire in three rows over the fence as well.

"Seems someone doesn't want us to get in." Tiger grumbled as he looked back and saw the Gels being herded around the corner.

"Yeah, it's extremely dangerous, you could get killed just touching something wrong." Genki said, walking up and looking over the lock.

"If it's dangerous, then why does Hikari want us to come here?" Holly asked, gripping her hands together tightly in worry.

"I wanna know why we're taking orders from her in the first place." Tiger grumbled.

"Genki!"

Genki turned toward his name and spotted Hikari coming toward them from the other side of the fence.

"How did you-?" He started, but Hikari wouldn't let him finish as she gave the gate a hard kick. It flew open, the chains and lock landing in the middle of the street behind them.

"Come on!" She ordered, motioning them to follow her.

Genki, Tiger, and Holly followed her inside as she directed them toward a thin, long piece of metal that radiated blue slightly.

"When the Gels get within five feet of this, I want you, Holly, to press this button." Hikari tossed her a remote control. "I'll give you the signal"

Holly caught it clumsily, staring at it.

"As Holly presses the button, I'm going to need you, Genki, to capture them with this." Hikari brought forth an ordinary Monster Rancher game disc that was emblazoned to look like a mystery disc. Genki raised an eyebrow at her as she handed it to him.

"A game disc?" He questioned her.

"It would appear so, but it is not. Under normal circumstances, that disc would melt when struck both by the Gels and the power of the electric waves, but this one was especially engineered to capture Monsters." She stated. "It's very complex and I don't have the time to explain right now."

"Engineered by who?"

"I'm not at liberty to say at the moment." Hikari responded as if she were a machine.

"And what do you want me to do?" Tiger asked, seeming a bit disgruntled.

"If you will make sure that no other Monster but the Gels are in the way when Holly activates the electric waves, that will be enough."

Tiger shut his eyes and looked like he wanted to sigh. "Fine."

Genki came up to Hikari, opening his mouth to speak, but once again, she cut him off. "Please, hold all questions until we are finished."

"Here they are!" Tiger yelled as the first few Gels came through the busted gates.

Genki turned to find that Hikari was gone. Looking around, he spied her standing on the small building that was used to store wire, safety tape, and other things needed for the repair of the power plant, watching the Gels carefully.

"Get in your places!" She called, signaling to them all.

Holly held her finger over the button, standing to the side so that no Gels would see her and try to attack.

Genki jumped into his position behind the silver rod, gripping the disc tightly, though he did not truly understand what was going on.

"Lift it up!" Hikari ordered him as Tiger jumped to prevent the monsters from getting in the way.

Making a face, Genki pushed it into the air above his head and watched as Hikari pointed swiftly at Holly. "NOW!!"

Holly pressed the button and let out a gasp as the thin rod suddenly exploded with blue light, pulling everything toward it as little spikes of electricity shot through the air.

Holding his ground, Genki gripped his old, orange hat with one hand as he held on tightly to the disc that still hung in the air.

There was a crash and another bright flash of light as the Gels screamed. Genki squinted his eyes shut against the light, and opened them to find that all the little spikes of electricity had concentrated on the disc in his hand that was starting to glow brightly.

"STAND YOUR GROUND!!" Hikari's command was heard over the roar of the electricity and the startled cry of the Gels that had started to try and run away from the thin rod that was illuminated brightly.

Just as Genki thought that he could hold on no longer, the ground rocked under his feet, and the Gels were pulled into the light of the electric rod.

Holly gasped as she watched the blue men be sucked into the light, clawing at the ground.

When all the Gels had been sucked in, they watched in amazement as one final flash of light was seen before all it emptied forth into the disc in Genki's hand.

Genki let out a yell of surprise, the sudden light blinding him temporarily. "Gah!"

"GENKI!!" Holly called; worried as Genki and the disc were both engulfed in a brilliant blue flash of light and electricity.

Looking up, Hikari was watching sternly, as if nothing was bothering her about the proceedings.

Suddenly, the wind that had been pulling them all toward the rod died, the crack of electricity in the air disappeared, and Genki stood, holding his hat with one hand as he squinted his eyes shut, and bracing himself from what had been.

Hikari gave a smirk-like smile, obviously pleased. "Very good." She complemented, walking over and taking the disc gently from him before depositing it somewhere in the folds of her clothes.

"Well done, now there is time for me to explain. Follow me." Hikari lead them down the abandoned streets, to an equally abandoned little café where she sat down in a black-metal, crossing her legs and watching the steadily.

"First question?" She stated more than asked, gesturing for the others to sit with her.

Golem sat in the road, getting as close as he could, while the others took seats around the black-metal table.

"Who are you?" Genki demanded first.

"I am Hikari Oukami, but my co-workers know me as Agent L."

"'Agent L'?"

"'L' for 'Light'." She explained casually.

"How do you know so much about the monsters? You don't look like you're into playing the games."

Hikari smiled. "You're right, I like shooting and action games better. But to answer the question: I know what I know because of my job."

"And what is your job?" Holly asked.

"I work for the company that produces the Monster Rancher games of course." Hikari smirked at them, as if she were hiding something behind the statement.

"How do you appear so calm in the face of all this? And appear so well prepared?" Hare spoke up before anyone else could.

The blond woman chuckled slightly. "I was trained to be calm, plus I know very well what is going on here, so that helps."

"And what IS going on here? Why are Holly and the others in this world? And why are more coming?"

"That will take some time to explain. But I can answer your first question, it is what we are calling Mass World Integration or MWI for short."

"That doesn't exactly explain anything." Suezo grumbled.

"Genki, when we gave you that disc, it was an experiment." Hikari started, ignoring Suezo's comment. "We thought that we could make a 'virtual-reality' game that put you right in the story. But something went wrong, and instead we seem to have sent you instead to the actual world where the Monsters existed. You got back safely, which was the chief priority at the time. But world-hopping never comes without a price."

Hikari stopped to gather her thoughts. "As a result, the portal was left open, and through that open portal are coming more and more monsters, who are both a danger to themselves and us. They are making the portal wider, and soon, there will be no end to the monsters that are constantly appearing. If my Agency does not fix this mess soon, there will be no telling what will happen."

She sighed, tweaking at her long braid with her right hand. "So they dispatched me to set up camp in a remote place, and try to lure all the monsters coming through the portals, to appear there instead of in a big city, where it would be harder to explain their appearance."

"So you came to my Grandfather's village?" Genki asked sternly.

Hikari nodded. "I was only able to guide your friends to that place though, as you can see. I was given orders the day that Pixie arrived to capture all the monsters that appeared, with your help of course, and bring them back to headquarters to be contained until we can send them back. That is where this comes into play." She brought forth the disc that contained the Gels.

"Activated by extreme levels of energy, they appear to be a game disc, but can store anything from computer information, to actual monsters." She placed it back in her shirt. "This is Top Secret, and no one is to know of the existence of my Agency, or me for that matter. Understood?"

Hikari folded her hands in a very business-like manner an watched them carefully, her eyes never wavering. Genki had the weirdest feeling that she had done this before, which he was sure she had.

He nodded. "So I guess that means we're working together on this?"

Hikari shrugged. "You don't have to take my orders, see as you are not my subordinate, and I am trained to do this on my own anyway. But when one has the power to help, one should use it, ne?"

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Hope that explains everything for now. And that no one is confused. I have a way of confusing people when I write sometimes. Sorry.

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