Chapter 5
by. SilverWolf-Ryuki
Disclaimer: Nope, dun own Beyblade. Don't quite kill either…sadly…though I am very tempted…
The two-tone haired teen leaned against a wall and slowly; he peaked over to see if anyone is there. Kai's eyebrows relaxed as he turned to Lee, who was behind him. "Clear. Lets split." He whispered to the Chinese boy, who nodded and ran to another wall up ahead with an extremely fast speed. Kai smirked. If anything, these White Tigers' got speed.
"What's our mission on this floor?" Lee whispered into his mouthpiece to Kai.
"It seems for now, searching for the whereabouts of Rei and Ozuma. They don't seem to be here yet…" Kai whispered back in an angry tone, for the other two were so slow.
Suddenly, something cold pressed against Kai's neck, making him flinch just the slightest bit. Kai slowly moved his gun hand, preparing to fire, incase the person does. Usually, they would capture and try getting information out, but in this case, who knows?
Kai froze, feeling the person starting to pull the trigger…
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Rei and Ozuma stepped up the stairs slowly. They were cautious about where they were going, for it was in total darkness, except small bits of light here and there from the cracks in the sealed windows. Suddenly, Ozuma, who was walking in the front, stopped. Causing Rei to nearly bump into him.
"What's the big idea?" Rei hissed.
"Someone is ahead." Ozuma said in a quiet whisper, so quiet that Rei could barely hear him.
Slowly and silently, Ozuma snuck up to the person, whom had his back turned to the two. He raised his gun and pointed it at the neck of the taller stranger.
"Drop your weapon." Ozuma whispered harshly in a dark voice. "I have a gun to your head."
Slowly, the person turned. Ozuma frowned, his eyes narrowed. He was about to pull the trigger.
"WAIT!" Rei hissed. He slowly walked up to the stranger.
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The person who had his gun to Kai's head was about to shoot, when another voice stopped him. Kai's eyes widened, the voice sounded familiar.
The second person slowly walked up to Kai. Kai gripped his gun tightly, incase it was an enemy.
"Kai?" He whispered. Kai blinked and turned: it was Ozuma and Rei.
"What took you two so long?" Kai hissed. "Lee already went ahead."
"Oh, goodness, Kai. At least tell us it's you when we point a gun to your neck. I was about to shoot you." Ozuma grumbled.
"I was as well." Kai nodded at his hand, which held a gun to Ozuma's chest. "Plus, how was I supposed to know it was you two? We have to go find Lee." He whispered hastily and pressed a button. "Lee, come in, Lee."
"Speak, Kai."
"I've got the two here with me. They just came in."
"Just? Slowpokes." Lee whispered.
"Where are you at?"
"Somewhere near the East side of the whole floor, or I think I am."
"Alright. The office is at the North, and we're at South. Go up North, Rei, Ozuma and I will meet you there. If you don't make it, I trust you can take care of yourself." Kai whispered as he motioned for Rei and Ozuma to follow him, which they did. They went straightforward silently.
"Alright." Lee replied as he clicked off.
The three wandered silently in the darkness, barely able to see their own hands in front of them.
"Your arm, you were shot, right?" Kai whispered quietly, so quiet that even Rei can barely hear him, and he was right behind the blue haired teen.
"Yeah."
"K."
Silence settled once again.
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"Are we close?" Mariah whispered through her microphone.
"Yeah, oh, go back 5 steps and go left…there we go." Mariam whispered back. She held the radar in her hand. It showed where her whole team was, and a map of the building and how closer people were. She winced as Lee took a wrong turn towards the south, opposite of where he was supposed to head. She sighed with relief as he took another right and headed back on the right track.
"How are the others?"
"They're fine. Mariah, prepare gun, take a left, that will lead you into a two way where you can either go right or straight. Stay there." Mariam whispered firmly. "I'll meet you there."
"Alright,"
After a short while, the two girls met up at last.
"Alright, I'll go through the front door, and there is a side door, which you will go through. The room will have 5 guards in it. I will shoot the three in the front. But I can't reach the back. When they turn their heads to see what I'm doing, shoot them, and then get the disk. If you don't, I might die of either shame or a bullet through my body. Now, all set?" Mariam whispered to her partner.
"Yeah," The pink-haired girl nodded and gripped her gun.
"Alright, Lets do this…"
The two split up once again, with Mariam turning right and Mariah going straight and then right. The two stood silently at the door.
"In three…" Mariam whispered. "I'm going at one, go right after you hear the first bullet – I'm taking the silencer off."
"Three…" Mariah whispered.
"Two…"
"One…"
A bang was heard and Mariam swung the door open. The 5 guards looked confused and whispered amongst themselves as they pointed their gun towards the open door. Mariam then appeared; her hair flew slightly as a breeze blew from the slightly open window.
"It's a woman." One of the guards smirked and reported to his fellow guard, who doesn't seem to see very well in the dark. "She doesn't even have a weapon in her hands. She's just standing there with her hands in her sweater pocket."
"That's pathetic…" One of the guards remarked.
Then, a sound of a gun being shot was heard and one of the guards dropped. Mariam then smirked, took out her gun from her sweater pocket, which now had a hole in it, and fired at the other two. Her reflexes beat the others as two bangs from a gun could be heard, along with a grunt from the one being shot. Then, 2 dull thuds could be heard of dead bodies dropping on the ground. A silent trickle of blood was heard in the silence.
Right after the first shot, another set of doors were swung open loudly and two silent pings sounded, followed by thuds of dead bodies.
Unexpectedly, a sharp siren started to ring. It rang through the silence of the room and across the whole building. The sharp sound made the two girls shield their ears.
Mariah had gotten to the disk, which was surrounded with glass. Frowning, Mariah reached into her pocket to search for something sharp, but found nothing.
"Hurry up!" Mariam said through gritted teeth.
"The disk is locked up." Mariah informed the impatient girl. Mariam sighed and rushed toward the disk. Frowning, she took out her gun.
"I'm going to shoot the lid off. Try not to get in the way." The girl said as she inserted new bullets. Loud bangs could be heard as holes entered the glass. There was a pause as Mariam inserted new bullets, and the bangs continued, until a loud smashing sound rang out. The top of the glass case dropped on the ground, and Mariah reached her hand inside to get the disk, ignoring the fact that the glass cut her hands.
As if on cue, the guards rushed in with their weapons. Mariam frowned and shot the nearest guards. "Window." That was all she said, before the two girls smashed the windows and jumped out. Along with them flew bits of glass, cutting their skin and clothes slightly.
"Isn't it just our luck that the floor the disk is at is on the third floor of the house?" Mariah muttered sarcastically as both girls landed on their feet. Barely. The hard landing sent a dull pain up the heel of both teens. Mariam winced and fell upon her knees, not used to falling so hard. Mariah, on the other hand, said 'ouch' and almost miraculously, she was fine.
Just as if it couldn't get worse, the guards started to shoot from above. Mariam looked grim. "They never stop trying…" She muttered and started to run, as did Mariah, while trying to shoot the current attacker.
"Is that good, or bad?" Mariah questioned as she succeeded in shooting one that attempted to jump down as well.
"It works both ways." Mariam replied and ducked behind a tree, avoiding a bullet just barely.
"We got the disk now; I'm going to call the others."
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Kai winced as his ears complained about the sudden ringing in it after such a long period of silence. It was fortunate that no others could hear it like he did, or else the whole building would be ringing up.
"What?" Kai growled quietly into his mouthpiece.
"We got the disk." Mariam said from the other line.
"Great, and you caused up a quite a commotion, I hear?"
"How was I supposed to know that the ground had a weight monitor? The guards fell because they were dead and they probably triggered the alarm."
"That's still your fault."
"Oh, am I supposed to fly up to them and shoot them while making sure they don't fall?"
"Imagination, Mariam."
"How is your mission going?"
"No time to talk. I'm almost at the door." Kai hissed so quietly, Mariam had to strain to hear him.
"Alright."
She clicked off.
Kai sighed silently and looked around for any trace of Lee, there were none. He frowned as he looked at the ground before him. Kai slipped on a pair of shades and pressed a button, and in a flash, red lines showed up before him. Kai frowned, knowing that there would be some laser alarm-triggering problem of some sort.
"Guys, there are laser beams here. Don't step on them." Kai whispered to the two.
"How are we going to do that?" Rei hissed. "We can't see them!"
"Here…" Ozuma gave the Chinese boy a pair of shades while slipping on his own.
"Oh, shades are going to help so much at night time." Rei whispered sarcastically.
"No, they are specially modified to sense heat, radio activeness, and other unusual stuff. They can also help you clearly see in the dark, and don't forget about the ki level of opponents."
Rei blinked. "Ok, which one am I supposed to use?"
"Uh…try the third button on the left." Ozuma said quietly. "I know it works, but I don't quite know what it does."
"It helps you see…as I quote Ozuma…'other unusual stuff' there may be." Kai whispered.
The three fell silent while they tried to step over the red string-like beams under their feet. One wrong step will trigger an alarm. Heavy drops of sweat formed on their forehead as they tiptoed across the area. Then, they came to the door.
"Alright. I assume the door has some thingy that activates an alarm. There is a window inside the room, as the blueprint showed us, as well as a fire exit. If the fire exit doesn't work, jump through the window. Good luck on surviving that. There will be guards, about…up to 10 of them. Not too much, though. Shoot them, then shoot the main guy, who should be in his chair." Kai whispered. "Ok?"
"Roger."
"Ok."
Then, the three pushed open the door, and unexpectedly…
There wasn't an alarm.
Kai blinked in surprise as he saw a hallway, filled with knight's armors, leading into another door. He started to walk towards it, when guards jumped out from behind the armors. In a flash, the three pulled out their gun and ducked behind the two beams that held the roof up. Ozuma winced as a bullet shot his sleeve, missing his skin by less than an inch.
Rei closed his eyes and put his arm out slightly to shoot blindly behind him, for if he looked, chances are he'd die. He didn't have his silencer on; so loud shots could be heard in a long string as he used up all his bullets currently in his gun. Several thuds could be heard as some of the guards dropped dead.
Kai, on the other hand, reached into his pocket to fetch a mirror. Looking into it, he saw where everyone was. Then, like Rei, he reached out his hand just a bit to be able to shoot them. Above average of his shots hit, but nearly half of them missed.
Ozuma closed his eyes and listened for the movement of the guards. They stopped shooting and were probably moving closer to the three. Then, suddenly, his green eyes shot open and he took out his other gun, shooting two guards that were approaching from both sides. He then stepped out of the safety of the beams and shot several others. Then, when it finally hit the guards of what happened, he ducked back within the beam. After a while of doing this, a lucky shot came and it hit Ozuma's left leg, causing him to wince in pain. Ignoring the fact that his own leg was bleeding and the warm blood was running down his legs and staining his sock, Ozuma continued to shoot.
More and more thuds could be heard as the three came up with creative ways to destroy their opponents. Finally, when blood was spread across the ground and was flowing and dripping all around, the three assumed that the guards were dead and stepped out. They were – tens and up to 50 bodies lay scattered around the large hall. All were lifeless or in pain. The blood was everywhere. Rei looked disgusted as he stepped onto the wet surface of the ground. The three made their way to the second door. Ozuma paused to bandage his leg with a piece of cloth that he ripped off from his pant leg, but they resumed.
Just then, someone stepped into the room. The three teens, in unison, turned and pointed their gun at whoever just came in.
"Lee?"
Rei lowered his gun as he recognized the Chinese boy.
"Yeah," Lee grumbled. "The one, and only, whom you almost killed."
"Accidents happen…" Kai smirked.
"Did you do all that?" Lee looked around at the ground, covered with corps and blood.
"Yeah," Ozuma nodded.
"Enough chat." Kai whispered. "We need to go through the other door. Whatever happens, be ready to duck."
The three others nodded as Kai started to push open the door. 4 guns rose as the door creaked open.
To all the teens' surprise, no one was there. The 4 lowered their guns.
"That's strange…" Ozuma said suspiciously.
"Yeah…" Rei muttered as he looked around the totally empty room.
"They should be here…" Lee looked at Kai. "Right?"
Kai gave a nod. He looked around and stepped into the room.
Then, suddenly, the door behind them slammed shut.
"Tell me someone did that…" Rei closed his eyes and raised his gun once again.
"Afraid not…" Kai muttered.
Ozuma opened his mouth to speak, and then suddenly, a chuckle could be heard.
"Actually…someone did do that." The voice hissed. "Me."
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Ryuki: Yep, some cliffhanger that was. Anyways, here's another chapter. It's not much action, but it doesn't matter. So…how's about clicking that little purple button down there and reviewing…? XD
