Chapter 6
by. SilverWolf-Ryuki
Disclaimer: Nope, dun own Beyblade. No longer tempted to kill, but would like more reviews. : )
"And who might you be?"
Kai called out, his voice dipped with disrespect. The four was now in total darkness. They could not even see their own hands in front of them; let alone what this room was.
"I am…"
Suddenly, they heard a crackle of electricity. Then, the voice altered. Instead of mysterious, it became high pitched. "I am…" then, it dropped low into a groan. "I…am…"
All of a sudden, an invisible force (not that they could see it) washed the whole area, knocking all of them down. Not long later, the explosion roared in their ears. Kai shielded his face and he felt random pieces of a blown up electronic hit his body. Smoke swirled around them, making them cough and choke. It took a long time for the air to clear.
"So, it was a robot." Rei concluded.
"And it was hoping for us to follow its voice, so when it blew up, it would take us with him." Ozuma gave his hypothesis.
"Yeah, that makes sense…" Lee breathed. He brushed himself off.
"Feel down the side of your glasses. Push the third button, the little one - night goggle." Kai said.
Fumbling, all the guys got on their goggles and pressed the third button.
"Is it normal that I'm seeing squiggles?" Lee's voice, unsure, came.
"No…you're detecting level of chemical and particles in the air. It's the button before that."
"Ah, that's better."
Kai put on his own glasses. He pressed the button, and everything turned from black to greenish. Kai looked upwards and around, adjusting his eyes to the new light.
"Useful glasses, these are," Rei smiled.
"So, what's the situation?" Ozuma asked as he looked around.
"The door's locked." Lee's voice came from not far away. His voice was soon followed by several gunshots, a dull thud, an 'ow', and a pained "It is bullet and fist proof too".
"Mariam, do you copy?" Kai whispered into his mouth piece.
"Yes, I copy." Mariam's slight sarcastic voice replied.
"Check the computerized blue print and see if there's any possibility for a locked, bulletproof, metal door. If there is, see if there are any wires nearby that we can pull."
"Pull? Gee, that's professional. Yes, you're probably in the top room to the very eastern end, through a hallway? Narrow? About 20 meters in width?"
"Yes,"
"Can you see around the room?"
"Yes, but barely."
"There's a bared window at the very top. To open that, there's a touch-sensitive place around the room at your approximate eyelevel. But the blueprint doesn't say where it is. The room is round, by the way."
"Thanks. I'll ring if there's a problem."
With a click Mariam was off. Kai informed everyone of the situation.
"What exactly is your eyelevel?" Ozuma grumbled. "I'm a bit short."
Kai shrugged and soon enough, everyone agreed on the height to prod at.
"This room is round, so very slowly we're going to walk around. To prevent walking in circles, everyone take off the glove opposed of your gun hand and lay in on the place you began. If you don't find anything, search the area a bit taller or shorter than what you're doing." Kai stated. "Also, while doing so, think of a way to reach the ceiling."
This was followed by a series of grumbles and curses.
¥"Anything yet?" Mariam's voice rang in Kai's ear piece.
"Nope. Mariam, it's been how long?"
"15 minutes… I thought you should have found it by now…"
"Well we didn't. How big is the patch we're supposed to find?"
"Around the size of your thumb. Hurry up, you're running out of time…"
"How would you like, groping around the walls in a black, circular room?"
"How did you know it was painted black?"
Kai felt his eye twitch. "Ring back in a few more minutes."
"Got it," Mariam chirped and a beep signified that she was gone.
"We could build a man tower," Lee joked.
"I don't know." Ozuma grumbled. "I think we might die before getting to the top."
"Why don't we just use those things that Mariah gave us?"
Everyone turned to look at Rei.
"What…things?" Kai said slowly.
"Those sticky things you throw to the ceiling, they attach and then drop a rope down." Rei answered breezily.
"You had those!" Lee fumed.
"Uh," Rei was starting to catch on. It wasn't a very big room, and the heat from Lee and Ozuma's anger basically acted as a very large stove. "…Yeah?"
Kai sighed and before anyone could murder Rei, he spoke up. "Be grateful we can get out of here."
Ozuma sighed and collapsed onto the wall. "If only we knew –"
Suddenly, the roof opened with a loud mechanical buzzing.
"You are one lucky, short person," Rei remarked as he fished in his bag for the tools needed to get out. He passed one to Kai and took one for himself. "They're not reusable, so share," He mumbled as he pressed a blue button on the little ball. He threw it up, close to the opening. A dull whirling and the drop of the rope told the four that it was good to climb. Kai did the same.
Lee took out four pairs of cloves and handed them out. They all slipped them on and started to climb.
"Mariam," Kai said while he climbed. "Come in, Mariam,"
"I'm here, I'm here, and do you have to use these cheesy phrases?"
"Old habits die hard." Kai replied. "Should we abandon, or kill the guy first?"
"Depends on the situation. There's a good chance that he's still around."
"Because of the mechanic voice?"
"Yeah,"
"It might not be though,"
"According to his history, he likes to do things hands on."
"Got it,"
A beep told Kai she was off.
Soon, Kai reached the top and swung himself over the side. The roof was circular as well, but all four of them had grip shoes. He helped Ozuma up and saw that Lee and Rei were up as well. He looked around.
"Slippery," Ozuma grumbled. Kai nodded.
"We could make it though," Rei analyzed.
"Perhaps," Kai mumbled.
"I have an eerie feeling," Lee whispered. He looked around at the distance and his pupils shrunk as he focused. "Our target has red hair, right?"
"Yeah," Kai frowned. "Is he around?"
"I think it's pretty stupid," Lee muttered as he added on an aimer to his gun. "That he doesn't wear a hat."
Ozuma followed suit. He pressed a different button on his shades and zoomed in. Rei and Kai did the same, putting on an aiming device to their gun.
"Ready?" Rei looked around.
"Heavy bullets," Kai mumbled as he passed around several small, metal bullets. Ozuma, Rei and Lee slipped them in their guns. "Helps with aim,"
"Ready to duck," Ozuma mumbled.
"Initial shoot in three, two,"
Kai gripped the gun with both his hands and pulled the trigger. A loud whistle shot from his gun and the three could see it streaking towards the car in the distance.
"Start,"
Suddenly, the four teens started to blast out bullets, reloading easily with practice. It was a while before the black-suited men and the target with the red hair realized they were being attacked. He quickly got in the car as the body-guards around him fell into their own pools of blood.
Kai gritted his teeth as the car started to go. He jumped down step by step, leading the other three. He approached the car, while dodging many bullets coming from the men who did survive their surprise attack from afar.
"Bomb," Rei panted into his mouthpiece.
"I got one," Lee replied breathlessly as they ran.
Kai didn't look back as he caught the small bomb thrown by Lee. He quickly pressed two buttons out of 3 and threw the small jaw-breaker sized bomb at the car with very accurate aim. As soon as he made sure the bomb hit, he shot one last bullet at the gun, fell to the ground and covered his head.
Not even 2 seconds later, the car went up in flames, shooting bits of metal and flames everywhere. The explosion blew the car outwards, and the force of the gun blew Kai's hair back with a strong force.
Kai peaked up and saw the fire.
"Kai," Rei whispered urgently.
But he didn't need the whisper in his ears, or the yell of Ozuma.
He had started a fire in the building. And to make it worse, there was a decent size of woods nearby, leading into a patch of towns.
"Mariam, we need a fire blockage here, NOW!"
"Why?"
"DON'T QUESTION! JUST DO IT!"
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Note: o.O Whoa, what inspired me to do that, I do NOT know. Anyhow, here's your chapter 6. Hope you liked it… whoever that's left to read it, that is…
