Fight for the future

Chapter 16: Welcome home

'' Thoughts

Hotaru Appears in the middle of the lounge causing everyone except Adam to jump.

"Time to go home Adam."

"Stick around for a bit." He replied.

"No, we really need to be going back now." Hotaru replied.

"Oh alright Hotaru…"

"What did you just say?" Michelle asks.

"I should've introduced you when she arrived… this is the Hotaru from my time." Adam tells everyone.

Michelle looks at the Hotaru she knows and at the Hotaru from Adam's time and sees a young woman around Adam's age standing beside Adam as he takes his wristwatch off.

"Hey mom, catch." He says as he throws his watch at Mina who catches it "I'll be in touch."

Hotaru stares at her alternate self before Adam and the alternate Hotaru leave, Hotaru lands on her feet at the time gates but Adam lands on his face… again, groaning as he gets up and looks at Trista.

"I've done my job." Adam says.

"Let's go home." Hotaru said before they leave and go back to the school before going their separate ways, Adam goes back to his room and looks around the room.

'It's good to be back.' He thinks to himself as Amelia, Mia, Mara, Reiko and Hotaru walk in.

"Welcome home." Reiko says.

"Thanks, so what's the news?" he asks.

"Well, they've moved one of their artillery guns closer." Amelia replied.

"How close." Adam asked.

"About half a mile away from here." Hotaru said.

"Anyone up for a late night job?"

They all nod in response.

"Meet me here and hour after dark, and bring side arms if we take rifles they'll only drag us down if we get caught in crossfire." He tells them before they leave and Adam goes to grab his pistols and loads them placing the extra clips in his jacket pockets for later.

An hour after dark

Adam waits for the others to arrive 'where the hell are they?' he thinks to himself as they arrive.

"Ready?" he asks.

"Yeah." They reply as they leave and go and do the job, they keep off the roads and continue for half a mile before they find it and a pile of shells next to it with some guards, their backs turned to them Adam grabs his knife and sneaks up behind one of the guards puts a hand over his mouth and stabs the guard in the back and places him in the grass hidden before moving onto the next guard and doing the same again before he motions for the others to come over.

"Alright, I'm going to double load it then fire it, then fire it when that happens we're going to have to run like fuck." He says as he goes to fire it, he fires the gun causing the barrel to explode waking the gun crew up. Adam drops a grenade in the pile of shells and runs like the wind before stopping and turning round and grabs a rifle and opens fire on the gun crew before dropping it and runs back to the school.

"How'd it go?" Hotaru asked.

"It's destroyed." Adam replied.

"Well, that's a relief." Mara said.

"Yeah, but what about the other ones." Mia asks.

"We'll deal with them when the time comes." Adam replied.

"Let's get some sleep." Amelia said before they leave except Hotaru.

"What's wrong Hotaru?" He asks.

"We've been friends for a long time." Hotaru replied.

'Where's this leading to?' Adam thinks to himself.

Hotaru walks over to him and kisses him on the mouth before sliding her tongue into his mouth as he wraps his arms around her returning the kiss before pulling away.

"Get some sleep Hotaru." Adam tells her as she leaves.

'This for you, Ricky, Yuki, Mom and everyone else.' He thinks to himself as he goes to sleep.

Authors note: I know this chapters short. R&R