Chapter 2

Yume looked to her teammates in the helicopter that High Risk Solutions provided, Karasuba held her nodachi tightly, Matsu worked on the tablet provided by MBI and Kazehana leaned back in her seat looking at the passing scenery. Yume could tell that Karasuba was excited by the upcoming fight and the notion of killing, Matsu seemed to be watching porn based upon her grin and the sound of moaning coming from the tablet and Yume could tell that Kazehana wished she was back at MBI tower so she could be closer to her crush.

"Ma'am, we're coming up on the installation your tech forwarded." The pilot Yume over the headset as she looked in the distance and saw a small building, gesturing to one of the contractors in the helicopter for a pair of binoculars which he gave her. Looking through the binoculars she saw the building but no guards or any air defenses in place, lowering the binoculars she wondered if they had other systems in place.

"Matsu, anything?" She asked the redhead who paused her movie and looked at Yume.

"I've been monitoring the area for any outgoing communications. There hasn't been anything yet." Matsu told Yume without looking at her before going back to watching her adult movie as Yume went back to the watching the building as it slowly grew closer and larger.

"Two minutes." The pilots told Yume who looked to her squad and the contractors who began getting ready. Yume took off her headset as did her squad the moment the helicopter touched down in the front of the building. Everyone disembarked and Yume told the pilot that she will call them when they have Musubi.

"No guards, how disappointing." Karasuba said walking to the building entrance.

"Got a body," one of the contractors told Yume as she walked over to the guard with Karasuba and the others behind her. Approaching the contractor, she saw the body of what she assumed was a guard the uniform matching the ones that led the assault/kidnapping. Examining the body, she saw a large wound across the chest that she never saw before, the wound edges looked to be cauterized even the vest looked like it had been burnt through like whatever weapon caused the wound was superheated and hot enough to cut through a combat vest and hit the flesh underneath killing the guard.

"What the hell?"

Yume turned around and saw one of the contractors holding an assault rifle that was cut in half and judging by the melted edges the same weapon that killed the guard also cut the weapon in half.

"Interesting…" Karasuba said looking at the body of the dead guard. Ignoring her Yume walked into the building and saw an elevator.

"Karasuba, Matsu, Kazehana." Yume called her teammates who came to her. "Karasuba and I will enter the facility and find Musubi." She told them looking to Matsu and Kazehana, "the two of you will remain here and provide support to the contractors." Matsu and Kazehana simply nodded.

"Miller, your team will remain here and secure the entrance. No one gets in but us." Yume told the contractor who nodded in response to the order.

"Alright, you heard the lady. Set up a perimeter and dig in."

Karasuba tired of waiting unsheathed her sword burying the blade in the elevator door seam and pried the doors open before jumping down the elevator shaft. Yume sighed before jumping in after her, shortly before the two women hit the bottom they slowed their descent, Karasuba buried her blade into the elevator wall using the sword as a makeshift brake while Yume formed a sword out of light and copied Karasuba.

The two women landed on top of the elevator and entered through the escape hatch. "Hmm," Karasuba said as she passed the body of an unconscious guard and noticed that the elevator doors seemed to have ripped off. Yume kneeled next to the guard checking his pulse and breathed in relief when she felt a pulse, unlike her friend Karasuba Yume actually despised killing and only did it as a last resort.

"My, my, whoever killed the guard topside seems to be here and busy." Karasube said getting Yume's attention as she walked out of the elevator towards Karasuba and saw what she meant. Almost all the guards bore the same wounds as the one topside but the rest seemed to be rendered unconscious, 'whoever did this seems to spare some and kill others. Why? Who is here?' Yume thought to herself as she took the lead with Karasuba behind her.

'Here I thought this was going to be boring. But now it's shaping up to be an interesting one.' Karasuba thought to herself while her hand tightened on the handle of her sword.

Minato slashed another guard across the chest while pushing his left hand out to grab another one in a Force Hold lifting her in the air. "Where is Hightower?" he asked the guard who seemed afraid of him which is understandable given how he cut down or knocked others unconscious without being slowed down no matter what or how many bodies they put in his way. "Tell me and I'll let you go."

"He – he's down that hallway in his lab." The guard said gesturing with her eyes to show him which hallway to go down. Minato looked down the hallway before lowering her and went down the hallway. The woman not taking any chances immediately ran down the hallway Minato came from wishing to put distance between him and her.

Minato didn't run into any more guards which surprised him as he everywhere he went guards were there to stop him or at least try too. Minato merely cut down those who he could tell through the Force were dangerous and needed to be killed, while knocking the others unconscious. Finally approaching a door with the name Hightower painted on it, opening the door Minato is meet with gunfire, the bullets merely bouncing off his armor. Minato saw an older man shooting at him with what appeared to be a sidearm.

"Stay away from me!" The man shouted while shooting in a panic. Minato extended his hand after he felt something impact with his helmet and pulled the sidearm out of the man's hand and put in a Force Stasis like he did with guard topside. Walking to the man Minato saw a look of fear on the man's face grow with each step he took towards him. "Are you Hightower?" Minato asked as he stood in front of the man. When the man said nothing Minato walked around him and activated his lightsaber putting the plasma blade near his neck, "Are you Hightower? I'm not going to ask again." Minato threatened the man.

"Yes, I – I'm Hightower." The man stuttered out his name.

"Is there a young girl here?" Minato asked getting to the point still holding his lightsaber next to Hightower's neck.

"You mean Specimen One? That was brought in a day ago?"

This made Minato angry to hear this man speak of a young girl like a research specimen to be dissected and studied. "Where – is – she?" Minato asked reining in his anger which Hightower could hear in his voice and this made him more afraid of the man who cut down nearly all the guards in the lab.

"That way, down that hall."

Minato looked to the only hall in the room before turning back to Hightower who pissed himself at this point from fear, bringing the lightsaber away from his neck Hightower relaxed before Minato brought his hand next to Hightower's head and knocked him unconscious using the Force. Hightower fell on the floor while Minato walked down the hallway he indicated leaving Hightower to whoever entered the facility. Minato knew that two people entered the facility when he felt their Force signatures but he didn't focus on them instead choosing to push on and find the young girl from his dream. Finally, Minato came face to face with a large door marked Specimen One.

Using the Force Minato forced the doors open and saw a young girl strapped to a table with nothing but a simple gown covering her. Minato walked to the table and saw her face as he neared the table, she looked to be at least eleven years of age, her brown hair pulled into a simple ponytail with a single strand poking like an antenna which struck him as odd. Stopping next to the table Minato noticed that her face is contorted in pain, reaching out with the Force Minato gasped as he felt her signature slowly fading, her signature is akin to a dying sun that once shown with radiance. Minato made the decision to save her, he would not let the young girl who called out to him for help die. Walking to her head Minato placed his hands on either side of her head and began to use the Force to heal her.

Yume made sure that Karasuba didn't kill any of the researchers they came across which pissed off the silver hair beauty based upon her scowl as she followed Yume. They came across no resistance as they progressed through the labs trying to find Musubi when they came across a guard running towards them who stopped in her tracks and immediately held her hands in surrender.

"Please don't kill me," the guard said as Yume and Karasuba approached her.

"We're not going to hurt you," Yume assured the guard who slightly relaxed.

"Are you with him?" The guard asked causing both Yume and Karasuba to look at her with interest.

"You mean the one who did this?" Yume asked gesturing to the bodies around them getting the guard to nod.

"It didn't matter what we threw at him. He just kept coming."

"Where is he now?" Yume asked.

"He's heading to Dr. Hightower's office." The guard told them, "yesterday a team brought something that got him excited."

"Where is his office?" Yume asked already knowing what they brought to him, 'Musubi…' she thought to herself praying that the young Sekirei is alright. The guard quickly gave them directions to the lab before Yume told the guard to leave causing Karasuba to scowl but Yume didn't care, she wanted to find Musubi and get her out of this awful place without Karasuba going on a rampage.

They made it to Hightower's office and found the man on the floor unconscious lying in a pool of his own piss causing Karasuba to smile at the sight, 'just where he belongs.' She thought to herself as she followed Yume down the only hallway in the room, coming to large door at the end of the hall that is already open.

Yume entered first followed by Karasuba with her weapon already drawn, they found a person standing in front of the table Musubi is strapped to. The person had their hands next to Musubi's head and a bright light emanated from their hands, small tendrils made of light floated from their hands into Musubi then the light vanished. The person placed their hands on the table before turning to face them giving them a good look at the person who caused so much damage and death.

The person wore armor that covered his shins, forearms, chest and head. The armor almost looked reddish brown with black and white highlights in certain areas of the armor, the helmet has a dark horizontal slit visor where the person's eyes would be, white paint which had long lost its shine and now a dull grey color followed the bottom of the visor before curving downward to the bottom of the mask forming a T shape. The person wore a black hooded robe with the hood raised, the robe flowing underneath the armor loosely to allow for movement, the bottom of the robe opened in the front and had slits running up the sides. Yume figured those are to allow for a broader range of movements, she couldn't discern what gender the person is due to the armor and robes but what really caught her attention were two cylindrical shaped objects attached to the person belt.

"Are you two here for her as well?" The figure asked them in a deep distorted voice that Yume figured was the mask's doing.

"What did you do to her?" Yume asked preparing to shift into her fighting stance if the situation called for it.

"I healed her," the person said piquing Yume's interest.

"Aren't you the softie," Karasuba said casually but Yume knew that Karasuba is itching to test her strength against the person based on her posture. "Considering you killed more than you knocked out."

"Karasuba," Yume hissed knowing that Karasuba is trying to bait him into attacking them. Instead the person remained silent.

"Silent type, huh." Karasuba said shifting into her fight stance and charged before Yume could stop her. Karasuba slashed horizontally at the person neck aiming to decapitate the person but the person ducked underneath the blade and grabbed Karasuba's sword arm and used her momentum against her be throwing her over his shoulder into the wall. Yume was shocked as she'd never seen someone dodge an attack from Karasuba before. "You got more fight than the other rabble on this planet," Yume heard Karasuba say as she picked herself off the floor and charged once more.

The person reached for one of the cylindrical objects on their belt and hit a button before a purple blade emerged from the top of the object. Both Karasuba and Yume were surprised as both had never seen a weapon like that before but Karasuab shook of her surprise before swinging her sword at the person, the person swung his own weapon and met Karasuba's only to cut through the sword like paper once again shocking Yume and Karasuba. The person did a roundhouse kick taking advantage of Karasuba's shock and kicked in the face knocking the silver haired teen backwards a few steps. Yume ran in between the two hoping to stop the fight and at least get some answers from the person but Karasuba had other plans as she finally found someone on this backwater planet who can actually fight.

Karasuba pushed Yume towards the person and moved to stab the person in the side using Yume as a distraction, the person however seemed to anticipate this as he moved back in time to dodge Karasuba's blade and retaliate by punching her in the face only for Karasuba to grab his arm and shove the blade of her broken sword underneath his arm into his side but the blade failed to pierce the armor and instead shattered upon impact with the armor. Karasuba fumed as she left herself open and the person took advantage of it by grabbing her head and head butting her breaking her nose forcing her hold her nose before she felt a punch delivered to her abdomen knocking the wind out of her and forcing her to her knees.

Yume at this point jumped in front of Karasuba with a sword made of light protecting her friend. Rushing the person Yume waited until she got within striking distance before swinging her weapon going for his legs in an attempt to slow the person down however the person jumped over the blade and swung his own. Yume anticipating this formed a second sword not knowing if the sword will be cut through like Karasuba's sword. The two blades made contact and Yume's sword wasn't cut but rather it held surprising Yume as the person jumped back when she swung her second sword at the person.

Karasuba taking advantage of the fight drew a dagger from the sheath on her belt and rushed in aiming for the person's exposed back but she has stopped in her tracks when the person turned around quickly and extended their hand out. She couldn't explain it but she felt as is something was pinning her limbs preventing her from moving, she felt herself being lifted from ground. Yume paused seeing Karasuba stopped in her tracks and being lifted into the air just from the person extending their hand, seeing her partner in trouble shook Yume out of her stupor. Tightening her hold on her swords she charged at the person who saw her coming and moved his hand towards her, Karasuba followed his hand movements as she flew towards Yume faster than she could dodge. Karasuba crashed into Yume knocking both on the ground.

Yume pushed Karasuba off of her and is met with purple blade directly in her face, a gentle hum filled the air which seemed to come from the blade or the cylindrical object. "Tend to your friends," the person said pressing a button and the purple blade retracted into the cylindrical object. The person left the room leaving Yume on the ground before she checked Karasuba, Yume sighed in relief when she found out that Karasuba is only knocked out. Leaving Karasuba on the ground Yume went to Musubi undoing the straps that held the young Sekirei down.

"Musubi?" Yume said patting the young girls head who slowly opened her eyes.

"Yume… I had a dream about my Ashikabi." Musubi told Yume getting the teenager to frown in confusion. 'The one who saved her. Could they be her Ashibaki?' Yume thought to herself as she thought back to their fight the person could have easily killed both she and Karasuba but didn't instead they knocked out Karasuba and healed Musubi from whatever was done to her.

Ba – Bump, Ba – Bump, Ba – Bump

Yume put a hand on her chest, she couldn't believe it she's reacting to the person they fought, pushing the thought from her mind Yume carried Musubi on her back. Walking over to Karasuba Yume knelt down and shook Karasuaba awake. Too say Karasuba is pissed would be a major understatement but she held it in which Yume is thankful for, walking back into Hightower's office they saw the doctor leaning against the wall. Karasuba walked over to him and grabbed him by his shirt collar lifting him off the ground.

"Where did that bastard go" Karasuba hissed pushing him against the wall hard enough that Yume heard his ribs break.

"Karasuba!" Yume shouted shifting Musubi to free one of her arms.

"He went to the loading bay."

"Where is the loading bay?" Karasuba asked through clenched teeth. Hightower gave them directions to the loading bay after which Karasuba threw him across the room. Yume worried that Karasuba might snap so she would keep an eye on her.

"Yume, are you there?" Matsu said over the comms.

"Go ahead, Matsu."

"Minaka just called, he wants the lab destroyed and everyone in it killed." Matsu told Yume who looked at Karasuba who now sported a smile that promised pain and death.

"What?" Yume asked if she heard right.

"I'm sorry Yume." Matsu said sounding sad knowing that Yume dislikes killing. Yume said nothing but left the room not wanting to expose Musubi to what Karasuba is about to do. "Musubi, close your eyes and cover your ears." Yume told Musubi over her shoulder who complied and covered her ears with her hands just in time as the screaming started. Yume finally made it to the loading bay seeing more dead guards bearing the same wounds as the others, 'at least they died quick compared to what Karasuba would do to them,' Yume thought as she passed by them thankful that Musubi closed her eyes.

"Matsu, call the helo for a pickup. Uploading my coordinates." Yume said over the comms while activating her transponder and waited for the helicopter to arrive. she didn't have to wait long as the helicopter touched down in front of her, Yume walked towards the helicopter and handed Musubi to Kazehana who took her and placed her in the seat next to her before handing a headset to Yume who took her seat across from Musubi who still had her eyes closed and her ears covered which brought a smile to Yume as she put on the headset. Leaning forward she held Musubi's hands in her own before lowering them causing Musubi to open her eyes and focus on Yume who smiled and put a headset over Musubi muffling the sound of the rotors before leaning back into her seat to face the loading bay just in time to see Karasuba walking out.

Once Karasuba got into the helicopter Yume ordered the pilots to take them back to HRS HQ. The facility exploded when they got a good distance away from it, the ride back to HRS HQ was quiet not that Yume minded. Matsu and Kazehana looked at Karausba bruised nose then to Yume who just shook her head and looked at the passing scenery. Finally, back at HRS HQ Yume and the others disembarked, Yume had Kazehana check Musubi to make sure that she is really okay while she called MBI to brief them on the situation but the call didn't go through. Deciding to call Takami directly Yume dialed her number.

"Yume, what's the situation? Are you alright?" Takami asked once the call went through.

"Takami, we're alright. We got Musubi out of the facility. What's going on? I tried to call MBI only it didn't go through." Yume asked.

"I'll explain when you get back here. MBI has a plane fueled and ready to take you back to Shinto Teito." Takami simply said before hanging up ending the call. Confused Yume pocketed the cellphone and told the others to get ready, HRS provided a car and driver to take them to the MBI owned airport where they saw a plane waiting for them. The aircraft took off after Yume and the others boarded headed straight to Japan.

Landing at the private airport owned by MBI Yume and the others were taken back to MBI Tower, exiting the vehicles Yume had Kazehana and Matsu take Musubi back to the labs before they head to the control room. Yume and Karasuba entered the elevator and rode it in silence finally arriving at the control room, exiting the elevator they were met with the site of technicians running to and from different stations.

"Yume, Karasuba." Takami walked up to them, Takami looked at Karasuba's broken nose but decided not to ask. "How's Musubi?" she asked stopping in front of Yume.

"Musubi is ok. Kazehana and Matsu took her to the labs for further examination." Yume told Takami who sighed in relief.

"Some good news finally." Takami breathed out letting her shoulders relax.

"What happened here?" Karasuba asked the question on both Sekirei's mind.

"Three hours ago we were hacked." Takami told them getting both Sekirei to open their eyes in shock.

"That shouldn't have been possible." Matsu's voice coming from the direction of the elevator. All three women turned to see Matsu along with Kazehana holding the elevator door open. Takami gestured to the two women to follow as she passed them walking to the elevator, entering the elevator Takami pressed the button for her office. Once the elevator reached her office she and the others exited following her.

"Explain Matsu," Takami asked leaning against her desk facing the redhead who pushed her glasses up so the light reflected off the lens hiding her eyes.

"I personally designed the security protocols that MBI uses. There is no way anyone could break them." Matsu stated proudly.

"Yet, someone did and downloaded everything that MBI has on the Sekirei." Takami told the redhead, "we had to shut off the servers but we were too late."

'Interesting, this may be my chance.' Matsu thought. She may look the part of the dutiful soldier but deep down she's disgusted with Minaka and his treatment of her race, she envied Miya who left MBI and is living a somewhat peaceful life even after her husband died. So, she planned to take something from Minaka just as he took something from the Sekirei mothership, their freedom and will but she had to wait until she found the perfect time to strike and now it presented itself. "I can repair the security but I need the system to remain offline. That way whoever did this doesn't know about the improvements I'll be making to the system." Matsu told Takami already laying the foundation for her plan.

"Alright." Takami replied shifting her focus from Matsu to Yume. "Anything to report?"

Yume explained what happened at the facility in New Mexico from the dead guards, to the person healing Musubi and even the fight. Takami, Matsu, and Kazehana were surprised that Karasuba lost a fight and based upon her expression it is a sore spot for her.

"I find that hard to believe," Takami said after Yume finished recounting the events.

"Fortunately I copied the security footage," Karasuba said producing a flash drive that she handed Takami.

"What is this I hear about footage."

Takami sighed to herself when she heard the voice of her ex who came strolling into her office wearing a stupid grin, his white cape flaring out behind him as he walked. Not even bothering responding she inputted the drive into her computer and a projector emerged from the ceiling coming to life and playing the security footage from the facility. The footage showed the person that Yume and Karasuba fought moving through the halls cutting down the guards using two different colored blades, one purple and one yellow. Karasuba watched with interest as the person moved throughout the facility killing the guards and moving with grace of a dancer, moving in between the guards or around them. The more she watched the footage the more her heart picked up and she had a blush heating up her cheeks. The footage ended when the person entered Hightower's office.

"My, my, this is an unexpected turn of events. Truly the gods have a sense of humor," Minaka shouted in Takami's offce.

"What the hell?" Takami whispered after seeing the footage of the person picking people up and throwing them like they were ragdolls. Her scientific mind already working trying to figure what where the source of the person's ability came from. She ignored Minaka as he continued to shout about gods and fate.

'Who are you?' Yume, Matsu, Kazehana, and Karasuba thought to themselves.

A/N: Minato's Sekirei will be…

Miya

Matsu

Homura aka Kagari

Akitsu

Kazehana

Karasuba

Yume

Tsukiumi

Uzume

Yashima

Musubi

Kusano

These are the Sekirei who will be joining Minato meaning he gets a large harem. I hope the fight between Minato, Karasuba, and Yume is alright. I'm trying to improve my writing when it comes to fight scenes so I hope it's alright. Minato's outfit is based on the various art about Revan.

Thanks for reading.