Icarus 13

It was a late Saturday Night as Wyatt just got off a bus to Nikkō in the Tochigi prefecture.

From the bench,he could see Ace setting down as the mask man states "Took you long enough."

Wyatt responds "Your message was pretty last minute and I had to lie to everyone where I went."

Ace got off the bench and says "Good, now time to go over the mission details."

The two walked over to an observation deck and got a look at the barely city below.

Ace explains "Due to a recession and the hot springs drying up, most of the hotels ended up closing. Making for a perfect hideout for a terrorist cell."

Wyatt asked "Which building are the kids in?"

Ace points to one of the few buildings with a barely working sign "That one, testing is done on the lower floors but we'll be coming in from the top."

Wyatt says "I mean they still got radar, so I doubt it would matter much which way we come in."

Before Wyatt's very eyes, Ace deployed his IS and said "It does, this is the Revive Phantom, it's equipped with a device that makes it invisible to cameras and radar."

Ace grabbed Wyatt into his arms and adds "It would ruin the purpose if you used your IS, so hang on."

The masked figure took off into the sky as Wyatt was gripping onto his partner's upper arm to further secure himself.

In less than a minute the two crashed into the window on the 21st floor of a 26 floor building.

Ace lets Wyatt go and says "Alright it's go time."

Wyatt actives his unit and looked around his surroundings to see if they could advanced. With no enemies in sight , Wyatt nods for the two to descend down the stairs in their units.

Right as they made it towards the lower 10's , the door was blasted off its hinges by an explosion.

The boys prepared themselves for a fight with Talia but to their surprise they're attacker was a pair of preteen girls, one with long bright orange hair tied to the right in a one side ponytail and red eyes with the other being one with aqua blue hair with the ponytail tied to the left with blue eyes. Even more surprising was the fact they were in a purple two seater unit.

Wyatt's eyes seemed to bulge out of his socket and exclaimed "You said they're was only one pilot here."

Ace grits his teeth "Yeah I know, guess they made some changes in the staff without me knowing."

Wyatt takes a deep breath and after exhaling "It doesn't matter, we can still make it through, even if we gotta deal with the Comet Twins."

The orange haired girl, Fanile shouts "Hey don't underestimate me and O'niel. Together we're the best duo."

O'Neil blankly stares at the two boys and fired several drones with spinning buzz saws at her opponent.

As the boys attempt to dodge the attack, Ace was hit in the back by a pink spear made of plasma.

Wyatt looked to see it was thrown by another little girl who he recognized as Currier Luccukchefka. She had upper back length blonde hair with a greenish tint and dark blue eyes with a blank expression.

Ace groan as he materialized a shotgun and says "Still think we can take 'em."

Wyatt summoned his Trianchor spear to swat away the twin's drones. "Maybe we retreat."

The boys jumped over the railing and descended to the ground floor. As they attempted to get out of the building, they were meet with Talia who was armed with rocket launcher.

In a song like tone she says "Found you." As she fired the weapon at the boys.

Wyatt swings his weapon at the warhead as it exploded behind the male duo.

Talia smirks "Mom was right, the second everyone else left , you would bring Wyatt to rescue those experiments. Too bad they were already moved before you got here."

Ace shouts "They're just kids, don't talk about them like they're animals or something."

Wyatt says "Honestly Ace, even we probably should've seen this coming. But I doubt Autumn has the foresight capable of a plan this smart."

From behind the two, the 3 new Phantom Task recruits appeared as Currier says "That's because Tabane came up with it."

Confused Wyatt argues "Impossible, she's locked up in prison. How could she contact you guys?"

Talia points towards Ace and says "Why don't you ask your new buddy ,handsome."

Ace sighed as he explains "I broke Tabane out of prison earlier this week."

Wyatt was in utter shock as shouts "YOU WHAT!? How could you do that, you know she can't be trusted."

Ace says "I know but me and Dr. Nakadai needed her for a project. Once it was done we would've handed her back to the police without the organization knowing."

Before Wyatt could question who this Dr. Nakadai was, the girls began to attack.

The twins dual seater spilt in two as Fanile was wielding a pair of sabers as O'niel brandished a pair of machine guns.

The boys began to dodge the attacks as Wyatt spun his weapon to deflect the hail of bullets.

Wyatt snarks "Things really aren't going as plan are they?"

Ace fired his gun at a charging Talia and responds "Like I said these three were unplanned factors. I always say the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."

Wyatt slashed Fanile with his weapon "Don't worry, they prayed on your one track quest for vengeance to spring this trap." Talia attempts to stab Wyatt but the American gets out of the way to dodge. He adds "Only thing we can do is to not die."

As the duo found themselves back to back to each other surrounded by the enemy, Ace asked "Have you always been this relaxed about life and death missions?"

Wyatt shrugged his shoulders and answered "It started a little after Brazil, but you'll get used to it."

The battle raged on as the two boys kept on taking more and more damage as the could barely keep up with their opponents. Most of the hotels first floor was trashed including the destruction of several pillars.

Using his staff to prop himself up, Wyatt attempts to catch his breath as he hid behind one of the two remaining load bearing pillars.

As Ace got slammed into the wall next to him, Wyatt says "I got an idea, just follow my lead."

Wyatt smashed his weapon into the pillar as Ace aimed his firearm and fired it into another one.

The suddenly impact caused the roof to cave in as the building began to collapse. But with a well timed ignition boost, Wyatt and Ace managed to escape before getting trapped.

As they looked on at the destruction of the building, Ace cursed "Damn, all of this was a complete waste."

Wyatt attempts to comfort his new partner "It's alright, we discovered they're 3 new operatives and Phantoms Task is in league with Tabane again. Information is key to this war."

From the rubble down blew, Talia ascended towards them and shouts "You two won't get away."

The boys escaped as Talia was hot on their tails ready to capture them.

As Ace was attempting to shot the girl down, he says "Seriously how can this mission get any worse."

With his shield's turrets , Wyatt gave Ace some cover fire and adds "Don't worry , things will get better."

The three raced through the skies for over 30 minutes until Ace saw they were approaching IS Academy.

Ace says "I know the academy has radar but it's almost 1am, it's going to take at least 5 minutes before someone comes for help."

Wyatt smirks "Don't worry, I've already have that planned. Just keep her off my back for 60 seconds."

Before Ace could ask what he was about to do, Wyatt descended into Arena 6 and crashed into one of the pit area.

Ace sighed and thought "Wow never knew how annoying that is on the other end."

He materialized a knife as he began to clash with Talia.

At first things seemed to be evenly matched until with her wrist mounted gun, Talia opens fire at the betrayer.

While Ace was recovering from the attack, Talia increased the ferocious of her attack, leaving her opponent no time to put up a proper guard.

Talia grunts as she went in for an attack "We could've ruled together but you chose them over me."

Ace grabbed the Talia's arm and tightens his grip "That's because I never loved you, psycho."

Talia's face turned into a scowl as she states "If that's the case, you can die with the rest of them."

Before Talia could make do on her threat , a volley of energy bullets ripped through a piece of her IS unit.

She turned around to see Wyatt holding two large cannons. The one in his right was a Gatling blaster with the one in his left was a bazooka.

With a cocky smirk, Wyatt said "I always wanted to say this ." He took a deep breath and shouts "SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIENDS!!!."

He began shooting the two cannons as Talia was got pinned to the wall by a combination of fire blasts and a hail of bullets.

When he was out of ammo, Talia's unit was reduced to nothing but scrap metal as the Arena's emergency alarm rang.

As Wyatt placed the cannons down, he said "It's best for you to get out of here. Probably easier to explain her than it would be you."

Ace smirks and says "Again Sorry about tonight, but I know eventually we'll get our revenge. Until then, partner."

The mysterious male pilot took off and not long after several teachers equipped in Revie's and Uchiganes arrived at the scene.

One of the teachers asked "Joseph, care to explain what happened?"

Wyatt yawned "Just a little fishing trip, didn't get what I wanted but I feel I got what I need."

Hours later an exhausted and hungry Wyatt found himself getting examined in the nurses office as Chifyu was waiting in the corner.

The nurses explains "Other than a couple minor injuries, he's fine. Though I would recommend a day or two of rest to be on the safe side.

Chifyu thanked the nurse as she asked for some privacy between herself and Wyatt.

Once the nurse left the room , Chifyu asked "Wyatt, explain to me why the hell you were fighting a terrorist on school ground at 1am."

Wyatt answered "I was given information from a reliable source of a Phantom Task base that was doing test on abducted kids."

Curious Chifyu asked "Really? Mind sharing your information?"

Sigh escaped from Wyatt's mouth "That's classified information, but after giving his tip a check it's clear he was correct as I encountered Talia, Canada's Comet twins and Russia's Currier at the site."

Hearing those names caused Chifyu to groan "Seriously, more traitors. One more thing, security cameras for Arena 6 were cut but from our readings there were 3 IS units. So who was the third?"

Wyatt shrugged his shoulders "Who knows can we save the report for later. I kinda of want to get some sleep."

After giving it some thought, Chifyu said "Be ready to explain everything after lunch."

Wyatt gets up and waved Chifyu goodbye as he made his way to the doc's cabin.

Once he arrived a half asleep Dr. Maxwell answers the door and asked "What is it kid, it's not even 6am yet."

Wyatt barges into the cabin and says "It's important, believe me. I need you to get some stuff and go to a certain location." He took a pen and paper and instantly drafts up a list.

Dr. Maxwell asked "So you want me to bring snacks and a first aid kit to the mountains?"

Wyatt nods his head "Trust me, it's important."

The doctor sighed "Fine but you definitely owe me an explanation afterwards?"

Wyatt chuckles "Don't worry, I'm sure all your questions will be answered."

As the doctor got his wallet and placed his shoes on,Wyatt sat down on the couch and began to fall asleep after one of the most nerve racking nights of his life.