Chapter 14: Advance! Part 1
Hello! Sorry for the long wait. It's cause I've got graduation coming up and I'm almost going to be posting close to none, depending on the days of college. Yeah. This is a short chapter. I'm still tinkering on some stuff. It's gonna be long nights for me.
In the gloom of night, inside a tall government tower, suits discuss the events that have happened over the past few weeks. Finding out a certain experimentation acted upon civilians only days ago. It was a shock when Detective Tsukauchi found out.
His friend, Sansa Tamakawa, waits patiently outside the meeting, listens intently through the door beside him from his seat. His teeth could be heard clattering from nervousness. 'G-gee. I wonder how hard he's getting it in there.'
"You let this experiment slip by as your squad was taking care of the problem! Irresponsibly, I might add! For what?! Some speedster!" An angry crabman slams his pincers at the table at Naomasa from his seat. The other suits glare at him as the crab shouts him to submission.
Naomasa sneers at the, trying to soften his expression in hopes of appeasing them.
"sirs… I haven't expected that experimentation would be connected to the vanishing civilians in the past weeks-."
"YOU WERE BEING CARELESS!" The crab cuts his sentence off before he finishes. Naomasa's mouth shuts up. Behind him, Fat-gum and Sun-Eater observe quietly.
"isn't there something we can do?" Tamaki whispers to Toyomitsu, getting a shaky silencing palm and shaking head from his mentor. This entire thing has been hard on them both for the past days. Especially on Tamaki.
Being a student, taking part in hero missions past his internship time, he's been reprimanded to participate in missions for seven months. Toyomitsu, on the other hand, gets it worse. His hero career could end if he does not redeem himself in this mission.
"*sigh*… ignoring that for a second, what are your next intentions? And it better be fixing the problem YOU let happen." The crab's icy glare makes Naomasa's blank stare quiver a bit. A bead of sweat rolls down the side of his face before presenting them with reports of the possible connections of the recently apprehended villain Stele.
"9 years ago, …" Naomasa begins. "There was this Insurgency in Hokkaido. The conflict was resolved three months later its climax. And, the villain known as Stele, has been seen with this… Peter guy, as he calls himself in other countries." Naomasa explains, passing around copies of Stele's and Peter's pictures. "This group that Peter and Stele that are in have been the cause of several revolutions in other countries."
The suits and their faces around him grow shocked as the detective speaks his mind. Toyomitsu and Tamaki watch on as bystanders.
The crabman smears off some saliva off his crabmouth and looks at Tsukauchi. "And what do you intend to do about this?"
Naomasa gulps from the question, without a sweat. He shoves his left down to his pocket to get more evidence of the insurgency.
"A week ago, this Peter person showed up again, and he seems to be talking with Steampunk Industries' scientist. Recently, the industries have been showing up with transactions for bio stuffs and-"
Tsukauchi is then interrupted by Sansa Tamakawa's barging in through the door. All the heads turn suddenly to the door to Sansa's panting.
"I'm sorry. Sir! There's been a breach in Tartarus!"
In Tartarus, the jail was littered with bodies of police officers. Alarms continue to blare throughout the facility. In the middle of the jail cells, Stele grins as handcuffs dangle from his wrist. His grin reaches to his ears as Stele prances through the rioting lowlifes beating up police officers.
He flaunts his claws as he plays a symphony in his head. He stares at the dripping blood as the cellos rise from a somber state. The choir sings a hopeless song as Stele chuckles and snickers at the poor souls around him. There are no trumpets, no bugle horns or any uplifting song. A prisoner runs up to shank him.
"Chink! You're dead!" He says before he cackles at the sight of the prisoner's blood and pain on his face. The blood drips onto his claws before he lets him fall to the ground.
A girl with wavy-blonde hair turns into a bolt, bolting into the door's controls. The bolt trickles into it before minutes later, the door opens. Soon after, the girl bolts out and onto the ground. She grins at the prisoners before running out of the halls and toward the exit.
The symphony and choir rise in tempo as Quirks start to be used in the jail cells and corridors. The last police officer is battered and stabbed, with bruises patterned all over her ragged body. "Arise!" A brawler states aloud, motivating the prisoners to go through the opened gate.
Two certain prisoners, brothers more like, crouch and spot the exit.
"Kasai. I think that it's time for us to leave."
"True that!" He agrees before stepping onward to the door. Like the cowards that they are, The Brothers Grimm scurry to the door.
In front of Stele, a body of black gas rises and forms slowly into a hooded man. The symphony in his head grows faint as the man's icy stare sets Stele's mind to an ominous tone, stopping him in his tracks.
The hooded man crosses his arms as he looks down to Stele. In response, Stele's head tilts repeatedly to the door, like an owner to his dog.
Stele walks up to the psychopath and eyes him head to toe. The hood looks at his staring, questioning that. Stele grins before his orchestra rises in tension with violins.
He drives his claws up to his neck, only to find them to inside his neck. Stele looks down to his neck to see he is grasping on black gas. The hooded man glares coldly at him for trying to kill him. Stele lightly chuckles at him, with the symphony in his head fading away.
The hooded man lets out some rope and stretches it like a belt of an angry father.
Outside of the facility, Takumi Oshido looks down from atop and sees a landing pad below.
He also sees Special Assault Teams coming out with Kevlar and assault rifles. Probably dispatched to take back the facility. He reloads his guns before doing something stupid. He always was the man who can get things done, unlike Peter.
With his Shotgun Bracers, he laces his bullets with hooks and ropes. He shoots it through the building beside him and he throws the other end downward to the ground below. He ties their ends and makes sure they can climb their way down.
He stretches the ropes before he hoists up his rifle. "Here we go again!" He exclaims before throwing himself off the roof.
"Our mission is to retake the facility-" The captain's sentence is cut off with bullets spraying from above and straight down. They look up and Takumi fills their mouths up with shot. He lands on his feet and looks ahead to the rest of the team.
"…uEEnh!" He shouts a war cry before shooting mercilessly at the team. Shot after shot, their heads and chests are pierced with gunfire. Blood splatters on the floor as he advances slowly and shoots every blue uniform in his sights.
The pilot in the helicopter unbuckles hastily before is shot through the glass. His rifle runs out before he results to using his Shotgun Bracers. Each booming shot aimed for the head, each landing their mark. Takumi is relentless, using each shot to his advantage, making sure none pass through to the facility.
Bullets whiz past Takumi's head from the rifles of the police officers but to no avail. Takumi's dodging made him fly through to the landing pad.
Jeeps skid their way to reinforce. Takumi sees their extra firepower and takes cover behind some boxes and reloads his assault rifle. He hears the police about to gain their second wind, with jeeps behind them. He takes a peek, almost meeting a bullet aimed for his head if he had not ducked immediately.
"… That's brisk."
The police make their way to Takumi's position. He takes out his exploding bullets and jack them into his assault rifle and huffs repeatedly. He aims his rifle down to the second wave and shoots. The frontal charge is ravaged with an explosion, and the jeep aims their guns at Takumi.
He glares before dropping his assault rifle and sprints at them. The gunners shoot at Takumi, but the hitman dodges and makes his way to their sides. He aims his gunning gauntlets at the two officers in the jeep. To Takumi, time moves slowly and his mind sees their faces that shout out for mercy.
He never hesitates and shoots through their heads. The four officers in the jeep lie dead with blank faces, the souls are gone. He huffs slowly to get his heart rate down. The dead lie on the ground with blood flowing out from their bodies.
Takumi steps as he looks around, looking at the damage he's caused. The trailing smoke from the jeep and the craters lay around the ground. He walks to the landing pad and claims the helicopter for his team's escape.
However, an officer grasps his arms out and crawls to the entrance of the facility. Takumi hears his grunting and stops in his tracks. His head slowly turns to the officer, dragging his bleeding body on the floor.
His feet lightly step over to the officer and he comes up behind the officer. "… You are… committed." Takumi comments on his dedication, as seen in his bloody crawling.
"… gh… meh…"
The officer bleats his heart out, making Takumi's blank staring be added with furrowing brows. The officer spits out blood from his mouth.
"What was that?" Takumi asks before he crushes his feet with his heel and grinds it down to the floor. The bleeding officer stops and his head crashes down to the floor.
Takumi sees the bleeding officer giving up, and he wanders over beside and past him. Though it was an admirable effort, he still died. Kudos to that man, he says to himself.
"…" Takumi crouches down to reach the bleeding officer's shoulders. The officer tenses up, expecting for the worst. Just to receive a pat on the back from the killer. No words about it, he leaves the officer to bleed out helplessly.
Though he's the type to follow orders and complete the orders, he prefers more to judging someone based on their choices. He's killed everyone who was connected to his family's murder. He's the only one left standing. Evidently so, since he's passing by bleeding bodies on the ground.
Every time his gun is cocked, it always ends the same. Like a flowing river of red. Blood drips down the drain in his memories. So many have died, and so many families scarred. And he's only seen the same faces with the same voices with the same motivations. Injustices seemed to be the ruler of the modern world.
After giving justice to his family, he's gained a new sight, and it was not pleasant. Unjust results lash out to the small and unfortunate. It disgusts him to this day. So much unrest among the masses and the strong just wave it off as something irrelevant or unimportant.
Politicians, feminists, police, lawmakers, pushing their agendas in the expense of some major group or the whole of society. This always disgusted him. People being unjust to people, and people have accepted this as the status quo. That's just how it is. So, he did what was deemed as bad. He killed people. Those people. The people that bully people and claiming that it's all part of life. To him, they are the real freaks.
People never change. They just go on to the next phase of their life. Exactly. The same. Over the years, since he's past his family, he's grown sick of the injustices that he keeps reading on the news and hears about in tabloids.
They just keep growing and growing. They never die. But like them, he never gets tired of killing each one of them. Especially feminists. Seriously. 'They need to die', he says to himself every time a feminist is on his sights.
Nevertheless, he will do the job that he's given, and be a judge for millions while doing the job. He gives just treatment but never claims to be just. All this death just to feel some security in society.
Takumi steps into the helicopter and is greeted with an exclaiming woman with a face of fear. The same face always made him sick. He aims his Bracer Guns at the woman nonetheless. This made her panic and hyperventilate. The eyes pleading for mercy. Sickening.
"P-Please… I-I won't tell anyone!" She bleats. Immediately, BANG! Her head splatters in blood, spreading across the inside.
Her blood streams down to the floor, making the entire helicopter smell like ass. Takumi sighs that he had to shoot a woman. He looks at the two corpses and grabs the woman's first.
Three minutes later, the pilot and woman lay on top of each other. He ignores the smell as he goes in the seats to adjust the controls for takeoff.
At the doorway, Peter holds a sack over All for One's head, dragging him to the helicopter. Along with Chisaki Kai in chains.
"*sniff* *sniff* Pee-ooo! Smells like ass in here!" Peter whines before he sits down.
The free convicts' stumbling is straightened out by Kazuma, the hooded man, and Piko, the blonde bombshell, as they walk towards the helicopter.
Takumi looks at them before stepping out of the helicopter to greet them. "Pete, we should really get going! The police might get here any second!" He says urgently to Peter as he pushes the blinded free onto the helicopter.
The freed convicts crash down their seats as Piko sits down with them, wrapping her arms around their necks with a grin on her face. "Don't worry, you two! You're in safe hands!"
Chisaki Kai, needing no sight, whips her arm off his neck and tries to take off the sack off his head.
Piko's eyes search for one certain crazy. "Where's Stele?"
Peter hears the question and looks at Takumi in the pilot's seat. Takumi glares at him, to not speak the truth. "We uhh left him behind. Thought he was a liability."
"Oh? That's too bad. I liked Stele. He had nice claws."
Kazuma moves slowly to a seat in front of them. Kazuma throws off the sack off All for One's head. "Whoa! Waddup! Glad you could join us, boss-man!" Piko booms in her seat as she sees All for One for the first time. She's always admired men with power.
Though the scars and wrinkles disgusted her making her stomach knot. From her eyes, he was an old man. How old was he?
Kabe crashes down to the seat, looking at his watch and Kabe sits beside him after looking at the rampage done before him.
"…" No words. Just thoughts rocketing in his brain. He didn't have to help Peter and his crew. In a few short minutes, the prison has been sent into chaos. He stares at the bloody aftermath done by the stoic hitman and averts his eyes to the helicopter.
He's been doing his research about Peter too. The body counts that he did in Hokkaido and in other places of the world, America. London. Australia. It just shocks him that Peter and his… well, the Insurgency, as the cause of the fires and events leading up to those fires sends a shiver up his spine. And now again. Almost every officer in the prison, which was fifty, lain on the ground.
"Let's go! I have a schedule to keep!" Kabe shouts at the white knight and the emotionless hitman raises the controls, taking the helicopter into the air.
Chisaki Kai sneers at the troop, but can't actually do about it since… his disability. His hands tremble as he does in anger and annoyance, but he huffs it out his lungs.
Meanwhile, Takumi Oshido looks onto the view, and turns over to his left. The whirring of the blades sets his mind at ease. The greens of the mountainsides massage his eye sights. … Maybe he should retire to a mountainside over at Canada, he says to himself.
Take a hike, in a simple life. But for now, he should fill his debts with some bounty hunter friends of his. But he had to look ahead and onto the rendezvous point.
One day, he too will yearn for the sweet release of death and what will wait for him in hell.
This Advance arc of mine might be a two parter, but with the way the words are compressed, and how long this is gonna be, it might reach to four parts. Just sayin'. And I OWN NOTHING.
Only the original characters that you haven't heard of from the anime or manga are mine and my family's.