AC: Hello everyone. This is the chapter 100 of this story and I hope you are all still enjoying the story so far as the season 2 is reaching his plot points, but still not the end.

I want to say thank you for everyone who supported the story by reading and/or reviewing it from the beginning. This story has 5 seasons and the second one is surely the longest of them all with how many characters I need to develop while the season 3 will have some background with two shorter stories to introduce it while the fourth one don't add that many characters and the final one won't be that long.

Chapter 100: The Domino Decision

A few days passed since Tasuku learned from Gao that they met a strange masked boy named The Reaper. Tasuku, knowing his friend, asked Drum more information about the masked boy, but received a similar response, but that The Reaper looked like Kiri, but he couldn't be sure about it.

While the duo were on patrol, they watched around if there was any crime going on while waiting for Stella to signal a crime if there was one. At the same time, Tasuku was looking around if The Reaper might be around there so he could interrogate him and found out who was behind the mask.

Jackknife didn't comment on it, but he noticed that his partner was under much more stress than usual lately. He knew that the day of the election was coming, even if it was still in a little less than two months and the perspective of Tenchi winning was scary. He knew that they still had some tension between them with their argument a while ago and their duty as the Buddy Police Force was present, Is there something Tasuku isn't telling me? He wondered. He thought about Demios Sword Dragon and asked himself, Did he came and talk to you again Tasuku? He is interesting in having you as his buddy, I'm sure of it. I'm not going to let him take you away from me. We are family. His thought were cut short when he smelt smoke in his nostrils, "Tasuku, there is a fire somewhere and a big one."

"I see it to the right," Tasuku replied.

The green dragon changed directions and when they reached the scene, there was a big apartments of many floors on fire and from what he heard, people trapped inside.

"Takihara is there Jack!" Tasuku pointed to the adult member of the Buddy Police Force and his buddy. Jackknife changed direction and flew toward them. When they joined them, the boy asked, "What's the situation?"

"The fire is out of control and the Fire Fighter cannot entered inside to rescue anyone. I asked the authorisation, but Seiichi refused it because there isn't any buddy involved in this," Takihara said, obviously furious about the impossibility to help anyone and remaining on standby.

"That's insane! We cannot just stay here and let people burn alive or die!" Jackknife thought of protesting, but refused to express it, the situation was catastrophic and inaction was the worst thing to do, "I'll ask Commander I!" Tasuku furiously said. He added, "If he says no, I'm going anyway!" He turned toward Takihara and his buddy.

The man looked at Tasuku and said, "You won't go alone if he said no."

Tasuku nodded and entered in contact, "Commander I. We need the authorisation to help evacuating the innocents trap in the fire before they die! Hurry and answer!"

In the command center of the Buddy Police Force, Commander I received the demand from Tasuku and didn't immediately replied. His mind was working fast at calculating what he should decide.

"Commander I. They cannot intervene because there isn't a monster to deal against," Seiichi warned the man.

Stella glared at Seiichi when he wasn't looking at their direction, Why doesn't he want us to do something. People need help.

Commander I continued thinking about what his answer should be, Whatever I choose, it will end badly for the Buddy Police Force. It's clear that Tasuku and Takihara will do something just like I would have done. There will be heavy consequences for them and their buddy if they do it on their own, but Hinako will not be in trouble if they act. If they don't because I said no, it would be really bad for Hinako. If I gave them the authorisation, it's clear that Seiichi will want to bring me down. There is only one thing to do.

Commander I decided and said, "You have the authorisation to act Tasuku. I take full blame from Seiichi because saving the innocents is more important than obeying the rules."

Seiichi looked at Commander I and said, "You are going to regret disobeying me Commander I," he knew Commander I won't take any protest from him and took out his cellphone to call someone.

Tasuku and Takihara looked at each other's and nodded.

"Let's do this Jack!" Tasuku said.

Jackknife and Card Burn took the lead and flew toward the building while Tasuku activated his buddy skill.

"Tasuku. I'll go near the fire to evacuate people!" Takihara said, "Take a higher floor, but be careful with the smoke."

"Are you-" Tasuku was cut.

"My body is much more resilient to fire than Jackknife," Card Burn replied.

The boy and Jackknife nodded as they took a higher floor and searched for people trapped inside the house.

Tasuku lightly coughed when smoke was on his face. He knew he couldn't hold long in there when Jackknife flapped his wings and dispersed the smoke, "Tasuku. I heard someone in there. Go!"

The boy nodded and entered in the house. He wasn't sure if he had a spellcard for this situation, but stopped thinking when he saw a young boy trapped inside.

He flew toward him and the boy immediately recognised him, "Tasuku! You came to save me!"

"Yes," he replied as he grabbed the young boy, "Hold on."

He escorted the boy outside and brought him to the nearest ambulance before returning in the air. He passed near Jackknife who had two civils on his back. He passed near Card Burn and saw him with a few civils on his body as he escorted them down with Takihara planning how to escort the other civils next.

During an hour, they repeated the procedure and evacuated as much civilians possible to safety. When they grabbed there, the paramedics took care of them. For Tasuku and Takihara, it was a long hour where they suffered a little from the smoke that came from the fire and in the end, the evacuation was completed and only the fire needed to be put under control.

Tasuku, Takihara and their buddy, back to their mini form rested a little as they regained their breath, except for Card Burn. The boy coughed a little and one of the paramedic checked if he was alright. It wasn't long before he concluded that he breathed just a little too much smoke, but that he didn't need the paramedic.

"We did great there Tasuku," Takihara commented with a smile. He looked at the boy and continued, "This isn't something I'm going to regret if we are in trouble. If we didn't do anything, many people would have been dead, or still trap in the fire before the Fire Fighter reached them."

"You're right," Tasuku nodded with a smile before coughing again.

"Keep breathing slowly Tasuku. You need to regain your strength for now. This has been a tough mission, even if we didn't have to fight," Jackknife said before coughing a little.

"You should follow your suggestion Jackknife," Card Burn replied.

The green dragon lightly chuckled before nodding toward the robot.

They didn't know, but something was about to happen at the command center of the Buddy Police Force.

They returned to the Buddy Police Force an hour later, when their help wasn't necessary anymore. When the four entered, they noticed that Commander I wasn't on his chair and that he didn't look happy. He was between frustrated, angry and sad, but tried to maintain composure.

Tasuku thought, What is going on now? He quickly realised that something big was happening when he realised something important, Wait... Why is Commander I without his uniform?

Seiichi had a small grin on his face and it was annoying for the four other's. Stella wasn't looking at Seiichi and had her hand clenched into a fist as if she wanted to punch Seiichi.

"What's going on here?" Takihara asked as he looked at them.

"Commander I gave a forbidden permission to use buddy skill and buddy monsters in the fire of the building. You shouldn't have intervened."

"You wanted us to wait and watch people burning alive or suffocating to death?" Tasuku furiously asked.

Seiichi didn't care for the boy's answer and replied, "This was against the law. You cannot act under the permission of a supervisor and Commander I knew it well, but he decided to give you the authorisation to act against my authority. When a law is broken Tasuku, there is consequence."

"Protecting people is more important Seiichi!" Tasuku harshly replied.

"Tasuku. Calm down," Jackknife said.

"What are the consequences?" Takihara asked, ready to face anything.

"There is none for you. You obey his order, so you are safe this time," Seiichi replied. Even so, no one felt relief by it, "However. Commander I is at fault here. I warned my superior about it and explained what he did."

They didn't like what was about to come.

"This is why Commander I is now fired from his work as the commander of the Buddy Police Force. I will be the one in charge from now on and every important decision is going through me," Seiichi said. He turned toward Commander I, "It is time for you to leave Commander I."

Their face paled when they heard that news and they were quiet. Tasuku really didn't take it well and when he was about to protest strongly, Jackknife flew by his side and covered his mouth, "Not a word Tasuku."

Commander I walked pass them as he said, "It was the best option," to the four before he leaved.

Tasuku was in his mind after this, he didn't hear anything else, but realised one thing, Nothing will turn back to normal Jack. It won't. I know it.

Eventually. When everything was over, Jackknife put his hand on the boy's shoulder and they left.

Stella walked outside the room, her face still written with anger, but held it back inside of her.

Takihara and his buddy walked outside the room, not standing to look at Seiichi right now as he said, "I have a report to make."

As Tasuku and Jackknife returned to their home, the green dragon grew more and more worried. The boy didn't say anything or wasn't really responding to anything Jackknife told him.

"Tasuku. Don't worry. We will find a way to bring everything back to normal. We will not let Seiichi get away with it," he tried to reassure him.

Tasuku didn't reply while Jackknife continued to say some encouraging words to the boy. He couldn't see the boy's face well, with his eyes covered by the shadow, but he noticed the tension of his muscles on his arms as anger and frustration increased in him.

Eventually Tasuku yelled, "How can anything return to normal Jackknife? Seiichi will do everything to break the Buddy Police Force and make Tenchi wins the election! He's by his side and we all know it! It's all over!" he then said no word to Jackknife.

The green dragon stopped as the iris of his eyes increased when he heard his name, You said Jackknife... What's going on? What are you thinking now Tasuku? He became worried and as the voice of Tasuku, saying his full name echoed in his mind, he wondered how he could fix thing up with his buddy. He knew that Demios was interested in Tasuku and surely lurking around.

AC: This is the end of chapter 100.

Next one: Things Break.