The blocks of the city were grainy and tinted in a bright green from the goggled eyes of the team with only one goal in mind.

Leave Chernobyl.

"Ah I can't see with these goggles. Everything looks weird." Osaka said.

"Shh. We still have one block to cross and we can get in the pump station." Yomi explained.

They had made it through the city without a single shot fired. Save for the war being fought in the city not far from where they were.

Nikolai planted his handed on the door adjacent to him. "In here. We made it to the pump station."

Tomo who had been convulsing since she ate the pill couldn't stay quiet any longer.

"Victory!" She shrieked for the entire city to here.

Soon voices came from the darkness.

"The hell was that?"

"Let's check it out."

Nikolai stood up. "Damn it Tomo!" He said kicking the door open.

"Someone's definitely over there! Shoot on sight!"

Everyone sprinted full bore through the opening.

Nikolai threw the gun over his shoulder and ran for a near-by book case. "Sakaki! Help me out here."

The two shoved the hulk into the doorway.

A window broke out of the wall by them.

The voice from outside again. "Fire in the hole!"

A grenade arced into structure.

"Down the stairs!" Nikolai said already bolting for safety.

Time seemed to slowed down as the team sprinted down the stairs until the eventual explosion.

Soon fire licked the walls as pellets tore at the floor and furniture in the lobby.

"That got em'."

"Definitely. C'mon we still need to rendezvous with the sergeant."

Nikolai sat counting on his fingers.

"Alright they should be gone. Brilliant work Tomo."

"Sorry. Couldn't contain my excitement for another second." She cheerfully shrugged.

"Whatever. This should lead right into the tunnels. Lets just make a barricade for the stairs and sleep for the night."

"What? But I'm not tired."

Kagura looked over smiling. "Then in all fairness you get to build the barricade."

Yomi and Osaka opened laughed as the others only snickered.

Tomo reluctantly set to work as the rest slept.

/\/\/\

Morning. A few rays of brilliant orange sun had fell through the cracks in Tomos barricade, illuminating the room.

Everyone had slept undisturbed in the rubble-strewn basement even as Tomo worked.

Chiyo, as the first to awaken, had begun to wake the others.

"Please get up. It's morning and we have to get moving."

Soon the others had finally gotten out of the sleeping bags they kept and got ready for the day ahead.

Chiyo crawled over to Tomo. She finished the barricade and immediately fallen against the wall to sleep.

Nikolai looked over while stretching his arms. "No let her sleep for awhile."

"But we need to get moving as soon as we can don't we?" Chiyo asked.

"She was up all night making sure we didn't get another grenade in our faces so she gets to sleep."

"Okay."

Everyone sat, inspecting and cleaning their weapons until Tomo awoke in a sweat.

Yomi was the first to verbalize her thoughts. "Tomo what happened?"

Tomo slouched breathing heavily shaking her head. "Ne- Never mind I'm okay."

"Are you sure?" Chiyo asked.

She simply nodded in response.

Nikolai smacked his palm on the heavy metal door in front of the tunnels. "Now that we're all up we can get to work on finding the stash." He paused and stared at the door. "Just think... 2 years in hell and it's about 2 days from over."

A gun cocked from a few feet behind him.

Kagura sat with her AK47. "Right behind you Nikolai."

The door opened with a punchy clunk. "Let's go."

/\/\/\

The tunnels dripped ominously with an even rhythm that gave a sense that the area was forbidden. Only made worse with the dank and musty scent that seemed to preserve the stillness that was left from the explosion of 1986.

Nikolai held his hand over his shoulder in a fist. "Hold on." He pushed a button an his PDA and reviewed the device for a moment. "Yeah we have to turn here."

Yomi looked around for a moment. "Where?"

There was only a single tunnel that surrounded a main water pipe, broken up only by pipes jutting from the wall that dripped a pungent green fluid.

"Here." He said pointing to one of the rusted pipes.

"In these pipes?" Chiyo asked.

"Don't worry those suits are water proof and seeing as none you guys have caught a bullet they should stay that way."

A series of grumbles and sighs followed.

Osaka stepped to the pipe. "Let's go."

/\/\/\

A slopping noises emanated through the pipe as the 7 crawled through the space.

"Kagura your moving kinda slow whats up?" Tomo asked.

"I-I'm Just... a little bit claustrophobic." She answered.

Silence.

"Mph. Gmbphk. Bwa hahahahahaha. The great Kagura's claustrophobic! Hahahahohohoha." Tomo laughed.

"Excuse me all to hell for not liking the thought of getting stuck in a pipe until I starve!" She barked back.

"Can it dumbasses. You can argue when where not in such a small space."

Kagura bowed her head. "Your right lets just go."

About another 5 minutes passed. 5 minutes of crawling on their hands and knees in a 3 foot rusty chunk of pipe.

"Uhng" Nikolai exclaimed.

"What's going on?" Chiyo inquired.

"Ladies and gentleman... we have made it to the end of the pipe. I can feel the valve.

Yomi looked over Kagura who was ion front of her the whole time. "Valve? You mean hatch right?"

"Nope. If I'm right there should be a valve that opens into a boiler and from there we'll open a hatch that will let us into the building that has our treasure."

Kagura began crawling over Nikolai "I'm getting out of this pipe. Now!"

She turned around and threw her foot at the valve. The impact rang through the tunnel.

"Kagura stop that's not getting that thing open"

"Fuck that I'm getting out of here!" She kicked the valve again. This time it sprang from it's place and tumbled into the darkness.

"Damn. Nice one." Nikolai said.

"Thanks." She said scrambling towards the opening.

"Wait a sec Kagura. Thats an industrial complex so is got a pretty big boiler."

"Aahh!" Then a loud clunk as she hit the floor.

"You alright?"

"Yeah I landed on my feet. Sorta."

"Okay can you stand?"

"Yup."

"Alright help me down would ya?"

"Okay."

Nikolai jumped down as Kagura lit the boiler with her lighter so he could see.

One by one they filed down from the pipe into the boiler as the warm orange glow flickered against it's rusted sides.

Nikolai disassembled the hinge on the hatch and they climbed out of the boiler.

"Okay now the gold and shit should be a in the sub-basement. Down that utility elevator."

They stepped on and hit the button.

Loudly it chugged downward.

"Jeez you'd it would have hit the bottom by now." Tomo whined.

Yomi squinted through the grating in the floor. "Wait. Yeah I think I see it!"

Nikolai pounced on the floor. "He.. aheheehehe. Thats it. That... is it. We're fuckin' gone! We are gonna leave!"

They sat in the elevator celebrating for a moment until they reached the destination.

Glorious.

A massive underground warehouse stacked to the ceiling with mountains of gold, speckled with expensive looking jewelry.

They stood, stunned at the unreal sight in front of them.

Tomo spoke up after what seemed like hours staring. "Yomi?"

"Yes?"

"You still want 10 trillion yen?"

"Of course."

As if rehearsed to do so, they ran towards the piles of riches at once.

"Agh!" Came Chiyos startled voice.

Nikolai turned around in time to see a masked stalker club him with the butt of his gun.

Author's Note

Cliffhanger from hell eh? Don't worry chapter 11 is already in production.