XIII: Mission Accomplish
Part 2
"So this is the place?" Yumi asked after using the night vision goggle to look through the towering building in front of her. She was definitely impressed by the design; Sachiko had shown her the layout and the design of this place before they left their home in Shinjuku. It was done in a form of a flower, the buildings are tall and massive but remain in its pattern with sophisticated security and AI strips to constantly monitor everything that's going on in the place. It could be said that the place itself is alive, though not truly a breathing alive kind of way.
"Are you sure you wanted to come in with me?" Sachiko asked one more time hoping to change the girl's mind. "Sachiko-sama, I am not some frilly girl that can't take care of herself, not since we kissed." Yumi said with determination in her eyes while embarrassment written on her face. After their first kiss, Yumi had felt something in her changed, she felt more confident and stronger like the neutrons in her body had just released a large amount of energy throughout her entire being. And she had demonstrated to Sachiko by beating the mercenary in a hand-to-hand combat when Sachiko refused to let her come along in rescuing the woman's parents.
"Alright," Sachiko caved in as her shoulders slumped. "We will need to shut down the security system manually before going in there," Sachiko said yanking a lid to a sewer tunnel below. With a small flashlight, Yumi decided to take the lead and climbed down the ladder as Sachiko followed right behind her. "This is not a sewer…" the girl halt as she looked around. "No, this is where shipments of goods come and go," Sachiko said solemnly. "Turn off the light and put this back on," Sachiko murmured handing Yumi a pair of what looked like sunglasses, though it's actually night vision goggle modified to look like sunglasses.
They walked for about five minutes before they come to a closed door blocking their path, Sachiko simply smashed the box beside and ripped the panel opened revealing a small code entering pad to unlock the door. Yumi's hand flew up and touched the pad, strangely her hand glowed like the pale moon in the night sky and the door slid opened immediately. Sachiko was still in shocked that Yumi grabbed her hand and dragged her through the door, it was definitely something new about the girl she's in love with and it took her by surprise.
The small sphere in the middle of the secured room, the central system of the company's AI security monitoring, Yumi stared at it for a long moment as though she's studying the patterns of the sphere. Tiny glowing lines reminded Sachiko of sparkling electrons passing around the brain, not to mention this thing looked just like a brain and that caused Sachiko to let out an involuntary shudder. One can never be too cautious as Sachiko learned, even though the place seemed eerily quiet, she remained alert and ready with her guns trained at the door. Yamada wouldn't be so careless in not having guards down here, especially down here.
"I'm going to override the system and take control of it," Yumi whispered as she reached out for the brain. "What do you mean?" Sachiko asked taking her eyes off the door. "My parents taught me how to control all kind of technological programs regardless of how advance the AIs are," Yumi said with a bright smile on her innocent face as her hand touched the brain. "I will see if I can locate your parents with this or not," she continued as she turned her attention to the brain in front of her. "Trace on," Yumi said closing her eyes to focus on entering the central controlling system to locate Sachiko's parents.
Before her, Yumi right hand, neck and face looked as though there are tiny bus lines illuminating itself, surging from the brain through her fingers and up to her face. In this darkness, it glows even brighter, beautiful sapphire shade like the color of Sachiko's eyes. Static charge were release from the brain, zapping itself up to Yumi's hand and disappeared into her shoulder before repeating its pattern all over again without ever stopping.
The mother of technologies, the manipulator of all AIs… my angel, Sachiko's mind said in a totally dreamy tone, one that Sachiko didn't knew she had. She would like to argue with her mind and ask it how in the dripping hell did it know that when she herself have not a damn clue what's happening. You silly girl, did you forgot what mother used to read to you when you're young and sick? The Age of the Angels, a single person with the ability to heal and control technologies, she is worshipped by the biogenetic people. The ones we called freaks, because the governments used them to fuse other nonhuman genes into their body causing horrible mutation? Remember those? They had been waging war with us for hella long time now, Sachiko's mind said bluntly and rudely. Anyway, that's just my guess but who cares, if they come we kill them. The world is nothing but a stink hole anyway, but that doesn't mean we should let some filthy bastards touch her. Sachiko let out a low growled in her throat threatening her mind; the woman had started to show her more primal and possessive self whenever Yumi was mentioned in the topic.
"They're three levels beneath us, guarded by bio-beasts." Yumi's voice dragged Sachiko out of her predator mode against her mind. "How are you feeling?" Sachiko asked putting her guns away and taken out her knife. "Do you hate me?" Yumi asked looking up at the woman with unshed tears in her mocha eyes. The right side of her face was still illuminating like a piece of the motherboard had been printed on her delicate face. "Never," Sachiko answered looking at the other one lovingly. Unable to resist those puppy dog eyes, Sachiko leaned down a little bit to give the girl a kiss on the lips, a light and gentle kiss but Yumi returned with passion and desire as she slipped her tongue in to explore Sachiko's mouth like she had done many times before. The shy girl was never shy when it come to kissing Sachiko, it was opposite since Sachiko was the shy one whenever they're getting intimate.
"Let's get going," Sachiko whispered breathlessly into Yumi's ears. Yumi blushingly nodded her head and lead the way to a hidden down that led down deeper prison below. Both the first and second floors were quiet and emptied, as soon as they reached the third floor the air changed completely. The stench of blood and rotten flesh washed their nostrils, making it unbearable for either one of them to breathe. Moving in silent, the sound of dripping water halted their movements as they both turned upward to find the source of the leakage. Yumi would've screamed if Sachiko hadn't been quick enough to put her hand over the girl's mouth, shushing the girl to sooth her fear and removing her goggle.
Stuck on the ceiling, a fresh corpse, maybe a few hours old hung upside-down, nude with a unsightly gash on the throat. Hands taped to the side, mouth taped also, shaved head, and the cut on the throat was what led to the dripping blood that created a pool on the clean marbled floor. Tearing her eyes away from the ceiling, Sachiko noticed something else along the walls. Body after body chained to the walls, stripped and bloodied, some showed bleach white bones in certain area of the body.
"They're all security guards of this company," Yumi said barely audible. "They're used to feed the beasts," Sachiko concluded. "This is just so cruel," Yumi sobbed. "That bastard," Sachiko grated as she hugged the girl in her arms. "I'm fine," Yumi said, sniffled as she pushed herself away from Sachiko just a little bit. "Let's save your parents," the girl with mocha eyes smiled at Sachiko. "Okay," Sachiko nodded her head before picking Yumi up, she doesn't wanted the girl to get her shoes tainted by all these blood (even though some of them have dried up some times ago).
"Ahhhh!!!!" Sachiko shouted as she leaped into the air as soon as the giant flesh eating dog leaped for Yumi. Pulling her legs up into a near fetal position, Sachiko started to whirl while holding her knife out like she's a spinning blade. The dog let out a yelp and fell hard onto the ground, blood started to pool around its great but muscular body. The thing was three times the average man's size with a set of jaws that resembled a saber tooth tiger than a dog, and claws that belonged to the eagles, and what's worse was that it had no skin to cover its muscles though it's not bleeding it looked gross still.
Yumi didn't have time to react to any of what had happened as she was busy focusing on manipulating the control pad to unlock the door to save Sachiko's parents. There were so many layers of security that put her ability to the test, and she's not worried about anything else since she trusted Sachiko with her life and the woman had proven that she got Yumi's back.
With Sachiko's parents taken care of, the couple went back inside the building and Yumi set the central control into self-destruction. Luckily, it was late and no one was around when the place went up in smoke, through the burning heat, they emerged unscathed though a few minor cuts from a pack of unstable carnivore rabbits. Now Yumi have to agree with Sei that cute things aren't that harmless after all, they are fearsome and scary when their genes are mixed with a carnivore DNA.
None of the Roses heard from them since, it seemed that the couple had disappeared. Even Sachiko's parents could find her, Suguru broke the marriage explaining to her family that he preferred to married a man instead of a woman and he had no clue where Sachiko went to. Well, everyone but Sei, Satou Sei knew where the two disappeared to, that she does but said nothing. After all, this game is far from over, not if the hope of humanity depending upon those two's feelings for each other. Oh it's far from being over, not yet…