Hiro awoke to see the faint light of morning peeking through the blinds, he looked around the room, finding himself in his chair. He looked around the room further, he noticed Mika laying in the chair by him, also asleep. He slowly got up and recalled the events of the day before, the hurricane. Getting up he noticed that Aunt Cass was no where to be found, looking everywhere in the space, he couldn't find her. It was really hard to see around the room in nothing but the light from outside to see. Wait...Sunlight? He walked over to the window and looked through the blinds. The street below was tattered and filled with large water puddles, but nothing more...
"Over already?" Hiro said to himself. He decided not to wake Mika yet and cautiously walked downstairs. "Aunt Cass?" he said loudly.
"Down here Hiro!" she yelled from the Cafe'. "Careful when you come down, there's a lot of debris. Hiro continued down the stairs, coming into the Cafe' to see quite a bit of broken glass from the displays, along with flipped chairs and tables. Everything was wet, too. He could tell the water did it.
"Ah, man." He said watching his step.
"Well, at least it's over now." Cass said.
"Since when does a hurricane end overnight?" Hiro asked.
"I don't know, but, thank goodness it did." she said.
"Hiro?" a voice from upstairs called.
"We're downstairs, Mika!" he yelled back. Mika soon appeared at the bottom on the steps.
"Oh, no." she said walking into the room. "I don't believe it."
"I've never seen anything like this," Hiro said. "How does a hurricane so powerful, just end?"
"That's...Not normal." Mika said. "Well, I need to get home. Ben and Lisa must be worried sick." she said starting towards the door.
"Do you need any help getting home?" Cass asked.
"No thanks, I'll be fine. Thank you both so much." she said smiling.
"No problem at all, so, I'll see you soon?" Hiro asked. Mika nodded, before exiting the Cafe' and starting down the road.
"Well, I suppose we better start cleaning up." Cass said, lifting a chair back on it's legs.
"Hey, where do you think all the police and everyone else are?" Hiro asked, he had been in this situation before, and he knew that afterwards the streets would be lined with local police and volunteers.
"That's weird, normally they'd be here by now." she said looking out the windows. Hiro looked around.
"Hey, where's that old radio you had?" he asked.
"Ah, good idea." she said, and after digging around in a back room for a few minutes, she brought out a moderatley sized radio coated in dust. She sat it down on the counter and eventually, after turning a few knobs, got it to turn on. The voice on the other end soon became clear through the static of the channel.
"And I -zzzzzzzzzz- can assure-zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz- that we -zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz- are working to fix the issue." a man's voice spoke. "More reports will be announced later, strange weather patterns have been detected throughout south Sanfransokyo. And along the Pacific."
"What is going on?" Hiro mumbled under his breath.
"Reports state that the most impacted areas are the following: Southern Rivet, Larson Bay, and Keaten Valley." the news man said. Then, the radio cut out again.
"Well, that's strange. Ah well. We need to start putting this place back together. Hopefully everyone's okay." Cass said putting the radio up.
Hiro couldn't let the strange feeling go.
In about a week the Cafe' was running like it used to. No one was hurt during the hurricane, and the University was barley touched. It was the first since then that he had seen everyone else. It was nice to know that everything had turned back to normal, but the results of the disaster were still not explained. Hiro knew, that someone was hiding something. He was just about to enter his lab when he heard a voice from behind him.
"Hiro! There you are!" Mika exlaimed. Hiro turned over his shoulder to see her walking towards him. "Is the Cafe' running okay again?" she asked.
"I can't say it was fun cleaning off all those water stains, but it's up and running." Hiro replied. "Is everyone at your house alright?"
"Yeah, let's just say my foster parents weren't too happy about me being gone all that night, but they were happy to see me okay." she replied, Hiro smiled, but a second later it dropped and he looked at the floor. "What's wrong?" Mika asked.
"Just, have a lot going on right now, that's all." He said.
"I know what you mean. It seems like every moment you're spending is being spent on work or progression. It would be nice to get a moment for ourselves, wouldn't it?" she asked. Hiro nodded, then opened his lab door.
"See ya later, Mika." He said stepping inside. Mika just smiled, but it fainted when he closed the door. She knew something was wrong with him. Hiro sat his bag down on his desk and collapsed in his chair, slightly spinning. He rolled up to his laptop and opened it, when he did, he noticed a news update on his desktop. He clicked it, making an updated video pop up.
"The Sanfransokyo Police and Rescue Service are currently accepting volenteers to help with the clean up of the Larson Bay, currently littered with debris. Other reports say that-" Hiro didn't feel like listening, he slightly, but not fully, closed his laptop and started walking away. He could still only slightly hear the woman's voice.
"Definitely one of the most impacted areas was Keaton Valley, the most damaged structure throughout the whole city, was without a doubt, the Keaton Valley Prison." The lady spoke. Hiro was back in his chair and watching the video again in record time, eyes growing wide from what he just heard. "All prisoners are, just now, being accounted for. As few got lost in the maze of damage. A list of all of the escaped convicts has been posted in the link below, along with a picture of the prisoner, if you have any information as to where-"
Hiro cut off the video and immediatley clicked on the link, it brought him to a page with a long list of names in alphabetical order by last name. He instantly scrolled down to the M's. His heart stopped, Nori Malmar's name was first on the list. As if out of pure instinct he shot up and ran out of his lab. Completely oblivious to look under the C's, like he should've done.
A/N YAY! I FINALLY UPDATED! HAPPY (LATE) VALENTINES DAY! AND ALSO...HAPPY B-DAY TO ME! YUP, MY B-DAY'S ON V-DAY, HAHA! HOPE YOU LIKE THIS CHAPTER, BUILDING THE SUSPENSE! PLEASE REVIEW! SEE YALL LATER!
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