Chapter Seven
Previously...
"Hello Rudger."
"Hello little brother. It's been a while"
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Yusei stared from across the room, this was the last thing that he was expecting, he was expecting Godwin to show him video of what had transpired the day of the explosion but not this.
Rudger looked across the room and his eyes fell on Yusei, he tried to cross the room to get a better looked at him but both Jack and Blister blocked his way.
"Get out of the way, I want to speak to Hakase by myself."
"Brother, that is not Hakase Fudo, it's his son Yusei." explained Godwin trying to get his attention back so that he could relay his plans of the future to his brother.
"Yusei? Yes, I remember now. Hakase's only son." Rudger looked at Yusei again and realized the mistake he had made, Yusei fidgeted under Rudger's gaze as it was making him feel very uncomfortable. "Then I would like a word with Yusei alone."
"No chance, I'm not letting you get near him after I went to all the trouble of getting him back." growled Jack placing a protective arm around Yusei's shoulder.
"Jack it's OK, all you have to do is wait just outside the door, if anything happens you'll know." reluctantly Jack moved away from Yusei and with everyone else left the room to wait outside.
"Yusei. You look so much like your father."
"Thanks...I guess." Yusei didn't know what to say to this man, Rudger had been with his family a lot more than he had. Rudger looked around the room, taking in the destruction that had been caused in the past.
"You don't remember, do you?"
"Remember what?
"You were here the very day this lab exploded."
"What, that's impossible! I would remember something like that."
"How old are you now, Yusei?"
"I'm eighteen."
"That makes sense, you were five at the time of the explosion. Your father decided to make the bio-lock on the day of the explosion, he had just finished programming it when the reactor went critical. Which means that I have been locked away for thirteen years."
"So, my father didn't cause the explosion."
"No, my dear Yusei. I did." Yusei didn't even see Rudger move but the next moment he was right behind him, he hit Yusei on the back of the neck causing Yusei to fall unconscious. "Sorry Yusei but I need to speak to you without you raising the alarm for your friends.
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Jack was waiting outside the door, hoping Yusei would come through the door saying that they could go home and leave this event behind them."So, you're the detective that Yusei's in love with." came Blister's voice from behind Jack. "And from the way you're reacting and your actions before, I'd say the feeling's mutual." Jack turned to face Blister.
"What're you talking about? Yusei's not in love with me, we've only known each other for a few days."
"If that were true, Yusei wouldn't have given himself up so easily the way he did." Jack made to argue but there was a click from the door meaning that it had been locked.
Godwin tried opening the door but it would budge, Jack on the other hand try to force the door open by ramming into it, injuring his shoulder more.
"Yusei, what's going on? The door's locked, Yusei?" Jack shouted, hoping Yusei would respond. Yanagi forced Jack to sit down with the help of Trudge and Yanagi mended to Jack's shoulder.
"Jack don't worry he still has that cell phone in his back pocket. The chamber rising caused the call to be disconnected but now we're free to call him." Blister explained while taking out his own phone from his pocket.
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When Yusei woke the first thing he realized was that his neck was killing him and the second was that he could only move one of his hands, looking he saw that his hand was cuffed to a table. He guessed it had once been a glass table as one end of the cuff was attached to metal where there should have been glass.
"Ah Yusei, I had thought you would wake up a little later but it doesn't matter." Yusei turned to see Rudger across the room looking at him.
"What have you done to my friends?" Yusei growled
"Just like Hakase, you know he always worried about everyone else and himself last."
"Answer me, what did you do to my friends!"
"Fine, they're all fine. I locked them out of the room so that they couldn't interfere." Rudger explained turning around and fiddling about with some wires on a burned out console.
"What're you planning to do to me?"
"Patience Yusei, Hakase had a lot more patience."
"I have patience just not for you or your brother." Rudger turned and swiftly walked up to Yusei. He grabbed Yusei by the throat and pulled him up until they were face to face.
"Do not place me in the same category as my brother, he is weak and I am not. He would never do the things I would do." Rudger slowly let go of Yusei and moved back to the console.
Yusei suddenly felt a vibration in his back pocket, slowly making sure that he didn't reveal what he was doing. Pulling out the phone he pressed the answer button and carefully placed the phone back in his pocket.
"You still haven't told me what you are going to do to me."
"If you really want to know I am going to cause another explosion and make sure that you are caught in the explosion."
"What did I ever do to you, why are you so against me?"
"Because you were going to inherit this place, you were going to steal everything from me, so the day you came to the lab, I caused a spark in the reactor. The plan was to kill you and then I would say that it was your father who caused the explosion."
"Except I survived, how did that happen?"
"Your father stopped me from escaping from the room and your mother ran from the lab with you in her arms. I had no choice but to use the preservation chamber until after the explosion but I guess the blast made the fail safe kick in and I was trapped in there until you opened the doors and the chamber."
"What about my mother? You said she took me from this place but why was she caught in the explosion as well?"
"I can only guess that she came to help your father after she had taken you to safety. But this time you won't escape."
"But you plan to use the chamber to survive the blast, it'll be just me in the explosion."
"Correct Yusei, only this time the chamber will open without you, I'm reprogramming the bio-lock so that it will open when I say it will. Now shut up before I shut you up!"
"I'm not finished talking to you yet, why did your brother know about the bio-lock?"
Rudger gave a sigh and turned towards Yusei, he knew Yusei was like his father never giving up until he had all the answers.
"Fine, I called my brother a few minutes before I caused the reactor to go critical. I told him that Hakase was going crazy and becoming paranoid, which wasn't a complete lie. I told him all about the bio-lock and how I feared your father was going to do something drastic to make sure that his work was not stolen by other people from other companies."
"And he believed you." realizing how Godwin knew about everything he did, about the bio-lock and thanks to Rudger, he believed Yusei's father had caused the critical reactor because of what Rudger had told him.
"Of course he did, why would he doubt me. I was his older brother who had never lied to him, why should then be any different."
"Too bad it's different now."
"What do you mean?" asked Rudger suspiciously
"While you were sleeping, the world has advanced in technology and other things, including phones." explained Yusei taking the phone out of his pocket. "Everything you said has been recorded and everyone outside heard everything you said from the point of you telling me what you planned to do with me."
Rudger charged up to Yusei, snatched the phone from Yusei and placed it to his ear. "Who is on this number?"
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"Who is on this number?"
"My name is Blister, but you're on speaker phone with everyone else and that includes your brother."
"Well then Blister, I suggest you let me and my brother speak privately or else I will shoot Mr. Yusei here before I blow this lab up."
Blister took the phone off speaker and gave it to Godwin, who just stared into space. It had been a shock to find out that his brother had lied to him and killed innocent people.
"Yes Brother, what is it?"
"I take it you heard what happened all those years ago."
"Yes...How could you! They were your friends!" Godwin shouted down the phone
"There, there brother. I only did what I did to help you."
"HELP ME? HOW DOES KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE HELP ME?"
"I wanted everything for you and becoming head of the Institute would mean that I would have been able to get you anything you dreamed of."
"I wanted my brother, Rudger! Instead you hid like a coward and killed people. I wanted us to be a family, but you ruined that, just like you ruined Yusei's chance with his family. I will admit that I have caused my fair share of problems for him but I will make amends by turning myself in, but you have to do the same."
"I'm sorry brother but that is not going to happen."
"If you are really going to go through with this then put Yusei on the phone, I wish to apologise before he dies." At these words both Blister, Jack and Yanagi made to go for Godwin but he waved his hands to tell them he was planning something and hadn't really meant anything he had just said. Both Jack and Blister had to hold Yanagi back as he had not got the message.
"Very well brother, I shall do as you ask. But I cannot promise that he will forgive you." there was a moment before Yusei's voice came on the other end of the phone.
"Hello?"
"Yusei, this is Rex Godwin. Are you on speaker?"
"No."
"Good, now listen carefully. The lab you are in is reinforced with a Titanium type metal and with the bio-lock in place we cannot enter the room. I need for you to get to the door and unlock it, do you understand?"
"Yes, I forgive you."
"Good, we'll be ready to help as soon as you open the door."
"Let me speak to Jack." Godwin walked over to Jack and handed him the phone explaining that Yusei wanted to speak to him.
"Yusei are you alright?"
"I will be. Listen if I don't make it through this..."
"You are going to make it through this, no if's about it!"
"I just want you know that I like you...No that's not right...I love you and if something happens to me then I want you to live your for the both of us."
"If anything happens, I'll charge straight into the afterlife and bring you back myself...you understand and do you know why...because I love you too."
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Yusei laughed at Jack's comment before the phone was snatched away from him, he could hear Jack shouting in the background for him to answer him. Rudger hit the end button and walked back to the console placing the phone in his pocket.
Yusei guessed that he had about five minutes before Rudger completed the circuitry fixes and the reactor would go critical again. Yusei looked around for something that he could use to unlock the handcuffs, he found a small piece of wire. It would be a stretch to get it even with his feet but he had to try.
Yusei managed to grab the piece of wire and unlock his hand, just as a countdown came on the screen stating that he had three minutes to get out of the room. Getting up he ran towards the door, but before he could get there Rudger blocked his way.
"Get out of the way!"
"I'm afraid I can't do that, you must die here!" roared Rudger with laughter just as the room started to crumble bits of wires came loose and part of the ceiling started to crack.
"Listen we can both get out of here and go our separate ways, never to see each other again. I promise no one will speak of this again but we've gotta go now!"
Rudger thought for a moment about what Yusei had said and what his brother had said to him on the phone. "Ok, we will do it your way." Rudger delved into his pocket and pulled out the phone.
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Jack was getting worried the reactor was going critical and Yusei still hadn't gotten out of the room yet. He was so tense that he almost had a heart attack from Blister's phone ringing in his hand.
"Yusei?"
"Yea Jack. I managed to convince Godwin's brother to let me go, we're coming out don't you or the others try anything when we come out, Ok?"
"But Yusei..." he would have continued but a loud crash on Yusei's end of the phone cut it short. "YUSEI, WHAT HAPPENED?"
"We're fine but the door's blocked and we can't get out in time. I sorry Jack, remember what I said before about living life for the both of us, will you do that for me?"
"Yes, I love you."
"I love you t..." It was then that Yusei's end went dead
"YUSEI!" Jack turned to see that everyone was looking at him, they all knew what had happened and no one knew what to say to console him. Jack turned towards Godwin and grabbed him by the throat. "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! HE NEVER WOULD'VE BEEN IN THAT ROOM IF YOU HADN'T BROUGHT HIM HERE!"
"Jack calm down! Killing him won't solve anything and besides death is too good for this piece of slime. It will be more of a suffering if he has to live with what he has done."
This seemed to calm Jack considerably as he released Godwin and walked into the lift, Yanagi made to follow but Blister put his hand on Yanagi's shoulder and shook his head.
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Jack ran out of the building with the rest of the people evacuating from the building, but went straight to the car, he tried opening it but realized he didn't have the key. All the rage and pain came out again this time he punched the window of car causing it to shatter.
Falling to the ground Jack wept, he had never been this distraught in his entire life and now the love of his life had been killed and there he was helpless to do anything about it. But he would comply with his promise that he made to Yusei before he died, he would live his life for the both of them.
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So what did you guys think of this chapter? (Be honest!)
Sorry about how long its taken to write this chapter but like I said everything I had was lost on my previous laptop and I haven't had the time to write anything until now.
Anyway the next chapter is going to be two years later...when everyone has gotten on with their lives and how they've all coped with Yusei's tragic death. I've already started writing it so it will be up soon and is probably gonna be a short chapter.