A/N: Decided now was the best time for a Beyond Birthday chapter. Mostly because he hasn't been mentioned for a while. :)

Enjoy!

(B P.O.V)

It was too simple. Too easy. Not one of the guards had noticed me escape, though there was no denying it would reach L's ears soon.

I had escaped the asylum L had put me in. It was easy enough for my nimble body to get free of the strait jacket, but that wasn't my only worry. In fact… it was the easiest part of my escape.

Wherever L had placed me, it was high on security and maintenance. I was locked in a room with eight cameras watching my every move, a strait jacket to keep me in place, and a mouth guard to keep me from biting. As if that weren't enough, my room was located in the more remote parts of the asylum, so the doors to freedom were limited. However, I wasn't the second best at Wammy's for nothing.

The cameras were easy. All I had to do was insight a riot while at the lunch tables with some of the more… angrier tenants, and the rest was a cakewalk. While most of the guards were trying to calm down the massive riot, I snuck into the security office, found my tapes, and then rewound them to make it seem like I was still in the room. It was only one twenty-four hour tape, so I had to work quickly. When I was in my room, my guard came in to deliver my daily pill – which I later purged to keep the effects from hitting my mind – and struck him on the head with my own. The man went down, I changed into his clothes, then escaped my cell. No one paid any attention to me as I left the building as part of their crew. Though not my greatest plan, it only had to be effective enough for my escape. I guess most of it all was luck, to say the least, but I'll take any win I can achieve.

I smiled at the thought of L getting the news. Knowing that the greatest detective to ever live had been outsmarted by his own pupil. But now what did I do? I knew I had to go by a different name, something other than 'Backup'… but what? I was too sure I'd be able to find a name later on, but for the moment I had to think of a plan.

L would certainly want me in high security prison after all this, so I had to find a way to avoid him… but also, I had to be close to him. How I was going to do that, was the question.

The detective I so admired as a child had turned on both me and A. A was gone, and it was all L's fault. A could've been the best had L paid even the slightest bit of attention to him. Had L seen what the pressure was doing to him, what those dirty brats had made him become. Mello, Near, even Matt… L favoured them over everyone else. Especially Mello. Near may have been the smartest in the house, but for some reason, L had favoured the blonde over any of the three. I could see why though.

Although I hated to admit it, Mello was smarter than me. Hell, the kid was smarter than L on some levels. The only thing that kept him from becoming better than Near was his emotions. L would set his feelings aside whenever he dealt with a case, and Near was just an emotionless freak. Mello and Matt… they weren't made to be the next 'L'.

I finally stopped my walk on the snow covered street. I looked up to see a bright street light shining on me in the clear night. L had made sure I was as far away from the Wammy house as physically possible. He sent me to the states, under high security, and now I stood on the outskirts of Los Angeles. I was as far as I could be from L, so how could I get closer to him?

I wanted revenge. I wanted L to be humiliated, to be known as second to another. A could've been that person had it not been for his little favourites… so I guess it was up to me. But how to go about doing so?

Well… that was also easy…

I had to become his worst nightmare. The one thing he had never lost against, the one thing he was so well known to stop.

I don't believe I have to explain further.

I continued walking on to my destination. There was no doubt L would be able to put two and two together after what I planned to do in the following months, but would he be able to catch me? I doubted that very much. Even if he suspected me, and I knew he would, catching me would be next to impossible. I was beyond his comprehension, above his mental status, and to complete it all… I had the eyes of death god.

This had to be my calling.

There was nothing else for me.

L had created this when he ignored A and all his accomplishments. But now, his true successor would rise and prove that he was truly the smarter of the two. L wouldn't know what hit him.

But until the time was right, I had to come up with a new name for myself. Something better than 'Backup'. Though, I'm sure the name would come to me. And when it did, I knew it was the perfect name.

Beyond… Beyond Birthday. It was… perfection.