Ch 16: Not Again

I woke up once again feeling pain in my chest. Blake was in front of me. "Mako, it would be nice to see you wake up not in the Hospital once in a while." She stated with a grin on her face.

"I don't know, I'm kind of starting to like these hospital beds." I replied, I too had a smile on my face.

"Let me help you up, the doctors said this time you should be able to walk out of here." She walked over to the bed and helped me out of it. Besides the slight pricking feeling in my side I feel fine. We walked back to my dorm room in silence until Blake blurted out…

"How do you feel?" I looked at her face and replied, "Just sore on the outside that's all but I saw a really good guy get killed right in front of me. He died literally right fucking in front of me." I clenched my fist as I punched my wall in anger. Blake tried to calm me down and reached for my arm, her touch seemed to calm my nerves.

"I'm sorry to hear that Mako, I would do anything to try and help you cope with this pain you are going through but I can't bring your friend back." She said in a calm tone.

"We weren't exactly friends Blake, I had known him for the duration of the mission. It's his screams of pain and agony, and how they suddenly vanished the second the round penetrated into his chest that really get to me. Seeing someone suffer and die like that, having just risked your life to bring them to safety, only for that all to be erased in a fraction of a second. That's what is messing with me." I replied as I sat down on my bed with my head lowered. Blake sat down as well on the bed.

Don't cry Mako, don't fucking cry in front of Blake. I sucked it up and sat there on my bed with Blake at my side. "At least the mission was successful, that means you don't have to take any finals this year. Also they caught Torchwick, I can only imagine that the authorities will solve this whole Grimm horde thing in no time." She started to rub my back as she finished saying this.

"But Adam is still out there, I hate to say it Blake, but I'm actually kind of intimidated by him. Few guys can get shot like that and shrug it off." I remind her with a negative look on my face. I walked towards the window at tried to think about what Adam's next move might be. Adam and the White Fang will want to get Torchwick back as soon as possible. So they will probably try to spring him out of the Vale City Jail. "Blake, do you know what time the Vale City Jail opens tomorrow?" I ask her curiously,

"No I do not have the slightest clue. Why are you now thinking about the Jail?" She replied. I turned around from looking out the window and sat down on the bed next to Blake.

"My best bet is that Adam and the WF are going to try to spring Torchwick out before he talks." I exclaim.

"Well I imagine you can just look that up on your tablet, it's probably on the internet." She shrugs as she states this. "I'm going back to my dorm Ruby wants all of us to be in the same room tonight since we have practice early tomorrow." I kiss her good night and she walks out of the room and shuts the door behind her.

I quickly find my new tablet and search for the Jail's open hours. The first webpage I opened said 7-7. I'm going to see if the Vale Police Department will let me pay a little visit to Roman.

- The Next Day -

I had already made it to Vale by 6:30 am. Now I just stood in wait at the front door of the police department waiting. I need to make sure Torchwick even made it here. Commander White merely told me the ship got away. If it did get away, the government would be holding him here. I continued to wait until it was after 7. Then until it was 7:10, yet no one came to open up the black tinted doors. Something's not right, no one has come in or out of there since I arrived here. Also it seems very un-professional for the police to not open their doors at the appropriate time.

I knocked on the glass, yet no one responded to my attempt of getting someone's attention. That's it, I'm making my own way in. I pulled out my revolver and shot a hole next to the door handle and reached around to open the door. I really shouldn't have been surprised when I opened the door. I had a bad feeling this is why no one was answering. I glanced around the entry area of the police department. The officer at the front desk had his head flat on the desk, a portion of his head gone from an obvious gunshot wound from the back of the head. He was held at gunpoint execution style. Someone needed him to open the doors to the jail. I walked through the open doors into the jail to find guards dead lying on the floor, there had to be at least ten of them. Most of them appear to have slashes on them. This has to be Adam's handy work. I continued down towards the cells to find the first few completely open, with the beds in a mess.

Crap, they must have freed the other convicts, along with Torchwick. This is really bad news. I walked to the end of the hallway to the largest cell. The name on the door said it all. "Prisoner ID 420B: Roman Torchwick" His cell was empty nothing left except for dirty bed sheets and an orange jump suit. I need to tell the other Police station that this precinct was attacked. I pull out my tablet and dial the department and quickly explain the situation. They informed me that they had dispatched units to the building and that I should leave the scene so I would not contaminate the evidence. I walked out the building pondering what I had just discovered. This just can't get any worse.

I eventually make my way back to Beacon on an airship, thinking during the entire flight about what Torchwick's next move might be. Yet, I still couldn't figure it out. I marched up into my dorm room and slammed the door out of frustration. "They are always two steps ahead of us." I yelled punching the wall with my metallic hand which easily broke through the dry wall into my bathroom. Great look what you did Mako, real smooth. I walked into the bathroom to inspect the damage. The blow had went right through the wall, making a basketball size hole on the other side. The damage could be worse, it can always be worse….

Sorry for the filler chapter, I'm getting ready to either throw some romance or more action your way. I promise next chapter will be more entertaining, I'm just setting the tone and feeling of what is happening in Vale at the moment.

You will also see in the next chapter that Mako has been struggling with something involving his Body and Mind (Get the point).