Angel Beats! REBORN!
Episode 4: Operation Christ
The crew prepared for the operation which Yuzuru named, 'Operation Christ'. While the Guild members loaded up the supplies and ammo, the members who took part in the operation checked their weapons. The members were Yuri, Matsuda, Hinata, TK, Yui, Ayato, Kanade and Yuzuru himself.
Yuzuru stood on top of the stage and gave out his orders, "A Team, enter vehicle A02 when ready, B Team enter vehicle A03, Kanade and I as C Team will be in vehicle A02 soon, everyone let's move!"
An hour ago, everyone received their instructions for the operation. Matsushida, Yuri and Ayato are in A Team; their orders are to defend the area where Takeyama is located. Yui, Hinata and TK are in B Team; their orders are to provide support when Takeyama was retrieved. Kanade and Yuzuru are in C Team, whose objective is to retrieve Takeyama and escape with A Team while B Team provides the support. Ayato will then use hypnotism to regain Takeyama's memories.
The teams are ten minutes away from Takeyama's location.
Yuzuru went over the rules of the operation, "You know our objective, our operation limit is thirty minutes, when that time is up, everyone must retreat got it?"
"Yes!" the group replied.
The moment the vehicle stopped, A and C Team exited their vehicle and executed the operation. As Kanade and Yuzuru entered the Journalist building, Yuri, Matsushida, Ayato took their defensive position. B Team hide themselves in an alleyway waiting for C Team to exited the building.
Bang! Bang! Gunshots began outside the building. Kanade and Yuzuru searched the building floor by floor.
"He's not here"
"He's not here either"
Crash! A sound came from the locker room beside a cabinet.
"Guard Skill: Hand Sonic version 1" Kanade readied her blade as Yuzuru opened the locker room. Inside the locker was a student in glasses holding a laptop and a thick book.
"Takeyama?"
"W-Who are you? Wait, do I know you two?"
"We'll explain later, come with us"
"No explain now!"
Yuzuru looked at his watch, fifteen minutes remained, "We don't have time" Yuzuru whispered to Kanade.
"There is a bomb on this building, everyone is evacuated but you"
Kanade's amazing, she thought of a background story in such speed! Yuzuru noticed that a piece of paper was inside Kanade's pocket. Or did she have a list of them for situations like this?
"A-A bomb?!" Takeyama panicked and ran towards the door.
Yuzuru slipped the paper out of Kanade's pocket and unfolded the paper. It has multiple excuse lines:
There is a bomb. The toilet exploded. The sewage pipe busted. A zombie apocalypse is occurring.
"Kanade, is this?"
"Yes my excuse lines"
"Why do you have this?"
"You never know when you need those"
Yuzuru gave out a sigh.
Yuzuru and Kanade led Takeyama out of the building, Yuzuru's eyes widened at the sight of A Team on the floor.
Who did this?
"Those trash weren't a challenge for me at all" said a distorted voice, "You, you seem more challenging"
A tall Shadow with blades appeared before them.
"Is that the level 10? Demon?"
The Shadow charged towards Yuzuru. Kanade deflected the attack with her blade.
"Takeyama get to cover!"
"Wait, that looks like…" Takeyama ran a few meters back and opened his laptop and book. Yuzuru remembered the cover of the book, 'Angel Player'.
Takeyama typed up a few keys and pressed 'Enter' with all his might.
"Miss! Use Delay!"
Not yet, the time's not right.
Kanade continued to fight Demon with non-stop combat.
I need more speed she thought.
"Guard Skill: Hand Sonic version 2" the blade changed its form. As Kanade's speed went up, so did Demon's.
Now! "Guard Skill: Delay" for a split second, Kanade's speed increased. She slit the arm of Demon and distanced herself as delay wore off.
"Not bad" the Demon began to change its form, it began to take its shape, the figure of the shape was getting more and more familiar. A face emerged from where was thought the head of the Shadow, it was Kanade; the Shadow had taken Kanade's form. But the eyes of this Kanade were blood-like red instead of the beautiful golden eyes.
"Interesting, it takes on the form of its opponent" commented Takeyama, "this will be good data"
"Guard Skill: Hand Sonic version 5" the Demonic claws that Kanade created appeared before them, equipped by Demon, "This suits me better"
Takeyama took out a portable camera from his pocket and started to record the battle. Both Kanades' used the same speed and attack, the fight seemed endless.
Yuzuru took out his walkie talky, "C Team pursue level 10"
"Level 10? Roger" replied the C Team.
C Team rammed their vehicle between the fight and provided cover fire while Yuzuru, Kanade and Takeyama carried all of A Team into the vehicle.
"Fools, out of my away" said Demon in an annoyed tone.
"Return to base! Retreat!" yelled Yuzuru.
In moments the vehicles were several kilometres away from Demon. Ayato had regained Takeyama's memories during the trip back to the HQ.
"So why do you have the Angel Player?" asked Yuzuru.
"According to my previous memories I discovered it in that Journalist building, but because I was stuck in the loop, I couldn't exactly research on it, but once the loop was broken, I actually researched on Angel Player" explained Takeyama.
"And when you installed Angel Player, Kanade's skills came up" continued Yuzuru.
"Yes, Angel's skills came up and I had to reactivate Hand Sonic with some complicated coding, but I couldn't have done it without a little hint sheet left by someone"
"That might be the reason why Kanade regained her memories on Hand Sonic"
"Maybe, but the other skills are skill locked unless I can find the other sheets I think. I found another sheet for Delay a few days later"
The vehicles pulled into the base.
A familiar voice approached Yuzuru from behind as he got out of the vehicle, "onii chan!"
Yuzuru turned around and suddenly became embraced by two little girls.
"Hatsune, Katsura? What are you two doing here?"
"We were trying to find a place to hide and we found this place"
"I'm sorry Otonashi, they slipped past me" apologised the guard.
"It's alright, go back to your post"
The fact that they didn't go back to their normal lives means that they aren't NPCs.
"Onii chan, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, let's get you inside"
Yuzuru led the two girls into the HQ.
There may be more people trapped in here than I thought, they are just in the crowd of NPCs. But wait, they may have broken out of the loop now after that large Shadow attack. We must find them…
A/N: Kyodai Production does not own anything