DISCLAIMER I DO NOT OWN BROTHERS CONFLICT IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM
Yusuke walked around the palace, looking for the area he had seen Robert with Ema. He hoped he found them soon and that Robert hasn't hurt Ema before he did.
'Why do they make everything in this place look so much alike?' he thought annoyed.
"You have business down here?" a new voice asked.
Yusuke looked over and saw one on the Poulon guards was blocking his way further down a hallway.
"As a matter of fact I do," Yusuke replied, "I happy to be looking for the princess! She's missing and assumed in danger!"
"Well she's not here," said the gaurd.
"Yeah, I doubt she'd find much safty here with you guys around," Yusuke taunted.
"What was that?" the gaurd asked as a few of his fellow gaurds joined him.
"What are you guys doing out here? Are we in lockdown or what?" Prince Zane asked annoyed as he poked his head out of his room behind his gaurds.
"My prince, back inside please," John tried to advise as he came up behind the prince and tried to pull him back into the room.
"What? There's nothing going on down here! There's probably zero shit going on in general!" Zane argued as he shoved John over and instead walked out towards Yusuke. "I bet this is some sort drill or some stupid prank you and one of your brothers or even Robert pulled that freaked everyone out."
"I don't know exactly what's going on, but this is serious and you should really get back inside your room," Yusuke tried to insist.
"Oh please," Zane said brushing Yusuke off, "you're not even a real gaurd. You're at best a trainee. And not even that, you're just taking lessons from what I heard."
"Look, I...," Yusuke started to say when he suddenly felt a small chill. He shifted his eyes down a a different corridor that led to Prince Zane's quarters and saw another Robert goon sneaking his head out from around a corner with a gun.
"GET DOWN!" Yusuke shouted as he jumped and pushed Zane down to the floor, covering him.
"What the hell do you think you're...," Zane started to shout mad right as a window above Yusuke suddenly shattered and chards of glass fell on top of two of them. Yusuke lookrd down at Zane who looked frozen with terror.
"Prince Zane!" all his gaurds shouted.
"Get him out of here!" Yusuke ordered as he managed to slide off Zane and let one his gaurds grab the prince and pull him away, out of the gunman's view.
"Let me through! Out of my way!" Zane shouted frantic as he ran to his room.
"Damn it!" the gunman was heard shouting. Yusuke saw him heading his way with his gun still out. Yusuke pulled one of the guns he had stolen earlier and pointed it at him.
"Oh, you really think you're going to shoot me kid? Really?" the gunman taunted, "really? You're going to play hero?"
Yusuke kept his gun pointed before taking a deep breath and pulling the trigger.
"Ah shit!" the gunman shouted, holding his ear. He glared back at Yusuke. "You're going to pay for that!"
Before he could lift his own gun again, another shot ran out, the gunman started holding his shoulder in pain, sinking to the ground. Behind him, Yusuke saw Billy coming up with his gun still pointed.
"Stop moving around! You'll make it worse!" Billt snapped at the gunman.
"Billy!" Yusuke shouted as he ran to his mentor.
"You're alright?" I saw most of what you did, including saving Prince Zane," Billy said.
"Yeah, I'm okay," Yusuke assured him, "but I need to find Ema! Robert has her!"
"Yeah I know! That's why they've issued a code 69," said Billy.
"Lord Robert has the princess?" John asked as he came up behind Yusuke.
"You should just stay with your prince and stay out of our way," Billy said annoyed.
"Please, is there anything we can do?" John all but begged.
"No!" Billy maintained, "you just...",
"Wait," Yusuke suddenly spoke up, "what if we pretended he shot Prince Zane and they have to get him emergency treatment? It might help get Robert out of hiding if he thinks things have gone too far and more people are going to have to come to the castle to help the prince?"
Billy looked at John.
"We'll get on it," John said as he ran back to Zane's room.
"It might work. If doesn't scare Robert, at least it could make Henry have to round more of his men," Billy said to Yusuke, "but we should still try finding Robert and Ema. Can you do that while I help out here?"
"I'm on it," Yusuke declared as he took off.
"Be careful! There could be more of him out there," Billy warned.
"I will," Yusuke said as he disappeared down another way. As he did, he found another goon knocked unconscious near where he had first seen the gunman. Yusuke had no doubt Billy had taken him out. For some reason it made Yusuke feel more determined.
'I won't let you down Billy. You've taught me well! i will save and protect Ema!' he thought as he hurried along.
Futo walked on in stride as he and Ami headed out.
"Are you sure these outfits are to your liking?" Ami asked.
"This time I'm sure," Futo said with confidence.
"Okay, I just don't want to come back a 4th time to change clothes," Ami said with a giggle. She was surprised slightly when Futo pulled her closer and drapped his arm around her shoulder.
"When you're an idol, you'll understand why you need to change so often," he said before stealing a kiss.
"Sounds exhausting," Ami said.
"Oh trust me, it's worth it," said Futo.
"Yeah, makes our job easier."
"Hmm?" Futo said as he and Ami came to a sudden stop as they saw two men blocking their view.
They didn't look friendly or helpful.
"We thought you left idol, and were about to come after you," said one as he and his partner started to advanced towards the couple.
"Come after me? How badly do you want my autograph?" Futo asked smug.
"Oh we want more than your autograph," said the leader of the pair.
"What's going on here?" a newcomer asked coming up behind the two goons.
"Tommy, hi," said the leader as he and his partner moved aside for the perverted butler.
Tommy walked right past them with his own smug look.
"Finally going after them huh?" he asked, "mind if I do one thing before you do whatever it is you have planned?"
"No go ahead," the leader encouraged.
"Well, then," Tommy said as he his gaze went towards Ami. Futo threw his arm out in front of her.
"You will leave her alone! This is between me and whoever these guys are! She's has nothing to do with this!" He warned.
"Oh but this is for you!" said Tommy, as one of the goons pulled at Futo, giving Tommy enough time to grab Ami and throw her to the ground, mounting her. "I'm going to take her right here, right now and make you watch the whole thing!"
His two friends laughed.
"Go for it Tommy!" one cheered.
"You bastard!" Futo shouted as he tried pulling away from his captors.
"Make sure he's watching whole time!" Tommy said before he grinned at Ami. "I've been wanting this for a long time and I'm going to enjoy every last minute of it!"
"No! You little prick!" Ami shouted as she headed butted Tommy. It hurt him enough that he fell backwards holding his head.
"You bitch!" he shouted mad.
"Pherhaps we should have a chance with her too once this is over," said one of the two goons as they watched Tommy try to readjust himself on top of Ami.
"She does something like that we will and maybe her friend Jane too!" said his partner.
"Yes, what better way to demonstrate your masculinity than by forcing a girl to endure what little you have," said Futo.
"What are you implying?" the leader asked.
"I bet you don't even know the one move that would satisfy any woman no matter what," said Futo.
"Yeah what's that?" asked the second goon.
"Well it's more a touch really, a special touch on a certain part of the body. I bet you anything if I were to show you where it is in her and then try it on her, she'll be screaming with pleasure for hours!" Futo insisted.
"Oh yeah?" said the leader, "I'd like to see you actually prove this. Tommy?"
"Not falling for that," Tommy said, focusing more on his assault on Ami.
"Oh come on, let him embarrass himself," the leader insisted.
"Let him try and make her scream before you really make her screem," said the other goon.
"Well," Tommy thought for a moment, "alright, what the heck? Humiliating him might be fun."
He got off Ami and forced Futo down to his knees.
"No funny business now," The leader warned.
"Not at all," Futo said as he reached for Ami's body. Ami noticed him give her a wink before placing his hand in her.
Ami gave out a loud passionate moan.
"Oh wow!" she moaned.
"Holy shit, it worked," said one of the goons in shock.
"Out of my way, let me try!" Tommy snapped as he pushed Futo to the side and prepared to touch Ami in a similar way.
Before he could though, Futo grabbed Tommy by his shoulders and slammed his body down and then pinned him.
"Hey!" the leader goon shouted. Futo looked up and saw he and his partner now had guns in their hands.
Futo however, rolled off Tommy and then pulled him up in front of him and Ami like a shield.
"Go ahead, just take him out first," Futo taunted.
"Come on guys, don't do it! You wouldn't, right?" Tommy pleaded.
"What do we do?" asked the partner.
The leader looked conflicted.
"Don't know, we're not supposed to kill them just yet, unless it's neccisarry."
"It's not neccisarry! It's not neccisarry!" Tommy insisted. He looked at Futo. "It's not neccisarry, right?!"
"Oh I don't know," Futo said as he managed to stand up, pulling Tommy along with him, "might be good publicity. Futo Asahina, died young protecting the woman he loved. Oh could you just see the papers?"
"Are you crazy?!" Tommy cried.
"What do you guys say?" Futo asked the goons, "you take out me and him and leave her alone. You two could become as famous as the guy who shoy John Lennon. Wouldn't that be exciting?"
"Is he serious?!" The partner asked.
"I am!" Futo insisted as he made his way towards the two, pushing Tommy along with him, "you can shoot me all you want! As long as you let her go! Shoot me and become famous! Famous than you've could ever be!"
"Whoa now," the leader tried to calm the situation.
"Oh come on do it," Futo encouraged softly.
Neither man moved.
"Do it!" Futo said louder. Still nothing.
"Do It!" The goons were now looking scared.
"DO IT!" Futo shouted so loudly that the goons almost didn't realize Futo pushing Tommy right into them, knocking all three over.
Futo grabbed a gun from one.
"Get the other gun!" he ordered Ami. Ami was quick to obey.
As she did, she glared at Tommy and pointed the gun at his head.
"I should just end it all now with you!" she said in a deep threatening voice.
"Not just yet, let's find a place to be safe," Futo advised as he got her to stand. Ami kept her gun pointed at Tommy.
"Maybe, but I have to leave him something!" she declared as she shot at Tommy.
Tommy moned in pain.
"You two as well!" Ami shouted as she shot at the other two. One held his arm in pain while another looked around scared.
"Okay that's enough," Futo insisted as he pulled her along.
"I'm sorry, but they! You heard what they said!".Ami said as they ran.
"Yeah, I understand," Futo insisted.
Just then to their surprise, a wall started to move, and a voice was heard.
"I thought I heard a gun shot!"
"Iori?" Futo said as he approached the now open wall.
"Futo!" Iori exclaimed with relief, "thank goodness you're alright!"
"Ami!" Jane said with equally relief.
"Jane," Ami replied softly.
"Who was shooting?" Iori asked.
"Oh don't worry about it," Futo said as he looked around Iori and Jane's passageway.
"What's this?"
"A secret tunnel one of the royal relatives helped us escape in," Iori explained.
"What is going on exactly?" Futo asked.
"I'm not sure but it has to do with Robert being mad!" Iori explained.
Figures," said Futo.
"Just get in here. The relative that helped us said at least Tsubaki is in here hiding," Iori said.
"Fine, fine," Futo said as he helped Ami in and came in himself. Jane managed to close the door.
"Wish it wasn't so dirty in here."
"Better to be dirty than bloody," Iori insisted as he led the group down the tunnel again.
"Well depends, sometimes blood can be a turn on," said Futo.
Azusa looked at Natasha who was looking down ashamed. He couldn't tell what she was thinking or what she was planning to do.
"Do you trust me?" he suddenly heard her say softly in Japanese.
"What did you say?" the leader of the pair asked confused.
Natasha looked off to the side and Azusa heard her ask again in Japanese, "do you trust me?"
"Yes," Azusa muttered also in Japanese as softly as he could.
"Huh?" asked the second gaurd.
"I'm sorry Azusa, I'm sorry I made you think I was ever attractive to you," Natasha suddenly said said sounding like her old self.
She turned and looked at him with her condescending smug.
"I've always been on Lord Robert's side," she continued.
"That a girl Natasha," said the leader as he and his partner approach Azusa.
"Of course," Natasha said, as she raised her non-broken leg and kicked a door to one of the stalls. The horse inside neighed loudly, starting a chain reaction among the other horses in the stables.
"What the hell?!" the leader asked right as Natasha managed to use one of her crutches to trip the leader, knocking him to the ground, moaning in pain.
"Huh? Taylor?" his partner said as his buddy fell. Azusa immediately tapped him on the shoulder and then punched the face.
"Hey you can't do that to my partner!" Taylor tried to argue, only for Azusa to knock him out too.
"Here, get them in here!" Natasha ordered pointing to the stable door she had kicked.
"Is that?" Azusa started to ask as he helped pull one of the goons inside.
"Lord Robert's horse Emperor?" Natasha answered right away, "yep. We can lock them in here and they won't be able to do much to get out unless they risk scaring him and having him stomp them."
"Good idea," Azusa said as he pulled at the first guy.
"What's going on in here? Is everyone alright?" a new person asked suddenly running in.
"Who are you?" Azusa demanded. He noticed one of the goons gun, wondering if he could reach for it.
"I'm Alex, from the house of council," Alex explained as he ran to the pair. "Did these guys attack you?"
"They tried," Azusa said still attempting to pull the men into the horse stall.
"Here let me help," Alex offered as he grabbed the guy and soon he and Azusa managed to get both locked inside Emperor's stall. Natasha then manged to shut and lock it.
"Well that's good, but you got to get out of here!" Alex said to Azusa, "there's a hidden tunnel thing back at the terrace that you can sneak in. Three of your brothers are already in there."
"My brothers?" Azusa said in alarm.
"Yeah, Masa and Tsubaki?" Alex said, "and the little guy. I don't know his name, Wataru, or Subaru or...,"
"Wataru?" Azusa said.
"I guess," said Alex, "and I'm trying to find you and the other brother that's at the gym."
"Subaru!" Azusa said suddenly seem to realize that Subaru would be in danger.
Rose struggled against the doors, but no avail.
"Damn it! How am I supposed to get out of here?!" she asked frustrated. She looked around and realized one of the roof windows was open just above the bleachers.
"Yeah, but like I can make out from there!" Rose muttered as she slugged away from door. She suddenly felt her foot hit something.
She looked down and saw a basketball left on the groung.
"Hmm," Rose pondered looking back up at the open window.
She quickly climbed up the bleachers and with all her strength, bounced the basketball as hard as she could. She watched as the ball sailed high up to the window and out of it.
"Yes!" Rose said happily, "I just hope it does something good!"
"Move!" one of Subaru's captors ordered as he pushed Subaru along.
Subaru obeyed silently, even though he kept looking around for any way to get away from then and maybe go to back for Rose.
Suddenly they heard a stange noise coming from the top of the gym.
"What the heck?" one of the goons asked as all three watch something fall across the roof and fall to the ground.
"Is that a basketball?" the other asked.
"Subaru!"
All three men looked and sae Wataru riding towards them on Wind Storm.
"Is that the kid? Wasn't Dave and Mike suppose to grab him?" one of Subaru's captors asked.
Subaru quickly took advantage of the minor distraction and made a dash for the basketball.
"Hey!" a captor shouted as he dashed after him. Subaru turned around and threw the ball towards the man, hitting him hard in the gut. He moaned in pain.
"Oh come on, he couldn't have hit you that hard!" the second man shouted annoyed
"Want to test me?" Subaru asked as he picked up the basketball again.
The man responded by pulling out a gun and pointed it at Wataru.
"Think you can throw it fast enough to stop me from shooting your..." he started to ask only to get startled with Wind Storm sudden loud neigh. He lowered his gun for a brief enough second for Subaru to throw the ball at his head hard.
"Ah!" the gunman shouted as he held his head.
Subaru raced to his brother.
"Are you alright? We got to get out of here!" he said.
"Hop on then!" Wataru encouraged, nodding to the back of Wind Storm.
Okay," Subaru said reluctantly as he managed to pull himself up onto the horse.
They both heard moaning comimg from the gunman and his partner and saw both were recovering from their blows.
"Let's get out of here! Go!" Subaru ordered.
"Come on Wind Storm!" Wataru said as he got his horse to turn around and run.
"Get back here!" the main gunman shouted from behind.
"Where do we go?!" Wataru asked worried.
Subaru looked around, trying to find a safe spot to at least hide his brother in safty.
"Was that a horse?" Azusa asked as everyone heard a sudden loud neigh. He ran to the opposite opening of the stables and looked out to see Subaru and Wataru racing Wind Storm away from different men.
"Subaru! Wataru! Here!" Azusa called out.
"I thought I told the kid to go hide in tunnels!" Alex said as he joined Azusa.
"Wataru's a very stubborn boy," Azusa told him.
"Quick, grab those shovels!" Natasha said, pointing to two leaning up against the wall.
"On it!" Alex said as he and Azusa both grabbed one and stood on opposite sides of the opening.
Suddenly Wind Storm came running in fast.
"You two okay?" Natasha asked.
"Yeah," Subaru assured her looking back at the entrance.
"They're in here!" they heard the goons shouting. The minute they came into view in the entrance, Azusa and Alex swung their shovels out and hit both in the face, kncoking them both out.
"Nice work," Alex praised.
"You too," Azusa replied.
"Here, you can put them into this stall next to Emperor's," Natasha said, pointing to it.
"Who's is that?" Azusa said as he and Alex started working to grab one of the two men.
"Valkyrie, Lady Beatrice's horse," Natasha said, "she's almost as tempered as Emperor, so she'll give them just as hard time if they try to escape."
"What's happening?" Wataru asked, still on top of Wind Storm. Subaru meanwhile got off and started to help pull the other man by himself with ease.
"I'd say Lord Robert's finally going through with his constant threat on you, your brothers and sister. He may even try to kill some of you!" Natasha admitted.
"Azusa?" Wataru said with worry.
"No one's going to kill us Wataru!" Azusa assured him, as he and Alex finished getting their guy into the horse stall. Subaru was right behind them with the other goon.
"Your brother's pretty strong," Alex remarked.
"Well he is a basketball player," Azusa tried to brush it off.
"Hey someone grab that walkie talkie on thay guy's belt!" Natasha insisted.
Subaru was quick to obliged.
"What's this for?" he asked as he and the other two men filed out of Valkyrie's stall and Natasha locked them in.
"If I didn't know better, I'd say it's a private walkie talkie that all of Henry's men communicate on. A couple of the more loyal servants have one as well," Natasha explained, "maybe we can use it to find out where your other brothers are!"
"Good idea," said Azusa.
"Here, let me do it," Alex offered.
Subaru handed it to him before taking off.
"Where are you going Subaru?" Wataru asked.
"To help get Roae out of the gym. Those goons locked her in to keep her from getting help," Subaru said as he came back to the entrance.
"Be careful! There could be more of Henry's men out there!" Azusa warned.
"I will be, don't worry," Subaru assured his brother before heading out, making sure to look around first before hurrying along.
"What should I say?" Alex asked Natasha.
"Try saying you caught one of the brothers and forgot where to take him," Natasha advised.
"Okay," Alex said as he turned on the walkie talkie. "Hello? Anyone hear me? Hello? Got one of the brothers...,"
"Let me go, creep!" Azusa suddenly shouted.
"Shut up!" Alex snapped, "but I forgot where we had to take them!"
"You idiots!" Henry's voice suddenly said.
"Henry!" Alex said softly mad.
"Take them to the black lounge where they found Lady Bea and her boy toy!" Henry continued.
"Are you sure I shouldn't be taking them to your location?" Alex asked.
"No I'm still heading to the conservatory to take care of that stupid boy I should have taken out with his parents!" Henry replied mad.
"Louis!" Azusa said softly.
"Is he going to kill him?" Wataru asked.
"No! Not this time!" Alex said as he slammed the walkie talkie into Azusa, "I'm going after him."
"We should get a hold of Richard first!" Azusa tried to say.
"Go ahead, but I need to get to Henry myself! I need him him finally confess to setting that bomb that killed my mom and brother!" Alex insisted. He took off.
"What should we do Azusa?" Wataru asked.
"Well, that Alex guy said something about a secret tunnel on the terrace," said Azusa, "said Masaomi and Tsubaki are in there already. Maybe we should head in."
"Go ahead, I'll let your other brother know about it as well. And maybe I can see if I can throw a few more off through the walkie talkie," Natasha offered.
"Are you going to be okay, being left alone?" Azusa asked with worry.
"I'll be fine, I'm sure there's a lot who don't realize I've switched sides. And besides I wouldn't be able to keep up with my leg," Natasha insisted.
"Ok, just stay safe," Azusa said. He pulled Wataru off of Wind Storm.
"Don't worry boy, I'll be alright, you did good for now," Wataru told his horse as he petted him. Wind Storm nuzzled Wataru with his face.
"Come on," Azusa said as he pulled his little brother along.
"Good luck," Natasha said as she watched the brothers run out of the stables.
Rose kept looking around in frustration. She wasn't sure if her basketball trick did any good and she still didn't have a single clue how to get out in general.
'What if they kill him?!' she thought worried.
Suddenly she heard the door opening.
"Rose?" Subaru shouted in as he came in.
Rose ran to him and threw her arms around him.
"You're okay! Thank God!" she said.
"Yeah I'm fine, come on, let's get out of here," Subaru said as he pulled her out.
"How did you get away?" Rose asked.
"Two of my brothers, Natasha and some other servant guy helped. Of course, it helped that a basketball came out of the ceiling to distract the guys."
"Yes!" Rose said in relief. She and Subaru both squeezed their hands together happily.
"...to the black lounge where they found Lady Bea and her boy toy!"
Ema looked at the device in Robert's hand and could see his evil smile. She was sure she heard Azusa's voice on it.
"Looks like your borthers are slowly coming together. You may get to see them all together one last time," Robert said to her.
'I will make you pay for hurting my brothers this way!' Ema warned.