Disturbing Revealing from a Lost Boy
The Maken-Ki group hurry to the hole where they heard the scream coming and they look down seeing a little boy in white clothing being attacked by Dwarf Gekkos as they are trying to take him back.
"We gotta save him!" Takeru gasped.
"My thoughts exactly." Raiden agreed and grabbed his friend by the shoulder.
Before Takeru could ask what is he about to do, the secret agent boy jumps off the edge with dragging his friend down with him, Takeru screamed in both shock and fear that they're falling right toward the enemy as he had hope they would've gone down a safer way.
"Are you crazy!" Takeru screamed at Raiden.
"Think of this as training to be ready anything and that will include jumping right towards the enemy. Now infuse your fist with your element and smash one of them!" Raiden ordered.
"I take it back, you're bullshit insane!" Takeru screamed again as he is being thrown toward the little Metal Gears.
Takeru couldn't argue with this until those enemies are defeated as he starts to channel his element energy into his fist and threw it down right on top of the Dwarf Gekko, the impact was hard enough to make a fist-size dent about four inches deep and causing the little robot to short circuit.
Raiden comes in slicing one in two while doing an epic hero landing in front of the boy.
"You could've waited for us." Haruko scolded as she and others arrived.
"Didn't want anything happening to the kid." Raiden said as he looks in front of him.
There are three big Metal Gear Raptors as they screech of their roar and each have a Dwarf Gekko attach to them from the bottom, and now they have set their sight on the heroes of Tenbi Academy.
"Please go, it's dangerous here." Yuuka advised as she brought out her kunai.
"A ninja? You all ninjas? Cowabunag! Go ninja, go ninja"
"Will you just get to safety!" Azuki picked up the boy and tosses him back as the others get ready to fight.
"You didn't have to be so rough with him." Haruko scolded him.
"Doesn't matter now, just focus on the fight right here!" Azuki stated cracking her knuckles.
The three Raptors charges at the Maken users as Minori caught one with her hand pushing it back a few feet and then high-kick it up to the ceiling, Chacha took this change to use a broken pipe she found and made it grow to pierce through the Raptor.
Kimi dodges a kick and use her Maken to freeze the water trapping the second Raptor as Azuki and Yuuka goes in for a double combo kicks and slashes, then they blitzes together destroying the Metal Gear.
Takeru got scared as he dodges some kicks though was able to go another element power punch to the head, Raiden and Haruko comes in slashing the machine monster away and sliced it into dozens of pieces before it exploded.
"Geez, does this always feel crazy when you go on these missions?" Takeru asked panting.
"Yep, but surviving them while also helps make me stronger as you'll learn." Raiden answered as he sheaths his sword.
"I'm more afraid to learn them all…" Takeru sighed as he's not sure if he can keep this up since he's still new to the Makens and elements. And he still doesn't have his own Maken yet.
"Don't worry, I'll be here to protect you if things get too dangerous." Haruko promised with a cute smile that made him happy.
"Where's the boy? You didn't toss him too hard, did you?" Kimi asked Azuki.
"Pretty sure a kid like him wouldn't still be close to watch the whole action with his own eyes." Azuki stated as she turns around and spotted the boy.
"Hey kid, are you okay?" Chacha asked a little cheerfully.
"Wait, maybe he only speaks Spanish." Kimi guessed.
"Spanish? Wah yuh talking about?" The boy asked in an accent and can also clearly understand them.
"Hey, I think I recognize that accent. You're from… Guyanese, right?" Minori said snapped her finger.
"Yea, mi a Guyanese (I'm Guyanese.) You all speak English?)" The boy asked back.
"Yeah, learned English in our school. Most of them are from Japan, I was from America." Raiden explained.
"Japan, home of ninjas!" The boy amazed.
"Looks like we got a ninja fan." Minori chuckled.
"Anyway, I'm Raiden and these are my friends. Takeru, Haruko, Minori, Azuki, Yuuka, and these two are my girlfriends, Chacha and Kimi." Raiden introduced everyone.
"Whoa, two girlfriends! Yuh work fast for schoolboy." The boy impressed.
"So, what do we call you by?" Takeru asked.
"Mi name George. Like Georgetown. (My name's George. Like Georgetown.)" George revealed his name.
"George, reminds me of a kid I knew with the same name." Raiden recalled.
"An just like all dem America president. (And just like all those American presidents.)" George commented.
"So, what's feisty kid like you hanging around in sewers like this?" Minori asked.
"Mi? Wuh da rass ayu fuh do here? (Me? What the Hell are you doing here?) Yuh lose da map a ninja hideout, ninja dudes? (You lose the map to your ninja hideout, ninja dudes?)" George asked back.
"Not exactly, we're actually down here looking for bad guys who have been doing some illegal dumping of waste in the sewers and we're here to punish them." Yuuka explained.
"Wats dumping? Ah, mus be dem skunt a research lab. (Oh, must be those punks at the research lab.)" George mentioned.
"Research lab? Could that be where the waste dumping came from?" Haruko asked.
"That does sounds very likely." Chacha said.
"Mi know mi na go back. (I know I'm not going back.)" George stated and started to look at them a little scared.
"Do not worry, we are not from this research lab you mentioned nor here to take you back. We're here looking for the bad guys." Yuuka promised.
"Okay, I'm feeling ease now." George relieved to hear that.
"How did you ended being in Mexico within the sewers in the first place?" Chacha asked.
"Mi bin live on da street begging for quarters, you know? (I was living on the street, begging for quarters, you know?)" George started his story of his former life back in his homeland.
"Oh, a child with no home. How sad." Kimi shocked.
"It's always like this wherever you go, but it looks like you were surviving okay." Raiden said to George.
"Yes. Den dis kutnee dress like da mafia say "Hey boi, yuh wan a job?" Wuh da worst gon happen, nah? (Then this creep dress like the mafia says "Hey kid, you want a job?" What's was the worst that could happen?)" George mentioned about being offered a job.
"Oh boy, I think I know where this is getting." Takeru disliked of how this story is going.
"But da mudda skunt done put mi on a rass boat! Dey pack us all in bigable dutty containah. Next ting we know, we here. At dat jumby lab. (But the motherfucker put me on a damn boat! They packed us all in a big, dirty container. Next thing we know, we're here. At that messed up lab.)" George said the last part that to the others noticing.
"Whoa, you mean to say there are more kids like you who were also taken away from their homes?" Minori asked shock.
"Yeah, alotta boi and hewer girls too. (Yeah, lots of boys and fewer girls too.)" George nodded.
"Wough the girls are supah freaky with strange gloweeng and so things like supahheroes in comics! (Though the girls are super freaky with strange glowing and so things like superheroes in comics.)" George mentioned.
"That means those girls could be power users, like us." Azuki realized.
"Anything else?" Raiden asked.
"Den mi bin overhear wuh dem skunt wan a do. (Then I overheard what those punks want to do.) George revealed as he starts to look scared and a little shaken.
"Snugg us out… an gut all dey organ… (They wanna kill us… and cut out our organs…)" George said shocking the group.
"Wait, you mean to say that… Oh my!" Haruko horrified of what she just learned.
"Those fuckers, I can't believe they're doing that sort of thing to kids." Chacha angered clutching her fists.
"That is so messed up, but at least you managed to get away." Kimi commented.
"Uh-huh. Ise shame mi notta bad-ass ninja-mon same's you. (Man, too mad I'm not some kinda ninja like you.)" George proclaimed.
"We're not really ninjas, but you could say we're very deadly like them too." Raiden stated crossing his arms.
"(Although, one of us do come from a family of ninjas.)" Yuuka thought giggled.
"Dill, mi all dem Phantoms an Black Clothes dat eyepass mi. (Whack all the mafioso and bad guys that mess with me.)" George said that he wants pay back.
"Starting to sound like a bad guy yourself." Raiden worried for the kid's mental health.
"Yes, best be careful of how much hurting you want to bring to your enemies." Minori advised.
"Jus playin', nah? Mi done plenty bad ting, but mi nah kill no man. Nah, nevah. (Just joking, you know? I've done some bad things, but I've never killed anybody. Don't want to either.)" George assured that he won't become a killer in the future.
"That's good to hear." Azuki smiled. She wouldn't forgive herself if anything were to happen to her younger brothers.
"Did you try warning the other kids in the lab?" Azuki asked.
"Yah, mi said to dem "Ayodese brain will get cut out! Run yuh rass out a dey!" But dem kids wi mi no understand. (Yeah, I said to them "All your brains are gonna get cut out! Get your asses out of there!" But the kids with me didn't understand.)" George explained, feeling a little hurt.
"That could mean the other kids must be from other countries each with different languages they only know to speak from the land they were born from." Yuuka stated.
"Communication is one of the big key factors for all the people to understand one another." Kimi pointed out.
"Surely one of the must've understood you a little and put it together." Takeru said, hoping there was one more kid who listen to him.
"Yah, yah, one gal ooh like ninjas and samurai said she gis me and the bad tings that's gonna happen. (Yeah, yeah, one girl who like ninjas and samurais said she gets and the bad things that's gonna happen.)" George remembered.
"But we ere wan fuh escape escept we got separate along te way. Den dey machine come afta mi an—(But we only one to escape except we got separate along the way. Then that machine came after me and-)" George looked back at the destroyed machines Raiden and the others took care of.
"And we know the rest." Raiden said.
"It sounds our mission just became darker than we thought." Azuki commented, feeling angry right now.
"And it's about to become a bloody mess once we're through with them." Takeru proclaimed with pure rage in his eyes.
"Do you know of the girl's name?" Yuuka asked.
"Izumi, ut no las name. (Izumu, but no last name.)" George answered.
"Alright, we'll be on the lookout for Izumi." Yuuka nodded.
"We're gonna be looking for the bad guys now. So, I want you to tell us every detail you can about the lab and how you got out." Raiden said kneeling to meet George in eye level.
George nods knowing he can trust these good people since they just went out of their way to save his life from those machines, he also thought of them as awesome superheroes too.
(Later)
After getting the information from George and getting him up to the surface, the team continues their way through the sewers while talking to Kevin.
"So, the kid got into the sewers through a draining channel?" Kevin asked.
"Yeah, he says the channel is super tight, but there's some kind of shutter next to it." Raiden said.
"Got it. That must be where they dump the waste." Kevin understood.
"Not to mention the place is full of innocent children about to be fucked up for their organs for whatever fucking crap they're doing." Takeru angered.
"Easy Take, we'll save them." Haruko assured as she comforts him.
"There was also a Desperado exec on site yesterday. Meaning there could be a chance that a Sentry cyborg may have heard that meeting." Kimi stated.
"Then you will need to view their video log, provide you can find a server access terminal. That would give us the evidence we need… as well as a little peek at the level of their technology." Doktor said.
"That might not be bad. If we can find out what they're capable of then we can make our counterattack." Minori believed.
"Giving them a taste of their own medicine." Yuuka commented.
"So, what about the kid?" Kevin asked.
"Don't worry, I dropped him off to a secure area and told him to sit tight until some friends of ours would come to pick him up." Yuuka explained.
"Alright, I'll send a couple of agents for him, and are you also going to search for that other kid?" Kevin asked.
"We already promised George to find her on our way to the lab, and we send her up the way to meet him at the spot." Haruko answered.
"I'm sure you won't mind handling one more kid to help get through the bad times she went through." Raiden girnned.
"It's fine, we can handle helping out some kids just lie we did with you, Raiden." Kevin smiled.
"But this has concerns me about that lab having kids with element powers such as you lots." Doktor said looking a little worried.
"Yeah, if those kids really are power users like George said then we could be looking at them being made into cyborg soldiers with element powers, the strongest army in the world." Minori feared.
Suddenly Takeru just let out his anger by slamming his fist right into a wall causing little cracks to appear around it, this got the others to look at him in surprise as they didn't think he would take out his frustration on a simple wall though they can understand where he is going with that anger given the disturbing information they just learned from meeting George.
"Don't overuse that strength on punching walls, save it for the bad guys we find and the children's we're gonna save." Raiden advised, clutching onto his Maken sword tightly with one hand.
"I know, I just can't stop thinking about the suffering they'll make those kids go through." Takeru said growling a bit.
"Just don't let that anger blind you on getting into that lab. If what he said is true about the organs… We need to hurry." Kevin said.
"Agreed, Raiden out." Raiden said as they hung up the call.
Raiden and the others follow through the path George told them where he came from after escaping the lab and got separated from Izumi, they found a rusty door that leads to another sewer path.
"Blade, anything up ahead?" Kimi asked.
"Heavy UG activity. It is possible they are conducting test operations while the lab is closed." Blade informed.
"Great, more of those metal freaks to get in our way." Takeru exclaimed.
"They're not gonna make it easy to get into that lab… Is there some way you could sneak past?" Kevin asked.
"Hey, maybe we could use these carboard boxes to past up to the enemies and take them out before they can alert the others!" Chacha suggested holding up a cardboard box.
Everyone gave her the deadpan while thinking "is she serious in their heads wondering where in the world did she get a stupid idea of sneaking around using cardboard boxes for sneaking around the sewers.
"You're the second person to believe a cardboard box is the key for infiltration missions." Raiden sighed.
"Wait, you mean there was actually someone who used cardboard boxes like this?" Minori asked shock.
"Yeah, the guy was pretty solid about it too. Surprisingly, he actually managed to succeed in sneaking around like that." Raiden revealed surprising his group and Chacha smiles.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
Raiden and the Maken-Ki group have now learned more about the waste dumping, it would appear there are kids being held against their will in a lab and about to be cut open. They will need to pick up the pace to find the lab and save those kids as fast as possible.
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