This Is My Battleground

Chapter 18
Episode 4: Scene 1

In the storage where they stashed the girls' weapons, Rose took out a hidden box filled with even more rings. She handed them to the girls as I fixed Miku's wiring up. A few shaken wires, but she was in good shpe as it is. We took this time to reload and secure a sort of plan. Yeah, we couldn't think of a very good plan. Sneaking into the top room would defintely be a challenge since Rose alerted us about the guards crawling around the place.

"Here's a map of the entire facility," Rose said, placing a GPA in my hand. "Each guard has a tracker placed on them, so they should appear on the map as well."

"Why would they have a tracker on them?" Luka asked, adjusting her armor.

"The higher ups are paranoid as hell," she explained. "I have one too, but it's only natural for me to be in Rin's room since I am her caretaker." She pressed a button on the GPA and its screen showed a map of our floor. "I'm really sorry, but you have to use the stairs. I can't go anywhere past this floor or I'll be fired as her care taker. Good luck." With that, we turned on the rings and made our way out of the place. I'm really glad the girls were back with us. Their presence makes both Gakupo and Kaito behave, so I don't have to deal with any of their crap.

"Where are the steps?" Miku asked, quietly. I pointed the the gray door ahead of us, but immediately pushed her against the wall as two guards walked by.

"Shh-" Alarms started blaring above of us and my eyes widened. Fuck! Were we caught?

"She's getting away!" a guard screamed. "Catch her!" I turned around as a flash of blonde hair went past me and run down the hall way. I pressed against the wall as guards ran after her as fast as they could.

"That isn't who I think it is, right?" Kaito asked, grabbing my shoulder.

"It depends," I said, feeling the heat drain from my face.

"Well, there's only one way to find out," Meiko said, cracking her knuckles. "Let's go get her." We ran in a line behind Meiko towards the girl's direction, but tried not to touch the guards at all. Geez, there are more guards at UTAU than Vocaloid.

"Len, hurry up," Luka whispered, pushing me forward. I nodded and continued running until we saw the girl again. She was running towards the stairs, but by the way she ran, she looked exhausted.

"There she is! Get her!" The guards started running for her, trapping her to a window. It was her. It was really her.

Rin POV

My back was to the window and those stupid guards were approaching me. I really didn't think this though, but I have to get out of here... I have to get back to Vocaloid.

"Now missy, it's time to go back," one of the guards said, holding a gun to me. "Don't disobey the Boos again, alright?" He had the creepiest smile on his face, but it was instantly wiped away as he fell to my feet. A flash of blonde hair when through, knocking down each guard surrounding me till they all fell down and the blonde boy stood in front of me.

"Rin, are you alright?" he asked, looking at me worriedly. My knees buckled and I fell on my butt in front of him.

"Len..."

"Rin!" Meiko ran to me and pulled me into a hug. "Thank goodness you're alright!"

"Well, we got her," Kaito said, looking around. "Now what?" Miku walked to me and dropped a ring into the palm of my hand.

"You'll need this more than me," she said, with a small smile. Gakupo walked over to me and threw my blue jacket on my lap. "Well, Kagami? Ready to get the hell out of here?" I smiled and made everyone turn around so I could change into my outift. Bulletproof blue plaid jacket? Check. Black bra? Check. Bullet proof shorts? Check. Guns? Check. Black head band? Check. Wrist band that connects to my gun? Check. This makes me feel a whole lot better.

"Rin." I turned to Len's direction and he planted a firm kiss on my lips. My eyes widened and I looked at him in shock. He pulled away from me and looked out the window. "Come on. If we're going to get out of here, we might as well stir up hell, am I right?" Meiko smiled her wild grin and Kaito cracked his knuckles. I observed Len as everyone got their things ready, but he didn't look any different than before. He still had that shielded softness in his eyes, but the shields were spikes that could pierce through anyone.

"Is there something on my face?" he asked, looking at me.

"Yes," I responded. "When are you going to take that mask off- oh wait. That's just your face." He frowned and I gave him a small smile. This was to calm ourselves down a bit.

"That was just uncalled for," he whined. I opened my mouth to respond, but I heard the thumping of feet heading in our direction. "Shit. They're coming. Everyone looted the guards, right?" A chorus of 'yes' answered him. I said his eyes never changed, but his aura has. He raidiated power, but that was sometimes a downfall. I loaded my gun and smiled at all of them.

"Let's play a game," I said as we started running down different hallways. "The first one down wins! And you better be alive!" I was 'paired' up with Len and Meiko. We ran down the hall and I'm pretty sure everyone (except Miku) had their invisibility rings on. Len placed his arm in front of us and gave us a boyish smile. We were in a balcony right in the middle of the entire building. I've only seen it once, but now that I look at it again, it was pretty cool.

"Meiko, grenade me," Len commanded. Meiko handed him a few grenades and he pulled the rings off all of them, throwing them on to the random floors filled with guards. I saw a familiar face running through the crowd in shock, trying to get out of the way. "Hey, Rin. Come on!" He tugged on my hand and we all continued down the balcony until it lead to another hallway.

"I'll leave you two lovebirds alone for a while," Meiko said, when we found a fork in the road. She winked at me and ran head on to the on coming guards, taking them down like an invisible force. It wasn't too long before guards surrounded us in the hallway.

"I guess the rings long their juice," Len said, our back pressing together.

"Get the girl and kill the boy!" one of the guards, I'm assuming the leader, yelled. At that moment, Len shot down several guards behind us and I used my twin guns to take down the front guards. We kept running foward and I started using my daggers instead of my guns to conserve bullets. We made our way into an elevator room and quickly ran into an elevator to avoid the guards.

"Wow, those guards suck at aimming," Len said, picking the bullets out of his jacket. The seams repatched themselves and I reloaded our guns.

"It's a good thing too, or our beautiful faces would get ruined," I joked, handing him his shotgun. "Also, it's much more fun using the dagger than shooting them down-" He pulled me close to him and kissed me again. It was warm, but powerful and it made my entire body relax on contact. It's official. I'm idiotically in love with him.

"Shh, I wanna hear the elevator music..." I playfully slapped him away and rolled my eyes. "Hey Rin?"

"Hm?" He looked around the elevator nervously, but looked back at me with a straight gaze. "Have you forgiven yourself yet?" The memory of the conversation before the kidnapping flashed through my mind.

"F-forgiven myself?"

"Of course. After all, I've never been mad at you. You've always hated yourself." I searched his eyes, but they were determined for my answer.

"...almost."