This Is My Battleground

Chapter 15
Episode 3: Scene 4

After we got Kaito a change of pants, Sakuya started to lead us through the prisoner building. Not once did she look back to us, but she made small gestures with her hands at times to assure us not to make a sound. Once, we were stopped by another caretaker, but they didn't even glance at us. So my guess is that these rings made us invisible or something. As for Satsuki, he didn't even dare to step into the hallway, so he waited in the sewers. Looking around, you wouldn't actually think this was some evil holding prison place. It looked like a mental institute or something. Everything, I mean EVERYTHING. Was white and super clean. Everyone wore nurses outfits in bright white. Once in a while, a guy in a lab coat would be seen going into a prison cell, but they had no windows, so I have no clue what went on behind those doors.

"Some of the caretakers here are pretty hot..." Gakupo murmured. I could notice that tone anywhere. I was about to hit him when Sakuya stopped and slapped a piece of old fasion duck tape over his mouth.

"Those rings only make you invisible," she said quietly. "You can still be heard, moron." What I'm concerned with is where the hell she got that duck tape from... "We're almost-" Suddenly, the alarms started blaring and my blood froze. "Press yourself on the wall." We did exactly as she said and held our breathes. In less than a second, a familiar looking Vocaloid tried running down the hall as fast as he could.

"Lui..." Kaito said, under his breath.

"That kid has been trying to escape the minute he got here," Sakuya said, quietly. "They've forgiven him the first few times but...this might be his last." She looked down at the floor as a bullet shot rang through the halls. Lui dropped to the floor right in front of me, but he didn't get shot. He stumbled to his feet to try and run again, but was instantly shot in the leg. He screamed in pain and fell, clutching his leg. Then he looked straight at me, locking our eyes. He mouthed something to me before his eyes widened and the second bullet shot through his head. I started to lunge forward, but Kaito stuck his arm in front of me and shook his head.

"Tch, stupid brat," a soldier said, walking up to the body. Sakuya bowed and didn't say a thing. "He should've known better than to escape like a maniac." He turned to Sakuya and pointed to Lui's dead body. "Pick this up and throw it into the trash with the others."

"Yes sir," Sakuya said, continuing to look down. With that, the guard walked off and Sakuya started picking Lui up. "You idiot..."

"Do you need help, Sakuya?" Gakupo asked, carefully.

"No, I'll be fine," she said, closing Lui's eyes. "Anyway, the link to the main building is the next left down that hallway. I'm going to take Lui to Satsuki. He's in charge of disposal." She picked Lui up as if he was a child and started heading back. "One more thing." She turned back to us with a dead serious look. "Rein and Ren learned a skill that is similar to yours." She turned away. "Don't trust the earliest birds." With that, she disappeared down the hall, leaving us with confused looks.

"...the girls gt hypnotized," I said.

"That's impossible...is it?" Kaito asked.

"...Maybe not the girls, maybe..."

"Rin." If my heart could stop, I bet it did just now.

Luka's POV

We haven't gotten into the Vocaloid base yet, mostly because of those damn snipers... Right now, Miku, Meiko and I were resting up in an old apartment building. Blood splattered against the walls, a bunch of skeletons of animals I can't even recognize and some I don't want to recognise, broken windows... I reloaded my gun as Meiko oiled Miku up and used the special gloss to make sure bullets wouldn't pierce through her circuits.

"Luka, how are the snipers over there?" Meiko asked, painting the gloss onto Miku's arms.

"We'll need grenades," I said, searching through my bag. "Oh, here we go." I took a couple of grenades out and handed them to Miku. "You think you can do it?"

"Of course," she said, with a smile. "I'm not number one for nothing!" She let Meiko finish and started to crawl towards the windows.

"Luka, mind healing me really quick?" she asked, pointing to her arm. "One of those damn creatures slashed me. What a bitch!" I laughed and started to wrap her arm with a bandage. I wonder how the guys are doing... If anything, I hope they got into the building by now. After I finished up, we looked to the side to see the beautiful explosion of some body parts, glass, and concrete.

"Good job, Miku!" I said, waving. She nodded and walked back normally, signalling that all the snipers were done for. Meiko and I stood up and looked over to the Utau building. Alarms were blaring and people were running around like crazy. "Well, now they know we're here. Let's get moving." We quickly made our way to the roof and got ready to cross the wires over to the Utau building. I was the last to get to the roof, but I bumped into Meiko before I could actually step on the roof.

"L-Luka..." she said, afraid.

"What's wrong?" I asked, pushing her through. "Don't tell me you're scared of something." She pointed ahead of us and my eyes focused on a familiar looking girl with blonde hair.