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Log o18.
WHO: Kaname Chidori, Sousuke Sagara, Macua Huitl, Kamina, Camille Bidan, and Meiya Mitsurugi.
WHAT: Kaname and Meiya head to the apartment remains to collect a few important things.
WHEN: June 18th.
MISSION: Return notebooks to Miss Chidori.
WATCH OUT FOR: Harisen-thwaps.
Macua had slept for nearly an entire day after Akira found her, she'd started to well get back together and after a call both from Garrod and Kaname. She'd taken an odd route to Meiya's place and she'd forgotton the scale of the place. By Japanese standards it was huge and even from forgien it was still big.
She comes up to the gate, and looks like she's been trying to avoid having been followed she's also alone save for her Zako.
Not entirely alone, in point of fact.
"Hey, Macua," Kazuma says quietly from near the gate, the jacket of his school uniform hanging open. Yes, he actually got a school uniform, if only so the teachers would stop busting his chops for it. Looks like he was here ahead of his Newtype girlfriend, possibly having taken a more direct route. "You doin' okay?"
The house is almost lavish in it's outside appearance, just wait until you get inside. Speaking of inside, Meiya was setting down the things she helped Kaname collect from her apartment in the guest room.
The Intercom by the front gate buzzes. "Yes?" Come a chinese accented woman's voice.
Macua Huitl nearly jumps out of her skin she seems to be on edge still almost like she's being hunted she looks at her. "Hey you nearly scared me to death!" She's looking better than she did begfore though. She pauses looks to Kazuma for a moment then to the gate comm. "Hi it's Macua and Kazuma's with me. Meiya asked me and I guess he over?" Once let in she'll head for the doors and she does relax noticably with Kazuma there.
Kazuma's eyes widen noticeably when he surprises Macua - which he should *not* have done. He was standing in plain sight, or at least he thought he was, and dangit, she *is* a Newtype to boot. But given how long it's been since he really had a chance to talk to her ... "I'll take that for a 'not really,'" he answers wryly. Then he addresses the intercom, following up on what Macua already said, "Yeah, I got a text from Meiya."
He can't help giving Macua a worried look - worry for *her* sake. What the heck has he missed ... ?
Kazuma Ardygun also heads through the gate with Macua, once it opens.
There is a moment of pause, but the intercom buzzes again and the gates swing open letting the pair walk up the path, along the well manicured lawn and garden, off the drive and up the stone path to the front door. The dooor opens, and a woman in a red dress and maid's apron stands inside. She bows to the pair and steps back. "I'll call for Meiya-sama and Miss Chidori. Please come in." She stands aside to let them in to the entry hall and close the door.
Kaname's things are put away in a box, which Kaname places in a discreet corner of the room; she pens 'Kaname's Stuff' in black marker on the lid and on the side.
She recaps the marker. "Thank you," she says finally. Meiya had already done so much for her; she wasn't sure that her 'thank you's would be enough to express the gratitude she felt.
Macua Huitl is showen in she bows to the woman who has greeted them. "Thank you." she comes in and relaxes more, right? She can't be got here she's safe here, hopefully. Zako bounds along nattering about various fictional metals, and others which are just darn rare or from La Gias. She looks about wondering where her friends have been.
Meiya expects nothing in return from Kaname, "It's alright." she offers her friend a smile.
Then Mana comes up the stairs "Meiya-sama, Miss chidori. There are two visitors here to see you. A young woman and young man."
"Oh, thank you Mana." she stands back up. "We should go see who it is."
Kazuma offers the maid (?) a slight bow as well. "Thank you very much," he says quietly, then waits with Macua for Meiya and Kaname ...
Macua Huitl heads on in and is looking around as she waits on Kaname and Meiya to arrive.
"A young woman and a young man...?" Kaname echoes, her tone quizzical. Who could that be?
The two girls pad down the stairs, and to the foyer, where the duo are waiting;at the sight of them, Kaname's expression is initially surprised, but her lips quickly curl into a soft smile.
"Long time, no see."
Macua Huitl looks to Kaname, she'd had time to get over the fact she wasn't dead. Which was good or she'd have like well gotton very emotional over it. She looks to her. "I see the rumors of your demise were just overblown." She smile then moves to just hug Kaname if nothing stops her that is. Zako bounces along. "Kaname! Found something found something! Yours!"
Kazuma smiles, raising his free hand to wave to Kaname. "Heya, class rep Chidori," he greets her. "Good to see you again, I've been worried ... so's a lot of the class. So you've been hiding out here ... ?"
Meanwhile, outside...
There is a corner of the Mitsurugi grounds that had, after several flyovers, been marked as suitable for entry. The security seemed weakest there, and it had a good covered entry point. A figure wearing camo fatigues dashes carefully from coverpoint to coverpoint, before deciding his location is suitable. A grappling hook attached to a rope is thrown over a wall, and the figure scales it, and lands on the other side with a light thump. He takes a few moments to scout around. Moments after, he crouches into the cover, and touches his hand to an earpiece. "All clear. Come on through."
Ladies and gentlemen, Sergeant Sagara has entered the building.
"Yeah, well..." Kaname says, her voice trailing off. She didn't intend for it to seem like she was dead; initially, she was just going to stay low with Meiya until things settled down, but in doing so, much of the student body had assumed that she had gone up with her apartment.
The Zako bounces towards her, a slip of something in its grip. "What's this?" she asks, kneeling down to its height.
It's a photo, one of the ones she had up on her wall; it's of her and her sister and her mother and father, at her sister's elementary school graduation. It's stained slightly, with soot, the edges slightly frayed. But the image is still there.
"Thank you," she says, her voice softer in tone than usual.
"Hey, Camille. Meet me after school. Bring the bag in my locker, okay?" It all sounded so innocuous.
LATER
Camille Bidan climbs -- laboriously -- over the wall on Sousuke's rope, a heavy, bulky bag over his shoulder. He clambers up with difficulty but with grace; marks of a spacenoid, no doubt, used to simply hopping over such obstacles. Camille lands and moves quietly to meet with Sousuke, crouching low. He's been training since the last time he had to sneak around with a sack full of TNT. Or, anyways, getting the gist of it, one way or another.
He's still wearing his school uniform, albeit with the collar inexplicably popped. It's a space thing.
Meiya comes down down the stairs after Kaname and stops "Ah, Macua, Kazuma. Thank you for coming, I'm sorry that we had you worried. I thought Kyoko would tell everyone at school that Kaname was okay."
MEANWHILE.
Three little maids sit around a table drinking tea with their pinky fingers held out. This is completely normal, really. Except that they're... In a tree, somewhere in the middle of the grounds. "You know, Mana comes up with some weird training regimes sometimes."
"No kidding."
"Tell me about it."
Sousuke and Camille manage to get over the wall without setting off alarms. Later, Mana will make a note to revise security there.
On the opposite end of the mansion, a very different scene is playing out. Several large men stare at the gate, arms crossed with determination in their eyes. It is a day like any other for extreme frisbee. It is extreme because you can punch out the guy holding it if they don't watch themselves. Kamina looks back at the others, growling. "So lets go get it!"
"But it went over the fence."
"Over the Fence!"
"Over the fence!"
Kamina grins, placing his shades on his face. "Then we are gonna climb over that fence and take back what is ours!!!" And so, the blue haired Trailer starts to scale the fence while his friends watch. He makes it to the top off the fence before falling in.
"How long until he gets arrested?" Kittan asks one of the others.
"I got 10 bucks on 30 minutes."
"10 on 10."
And so Team Gurren bets on just how long their dear leader will last.
Kazuma nods to Meiya, "She did, but I'm not the sort to trust an untested source without checking things out for myself. So, thanks for letting me come over ... but," he pushes his sleeve back, looking at the time display on his wristband comm. "I gotta get back to my place and check on some things. So unless you need me to stick around here, I guess I'll stop by tomorrow to make sure things are all going okay?"
The picture was stolen by Zako? Or was it grabbed when things went bad, it knew how certain pictures ment things to it's owner, prehaps that's where it pick up the habit. Zako does flutter it's ears when Kaname says thank you. "I was quite suprised when he spit that thing out. I'm not even sure how he managed to rescue that thing from the ruin. So here were are you know I spent the first 48 hours searching all over town as it had looked like some man had grabbed you."
She temple rubs. "It also doesn't help something else very bad happened." Leonard happened that's what and she's now certain her bad feeling about the man is right. This also leads to issues with Juku on the Freedan, but that can wait till later. "All right see you later Kazuma. Also umm can you check on my place on the way back?"
She turn to Meiya "Look with what happened I don't blame either of you. I was just terrfied someone had kidnapped you."
"See you!" she says to Kazuma as he wanders off.
Then to Macua: "Why would you think that?" Most people seemed to be concerned that she was missing or injured; no one had yet assumed that she had been /kidnapped/.
Sousuke gives a quick nod to Camille as he surveys the situation. "Stay on guard. We don't know what to expect." It was reasonably true. Sousuke hadn't ever been on the Mitsurugi grounds before. You'd be surprised how many people don't invite Sousuke to their homes. Oh, wait, no you wouldn't.
The sergeant dashes forward, using conveniently placed trees and bushes to provide cover. He moves in short bursts, and ducks into a courtyard. Far too easy. He hasn't even seen a killing field yet. What sort of defenses are these?
"Good bye Kazuma, thank you for coming." Meiya says, then watches Kaname retrieve the picture from the Haro. "Oh good, even if it's a little messy, you could probably take it to a digital photo place if you want."
Meiya coughs at the mention of kidnapping.
Camille travels after Sousuke, pulling a pistol out of his belt and cocking it -- it's full of Sousuke-issue rubber bullets, and Camille is certainly /hoping/ that his partner is packing the same. As opposed to real ammo.
He's also hoping that all this C4 in his backpack is fake, too, since this is supposed to be nothing more than a test.
Camille dashes in short bursts, mimicking Sousuke's movement. "Seems like a nice place," he says, studying the surroundings.
Outside where Kamina has just leaped over the fence. The frisbee is out of sight, but he lands in some bushes, alls well so far right? No alarms, no cops or security no dogs.
Except for the very startled raccoon (Tanuki really) in the bushes thats staring at Kamina.
It has decided the best cours of action is to scream at the top of it's tiny little lungs and attach itself to Kamina's face.
Inside the house, Mana takes a cellphon out of her pocket and looks at it curiously. She bows to everyone gather "Excuse me..." and leaves.
Out back, When Sousuke and Camille hear the *twiptwiptwip* of knives burrying their points into the bark of the tree their hiding near, then maybe they'll understand what kind of defense these are.
Meanwhile the ninja girls look at each other "You hear something?"
Kamina is in the clear. He grins, looking around with curiousity. The person who lived here was probably loaded....Probably also stole a lot of frisbees. He puts away his shades into the back of his pants just as he catches sight of the racoon. "Hey there, little guy. You see a frisbee around here?"
And then the screaming starts, both from the racoon and then from Kamina who now has a racoon attached to his face. He yells loudly, stumbling around the yard with his arms waving wildly. Where Sousuke's team is using stealth, Kamina is probably waking the neighbors with his loud screaming.
Macua Huitl says good bye to Kazuma and looks back to Kaname and Meiya. "Because I..." She's interrupted as Zako bounces up chirping. "Kaname left with strange man when stalker man called Macua! Stalker threaten Macua dig too deep!!"
Macua just stares at Zako. "HEY QUIET YOU! Your suposed to not talk about that!" She has this oh crap look on her face at this point she's about to go on when suddely she looks right in the direction of one of the walls. What's there it's the direction Camille's in.
"Someone's coming."
Nervousness plays across Kaname's face for a second; Macua had seen that? This definitely wasn't good!
But before she can open her mouth to push forward an excuse, Zako continues, offering a little more detail than what Kaname Chidori had expected.
"Wait, what?!" She looks from Zako up to Macua. "What is he /talking/ about?"
Meiya is about to try and cover up the whole man kidnapping when Zako speaks up "what? What stalker phone call?" she frowns.
Since Zako blabed, she'll have to bring up the issue later or things may get ugly as Kaname and Meuy are distracted. Zako keeps talking. "Say Macua dig too deep! She might get hurt! Best if stop!" Macua would normally give it a kick at this point, but she feels the pressure. She grabs both gently by the arm.
"Someone is coming! I can feel it! We shouldn't be out in the open like this! I don't think they are friendly" She's all serious mode now.
The knives thwip into the tree, and Sousuke hits the ground. "Is it an automated defense?" Sousuke's head whirrs around, looking for the source of the blades, not game to leave cover yet. If it is an attacker, though, they could be surrounding us.
Instinctively, he pulls the pin on the flashbang grenade, holding the release for the moment, waiting to see what he's up against.
Meiya's arm is taken, she frowns at Macua. "Who? And we're not in the open. The house is very secure. Mana probably went to check on it. If we have to we can get to the garage through the third floor, and theres a panic room on that floor and the lowest floor."
As Kamina flails and runs around screaming, a woman steps out of the house, over to the screaming pair. She reaches out and takes the wild animal by the scruf of the neck, lifting him up. This causes him to go limp in her hands.
Thats the raccoon, not Kamina.
Mana frowns. "Your play toy is over there on the path. Get out before I call the police."
Mana looks at the raccoon "I should have let you eat him." she puts the animal back in a tree and it bolts like greased lightening.
Camille looks at the knives, ducking backwards rapidly. "--No! Hostility! I sense it--" he starts, denying the possibility of auto-knife-throwing robots. Thank goodness. "Who... who throws /knives/?" There are such a thing as guns, you know.
Zako speaks more "He know Macua's real name, name she forgot! Raquel." Macua is going to hurt Zako so bad later. Macua's getting more and more distressed. "Are you sure? Someone's coming I can feel it and I not felt many like it." She's worried and hopes Meiya's security can deal with it.
The knives seem to have been launched by some kind of device, a spring loaded launcher maybe. There was no trip cord... some sort of pressure plate underneath the grass? That would take extensive work, probably put in when the grounds were first made. Better be carefull.
The three little ninja maids get up from their tree bound tea table and start leaping through the tree branches, moving towards where they heard the sounds of knives being thrown. They stp and peer down at the two boys from the branches. They communicate in swift hand signals.
'We have a breach!'
'They look like teenagers!'
'They're here for the pie!'
The first two look at the last with questioning looks until the third pulls out a code book and makes other handsignals.
'I meant money.'
"Don't try to change the subject!" Kaname says, her tone harsh. "Who is this guy, and what does he want from you? Why is he threatening you, and how does he know your real name?"
Though she's outwardly angry, it's only out of concern for her friend; Macua's one of her best friends from Jindai High, and she doesn't want to see anything bad happen to her.
They're good. Very good. But Camille's statement has put Sousuke even more on edge, if that were even possible. He looks up, seeing the shift in the branches.
The subtle movement of the leaves.
And then the upward movement of the flashbang grenade from Sousuke's hands to the collected ninjas.
"Move!" Sousuke hisses, not waiting for the grenade to detonate as he heads for the main building. Their cover had been blown. Now it was just to see if he could make it to the building at all.
"--Yeah, that's fair--" Camille shouts, and starts sprinting after Sousuke, trying to pull his backpack off. "You've got a detonator, right?!" he yells, trying to get enough mileage to just HURL the C4 into the building.
"Macua!" Meiya is sstarting to get aggitated. "-What- are you talking about?"
Outside, well.. the Ninja-maid trainees should have acted more quickly, when the flash-bang grenade arcs through the air, the girls flail their arms and gape.
*BA-POOMF*
The girls will later be found in the tree, sirls in their eyes, and will be punished by Mana.
As for Sousuke and Camille, as hey sprint across the lawn, they run a guauntlet of ninja traps. Spears, pits, nets, logs. You name it. Hope you practiced track and field lately.
"Well, if he wants you to stop looking into something, it's obviously because he's a bad guy!" Kaname says, as if that weren't made obvious by the fact he threatened Macua's life. "You need to go to the proper authorities with this," she insists. "It's /their/ job to handle the bad guys!"
Camille leaps over a horrifying trap with Gundam-honed reflexes. "-I see it!" he shouts, revving up to hurl his destructive payload... when his foot hits the ground and finds only air.
"--Huh?" That's a pit. Camille hurls his C4 pack to Sousuke in the few fleeting seconds he has left, before he plummets into blackness -- silence, and death.
A few seconds later Camille calls up from the bottom of the pit: "This /sucks/."
Sousuke keeps moving, running forward through the gauntlet of traps, using cover and leaping from point to point. And then he has to catch a pack thrown at him. "Damn!" Sousuke grimaces. There will be time to mourn later. He has to finish the mission. He pulls a small package out of the pack, and throws it in front of him. He has to clear the path now, pressing the detonator, the high powered explosive kicking up a lot of dirt and terrain and hopefully traps. Subtle was no longer an option.
Macua Huitl looks at Kaname and says, "Not this sort." She looks at Meiya she looks to Kaname she's looking like she's trapped and the more she says the more she's in it and the deeper her friends are dragged in. She just sorta seems trapped. If she keeps getting pressed...it will get interesting.
The lawn explodes, destroying traps ahead of Sousuke. This is easily heard through the hosue. Meiya goes stock still, eyes wide. "Both of you. Into the panic room, you can get into it through my father's study. The switch is behind the bookshelf in the far back."
Meiya turns and walks to the back of the house, picking up a purple silk bundle along the way. She walks down two flights of stairs and slides open the back door out to the porch and shuts it behind herself. She unties the bundel, carefully removing the contents. A katana, drawing it slowly out of it's sheath.
Normally, Kaname would take an explosion such as this one with ease; a certain bodyguard of hers was well-known at Jindai High for causing this sort of chaos. But Macua's recent confession coupled with the events of a few days before sets Kaname in a panic.
Because she had stayed here for a few days now, Kaname has become familiar with the layout of the house; even if Macua doesn't know where the study is, Kaname does!
"Macua, come on!"
Kaname makes a rush for the study.
Sousuke is nearing the target now. The mission is almost complete. He launches over a last trap, and makes for the house proper.
"There's got to be something else." Sousuke mutters, expecting an army of security to turn up, or possibly some heavy duty machine.
There is no swarm of elite guards to face down Sousuke. No secret Service style bodyguards to fling their own lives away. The is just te dark porch, and the figure of a young woman holding a katana under the moonlight.
So. This is the last line of defense. A single guard. They're probably elite, Sousuke thinks. The best here. It would make sense. No sense employing a horde of incompetent guards. The weakness, of course, is if Sousuke had an accomplice anymore, it would be a problem.
Sousuke's hand quickly moves to the glock, suddenly opening fire with, thankfully, the rubber rounds he uses for nonlethal takedowns. Let's see what to expect.
Meiya can see the movement, they're drawing a gun. Even as the the rounds are fired, Meiya is in motion. She side steps, and two long strides are all it takes for her to close with Sousuke. The blade flashes out, the moonlight reflecting off of it as it passes a few feet infront of Sousuke's face as Meiya turns...
That Glock might now be 'two pieces of a Glock'.
Macua Huitl is making a rush for the study with Kaname. She's keeping an eyes on things as they make it into the panic room. She'll close the door once Kaname is in. "Damn it why did things have to go like this!" At least she's off the hook from the questions she was being asked.
Rather than risk getting caught with half a weapon, Sousuke releases the pistol, forced in to close quarters combat already. He pulls a heavy duty combat knife from the small of his back, grimacing. It's not a full sword, but it's what he's got. Besides, he feels significantly more comfortable with a knife than anything else, as he jumps back into a defensive stance.
Damn this darkness, not even letting him get a good eye on his opponent. On the other hand, it means he can use it to his advantage as well.
"Why can't things be /normal/?"
The question isn't directed at anyone in particular; it's just Kaname venting her frustrations. Ever since she was kidnapped, things had just become progressively more and more abnormal; any chance she might have had at a normal life seems to be slipping through her fingers as the year continues to pass by.
Meiya narrowed her eyes as she held the blade up diagonaly in a guard. Her opponent has drawn a knife, but she isn't reckless enough to think that means she has the ultimate advantadge here. A Knife could slip through her guard, catch her in the back. Things might even be more even if she had a knife instead of a sword.
She steps slowly sideways, circling her opponent in the darkness. Maybe if she can push him into the pool with enough attacks, she can end this without bloodshed. Yes, yes that seems like the best idea. She isn't going to let herself kill someone again like she did on the TDD-1. She will prove that Niten-Ryu style can save lives.
Meiya enacts her plan, taking another long stride towards Sousuke, switching the grip on her sword to slash at him upwards diagonally from her left, trying to force him backwards.
Macua Huitl makes sure things are locked do and she looks to Kaname for a moment. "Why can't things be normal. That's something I have asked since I escaped from the resarch ship I was on." She leans back against the wall watching her friend. "I'm sorry I brought more trouble into your life and that of Meiya's..."
Sousuke jumps back as the slash goes forward, wishing he had a baton, or something with better reach. But you have to make do. As the sword comes up, Sousuke moves forward, holding the knife in a reverse grip, and aiming for a hilt bash into Meiya's stomach, if he can get close. It's far too risky to just mess around in this fight, but this fight is far easier said than done.
"W-what? No! It's not like that at all!" Kaname quickly lifts her hands in surrender, as if to completely dissuade Macua from the thought.
"To be honest with you, my life was pretty strange even /before/ you came around."
The hilt bash goes into Meiya's stomach, forcing the wind out of her lungs, but Meiya has trained hard and long in the way of the sword. She forces herself to suck in breathm and steps a foot around behind Sousuke as she brings her sword up, aiming to catch him under the chin and sweep him backwards over her foot.
Macua Huitl looks to Kaname and tilds her head, while one eye is keeping monitor and what's going on outside. Wait is that Sousuke and Meiya's fighting him? She says nothing on that as she replies to Kaname. "Really? I'm still worried about the Venom behind the attack. Those things been showing up far too much." She pauses "I seen that model before even fought one..."
Sousuke brings up his knife to guard, narrowly avoinding getting slashed in the face. However, he's still caught on the arm, a light wound bleeding. Sousuke grimaces, currently stuck far closer than he'd like. A knife is not built for holding out against a sword. And then the sweep comes, and Sousuke is forced to roll away as he's kicked, his footing going AWOL.
Sousuke lands on his feet a small distance away, looking around at the situation. Responding quickly, he hurls a handful of kicked up dirt in Meiya's direction, before aiming to dash around to the side, and go for a quick strike at Meiya's back.
It's hard to tell from the darkness who's who; if it weren't for Meiya's long ponytail, Kaname would have difficulty ascertaining friend from foe.
Still, there's something familiar about the attacker's movements; for a long moment, Kaname gazes up at the screen, her expression both thoughtful and worried. So far, the two of them seemed to be evenly matched, but...
And then Macua's words pull her from her reverie. "Venom...?"
Macua Huitl had only recently learned either names for that machine. She pauses, "I didn't find out it's name till recently but I'd encounter one a long time ago. I was on a job and it came out of nowhere." She can remeber it clearly her Rosethal's scanners hadn't even picked it up till Gauron's first attack.
"That machine was able to create some sort of field which could block attacks, and use it as weapons. He took down two of the people with me and I barely got away from him my self. Then the machine starts showing up more and now one comes trying to nuke your house."
The dirt hits Meiya's face and she recoils from it, rubbing her eyes. Crap. She knows her opponent is going to attack, but from what direction? She stops, eyes still closd, and stops her breathing.
There! Sound from her side, he's coming at her back.
Meiya throws herself forward in a roll as Sousuke strikes, just barely clipping her back enough to draw a bead of blood. "Nhhf!" she bites her lip and rolls up to her feet. Her eyes have cleared slightly, just enough to see through one. She moves in again, Using the sword to target the knife specifically, trying to force it to the side so she can ram her elbow into Sousuke's throat.
"Some sort of field..." Kaname echoes. It sounds just like the Lambda Driver.
Sousuke's hand is knocked aside, and all of a sudden there's an elbow in his throat. That hurts. The problem now is the soldier isn't letting go, with Meiya's weapon out of the way. He grabs he arm with his free hand, then suddenly launches forward with a knee towards Meiya's gut, going to try and deliver a quick strike to Meiya's weapon hand, his own knife lost in the scuffle.
Sousuke is one of the TDD's elite for a reason, and he's currently aiming to change who's on top in this fight.
Meiya ends up going backwards, the knee strikes where the earlier hilt strike was, shooting pain through her body and forcing air out of her once more, and the sword is dropped.
But Sousuke isn't the only Elite here. MEiya has trained and fought long and hard, and even Sanger Sonvolt has been impressed with her in battle.
Meiya grabs Sousuke by his shirt and lifts up her foot to plant it on Sousuke's pelvis, kicking up as she arcs her back, aiming to throw him right over her head.
It's true. That's something to brag about.
On the other hand, Sousuke first encountered the complete number of the Aggressors as an enemy at age 10, and is still around.
As Meiya flips Sousuke up, he rolls with it, landing on his feet. With an emergency pistol out and pointed at Meiya's head.
You really didn't think he only had one, did you? "Surrender."
Macua Huitl can't forget that horrible man who drove it either. "Yes, a force field. No not quite like that it was strange it reacted differently." She looks to Kaname. "Are you all right?"
Kaname's eyes flicker up to the screen just in time to see Meiya flip the figure over--only to have /him/ pull a gun out on her.
/"Surrender."/
That voice... she knows it!
"/SOUSUKE/!"
The door to the panic room is slammed open, and Kaname bounds down the stairs in a flash; a few moments later, she's out the front door, her harisen wielded.
It lands with a loud smack on the top of the infiltrator's head.
"What do you think you're doing?! Don't you have any idea where you /are/?!"
Meiya was fighting alien terrors from beyond space when she was 10, and is still around.
These two have an unfortunate amount in common.
Meiya was moving up, turning around, ready to strike that gun out of sousuke's hand with a well placed kick, and then another to his head....
When Kaname comes barreling out of the house, and smashes the infiltrators head with a paperfan "K-Kanme?!" she says, suprised. "You should be in the...." she stops and looks at the young man's face more closely...
"...YOU?!"
Sousuke's attention is drawn momentarily away from the deadly gunfight by oncoming Kaname. "Miss Chidori-"
*THWACK*
Sousuke's head tilts ninety degrees without the slightest effect on the rest of his posture. "I am not sure that was completely necessary."
Sousuke pauses. "...Miss Mitsurugi. I wasn't expecting you here."
He is WAY too calm for pointing a gun at someone.
Macua Huitl watches as she hears the voice over the video display. Damn it this was bad and now Kaname is bolting out of the Panic room. Macua keeps up with her, without much problem. She does exit just behind her friend as she sees Kaname break out the hairsen and whack...Sousuke?
That gets a shocked look on her face. "Sousuke?! What are you doing here? Drop the damn gun why the hell are you attacking us!" She now pauses looking around then back to Sousuke. She seems to be sort of in a ready stance at this point expecting further trouble. She sighs and then adds.
"Just put the gun away before someone gets hurt."
Meiya narrows her eyes. "Would you--"
"Please put away the gun." finishes the voice of an older woman, accented in chinese.
Mana steps out of the shadow of a tree in her red maid uniform. Was...she there the whole fight, wighout beign noticed? "We don't allow fire arms within the house."
"OF COURSE IT WAS NECESSARY! Don't you ever think before you act, Sousuke?!"
Kaname sighs, exasperated.
Sousuke seems oddly nonplussed, ignoring Macua and Meiya pretty much entirely to focus on Kaname for a second, before the maid makes her presence known, causing Sousuke to know he was right to expect more. With a nod, he reholsters the emergency pistol... somewhere. It's hard to tell where exactly he pulled it out of anyway. He is still way too calm. "Excuse me one moment."
He quickly rummages through the nearby pack, the one that was full of C4 and pulls out... Several notebooks. which he thrusts in Kaname's direction. "I can now inform the chairman that the mission is complete."
Well, at least he's not causing any more trouble.
Kaname accepts the notebooks, blinking. All right, she definitely wasn't expecting /this/!
"You could have knocked at the door like a /normal person/, you know!"
Though her harsh tone of voice might indicate otherwise, Kaname can't help but feel a little happy--happy that Sousuke had come all this way to deliver her notebooks.
"The...chairmen?" Meiya says and thinks carefully.... "Of the student coucil?" she blinks.
Mana puts one hand lightly to her own cheek. "Oh my, thats a lot of dedication."
Macua Huitl looks like she's about to face palm at things, she'll not bring up the other newtype who she sensed. She just is glad no one is dead. She looks at Sousuke again just letting Kaname deal with things now she's got better Sousuke wrangling skills than she does. She eyes the possible weapons but it seems Sousuke is done now. No need to cause more trouble, she's starting to relax a little bit, the fighting is over right? She also owes the young man for getting her out of a very uncomfortable questioning from Kaname and Meiya. Hopefully they will forget about it. Shell likely have not have that sort of luck, at best its delayed.
Sousuke pauses. "The Chairman indicated to use any means necessary to get them to you as soon as possible. I was forced to enlist Mr. Bidan's aid in getting in here with everything. Unfortunately, he was caught in one of the traps on the way in."
Any means necessary would explain the C4, too.
"Just use the door next time!" It'd be one thing if he was coming to /rescue/ her, but Meiya was one of their classmates; there wasn't anything dangerous about her at all!
Kaname lets out a loud sigh, her head sagging with frustration. Why did he have to be so oblivious sometimes? He had already been a student at Jindai for over a year now, and yet he still couldn't quite grasp even the basics of acting suppose I can make the girls do it."
Macua Huitl was right she'd felt another newtype. She'll have to talk to Mr. Zeta later, well possibly. Still it could have been much worse and Kaname seems to be getting back to her old self. She just sorta is off to the side as Zako bounces out from behind Macua. "Snacks and fun!"
WHAT: Kaname and Meiya head to the apartment remains to collect a few important things.
WHEN: June 18th.
MISSION: Return notebooks to Miss Chidori.
WATCH OUT FOR: Harisen-thwaps.
Macua had slept for nearly an entire day after Akira found her, she'd started to well get back together and after a call both from Garrod and Kaname. She'd taken an odd route to Meiya's place and she'd forgotton the scale of the place. By Japanese standards it was huge and even from forgien it was still big.
She comes up to the gate, and looks like she's been trying to avoid having been followed she's also alone save for her Zako.
Not entirely alone, in point of fact.
"Hey, Macua," Kazuma says quietly from near the gate, the jacket of his school uniform hanging open. Yes, he actually got a school uniform, if only so the teachers would stop busting his chops for it. Looks like he was here ahead of his Newtype girlfriend, possibly having taken a more direct route. "You doin' okay?"
The house is almost lavish in it's outside appearance, just wait until you get inside. Speaking of inside, Meiya was setting down the things she helped Kaname collect from her apartment in the guest room.
The Intercom by the front gate buzzes. "Yes?" Come a chinese accented woman's voice.
Macua Huitl nearly jumps out of her skin she seems to be on edge still almost like she's being hunted she looks at her. "Hey you nearly scared me to death!" She's looking better than she did begfore though. She pauses looks to Kazuma for a moment then to the gate comm. "Hi it's Macua and Kazuma's with me. Meiya asked me and I guess he over?" Once let in she'll head for the doors and she does relax noticably with Kazuma there.
Kazuma's eyes widen noticeably when he surprises Macua - which he should *not* have done. He was standing in plain sight, or at least he thought he was, and dangit, she *is* a Newtype to boot. But given how long it's been since he really had a chance to talk to her ... "I'll take that for a 'not really,'" he answers wryly. Then he addresses the intercom, following up on what Macua already said, "Yeah, I got a text from Meiya."
He can't help giving Macua a worried look - worry for *her* sake. What the heck has he missed ... ?
Kazuma Ardygun also heads through the gate with Macua, once it opens.
There is a moment of pause, but the intercom buzzes again and the gates swing open letting the pair walk up the path, along the well manicured lawn and garden, off the drive and up the stone path to the front door. The dooor opens, and a woman in a red dress and maid's apron stands inside. She bows to the pair and steps back. "I'll call for Meiya-sama and Miss Chidori. Please come in." She stands aside to let them in to the entry hall and close the door.
Kaname's things are put away in a box, which Kaname places in a discreet corner of the room; she pens 'Kaname's Stuff' in black marker on the lid and on the side.
She recaps the marker. "Thank you," she says finally. Meiya had already done so much for her; she wasn't sure that her 'thank you's would be enough to express the gratitude she felt.
Macua Huitl is showen in she bows to the woman who has greeted them. "Thank you." she comes in and relaxes more, right? She can't be got here she's safe here, hopefully. Zako bounds along nattering about various fictional metals, and others which are just darn rare or from La Gias. She looks about wondering where her friends have been.
Meiya expects nothing in return from Kaname, "It's alright." she offers her friend a smile.
Then Mana comes up the stairs "Meiya-sama, Miss chidori. There are two visitors here to see you. A young woman and young man."
"Oh, thank you Mana." she stands back up. "We should go see who it is."
Kazuma offers the maid (?) a slight bow as well. "Thank you very much," he says quietly, then waits with Macua for Meiya and Kaname ...
Macua Huitl heads on in and is looking around as she waits on Kaname and Meiya to arrive.
"A young woman and a young man...?" Kaname echoes, her tone quizzical. Who could that be?
The two girls pad down the stairs, and to the foyer, where the duo are waiting;at the sight of them, Kaname's expression is initially surprised, but her lips quickly curl into a soft smile.
"Long time, no see."
Macua Huitl looks to Kaname, she'd had time to get over the fact she wasn't dead. Which was good or she'd have like well gotton very emotional over it. She looks to her. "I see the rumors of your demise were just overblown." She smile then moves to just hug Kaname if nothing stops her that is. Zako bounces along. "Kaname! Found something found something! Yours!"
Kazuma smiles, raising his free hand to wave to Kaname. "Heya, class rep Chidori," he greets her. "Good to see you again, I've been worried ... so's a lot of the class. So you've been hiding out here ... ?"
Meanwhile, outside...
There is a corner of the Mitsurugi grounds that had, after several flyovers, been marked as suitable for entry. The security seemed weakest there, and it had a good covered entry point. A figure wearing camo fatigues dashes carefully from coverpoint to coverpoint, before deciding his location is suitable. A grappling hook attached to a rope is thrown over a wall, and the figure scales it, and lands on the other side with a light thump. He takes a few moments to scout around. Moments after, he crouches into the cover, and touches his hand to an earpiece. "All clear. Come on through."
Ladies and gentlemen, Sergeant Sagara has entered the building.
"Yeah, well..." Kaname says, her voice trailing off. She didn't intend for it to seem like she was dead; initially, she was just going to stay low with Meiya until things settled down, but in doing so, much of the student body had assumed that she had gone up with her apartment.
The Zako bounces towards her, a slip of something in its grip. "What's this?" she asks, kneeling down to its height.
It's a photo, one of the ones she had up on her wall; it's of her and her sister and her mother and father, at her sister's elementary school graduation. It's stained slightly, with soot, the edges slightly frayed. But the image is still there.
"Thank you," she says, her voice softer in tone than usual.
"Hey, Camille. Meet me after school. Bring the bag in my locker, okay?" It all sounded so innocuous.
LATER
Camille Bidan climbs -- laboriously -- over the wall on Sousuke's rope, a heavy, bulky bag over his shoulder. He clambers up with difficulty but with grace; marks of a spacenoid, no doubt, used to simply hopping over such obstacles. Camille lands and moves quietly to meet with Sousuke, crouching low. He's been training since the last time he had to sneak around with a sack full of TNT. Or, anyways, getting the gist of it, one way or another.
He's still wearing his school uniform, albeit with the collar inexplicably popped. It's a space thing.
Meiya comes down down the stairs after Kaname and stops "Ah, Macua, Kazuma. Thank you for coming, I'm sorry that we had you worried. I thought Kyoko would tell everyone at school that Kaname was okay."
MEANWHILE.
Three little maids sit around a table drinking tea with their pinky fingers held out. This is completely normal, really. Except that they're... In a tree, somewhere in the middle of the grounds. "You know, Mana comes up with some weird training regimes sometimes."
"No kidding."
"Tell me about it."
Sousuke and Camille manage to get over the wall without setting off alarms. Later, Mana will make a note to revise security there.
On the opposite end of the mansion, a very different scene is playing out. Several large men stare at the gate, arms crossed with determination in their eyes. It is a day like any other for extreme frisbee. It is extreme because you can punch out the guy holding it if they don't watch themselves. Kamina looks back at the others, growling. "So lets go get it!"
"But it went over the fence."
"Over the Fence!"
"Over the fence!"
Kamina grins, placing his shades on his face. "Then we are gonna climb over that fence and take back what is ours!!!" And so, the blue haired Trailer starts to scale the fence while his friends watch. He makes it to the top off the fence before falling in.
"How long until he gets arrested?" Kittan asks one of the others.
"I got 10 bucks on 30 minutes."
"10 on 10."
And so Team Gurren bets on just how long their dear leader will last.
Kazuma nods to Meiya, "She did, but I'm not the sort to trust an untested source without checking things out for myself. So, thanks for letting me come over ... but," he pushes his sleeve back, looking at the time display on his wristband comm. "I gotta get back to my place and check on some things. So unless you need me to stick around here, I guess I'll stop by tomorrow to make sure things are all going okay?"
The picture was stolen by Zako? Or was it grabbed when things went bad, it knew how certain pictures ment things to it's owner, prehaps that's where it pick up the habit. Zako does flutter it's ears when Kaname says thank you. "I was quite suprised when he spit that thing out. I'm not even sure how he managed to rescue that thing from the ruin. So here were are you know I spent the first 48 hours searching all over town as it had looked like some man had grabbed you."
She temple rubs. "It also doesn't help something else very bad happened." Leonard happened that's what and she's now certain her bad feeling about the man is right. This also leads to issues with Juku on the Freedan, but that can wait till later. "All right see you later Kazuma. Also umm can you check on my place on the way back?"
She turn to Meiya "Look with what happened I don't blame either of you. I was just terrfied someone had kidnapped you."
"See you!" she says to Kazuma as he wanders off.
Then to Macua: "Why would you think that?" Most people seemed to be concerned that she was missing or injured; no one had yet assumed that she had been /kidnapped/.
Sousuke gives a quick nod to Camille as he surveys the situation. "Stay on guard. We don't know what to expect." It was reasonably true. Sousuke hadn't ever been on the Mitsurugi grounds before. You'd be surprised how many people don't invite Sousuke to their homes. Oh, wait, no you wouldn't.
The sergeant dashes forward, using conveniently placed trees and bushes to provide cover. He moves in short bursts, and ducks into a courtyard. Far too easy. He hasn't even seen a killing field yet. What sort of defenses are these?
"Good bye Kazuma, thank you for coming." Meiya says, then watches Kaname retrieve the picture from the Haro. "Oh good, even if it's a little messy, you could probably take it to a digital photo place if you want."
Meiya coughs at the mention of kidnapping.
Camille travels after Sousuke, pulling a pistol out of his belt and cocking it -- it's full of Sousuke-issue rubber bullets, and Camille is certainly /hoping/ that his partner is packing the same. As opposed to real ammo.
He's also hoping that all this C4 in his backpack is fake, too, since this is supposed to be nothing more than a test.
Camille dashes in short bursts, mimicking Sousuke's movement. "Seems like a nice place," he says, studying the surroundings.
Outside where Kamina has just leaped over the fence. The frisbee is out of sight, but he lands in some bushes, alls well so far right? No alarms, no cops or security no dogs.
Except for the very startled raccoon (Tanuki really) in the bushes thats staring at Kamina.
It has decided the best cours of action is to scream at the top of it's tiny little lungs and attach itself to Kamina's face.
Inside the house, Mana takes a cellphon out of her pocket and looks at it curiously. She bows to everyone gather "Excuse me..." and leaves.
Out back, When Sousuke and Camille hear the *twiptwiptwip* of knives burrying their points into the bark of the tree their hiding near, then maybe they'll understand what kind of defense these are.
Meanwhile the ninja girls look at each other "You hear something?"
Kamina is in the clear. He grins, looking around with curiousity. The person who lived here was probably loaded....Probably also stole a lot of frisbees. He puts away his shades into the back of his pants just as he catches sight of the racoon. "Hey there, little guy. You see a frisbee around here?"
And then the screaming starts, both from the racoon and then from Kamina who now has a racoon attached to his face. He yells loudly, stumbling around the yard with his arms waving wildly. Where Sousuke's team is using stealth, Kamina is probably waking the neighbors with his loud screaming.
Macua Huitl says good bye to Kazuma and looks back to Kaname and Meiya. "Because I..." She's interrupted as Zako bounces up chirping. "Kaname left with strange man when stalker man called Macua! Stalker threaten Macua dig too deep!!"
Macua just stares at Zako. "HEY QUIET YOU! Your suposed to not talk about that!" She has this oh crap look on her face at this point she's about to go on when suddely she looks right in the direction of one of the walls. What's there it's the direction Camille's in.
"Someone's coming."
Nervousness plays across Kaname's face for a second; Macua had seen that? This definitely wasn't good!
But before she can open her mouth to push forward an excuse, Zako continues, offering a little more detail than what Kaname Chidori had expected.
"Wait, what?!" She looks from Zako up to Macua. "What is he /talking/ about?"
Meiya is about to try and cover up the whole man kidnapping when Zako speaks up "what? What stalker phone call?" she frowns.
Since Zako blabed, she'll have to bring up the issue later or things may get ugly as Kaname and Meuy are distracted. Zako keeps talking. "Say Macua dig too deep! She might get hurt! Best if stop!" Macua would normally give it a kick at this point, but she feels the pressure. She grabs both gently by the arm.
"Someone is coming! I can feel it! We shouldn't be out in the open like this! I don't think they are friendly" She's all serious mode now.
The knives thwip into the tree, and Sousuke hits the ground. "Is it an automated defense?" Sousuke's head whirrs around, looking for the source of the blades, not game to leave cover yet. If it is an attacker, though, they could be surrounding us.
Instinctively, he pulls the pin on the flashbang grenade, holding the release for the moment, waiting to see what he's up against.
Meiya's arm is taken, she frowns at Macua. "Who? And we're not in the open. The house is very secure. Mana probably went to check on it. If we have to we can get to the garage through the third floor, and theres a panic room on that floor and the lowest floor."
As Kamina flails and runs around screaming, a woman steps out of the house, over to the screaming pair. She reaches out and takes the wild animal by the scruf of the neck, lifting him up. This causes him to go limp in her hands.
Thats the raccoon, not Kamina.
Mana frowns. "Your play toy is over there on the path. Get out before I call the police."
Mana looks at the raccoon "I should have let you eat him." she puts the animal back in a tree and it bolts like greased lightening.
Camille looks at the knives, ducking backwards rapidly. "--No! Hostility! I sense it--" he starts, denying the possibility of auto-knife-throwing robots. Thank goodness. "Who... who throws /knives/?" There are such a thing as guns, you know.
Zako speaks more "He know Macua's real name, name she forgot! Raquel." Macua is going to hurt Zako so bad later. Macua's getting more and more distressed. "Are you sure? Someone's coming I can feel it and I not felt many like it." She's worried and hopes Meiya's security can deal with it.
The knives seem to have been launched by some kind of device, a spring loaded launcher maybe. There was no trip cord... some sort of pressure plate underneath the grass? That would take extensive work, probably put in when the grounds were first made. Better be carefull.
The three little ninja maids get up from their tree bound tea table and start leaping through the tree branches, moving towards where they heard the sounds of knives being thrown. They stp and peer down at the two boys from the branches. They communicate in swift hand signals.
'We have a breach!'
'They look like teenagers!'
'They're here for the pie!'
The first two look at the last with questioning looks until the third pulls out a code book and makes other handsignals.
'I meant money.'
"Don't try to change the subject!" Kaname says, her tone harsh. "Who is this guy, and what does he want from you? Why is he threatening you, and how does he know your real name?"
Though she's outwardly angry, it's only out of concern for her friend; Macua's one of her best friends from Jindai High, and she doesn't want to see anything bad happen to her.
They're good. Very good. But Camille's statement has put Sousuke even more on edge, if that were even possible. He looks up, seeing the shift in the branches.
The subtle movement of the leaves.
And then the upward movement of the flashbang grenade from Sousuke's hands to the collected ninjas.
"Move!" Sousuke hisses, not waiting for the grenade to detonate as he heads for the main building. Their cover had been blown. Now it was just to see if he could make it to the building at all.
"--Yeah, that's fair--" Camille shouts, and starts sprinting after Sousuke, trying to pull his backpack off. "You've got a detonator, right?!" he yells, trying to get enough mileage to just HURL the C4 into the building.
"Macua!" Meiya is sstarting to get aggitated. "-What- are you talking about?"
Outside, well.. the Ninja-maid trainees should have acted more quickly, when the flash-bang grenade arcs through the air, the girls flail their arms and gape.
*BA-POOMF*
The girls will later be found in the tree, sirls in their eyes, and will be punished by Mana.
As for Sousuke and Camille, as hey sprint across the lawn, they run a guauntlet of ninja traps. Spears, pits, nets, logs. You name it. Hope you practiced track and field lately.
"Well, if he wants you to stop looking into something, it's obviously because he's a bad guy!" Kaname says, as if that weren't made obvious by the fact he threatened Macua's life. "You need to go to the proper authorities with this," she insists. "It's /their/ job to handle the bad guys!"
Camille leaps over a horrifying trap with Gundam-honed reflexes. "-I see it!" he shouts, revving up to hurl his destructive payload... when his foot hits the ground and finds only air.
"--Huh?" That's a pit. Camille hurls his C4 pack to Sousuke in the few fleeting seconds he has left, before he plummets into blackness -- silence, and death.
A few seconds later Camille calls up from the bottom of the pit: "This /sucks/."
Sousuke keeps moving, running forward through the gauntlet of traps, using cover and leaping from point to point. And then he has to catch a pack thrown at him. "Damn!" Sousuke grimaces. There will be time to mourn later. He has to finish the mission. He pulls a small package out of the pack, and throws it in front of him. He has to clear the path now, pressing the detonator, the high powered explosive kicking up a lot of dirt and terrain and hopefully traps. Subtle was no longer an option.
Macua Huitl looks at Kaname and says, "Not this sort." She looks at Meiya she looks to Kaname she's looking like she's trapped and the more she says the more she's in it and the deeper her friends are dragged in. She just sorta seems trapped. If she keeps getting pressed...it will get interesting.
The lawn explodes, destroying traps ahead of Sousuke. This is easily heard through the hosue. Meiya goes stock still, eyes wide. "Both of you. Into the panic room, you can get into it through my father's study. The switch is behind the bookshelf in the far back."
Meiya turns and walks to the back of the house, picking up a purple silk bundle along the way. She walks down two flights of stairs and slides open the back door out to the porch and shuts it behind herself. She unties the bundel, carefully removing the contents. A katana, drawing it slowly out of it's sheath.
Normally, Kaname would take an explosion such as this one with ease; a certain bodyguard of hers was well-known at Jindai High for causing this sort of chaos. But Macua's recent confession coupled with the events of a few days before sets Kaname in a panic.
Because she had stayed here for a few days now, Kaname has become familiar with the layout of the house; even if Macua doesn't know where the study is, Kaname does!
"Macua, come on!"
Kaname makes a rush for the study.
Sousuke is nearing the target now. The mission is almost complete. He launches over a last trap, and makes for the house proper.
"There's got to be something else." Sousuke mutters, expecting an army of security to turn up, or possibly some heavy duty machine.
There is no swarm of elite guards to face down Sousuke. No secret Service style bodyguards to fling their own lives away. The is just te dark porch, and the figure of a young woman holding a katana under the moonlight.
So. This is the last line of defense. A single guard. They're probably elite, Sousuke thinks. The best here. It would make sense. No sense employing a horde of incompetent guards. The weakness, of course, is if Sousuke had an accomplice anymore, it would be a problem.
Sousuke's hand quickly moves to the glock, suddenly opening fire with, thankfully, the rubber rounds he uses for nonlethal takedowns. Let's see what to expect.
Meiya can see the movement, they're drawing a gun. Even as the the rounds are fired, Meiya is in motion. She side steps, and two long strides are all it takes for her to close with Sousuke. The blade flashes out, the moonlight reflecting off of it as it passes a few feet infront of Sousuke's face as Meiya turns...
That Glock might now be 'two pieces of a Glock'.
Macua Huitl is making a rush for the study with Kaname. She's keeping an eyes on things as they make it into the panic room. She'll close the door once Kaname is in. "Damn it why did things have to go like this!" At least she's off the hook from the questions she was being asked.
Rather than risk getting caught with half a weapon, Sousuke releases the pistol, forced in to close quarters combat already. He pulls a heavy duty combat knife from the small of his back, grimacing. It's not a full sword, but it's what he's got. Besides, he feels significantly more comfortable with a knife than anything else, as he jumps back into a defensive stance.
Damn this darkness, not even letting him get a good eye on his opponent. On the other hand, it means he can use it to his advantage as well.
"Why can't things be /normal/?"
The question isn't directed at anyone in particular; it's just Kaname venting her frustrations. Ever since she was kidnapped, things had just become progressively more and more abnormal; any chance she might have had at a normal life seems to be slipping through her fingers as the year continues to pass by.
Meiya narrowed her eyes as she held the blade up diagonaly in a guard. Her opponent has drawn a knife, but she isn't reckless enough to think that means she has the ultimate advantadge here. A Knife could slip through her guard, catch her in the back. Things might even be more even if she had a knife instead of a sword.
She steps slowly sideways, circling her opponent in the darkness. Maybe if she can push him into the pool with enough attacks, she can end this without bloodshed. Yes, yes that seems like the best idea. She isn't going to let herself kill someone again like she did on the TDD-1. She will prove that Niten-Ryu style can save lives.
Meiya enacts her plan, taking another long stride towards Sousuke, switching the grip on her sword to slash at him upwards diagonally from her left, trying to force him backwards.
Macua Huitl makes sure things are locked do and she looks to Kaname for a moment. "Why can't things be normal. That's something I have asked since I escaped from the resarch ship I was on." She leans back against the wall watching her friend. "I'm sorry I brought more trouble into your life and that of Meiya's..."
Sousuke jumps back as the slash goes forward, wishing he had a baton, or something with better reach. But you have to make do. As the sword comes up, Sousuke moves forward, holding the knife in a reverse grip, and aiming for a hilt bash into Meiya's stomach, if he can get close. It's far too risky to just mess around in this fight, but this fight is far easier said than done.
"W-what? No! It's not like that at all!" Kaname quickly lifts her hands in surrender, as if to completely dissuade Macua from the thought.
"To be honest with you, my life was pretty strange even /before/ you came around."
The hilt bash goes into Meiya's stomach, forcing the wind out of her lungs, but Meiya has trained hard and long in the way of the sword. She forces herself to suck in breathm and steps a foot around behind Sousuke as she brings her sword up, aiming to catch him under the chin and sweep him backwards over her foot.
Macua Huitl looks to Kaname and tilds her head, while one eye is keeping monitor and what's going on outside. Wait is that Sousuke and Meiya's fighting him? She says nothing on that as she replies to Kaname. "Really? I'm still worried about the Venom behind the attack. Those things been showing up far too much." She pauses "I seen that model before even fought one..."
Sousuke brings up his knife to guard, narrowly avoinding getting slashed in the face. However, he's still caught on the arm, a light wound bleeding. Sousuke grimaces, currently stuck far closer than he'd like. A knife is not built for holding out against a sword. And then the sweep comes, and Sousuke is forced to roll away as he's kicked, his footing going AWOL.
Sousuke lands on his feet a small distance away, looking around at the situation. Responding quickly, he hurls a handful of kicked up dirt in Meiya's direction, before aiming to dash around to the side, and go for a quick strike at Meiya's back.
It's hard to tell from the darkness who's who; if it weren't for Meiya's long ponytail, Kaname would have difficulty ascertaining friend from foe.
Still, there's something familiar about the attacker's movements; for a long moment, Kaname gazes up at the screen, her expression both thoughtful and worried. So far, the two of them seemed to be evenly matched, but...
And then Macua's words pull her from her reverie. "Venom...?"
Macua Huitl had only recently learned either names for that machine. She pauses, "I didn't find out it's name till recently but I'd encounter one a long time ago. I was on a job and it came out of nowhere." She can remeber it clearly her Rosethal's scanners hadn't even picked it up till Gauron's first attack.
"That machine was able to create some sort of field which could block attacks, and use it as weapons. He took down two of the people with me and I barely got away from him my self. Then the machine starts showing up more and now one comes trying to nuke your house."
The dirt hits Meiya's face and she recoils from it, rubbing her eyes. Crap. She knows her opponent is going to attack, but from what direction? She stops, eyes still closd, and stops her breathing.
There! Sound from her side, he's coming at her back.
Meiya throws herself forward in a roll as Sousuke strikes, just barely clipping her back enough to draw a bead of blood. "Nhhf!" she bites her lip and rolls up to her feet. Her eyes have cleared slightly, just enough to see through one. She moves in again, Using the sword to target the knife specifically, trying to force it to the side so she can ram her elbow into Sousuke's throat.
"Some sort of field..." Kaname echoes. It sounds just like the Lambda Driver.
Sousuke's hand is knocked aside, and all of a sudden there's an elbow in his throat. That hurts. The problem now is the soldier isn't letting go, with Meiya's weapon out of the way. He grabs he arm with his free hand, then suddenly launches forward with a knee towards Meiya's gut, going to try and deliver a quick strike to Meiya's weapon hand, his own knife lost in the scuffle.
Sousuke is one of the TDD's elite for a reason, and he's currently aiming to change who's on top in this fight.
Meiya ends up going backwards, the knee strikes where the earlier hilt strike was, shooting pain through her body and forcing air out of her once more, and the sword is dropped.
But Sousuke isn't the only Elite here. MEiya has trained and fought long and hard, and even Sanger Sonvolt has been impressed with her in battle.
Meiya grabs Sousuke by his shirt and lifts up her foot to plant it on Sousuke's pelvis, kicking up as she arcs her back, aiming to throw him right over her head.
It's true. That's something to brag about.
On the other hand, Sousuke first encountered the complete number of the Aggressors as an enemy at age 10, and is still around.
As Meiya flips Sousuke up, he rolls with it, landing on his feet. With an emergency pistol out and pointed at Meiya's head.
You really didn't think he only had one, did you? "Surrender."
Macua Huitl can't forget that horrible man who drove it either. "Yes, a force field. No not quite like that it was strange it reacted differently." She looks to Kaname. "Are you all right?"
Kaname's eyes flicker up to the screen just in time to see Meiya flip the figure over--only to have /him/ pull a gun out on her.
/"Surrender."/
That voice... she knows it!
"/SOUSUKE/!"
The door to the panic room is slammed open, and Kaname bounds down the stairs in a flash; a few moments later, she's out the front door, her harisen wielded.
It lands with a loud smack on the top of the infiltrator's head.
"What do you think you're doing?! Don't you have any idea where you /are/?!"
Meiya was fighting alien terrors from beyond space when she was 10, and is still around.
These two have an unfortunate amount in common.
Meiya was moving up, turning around, ready to strike that gun out of sousuke's hand with a well placed kick, and then another to his head....
When Kaname comes barreling out of the house, and smashes the infiltrators head with a paperfan "K-Kanme?!" she says, suprised. "You should be in the...." she stops and looks at the young man's face more closely...
"...YOU?!"
Sousuke's attention is drawn momentarily away from the deadly gunfight by oncoming Kaname. "Miss Chidori-"
*THWACK*
Sousuke's head tilts ninety degrees without the slightest effect on the rest of his posture. "I am not sure that was completely necessary."
Sousuke pauses. "...Miss Mitsurugi. I wasn't expecting you here."
He is WAY too calm for pointing a gun at someone.
Macua Huitl watches as she hears the voice over the video display. Damn it this was bad and now Kaname is bolting out of the Panic room. Macua keeps up with her, without much problem. She does exit just behind her friend as she sees Kaname break out the hairsen and whack...Sousuke?
That gets a shocked look on her face. "Sousuke?! What are you doing here? Drop the damn gun why the hell are you attacking us!" She now pauses looking around then back to Sousuke. She seems to be sort of in a ready stance at this point expecting further trouble. She sighs and then adds.
"Just put the gun away before someone gets hurt."
Meiya narrows her eyes. "Would you--"
"Please put away the gun." finishes the voice of an older woman, accented in chinese.
Mana steps out of the shadow of a tree in her red maid uniform. Was...she there the whole fight, wighout beign noticed? "We don't allow fire arms within the house."
"OF COURSE IT WAS NECESSARY! Don't you ever think before you act, Sousuke?!"
Kaname sighs, exasperated.
Sousuke seems oddly nonplussed, ignoring Macua and Meiya pretty much entirely to focus on Kaname for a second, before the maid makes her presence known, causing Sousuke to know he was right to expect more. With a nod, he reholsters the emergency pistol... somewhere. It's hard to tell where exactly he pulled it out of anyway. He is still way too calm. "Excuse me one moment."
He quickly rummages through the nearby pack, the one that was full of C4 and pulls out... Several notebooks. which he thrusts in Kaname's direction. "I can now inform the chairman that the mission is complete."
Well, at least he's not causing any more trouble.
Kaname accepts the notebooks, blinking. All right, she definitely wasn't expecting /this/!
"You could have knocked at the door like a /normal person/, you know!"
Though her harsh tone of voice might indicate otherwise, Kaname can't help but feel a little happy--happy that Sousuke had come all this way to deliver her notebooks.
"The...chairmen?" Meiya says and thinks carefully.... "Of the student coucil?" she blinks.
Mana puts one hand lightly to her own cheek. "Oh my, thats a lot of dedication."
Macua Huitl looks like she's about to face palm at things, she'll not bring up the other newtype who she sensed. She just is glad no one is dead. She looks at Sousuke again just letting Kaname deal with things now she's got better Sousuke wrangling skills than she does. She eyes the possible weapons but it seems Sousuke is done now. No need to cause more trouble, she's starting to relax a little bit, the fighting is over right? She also owes the young man for getting her out of a very uncomfortable questioning from Kaname and Meiya. Hopefully they will forget about it. Shell likely have not have that sort of luck, at best its delayed.
Sousuke pauses. "The Chairman indicated to use any means necessary to get them to you as soon as possible. I was forced to enlist Mr. Bidan's aid in getting in here with everything. Unfortunately, he was caught in one of the traps on the way in."
Any means necessary would explain the C4, too.
"Just use the door next time!" It'd be one thing if he was coming to /rescue/ her, but Meiya was one of their classmates; there wasn't anything dangerous about her at all!
Kaname lets out a loud sigh, her head sagging with frustration. Why did he have to be so oblivious sometimes? He had already been a student at Jindai for over a year now, and yet he still couldn't quite grasp even the basics of acting suppose I can make the girls do it."
Macua Huitl was right she'd felt another newtype. She'll have to talk to Mr. Zeta later, well possibly. Still it could have been much worse and Kaname seems to be getting back to her old self. She just sorta is off to the side as Zako bounces out from behind Macua. "Snacks and fun!"