[WARNING: There are scenes unappropriate for 13 years old and below. Read at your own risk.]
Midnight, San Joaquin Building
It was already past twelve but everyone inside the building was still awake. All of them were wearing a full-gear combatant attire with a high caliber rifles. Some of them were running rounds around the building and some were keeping an eye on certain rooms. One of the rooms was dimly lit aside from the center where it was flashed by a bright spotlight.
Alice knew that this room was personally designed to detain people. She's been inside the room for hours now and still hasn't managed to escape. How can she escape if she was tied up side down by those freaks! All methods she knew to persuade them were all in vain. Even an offer of a big sum was declined without any second thought. They've been ignoring her, yet still all eyes on her.
"Don Theodore has arrived!" A man with the same uniform loudly shouted.
With just the mention of the old man's arrival every guards have form a line at the corridors. Alice knew what will happen if she was to be seen by that man. She has to escape no matter what but the ties just keeps on tightening whenever she move. This is impossible! If she keeps on trying to escape then she will end up hurting her wrists and ankles but if she were also not to do anything, she might end up in the deep sea with cracked bones.[1]
Left with no other choice, Alice bend her body to touch her knees however a sharp object cut the ties that restrains her to move. With just the sight of the dagger that's been struck on top of the wooden table with a phoenix's head engraved on it, she already knew that they were now here to rescue her. She looked at the direction were the dagger came from and saw a silver object shinning in the dark.
Thank goodness they're here.
When she looked at her wrists she saw a violet line of bruises like an emerald bracelet around it. These men inside this building don't have any moral to tie up a girl with such rudeness. Her arms and knees don't have much strength to take a step for being tied up side down for such a long span of time but she have to. Even her head seemed to be smashed by a hard object.
Dizzily, Alice silently walked towards where the light comes from. Just as she was about to reach the area where her team are, a man suddenly shouted in great volume.
"They have escaped!"
Bullshit! As she reached the place, a man with a silver piercing of a crow throw her a CZ-75 pistol. As per her mannerism she then quickly checked the gun if it's fully loaded before turning her head into them.
"Do everything to escape. Kill if you have to, don't die. Let's meet at the nearest pier."
"Ali you have to remove that coat. They will recognize you easily. And... wear this." Vulture then gave her a silver mask just like what they're wearing.
"Sparrow and Hawk give those men some good show while we're assisting Ali to exit the building. Crow; block all the cameras on our way. Ali still can't run because of her leg." Falcon instructed while cleaning his dagger. Their team used code names of bird to hide their identity except Alice for being their superior.
"Okay, now let's move!"
Sparrow and Hawk, the girls of the team, then purposefully stepped on a barrel to make some noise. As they've expected a gunshot was shoot at their position but they dodge it and land on another barrel. They have to keep this up until Phoenix and Falcon manage to escape Ali at a safe spot.
The combatants can't see where their actual position is so they just keep on shooting in different area as possible. With this state, they've been wasting their bullets nonstop and creating a great advantage on them. Sparrow and Hawk just keep on dodging the bullets without any single bullet wasted.
"Crow are you fucking done with the cameras!?" Hawk asked impatiently. They can't keep this act for too long because the barrels were too unstable to step on. And also they have noticed that those men in uniform have no more bullets left.
"It's done! All cameras on this building won't record anymore." Crow replied with bluntness.
"Now let's clean this area." Vulture then showed himself only holding a dagger. The combatants inside the room exceeded the number of fingers of a human body. It is a four versus a battalion match. Looking at the situation afar, this is an advantage of number of counts.
The combatants decided to attack Vulture with a knife but before they could get near him, Vulture forwarded with a fast speed and visibly cut their throats. Seeing this Hawk put on some silencer and flew at the center of the crowd and shot everyone who attempts to recharge their guns. Sparrow also followed and used a grip-then-twist-a-head method to finish her enemies. While others are busily silencing everyone, Crow on the other hand keeps an eye to the exit and blocking everyone who was trying to call for back up.
"This is your fault for not being an accurate gun shooter idiot." Hawk smirked then shoots the last man alive on the head.
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On the second storey of the building, Phoenix and Falcon were also engaged into a fierce fight leaving no mercy to anyone. It was a disadvantage to use a riffle at this state. Riffle is a gun with such great number of bullets but also with such a great loudness. With the use of this gun, it seemed that they've finished half way but with the noise that it produced,the number of enemies also started to double.
Damn noise!Ali needed to escape.
Phoenix could only curse silently. It doesn't mean that Alice can't fight together with them. She was actually the best fighter of them all and the keenest holder of sniper. They were just worried that Alice's injury might get even worst. At this moment, all she needed was an immediate physical examination. But at this rate if she was not to do anything they might eventually have a bad ending.
Agitated, Alice took her pistol and furiously advanced through the crowd. All her shoots were bull's eye. Other than eyes, she'll never shoot other parts of the body. It was her favorite spot though. The man near her attempted to attack through her back however she was facing a glass and saw his reflection. Before he could even raise his gun, Alice turn around then directly point the pistol into his eye socket and pull the trigger.Blood splatter in both the ground and Alice's shirt but she acted as if it was just like a sprinkle of water. Her gun needed to be recharged after a few shots. Pistols are pistols, it has a small number of bullets. But before she could, someone kicked her from the back. She almost kissed the ground because of the sudden attack.
Fuck! That hurts!
Alice touched her sore hip. That was such a gayish one! She turned her head and saw a punch directing to her face. It was a good thing her reflexes were fast and immediately avoid it.This man acts as if he wasn't taught how to respect a girl by his parents properly! What a shame. Alice decided to use a dagger instead of her gun.
Alice fearlessly initiated an attack with a single dagger on her right arm. She keep on taking a steps forward but when she was about to stab the man, he suddenly get a hold of her wrist and tried to point the dagger into her throat. Her hand tightly gripped the handle but the man also tightens his hold into her bruised wrist. The grip send a great pain through Alice's arm.
It's not really Alice's type to play dirty tricks. But left without any room to decide, Alice raised her feet in the air and forcefully kicked his balls. A loud groan can be heard inside the room. She then elbows him straight to his throat before stabbing him twice on his chest. Head can't be a nice target at this point of time using a knife.
"You're a though one huh? How dare you! Now go die." Alice recharged her gun and then shot the man on his both eyes. She only stopped after she was satisfied.
Alice turned around and saw dead bodies lying on the ground while Phoenix and Falcon inspects their suits hoping to find leads who leaked some of the company's confidential information. This traitor needs to be found out before he or she could bring another heap of a trouble.
"I think you've gotten a lot older. You rust Ali ha ha!" Crow then entered the room together with Sparrow. Sparrow goes near to Alice and hand a black diamond pierce.
"Fuck off Crow! Ali all of them are wearing the same piercings."Sparrow said while removing one of the combatant's bonnets. Falcon and Phoenix also did the same and figured out that she was telling the truth.
"Ali, we have to get of here. Vulture intercepted that there are bombs all over the building and it was all activated." Crow hurriedly gave his ear piece to Ali. She immediately converse with Vulture.
"Vulture, this is Ali. What do you mean?"
Vulture: "Ali we only have three minutes and twenty four seconds left before this building breaks down. We tried to detonate the bomb but the mechanism it used was too complicated and there are too many to detonate it with just a small span of time."
"Copy that... Evacuate the parameter. Crow call the helicopter. Now let's go!"
They all headed at the nearest door and break the glass windows as an exit. Fortunately, they were in the second floor so jumping from above was not a problem. One by one they jumped without hesitation. The men of the group jumped first before the girls to serve as a support. However when it was Alice's turn to jump, she heard someone calling for help at the opposite door.
"Run to the nearest pier! Prepare everything. I'll be there after a few moments."
"Ali, it's too dangerous!" Phoenix shouted. They were all persuading her but Alice doesn't listen.
"It's an order! Now move!" Alice directly headed to where she heard the voice. She was sure that he was the person who was kidnapped together with her.
"Vulture, how much time is left?"
"There is only one minute and fifty one seconds left. Hurry up Ali." ISON's team was so tensed knowing that any second now, the building will collapse and Alice was still in there and who knows what she's doing. She turned on her timer to forty seconds to keep her on track about her time limit.
When Alice finally opened the door she saw a man who was tied up side down just like her a while ago. As for his look his body was full of cuts and there are indication of torture because of the big bruises on his cheeks and jaw. Also his clothes were ripped ruthlessly. Anyone who could see his condition would feel pity over him.
Alice hurriedly cut his ties and helped him get out of the building. On their way out, she faced difficulty on evacuating him because he have no more strength to let his feet move and frankly speaking, he's heavy!
"Mr. you have to cooperate with me. We only have forty nine seconds to get out before this building explodes." As if the man wakes from a deep slumber he looked at her and tried to walk his aching feet. His every step is like walking into fire. They have to jump right now; if not then they will be toasted to death.
"Ali! There is only twenty one seconds left." Vulture reminds her.
When Ali heard what Vulture said, She jumped together with the man without hesitation. Not minding her physical condition. They hit the ground so hard but she stands then grab the man with her and run as fast as she can. Reaching not too far, the building exploded.
"Phoenix, get me out of here."
Phoenix: "Okay, where are you?"
Ali: "forty nine meters south away from the blast site."
Phoenix and the team search for her location right away. And after just a couple of minutes they found her, or should we say them near a bush. Both of them looks so terrible but what they can't understand was why Ali risk her life for this man.
"Ali, I know that you knew what you're doing but who was he?" Hawk asked suspiciously.
"I don't know him. So where's the helicopter?" Alice simply answered then change the topic. This is going to become a big gossip if she was to tell that she knew his identity.
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Translator's Notes:
Alison uses the code name "ALI" while her subordinates were Hawk, Sparrow, Falcon, Crow, Phoenix, and Vulture. Who are they? They will be introduced in the next chapters.
ISON's team- Hawk, Sparrow, Falcon, Crow, Phoenix, and Vulture
[1] Cracked bones- a slang word that means salvaged.