There was little distance between the two as Alex ran for his life, and the Hikaru ran for Alex's life too.
'Man! How did it end up like this?'
Alex was running in the hallway, desperately trying Not to let Hikaru destroy the entire school and quite possibly kill a certain someone or everyone in it.
'I am certain it is your fault, Alex.'
Jason was now scanning different parts of the school, one by one, searching for a clue that might lead to a hidden passage while Alex was busy running a marathon.
'Shut up, and it's not.'
Alex looked backed to check if the beast was still following him, and sure enough, Hikaru was determined to catch Alex and was rampaging towards him.
'Now where to? That Hairy Hulk is going to destroy the entire place if this keeps on.'
Alex asked himself.
'Alex!'
--Oh shit,
Alex headed towards the gym hall.
'Where are you?'
Hikaru entered the hall, searching for Alex. Alex quietly crept into a corner and hid himself.
'Come on out and let's have a chat like civilized people, okay?'
--You're the last person on Earth I would want to say that.
Alex called out to him because, like a "Hulk" and a "Gorilla," he had started smashing things.
'Over here, you Hairy Hulk.'
Alex threw a basketball at him, which the Hairy Hulk caught. He then ran out of the gym, and expectedly, Hikaru followed.
'Jason! Hurry up and find the stupid place.'
'Easier said than done.'
Alex knew he couldn't keep on running around the school forever. Someone was bound to eventually get hurt like this. He had to end this quickly.
'Jason, you said you had a vague idea where they might be, where is it?'
'The North-East side. I am currently there.'
Alex thought about what was in the north-east section as he ran.
--Come on, think brain, think.
He was wondering if there was some change.
--There has to be some specialized equipment that creates the serum from the chemicals. Hikaru must have made them in school if the serum loses its effect after 30 minutes, but the equipment couldn't have always been there, meaning it was placed there only recently.
Alex headed towards the North-East section as he kept on thinking.
--Where could he have made them?
Alex's life depended on how quickly he could figure it out.
--Wait, could it be…
'Jason, search the chemistry lab there.'
--It only makes sense that's the only place that was changed due to Hikaru's accident. After his accident, the chemistry lab was closed for three days. All the chemicals lost in the fire were replaced, and all the damaged equipment was repaired. The people who repaired them must have been from Jira.
Alex's intuition said it was the right answer. Jason immediately headed to the chemistry lab and started searching. He carefully checked the entire place but found nothing.
'Alex, I searched everywhere. The serums are not here.'
'Keep searching, it has to be there.'
Alex ran outside of the chemistry lab while the Hikaru was behind shouting simple words.
'I am going to rip you apart!'
As the Hikaru ran outside with his heavy body, everything inside the chemistry lab shook except one thing which caught Jason's eyes. A cupboard with a transparent glass door. Its contents didn't move an inch even though the cabinet itself shook.
Jason slid away glass and found that the materials were actually just another glass. Jason tried to slide it, but it didn't budge. Frustrated, he shot the glass a couple of times. Not a single scratch was made.
'Interesting.'
The glass was bullet-proof, but Jason had always enjoyed breaking bullet-proof glass. He took out a small device and stuck it onto the glass. He turned it on, and within seconds, the glass broke. The tool was a frequency generator that matched the glass's frequency, creating the opposite effect, hence breaking it.
After the glass broke, a big hollow cavity and inside, equipment highly complicated and too expensive for a school revealed itself. Jason discovered a tube containing blue fluid with an injecting gun. Beside it, another empty tube still had some red liquid in it.
'Found it.'
Jason grabbed the reverse serum and attached it to the gun and ran to join Alex. He found Alex still running and joined him.
'I found the reverse serum, Alex. We only have to inject it.'
'Great, but how are we going to do that?'
'How did you get that?'
Hikaru didn't say a word except for killing Alex ever since he transformed but alarmingly looked at the gun. His raging and angry mind seemed to have cooled down after seeing it. It only proved it was the real thing. He cautiously took a step back.
'Rest assured. During our previous encounter, I was not fully prepared, unlike this time.'
Jason took out a yellow dart and loaded his gun.
'This is the most potent tranquilizer in the world. It can take down a raging elephant in 10 seconds'
He aimed at the Hairy Hulk.
'He is no exception.'
Jason fired the dart. The dart sailed through the air heading straight for the massive body yet was dodged. Hikaru was much faster and stronger than the last time as well.
'That's great, but only if it hits him.'
Hikaru saw that he could evade the darts. He gave a sly smile.
'How many of those darts do you have left?'
'Two.'
'That's not much.'
'Die!'