Weiss Kreuz Fan Fiction ❯ Daylight Utopia ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Title: Currently undecided.
Pairings: None in this chapter, but again, Het and Yaoi for later.
Warnings: Spoilers for the series and Gluhen, though not too much just now at least. Other than that, for the moment there's..nothing to warn you about at all actually.
Schuldig stopped them just as they entered the compound, looking at them seriously and speaking telepathically to them for a moment, 'I have to let Orchidae know what we're doing, or she'll attack us as well the moment she gets the chance. She's on edge, and she'll think the worst if we go in there, especially wearing these.' The other two reluctantly nodded and Schuldig nodded in return, speaking to Orchidae as they walked through the outer complex, inside the building.
The guards that passed them in the outer part of the building merely nodded or waved to them, all assuming that they were new recruits or something of the sort. The building didn't seem like it was under heavy guard at all until they got deeper inside it, at which point their passes were checked. It took only a slight mental persuasion before the men let them pass, and they continued on. He followed the directions he'd taken from the men they passed to find out where any prisoners of any sort were kept, and they slowly made their way there.
"So far so good.." Ken murmured just shortly after their passes were checked once more. Schuldig had to tweak the guy's sight a little more for him to see a higher security clearance on their cards this time instead of the one they actually had, and they all took note of the fact that the guards in this area were more rigid and more on guard than all the others they'd passed as of yet.
If the former assassins started getting nervous from all the security, and from how long it had been since they'd been on a mission, they didn't show it. Schuldig had to admit he was impressed; Ran had stayed as far as possible from this line of work, having found he did enjoy teaching and becoming a full-time teacher at a prep school, teaching English and History, and Ken had been a part-time soccer coach, more for something to do since he didn't need the money from his former life, and from living with Mamoru.
As they were walking through the complex, Schuldig kept tabs on Orchidae, speaking to her now and then until he could feel her tense and freeze through their mental link. 'What is it?'
The other two froze when they heard Schuldig growl, then just looked completely surprised when he took them down another hallway, looking suddenly very angry.
"Where in the hell do you think you're bringing us!" Ken whispered, sounding outraged as he followed behind the telepath, the only one that knew where they were going in this place.
"We're going to their computer room to get information on the people here and whatever it is they're after. Apparently guards are going to where Orchidae is being kept and it wouldn't be safe for us there just now. Besides, it'll be harder to get information after we bust her out of there, and we could definately use this information, don't you agree?" Though he was responding to Ken's question, his gaze flickered to the other red-head, knowing that information was his main goal in this little excursion in the first place.
At Aya's nod and Ken's sigh of compliance, Schuldig picked up his pace and brought them quickly to the room he'd been aiming for, getting one of the guards there to let them in, then snapping his neck and bringing him in the room with them to dump him there. The two people working in the room already were surprised for a half-second before Schuldig turned them suddenly into nothing more than puppets, getting them to search out the information they needed and to put it all on a couple of disks laying about the room.
As he was doing this, the two former Weiß members just watched, wondering why he was suddenly working with such a ruthless one-mindedness, so very different from his attitude any time they'd seen him in the nearly twenty years they'd known the man. It took several minutes before the information was ready, then Schuldig turned to the younger two men and scowled a bit.
"What?" He paused, reading their minds quickly, and then sighing and putting a hand to his head, "You'd be pissed too. Remember, I said she had 'company' right now. I can hear through her what they're doing.. She and her cell-mate are taking one hell of a beating right now. I..I want to stop it." He looked up at the two men, a half-hearted smirk on his face, though it was quickly fading, "Guess I've turned soft finally."
It took another full fifteen minutes before Orchidae would let the three of them go to the cell she was being kept in, and as they made their way there their thoughts were grim. That was at least twenty minutes, apparently straight, of men beating a drugged 18-year-old girl, though things definately could have gone worse for the girl. They made their way in silence towards the cell, predictably in the basement of the building, and looked around for guards, Schuldig making the guards' minds overlook them entirely as though they weren't there.
They got to the cell door, which had no window and was locked, and they listened for movement inside, able to hear voices very faintly, though they couldn't decipher the words. From what they could make out though, the voices sounded almost friendly and comforting. It took just a moment for Aya to pick the lock, a skill he'd picked up from gods-know-where, and they opened the door, the low light from the hallway harshly illuminating part of the cell.
Blood was laying in small pools and streaks on the ground they could see, enough blood to show that there were at least some rather serious injuries on the two people they knew were in the room, though it took some looking to see the outline of one pair of feet, off near the corner. The feet were too large to be Orchidae's, looking to be male, and were bare. Hesitantly, Ken took a few steps toward the man in the corner, when they heard a harsh male voice try to order them to stay away, as he shifted farther into the darkness there, whimpering in pain as he jarred one or more of his wounds.
"It's okay..." A rough female voice tried to placate the man holding her, trying to soothe her with how badly she'd been beaten. The man helped her to stand, though he was every bit as steady as she was and it was hard to tell who was holding up whom. After a moment, Orchidae took a few steps towards Ken, Ran and Schuldig, and they could see the bloody mess that was her and her clothes, and how her left arm was at an awkward angle, obviously broken pretty badly.
She limped her way into the light and they could see bruises already forming all over her skin, or at least, the skin that wasn't covered in her own blood, as well as the blood from a few guards she'd managed to injure in her fighting. Schuldig just let out a gasp and went to her, gently touching her cheeks as if he thought she could break from the slightest touch, which wasn't a far stretch from how she looked, his eyes showing barely tamed rage which neither of the others could deny feeling themselves for the poor girl. She nearly collapsed into his arms, barely able to hold herself up, and turned her head to look at Ken and Ran, assessing them silently and then nodding a bit and turning toward the corner
"You can come out. They won't hurt you.. They're not actually guards here.." The man hesitated a moment before shuffling forward, his face hidden by long locks of hair down past his shoulder, that looked like it might be dirty blonde or light brown, if it weren't for the blood caked into it. Realizing his form looked familiar, Ken took a step forward and gently lifted his chin so they could look into his eyes. Seeing his face, he gasped and took a step back, followed by two surprised sharp intakes of breath as three of them staredinto startling familiar green eyes. They stared in silence for a moment before Ken breathed out a hushed name.
"Yohji..."
Well then..that was..unexpected. My muse did it, I had no control there. Sudden Yohji input..~Blink~