It was a cold night, especially up on top of the Terminal Tower, the spaceport of Edo. So very high in the clouds, two men stood together on the colossal structure, their hair and clothing blowing in the wind. They were identical, both had bandages covering their left eyes. Their yukatas had the same butterfly patterns, but one wore green while the one speaking wore purple. They had looks of disappointment, ..no, resentment on their faces.
"Look at it... This rotten world the Bakufu created... The rotten people in it... The Amanto being treated like gods while humans lick their boots. ...It sickens every part of me to no end ...Tonight, we're going to commence our campaign of destruction against Edo, the Amanto, and the servile scum that inhabit this city. Tonight.. is the beginning of the end."
As Takasugi finished speaking, explosions flared up in randomly chosen positions throughout Edo. The two smirked, tilting their heads forward as they gazed on at the burning buildings far below them. Chaos. Destruction. Death. This is all they wanted for the country that had so cruelly spat on it's own culture, it's own honour, to make happy with the Amanto. The man in the green yukata turned to leave, while Takasugi just kept on gazing at the carnage with his insane eyes, taking a seat and puffing on his kiseru (pipe).
"I'll ensure the small fry are dealt with by the end of the month. We will have our vengeance." The clone of Takasugi could be heard announcing in a dark manner, before a helicopter picked him up and flew away from the Terminal, leaving the real leader of the Kiheitai sitting up there alone. Alone with his beautiful destruction...
While the Edo authorities rushed around collapsing the fiery buildings or hosing them down in effort to stop the inferno spreading, the Shinsengumi's ten squads were deployed across the city. This was definitely the work of an extremist Joui faction, or perhaps the Kiheitai were making a debut of sorts... Overall, Edo's people and emergency services personel were doing a surprisingly good job of halting the spread of the flames, and eventually containing them. The Shinsengumi's job was to capture or kill anyone suspicious leaving the areas that were bombed.
2nd Squad was garrisoned the Shinsengumi Headquarters. Couldn't leave home undefended, right? After all, it could just be a giant, overdone distraction meant to take over the base. While the other nine squads scoured Edo for any signs of hostility, 2nd was here, along with the new recruits who had yet to be assigned to their duty. At least if they were surprise-attacked, they had a chance. Kokone Tok- uh, ..Murasaki, patrolled around the walls with Kenji Saitou and Yoshi Nagase; her two favourite squad members. Probably because they weren't pathetic with a sword and they didn't die easy, so they were ideal comrades!
...As stated earlier, the Shinsengumi are to detain anyone suspicious-looking, or to kill them if they're openly hostile.
And that thought crossed Kokone's mind just as a girl dressed in Chinese attire strolled past the base, directly away from the chaos. She wasn't really walking like a normal person. There was more dancing with her umbrella, skipping, twirling and cheerful humming than anything else going on. Given she was dance-skipping away from the death and destruction, would you think that's very suspicious? She had an umbrella out while it wasn't even raining, and was generally too freakin' happy to say a whole bunch of people in Edo just got killed in the simultaneous terrorist attacks. Probably insane? Likely. Antagonist? Very likely!
"...Uh..." Kokone couldn't even bring a word forward as the cheerful China-girl twirled past the three Shinsengumi with her umbrella as her partner. "...Half of me wants to forget I just saw that over-happy display. The other half wants to arrest that idiot on account that she's too frickin' happy. Yoshi, Kenji, you guys can go arrest her on uh.. account of suspicious behaviour. I'ma keep watch on the gate. Don't take too long, I don't feel like getting jumped by some terrorist-patriot bastards while you two screw around."
