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Lihua, Meifeng, Sonya, Trevor, Cindy, Quentin, Cass, Reed, Shizuka, Task Force RAVEN vs. The Changeling Unit vs. The Devil of Verthaven.

"Move, move, move!" Maria loudly said as she hauled ass with the rest of the group. All that was behind them was the sounds of beasts rushing for them - growling, grunting, and more. Which is why they were hauling ass.

"To the left!" Nikki said, her swarm of insects had picked up some monsters, and they had to take a left. After the group had taken a left, she had retracted her swarm back to her, and sent them flying forward. "I'm finding us another path now!" She loudly announced as her insects shouted.

A monster got in the way of the group, but was quickly ended by a super strength enhanced punch from Scarlet and she kept running.

"We can't run 'round here forever, you know!" Cindy wiped some sweat off her forehead and kept running.

Nikki's bugs scouted them a way out - they were being lead right back to the APC. "This way!" Nikki said, taking a turn that showed them the literal light at the end of the tunnel.

Reed had emptied an entire magazine into these things and yet they were still coming at them head-on. Although Shizuka's mind was mostly on the fate of his twin, he still kept his bargain with the cop - by providing defensive assistance with his intangibility so as to let the stray attacks from the monsters pass harmlessly through them. (They only had limited people here - having one injured would slow them down and in turn get everyone killed instead.)

"Cindy!" Maria shouted. "Block off the exit! It'll give us some time!"

Christ, Cindy didn't want to blow her glass supply on them, but from what she heard was going on upstairs, it definitely wasn't good. Cindy lagged behind for a second as she gathered all her glass together. Right when she was reaching the exit, she whipped around and quickly assembled a multilayered glass wall that blocked the sewer exit. The beasts pounded and slammed against it, but it didn't take effect - at least until the group got far away from here as possible.

The APC was already prepped and in position, and the group jumped inside and barely got any time to rest before the door slammed shut, and the APC drove off. The gunner above was giving the monsters that were approaching hell.

While inside the APC, a question appeared on Cindy's mind, "Where the hell are we even supposed to go?! It's fuckin' chaos out there!"

"We're supposed to meet up with Maximilian," Maria said. That reminded her... "This is Agent Inkshade - mission successful, we're pulling out."

"Right." Shizuka turned to Maria. "What about my brother...and that blond girl? Are we gonna get them now?" He didn't wait for her reply - he was already cracking his knuckles, itching to give those Changeling fuckers a dose of their own medicine.

"We'll do our best - but our hands are tied to be honest with you," Maria answered.

"Mei, put something behind us!" Quentin barked over his shoulder, the sound of his voice resonating through the dimly illuminated tunnels alongside the mass sloshing of water beneath their boots.

"On it!" Meifeng said as she quickly stopped, pivoted on one foot, then managed to turn around. She stuck her hands straight out, and pulled plenty of water out her pocket dimension. She clapped her hands together, then stretched her arms out, creating a wall of water. She began freezing it, and could fell her body get colder - up until Savannah got close and immediately froze it with her ice powers. She heard the beasts scratching and slamming against it. Feeling proud of her handiwork (her ice powers felt like they were getting stronger).

"Alright, it's up! Go! Go! Go!" Meifeng loudly shouted as she turned around and started hauling ass with the rest of the group.

Savannah also coated the ground in cold ice behind them. Just to slow them down some more when they break through.

Leon was running with his revolver in hand. "This ain't how I expected to spend my afternoon!" He said. "I'll find out a safe way out." Now Leon realized why Nikki was put on one team, and Leon was put on the other. With their extra-sense abilities, they were the best shot the groups had of getting out of here in case things got dicey.

And they did.

"Cover you ears!" Quentin had little time to warn them as the torchlight of his shotgun barely illuminated a creature barring their path. Sweat trickling down his forehead, he shouldered his 870 for a moment, almost hesitating, before squeezing back on the trigger.

Meifeng and the others quickly shielded their ears. Just so their eardrums don't explode. Quentin, on the other hand...

It was disorienting. Almost deafening. He saw the creature stagger backwards with a silent roar and it wasnt until he heard Meifeng's voice that his hearing made a return.

"Get moving!" Meifeng shouted as she ran on past him - and swung her foot across and kicked the beast skidding across the sewer floor.

"Yeah, who would want to stay down here with 'Every tentacle fetishist's wet dream'!?" Trevor shouted with a cocky grin as he picked up the pace.

"Save it," Quentin rasped at Trevor, regaining his former pace.

"Alright!" Trevor realized they should probably focus on leaving here. Fast. As. Possible.

"This way!" Leon said, and pointed towards the fissure that they entered through. It went without saying that they all ran through it. Meifeng considered throwing up another shield. However, she just opted for gathering all the rain, and shooting a barrage of icy needles into the tunnel behind them.

Quentin pushed out last, holding off those still on their taie with a flury of shotgun blasts.

The APC rolled up, and the door opened, and allowed everyone to get in. Trevor and Leon got in without a second thought. Meifeng quickly hopped on, then helped Savannah hop on with Quentin on her tail. Helena, being the last to get into the APC, threw a grenade towards the tunnel and it exploded, splattering a group of the monsters.

The APC quickly pulled out.

Close, Quentin thought. "This is Countepoint, we're extracting. Mission success," he relayed over the comms.

It was a bloodbath out here. Monsters were swarming all sides.

Luis, or Heartbreaker, barely flinched as a giant beast walked up to their building, and storm of tentacles was flying their way. Flashbang just stuck her hand out and created a portal that sucked in their blows, another portal appeared and the tentacles went right back into the beast and impaled itself.

Luis merely yawned as Primitive Light leaped high up into the air - boosted by her kinetic energy - and punched the beast in the face so hard that it stumbled backwards and fell over. Primitive Light hit the ground harmlessly, and started running towards it, and delivered another massive punch that blew the beast into bits.

Count Vicious created several metal harpoons and sent them flying out in all directions that impaled the beasts - he retracted them. He quickly shaped them into a massive chain out of the ground (that was as thick as his body) and attached it to a nearby delivery truck so firmly that it might as well have been built with the chain. "Berserker!" Count Vicious willed the chain out.

The brute, who was rampaging through the hordes like an out of control truck, quickly turned her head and redirected her rampage in the direction of Count Vicious. She ran by, grabbing the chain, and dragging the truck along during her rampages. The Berserker came to a skidding stop, using the momentum to swing the truck like a wrecking ball. Utterly annihilating a group of the monsters like it was nothing.

Fig was creating her gaseous green energy and shooting it through groups of the monsters. They, for some reason, didn't do too well against it. They were being disintegrated by the blasts of energy. Skin Walker was right behind her, grabbing the beasts that were getting close and throwing them in the way of the blasts.

The Butcher was steaming hot - shooting red hot blasts of pure flames at the beasts that brought them to a boil that dissolved them into nothing.

Two other giant monsters started running up to the roof where the Changeling were heading - and they put their excellent teamwork to good use. The Berserker stopped using the truck as a mace, she quickly turned around and hauled ass towards the beast, and swung her truck at it's face so hard that it broke it's "neck." The Berserker took another swing at it's legs and knocked it from under it - but the beast fell on the delivery truck, crushing it.

Count Vicious just got an idea... While Fig was shooting blasts of her hot energy at the beast, he spawned six similar thick chains - attached to brutal looking harpoons. At the ends of the chains, he attached them all together. Fig created a giant ball of her energy, and threw it at the beast - causing massive burns. Which gave Count Vicious all he needed to shoot the harpoons at the beasts. Each of the wicked looking harpoons spun at high speeds, and dug deep into the flesh of the beast - and deployed spikes to make sure they stay in. The beast roared as it took steps back.

"Berserker!" Count Vicious shouted into the comms as he pulled the chains back. The Berserker ran on by, then grabbed the chains. Dragging the beast along just like it was nothing, she quickly swung the giant with strength that was unheard of and it hit the other monster and slammed both of them into buildings. The Berserker wasn't done there, she pulled the chain, and swung the monster high up into the air, before she threw the monster into a horde of the beasts.

Victorious, the Berserker pounded her chests then started running through the crowds of monsters.

It was disturbing.

Lihua watched the level of teamwork and strength the Changeling Unit exhibited, even when not directly lead by that bastard. Which made her realize it was going to be even harder to get Jennifer and Haruka out of there. Immediately, the woman crossed off going in there head first, not with those bastards in the way.

Though, she realized that neither side was going after each other. Because they knew that, if they did, the chances of the other executing their "hostages" tripled.

Or this was apart of some grand scheme.

Lihua had gathered chunks of concrete around her, and created a spinning dome that reflected the beasts off her. Suddenly, with a slam of her foot, the stone shot outwards at high speeds. Decimating a group of the monsters.

Lihua was cooking up a plan in that head of hers, but it was a risk.

... And they had literally no other choice than to take some risks if they were going to come out on top.

In the midst of combat, Lihua quickly scanned the area.

Maximilian was standing in front of his Echo, who was facing down a particularly large humanoid monster with a long tentacle for a right arm. The Beast swung it's tentacle at Maximilian, and Echo simply put his hand out - which was enough to stop it in its tracks. Echo quickly flew forward, then punched the beast's head off as it turned into a dissolving wreck.

Adam sent a tornado flying foward towards a horde of the monsters. They were quickly sucked into the aero-vortex, then Adam sent the tornado flying into a wall. The monsters were slammed against solid concrete and killed instantly.

Lihua didn't know where Mayfield was - but given how the monsters were getting their heads blown off around her and the other Agents, that means she's close.

PR-1 on the other hand was cutting through the horde of monsters with the same rate of efficency as the Berserker. He was killing them in one hit. He punched one monster so hard that a hole formed in it's body, and dissolved - quickly whipping around and knocking the head off another monster. He charged for a moment, and released large amounts of electricity into the air and fried a horde of the monsters. Before sending himself flying through the crowds like a railgun - creating an electric arm and frying the beasts.

Peter was currently NEST's Berserker. Lihua had a hatred for the aberration, but she knew he was useful...and loyal enough to fight against the Changeling Unit. She remembered some of the incredible feats he pulled in his fights against NEST. Which made Lihua think of something in regards to this hostage situation.

Of them all, Cass was nowhere to be found - until Lihua caught a glimpse of him at their far flank, stubbornly blindsiding some of the creatures with spreads of buckshot with.

It wasn't long before the two APCs containing the bombsquads rolled up on scene. Almost immediately they came out swinging. Cindy and Meifeng were shooting their respective elements and cutting through. Quentin and Reed were both ready to head into the thick of it, sweeping the beasts with gunfire.

"This looks bad." Meifeng said, as she shot a splurt of water at an approaching beast. 

"This looks bad?" Cindy parroted, in pure disbelief, creating glass shields around them. "We gonna die!"

"Stick together and hold your ground!" Reed shouted in encouragement as one dissolved into a puddle from a burst of his gunfire.

Shizuka wanted to just leave and get to Haruka's side pronto, but he knew it would be suicide for him and the captives if he recklessly ran up to them without a plan. He could only force the urge down while punching random junks and bits of rock into the monsters - but torturing these mindless slimes weren't enough to quell his anger at the Changelings.

"We can end this if we get the hostages away from them..." Maximilian trailed off. Now that RAVEN was here in full force, they have the manpower necessary to counter the Changeling Unit - only problem was the hostages they had on top of the roof.

"But we have to act fast," Lihua answered him. Knowing full and damn well they were in between a rock and a hard place. "Neither side can keep this fight on-going with the Devil sending a literal army after us - actually, I have a plan." It was less of a plan, and more of a hope. The person they needed to really worry about was Heartbreaker. Her speed and reflexes were unparalleled. Which meant that they could die literally the second she decides to kill them. Lihua's solution?

Get someone who can match her.

Peter had quick enough reflexes to vastly outpace Heartbreaker, and his electromagnetism rendered Heartbreaker's gunplay useless...if he can get close enough. Though, sneaking him close enough would not be that big of a challenge. The Changelings couldn't see everything.

"Peter!" Lihua spoke into the comms. "I need you with me."

The metal man was just tearing his way through a group of the monsters when Lihua called him - he shot himself right towards her like a railgun, before he stopped right before Lihua. Twisting his metal mouth upwards to form a grin.

"I need you to sneak close to them, and disable Heartbreaker's weaponry," Lihua said to her former nemesis. "She's the only challenge here." With the Berserker and the other heavy hitters cutting through the Devil's army, they'd have little opposition.

He nodded his head.

"I'm going to get the hostages - everyone else hold the line," Lihua said as she turned around. She started running, raising her hands up into the air, then swiping them down. Tearing a piece of the street out - with several smaller chunks to offer as defense - as she stepped on it. She managed to swing around the back route, out of the direct line of sight. With PR-1 right behind her.

Maximilian was going to trust Lihua on this one. "Alright, you heard her! Keep fighting!" He said as Echo pulled a stop sign out the pavement, and started swinging it wildly left and right.

This entire plan hinged on the Changelings being caught off guard. Lihua knew that more than anyone. Hopefully Peter would be able to hold them off while Lihua springed them. She flew into an alleyway, and a few monsters crawled off the walls in her way. She didn't waste any time in raising her hands up into the air and causing concrete spikes to violently erupt out of the ground and impale them, then she kept flying past them. With PR-1 behind her taking out all that pursued them.

Lihua and Peter quickly came up to the roof where Luis and the Changeling bastards were being held. They were fortunate enough to come from behind, and the Changelings didn't realize it yet. All they had to do was take Heartbreaker out of the equation and they'd have an easy escape.

Turning her head towards Peter, Lihua said, "We need to go up there and hit hard. Take Heartbreaker out first."

Peter nodded his head, and wordlessly flung himself up on the roof, he landed up there with them kneeling down.

"The fuck?!" Heartbreaker shouted as she did the first thing that came to mind; put a round through Haruka's heart. Using her lightning fast hands, she quickly pulled a revolver out her holster and aimed it at Haruka's chest, pulling the trigger and hearing the satisfying boom of her revolver.

Haruka was just as surprised as Heartbreaker - from which he nearly lost his balance and fell off the edge of the roof - but the sound of gunshot muted all the chaos around him and his eyes widened at the burst of light directed at him. He could only stare at the bullet coming nearer and nearer to him, telling him that he was getting closer and closer to his death...

However, the bullet slowed down in mid air just before it could hit Haruka, and Heartbreaker raised an eyebrow. The bullet stopped completely thanks to Peter. The bullet floated over towards Peter and started hovering above him. Heartbreaker's gun was pulled out of her hand and flew towards him, too.

"Alright, that's bullshit-" Heartbreaker didn't even get a chance to say before Lihua made her grand entrance.

The Vuhong Matriarch shot herself up on the stone piece, and threw her hands forward and shot the stone she was manipulating at each of the targets. Luis had deflected the stone with his wrist by swinging it hard enough to shatter the stone. The Mannequin leaned backwards so much that his back was touching the stone of the roof. The Contessa simply sidestepped it with a cocky look on her face. Heartbreaker, on the other hand, was so focused on PR-1 that she didn't notice the rock. It hit her in the stomach and sent her sprawling backwards and she hit the ground with a grunt. Blood was leaking out her mouth.

"Heartbreaker!" Luis said as ran over to Heartbreaker.

There wasn't a second to spare, Lihua managed to turn a hostage situation around in their favor in less than a few minutes. She quickly ran over to the bound teens and said, "Get ready!" She would have said "hold on," but there was little time for that. She raised her hands up into the air, and swung her fists downwards, and made roof they were all standing on fall down onto the building they were standing on. Peter can do whatever the hell he wants with the Changelings from here.

Lihua's expert display of her ability was certainly quite a show, but Haruka was too tired to feel awestuck from all the tension after that near-death experience. "Jennifer!" he called out to the blonde beside him. "Are you...alright?"

Everything happened so fast, Jennifer didn't realize what was going on. First a God damn metal man comes out of no where, and now they've fallen through the floor. "Y-yeah..." Jennifer yipped. The only problem was that they all were playing into Luis' hands.

Lihua's hand moved to her earpiece at blurring speeds, "I've recovered the hostages, need cover."

"On it!" Cass answered her over the comms and soon found himself joined by both of his nephews as the three Taylors covered Lihua with their own gunfire.

"You got it!" Sonya loudly shouted, she aimed down the sights of her rifle and started shooting anything that got close to the hostages, or Vuhong.

"... I can maybe throw some water over there, I don't know." Meifeng said in the comms - realizing how short her range was, and how out of it Lihua was.

While the rest of the bomb squads were busy keeping the monsters and the Changeling minions at bay with their powers or guns, Shizuka used the chaos as cover, ghosting through anything in his way with his intangibility and heading straight for the rowhouses. From the comms he heard Lihua had managed to secure the hostages, but he didn't trust that woman enough - he needed to confirm it with his own eyes that his twin was indeed safe from the Changelings. Using the bigger (and taller) monsters as stepping stones, he finally reached whatever's left of the rooftop - where Haruka and Jennifer were - supported by Lihua's concrete manipulation.

"Haru!" He let the ropes fall through his brother's wrists and hugged him fiercely.

Immediately, Lihua grit her teeth. Why the hell did the boy come over here? More importantly; why didn't anyone notice? Well, the first question could be answered simply by the boy being dumb. Now Lihua has three people to keep alive.

"Child," Lihua hissed. "You should not have come here - all you've done is make the situation even more complicated."

And that wasn't her bias for the boy speaking. Now Lihua has to work extra hard to keep all of them alive. Because, as she could tell, Shizuka was dead weight.

Haruka choked at the crushing embrace, somewhat taken aback at Shizuka's sudden appearance. "I-I'm fine. Help...Jennifer."

The younger twin freed Jennifer and pulled the two of them to their feet.

Jennifer felt relieved that the binds were finally cut. It was starting to hurt her wrists. Her regenerative factor was repairing the slight damage that the ropes had caused her - and just like that, the pain all but vanished.

Lihua sighed, then turned to Shizuka as she stepped off the piece of stone. "You're here now." Lihua said. "You better pull your weight and help if you want to get out of here - now let's go!" She started running through the house.

Shizuka rolled his eyes but held back from making snide returns at the woman - Haruka's safety was all that mattered to him right now. He could have simply taken the shortcut with his intangibility by phasing through the walls and dropping down the floor, but he decided against showing off to save his stamina for later.

He let out an irritated tch and brought up the rear after his brother and Jennifer.

There was an awful lot of activity above them now.

"Peter Brooke..." Luis trailed off as he stood straight up, hands in pockets, and completely unafraid of the metal man. The Mannequin was dragging Heartbreaker off so she could be healed by the Witch Mother - which meant that it was up to Luis. "The Hands told me all about you... and I have to say that you joined the wrong side." He shrugged.

Peter said nothing as he paced towards Luis.

"But, I can say that it's not too late to change your mind; join the Changeling Unit and we'll forget all about this." Luis put his hand out for Peter. When the Metal Man approached, he grabbed Luis by the wrist with enough force to absolutely shatter it, then gave Luis a kick to his side. Sending Luis falling backwards with a collapsed chest, and broken hand.

However, what would have anyone else screaming bloody murder, Luis merely rolled his eyes while on the ground. "... We always have to clean up after the Hand's messes." He raised his other hand up into the air, and snapped his fingers. "Contessa, would you kindly?"

The Contessa immediately shut off Peter's powers - which had the same effect as placing the nullification collar on him - and he quickly fell unconscious. Rendered nothing but an immobile statue as long as the Contessa concentrated.

The broken arm was quickly regenerating until it had quickly returned to full functionality. Luis stood straight up and rolled his eyes. He stepped over to the immobile Peter, and plucked the metal man on the nose. Huh? They were hyping Peter as a living superweapon - but look at him now, nothing but an immobile statue. At the mercy of the Changeling Unit.

They didn't have any usage for this waste of resources.

Luis turned away from Peter, and snapped his fingers again. "Flashbang, have the Berserker come in and dispose of him."

Flashbang nodded her head and a portal opened up in front of Peter - the Berserker came charging out of the portal and ended up right in front of Peter. She let out a hellish roar that could be heard from all over the battlefield as she grabbed Peter's body, and twisted his head like it was nothing. She plopped off his head - then crushed it within her palm - dropping it like it was trash. She quickly ran over and rammed her hand through his body and tearing him in half as her other hand attached itself to one end of his body. Once she was done, she kicked his "body" off the building.

"That was splendid, Berserker!" Luis said, clapping his hands together. Now they have one less problem to deal with. Which meant that everything was going according to plan.

Heartbreaker and the Mannequin walked back up to the scene.

"Damn!" Heartbreaker said. "I wish I could have gotten a shot off at that bitch." She could just feel the phantom pain of nearly getting her torso caved in with a stone. "I almost died for your stupid plan, Luis." She hissed at him.

"You should have been paying more attention, Natalie." Luis playfully said.

"Fuck you."

"Now, Mannequin," Luis turned his body towards his number three... "Have we stalled them long enough?"

"Yes." Mannequin said.

"Excellent!" Luis gleefully said. "Just let them run back to their allies, then "set off"-" Luis finger quoted. "-the bomb."

Lihua ran out of the backdoor of the building, she raised her hands up into the air, clenching her fists tightly, before raising them up into the air. This motion tore a chunk out of the back alley - large enough for them to stand on - and willed it to float into the air. Lihua, with her long legs, stepped on it. She looked over her shoulder at them, "Get on, we don't have much time."

Shizuka hopped onto the concrete platform easily, then stretching out an arm to help the remaining two on.

With all the Changelings above them, they'll be easy to snipe - even with Heartbreaker disabled, at least half of them have a ranged attack of some sort.

All three passengers got onboard, but Lihua pulled some concrete off the walls and floors to float around her forming a shield. After all preparations were complete, Lihua zipped through the battlefield. Dipping in between buildings to avoid the Changeling's line of fire.

Everyone here... everyone was just playing into Luis' hand. Every second they moved closer to the core RAVEN group... was just bringing them closer to death. She doesn't want it to end like this. It won't... tears started running down Jennifer's face. 

"I..." Jennifer trailed off, her voice was drowned out by the chaos around them. "I'm so sorry! It was all my fault... they made me work with them..." Jennifer said.

"Caspin..." Lihua looked over her shoulder at the sobbing wreck of a girl. "... You're the traitor everyone's been looking for." She wasn't quick to condemn the girl.

The twins said nothing - they already knew that she was the one. Ten points to Shizu for being the first to get the right answer, Haruka thought sarcastically, narrowing his eyes at the subtle smirk on his twin's face.

"Yes..." Jennifer sobbed. "They... they... took my family and forced me to do it or they'd kill them."

Lihua shook her head. Despicable. Just despicable. Which means that NEST will have to save them. They got no choice now. Though, that's be easier when their every moment was being tracked.

The mention of Jennifer's family made Haruka go rigid, balling his hands into fists. Shizuka raised an eyebrow at his brother's strange reaction, but he continued to keep quiet. Save the questions for later when they get to somewhere safer.

"That's not all..." Jennifer was uncertain of whether or not she should say this... but, it's the only way she can get out of this. "... They said they'd let them go if I manage to kill three RAVENs...." She started sobbing harder than ever before. She just came out and said it, loudly screaming, "... or else they'd set off the bombs they put in me!"

That made Lihua immediately stop the rock they were standing on. Like hell she was going to get caught in the blast. "Get off." Lihua sternly pointed in the other direction. She was definitely being callous - but she couldn't afford to take this risk. It's impossible to remove the bomb out here with a lack of proper equipment, and bringing her close to RAVEN would only play into their hands.

"But-but..." Jennifer said.

"My apologies, Caspin, but I just can't take this risk." Lihua regretted this so much, but it's what had to be done.

Jennifer turned to Haruka and Shizuka. "Please...help..." She begged them.

Both boys were equally stunned when they heard that Jennifer had a bomb planted in her body - who could have imagined that whatever stuck inside her and made her spew blood was some nasty explosive?

"Shizu," Haruka breathed, still staring at Jennifer with a horrified look. "Do something... Get that bomb out of her. Quickly."

The younger twin ran a hand through his silver hair. "Better not. Pulling it out by force might set it off accidentally. And I dunno where exactly it's embedded inside her." He then turned to Haruka with an odd expression on his face. "Besides, we don't have much time for me to feel all her insides to find the bomb."

"Seriously Shizu, now is not the time to crack dirty jokes!"

"Nah, I'm not a shameless pervert like Trevor." Shizuka then looked at Lihua. "Didn't you just tell us to get off your ride, hmm?" Checking that they were only a couple of feet away from where the RAVENs were, an idea came to him - he grabbed the arms of the two teens and grinned. "Hold your breath, guys - and brace yourselves for a freefall."

"You'd really..." Jennifer said, utterly astonished that they'd still help her after all that'd happen. Her fear and sorrow was replaced with demure appreciation, as she finally realized how much people were willing to go for her - and how much they understood. "...T-Thank you."

Lihua merely crossed her arms behind her back, and then calmly said, "No - but be my guest." She said. It'd be annoying if they'd render her hard work liberating them moot, but she'd rather not be dead. She hates being this callous, but she's been going on for far too long to let this end like this.

By then, the trio had disappeared down the concrete platform.

"Hmph." Lihua simply floated off out of the way of the blast. There wasn't much she could do - and she understood that. She knew that the two brats didn't understand that the Changelings could violently end their lives at a moment's notice... and, honestly, with someone as hard-headed as Shizuka, she knew there was no point in arguing. For now, regroup with RAVEN and set off the bombs.

It was already difficult not to gasp while falling down from a great height - what's more, with the combined weight of three teenagers, they were falling quite fast - and Haruka almost wanted to curse at his twin's insanity. How the hell are they going to break their fall---

When the gray sky before him was suddenly replaced with total darkness.

Wait, what? Before Haruka could comprehend if he was still alive or dead, the storm clouds were back into his field of vision.

Next to him, Shizuka had already sat up. He let out a whistle and laughed, "Sorry - should have warned you guys, but that would take out the fun..."

"Dammit Shizu!" Haruka sat bolt upright and glowered at his twin. "You call that 'fun'? That was scary as hell!" He then looked over Shizuka at Jennifer, hoping that she was alright. "What was that for?"

"Well, seems like the bomb is stuck inside her deeper than I thought..." Shizuka muttered, followed his brother's gaze to the blonde. "I had to be sure. For now whatever those Changeling bastards do the bomb's not gonna set off, but we still need to get it out ASAP."

"Just like that?" Jennifer said, honestly astonished that Shizuka was able to turn the bomb off. She looked down at her midsection, and felt the damn thing bulging out of her stomach. "T-Thank you..." This should at least buy her some time.

"I'm guessing it's a simple, battery-powered type operated via remote control," Shizuka replied to Jennifer offhandedly. "They won't use a timer - If I were them it makes more sense to blow up immediately when I hit the button." He then noticed how she's staring down at her own middle. So the bomb is indeed in her gut...bingo. "My power should've killed the battery, but to be on the safe side, stay with me at all times. I won't let you die...not on my watch."

"But how are we going to get out of here?" Haruka shook his head. "RAVEN has forsaken us! They won't do anything to help us---"

"Shut up and let me think." Shizuka got up to his feet and looked around. They had fallen into one of the dark alleyways - and thankfully nobody had noticed them so far, all too busy with their own battles. "Those agents ain't too far up ahead. Let's go...and show those scaredy cats who's the real boss here." He smirked to himself as the trio started running.
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