C8: Death's Door

Everyone scattered on the bottom floor to get ready for their roles.

By now, most Crows, Samurais, and Owls were dead or had escaped from the Urchin Palace. After all, no one wants to get caught by the Cyber Ops.

The game's over then.

Placing three grenades in my belt from the fallen dining trolley, two pistols, and one more round for the Biter, I began to run up the glass stairs to the upper floors. I had to leap at every step because most of that shit was shattered to pieces.

"Everyone, please drop your guns and surrender if you want to get out alive!" One of the Cyber Ops declared, but I didn't want to of course.

I flipped the switch of one bomb and gazed up. I had 10 seconds until it went off. The next three seconds, I ran up the next couple of stairs to the second floor, blasting everyone in the way with my Biter, innocence or Masterminds, didn't matter.

We were already swimming in a pool of blood.

"Hey. Wanna drop the bomb?" Suddenly, a Ghost came at me from behind as if I hadn't seen the invisible motherfucker.

Meg's ultra-ray tracking in my glasses made anything visible to me. Before he could punch me with his electrocuting gloves, I emptied a round of my Biter into his chest.

"Fuck off, loser."

The Ghost fell to his death down the staircase.

I threw the bomb straight towards the new skylight that was created in the roof, and –

BOOM!

All the Cyber Ops entering the palace from the ropes fell from the topmost floor to the very bottom. I sprinted out of the staircase and into a hallway that was filled with dead bodies as the smoke and the tension created by the bomb helped me to cover my tracks.

"Meg, give me access to that room right there!" I declared as I slid my room card into the door in front of me.

[There!]

The door slid open, and I quickly barged in. It was a security room filled with broken cameras with hardly any light inside. Everyone inside was already dead. No beating heart was caught by Meg's ultra-scanning.

"Hm, take the room's system out, Meg," I ordered before I took off my mask.

All the security cameras were fucked in a second, taking the entire room under Meg's control. "Break all the security cams. And everything should –"

Before I could finish my words, I saw one of the security guard's dead hands trying to reach for a button. I slapped away that hand and that was a mega surprise.

"It was a trap," I assured myself, gazing at the control panel.

A missile was set to launch into this very palace by pushing this single button, that could have killed off everyone inside the building in an instant. Which could've taken out all of us — but no. This unlucky bastard had died before pushing the button.

"Perfect."

[Perfect.]

Both Meg and I muttered at the same time. I didn't have to tell Meg what to do now. She already knew.

[In how many minutes, Kim?]

"Just need ten," I replied with a smirk.

My nano-suit which came with my mask had disappeared. I was in my white suit now, ready to run off to the cops like some innocent rich guy. No guns, no pistols, no shark mask.

"Hey, Boss Shark."

The moment I heard the voice, I instantly turned around and picked up my gun that I had dropped on the floor. I was unmasked, and someone was seeing my face right in front of me.

Standing in front of me was a masked individual. He had a metal mask shaped like some sort of hound and a dark suit that clearly had no armor in it. However, he was not your usual human.

A dark smoke rose from his body like he was out of this world.

"What the fuck are you…? A demon prince? A vampire?"

The altered voice let out a chuckle. "Nah, wrong. I'm a human, just like you – and maybe a little Vampire? Who knows?" He shrugged as if this was a joke.

[Kim, I can't see who the hell he is. I don't know how he escaped my detectors!]

"Well, whatever you are, you die here –" Before I could finish, the clue came into my head. Hound-shaped mask, dark suit, and black smoke arising from the body?

"You're the Dark Fox."

"Precisely," the Fox smiled, sliding his hands into his pockets. "And I am the one who's going to be the world's greatest mastermind… after you die."

"After I die? Not in a million years, rat. And – you cut my friend. Think I'll let you live after that?"

"God, why can't we just be friends, huh –"

I pulled the trigger, emptying a round of bullets into this motherfucker. To my utmost surprise, it didn't even scratch the bastard.

I narrowed my eyes.

"Haha… see, bullets don't hurt me."

I pulled down my sunglasses right that instant. When my glasses were lowered – there was no one there in that room, except for me.

"A virtual image. How much of a pussy are you? I'm glad though. I didn't wanna flash my beautiful face to a cunt like you." I shook my head, pushing my sunglasses back.

"I get why they call you the greatest now. But you see – you're not the only one who's smart. I have Yami." A dark cloud formed behind the virtual image of the Dark Fox, and two arms of a lady hung around his neck.

It was a sort of woman-like creature made out of dark clouds. I guess that was Yami, Japanese for "Darkness."

[Kim! Don't worry!] Meg's reassuring voice came to me again. [That's just a virtual image, created by the effect of that AI. They cannot see your face. The only power they have over my system is putting an image there.]

"I know, I know, Meg," I replied to her, throwing down the gun in my hand.

The dark AI woman's hands seductively ran across the Dark Fox's chest. And as she peeked over from his shoulder, her eyes glinted with a green spark.

Yeah, that proved it. He got Juno before I did.

"See this? This here, my Lady Darkness… She's the next generation. And you, my friend. Imagine the possibilities that can come to us… if your Meg and my Yami can come together. We can rule the world, literally."

The image of Lyla's neck being cut came into my head right at that moment. Lyla falling to her knees, grabbing her neck as blood exploded from the wound.

"Fuck no… Fox." I gave the answer in an instant. "But remember, you're at Death's door. And I'm walking up the stairs – cause you better hear my steps and fear me. The moment I open that door, you're stepping to the other fucking side."

"Ooo… Goosebumps." The Fox wiggled his arms like the pussy he was.

I walked right through his image, not giving a shit. As I scanned my card and stepped out of that door, he screamed at me.

"SHARK! You're gonna regret this! Remember my fucking name! 'Cause you're gonna fucking regret this you MOTHERFUCKER!"

I took off my glasses, and hung them on my shirt. I took off the smug look on my face and wore an expression of a pussy.

With my hands in the air, I ran out of the hallways.

"Officer! Please! Help me!" I yelled out to the Cyber Ops. All of the ones coming through the roof turned to me. Gendy, Crowley, and Blondie were all climbing up the ropes already. It was perfectly as planned.

"Grab my hand!" One of the officers yelled. I grabbed his hand and he helped me up to the rope.

The next thing I knew, I was pulled up by the ones we were killing moments ago, and being loaded into a chopper to be sent home safely.

///To be continued///

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