chapter 40: mission 1 search and destroy

[itami,hikimi,mitsu and the international team head to headquarters to get their badges]

Itami: Once we get to headquarters we will get your badges and then we'll get your first mission ready.

Mitsu: what are we going to do with leo?.

[itami smiles]

Itami: you'll see.

Mitsu: ok.

[itami shoots leo]

[everyone looks at itami in shock]

Mitsu: how could you do something like that?.

Itami: he was no use for the team, plus he was annoying.

Hikimi: Now we have three international members.

Toby: Ok captain obvious, now what was that for?.

Itami: he would have been a compromise to the team, plus we wouldn't have been able to take him on any missions because of him being so loud and he has a risk of endangering us.

Mitsu: It's understandable, but why kill him?.

Itami: his government told me that if i didn't have any use for him to kill him because they were planning on executing him anyways.

Mitsu: oh ok.

[itami,hikimi,mitsu and the international team arrive at headquarters]

Itami: Now, anymore questions.

Toby: What do you want us to do with the body?.

[itami smiles]

Itami: I'll get someone to clean it up, first we need to get everyone their badges.

Toby: ok.

[itami,hikimi,mitsu and the international team walk down the hallway]

Itami: ok let's go to my office, mitsu and hikimi wait in the training room.

Mitsu: ok.

[mitsu and hikimi walk down the hallway to the training room]

Itami: [sigh] now we need to talk.

[itami hands the international team their badges]

Itami: hikimi isn't who she seems, she is actually a saviours strand that has a second consciousness.

Toby: So you want to kill her too?.

Itami: no, because she is the only one who can stop yadara.

Porthos: and how is that?.

Itami: yadara won't hurt his sister he will break down at the sight of her being alive and then we can take him down.

Alina: So you're using yadaras dead sister to capture him?.

Itami: pretty much.

Alina: I think you should let me build a bond with him and once the time is right to kill him.

Itami: That's a good idea but what yadara has done to this city he should suffer.

Toby: Well whatever the circumstances are we should take him down at all costs right?.

Itami: I suppose so.

Toby: Good, let me get the other two badges and I'll go to the training room to give them to hikimi and mitsu.

Itami: But we still need to discuss the mission.

[toby holds his hand out]

Toby: You told us Mitsu is our captain, and Mitsu told us at the meeting that she wanted me and hikimi to scout out some strand hotspots.

Itami: [sigh] you hold a good head on your shoulders, don't forget i'll kill you once you become useless to me.

[itami gives toby the badges and toby smiles]

Toby: I know you won't kill me, because once you kill me you don't have a direct shot to yadara.

[itami looks at toby surprised]

Itami: what?.

[toby walks down the hallway to the training room]

Toby: figure it out.

[itami walks to his office]

Itami: He's right, if I kill him we won't have anyone on our team to take yadara down.

Itami: I mean hikimi is pretty much a sacrifice to break yadara down. That's why I got a sniper on the team to kill both of them in one shot.

[toby arrives at the training room]

Toby: Well girls, I got your badges.

[mitsu looks at toby surprised]

Mitsu: how did you get these?.

Toby: oh, I had to tell the captain off.

Hikimi: why would you tell him off?.

Toby: because he's ruthless to people who are here to clean up for him.

Hikimi: what do you mean?.

[mitsu looks at toby surprised]

Mitsu: who is cleaning for him?.

Toby: You know exactly who I'm talking about.

Mitsu: who are you talking about?.

Toby: you know.

[toby points at hikimi]

Toby: She is.

[hikimi looks at toby surprised]

Hikimi: what do you mean?.

Mitsu: it's nothing, now you two will be going to these strand hotspots.

[toby looks at mitsu surprised after she hands him the paper]

Mitsu: Now I'm counting on you two to do good.

Hikimi: We will.

[toby and hikimi leave headquarters and walk down the street]

Toby: [sigh] I can't believe these people.

[hikimi looks at toby surprised]

Hikimi: what do you mean?.

Toby: It's nothing.

[toby looks at the map]

Toby: this map says that there is a strand hotspot at an abandoned office building not too far from here.

Hikimi: ok, we'll go there first.

[after sometime toby and hikimi arrive at the abandoned office building]

Hikimi: Well, let's go inside.

Toby: ok.

[toby turns on his flashlight]

Toby: This place feels so empty.

[hikimi sees someone in front of them]

Hikimi: wait here.

[toby looks at hikimi surprised]

Toby: what?.

[hikimi runs and cuts the strand user's head off]

Hikimi: That's one.

Toby: Now where are the others?.

Hikimi: they're most likely on top of us.

[hikimi uses her oppressors strand to blow the rest of the building to pieces]

Toby: I guess you were right.

[toby thinking to himself]

Toby: I've never heard of a saviours strand using their past strand, usually they have a new strand.

Toby: I guess she really isn't who she seems but it doesn't mean i can't get to know more about her.

[hikimi smiles]

Hikimi: that's 104 strand users.

[toby looks at hikimi surprised]

Toby: You're pretty strong huh?.

Hikimi: yes i train everyday so i dont fail on my missions.

Toby: You know training doesn't help you not fail, it's your mindset.

Hikimi: I know.

Hikimi: where is the next hotspot?.

Toby: um.

[toby looks at the map]

Toby: It's at a house not too far from here too.

Hikimi: ok.

[yadara gets the scent of narimo]

Yadara: narimo?.

Yadara: It can't be she's been dead for ten years.

[yadara looks out the window]

[yadara smiles]

Yadara: it has to be her, she's the only one i know that has an oppressors strand.

[yadara leaves the building with his mask on]

Yadara: [sigh] well it won't hurt to go see if it's actually her.

[yadara jumps building to building and stops once he sees hikimi and toby walking down the street]

Yadara: So this is who has the scent of narimo.

[yadara uses his branch of power to see that narimo is inside hikimi]

Yadara: so narimo is inside her.

Yadara: Well it confirms that she's being used as a saviours strand.

Yadara: I'll keep an eye on this girl for the time being.

[yadara jumps to another building]

Yadara: The thing i don't understand is that, that's narimos body as well.

[yadara laughs]

Yadara: So someone did a surgery to put a second consciousness into narimos body so she wouldn't remember herself.

[yadara looks at the sky]

Yadara: narimo, i will free you from the tourtures that they have you under.

Yadara: The time will come soon enough.

chapter 41 january 25th