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LightDragonman · 2024-03-25, 02:29

Here we go.

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"I need to see the head of the security station!" A-Drei said as he exited the elevator, not noticing the rather short guard entering it behind him.

"I can't let anyone know that I was initially planning on letting Rukino Saki out should she have answered my question." he thought. "Otherwise, Cain will have my head."

"Sir" the head said, walking right up to him. "is this about interrogation you conducted with the prisoner? No need to worry, the cameras were operating normally throughout the whole thing."

"But did the audio remain on?"

"Why of course it did. What else do you think we have security cameras in those cells. Though no one else but me has seen them, so you don't have to worry-"

"Just let me in to the station already!" A-Drei demanded, the knowledge of everything that was happening making him more agitated by the second.

The guard tried a few more times to get him to leave, but eventually, A-Drei simply forced his way past him and entered the station. He let out a sigh as he saw the Karlstein agent enter.

"You'd better hurry up your rescue pilot. I don't know how much longer it will be before you have her captor breathing down your neck."

Indeed, as A-Drei looked at the security feeds, he noted that something seemed a bit off. He was sure that the last he saw of Rukino Saki, she was being forced back into a body bag by the other guards, so why did it look like she was still unbound.

Confused, he began tinkering with the footage. It still seemed to remain static, only finally returning to the actual feed of her in the body bag after messing with it for several minutes. Looking over at the camera recordings for Floor 4 and 5, the same thing was happening.

"What the hell is going on down there?"

All this was just slowing down his progress to actually get what he needed, but even so, it was all just too distracting for him, as the cameras on Walkit cruisers were usually not known for glitching out.

Finally, he managed to get the feeds back on track. He moved to erase the footage of the meeting he had with Saki, when he noticed something weird happening on Floor 4. Zooming in, he saw a guard he hadn't seen before moving into the connecting tunnel between and Floor 5.

"Odd, I don't recall anyone other than me and those two guards being given access to Floor 5, so whats.....wait!"

As the guard entered Floor 5, he was able to get a closer look at the face of the guard. Immediately, the alarm bells went off in his head as he recognized who exactly it was. It was the same boy that was with L-Elf with he had infiltrated Module 77, and now he was about to enter Rukino Saki's cell.

"Just how the hell did he manage to sneak into this ship?!" he thought, before quickly making his way back out to the elevator. He growled in frustration both when it took a while for the elevator to make its way back to his floor, and again when the screen said the button for Floor 5 was malfunctioning.

Grumbling, and ignoring the attempts by the head of security to stall him by literally throwing him to the side, he practically slammed the one for Floor 4.

"Maybe this guy can give me the answers I need" he thought, readying his sidearm.

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Floor 4 was the one that had a connecting route to Floor 5, which was the prison section. Haruto wasted very little time in trying to find the entrance to said tunnel, but what he saw while making his way there was disturbing to say the least.

Looking inside one of the lab rooms, he noted that the room was glowing with a green light. As whoever was previously in it forgot to lock the door, his curiosity got the better of him, and he couldn't resist going inside.

Haruto gasped at the sight. Just like on the Phantom ship, there were several humans all hooked up to a strange device, Runes being drained out of their heads and into several large capsules. His shock giving way to disgust, he noted a laptop placed on the desk overlooking the experiments, a drive plugged into it.

He went over to the computer, noting the files that it contained. One of which caught his eye, as it revealed more info about the Phantoms. Hoping to at least find the location of one more, he began scrolling through it.

Sadly, he couldn't find anything relating to the locations of the other ships. However, his eyes widened at another piece of data. One that displayed a recording of the Phantom ship on Module 77 being discussed by Amadeus and Barlet. As the conversation went on, Haruto's eyes narrowed.

"So you were working with Dorssia all this time Barlet? I should've known."

Realizing what this data could do for the other survivors, he quickly took the drive before leaving the room.

Eventually, he made it to the connecting tunnel leading to Floor 5. It took him down a narrow descent, but he finally made it to the prison section. The light was dim in the hallway, and it was eerily quiet.

"Is Rukino-san the only one being kept here?" he thought.

As he rounded the corner, he noted yet another security station. Just to make sure that he was correct about the location of Saki, he entered it and began looking through the previous logs, seeing as another drive was plugged into the computer. Sure enough, she was confirmed to be in Cell #1207.

He was just about to head down to it when another file caught his interest, given that it was titled "Experiment Logs." Clicking on to the file, he was horrified at its contents.

Footage of what Saki had been going through was playing in front of his eyes, and he watched mortified as he witnessed her being waterboarded, electrocuted, and vivisected, all while a very clinical voice talked over her screams of agony. Haruto fell to his knees in despair, especially when the mention of his father's notes came into play.

"Rukino-san..." he thought as tears began to form, "...Please forgive me! I should've done more to save you!"

Realizing what else she could be getting subject to should she remain in captivity any while longer, he grabbed the drive, and raced to her cell, remembering the code for it; 0451.

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Once again, Saki found herself bound and constricted in darkness, unable to move or even open her eyes which had been forced shut by the bag that enveloped her. Her mouth was was again gagged, but this time, the only thing being pumped into her mouth was oxygen. The researchers didn't see any need to sedate her this time.

Not that it would've mattered, as she wasn't going anywhere. Tears flowed freely down her eyes, dampening the cloth around her head, and she was at the very least grateful that no one had to see her cry.

"What's going to happen to me now?" she thought. "Module 77 has been purged, and I can't do anything to help. I'm now just a...."

She let out a sob, muffled by the body bag. Indeed, she had been in this sort of situation before, back when she was just a lonely little girl, dealing with an abusive mother and a drunk father. The former would often try to suffocate her under the bedsheets, only stopping after remembering her idol status.

Thinking back to her days as an idol only worsened her grief. She had become one to escape from her parents, and for a while there, she was once again a world-famous star, the rising idol of New-Jior. Yet after her execution, she knew that no one would ever view her as anything but a monster. She could just picture the jeering and insults thrown her way should she ever return.

"Not that anyone would want to come for me. They've all left me to suffer this.......alone."

Alone. The word only brought more despair to Saki's soul. She realized just how alone she truly was now, and she didn't even have the hope of her fans worrying for her now. She truly was used up and discarded by her captors, a plaything to be used by adults, her worst nightmare a reality.

"Why did this all happen to me?" she thought, alone in darkness with nothing but her sadness to accompany her. "Maybe I should just let succumb to all this."

Yet as her tears continued to trickle down her face, she thought back to that one person, that one shining light she still held dear to her.

"My friend is crying right in front of me!" he said, clearly worried about her. "Of course I want to help her!"

"Rukino-san." he said in a soft voice. "You're not alone anymore."

"Haruto..." she thought, remembering the boy who had shown her unconditional kindness for one of the first times in her life, alongside her manager Alice and Aina. The one whom she had fallen for, and the one who she vowed to share his burden with, regardless of his feelings of guilt over what he had done to her thanks to his curse.

Indeed, it was why she didn't answer A-Drei, even with the promise of freedom away from this hell she was trapped in. She had already seen Haruto willingly go through torturous experiments all for the sake of not hurting others like her, and it broke her heart to see him suffer. For him to also go through what she was experiencing...it would be a pain far beyond what she could handle.

"If it means keeping you safe....then I'll endure this for however long it takes.

The image of his boyish face front and center in her mind, she began to drift off into slumber.

Just then however, she heard the muffled sounds of the door to her prison cell opening up, followed soon after by the rapid sound of footsteps approaching.

"Ah, so it must be time for the next experiment" she thought bitterly, trying her hardest to prevent herself from crying again. She swore that she wouldn't show any signs of weakness to her enemies after all.

Strangely, the person seemed to be having a hard time unbinding the straps that held her inside the body bag. Normally, it would only take the guards a few seconds, yet this person was taking double the amount of time. Not that Saki really paid that much attention to it, as she was trying her best to shut it all out.

"....ino...an.......Ru....san....."

She could hear the voice of the man that had come to escort her, yet it seemed far away, given how her head was bound in cloth. Yet as more of her body was freed, the voice become clearer and clearer.

"kino-sa..........Rukin.....san!"

The voice seemed familiar to her, as it was both grief-stricken and worried. Indeed, it sounded so much like him, but how could that be?

"Rukino-san! Rukino-san, are you okay?!"

"That voice" she thought, trying her hardest to not get her hopes up for nothing, yet now that she could hear it clearly with her head now freed... "...Haruto?"

"Rukino-san! Please wake up! Rukino-san!"

As she felt the gag leave her mouth, she slowly opened her eyes. As they adjusted to the light, she could see a face in front of her. Yet the person's features didn't seem to be Dorssian, despite him wearing the uniform.

She blinked a few times, and as the picture came into focus, she was greeted by a most welcome sight. Something that she had only seen in her mind during these past few terrible days. That same boyish face, brown hair, and crystal blue eyes that she had fallen for, now right in front of her.

"...Haruto?" she asked, still not quite believing what she saw, given everything. "....Haruto, is that you?"

Nary a second later, she found herself wrapped up in his arms, his voice shaking as he repeatedly apologized to her.

All she could do at the moment was smile and wrap her arms around his as well, as tears, this time of joy, fell from her amethyst-hued eyes.

"You came for me Haruto....You really came!"

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I'll admit, the circumstances around several of these parts were rather contrived. I'll probably have to edit them.

But I gotta say, the reunion between Haruto and Saki was one scene I was eager to get to. I hope it didn't come across as too sappy, but hey, given everything the latter has gone through, I felt it was only appropriate.

Thoughts?

2024-03-25, 02:29	Link #36
LightDragonman Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2013	Here we go. _____ "I need to see the head of the security station!" A-Drei said as he exited the elevator, not noticing the rather short guard entering it behind him. "I can't let anyone know that I was initially planning on letting Rukino Saki out should she have answered my question." he thought. "Otherwise, Cain will have my head." "Sir" the head said, walking right up to him. "is this about interrogation you conducted with the prisoner? No need to worry, the cameras were operating normally throughout the whole thing." "But did the audio remain on?" "Why of course it did. What else do you think we have security cameras in those cells. Though no one else but me has seen them, so you don't have to worry-" "Just let me in to the station already!" A-Drei demanded, the knowledge of everything that was happening making him more agitated by the second. The guard tried a few more times to get him to leave, but eventually, A-Drei simply forced his way past him and entered the station. He let out a sigh as he saw the Karlstein agent enter. "You'd better hurry up your rescue pilot. I don't know how much longer it will be before you have her captor breathing down your neck." Indeed, as A-Drei looked at the security feeds, he noted that something seemed a bit off. He was sure that the last he saw of Rukino Saki, she was being forced back into a body bag by the other guards, so why did it look like she was still unbound. Confused, he began tinkering with the footage. It still seemed to remain static, only finally returning to the actual feed of her in the body bag after messing with it for several minutes. Looking over at the camera recordings for Floor 4 and 5, the same thing was happening. "What the hell is going on down there?" All this was just slowing down his progress to actually get what he needed, but even so, it was all just too distracting for him, as the cameras on Walkit cruisers were usually not known for glitching out. Finally, he managed to get the feeds back on track. He moved to erase the footage of the meeting he had with Saki, when he noticed something weird happening on Floor 4. Zooming in, he saw a guard he hadn't seen before moving into the connecting tunnel between and Floor 5. "Odd, I don't recall anyone other than me and those two guards being given access to Floor 5, so whats.....wait!" As the guard entered Floor 5, he was able to get a closer look at the face of the guard. Immediately, the alarm bells went off in his head as he recognized who exactly it was. It was the same boy that was with L-Elf with he had infiltrated Module 77, and now he was about to enter Rukino Saki's cell. "Just how the hell did he manage to sneak into this ship?!" he thought, before quickly making his way back out to the elevator. He growled in frustration both when it took a while for the elevator to make its way back to his floor, and again when the screen said the button for Floor 5 was malfunctioning. Grumbling, and ignoring the attempts by the head of security to stall him by literally throwing him to the side, he practically slammed the one for Floor 4. "Maybe this guy can give me the answers I need" he thought, readying his sidearm. _____ Floor 4 was the one that had a connecting route to Floor 5, which was the prison section. Haruto wasted very little time in trying to find the entrance to said tunnel, but what he saw while making his way there was disturbing to say the least. Looking inside one of the lab rooms, he noted that the room was glowing with a green light. As whoever was previously in it forgot to lock the door, his curiosity got the better of him, and he couldn't resist going inside. Haruto gasped at the sight. Just like on the Phantom ship, there were several humans all hooked up to a strange device, Runes being drained out of their heads and into several large capsules. His shock giving way to disgust, he noted a laptop placed on the desk overlooking the experiments, a drive plugged into it. He went over to the computer, noting the files that it contained. One of which caught his eye, as it revealed more info about the Phantoms. Hoping to at least find the location of one more, he began scrolling through it. Sadly, he couldn't find anything relating to the locations of the other ships. However, his eyes widened at another piece of data. One that displayed a recording of the Phantom ship on Module 77 being discussed by Amadeus and Barlet. As the conversation went on, Haruto's eyes narrowed. "So you were working with Dorssia all this time Barlet? I should've known." Realizing what this data could do for the other survivors, he quickly took the drive before leaving the room. Eventually, he made it to the connecting tunnel leading to Floor 5. It took him down a narrow descent, but he finally made it to the prison section. The light was dim in the hallway, and it was eerily quiet. "Is Rukino-san the only one being kept here?" he thought. As he rounded the corner, he noted yet another security station. Just to make sure that he was correct about the location of Saki, he entered it and began looking through the previous logs, seeing as another drive was plugged into the computer. Sure enough, she was confirmed to be in Cell #1207. He was just about to head down to it when another file caught his interest, given that it was titled "Experiment Logs." Clicking on to the file, he was horrified at its contents. Footage of what Saki had been going through was playing in front of his eyes, and he watched mortified as he witnessed her being waterboarded, electrocuted, and vivisected, all while a very clinical voice talked over her screams of agony. Haruto fell to his knees in despair, especially when the mention of his father's notes came into play. "Rukino-san..." he thought as tears began to form, "...Please forgive me! I should've done more to save you!" Realizing what else she could be getting subject to should she remain in captivity any while longer, he grabbed the drive, and raced to her cell, remembering the code for it; 0451. _____ Once again, Saki found herself bound and constricted in darkness, unable to move or even open her eyes which had been forced shut by the bag that enveloped her. Her mouth was was again gagged, but this time, the only thing being pumped into her mouth was oxygen. The researchers didn't see any need to sedate her this time. Not that it would've mattered, as she wasn't going anywhere. Tears flowed freely down her eyes, dampening the cloth around her head, and she was at the very least grateful that no one had to see her cry. "What's going to happen to me now?" she thought. "Module 77 has been purged, and I can't do anything to help. I'm now just a...." She let out a sob, muffled by the body bag. Indeed, she had been in this sort of situation before, back when she was just a lonely little girl, dealing with an abusive mother and a drunk father. The former would often try to suffocate her under the bedsheets, only stopping after remembering her idol status. Thinking back to her days as an idol only worsened her grief. She had become one to escape from her parents, and for a while there, she was once again a world-famous star, the rising idol of New-Jior. Yet after her execution, she knew that no one would ever view her as anything but a monster. She could just picture the jeering and insults thrown her way should she ever return. "Not that anyone would want to come for me. They've all left me to suffer this.......alone." Alone. The word only brought more despair to Saki's soul. She realized just how alone she truly was now, and she didn't even have the hope of her fans worrying for her now. She truly was used up and discarded by her captors, a plaything to be used by adults, her worst nightmare a reality. "Why did this all happen to me?" she thought, alone in darkness with nothing but her sadness to accompany her. "Maybe I should just let succumb to all this." Yet as her tears continued to trickle down her face, she thought back to that one person, that one shining light she still held dear to her. "My friend is crying right in front of me!" he said, clearly worried about her. "Of course I want to help her!" "Rukino-san." he said in a soft voice. "You're not alone anymore." "Haruto..." she thought, remembering the boy who had shown her unconditional kindness for one of the first times in her life, alongside her manager Alice and Aina. The one whom she had fallen for, and the one who she vowed to share his burden with, regardless of his feelings of guilt over what he had done to her thanks to his curse. Indeed, it was why she didn't answer A-Drei, even with the promise of freedom away from this hell she was trapped in. She had already seen Haruto willingly go through torturous experiments all for the sake of not hurting others like her, and it broke her heart to see him suffer. For him to also go through what she was experiencing...it would be a pain far beyond what she could handle. "If it means keeping you safe....then I'll endure this for however long it takes. The image of his boyish face front and center in her mind, she began to drift off into slumber. Just then however, she heard the muffled sounds of the door to her prison cell opening up, followed soon after by the rapid sound of footsteps approaching. "Ah, so it must be time for the next experiment" she thought bitterly, trying her hardest to prevent herself from crying again. She swore that she wouldn't show any signs of weakness to her enemies after all. Strangely, the person seemed to be having a hard time unbinding the straps that held her inside the body bag. Normally, it would only take the guards a few seconds, yet this person was taking double the amount of time. Not that Saki really paid that much attention to it, as she was trying her best to shut it all out. "....ino...an.......Ru....san....." She could hear the voice of the man that had come to escort her, yet it seemed far away, given how her head was bound in cloth. Yet as more of her body was freed, the voice become clearer and clearer. "kino-sa..........Rukin.....san!" The voice seemed familiar to her, as it was both grief-stricken and worried. Indeed, it sounded so much like him, but how could that be? "Rukino-san! Rukino-san, are you okay?!" "That voice" she thought, trying her hardest to not get her hopes up for nothing, yet now that she could hear it clearly with her head now freed... "...Haruto?" "Rukino-san! Please wake up! Rukino-san!" As she felt the gag leave her mouth, she slowly opened her eyes. As they adjusted to the light, she could see a face in front of her. Yet the person's features didn't seem to be Dorssian, despite him wearing the uniform. She blinked a few times, and as the picture came into focus, she was greeted by a most welcome sight. Something that she had only seen in her mind during these past few terrible days. That same boyish face, brown hair, and crystal blue eyes that she had fallen for, now right in front of her. "...Haruto?" she asked, still not quite believing what she saw, given everything. "....Haruto, is that you?" Nary a second later, she found herself wrapped up in his arms, his voice shaking as he repeatedly apologized to her. All she could do at the moment was smile and wrap her arms around his as well, as tears, this time of joy, fell from her amethyst-hued eyes. "You came for me Haruto....You really came!" _____ I'll admit, the circumstances around several of these parts were rather contrived. I'll probably have to edit them. But I gotta say, the reunion between Haruto and Saki was one scene I was eager to get to. I hope it didn't come across as too sappy, but hey, given everything the latter has gone through, I felt it was only appropriate. Thoughts? Last edited by LightDragonman; 2024-03-26 at 02:49.