Limitless

Chapter 31: Traitor

"Is everyone okay?" Rantaro asked as he stood up from his seat. The other Limitless around him all muttered that they were okay. No one knew what had happened. One minute they were all talking like they weren't on the run to begin with. Then the next there was this violent jerking motion as the train suddenly had slammed the breaks. Rantaro looked over at everyone. Tenko was clutching onto Himiko, presumably to keep the smaller from flying out of her seat, while Himiko looked quite annoyed. Similar with Ryoma and Kirumi, as Kirumi kept the former tennis pro secured in his seat with her webbing. As Kokichi was leaning over Miu and Keebo's seats to tease them, he was slumped over as if he were knocked out. Thankfully, once he lifted his head up, he showed that he was just dazed, not unconscious. Miu was fusing over Keebo's ahoge which had been bent out of shape a little bit. Angie was praying as Kiyo was making sure that his mask was still secure on his face. Gonta's glasses had slipped of from the violent motion of the train, so he was currently on his hands and knees searching for them. Kaede was rubbing her head, showing that she may have hit it after the train had stopped. Rantaro gently got her into a sitting position, checking her over to make sure that she was alright and using his powers to heal her injury. Tsumugi seemed to be okay, fixing her glasses to be on straight.

Gonta smiled as he finally found his glasses under someone's seat. He thought to himself that maybe he should have someone fasten them a bit tighter as to not nearly lose them again. He slipped them back on his face, satisfied as the world seemed less of a blur.

"Does Gonta need new glasses? Gonta could've sworn that more people were on train." He suddenly asked out loud. It was a good job that he did it accidentally. It caught everyone's attention. Everyone stood up and glanced around them. There was no one else in the carriage. It was packed when they first started to leave. Where was everyone? Wanting to find out if there was anyone else still on the train, as soon as Kirumi got her webs off of him, Ryoma jumped from his seat and immediately ran towards the back of the train. In about 10 seconds he started running the opposite directions, almost bowling over Kaito in the process as he started to make his way back towards the group with Shuichi and Maki behind him.

"Everyone okay?" Kaito asked as Ryoma's blurred form disappeared to the front of the train.

"I think so." Rantaro said, finally taking his hands off of Kaede as she was now fully healed. He was about to check everyone else when Ryoma came back.

"Now we have another problem. There's no one else on the train." He announced, looking just as worried as everyone else. "No passengers, staff, even the driver seems to have bailed." As everyone was starting to mutter between themselves as to what was going on, Tsumugi had gotten up and started looking at each of the windows. Kaede noticed that the displayed looked incredibly, almost impossibly, calm despite the situation. She was looking out of the windows as if she were expecting something to come.

"Tsumugi? Are you okay?" Kaede asked, suddenly getting an unnerving feeling.

"I'm fine." Tsumugi smiled. Kaede wasn't sure about that smile. Tsumugi looked like a different person. Meanwhile, Shuichi was looking at the empty seats. He can't understand how a train full of people could suddenly be this empty. He looked up at the ceiling, suddenly spotting some kind of lenses. At first he thought that it was a light that all the seats had for when it got dark. However, he noticed that there was something that looked like a camera behind the glass. Were those hologram projectors of some kind? Someone must have gone into the trouble of closing the stations and possibly gotten some actors to pose as staff while holograms of random people were shown to "get on and off" the train. He suddenly remembered something coming towards the train. Something big. This had been a set up from the beginning.

"We need to get off of this train now! It's been a trap from the beginning!" He shouted, panic laced in his voice.

"No shit, Sherlock!" Miu shouted as she and everyone else started to grab their things. They were getting ready to make a run for it when Tsumugi suddenly started to skip up and down the aisle, laughing to herself.

"Tsumugi...?" Tenko asked, not sure how else to finish her question.

"I think that she hit her head a little too hard." Kokichi said, making a circle motion next to his head. Tsumugi didn't seem to notice as she stopped her little dance, looking at the others with wide and gleeful eyes.

"It's all too late. All the hope that you had will now dissolve into despair." She grinned, reaching into her pocket. She pulled out a tiny square object. It had a blinking red light. It didn't take much for everyone to figure out that it was a tracker, and not one of the ones that Miu had made for the group to use.

"Tsumugi? Please tell me that this is some kind of joke." Kaito said, trying his best not to cause his voice to shake. This couldn't be...it can't be...there's no way that she'd give them all up. Right?

"Why would I joke? Especially when there is so much despair here. Or will be here." Tsumugi giggled. She suddenly took off her glasses and snapped them in half. As she tossed the remains of the accessory aside, her form started to change. Her hair shifted to to ponytails held with two bear hair clips, one white and one black. Her hair also changed colour from blue to a strawberry blonde. Her face looked like that of a super model as it was skilfully decorated with make up and her nails were long and scarlet red. Her clothes changes as well. Everything that was anime related was gone in an instant. She wore a black cardigan over a white dress shirt, the top of a black and red bra being shown as the two top buttons of her shirt were undone, a white tie with a red bow tied to it, a pleated red mini skirt and black boots with heels and red laces. The only thing that remained the same were her blue eyes. This wasn't a girl that anybody recognised.

"Oh! That feels so good to not be such a plain Jane!" Tsumugi smiled, her voice sounding completely different.

"Tsumugi..." Kirumi started.

"Not Tsumugi. God! I got bored of that name a long time ago. I'm surprised that I hadn't snapped of having the name of someone else." The girl moaned, her voice monotone and slow. Not Tsumugi? This wasn't the real Tsumugi? Then what happened to her? Who was this?!

"If you're not Tsumugi, then who the hell are you?" Kaito demanded.

"Oh you stupid idiot! You haven't figured it out. Oh wait! I forgot! The ugly wanna be model bitch couldn't get into Project J.E." The girl grinned, her voice sounding like a cute anime girl character.

"Who are you callin' an ugly wanna be model bitch?!" Miu shrieked.

"You're Project J.E?" Shuichi asked, feeling a chill run through his spine.

"Smarter than you look." The girl laughed. "But you can call me Junko Enoshima." Junko...Enoshima...Project J.E? She was with them the whole time? With her powers, she was the perfect spy.

CRASH!

"RYOMA!"