Makina flew through a concrete wall, falling into the tenth floor of an office building through a shattered window. Gripping a nearby pillar, Makina pulled herself up from the floor of the slanted tower. She wiped the blood from her mouth, groaning in pain as her wounds healed. Looking out the window she catapulted through, Makina caught a glimpse of Matoi's approaching shadow.
"You're trying to kill me," Matoi stated as she stepped into the building, "aren't you?" Makina gripped her weapon tighter and aimed it at Matoi, prompting her to continue. "Killing me will only postpone the problem, but that's been your solution to everything."
"It's you," Makina proclaimed, her voice trembling in fury, "you're the reason Division-A went to shit! Hetsu would still be alive! Kiku, Asuka, Miki- they'd all be alive if you hadn't done what you did!" Makina's body began shaking from the anger. "The only way... to atone for your actions..."
"...is to die," Matoi finished. She lifted her arm up, pointing her mechanical gun to the ceiling and pulling the trigger. Hundreds of layers of concrete piled atop Makina as Matoi leapt from the building, fleeing. "I'm sorry, Makina... I have people to protect too..."
"You're dead!!!" Makina blasted through the mound of rubble and forced her blade into Matoi's back, penetrating the jetpack and slicing her core.
The Omegas began falling to the ground, smoke and debris flying past them. In a last ditch attempt to save herself, Matoi screamed at the top of her lungs. Suddenly, Matoi's power materialized into an explosive sonic boom, forcing Makina off her back and blasting her into the sky. Matoi dropped to the streets, crumbling the roads beneath her, creating a pit that trapped countless fleeing civilians.
The sky lit up into bright red as Makina's jetpack busted at the seems. She bolted down towards Matoi and threw herself onto her, generating a massive explosion that rattled the area for miles. Dust and smoke spun around them, and the bridged highway they landed on collapsed beneath them. As the dust cloud settled, Matoi looked down, seeing the hundreds of civilians dead from the explosion. She watched as the blood of the people around her trickled down the mountain of concrete into a pool surrounding her.
The Southwest District was in the process of being demolished. The high-rise railroads had collapsed, the gas lines were uprooted, the buildings were leveled, cars were piled atop one another, and the roads had shattered like glass. The sound of raging fire and cries for help filled the air as Hideyo and the others darted through the remains of a tourist center.
The four stopped in the middle of an intersection, looking around, puzzled. Hideyo wandered around for a street sign, not knowledgeable of the area. The thumping of Compactor's feet echoed in the distance as she searched, the groups anxiety growing with every approaching step. Hideyo knelt down and pulled a green sign out from the pile of rubble. Wiping the dust, she read the street name.
"We're getting close," Hideyo said.
"How much further do we have to go?" Yukino asked, stumbling amongst the destruction.
Hideyo tilted her head to the left, ushering them to the metropolitan area of the district that's stacked with wild Compactors. "The broadcasting station is a little under a mile from here."
Sakagami lifted her hand to her face in shock. "You're serious? We have to go through that...?"
"Not exactly," Hideyo claimed, glancing forward to a specific pile on the ground. "There's a subway system below us. It should get us closer to the station without the Compactors getting in the way. The trains aren't running so we'll have to walk, if it isn't blocked off that is."
Akino, not willing to wait any longer, climbed towards the pile Hideyo gestured towards. He lifted up a chunk of sheet rock and pushed it to the side, exposing a steep staircase littered with pollution. The lights inside the subway had shattered, giving way to a looming abyss that taunted their entrance. He waved the others in, prompting Yukino and Sakagami to cautiously begin their trek down the stairwell. Before Akino followed behind them, Hideyo stuck her arm out and stopped him.
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Division-A
Action"Humanity is a figment of imagination." 100 years ago, humanity flocked to a makeshift island due to an event that threatened to massacre everything in its path. Now, in present day, Akino has nightmares about an event that nearly killed him and his...
