Undertaken

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Aleister came back in a while later, glaring daggers at the girl who now had her legs bound to the legs of the chair, as well as some blood trickling down her nose. However, she was sending his glare back. Internally, Mikki was smiling wider than ever at seeing the angel limp just slightly as he strode closer to her. Hey, he deserved it, though! That moron should have tied her down completely to begin with. When Aleister reached her, he grabbed a fistful the hair atop her head, yanking it in a way to make her look up at him. She winced and glared, then spit into his face, earning her a hard slap to the face. Next thing she knew, there was tape over her mouth. Mikki sighed heavily, rolling her eyes.

"Look, wench, if you'd listen to me you'd understand that I took you to save you," Aleister growled, gripping Mikki's chin to force her to look him in the eyes. The American girl huffed a bit through her nose, rolling her eyes again. Aleister backed away. "Don't believe me? You know damn well you aren't from here. This place, this country, this continent, or most of all, this time period," Aleister says, "All this time, I've been trying to get you out of here. To get you back to your original time, country, and home." Mikki tried to speak, but the tape prevented her from doing so. Aleister sighed and brought a finger to his temple. He then smirked and reached out to rip the tape from her mouth, making the girl wince in pain.

"Ever think that I don't want to go back? I've made a life here. There's a man I love, friends I adore. This is a place I'm truly happy in!" she said.

"You may be happy, but you don't belong here," Aleister said, tightening a fist.

"All my life I've never belonged anywhere! What makes this any different?"

"Oh, I don't know... the fact that the future could be horribly messed up by you being here, that's what! I'm trying to save you and your future."

"My future is here!" Aleister sighed heavily and rubbed his temples.

"You just don't understand.. You're too young to.. Too stupid to realize just what could go wrong for the entire world," he said.

"Undertaker has been around long enough. I'm more than sure he would know of something like this, and the dangers it could cause. I'm sure he wouldn't have brought me back if it could horribly re-write the future. He most certainly wouldn't put me in harms way," Mikki says.

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Undertaker ran through what seemed like miles of forestry, nothing on his mind but Mikki. He needed to save her. He needed to kill that damned angel. He needed--

The reaper soon found himself running into something, and when he looked more clearly, he realized it was none other than that demon butler. Undertaker growled.

"What are you doing here, butler? I thought I made it clear I was going to rescue McKenzie. Now get out of my way." He raised his death scythe, but another voice cut in.

"Mr. Undertaker, wait!"

Ronald.

"What do you want?" Undertaker growled, turning to the younger reaper.

"We all want to go rescue Mak, but we need to do it together. There's no doubt Aleister has an army of some sort, so going alone is a certain death wish. You need us to help you. No, wait! Just... listen. She was just kidnapped early this morning. He will be expecting us to instantly come looking for her. He will be ready for us. Just the lot of us won't do. We need more reapers. This... Undertaker, this may even turn into a war. She is partial reaper, and you know as well as I do that we reapers look out for one another. If we get word to William and others, they will surely be more than happy to help. But we can't do this right now. I know you want to, so do I, but we can't. I know you aren't very fond of me, but you have to trust me. McKenzie would want you to."

It took a moment, and Undertaker was looking at Ronald, Sebastian, Grell, and even the three Phantomhive servants. No, he wasn't very fond of Ronald, but.. He had a point. And Mikki would want him to. So..

"All right. But we better hurry this along. If nothing happens by noon, I'm going after her whether you lot come with me or not," Undertaker said. Ronald nodded.

"All right. Let's get going."

~~~

"Will, darling! Did you miss me?" Grell shouted as he, Ronald, Undertaker, Sebastian, Ciel, and the Phantomhive servants entered the dispatch center.

"Sutcliff and Knox, what is this all about? Bringing two demons and three... humans here?" William snapped, clearly not pleased one bit.

"I know it's against the rules to bring humans and demons here, but an even more important rule needs tended to. You remember McKenzie Brunswick, right?" Ronald asked. William sighed and nodded. "Well, there's another angel who goes by the name Aleister Chamber. He kidnapped her this morning."

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"Because she's part reaper, too. The first rule of Grim Reapers is always looking out for each other. It's our code. We need to get her back," Ronald said.

"She's only part reaper. Not full reaper--" William began, but was cut off when a certain scythe was held to his throat.

"She's still reaper. This rule exists longer than I have been around. Now you will help us get her back," Undertaker growled. William glanced down at the scythe, then sighed and used his own scythe to push it away.

"All right, fine. I will speak with the others about this and get back with you in a few hours. For now, I would like for you to take all of those who don't belong and... leave the dispatch center. Don't even dare to try anything, demons," William said before turning on his heel and walking away.

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"Undertaker. Yes. Just think about him," Aleister said. "How do you think he was able to go to the future, anyway?"

"How would I know? Not even you would know that. He doesn't even fully know," McKenzie said.

"Not how like that. I mean how was he able to exist in your world if there was already another 'Undertaker' there? The future one?" Aleister asks casually. McKenzie furrowed her eyebrows.

"I... I don't know. And I'm sure you don't either. So stop with--"

"Oh, no, I know," he said, leaning in close. "You see, it would be impossible for him to continuously travel between time and not cause any damage. Not if there were another one of him in the future."

"But he did-"

"No, he didn't. Yes, he traveled to your time. But he caused no trouble other than bringing you back. Do you know how that is so? And who do you think is the reason..?" It was silent for a while. McKenzie shook her head slightly, eyes widening.

"No. You're lying. You don't know that!" Aleister only chuckled, straightened up, and left the room. McKenzie didn't silence. "NO! YOU CAN'T DO THIS! LEAVE HIM ALONE!"

It hurt, but it made sense. How else could Undertaker do such a thing and not make the universe explode somehow? It were only possible if... If in the near or far future... he were to die...

((A/N: Wow! I personally did NOT think I would get a chapter up today, or this week! But here it is! I do hope you enjoyed! That last bit was what I was really looking forward to... God, I don't know what I'm going to do. You'll just have to wait and find out, I suppose! So sorry! Anyway, I love you all and thank you for reading! See you next time!))