Summoned

No more hand holding

"Clear!..."

"...Oh, for crab's sake...did you really have to shout it out loud?" I dart my head around before turning to look at Kohta while he was peeking inside the communications room, the MP5 in his hands...If you're wondering what happened to the AR-10...well let's just say that Asami looked...funny right now...and from the way she was holding her big new gun...i'd say that she's rather afraid of it...

"Uhh...sorry...it's just that...i always wanted to say that..." He responds with a meek grin as he turns to me...

"Well, i can't see any them coming from behind...maybe we cleared out the station? Still, don't let your guard down" Saya speaks up right after.

(True, we did kill most of the corpses while coming up here...but still...)

"In either case, we should check inside for any information" Takashi points at the open door that led into the communications room.

The group nodded and moved inside...and the first thing everybody noticed was that...

"Everything is off...the equipment here wasn't emp resistant..." Takashi sighs as he looks around, glancing at the computers that stretched across the room in three long rows. With the first row being next to us and the third row being the furthest away, on the other side of the room.

(Not that surprising really...even the army can't fully EMP-proof their installations...the police...really didn't have much of a chance.)

"Hey, that computer is still working..." Alice speaks up as she points at the only functioning screen in the third row and Saya instantly runs towards that computer...

"It's...the J-alert system! It's still working!" Saya shouts the moment she looks at the screen...

(Ok...what's with all the shouting?)

"J-What?" Takashi asks...and Kohta...starts explaining what the J-alert system is with an excited voice...and by excited...i mean loud. But his explanation did cause the group to gather around the working computer...well...other than me and Saeko, i stayed by the first 'row' of desks...Saeko...she...

"How come it's still running?...Did somebody fix a nearby powerplant?" She asks as she pulls a tissue out of the small tissue box that was left on a table in the first row...then walks up to me...and...starts poking my mask with the tissue...

"Uhh...what gives?" I ask in a low tone as i stare at a smiling Saeko...

"Inconceivable!" Saya shouts as she starts to feverishly type on the keyboard.

"You had some blood on your mask..." Saeko responds as she tilts her head slightly.

"And no, i think it's running on backup battery power...it must be on alert mode, that's probably why it lasted so long too" Saya answers as she keeps looking at the screen.

"Ohh, like they have in hospitals" Shizuka responds...

(...Funny how everybody is too busy staring at the screen to even notice Saeko...she...never did do something like this in the manga...did she?...Come to think of it. She does seem a bit more...uhh...how to name it...affectionate?...Compared to how she acted with Takashi...)

Saeko then lowers her hand, walks to a nearby bin and tosses the tissue. And then...silence...the only sound being heard, was that of keyboard buttons being tapped...

A couple of minutes passed like that...with nobody saying a thing...until...

"Do you know what you're doing?" Rei asks while sitting on a table, resting her cheek on her hand.