Descent Into Madness

8, Peak Into Madness.

We had entered the grand, disturbing and beast like ship via its ventilation system and dropped in. The vent made a loud banging noise on the ground when I dropped down so I had to quickly take a kunai out and kill the nearby guards as silently as possible by backstabbing one and then throwing my kunai to the other. Ako and Kor behind me would simply stand back.

"I'm gonna go clear a path, you guys make sure to watch my back here" Kor whispered in a more serious tone than I've ever heard. I watched his hands move in a bizarre way where he had his index finger and thumb together up vertically. Before a white, bright light appeared there and then, he dissappeared along with the light. Afterwards, I saw a sword suddenly being drawn in mid air so I too drew my sword in response until I straight up heard Kor chuckle. "I'm invisible man, its all good. But anyway, I'm gonna head to the hallways down here. They produce a lot of these ships so the layout should be easy to memorise" He'd state before the sword began to float away, indicating his leave.

Me and Ako were left there, simply waiting for the signal to be able to move forward from here.

"Man, this tech looks so stale. Is this an older model?" I whispered over to Ako in slight disgusting after realising the tech here lacked all the neon energy and lights that I knew of. It looked so grey and miserable...and unnervingly dark; there was a lack of any windows like our ship.

"Yeah our ship originally looked the same-" He explained after my remark. "We just modified our one since we needed them. Blacklite may have good tech, but it doesn't look flashy enough and sometimes, the devices don't even function well" He added on. I simply scratched my head in both confusion and slight disappointment. "You'd definitely have high standards for these guys, right?"

"Yeah. What can I say? It's them dang humans" Ako answered nonchalantly. A few moments in the stale darkness would pasa by before we heard what seemed to be footsteps. They were faint at first; as soft as a feather but as they got closer and closer, they got louder. Like a horse's hooves banging on a sheet of metal in rage. "Get in one of those lockers over there!" Ako whispered in a frantic manner. I turned around and actually did see like a whole row of lockers that I missed because they blended in with the monotone colour of the walls. I quickly snatcher the handle of the closest locker, forced my way in and slowly shut the door behind me. What followed then, was a group of armed soldiers with high level weaponry; guns I've never seen before with alien attachments. Their designs all looked a little polygonal and neon at the same time. It was indeed quite intimidating as well since most of their armour and weaponry was coated in crimson red.

Like blood.

Did he die?! Did these guys just kill Kor?! I frantically thought. I was beggining to breathe heavy from the thought, my panic wasn't helping as well. I had to just sit and hold my breath as their guns and torches scanned over the area like unforgiving jaguars hunting down a helpless buck.

I held my breath as my body heated up, my body was out of my reach and I began to lose control of myself. My own instincts were betraying me.
No, no, no, no...he didn't...relax...it was probably someone-

"I heard movement from that over there." One of them suggested as they pointed to my locker. One of the many guards began to approach my locker. I could no longer hold my breath and I began to breathe in and out in rapid motion. My heart was racing faster than I wanted it to, faster than I'd needed to. I saw the guards gloved hand reach for the lockers handle from the outside. Their void like visor gazed into my own frantic eyes.

At this point, I was as good as dead; my breathing was too loud and I was found out already.

I heard a voice next, similar to the one I used to hear in my childhood during times of peril like this. I used to fear whatever that was as much as I feared being tortured like this.

This time, it said...

You are not dying on me now child, take my power and fight back

Whatever voice that was in my head. Whatever that was or whoever it was had comforted me in that moment, for a split second I had hope though nothing really changed.

The door opened.

Then in that split second before their hand could even brush my skin, a white, beaming pearly aura burst from the ground up around me. It was angry and violent, crushing the ground and deforming the locker behind me. I had no time to look at myself in awe so I jolted straight into action, my first move being to make an orb in my hand to throw at someone at an inhumane speed.  It was so quick, I didn't even bother to watch. One down.

I then unseathed The Dawn sword and began deflecting and cutting each and every bullet that'd try and push me down, at the same time slowly making my towards them.

"It's that fugitive! NextGen!" One of them shouted. Shit, shit, shit, now I'm gonna have to kill them all! Ako kicked his locker door down and the door itself would fly into two poor individuals, killing them instantly, I saw him snatch a pistol and he began to fire aimlessly at the people here while I deflected all their bullets. Now our objective had changed. A few more guards my way. And they have riot shields.

Dammit. I ran into them with a rage style spell, channeling my anger into my body in pure, angry flames. When I set the ground beneath these guard alight, they would scream in agony as they watched the fire consume them whole. My attention turned to the heavy unit. Now I knew why they knew who I was. Despite my mask, they had a face detector in their own helmets. This is gonna be my fault if I don't sabotage the ship, they're all gonna kill me. Good thing I'm not outnumbered. Yet. I'd be met with the sound of deadly bullets, punching the air with unthinkable speeds. One scraped my arm and within a fraction of a second, I'd run to cover. Behind the dark corridors of this complex, I'd meet with Ako who was now over here simply catching his breath. We'd somehow managed to go so quickly behind cover that we managed to get some time to catch our breath. Nows also the right time to start planning is what I would say if Ako hadn't asked me:

"How the hell are you a fugitive to them?! The hell kinda crimes did you commit?" He exclaimed in a hushed voice, but still strong enough to sound like he's stressed or angry. I took a deep breath and replied with: "I didn't do jacksh-t and I don't give a flying f-ck about committing crimes alright? I escaped their facilities cuz they wanted my powers and apparently, if you managed to escape them, they'll label you as a fugitive."

Then Ako would nod at me before then inquiring...

"Now...just give me a run down of all of what's happened to you" I looked at him hard for a moment, trying to get a reason for why I should even reveal my past to him. "I won't tell anyone unless I have to, okay?" So I shrugged and let out a scoff before beggining. "I had my planet destroyed by Akuma as you know, but. Before that, I was a slave to these guys for no damn reason and I was forced to do the most messed up stuff ever! I-I can't even explain what I did for survival. Now they're after me because I think they might know I'm gonna kill Akuma. Which is why we need to sabotage this ship." Ako returned a shocked stare. "Sabotage?! Are you out of your mind? Dude!"

It is indeed the only way to keep us alive now the problem with a sabotage is that you need to blow the whole ship to shreds and get back to your own within five minutes which depending on which ship your sabotaging, could go extremely wrong. It could kill him or kill me.

"Now listen, before they send this message and kidnap me to kill me and take my elemental power and my blood for whatever heinous plan, get to the main ship. I can handle all these guys" I advised. "Dude!! What kinda f-ckass plan is that?!" Ako yelled back. "A good one ok?! Tell Kor to evacuate as fast as he can as well; or else we're screwed."

"Dammit NextGen, if we die...its on you."

Dammit. You're gonna live you moron.