Dark Knight

Imminent Danger

The next morning, Kevin would be in the factory building in Mississauga, where he's met with many individuals who worked for him under his own faction within the Yubiwa. Kevin was silent and one of the men greeted him.

"Good day, Mister Wei."

"Tonight, we launch our plan to decimate Toronto."

Kevin said.

"Sir, are you sure? What about the one to request us to build? We simply-?

"Simply what?"

Kevin asked, stepping closer to him with a strict demeanour. "I've brought everything we need here, didn't I? I've simply told you to reverse engineer the weapons and energy sources from Nanase Corporations into a smaller form."

"Well, the thing is, not only is it taking too much time, but we've been also running into issues in trying to make them portable and fitting into a battlesuit you wanted us to make."

Kevin laughed at the comment the man made, placing his hand over his shoulder.

"Jerry Li," he spoke his name before he spoke in Mandarin Chinese, since him and Jerry are both Chinese and understood the language very well. "If Rin Nanase could do it, so can you. I don't want to hear anymore excuses, do you understand me?"

Jerry nodded, seemingly frightened by him. "Okay, boss..."

In the late afternoon, Rin would have woke up from his sleep and did his usual routine before going down into the basement, plugging in the USB-C drive in his computer. He would expand the display into an external holographic form, allowing him to interact with the files much more easily. He would begin to research more on what was uploaded in the drive, so that he can find ways to prevent the remaining Yubiwa faction under Kevin from enacting their plans within Toronto city.

Meanwhile, Chizuru would be inside Toronto city, driving with a rental car provided by her insurance since her vehicle was damaged and had to be taken to the repair shop to fix it. Parked in a location she's supposed to go, she made her way walking towards the AERO Tower, one of the tallest buildings in Toronto. Walking inside, she spoke to some of the officials, requesting to take a look at the compound.

"Hey, I'm Chizuru Kawasaki, working under Nanase Corporations. Upon the request by Rin Nanase, we would like you to take a look at this compound and make a curable solution for this."

Chizuru said to one of the higher-ups in the building in the upper floors. The compound that she found in Kevin's files was meant to be exposed across all of Toronto at some time in the future.

"Did something happened that your company needs to request a curable solution?"

"No. It's just in case someone gets exposed to it and we need a way to completely reverse the effects."

"Fine, but since we're not longer in a partnership, your company pays a higher price for this. Are you okay with that?"

"Of course," Chizuru said with a small smile. "Can you also make it in a large container, the same way that your people made with the other compound?"

"Sure. Take note that this will take at least a few hours."

"I can wait," Chizuru said.

As nightfall began to rise, Rin was still busy researching the files in his basement. Suddenly, on television, there was a live news by the reporters about sudden attacks happening throughout Toronto city. Massive explosions were occurring in random parts, along with missiles being fired at random buildings. The bombings would be thrown at groups of civilians, which only exploded into thick clouds of smoke. It was suggested that everyone would evacuate the city. On TV, he would witnessed a dark grey metallic masked individual, soaring across Toronto with a large object behind the masked individual carried behind. A random phone call can be heard from his phone sitting on the table and he picked up the phone, seeing a private caller on the screen again. He ignored it and set it back on the table.

Rin seemed shocked from what he witmissed on TV so he quickly looked back at the holographic files, seeing the same exact figure that Kevin was building, titled "Hallucinator."

Rin would begin to get up from his chair and quickly prepare himself to go out. Shortly, the Dark Knight would be soaring across the night sky, requesting Retro to make a call to Chizuru.

Chizuru would be seated in the top floor, feeling her phone vibrate in her pocket. He took her phone out and answered the call.

"Rin?"

"Chizuru, get out of Toronto. There's an attack going on there."

"I can't," Chizuru said.

"What?! What do you mean you can't?"

"The antidote is already being processed. I can't leave until that's done."

"No, you don't understand. Leave the building and drive away, now!"

"I can't. I'm sorry, Rin. I'll call you back later," she hung up the phone, looking at the progress bar displayed on one of the large microwaves that's constructing the antidote compound inside. She hoped that it would be finished before the building gets compromised.

"Damn it!" Dark Knight yelled out under his mask.

"Sir, according to the live report, multiple civilians are experiencing hallucinations after being exposed to the smoke bombs. It's highly imperative that you don't expose yourself to it for longer periods of time," Retro warned him.

"Let's focus on saving the civilians from those attacking them for how," Dark Knight suggested. "Message everyone in Nanase Tower to evacuate immediately."

All across Toronto, countless civilians were evacuating, causing huge traffic jams throughout the city. Multiple people were injured, some even lost their lives from the explosions and the compound they had inhaled. The masked individuals dressed up resembling the Yubiwa would fire more weapons, some physically attacking them. The compound should it be inhaled would cause them to hallucinate, seeing other people as monstrous creatures and triggering them to feel high amounts of fear, causing them to attack each other out of survival.

As one of the Yubiwa masked individuals was about to launch a missile at a group of people that's already hallucinating and attacking each other, Dark Knight would land behind the individual, firing a repulser beam at him. He then attacked the other masked individual nearby in hand to hand combat. However, the group of civilians began to chase after Dark Knight as he was busy fighting masked individuals, each attacking him. It was a group of ten, surrounding him and Dark Knight had to defend himself without critically injuring them.

Dark Knight would have managed to knock out all five people then he jumped up and soared away before more people arrived to take him down. He would fire multiple repulser beams at other masked individuals nearby along the way they were attacking random civilians, but one civilian who was nearby jumped on him, causing him to tumble over and fell down near a group of people chasing him, to which he had to fight them to defend himself.

Chizuru looked outside through the window and saw all the chaos happening throughout the city. She seemed anxious, but that didn't stop her from doing what she had to do. She witnessed the Hallucinator from a far distance, watching him fire multiple rapid miniature missiles and bombs at random buildings and civilians. Chizuru took a step back slightly, breathing heavily just a bit.

Hallucinator looked up at the AERO Tower. Through his HUD under his helmet, he zoomed in, recognizing the face of Chizuru, and upon recognition, his target was that he had to eliminate her for exposing his plans to Rin Nanase.