Mastermind in Kivotos (Blue Archive X Payday)

Ch 12. Devil's Crossroads, Part 5

MASTERMIND IN KIVOTOS CH 12, Devil's Crossroads, Part 5: Escape

1:56PM Gehenna Standard Time, Beezle Street & Styx Street South intersection.

The sounds of helicopter blades cutting through air soon become deafening as a blue helicopter hovers overhead.

Iori: WHAT THE HELL!

Bain: (Yelling) This is it people! The Final Push!

In Universe BGM: Payday 2 OST - 41. Utter Chaos (Assault)

With that announcement from Iori, Utter Chaos soon broke loose with bullets flying from all sides from both the Prefects and Gourmet Research Society. The landing zone was way too hot for the helicopter flying above the intersection to land at.

Aru: PICK US UP PLEASE!

Plover: (Coms) The streets are way too hectic! I-I can't land without getting hit!

Bain: (Coms) I know, I know! Problem Solver, get to the roof of the apartment building and we'll pick up there! Be sure to get into cover, it's practically an all out war down there!

As the blue helicopter began moving above the apartment block, the fixer crew began dashing out from the cafe as a grenade took out the recently conscious Kurokame Gang boss back into unconsciousness. Racing to get into the building with bullets whizzing past while explosions from mortar rounds and 40mm grenades erupting around them. They had to get through a wall of Prefect Team members huddled in the Eastern side of Beezle Street, but not for long.

Stopping on a Dime and ready for some Crime, Aru raised her marksman rifle up with a single hand towards the eastern prefect company with a smirk and hard-boiled aura around her. With a *BANG!* a crimson tracer round flew directly into the front end of the Coyote armored vehicle behind them, which many of the Prefect members turned towards the hissing light embedded in the grill.

*KA-BOOOOM!*

An explosive shockwave erupted from the hissing light, rocking the truck and sending dust and ash into the air. The blast took out the prefects closest to the truck while knocking the ones further away down, providing a useful distraction as the problem solvers ran into the apartment building.

Iori: Gah!?! So they want a Death-Wish Huh!?! Prefect Squad Two and Three, stay behind to keep the Gourmets contained while backup gets here. Squad One, come with me to stop those damn Problem Causers from escaping!

Prefect Member: S-Should I try to shoot down the helicopter?

Iori: No, if it isn't attacking us, we don't need to shoot it down. I don't want the President and Ako giving another Damn lecture on "Not endangering the populace with a helicopter crashing", Now let's go!

Despite the apartment being three stories, the stairs were agonizing to climb up from some of their members' mounting injuries and cash bags on their backs as they raced up the stairs. Upon reaching the second floor, the fixer crew heard the sound of several boots climbing the stairs behind them, forcing Mutsuki deploy her last trio of landmines to slow them down as they raced to the top. When their shoes hit the third floor, a sudden explosion below them shook the building alongside pained groans of Prefects, which Mutsuki snickered at their misfortune. Pushing through a push door at the top of the final stair, Aru is met with a blast of wind and the sky before her as boots stomp up the stairs behind them.