Aiko POV
Quietly I crept into the iron door to the building inside. The hallway was covered in white tile and dimly lit with a flickering light bulb. I tiptoed my way around. I had lived her for basically my whole life but, not once have I seen this place. I was terrified out of my mind when I heard deep footsteps along the ground. My backed pushed up against a wall, I crept along away from the noise. I found a flight of stairs and ran up. The metal plaque on the wall read Ground Level 1.
I recognized the hallway. Covered in three year old coloring pages. This was the level where the caretakers worked. I remember being here a lot with Miss Lani.
"I don't understand." A voice said and I hid. "I swear Rin must be out of her mind, this is over 500 children!"
Her voice grew faint and I started to wander around. I stumbled upon a familiar bright painted orange door. The door was unlocked. Just as remembered it was like a regular office but had toys and bright colors. Miss Lani surely knew how to take care of children. I heard footsteps and hid behind the file cabinet.
A brunette women dressed in a green shirt and blue jeans entered on the phone. She picked up various files before dropping her pen. Bending to pick it up she goes quiet. Her footsteps become louder towards my direction-
"Ms.Lani! Mahiro had an accident!" A kid yelled
"I-I'm coming."
Once I heard the door lock I bolted for the files. I looked under J, R,even B but the boys names weren't anywhere in the cabinet. I looked over to the computer and clicked on the tab that said Children A-G.
I searched their names individually but nothing came up. So I searched H-Z. Rowdyruff Boys
"Bingo," I smirked. The file I pulled up had three separate documents including pictures of the boys. No medical records, no family records-besides each other-, no anything!
"Brick," I read aloud "hair color red, eye color red, place of birth New Townsville, DOB unknown, blood type undecided."
It went on for pages about all three boys, the only thing information to me were the sections that read "Distinctive Personality Traits." Not wasting time to read it, I printed the documents and stuffed them in my pockets.
I exited the room but collided with someone.
Bunny POV
"Are you okay?" Bubbles asked
"Of course," I faked a smile. After being kidnapped and now on the run from everything, I was fearing for my life, more importantly my sisters'. No Usagi! Shape up, you're a Powerpuff so act like it!
"Honestly Bubbs I'm worried about Blitz, and Brick, and Boom, and well everyone."
"Bubbs," she mumbled "I've always hated that name, it's so stupid."
Miyako was serious. I thought of her serious attitude as a way to cover up she's scared, since BC use to make fun of her. "Usagi-Chan!" She yelled. "We should split up, I'll go look towards the bottom, can you handle it up here?"
"S-Sure." I said as she floated down.
I floated towards the dome cover. I could see the little town we surrounded past the trees. That's when I felt a cool breeze. The dome had barracks on it which I presumed where to keep it in place. But maybe.
I pushed on the first one and the dome piece dropped and bobbed. "No way."
Looking at the storm clouds above, I thought it's going to storm. If storms here are as bad as Townsville's, it'll flood. "Okay Usa, get working!"
Bubbles POV
Finally my feet touch the ground and only thing near me was a bunch of doors.
Bubbles Popper!
Bubbles Champagne!
"Ugghhhh!" I was ready to pull my hair out "Open already, stupid door!" I kept kicking and kicking but only making dents. I even tried kicking the keypad but it only sparked and broke. "Why would I do that?! Only Butch would do something that stupid!!!!"
"Open dammit!" I screamed kicking the door once more. I only noticed there was a small crack from my fit of rage to slip into. I slowly slipped my entire body was then my wand into thee crack.
Of all creepiness this was the creepiest. Old and dark, I started regretting my idea of coming this away. There's no way they would of carried two important capsules through this way. Though- if I'm correct this'll lead me in the right direction.
Besides, how much worse-
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WRONG WRONG wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong- it'll always get worse. No matter how old you are- boy or girl- if you ask how much worse it can get, it'll always get worse!!!
"Get her!"
I was running for my life, heart beating fast, I had fallen few times. That little tunnel, yeah, it lead me to an air duct. Me being the ditzy idiot I am, kept going forward. Now guards have been chasing me!
I turned the corner making sure to be as quiet as possible. The space between me and the guards were great enough for me to try and slip away. I ran faster till I met with a flight of stairs. Wasting no time, I flew up the stairs to make sure the next floor was vacant. Luckily It was.
Aiko POV
I rubbed my head on the collision. "M-Maka?"
A familiar voice called out to me. I recognized it instantly from the earlier call. "When did you get back?" he asked followed by more crazy questions.
I let him get all his questions out before saying anything. "Are you done?" I asked annoyed
"Yeah..."
"No Simon, I'm not staying," I replied just to have a wave a hurt, I tried to ignore flash over his face.
"W-Why?"
"There's nothing here left for me, besides I'm looking for someone."
"I could help you!" he blurted
"Aiko, let me help you." he said
As much as it killed me saying no was like asking someone to rip my heart out and throw it into the trash, after strapping dynamite of course.
"Fine, but Simon, you have to promise me one thing."
"Hmm?" he asked
"Don't go getting yourself in a big mess or worse."
Brick POV
"Okay," Rin called us over to her. We had went down two floors from the giant room, making our way to Jean's lab. We had to reroute our plan after running into the first wave of 'henchmen'. They all seem to be after us- so the name sticks with them.
"If I'm correct we should be nearing the caretakers level. The lab is right around the building from there." Rin informed us.
"Meaning," Blitz spun his hand on his wrist, asking her to continue.
"There's an extra key in Lani's office, I keep it there for safety reasons."
"Right," Buttercup said "Because everything up till now has been completely safe and non- life threatening."
The silence was unnerving. Never knowing what's lurking, I was already one my edge. Worried about myself, my brothers, Momoko. Especially Momoko.
As we walked down the first flight of stairs we came to a hallway. Down there was a plaque the read Ground Level 1, the caretaker's office. Bommer opened the door and we entered a long walk of pop out and neon colors. The final office on the end read Lani Shou. "I'll be back." Rin said going inside. Boomer started going down the list of drawings and smiled every time he found his
Rin returned spinning a silver key round her finger "let's go she pointed to the back door.
