Akame Ga Kill - Split The Earth In Two, Quake

Chapter Eight: The Infiltration

After explaining the situation to Akame and the others, Akame slams her hands down on the kitchen table and shouts, "How could this happen!?" Mine glances over at Lubbock and asks, "Did she realize he was a member of Night Raid?" Minazuki shakes his head no and says, "I'm afraid it might be worse than that." "Minazuki?", they all ask with curious looks. "I might've been seeing things, but I could've swore I saw Esdeath say 'From now on, you'll be my lover' after putting the collar around Tatsumi's neck.", Minazuki says with a slightly worried look. "I'm not sure what'd be worse, being tortured by Esdeath or being forced into being her lover.", Leone says jokingly with a slight grin on her face. "Are you certain?", Akame asks with a cold glare. Minazuki nods his head and says, "That's what I saw, I'm certain." "Then Tatsumi's not in any serious danger then, right? For the moment, he's just livin it up in the palace with Esdeath.", Lubbock says with a slightly jealous look on his face. "Actually, if Tatsumi is persistant enough, he might even be able to convince Esdeath to join our cause. That is, if she's that entranced by Tatsumi and willing to follow the advice I gave her about love.", Minazuki says as he starts to think about the possibility. "Like that'll ever happen. In case you forgot, Esdeath is the most sadistic monster this Empire has ever produced. There's no way she'd ever join the Revolutionary Army!", Mine says mockingly with her arms crossed. Minazuki sighs and says, "Perhaps, but the possibility is there, though the chances of this actually happening are slim to none." "So, what should we do, acting Boss?", Leone asks her. Akame's lost in thought as she mutters Tatsumi's name to herself. Mine quickly brings her back to reality by bluntly saying, "Don't say something stupid like 'Let's go get him back' or something, Akame. You do realize that the palace is not only filled with soldiers, but all kinds of traps to keep assassins out, right? Breaking in there at the best of times would be basically impossible, even for us. Besides, Tatsumi's true identity may not 've been discovered in the first place." For a moment, Akame is silent as she closes her eyes and thinks of what they should do next. "First, we should move our base further into the mountains.", Akame says as she looks down at the table. "Good plan, this place may be discovered.", Leone says with a nod. "So...What about Tatsumi? I know rescuing him may be impossible, but still...", Lubbock says with a slightly worried look before Akame lets out a sigh. "I know that we lack the means and manpower to rush in head first after him, but still, Tatsumi is part of our family! So we will do whatever we can to bring him back alive!!!", Akame shouts inspirationally, trying to reach Najenda levels, but just barely missing her mark. "You're crazy! We can't just go in and take him right from Esdeath's clutches!", Mine shouts rejecting Akame's idea. "Well, I might have an idea.", Minazuki says as sits down in one of the wooden chairs at the table. "And what's that exactly?", Sheele asks. "Well, if Esdeath has actually taken Tatsumi as her lover, his life isn't in any real danger. Realistically speaking, he should be relatively safe as long as she doesn't know what he really does. But Esdeath now leads the newly formed task force, Jaeger. From my understanding of Esdeath's personality, she won't just abandon her responsibility to play love birds with Tatsumi. She'll likely take him along with her like a pet on their missions and training sessions.", Minazuki starts to explain. "So if we just figure out where the Jaeger guys are going, we'll likely find Tatsumi there with them?", Lubbock asks with a hint of skepticism. Minazuki nods and says, "When they leave the palace, we'll have a possibility of an opening showing itself. And if Esdeath happens to leave Tatsumi alone with just one of the Jaeger members or if we're really luck just by himself, we could rescue him and bring him back to the base undetected." "And who do you think would just be able to waltz in there and take Tatsumi exactly? It's not like he can just sneak out the window and escape or anything.", Mine refutes. "Well, it's possible I could sneak in. Esdeath thinks she knows me and she'd likely accept another visit from me if she thought it meant she'd get a better understanding of her feelings.", Minazuki suggests. "Are you sure? That sounds pretty dangerous.", Sheele says with a worried look on her face. "I'd be our best bet for infiltrating their ranks and getting Tatsumi out of there alive and undetected.", Minazuki says with a shrug. "No way, that's way too dangerous! I say we follow them and wait for Tatsumi to find an opening and try to make a break for it. Tatsumi might still be a bit green, but he's smart enough to get himself out of this pinch, right Akame?", Leone says to her with a slight glare. Akame looks up to Minazuki with a cold glance and asks, "Do you truly think you can pull it off undetected?" Minazuki puts on his mask and says, "They won't even know what happened until it's too late and we're long gone." "Fine, then that's our plan for getting Tatsumi back, but first we need to figure out their future movements. Leone, Minazuki, you two head back into the Capital and see what you can find out about Jaegers' upcoming missions and movements. While you're doing that, I'll watch the Northern exit from the Capital incase they leave through there. Lubbock, you'll handle the Eastern exit. Mine, the Southern exit. And Sheele the Western exit. Any questions?", Akame says before looking around the room. "I'm still against this. Tatsumi will be fine. We just have to wait it out and he'll find some way back.", Mine says with her arms crossed. "Let's just hope that in the meantime, they don't somehow turn Tatsumi to their side and have him actually join the Empire. I'd rather not fight the Incursio armor he has, even if he's still inexperienced with it.", Minazuki says causing everyone to think about the possibility that Tatsumi might turn on them. "Tatsumi wouldn't do that. He's a loyal member of our team. He'd never betray our trust.", Akame says as she looks back down at the table, avoiding eye contact with everyone. With that said, everyone heads out on their missions, armed with their Imperial Arms and the desire to bring back their dear friend, Tatsumi.