Playdate

Chapter 12: Uneasy Regrouping

Warning this chapter or ones after it may contain sensitive subjects if your triggers include anything to do with feelings of helplessness or being abused have a nice day.

The fire was out but the city was riled up by the mess it caused, Yao was stabilized luckily and the white-haired female was able to be by her. Yao's eyes were still closed, most of her body was damaged, and some bones were broken and had to be put in casts as well as put back together surgically before that yet she still was kicking...she was proud of her. She was unable to go see Levi which made her ultimately worried about his situation.
The TV was on, she stared at it with a soft glance as close-ups of certain people were taken by citizens. Their faces looked just as bruised as hers before she cleaned it and they all seem bewildered. It seemed as if they weren't possible offenders, only three pictures were taken and only three people were within the picture.
"An eye witness saw these people and provided us these pictures, they also have seen one of the protecting the others before they ran off yet..." They zoomed into the picture of Amaya looking straight into the camera.
"The faces look the same, have the Death Squad remerged?" The newsperson asked the officer.
"With the provided evidence I say so, as not so long ago a SWAT truck was ransacked only three out of the nine surviving some with mortal wounds that will last a lifetime.." he paused "We have gotten no pictures of the possible people who could have done it, but with everything that is happening we can only point fingers at the Death Squad. Even so, we need more evidence."
"More evidence? More? You already saw three of them in the street sheriff Sanyo." The reporter said shocked.
"Well.... pointing fingers without the proper evidence would seem lazy," Sanyo said as the reporter looked at them with the most judgemental face. The white-haired female laughed a bit, it was probably the first time he laughed ever since the stuff started to happen, at this point all she could say to make her feel better is that this is some big mission like Deku had to do in his time.

And it was going to be epic.

The time was 4:40 pm, Chieko and Ryusei have been moving about the city for hours taking the backstreets to get to where they needed to go even though the police still were there searching for things since Logan didn't give enough information before his friend had to leave. They were soon found by Akane who saw Ryusei and went to go hug him tightly, they were basically in a big circle of hug knowing they all needed it right now.
"I can only pick up one person at a time," Akane said looking around and then at Chieko "Can you get home alone? Ryusei needs attention." Akane said with a nothing but calm sigh to Chieko as he wiped his face and groaned a bit.
"Please...make sure he stays alright." His voice seemed broken Akane wasn't surprised that his voice sounded the way it did and soon left him Ryusei was in his arms, he had so many questions about what happened to him. Chieko followed Akane from below, the commotion with the helicopters and the many people were still around the burnt building and now Amaya's dead body as it was scooped up to be disposed of.
Brandon was alone within the base, he looked at Ilan with a wide smile.
"Ilan, I know you are awake. Did that poor Dove beat you up? What a shame..." he said genuinely as Ilan hissed moving around angrily.
"Speak. I know you can. Reminding me of something I already know, you freak." He growled as Ilan spat at him taking in a deep breath soon after. Brandon gagged a bit wiping the spit from his face. "Fine." He noticed he sounded like a child at this point and looked to Jack who was starring at the ceiling their eyes darting around quickly before getting up and looking at Brandon.
"Pix-" Jack tried to say before Brandon shouted.
"I'm not pixel! You mine as well go back on your poison trip" he said sternly making Jacks' face scrunch up before he jumped up to go get some food for himself, he disregarded the fact he was out for an hour or two. He had stumbled a bit while walking into the kitchen seeing a broken chair and another one on the counter he looked back at Brandon bewildered.
"Don't worry about it," Brandon assured as Jack placed a chair back in place.
Akane once again came back, Chieko wasn't too far behind but he was winded and fell into a kneeling position at the door.
"Jack?" Akane said looking at the couch he had placed him on confused since he had already walked past the kitchen where he was.
"Yes?" Jack said sticking his head out while smiling largely making Akane turn around as Ryusei walked to the couch on his own but painfully unable to move any of his arms that well. Akane stared at him then averted his eyes, at least he seemed mostly okay.
"Do you have tweezers?" He sighed his mood lightened by his smile.
"Yup!" He answered looking at his arm and shaking it till it fell out. They both looked at the floor quietly as something else fell out as well, the atmosphere seemed...very awkward.
"What is that...?" Akane said looking at him in the eye as Jack picked it up quickly and put it back in his arm.
"Nothing!" He started to sweat before storming into his room making the room quiet for the next few minutes before Ryusei broke the silence.
"What was that?" He clearly didn't know what they were starring at or what caused the silence in the first place, Akane shook his head before picking up the tweezers and going to Ryusei.

Kaito opened his eyes, his skin felt better than it could have been before but where was he? He heard beeping, it went to the thump of his heartbeat. He turned his head slowly to a man before looking back at him.
"Good, you're awake." They said as he blinked slowly raising his hand to touch his neck, the collar was gone. Kaito tried to get up, it hurt a little bit to but not as bad as it was to move at all after the initial incident.
"Lay back, your burns are still actively healing." They said making him grumble under his breath
"You don't tell me what to do." He said with a scrunched-up face towards the person "Who are you anyway huh?" He spat as the other stayed calm.
"I am Shariff Sanyo." He introduced showing Kaito his badge before showing him a picture "Is this you?" He showed him the same picture that was on the news that he had not seen.
"No," Kaito said looking at him in the eye making Sanyos eyes squint a bit with an unamused look.
"Do you have a twin? That has obtained the same wounds at the same time? Do you happen to be here with the same 2nd-degree burns as you do? Am I in the wrong room? Hm?" Sanyo went on the sarcasm very evident in each word.
"Alright alright! It's me you annoying mosquito." He growled in annoyance "I'd rather die than tell you anything Sanyo! I know what you want!" He yelled before coughing, Sanyo gave him water seemingly not alarmed nor discouraged by his remarks.
"I just came to visit you," Sanyo said Kaito shook his head.
"Look Sanyo. You don't fool me you are wasting your time." Kaito said drinking the water and laying down again.
"You know, your friends well- family can easily get the death sentence you know," Sanyo said making Kaito growl and roll his eyes.
"Mine as well Sanyo," Kaito said making Sanyo raise an eyebrow at him almost surprised at his unacknowledgement of death. "Well. Have a good day." He said tipping his hat.
Kaito stared at his window, the sky was clear right now but he knew something would happen after his recovery.
Everyone was at the base. they looked at Ilan together, before Ryusei stood up with his sword at hand. He gave his brother the sword and glanced at him silently as Ilan started to panic struggling in the tight ropes as Chieko stepped hard on his tail causing him to yell out, the snake within his device lashed out striking Akane in his cheek and making him drop the sword. He couldn't get the snake off and his face bled as he tried to pull it off. Chieko pushed Ilan onto the floor stomping him in the back of the head and knocking more teeth out.
"Stop retaliating! We've gone through enough! Just die!" He wined continuing to stomp him unmercifully letting out his anger and grief on him, he wasn't focused on the painful bite Akane was taking and when he got him out of his cheek he had a lesion. He couldn't be angry even that hurt now, he left the room quickly in a rush yelling in pain before it lowered into a deep groan...and Brandon just watched.
Ilan yelled out with each stomp, his voice sounded like loud hisses but it cracked with pain. His tail couldn't trip or hurt something that was way over his head like this, his hands were tied down, feet straightened, and he had no idea what was initially coming... helplessness was setting in.