Meeting the Reaper. [Completed]

[Yukki Kazuto]

Ten minutes later, I found myself slowly inching my way up an oversized drainpipe. Scarlet was above me, and was working her way up with ease, climbing at a slightly steadier pace than my own. She had the advantage of being around this area for many years longer than I had, and the experience of doing these types of jobs that required avoiding security.

The bag on my back was weighing me down more than I would like. I was curious as to what was inside, but, not curious enough that I would risk opening it. I don’t know how long we had been climbing, nor how much longer we had to go.

I didn’t bother speaking, for I knew Scarlet could not respond with falling to her doom. One of the disadvantages of taking in a mute I suppose. I climbed for what felt like hours without stopping. I looked up every few minutes, and saw Scarlet. I was surprised after looking and not seeing her.

I called out to her. “Scarlet?” My response was a hand popping out of a hole in the wall, which a grabbed. With a little help from myself, she was able to pull me up. We spent a few minutes leaning on the wall to catch our breath. We might be trained killers, but we still get tired.

We got up, and started towards the building that scarlet knew. I didn’t bother asking where it was or who was in it, but I took mental note of where the turns were and in what directions. If it came down to a fight for some reason, I was ready to head back to the pipe and dive.

We came to a building that looked even more run down then the majority of the buildings in this area, which seemed otherwise respectable. I felt a chill run down my spine, and turned to try and find the cause, only to find nothing. I noticed that most of these buildings and the things on them shared a similar blood red color. My black and white bag shined like a beacon compared to these walls.

Scarlet started up to the door, but I put a hand on her shoulder. I quickly slipped into my enhanced senses, scanning the area for life forms. The buildings around us were mostly abandoned with the exception of one person looking out a window of one a little down the street. I felt four life forms inside the building, two on either side of the door, one a few rooms in, and one… under the floor?

I felt the one behind us move, he seemed to grab something, and returned to the window. I gasped, went back to normal vision and yanked Scarlet backwards. A bullet struck the ground near where we had been standing. The door in front of us opened and two guys that looked as if they were more muscle than human came flying out, charging us with metal pipes. I pulled out my pistol and fired into one’s chest twice. He seemed to take it in stride.

The sniper shot my pistol out of my hand, and I watched it go sliding down the street. The two men put the pipes beside my head and then dragged me into the building. I lost track of Scarlet somewhere in the fray.

The dragged me in and sat me down in a chair in front of a desk. The person in the desk spun around slowly, apparently getting their inspiration from every bad Bond villain that has ever been. When they had spun around so I could see them fully, I noticed they did not seem happy.

She rested her chin on her hands and stared at me. “Why are you here?” I stared back at her, not sure if I should be talking to them or not. I slipped into my enhanced senses, and felt two presences underneath me, but only one was moving. “I believe you have something to deliver to me…” I snapped back to reality as my bag was cut off of my back. I kept a flat face and rested my hand inside my jacket on my hip. I started the process of summoning my weapon back, and began praying to Omni that she kept talking.

I watched her motion with her hand to the desk, and watched the contents of the bag I had carried be dumped on the desk. A few pistols with some ammo, but what interested me, and apparently also the woman across from me, was a small silver sphere with a red button on one side. She picked it up with her long fingernails and held it in her hand.

“So… These are the mysterious weapons the Reaper has held over us for so long… Let’s so how they work why don’t we?” She pushed the red button. The orb shot out green lasers in every direction. One landed on the henchman that I had shot earlier, and more specifically, the blood that was on his shirt. The orb flew out of the woman’s hand, and began chasing the henchman. He screamed and ran out of the room.

I watched in amazement as the orb followed him through the building, always gaining on him. I heard an explosion a few seconds later from what sounded like the street. The woman gave off a small smile. “These can be programmed to hunt down any color and explode when it finds it. Using this…” Her smile widened as she pulled out a small box. She scanned an orb with the box, and then scanned my shirt.

She gave me a smile that looked as if it should be reserved for a lover. “I suggest you start running.” 

She clicked the button.