Chapter 4: Badass Bust-Out
"Huh. For a cell, this is oddly nice." Robert commented, rapidly touring the "Couple Cell". Simple walls, 4-Inch ballistic glass windows, a Double-Bed, a pair of private restrooms...
"Not like the file's any use here." Mitori tapped the glass.
"You mean this?"
Robert showed a fresh new, metal file.
"Nice, but the iron's a bit cold..."
"This is iron? I thought it was more... Nickelish."
"Not the point..."
"Oh. Well, it could work on the glass, right? With enough hits from a weapon, bam!"
Robert suddenly swung the file at the window.
Tink!
All that did was lightly scratch the window.
"Okay... This is gonna need some more swings!"
Robert started repeatedly hitting the glass with his file. Some lighter Tangs and Plings could be heard.
"I think I've nearly got it...!"
Defying all odds, the file just shattered like glass, with shards falling to the floor.
Robert, panicked, asked Mitori "Did I get any in my eye? I feel something in my eye! Agh! I'm blind!"
Mitori is only able to sigh, before grabbing Robert, and rubbing his eye to remove a short red strand of hair.
"Oh... Thanks..."
Robert's face was red in what Mitori assumed was embarrassment at his own outburst.
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After what felt like an eon, the "Skeld" had finally seemed to enter a stable orbit.
"Attention, Crewmates, we are now in stable orbit around Polus. We will land once the research base's landing pad is completely set."
"Ugh... That felt like it took weeks..." Shiro groaned, stretching a bit. "And whoever's staring, I can see you."
Shiro heard someone yell, and then the sound of footsteps thudding against the floor of iron and steel could be heard.
"Huh. I was mostly joking, but okay." The Angel Girl internally commented, before heading across the ship. "So long as nothing stupid distracts me, this should run smooth as-"
"Everybody's heard, about the Bird! Bird bird bird, B-B-Bird is the word"
"F-ck..." The Halo-Bearing Killer grunted.
"Hey, Flake! Remember this one?"
"How could I not...?"
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Smack! Toong!
"Almost broke through!"
Robert outright charged at the window, attempting to break it with brute force.
"Robert, there's one crack, and that was from the file. You're not making a dent."
"Well, I am definitely gonna... need some force." Robert grinned as his pupils glowed and his hand blackened.
"Don't!"
Mitori quickly smacked Robert in the cheek, causing the changes to fade out.
"Ow..."
"Robert, you know you're not allowed to use your Parasite, and I'm sure as hell not risking exposing the Company's secret either."
"Damn it. You got a hairpin?"
"Nope? You got knowledge on how to pick a lock?"
"..."
"..."
"Nope. I'm used to using my gun to shoot down locks."
"Well, by now, they've probably sent it out to some local police armory. Your gun is being used by some newbie who can't hit a giant cereal box from a yard away."
"Damn. It's a good one too. All of those failsafes, the self emerging scope, and now some jerk gets to use it Scot free."
"Wanna say that last part again, bud?"
Click
Some guard heard Robert, and held both at gunpoint, with the black-and-red gun of the redhead himself.
"F-ck. Let's hope those failsafes kick in and save us."
"What?"
"Robert!"
"Hold on, what failsafes are you on about?"
"The backfiring one."
"One sec. I gotta see this!"
The officer pulled the trigger, only for the gun to not fire, much to his annoyance. "Damn jams!"
He repeatedly pulled the trigger, but only got clicks.
"The hell isn't this working for-"
Bang!
A bullet flew out, towards Mitori. But it was quickly intercepted by a large, black, red-veined, clawed hand.
"Don't lay a bullet on her."
The cop's skin was white as fresh paper, and Mitori could barely see his pupils.
"Ehhh- Uhhh- Take it! Take it! Just don't slash me, bro!"
The cop threw it in Robert's face, and ran away.
"Yeah, get outta here!"
The paranomalities on Robert's body faded out, and he picked up his iconic gun.
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"Attention, this is your pilot speaking. We are gonna be in orbit for a bit longer than planned. Landing Pad was declared off limits to all workers today..."
"Well damn." The Knife-Wielding Angel muttered. "The managers here are lazy."
"...Until the on-site janitor robots can clean up the mashed potatoes ALL OVER THE PLACE!"
"That- I- How the f-ck does that make more sense...?" Shiro rubbed her temples.
Bzzzt
The vibrant overhead lights flicker and buzz, before turning off entirely. Shiro's halo was the only light now.
"You don't need to make a dramatic entrance, Ben."
A red glowing dot forms from the wall, and a familiar figure in Shiro's eyes emerged. Black all over, from his hair, to his skin looking like polished obsidian, to the tuxedo, there was almost no other color, save for the single visible red eye, his white shirt and red tie.
"Will you stop muntzing around, Shiro?! We're on duty, and you've only got three kills. Do you even remember the plans you had with Mitori and Robert?"
"Yeah, yeah, we need the-"
"Not out loud. I just needed a yes or a no."
"I remember what we're supposed to be doing. It's just a bad time to start... Y'know?"
The Angelic Impostor pulled out an amber knife, slashing a lead pipe in half.
"We can't actually do anything but bide time right now." Shiro explained. "It's a dumb idea to start dwindling the numbers down now, and you KNOW why. Especially after that mission two years ago."
"..."
"..."
"We should have make the agreement to never speak of that again. But I am not here for dialogue, but for action. There's some pair of pests we have to handle."
"Oh, yeah. The guys who made that lead-loaded drink. I swear, the boss is purposely denying my requests to put them on the hit lists-"
"No. There is a pair of nuisances running across the ship."
"Oh yeah... Them."
"Handle them. And do it well."
"Say what?"
"Kill them."
"Oh. Why did you word it like that?"
"Does that matter?"
"Yes, yes it does. Besides, all I've seen em do is walk around and vocalize to each other."
"They are not part of the crew. We can safely dispose of them."
"I feel like it's worse to get them out. If we get rid of a persistent annoyance, people will be more suspicious."
"And that suspicion will be aimless. They will be sent spiraling into disarray, and we can kill unseen. We have a job here, so do it."
"Alright then."
She pulled out her amber knife, heading out the door.
"If this goes south, I'm blaming you."
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Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Robert was relentlessly shooting the window. It was cracking, but the bullets didn't go through all the way.
"Robert."
Bang! Bang! Bang!
"Robert!!!"
"Huh?"
He stopped shooting.
"Maybe instead of wasting ammo on the damn window, you can shoot the lock?"
"... Oh yeaah..."
He shot the door right in its knob, causing it to swing open, and knock the guard out.
"Hey, Whaddya think of that, Mitori?"
"I think we should go before that jerk wakes up."
She grabs Robert by the wrist, and runs outta the couple's cell.
Mitori could be heard muttering "Maps... Maps... Goddamn it, there should be some sort of guidance outta here!"
"Whoop Whoop! That's the sound of da Police! Whoop Whoop! That's the sound of da Beat!"
"I hate this song..." The Jade Assassin groaned.
"This is my jam!" Robert yelled out. "WHOOP! WHOOP!"
Several officers, armed with Riot Shields and Assault Rifles, were shown charging, stopping to yell "Whoop Whoop!" Every time that part of the chorus came up.
"Is this song THAT catchy?!" Mitori yelled at Robert.
"YES!"
"Rrrghhhh-! Give me that!"
Mitori snagged the gun from Robert, and opened fire, knocking a few riot shields out of the hands of the crowd of cops. Sadly, their luck just about ran out at that point, as she wasted the last bullet on a missed shot at a cop's face.
"Dammit!!" Mitori yelled out. Her face could match Robert's hair at this point.
"Mitori? You good?"
What followed was a streamline of curses and obscenities that made the cops freeze up in shock.
"Holy hell, I think I learned the other 6 sailor words." One commented.
"Mitori, calm down. Your face is starting to look a bit... Purple? Or is that black?"
Robert wasn't wrong. But he also missed the purple glow in Mitori's left pupil, and the green forming on her hand.
"Stay back, Robert! I am sick and tired of having to be the Little Miss Role Model for our coworkers. I'm getting us outta here, and I don't give a damn if we get fired anymore!!"
Mitori's skin went black, her pupils glowed green, and a pair of tendrils emerged from her back.
"Holy sh-t, a demon!!" One cop freaked out, and tried running. All it took was a tendril through the stomach to stop him.
"Dibs!" Robert was quick to claim the cop's assault rifle. "Oooh, this is a good model."
Bang!
A shotgun shell made its way into the rifle, rendering it nonfunctional.
"Hey, who-?"
"You two?! Damn this state's lack of a death penalty!"
The shining head of the warden glared down the red headed gunslinger.
"In all my time here, a captured couple has never warranted this many officers. You and that Stringbean are the ANTICHRIST!!" The Warden was visibly at the end of his rope with Robert and Mitori.
While the outraged official yelled, Robert took the bullets from several dropped pistols, and shoved them into his own gun.
"And you... Belong on Jack@$$!" Robert delivered his own one-liner in return, before shooting the warden in the knee.
"Someone get the phooo-"
Mitori had beaten the last officer to death, and exited her partially transformed state, sighing.
"That's all of them..." Mitori groaned.
"Thank god... So... Where's the exit?"
"Well, given that we've both broken protocol..."
"Yeah..."
"And we're likely to be fired if the bosses find out you nearly assumed your Parasite Form against orders..."
"Right..."
"We may as well make our own way out."
"Hell yeah!"
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Boom!
"Thank god we found some explosives." The Gunman commented.
"Yeah, I'm glad we didn't need our Parasite Forms to break out again." The Jade Assassin slumped over a bit. "I'm a bit burned out from using half of mine."
Robert looked around, before seeing an armored truck.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" He asked.
"You're thinking?" Mitori jabbed.
"Heeey..."
The two hopped in, and Robert peeled outta there, with a brick on the accelerator.
"Freedom!!"
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