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~ second + final part of the leakira au im writing
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1/09/XX
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hq was on the opposite end of town from petra and henare's hideout. a busted down deserted mechanics warehouse that had been shut down for a decade. akira knew where it was, he just needed to get there.

the g's were still hot on his and leandro's tail. he couldn't shake them like usual, they were persistent. leandro had already taken out half of the fleet, but they kept coming.

the ice cold rain was frigid on their cheeks as akira took a sharp turn down a back road that would lead them to the highway. "if we don't lose them soon, the cops will be after us." he said quickly as he sped up, wheels burning.

leandro pressed himself hard into akira's back as they turned dangerously. "i got it babe, don't worry." he said before he blew on his barrels. the neon blue of his guns lit up before he aimed, closing one eye. he fired, taking out two drones. they sputtered, and went down, adding to the dark gray smoke of the endless smog in the sky.

" eta? " leandro asked his boyfriend. estimated time of arrival? "i've gotta pee."

akira narrowed his eyes behind his goggles. "of course you do." he bit his lip and sped up as they got onto the highway. there were a lot of cars out for so early in the morning. but it wasn't a problem for akira.

he jutted in and out of cars, escaping the traffic recklessly. it was risky and dangerous, but leandro trusted him.

"five minutes. hold tight. we're taking a short cut." akira said calmly before taking a turn off the highway. but not on an exit.

the motorbike flew off the interstate bridge onto a lower back road, that was pitch black due to the lack of buildings. leandro gritted his teeth as they landed hard and skidded through the rain. the drones were no where to be seen.

"think we lost 'em." leandro smirked, flipping his guns on his index fingers. akira laughed as he cut a sharp corner and sped up.

" it's never over until it's over. "

"you're so pessimistic aki." leandro shook his head. and just as the words left his mouth, a large fleet of g's came around the corner, flashing their blood red scanners.

"shit." leandro said.

" what did I say. " akira frowned. they were nearing hq, and akira couldn't jeopardize their location. he'd have to cut a new path and lose the g's before they were safe.

he took them up another interstate, flying up the exit and skimming by cars and trucks that were robotically controlled. akira sped up, feeling the familiar hum of his motorbike get louder.

"the fleet split." leandro notified him. " we got four. "

"where'd the other fleet go?"

" west. "

as the words left leandro's lips, akira was spinning the motorbike around. they headed back to hq. east.

"can you take out the ones we got in the next five minutes?" akira asked his boyfriend, speeding down a darkened road.

" you bet. " leandro said.

"i'm not joking, we can't lead them to the location. you gotta hurry."

leandro's eyes darkened in concentration. "well then. i guess it's good i work well under pressure." and he aimed.

akira smirked as he heard the familiar sputter and crash of the g's behind them. four falling. one by one.

finally, they were alone. leandro leaned back against akira's back, letting their hair mingle. he watched the black sky fly by above them as akira headed for the warehouse.

when they arrived, akira knocked three times on a side door of the warehouse. the motorbike was hidden behind another dumpster, the shocking red energy of its engine turned off.

a rusted slot at the top of the door slid to reveal darkened eyes. "password."

" corruption. "

the password had been made by akira himself. the perfect word to describe the evil of the garrison and the government.

the eyes disappeared briefly as a string of metallic clicks and clangs rang out against the door. never enough locks. the door opened.

"ah, look who it is." the voice came from dante himself. his shaggy hazel hair covered his eyes. " finally showed up. come in. "

he stepped to the side so the boys could enter. they both exhaled at the warmth of the warehouse.

"take off your jackets, they're soaking wet. it's freezing outside."

" oh, we know. " leandro said as he took off akira's jacket for him, and vice versa.

"come on." dante said once their wet jackets were hung to dry on a clothes rack by the door. the warehouse was practically a ginormous metal box. two garage doors on either side, with tables and conveyer belts holding endless gadgets and tech equipment. neon lights lit up the entire building, rainwater dripping from the vaulted ceiling.

sleeping bags and hammocks filled with sleeping motionless bodies littered the room, clumped together. probably a hundred people resting. the army.

hachi stood on the opposite end of the building, leaning over a metal desk with a telecommunications system on it. his long salt and pepper hair was tied into a sloppy bun. he looked up to see who was with his husband.

he smirked. "look who the cat brought in." he said. leandro and akira grinned, clapping him on the back. his new mechanical arm was working well.

"how did you guys know we were coming?"

they all spoke in hushed voices, as to not wake up the sleeping bodies.

"petra and henare called. told us the trouble you two were in." dante said. " sit. " he told them, leading them to a small circle of chairs. leandro and akira sat close.

"yeah, well. no one told us the police force was getting ruthless with their searches. i still can't believe they found us." akira said softly.

"we were going to tell you security and the search forces were upped last night, but we didn't get to. we finally came up with a plan for our next step in outing the government." hachi said.

"what did you have in mind?"

" we realized this society is too closely wrapped around the government's finger. we would never be able to just get them on our side easily, even with evidence. " dante explained.

"but you've made a whole army." leandro said.

" these people aren't enough. and they've all been through painful experiences with this government. the rest of our society will never join. they're too devoted to this facade. "

"so what's the plan?" akira asked.

" to take an alternative route. to beat the garrison at their own race. we find the source of quintessence before they do. "

both boys raised their brows. "how?" they said in usion.

" easy. it surrounds you akira. we went through files from the garrison. your mother was the pilot of the quintessence source that crashed here twenty years ago. that's why she was taken for experimentation when you were so young. " hachi explained. "we also looked into the space craft you brought to life akira. the one that got you noticed and the reason you were captured. that craft only ran on quintessence."

" so...what are you saying? " akira asked, though he already knew.

"your mother was connected to the quintessence source. and you must be too." dante said.

" oh. "

leandro wrapped an arm around akira. "so what do we do?"

hachi crossed his arms. "we are thinking of running a dna test on akira's blood, and any quintessence source we can find. if it's a match, we know akira is connected. from there, we can trace the quintessence back to its origin."

" what source are you going to test? we can't get back into the garrison. " leandro said.

"akira's father. we've contacted him. he still lives where akira was raised, and knows where the space craft crashed. where he met akira's mother." hachi said.

" we are hoping there could be some leftover pieces of the craft the garrison missed. if not, he will let us run through akira's mother's old things. there might be something connecting where she came from. "

"dalia and rex. just say their names." akira said. " they're my parents for God's sake. "

"if this is too sensitive for you akira," dante said. " we don't have to do it. "

akira stood. "no, it's fine. you've worked so hard this far anyways." he said, before turning on his heel. he crossed the warehouse to find an empty sleeping bag.

leandro sighed. "i'll talk to him. thanks for everything." he started after his boyfriend.

" make sure to get some rest. " hachi called after them. then he turned to dante.

"call petra and henare. they're coming with us tomorrow."
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"aki, are you ok?" leandro asked. his boyfriend was already snuggled up in a bag, his goggles, gloves, and combat boots in a pile next to his head. his white locks bristled as he shrugged.

leandro sighed. he pulled up a bag next to his boyfriend before slipping off his t-shirt and shoes. he snuggled up next to akira.

"tell me what's wrong, mi amor."

the sweet name made akira turn. he looked into leandro's eyes and scooted closer to him. he let leandro hold him.

"i don't know what my father will say to me." akira whispered into leandro's bare chest. " i ran away after my mom was captured. just a delinquent on the street before i joined the garrison. i blamed it all on the pain from losing my mother, but i never thought about his pain. he lost the love of his life, and his son at the same time. i know he hates me. "

"he doesn't hate you aki. he wants to see you. this is your chance to make it up to him." he kissed akira's forehead.

akira kissed leandro back, on his chest. "i hope so."

" we've got to rest. lots to do tomorrow. " leandro said.

he watched his boyfriends eyes close. "tienes mi corazon." he whispered his signature quote that he saved for akira, and akira alone. the words that helped akira sleep through the night.

you have my heart.
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morning came quick. leandro and akira woke up to each other. close and warm. they sat up and watched as the bustling bodies rushed for their days jobs. hachi and dante stood talking to petra and henare across the warehouse.

in the day, the warehouse had a whole new aura. the neon lights were gone, instead dusty warm sunlight flowed through the windows near the ceiling. it was cozy but energetic. the boys got up and threw on their clothes.

"where are my guns?" leandro asked, panicking slightly. " i thought i had them-"

"shh, shh." akira said, calming his boyfriend. " with my bike, remember? "

leandro sighed. "oh. okay. my bad, heh."

"get your head in the game." akira smirked, kissing leandro's cheek. " and put a shirt on. girls are looking, and you know i'm the jealous type. "

leandro smirked, turning. "girls? well in that case." he started flexing his muscles, before akira grabbed him.

petra, henare, hachi, and dante watched the couple laugh and kiss each other in the corner of the warehouse.

"they seem...calm." henare said.

" they seem out of it. they need to be more serious about this situation. " dante said, slipping his glasses up on his nose. "someone go get them. we are heading out in ten."

he took hachi by the hand and they left out the back door of the warehouse.

"come on you two, stop playing around." petra said to leandro and akira once they and henare had crossed the warehouse. groups of different sizes started departing the warehouse, everyone splitting up for separate missions.

as akira slipped on his goggles, leandro checked out petra's satchel. it looked like it held something heavy. "what's in there?"

petra patted the bag. "the quintessence detector. the parts you guys brought us last night helped me and henare finish it. we can detect any traces of quintessence and find the origin. it'll help a lot with our mission." they smiled.

" that's a relief. " akira said. "i doubt i'll be helping much today."

"what makes you say that?" henare asked.

" i'm not in the mood. " and with that, he started for hachi and dante.

petra and henare turned to leandro for an explanation.

"he is worried about seeing his dad again."

" oh. " was all they said.

"i'll fix it though. let's just go."

and so they went.
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they rode in two groups. leandro and akira on the motorbike, while petra and henare rode with hachi and dante in their maserati from the garrison. it was black and incredibly fast.

rex lived on the outskirts of the metropolitan area, in a cozy two bedroomed house. he didn't have a garage, so the crew had to hide their vehicles in an abandoned storage rental across the street.

"hello?" hachi called, knocking on the front door of the house. akira stood behind leandro, his heart racing.

it was all flooding back now. he was ten, and his mom was carted off to the garrison. he had known she was different, but didn't know how. it was confusing and he was angry. he had packed his bags and left without saying goodbye.

he hadn't seen his father since.

"oh..hi."

akira glanced up at his father. he had a beard now, a small one, that was graying a little at the tip. his straight hair was longer, framing his ears, and he wore a Coca-Cola t-shirt and faded jeans. plain socks. he looked comfortable and well fed. akira exhaled. he was doing okay then.

"come in, come in." rex said. he shook everyone's hands, with a small smile. polite.

leandro and akira were last. rex stared at them.

he smiled. "akira."

" d-dad. "

neither of them knew what to say. so leandro grinned. "hi, i'm leandro. you can call me leo. akira's boyfriend. nice to meet you, sir."

rex smiled. "you too!" 

leandro turned to akira, who was staring at his feet. he grabbed his boyfriend's hand and rushed him inside.

"so. where do we start? does anyone want refreshments? i made lemonade." rex offered as everyone took a seat. his living room was large, and akira realized he had opened up the second bedroom to make it so. a big couch took up most of the space, and a t.v and some coffee trays. rex didn't have any updated tech or software like the rest of the city.

"i'll take some lemonade." henare said, smiling.

" me too. " leandro and dante said.

rex nodded, and left to get the drinks. everyone waited awkwardly.

"you've gotta talk to him." leandro said to akira. his boyfriend just stared at his hands.

"here you go." rex said, handing out the drinks.

" so. " hachi said when rex sat down. "like we explained, we think we can trace the quintessence origin through akira here, because he shares dalia's blood. but to be sure, we need to run tests between his dna and any analysis we can get on a quintessence source."

rex nodded along, trying to wrap his head around it. "mhm. well, we aren't allowed to go to the crash site because it's off limits by the garrison. but i can show you guys everything dalia left behind. there might be something in there."

" that would be great. " dante said. rex smiled, before standing up and leading them down a hallway past the kitchen, that led to his room.

akira stood there awkwardly as everyone started shuffling around. rex watched in silence as they went through his stuff. petra pulled out their quintessence detector, and began the scan.

"hey, akira. can we talk?"

akira felt his heart stop. it was rex.

"uh, yeah. yeah sure." he said awkwardly. he followed his dad back into the enlarged living room.

they sat down and rex turned to him. "i know you're avoiding me."

akira fidgeted with his gloves. "oh."

" why? i thought now of all times would be great for us to catch up. "

akira nodded. rex was right. "i'm sorry. i know it doesn't make much of a difference now, a decade later, but... i really am sorry for running away when mom got captured. i shouldn't have left you like that. it wasn't fair to you, and i never explained why."

rex smiled. "that's all i needed to hear. thank you." he shifted a little forward. " do you...wanna explain why? "

akira shrugged. "it hurt too much? i don't know. when mom was taken i felt like my life was over. i loved you dad, i still do. but to me, mom was...everything. when she was gone i couldn't do it. and everything here reminded me of her. i had to get away."

rex nodded. "makes sense. she was my everything too you know. well, everything except you."

akira frowned. "i know. i guess sorry doesn't cut it."

" well. i did miss your entire childhood. but, you're here now. thats what counts. "

akira smiled. "thanks."

" FOUND IT! " called petra, their shrill voice cutting the silence like a sharp knife. "what is this..."

akira and rex were in the room soon, and everyone huddled around a small gift box.

"let me see.." rex asked. they handed him the box.

" i found it in her clothes drawer. weird. " petra said.

rex opened the box. it was small and lavender, half the size of his palm, with a black satin ribbon tied around it. he delicately untied it.

he slipped out a tiny card, with microscopic letters. "for akira." he read aloud. " happy 11th birthday. "

akira gulped. "she was taken a week before my birthday."

leandro slipped an arm around akira, pulling him near. "what's in the box?"

rex pulled out a small necklace. silver chain, delicate and fragile. at the end hung a gorgeous crystal flower. it was blood red, with a thousand intricate petals carved into it.

"a dalia." akira and rex said in usion. the reality of the message hit them.

" this is definitely the source of the quintessence. the only one in the room. " petra said.

"this is all her stuff." rex said.

" so this is the only connection back to the origin of the quintessence supply. this crystal came from wherever the quintessence came from. " henare said.

" that's so fucking cool." leandro grinned.

"it's not the only connection." dante said. " akira is still possibly one. " he turned to petra.

"you and henare go sample akira's blood, while I take a sample of the flower."

petra and henare took akira back into the living room, but as they drew his blood and ran tests, all he could think about was the fact that his mother had been going to give him something so special.

the last connection to her home.

"we've got it, dante." henare called, when akira's dna was sampled. hachi brought in the sample of the crystal's dna status, the crystal itself in rex's hands.

petra and henare took both samples, sliding them under little glass templates on petri dishes, inside the large humming black box that had detected quintessence earlier. They leaned in close and pressed buttons, and turned knobs. everyone waited anxiously.

"how do we know they're the same?" leandro asked what everyone was wondering.

" this light here? " henare said, pointing to a green dot. "it's a detector for the crystal. if it matches the color of the detector for akira's blood, over here." he pointed to another dot that wasn't lit up. " then they're the same. "

everyone waited for the dot to glow. akira suddenly felt the pressure on himself. he had to be connected. he'd be devastated if he wasn't.

and finally it glowed.

green.

"yessirrr!" leandro called, fist bumping the air and kissing akira proudly.

" it's a match. " even petra was grinning.

rex clapped. "so what's next? now we know for sure that the crystal came from dalia's quintessence supply, and that akira has the same connection."

dante spoke up. "now we need to find the origin of the source. of all the sources, the crystal, akira and dalia's bloodline, the space craft.. wherever any of them lead, is the origin."

" so petra and henare illegally created a device that can find that origin point vaguely. not exact, but vaguely. it's better than the garrison has created, and since the space craft didn't have enough dna to trace anyway, we are much farther ahead than they will ever be. " hachi said proudly.

petra and henare nodded, rotating the device around. now, it held open a large slot, and a screen faced everyone. it was a diagram. a coordinated grid of the universe. it blinked blue.

"how did you map out the universe?" leandro asked in awe.

henare laughed. "it's already been done, or what the human race has discovered. we just got our hands on it from some helpers in the revolution army, and bam! hooked it up to this baby."

petra smirked. "lets see where this came from.." they slid the crystal and akira's blood sample into the device's slot.

the device started to shake and beep like a printer. it hummed loud, and the diagram glitched before finally a neon dot showed up.

"there it goes..." rex said. everyone watched closely as the dot blinked in and out of sight.

" that's earth. " petra said, pointing out a small circle at the bottom of the screen. "seems like the origin of quintessence is... the fuck??"

henare gasped. "it's on an entirely different astro plane."

leandro shook his head. "what is that?!"

" like another layer of reality, dimension, kind of. " petra started, frantically scribbling on a notepad. "we always envisioned it to be true, but this...this is real proof!!"

" how does this device even handle that much content? " hachi asked.

"i told you. i programmed it to find the region of the source anywhere. any dimension. i can plot it here. it'll take some math and research though to find whatever planet the origin is. give me and henare a second."

the two put their heads together, literally. speaking in fast, hushed voices, and typing frantically into petra's laptop. scribbling, and ranting.

everyone waited, and finally, the two stood.

"the source of the quintessence is on a multidimensional planet named altea. but their are sources showing up in another region too, daibazaal. another multidimensional." petra said.

"we've just never heard of these before?!" rex asked, confused.

" the human race has never gotten this far into the universe. me and petra's theory is, since these are both multidimensional planets with the only quintessence sources in the universe, they're either working together, a really powerful force, or they're against each other, which would be very, very dangerous for us. " henare said.

rex sat down. "god, this is...a lot."

" yes. but we've achieved what we came for. we have made a major breakthrough in the human knowledge as we know it, and we are a step ahead of the garrison. this will help the revolution army dethrone our corrupted government once and for all. " dante said.

"and we have you to thank." hachi said to rex. " we will make sure you get a high honor when a revolution dawns for our new day and age. "

rex smiled. "that's...reassuring."

dante got a notification on his phone. " sector five is back at hq with intel on the garrison's telecommunications system. " he said to hachi. "we need to head back."

" well, i'll let you all leave. " rex said, "don't start a war with these uh, multi directional planets or whatever."

" dimensional. " petra corrected with a smile. "thank you for everything rex."

" thanks, man. we really appreciate you. " henare said with a grin.

"thank you." hachi and dante said again.

leandro gave rex a big hug. "i'm planning on marrying your son." he whispered in rex's ear, which caused rex to laugh. " so thanks in advance for that. "

when everyone had left for the storage unit, akira finally went up to his dad.

"you leave me and come back like this? saving the world. i'm impressed." rex laughed.

akira smiled. "i'll save the world for you, dad. and i know i can't make up for all the years we've lost but i promise i'll be back. until then, here."

he passed the dalia to his father, but it wasn't blood red anymore.

it was black.

"i guess the quintessence does run in the family." akira smiled. " it changed colors when i held it. "

rex grinned and hugged his son. "come back. please."

" i promise. nothing will stop me. "

"well then." rex let him go. " go save the world for me. "

akira grinned. "i love you dad."

rex nodded. "love you too. son."

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