The Last Tower: Iwaku

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Very interesting!.... But Ryker says "I" with "Ah".
 
It almost looked like the crew assembled was ready to go to war. Each of them had on a bullet proof vest, had synchronized watches, and each had a weapon they liked. Jack stepped forward toward the elevator as the numbers were now at the last two minutes. "I don't know what they have planned but we'll need to be inside before the time's up so everyone in one elevator." Everyone, Jack, Kitti, Pirogeth, Miru, Ryker, Torsty, and even Sakura got inside and began their descent to the cbox. The number counted down above and soon the small ding of arrival was made. The doors opened up and they all raced out toward the nearest building. "Good looks like nobody saw us." Jack said now looking at the numbers again. Ten seconds…five, four, three, two, one. For a second nothing happened. That was until the intense pressure could be felt coming from the elevator.

Now Patty and Corvus were on their way back, their memories fully tainted with whatever that weird club of outcasts was. "The Spammers. I never heard of them. You have any idea who they are Patty?"
"Just small stories told to me by Miru. They apparently are the most influential gang in the cbox and have enough people to back a military front. The only problem is, where are they getting these people?" Patty asked not expecting an answer. This was something that was troubling her ever since they had to send Coffee to a jail cell. Who was it that was sending threats to him? Were they the same people in the cloaks that chased her?
"I think we might need to leave this one up to Jack, he does have that arsenal after all."
"Perhaps your right…" Patty drifted off into thought again making Corvus fairly concerned. She hadn't seen her friend act this involved in a case in a long time. Before she could say anything there was a voice from up the road.
"Do you know which way they went? I need to find out!" A man was in front of the Plotess questioning her.
"I told them to go down to the harbor. They seemed to want their questions answered pretty badly." The man, now coming into better view, was a dull yellow haired man with a long face. He was wearing what looked to be a trench coat and underneath his own set of weapons. A lot like how Corvus carried hers.
"Vay!" Corvus exclaimed in glee running to hug him. The man called Vay was surprised to find Corvus running at him in a full on glomp. "I missed you honey."
"You know you shouldn't be wandering outside the tower on your own. What if you got hurt?"
"Oh come on you know I'm a very careful girl." Corvus said tapping her gun again. "And I know who taught me that." As she also found all the areas he was carrying weapons. "Just one question, when did you get such a big gun?" Corvus asked now noticing the UMP-45 attached to his back.
"Managed to snag it from an undergrounder. Right about now they should be realizing it is gone."
"So Vay, you hear anything about a group of people called The Spammers?" Patty asked interrupting their chat.
"No can't say I have. They must be a deep underground group seeing as my sources can't even pin a name on them." The man said. He was part of a secret investigation unit set up in the cbox. His partners included Corvus, Miru, Patty, and their newest recruit Krom.
"I guess we just continue our investi-" An explosion ripped through the air as well as Patty's train of thought. The explosions came from the lower part of the tower and seemed to circle around the whole thing. "Damn it! Jack!" Patty exclaimed taking off toward the Tower.
"Patty wait!" Corvus said chasing after her. Vay was about to follow when he was stopped by the little kid Gaia.
"Here, take this. The Plotess says you'll need it." The kid handed him a small metallic device.
"What is it?" Vay asked.
"You will know when the time comes." The Plotess now retreated back to her house with the children. Vay had no choice but to catch up with the other two.

The smoke was just clearing and several of them were coughing up the dust they were inhaling. "Kit-*cough*-Kitti? Miru? You all alright?" Jack asked seeing them through the smoke.
"Yeah Jack." Kitti responded getting up and helping Miru up as well. Lucky for them they were wearing the body armor as several cuts were already visible on it.
"Where are the rest?" Miru asked looking around. The building they were in was half crumbled to the ground. The front doors were entirely gone and one was even behind the counter. What used to be a café was now nothing short of a blast zone. The wind started to pick up with the newly opened up hole and the street became visible again. Pirogeth had been blasted behind the counters with the door, lucky for him no serious injuries were sustained.
"I swear I'm going to kill the one responsible for this." He said getting up. "News ain't pretty when it's mad." Sakura was behind the counter with Pirogeth but she was there to begin with. She got up and sprang to action almost immediately still keeping an aura of happiness around her.
"We all survived right? Then we should be able to keep moving." Ryker, now approached them, he had been standing during the whole thing.
"Iffin' ya be dun chatin' with yer selves, we can keep on movin'." Everyone grouped around him ready to continue. They did not have far to walk before they would find something. Just down the road at least twenty hooded figures, carrying various caliber weapons, now set their sights on the group.
"Ryker? What should we be doing?" Miru questioned.
"Take Cover!" He shouted as they got behind what wall remained of the café. Bullets were not long to follow. The ricochets off the cement foundation was almost music to Ryker. In fact it invoked something even greater.
"You remember when I said you'll see what powers this thing has?" Pirogeth asked Miru.
"Yeah."
"You are about to find out." Ryker's eyes shook and his face smirked in anticipation.
"Let's roll these bitches!" Ryker now took to complete offense. Picking up his weapons he set his sights on the first of the twenty. In just a second he aimed up and shot dead center. "Headshots make my day."
"Good to have you with us Arsenal." Jack said now taking up his aim. He was dramatically worse at the weapon taking ten more bullets to take out a single target. Both of them ducked behind the concrete again slowly vanishing in the maelstrom of bullets. "We need to find a way out of here."
"There is no way out." Kitti said holding off the back door with Torsty. There were more guys flanking them from that side.
"Well there is one way out." Miru stated thinking over his knowledge of the cbox.
"What is it?" Jack asked now firing back again.
"The water recycling shafts. All the water is filtered into the subfloors. So long as we can see in the dark we should be able to locate one of the hatches "
"That's as good a plan as any. Where is the entrance?" Jack asked reloading.
"Across the street and several buildings down is the biggest one."
"Miru we need you!" Torsty yelled hurling a grenade out the back. They could hear several of them dyeing to the explosion. One dropped dead in the door way as Pirogeth lifted the hood. Underneath was a faceless person and only a name written across the head.
"Jonathan L. Swizdek. So that's why they have so many people." Pirogeth said firing out the door at the next group.
"What is a matter? Do you know him?" Kitti asked hoping to figure out what these things were.
"It is a random name written on the forehead of a faceless man. They have found a way to reactivate the expendable NPC's in Subfloor 3-A."
 
:( I'm a terrible shot...but I swing swords good
 
AWESOME!
 
The stairwell rattled as Patty, Corvus, and Pirogeth ran up the two girls chasing the former GM. Their chase was obviously an exhausting one with Pirogeth nearly worn and the girls trying to catch their breath as they made it just three floors under him. Finally Pirogeth wrestled with a latch and popped open what used to be a manhole cover to the streets of Chicago. Once it opened a whoosh of air blasted through the service shaft and the beats of helicopter blades could be heard. "Honestly where the hell do they get these things?" Patty yelled trying to get her voice past the sounds coming from above. They just managed to crawl out to see Pirogeth ready to hop onto a UH-60 Black Hawk. Patty stole Corvus' gun and aimed it at Pirogeth in what looked to be a fit of misery and rage."Why Pirogeth!? Why would you let them do that to Kitti?"

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"Vay it feels like we've been walking through this sewer for two weeks. When will we get into the tower?" Patty asked as her shoes started to look just like the filthy, muddy ground she was stepping on.
"Thought a detective with your eye should have already noticed, we're in the tower. Why would they still be supplying lights to the sewers outside of town? Besides I'm not the one who lost the key card." Patty could not argue. It must have been swiped from them when they were with Feral and the others. Talking to them was a sewer maze within itself.
"So how far down are we?" Corvus questioned noticing no signs around, at least not any readable ones.
"I'd say we are at something like sub-floor eight. This is pretty low, in fact it is the lowest we can go without having to swim. When the city was sieged the sewers took some major damage and there are flood gates that were ruptured. From what I hear they did not have enough man power to move all the equipment elsewhere so they built it on, what was then, a dry part of Chicago." Vay narrated his voice sounding like a host of a documentary.
"Right and if I remember correctly this is exactly where all the water is collected to be treated." Corvus noted now feeling like part of the conversation. Yet, there was not much to talk about after that, their walk was silent until something disturbed. them. It was several unnatural thunks in the piping along with several muffled voices. They had to be yelling pretty loudly to make it through the metallic walls lining said pipes. Vay quick decided to open up a hatch he spotted a few feet ahead. As he did a hand emerged from the slimy water and gripped onto the side lip of the hatch. First Miru surfaced, then TK, after that was Arsenal, Sakura, Miru, Torsty, Pirogeth, and Jack who looked extremely distraught.
"No! She can't be gone! We got to go back, we got to!" Jack said clawing for hatch again. Before he could get his hands back on the lip Vay closed it with his foot.
"My, I seem to have caught some big ones haven't I?"
"Vay? What are you doing here?" Pirogeth asked.
"I could be asking the same question of you. I'm escorting Patty and Corvus back to safety."
"Afraid you will not make it past the cbox. Everything in and out is being monitored." Torsty said reloading his weapon. "And it is only about to get worse."
"Jack settle down now, we need to move on." TK pleaded with the commissioner.
"What happened?" Patty asked her detective's intuition taking hold.
"We lost Kitti." She replied grappling jack trying to get him back up on his feet.
"Enough of this." One of Ryker's other personalities came out. "Look, if you cannot deal with a lost comorade in a battle situation then just sit back home and let the men fight! We have no time to be dealing with this emotional bullshit. Listen to the Captain, if you have problems deal with them after we tear these guys a new asshole." Road Rage said smashing Jack's gun back into his chest. He was beginning to recuperate as he was able to form sentences calmly.
"I'm sorry, got a little carried away. Just never thought we would lose Kitti like that."
"She is not dead." Miru said trying to comfort the whole group rather than just his commander. "She cannot be. They took her kicking and screaming if they wanted to kill her they would've just done it right?"
"You know you got some good deduction skills there Miru." Patty said with a smile. "I'm sure she is still alive as well with that kind of evidence."
"But where do we go from here?" Vay asked.
"Subfloor 3-A, we must know more about our enemies." Pirogeth suggested. Without a single arguement they were off.

The trip was quiet and calm as expected. The fights had been lost to their miraculous escape. Now the large group was setting their eyes upon a bombing site. The remains were much like the offices of the Administration. "Did not think I'd see something like this so soon." Sakura said holding onto her gun best she could.
"At least we do not have to spend a lot of time here right? I mean we got professional investigators here now. Pirogeth, Patty, Corvus, Jack, Torsty, heck even Vay is here." TK said as she nuzzled up against the wall to take a rest. Her clothes were still sopping wet from the ride down here.
"What do you think Jack?" Pirogeth asked surveying the wreckage. There were several piles of debris gathered up from the clean up. Most of it looked to be parts of some machinery while the rest of it was composed of building material.
"I'm thinking why would they want to bomb someplace they were trying to loot. If I wanted money from the bank I wouldn't blow up the whole bank. And look at the scorch marks, the explosion was set up inside. If I was already in why would I need to blow it up?"
"Perhaps covering my tracks." Corvus suggested. "But even then it would be extreme to use explosives. there must have been something permanent here, something only an explosive could deal with." Each of them pondered on it for a moment.
"Could it be a camera feed?" Pirogeth asked looking around the corners of the room for any kind of busted surveilance.
"No, the subfloors are completely unmonitored because of gangs like these." Jack replied as he brainstormed some more thoughts.
"Was there anything else kept in this room? Perhaps a database of some sort?" Patty asked.
"You know I think there was." Jack looked around the room on foot for a second before finally coming to a stop at a pile of rubbish. "Here it is." He picked up a burnt out memory wafer.
"It is totally fried. But it looks so flimsy. If this was the target couldn't the suspect just break in and smash it?" Patty asked looking at the thing and nearly breaking it as she bent it.
"Actually no, it was in a password protected vault over there." Jack pointed to a hole in the wall that still had remaining parts inside fused to the walls. "Apparently there were only two ways of getting in, staff access or blowing the whole place to hell."
"I see, so if the explosion was not used we would have a limited zone of suspects wouldn't we?" Vay asked very curious about the circumstances.
"What are you getting at hun?" Corvus asked trying to get what Vay was pushing at.
"Well if I were a normal criminal who was intent on covering my tracks AND had a contact within the administration available, wouldn't I get the password from him to save my own skin and try to place the blame on him?"
"Yeah makes sense. Why settle for a lower suspicion rate when you can get off the list entirely?" Patty concluded. "So that begs the question, why were they protecting Coffee?"
"He was there only man on the inside. They sure as heck could not pull off that explosion without him." Torsty said returning from his look around the room. His hands were covered in soot, probably from him rummaging around in the mess. "Either way not all of our questions are going to be answered here."
"Maybe not all of them but we might be able to answer the crucial ones." Pirogeth said.
"Like what?
"Take a look over there," the journalist pointed over to a pile of junk in the corner. They all converged on it and saw a small glittering object. It was a fully intact transmission receiver for all the NPC bots.
"Let me take a look at that." Vay said grabbing hold of the device. He broke out a couple tools he had hidden.
"You'll have to excuse him, he gets jumpy at the site of new toys." Corvus said laughing slightly. Not two seconds after she was done did Vay have the thing spitting out voices; they were all garbeled together, but it was voices none-the-less.
"Just a few adjustments here and I think I can focus the transmission frequency." There was a fuzzy noise, then a high pitched tone, and finally silence.
"Uhh Vayvay-kun, I think you broke it."
"No I didn't see." Vay said showing off his efforts as another voice took over the intercom.
"Attention all NPC bots, report back to the Crimson Overlord for further instructions."

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Awesome!
 
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"The Crimson Overlord huh?" Road Rage muttered. "Is that what he's calling himself nowadays?"
"I don't get it who is the Crimson Overlord?" Corvus asked trying to get a name.
"It would make sense you never heard of him. He rarely comes out of Insanity, heck even the cbox only hears whispers of him. The man is a dangerous crime lord but what he's doing asking for independence of the cbox is beyond me." Torsty mentioned now lost in his own mental notes.
"Well who is it?" Patty asked intrigued as well.
"He has used many names but the one most of us know him by is Paorou. His mad schemes has definitely made him a worthy adversary of the Staff." Jack finished. "There is no doubt that he is the answer to practically everything, how he knew to get a hold of Coffee, how he knew where to place the bombs, even the subfloor information. It all fits if he's involved."
"Is he really that dangerous?" Vay asked nervously darting his eyes to Corvus and Patty who seemed to carry and aura of revenge.
"Yes, however, so long as we carry one more ace up our sleeve we will win. He was never one for on the floor thinking, more of the super villain type that could practically predict everything before it happened." Jack wringed out part of his MPD uniform that had been bugging him and returned to his weapon. "Nothing to do but move on. Vay, could you tell where the signal was coming from?"
"Not direction, but I can tell you we are pretty close. There was barely any noise and I was even getting a very small trace of feedback."
"Wow you can tell that just from that one message?" Sakura asked in amazement.
"When you work with these machines as long as I have, you pick up a few things." Road Rage and Jack took the lead as the group finally exited the remains of 3-A.

"PORG!"
"Ye-yes sir?" The scraggily man tall man thought to be dead from before now scrambled to answer the call of his commander.
"Are the new programs ready for testing?"
"Not yet Overlord. I will have them ready in about twenty more minutes."
"I need them very soon, this temporary crap is quite ineffective. Our detective friend is still alive!" The starship style chair now turned, the silver flashing the ceiling lights into the eyes of his lackey. The black haired asian with a slight frown on his face now gave Porg his full attention. "If by some miracle they do find this place, you will need to have that up and running so I hold the best cards in this poker game. Do you understand me?"
"Yes Overlord."
"Then get to work." He now tripped over himself trying to get back to more of the pods that were shown to Patty earlier. These ones, however, were linked up to a network of computers lining the entire room. The room was lit even more by a large monitor in front of the leader. It displayed everything from his own surveillance footage to the code being edited on the computers in the room. His eyes were on everything and they glowed red in anticipation.

"Pirogeth, take point." A quick nod confirmed his order and he turned the corner gun forward. There was nothing there but more pipes, only difference was the steam shooting out of these ones.
"Clear." He replied to everyone moving on ahead.
"At least this is better than those methane and sulfur pipes we passed." Miru said now coming up along the front of the group. "How much further before we find the source?"
"I don't know, could take minutes, could take hours, could even take a few days to scan properly." Vay replied keeping his eyes open for anything suspicious.
"Hate to be a party pooper but we do not have days, heck I don't even think we have an hour." TK said as her flashlight flickered out on the front of her gun. "Damn thing keeps on going out." She slapped the end of the barrel a few times as Road Rage took notice.
"Make sure your doing that with the safety-" *bang* The bullet whizzed by Jack and ricocheted off a few pipes until finally skittering to a halt up ahead. In a whisper she apologized in her own way. "Oops."
"Be careful with that." Jack whispered back the rest were looking on ahead. The steam was blocking any clear view of the path ahead.
"I'm pretty sure we are still good." Pirogeth said raising his voice up to normal level. "Those NPC's are quick to react. " He moved on through the gas and out of sight again. This time instead of a clear the group got a "Whuh-whoa-AAAHHHH SHHHIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii…"
"Yeah I think we'll be taking more cautious steps now." Torsty said moving through the same tunnel Piro went. "Alright come on but be careful. There is a hole up ahead here." They all moved together and looked down into the dark abyss their comrade fell into.
"Huh…I wonder where he went." Corvus said now pointing the light down.
"Well we cannot be too sure where any of this really goes, only one way to find out though." Vay said latching his gun to his back. He made the jump before anyone could argue. The rest followed with no complaints. The ride down was actually pretty wild. There was a straight vertical drop for what seemed like two stories then they slid on a forty five degree shaft. Each of them were spit out into a lit warehouse.
"Where the hell are we?" Jack asked getting up off the ground. They had landed on top of several old sand bags.
"Well this sign looks nicely maintained." Piro pointed out now rubbing away the dirt. The lights were still on here meaning that they must be in something of a maintenance warehouse. The brown hair moved out of the way to reveal his efforts. The dull metal sign read 'Subfloor 11.'
"Well damn, that puts us under all those floors filled with water. No wonder we could never find him." Torsty commented now looking for a map. The room had several exits and each of them look traveled. "So now what?"
"Our Overlord would like to have a word with you." Came a female voice from one of the hallways. Their guns were immediately pointed toward another cloaked figure. "No need for violence." She said activating what looked to be a security system. Several automated turrets were deployed from the wall and locked onto each of them. "Please drop the heavy weaponry and we can be on our way." Each of them set down their weapons and proceeded. With the situation turning to the way it was Ryker now took full control.
"Best do what she says. Ah dun wanna be die'in today." With confirmation from Ryker everyone felt a little more at ease setting down practically their only means of defense.
"See what I told you about the super villainy type."

"I have them for you Overlord." The woman now faded off to the side as the group was introduced to the back of the chair.
"You have all caused me quite a bit of trouble. But you see, now I am the one in control of the situation and none of you can do anything about it. But I do not like having my guests go un-entertained." The chair spun around and the Asian now looked at each of them with his own eyes.

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Once he got a good look he put on some sunglasses, either it was for effect, or to conceal something.
"Why are you doing this Paorou?" Jack asked.
"Because Jack. I'm sick of doing nothing."
"There has got to be a better reason. You have never been unhappy in your corner of Insanity."
"I do not need to give reasons. When you live here for a long time you start to become insane. And when that happens your enemies become stepping stones, your fears become hatreds, and your associates become lackeys. Porg, are you ready now?"
"Yes Overlord." The man said coming up next to him. Patty obviously was shocked along with Jack.
"How I saw you get shot!" She exclaimed.
"Huh? Oh you mean Porg II. Yes he was a valuable prototype to my research. But he was no longer needed so we used him as a decoy. I'm surprised that he gave you any useful information."
"Patty what are those?" Corvus whispered to her noticing the pods that lined the room. The room itself was circular in design with two exits sitting opposite the large monitor.
"They look like the virtual reality pods when I went to visit Porg…II."
"Alright, alright, enough explaining to them what it was for. We must bring out our guest of honor. If you would please, the prisoner." Paorou motioned to one of the cloaked figures and they dragged out Kitti, unconscious.
"What did you do to her!?" Jack yelled outraged.
"Do not worry, she hasn't succumb to any harm besides self inflicted pain. Now I find that holding this piece will be very helpful to my victory today. I got everyone here who can hand over the cbox to me legally and then I won't have to go through the mess of gunfire."
"Wrong, we need two of the three admins which you blew up." Torsty said.
"How wrong you are Viking. You did not be so naïve as to think the building was my only target. I used that simply as a diversion. The real crime was the kidnapping of all of them. Diana please come forward." The cloaked figure who led them here stepped forward and lifted off her hood. It was true this was Diana. "You see, now I got the official deed papers right here." Paorou pointed out a table in the room with a pen and the stack of papers. "You will already find Asmodeus' signature on it. Now sign it or your friend Kitti here will undergo some major mental changes. Perhaps I'll turn her into a cat." He said and motioned to the guards to bring her closer to one of the pods.
"If it is to save Kitti." Pirogeth said through clenched teeth. Once again he was the first to sign legal documents. The pen scratched against the paper and finally he set aside the utensil. "What about Asmo and Rory? Will you return them too?"
"In due time my friend, in due time."
"Sheesh, practically every movie cliché possible." Corvus muttered to herself.
"Corvus it might be good not to tick off the man in charge." Patty whispered. All the Staff members other than Kitti now put their signature on the important pieces of paper.
"There all of us have done it and we even have witnesses. Now release Kitti." Pirogeth said calmly.
"No, I don't think I will. But you can have this one." He pushed Diana forward and she tripped forward. The clattering of something metal fell across the floor. "Did you not think I knew you were trying to end me?" Pirogeth now stepped forward in front of Diana who was practically fuming with rage.
"Look let's put an end to this now." For some reason Paorou stopped joking around and gave a small smirk.
"Perhaps you are right." He kicked him in the jaw sending him to the floor next to Diana. Jack came over to help him up.
"I'm sorry Jack, but it is the only way."
"What are you talking about yo-" *bang* another loud shot echoed through the room. The first one seemed to last forever, but two more came shortly after the first. Pirogeth pushed Jack over. He had shot him three times in the same spot finally letting one bullet through. His stomach now bled out over his vest as Pirogeth took sides with Paorou.
"Coffee was not the only mole. And you know how I always say, I like to play the villain. Here's my chance Jacky. It has been fun, but for now I think we'll take our victory." Paorou's minions had already taken the papers from the table. The Crimson Overlord himself used a system on the chair to lift it into the ceiling. The only thing left was a pneumatic tube. Patty and Corvus ran for the stairwell as the rest shot the NPC's still left. They all gathered around Jack as Patty was on hot pursuit.

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The stairwell rattled as Patty, Corvus, and Pirogeth ran up the two girls chasing the former GM. Their chase was obviously an exhausting one with Pirogeth nearly worn and the girls trying to catch their breath as they made it just three floors under him. Finally Pirogeth wrestled with a latch and popped open what used to be a manhole cover to the streets of Chicago. Once it opened a whoosh of air blasted through the service shaft and the beats of helicopter blades could be heard. "Honestly where the hell do they get these things?" Patty yelled trying to get her voice past the sounds coming from above. They just managed to crawl out to see Pirogeth ready to hop onto a UH-60 Black Hawk. Patty stole Corvus' gun and aimed it at Pirogeth in what looked to be a fit of misery and rage."Why Pirogeth!? Why would you let them do that to Kitti? Why would you do such a thing to Jack? You bastard WHY!?"
"If you want answers do not look to the big brother, go to the little sister." Pirogeth said getting into the helicopter. They were gone in a matter of seconds. Patty's trembling arms now came to a standstill and she finally took the shot the bullet glancing off a rock in the rubble. After that she dropped to her knees but Corvus was there to support her.
"Come on Patty we need to get Jack to a hospital."
 
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The sound of metal being cut and lifted into place was all that could be heard on the streets near the original bombing sight. Numerous workers from all around the tower were now forging and effort to fix the administration board as Diana and the rest were investigating. Although the truth was revealed to them there was no way any of them could accept it. Even the Miru was shocked by Pirogeth's betrayal and Jack's injury. To their good fortune none of his vital organs were hit and he had been up on his feet within a couple days after surgery. The chief of the MPD was now sitting at his desk analyzing documents strewn all about the area. Patty was the first to walk in on him. "Ah good was just thinking about your report."
"I turned up nothing in the cbox. Miru and I have been looking for a whole month now and not a single person knows anything about the group that attacked. Paorou, Piro, Porg, and Kitty nobody has seen them. We have even went back out into the wasteland and talked to Feral and his group, but they have not had any orders from them since they took off."
"They are just trying to lay low for a bit that is all." Jack replied still studying a written document of transactions.
"But it has been two whole months and nothing. At this rate Diana will have a place to work before we find any trace of them."
"We'll find them!" He raised his voice slightly upset. Patty sat there stunned for a moment until finally she thought of something to ask.
"Is this more than duty for you? Are you out for revenge rather than justice?" The air grew dark with emotion as Jack tried to figure out how to answer that.
"Justice has always been my primary concern. They are a high priority threat and I'm not taking any risks with someone who has connections so high up." Patty could only sigh his tone of voice gave it away.
"You are doing this for revenge. I am sure Piro has his reasons but we need to find him first."
"I do not care what reasons he had. The fact remains that he was inside and not only does that mean he was on their side but if he was on ours he would have rescued Kitty instead of shooting me." Before Patty could make a remark Diana, Miru, and Sakura all stepped in.
"These two have filled me in on what you have found today and just like it has been the last two months no sign of them." The admin said a little annoyed. "They cannot just vanish from the tower or the harbor around it. They need someplace to stay."
"Patty and I checked everywhere nothing to be seen." Miru added.
"And no sign of Piro-kun, Pao-sama, or Porgy on any radio channels. Ryker wanted to stay behind to make sure though." Sakura said with a glimmering smile like always.
"Hey everyone we get anywhere today?" Corvus asked just walking through the door.
"Nothing, like usual." Jack replied in a low voice.
"Come on lighten up man. Not like they could have went too far, there is nowhere to live past the horizon. Too irradiated and not towers to protect them."
"If it was that easy wouldn't we have found them by now?" Patty said making a point. "I think we should all just have our lunch break perhaps we might think of something we haven't searched already."
"Well Vay and I have got a few more things to check, we'll catch up with ya afta'wards." Corvus said starting to walk out the door when something stopped her.
"Wait! I got it." Diana exclaimed.

Splash, splash, splash, each foot step was like music echoing down the halls. The aqua blue tint to the place made it seem more like an aquarium or an indoor pool than anything. The water rippling the suns rays outside the window added that extra feeling to it. Heavy boots kicked up the water that was pooled in the center of the hallway due to low maintenance in the structure. The thick thumb of the individual pushed the button on an elevator in the center of the hallways and lights displayed the floor the machine was on. Counting up from b74 all the way to b2 before the doors slid open. The elevator had the same feel as the hallways and the back end of it was open. It looked out over the clear yet somewhat murky water. Several different types of fish could be swimming about. Floor b74 was then pushed from inside the elevator as the former trusted moderator made his descent. The speaker played a small chime as it reached the floor he wanted. Pirogeth stepped out into a drier and slightly better kept hallway. A sliding door opened at the end of this hallway going to the center of the tower. The next room was dark and was lit with the blue screen s of monitors. "Paorou, you wanted me?"
"Yes, I wanted to let you in on our next plan. Phase 2 is about to begin, however, I need a catalyst to make it happen."
"Surely they are expecting me."
"Not you, there is one other option." The crimson caped man suggested.
"But his existence is-"
"No no no, you think too small my friend. I'm talking about them." The main screen turned on showing both Sakura and Miru. "They should be do fine and you are dramatically familiar with them."
"Yes, I know them. What do I need them to do?"
"Phase 2, Pirogeth, Phase 2."

"What is it? What do you got?" Miru asked after Diana had went over her facts a few times.
"It makes perfect sense, the design of the building was made so it was indetectable by normal means and it works as its very own fortress. I just do not know how he made it in there."
"Into where? Stop holding out on us." Corvus said.
"The Last Tower, Iwaku."
"I'm afraid I'm not following. Aren't we in Iwaku?" Patty asked.
"Yes but we are not in The Last Tower."
"What in sam hell does that mean?" Jack asked confused.
"It is a secondary bottom section, alone it is called AFTA but when combined with the top portion of our tower it becomes exactly what I said. When the thing was built the war was still raging in this area so they needed to develop a defense mechanism above all else. So what they did was built a hidden weapon under water undetectable by advanced detection bots. Yet, to make sure that this weapon was not used, they gave the power to three individuals which has been passed down to Asmo, Rory, and myself. It is our last defense as the bottom portion, AFTA, acts as a fortress and is also part of the weapon. The top portion, Iwaku, is the rest of the weapon. I'm not sure about the complete design of it but I'm pretty sure it is destructive."
"So wait this Last Tower, this is where they are hiding?" Jack asked ready to issue orders.
"Yes."
"Then can't we blow it all to hell, after all, Ryker is good at that kind of stuff and we do not need that weapon now."
"You are forgetting they still have Kitty." Patty said. "We need to infiltrate it the tower."
"That is impossible, it is a fortress as I've explained. I'm even surprised that they could have actually made it down there."
"Well if they made it in then there is a hole in your impenetrable defense. Patty I want you and Corvus to stay here this time. My team will take this one and Diana we'll need your help."
"But Jack-"
"No! Now you two actually listen to me this time and stay put. Sakura and Miru you two will watch them."
"Yes sir commander sir." Sakura said giving a cute salute. The rest left the room leaving the four there looking at each other. "Hey you two, don't be such grumpy gusses. Jack is just trying to keep you safe." She reassured them.
"Yeah but who is keeping Jack safe." Patty muttered to herself.
 
-eye twitch- GAHHHH! So...when do me and patty <_<>_><_< ignore our orders O___O...
 
Oh crud. SHIT'S GONNA HAPPEN, YOH!
 
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