Intro Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqgbR7uXXpU / Writing in Reverse by Spoon
A cold wind blows, and that strong mist swallows all that enters upon it...
Squinted eyes and warm breathing masked...
Nothing can be seen nor discerned...
It's as if that very mist makes an entire existence... well... be wistfully vanished out of existence...
A deadly silence fills the air... A strong white unclear veil shrouds all vision...
A figure dripping... tries to get out... walking slowly, hand in hole, mind in the out
He ponders...
"I remember there's this telephone in freeways... an emer- emergency..."
His thought is cut off as he bumps into something...
His mind rushing, his blood running
Squinted eyes fail him...
It's...
It's...
It's just some car...
But it looks wrong...
Like something not of this world...
The car...
The car...
Has a giant lollipop sticking out of it...
"Huh?"
He looks all over the area, the mist still as strong as ever
He keeps bumping into more cars, motorcycles and vehicles
All of them...
Have some sort of candy sticking out, where once was just a normal part of the vehicle...
There's all sorts of candy replacing that very part...
"This just... seems random... w-what?"
The man shakes his head, trying to shift focus on his main objective...
"Now where is tha-"
"U- u-hh"
The emergency telephone booth stands in the middle, sticking out
"It... looks normal enough but..."
"What exactly is happening right now?"
He moves closer, slowly... alert as he can be... as handicapped he is...
He has no memory of what transpired here, maybe he really is somewhere else...
In the middle of nowhere?
He enters the phone booth, his footsteps careful and silent-
The phone suddenly rings, breaking the silence-
The man stands in shock
He just stands there, paralyzed
His hands tremble, and upon grasping the telephone-
The line is empty, it just rings out
The call has ended?
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
The man screams, his body contorting into something
The telephone drops and hangs by
The man's body bursting at the seams-
It explodes into a red mist...
His body is obliterated... it really is as if...
He didn't exist... at all...
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-A Few Weeks Ago-
A fuse is lit, two fingers pressed upon the roll
Smoke blending together, this time...
It's time to call...
"Yeah... I knew it'd come sooner or later..."
"This is it..."
He sighs, inhaling lots
"I ain't getting out of here... am I?"
He breathes out, stepping out into the unknown
Or rather...
The familiar...
"Heh"
He cracks his knuckles one by one, dropping his cigarette-
He smothers it-
Killing its fuse, its flame, its light...
He looks over...
"They're here..."
Clashes of light flash over the mist, indescribable forces of speed colliding into each other, one the naked eye can't even grasp...
"Took you long enough!" the figure stands in the distance, hard to see, as it blends into the mist
"I see... it's you three..." Atsushi mutters under his breath
"Calm down there! Everyone gets a share!!! Remember?!?" another figure says, waving its hands flowing with the wind
"Tch! Sure thing! How about... if it were literal... hehehehe-" the other figure snickers, the fog all thick, only a portion of his clothes can be seen, a roughed up leather jacket-
And...
A finger pointed at him?
It looks like... it's-
Words form up on Atsushi's sleeve, he instantly takes off his thick jacket as it explodes in the air-
He is then frozen into place, his eyes as transparent as it is pale
His neck is held tight
"Yeah... I always wondered... what you'd taste l-like"
"Atsu-chan..."
The figure's breath is spread all over his neck, as Atsushi's spirit can only watch on
Its teeth might as well be shimmering, it grins, watering in delight
As the figure's teeth open up to claim it's meal-
"Stop!" the other figure said
"What???"
"Come on... don't make it so easy!"
"Let's savor it... shouldn't we all have a taste of him?"
"I see you have quite the exquisite taste my dear... sure thing..."
"let's... play with our food then..."
All of them stare into his frozen form, slowly licking their lips
Atsushi scoffs, his weary body slowly starting to take control of his form once more
"Looks like all of you are still this weird... after all this time"
"well..."
"You want a fight? You'll get it!"
They all collide, making new marks and dents on the crater...
It's a battle of endurance now... that's the name of the game...
That's... the start...
Of the final war...
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-Present Day-
The tires struggle to plow down on the thick snow
The three agents sit in silence, the window wipers being the only things creating a sound...
Keiko looks on, absolutely petrified in the mission ahead...
What will they find?
How can they go up against THREE INSURGENT LEADERS?!?
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Her mind races, in all the possible scenarios they'll find themselves in...
But... Ishii abilities... are hard to guess...
There could be so many that the human mind could think of...
Imagination is a mighty thing to go up against...
The snow falls slowly, its a beautiful thing to get lost in
To escape what horrors might come up their way...
Musen uses his ability to the best of his capabilities...
His aura UI still shining all over the car windows, but still... no matter how closer they get to their destination-
Nothing...
"This jammer sure is something..."
"It's what to expect with an Insurgent Leader..." Musen says as he keeps his aura flowing
"Kakomi-san... we'll have to take the Tohoku expressway, by the seaside... heading toward Iwaki... its the only route to Sendai, avoiding the Fukushima crater..." Musen says while pondering
"Who knows what's happening in the crater... the jammer is strongest there after all... is Suzuto-san... even... alive at all?"
Suzushii quietly looks at them both, his mind silently focused...
Are you still alive? he thinks...
Please still be alive...
We...
Wanted a better life...
Hah!
Look where that got us...
Here...
And now...
They'll tear us apart...
Oh brother...
Family huh?
It's something...
You can't run from...
The car ride goes on for hours on end, the silence building...
The destination slowly getting closer and closer...
But as they seemingly get closer to Sendai itself, the seaside and its many cities and structures...
Are all missing... people...
It's like they set foot in silent hill...
If silent hill was spread out across an entire prefecture that is...
The closer Sendai is... the mist is so thick, the car's headlights can only reach so few meters before...
It's almost impossible to drive without...
The car suddenly curves sideways, the snow is...
Slippery???
They're... they're on... what exactly?
W- where are they?
A loud thump is heard as everything is brought to...
A CRASH
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Multiple coughs break through the fog...
The car was turned tip side...
A hand peers through the car window... breaking it
"ugh..."
Suzushiii weakily crawls out, he sees the two agents all huddled inside, still in the car
"Musen-san, Keiko-san! are you two alright?"
"I-I'm f-fine..." the weak voice is barely heard
"Come on Keiko, let's get out of here..." Suzushii pulls the both of them out, Musen still holding Keiko's hand to help her up
"Wherever this is..." Musen says as his wrist glows, trying to discern where they are...
His aura is full of static, barely working-
But it does say one thing clearly...
Their location:
"We're... we're in Iwanuma! We're close to the Sendai airport!" Musen says out loud
"In fact... we can start our search- err, our reconnaissance! of the area!"
Suzushii nods but his lips part-
"It's wise to be stick together, even with my aura... this mist... its not normal... its too thick... its patterns... is too controlled..."
"We... should start heading to the crater on foot now... it'll take long... but..."
"We're in the lion's den now..."
The girl whimpers, shivering in response
Musen reaches towards the car's trunk, to grab all of the firearms: an AR, a couple handguns, grenades, stun and smoke grenades...
The standard equipment for any intelligence agency... but for the ICA
It shows how little they are willing... to use on this operation
Musen sets up his weapon, inserting the magazine, and he charges the chamber up
"Actually... they know we were coming... expecting it... almost a bit surprised... of how few we are... how... little chance we have..."
Keiko checks her kit and supplies, she is also handed a handgun by Musen, her fingers tremble at the weapon, firmly grasping it but... her hands shake at its weight
"They're... mocking us..."
"Aren't they?" the two of them look at Suzushii, all ready
"They could've taken us out if they wanted to, a long long time ago on the trip..."
"But they... didn't"
"Is it... because I'm here?"
Suddenly-
Suzushii shifts his eyes at multiple locations in their vicinity, he locates-
"RUN!!!!!!" he shouts, the two agents nod, as they run-
Multiple explosions all rage at their positions, they run hysterically forward towards all of the wrecked cars and other vehicles through the expressway, mostly if not all of them-
Looking a bit off...
"It's him, isn't it?"
"This is gonna be tough... even for me..."
"Shit..." Suzushii curses under his breath, he uses his aura to protect both Musen and Keiko-
They both look at him, the explosions drowning out everything, all the large candy shards flying all over, threatening and imposing-
"We're not gonna make it like this... they'll just blow us all up at this rate!"
Suzushii lifts his arm upwards, the wind following his gestures
"Hold on you two!"
"This is gonna be a tough ride!" he shouts
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I- I-"
"WE'RE FLYING???????? OH GOD HELP MEEEEE" Keiko screams, her body flailing like a fish out of water-
Musen is the opposite but the shock on his face... He's wide-eyed look...
Says it all-
The mist doesn't get any less thicker the higher the altitude they go...
"Atleast we have a better chance up here..."
"Kakomi-san?"
"Yeah?"
"Why didn't we just fly all the way to the crater, if you could just fly this entire time?"
"Well let's just say... it takes a lot out of me to do so..."
"If we're flying already... then well... it's that serious..."
Musen nods, Keiko still screaming, gulps comically
They move at a brisk pace, Suzushii conserving his energy for the... proper fighting...
"He's just playing with us... he's testing me... especially"
Suzushii's head instantly moves to the left-
His eyes as wide as ever, only just seeing what just flew them by-
An entire building!
It was so fast, even something of that mass just flew that beside them like it was just some bird or something!
Keiko stops screaming... her face possessed, she instantly grasps the situation, as Musen looks at her nodding...
"Kakomi-san..."
"What's the plan?"
Their entire form flies by as they pass through the city ruins, it looks like its been like this for weeks now... surely has been...
"Agent Reckoner, there are no signs of life here..." Keiko reports, Musen aims his AR scope using his aura to search for any forms of heat signatures
"No heat signs either..."
"Damn it!"
"This must mean... it's her..."
"It's the reason why most of this part of the coast has no signs of people at all..."
"What do you mean sir?" Keiko asked
"It's... hard to explain right now..."
"The Insurgents... or rather... as classified information would entail"
Suzushii hesitates
"Also known as The Great Empire... each leader... has a purpose... to well..."
Multiple explosions hit them from each direction, each of them groan, as Suzushii exerts more aura to protect them and to fly...
He bites his lip, as their whole flying form descends
Keiko breaks her stoic look, with the fear rushing back in her
Musen, determined, grits his teeth
"Preapare for impact!!!!!" Suzushii screams
More and more debris hit them, explosions all over
THEY CRASH INTO THE CITY, THE AURA SLOWLY STARTING TO DWINDLE DOWN
A HUGE EXPLOSION HITS THEM AS THEY FINALLY REACH THE GROUND
THE SMOKE SETTLING...
They awake to a huge crater, all of them are bruised and bleeding a little, but just before they have the time to breath...
A figure stand in front of them, above the crater by the city's center near the west exit of Sendai station...
He chuckles lightly, clicking his tongue as the mist swallows him whole, he disappears into the haze
The three of them start to look for him, their forms ready for any surprise attack
"Y'know Suzu-kun?"
"You might as well be too late! God! You're such an idiot!"
"Why d'you think we lured you in with that dimension?" he teased, his voice slowly coming from all directions, the mist getting thicker and thicker
It's hard to breathe... if at all...
"Playing with you is too much fun!"
"You fucking traitor!!!!!"
A pipe is suddenly thrown their way, as Suzushii crushes it with his bare hand
"YOU THINK YOU TWO COULD ALWAYS ESCAPE THE FAMILY??? YOUR HOME???"
Multiple pipes all come rushing in, one by one, they are trapped closer to each other in the crater
It suddenly stops-
As a hand comes out of the pipe, choking all three of them
"God... I thought I envied you when you two got out... thinking I could do the same!"
"But... I was soooo wrong..."
"No one can escape the great empire... remember that..."
The hand's force on their necks, tightens more and more
Suzushii's face is turning blue, he grits his teeth...
HE SCREAMS SOOO LOUD, A STRONG GUST OF WIND SENDS THE PIPES FLYING, INSTANTLY SETTING THEM ON FIRE WITH HIS AURA
"YES FINALLY!!!! I FUCKING MISSED PLAYING WITH YOU ONII-CHAN!!!!!! AHAHAHAAHAHAH" the man laughs hysterically
Suzushii sets his hand on both of the agents' jackets with an aura so thick, you could see it, a thick flowing blue flame...
Like the both of them were on fire...
"GET OUT OF HERE AND RENDEVOUS WITH ME ON THE CRATER, JUST FOLLOW THE TOHOKU MAIN LINE, AND HEAD SOUTHWEST!!!!! I'LL DISTRACT THEM ALL!!!!"
"B-buut!!!!" Keiko protested, Musen grabs her shoulder... and shakes his head...
"You... two... will just get in my way..." Suzushii coldy says, turning his head directly at them
"Keiko-san... let's go... we'll see him there..."
"Our mission's objectives are now forfeit... well only one objective... remains..."
"Retrieve Atushi Suzuto..."
"Well not really... there's still one more" Keiko says...
"Relieve the Insurgent forces... in the area"
The both of them suddenly sprint out, as the man grins, waving his hand
"YOU TWO!!!! HIS ABILITY IS HE CAN WRITE ANYTHING AND MAKE IT HAPPEN, LOOK OUT FOR ANYTHING WITH WRITING!!!!"
"BUT HOW DO WE EVEN FIND THAT OUT??? EVERYTHING HAS WRITING!!!!" SHE SCREAMED AT HIM
At her feet... A traditional Japanese calligraphy forms up beneath the concrete pavement...
It says...
Explode...
"LOOK OUT!!!!!!" MUSEN SCREAMS, THROWING HER BODY TO THE SIDE, HIS ENTIRE BODY TAKING THE HIT
SHE LOOKS IN SHOCK AS THE HUGE SMOKE SENDS SHOCKWAVES ALL OVER THE CITY CENTER
The city lights and billboards still lit up through the thick fog, momentarily stopping for a few seconds before lighting back up...
"MUSEN-SAN!!!!!"
His body stands with black burning smoke, as the jacket full of aura protected him from the blast-
Still full of the blue fiery aura... but noticeably lesser in its amount-
"Miss..."
"Let's... get out of here..."
She nods with tears in her eyes, thinking he had really killed him...
They run off continuing to dodge more explosions, using their aura to detect the calligraphy writing infused with the insurgent's aura
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The explosions stopped... and a deadly silence filled the air...
"shhhh!" the girl whispers, Musen just nods, aiming his AR, covering their moving positions
They moved through the entire Sendai city center area, the scenery the same...
Wrecked cars with gigantic candies in them...
Occasionally...
It would change briefly...
The cars had something else other than giant candy pieces in between them...
They were giant household objects or entire streetlights...
But... the entire city block reveals the truth more clearly...
Pools of dried blood... cover their feet...
The concrete, is painted red... with...
Body parts... dismembered limbs and heads and destroyed organs and bodies...
Cover the lanes...
"EEEP- HMMMMMMMMPH!" just as Keiko was about to scream, her mouth is covered by Musen's hand...
"sssssh!!!!" he bluntly whispers, she nods, tearing up all over his hand, as she grabs his pistol by her suit
He nods as if to calm her but still focused on the situation, they wander the crimson streets, wondering...
If the dead were this destroyed... how would the living...fare any better?
If there... were any at all?
A creeping atmosphere chokes them by the minute...
Their minds racing at...
What would break the silence next?
As they get nearer and nearer to the crater... which was soooo big, it spreads across multiple kilometers, hitting other cities as well...
Fully decimating them... like they were never on the map...
At all...
It spanned from Fukushima proper all the way to Sendai's outskirts... from Koori all the way to Ogawara, just near the coast... to Iwanuma...
"Are we near... senpai?"
"We're near... to Ogawara..."
"Tell me senpai... how do you know this area?"
"Well... my family loves going to the coast... you know with all the beaches and all that... and with us city folk..."
"We love being out of the busy life... now and then..."
"Well this was before the Fukushima Incident hit... before the coast basically became too much of a bad omen to go to... well this side atleast..."
"The delicacies of the east coast... it's to die for... sooo much seafood... it's pretty much heaven..." Musen says with complete satisfaction, Keiko smiles cutely, her eyes imagining it all with clear delight
"The Kaisen-don! The oysters! The Katuso! My favourite!"
The both of them reminisce, escaping the horrors of their situation...
A hand grasp Keiko's ankle-
She screams as the entire road is suddenly flooded with multiple aura presences-
"These... things..."
"They're not in my heat scope... W- What are they???"
"F-fire!!!!" the both of them shouted, their guns lighting up the entire radius filled with what looks like people...
Mindless... zombies???
Like... the ones...
In the dimension???
As their aims shift from position to position to position to position-
The bodies fall to the ground... and they...
Get back up again...
"HOLY SHIT IT AIN'T WORKIN'!!!!!" Keiko suddenly cursed with her provincial accent
"W- we've got to retreat!!!!" Musen screams
"BUT TO WHERE???"
"Anywhere but here!" they both keep firing trying to clear a way out
"I'M OUT!!!! RELOADING!!!!!"
"COVER ME!!!!"
Keiko covers him but too many of the zombies keep coming to their position... like... ants...
They are overwhelmed... their bodies trampled and smothered, their jackets protect them from the crowds...
But for how long? exactly?
"I- I..."
"I don't want to die..." Keiko whimpers, with Musen protecting her from the crowd of zombies, his back turned, facing her...
Face to face...
"You won't" he exclaims
"We'll make it out of here..."
"B-but how?" she bawls
He gives her a reassuring look... his hand grasping her face
"We... have to..."
"For our families... waiting for us... for our mission..."
He embraces her, she holds him in return
Their hope futile... their light fading...
If they're to die here... might as well die with hope...
Instead of the opposite...
The... zombies all drop lifeless across them...
"H-huh?"
"W-what?" they both exclaimed in confusion, and upon climbing the mountain of lifeless bodies of citizens that were on top of them, the aura on their jacket just about to crack...
They see their savior...
A beautiful woman with a flowing white gown and matching white hair...
The clouds opening up to their position, so blue, so clear
The sunlight peering and blinding their eyes...
"Tell... Suzushii..."
"I'm..."
"I'm on your side... now..." she says softly, her words like a soothing melody, a contrast to the bloody and ghastly remains of the east coast around here...
And as the fog lifts around them...
The view says it all...
They're here...
The Fukushima Crater... in all its glory...
Or rather... in all its entirety...
-To Be Continued-
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Ending Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W3oXDNTuJ4&list=LL&index=3 / Don’t You Evah By Spoon