*It was nighttime in Werband. Two days had past and the prison gates were opening as the members of Blood Sword exited the prison. In the clocktower of the city, Raika was watching them leave the prison through binoculars. She had on all black tactical gear with handguns on both sides and a black mask with silver bullets painted on it. As the members of Blood Sword were exiting, a car pulled up to the front doors of the prison. Exiting out of the car was Byron wearing a blue suit, white shirt, and brown shoes along with Zia wearing a violet strapless dress with black heeled shoes*
(Raika): This is Bullet, Blade is entering the building and Blood Sword is coming out.
(Amarti): Copy that, Bullet. This is X, relocate with Dog and Foxx.
*Amarti dawns his face with a white mask that has a black X*
(Amarti): All units check in.
*Behind a building was Morgan, Jade, and Alita watching the gates close. They all wearing black gear and had masks on. Except for Alita, who had on a paper bag with eyeholes and a smiley face with fangs. Morgan’s mask was black with blue raindrops. Jade’s mask was one-half black and one-half white*
(Morgan): This is Rain along with Moon and Fangs. Gate has closed and in position.
*At Blue Tree, the backdoor opened and out came Dust, Ryuuji, Jin, and Hibana. All wearing black gear and putting on mask. Dust’s mask was white with a black spiderweb on it. Ryuuji’s was black with red flames shooting up. Jin’s mask was black with devil horns. Hibana’s mask was black in the shape of a skull*
(Dust): This is Web. Exiting Blue Tree right now with Flames, Devil and Skull. Will be in position soon.
*As Dust’s team gets into position, Raika reaches the bottom of the clock tower, dawning her mask, and reunites with Sanada and Gael who were outside waiting for her. Just like everyone else they were wearing black gear and masks. Gael’s was black in the shape of a dog’s face. Sanada’s mask was white in the shape of a fox’s face with red markings and eyes*
(Sanada): All good to go?
*Raika nods*
(Sanada): This is Foxx and Dog, reunited with Bullet. The party favors have been set. Tell us when. Also, I would like to go on record and say I don’t like my codename.
(Amarti): This is again?
(Ryuuji): Let it go, Foxx. We’ve been over this.
(Hibana): Yeah, we even gave you the extra x to make your name cooler.
(Sanada): I just don’t understand why the person who uses an actual blade isn’t called Blade.
(Jade): Because that same person is wearing a fox mask. It makes sense to call you fox. What else would we call you. It’d be like calling Dog, Cat.
(Morgan): Can we focus.
(Dust): Stop raining on the conversation, Rain
(Raika): The man lives up to his name.
*Everyone chuckles except for Morgan*
(Morgan): I hate you all.
(Amarti): Alright guys, it’s go time. Web. Flame. You guys in position?
(Dust): Ready.
(Ryuuji): We got eyes on the target.
*Jin and Hibana appear behind Amarti*
(Amarti): Engage.
*As the members of Blood Sword walk down the street laughing and joking with each other, Dust and Ryuuji appear out from a nearby alleyway. They walk toward the middle of the road and stared down the members of Blood Sword who stopped in their tracks and observed the masked knights*
(Male Blood Sword Member): Well what do we have here? A couple of masked vigilantes?
(Female Blood Sword Member): Let me guess, you’re here to complain about that body the mutilated body a few days back? Don’t blame us for serving up justice. Now scram.
*Dust and Ryuuji remained silent*
(Male cat Blood Sword member): What’s the matter? Cat got your tongue? Although knowing me that sounds like something I would do.
*The cat demihuman and the other members of Blood Sword began to laugh at his comment. As they were distracted by their laughter, Ryuuji sprinted toward him and delivered a flaming uppercut which sent him up into the air. Ryuuji also went up into the air with him and followed up his uppercut with a roundhouse kick to the demihuman’s ribs. The kick sent the demihuman crashing down into the ground barely conscious. As the Blood Sword process what had just happened, a few of them were belted by rocks courtesy of Dust who used his wires to fling them. This caused some of them to start bleeding from the head and angered them. The two then began to run away as the members of Blood Sword pursued them. The two knights managed to run into the same alleyway they mutilated the pickpocket a few days ago. When they reached the dead end, Ryuuji glad Dust and flew up into the sky just as the members of Blood Sword arrived*
(Dust): We’re in the sky, let them have it.
(Raika): Roger that.
*Raika takes out a detonator and presses the button. This sets off a bunch of explosions at the top of the clock tower. The debris from the clock tower falls in the surrounding area. Including the alleyway where the members of Blood Sword are*
***
*A few minutes earlier*
*While the members of Shadow Eye were getting into position and attacking Blood Sword, Zia had accompany Byron up to his office for a romantic dinner. Upon entering his office, there was a candle lit table with two chairs, two plates of steaks, and a bottle of red wine*
(Zia): Oh my. What a lovely setting.
(Byron): Please make yourself comfortable.
*As Zia went over to sit at the table, Byron had turn on the music in his office by pressing a button. A slow jazzy song began to play to set the romantic atmosphere Byron was trying to create. Byron then made his way over to the take where he pulled out Zia’s chair for her. Once she was seated he went to take his seat and began to poor wine for both of them*
(Byron): I’m so glad you accepted my invitation after your performance today. It was just as stunning and masterful as the first time I saw you.
(Zia): *Giggles* Why thank you.
(Byron): I’m told that you’ll be leaving sometime tomorrow. A true shame to see you go. Might I ask where you and the group will be off-
*Zia put her finger on Byron’s lips to stop him from talking and shushed him*
(Zia): Let’s not talk about work, okay? Tonight, it’s all about you. . .and me.
*Zia batted her eyes and smiled at Byron whose cheeks went red from excitement. He finished pouring the drinks and handed one glass to Zia. The two made a toast and drank their wine when all of a sudden they heard an explosion. The sound of the explosion shook the prison and Byron rushed over the window where he saw the clock tower on fire*
(Byron): What the hell happened!?
*Just as Byron turned to rush out the door he was met by Zia, who smashed him over the head with the wine bottle. The bottle shattered all over his head and stained his shirt as he fell to the ground unconscious*
(Zia): The sound of a prison break.
*Zia tossed the broken bottle to the ground and searched Byron’s body for the key card. Zia managed to find the key card in his pants pocket just as Amarti, Jin, and Hibana entered the room*
(Zia): Found it!
(Hibana): Yoink! Good job.
*Hibana snatched the card from Zia’s and went over to Byron’s desk. She turned on his computer and stared at the log in page where she began to hack into it*
(Jin): Are you okay?
(Zia): I’m fine. He’ll be out for quite some time. Did you bring my items?
(Jin): Right here.
*Jin sits down a duffle bag and opens it to reveal a bodysuit and a mask. Zia unzips her dress and allows it to fall to the ground. Jin quickly turned around while Amarti watched her change. Zia quickly put on the black bodysuit and donned her mask, which was black and had five white claw marks*
(Zia): Blade is ready to move out.
(Hibana): And I’m ready to go as well. Time for a little mayhem.
*Hibana presses a few buttons disarming the alarm system and allowing the cell doors in levels 1-4 to open releasing the prisoners*
(Hibana): And let’s make things fair and get rid of those restraints.
*Hibana removes the anti-magic cuffs on the prisoners allowing them to use their magic again. With the ability to use magic, the prisoners began to riot on each floor and fought against the guards trying to stop*
***
*In one of the level’s command post, a guard was at the computer trying to regain control of the system*
(Guard): Someone’s hacked into the system. I’m trying to regain control of it now.
***
*Back in Byron’s office, Hibana could see someone to regain control of the system*
(Hibana): Oh~, quick to respond. Someone is trying to regain control of the system. Too bad. You lost before the game even started.
*Hibana presses a button which unleashes the virus she planted in their system during the prison concert. This causes the blue screen to pop up on guard’s computer locking him and anyone else out of the system*
(Hibana): And now to make sure nobody gets in or out.
*Pressing a few more buttons on the computer, Hibana initiates a total lockdown of the prison. This process unleashes a red magic barrier across the whole prison grounds*
(Hibana): And there we go. All communications between floors has been cut off so the guards can’t communicate with each other, they’re busy fighting the prisoners, and lockdown keeps anyone from getting into the prison.
(Jin): With everything going on this gives us the perfect opportunity to go down and rescue the doctor.
(Hibana): Exactly. The lockdown will only stay active for an hour. So let’s move.
*Amarti, Zia, Hibana, and Jin leave the office with an unconscious Byron still lying on the floor. They quickly make their way back to the main floor where the other members of Shadow Eye had defeated, knocked out, and tied up any guards*
(Ryuuji): There you guys are. Where’s the warden?
(Zia): Taking a nap.
(Hibana): Let’s start making our way down to the bottom people. We have about an hour before the lockdown ends and this place becomes flooded with guards and soldiers.
(Morgan): Let’s get a move on to the elevator.
*The ground began walking over to the elevator when all of a sudden it opened to reveal Brant standing with a sinister smile on his face. Drawing his sword he destroyed the control panel to the elevator making it inoperable before stepping out to face the others*
(Sanada): I’ll handle this.
(Morgan): Guess we’ll take the long way.
*As Sanada stepped forward to face Brant alone, the others passed through the door that led to the staircase*
(Brant): It’s about time you guys made your move. I thought for sure you would have made your move sooner. You wear masks but I can tell by your scents that you’re that music group and traveling mercenaries. I knew you guys were suspicious the moment I met you. I’m guessing you’re here for the traitor.
(Sanada): You assume correctly.
(Brant): Figures. You were hired by a foreign kingdom to save him weren’t you?
(Sanada): Stand down now and nothing bad will happen to you.
(Brant): Now why would I want to stand down when things about to get exciting. You see, for the longest time I’ve been bored. Hargus has given me boring jobs like this for quite some time. I could have easily outed you and the others to that insolent warden but I decided to see what you would do and boy have you guys not disappointed. You’re making this so exciting for me.
*Brant bites down hard on his left thumb and blood starts to drip from it. The blood lands on his sword and it bursts into flames except for the handle*
(Brant): My sword craves new blood and I intend to give it what it desires. Do me a favor, and try not to die too quickly.
*Brant charges at Sanada and leaps in the air to deliver and downward strike to him. But Sanada draws his sword to block the attack all while Brant cackles like a madman*
