Several people finally noticed the unconscious men scattered about the deck and looking outside as the plane came to a landing, surrounded by tanks, AS units and fighting vehicles.
"No way!! Is that a soviet made RK-92?" someone shouted, looking outside. "MiG-21's, I can even see a T-34. Classic main-battle tank! We're not even in Japan."
Naiki swallowed nervously listening to the discussion, restraining herself and waiting for a particular thing to happen.
For the plane to stop.
****
"You in the air-plane, come to a complete stop and open your outer hatches. Prepare to be boarded and interrogated for violating our national air-space," a man outside was ordering through a megaphone as Sousuke took in the surroundings outside. "This is the Kanka region military, you have nowhere to go."
"I'd do what the man says," Gauron noted. "Those tanks and AS units don't look like they'd hesitate to reduce this airplane to scrap metal if they don't get what they want."
"I...I have to stop anyway," the co-pilot said nervously, pulling on the breaks. "We don't have any more fuel."
The sensation of movement came to a complete stop and slowly, under Sousuke's line of fire and close to Deimosu, Gauron stood up.
"The second round's to you, Kashim," Gauron said. "And these...interesting siblings. But I think the third rounds not starting to look too..."
The airplane shuddered as the sound of gunfire erupted outside.
"And that would be Naiki," Deimosu muttered.
****
"Something's gone wrong," Eija said, catching her breath. "We've landed."
"What did you just do back there?" Kaname asked. "Everything turned sort of backwards."
"I just asked for some darkness to cover them and let Sousuke and Deimosu see what I see," Eija said, a bit confused. "What do you mean backwards?"
"Like the negative of a photograph," Kaname said.
"It shouldn't have done anything like that," the pale, red-eyed girl said. "Unless there's something about you."
"There is nothing strange about me," Kaname protested.
"I...didn't mean to imp..."
The feel of the plane shaking and the sudden sound of gunfire interrupted the conversation.
****
Naiki tore through the men standing around outside the plane and dodged aside as the fighting vehicles turned the heavy machine guns toward her.
Several of the heavier bullets gouged deep lines long her arms and legs, and the occasional heavy bruise along her back. Baksai tenketsu training handled the smaller arms easily enough, but those heavier weapons stung painfully.
She reacted instinctively, she leaped up and landed on top of one of vehicles pelting her, landing in front of the shoulder and ripping the machine gun out of his hand and away from the fighting vehicle.
The soldier dropped down into the vehicle as another APC started pelting her again. She dropped down on the other side of the fighting vehicle and tipped it over on its side before rushing out again.
A jeep pulled up in front of her, another tripod mounted machine girl pointing toward her, but it came in to close and she had it up and into the air slamming down on to another armored vehicle some distance away.
Ducking out of the immediate line of fire, she let herself fall into her power and focused downward. All about her the ground started to shake, large cracks appearing outward from her.
Then the ground exploded around her as the tank shells landed nearby, and Naiki landed yards away, battered, cut and bruised as she full unconscious.
****
Gauron watched as Sousuke's eyes moved down into the plane, where the screams were rising from, and the other boy to look outside, probably looking for his sister.
In that moment he reached into his jacket and grabbed a small grenade. Leaving it behind he dodged past Sousuke out of the cabin and to the side of the doorway as the stun grenade exploded behind him.
Stepping back inside he picked the gun up from where Sousuke had dropped it and smiled at the glaring young man before leaping out the destroyed windows. Deimosu shook his head out from the concussive blast and growled as he watched the tall, dangerous man land below them and wave back up.
Behind them, armed men in dark clothing started filtering into the airplane through the hole Naiki had punched out.
The blonde Satomi grimaced and jumped out of the plane, following the madman out the window. At the very least, he was going to snuff that guy's smile out before they finished him.
Neither he, nor anybody else noted Sousuke slip down the plane's stairs to the decks that hadn't yet been breached by either Naiki or the terrorists. Up there, he was just one more confused civilian running around, at least until he found the service elevator again.
Gauron turned around and blinked as the young man landed behind him and then charged forward. He turned and fired his gun several times, watching the young man dodge aside of the bullets skillfully.
One bullet sparked off Deimosu's forehead, slowing him down, but not stopping him. Gauron smiled broadly as the attacks came in fiercely and he had to work ferociously to dodge them.
Whoever trained this boy was good, very good. The boy was better than him, at least as raw hand to hand attacks were concerned. He backed away quickly, finding enough space to let a heavy machine gun force Deimosu out of his pursuit.
And then Gauron stopped and shouted something in Korean.
"I suppose your capable of causing a similar ruckus to her," the man said, pointing toward were some soldiers were carrying Naiki's unconscious form and dumping it as several machine gunners took aim. "Shall we postpone this, or shall these men open up on your immobile sister right now?"
Deimosu grimaced and shook his head with a grimace and raised his hands.
****
In the cargo bay of the jumbo jet, Eija quickly finished erasing the magic circle as the sound of the doors opening came to her and Kaname.
Both girls scattered to different corners of the plane's cargo.
"Okay, look for it, it's a yellow package," a man's voice said.
"Found it!" someone shouted.
Curiosity getting the better of her, Kaname started to inch forward to see what the men were doing. Which was how she knocked over the suitcase in front of her and soon found herself surrounded.
"Well, look who we have here," one of the men said. "I think there are some people waiting to see you."
"Let go of me, you freak!" Kaname shouted. "You can't do this sort of thing to people!"
"Get the little bitch out of here," some complained just as Kaname kicked out.
"Who're you calling a bitch?" the tomboy demanded.
The first gun she saw pointing at her in earnest made her quiet down quickly.
"Listen, bitch," the man said. "You're important to someone, but they said you just had to be alive. He didn't say we couldn't put a few unimportant holes in you."
"We have new orders on the device," another terrorist said. "They're going to refit a transport plane for the hostages since this one's no longer air-worthy. We'll just have to rig this bomb on that plane."
Biting her lip, Eija watched unseen as they took Kaname away.
"Damn it," she muttered as she took out her scroll to start another message. "This should have worked."
She heard the sound of the elevator and melted into the shadows to wait to see who came down, breathing a sigh of relief as she saw Sousuke.
"What happened?" she asked, stepping out of hiding.
"There wasn't enough fuel to keep flying," Sousuke said. "Where's Chidori?"
"Some men came in and found her," Eija said. "I...decided to stay unseen. Sorry."
"No need," Sousuke said. "Your brother and sister are also captured. And I also elected to fall back to be of more use later. Unfortunately, they'll be looking for me actively, and perhaps you."
"Me?" she asked. "I thought they're after Kaname."
"They appear to be interested in all three of you," Sousuke noted.
He noted the scroll in her hand as he found his bag.
"I'd advise saving the paper for now," he said. "Let's move to a safer location and we can contact my superiors."
"All right," she said.
****
"Well, Basil?" the slender Musk asked. "What do we do?"
"We wait until the base calms down," the prince said. "And then we go in for our prizes."
"Hey, I only saw two of the girls you mentioned," the other said. "The Green-hair and the blue-hair. Where's the dark-haired one?"
"I'd like to know too," Basil noted.
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