Axiom Pearl. West City. The night club was filled. People dancing and partying. Party animals. The sin here was unimaginable. In other words those who join cyber parties are complete nuts. Strippers with modifications, bartenders serving animals, the DJ was playing some serious EDM. The DJ was wearing a mask which was displaying music tracks on the screen of it. His arms modified and giving a disco light like glow. The crowd was going crazy and most of them were either drunk or high. "What the hell are we doing here?" Ren yelled. Her voice was almost silent even though she was yelling. V was sitting right next to her and was enjoying somehow. V was looking around and vibing while nodding with the music. His katana resting aside. Aoi was sitting right in front of them and she looked awfully uncomfortable.
"I said, what the hell are we doing here?" Ren grabbed V's collar and pulled him. "Come on Ren enjoy a bit." Suddenly Aoi kicked his leg with full force, putting him back in his senses. V reacted and looked at her. "Mr. V I have had enough of this. You said that you know where Kaito is." Aoi sounded furious. Ren grabbed his collar again and says, "look here you hotshot chick killer, I don't need anything right now I need his location, if you don't have it then don't waste my time."
V looked unhinged. V simply smiles and says, "look there." He pointed forward with his eyebrows. They both looked ahead. "You see that door, that's where we will find out where Kaito is."
Right ahead of them there was a restricted entrance. The sign says, "Not for all." Ren gets up and Aoi tries to get up but they both paused suddenly. V sitting there unhinged and says, "Yep you both are right." They both looked at V.
Ren and Aoi both looked surprised and their facial expressions changed. Ren sits down and Aoi looks at V. "That door is certainly not unguarded, it's been guarded by a flasher."
Flasher. A powerful cyber modification type that allows the user to gain invisibility. A flasher type modification is the most dangerous of all time. Even an S Rank will think twice. "They hired a flasher just to guard an entrance." Aoi looked at the entrance.
"Apparently a flasher is just a cyber maniac. They sacrifice their human flesh and limbs just to gain unlimited energy and high class modifications." V explained the whole situation and they all sit there quietly.
The people around them dancing and enjoying the sins while they wait. All this time V was tracking a flasher and Ren and Aoi unexpectedly acted natural while V camo flashed his observation skills. A perfect player worthy for Rank S3.
The party keeps getting louder. The people inside the club were getting more and more aggressive and crazy as time passed. The DJ was playing crazy tracks. The atmosphere grew more and more intense and extreme as time passed by. V and Ren still looking around and Aoi was looking straight at the entrance. There was no one around and even though the place was crowded the people didn't even go near the entrance.
"One thing is sure we can't get inside without being noticed. Either he's standing right in front of it or he's near somewhere." V was looking serious this time. Aoi looked a bit tensed and Ren, she was about to explode. Her facial expressions changed. "We can burst in but we can't go all out here." Ren was looking serious and impatient.
All three of them sat there. They have what it takes to burst inside. They can take down the flasher but the damage will be too much. The people around might be mindless party animals but Hexagon forbids civilian casualties.
The main entrance of the club started to open and two familiar figures took their steps inside. Black tactical outfit, long opened hair waving and behind her a very noticeable man. S Rank Wingmen, Mira and Yama. As they took each step inside the crowd stepped aside. The bass drops. The people around them staring at them. V looked at them and a slight smile appeared on his face. Ren stretched her cybernetic arm ahead and her hand cannon is prepared. Aoi puts her hand under and the ring like glow appeared on her fingers. Threads ready to cut.
As Mira was approaching them she looked at the entrance and smiles slightly. Yama looks around and smiles as well. Mira and Yama stopped right in front of them. "Long time no see, gambler." Her tone was playful and her expression was sadistic.
"It's been a long time Miss Tor." V hits a nerve. As soon as he spoke Yama took a step ahead but Mira raised her hand slightly and he stops. "Just Mira sounds fine. I see you brought some friends. Mind if we join?" The sadistic princess.
The party gets louder, the people get crazy. Drugs, alcohol are everywhere. People dancing and partying like animals. The utopia of sins. Mira and Yama sitting next to each other and V, Ren and Aoi sitting right in front of them. "So what brings the queen here?" V leaned back and asked her with a smile on his face. "Queen huh! I am no queen V. I am just a lonely woman looking for something exciting right Yama." Her expressions were so genuinely sadistic. Yama simply nods. He looks around and he looked serious. "I would rather prefer if you shut the hell up and make your own way." Ren sounded furious and angry. "Ren. I am really feeling sorry for you my friend. It's so sad that he left and didn't even leave a goodbye note." Aoi snapped and her threads came out as soon as Mira speaks up but she didn't immediately unleash them they are still resting down.
"Shall we talk about business Miss Mira?" Aoi cracked a neck bone while saying it. "Too bad I don't make deals with low classes, maybe next time dear."
"What my fellow companion is trying to say, is why are you here." V looked serious and he looked Mira straight in the eyes. "We are here to find a rat just like you all. A rat who's hiding behind that door." Yama speaks out loud. His voice, his tone was heavy and deep. "But, the thing is we won't hesitate to use force." Suddenly Mira was holding a gun which was pointed right at the entrance. V, Ren and Aoi were caught off guard.
The gun barrel glows. Her finger around the trigger and the distance between the door and the fire point was mid ranged. V didn't get the time to react. She's pointing it and a smile on her face. It's like time stopped. V tries to get up and grab his katana, Ren doesn't have an opening and Aoi is off positioned. Mira doesn't hesitate, "the real party begins now." A whisper before destruction. Without any second thoughts she pulls the trigger. But who's the target.
As the bullet cuts its way through the air time literally slows down. The bullet is going for a near invisible enemy. Just milliseconds away from the door.
Suddenly it gets sliced midair. It didn't even hit anything. It didn't pierce through anything. It doesn't make any contact. As the sound of the gunshot echoed some people around them reacted and stepped back. The bullet gets sliced from the middle and deflected.
"There he is." V whispered. His eyes wide opened. His hand on his katana ready to pull it out. His grip around the blade gets tighter.
The thin air around gets blurry and rippling. The flasher. A human body structure but blurry and see through. His camo flashed skin slowly gets visible but a blurry and rippling layer is still there. His hands looked skinny but a sharp edged sword was attached on his both hands. "What kind of modification is that?" Aoi takes a step back and her eyes get wide opened. "That's not a modification, he's a mindless cyberpunk." Yama loads his fist and stood right next to Mira.
Suddenly the flasher's eyes glow up. A red glow which was the only most visible thing on his body. Everything else, his hands, legs, skin was a see through blurry rippling layer. The people around them stopped and the whole crowd only looked at the flasher. "Cool shit man." A drunk man says it out loud without knowing what it is.
Suddenly the man was stabbed. A sharp edged knife pierced through his head. The knife hits him with great precision and he falls on the ground. The crowd around them screamed. "Here we go." Mira smiles and pulls another gun from her hip. Yama positioned himself.
The party's over. The crowd gets running around and people try to rush out. The DJ quickly ran backstage. The bartenders jump and run. People are screaming and getting out of the club. Even the club security runs away with them after seeing the flasher. "Ren aim for his head, Aoi cover me." V pulls out his katana. The blade runs codes. His katana shines. He positioned himself for a launch. "Miss Mira..." Even before he finished Mira says, "I am sorry V but I won't be working with you all."
"That's a flasher standing in front of us. As far as I can recall the last time a flasher killed two S Ranks." V looked outraged. He doesn't request, he reminds.
"Respect the dead V, respect the dead and move on." Mira smiles like a maniac and Yama already charged in. His boots cracked the floor tile as he launched himself forward. Mira points her guns at the flasher while Yama charges in with his full strength. Ren locked in her hand cannon and takes the shot. Aoi waves her threads and makes a barrier like formation around V while he charges in too.
The battle begins. The stage is set.