+Red Army Base+

At the end of the video call, all soldiers were preparing for a fierce battle. Not out of spite of each other, but to save a person they all care about since coming to this base.

The Blue soldiers would not take a word if someone told them to stay back and hold the fort. No, they would immediately shove that person away and go straight for that damned army even if it was the last thing they do.

Of course, there were exceptions to those who chose to stay back. Such as the medical team. Grace only let half of her team go for medical support while half of them staying back to be prepared for when they return. Other than some exceptions by the department heads, all soldiers were up to risk their lives for their leader's rescue.

Tord had reluctantly agreed to let them participate in the rescue/destroy mission. He is after all responsible for Tom's section while their leader is currently held hostage by the enemy.

"Red Leader, helicopters, tanks, and jeeps are all ready to set out for the Blue Army Base. We are ready to leave when you give the say." Paul reports as Patryk takes his place next to his partner.

"Set out now, the sooner we get back Thomas, the faster I can get my hands on that mongrel for even thinking about kidnapping Tom." Tord watches Patryk raise his arm in signal for everyone to start moving. All vehicles make haste towards the Blue Army Base with stern looks.

He hops onto a copter with Paul and Patryk, his eyes set on back at the base, some soldiers left behind to support them for when they return. They had come outside waving good luck to them.

'Don't worry... We'll get him back," he thinks, turning his head to look forward to where Paul and Patryk are driving the helicopter.

'Then I can say sorry.'

+At Blue Army Base+

The video call had ended on a good note from what Connor had said. Tom was taken from his chair after retracting his monster features, carried off somewhere else inside the base. He could hear many whispers and shuffled footsteps against the floor.

"Where are you taking me?" He was free to speak now that they had taken off the piece of tape over his mouth. Connor had only wanted to keep Tom silent during the call.

The soldier holding him answers, "Somewhere more spacious."

A simple answer, but Tom would take it. He waits, only listening to things around him as if making out a mental map of the base with just his blind senses. A hum rising out to keep him and Tomi occupied.

When the soldier finally puts him down, for what seems like 40 minutes of walking, he's met with the Blue Army Leader's voice again.

"We will have you wait here. This way when Red Leader comes to save his pet, we can attack him all out." Connor tells him happily.

Based on the way Connor's voice was echoing, he could tell he was actually placed in a spacious room. Tom scoffs, "You really think you can beat him?"

"Of course," The other Leader proudly answers with confidence. He pats Tom's head lightly, "Don't worry about your pretty little head, once I'm done with him, I'll have you work for me instead. I can even spare your soldiers too if you agree to be a good bait." He had read about the known information concerning Tom's battle skills. The Blue Leader wanted to use Tom to his full potential in battle with that monster of his.

If Tom still had his digital eyes on display, he would be rolling them. "So much confidence, too bad it'll shatter with your pride when you see how badly you fucked yourself over with this plan." He pulls at his restrains to show defiance.

"Such vulgar language coming from a person like you." Conner leans down to lock lips with the british man in a kiss.

"Mmph?!" Tom struggles really hard to pull back from the kiss this idiot is giving him.

Connor smirks once he lets go of Tom. He licks his lips, "A rare guy like you  shouldn't be spending time with those simpletons."

Tom's eyebrows furrow to give an eyeless glare at him. "Fuck you!" He spits the taste of the other man's lips to the floor.

When he says that, a loud boom sounds from outside of the Blue Army base.

Connor chuckles as he pats Tom's head again, firmly this time.

"Showtime my little puppet!~"

+Outside The Blue Army Base+

Tanks are reloading ammunition for the next round of shots. The soldiers on foot were hounding the Blue Army soldiers on their life. Blue and Red soldiers fought together to bring this army down to the dirt.

One Blue Army soldier tried to contact the inside of the base to tell them how badly they were being pushed down. "S-Sir!" The soldier fumbles with the button of the radio as his hands are shaking in fear.

"There's one over by the mount!"

"That one's mine!"

The opposing soldiers were targeting every Blue Army soldier without hesitation. They were acting like rabid dogs looking for their next meal.

"It's s-So b-ba-d-"

"Found a rat!~"

The Blue Army soldier drops dead the moment he's found. The radio in his hands rolling out of his grip and to the muddy ground.

From up above, Tord looks down at the scene with amazement. 'Looks like allowing the Blue soldiers to come with us wasn't a bad decision after all.'

He watches Zack and Reggie double team on a pair of Blue Army soldiers who are trying to our run their predators. Only to be met with the undeniable fate of death. Zack pulled out his pistols, giving a dead shot through the other soldier's head. Reggie takes two small dual daggers, jumping the second soldier from behind, slitting their throat.

"Looks like their doing fine down there," Paul comments with amusement.

Patryk chuckles lightly as he looks for a place where Tord can be dropped off. "Get ready Red Leader, we're close to the drop zone. All the soldiers will follow in for backup after they clean up outside."

Tord nods as he gets his backpack on, getting ready to leave the helicopter. He unbuckles his seatbelt once he was sure everything was correctly strapped.

"We're here Sir! Make it quick, Pat's got shooting the soldiers below to clear a path."

Patryk's holding a rifle in his hands and shooting through the open door of the aircraft. All of the shots are dead center kills.

Tord steps up by Patryk, who gives his clear signal to jump. He takes a breath and leaps out of the aircraft. Then he quickly pulls out his rifle to help shoot more Blue Army soldier below near his landing spot. His other hand pulling the cord to release his parachute.

When he makes it to the ground, he waves up at Patryk that's he's safe.

Patryk pulls his radio out to update the soldiers about their leader's status. "Red Leader has jumped out of the helicopter and has just landed on one of the connecting buildings of the base." He holds on to one of the stable straps as the copter swerves to turn around. "Once clean up is done down on base grounds, head for the inside. He'll need back up."

"Roger that!" Every soldier replied.

"Let's give them air support Patryk."

"Go straight for them Paul, let's get this get done fast."

+With Tord+

Tord ran into the base, shooting every Blue Army soldier on sight with the rifle in his hands.

"Thomas!" He calls out loudly. The is no answer as expected. He has to the check the rooms.

The runs through the halls looking and search for his childhood rival.

Bullets fly through the air towards him. He blocks them off and skids to the corner for cover.

'Dammit Tom, where are you?'

+With Tom+

Tom sits in silence in the room he occupies. However, he is not alone, there are others in the room with their leader hiding among them.

They are just waiting until Tord finds him in this room where he is kept.

'Don't find me Commie.' He thinks in a silent plea. 'If he's smart enough, he knows there is a trap waiting for him once he finds me.'

He moves his head slowly, blindly looking around the room. Tom could hear screams, yelling, shouting through the walls.

'He said it before... my existence to him is a bother. That idiot wouldn't really come to save him right? He just needed him to work for his sorry ass.'

There was a bang next door, the sound of a door hitting against the wall next to this room.

Tom sits up straight, unknowingly looking up at the door a few feet in front of him. He could sense another person in the hallway coming this way by the sound of their footsteps.

'Don't tell me-'

"Thomas!?" Tord comes barging into the room with his rifle in hand. Once he sees Tom sitting across from where he's standing, he doesn't care less than to run over to him. "You're okay-"

"Idiot!" Tom shouts at him, stopping him from coming any closer. "It's a trap- Run!"

Tord looks around as the Blue Army soldiers start to surround them. He pulls out his custom gun with his free hand to threaten them with being shot at such a close range.

"Welcome to the Blue Army Base, Red Leader!" Connor greets him with glee as he steps out of the crowd. He takes place to stand behind Tom's seat.

"You bastard, let go of him now!" Tord growls out in a threatening tone.

Connor's excited expression doesn't waver as he moves his hand down to caress the side of Tom's face from behind. "Now why would I do that? Tom here would make a perfect Blue Army soldier here." He steps away from Tom to stand in front of his chair.

"He's a soldier to the Red Army," Tord continues to glare at the other Army Leader.

Tom letting out a weak whine as his thoughts were right, just another soldier in Tord's Army.

Tord looks at Tom serious, "and he is more than just my rival, Tom's my best friend." His tone coming off as soft and gentle.

Tom's blank eyes behind the VR set widen, looking towards Tord position with surprise.

"Friends, huh? If I do recall, you said something years ago to your dear old friends. Ah yes... 'What would I need friends for when I've got this?'" The Blue Leader extends his arms out as he spins around to look down at Tom. "I'm sure you remember that."

"Step the fuck away from him!" Tord didn't want to take the wrong step. He could either be killed or Tom would instead. Tord couldn't handle this alone, Tom couldn't even back him up since his goggles are broken.

Connor laughs when Tord holds his gun up to aim at him. "Now, now Red Leader. You wouldn't want to hurt your dear friend now, would you?" He smiles when Tord slowly lets his arm fall back to his side.

"No..."

The Blue Leader looks back at Tom, "You had me worried for a second Tom. Had me all spooked up for some scary person who you thought was this man. Ha! ha! Ha!" Connor holds Tom's head up, a loving gaze set on the blind man. "All I see is a fool."

He kissed those lips lightly, his eyes closed for a moment before opening halfway to see the reaction he got from the Red Leader. Hoping he got some kind of rise of surprise from the supposed fearsome leader that had conquered half of the world already.

Astonishingly, he was met with a red colored room. He slowly lets go of his captive to survey the room. Tom didn't understand what was going on when the Leader let go of him shakily.

The walls and the floors were painted with blood. Bodies of his soldiers were on the floor, blood pouring out of bullet or knife wounds. Some soldiers were even strung up to the ceiling with rope or multiple knives embedded in them to pin them.

The next horror he noticed was the presence of many soldiers around the room that were not his own. Most stood up on the balcony watching from above, others on the main floor where he stood, others perched or hanging upon podiums and stone architecture. He could hear them muttering around him.

"That's him~"

"The man who took our leader~"

"He's in trouble~"

Conner had never felt so overwhelmed with fear in his life. Not like this. He had only kissed Tom for a few seconds and he sees all of this madness. As if the minions of a demon made its entrance to please their master by decorating the room.

"Red Leader will punish him."

"He will pay for taking our second Leader."

"He messed with the wrong
Army."

The Blue Leader backs up and away from Tom's seat. His gaze watching as some of those soldiers approach the lift haired brunet, firstly taking off those restraints. He keeps walking back until his back hits something- or rather someone. Turning his head, Connor comes face to face with the Red Leader. Not pleased with all with what he had just done.

"Connor Miles, Blue Leader of the Blue Army, you are hereby a prisoner of the Red Army." Tord gives Connor a sadistic expression, one he will remember forever in his nightmares. "Don't worry, I will personally do my best to make sure you get a full taste of my wrath~"

From outside the Blue Base, everyone could hear Connor's scream of terror.

~Small Time Skip~

Tom was carefully escorted by his soldiers outside to a waiting medical team that came with them. His soldiers, Reggie and Zack, had done the honors to get the monster level retrains off his wrists and ankles earlier. Leaving Tom feeling content of not being a bargaining chip anymore.

"Blue, thank goodness you are okay! Everyone has been so worried about you since you disappeared." Lizzie runs over to give her Leader a tight hug as she's sighs in relief that he is okay. "Please don't ever do that again..."

Tom slowly brings his arms up to hug her back gently in a comforting manner. "I'm sorry I worried all of you... I can't promise, but I can try not to worry any of you anymore." He closes his eyes behind the VR set, finding safety being back with them.

"Welcome back Blue."

Tom smiles tiredly over her shoulder.

"I'm home."

Meanwhile, Tord has Paul and Patryk handle Connor's transportation back to the base. He only made it easier when the Blue Army Leader passed out for fear and shock.

"Make sure he's secured tightly and can't escape. I want to torture this sorry jackass the moment we get back to base." Tord orders as Paul drags the unconscious man onto the helicopter. Patryk laugh along when he his partner lets Connor's head hit the door of the helicopter on purpose.

Patryk pats Tord's shoulder in assurance, "Don't worry Tord, we'll make sure he gets there and stays there. If he tries to escape we'll just set some of the hounds on him." He says referring to Tom's soldiers. They really did act like a pack of hound dogs who are willing to sink their teeth into anything that threatens their master.

Paul looks over to them after tying Conner into his seat. "You go on ahead and check on Tom for us Tord. We'll get a head start to the base to bring good news. Plus we can get this guy into one of the cells while he's still unconscious."

Tord agrees with them, not after waving them off first. He watches the helicopter take off into the night sky back towards their base. When they are gone, he walks over to where the tanks and soldiers are to find Tom.

"I'm telling you Lizzie, they didn't hurt me."

"Doesn't mean I still shouldn't check. Come on Blue, it'll be over before you know it."

Tord finds them within the hour due to their loud argument. He comes to find Tom without his VR set off, placed right next to his side of his hip. His eyes were covered up again with white bandages to make sure they don't get any further damage.

When Lizzie notices him, Tord presses a finger to his lips. She understood he wanted to surprise her Leader so she didn't tell Tom he was there.

"Come on Blue, it won't take long."

Tom reluctantly gave in to her checkup. "Fine." He can feel his medical aid pushing certain points on his skin to check for sore spots. Tom would respond with a 'no' if he didn't feel any pain. Lizzie checked his other senses and they were still all fine.

"Oh yeah, Lizzie?"

"Yes, Blue?"

Tom shifts in his seat, "You don't have a mint or piece of gum on you by any chance?"

Lizzie checks her medical bag for any leftover mints or gum for patients. "Hmm, here's one. It's mint by the way." She pulls out a wrapped up piece of mint and places square sweet in Tom's hand.

"Thanks, I really want to get rid of the taste of that jerk who kissed me." Tom unwraps the gum bad puts it in his mouth.

Lizzie tensed up when she felt a heated stare from behind here. She forgot the Red Leader is there watching them. "Oh dear, how horrible." She laughs awkwardly while scooting out of the way of Tord's glare.

"I know, the guy even kissed me twice."

Around them the soldiers heard an audible snap, they turned to see Red Leader about to go on another fury run.

Lizzie seeing the danger soothes the problem by doing Tord a favor. "Now that you are all checked out. One of the Red soldiers will guide you over to one of the jeeps. Red wants to head back to base in a few minutes." She looks over at the Red Leader and gestures for him to come forward.

Surprised, Tord comes over quietly, his anger subsiding as he does. Lizzie grabs his wrist when he's close to them, tugging him over to Tom.

"Blue, this is Mill. He'll be your guide for the time being." Lizzie picks up Tom's hand and makes it hold onto Tord's hand. "He's a pretty quiet guy, so don't expect too many words from him if you decided to talk with each other."

Tom smiles as he stands up. "It's nice to meet you, Mill." Tom steps closer to Tord to adjust himself on his arm. He hooks his arm next to Tord so that their standing side by side. "I do apologize if this makes you feel uncomfortable leading a blind man like this."

Tord answers with a simple grunt as his cheeks are shaded with a light red. He looks at Lizzie who gives him a supportive smile.

"I'll see you back at base Blue!" Lizzie says as she runs off with her medical bag to her assigned ride back to the base.

That just left Tord and Tom together where they stand.

"Let's head back too Mill. It's been a very eventful day."

Tord nods even if Tom can't see the small action. The leader picks up Tom's broken VR set, then leads Tom to their jeep, getting him seated first and buckling him in safely. Then he gets into the vehicle to sit next to Tom. His metal arm raises in the air to signal everyone to start heading back to base.

Their car moved forward first to lead the route back to the Red Army Base. They were finally going to get some rest once they get back.

To Tord's surprise, Tom laid his head on his shoulder. "Hm?"

"Sorry Mill... I'm just feeling tired." Tom says softly.

Tord just hums in response as he hesitantly lays his head on top of Tom's.

Halfway through their ride, Tord falls asleep to Tom's relaxing humming of a song. The soldiers sitting in the front enjoying the nice tune on the way home with the night sky over them with bright guiding stars.

Unaware to Tord and Lizzie, Tom already knew every soldier's name in the base by now. He never saw a profile with the name Mill on it.

A small smile tugs at the corner of his lips.

"Thanks, Tord."

+x+x+x+

To the Fanart as they say! Yeah, hey soldiers, we got a buttload of fanart today for this chapter. All praise you mighty artist and the time you put for making them for this story. I applauded you! ^^

Anyways I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Next chapter is more lighter stuff, and we get more view points. So look forward to that.

-DipperCipher0

This is an amazing one! This is a gif, sadly I could not get it to go moving like it should. So check it out in @Haibisukasuti Art Book!

Lovely drawing and coloring is made by @Phycho_Tord, I admire your the way you colored the drawing in ^^

These two sketches are done from @AkiraArtZ splendid job by the way. This goes with last chapter near the end. XD

Finally this amazing piece of fanart was done by @Jyx-Charlii I just love how you interpreted Connor's appearance. Nicely done ^^