"Everybody take the day off tomorrow, we'll have to travel there."

I review Riki's announcement in my head after my hard day of work. I'd taken tomorrow off, we're going to where that mansion is located. I've never even went back to my apartment ever since I've met the BF, Riki--for some reason--had a lot of girls' clothes=_= not sure if that's a good thing or not....I should probably go get some things since we're travelling this time.

I easily packed a small suitcase, just some changes of clothes...and....y'know...what I need....

As i step out my apartment building, i pass someone with a thick violet scarf covering up to her nose and she wore a white pom-pom hat.
Her red eyes send off a glare at me. But it wasnt like my eye, which is ruby red. Her pupils were a shade of blood.

She looks kinda familiar....
*ring ring* my phone rang.
"hey Kuin, you done? We're coming to getcha." Riki's voice rang from the phone.
Before I can even say anything, the van pulled up beside me. Actually, it drove past my side, and Riki pulled me in through the open door, along with my mini suitcase.
These rebels =_=...(ーー;)

"Hey..." i whined while Hiro pulled the van door shut. Riki literally dragged me in by force. "why'd u have to do zat?" i say and rub my arm.
"cuz its much faster. we dont have much time." he said with a serious expression.
"well probably arrive in two and a half hours by this speed." takuto says, driving our attention back to the actual mission.

Suddenly, with no warning at all, kenshi slammed onto the brake. "whoa!" to the sudden impact, i fell forward.
"what the heck was that?!" takuto yelled.
"oy." a deep voice sounded from underneath me. When i look down, our faces were frickin centermetres apart.

Worst of all, when I tried to get up, he just grabbed my chin. Riki, being the flirt he is, can't get more flirty. "That's twice you've fallen on me." he said and eventually let me get up.

"Wipe that smug look off your face." I say to him. Kenshi got off and we all follow. 

"What was the matter?" Hiro asked. Then, we all spot some nails inches away from the tire. 

"Someone's trying to sabotage our mission." Riki concluded after a brief second of silence. "They left nails on the road to flat our tire, to slow us down."

Kenshi drove around the trap and continued on. 

We drove off for about ten minutes...

Takuto: "YESSS!!"

Hiro was drinking water, aaaand he spat it out.

"What now?" Riki asked and went over to Takuto's laptop.

"I managed to get access to one of that guy's living room security cameras." Takuto said proudly and clicked open a link.

Man: "I want it open! Now!"

Hiro: "that's the mansion's owner."

Security: "I'm sorry, sir. There's only a small screen for the password section on the suitcase."

Man: "laser, chainsaws, guns...whatever! Just get it open before tomorrow morning!"

Kenshi: "what's he talking about?"

The man in the video was pacing around while three other people are using all sorts of weapons on a large, flat suitcase.

Man: "But if you damage even a tiny scratch of the painting inside it, you're dead!"

"The master peice was in a case?!" we all said in unison. That's why the man can't sell it right away, they can't open the case. And whoever's trying to sabotage us is trying to slow us down to give him more time to figure the password out. 

Security: "Y-yes sir!"

Hiro: "is that a chainsaw he's holding?"

Riki: "That idiot! It's impossible to open it without damaging the art!"

Lillie: "No wait, look. it wouldn't budge. What material did great grandad use?"

Takuto: "Whatever it is, only your fingerprint can open that."

This is kinda cool....

Riki: "If you're thinking this is cool, it's not. This is serious."

I purse my lips and look away.

Man: "If you can't open it by tomorrow, the buyer will definitely...y'know he's...he owns...!"

The video started breaking up and after two seconds, completely loosing signal, a big 'error' was shown on screen.

Kenshi: "Ugh! Just when he started talking about where this is selling to!"

"Hey." I say to the frustrated guys as I see something. "Somebody cut into our line and ended our signal." 

"Somebody's definitely trying to stop us." Riki said as him and Hiro tries to repair the lines.

"It's getting more dangerous by the minute." Takuto suddenly said, "four motorcycles are coming towards us from behind, going 120km/h."

"But the limit is 100!" Hiro said.

"Do you think they give a damn about that?!" Takuto shouted back.

"Wait a second, how'd you know if those are just normal people speeding?" Kenshi asked from the drivers' seat.

"cuz the bikes ain't got no license plate number." Takuto said with a are-you-an-idiot-this-is-obvious face. "Just shoot their tires, no need to kill them by gun!"

I sighed: "Riki, gimme two guns." I'm starting to hear vrooming engines coming closer.

"Oh no you're not. I'm comin' with ya." He said as he tossed me a gun and opened the sunroof. I smiled and stick my upper body out through the dormer facing backwards, with Riki beside me.

"There." I see four faint figures showing. I aimed at the one on the far right, and fired, twice. *boom* *boom* now I only see three figures, and they're becoming more clear.

"Nice shot." Riki said and fired as well. The other two sped up even more towards us. I can now clearly see two dark black motorbikes with two rogue men with dark helmets driving them. I see one of them taking out a gun and I shoot him before he even had the chance to put his finger over the trigger.

There's only one left. Riki and I fired several times but he dodged all of them by zig-zagging. It slowed him down, but only a little bit.  the man also pulled out a gun.

That's it. That instant, the van shook and made noises. The man had shot the back right tire of the van and we're slowing down. 

"We'll have to stop!" I heard Kenshi yell from inside the van.

"He's coming up." Riki said as the guy in the motorcycle started to aim at us. "Duck!" Riki held my head down.

Suddenly, both of us were pulled back down inside the van. Hiro had pulled us in.

"Wh--" my breath got instantly taken away for there is a truck heading straight towards us in front. The tire was too flat to steer and we're slowing more and more down to about 40km/h already.

Kenshi turned the wheel intensely and floored the gas pedal. We started motioning to the left. Just as I embraced myself, we made safely out of the way. But when I glanced back. No one was driving the motorcycle anymore, and truck driver seat was empty, as well.

The truck and motorbike crashed together with the bike flying off the road.

All of us were still in shock for a whole minute.

"Oh...thank god...." Riki mumbled quietly.

"We were *this* close to hell." Takuto muttered under his breath. 

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Apologize for ze late update.... I'm running low on ideas for this one. And I'm caught up with my other fanfic and all....

thnx for reading~

--Lillie