The breakout

It had passed a few days, Yuudai calmly waited at his cell, trusting that his friends would save him. Meanwhile, recruits were entering the prison, within them, Emi, Kenshin, Izanami, Nobuo and Mika were disguised as them.

They easily passed through some guards who checked their fake IDs, with no problems at all.

"You two" A guard pointed at Emi and Mika. "Guard the middle floor" he ordered.

Nobuo was sent to the lower floors, where Yuudai was located and Izanami and Kenshin were assigned for maintenance.

"Of course it had to be us two" Kenshin said and sighed while he and Izanami walked to do their supposed tasks.

"Try to contact Yuudai" Emi whispered to Nobuo before she left with Mika.

"C'mon big guy, we got work to do" The guard said to Nobuo.

Nobuo and the guard left to the lower floors, he was sent to a floor above Yuudai's cell, he also noticed that Yuudai's floor was unguarded.

"Why aren't there any guards down there?" Nobuo asked, curious.

"The government told us that some assassins would try to assassinate The Phantom Phoenix" The guard said, mocking his name a bit. "We don't want any more casualties" he said.

"But are we allowed to go down there?" Nobuo asked.

"What?" The guard said surprised. "I know that you're a big guy but I doubt that you'd be able to defeat those assassins"

"So we can't do anything about it?" Nobuo asked.

"I understand you man, The Phantom Phoenix realized that he was working on the wrong side, but we can't do anything" The guard calmly said. "We should get back to work, I'll be on the upper floor if you need me" he said and walked away.

When the guard left Nobuo sprinted to the stairs that lead downstairs but stopped when he noticed a camera pointing to the stairs.

He contacted Izanami through a hidden communicator, asking for help.

"I think there's something here that powers on the cameras down there" Izanami said looking around and opening metal boxes with small switches inside "Found it, but this will alert the guards to come here"

"I just need 5 minutes" Nobuo said.

"Okay then, I'm turning it off" Izanami said and then flipped a switch.

Nobuo sprinted down the stairs and arrived at the lowest floor, it was wet and with floor drainages around the floor.

"Well, I expected you to be here two minutes later" Yuudai said from inside his cell.

"Commander, we don't have much time" Nobuo said.

"Indeed, the assassins will be here in a few minutes" Yuudai said. "And please refer to me as Yuudai, I'm no longer a commander"

"I'll tell you our plan" Nobuo said.

Meanwhile, Emi and Mika examined their floor, it was where the armory was located and where many firearms were stored.

"Mika, try sabotaging the weapons" Emi whispered to her.

Mika nodded and entered the armory, with Emi guarding the entrance. A female guard approached her.

"Hm? I haven't seen you before" The female guard said.

"O-Oh, I'm new" Emi said, acting shy.

"What's your name?" The guard asked with a friendly smile.

"I-I'm Aoi Nagatomo, I-I just started today..." Emi responded, in a very good act.

"Ha, kid, I must say your acting is quite good" The female guard complimented. "Call me Erika for now"

"So, you'll tell on me?" Emi asked.

"I got no reason to" Erika said, looking down at the lower floors. "You came for him, right?"

Emi looked surprised at Erika, she knew of their plan.

"Well at least he's in safe hands" Erika said.

"How did you know-" Emi asked.

"About your plan?" Erika said, interrupting her. "I was planning to save him as well"

"What? Who are you?" Emi asked, a bit surprised.

"Tell him that I'll see him at home" Erika said with a smile and walked off.

Mika walked out of the armory and looked at Emi and asked her if something had happened, she shook her head.

"Did you finish?" Emi asked.

"Yes, it's done" Mika said. "We'll start phase two"

Back with Nobuo and Yuudai, he explained everything to him.

"I see, so Emi came to that conclusion as well" Yuudai said. "The assassins aren't only planning to kill me, but to also-"

Suddenly the alarm went off and everything went red.

"Seems like we don't have time at all" Yuudai said.

Nobuo contacted Izumi and Yuudai's cell door opened.

"Now then, let's start the plan" Yuudai said, stretching outside his cell.

Emi saw people with black clothes falling to Yuudai's floor and heard gunshots coming from the upper floors.

Izanami and Kenshin were in a gunfight with the guards.

"Shit! Our cover is blown" Izanami said with her mask on and shooting back.

"We didn't expect them to be here so early" Kenshin said, also with his mask.

"We need backup!" Izanami radioed in.

Emi and Mika were also in a tight spot, fighting assassins and on the lowest floor Yuudai and Nobuo were greeted by the one who was leading the assassins.

"Well well, looks like someone escaped their cell" The assassin said.

Yuudai put his band that Nobuo gave him on and a combat knife formed on his hands. The assassin ordered his subordinates to kill them.

The assassins rushed at Yuudai and Nobuo and tried stabbing them with their knives. Yuudai swiftly dodged their attacks and swung back while Nobuo swung his massive hammer around.

"Nobuo, use that attack!" Yuudai said as he started getting overwhelmed.

Nobuo nodded and pressed a small button on his hammer, it started charging with electricity and signaled Yuudai.

He jumped and Nobuo swung down with force his hammer to the floor, electrocuting all the assassins.

Yuudai landed on Nobuo's shoulder. "We should get going" he said as he jumped back on the floor.

"I've got Yuudai" Nobuo contacted Emi.

Emi and Mika had taken care of the assassins with no injuries.

"Then start phase 2" Emi said.

Guards came from behind and pointed their weapons at them.

"Surrender or we'll shoot!" The guard warned to them.

"You can't" Emi said with a smile.

The guards tried to shoot them but it backfired when their guns exploded on their faces and knocked them out.

"Izanami, start phase 2" Emi radioed in as her mask formed on her face and more guards came rushing down to them.

The cells started to open and inmates started fighting against the guards. Izanami had opened all the cells and powered down all the cameras.

Kenshin almost got shot but kept firing back at the guards.

"Can we leave now?" Kenshin shouted as he reloaded his weapon.

"Yes!" Izanami shouted back.

Mika flew in and cleared their exit, Kenshin and Izanami thanked her and the three of them ran away.

While going up Yuudai looked down below and noticed that one of the floors was already flooded by water.

"Izumi already activated it" Yuudai said as he started running more faster.

Nobuo cleared all the guards on their path by swinging his hammer and hitting them to the lower floors.

Meanwhile, Melinda, Izumi and Mizuki were outside waiting in a speedboat.

Izumi had a laptop on her lap and she already hacked through the prison's system. "Erased all camera footage" she said. "Cameras and turrets turned off as well"

"Well then! Now I can enter-" Melinda said, standing up and excited.

"Stay here, I'll help them escape" Mizuki interrupted and jumped inside the prison.

Melinda sighed and sat back down.

"I understand your pain" Izumi said as she continued hacking the system.

Mizuki swang with elegance and beauty her blade, slashing the guards and destroying the inactive turrets.

Yuudai, Nobuo, and Emi were running up the floors since the water was rising faster than before.

"Why is the water rising faster?" Emi asked, surprised, to Izumi through their comms while they kept running and dodging inmates and guards.

"I don't know!" Izumi said. "Someone is somehow making it rise faster!"

"Another hacker maybe?" Nobuo suggested.

Izumi looked around to see if there was someone nearby.

"I see them!" Melinda said, pointing out a small figure under the bridge.

"They're too far!" Izumi said through the comms.

"I can jump to there-" Melinda said, excited.

"No! It could be a trap" Mizuki said through the comms while she kept slashing the guards.

Nobuo noticed that Yuudai and Emi were behind him and that the water would reach them before they make it. Nobuo slowed down, making Emi and Yuudai take the lead.

Nobuo picked them up. "Woah!" Yuudai said in surprise. He carried them in his arms and started running more faster.

Izanami, Kenshin and Mika reached outside and started firing at the guards, they heard something behind them and realized that the doors were slowly closing.

"Izumi! The doors are closing!" Kenshin shouted through the comms.

"I'm getting locked out of the system!" Izumi said while she tried to reconnect back.

Nobuo, Emi and Yuudai were close to the exit, but they realized that they wouldn't make it in time.

"Back off!" Mizuki shouted at Izanami and Kenshin who was near the door. She raised her sword "7th Technique: Falling Blossoms" she swung at the door with a speed that Izanami and Kenshin couldn't see her blade hit, but the door was still kept together and still kept closing.

Nobuo started charging at the door, making Yuudai and Emi panic.

"Wait Nobuo!" Yuudai shouted.

"It's a metal door!" Emi shouted as well.

Nobuo didn't listen and charged through the door, breaking the metal doors with ease thanks to Mizuki. He then dropped the startled Yuudai and Emi.

"Please don't do that again" Emi said, quite startled.

"Stop with the chit-chat!. They'll be sending reinforcements" Izanami shouted.

All of them opened the gates and ran outside to the bridge, the boat was located under them with Izumi and Melinda watching from down below.

Without hesitation, Yuudai jumped down, aiming at the water, the rest followed him behind except for Mika that was able to fly. Izumi and Melinda helped them out of the water and they rode off.

Back at the WJO base, the leader was monitoring, from above, the construction of fully armed hovercrafts, the training of soldiers, and the construction of tall robots when he was approached by his secretary, telling him about the assassination failure.

"I see... So Takamasa died, including his squad of assassins" He said as he clenched his fist. "And he survived..." he said in an agitated voice.

"Yes, their whereabouts are unknown for the moment" She said.

He sighed and ordered her to continue looking for them.

"In just a few hours, we will start the conquest of Japan" The leader said, calming himself.

The secretary nodded and walked away, while he kept looking at the construction of his army, with an annoyed expression.