CHAPTER 9

I woke up gasping for air, the nightmares are hunting me again. And I still don't know what that means.

"Are you okay?" Rize asked.

"Yeah, just nightmares," I answered. She just nodded and went to the bathroom.

I was readying my clothes and stuff when my tears fell, I don't know why but it fell. Am I going crazy? Why would they fall? Is it because of the dream? But why? Who is that man? Who is that girl? Who are they? What is their connection to me? I flinched when somebody holds my shoulder, and when I turned around, it was Rize. I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn't realize that she's done taking a bath.

"Are you sure your okay, Captain?" She asked again.

" Of course, I just remembered my nightmare," I answered.

" Care to share it?" She said.

"Sure, it was Hide, he's smiling at us all! Hahaha!" I burst out with laughter, and she laughed with me too.

"Yeah, that is sure a nightmare! Hahaha!" She replied. Sigh! I git out of the corner again, they don't have to know my problems, it might add to their problems.

I change to my clothes after having a bath, but I change my usual appearance when I'm in SDO because Mark Rin already know our first fake face, and my team also did the same, except for Rize and Armin, because they weren't there when Hide and I was interrogating them.

We went out of our room after we finished our routine, and we saw the boys are waiting for us. We were walking towards the Pathea when someone called my name.

"Azumi!" A guy called, I turned around and saw Captain Sota walking towards us.

"Yes?" I asked.

"Here, it will protect you from poison smokes, or any smoke, it's my newly made formula, so I hope it'll keep you safe." He said and showed me a silver necklace with a libra constellation pendant.

"Wow, your awesome Sota, thanks," I said gleefully.

" May I??" He said while gesturing his hands for permission for him to put the necklace for me.

"Sure I answered." I turned around from him and I saw my team looking at me mischievously, while Hide was walking away from us and headed to the Pathea.

Sota finished putting the necklace on me so I faced him.

"That's again Captain Sota, this is a great help for me and us," I said and walk again to Pathea.

"You always welcome Captain Azumi." He said.

" Hey! Captain Sota! What about us?" Rize yelled! Sota stopped and turned to us awkwardly while scratching his head.

"I'm sorry, but I managed to finish the formula a minute ago, so I didn't make enough. But if your around with her you wind be affected by any smokes too." He explained

" Hahaha!!!! I was just joking Captain! Don't take it so seriously!" She said and burst out in laughter again. Sota laughed with us too.

"Thanks again, Sota, I appreciate it," I said and we walk to Pathea.

We saw Hide sitting on the chair looking at us with boredom.

"Hey! It's not my you walked here without us." I said and laughed. And then all of us laughed, well, except for Hide of course.

***

We went back to the chemical lab to monitor his schedule, we waited out of the lab maybe a mile or 2, we would not want to be spotted now.

After a long day of waiting for his job to be over, he came out and drove his car, we still have him a mile or two distance, so he won't suspect that someone is following him, we would be able to see his car clear though because of our contact lenses, it has enhanced vision, that it could see far objects, it can even see clearly in the dark.

Mark stopped at their apartment, we parked Veevee behind a tall big tree and waited for him again. The night has come, but he still didn't go out of their apartment.

"Tss, they are probably heating the bed now! Yuck!" Rize killed the silence that covers us for about the whole day. We all laughed, again except for Hide

After a while, Mark went out of his apartment and drove off. We continued the following scheme. The bottle of the formula that Sota changed from blue to purple and shined.

"Guys,b I think we're here," I said and showed them the bottle.

Their faces turned serious, and silence covered us. We looked around the area to see the details.

The building is not old and not new, it's dirty white and it has some red outlines that made it look like bloodstains. We split into two. I'm with Rize heading to the north while Hide is heading to the south, Armin, as always stayed in the van to manage us, we walk about 500 meters away from the building.

We turned the vision enhancer in our lenses to see from afar, then turned on the x-ray vision in the lens to see through the walls of the building. Inside the building, we saw a lot of people, two persons are guarding the main entrance against the inside and also two against the outside, the fire exit on the ground floor is guarded by only one, I turned my gaze to the second floor and I saw many rooms and a guard at the stairs, it's like our quarters in Atom, I then look at the third floor and there was an office and we saw Mark Rin heading to a table and put some folders on the table, that must be where their boss' office, he left the office and went down to the ground floor and he left the big building. I turned off the x-ray vision in my contacts and looked at the area, when we arrived, there are already two guards guarding the main entrance, but I didn't expect that there will be still guards at the part of the building with no doors or entrance. It's been a long walk before we could almost reach the back of the building, and aside From the guards that are guarding on that side, I could see some underwear of both and woman, lots of them, so gross, I think this place is a making out den or, to be more accurate, a s*x den. I just ignored them before I could think of gross images as we saw Hide waiting for us under a tree.

"What did you notice?" I asked as an approach to him.

" There were two guards on the side of the building even though there's no any entrance, that the only thing that I noticed." He said.

" Same on the other side too. And I guess the back of the building has more guards than the other sides." I said.

There are five guards on the backside of the building including the one that is guarding the fire exit...

"Yeah, but what I saw inside is not all of the building in my assumptions, I think there's still behind those walls that our x-ray vision can't access." He said Rize and I just nodded.

" Let's go back to Armin to git the cameras," Rize said so we all head back to Veevee.

"Oww!" Rize shouted but in a whispering way

" Why, what happened to you?" I asked.

"I think I stepped on a broken glass." She said while struggling to fix her posture.

We made her sit down so we could see her wound, and it was so big and the glass that pierced through her feet is still stuck deep in it.

"Should I come there now?" Armin asked in our earpiece.

" No, we are near to you, I could manage to walk it in this distance." Rize stopped him.

" But-"

" No buts Armin were heading back now." She cut Armin's words.

Armin didn't have a choice but to obey her.

We supported Rize to walk so that she won't be hurt anymore. After a while, we arrived at the van.

"Make her sit down here," Armin approached us guiding us to the clinic in the van. "You two should continue the plan without her, she can't walk until the day after tomorrow," Armin added. We nodded and grabbed the tiny cameras and turned on its stealth mode so it won't be detected.

We went out of the van again, leaving Armin and Rize in the van. Hide and I split ways to put the cameras on the trunk of the trees. The building is surrounded by trees while the front of the building was clear and many residents are in this place.

Hide and I met again as we arrive at the back of the building, and put the last camera on the tree. Since it's night any light is easily spotted and my heart raced when we saw a shine of a flashlight in our direction, if it wasn't in this huge tree that we are hiding, we would've been spotted. We didn't move a muscle hoping that it would go the other way, but my hope dropped because the steps are getting louder and sound closer to us. An idea came to me, I pulled Hide closer to me using his shirt and dragged his face more closer to me, making us look like we're making out. Ugh! This is embarrassing. I saw that Hide's eyes widened when the space between our faces are just an inch.

A light shine on the side of our face and I pushed Hide lightly away from me and glared at the man who was holding the flashlight, I realized that this is one of the guards on the backside of the building.

"What's your problem huh? Can't you see that we're making out here?" I scolded him.

" Ugh- ugh, sorry, miss, I didn't mean to interrupt you, I just want to pee." He said.

" Whatever, let's go, babe, let's find another place," I said and grabbed Hide's arms and we walked away and back to our van.

I'm so glad that my plan worked, I remembered the underwear of some people here that made it look like a s*x den, I don't have anything in mind until it popped up so I used it as our escape scheme.

When we arrived at the van, Armin and Rize looked at us with a wide teasing grin plastered on their faces. That's when I realized that they were monitoring us

"Stop, that look, I don't have a choice, but to do the first thing that came up in my mind," I said.

" Okay, if you say so," Rize said teasingly.

" Hahaha! By the way, I'm sorry for not informing you that that guy was coming your way I was busy at Rize." Armin explained.

" It's okay. Are you okay Rize?" I said.

" Yes Capt., But I would be a lot better if I saw a life-making out scene." Rize teased again.

" Ugh! Stop already!" I said. I turned my gaze to Hide and I saw him holding his chest.

Was he scared too? Huh! I thought I was the only one. Let's continue this tomorrow, Rize needs to rest.

We all agreed and we drove back to Atom.