“ What the- Augh------”

*faints, and falls down*

Another guard has been squeezed on the neck by Mickey's arms.

He then stepped aside for Toshi to pick locking the door while moving the guard's body and dump him in the cleaning room where no one's gonna see.

*Click*

They didn't even open it up yet, Roxxy on the outside reported something.

“Mickey... Somebody's coming towards your way.”

As fast as electric current, Mickey hid inside the plug by transforming himself into electric current.

While Toshi in the woman disguise just kept away his key and acted like he's waiting for someone over here.

Finally, it appears that the person was a man.

He is Pete Wetton.

The target.

“ !? ”

This is totally unexpected.

“........”

However, he did not come alone, he's walking with another man who's wearing glasses and a purple suit.

They're definitely heading somewhere.

Pete glared to Toshi's disguise. He looked at him suspiciously, however, he ignored as Toshi (In woman's disguise) pretends that he's arguing with someone on the phone.

“ Ma'am.”

“ JUST PICK ME UP ALREADY I'M WAITING FOR YOU STUPID-- Oh? Yes? ”

As the bodyguard approaches Toshi, he quickly puts down the phone.

“ Oh my. I'm so sorry.”

He said.

Before proceeds to walk away from them.

“........”

Pete and his guest didn't react. After Toshi turned around the corner, they then took out a key and went into the room.

Mickey then appears out of the cleaner's room and quickly reports to everyone.

“ Pete Wetton is located on the third floor of the last building. I repeat. We've located Pete. I repeat. We've located Pete.”

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[ Pete Wetton is located on the third floor of the last building. I repeat. We've located Pete. I repeat. We've located Pete.]

Signal has been sent to Jody and Sera on the other side.

“!?”

[ We can't approach the target yet. He has his men around. He's going into his room with another guest in a purple suit.]

Jody and Sera need to speed up their works. They walked through the group of guests and finally arrived at the front of the stage.

Suddenly, the lights in the hall went out and the music came up like there'll be someone special coming off the stage and...it really is.

Jody&Sera heard people around them clapping. As they glared on the stage, they found a middle-aged woman walking out.

It's Daisy Raine.

“!!!!!!!”

And she's about to say something to the guest.

“ We found Daisy. She's at the stage.”

Sera reported to the other side.

“ They're split? That's sweet. But how could we take her out?”

Asked Sera.

[ From behind the stage. You guys probably need to sneak behind ]

Said Roxxy through the speaker.

“ How about that? ”

Jody points her finger to a couple of makeup artists she's been looking for a long time.

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The unfortunate makeup artist is being knocked in the head while she was on her way to the restroom, it was Jody who did it. She and Sera then help each other carrying her body, takes her clothes, and left her unconscious self in the locker.

“ With this, we'd be able to get behind the dressing room. Daisy came out from there. And she will return when she finished talking.”

“ Wait... We? But we only have 1 clothes...”

“ Who said you're gonna dress up as a makeup artist?”

Asked Jody.

“ You?”

Sera said, not very confident.

“ You're a model. Everyone knows you're not suitable for a makeup artist.”

Said Jody.

“ What's the difference between you and me??? I can use that excuse in return! ”

“ you say what?”

Jody knocks off another female model who's also walked pass here to go to the restroom.

“ ...... ”

“ I was just kidding. I mean, it's better if one of us disguises as a model and another is a makeup artist. We can stay together and nobody will suspect.”

Sera is convinced by Jody's explanation.

“ I see...”

“I've already counted the model on the stage, Although I don't know the exact amount, they're at least more than 30 in my estimation.”

Jody said, confidentially.

“ That'll be easier to blend in.”

Sera said.

Jody nods.

“ But this dress is a bit too tight for me.”

“ Too tight? Sera, this woman is like 26 and you're just like 18... How?”

“ It's only ‘ a bit ’. Or would you like to swap with me??? ”

Sera awkwardly argued.

“ There's no time now. Just hurry up.”

“ Jesus...”

Sera pulls up the zip, making it's even tighter and reveal her shape.

“ Bear with it. It's only a bit eh?”

“.... *sigh*... Fine.”

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The music lowers down as both of them approached behind the stage as a model and makeup artist.

Jody opens the door, inside, there's a lot of people and mirrors and makeup desks.

They're all busy.

Sera gazed her eyes around then she found an exit to the front stage.

“That sure is where Daisy walked out.”

Said Sera, pointing.

“ And will walk in here too. Then we'll just stay here.”

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Swapping to the other side, Toshi and Mickey were having a dramatic discussion about how to approach Pete Wetton.

They're standing not very far from his room but still keeping a distance.

“ First thing first, Pete's room was not isolated. And he wouldn't let himself be isolated either. Those bodyguards. I don't have any problem taking them out, but I ain't fast enough to take them all before they call their units ”

Said Toshi.

Mickey then suggested a brilliant idea.

“ How about you put yourself as one of his men? ”

“ Bro. Those ain't just ordinary security guard. They're men in black. A suit, a pair of sunglasses. But I will find the way. How about you? What you do?”

“ See that?”

Mickey points out to a “Fire sprinklers”

on the ceiling.

“.......”

“ Paethai says not to make it loud.”

Toshi tends to disagree with whatever Mickey's trying to tell him.

“ The girls have already found Daisy, what are you worry about? Or you have a better idea?”

“.......”

“ We can just blame it on the securities.”

Said Mickey.

Toshi then took something out of his pocket.

“ Lucky for us. I've brought a lighter.”

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[ Inside the room ]

Pete Wetton invited a man to have a secret conversation with him.

This man wears glasses, a purple suit, he looks younger than Pete and quiet mannerisms.

“ All tasks you need to do is this man.”

Pete tossed a picture of Syd Barrett and Toshi Ishii on the table in front of him.

The guy in the purple suit picks it up and starts looking.

“ The previous useless hitmen failed the task to kill him.”

“ What a waste of money, Mr.Pete.”

“ And I hope you won't follow the same path as them.”

He said.

“ How many of your employees failed the mission?”

“ Not your business. All you have to do is to kill them. Bring their corpses here and we can talk about money.”

Said Pete.

“ You sure that they'll be here, sir?”

Asked the man.

“ Maybe. But there's also a possibility that it'll be his team this time. Your other task is to get rid of any suspects who dare enough to approach me and my wife.”

“...That'll double the price, Mr.Pete-”

“ Keep that confidence to yourself when you finish your job. We've no problem with money here.”

“.......”

The man paused before he brought up his suitcase.

He opened it and took out a “Polaroid Camera”.

*Snap*

*Screeeek*

*Snap*

*Screeeek*

He took the picture of Syd and Toshi from the picture on the desk.

The film slides out of the camera.

*Shaking*

“.......”

Pete was confused.

“ What are you doing-”

Suddenly, the bathroom on the other side of the room has been opened up by someone.

*Crick*

!!!???

Pete and his bodyguards took out their pistols and point it towards the bathroom.

“ Please stay calm, Gentlemen.”

The man stopped them.

“ What're you doing?”

Asked Pete.

“ Please see it yourself. They both are on our side. And they'll hunt down the targets just for you.”

The man raises his hand and revealed the people who're coming out of the bathroom.

They are Syd Barrett and Toshi Ishii.

Or more precisely, they are people that look exactly like Syd and Toshi.

Their eyes are spiritless like a puppet, but their appearance isn't like that.

Pete can tell that they're people like him.

Or at least look like people.

“ What the fuck???”

Before Pete gets confused, even more, the man begins his explanation.

“ WishBone Ash.”

Said the man, lifting his polaroid camera.

“ This is my ability ‘WishBone ash’ in the form of a Polaroid Camera. I can create anything by taking a picture of it. Doesn't matter if it's an object...animal... Or even a person.”

The man raises up from the chair and walked to the copy of Syd and Toshi.

“ They're a copy.”

Said Pete, he then continued.

“ You can create a copy of things just by taking a picture of it... I see... That's interesting.”

“ I prefer the word ‘Clone’ rather than just ‘Copy‘. Although these 2 words are likely the same, using the word copy will just make me look bad Mr.Pete.”

Said The man.

“ The clone is 100% like the real one. If they're ability users, they can obtain those abilities too However...they can not talk and a little bit dull.”

The man demonstrates it by slapping on the back of Toshi's head.

No response from the clone Toshi.

“ But... As long as these images are fine... They are ‘Unbreakable’. You may kick them down the stairs. Stomp on their stomach, squeeze their eyes out... They'll just look injured but still can run as fast as their usual. And most importantly, they never tired.”

He then tore the images apart. As soon as the papers are ripped, both Syd and Toshi's fell down like a puppet whose string has been cut.

They then merged with each other and turn into just a paper.

“........”

The man repeated the steps of creating them.

“ Wait... But you haven't explained how can they be inside my bathroom without got themselves in there first? They can't just be poppin' out of the air right?”

“ That's the problem, Mr.Pete. They only spawn in a blind spot. No one includes me knows how they can be generated. They keep coming out of places where no one can see them. Even if I tried using my ability in the open field, they appear behind me. Even if I set up the camera around myself, they come out of the next room where no one was there.”

Pete was stunned by the man's ability.

He smirks out.

“ What do you call yourself again, huh?”

“.......”

The man turns to him, smiling.

“ Call me Bruford.”

Suddenly, there's something unexpected occurred.

The alarms ringing through the entire hall including Pete's room, creating a huge turmoil.

“ What is this? The fire alarm?!”

Said Pete, confusingly.

But not with Bruford.

“ They start moving.”

He said.

Then, Bruford started giving the order to Syd and Toshi's clone.

“ You guys split apart. The blue hair one, you protect Mr.Pete. and you, cocky-looking boy, you go protect his wife.”

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The fire alarm screams all over the hall,

The fire sprinkles do their job.

*sound of water, people screaming, running, and many chaotic noises going on in the background*

Both Mickey and Toshi were hiding not very far from Pete's room, about 10 meters away from them was a burning curtain Toshi had set a fire on.

The Japanese boy turns to Mickey and asked.

“ You sure the fire won't go the other halls right?”

Mickey brought up his pistol and checked for the bullet inside before replied.

“ You better ask how long will it takes for the sprinkle to stop the fire. We have to get him before it went out.”

Said Mickey.

“ K ”

They then started moving, using the chaos to approach Pete's room.

“.......”

They both nodded to each other before slamming the door opened and went inside.

*BANG*

However...the entire room was empty.

“........”

“........”

But still, need to be careful.

“ What the fuck. Where they go?”

Toshi was confused not different from Mickey.

They saw Pete and his men went inside this room but now there's no one left.

“.......”

Mickey waved his hand towards the bathroom, as Toshi kicked the door opened, there's nothing inside.

( Menacing atmosphere.)

Suddenly, Toshi spotted something in the back of Pete's room behind the sofa.

It was another door.

Like a secret entrance or something like that.

“.... The emergency exit? Privately built inside his room?! ”

Said Mickey.

“ It seems to be like that. He used this door to run away.”

Toshi pushed the door backward, opening it.

Without being aware, something unexpected happens.

There's something behind this door, jumping on Toshi at highspeed that it made him got pushed back in shock.

“ FUCK?! ”

But they got shocked and confused even more as they found out that the thing that jumps on Toshi was nothing but another Toshi Ishii.

It tried to punch Toshi in the face, but the boy shifted his face to aside before getting hit.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Mickey over there shot the another Toshi with the silencer pistol, the impulsion then sent it bouncing off Toshi's body.

“ The hell is going on? ”

However, the other Toshi instantly got up from the ground and rushed towards Mickey's way.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

This time Toshi is a person who shot the clone of himself.

But this time it didn't fell down and died as he thought it supposed to be.

It only lost its balance just a little before keep going on jumping on Mickey.

“ SHIT-?! ”

“ BULLETS AIN'T DO SHIT!... WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?? ”

As the clone Toshi touched Mickey's body, it then felt the huge amount of electricity traveling from him to it.

“ ?!?!?!?!?! ”

The clone Toshi's entire body was shaken due to electric shock. Before the lightning sparks up and sent it flew over the room, hitting the TV, laying face down.

But then...

*Snap*

They both heard the camera shutter coming from the balcony.

Appeared a man in a purple suit, “Bruford”, poking.

“ ?!?! ”

Needless to say, Toshi aimed his pistol at him.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

But the man moved his head back to the wall before Toshi even took a shot.

So it didn't hit.

“ THE ENEMY IS HIDING BEHIND THE BALCONY! ”

Toshi got up from the floor, he then glares his eyes to his pal, Mickey but he saw that his clone is slowly getting up from the crashing TV.

“ MICKEY! The fake me is coming towards your way-”

But Mickey cut him off.

“ I know. You follow Pete! I'll take care both of them.”

Toshi hesitates at first, but from the experience with Mickey, he then quickly rushed to the door, opened it, and went in.

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“ Hey, you two.”

A voice of a man calling both Jody and Sera from the very busy room, it startled Seraphina but not with Jody.

Turning to him, he sure is not a straight guy, Jody assumed that he was one of the heads of makeup-artists here.

“ You two ain't familiar...”

He said.

At this point, Sera was completely numb but Jody replied him back with a very comfortable voice.

“ She's one of the models. Oh my... Please excuse us. I need to put on her makeup. It's almost her turn to go out now.”

“......”

“..... Okay... You can use that desk.”

He points out.

They both walked passing him and blend in with the other staff.

“ Jody?!... Why are you so chill? I thought we're fucked! ”

Said Sera.

“ He said he's not familiar. But he didn't say we are not one of them. He, himself wasn't sure either because there's too many staff here. No one knows everybody here.”

Said Jody.

“.... Ohh... But you are so chill, Jody. Not gonna lie.”

“ Confidence is a girl's best weapon. It's basic.”

Said Jody, smirking.

They got themselves near the makeup desk, Sera sat down the chair, Jody stood up behind her, pretending to set up her hair.

Suddenly, a noise strikes into her ears. It's not very loud but Jody can hear it.

One thing she certains is that its source is not around here.

“ Hey... What's that sound? Do you hear it?”

Asked Jody.

“ No?”

“.......”

Jody carefully listened to it again.

“ It sounds like a fire alarm...”

She said.

“ A fire alarm?! ”

Sera twisted her eyebrows.

[ Jody! Sera! You copy?]

?!?!?!

Jody touched her finger to the earpads.

“ Roxxy? What is it?”

[ They boys triggered the building's fire alarm! They're using chaos to take Pete out of there!]

“ What the- they are doing out of plan?!”

Asked Sera.

“ No...” Jody replied, “ The point is not to be noticed. And with that scenario...nobody's going care what's around them anymore.”

“.......”

“ In no time... Someone from that building will be coming here and inform everyone... this building will fall in chaos too...”

Sera gets the idea.

“ Then we should use that opportunity to take Daisy out.”

Said Jody.

“ And no one will care about us...”

Said Sera.

[ The last Image I saw they went inside Pete's room. There's no camera in there so I couldn't see what's inside. If you're taking Daisy out, I'll guide you to the exit. Now just hurry up.]

“ What about them!? ”

Asked Jody.

Suddenly, There's another communication signal popping up between them.

It was from Toshi.

[ THERE'S THE ENEMY! I REPEAT! THEY GOT THE ABILITY USER PREPARED FOR US! THEY HAVE A CLONE OF ME! I'M RUNNING AFTER PETE! HE HAD AN ALTERNATE ESCAPE PATH IN HIS ROOM! I'm AFTER HIM! ]

“.......”

Toshi sounds like he's running so fast after something.

The girls know what they have to do now.

“ Jody! ”

“ What?”

Sera turns her face to the behind stage door.

Daisy Raine has finally finished her speech on the front, now she's in the model's preparation section with them.

After that, what they had predicted actually came true.

A manager quickly ran towards the door, panicking.

He then informs the shocking information to everybody in the room.

“ EVERYONE! HURRY! PLEASE GET OUT THROUGH THE FIRE EXIT! THERE'S A FIRE IN THE THIRD BUILDING! ”

At that moment, the room started to be chaotic. Everyone was murmuring to each other. Although he didn't go through the detail about how the fire occurs or even if it's just an alarm, everyone is willing to do as he said because they all took it seriously.

Daisy Raine looks shocking about that too. Her bodyguards then came right in to secure her out of this place.

Jody and Sera nod to each other, they both got up from the desk and started approaching Daisy from behind.

“ What the- Hey?!... What's going on?!”

Daisy was panic. Her bodyguards then lead her to another exit, however...

BANG!

With just a single shot, but from different fingers, Jody took down the guards around Daisy, finally revealing themselves.

“?!?!?!?!? Y-You?!....”

Daisy looked towards them. She knew she's into some deep shit.

Needless to say, Daisy tried to escape.

Jody and Sera then chased after her.

A middle-aged woman was struggling, however, her stamina couldn't be compared with the other 2 younger girls.

Not so long, she's coming to the dead end.

“ Sera. The sleeping pill.”

Jody aimed her fingers at the panicking Daisy, Sera then brought out the sleeping pill.

Only just a step and they could have taken Daisy, something unexpected happens.

Someone, without being realized his presence, grabbed Jody's arm from behind.

The grab was so tight that it instantly dropped her aim.

!!!!!!!!!!??????

Jody was shocked, as she turned her face back, she found out it was Syd Barrett.

“ ---!?!? ”

Sera turned back and also saw him too.

“ Syd?!”

“.......”

The boy didn't respond.

Everybody was confused, even Daisy Raine.

But Jody knew that something is off.

Syd's eyes were spiritless. Like he's just a puppet.

Her instinct made Jody shouted out without knowing.

“ SERAAAA!!!! THIS IS NOT HIM!!! SHOOT IT!!!!! ”

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Sera felt that too. Something is seriously wrong. She used her pistol she brought with, shot straight right to Syd's face.

However...

As the bullets hit his face... Something weird happens.

The bullets that already penetrate through his skins, they “ travel ” back from the wounds, reverse all the way back to Sera's pistol muzzle.

“ ?!?!?!?!? ”

Jody and Sera were shocked by that.

“ What the fuck?!----- what is that?! ”

“ The bullets!!!? The bullets that should have gone inside his face.... they got ‘inverted’ ?????? ”

Jody shouted.

But it does not end just that.

As the bullets got inverted back into the pistol, Sera tried to shoot at him again...

But the trigger stuck.

*chat* *chat* *chat* (Sound of pistol breaking)

“ What the...”

Sera checked the magazine. And she found an even more bizarre phenomenon.

The bullets got inverted back into the magazine as if she didn't even shoot it yet and they ‘Melt’.

( Both panting heavily.)

“ The bullets... They melt??? ”

Sera tried to touch it, but she realizes she couldn't.

The bullets now... are like fresh out the furnace. Red, hot, and she'd be very stupid if she dares to touch it.

No use. The melting bullet runs down the magazine, Sera threw it down. Her pistol is already broke.

And remember, Syd was still grabbing Jody's arm.

Jody glared down, she felt that dramatic amount of ‘Heat’. On her hand.

She didn't know what that was, but she knew she must get herself out of there.

Because her legs are already obtained the characteristic of steel, she then harshly kicked Syd Barrett. Making him get pushed back, she used that moment to rush back and settle with Sera.

“.... What the hell??? What the hell was that?!... Why is Syd here??? And why he hurt us?!... Hey! SYD!?? ”

“........”

“ That's not him.”

“ Jody, what do you mean?!... That's him!!!! ”

“ No... Look at his clothes.”

“........”

Jody continues.

“.......”

Sera gasped.

“ This day he didn't wear this outfit... It's the same outfit back there at the airport.”

Said Jody.

“ ROXXY?!... ROXXY?! SYD?! YOU HEAR ME?!... SYD?! THERE'S ANOTHER YOU STANDING HERE!”

Sera tried to contact HQ.

But there's no response.

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Back on the Car.

Syd Barrett was looking through the window. He expected that both two teams should return back now.

But Roxxy Barrett, his sister doesn't look well.

“... Roxxy, what happened?”

“ The signals got cut off... I tried to reconnect back to Jody and Sera... But I can't. It got cut off when they're about to get Daisy...but there's something coming from their behind... I don't know what it is....”

“.........”

*Doors open*

“ Syd?... Syd?! Where are you going ?!... SYD?! ”