Free time everywhere O______O

and here I thought I'd be busy forever...

Enjoy the chapter, though it's one of the smaller ones right now.

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Why was he alive? Why was "Child's play" alive?

We all had the same question. Not one of us doubted that Ignar had told us the truth, we knew of his skill with a rifle.

But we could not deny what we saw and felt while watching the smiling boy in front of us.

IGNAR!!! Why is "Child's play" HERE?!!

A shout cut through our minds like a knife. Somehow we all could still move out eyes but this was all.

Shorty after Liams physic scream an answer followed through the coms. Sounding calm and collected.

"What do you mean? "Child's play"'s corpse is in one of the rooms of the upper floors, I can still clearly see him and besides he has a hole of the size of my fist in his stomach, he can't survive that."

Ignar. He's standing right in front of us. And he's rendered us useless, we can't move.

"Coming."

His only answer seemed cold.

"Are you done now maggots? I know you had some kind of mental dialogue just now. Don't hide it."

None of us could utter a word due to his power.

Still smiling he walks down towards shooing his subordinates away from us. They line up behind him without a word.

"I'm telling you it's useless. I want you to tell me the truth and only that."

Then he kicks a metal pipe form the chaos around him towards us. Spinning it comes to a stop pointing at Rose who could not stand up and was fixed into a crouched position.

"How about it? What was that exchange of messages about? Please don't lie to me and tell me the truth."

Suddenly she can move again and stands up in a ready fighting position while shouting back at the boy.

"Who would ever tell someone like you the truth you bastard! We told Ignar, our remaining comrade about the situation..."

Dumbfounded Rose closes her mouth.

"What did you do to me?!"

Enraged she tries to throw a punch towards him but seemingly gets stuck in place by the same power that was trapping the rest of us. Unblinking he monitors everyone of us.

"So you had another one at the ready, well I expected as much. The bullet that killed my double didn't seem to come from any of your weapons."

Double?

"It's sad that you're frozen right now, I would have wished to see your facial expressions right now. But that is boring."

Once more he kicks something into the room, this time it lands just in front of me.

"And you? I know you're hiding something, what's your power? I saw what you did with poor ."

Don't answer him.

The force around me disappears. Smiling the boy in front of me gestures me to answer.

"Fuck you."

With those words I activate the overcharge of my gear with my hand and jump forward grabbing at his head in blurr.

I stop mid movement. Halted in place by his power once more. My entire body felt like it burned, I couldn't stop the overcharge and everything around me started to get tainted by a red shine.

"Now now, don't you know, we're playing a game here. And I don't want anyone breaking the rules now do I?"

His face distorts into a feature filled with disgust.

"Now. Tell. Me. And only the T R U T H."

"Who would ever tell you the truth?"

I spit out through my teeth, surprised to be able to talk.

"I can freely control gravity and used this power to pull him down from the ceiling."

What?

"Thank you."

Once more I get fixed in place.

What? Why did I tell him that?

"So only gravity. Boring. Sadly we don't have that much time here so how about you guys enjoy yourself a bit. Ey?"

Again he kicks an item through the room, a broken table leg that ends up with the sharp end hitting Rose.

"Hmm so it's you bitch, the one that killed . I still wonder how you did it. You seem stronger than that scum. Though you did have some similarity to the others we buried. Though they deserved that fate."

"YOU DARE!?!?!?!"

Rose shouted while her entire body glowed in the same color as mine.

Then he laughs.

"Yes I do. Woman, kill your comrades inside of this room."

What? Stressed I look towards Rose who seems ready to rip "Child's play"s head off any second. Then she turns towards Liam.

"Rose? What are you doing?"

"You can play now."

All shackles fall of us as the boy laughs again.

Suddenly I hear the sound of bending metal and I see Liam flying through the room crashing into a cupboard. His attacker Rose standing next to "Child's play" and slowly stepping forward towards Karen.

Our captain puts her hand up trying to calm her down. Though her arms too start glowing in a white light.

"Rose stop this now. You're part of A3. There is no need to hurt each other."

She doesn't listen and kicks at her superior who is barely fast enough to dodge the metal leg aiming for her head.

Then a small voice resounds through our coms.

"I'm sorry... I can't control myself. I... I have to kill you."

Fuck.

"Liam, get your ass up and get over here! Songe help me keep Rose down! Alex! KILL THIS FUCKER!"

With pleasure. I close off all sounds from outside with a message to my helmet. It was probably his voice.

I rush towards him while Rose fights off three of her comrades at the same time.

"What are you doing?" I feel something hard hit my arm as I had barely lifted it up in time to defend. In front of me was the young woman that had defended herself with the baseball bat all this time. Reading from her lips I barely understand what she's saying.

"Can't let you kill 'im while the game's going now can I?"

My features turn hard while I grab her bat and crush it with the force of my hands. My voice barely comes out of my speakers but I was pissed.

"Out. Of. MY. WAY!"

Instantly everything surrounding me in a meter Radius gets flattened. Including the right arm the woman had used. Instantly retreating she jumps back and starts binding off her stump.

I don't pay her any more attention and jump towards "Child's play". None of his powers stop me. Nothing stops me at all.

My fist connects with his face and I shout out in happiness.

But nothing happens. His features don't move. He doesn't even seem to care.

Then he looks into my eyes. And even though I have all sounds cut off I understand him.

"Aren't you looking for something?"

Ey?

My entire body goes limb and my vision blacks out.

"What is this?"

I ask into the darkness.

"What else? You want to catch that girl that attacked you with that bat. But I'm sad that she seems to have hid somewhere."

Yes of course.... That was the solution.

"You're right."

My vision returns and I leave "Child's play" behind to walk after the blood leading towards my prey.

Behind me I can barely make out the blurry figures of four people fighting to the death and it was only one of them that truly was unharmed.

I can hear a voice from far away telling me something... But it doesn't matter.

"Where aaaareee youuuuu?"

I ask into the destroyed room I had stepped in. bloody stains showed me my way...

Why was I doing this?

Oh I remember, because I have to catch her. The small girl inside of me laughed out of delight. How long had it been that I had played catch.

I pull out a combat knife that had been strapped to my lower leg and followed the stains towards the next room.

Inside I already heard it, the huffing of a person trying to catch her breath. Instantly I turn towards the sound. She had been behind the door with a metal pipe she had grabbed from somewhere. Hitting my face with a loud bang the circuits inside blacked out for one second.

It did not matter.

"I caught you!"

It wasn't my voice that had said this but I felt my hand holding onto something squishy. And so I pressed.

A scream cuts through my senses as the systems come back online. In front of me I see the body of the woman, my knife buried deep inside of her breast.

I caught her. I was happy, though I did not know why.

Pulling her behind me by the arm I had been holding I make my way back through the building and back to my comrades...

Comrades?

Walking through the last doorframe I remembered. What awaited me inside was Liam, Songe and Karen obviously out of breath and battered.

Songe and Liam had both lost an arm, while our Captain was fighting without a helmet that seemed to have been destroyed somehow.

The three of them were circling around Rose who simply stood in the middle unharmed from what I could make out.

ALEX, no time to explain, send a message to her mind and help me convince her that we're not her comrades right now. It will only be temporarily but I'm busy living right now.

Confused I send an answer back

How?

He seems to fall under one of Roses kicks but Songe blocks it for him.

Just shout or scream into her, do whatever you have to do but make her stop, we can't fight her like this.

I had no Idea what to do but I extended my inner sight towards her and started to talk.

Rose, I know you can't answer me like this but...

I stop for one second. No, I had to do it.

These are not you're comrades Rose, the young boy and the woman are, they are the ones that are you're COMRADES!

I shout the last part into her and hope for the best. Then everything gets destroyed by a voice talking over the com.

"What do you mean? You're obviously my family from A3 how can you say we're not comrades."

Then another voice answers, one that we had forgotten about for this short amount of time. Ignars collected self seems to appear in front of our inner eyes.

"Rose you just said it yourself... We're not comrades, we're FAMILY. He said kill the comrades in this room... But there are no comrades in this room."

Then she stops. Mid punch she suddenly hesitates to keep fighting against Karen. Her armored head shakes a bit. Her visor glides back and reveals a face twisted by hate. Turning around to "Child's play" she starts talking and her voice barely covers the distance between them.

"Oy. "Child's play" you do realize he's right do you? You almost made me kill my captain... I dare say you deserve some punishment for that don't you?"

Though silent her voice carried an insane amount of threat with it. Although her overcharge had been stopped she seemed close to going berserk.

The boy simply frowned.

"What is this? You just broke a rule. That shouldn't happen."

Then before anyone could react something flew past us and landed in front of "Child's play". Astonished I looked down on a plastic bottle that pointed towards the boy, behind me Ignar slowly stepped into the ruined room weirdly enough without his helmet.

"I've already seen through your power. Blame yourself for making it so obvious."

Visibly scared and nervous the boy takes a step back and the woman pushes him behind herself.

"W...wh...What do you mean? I'm a psychic, I can control you guys."

Ignar simply laughs once and points towards the bottle in front of him.

"Sure sure boy. Just tell me one thing.... Why are we ALIVE then? Could it be because you too have to follow the rules of your game? Well.. it doesn't matter, the only thing that matters right now is my next question....

So, what will it be "Child's play"? Truth or dare?"

Still smiling he raises his left hand aiming his pistol towards his face.

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PS: Anyone know the game "green light/red light"?