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FinnKaenbyou: Now I feel guilty for basically trolling Yumemi fans. >_> ----- "...How do you know my name?" She'd called her Kaenbyou, and she hadn't been carrying anything giving her name away. Rikako smirked, grabbing a clipboard from on top of a nearby desk. Her finger began to run down the paper clipped to it, her eyes following. "Rin Kaenbyou. Also known as Orin. Kasha. Pet of Satori Komeiji, owner of the underground Palace of the Earth Spirits. And most importantly..." Her finger slammed into the board, her nail piercing the paper. "Close friend of Utsuho Reiuji." !!! The look of horror on Orin's face spoke volumes. Rikako looked down on her with another proud smile. "Ah, so you've figured it out. Yes, I have a particular interest in your hell raven friend. She has a power which I find most...intruiging." The nuclear symbol in the reactor room flashed in front of Orin's eyes. She felt a violent urge rising within her, but she knew that she'd be taking a fatal plunge if she did anything out of hand. "So...you want to figure out all that nuclear stuff." Rikako sighed, irritation rising in her voice at the assumption that Orin had made. "It's not that I don't understand it, it's that I've had to settle for a simplistic, weaker form than hers. I need to study her cellular structure, understand how her body could possibly hope to control it when it takes me several rooms of machinery to grasp." Even as she said it, she seemed to be interesting herself, starting to walk in a small circle with her hand on her chin. Orin wasn't sure if it was safe to interrupt, but she tried anyway. "Uh...maybe that's because it's ma-" "DON'T YOU DARE SAY THAT WORD IN FRONT OF ME!" Rikako hastily grabbed a nearby wrench, throwing it at the screen with an impressive smack. The screen was undamaged, but it was enough to make Orin keep quiet. "You're not going to convince me that your hocus-pocus mumbo jumbo could achieve something like this and science can't. I will take Utsuho Reiuji apart if I have to, but I WILL figure out what makes her tick! I swear to it!" Orin had definitely picked her words poorly. Rikako became more and more flustered with each word out of her mouth. She turned to Orin and pointed at her with an accusative finger. "And you...you're going to be my bargaining chip. When your dear friend Utsuho finds out you've been kidnapped, she'll be oh so willing to turn herself in for your sake! Then I can begin the dissection and the secrets of nuclear fusion will be mine for the taking!" She was cheering herself on now, bordering on the insane. Orin's blood boiled just at the thought of this girl getting her hands on Utsuho. "But...why do you want to do this!? Okuu can control it perfectly fine, it's not like we need anyone else to do it!" "Why? Why not?! People have taken her as a gift from the gods, the epitome of your humbo-jumbo, but I know she's nothing but a fraud! And when I do it, your feeble excuses for 'magic' will be thrown to the side, and finally the glorious visions of Gensokyo's scientists will be accepted as the truth they are! We are your gospels, your prophets, but our teachings require no faith or belief at all - no, we teach you to believe what you can see! Your magic and your gods should be ridiculed for the fakes they are! Ha...ha ha ha...AHAHAHAHAHA!" She snapped completely, lost in a fit of raucous laughter. Orin's anger turned into fear momentarily, watching as Rikako's eyes hovered over an ominous-looking red button. Then the cackling suddenly cut itself short, and with a simple cough and shuffle of her labcoat she was totally relaxed as if nothing had happened. "So yes. I'll be using you as a tool to get your little friend to come here. Of course, whether you're alive or not when she arrives is still to be decided...but you're cutting it close right now, I'll tell you that much." Orin's hands were held against the screen, the urge to punch this sorry excuse for a human being in the face held back only by the urge to not start breathing water in the near future. She slipped forward, despairing over how she could hope to get out of here without risking Utsuho's life... "Ow, ow, ow..." Her moping around ended abruptly, as a familiar voice suddenly popped into her head. It was complaining about a headache, but the fact it was there was enough to lift her spirits. Sango! ----- "!?" Almost as soon as she woke up, Sango felt someone calling her name. She looked around for a few seconds, trying to find the speaker as she slowly became more aware of her surroundings. Wait...Orin? Is that you!? She remembered losing contact with her just before she'd lost consciousness, so hearing her voice now was a great comfort from the very start. "Sango! Are you okay? Did they get you as well!?" Rubbing her head, Sango checked that she was alone. The room was deserted except for the device which she'd managed to fall into. No, I'm fine...but since you had to ask that, I'm assuming you're in trouble. "No kidding...they want to use me to get Okuu in and experiment on her. The ringleader's a maniac, too, and if I'm not careful she's gonna dump me in a pool with a ball and chain..." Her eyes widened. This was even worse than she'd expected it to be - she was hoping for a few people polluting out of laziness, but they were willing to resort to things like this for the sake of their research? Oh...crap. Do you have any idea where you are? "Nyaa...I got knocked out, so I don't know...but I think they dropped the security after I got caught, so you should be fine in those corridors..." ...Alright then. Sango opened the door, feeling a violent determination in her heart. It was the sort of calm anger that you only reached after you'd gone too far for normal rage to sustain. ...Orin, you've gotta stall for time. Play to her ego, keep her talking. I'll be there as soon as I can. "Got it. Hurry, though...she's nuts. I might end up pissing her off, and after that..." Orin didn't finish off, not wanting to think about what came after that. Sango nodded, opening the door. I'll try my best. And with that, she was bolting down the corridor, faster than she'd ever ran before. ----- So, I need to buy some time... Orin stopped focusing on her internal conversation, focusing back on reality. Rikako was currently looking through some camera feeds of the waste disposal room, with a variety of machines irreparably damaged. "My, Miss Kaenbyou. Your lack of appreciation for other people's property is astounding." She was about to blame it on Sango, but she stopped herself before the word slipped out of her mouth. The element of surprise was all that Sango had, and she couldn't afford to let her lose that. "Well, I know a couple of kappa, and they wouldn't have been very happy with what you were doing to the water. There was a treaty that-" "I know, and I don't care. That was an agreement for the kappa, mere magical creatures. Why should I follow the rules of a turtle with legs?" Her disdain for the kappa was obvious, even though they made up more or less her entire working force. Probably not a good topic to press on here, so Orin decided to change the subject. "So, Miss Asa-" "PROFESSOR Asakura." "Sorry, Professor. ...Why Professor, anyway? What's wrong with Sensei?" Rikako was more keen to answer this one, grinning proudly at the captive cat. "Excellent question! I simply feel Sensei is much too vague. Call me Asakura-sensei and I could be perhaps a teacher, or a doctor, but call me Professor Asakura and you know for SURE that I am a scientist through and through!" She stood up straight, proud of her work. It was hard to believe that she'd seen this woman take such a psychopathic turn mere minutes ago. Alright, Orin, you've got this. Keep it up! "So, where did you study? I can't imagine Gensokyo is a good place to be a scientist." "You'd be right there. Not an academy in sight in this god-forsaken land. Had to teach myself everything I know with books that the kappa happened to drop into the local bookshop. Took a lot of effort, but here I am now!" Orin smiled. This was easier than she had expected. "Wow...that's pretty amazing." "I know, I know. I'm not typically one to brag, but-" Rikako stopped mid-boast, her eye catching an excerpt from a corridor camera. There was a single figure running down, heading in their direction. Crap! "Uh, hey, anyway, what was that about you not wanting to brag?" She was desperate now, trying to pull her away from the camera. Rikako was ignoring her entirely, watching the intruder with her full attention. "...Hmph. A dolphin youkai." She turned to Orin with an unimpressed expression. Her hand hovered over the button that frightened her the most. "Wait, what're you-" "I should have guessed you didn't come here alone." As if on cue, the door flew open just as Rikako finished speaking. An exhausted Sango dashed in, seeing the scientist holding her friend to ransom. "You...let her go!" From the other side of the room, Rikako shrugged. "Or what? You'll sonar me to death?" She was clearly on the verge of pressing the button, but before she could perform the deed another idea came to her. Sango still stood in place, afraid of angering her as she pulled out a ring with dozens of keys attached to it. "Let's make a game of this, shall we? If you find the right keys, your feline friend might escape with her life. If not..." Letting Sango finish the sentence in her head, Rikako finally pressed the ominous red button. The floor beneath Orin gave way, and she fell without so much as a scream. "ORIIIIN!" The screen opened up, and Rikako cheerfully threw the keys down the hole along with Orin. "Well, then, dolphin girl? Are you going to waste your time with me and let your friend drown down there?" She knew which choice the dolphin would make, laughing heartily as Sango dove in after them. "You stupid dolphins...so predictable." She pressed some buttons at the nearby terminal, activating another alert. Either they drowned down there, or they surfaced and the security took them out. Either way, she won. "Ah...such a carefully thought out plan could only be the work of a true scientist. Hmhmhm..." ----- As much as I hate leaving on a cliffhanger, it's 1:45 am. I might write the next short section now, but I'm sleepy >_<

Von Stein: I can tell, that Rikako is a well bred member of the genus Villainous. A proud specimen, complete with that special knack for slow acting death traps and walking away, illusions of grandeur, and a special flavor of maniacal laughter. Ah, a prime specimen indeed.

Mobius: --- Quote from: Edward von Stein on September 03, 2009, 02:24:28 AM ---a special flavor of maniacal laughter --- End quote --- Blackcurrant, if I had to guess.

FinnKaenbyou: --- Quote from: Mobius ---Blackcurrant, if I had to guess. --- End quote --- Dammit, I was aiming for raspberry >_< Not strawberry, though, that's Yumemi ----- Splash! Orin was smart enough to take a deep breath before she hit the water. She started thrashing, trying to stop the ball around her ankle pulling her down. "Mmph! Mmph!" Her efforts were in vain, and the ball hit the pool floor taking Orin with it. She tried to cup her cuffed hands around the ball and lift it, but she wasn't exactly known for super strength. "Hnngh...hnn-blub!" A little air leaked out, and Orin's attention was immediately diverted to making sure that was all she lost. Her hands struggled against the cuffs, but they still refused to budge. Crap...I need to get a hold of those keys! Almost on cue, the keys fell into the water just as Orin asked for them. She waited for them to hit the bottom before swimming over to take them- "Mmph?!" She felt the chain pull her back. The keys were tantalisingly out of reach, as if they'd been placed there to taunt her. "MMPH!" Her arm stretched out, still only barely missing the keys. She was lying on the floor of the pool now for extra distance, but it felt almost like it was getting further away the harder she tried. "Mmmhblublbl..." Orin slumped, lying on the floor of the pool. She was never going to get anywhere like this... "Orin!" Another massive splash from above, as a familiar voice worked its way back into her head. Sango...! The dolphin youkai dove down hastily, grabbing the keys from the floor. She swam to Orin's side, tending firstly to the lock on the chain. "...Crap, the keys all look the same!" She chose a key at random and tried to force it into the lock. Despite putting all of her force into it, the key refused to budge. "Got any idea which one to use!?" Orin frantically shook her head. Her cheeks started to expand as she began to feel the urge to breathe. Hurry, I can't do this for much longer! Sango wished Orin would calm down. It didn't help that while she was trying to do this she had the cat's panicking stuck in her head. She picked another key, jamming it into the lock. "...Nothing! Dammit...!" She was flipping through the keys now, picking whichever one came to mind. Orin did her best to keep herself still, but against her will her tails were thrashing about. "Mmph...blublgl!" Her hands moved up to cover her mouth, priceless bubbles slipping between her fingers. She was in pain now, looking at Sango with desperate eyes. Please...help me... Her thoughts were getting hazier as she started to get light-headed. Sango continued to wrestle with the lock, experimenting with key after key. "Oh come on, you're kidding me - the last one?!" She'd tried every key on the ring bar one, a slightly darker shade of grey than the rest. Logic denoted this HAD to be the key to the chain, so all she had to do was- "G-glug!?" Orin's lungs started emptying themselves against her will, her air quickly rushing to the surface. It almost seemed to be taunting her, stranding her at the bottom of the pool. "Gluglglblub...San...go..." I'm sorry...I couldn't... Sango pulled herself away from opening the lock. There wasn't time for that - Orin needed air, and she needed it right now. Her mind rushed into overdrive, trying to come up with some way to keep Orin from drowning ASAP. Eventually one came to her, but it came with a painful consequence that she'd prefer to avoid... "...Crap. That's the only way." For a moment she slumped, guilt running across her face, but she pulled herself back hastily. This wasn't the time to worry about things like that, lives were at stake. She pulled over to Orin, bringing their faces close. The cat's last bubbles hit her in the face as her lungs ran dry. ...What're you...doing? Orin was already blacking out. Her brain was barely processing right now, so Sango had no choice but to throw her fears aside and act. She held Orin's head in place with her arms, and locked lips with her as tightly as she could. ...!? As Sango pushed air into Orin's lungs, the cat became more and more aware of the situation. Her face started to pulse a bright shade of red, as her thought process collapsed entirely. "Nyaaglugl?!?!?!" She pushed Sango away as soon as her lungs were full, her face beetroot. Her tails were standing on end as she started pinching herself. This isn't happening, this isn't happening, PLEASE tell me this isn't happening... In the midst of her panic, Sango finally put the final key in the lock, turning it. There was a satisfying click as it unlocked, and Orin's foot was released from its restraint. The sound was enough to convince Orin that this definitely wasn't a dream, and her immediate response was to break for the surface. "Nyaaaa~n!" She let out a cry as she broke the surface. It was a cry of relief, guilt and embarrassment all at once. Sango popped up shortly afterward, and helped the distraught Orin back onto land. They started experimenting again to find the key for the handcuffs, taking a little more time now that death wasn't imminent. "Uh...s-sorry about that..." A stuttered apology was about all Sango could manage, the magnitude of what she'd just done hitting her as well. Orin was holding her hands out to be uncuffed, sinking her head into her lap. "Nyaanyaanyaanyaa..." She was nyaaing incoherently, steam almost rising from her ears. Sango could make out her thoughts, but there was nothing that made any sense. sheactuallykissedmeicantbelievesheactuallydiditanditwasmyfirstkisstooandibarelyknowher andhowdoitakeitbackwhycouldntithavebeensomeonelikeokuunyaaaaaaa~ Sango was embarrassed as well, but was still sane enough to get to work on the lock. She eventually found the key she needed, undoing the handcuffs and allowing Orin to move her arms freely again. "...Um..." "...Uh..." As they both stood up, they looked at each other with expressions that suggested they'd rather look anywhere else. Sango was starting to turn a little red herself. "Let's, uh, act like this didn't happen. Okay?" Orin nodded, with no objections in the slightest. Taking a few deep breaths to wipe her memory of the entire ordeal, she prepared to finally start walking. "Let's just get out of here and find Satori-sama..." Neither of them wanted to hang around any more. Getting out had become their top priority, but as the door in front of them opened they realised it wasn't going to be as easy as simply retracing their steps. "Freeze!" Half a dozen security guards burst into the room, each brandishing a new kappa-brand weapon they called a 'tazer'. Sparks ran along the gadgets as they approached ready to give the two intruders a deadly shock, no doubt worsened by the fact they were both soaked. "Aw, crap..." ----- And yes, I've been planning for this to happen for a while. >_>

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