246 44 Second chances

"Are we ready?" Rick asked, looking around the room. There were several nods. "Great," he paused. "Now here's the strategy," he said, using a pointer on a blackboard. "We're gonna split up." There were whispers going around. "Don't you think that's dangerous?" Abbey asked. Rick shook his head. "I think it'll get us to our goal quicker." He pointed to the blackboard. "Keren, Abbey, Sena, and Tammy, you guys will go towards the Eastern wing. "Mikael, Iris Azalea, and I will head toward the Northern wing." He looked at Norio, and Chris. "You two will go toward the Western wing," he paused. "With Maru." The two of them looked at him. "Rick, you can't be serious," Chris quickly paused as Rick narrowed his eyes. "No objections, right?" Mikael stood up. "To make our lives much easier, we have these walkie talkies we can use to keep each other up to date." He smiled. "Now," He began. "There are four higher ups I should warn you all about." Rick looked at him. "Janine is in charge of tech, she can control weapons, rooms, and computers." He pulled up a picture on a projector. "Next," He began. "Mim," he paused. "Norio, Keren, my guess is Mim is the one who is responsible for kidnapping Emersyn." He cleared his throat. "Anyway, Mim specializes in picture perfect voice mimicking, he's also insanely quick." He clicked the image on the projector to Mim. "Next," He started. "We have Kari," he paused. "Kari specializes in building bombs, she's a child genius." Mikael narrowed his eyes. "However," he paused. "Out of the four, she's the least to go out of her way to instigate, but even then, be careful." Mikael looked at Norio, and Rick, and let out a sigh. "Lastly, we have him." The projector moved from Kari over to a familiar face. Norio's eye widened. Rick looked on, completely stunned. "Larkin," Mikael began, smiling sadly. "He's in charge of all of this," he paused. "Most likely we won't have to worry about him until we succeed." Mikael frowned. "If he succeeds in harvesting Emersyn's power, he'll be insanely strong in hand to hand combat." Mikael looked up. "Boys." He said. "For now, forget about the past," he looked at Norio. "As much as it hurts, this man is responsible for everything that happened back then." Iris Azalea looked over to Norio. "Mikael, will he be ok tasked with this mission...?" She whispered. Mikael looked up, noticing Norio slightly shaking. "Norio." He said sternly. "Do you want her back or not!?" Rick grabbed his shoulder quickly. "Snap outta it, Nori!" He shouted. Norio's eye quickly widened. "S-sorry...I just." Mikael narrowed his eyes. "Rick, are we ready?" Rick looked at him, and gave a nod. "No complaints." He then patted Norio on the shoulder. "Oi, look at me." He said. Norio slowly lifted his head. "We knew the possibility yesterday, right?" He asked. Norio gave a slight nod. "This man took my chance of life away for a long time," He paused. "These people gave me a second chance, and like hell I'll let that bastard take my life away again." He closed his eyes. "We'll give him back the pain he caused us, ten times harder." Norio looked at him. "Rick..." Chris grabbed his other shoulder. "C'mon we got this!" Norio smiled. "Ah." He closed his eye, and gave a nod. "We'll give him everything we've got."

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