Mutant Musume!!

[JFC]

Ai Kago had just begun to wake up after being unconscious for over an hour after being struck by
the walkers stun bolt.

...

"While you were out, we fitted you with that necklace you're wearing." said Hasagawa.

Kago touched her neck with her hand and discovered she was wearing some kind of silver, metal necklace.

"You only felt it's first response to trying to use your mutant powers." said Hasagawa, "First is an electric shock, to discourage you from trying to use your mutant powers. But if you persist, then the necklace itself will explode. Probably taking your head with it."

Even though I can understand why they put those necklaces on them, having them explode is a little extreme, don't you think? Meh, he's a military man, in his mind if it doesn't have the chance to blow up, it isn't effective.  At least he gave them a warning about what would happen if they tried to use their mutant powers.  Better that than find out the hard way by watching one of them lose their head.

"Would any of you mind telling me what all of this is?" asked Hasagawa, none of the H!P girls
spoke. But Ayaka raised her head.

"This used to be the hanger for our S.M.A.T aircraft." said Ayaka.

"S.M.A.T?" asked Hasagawa, "What's that?"

"It's the name of our organization." said Michishige, "It stands for Special Mutant Assistance
team."

That's the problem with being part of a secret organization...most people don't know about you, which really sucks at a time like this.   

"We were allied with the Tokyo police force." said Michishige.

Hasagawa nodded, "Is that true?" said Hasagawa to two young Tokyo Police Officers.

The officers looked at each other, then at the girls, both of them then shook their heads.

"No, that's not true, not to our knowledge." said one of the officers.

Well, it was already established that only the Police Chief knew about them, wasn't it? And Hasegawa should know better. Does he seriously think that a couple of young cops (who likely haven't been on the force that long) would know about S.M.A.T.?  It would have been better if he had asked a couple of seasoned, veteran officers instead. At least then it would be more likely that they'd know of them. 

"Earlier this evening, Mori Tower in Roppongi Hills was completely destroyed by Miki Fujimoto. One of your fellow Hello Project members."

The H!P girls all looked at each other, "What are you talking about?" asked Ayaka.

"Yeah, it seems that when we tried to arrest her, she resisted and completely destroyed Mori Tower, along with 5,000 civilian volunteers and dozens of innocent Mori Tower employees." said Hasagawa.

All of the H!P girls looked at each other in shock and disbelief.

"Are you certain it was Miki Fujimoto?" asked Michishige.

"Without a doubt, just as it was her who participated in the attack on Takayama City." said Hasagawa.

This must have been a real shock for them. Up until this point, it's most likely that very few, if any of the girls knew where Miki was or what she's been up to.

"Listen...we can explain everything here." said Michishige.

"I don't need to hear your explanation." said Hasagawa, "You've already proven your guilt by resisting arrest, assaulting numerous police officers and fleeing from police authority."

"But..." said Michishige.

"That's enough

A military man like Hasegawa doesn't "do" explanations. He just issues and follows orders. In his mind, he's already tried and judged the girls as being guilty.  He doesn't care that they were just defending themselves from the assault that HE himself orchestrated. Even if they had just all given up and surrendered themselves at the start (instead of defending themselves), he would still believe that they're guilty. 

Once the girls took their seats, the police patty wagon began to leave TV Tokyo.

"Any idea where we're headed?" asked Michishige.

"No idea." replied Ishibashi, "But I just know it can't be good.", the other girls nodded their heads and remained silent as the van continued to drive on.

Probably to wherever they're holding Mai, so that they can continue the "interrogation" without the public finding out that they'll actually be torturing the girls.

Just then a young soldier in his early 20's entered the tent, "Sir!, we've just got a request to bring the mutant prisoner to Tokyo City to join more Hello Project girls that were captured just now." said the soldier.

...

The young soldier carefully bent down and softly grabbed Mai Satoda by the arms and helped her to her feet, "Come on, let's go..." he said softly, and Mai slowly looked up at him.

The way he spoke to her showed respect and concern for her well being. Something she hadn't experienced since she was captured.

So Mai Satoda nodded and began to follow him. Once outside the tent, Mai and the young soldier were joined by an Army Captain and 11 other soldiers.

"Let's go!" said the Captain, the Captain and his group of soldiers then began to walk towards the outskirts of the military encampment, towards 3 large military trucks.

"Hurry up and get that....thing into the back of the awaiting truck." said the Captain.

"Yes sir!" said the young soldier, he then looked over at another soldier on his left and nodded to him. He did the same to another soldier on his right.

Suddenly one of the soldiers quickly raised his rifle and smashed the butt of the rifle into the back of the Captains head, sending him to the ground. While the young soldier next to Mai Satoda quickly undid Mais・ handcuffs that she was wearing.

"What are you doing!" screamed the groups captain.

"Helping our idol that's what!" said the young soldier, aiming his rifle down at the Captain.

Holy shit they're breaking her out!?!?   Makes me wonder, were the transfer orders even real?   Also, how many others in the military are like these guys, and are actually fans?  How much military intelligence do they have access to? How much have they been planning? How far are they willing to go to help the captured girls? 

"You realize that this is mutiny!" said the captain, "And the penalty for Mutiny is death!!"

The young soldier looked over at his fellow soldiers, they looked down at the ground for a moment then nodded.

...

"I'd gladly die to protect her."

"That goes for me too." said another of the young soldiers.

"Me too!!" said another.

"Hai!" said the others.

Well, I guess that answers my last question. You don't have a person's loyalty just by the fact that they obey your orders. You have a person's loyalty when they, like these soldiers, are WILLING to die for you.

And now, the chase is on.

"Status report?" said an army generals voice on the jeeps radio.

The jeeps driver quickly grabbed the radio and raised it to his lips.

"Looks like we've got a couple of traitors on the run with the enemy mutant." said the driver.

"Then they're not Japans' soldiers anymore. They're mutant allies, eliminate them and the fleeing mutant." said the General.

The driver looked back at his jeeps gunner and he nodded to him.

"Yes sir!, Gun safeties off, shoot to kill." said the driver, "I repeat shoot to kill!!"

And people in the military wonder why they're not trusted by the public and why they have such a bad rep. When your solution for everything involves destroying something or killing someone, it's like, no duh.

"We're almost there!" said the young soldier, "Keep running!"

Mai and her group then ran as fast as they could, Once they were just 300 feet from the heliport, they quickly looked behind them and saw a large column of jeeps and soldiers running down the road leading to the heliport.

Damn they have to hurry.

"Ok, lift off!" shouted the helicopter pilot and he pulled back on the controls of his helicopter and the helicopter began to rise off the ground, then tilted forward and fly off into the distance, Mai and Kobai continued to looked out the window at the tiny group, holding back the rest of the army.

...

"No...." said Mai, feeling so sad for the soldiers who just scarified themselves to save her life by giving theirs.

Let's hope that these guys disabled any GPS/tracking system on the helicopter that might be used to follow them.  Speaking of which...now that they've sprung Mai, where do they go?

Who here and suggest a good mutant power to go with Inaba.

One that suits her personality and life in H!P.

Well, in real life she does a variety of things in H!P. Along with participating in the group numbers at H!P concerts, she's been known to be a choreographer, a concert MC, a background/chorus dancer.  Maybe give her the ability to temporarily mimic another mutants powers (though without the bad side effects that Rogue from XMen has to deal with).  Or maybe give her the ability to temporarily "re-energize" or "revitalize" a mutant when they're tired/worn out from having to exert their powers in battle so much.

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 58-Glimmer of Hope

Ishibashi and the group of capture H!P girls continued to ride in silence in the back of the police
patty wagon.

Finally Kago broke the silence, "I certainly hope the other girls are safe." said Kago.

The other girls in the van nodded, "Hopefully Yuko leads them to a safe place, where they can
hide for a long time." said Ayaka.

Just then the Patty Wagon began to slow down, "Looks like wherever we're headed we're almost
there." said Michishige.

The Patty Wagon then stopped and the girls could hear the driver speaking with someone outside
the van. The van then continued forward again for a while, before coming to a stop.

"I wonder where we are..." asked Konno.

The backdoors to the van then opened and 3 armed police officers aimed their rifles into the
interior.

"Now, one at a time, slowly get out of the van." said of the officers.

The girls nodded and Ogawa who was closest to the vans doors got up and slowly walked
towards the vans doors. Once she was close enough, the two officers standing next to Ogawa
each grabbed an arm and helped her down to the ground. All of the girls did the same and soon
everyone was out.

Once the girls looked around they saw that they were in a large square courtyard, with high walls,
watch towers and dozens of armed guards.

Walking around the courtyard were well over 500 other prisoners. All of the prisoners were
wearing crimson red prison suits, black prison issue shoes and silver necklaces. Many of the
prisoners had dark purple bruises all over their faces, arms and body.

"Where are we?" asked Kago.

"Welcome to your new home for the next 100 years." said a prison guard. "Tokyos 'Mutants only'
prison."

"Don't we even get a trial!!" asked Michishige.

"You might, according to the human rights bill." said the guard, he then smirked. "But
unfortunately a Mutant rights bill has not yet been written. Therefore you do not get the same
rights, privileges and freedom as we normal humans do."

"That's not fair!!" screamed Michishige.

The guard glared at Michishige, "What's not fair is the thousands of innocent lives you H!P
criminals took." growled the guard, "Men, Women, Children, the elderly...you monsters spared
no one!!."

"But..." said Ayaka

"That's enough, get them into the main building and get them processed." said the guard, and
more prison guards quickly approached the group of H!P girls and lead them forcefully towards
the main building.

Once inside the H!P girls names were added into the prison name list. They were issued their
crimson red prison outfits and allowed to change, then were lead out into the square court yard
once again and left their.

The H!P girls split up, some sat by themselves against the walls and began to cry. Others stuck
together and talked to each other. Michishige then approached Ayaka.

Ayaka rubbed her wrists, "So good to have those handcuffs off."

Sayumi nodded, "So everyone here is a mutant?" asked Michishige.

"Seems like it. Let's try and get some info if we can." said Ayaka.

She and Michishige began to walk around the courtyard, trying to speak to the other inmates.

"Excuse me, can I ask you something?" Michishige asked one female prisoner, the girl looked
over at Michishige with eyes so sad and walked away. Michishige felt sorry for her, but kept on
looking for answers.

"Hey, got a moment?" Michishige asked a young male prisoner, the male prisoner quickened his
footsteps and walked away as well. "What's going on here?"

"They're afraid." said a female voice, Michishige looked over at a young blonde haired girl.

"Afraid of what?" asked Michishige.

"The guards here, they looked for excuses just to beat and abuse us." said the girl, "They don't
care what we're doing, they're use any excuse to hit you if they can."

"I see...but you don't seem scared." said Michishige.

"No, I've been here too long to care anymore." said the girl, "Entering my 2nd year of my 20 year
sentence."

"What was your crime?" asked Michishige.

The girl looked down at the ground, then smiled slightly. "Being a mutant."

"What?" asked Michishige.

"Oh yeah, that's all the police need to arrest you and charge you here." said the girl, "And
somehow I got assaulting police officers added on to it. All I did was tell them I didn't do
anything and resist alittle."

"I see, so do you mind if I ask you some questions?" asked Michishige.

"Sure, shoot." said the girl.

"Guess first off would be your name?" asked Michishige

"Fujiyama's the name." said Fujiyama.

"So just what is this place?" asked Michishige.

"It's a mutant prison." said Fujiyama, "Highly advanced and very dangerous."

Fujiyama then pointed towards the gates, "See those wires above the gates and surrounding the
entire walls of this complex at a 15 foot high height." said Fujiyama.

Sayumi nodded, 展hat are they?" asked Michishige

"If you walk past those or try and fly past those wires...BOOM. Your necklace instantly
explodes...so I wouldn't try that if I was you." said Fujiyama, she then began to laugh almost like
a mad girl.

"You ok?" asked Michishige.

"Yeah yeah I'm fine." said Fujiyama, "But think my minds kinda slipping from time to time...it's
this place. Terrible food, cold showers, abusive guards and horrible living quarters....keep your
wits about you. This place is dangerous."

"Thanks." said Michishige, she then began to slowly walk away, "Thanks for the info, but I need
to meet up with my friend."

Fujiyama waved, "Later, and watch your back, not everyone here is as friendly as I am." said
Fujiyama, she then began to laugh loudly once again.

"Poor girl...must of been through alot." thought Michishige.

Michishige then met up with Ayaka back in the middle of the courtyard.

"So what did you find out?" asked Ayaka.

"you first." said Michishige.

"Well I found out that this isn't the only mutant prison in Japan, there's one or two for every
major city. But they're kept pretty quiet from the public." said Ayaka.

"I see." said Michishige

"Also, since were mutants we do not get a trail, a hearing or chance for parole." said Ayaka.

"unbelievable." said Michishige.

"Now, what did you find out?" asked Ayaka.

"Well, as long as we stay inside this courtyard, we're safe. But try and use your mutant powers,
the necklaces will first shock us, then explode if we keep trying. Also, the wires that run on the
walls of the walls...go past those and the necklaces will instantly explode. No warning, nothing."

"Wow...sure makes the chances of getting out of here pretty slim." said Ayaka.

"Yeah, seems our only chance of getting out of here is by getting rescued by our other members
who escaped." said Michishige.

"Let's hope that day comes soon." said Ayaka, "Don't know how long I'll be able to stand this
place."

Meanwhile Mai Satoda and her loyal escort of soldiers continued to fly to an unknown location.

"Where are we going?" asked Mai.

"I can't really say." said the pilot, "I don't know if this helicopters been bugged or not."

"As a matter of fact, it has." said Hasagawas voice on the radio.

"No way!" said Kobai, "I thought we checked this helicopter for bugs."

"Did you really think you could get away that easily." said Hasagawa, "Now, turn around
immediately and I might be lenient enough to let you all off with a life sentence in prison."

"Sorry, no can do." said Kobai.

"I see, well then." said Hasagawa, just then an alarm began to beep over and over again inside the
interior of the helicopter, bright red warning lights began flashing on the pilots control panel.

"What's happening?!?" screamed Mai.

"Missile lock!!" screamed the pilot.

"Now, one last time, turn around and bring that prisoner back." ordered Hasagawa.

Kobai quickly brought his face close to the pilots ear, "Keep him talking." whispered Kobai.

Kobai then began to quickly pull out 2 parachutes from underneath the passengers seat.

"What do you plan to do with Mai Satoda?" asked the pilot.

"Oh, so that's the name of the prisoner." said Hasagawa, "She'll join the rest of her friends in
Tokyos mutant prison that's what."

Mai heard what he said and quickly scrambled to the front, "What about my friends?" asked Mai.

"Well it seems we captured 6 more of your mutant friends earlier. They're in Tokyos mutant
prison right now, which is where you'll go once we have you back." said Hasagawa, Mai Satoda
looked back at Kobai and he quickly took his army knife and cut a hole in the bottom of the
parachute backpack and a small circular device fell out. He quickly did the same with the other
and then threw one to Mai Satoda, gesturing for her to put it on.

"Now, for the last time, turn around and bring that prisoner back." ordered Hasagawa.

"Sorry sir, but I just can't do that." said the helicopter pilot.

"Very well then." said Hasagawa, the cockpits alarms began to beep over and over again, red
lights flashing.

"Missile away! Missile away!!" yelled the helicopter pilot. Mai and all the other soldiers looked
out the windows of the helicopter.

"Where is it!" screamed Mai Satoda, quickly putting her parachute on.

The pilot looked out the front of the helicopter and saw a missile approaching from a distance.

"Missile 12'O clock!!" said the helicopter pilot.

Kobai opened the door of the helicopter and quickly sat on the edge of the exit, "Mai!, Come
on!"

"But what about everyone else?" asked Mai, looking at the pilot and other soldiers inside.

"No time, just leave and now!!" said the helicopter pilot.

Kobai then jumped out of the moving helicopter, Mai sat on the ledge of the helicopter but
remained onboard. "Impact 10 seconds!" said the pilot, he then looked back and saluted Mai
Satoda, as did the other soldiers on board.

"Farewell Mai!" said the pilot, "Be safe!", he then quickly tilted the helicopter to one side and
Mai fell out of the helicopter. As she fell towards the ground, she looked over her shoulder, just
as the missile slammed into the helicopter and exploded.

"NNNOOO~!!" screamed Mai as she continued to fall towards the ground. Her parachute then
automatically opened and she began to float towards the ground.

Back in Tokyo, Hasagawa slowly lower the radio from his lip. He was inside a large army
command center, with dozens of soldiers at numerous computers and other high ranking officer
gathered around computer screens.

"Target destroyed." said a young soldier, "No parachute transponders active, I think everyone was
killed in the blast."

"Well, better send a search party just to be sure." said Hasagawa.

"Yes sir, I'll get right on that." said the officer, he then organized a search party to investigate the
remains of the helicopter.

Back on the ground, Mai Satoda sat by herself, huddle up, knees against her chest. She did not
like being alone, especially in the middle of a mountainous forest.

"Where's Kobai?" thought Mai, she then saw the glow of a flashlight moving through the trees.
So she quickly scurried on all 4's towards a bush and hide behind it.

"Mai-chan!!" screamed a voice, Mai immediately recognized it as Kobais'.

"Here!" yelled Mai, and Kobai quickly rejoined Mai.

"Glad to see your still alive!" said Kobai.

"Yes, I am...but the others." said Mai

"Don't worry, They died an honorable death. Protecting their idols life." said Kobai, "Anyone of
us would gladly do it and have no regrets."

"Thanks," said Mai, "How did they find us?"

"Japan biggest concern is an air invasion, so they have anti-aircraft installations all over the
island. Impossible to avoid them all wherever you fly. Unless your aircraft has some kind of
killer stealth technology, which a helicopter has none."

"I see, never knew that." said Mai

"Not many civilians do." said Kobai, "We all knew what we were getting into and what are
chances were once we were in the air. But we tried to get as far as we possibly could."

Kobai quickly checked a handheld device he was holding, "Ok, I'm glad we were able to get this
close." said Kobai, "Now follow me."

Mai nodded and began to follow Kobai through the mountain forest.

"Where are we going?" asked Mai, "We arranged a civilian transport. They should be waiting for
us just a few clicks north of here. You'll be almost impossible to locate once your amongst us."

"Amongst who?" asked Mai.

"Your fans." said Kobai, "Whereever you have fans, you have cover, protection, shelter and
safety."

Kobai then showed Mai the large hand held device he was holding. On the screen were thousands
of dots all across Japan, indicating safehouses, friendly stores and shops, safe roads and places
where H!P members would be welcome.

"Right now we're heading to a group of your fans who are waiting to pick you up and take you to
a safe house." said Kobai. "Don't worry, you have more places to hide and be safe then you could
ever possibly imagine."

"I had no idea this was possible." said Mai. "This amount of kindness and care from our fans."

Mai and Kobai continued to walk through the forest, "We're your fans, we love and adore you.
And of course if you were ever in trouble, none of us would hesitate to help you in whatever way
we could." said Kobai.

Just then they heard the sounds of helicopters above, "Oh crap, get down!!" said Kobai, quickly
hiding behind a tree while Mai dove into a bush. The helicopters then passed over Mai and Kobai
and continued towards the downed helicopter.

"Ok, I think we better quicken our pace!" said Kobai, Mai nodded, came out of her hiding spot
and began to jog along side Kobai as he continued to look down at his electronic device.

an hour later Mai and Kobai came out of the woods, near a major highway. Parked on the side of
the road was a silver Mitsubishi eclipse. Kobai took a red LED light out of his pocket and flashed
it 3 times at the car, then waited. The eclipse flashed a blue LED light back towards the forest
where Mai and Kobai were.

"Ok, let's go!" said Kobai

He and Mai then ran as fast as they could towards the eclipse, got in and the eclipse began to
drive away. Mai Satoda breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't worry, your safe now." said the young male driver.

"Thanks, I owe you guys one." said Mai.

"Ok, care to repay that debt with a request?" asked the male passenger.

"What did you have in mind?" asked Mai

The passenger then began to flip through a CD wallet, then took out a CD and placed it into his
CD Player. Music began to play, then Mai recognized it as Country Musumes "Uwaki na Honey
Pie."

The fans then began to clap their hands as they drove and chant "Oi! oi! oi! oi!" as they did the
choreography of the Honey Pie dance while sitting.

"Come on, join us!" said Kobai.

Mai laughed, then nodded her head. She then began to sing the lyrics of the song and do the hand
movements that go with it. This continued as the car drove off into the distance.

[JFC]

"I wonder where we are..." asked Konno.

The backdoors to the van then opened and 3 armed police officers aimed their rifles into the interior.

"Now, one at a time, slowly get out of the van." said of the officers.

...

Once the girls looked around they saw that they were in a large square courtyard, with high walls, watch towers and dozens of armed guards.

Walking around the courtyard were well over 500 other prisoners. All of the prisoners were wearing crimson red prison suits, black prison issue shoes and silver necklaces. Many of the prisoners had dark purple bruises all over their faces, arms and body.

WTH, are all of these people confirmed mutants? If so, how many of them are from Overlord's army and how many are just innocent, regular civilians (I'm willing to bet that more of them qualify under the latter).  And fuckin' hell they've all been tortured? This isn't a prison; or at least, it can't be an officially licensed one. It must be some type of military prison who's existence has been kept secret.  If the public (and the world at large) knew that this place existed, it would get Japan in SUCH big trouble politically, not to mention the human rights violations of torturing the inmates.

"Don't we even get a trial!!" asked Michishige.

"You might, according to the human rights bill." said the guard, he then smirked. "But unfortunately a Mutant rights bill has not yet been written. Therefore you do not get the same rights, privileges and freedom as we normal humans do."

Same old story. Because someone is different than you, it means they're not human.  And yet considering the way that you're treating them... you are? 

"The guards here, they looked for excuses just to beat and abuse us." said the girl, "They don't care what we're doing, they're use any excuse to hit you if they can."

And here we go, back again to the whole "mob-mentality". When you fear something, the way that the guards fear mutants, you seek any chance you can get to destroy it. The fact that they've somehow convinced themselves that mutants "aren't human" allows them to beat and torture them without troubling their conscience. 

I've been here too long to care anymore." said the girl, "Entering my 2nd year of my 20 year sentence."

Her 2nd year? That means that they've known about the existence of mutants, and have been imprisoning them (and likely developing anti-mutant tech like the necklaces) for quite a while.

"What was your crime?" asked Michishige.

The girl looked down at the ground, then smiled slightly. "Being a mutant."

"What?" asked Michishige.

"Oh yeah, that's all the police need to arrest you and charge you here." said the girl, "And somehow I got assaulting police officers added on to it. All I did was tell them I didn't do anything and resist alittle."

But of course, they'll find ANY way to arrest as many mutants as they can, even trumping up bogus charges.  The truth is, to them, just being born a mutant is criminal enough. 

"You ok?" asked Michishige.

"Yeah yeah I'm fine." said Fujiyama, "But think my minds kinda slipping from time to time...it's this place. Terrible food, cold showers, abusive guards and horrible living quarters....keep your wits about you. This place is dangerous."

...

watch your back, not everyone here is as friendly as I am." said Fujiyama, she then began to laugh loudly once again.

Somehow I'm sure that the wackos running this prison are doing at least SOME of this intentionally. They think that since the prisoners "aren't human", then they don't have to treat them "humanely". Sons of fucks.

If they know that some of the prisoners eventually get like Fujiyama (in that they start to get twitchy or otherwise highly irritable), they probably hope that some conflicts will occur and that the prisoners will just eliminate themselves.

"Well I found out that this isn't the only mutant prison in Japan, there's one or two for every major city. But they're kept pretty quiet from the public." said Ayaka.

Well duh, if the public found out then they risk the general population developing some sympathy for mutants, which would mean that they could no longer torture them.

Meanwhile Mai Satoda and her loyal escort of soldiers continued to fly to an unknown location.

"Where are we going?" asked Mai.

"I can't really say." said the pilot, "I don't know if this helicopters been bugged or not."

"As a matter of fact, it has." said Hasagawas voice on the radio.

SUNOVABITCH!

"Did you really think you could get away that easily." said Hasagawa, "Now, turn around immediately and I might be lenient enough to let you all off with a life sentence in prison."

"Sorry, no can do." said Kobai.

"I see, well then." said Hasagawa, just then an alarm began to beep over and over again inside the interior of the helicopter, bright red warning lights began flashing on the pilots control panel.

"What's happening?!?" screamed Mai.

"Missile lock!!" screamed the pilot.

"Now, one last time, turn around and bring that prisoner back." ordered Hasagawa.

...

"Sorry sir, but I just can't do that." said the helicopter pilot.

"Very well then." said Hasagawa, the cockpits alarms began to beep over and over again, red lights flashing.

"Missile away! Missile away!!" yelled the helicopter pilot. Mai and all the other soldiers looked out the windows of the helicopter.

So the soldiers that helped Mai are "expendable" now, are they? Hasegawa's attitude and behavior are going beyond what one would expect from a person with military training. He's sounding almost fanatical in the way that his focus is so singular-minded.

Reminds me of another famous fanatic from world history.

"Target destroyed." said a young soldier, "No parachute transponders active, I think everyone was killed in the blast."

Ah, so THAT's what those two things were that were cut out of the parachutes.  The pilot and other soldiers that helped Mai must have brought them with them when they took the helicopter, but AFTER Hasegawa's men planted the bug . This probably means that most, if not all military vehicles have a bug planted on them somewhere, in case they're stolen.

"Where are we going?" asked Mai, "We arranged a civilian transport. They should be waiting for us just a few clicks north of here. You'll be almost impossible to locate once your amongst us."

"Amongst who?" asked Mai.

"Your fans." said Kobai, "Whereever you have fans, you have cover, protection, shelter and safety."

Kobai then showed Mai the large hand held device he was holding. On the screen were thousands of dots all across Japan, indicating safehouses, friendly stores and shops, safe roads and places where H!P members would be welcome.

"Right now we're heading to a group of your fans who are waiting to pick you up and take you to a safe house." said Kobai. "Don't worry, you have more places to hide and be safe then you could ever possibly imagine."

H!P FANS UNITE!!!

an hour later Mai and Kobai came out of the woods, near a major highway. Parked on the side of
the road was a silver Mitsubishi eclipse.

...

"Don't worry, your safe now." said the young male driver.

"Thanks, I owe you guys one." said Mai.

"Ok, care to repay that debt with a request?" asked the male passenger.

"What did you have in mind?" asked Mai

Ok, too easy. 

The passenger then began to flip through a CD wallet, then took out a CD and placed it into his CD Player. Music began to play, then Mai recognized it as Country Musumes "Uwaki na Honey Pie."

The fans then began to clap their hands as they drove and chant "Oi! oi! oi! oi!" as they did the choreography of the Honey Pie dance while sitting.

"Come on, join us!" said Kobai.

Mai laughed, then nodded her head. She then began to sing the lyrics of the song and do the hand movements that go with it. This continued as the car drove off into the distance.

You have an idol in your car, you have a CD with her song in your car. You seriously gonna pass up a chance to sing and parapara with her?

I don't think so. 




Fuck, this chapter really pissed me off.

[Sakura Momusu]

hmmm...

Possible power for Inaba Atsuko - Ability to merge with another person, human or mutant, and have complete control over his/her mind and actions; Useless against mutants who have psychic-based abilities. 

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 59-

Nakazawa stood on the summit of mount Nantai, located in central of Japan. She looked out at
the vast forest surrounding Mount Nantai.

"This seems like a safe enough place." thought Yuko, "No roads leading to the mountain, only
small villages and towns around the mountain. And we can see a threat coming from miles away
from Mount Nantais summit."

Kaori Iida then exited a small cavern leading down into Mount Nantais interior, she then joined
Nakazawa. As she looked over at Yuko, she could see she was in deep thought.

"What's on your mind?" asked Kaori, Yuko looked down at the ground.

"It's just...I can't believe how easily humanity turned against us." said Yuko, "We dedicated so
much of our resources, time and effort into protecting Tokyo and working towards peaceful
mutant and human co-existence...but in the end the humans didn't hesitate to turn on us when
they considered us a threat."

Kaori nodded, "I know, but we are different Yuko. And I don't mean were slightly different from
humans." said Kaori, "Look at what we can do. I can read minds, take over a persons mind and
make them do or say whatever I want, and if I concentrate hard enough I can kill someone. No
human could ever do that, not in a million years."

Nakazawa then reached down and picked up a stone, as she held it on her hand the stone began to
glow bright red as Yuko charged it up with her explosive mutant energy. "Yeah, I guess I see
your point." said Yuko, she then tossed the stone away and it exploded in a tiny ball of smoke
and fire.

"And I suppose if we truly wanted to, we wouldn't of had any trouble destroying the entire Tokyo
police force if we didn't hold back. We could of done it without even breaking a sweat." said
Yuko.

Kaori nodded, "But that's what makes us the good guys." said Kaori, "We have control over our
emotions and powers, and we're able to keep calm in desperate situations and not lose control
and lash out irrationally."

Nakazawa nodded, "Come on, let's head inside." said Yuko, Kaori nodded and walked side by
side into the cave entrance leading down into Mount Nantai.

They then entered the main vast cavern of Mount Nantai, inside were the 3 large S.M.A.T
aircraft, parked side by side. Standing or sitting around the aircraft were all of the H!P girls who
survived the attack on TV Tokyo by the police force.

As Yuko looked around she saw some more of the girls continue working on expanding the
cavern. Murata Megumi was carefully blasting away sections of rock and stone with her eye
beams. Rika Ishikawa was concentrating on catching the sometimes enormous chunks of rock
that fell from the ceiling and walls of the vast cavern as Murata blasted away at them. Rika had
the ability to change the gravity inside of gravity bubbles she could create. As the rocks fell
towards the ground and entered Rikas・gravity bubbles, they quickly slowed down and floated, as
the gravity inside the bubble was much less then earth痴. Once Rika successfully caught a falling
rock and set it on the ground, Ai Takahashi quickly stepped in, touched the rocks with her hands
and teleported them outside to an already enormous mound of already blasted away rocks.

"Take a break!" yelled Yuko, "5 minutes, we need to have a quick discussion."

Murata took her hand away from her newly constructed visor, since she lost her old one in the
fight against the police force and walked towards Yuko, as did everyone else in the vast,
hollowed out interior of Mount Nantai.

"Now everyone, I just want to express how grateful I am of your efforts in quickly and
professionally setting up our new hideout." said Yuko, looking around the large cavern in which
they were hiding, "You all did a tremendous job in here, and I just wanted to say thank you and
keep up the great work."

Koharu then raised her hand, "Yes Koharu, what is it?" asked Yuko.

"How long do we have to stay in here?" asked Koharu.

Yuko lowered her head, "I don't know, but be prepared to remain here for a long, long time."

Some of the girls groaned, "I know, it sucks having to hide out here in the middle of Japan, away
from all of the luxuries we were once used to." said Kaori, "Gourmet food, hot showers, bubble
baths, our beautiful condos, room service..."

"Are we just gonna remain in here like moles for the rest of our lives?" asked Tsuji.

"It's too dangerous for any of us to go out into Japan." said Yuko, "The police are looking for us
and our faces are all over the news."

"What about our friends!." said Reina Tanaka at the back of the group, "You promised we would
save them after we got away."

"Reina..." said Yuko slowly, "We don't even know where to begin looking for them. How can we
mount a rescue mission when we don't even know where to find them."

Reina looked down at the ground and nodded, "I'm very worried about the girls we left behind."

"So am I, but for now we have to remain in hiding." said Yuko, "Things are just too hot at the
moment for us to do anything. So here is where we'll stay for now."

"Hai..." said everyone in unison.

"Ok, back to work." said Yuko, she then began to walk towards one of the metal tables near
Momokos・aircraft, she sat down and rested her head in her hands.

"I don't like staying here in this damp, dark place anymore then anyone else." thought Yuko, "But
I cannot risk losing anymore of my girls, we're already in a tough situation with Ayaka gone. She
was our mechanic and no one else besides her knows how to fix, repair and refuel our aircraft."

Kaori then sat down next to Yuko, and without saying a word she looked over at Yuko. "I know
what you mean." said Kaoris・voice inside Yukos・head. "Without our mechanic who's going to
maintain our aircraft for the time being."

"I don't know." thought Yuko, communicating with Kaori in this non-vocal manner, "I can only
hope that luck is on our side for the time being, dunno how long we can hide in here before we're
found out."

"Don't worry Yuko, I trust and back your decisions 100%." thought Kaori.

Nakazawa smiled, "Thank you my friend." thought Yuko.

Meanwhile Back in Tokyo, Mai and her fans stopped just outside of a large warehouse.

"We're here." said the driver, he and the other fans got out, Mai following close behind them.

Kobai stood by the large sliding door of the warehouse, "Welcome to Tokyo痴' wota
headquarters." said Kobai, he then opened the door and inside the large warehouse were
hundreds of Wota. Some were typing on computers, others were setting up lights, curtains and
others were dancing and singing to H!P songs.

As Mai stepped into the warehouse, everyone inside stopped what they were doing and stare at
Mai Satoda in disbelief.

"It's her!" said someone.

"It's Mai-chan!!" screamed another.

Everyone then dropped to one knee and bowed low, "Hail Mai!"

Mai Satoda blushed brightly, "Please, that's not necessary." said Mai, everyone then got up.

"Quick, get this girl some food." said Kobai, and immediately Mai was swarmed by a dozen
fanboys holding all sorts of food. While others brought Styrofoam cups of ice tea, soda, water,
green tea and other drinks. All of them eagerly held them out to Mai and waited.

As Mai moved her hand from one plate of food to the next, everyone eagerly waited to see who's
she would choose. She eventually took a turkey breast sandwich from one Wota, and he erupted
into joyous cheers.

"She chose mine!" he yelled in his fanboy voice.

Mai then grabbed a cup of ice tea and quickly gulped it down.

"Thank you everyone for all of this." said Mai.

"oh it was nothing." said one fanboy, blushing bright red.

"Come on, I'll show you around." said Kobai, he and Mai then began to walk around the
warehouse.

But as Mai walked side by side with Kobai she happened to look over her shoulder and a small
gang of Wota were following behind her.

Mai and Kobai then stopped in front of a large wooden table, sitting at the table were 10 Wota.
All of them had headsets on and were writing down notes as they listened to some sort of large
radio in the center of the table.

"This here is where we listen to Police radio frequencies." said Kobai, "It's where we learned
about the police attack on TV Tokyo and dispatched a small army of wota to assist you."

"I see." said Mai.

One of the Wota took off his headphones and turned to Mai, "I have some good news and some
bad news." he said.

Mai then walked over to him and stood beside him. "What is it?" she asked.

"Well the good news is there have been no more sightings of H!P members for the last few
hours, they've all disappeared after leaving TV Tokyo." said the Wota, "But the bad new is
they've captured 6 Hello Project members in the raid."

"Any idea who they are?" asked Mai.

The wota picked up a clip board and began to flip through the earlier pages, "um...Konno Asami,
Ogawa Makoto, Michishige Sayumi, Ai Kago, Ayaka Kimura and Masa Otani." said the Wota.

"Any idea where they've been taken to?" asked Mai.

"No, sorry." said the Wota, "They were turned over to the military, and we here only monitor
police frequencies. So we do not know where they've been taken."

"I see, well thanks for the report." said Mai.

"No problem." said the Wota, he then put his headphones back on and continued to monitor the
police reports.

"Let's keep going." said Kobai and he and Mai continued to walk around the large warehouse.

Kobai then walked up to a large group of 15 wota, "These men here will be your drivers." said
Kobai, "Anyone of them will run errands for you. Pick up whatever you want, buy whatever you
want, don't hesitate to ask them for anything. They'll go where ever and do whatever you ask."

All of them bowed to Mai, "At your service!!" they all said in unison.

"Thanks, but I'm fine for the time being." said Mai.

Mai then yawned, "Can we continue the tour alittle later." asked Mai, "I'm utterly exhausted and
could use some sleep."

"Sure thing." said Kobai, he then led Mai upstairs into a private office. "This here will be your
room, so just make yourself at home and well contact you if we hear anything more about your
friends."

"Thanks for everything, I definitely feel safe knowing I have an army of our fans protecting me."
said Mai, Kobai bowed low to Mai then left the room.

As Mai looked around the room, she saw an enormous Queen sized bed, laying on top of the bed
were dozens of boxes of chocolates, flowers and other gifts the Wota fans had left for her. Mai
walked over to the bed and sat down on the edge. She then reached out and picked up a plush
turtle and held it.

"Kamei-chan." said Mai, she then reached out and grabbed a small stuffed penguin.

"Goto-san." said Mai, being reminded of her friends as she looked down at the various stuffed
animals.

"Where ever you all are, I hope your safe." thought Mai.

Mai then crawled into bed and fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.

[JFC]

Nakazawa stood on the summit of mount Nantai, located in central of Japan. She looked out at the vast forest surrounding Mount Nantai.

"This seems like a safe enough place." thought Yuko, "No roads leading to the mountain, only small villages and towns around the mountain. And we can see a threat coming from miles away from Mount Nantais summit."

Hmmm...doesn't sound like S.M.A.T. had previously scouted this location or anything like that.  I wonder how they'll be for supplies and what not?

"It's just...I can't believe how easily humanity turned against us." said Yuko, "We dedicated so much of our resources, time and effort into protecting Tokyo and working towards peaceful mutant and human co-existence...but in the end the humans didn't hesitate to turn on us when they considered us a threat."

Kaori nodded, "I know, but we are different Yuko. And I don't mean were slightly different from humans." said Kaori, "Look at what we can do. I can read minds, take over a persons mind and make them do or say whatever I want, and if I concentrate hard enough I can kill someone. No human could ever do that, not in a million years."

Indeed. It's just human nature (unfortunately) to fear what you don't know or what is different from you.  And as a great mind once said..."Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate...hate...leads to suffering".

"And I suppose if we truly wanted to, we wouldn't of had any trouble destroying the entire Tokyo police force if we didn't hold back. We could of done it without even breaking a sweat." said Yuko.

Kaori nodded, "But that's what makes us the good guys." said Kaori, "We have control over our emotions and powers, and we're able to keep calm in desperate situations and not lose control and lash out irrationally."

With any luck, someone in a position of authority will realize this and will realize that S.M.A.T. are not the same as the mutants (i.e. Overlord's forces) that actually did the attacking and destroying.

Reina looked down at the ground and nodded, "I'm very worried about the girls we left behind."

"So am I, but for now we have to remain in hiding." said Yuko, "Things are just too hot at the moment for us to do anything. So here is where we'll stay for now."

Things definitely are not in the girls' favor right now.  They need to be the complete opposite of the military forces, and act intelligently, instead of with brute force.  It's only natural that they want to go save the girls that have been captured, but without having the right information about where they are and what they'll be up against, it would be more risky for them to make any attempt at this time.

Meanwhile Back in Tokyo, Mai and her fans stopped just outside of a large warehouse.

"We're here." said the driver, he and the other fans got out, Mai following close behind them.

Kobai stood by the large sliding door of the warehouse, "Welcome to Tokyo痴' wota headquarters." said Kobai

Wota HQ? They've like, organized themselves???

he then opened the door and inside the large warehouse were hundreds of Wota. Some were typing on computers, others were setting up lights, curtains and others were dancing and singing to H!P songs.

  Under other circumstances, this could be really creepy.

As Mai stepped into the warehouse, everyone inside stopped what they were doing and stare at Mai Satoda in disbelief.

"It's her!" said someone.

"It's Mai-chan!!" screamed another.

Everyone then dropped to one knee and bowed low, "Hail Mai!"

Mai Satoda blushed brightly, "Please, that's not necessary." said Mai, everyone then got up.

Ok, under ANY circumstances, THIS is creepy. Flattering, but creepy.

Mai and Kobai then stopped in front of a large wooden table, sitting at the table were 10 Wota. All of them had headsets on and were writing down notes as they listened to some sort of large radio in the center of the table.

"This here is where we listen to Police radio frequencies." said Kobai, "It's where we learned about the police attack on TV Tokyo and dispatched a small army of wota to assist you."

Holy shit these guys ARE organized!

One of the Wota took off his headphones and turned to Mai, "I have some good news and some bad news." he said.

Mai then walked over to him and stood beside him. "What is it?" she asked.

"Well the good news is there have been no more sightings of H!P members for the last few hours, they've all disappeared after leaving TV Tokyo." said the Wota, "But the bad new is they've captured 6 Hello Project members in the raid."

...

 "They were turned over to the military, and we here only monitor police frequencies. So we do not know where they've been taken."

If only these guys could get a signal out to Yuko and the others without it being traced.

[niigaki_risa]

Kobai stood by the large sliding door of the warehouse, "Welcome to Tokyo痴' wota
headquarters."

Ah, I somehow knew this was going to happen.

As Mai moved her hand from one plate of food to the next, everyone eagerly waited to see who's
she would choose. She eventually took a turkey breast sandwich from one Wota, and he erupted
into joyous cheers.

"She chose mine!" he yelled in his fanboy voice.

Of course. 

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 60- New Technology

General Hasagawa entered Tokyo police headquarters holding cells, escorted by two new police
recruits. Inside one of the cells was former Chief of Police Hamada. Hasagawa grabbed a metal
chair from the corner of the room and sat down in it, across from Hamada.

"So Mr. Hamada, care to tell me what you know about these Hello Project S.M.A.T girls?" asked
Hasagawa.

"I can tell you for sure that you've gone insane." said Hamada, "These girls are heroes, they've
done nothing but help the police catch criminals, keep our city streets safe and help those in
need."

"So why all the secrecy then?" asked Hasagawa, "Seems not many of your officers know what
the S.M.A.T organization is."

"Because there were those of us in the police force who believed that not all mutants are
dangerous. Just like not all humans are evil or dangerous. But the majority of the human race in
Japan believes that mutants are a threat to humanity. So we kept this organization a secret,
because we wanted to test if mutants and humans could work, live and exist together in peace.
The results we had were tremendous, these girls worked extremely well with our task force of
officers who were let in on the secret. With their mutant talents, they actually helped us catch
more criminals, decrease the number of officers killed on duty down, keep our streets safer and
make Tokyo a much better place to live."

"So I do not feel in my heart that these girls are the criminals you make them out to be. I've
worked with these girls and know their intentions were always only good." said Hasagawa.

"How do you know that you were not playing into these H!P girls hands from the very start." said
Hasagawa, "It seems that one of these H!P girls, Miki Fujimotos・intentions are purely the death
and destruction of the human race. She's already helped destroy Takayama city, and leveled an
entire city block where Mori Tower used to be."

Hamada sighed, "That I do not know about..." said Hamada, "I'm at a lose as to why that could of
happened with one of the H!P girls."

"It's what they wanted, I know it is." said Hasagawa, "They wanted you to drop your guard and
gain your trust, so you could do what your doing now."

"And what's that?" asked Hamada.

"Fall into a state of confusion and not be able to command your men, because you have such
strong feelings for these girls." said Hasagawa, "Look at you, your a wreck. You've lost focus on
what needs to be done to criminals. They need to be arrested and placed behind bars. But you
cannot do that, because you believe they're innocent, when they're clearly not."

Hamada lowered his head to towards the ground, "That can't be..." said Hamada sadly, "It just
can't...we trusted them with our lives. They can't of betrayed us."

"The evidence is clear as day, but you still cannot see it!!." screamed Hasagawa, "Miki Fujimoto
and the other H!P girls were seen in Takayama city!!, they fled the scene when our forces
arrived!!."

"No..." said Hamada.

"Miki Fujimoto was seen at Mori Tower, she then killed over 5,000 civilians working for us and
dozens of Mori tower employees and she then fled the scene." said Hasagawa, "And all of these
girls resisted arrest, assaulted hundreds of Tokyo's police officers, sending many to the hospital
and they again fled from our arresting officers and are on the run as we speak."

"I won't believe it." said Hamada.

"What will it take for you to see these girls are evil mutant criminals!!." roared Hasagawa, sliding
his chair away. "Will it take the destruction of the human race, before you can see the truth!."

"Now that I've heard all of the evidence...maybe your right." said Hamada, slowly standing up.
"We must find them and have them all arrested."

"That's what I've been waiting to hear." said Hasagawa, "Are you ready to retake command of
your police force?"

Hamada stood up straight and saluted Hasagawa, "Yes sir, and we'll work together from now on
to bring these criminals to justice."

Hasagawa returned the salute, "The Army and the police force in full co-operation from now on."
said Hasagawa.

He then gestured for the two young police officers to open Hamadas cell. They obeyed, opened
Hamadas cell and handed him his Police Chief hat and silver Police badge. Hamada put on his
hat first, then clipped his badge onto his police shirt.

The two young officers saluted Hamada and he returned the salute.

"Now, let's find these H!P criminals!!" said Hamada, a grim, emotionless expression on his face.

Meanwhile, back in Tokyo, Inaba and Maeda Yuki were finally ready to try and make it back to
TV Tokyo.

Maeda Yuki and Inaba were in the backroom, with the two shop keepers, "Thank you for
everything. We'll never forget your kindness and protection." said Maeda.

"It was our pleasure, and if you ever need anything. Don't hesitate to come back here." said
Koyama.

"I hope your ankle is alright." said Hiromi, Inaba looked down at her ankle.

"It doesn't hurt that much anymore, so I should be alright." said Inaba, she then looked over at
Maeda.

"You ready?" asked Inaba, Maeda nodded.

"Ok, let's go." said Maeda, she then held her hand out to Inaba, and she grabbed a hold of her
hand.

The two of them then began to disappear, their bodies becoming more and more transparent every
passing moment, until they were both completely invisible. Inaba had the ability to temporarily
borrow any mutants power, once she came into contact with them.

"Good luck and we hope you make it to where ever your going safely" said Koyama.

"Thank you." said Maedas voice.

"Farewell" said Inabas voice, the two of them began to leave the back room. Hiromi stood beside
his wife and wrapped his arms around her and held her close. The two of them then looked down
at the ground and could see little footprints the two girls boots left on the ground as they walked
towards the backroom exit. The door then seemingly opened by itself and then closed by itself as
the girls left.

Without the threat of being spotted the girls were able to take much faster means back to TV
Tokyo. They could even ride the subways, as long as they made certain not to bump into any
civilians.

A half hour later the girls approached TV Tokyo together...but it was completely deserted. The
entire building was pitch black, there was a large gaping hole where TV Tokyo's main entrance
used to be, covered by police tape.

"Looks like something big happened here while we were gone." said Maeda.

"Yeah, but we have to go inside." said Inaba, "Maybe our equipment is still inside."

Earlier when the girls went home to pack, they had left all of their S.M.A.T equipment in their
lockers.

"I agree, ok let's go." said Maeda, she then began to lead Inaba, still hand in hand in invisible
form towards TV Tokyo's main entrance. The two girls then entered the building and began to
head towards the locker room, located inside the gymnasium.

As they walked through the corridors of TV Tokyo, they saw the glow of a flashlight. "Stay
against the walls, people normally walk down the middle of corridors and hallways." whispered
Maeda.

"Gotcha." said Inaba, both girls then pressed themselves against the wall and continued on,
walking right past a Police officer on guard duty inside TV Tokyo.

As the officers walked through the halls he stopped in his tracks, "What the..." said the officer,
turning around and pointing his flashlight behind him and scanning the area. "Could of sworn I
heard the sound of more footsteps."

Inaba and Maeda froze in their tracks, remaining perfectly still as the light shone over them and
continued on.

The officer shook his head, "Must be hearing things...these big buildings sure are creepy at night
when they're totally deserted and have no lights on." said the officer, he then continued on his
way.

"Ok let's keep going." whispered Maeda, she and Inaba then continued to creep through the
hallways, until they finally entered the gymnasium. The devastation they saw shocked them.
Their once vast and beautiful gymnasium now laid in ruins, downed walkers laid on the ground,
scorch marks stained the ground where flashbangs exploded, unretrieved police shields, batons,
guns and other equipment littered the ground.

"Would you look at this place..." said Maeda, "What happened here.", Inaba shook her head and
squeezed Maedas hand tighter.

Maeda and Inaba continued to walk around the destroyed gymnasium, until Maeda spotted
something on the ground. "What's this?" said Maeda, bending down and picking up something
from the ground. She then began to turn it over and over in her hands, examining it.

"It looks like a piece of Murata Megumis・visor..." said Inaba.

"You don't suppose any of them were..." said Maeda, fearing the worst for her friends.

"No, they're strong, they can take care of themselves." said Inaba. "I'm sure they're all fine."

"Your right, we can't afford to think like that in this situation." said Maeda, "Ok, let's keep
going." said Maeda, she and Inaba then entered the locker rooms and Inaba let go of Maedas・
hand and she reappeared, no longer invisible and headed to her locker as Maeda reappeared as
well.

The girls then opened their lockers and began to put on their equipment belts and load their
S.M.A.T vest pockets with supplies and other essential items. As Maeda reached into her locker
once more, she happened to see the locator device used the S.M.A.T girls to signal for help from
headquarters if they ever ran into trouble out on the streets of Tokyo.

"An idea just came to me." said Maeda.

Inaba looked over at her, "What is it?" asked Inaba.

Maeda then reached into her locker and pulled out the small pen shaped locator device, "We
could probably use this to find out where the rest of the girls are." said Maeda, "All of the
S.M.A.T aircraft have similar technology that our Control and dispatch room has. If we head to
the main control room and activate this device, it'll let the other girls know that we're still here
and we can radio the other girls and find out where they all went."

"Sounds like a plan!!" said Inaba, Maeda then placed the locator device into her right breast
pocket on her S.M.A.T vest.

"Ok, then let's head to our next objective, the main control room." said Maeda, Inaba nodded and
ran over to Maeda and quickly took hold of her hand as both girls then disappeared and were in
invisible form once again.

A short while later Inaba and Maeda reached the main control room, and the girls went inside.
Inaba let go of Maedas・hand, then rushed over to the radio and quickly switched it on. It took a
few moments for the machine to start up, but soon multiple colored lights appeared and began to
flash on the clear buttons of the radio.

"I don't know the frequency of the S.M.A.T aircraft, so we'll have to wait for them to contact us."
said Inaba

"Ok...here goes nothing." said Maeda, and she pulled out the small locator and pressed the small
red button and waited. "I hope this works."

Back at Mount Nantai, Saki sat in the large chair infront of her computer, she was writing in
a small journal, when suddenly, her computers monitor turned on and a small red dot began to
blink over and over again on a map of Tokyo.

For a few moments Saki didn't take notice, but as she slowly raised her eyes up, she happened to
see the red blinking dot on her computer monitor.

"What the..." said Saki, her heart then skipped a beat as she saw the dot was flashing on top of
TV Tokyo, inside the control room of the S.M.A.T headquarters. Saki quickly pushed a series of
buttons with one hand into her computers keyboard and the map zoomed in even closer towards
the flashing dot. Upon even closer inspection, Maeda Yukis name appeared underneath the
flashing dot. "No...It can't be!!"

Saki then quickly tossed her journal away, and hurriedly put her headset on. "This is the S.M.A.T
aircraft the valor to Maeda Yuki, please respond over." said Saki, eagerly waiting for a reply.

There was abit of static then Maedas・voice could be heard, "This is Maeda Yuki and Inaba
Atsuko." said Maeda, "Looks like the train left without us."

Saki laughed, and two tears began to well up in her eyes, "It's so good to hear your voice." said
Saki, the two tears then began to slowly stream down her face. "Are you alright?"

"We're fine, for the time being." said Maeda, "But it looks like we're stranded here."

Saki wiped the tears away with her sleeves, "Hold on, I'll get Commander Nakazawa." said Saki,
then switched the radio to a loud speaker located on the outside of her S.M.A.T. aircraft

"Commander Nakazawa, report to the crew cabin immediately, it's extremely urgent." said Sakis
voice over the loud speaker.

"Urgent?" said Nakazawa, looking over at Kaori, "What could be so urgent at a time like this?"

Kaori shrugged, "Better check it out." said Kaori, she and Yuko then began to jog over to the
S.M.A.T aircraft the valor, both girls then climbed the steps up towards the door leading into the
interior of the aircraft. Soon both girls were inside the crew cabin.

"What is it?" asked Nakazawa, Saki looked over at Nakazawa with tears in her eyes.

"It's Maeda Yuki and Inaba Atsuko, they're alright!!." said Saki.

"Maeda...Inaba?" said Yuko, confused, "They were missing?"

Saki tilted her head, "You didn't notice?" asked Saki

Nakazawa blushed, "Honestly...no I didn't." said Nakazawa.

"I heard that!!" said Maedas・voice from Sakis headphones that were laying beside Sakis
keyboard.

Saki quickly stood up and made way for Nakazawa as she took Sakis seat and put the headset on.

"This is Commander Nakazawa. Maeda, Inaba is that really you!" said Nakazawa.

"Yes Commander, we're safe for the moment, but we're stuck here." said Maeda. "Where are
you?"

"We've retreated to Mount Nantai and are hiding out here for the time being." said Nakazawa.

"So, would you mind picking us up or something?" said Maeda, "It's alittle too hot in Tokyo for
us to remain here."

Nakazawa rubbed her chin, "We'll think of something, don't worry!!" said Nakazawa.

Just then Inaba heard the sound of approaching footsteps, and quickly tapped Maeda on the
shoulder. Maeda looked back and Inaba pointed towards the doorway and the glow of a flashlight
could be seen waving back and forth as someone was approaching.

"Hang on Yuko, Someone's coming." whispered Maeda, she then set her headset on the desk, she placed the locator device in her pocket and grabbed Inaba by the hand and they both instantly turned invisible, and both girls nervously held their breath.

A soldier then appeared and shone his flashlight into the room, shining it slowly from one side of
the room to the other. Maeda saw that he was wearing some kind of device on his head, it looked
like a headset ear piece was on his right ear, and attached to the ear piece was a small orange
colored eyepiece that covered his right eye.

Suddenly the device attached to the soldiers head began to beep over and over again. "Mutant
DNA detected!" a female computerized voice said. The soldier then shone his flashlight directly
where Inaba and Maeda were standing.

"No way!" thought Maeda, "He can't possibly see us."

But the soldier could, through the orange colored eye piece covering his right eye he could see a
yellow colored silhouette of the two girls bodies, and underneath the girls silhouette were
numbers.

The first set of numbers were underneath Maedas・ silhouette "Mutant power level: 4,600." said a
little computerized voice on the soldiers headset, he then pressed a small red button on the side
of his headset and looked over in Inabas' direction.

"Mutant power level: 4,000." said the little computerized voice.

The soldier then raised his radio to his lips, while holding his gun in the direction of where
Maeda and Inaba were standing. "I've got two mutants here, requesting backup!!" said the
soldier.

"Impossible!!" said Inaba and she let go of Maedas・hand and reappeared.

"FREEZE!!" screamed the soldier, raising his assault rifle up and aiming it directly at Inaba
threateningly, "Get on the ground, ON THE GROUND!!"

Back at Mount Nantai, Nakazawa could hear the soldier yelling orders to Maeda and Inaba
through her headset. "Oh no...no no no please." said Nakazawa, "Not them too..."

Inabas heart beat hard and fast as she stared at the giant barrel of the soldiers assault rifle. Maeda
still in her invisible state took a step to the left, and the soldier quickly moved his barrel and
pointed it at Maeda.

"You there!, on the ground NOW!!" yelled the soldier, Maeda then reappeared and held her
hands up.

"Alright, alright...we give up." said Maeda, "Inaba...do as he says, lay on the ground."

"Y-yeah, I will." said Inaba, she then slowly got on her knees then laid on the ground and
remained there as more soldiers entered the control room and quickly pinned Inaba and Maeda on
the ground and placed handcuffs on their wrists.

[JFC]

General Hasagawa entered Tokyo police headquarters holding cells, escorted by two new police recruits. Inside one of the cells was former Chief of Police Hamada. Hasagawa grabbed a metal chair from the corner of the room and sat down in it, across from Hamada.

"So Mr. Hamada, care to tell me what you know about these Hello Project S.M.A.T girls?" asked Hasagawa.

Great, now Hasegawa's going to try and brand Hamada as some type of mutant sympathizer and/or traitor to humanity.  He's probably going to try and make Hamada some sort of conspirator, who's been secretly plotting against his own kind or something completely ridiculous like that.

"So why all the secrecy then?" asked Hasagawa, "Seems not many of your officers know what the S.M.A.T organization is."

According to Hasegawa's way of thinking, the fact that Hamada kept this a secret means that something is wrong. It's the problem again when you've been trained in the military way of thinking in black and white. While it may work for the army when you need to have definitive proof/knowledge of who your enemy is, in real life everything is a variety of grey, and as such the military way of thinking can never truly work in this type of situation.

"How do you know that you were not playing into these H!P girls hands from the very start." said Hasagawa, "It seems that one of these H!P girls, Miki Fujimotos・intentions are purely the death and destruction of the human race. She's already helped destroy Takayama city, and leveled an entire city block where Mori Tower used to be."

There are so many reasons why Hasegawa is just wrong here. Despite what he thinks, he has NO idea what Miki's intentions are. He just took a look at what happened at Takayama city and drew his own conclusions based on his own personal knowledge base.  Problem is, his assumptions (and that's ALL they are, assumptions) have been formed even though he's lacking a TON of information that one should be aware of. For example, he doesn't know who actually planned it, he doesn't know the extent of Miki's actual participation, he doesn't know how people there were provoking and were attacking HER and her friends, he doesn't know how she tried to keep things from escalating, and so on, and so on.  Everything that Hasegawa THINKS he knows is really just guessing and conjecture fueled by his own fear and mistrust/hatred of mutants. While the events he describes did happen, the way that HE describes them is all coloured by his own obvious prejudice and has been twisted to fit HIS agenda, which in all likelihood is to contain (i.e. imprison) all mutants.

"Now that I've heard all of the evidence...maybe your right." said Hamada, slowly standing up. "We must find them and have them all arrested."

"That's what I've been waiting to hear." said Hasagawa, "Are you ready to retake command of your police force?"

Hamada stood up straight and saluted Hasagawa, "Yes sir, and we'll work together from now on to bring these criminals to justice."

Hasagawa returned the salute, "The Army and the police force in full co-operation from now on." said Hasagawa.

God I really hope that Hamada's just playing Hasegawa, that he's just telling him what he wants to hear so that he can regain his command and thus be able to help the girls.  He couldn't really have been swayed by Hasegawa's propaganda just now, could he?

Meanwhile, back in Tokyo, Inaba and Maeda Yuki were finally ready to try and make it back to TV Tokyo.

Oh boy...

The two of them then began to disappear, their bodies becoming more and more transparent every passing moment, until they were both completely invisible. Inaba had the ability to temporarily borrow any mutants power, once she came into contact with them.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! That was MY IDEA bitches! 

"Looks like something big happened here while we were gone." said Maeda.

"Yeah, but we have to go inside." said Inaba, "Maybe our equipment is still inside."

I wonder if there's a secret room there or something that Hasegawa's men haven't found yet?

The girls then opened their lockers and began to put on their equipment belts and load their S.M.A.T vest pockets with supplies and other essential items. As Maeda reached into her locker once more, she happened to see the locator device used the S.M.A.T girls to signal for help from headquarters if they ever ran into trouble out on the streets of Tokyo.

Locator device? How the hell did Hasegawa's men not find those? Oh well, hopefully Inaba and Maeda can use it to find and meet up with the others. The important thing now is to make sure that they don't lose it, or more importantly, that Hasegawa's men don't find it and figure out how to use it.

"This is Maeda Yuki and Inaba Atsuko." said Maeda, "Looks like the train left without us."

Saki laughed, and two tears began to well up in her eyes, "It's so good to hear your voice." said Saki, the two tears then began to slowly stream down her face. "Are you alright?"

Let's just hope these transmissions are somehow encrypted and or otherwise scrambled so that Hasegawa's men don't notic it and realize who it is.

"What is it?" asked Nakazawa, Saki looked over at Nakazawa with tears in her eyes.

"It's Maeda Yuki and Inaba Atsuko, they're alright!!." said Saki.

"Maeda...Inaba?" said Yuko, confused, "They were missing?"

Saki tilted her head, "You didn't notice?" asked Saki

Nakazawa blushed, "Honestly...no I didn't." said Nakazawa.

"I heard that!!" said Maedas・voice from Sakis headphones that were laying beside Sakis keyboard.

Ouch.

"Hang on Yuko, Someone's coming." whispered Maeda, she then set her headset on the desk, she placed the locator device in her pocket and grabbed Inaba by the hand and they both instantly turned invisible, and both girls nervously held their breath.

A soldier then appeared and shone his flashlight into the room, shining it slowly from one side of the room to the other. Maeda saw that he was wearing some kind of device on his head, it looked like a headset ear piece was on his right ear, and attached to the ear piece was a small orange colored eyepiece that covered his right eye.

A headset? The other guys weren't wearing those before. This can't be good.

Suddenly the device attached to the soldiers head began to beep over and over again. "Mutant DNA detected!" a female computerized voice said. The soldier then shone his flashlight directly where Inaba and Maeda were standing.

Fuck it must be some type of InfraRed viewer. Being invisible won't do much good if someone has that.

But the soldier could, through the orange colored eye piece covering his right eye he could see a yellow colored silhouette of the two girls bodies, and underneath the girls silhouette were numbers.

The first set of numbers were underneath Maedas・ silhouette "Mutant power level: 4,600." said a little computerized voice on the soldiers headset, he then pressed a small red button on the side of his headset and looked over in Inabas' direction.

"Mutant power level: 4,000." said the little computerized voice.

Tyler, you're not gonna have someone's power go over...say...NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!!!

Are you?

"FREEZE!!" screamed the soldier, raising his assault rifle up and aiming it directly at Inaba threateningly, "Get on the ground, ON THE GROUND!!"

Back at Mount Nantai, Nakazawa could hear the soldier yelling orders to Maeda and Inaba through her headset. "Oh no...no no no please." said Nakazawa, "Not them too..."

Crud. Now they have two more prisoners, PLUS they'll likely find the locator device. Yuko needs to break the radio link, and she needs to do it NOW. If she doesn't, even without the locator the military tech boys might be able to trace where their signal came from.

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 61-

Nakazawa continued to stand in place, staring ahead with a look of sadness in her eyes.

"Yuko...YUKO!" yelled Kaori, and Nakazawa looked back at her, "Snap out of it, we need to
encrypt our radio signal so they can't trace the transmission we just made."

Yuko looked down at the ground for a moment, then nodded her head. "Your right, ok do it
NOW Saki!" ordered Yuko.

"Yes Ma'am." said Saki Shimizu, she then began to type in an encryption code at near blinding
speed with her fingers on her keyboard.

"Signal encrypted." said a computerized voice on Sakis・computer, and Saki leaned back in her
chair and breathed a sigh of relief.

Nakazawa then began to wobble and sway as she stood beside Kaori, she then fell to one side but
Kaori caught her.

"Yuu-chan!" said Kaori, holding onto Yuko as she fell to the ground unconscious.

"Is she alright?" asked Saki.

"I don't know, stay with her!" ordered Kaori, she then began to run as fast as she could to the exit
door of the aircraft. Once she was there she leaned half of her body outside of the doorway.

"Medic!, MEDIC!!" screamed Kaori Iida shrilly.

Reina Tanaka looked up from the table she was sitting at, then stood up and lept over the table
and began to run as fast as she could towards Momokos・aircraft, bounding up the steps 2 at a
time.

"What's wrong?" asked Reina, Kaori didn't even answer, but instead grabbed Reina by the arm
and led her to where the unconscious Nakazawa was.

"You have to help her!" said Kaori.

"Alright, I'll see what I can do." said Reina, she knelt down beside Nakazawa and began to
examine her.

"What happened?" asked Reina

"She just collapsed after she heard Inaba and Maeda getting arrested in Tokyo just now." said
Kaori.

"Inaba and Maeda were arrested!" said Reina.

"Yeah they were." said Saki.

Reina then finished looking over Nakazawa, "Hmm, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong
with her. Hearing more of her S.M.A.T girls getting arrested must of been too much for her." said
Reina.

"That's true...we've already lost alot of our girls." said Kaori.

"She'll be fine." said Reina, "Just get her into a bed and let her rest, she's under alot of stress at
the moment."

"Right." said Kaori, she then began to bend down to pick up Nakazawa.

"Wait...wait!" said Saki, "LOOK!", she was pointing at her computers monitor.

Reina and Kaori looked up at the screen. Maedas・locator device was still active and it was
moving, Kaori and Reina slowly stood up.

"She still has her locator device on." said Kaori.

"hmm....if she manages to keep it active, then maybe just maybe we could find out where they're
keeping the rest of our girls. Because they'll surely take her there as well." said Reina.

"Your right, let's just hope it stays on for as long as it can." said Kaori. The three girls continued
to watch the red blinking dot move across the digital map of Tokyo.

As the group of soldiers continued to lead Maeda and Inaba through the corridors of TV Tokyo,
then towards the exit of TV Tokyo, Maeda looked down at her S.M.A.T vest, at her breast
pocket.

"Thank goodness Ayaka made these devices small enough to conceal." thought Maeda.

The girls were then lead towards a green military jeep, which they boarded once they reached it.

"Where are you taking us." asked Inaba.

"To a place where all of your kind should be put." said the driver of the vehicle.

Inaba looked over at Maeda, and Maeda nodded her head reassuringly, "Don't worry, keep calm."
said Maeda.

The jeep began to drive off, taking Maeda and Inaba to Tokyo's mutant prison.

Back at Mount Nantai, the crowd gathering around Sakis・computer continued to grow, as more
and more H!P girls piled into Momokos・S.M.A.T aircraft.

Yuko then regained consciousness, "What's going on?" asked Yuko, slowly sitting up.

"They've captured Maeda and Inaba." said Kaori, "But Maeda managed to conceal her locator
device and it's still active."

"What!" said Nakazawa, quickly standing up and rushing over to the computer screen.

"If she manages to keep it active long enough we might just be able to find out where they're
keeping the other girls." said Kaori.

Nakazawa nodded her head, "I hope your right." said Nakazawa, she and the others continued to
watch the blinking red dot representing Maedas・location move across the map of Tokyo.

An hour later the jeep carrying Maeda and Inaba stopped outside of a large square shaped stone
building. The driver showed the guards at the entrance his ID and other papers.

"You may proceed." said the guard at the front gate, he then went inside the guard house and
pressed a large yellow button on his control panel and the large metal gate leading into the prison
began to open.

The jeep drove forward and entered the large square courtyard of the Mutant prison. As the
jeep continued to drive to the center of the courtyard, Maeda and Inaba looked around at the
many prisoners dressed in crimson red prison outfits and who wearing the metal necklaces.

As the van continued to drive slowly, they happened to pass Ai Kago as she walked by herself
through the courtyard. She had her eyes looking down at the ground, but as the jeep passed her
she happened to look up and she spotted Maeda and Inaba sitting in the back of the jeep.

"Maeda...Inaba!" said Kago, she then turned around and cupped her hands over her mouth,
"GUYS!, Maeda and Inaba are here!"

The other H!P girls sitting together in a large group quickly stood up, all of the girls then began
to rush towards the jeep.

The jeep stopped and the soldiers inside the jeep quickly hopped out and ran to the back and
opened up the tail gate and began to let Maeda and Inaba out.

Unable to contain her joy of seeing more of her friends, Kago quickly rushed forward and
wrapped her arms around Maeda and gave her a hug.

"So good to see another friendly face." said Kago, Maeda lowered her head and rested her cheek
onto of Kagos・head.

"I feel the same way." said Maeda, "We've been cut off from everyone else for hours."

"Ok, that's enough!" said the guard, he then grabbed Maeda by the arm and began to drag her
away.

"Stop it!, your hurting her!" said Kago, continuing to cling onto Maeda, as she tried to gain a
tighter hold onto Maeda she happened to grab her breast pocket and the seams ripped, causing
her pen shaped locator device to fall out of her pocket and onto the ground.

The soldiers escorting Maeda looked down at the ground, "What is that?" asked one soldier.

"Don't know, but better pick it up." said another.

Maeda quickly looked down at the ground, then at the soldier moving towards the device. She
quickly jerked her arm free from the soldiers grip who was holding her. Ran forward with her
hands still cuffed behind her back and slammed her shoulder into the soldier who moving to pick
up the locator device, knocking him to the ground.

She turned her head to the other girls, "Destroy it!!" she screamed, a soldier then rushed forward
and slammed the butt of his rifle into the back of her head, knocking her to the ground.

The other H!P girls ran towards the locator device on the ground, but more soldiers moved to
pick it up before the H!P girls grabbed it.

As one soldier neared the device and bent down to pick it up, Otani rushed forward and slammed
her knee into the soldiers face. A soldier next to her swung his rifle at her, but she ducked,
grabbed the soldiers rifle and began to grapple with the soldier.

Another soldier began to bend down to pick up the device, but Ayaka screamed loudly, ran at him and tackled him
to the ground.

More guards from inside the courtyard began to rush to join the fighting. But as the mutant
prisoners inside the compound watched the brave H!P girls taking a stand against the guards,
they too finally found the courage to make a stand.

Fujiyama grabbed a wooden chair from the table she was sitting at, then swung it at a guard who
was just rushing past her. Shattering the chair to pieces as the guard fell to the ground. And an all
out prison riot broke out as mutant prisoners and human soldiers and guards began to fight inside
the large courtyard.

50 more prison guards in riot gear began to exit the main building and head towards the center of
the courtyard where the most fighting was going on.

Kago was knocked to the ground by a prison guard as he shoved her hard with his baton. But as
she lay on the ground she happened to see the locator device. So she began to crawl towards it,
but a guard running past her kicked it with his boot and it rolled along the ground and moved
further away.

Guards on the top of the high walls began to aim their rifles down into the courtyard and were
shooting mutant prisoners who were beating up the guards.

Michishige threw a guard to the ground with one of her judo moves, then looked over and saw
the locator device on the ground. So she quickly rushed towards it and picked it up, but as she
looked up she saw a prison guard aiming a rifle at her.

Michishige shut her eyes tight and then heard a gunshot go off, another one shortly after. But she
didn't feel any pain, so she slowly opened her eyes. Standing in front of her was Fujiyama, but as
she turned around, Michishige saw 2 bullet holes in her body, blooding flowing from the
wounds.

Fujiyama began to stumble, but Michishige rushed forward and grabbed her and they both fell to
the ground together.

Another female prisoner happened to looked back and see Michishige and Fujiyama falling to the
ground, "Sis~!" she cried, and ran towards the two girls.

The guard who just shot Fujiyama reloaded his rifle, then aimed it down at Michishige and
Fujiyama once again. But as he looked over he happened to see a young girl running towards
him, the girl punched the guard hard in the face, sending him to the ground. The young girl then
mounted the officer and began to slam his head into the hard ground as she screamed in rage.

The fighting was beginning to wind down, with nearly 3 dozen mutant prisoners shot to death,
and the H!P girls were being taken to the ground, being beaten hard by the guards with their
batons.

Meanwhile Michishige continued to hold onto Fujiyama, one of her wounds was bleeding
horribly. So Michishige tore one of her sleeves off of her prison outfit and pressed it hard against
her wound.

"Fujiyama hold on!" said Michishige.

Fujiyama looked down at the device still in Michishiges' hand, "Destroy it while you still can."
said Fujiyama.

Michishige looked down at the device, then slammed it hard into the paved ground of the prison
courtyard, completely destroying it.

Fujiyama smiled, "You did it...I knew you could." said Fujiyama, her breathing then began to
quicken.

"Please hold on, don't die on me!" cried Michishige, tears welling up in her eyes.

Blood began to spill out of Fujiyamas mouth, "Listen...don't be like me." said Fujiyama, "Don't
die in here."

Michishige held onto Fujiyama tighter, "Your not going to die you hear me!" said Michishige,
tears falling from her eyes, "You can't die here!"

Fujiyama breathed hard, then looked at Michishige, "How can I die now." Fujiyama cried, tears
falling down her face. "My young sister...all alone.", more blood spilled out of Fujiyamas・
mouth, her eyes beginning to slowly close, then her head fell back.

"Fujiyama...Fujiyama!!" cried Michishige, shaking Fujiyama, trying to wake her up.

But Fujiyamas・breathing stopped entirely as she laid in Michishiges・arms.

More tears fell from Michishiges・eyes as she brought Fujiyamas・body closer to her, she held her
close and placed her head against Fujiyamas・ sobbing loudly.

Two prison guards rushed towards Michishige and pried her lose from Fujiyama, one of the
soldiers held the body of his rifle against Michishiges・throat and began to forcefully drag her
away. Michishige held her hands out towards Fujiyamas・dead body as she was being dragged
away.

"NO~!" wailed Michishige, "FUJIYAMA~!"

Fujiyamas・young sister was also being forcefully taken towards a large stone warehouse.

"Sis!" she cried shrilly, "You've killed my sister!

Just then two more prison guards walked over to Fujiyamas・body, picked her up and took her
over to an already large pile of dead mutant prisoners, then tossed her on top of the stack.

Back at Mount Nantai, Saki had just finished jotting down the last known location the locator
device was seen, before it abruptly ended.

"Where was the locator before it stopped transmitting?" asked Nakazawa.

Saki tore off the sheet from her notepad and handed it to Nakazawa, Nakazawa looked at it.

"Alright, the device stopped transmitting at a building on the eastern outskirts of Tokyo."
announced Nakazawa, "I want all senior S.M.A.T members to report to me on Mount Nantais
summit in 15 minutes."

"Hai!" said all of the girls in the crew cabin of Momokos・ aircraft.

Meanwhile, back at Tokyo's mutant prison, all of the Prison inmates were sitting on the ground
inside a large stoneware house, with armed guards walking around the large group of prisoners.
Many of the prisoners were badly beaten, others had open wounds on their faces that bled freely,
others were coughing loudly. All had their hands behind their backs wearing plasticuffs on their
wrists.

Michishige held her head low as she looked at the ground, still crying.

Fujiyamas・ younger sister slowly raised her eyes up and looked over at Michishige, hatred
burning in her eyes.

"Why did you bring that device into the prison." she said slowly, Michishige didn't looked over at
her.

"You're the one's who killed my sister." she said through clenched teeth, "You killed her...your
responsible."

Michishige continued to look down at the ground, "You killed her...you Murderer." she growled.

[Amarghetta]

Ah, I'm too late. My suggestion for Inaba was the ability to multiply herself, lol. Since she's involved in many projects all the time. *shrugs*

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

^Thanks for the suggestion, but one of the Hello Project girls already has that power .

She's good at "copying" things, including herself multiple times.

[JFC]

"Yuko...YUKO!" yelled Kaori, and Nakazawa looked back at her, "Snap out of it, we need to encrypt our radio signal so they can't trace the transmission we just made."

Yuko looked down at the ground for a moment, then nodded her head. "Your right, ok do it NOW Saki!" ordered Yuko.

...

"Signal encrypted." said a computerized voice on Sakis・computer

It would have been better if they had been encrypting the signal from the start, but what's done is done. All they can do now is hope that they did it in time and that none of Hasegawa's men are able to decrypt it.

Nakazawa then began to wobble and sway as she stood beside Kaori, she then fell to one side but Kaori caught her.

"Yuu-chan!" said Kaori, holding onto Yuko as she fell to the ground unconscious.

...

"Medic!, MEDIC!!" screamed Kaori Iida shrilly.

Geez, Yuko must be exhausted.  She likely hasn't had any rest during this whole ordeal.

"She'll be fine." said Reina, "Just get her into a bed and let her rest, she's under alot of stress at the moment."

Let's hope that's all it is.

Reina and Kaori looked up at the screen. Maedas・locator device was still active and it was moving, Kaori and Reina slowly stood up.

"She still has her locator device on." said Kaori.

"hmm....if she manages to keep it active, then maybe just maybe we could find out where they're keeping the rest of our girls. Because they'll surely take her there as well." said Reina.

...

As the group of soldiers continued to lead Maeda and Inaba through the corridors of TV Tokyo, then towards the exit of TV Tokyo, Maeda looked down at her S.M.A.T vest, at her breast pocket.

"Thank goodness Ayaka made these devices small enough to conceal." thought Maeda.

Slick move there Maeda. She must have slipped it in her pocket while she was still invisible. Now let's just hope that the military doesn't find it before they arrive at the prison.

An hour later the jeep carrying Maeda and Inaba stopped outside of a large square shaped stone building.

...

As the van continued to drive slowly, they happened to pass Ai Kago as she walked by herself through the courtyard. She had her eyes looking down at the ground, but as the jeep passed her she happened to look up and she spotted Maeda and Inaba sitting in the back of the jeep.

"Maeda...Inaba!" said Kago, she then turned around and cupped her hands over her mouth, "GUYS!, Maeda and Inaba are here!"

The other H!P girls sitting together in a large group quickly stood up, all of the girls then began to rush towards the jeep.

The girls had all better be careful. They don't want to risk the collars giving them a shock or going off altogether. 

"Stop it!, your hurting her!" said Kago, continuing to cling onto Maeda, as she tried to gain a tighter hold onto Maeda she happened to grab her breast pocket and the seams ripped, causing her pen shaped locator device to fall out of her pocket and onto the ground.

Aw shit.   

The soldiers escorting Maeda looked down at the ground, "What is that?" asked one soldier.

"Don't know, but better pick it up." said another.

Maeda quickly looked down at the ground, then at the soldier moving towards the device. She quickly jerked her arm free from the soldiers grip who was holding her. Ran forward with her
hands still cuffed behind her back and slammed her shoulder into the soldier who moving to pick up the locator device, knocking him to the ground.

She turned her head to the other girls, "Destroy it!!" she screamed,

Smooth, now the soldiers will suspect that it's something important. If they get their hands on it, Yuko and the others will be found out.

More guards from inside the courtyard began to rush to join the fighting. But as the mutant prisoners inside the compound watched the brave H!P girls taking a stand against the guards, they too finally found the courage to make a stand.

As much as I hate to say it, if I were one of the guards, I'd radio the control room and have the collars blow a few heads to get them to stop. If they didn't, blow some more. The rest would get the message.

Michishige threw a guard to the ground with one of her judo moves, then looked over and saw the locator device on the ground. So she quickly rushed towards it and picked it up, but as she looked up she saw a prison guard aiming a rifle at her.

Michishige shut her eyes tight and then heard a gunshot go off, another one shortly after. But she didn't feel any pain, so she slowly opened her eyes. Standing in front of her was Fujiyama, but as she turned around, Michishige saw 2 bullet holes in her body, blooding flowing from the wounds.

...

The fighting was beginning to wind down, with nearly 3 dozen mutant prisoners shot to death, and the H!P girls were being taken to the ground, being beaten hard by the guards with their batons.

Dammit. 

"Fujiyama hold on!" said Michishige.

Fujiyama looked down at the device still in Michishiges' hand, "Destroy it while you still can." said Fujiyama.

Michishige looked down at the device, then slammed it hard into the paved ground of the prison courtyard, completely destroying it.

Fujiyama smiled, "You did it...I knew you could."

The cost was high, but at least now the others might be safe, and the device was on long enough so that they SHOULD be able to trace the location.  Problem is, now the military will be even more brutal to the prisoners as they torture them to find out what the device was.

"Alright, the device stopped transmitting at a building on the eastern outskirts of Tokyo." announced Nakazawa, "I want all senior S.M.A.T members to report to me on Mount Nantais summit in 15 minutes."

If a rescue attempt is going to happen, it needs to happen FAST.

Fujiyamas・ younger sister slowly raised her eyes up and looked over at Michishige, hatred burning in her eyes.

"Why did you bring that device into the prison." she said slowly, Michishige didn't looked over at her.

"You're the one's who killed my sister." she said through clenched teeth, "You killed her...your responsible."

Michishige continued to look down at the ground, "You killed her...you Murderer." she growled.

Fujiyama's sister is just grief-stricken right now, and in a way she has a right to be so. Let's just hope that her grief isn't such that she turns on the other mutants.  If she can be made to understand the significance of the locator device, then hopefully she'll see and understand why her sister sacrificed herself to protect Sayu the way she did.

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 62- Stealth

Chief of Police Hamada was flipping through a report on the newly captured H!P members, as he
sat inside his office at Tokyo Police headquarters. As he looked at the newly added names, he
lowered his head and closed his eyes, releasing a sigh.

Army General Hasagawa then entered the room, "Chief Hamada, I have some news for you." said
Hasagawa.

Hamada closed the report and laid it down on his desk, "What is it?" he asked.

"It seems like we'll soon have more H!P prisoners." said Hasagawa. Hamada raised his eyebrow.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"We've gotten reports from citizens in the towns and villages surrounding mount Nantai, about
the sounds of jets flying around in the area." said Hasagawa, "But when I checked with both the
Airforce and the local civilian airports, there were no aircraft scheduled to be in that airspace."

"So you think they're somewhere in that area?" asked Hamada.

Hasagawa nodded, "I believe so. And we have now have the technology to find them." said
Hasagawa, he snapped his fingers and a soldier entered the room, carrying a small wooden box.
The soldier approached Hamadas' desk and laid the box ontop of his desk. The soldier then
opened the lid and sitting inside was a small device, laying ontop of a red silk cloth.

Hamada reached down into the box and pulled out the device. He examined it carefully, rotating
it around and around in his hands. The device had a large ear piece, similar to that of headphones,
but with only one ear piece. And attached to the ear piece was a small red colored eyepiece.

"What is this strange device?" asked Hamada.

Hasagawa smiled, "It's a mutant locator." said Hasagawa, "With this device, we can instantly tell
who is human and who is mutant."

Hamadas・ heart skipped a beat, "Really?" asked Hamada.

"Yes, put it on." said Hasagawa.

Hamada obeyed and put the device on. As he looked around the room he saw nothing at all. Just
the color of red through his right eye where the ear piece was.

"I don't see anything special so far." said Hamada.

Hasagawa smiled, "Push the small red button on the side of your mutant locator." said Hasagawa.

Hamada did so, and suddenly, his eye piece came to life, beeping and making all sorts of sounds.

"Scouter ready." said a small computerized voice inside Hamadas・ ear piece.

"Scouter?" said Hamada.

"Yes, with this device we can scout out and obtain valuable information about any mutant." said
Hasawaga, "Their power level, their location, their heat signature and many other useful
information."

"That certainly sounds interesting." said Hamada, "How come we never heard of this?"

"The police force keeps their secrets, we keep ours." said Hasagawa. "Let me show you how this
works."

Hasagawa took off a radio attached to his belt and raised it to his mouth, "Bring the prisoner in."
said Hasagawa.

And two soldiers brought in a teenage boy, handcuffed and wearing a silver necklace around his
neck.

"Now, first off, look at me and press the red button on the side of your scouter." said Hasagawa,
Hamada obeyed and pressed the button. A yellow line began to surround Hasagawas・outline of
his body, scanning him over.

And then, underneath Hasagawas・outline the word, "Human." began to flash repeatedly.

"No Mutant DNA detected." said a small computerized voice.

"Good, now look over at the prisoner and press the button once more." said Hasagawa.

Hamada fixed his gaze on the prisoner, then pressed the button once more. A yellow line began
to circle around the boys outline of his body, scanning him over.

A tiny alarm began to beep inside Hamadas・ear piece, "Mutant DNA detected!!" said the
computerized voice, And numbers began to appear underneath the boys feet through Hamadas・
eyepiece, numbers building up starting from 0 quickly rising till it stopped at 1,500.

"Mutant Power Level: 1,500." said the computerized voice.

"Amazing..." said Hamada.

"Currently, only a small handful of our military have these scouters in their possession." said
Hasagawa, "But we're currently in the process of mass producing these scouters, until all of
Tokyos' Military and police force have them."

"I see." said Hamada, removing the scouter from his ear and placing it back into the box.

"Think about it, once all of Tokyos' Police and Military forces have these devices, we can
apprehend every single mutant in Japan." said Hasagawa, smiling rather evilly.

"And what of the other H!P criminals?" asked Hamada.

"I've sent 3 squads of Japans' Special Forces to Mount Nantai." said Hasagawa, "Each of the
soldiers is wearing a scouter. So this time...these girls will not escape us."

Meanwhile back at Mount Nantai, Yuko Nakazawa was having a meeting with the senior
members of all of Hello Projects groups. At the meeting was Yuko Nakazawa, eldest member
and commander of the S.M.A.T forces. Kaori Iida, second in command of the S.M.A.T forces.
Yoshizawa Hitomi, leader of Morning Musume. Rika Ishikawa, leader of Biyuuden. Asami,
leader of Country Musume. And Saito Hitomi, leader of Melon Kinenbi.

"Alright, we've got to decide what we're going to do about our friends." said Nakazawa.

"We're going to rescue them aren't we?" asked Yoshizawa Hitomi.

"Of course we are." said Kaori, "But we can't just up and go to where they're being held."

"That's right." said Nakazawa, "We don't know the layout of the area, what kind of place they're
being held and how many guards are stationed in the prison."

"I think I have an idea, but it'll be alittle risky." said Kaori.

Everyone looked at Kaori Iida, "What is it?" asked Nakazawa.

"I think we should send Eri Kamei and Ai Takahashi to scout out the area before we head there
ourselves to attempt a rescue." said Kaori.

"Kaori...that's a great idea." said Nakazawa, "But first we should ask the leader of that group if
it's alright."

"So...Yossi, does that sound like a plan to you". asked Kaori.

"hmm...I think it sounds reasonable." said Yossi, "Kamei can shape shift into any animal she
wants, if she chooses the form of a bird, then she could fly above and around the area to see what
we're up against."

"And Ai Takahashi can teleport herself, so she could take pictures for us from different angles
and so on." said Nakazawa.

"Alright, then it's settled, we'll be sending Ai Takahashi and Eri Kamei to scout out the area and
take pictures for us before we decide a rescue plan." said Nakazawa.

"Will that be the end of our meeting?." asked Rika Ishikawa.

"Yes." said Nakazawa.

Everyone then headed back into the mountain summit entrance down into their S.M.A.T hideout.

Nakazawa entered the large, hollowed out center of Mount Nantai where all of the Hello Project
members were resting.

"Alright, I need Ai Takahashi and Eri Kamei to report to me right now!!" shouted Nakazawa, her
voice echoing off the cavern walls.

Takahashi and Kamei quickly ran up to Nakazawa, stood at attention and saluted Nakazawa.

"Ai Takahashi and Eri Kamei reporting for duty Ma'am!!" The two said, one after the other.

"I need the two of you to head back into Tokyo to scout out the last known location of Mai
Satoda and Inaba Atsuko." said Nakazawa, "I'll give you the coordinates of where Mais' locator
beacon stopped transmitting."

"Eri, I need you to fly to this location and scout out the area." said Nakazawa.

"And Takahashi, I need you to head to the same location, but take plenty of pictures for us. We
need to know what kinda opposition we'll be facing, as well as what the area where they're being
held looks like." continued Nakazawa.

"Yes, Ma'am." said the girls in unison.

Ai Takahashi and Eri Kamei quickly headed over to the Aircraft they used to get to mount nantai,
loaded up on some supplies they needed for the mission, then headed to the summit entrance.

Meanwhile, 3 large army bombers flew high over head, circling Mount Nantai. The pilots
looking down at Mount Nantai from their bombers cockpits, each of them wearing a scouter on
their heads.

"No picking up any mutant energy readings." said the pilot.

"Was the commander sure they were here?" asked the co-pilot.

Suddenly, an arrow began to flash on the pilots red eyepiece, it was pointing down at Mount
Nantai. So the Pilot fixed his gaze down at Mount Nantais summit, then pressed a small blue
button on the side of his scouter and the eye piece began to zoom in closer and closer with each
press of the button, until he could clearly see two girls exit a large cavern and then stand ontop of
the summit.

"Mutant DNA detected!" said a small computerized voice.

The pilot focused on Ai Takahashi and pressed the red button of the side of his scouter.
"Mutant power level: 7,500." said the computerized voice, he then looked over at Eri Kamei and
pressed the button once more, "Mutant Power level: 7,000."

"Yep, it's them alright." said the pilot, "Tell all troops to stand by, we'll be sending them out the
back in a few minutes.

Back on Mount Nantais' summit, Eri and Takahashi were still talking to eachother, the sun was
setting, and night was quickly approaching.

"I gotta admit, I'm a little nervous to head back to Tokyo." said Eri Kamei.

"Yeah, tell me about it." said Takahashi, "Who could of thought that the city we grew up in could
seem so cold and unfriendly."

"Definitely not the same place I used to remember." said Kamei.

"Alright, are you ready to head out?." asked Takahashi.

"Yep, ready whenever you are." replied Kamei.

Takahashi reached out and grabbed ahold of Eris' hand, "Ok in 3...2...1...oh wait." said
Takahashi.

"hmm?" said Kamei, "What's wrong?."

"I need to be able to see where I'm going if I want to teleport somewhere or at the very least,
know what the layout of the area I want to teleport looks like." said Takahashi, "So this could
take a while, we'll need to teleport afew times over the horizon."

"Alright, that doesn't sound like a problem, better then me having to fly all the way there on my
own." said Kamei.

"So...which was is Tokyo again." asked Takahashi, blushing.

Eri Kamei took out a compass, and quickly found north. "Ok, So that's north." said Kamei,
pointing in a direction, "So, Tokyo's to the east...so...it's...that way." said Kamei, pointing in
another direction.

"Alright, let's go then." said Takahashi, she squeezed Kameis' hand once more, then the two of
them disappeared.

Meanwhile, high overhead, above the clouds the three large army bombers joined up in
formation, in a single line, from left to right. The sun had completely set, giving the bombers the
cover of darkness.

"Approaching Mount Nantai!." said the lead bomber pilot, "Open cargo bay doors!!."

And the bombers large, rear cargo bay doors began to open up, while Special forces troopers
approached the exit, all of the wearing parachutes.

"Alright, once we're out of this plane, I don't want any of you to pull your ripcords too early, we
need to get as close to the mountain top before we open our parachutes, giving our enemy as little
time as possible to see us coming." said Leader of the Special Forces, his voice sounding like
Darth Vaders through his oxygen mask.

A green light lit up inside of the cargo bay, signaling all of the troops to jump out the back of the
aircraft.

"Let's do it!" said the leader, quickly jumping out the back of the large bomber, his troops
following close behind him.

The sky was then filled with 75 Special Forces soldiers as free fell towards Mount Nantais'
summit, through the night sky.

A junior trooper, on his first assignment, nervously held onto his ripcord as he watch Mount
Nantai get closer and closer. He then felt a tap on his shoulder, as he turned his head he saw a
higher ranking soldier beside him shake his head as they continued to fall towards the ground.

Back on the ground, Yui and Rika Ishikawa from Biyuuden exited the cave entrance leading
down into Mount Nantais' core.

"Feels good to get some fresh air doesn't it." said Yui, Rika taking a deep breath as well.

"Yeah, Don't think I could of stayed down there much longer, just needed to get out and get some
air." said Rika Ishikawa.

Yui let out a tired yawn, "hmmm, where's Miyoshi?" asked Yui.

"Oh, she'll be up in a minute, she just needed to grab something before she came out her with
us."
said Rika.

Back in the sky, the Special Forces troopers were now just a couple thousand feet from Mount
Nantais' summit.

"Now." said the leader into his oxygen masks radio.

He and all of his troopers then pulled their ripcords and all of their black parachutes opened up,
and they began to float down towards the summit.

The leader of the special forces then took out his modified M-16 assault rifle, complete with a
silencer at the end of his barrel. He then looked through the scope as he continued to float
towards the ground. He was fixing his sights on Rika Ishikawa. Rika was facing towards the
special forces leader, while Yui had her back to him as the two continued talking.

The two girls hadn't yet seen the Special Forces troopers parachuting towards them. They were
well camoflaughed in the night sky, dressed in all black from head to toe, with black parachutes
to go with their Special Forces uniforms.

The leader then flipped on his red laser sight, and a small red bead appeared on Rikas' chest.

As Yui continued to talk to Rika, she happened to look down and see a bright red dot on her
chest. And instantly, her heart froze.

"Rika look out!" cried Yui, but it was too late, the leader fired off a shot and a long, slender
tranquilizer dart exited his modified, silenced M-16 Assault rifle and hit Rika in the chest and she
dropped like a stone.

Yui ducked and began to run towards the cave entrance, the leader and the rest of his troopers all
began to open fire on Yui, the only sound being made by their guns were the darts sailing through
the air towards Yui. Darts began to pelt the ground all around Yuis' feet as she continued to run.

Miyoshi began to exit the cave entrance and spotted Yui running towards her.

"Get back!!" she screamed, but was then hit multiple times by tranquilizer darts in the back, and
she fell to the ground, out cold. Darts sticking out of her back like porcupine quills.

Miyoshi looked up and saw the special forces troopers begin to land on Mount Nantais' summit,
quickly fixing their sights on her. As she looked down, she saw many red laser dots' on her chest,
so she quickly whirled around and ducked back into the cave entrance.

"Got to warn the others." Thought Miyoshi, she quickly pressed her back against the rock wall,
and reached down to her belt and grabbed her radio. But as she raised it to her mouth, she
happened to notice 2 long tranquilizer darts sticking out of her radio. Small yellow sparks were
flicking off her radio as well.

"Damn...radio's out." thought Miyoshi, "I'll have to run back to the others and tell them myself."

She then began to run as fast as she could, down the long descending passageways, that lead into
Mount Nantais' hollowed out core, where all the other girls were hiding.

"After her!" yelled the leader, pointing towards the cave entrance.

All of his Special Forces troopers then began to chase after Miyoshi, entering the cave and
continuing on.

As Miyoshi ran for her life, she looked over her shoulder and saw Special Forces troopers begin
to enter the cave and chase after her.

"Got to pick up the pace!." thought Miyoshi, pushing herself harder as she ran even faster.

Troopers infront of the group, raised their guns up and began to fire at Miyoshi. And darts his the
rock walls behind Miyoshi, bouncing off of them and making little ting sounds. But none hit her
as she rounded a corner and continued down, deeper into Mount Nantai.

Miyoshi then entered a large, open cavern as she continued to run, the Special Forces hot on her
tail. The groups sharp shooter stopped chasing after her, and knelt down on one knee, while
taking Aim at Miyoshi. And even though she was a fast moving target, the sharp shooter smiled
as he looked at Miyoshi through his scope. He pulled the trigger on his rifle and a tranquilizer
dart exited the barrel of his rifle and flew towards Miyoshi, hitting her in her right arm, right on
her triceps muscle.

Miyoshi clenched her teeth together in pain and continued to run, holding onto her arm. But as
she continued to run, her right arm began to feel more and more numb with every passing
second. Her vision began to get blurry as well, her vision sometimes doubling as she continued to
run.

Miyoshi then entered the large, open cavern where all of the H!P girls were. Many were sleeping,
while other's were sitting around a large, open fire in the middle of the large, open cave.

"Danger!, Danger!!" Screamed Miyoshi at the top of her lungs, "Humans are attacking RUN!!."

Nakazawa and Kaori who were sitting around the fire stood up and looked towards Miyoshi, she
screamed once more, then fell forward to the ground, large, tranquilizer darts sticking out of her
back.

"Oh no..." said Kaori.

"They found us!!" cried Nakazawa.

[JFC]

Chief of Police Hamada was flipping through a report on the newly captured H!P members, as he sat inside his office at Tokyo Police headquarters. As he looked at the newly added names, he lowered his head and closed his eyes, releasing a sigh.

Now, is he sighing because he's worried about their well-being? Or is it because he's really siding with Hasegawa and is thinking that he was a fool for trusting the girls in the first place?

"We've gotten reports from citizens in the towns and villages surrounding mount Nantai, about the sounds of jets flying around in the area." said Hasagawa, "But when I checked with both the Airforce and the local civilian airports, there were no aircraft scheduled to be in that airspace."

Aw shit...they're going to start searching the area. Hopefully they weren't able to trace the earlier transmission from Maeda/Inaba to Yuko and the others. If they did trace it their search would be a lot shorter.

And we have now have the technology to find them." said Hasagawa

...

Hamada reached down into the box and pulled out the device. He examined it carefully, rotating it around and around in his hands. The device had a large ear piece, similar to that of headphones, but with only one ear piece. And attached to the ear piece was a small red colored eyepiece.

"What is this strange device?" asked Hamada.

Hasagawa smiled, "It's a mutant locator." said Hasagawa, "With this device, we can instantly tell who is human and who is mutant."

Oh fuck, this is NOT good. If they start using this, they'll keep on using it even after they capture the girls. They'll use it to scan every living person out there to find out ever last mutant out there. The world will become a paranoid dystopia ruled by the military.

"Mutant Power Level: 1,500." said the computerized voice.

* JFC smells a "9000" joke in an upcoming chapter.

"Currently, only a small handful of our military have these scouters in their possession." said Hasagawa, "But we're currently in the process of mass producing these scouters, until all of Tokyos' Military and police force have them."

That must be how the soldier was able to find Maeda and Inaba even though they were invisible. He must have had a scouter, and it detected their mutant DNA.

"Think about it, once all of Tokyos' Police and Military forces have these devices, we can apprehend every single mutant in Japan." said Hasagawa, smiling rather evilly.

And in the process, terrorize citizens and destroy any semblance of "human rights" in society today.

"I've sent 3 squads of Japans' Special Forces to Mount Nantai." said Hasagawa, "Each of the soldiers is wearing a scouter. So this time...these girls will not escape us."

Crap, Yuko and the others don't know about these scouters. If they engage them in a fight, they'll be at a severe disadvantage.

"I think we should send Eri Kamei and Ai Takahashi to scout out the area before we head there ourselves to attempt a rescue." said Kaori.

...

"Kamei can shape shift into any animal she wants, if she chooses the form of a bird, then she could fly above and around the area to see what we're up against."

"And Ai Takahashi can teleport herself, so she could take pictures for us from different angles and so on." said Nakazawa.

Strategy-wise, it's a good plan. The success or failure of any plan like this depends on the scouting and intelligence that is gathered. The more/better information, the more likely that the plan will work and the LESS likely that they'll suffer casualties.

Problem is, if any of the soldiers there are wearing one of those scouters when Aichan and Eri go there, they'll be discovered very quickly.

Meanwhile, 3 large army bombers flew high over head, circling Mount Nantai. The pilots looking down at Mount Nantai from their bombers cockpits, each of them wearing a scouter on their heads.

...

"Mutant DNA detected!" said a small computerized voice.

The pilot focused on Ai Takahashi and pressed the red button of the side of his scouter. "Mutant power level: 7,500." said the computerized voice, he then looked over at Eri Kamei and pressed the button once more, "Mutant Power level: 7,000."

With all the training that they've had to better control their abilities, it makes sense that the girls would be more powerful than the average mutant that are already in Hasegawa's prison.

"Alright, let's go then." said Takahashi, she squeezed Kamei's hand once more, then the two of them disappeared.

Whoa, did any of the pilots see them disappear? They'll probably report it to Hasegawa if they did.

Meanwhile, high overhead, above the clouds the three large army bombers joined up in formation, in a single line, from left to right. The sun had completely set, giving the bombers the cover of darkness.

Shit, they're concealing their numbers by doing this in "single file".  And the planes are probably high and/or far enough from the mountain that the sound of their engines can't be heard from where the girls are.

The two girls hadn't yet seen the Special Forces troopers parachuting towards them. They were well camouflaged in the night sky, dressed in all black from head to toe, with black parachutes to go with their Special Forces uniforms.

The leader then flipped on his red laser sight, and a small red bead appeared on Rikas' chest.

As Yui continued to talk to Rika, she happened to look down and see a bright red dot on her chest. And instantly, her heart froze.

"Rika look out!" cried Yui, but it was too late, the leader fired off a shot and a long, slender tranquilizer dart exited his modified, silenced M-16 Assault rifle and hit Rika in the chest and she dropped like a stone.

Tranquilizer darts? Considering Hasegawa's behaviour and attitude towards mutants so far, I'm actually surprised that he's ordered them to be captured alive. If anything, you'd think he'd want them simply eliminated.  So then why's he keeping them alive? Why have the prison to contain those that you despise?

"They found us!!" cried Nakazawa.

And more likely than not, only a few of them (if any) will be able to escape being taken into custody.

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Well I remember an airshow I attended when I was still in Aircadets, we got to see a Hercules C-130 drop off paratroopers high in the sky. They were SO high that I did not hear the engines of the Hercules, and as the troopers were getting closer to the ground, I couldn't hear them coming, the only time they made any real noise was when they landed and their parachutes were flapping in the wind. Other then that, I had my eyes on them the whole time but couldn't hear them coming otherwise.

And they're still on the no killing a Japanese idol rule, Since these girls are really famous, the last thing they'd want to do is kill one of them...

[JFC]

^ I guess. He'd probably just use the "idol or not, if they're dangerous, they'll be dealt with as such" argument anyway. Or he'd just come up with some type of military cover-up and make it look like the girls killed themselves or died in some accident or just "disappeared".

[ferrar1]

ooh can't wait to see 300 scenes again. the girls are going to defend the mouth of the cave right !!

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 63-

Special Forces soldiers began to enter the large cavern where the H!P girls were encamped and in
hiding. As soldiers began to leap over Miyoshis・ unconscious body, 2 other soldiers grabbed her
by the legs and began to drag her to the rear of the column of soldiers.

"Form up!" screamed Nakazawa as she and Kaori ran to the center of the cave, where most of the
girls were still in their sleeping bags.

As some of the H!P girls began to scramble out of their sleeping bags, the soldiers began to open
fire on the H!P girls.

And just as Nozomi Tsuji threw off her sleeping bag and sat up, she was hit three times in the chest by
tranquilizer darts and fell back, knocked out. Otani got up and only managed to take three
running strides, before she was hit multiple times in the back by the flying tranquilizer darts.
Asami had even less time before she was hit, still wrapped up in her sleeping bag.

"They caught us completely off guard and unprepared." said Kaori.

"They got the drop on us...literally." said Yuko.

Murata Megumi quickly ran to her sleeping bag, trying to reach her backpack that contained her
visor. Darts whizzing past her as she ducked and dodged the incoming darts. She then managed
to reach her backpack and quickly took out her visor.

She began to take backwards steps towards her fellow S.M.A.T members, while taking off her
glasses and shutting her eyes tight, to avoid shooting her optic blasts too early. But, she then felt
a sharp prick on the right side of her chest, then another on her left arm as she was hit with 2
darts.

Murata then began to stumble, her legs feeling like rubber. Her back pressed up against the rock
wall of the cave. Her legs gave out and she fell down, but, she opened her eyes and was not
wearing her glasses or her visor. And 2 extremely large beams of pure solar energy escaped her
eyes and quickly began to shoot towards the Special Forces troopers.

"What's this!!." screamed one of the soldiers as the extremely large beams of solar energy began
to fly towards them, giving off a blinding yellow light that filled the entire cavern. Blinding the
soldiers and the other S.M.A.T. girls. 

The beam missed the special forces soldiers and hit the cave wall above their heads, slamming
it's way through the solid rock.

The entire mountain began to shake as the beams continued through the side of the mountain.
Small chunks of rock began to fall from the ceiling, landing all over the open cave, some
smashing through crates, tables and other things set up by the S.M.A.T girls.

Larger chunks of rock began to fall from the ceiling as Murata continued firing her optic beams.
The rock ceiling then began to collapse, right where the mouth of the opening that led to Mount
Nantais summit was located.

"The cave is collapsing!" shouted another soldier.

"Move back!, Move back!!." screamed the leader, he and the other soldiers quickly began to run
back the way they came.

A small group of 5 soldiers were not so lucky, the ceiling began to collapse right on top of them.

However, Yaguchi used her super human speed to race in and grab two of the soldiers and move
them out of the way. But, she was not fast enough to save the other three.

Meanwhile, the three bomber pilots continued to circle over Mount Nantai. Just then, Muratas・
extremely large optic beams slammed through the other side of Mount Nantai and shot up
towards the sky.

"What in the world!" said one of the pilots, he then looked down towards the mountain and saw a
extremely large beam coming from the mountain, that continued on into the sky, well above the
level the were already flying.

Back in the cave, Murata finally shut her eyes and then slumped over and lay unconscious on the
ground.

Yuko Nakazawa began to sit up. She was having a hard time breathing and was coughing alot, as
smoke and dust filled the entire cave. She looked over to the mouth of the cave, where the
pathway to Mount Nantais summit was located. But the entrance was completely block off by the
cave in.

Her eyes then looked up higher and she saw the extremely large hole that was punched through
the side of the mountain by Muratas' optic blasts. It had gone clean through the side of the
mountain, and Nakazawa could see the night sky through the hole, the blast had even punched a
hole through the cloudy sky and the stars were now visible.

On the surface, the bomber pilots looked down at the mountain, where a large hole was punched
right through the side of it.

"Uh...I think we're going to have to call in reinforcements for this job." said the lead bomber
pilot. "Get on the radio and request back up NOW!."

Back inside the cave, Nakazawa stood up and looked around the cave.

"Everyone alright?." asked Nakazawa.

The other girls began to cough and moan as well.

"I'm still here." said Kaori.

"Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere." said Kei Yasuda.

"Ain't getting rid of me that easy." said Goto Maki.

"We're ok." said Yossi who was sitting with a large group of H!P girls.

"We're alright as well." said Yaguchi, who was sitting with the two soldiers she managed to save.

The soldiers lowered their guns, then dropped them.

"Why?" asked one of the soldiers.

"Why what?" asked Yaguchi.

"Why did you save us?." asked the other.

"It's what we do, what we were trained to do." said Yaguchi "Save lives and protect those in
need."

"Even after everything we've done to you...and what we were here to do...you still saved us." said
the soldier.

"Alright...I'm done here." said the other soldier, "I'm not going to fight anymore...I'm just grateful
to still be alive."

"Me too." said the other.

"Thanks." said Yaguchi, she then looked over to the others.

"There's more soldiers trapped over here, we have to get them out!!." yelled Yaguchi.

Yuko and the other girls began to rush towards the pile of rocks the other soldiers were buried
under.

Yossi and Yasuda quickly powered up their mutant powers. Yasudas body turning to rock, while
Yossis・skin turned into steel. And both of the girls began to move rocks aside and sift through
the rubble, searching for the other soldiers, buried in the cave in.

As Yossi and Yasuda continued to search through the rubble, Yuko and Kaori quickly ran over to
the two other soldiers, both girls were carrying water bottles. Once they reached them, both of
them handed the soldiers the water bottles.

"Do you need anything else?." asked Yuko.

The soldiers shook their heads, "No, thanks."

"Your not at all what we were expecting." said one of the soldiers.

"We never expected to be treated so kindly by those we were sent to capture." said the other.

"None of those stories you've heard about us are true." said Nakazawa.

"That's right, we did not participate in the attack on Takayama City. Infact, we went there to see
if we could help." said Kaori.

As Yasuda and Yossi continued searching through the pile of Rocks, Koharu joined in the rescue
attempt and used her mutant powers to phase right through the rocks and disappear into them.
Moments later she emerged, dragging one of the unconscious soldiers along the ground.

"Found one." grunted Koharu, as she dragged the heavy soldier.

Yossi and Yasudas・changed forms gave them incredible strength as they tossed large rocks away
like they were pebbles.

"Found another one!." announced Yossi.

"And I just found the last one." said Yasuda.

"They look pretty bad..." said Yossi.

"Don't worry." said Reina Tanaka as she approached the group, "Nothing I can't handle."

Reina then bent down and placed her hands on the chest of one of the soldiers, and a bright white
light appeared on the palms of her hands as she healed the soldier. Soon the cuts, broken bones
and other injuries the soldier suffered from the collapse were completely healed. Reina then
healed the other two soldiers.

"Amazing!." said one of the soldiers.

"Just doing my job as medic." said Reina, dusting off her hands and standing up once again.

One of the rescued soldiers sat up, then began to do some stretches.

"Hey!...you healed my bad knee!, the one I hurt in my teenage years playing football." announced
the soldier, "But...I wasn't even injured there from the cave in...how'd you do that?"

Reina laughed and blushed, "Well, I didn't know you weren't hurt there. I'm not good enough to
pinpoint exactly where a patient of mine is hurt. So what I do is heal the patients entire body, just
to be sure I got everything."

"Well thanks anyways, that knee has always bothered me." said the soldier.

Meanwhile, the remaining soldiers, on the other side of the cave in were trying to figure out how
to get back into the cave and capture the other H!P girls.

"Breaching charge now!." said the leader.

From the back of the column, an explosives expert soldier quickly made his way to the front and
handed the leader a small square pouch, filled with explosives.

The leader opened the pouch, punched in some numbers on the panel, then set the charge down
on the large pile of rocks infront of him. He and the other soldiers quickly retreated to a safe
distance and knelt down, covering their ears. The pouch then exploded in an loud BOOM!.

Back in the cave, Nakazawa and the other H!P girls quickly whipped their heads back towards
the cave entrance.

"They're trying to get back in." said one of the soldiers.

"You better go." said another, "It won't take them long to get all the way through."

"I think your right." said Nakazawa.

"All pilots, get to your ships and prepare to move out!." yelled Nakazawa.

The Berryz pilots and crew members all ran to their separate ships, while the H!P girls began to
pack up some supplies, others ran to their unconscious teammates and quickly dragged them
towards the S.M.A.T aircraft.

As Nakazawa was heading towards one of the aircraft, she stopped in her tracks, then made her
way to the group of soldiers they rescued.

She knelt down beside them, "I have a question." she said.

"Ok, shoot." said one of the soldiers.

"You guys managed to find us...how?." asked Nakazawa.

"We got reports of activity around Mount Nantai, we then used our scouters and confirmed there
were powerful mutants in the area." said another soldier.

"Scouter?" asked Nakazawa.

One of the soldiers removed his scouter from his head and tossed it to Nakazawa, "This is our
scouter." said the soldier.

"It can detect Mutant DNA and Mutant energy signals." said another, "We saw two teammates of
yours on the summit, which let us know where you were all hiding."

"I see...mind if I borrow this." asked Nakazawa.

"Go ahead, we owe you that much." said the soldier.

"Thanks." said Nakazawa, she then got up and quickly began to run towards Risakos・ aircraft.

All three of the S.M.A.T aircraft began to power up their engines simultaneously, the roar of their
engines echoing through the cavern.

"I guess Muratas・misfire served us well." said Momoko into her helmet mike, "She opened us
another way to get out. Now we can launch out faster."

"Definitely." said Risako.

"Alright, you go out first Risako. Your carrying our Commander and Sub Commander." ordered
Momoko.

"Roger." said Risako, she then pushed her vertical thrust lever all the way to the max. And her
underside thrusters fired up and she began to rise out of the summit opening of Mount Nantai.
Miyabi meanwhile, turned on her vertical thrusters, then aimed the nose of her aircraft towards of
the opening Murata created with her optic blasts, then punched the main engines to max power
and flew out of the opening.

Momoko slowly rolled her aircraft forward along the rock floor of the large cave, positioning it
below the summit opening, getting ready to take off.

On the surface Risako and Miyabi joined up in formation and did a pass over Mount Nantai,
waiting for Momokos' aircraft to join them.

But as Yurina kept her eyes on the aircraft痴 radar, she happened to notice 6 objects approaching
at fast speed.

Yurinas・heart began to beat hard and fast, so she quickly pressed the talk button on her headset.

"Miyabi...we've got incoming!." said Yurina.

"What!" said Miyabi, quickly flipping on one of the monitors in her cockpit, which displayed the
same info Yurina was looking at. "4 Japanese airforce fighters and 2 Chinook helicopters are
coming!."

"What'll we do?" asked Yurina

Miyabi took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, "power up the defensive weapons, looks like
we're gonna have to fight our way out of here once again."

[JFC]

Murata Megumi quickly ran to her sleeping bag, trying to reach her backpack that contained her visor. Darts whizzing past her as she ducked and dodged the incoming darts. She then managed to reach her backpack and quickly took out her visor.

She began to take backwards steps towards her fellow S.M.A.T members, while taking off her glasses and shutting her eyes tight, to avoid shooting her optic blasts too early. But, she then felt a sharp prick on the right side of her chest, then another on her left arm as she was hit with 2 darts.

Oh shit, without her glasses or visor, her optic blasts are either going to seriously hurt someone, cause some serious damage to the cave (like a cave-in), or both.

Murata then began to stumble, her legs feeling like rubber. Her back pressed up against the rock wall of the cave. Her legs gave out and she fell down, but, she opened her eyes and was not wearing her glasses or her visor. And 2 extremely large beams of pure solar energy escaped her eyes and quickly began to shoot towards the Special Forces troopers.

"What's this!!." screamed one of the soldiers as the extremely large beams of solar energy began to fly towards them, giving off a blinding yellow light that filled the entire cavern. Blinding the soldiers and the other S.M.A.T. girls. 

See boys? This is what you get when you do something stupid like blindly rushing into a situation shooting the way you did.

But of course you know that when they report this they're going to conveniently omit the part that states that it was THEIR tranquilizer darts that knocked out Murata before she could put on her visor to control her optic beams. They'll just say that she outright attacked them.

"The cave is collapsing!" shouted another soldier.

"Move back!, Move back!!." screamed the leader, he and the other soldiers quickly began to run back the way they came.

A small group of 5 soldiers were not so lucky, the ceiling began to collapse right on top of them.

However, Yaguchi used her super human speed to race in and grab two of the soldiers and move them out of the way. But, she was not fast enough to save the other three.

Hmmmm...if those 2 soldiers Mari saved ever get back to the military base, will they report how Mari saved them?  Might their attitudes about mutants change? And what of the three that she wasn't able to get? If the girls can find them, and they're still alive, will they still continue to believe Hasegawa's propaganda?

Meanwhile, the three bomber pilots continued to circle over Mount Nantai. Just then, Muratas・ extremely large optic beams slammed through the other side of Mount Nantai and shot up towards the sky.

"What in the world!" said one of the pilots, he then looked down towards the mountain and saw a extremely large beam coming from the mountain, that continued on into the sky, well above the level the were already flying.

Yeah...they'll probably report that they were attacked by some secret doomsday weapon that S.M.A.T. has, which of course will cause Hasegawa to order the current S.M.A.T. prisoners to be tortured to find out intel on it (even though it doesn't exist).

"Everyone alright?." asked Nakazawa.

...

"We're alright as well." said Yaguchi, who was sitting with the two soldiers she managed to save.

The soldiers lowered their guns, then dropped them.

"Why?" asked one of the soldiers.

"Why what?" asked Yaguchi.

"Why did you save us?." asked the other.

"It's what we do, what we were trained to do." said Yaguchi "Save lives and protect those in need."

"Even after everything we've done to you...and what we were here to do...you still saved us." said the soldier.

"Alright...I'm done here." said the other soldier, "I'm not going to fight anymore...I'm just grateful to still be alive."

"Me too." said the other.

Hmmm...that was easy...a little TOO easy if you ask me.   

I'm hoping that the girls got lucky and that these two soldiers really aren't that prejudiced against mutants as some of Hasegawa's other troops are.  Still, I'd be careful around them. No telling if they're going to pull a secret double-cross later on.

"Your not at all what we were expecting." said one of the soldiers.

"We never expected to be treated so kindly by those we were sent to capture." said the other.

"None of those stories you've heard about us are true." said Nakazawa.

"That's right, we did not participate in the attack on Takayama City. Infact, we went there to see if we could help." said Kaori.

Now the soldiers are hearing the other side of the story. With luck, they're smart enough to see that the propaganda that Hasegawa's been feeding them has not been the whole truth, and that he's never bothered to look for it, that he's just telling them the story the way he WANTS it to be told.

"There's more soldiers trapped over here, we have to get them out!!." yelled Yaguchi.

Yossi and Yasuda quickly powered up their mutant powers. Yasudas body turning to rock, while Yossis・skin turned into steel. And both of the girls began to move rocks aside and sift through the rubble, searching for the other soldiers, buried in the cave in.

...

Koharu joined in the rescue attempt and used her mutant powers to phase right through the rocks and disappear into them. Moments later she emerged, dragging one of the unconscious soldiers along the ground.

"Found one." grunted Koharu, as she dragged the heavy soldier.

...

"Found another one!." announced Yossi.

"And I just found the last one." said Yasuda.

Now if the situation were reversed, could these soldiers honestly say that they would do the same and try to save the girls the way that the girls saved them? In all likelihood if Hasegawa were there he wouldn't order them to, so would they take the initiative and do the right thing, or would they just leave them buried there under all that rubble?

Something for those soldiers to think about.

"They look pretty bad..." said Yossi.

"Don't worry." said Reina Tanaka as she approached the group, "Nothing I can't handle."

Reina then bent down and placed her hands on the chest of one of the soldiers, and a bright white light appeared on the palms of her hands as she healed the soldier. Soon the cuts, broken bones and other injuries the soldier suffered from the collapse were completely healed. Reina then healed the other two soldiers.

"Amazing!." said one of the soldiers.

"Just doing my job as medic." said Reina, dusting off her hands and standing up once again.

Again, would the soldiers treat "the enemy" as well as "the enemy" has been treating them? Would they just let them remain injured because, according to Hasegawa, they're "not human"?  Even if they're not, the girls have been more "humane" to these soldiers than the soldiers have been to other mutants.

"Hey!...you healed my bad knee!, the one I hurt in my teenage years playing football." announced the soldier, "But...I wasn't even injured there from the cave in...how'd you do that?"

Reina laughed and blushed, "Well, I didn't know you weren't hurt there. I'm not good enough to pinpoint exactly where a patient of mine is hurt. So what I do is heal the patients entire body, just to be sure I got everything."

"Well thanks anyways, that knee has always bothered me." said the soldier.

And here the soldiers see that NOT all mutants are dangerous and that NOT all mutants will automatically use their powers for evil purposes.  Their powers are tools, and just like any physical tool that humans have created, they can be used for both good or evil, and that it just depends on the person and how that person chooses to use them.

"Breaching charge now!." said the leader.

From the back of the column, an explosives expert soldier quickly made his way to the front and handed the leader a small square pouch, filled with explosives.

...

The pouch then exploded in an loud BOOM!.

Back in the cave, Nakazawa and the other H!P girls quickly whipped their heads back towards the cave entrance.

"They're trying to get back in." said one of the soldiers.

"You better go." said another, "It won't take them long to get all the way through."

They're letting the girls go? That's a relief. It looks like the girls have made some friends, or at least, they're convinced them to no longer view them as their enemy.  The question now is...will they report what they've seen and heard to their commanding officer or to HQ?  If it's to the former and he's prejudiced against mutants, or if it's to the latter, when Hasegawa finds out he will likely accuse the soldiers of being influenced by the enemy, of being traitors to humanity and have them arrested (if not executed). 

The optimum situation would be for the soldiers to remain with their comrades, and for them to spread the word amongst their fellow soldiers that "Hey, these S.M.A.T. girls aren't evil like we've been told. They've actually been trying to do the right thing and help people." If word of this it spreads far enough amongst the soldiers, it just might start to turn the tide a bit.

As Nakazawa was heading towards one of the aircraft, she stopped in her tracks, then made herway to the group of soldiers they rescued.

She knelt down beside them, "I have a question." she said.

"Ok, shoot." said one of the soldiers.

"You guys managed to find us...how?." asked Nakazawa.

"We got reports of activity around Mount Nantai, we then used our scouters and confirmed there were powerful mutants in the area." said another soldier.

"Scouter?" asked Nakazawa.

One of the soldiers removed his scouter from his head and tossed it to Nakazawa, "This is our scouter." said the soldier.

"It can detect Mutant DNA and Mutant energy signals." said another, "We saw two teammates of yours on the summit, which let us know where you were all hiding."

"I see...mind if I borrow this." asked Nakazawa.

"Go ahead, we owe you that much." said the soldier.

"Thanks." said Nakazawa

I wonder what the soldiers will do/think when they realize that Yuko's going to use the scouter to find the location of Hasegawa's mutant prison?

All three of the S.M.A.T aircraft began to power up their engines simultaneously, the roar of their engines echoing through the cavern.

"I guess Muratas・misfire served us well." said Momoko into her helmet mike, "She opened us another way to get out. Now we can launch out faster."

But wait, those military bombers are still there. The aircraft crews don't know that they're there, do they?

"Miyabi...we've got incoming!." said Yurina.

"What!" said Miyabi, quickly flipping on one of the monitors in her cockpit, which displayed the same info Yurina was looking at. "4 Japanese airforce fighters and 2 Chinook helicopters are coming!."

"What'll we do?" asked Yurina

Miyabi took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, "power up the defensive weapons, looks like we're gonna have to fight our way out of here once again."

Shit, when Murata's optic blast buzzed the bomber planes, they must have radio'd back and called for some attack aircraft for backup.