Yeah, no, Sakeo and Sonia have met before that one scene. =P </retcon>
-==Chapter 4: Dawn of a Hero, Part 4==-
[Monday -- September xx -- 2002]
The next day, Kaze woke up with a yawn, and looked around. The rest were still asleep, so he got off the bed, grabbed his bag, and went into the restroom to change. He had put on an outfit identical to the one he had had on the day before, and looked around, thinking for a little bit, and tip-toed over to Kali. He then decided to poke her in the face to attempt to wake her up... He regretted that decision quickly after. He got punched in the face, sending him backward because it was unexpected, as Kali got up with an annoyed look on her face.
"Yeah, don't do that again." She said, as she got up, grabbed her bag, and walked into the rest room to change.
A little while later, after everyone had woken up and changed, they decided to head out to the school; as their Personal Data Holders simultaneously started beeping.
"Gah, what is that noise?" Sakeo asked, covering his ears, as the rest pulled out their PDHs out, and checked them, finding out that the classes were at 8:30... And that it was currently 7:10.
"... Whose bright idea was it to get everyone in the room up at 7:10 again?" Kali asked, obviously a little upset. Kaze stayed quiet with that, not bothering to answer, as he looked through the features; finding a music tab, the communications tab from before which had email and such, a gaming tab, an internet tab, and other things, like a map tab of all things. So, Kaze decided to look around the map and such as they were waiting for the classes.
"So, what classes does everyone have?" Sonia asked, as they all responded with what they had, some of which didn't exactly make sense for them. Kaze meanwhile, had gotten to the second floor after noticing a theatre of all things on the first floor, and was looking around the rooms, when he noticed something weird... A gap between two of the rooms like there was a gap in the wall, but you couldn't see anything from the outside.
"Hey, guys, look at this..." Kaze said, and pointed to the oddity.
"That does seem weird; could it have just been a design error?" Sakeo asked, as Kaze frowned, and looked at the time.
7:45... While I'm not going to ask how we wasted 35 minutes, I think we have enough time... Kaze thought, and turned to the others.
"Let's go check it out then."
A few minutes later, after getting to the stairwell for the first floor, the four made it to the second floor, though Kali was a little hesitant in actually following. Kaze started to look around the floor, but only saw the rooms that should have been there, and walls.
"This is weird..." Kaze said, frowning, as he walked around to where the gap should be, and stared at the wall, and knocked on it, revealing a hollow sound behind it.
"Okay; there's something behind there. Behind a concrete wall. That we can't get to. Did we come all this way for nothing? Gah!" Kaze thought out loud, as he kicked the wall in frustration at this fact, as the wall moved inward a bit, and then pivoted, revealing an entrance to a secret room, as the others in the group looked on curiously.
"Okay; not what I expected..." Kaze said, examining the entrance for a second.
"... Let's go in." Kaze said, as the rest looked at each other with a frown, and then nodded. The room didn't have all that much in there, but did have a bunch of bookcases and books, and a computer. Kaze went up to it to attempt to look, but found that it was in a different language, and connected his PDH to transfer some of it, as he looked at some of the books. They seemed to be in the same type of language as the computer's, but something seemed... off. He ignored that though, and suddenly looked up with shock on his face, as he looked to the door; he heard footsteps heading toward the room, and it wasn't from the group.
One of the mysterious people from earlier was walking towards the room, and had an intrigued look on his face as he approached the entrance... Which was open.
Hmm. It looks like we may actually have some pesky intruders. Hmm. The guy thought, as he walked into the room, and started to look around; the time currently being 8:13; which meant that the others had 17 minutes to somehow get out.
Kaze frowned as he noted the time, and attempted to crawl back, but hit something that made a noise in the process. He noticed that the guy in the doorway, who had an expressionless face and red eyes, was now going over to investigate the noise. He tried to hide as best he could; but it proved to not be necessary, as the guy suddenly went back out of the room. Kaze then nodded to the others, as he stopped the copy, and unplugged his PDH, and quickly ran out of the room, hoping not to be seen, as he noticed the guy in the doorway talking to another person who was shorter by a bit, and ran off in the opposite direction of them. Kaze checked his PDH, and saw that it was 8:25, and then ran off quickly for his Japanese class, arriving with only 2 minutes to spare.
"Hmm. So it seems that some intruders got in and stole some info... No matter; they never found any of the important info." The taller one said as he walked in and looked around, as the screen went black.
"A minor setback, but we have all of the data backed up elsewhere, so the loss of one system doesn't matter. We just have to step up our plans. It is intriguing how they managed to do this without getting caught... However, it won't happen again." He continued, clenching his left fist...
-==/End Chapter 4\==-
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