WD spy rule two seventy is entitled 'Ever notice how shit hitting the fan sounds like people screaming?'

Previous rule two sixty nine: The only animal that confuses carnal pleasure with instinct is of the homo sapien variety.

Previous rule seventy one: Paradoxically, to truly be loved one must first be hated.

Summary page

-Short summary-

Chizuo Asahara shows that he is not down and out by revealing his twisted and true purpose for the ongoing battle.

-Long summary-

Chizuo Asahara sits alone near a windowsill, toying with what seems to be a remote control.  He had considered going into battle and getting his hands dirty like in his glory days but nowadays that is beneath him. He isn't above allowing the kids to have their glory, since chances like this don't happen often. He would play the role of the big, bad, responsible adult and take care of the 'adult circumstances'. What would kids know about power and control? In his upbringing, children should be neither seen or heard, until they were old enough to take responsibility for things themselves. He had labored hard to get this point across to his own three children, but that middle child had always been a problem, like her mother. No doubt she's running around with some strange boy, like most girls her age. He'd definitely take being the leader of the Li se xing xuo over being the father of a rebellious child any day. In any case, play time would soon be over and that would be that.

His cellphone buzzes to life, and the cult leader waits for it to ring a few times before answering it. On the other side is his eldest son, Daiki. He smiles slightly, as he already has surmised what his son could be calling about, even though in most circumstances he is the most predictable out of all his children.

Asahara is assaulted by Daiki asking what the hell he's thinking in Japanese. The elder Asahara replies in an innocent tone that he has no idea what his son is talking about. Meanwhile in the basement, the snipers and Asaharas alike have all moved against a wall on the furthest side. Daiki snarls in Japanese that he's not an idiot, and asks why his father has bombs set in the basement?! They could easily take down the mafia rejects without having to result to something so damn drastic. Putting aside the amount of corpse walkers they'd lose, there's a good chance that they'd be caught in the explosion too! Even if bombs were necessary -which they aren't, wouldn't this be something he should bring up before they go into battle? Asahara agrees with his son, that he would have informed them of his intent to blow up the building if he had intended for them to survive. Daiki stares at the phone in shock, and can only ask what his father means. Mizuki tries to grab at the phone, but only manages to get it on speaker phone before Daiki snatches it away. Asahara goes on to state his intent on taking the Mafia's share of the underground. Why should his organization be satisfied with taking a 'share'? Luciano had been calling shots for so long that he had gotten used to it, which annoys the cult leader. He's interested in increasing his share of the pie, and that will only happen if he seizes it himself. Sure he's more than a little frustrated that Luciano didn't come down to this war himself, but that much he figured would happen. No matter, since losing in this skirmish would mean losing face, and in the underground, face value goes a lot further than it does with those who dwell in the sun. He would recoup his losses by staging another coup somewhere down the line.

Daiki can scarcely hold in his anger as he asks his father if he intends to betray them all. Asahara deadpans his response, reminding Daiki of all the times he's tried to incite Ruka to turn against him. Does he truly believe he doesn't know about that? Heck, he was actually a little proud. A boy doesn't become a man in the underground until he stabs someone in the back after all. He forgot one thing though, turnabout is most definitely fair play. You betray or get betrayed, et cetra, et cetra.

Mizuki tears up and begins to cry at what she's hearing, as the snipers glance at each other confused, Japanese isn't one of the languages registered in their thought spaces. Asahara hears his daughter, and Daiki smirks asking if he intends to involve his daughter too? He'll admit that he's been less of a stellar son, but Mizuki unfortunately had been loyal to him from the very beginning. Asahara sighs as if he's thinking, and replies that it is unfortunate that she got involved in all of this, but he raised his kids to kill and prepare for being killed. Daiki roars that there's no child who is born prepared to be killed by their father, to which the elder Asahara replies that there's a first time for everything before hanging up the phone.

After a few moments of silence, Salvo decides to be the devils advocate and ask what just happened. Daiki weakly reveals that he enjoyed hanging out with them, but his father intends to blow up the building with them still in it. Upon hearing this, the snipers act without hesitation and begin to run towards the exit as Daiki lifts a wailing Mizuki to do the same. The blinking light that had started out slowly at first begins to pick up pace rapidly until....

Asahara tosses the remote in the air and catches it, giving the controls the once over and reading the label written on the side of the gaget. The label reads 'It can be fun timez nao', a phrase he had picked up from Mizuki who was into such internet memes. Upon learning what it meant, he decided to use it as the name of this operation for the sheer irony. It would be fun timez for him at least anyway. Each floor saving the top one has three bombs set up on it, and the remote has a button to detonate each one. He would eradicate the Mafia, and the pesky Sector Seven agents that had barged their way into this battle in one fell swoop, then pick up the pieces and reign supreme. A plan that is far too simplisitc for his liking, but effectiveness often superscedes gaudiness. He grins and then presses the first button connecting to the basement.

The basement area erupts into flames, as the snipers and Asahara kids try to make their way to the exit. Just when they've managed to get to a door leading to sweet freedom, another bomb blast knocks the group off it's feet, and debris falls blocking the way out. Daiki curses under his breath and holds his sister close, praying that at least one Asahara gets out of this and seeks revenge.

On another floor, Heike notes that he hears something 'weird', and quickens his pace. Mo and Carlo follow him, until shaking knocks them off their feet. Heike glances around, and quickly figures out the source of the sound and shaking. He turns to his teammates and shouts that someone has set off a bomb, but it's too late as a wall besides them erupts sending shrapnel and drywall rushing at them at an inhuman speed. To the three though, everything feels like it's happening in slow motion. Even their reactions are muted, sluggish and most of all too late.

Jax takes the controls of the helicopter and tries to fly away from the blinking light, but it erupts in smoke and flame. The shrapnel from the tower getting caught in the helicopter's rotor, and the heat causing the instruments to fail. The group begins to panic, as Jax fights to reclaim control of the copter. He admits he's only really flown one of these a few times before, but he's heard that fighting desperately for your life is good for building character and skill. The copter falls forward, almost lundging into the side of the building, the impact crash resounding for what seems to be miles. The copter lodges itself in the side of the building before remaining perfectly still, like the people inside.

Meifa has managed to stand up as Mugen turns to her. The two lick their lips and lunge at each other, until an explosion rocks the hallway beneath them. The shaking knocks Mugen off of his feet, and Meifa takes this chance to smack him hard with a kick to the temple. Another mini earthquake shakes the hall, and the ground beneath the three begins to crumble....

Lukas grabs Ruka's hand after he feels the first tremor and begins to run with her. He explains to her that they're standing in a hallway full of windows and other things that could really sting if they get caught in a collapse, they need to take refuge somewhere else. Ruka nods and yelps as a window beside her cracks and shatters as tremors rock the building. Lukas draws her close and can only put his arm up futilely as windows and walls shake and fall around them. The two run in tandem down the hall way before ducking and taking cover in a nook, and then moving when debris threatens them there too. The two hide in a windowless room, huddled in an awkward embrace until the shaking dies down slowly. The two breath a sigh of relief before realizing they're still holding each other. Lukas peels Ruka off of him when it becomes apparent that she has no intention of letting go of him, and checks the hallway. He peers around, and upon seeing no one checks his communicator for any signs of his crew. Ruka peers at it and asks why it's so...silent, before it dawns on her what just happened. Lukas nods grimly and comments that maybe the two of them were in the right place at the right time, but the others weren't so lucky. As of right now they seem to be the only two confirmed survivor of this sudden turn of events. Ruka's eyes widen, and she glances at Lukas searching for any sort of contradiction to his words in his eyes and body language.

Meanwhile, Asahara strolls down a hallway completely unscathed; his humming of the Japanese children's song Nanatsu no ko the only sound echoing in the deathly silent halls of the building that was formerly under siege.