Villains ch 10 Collision
A/N: I still don't own. And now with 20% more crack pairings.
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"Let her go, Higuchi!" Naomi shouted, as she and Matsuda trained their guns on their suspect currently holding a nurse hostage.
"You gonna shoot me? Do you know what will happen, 'cause I sure don't! Maybe I'll explode! Maybe I'll take out this entire hospital!"
"Higuchi!" Naomi and Matsuda could only look on in horror as Higuchi's fingers glowed red, searing into the nurse's arm.
He then looked right at Naomi and down the barrel of the gun. "You know what, fine. Do it! My life is over anyway!
"Kyosuke!" Matsuda shouted.
"…But I'll take you all out with me!"
"He wants you to stop Kyosuke!" Matsuda heard the screaming thoughts of the comatose dying man…
"Wha-"
"He says you don't listen, you never listen! Kyosuke… but you will always be his danna. "
"You can hear him? Reiji?"
"He wants you to remember that time in Bangkok."
Higuchi gave a sad smile. Matsuda was blushing madly and not just from the heat…
"He wants you to know that he loves you. He always will… He wants you to let her go. Let her go, Kyosuke."
Higuchi sniffed and let his hostage go. Higuchi crouched by Namikawa's bedside.
"Wh-what is he saying now?"
Then the heart monitors flat-lined. As Higuchi broke down, Naomi snapped him in handcuffs.
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Beyond sighed as he watched Light getting ready to go (an instantaneous process thanks to Ryuk) in the blink of an eye he was fully dressed in a nice black suit with not a hair out of line.
Seeing him like that made Beyond want to bang and break him all over again. Unfortunately there was apparently no dissuading Light from his current mission…
"Well before you go won't you at least stay for breakfast? You're looking a bit thin." Give B an "A" for effort…
Light shrugged. He knew Beyond was stalling him but he also knew better than to pass up a free meal. He went into the kitchenette and looked in the fridge. "Do you have anything beside strawberry jam these days?"
"Check the cupboard," Beyond called from the other room.
Light did, "Potato chips? You shouldn't have..."
"Yeah… I had them in case you stopped by," Beyond admitted.
"Look, if you wanted-" Light stopped when he heard Beyond screaming.
Light ordered Ryuk into camouflage mode and they stealthily leapt onto the ceiling, sending out exploratory tendrils to "see" what was happening in the next room (a process that only took a second.)
But nothing could have prepared him for what he saw there…
Dad?
00000
It had been all too easy. Obviously the former assassin had grown complacent during the last five years of playing dead. It was the only explanation for why Mr. Yagami had been able to snipe him through the window. The old Beyond Birthday would have never left himself so exposed. He was down… but still alive if the screaming was any indication.
That was good.
Personal feelings aside, he knew he would get more points with the Organization if he brought Beyond Birthday in alive… though other than that, they as a whole wouldn't really care what condition he was in. After all, it was nothing less than what he deserved for his betrayal…
Mr. Yagami kicked in the door to find Beyond clutching his wounded shoulder and getting to his feet. Stubborn as ever. Mr. Yagami shot him again, this time with a paralyzing agent so he could extract him to a secondary location when he heard movement from the kitchen area. He mentally cursed at himself. Upon seeing Beyond Birthday in the window, just sitting there, plain as day, he had foolishly rushed in and had forgotten to check and make sure he was alone.
He saw it incoming with his infrared goggles and emptied his gun into the monster… it didn't even slow it down. Though it did drop whatever cloaking mechanism it was using and appeared before him… and monster it was. Mr. Yagami, professional Freak hunter, nearly had a heart attack from just seeing it. The shifting black and white form, the glowing red eyes above a mouth full of shark-like teeth, etched in a permanent, malevolent smile.
It came at him with nightmarish speed…
Mr. Yagami was sure he was going to die.
As it drew near, he had shot it point blank in the head.
It shook it off and kept coming...
But the creature avoided him all together. It rushed past him, tendrils shooting out of its arms and back snagging Beyond Birthday. It then leaped out the now broken window. As the creature fell large black feathered wings erupted from its back.
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Light held Beyond protectively as he caught an updraft and soared off into the dawning skies.
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"What's this?" Matsuda asked as Naomi handed him a green pocket-sized item that kind of looked like a coffee coaster.
"It detects radiation levels. As long as that's dark green we're good to go."
"Oh, cool!" it was like spy gadget stuff! Matsuda could see how that would definitely be useful here-but then something else occurred to him, "What's the bad color?"
"Not green," Naomi said as she grimly walked into the interrogation room.
Though when they came in, Higuchi was already plenty pissed off from the previous interrogation.
"For the last time, I don't have any nuclear material!"
"We want answers Higuchi!" Naomi demanded.
"You want me to be the bad guy, huh?" Higuchi began with a manic look in his eye. "You want me to be the bad guy? I can be a bad guy!"
His fingers glowed red and the glass of water he was holding began to boil. Matsuda noticed that the coasters / radiation detectors had turned red.
"Kyosuke! Settle down Kyosuke! Look I know you're had a bad day..."
"Ya' think?"
"But you've got to stop! What would Reiji think of this?"
Matsuda managed to talk him down again and leave him a sobbing wreck. "Look, we just need to know what happened."
Naomi crossed her arms. "Why did you kill Mido and Shimura?"
"It was an accident, I swear!" Higuchi groaned, seemingly wishing that the interrogation table would just swallow him up. "They called me in… said my position had been down-sized… I just… I got angry… and then I felt hot... and then... then…" Higuchi buried his face in his hands.
"An accident. Really?"
"He's telling the truth," Matsuda told Naomi. "Why don't we start from the beginning… When did this start?"
"I just made a big sale so I went out to celebrate… and I saw this creepy gaijin staring at me. The next thing I know I'm sitting in my car on the side of the road and its three days later. After that… things would start dying around me. The houseplants. The neighbor's dog. And then Reiji got sick. Reiji! I didn't mean to… All that time. I was killing him and I didn't even know it."
"Wait you lost three days?"
"Yeah…"
"And can't remember what happened?"
"I just told you…"
"Have you been having headaches?"
Higuchi's eyes widened in recognition. "Yeah!
"Matsuda, what are you getting at?" Naomi demanded.
Matsuda looked shaken. "I think… I think the same thing happened to me. I lost a day. Kyosuke… when you woke up did you have these weird cuts and bruises on your arms?"
"I'll do you one better" he said as he pulled back the collar of his prison suit to reveal the mark on his neck.
Matsuda pulled back his own shirt collar and displayed an identical mark.
Naomi gaped. "What does it mean?"
"I don't know… Kyosuke can you remember anything else?"
"It's all kind of hazy but I remember there was this guy… a man in horned rimmed glasses."
Just then Halle Bullook and some of the higher ups came in to claim the prisoner.
"Wait, stop! He's not Saiko!" Matsuda tried to tell them.
"Make sure the walls of my cell are coated with lead…" Higuchi tried to warn the officers.
Both were ignored.
"He's not Saiko," Matsuda repeated to Naomi.
"But how can you be so sure?"
"Other than the fact that I've been in his head and know he didn't do it? How about the fact that the M.O clearly doesn't match! The one that went after the Nakaido family was clearly premeditated; this was a crime of passion. Yeah, I get it; they were both powered kills. But that's the only thing they have in common! I mean, even I can see that much..."
Naomi massaged her temples just thinking about the paperwork on this one… "There are just all these things I can't explain…. Higuchi… Saiko… Kira… you."
"Wait, you think I'm like THEM?" Matsuda cried indignantly. "They're murderers!"
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Mr. Yagami was shaken.
An unknown freak that powerful! One that had (up until now) avoided detection by Wammy's House. When it became clear it wasn't coming back, Mr. Yagami turned to search the apartment. From the look of things there had already been in altercation in here even before he came in… and then there were the paintings. Mr. Yagami knew that Beyond was an intuitive power absorber. He must have picked up a precognitive ability like Linda's in the time since he's escaped from Wammy's.
As he studied the paintings he called up his superiors. They needed to know about this… That K's little sister was going to get attacked… But Beyond had enough sense to a) not target the family of one of Wammy's own directors and b) paint what he was planning on doing before-hand so this meant that Beyond and Saiko… were NOT one and the same…
But then again… so much of this didn't make sense.
Why had Beyond let himself be institutionalized? That's how Mr. Yagami had found him, just going through the police records and finding an outpatient named Rue Ryuuzaki. Mr. Yagami knew that Beyond was powerful enough to break out of any normal prison with ease (and clever enough to escape some of their prisons as well) so why choose to stay and serve his sentence? It was one of the many things he had wanted to ask (as hard as necessary).
Then there was the matter of the unknown subject...
Thinking back on his attack-why had it left him alive? It could have easily killed him. It's only goal seemed to be protecting Beyond… so again, why was he still alive? Even more unsettling was something about the monster, the way it moved, Mr. Yagami was met with a vague underlying feeling of… familiarity. Mr. Yagami sighed. He was loath to admit it but he really needed L for this.
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"Let her go, Higuchi!" Naomi shouted, as she and Matsuda trained their guns on their suspect currently holding a nurse hostage.
"You gonna shoot me? Do you know what will happen, 'cause I sure don't! Maybe I'll explode! Maybe I'll take out this entire hospital!"
"Higuchi!" Naomi and Matsuda could only look on in horror as Higuchi's fingers glowed red, searing into the nurse's arm.
He then looked right at Naomi and down the barrel of the gun. "You know what, fine. Do it! My life is over anyway!
"Kyosuke!" Matsuda shouted.
"…But I'll take you all out with me!"
"He wants you to stop Kyosuke!" Matsuda heard the screaming thoughts of the comatose dying man…
"Wha-"
"He says you don't listen, you never listen! Kyosuke… but you will always be his danna. "
"You can hear him? Reiji?"
"He wants you to remember that time in Bangkok."
Higuchi gave a sad smile. Matsuda was blushing madly and not just from the heat…
"He wants you to know that he loves you. He always will… He wants you to let her go. Let her go, Kyosuke."
Higuchi sniffed and let his hostage go. Higuchi crouched by Namikawa's bedside.
"Wh-what is he saying now?"
Then the heart monitors flat-lined. As Higuchi broke down, Naomi snapped him in handcuffs.
00000
Beyond sighed as he watched Light getting ready to go (an instantaneous process thanks to Ryuk) in the blink of an eye he was fully dressed in a nice black suit with not a hair out of line.
Seeing him like that made Beyond want to bang and break him all over again. Unfortunately there was apparently no dissuading Light from his current mission…
"Well before you go won't you at least stay for breakfast? You're looking a bit thin." Give B an "A" for effort…
Light shrugged. He knew Beyond was stalling him but he also knew better than to pass up a free meal. He went into the kitchenette and looked in the fridge. "Do you have anything beside strawberry jam these days?"
"Check the cupboard," Beyond called from the other room.
Light did, "Potato chips? You shouldn't have..."
"Yeah… I had them in case you stopped by," Beyond admitted.
"Look, if you wanted-" Light stopped when he heard Beyond screaming.
Light ordered Ryuk into camouflage mode and they stealthily leapt onto the ceiling, sending out exploratory tendrils to "see" what was happening in the next room (a process that only took a second.)
But nothing could have prepared him for what he saw there…
Dad?
00000
It had been all too easy. Obviously the former assassin had grown complacent during the last five years of playing dead. It was the only explanation for why Mr. Yagami had been able to snipe him through the window. The old Beyond Birthday would have never left himself so exposed. He was down… but still alive if the screaming was any indication.
That was good.
Personal feelings aside, he knew he would get more points with the Organization if he brought Beyond Birthday in alive… though other than that, they as a whole wouldn't really care what condition he was in. After all, it was nothing less than what he deserved for his betrayal…
Mr. Yagami kicked in the door to find Beyond clutching his wounded shoulder and getting to his feet. Stubborn as ever. Mr. Yagami shot him again, this time with a paralyzing agent so he could extract him to a secondary location when he heard movement from the kitchen area. He mentally cursed at himself. Upon seeing Beyond Birthday in the window, just sitting there, plain as day, he had foolishly rushed in and had forgotten to check and make sure he was alone.
He saw it incoming with his infrared goggles and emptied his gun into the monster… it didn't even slow it down. Though it did drop whatever cloaking mechanism it was using and appeared before him… and monster it was. Mr. Yagami, professional Freak hunter, nearly had a heart attack from just seeing it. The shifting black and white form, the glowing red eyes above a mouth full of shark-like teeth, etched in a permanent, malevolent smile.
It came at him with nightmarish speed…
Mr. Yagami was sure he was going to die.
As it drew near, he had shot it point blank in the head.
It shook it off and kept coming...
But the creature avoided him all together. It rushed past him, tendrils shooting out of its arms and back snagging Beyond Birthday. It then leaped out the now broken window. As the creature fell large black feathered wings erupted from its back.
00000
Light held Beyond protectively as he caught an updraft and soared off into the dawning skies.
00000
"What's this?" Matsuda asked as Naomi handed him a green pocket-sized item that kind of looked like a coffee coaster.
"It detects radiation levels. As long as that's dark green we're good to go."
"Oh, cool!" it was like spy gadget stuff! Matsuda could see how that would definitely be useful here-but then something else occurred to him, "What's the bad color?"
"Not green," Naomi said as she grimly walked into the interrogation room.
Though when they came in, Higuchi was already plenty pissed off from the previous interrogation.
"For the last time, I don't have any nuclear material!"
"We want answers Higuchi!" Naomi demanded.
"You want me to be the bad guy, huh?" Higuchi began with a manic look in his eye. "You want me to be the bad guy? I can be a bad guy!"
His fingers glowed red and the glass of water he was holding began to boil. Matsuda noticed that the coasters / radiation detectors had turned red.
"Kyosuke! Settle down Kyosuke! Look I know you're had a bad day..."
"Ya' think?"
"But you've got to stop! What would Reiji think of this?"
Matsuda managed to talk him down again and leave him a sobbing wreck. "Look, we just need to know what happened."
Naomi crossed her arms. "Why did you kill Mido and Shimura?"
"It was an accident, I swear!" Higuchi groaned, seemingly wishing that the interrogation table would just swallow him up. "They called me in… said my position had been down-sized… I just… I got angry… and then I felt hot... and then... then…" Higuchi buried his face in his hands.
"An accident. Really?"
"He's telling the truth," Matsuda told Naomi. "Why don't we start from the beginning… When did this start?"
"I just made a big sale so I went out to celebrate… and I saw this creepy gaijin staring at me. The next thing I know I'm sitting in my car on the side of the road and its three days later. After that… things would start dying around me. The houseplants. The neighbor's dog. And then Reiji got sick. Reiji! I didn't mean to… All that time. I was killing him and I didn't even know it."
"Wait you lost three days?"
"Yeah…"
"And can't remember what happened?"
"I just told you…"
"Have you been having headaches?"
Higuchi's eyes widened in recognition. "Yeah!
"Matsuda, what are you getting at?" Naomi demanded.
Matsuda looked shaken. "I think… I think the same thing happened to me. I lost a day. Kyosuke… when you woke up did you have these weird cuts and bruises on your arms?"
"I'll do you one better" he said as he pulled back the collar of his prison suit to reveal the mark on his neck.
Matsuda pulled back his own shirt collar and displayed an identical mark.
Naomi gaped. "What does it mean?"
"I don't know… Kyosuke can you remember anything else?"
"It's all kind of hazy but I remember there was this guy… a man in horned rimmed glasses."
Just then Halle Bullook and some of the higher ups came in to claim the prisoner.
"Wait, stop! He's not Saiko!" Matsuda tried to tell them.
"Make sure the walls of my cell are coated with lead…" Higuchi tried to warn the officers.
Both were ignored.
"He's not Saiko," Matsuda repeated to Naomi.
"But how can you be so sure?"
"Other than the fact that I've been in his head and know he didn't do it? How about the fact that the M.O clearly doesn't match! The one that went after the Nakaido family was clearly premeditated; this was a crime of passion. Yeah, I get it; they were both powered kills. But that's the only thing they have in common! I mean, even I can see that much..."
Naomi massaged her temples just thinking about the paperwork on this one… "There are just all these things I can't explain…. Higuchi… Saiko… Kira… you."
"Wait, you think I'm like THEM?" Matsuda cried indignantly. "They're murderers!"
00000
Mr. Yagami was shaken.
An unknown freak that powerful! One that had (up until now) avoided detection by Wammy's House. When it became clear it wasn't coming back, Mr. Yagami turned to search the apartment. From the look of things there had already been in altercation in here even before he came in… and then there were the paintings. Mr. Yagami knew that Beyond was an intuitive power absorber. He must have picked up a precognitive ability like Linda's in the time since he's escaped from Wammy's.
As he studied the paintings he called up his superiors. They needed to know about this… That K's little sister was going to get attacked… But Beyond had enough sense to a) not target the family of one of Wammy's own directors and b) paint what he was planning on doing before-hand so this meant that Beyond and Saiko… were NOT one and the same…
But then again… so much of this didn't make sense.
Why had Beyond let himself be institutionalized? That's how Mr. Yagami had found him, just going through the police records and finding an outpatient named Rue Ryuuzaki. Mr. Yagami knew that Beyond was powerful enough to break out of any normal prison with ease (and clever enough to escape some of their prisons as well) so why choose to stay and serve his sentence? It was one of the many things he had wanted to ask (as hard as necessary).
Then there was the matter of the unknown subject...
Thinking back on his attack-why had it left him alive? It could have easily killed him. It's only goal seemed to be protecting Beyond… so again, why was he still alive? Even more unsettling was something about the monster, the way it moved, Mr. Yagami was met with a vague underlying feeling of… familiarity. Mr. Yagami sighed. He was loath to admit it but he really needed L for this.
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