Floor 4

You decide to head to the fourth floor. Of course, that’s easier said than done. The buttons skip right from floor three to floor five. You tap the one for five and ride the lift down. The doors slide open and you slip out. It seems like the floor of a normal office building to you. Now that you’re thinking of it, you wonder just who all rents space in this building. Even a group as big as Yoshida’s clan wouldn’t need anywhere close to seventy-seven floors. At least, you didn’t think so.

You reconnoiter the floor. Since it is so late in the day, you are unsurprised to find it empty of people. Only one thing catches your attention. A closed office door. When you press your ear up against it, you can hear talking and laughing. It soon becomes clear that it is a variety show. One strain of laughter is different from the rest, letting you know that someone is inside. A security guard? You grin. Let’s see what he is hiding.

You give the door two knocks and step back, crouching low to the ground. You hear movement inside the office and soon the door slowly opens. The guard peeks out and when he sees nothing, he opens the door wider. “What the hell?” he mutters, stepping out of the office. You curl up your hand and pop out the needle hidden in your finger. You swiftly puncture his leg. The guard leaps back and swipes at the spot where you stabbed him. No doubt imagining he was bitten by a spider or something. “What the hell?” he mutters again. He takes one step and then stumbles. The security guard falls to his knees and then onto his face. Butt up.

You stifle a laugh. I thought that only happened to sexy girls in comics...and that one time in Dragon Ball Z. You head into the office and look around. It doesn’t take you very long to find a hatch in the floor under a rug. Not very well hidden...though Yoshida probably thought that no one would make it this far in. Probably just to keep it from being seen by civilians. There is a fingerprint reader next to the hatch. You drag the security guard in, cursing your female body for the first time in a while. You press the man’s forefinger into the reader and the hatch slides open.

You peer down but there isn’t anything to see beyond a white floor. Taking a deep breath, you slide down the latter. You hit the floor in a crouch a glance around. You were right. You see cells, a table with restraints and obvious tools for ****. A dungeon! There is also a man sitting at a nearby control station. He is an elderly Japanese man in a white lab coat. He has wispy white hair and steady, dark eyes. Eyes that are looking right at you. Your heart speeds up. _Can he see-? _You don’t even have time to finish the thought before he stabs a button on his station.

You scream as electricity courses through your body. It is pain like you’ve never felt before as every muscle in your body contracts. You fall on your side and see with distress that seems far away that your suit as shorted out. The old man has stood as is walking forward. I gotta move is your last thought before you lose consciousness.