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"Here..." Iori shoved an ice pack on Rikus cheeks causing the red haired agent to groan in pain.
"Ow! ow! ow! That hurts! Couldn't you be a little more gentle?" Riku whined as he grabbed the pack from the younger agent and gingerly pressed the ice pack on his own bruised cheeks. "For a younger agent, You're really not cute!"
Iori was slightly taken aback and frowned at him. "I didn't ask for your opinion." He replied "Honestly, why are you and my mentor so alike" He grumbled.
Banri chuckled as he handed the two agents a bottle of energy drink. "You're the fourth person to call Gareth cute, Gawain."
Riku hummed in interest and looked at the two members curiously. "Really? Who were the first three?"
"You don't have to know!" Iori grumbled and sat down on his seat roughly. He stared out the window and watch the jet that had collected them fly through the clouds.
"Well, there's two people who constantly calls him cute: Geheris and his mentor Percival. Galahad teases him sometimes just because he feels like it and then there's you, Gawain."
"Oooh~ You must be awfully cute in their eyes too then, huh?" Riku teased and stuck his tongue out when Iori gave him a sharp glare.
"Please focus on treating your bruise, Nanase-san." The young agent huffed as he annoyingly pressed the ice pack was holding to treat his own bruises on the other side of Rikus cheeks, making the other agent squirm from both the pain and the cold.
"OUCH OUCH OUUUCHHH!!! TOO COLD!!"
"Hey, hey don't start fighting while we're 3000ft above the ground, children. Do that when we're on the ground." The blue haired quarter master sighed tiredly. He recalled the fight that transpired earlier which earned the two agents their wounds and bruises and it honestly had him at the edge of his seat. The agents were honestly not equipped to fight as the mission was only to supposed to gather information. This was what Merlin had constantly reminded Gawain before. "Honestly, you boys almost scared me for a second there." He said as he sat across the two agents who were now relaxing in the jet flying them back to their headquarters. Luckily, the two agents were good at hand to hand combat and that their perpetrators were unarmed as well. Somehow they managed to get through it.
"I thought I was a dead man if they caught up with us." Riku said as he chug down the energy drink and leaned on the seat tiredly. He could feel his back ache probably from the fall he took earlier and mentally noted to check up on it later. He could pretty much assess how bruised his back is already as he gingerly positioned himself better on his seat.
"Remind me not to let you drive if ever we go on a mission together again." Iori sighed heavily as he remembered how reckless Riku drove as they tried to shake a vehicle that was tailing them after they made a run from the scene. He was almost thrown off the jeep several times. "You were doing well when you were fighting with those men that you almost left me speechless but then you instantly tripped when i8we were running away." He looked at him in disbelief as he remembered how the older agent tripped on a small fruit basket and rolled on the ground before getting up as if it was some kind of comedy slapstick. "Sometimes, I doubt your own abilities, Gawain."
"You'd be surprised, Gareth. Although, Gawain can be clumsy and refuse to listen to others order. He's pretty good. "
"Hey! Was that a praise or a diss?"
"Yeah, Bedivere has his own way with his own daggers but we've never had anyone who would throw daggers upside down in mid air at his enemy while his comrade is still within his range. Pretty amazing~ " Iori commented while adding sarcasm at the end.
"I told you to dodge it right? " Riku pouted at the younger agent and sighed. "Still those were really weird enemies."
Iori nodded his head and put a hand on his chin as he recalled the series of events that happened to them earlier. "I didn't see anything different from them besides their behavior."
Banri who serves as their quartermaster at the same time adviser toggled with his tablet and handed it to the two agents silently.
"What's this?" Riku looked puzzled and held the tablet in his hand for him and Iori to watch.
"It's a video sent by Geheris and Galahad." Banri explained. Ioris brows slowly knit together as he watch the group of men suddenly fall on their knees and suddenly attack their fellow agents. Completely identical to what happened to him and Riku at Croatia. "And this is a video sent by Lancelot from the cruise party." He said as he reach for the tablet and swipe his finger across the screen.
"Yuki!! Do your best!! Yeah! Tackle him!! That's my man!! Yu---ah crap I'm gonna get scolded for using his name. Grab him Lancelot! YES! THAT'S IT"
The younger blue haired agent face palmed at his mentors voice behind the video as he continued to cheered for his partner. "What is this idiot doing?" He sighed heavily and continued to watched the video as Lancelot slipped right pass his opponent gracefully and grabbed his arm and flip him on his back and swung his knuckle on his other opponents face. A minute later, the man who attacked them lay limp on the ground while the people around them scream in panic. Lancelot flipped his long hair back and gave Percival who was taking the video a smile and a thumbs up.
"Percival is.... as enthusiastic as ever."Banri shook his head in slight amusement and collected his tablet back.
"Merlin, remind me to kick his ass when he comes back."Iori pinched the bridge of his nose tiredly and slumped on his seat. He could feel his blood pressure rising up as he remembered Percivals constant cheering while doing nothing behind the camera.
The quartermaster chuckled and nodded his head. He then gave out the two younger agents some reports and continued to discuss with them the information they had collected so far. "In Percivals defense Gareth, he was able to collect the names of the guests that had gone on rampage and attacked Lancelot. He also added that they all had numbers on their necks. Just like those who attacked you earlier in Croatia. Geheris and Galahad had also reported the same thing."
"Are Geheris and Galahad okay?" He asked as his voice was laced with concern over the other two agents who had encountered the same situation.
Banri nodded his head and smiled at him. "Yamato and Mitsuki are fine." The blue haired quarter master reassured Iori. "Your brothers fine, Iori. Don't worry. We had Lemorak fly over there as a reinforcement. He just finished his work in Guam. They should be together by the time we return to the HQ. "He glanced at his watch and nodded his head. "We'll be able to get a report from them by then. "
"I see. What about the others?"
"Tristan and Kay are on a completely different Mission. Bors and Bedivere are still at the HQ on standby along with Geraint who is still recovering."
At the mention of the blonde agent, Riku raised his hand like a student and looked at the other two agents. "By the way, speaking of Geraint. What happened to him?" Riku asked.
"Geraint fought the same men you've encountered earlier." Banri explained. "He was alone, wrapping up a short mission in Croatia when he was attacked by a man at the airport without warning. Luckily, Geraint only suffered a mild trauma and a broken arm after getting pushed off at the escalator. Geraints assailant was one of the missing people listed in the area, probably not the same as the ones that you both encountered though. That's why Arthur sent you back there to investigate."
Riku slightly winced at the information and sighed. He wasn't expecting his first mission to be this complicated but its not like Kingsman are just some sort of police and fireman who would save kittens stuck on trees anyway but still the intensity of the missions was slightly overwhelming him.
"Yet, we came back with little information..."Iori balled his fist in frustration.
"Not quite." Banri corrected him. "Remember those men who were headed towards the direction were there for a reason." He swiped his fingers and played another video. "They picked those aggressive men up and loaded them in the truck. "He said as he let the two agent watch heavily armored men inject something on the two men before they threw them into the truck harshly.
"What are they gonna do with them and where are they bringing them?" Riku eyes squinted and tried to zoom the footage but they just ended up becoming too pixelated to even recognize.
"That's what we need to find out next." Banri said.
"Looks like your brother got caught in a fist fight with the same guys we've encountered earlier, Geheris." He said as he shoved his phone back in his pocket and picked up his favorite, hand gun which he sometimes call Musashi.
The small orange hair agent sat up on the worn down couch he was lying on sighed heavily. "Yeah, I got a message from him earlier. Iori's doesn't seem to be hurt, hopefully"
"Iori's an expert in hand to hand combat so you don't have to worry about him, Mitsu. He learned from Percival." The taller man reassured Geheris as he put the gun he was cleaning back on his waist holster. "We should get going too. It's about time we rendezvous with Lemorack at the bar."
"Shhh..." The man called Mitsuki immediately shushed his partner and gave him a nod. His eyes narrowed at the door as he pulled out his gun from the holster tied on his torso. "Looks like we've got some visitor, Galahad" He cluck his tongue in annoyance.
Galahad pushed his glasses up on his bridge and leaned on the wall and glance down at the window. He watched some armored men run into the run down apartment they were staying in with guns." Ah, Seems like it. " He said and counted the men that started entering the building." We might have been followed after we killed those men that attacked us earlier."
"Guess so." Mitsuki said as he pointed his gun at the door and fired at it several times. They heard a thud behind it and quickly ducked on the floor as their room was suddenly barraged with bullets.
"This is gonna be a pain in ass." Galahad grumbled as quickly hid behind the vault where their other weapons were once stocked and used it as a shield against the rain of bullets.
"Geheris, Galahad!!"
"Oh, Lemorack?" Mitsuki asked he tried to fix his eye glasses and kick the door open after the first round of bullets stop. He gave Galahad a signal before dashing out on the corridor and firing at the men who were reloading their ammunition. "Sorry, we're kind of busy!"
"I've got my hands full here too. I might end up arriving late." Lemoracks voice buzzed on their earpiece. The two agents heard gun fires from the other agent as they showed each other hand signals. "Although, its not my cup of tea as a gentlemen to be late on the agreed time. It makes me less professional. I might really run in late, sorry."
"Save that speech later, Lemorack. We've got some people over here too." Galahad said as he opened his Kingsman umbrella. "Mitsuki, cover me!"
The smaller agent watch his partner use their umbrella as a shield and fire at the men in front of them. "Got it." Mitsuki nodded his head as he pulled out another gun from the other holster and held up two guns. He kicked the small table in the hallway down and used it as an extra barricade and started raining bullets at their opponents. "Get them, Yamato!"
"Roger that!" Galahad growled as he tuck his gun back and unsheathe a sword from the handle of the umbrella he was earlier holding as a shield. He dashed towards them managed to cut their enemies while Mitsuki supported and backed him up from behind. Within in a few minutes no one was left besides the two agent.
"Lemorack?"
"Yeah?"
"Let's switch locations."Galahad said as he stood at the end of the hallway with lifeless bodies piled behind him. "Looks like we're in a lot of trouble."
The other line buzzed again. "Alright. Let me just finish my end here" Lemorack said as they heard another round of gun fires. "Shit---"
Galahad pressed his earpiece on his ear harder in attempt to listen to the other line. "Lemerack?! What's wrong? Where are you?"
"Oi, Lemerack! Lemerack?! Hey! Kujou!! Can you hear me?" Mitsuki yelled and waited for a reply but there wasn't any response from the latter. Their connection with Lemerack seemed to be abruptly cut off. He looked up at his partner seriously and signaled that they had to go. "Yamato...This is bad."
"Damn it, We better hurry." The man called Yamato hissed as he picked up his umbrella slash scabbard and quickly slid the sword back in. He followed Geheris who had already sprinted down the flight of stairs. Their report would have to wait for a while as finding Lemorack location was now their top priority.