Hajime's bullets tear through the air, roaring towards their intended targets with lightning speed. Reacting instinctively, the air around Yori heaves and buckles, and the trajectories of the projectiles shifts, sending the three deadly missiles skyward, leaving behind a pillar of ionized gasses and plasma visible for miles as the three bullets streak into the atmosphere.

Yori grinds his teeth as his flicks his knife into a ready position. Why would he try to run? He could bend SPACE, for god's sake, it's not like the brat could get away with his prize. He rubs the flash burn along his shin gingerly-he'd misjudged the speed of that coilgun attack and it had nearly cost him. He swallows his rage and takes a deep breath, calming himself.

"I still hate children."

Yori reaches out with his mind and starts pulling on the fabric of reality, the streets around him shifting like the pieces of a sliding block puzzle. As he pans through the rushing crowds, he catches a glimpse of a silver-haired boy lugging a small girl through the crowd with a determined look on his face-and springs into action.

There's a rush of air as space sags back into place with a relieved gust of wind, and then the sidewalk underneath Hajime bucks like the sea in a violent storm. As the concrete underneath him heaves like the deck of a ship, a cybernetic arm reaches through one of the folds in space and grabs the unconscious girl that he carries by the collar, hauling the precious child back away from his grip. Yori braces himself against a nearby wall and flips his knife around, readying the blade for a scorpion-like strike at any frantically grasping hands trying to save his target.

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Back in the hospital room, complete chaos reigns as people scramble for safety. The three remaining G.E.A.R. agents (one having been killed as Tai's parting shot pierced through a gap in his neck armor, blowing out his throat; and the other having taken lethal shrapnel to the chest from the exploding window) have taken up positions behind Shougo's hospital bed and his life support machines, on the theory that while they are perfectly willing to shoot small children to compete their objectives, the other people in the room are probably not so keen on accidentally shooting one of the people they're trying to save.

"Kill the remaining Antiskill first, then target the girl-she's armed. I want this wrapped up before the boss gets back-I hear sirens, and they'll be able to cut through that blocked corridor eventually."

Two acknowledging nods, and then the three thugs open fire, trying to gun down the only things standing between them and three or four zip-tied captives.