“QUICK!!! Hide in one of those boxes!” A hissed.

  “Which one?! There's five of them!” I said, quickly looking into each one.

  “They all have stuff in them!”

  “It doesn’t matter, just get into the smallest one you can fit into!”

  I quietly and quickly ran and dove into the one with the least stuff.

  “Great, now don’t move a muscle or you’ll get caught,” A warned.

  “Got it,” I said quietly.

  Hey, my name’s Hiranishi Tako, I’m currently sneaking into one of the richest man’s secret headquarters. Why? Because I am on a mission to steal the man's prized possession; an idol's worn panties. You see, my family runs a spy organization. I want to inherit said organization, but in order to do so, I need to prove myself, so my mother sent me on this mission.

  “Alright, check if the coast is clear,” A told me after waiting for 20 minutes.

  I opened the box slightly and peeked out of it.

  “It looks like I’m in some sort of storage place. There are hundreds of boxes stacked on shelves all around me. I also don’t see anyone,” I whispered to A.

  “Hmm, hold on for a minute, I think I might know where you are.”

  I listened to A and stayed in the box, trying not to make any noise. After a minute or two, A spoke, “It seems you were sent to a storage facility near the center of the headquarters.”

  “So I’m near the middle of it? Isn’t that kinda bad for me?” If I was near the middle then that meant sneaking out would be really hard.

  “Well, yes, but this is actually good for us as our intel says the man keeps his prized possession in the most secure location of his headquarters, the center.”

  “Ok, so what should I do now?” I asked A.

  “Get out of the box and look around a bit. The man has all his storage facilities automated so there shouldn’t be any people, but still be careful.”

  I quietly got out of the box and started to sneak around. There were massive conveyor belts and tons of shelves full of boxes.

  After walking around a bit, I found a door with a sign above it saying “Panty collection this way ->”

  “I found a door that apparently leads to his panty collection,” I said to A while opening the door a tiny bit.

  A sighed and said, “That's probably a trap, I don't think he would be dumb enough to mark the way to his collection.”

  “You’re probably right, but I don’t really have many choices here,” I said in a hushed voice while peeking through the door.

  “You’re right, you don’t,” A said resignedly.

  After checking for any people, I opened the door more and walked through it. Behind the door was a long hallway that split into two paths.

  “There are two paths here, which one should I take?” I asked A.

  “Umm, I don’t know, the left?”

  “Ok, I’ll take the right path.”

  “I said the left path,” A said, annoyed.

  “I know, that's why I’m going down the right path.”

  “Bu-.......fine.” A said, sounding meek.

  A was absolutely terrible at guessing the right way to go. Once when I was on another mission with them, it took 4 hours just to get to where I was supposed to go.

  After walking for about 5 minutes, I heard footsteps coming from ahead.

  “Someone’s coming, where do I go!” I whispered, sounding rather panicked.

  “There’s nowhere to hide! You’ll just have to act like someone that works there and hope it works!”

  “I don’t know how the people here act!” I complained quietly.

  “I don’t know either!” A said.

  I quickly composed myself and continued to walk down the hall. I’ve learned that when someone walks with an air of confidence, they always seem less suspicious.

  Sadly, that didn’t work because as soon as the worker saw me, they called out to me.

  “Hey you there, where are you going?”

  I stopped moving and casually said, “I’m heading to the panty collection.”

  “That area is strictly off limits,” the guard said, looking at me suspiciously.

  “I’m under the boss’s orders to come and get three pairs of panties for him,” I replied smoothly.

  “The boss doesn’t order anyone to do that, he does it himself.” Crap!!!

  The guard started to walk closer to me.

  “T-the boss can’t come himself right now, so that’s why I’m doing it for him,” I said as I started to back up.

  “I didn’t hear about any of this,” the guard said as they started to walk faster.

  “Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen you here before.”

  “U-um th-that's because I’m a-always with the boss, so I don’t g-go around the island that much.”

  “How can you be a part of his guard if I’m his only guard? Are you kidding me?!!”

  “Oh, and this isn’t even the way to his collection,” the guard said, sneering.

  “This isn’t working, you gotta get out of there!” A hissed.

  “I’m trying to but there isn’t an opening for me to escape,” I said under my breath.

  The guard was now within arm’s reach and this was my only chance to act, so I pointed behind the guard, feigning a look of terror and said,

  “OMG WHAT IS THAT?!?!”

  The guard didn’t turn around and only looked at me sadly.

  “......Did you really think that would work? Are you an idiot?”

  Dangit, my only trick failed! Well, all I can do now is run away and hope I don’t get caught.

  I turned around and started to book it down the hall, unfortunately, I immediately tripped on something.

  “OWWW!!! Are you kidding me? What tripped me?”

  Looking down, I immediately realized what had tripped me. A PAIR OF PANTIES.

  How the hell did that get there? I could have sworn it wasn’t there a second ago.

  As if reading my thoughts, the guard said,

  “HAHAHAH it seems our research was a big success.”

  “What are you talking about?” I said while struggling to get up.

  “Why, I’m talking about this of course,” the guard said while raising something that looked like a mix between a pair of panties and a gun.

  “What’s that?” I said, very confused.

  “It’s our latest invention, the pantie gun!” the guard said, firing the gun at me.

  What came out of it was, as you have already guessed, a pair of panties. The panties came soaring towards me and hit me square in the chest. Once they hit me, they expanded and started to wrap around me.

  “What is happening!!?” I said as I struggled against the panties.

  “The panties shot from this gun are no ordinary panties, they are LIVING PANTIES!!!” the guard said, laughing maniacally.

  “Living panties!?!? How is that possible!??” I said, very dramatically.

  Sadly, the guard didn’t get caught up in my mood and replied calmly,

  “I don’t know all the details myself but I wouldn’t tell you regardless.”

  Dangit! That was my chance to get some info! Don’t villains always explain their evil inventions!?By this point, I was already fully wrapped up in the panties.

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  “A! What do I do!?” I whispered quietly.

  “Try to stall him for a minute, I have an idea but I need a few minutes to do it..”

  “U-um ok I’ll try,” I said.

  “What are you going to do with me?” I asked, feigning fear.

  “Experiments,” the guard said, licking his lips. Ahhh, that's scary!!!

  “Experiments? What experiments?” I said, trying my best to look horrified.

  “Painful ones, sexy ones,” the guard said, looking at me with an evil grin on his face.

  Oh my gosh I’m really scared right now.

  “P-painful ones? S-s-s-sexy ones!? W-why would you do that!??”

  Without even a single pause, the guard just started laughing. AHHHHHHHHH AAAAAA HELP MEEEE.

  I was really getting scared and after the guard had said that, I was too scared to ask anything else. Luckily though, it seems that was enough as A said, in a quiet voice,

  “Alright listen, there are only five exits from where you are. Three are guarded and two aren’t. I have something that will distract that guard enough for you to escape. Once I give the signal, I want you to pinch the left side of the panties wrapping you up.”

  Instead of giving a verbal reply, I coughed hoping that would let A know I heard them. But why the left side? Was there something special about it that would do something?

  “Do it, NOW!” A said, interrupting my thoughts.

  I immediately reached my hand to the left of me and pinched. Incredibly, the panties squealed and immediately let me go. Right after doing that, the guard made a startled noise and quickly raised his gun to shoot me again when suddenly there was a rumbling sound and looking up I saw the ceiling open above me. Things started to fall through the ceiling and they strangely looked like what I had just pinched a second ago. Yup, it was panties and there were a LOT of them.

  I immediately rolled to my side and started to run.

  “Turn left and run at that wall!” A commanded.

  I completely trusted A after seeing that so I did as they said and ran at the wall. Just before I hit it, the wall opened up into a secret pathway. Looking back as I ran down the new hall, I saw the panties start to fall on the guard.

  “H-how….did you….. do that??” I asked while running as fast as I could.

  “You can slow down for now, the guard won’t be going after you for a while.”

  I did as they said and slowed down to jog. After a small pause, A said,

  “I managed to hack into their network, I really didn’t want to do it though as now they’ll know there was a fault in their system.”

  “Oh, sorry about that. Anyways, I totally forgot that you can actually be pretty impressive sometimes.”

  “hmph I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that,” A said, sounding pretty mad.

  “A-anyways, where do I go from here?”

  “sigh Just keep on running down the hall and you should reach a door leading outside. From there head north and you should reach a dock. After that, I don't know what you can do but it's the best chance you have of escaping.”

  “You don’t have something to help me escape!?!”

  “Ugh…… I can’t do everything.”

  “...yeah. I guess you can’t,” I said pretty bummed out. On my way to the water, I surprisingly didn’t run into anyone. Once I made it to the water, I suddenly realized why. Everywhere I looked, I could see guards on boats patrolling the water. That damn guard lied! I’M SCREWED. “Ummmmmm A? I think I have a problem, a BIG one.”

  “Yes, I know. I can see that as well.”

  “Wait, how can you also see it?”

  “Oh, I guess I forgot to tell you, I put a camera on you a while ago.”

  “Wait, what?!? When did you do that?!”

  “Like I said, a while ago.”

  “Anyways, we can talk about that later, right now we need to figure out how you’re gonna get out of here.”

  Grrrrr, they’re definitely trying to change the topic right now. But they’re right—the most important thing right now is how the hell I’m going to escape. From where I am, I can see about five boats patrolling the water and ten guards each positioned near the water on a dock. Each of the guards seemed to be holding the same gun the guard from earlier was holding.

  “A? Do you have any ideas as to what I can do?” I tried asking sweetly.

  “No, I don’t. You’re on your own for this.”

  Ugh. It seems I won’t be getting any help from A on this. Once I noted all the guards’ positions, I started to think up a plan.

  “Hey, I heard that the intruder has been spotted north of here!” I said, running up to one of the guards.

  Now hold on, I know that seems like a very stupid thing to do, but after thinking for a bit, I realized that they ‘hopefully’ didn’t know what I looked like so if I could do a good enough impression of some guard, I might be able to trick them. And, it’s not like I could really do anything else.

  “Oh really? Guys, did you hear that? The intruder has been spotted north of here!”

  I-its working? Hehehehhe maybe I am a genius.

  “Wowwwww realllllly?” One of the guards said with a sarcastic-looking grin on his face.

  “Yeahhhh! Apparently they spotted the intruder there!” The guard next to me said, also grinning.

  H-huh w-whats going on here? W-why is everyone grinning?

  The guard next to me then grabbed me on the shoulder and looked at me,

  “Did you really think we would fall for such an obvious trick?”

  IT FAILED!!! “W-what a-are you t-talking about?” I said, really scared.

  “Hmmm I don’t know, maybe the fact that you are very obviously too young to be one of us and you’re not even wearing the uniform, which is strictly required to be worn at all times, AND the only way to head north of here is to pass through multiple heavily guarded areas.”

  “U-uh u-mmm w-wha what are you talking about? T-the intruder really is north of here a-and I got s-special permission to not wear the uniform a-and I’m actually a lot older than I look.”

  At this point, I was just spewing out anything I could think of.

  “Just give up. We already know that you’re the intruder. Keep on denying it and your punishment will just get worse.”

  By this point all ten of the guards on the ground were gathered in a circle around me.

  Oh my gosh, I am so screwed.

  “B-but I-I’m not t-the intru-”

  Cutting me off before I could finish my sentence, the guard next to me said,

  “That’s it. I'm sick of this, guys get her.”

  The moment the guard said that, I froze. All of the guards in the circle around me looked a bit startled to see me suddenly freeze. I took a slow breath and looked up at the guard,

  “I’m a MAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” I screamed, rushing at him.

  Just before I reached him, a helicopter suddenly appeared above us.

  The helicopter that appeared out of nowhere flew down closer to us and dropped something out of it. It was a rope ladder.

  “Hurry! Grab on!” a voice from the helicopter yelled. It was A. Lowering down from the rope of the helicopter, A lowered their hand and grabbed me. For a second, I was too stunned to react, but once I regained my senses, I tried shaking them off.

  “Let me go! I have to get that guy back for what he said!!!”

  A, caught off guard by my sudden shaking, dropped me. I fell a short distance and actually landed on the guard that had spoken. The guard wasn’t moving from under me, so I assumed he got knocked out when I landed on him. Laughing, I got up from him and looked at the stunned guards.

  “HAHAHAHA this is what happens when—”

  Suddenly, I wasn’t able to talk or move. I twisted my head to look behind me and saw that the guard was standing with their gun aimed at me. The guard grinned when he saw the surprise on my face.

  “You should’ve finished me when you had the chance. Now, I’m going to punish you myself!”

  The guard walked up to me and was about to hit me with their gun when all of a sudden A shouted,

  “Get him!”

  Two men in full black jumped out of the helicopter and landed next to me. They then turned to the guard and knocked him out in a flash with iron bananas. All of the guards who had circled me turned out to be wimps because as soon as they saw the guard next to me get instantly knocked out, they ran away.

  The two men in black then turned to me and picked me up. The helicopter lowered the rope closer to the ground and the two men in black climbed up it while carrying me. Once in the helicopter, they dropped me on the floor next to where A was sitting. They then pinched the side of me and I was able to move and talk again.

  “You idiot! Why did you go back down there after I saved you!” A yelled, next to me. Instead of responding, I froze as I saw who else was in the helicopter…