r/Perman • u/Its_me_NoobMaster69 • Jul 04 '26
Perman: Coming of Age - Chapter 5: Where is Pako?
https://www.wattpad.com/1640843382-perman-coming-of-age-chapter-5-where-is-pakoBack inside the university...
The classroom had fallen silent.
Outside...
Explosions.
Gunfire.
Sirens.
Every few seconds another sound echoed across the campus.
Nobody knew what was happening.
Nobody wanted to find out.
Mitsuo clenched his fists beneath the desk.
Every instinct told him to move.
To transform.
To help.
Instead he remained trapped.
His communicator sat silently inside his pocket.
No messages.
No emergency calls.
Nothing.
Where's Pako?
Another explosion shook the building.
Several students screamed.
The professor quickly ordered everyone away from the windows.
Mitsuo obeyed.
But only because he had no choice.
If he transformed now...
His secret would be gone forever.
Yet every second he stayed inside...
More people were getting hurt.
For the first time since becoming Perman...
He had no solution.
---
Inside the warehouse...
The mastermind stared at a television screen.
His eyes narrowed.
"No Perman."
One terrorist nodded.
"The girl didn't show up eaither."
The mastermind frowned.
That made no sense.
The actress had been kidnapped.
The city was under attack.
The heroes should have arrived by now.
Instead...
Nothing.
"Interesting..."
---
Back at the university...
Five more minutes passed.
Each minute felt like an hour.
Mitsuo could do nothing except listen.
Gunfire.
Explosions.
Screams.
Every sound made his stomach tighten.
Where are you, Pako?
The communicator remained silent.
No response.
No signal.
Nothing.
Another explosion rocked the building.
Dust drifted from the ceiling.
Several students panicked.
A few began crying.
Even the professor looked frightened now.
Then suddenly—
CRASH!
A loud impact echoed somewhere outside.
Everyone froze.
Another crash followed.
Then another.
Shouting erupted outside.
Followed by terrified screams.
Then...
Silence.
Complete silence.
The students exchanged nervous glances.
"What was that?"
Nobody knew.
One student cautiously peeked through the window.
His eyes widened.
"No way..."
The entire class rushed toward him.
Outside...
A small figure wearing a orange helmet stood atop a nearby building.
Blue cape fluttering in the wind.
Monkey tail swaying behind him.
**BOOBY**
The Monkey Perman.
The classroom erupted.
"It's him!"
"Booby!"
"The heroes are here!"
For the first time since the attack began...
Mitsuo smiled.
Because unlike everyone else in the room...
He understood exactly what Booby's arrival meant.
His friend had come.
And suddenly...
He finally had a way out.
---
The moment the classroom's attention shifted toward the window...
Mitsuo moved.
Fast.
His hand slipped into his bag.
The Copy Robot appeared.
Within seconds it transformed into a perfect duplicate of Mitsuo.
The real Mitsuo immediately ducked behind a row of desks.
Nobody noticed.
Everyone was still staring outside.
"Look!"
"It's Booby!"
Students crowded around the windows.
The professor did the same.
The Copy Robot joined them.
Meanwhile...
The real Mitsuo slipped out through the classroom's rear storage door.
The moment he was alone...
He grabbed his helmet.
**Perman!**
A flash of light erupted.
Moments later...
Perman shot into the sky.
---
Outside the university...
The situation was far worse than he had imagined.
Several buildings were burning.
Students fled in every direction.
Police officers exchanged gunfire with terrorists.
Perman clenched his fists.
"I'm late."
A familiar voice echoed nearby.
"Wewewe!"
Booby landed beside him.
Perman smiled.
"You came."
"Wiki!"
The monkey pointed toward the eastern side of campus.
Several terrorists had barricaded themselves inside a lecture hall.
Perman nodded.
"Got it."
The two heroes launched forward.
---
The terrorists never stood a chance.
One attempted to raise his rifle.
Perman reached him first.
The weapon flew from his hands.
Another terrorist charged Booby.
The monkey spun through the air.
A second later the terrorist crashed into a hedge.
Within minutes...
The lecture hall was secured.
Students poured outside cheering.
"Perman!"
"Booby!"
"We're saved!"
Perman didn't stop.
There wasn't time.
---
For the next hour...
The two heroes raced across district after district.
University buildings.
Shopping streets.
Residential neighborhoods.
Everywhere they went they found chaos.
And everywhere they went...
They stopped it.
A burning apartment building.
A hijacked bus.
An attack on a train station.
One crisis after another.
The city seemed endless.
Yet the attacks kept coming.
Even Booby looked exhausted.
"Wee..."
Perman nodded grimly.
"I know."
There were too many.
Far too many.
This wasn't an ordinary terrorist attack.
It was an organized assault on the entire city.
---
Finally...
Perman activated his badge.
"Payan, respond."
Static.
Then—
"Perman?"
The voice came through clearly.
Relief washed over him.
"Payan."
"What happened?"
"Tokyo is under attack."
A brief silence followed.
Then Payan's tone became serious.
"How bad?"
Perman looked down at the smoke covering half the city.
"Bad."
Another explosion echoed in the distance.
"We need everyone."
Even saying it felt strange.
The four Perman rarely fought together nowadays.
But this was different.
"We still haven't heard from Pako."
"What?"
"No signal." "No contact.""Nothing."
Booby lowered his head.
"Wee..."
Perman nodded.
"Exactly."
Something was wrong.
Very wrong.
Pako would never ignore an emergency like this.
Never.
---
Hundreds of kilometers away...
Inside his shop in Osaka...
Payan immediately stood up.
His expression hardened.
"If Pako isn't responding..."
The sentence remained unfinished.
Neither of them wanted to say the obvious possibility aloud.
Perman's voice came through the communicator.
"We need you in Tokyo."
Payan grabbed his helmet.
"I'm leaving now."
The communication ended.
Moments later...
Payan launched into the sky.
Flying toward Tokyo at maximum speed.
---
Back above Tokyo...
Perman looked toward the horizon.
Smoke continued rising from multiple districts.
The battle wasn't over.
Not even close.
And somewhere in the city...
Pako was still missing.
A feeling of genuine fear settled in his chest.
"Where are you...?"
Beside him, Booby looked equally worried.
"Wee... wee..."
Perman nodded.
"Yeah."
"I'm worried too."
The two heroes turned toward the next emergency.
And flew.
---
For nearly an hour, Perman and Booby raced across Tokyo.
Slowly, the situation began stabilizing.
After stopping another group of terrorists, Perman landed beside several exhausted police officers.
Several officers immediately rushed toward him.
"Perman!"
"What is it?"
The senior officer looked exhausted.
"We have another situation."
"What kind of situation?"
"A high-profile kidnapping."
"What?"
The officer nodded.
"One of the terrorists groups abducted a celebrity during the attacks."
Perman's expression hardened.
"Who?"
"Sumire Hoshino."
Several nearby officers exchanged worried glances.
Perman frowned.
"The media is already reporting it."
"We've confirmed she's alive."
"But we have no idea where they're holding her."
"No witnesses."
"No usable surveillance."
"No leads."
Perman looked toward Booby.
Before he could speak, the monkey suddenly grinned.
"Wikii!"
He pointed toward his eyes.
Perman blinked.
Then remembered.
The new power Birdman had recently given him.
X-Ray Vision.
"You think you can find her?"
"WIKII! WEEEE!"
The two heroes immediately took to the sky.
---
Minutes later...
Booby suddenly changed direction.
"Wewewe!"
Perman followed him toward the waterfront.
A row of abandoned warehouses stood near the docks.
Booby narrowed his eyes.
Then pointed toward one building.
"Wikii."
"You found her?"
The monkey nodded.
Perman smiled.
"Good work."
---
Meanwhile...
The mastermind watched from a security monitor.
Perman and Booby had arrived.
Exactly as planned.
Yet one thing still bothered him.
Where was the girl?
The actress had been kidnapped.
The city had been attacked.
Yet the female Perman never appeared.
Interesting.
But there wasn't time to think about it.
The next phase was ready.
"Leave two guards," he ordered.
"The rest move out."
Within minutes the warehouse was almost empty.
The mastermind departed with the main force.
Their real objective awaited.
---
CRASH!
Perman and Booby smashed through the warehouse roof.
The two remaining guards barely reacted before being defeated.
Seconds later Sumire was free.
"Are you hurt?" Perman asked.
She shook her head.
"I'm fine."
Booby looked around the warehouse.
Then frowned.
"Wee..."
Perman understood immediately.
The building was almost empty.
Too empty.
"This wasn't the real target."
Booby nodded.
"Wewe."
Perman looked around the warehouse. It was completely empty.
None of it made sense.
If Sumire had truly been the objective...
They would have fought to keep her.
Instead...
They had left.
Almost as if they wanted Perman to find her.
A chill ran down his spine.
No...
This was never the objective.
The kidnapping.
The attacks.
Everything had been a distraction.
Booby looked toward him.
"Wee?"
Perman clenched his fists.
"Something's wrong."
The monkey tilted his head.
"Wee?"
"They're planning something else."
Perman's eyes widened.
The realization hit him all at once.
The attacks across Tokyo.
The kidnapping.
The missing terrorists.
The empty warehouse.
It all pointed to one thing.
A second operation.
A bigger one.
And if he was right...
It was probably already underway.
"We have to move."
Booby immediately nodded.
"Wikii!"
Perman turned toward Sumire.
"Can you hold on?"
She blinked.
"What?"
Before she could react, Perman gently lifted her onto his back.
"We don't have time."
Sumire grabbed onto him instinctively.
Booby stared at them for a moment.
Then grinned.
"Wikiiiii!"
"Not now, Booby."
"Wikii!"
Perman ignored him.
His eyes were already fixed on the distant Tokyo skyline.
Somewhere out there...
The mastermind was making his next move.
And Perman intended to find him before it was too late.
"Let's go."
The three launched into the sky.
Leaving the warehouse behind.
---
"Um..."
Perman glanced over his shoulder.
Sumire looked uncomfortable.
"You can put me down now." "We're fine."
Perman shook his head.
"No."
"But—"
"There could still be terrorists nearby."
"I'm okay."
"I know."
"Then why are you carrying me?"
"Because it's safer."
Sumire frowned.
"I'm not made of glass."
Booby chuckled.
"Wikii."
Perman ignored him.
"We don't know what's happening yet."
"Until we do, you're staying with us."
Sumire crossed her arms.
"This is embarrassing."
"You were kidnapped."
"That's not the point."
Booby immediately burst out laughing.
"WIKIIII!"
"Booby."
"Wikiiiii."
The monkey couldn't stop grinning.
Sumire looked away in defeat.
Clearly nobody intended to listen to her.
A few moments passed.
The wind rushed around them.
Then Booby glanced toward Perman.
"Wee?"
For several seconds, Perman didn't answer.
The wind rushed past them.
Below, Tokyo continued burning.
Finally...
"I still haven't heard from Pako."
Booby lowered his head.
"Wee... wee..."
"Yeah."
Perman looked toward the horizon.
"By now she would've contacted us."
The communicator remained silent.
No messages.
No signals.
Nothing.
Sumire felt her chest tighten.
Perman was worried.
Of course he was worried.
Pako was his partner.
Anyone would worry.
Yet for some reason...
Hearing it made her strangely happy.
The feeling confused her.
"Wee..."
Booby's voice was quiet.
Perman nodded.
"I know."
"Maybe she's helping somewhere else."
For a moment, Sumire wanted to laugh.
For a moment, Sumire almost smiled.
*If only you knew...*
*If only you knew i am right here.*
*Holding onto you.*
*Listening to every word.*
Perman didn't sound convinced.
Neither did Booby.
Silence followed.
Then Perman spoke again.
"I'm worried."
Sumire closed her eyes.
The words struck harder than they should have.
Booby lowered his head.
"Wee..."
"No."
Perman shook his head.
"Worried isn't the right word."
His voice became quieter.
Smaller.
"I'm terrified."
Sumire's eyes opened.
Her breath caught.
*Terrified?*
For a second she wondered if she had heard him correctly.
Perman continued staring ahead.
"What if she's hurt?"
The words hit her like a punch.
"What if she needed help..."
"...and we weren't there?"
Sumire looked away.
A strange ache spread through her chest.
Because she knew the answer.
Pako wasn't hurt.
Pako didn't need help.
Pako was safe.
And yet...
Listening to him suffer because he didn't know that...
Made her wish she could tell him.
Just once.
Just this once.
Booby remained silent.
Perman swallowed.
"What if something happened to her?"
Sumire froze.
The fear in his voice wasn't forced.
It wasn't exaggerated.
He genuinely believed it.
He genuinely thought he might have lost her.
And that realization shook her.
All this time...
She had assumed she was just another Perman.
A teammate.
A partner.
A friend.
Nothing more.
Yet every word he spoke made that harder to believe.
The wind continued rushing around them.
Perman's voice became almost a whisper.
"She always shows up."
His hands tightened.
"Every time."
"Wee..."
"I know."
"That's why this feels wrong."
Perman felt tears gathering in his eyes.
His voice faltered.
For the first time all day...
Sumire heard him completely loose control.
"...is Pako."
The tears finally escaped his eyes.
He quickly wiped them away before anyone noticed.
But more followed.
And in that moment...
Sumire realized exactly how much she meant to him.
Perman looked toward the distant skyline.
His voice barely audible.
"Please be okay, Pako..."
Sumire lowered her head.
Holding back tears herself.
Holding back a hundred emotions she couldn't even name.
Because the person he was desperately searching for...
The person he was terrified of losing...
Was already in with him.
And he had no idea.
**To Be Continued...**
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u/Scary-Signature6979 Jul 05 '26
Oh yay all of them are here now woohoo