Kidnap a Crush
"Why are we landing?" asked Kasumi as she walked into the controlling center.
"We need to recharge the ship at this little planet," replied Kenji.
"Oh... Alright."
Kasumi left with Togepi close behind her. The automatic door closed a few seconds after she left.
Satoshi slammed his hand on the left button labeled "Landing Pad." It didn't budge.
"Kenji, slow down, this button's not going down again."
Kenji brought the steering handle away from him and the ship started to slow before they hit the atmosphere.
Satoshi put his weight into his hand trying to get the little rounded object to push. He gritted his teeth and pushed down harder.
"We also need to get this thing oiled!" he said. "Pikachu, a little help, here!"
"Pika!" he replied and pushed down on the button as well. It finally went down quickly and they could feel a distinct thump at the bottom of the ship.
"You know, that doesn't sound very good," said Kenji.
**
Kasumi walked into her quarters with Togepi on her shoulder. She sat on one of her chairs that were placed by the window. She liked to look out at the stars, and sometimes any planets they passed by. She could see a good view of the planet they were about to land on.
Then something caught her eye. She saw something going down to the planet as well.
"It's Shigeru!" she exclaimed and put her hands against the window.
She recognized the shape of the space ship anywhere. She knew that there would have to be a fight today since there always was when they met up with him.
Shigeru: the youngest known criminal in the universe, who is wanted for theft, and attempted murder. He was also seen dealing drugs and weaponry. And it was safe to say it wasn't all just once.
He had a group of women along with him that helped take control of the ship and other numerous jobs.
Yet Kasumi sometimes couldn't help but think he was reasonably attractive. And she liked the way he smiled as well, even if it was always dripping with his ego.
Kasumi sighed and closed her eyes. She took off her hat that had the cross on it. She couldn't help it if she had a knack for being a doctor. But she always did like to explore more than heal.
All of a sudden she snapped out of her daydream as she felt a large crash hit the ship and half of the items toppled over, including her.
Kasumi groaned as she stood up from the floor and looked outside, seeing that they had landed someplace on the planet. Obviously it wasn't in a city. Palm trees were sprung up everywhere and one was leaned against her window. Kasumi growled as she stared at the half-broken tree that was pressed strangely to the thick glass.
**
"You know, when you land, you're supposed to find a place that isn't full of trees in our way!" she shouted while bursting into the control room where Satoshi and Kenji were.
"Lei-9, what's wrong here?" said Satoshi, looking up.
"Ship out of fuel. Landing pad: down," replied a mechanical voice. "Warning! Warning! Energy cord in system core...."
The computer's voice died out, along with all the lights around them. The whole ship suddenly shut off completely and they felt another thump and heard the rustle of some of the palm trees.
Kenji turned on a flashlight and he flashed it around a little.
"That's it!" screamed Kasumi, and she kicked part of the engine. "This stupid ship is falling apart! I cannot believe this hunk of junk cost us over 90,000 yen! And you know the worst thing? Shigeru is here to steal all the rest of what we have!"
"Shigeru?!" exclaimed Satoshi.
**
"Where's Shigeru?!" yelled Satoshi and he crashed out of the entrance and jumped onto the ground with a gun at hand and pikachu right beside him.
"Satoshi, wait, we don't know where he is and we have to get this ship out of here," said Kenji.
"But Shigeru is..."
"If Shigeru doesn't know we're here then you can just get to him later," said Kasumi.
**
Shigeru watched down, hidden in one of the palm trees nearby. His dark brown cape blended in with the tree's leaves making him unnoticeable. Ibui peered up at one of the higher, larger leaves.
"Ibuiiiiii!" it squealed softly.
Shigeru narrowed his eyes. He had to get that money. Those three idiots were the only people closest to him that he could steal from in space because of their first explosion... because everybody else died... because it would take longer for the new generation to explore. If he could wipe those three out he wouldn't have any more trouble next time.
But how could he get that money away from them? He looked down at the three. Satoshi and Kenji ran off while Kasumi went inside of the broken down ship with Togepi. Shigeru's eyes widened and he stared insanely at her; cleaning up the mess inside the little ship, resting, waiting, and doing what any girl would be doing.
She was the girl, and she was the classic bait.
"Kasumi..." he said slowly and smiled.
**
Kasumi hummed quietly as she sat on a couch in her room. She sighed and looked at the mess that the crash had made. The place looked deserted and dark like a ghost house. She rubbed off the feeling though and began to pick everything up, still humming.
While she picked up a half broken plate that she was using for last night's dinner she heard a small creak in the hall.
"Hmm?" she said in surprise and cocked her head up.
"Briiiiiiii!" she heard Togepi say as it walked into her room from the hall.
"Oh... it's just you, Togepi," she said with relief and sighed. "I shouldn't be so scared... there's nobody here except me. Maybe I should take a day off once in a while."
Kasmui threw the broken plate shards behind her and it landed in a trash can. She suddenly heard another small creak in the hall.
"Togepi...? Are you trying to scare me again?" she said.
"Tokie?" said Togepi and looked up at her.
Kasumi made a small gulp.
"Ibuiiiiii!" she heard and an Ibui came out into her room.
"Ibui?!" she exclaimed in fright. "If you're here than...."
"Kasumi...."
"Huh?" she whispered and her eyes widened.
"Kasumi...."
A shadow loomed over her and she gasped. She screamed and it echoed around the area. The shadow disappeared with her, and all that was left was a small note that landed on the couch.
**
Kasumi's cry echoed out to Satoshi and Kenji as they came back with a mechanic.
"That sound like Kasumi!" exclaimed Satoshi.
"We better hurry!" added Kenji.
The two began to run quickly towards the ship and the mechanic was left, dazed by a blow of dust in his face.
"Hey, wait a minute you two! You can just leave me out in the middle of nowhere!" he yelled after them but they didn't answer.
Satoshi and Kenji reached the ship soon after and began looking furiously around for Kasumi, but only found objects broken or turned over from the crash.
"I'll check Kasumi's room," said Kenji and Satoshi nodded from the kitchen.
Kenji stepped around a few stuffed animals and books. He looked under the bed but still didn't find anything. He walked over the Kasumi's couch and began to flip over the cushions for anything suspicious. Before lifting up the fourth cushion he saw the small note and flipped it over. He read it and his eyes widened as he saw what was written down on it.
"Satoshi! Satoshi, come over here quickly!" he yelled loudly.
"What? What is it?" Satoshi called back and he ran into Kasumi's room.
"Take a look at who wrote this certain note."
Satoshi snatched the paper away from Kenji and looked at it.
"Yo, Satoshi, the rat, and that other guy,
Just to let you know I've taken your girl and if you ever want her back you'll have to fork over your doe. I'm tired of all our foolish games of cops and robbers so you better do this quickly or the girl gets it.
You don't realize what our first battle has cost me and I'm taking definite revenge. And because I'd know you better, I'll leave it up to you to find my ship. Remember: the money for the girl.
Don't take too long.
-Shigeru"
Shigeru clenched his fists in rage, crumbling the paper along with it.
"... Shigeru...." growled Satoshi. "To think you'd go all the way down to blackmailing us...." Satoshi looked out of the broken window and up at the sky. "I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO!!!"
**
Kasumi sat on a metal table in one of the lounging rooms of Kasumi's ship. Her hands were tied behind her back with a rope and Togepi sat in a cage nearby. Shigeru stood in front of her quietly, with Eevee resting next to him.
"Just why do you need me?" demanded Kasumi suspiciously and she eyed at Shigeru, who had his back at her.
He turned his head to the side and looked at her. She had quite a mean look on her face. She may have been a young nurse but she was certainly no pushover and was quite brave to be looking at him like that; her being the one kidnapped.
"Blackmail," he said simply and turned his head back.
"Blackmail?! You mean you're using me as the certain precious item to be traded in for?!"
"You were really the only person there that they'd really ever care about enough. Or maybe I should say the 'precious item' as you have just referred to yourself as," he replied coolly.
Kasumi growled loudly and she tried to pry herself loose of the rope. "Just wait until I get my hands on you!"
"That will have to be until your two friends get here. At the moment you seem to be... tied up."
"Well it's not like you'll be getting much out of them since we don't even have much money left! So there's really no point in trying to steal our stuff. Or are you trying to kill us all or what?!"
Shigeru turned around with an exasperated, and angry, look on his face. "You know, for some little girl you sure have a big mouth!"
"Ibuiiiii!" said Ibui, imitating its master.
"Look who's talking! At least I never bragged about some ship and the women running it!"
"Do I have to shove a sock into your mouth or should I cover it with tape?!"
"It's going to take more than that to keep me quiet."
Shigeru and Kasumi stared at each other, hissing. Shigeru's eyes narrowed at the nurse.
"Stupid pile of shit," said Kasumi and spat at him.
Shigeru narrowed his eyes even more. How could he ever shut the girl up?
"I just can't believe you, Shigeru! We barely ever did anything to -mmph!"
Before she could say another word Shigeru moved his face forward and kissed her. There was an exchange of surprised looks on both of them, as even Shigeru didn't know why he did so.
They both leaned back on the table, continuing their kiss. They rolled over until Shigeru was lying down on his back, slowly untying the rope on Kasumi's wrists.
There was suddenly bright flash of energy flashing through the door and a large explosion followed quickly after, knocking the door down to the floor. Smoke poured into the room and the two started coughing wildly.
Two figures ran through the smoke, revealing Satoshi and Kenji behind him. As the smoke cleared Satoshi got a good view of Kasumi and Shigeru and pulled out a gun from his belt. He aimed it straight at Shigeru, keeping his ground in a fighting stance.
"Hands off Kasumi, you fiend!" shouted Satoshi. "Don't even think about tying her up with that rope! It's much too small to fit all the way around her arms...."
Shigeru looked over Kasumi's shoulder; at his hands that held the rope currently hanging Kasumi's hands in but one, loose, loop. He looked at Satoshi and squinted at him.
"Satoshi, how much more stupid could you possibly be?! Your friend over there's got a lot more sense then you'd ever have!" snarled Shigeru.
"Huh?" said Satoshi, confused at the words. He looked over at Kenji behind him, who was only staring at Shigeru and Kasumi with a surprised face. "He doesn't really look so smart now... but anyway, let go of Kasumi or die!"
"Not without the money!"
"Something tells me this isn't going right..." mumbled Kasumi.
Satoshi and Shigeru stood growling at each other. Pikachu suddenly jumped out from behind Satoshi and shocked Shigeru. Satoshi quickly grabbed Kasumi from the burnt criminal and ran off down the hall.
"Ahh, I'll be taking this, thank you," said Kenji as he took the cage with Togepi in it and followed after Satoshi and Kasumi.
"Hey, come back here!" called out Shigeru, shaking off the dust, and he abruptly jumped off the table and ran after the three. "Anita! Yoriko!" he shouted and two of his workers stood in front of Satoshi, Kenji, and Kasumi.
Shigeru caught up to the group, taking Kasumi out of Satoshi's arms. Kasumi gave a sheepish laughter and blushed lightly as Satoshi turned around quickly and grabbed onto her arm.
"She's with us!" said Satoshi with a strain in his voice and he pulled harder on Kasumi's arm.
Shigeru pulled just as hard. "She's staying here!" He eyed at Anita and Yoriko, who were just about finished beating up Kenji.
"Anita, Yoriko! Give me a hand here!" cried out Shigeru.
The two women looked up and rushed over to Shigeru, pulling on Kasumi's arm as well.
"Stop it you two or you'll tear me into two pieces!" cried out Kasumi.
"Pikachu...!!!" shouted Satoshi.
"Pika!" replied Pikachu and it jumped out from behind, landing on Kasumi's head. "Pika- CHUUUUUUU!"
It let out a shock of electricity at Shigeru and the guards. The two women let go of Kasumi's arm and fell to the floor with Shigeru, but he still looked up in pain as Satoshi huddled up to her.
"Come on, let's go!" said Satoshi.
Kenji shook his head from the beating and stood up at the words and followed Satoshi.
Kasumi was rushed along with Satoshi with no choice but to follow him back. She gave Shigeru a heartwarming smile and reached her hand out. Shigeru gave a small push on his own arm and smiled back at her.
Satoshi gave a tug on Kasumi and urged her to move faster. She moved along with him out of the hall and the group left the ship.
Ibui ran out over to Shigeru, running onto his lap and licking his face. He petted the small animal with the same smile and looked up once more at the closing door. All he could see was a ripped off piece of the pale pink ribbon that was tied at her back. And that was the last he had seen of her that day.
But only for that day.
-To be Continued