Chapter Two : Stain of Blood
Alex D stood in her kitchen pouring a glass of red wine while looking out of the window not realising she was overpouring it as she was too deep in thought.
The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the bots are shooting anyone who breaks the law, if only you could be here. He'd probably ask her if this is what she wanted. No, maybe this is not what I want. Maybe I did want that universal biomodification stuff. But at the time I was too worried about your sanity. She sighed when she realised that she had poured red wine all over the table. Oh well, never did like that tablecloth in the first place.
It was bad for her anyway having wine for breakfast. She often felt she had become a bit of an alcoholic but not to the level that anyone was worrying about it. But all the people who would worry about me are dead. She walked over to the fridge, pulled out a bagel and started to munch on it. Grabbing her coat she walked out the door, but not before setting her security systems.
As Alex was walking down the street an AeroSecurity Bot pushed her out of the way frantically shooting at a young boy ahead of it. When the boy turned down into an alleyway the bot followed him. Alex noticed the wires on the bot were hanging and sparking. It's malfunctioning, it shouldn't be out on the street if it's not in order. She sprinted off to the alley where the bot had gone down. As she ran further she saw the boy on the floor and the bot was circling him. So she quickly activated her spy drone to deactivate the bot. As the bot was readying to shoot the boy the drone delivered its EMP attack shutting down the bot. She was going to walk forward, then she noticed the boy crawling towards her. When he came near to her he collapsed. "Hey kid, are you alright?" "I…." He collapsed and he closed his eyes.
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Tatsumi opened his eyes. He was lying on a bed with the covers up to his chin and a medbot floating around. He pulled himself up, looking around the room. The walls were covered in dark purple. Near a huge window showing a view of Tokyo's most beautiful buildings and structures was a dresser against the wall. There was a bluish energy blade on the dresser with Chinese detail on the handle.
"Feeling any better?" Tatsumi turned around to see a woman standing in the doorway. She had shoulder length black hair, purplish eyes which meant that she was modified, her lips were fullish and had been coated with some pink lip-gloss. She was wearing a long beige trench coat buttoned up to the neck and black flat shoes. In her hands was a tray, on it was a plate of sandwiches, "Hope you like ham, this is all I can cook right now, until the RepairBot fixes my oven."
"No, I don't mind, and yes, I'm feeling better. Erm…where am I?"
"You're in my place, in my room. I couldn't take you to a hospital because it was too far away, besides I have a medbot here."
Tatsumi blushed, he'd never had a pretty woman talking to him, or giving him food and she'd probably saved his life. "What's your nam-"
"Alex D. You?"
"Tatsumi Masui."
"Tatsumi Masui, do you know why that bot was following you?"
"Why? Are you with the WTO?"
"Just answer the question?"
"Well, I accidentally got into a fight and the bot came along and started shooting everything it saw."
"I see."
"You don't think I did anything wrong, do you?" Tatsumi said in panicked tone, raising himself up from the bed."
"Calm down, I'm not accusing you of anything, besides that bot was malfunctioning. Who was it you got into a fight with?" Alex said calmly placing the tray on the foot of the bed.
"I…I didn't know him. He just tried to mug me, that's all!" The boy said, his eyes looked like they were going to break down in tears.
"Sorry, it must have been hard for you to have been mugged. Where's your family? Why are you on the streets?" She said sympathetically.
"M…My family…They…they all died two years ago… in an accident. I…I have no where else to go, I live on the streets of Tokyo, doing everything I can to make ends meet."
"Why aren't you in an orphanage, they would take good care of you."
"I…there were complications."
"Uh huh." Alex was getting slightly suspicious of this boy. It was probably a vendetta. Looks like somebody was messing around with the bot reprogramming it to hunt him down. "Maybe you should stay here with me."
"No…I'll just be a burden to you."
"No, you won't be, it's perfectly safe here, there's bullet-proof windows, bots, security cameras, turrets and gold level lasers."
"Are you kidding me? What are you, with the Yakusa or something?"
"No…" Alex giggled. But I am with the Illuminati.
"Erm…Am I going to sleep here, in your bed?" Tatsumi blushed as he spoke.
"No, you'll be sleeping in the guest room." Alex said firmly but slightly amused, "Come on, I'll show you to it."
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"Did you get the boy?" a black-suited Japanese man asked.
"Regrettably no," answered the other Japanese man in a navy blue suit.
"How come?"
"The bot was deactivated before it got to finish the job."
"How did it happen? You said the plan was foolproof. The WTO would assume the boy was breaking the law."
"Some kind of electro-magnetic pulse deactivated it. I'm sorry, Haruki, I am sorry I failed you, I'm sorry I failed our family."
"Hisato, you know you don't have to apologize to me, you have to apologize to Eiichi."
"Eiichi! I'll be hanging from a street lamp if he hears I've failed to kill the boy!" shouted Hisato.
"Next time don't use bots to do the job, Hisato," said a patronising voice. The man who'd just appeared was wearing a black suit with an embroidered royal blue ginkgo. (A/N : symbol of loyalty in Japan, the ginkgo is said to be willing to die for its owner)
"Eiichi…I can explain what happen-"
"I should have known it was a mistake to get you to kill him!" Eiichi said threateningly. Hisato trembled, he remembered the last time someone had failed Eiichi in an assassination. Eiichi had pulled out his sword and cut off the poor man's feet while he was still standing. He hated to imagine what he was going to do to him.
"Forgive me, I…I-"
"Go on, let me hear your excuse," said Eiichi pulling out a katana-shaped energy blade.
"…I thought the plan would be foolproof. I reprogrammed the bot and I hired a man to try and mug him and when I got back to the area, the man was dead and the boy and the bot were gone. And when I checked up the alley I found the disabled bot and a trail of blood but the boy wasn't there. A little later I saw a woman carrying him up an apartment building but there were just too many WTO guards there," panicked Hisato.
Eiichi halfway put away his blade, "Strange, I wonder why there are WTO guards at the apartment building, I would have thought they would have been SSC guards."
"That's not all. When I followed her up to her room, there were two strange-looking guards each side of the door, biomodified pale, red-eyed strange looking men, holding mag-rails."
"Then we must be dealing with someone of a higher order than us."
