"Hello, Johnny." Aisha says quietly.
"Aish..."Johnny is at a loss for words. Mia tries her best not to scream or storm out to keep from watching this torturing scene.
"This is so strange for me I only saw you a moment ago but you look so different. So much older." she takes a step forward but Johnny is frozen in place. Mia walks over to Kinzie and begins fiddling with the computer in an attempt to look busy.
"Don't touch that you don't know what your doing." Kinzie snaps.
"Kinzie can I talk to you for a minute?" Mia quietly sneers at Kinzie who irritably follows.
As they walked out Mia caught Johnnys eye but didn't allow it to linger pushing herself forward. Once they were out of the room and the doors were shut Mia spins around and glares fiercely at Kinzie.
"WHAT THE FUCK?! I said look into it not do it." Mia shouts down at Kinzie.
"Hey you didn't give me details. Besides what does it matter Johnny has her back and they can pick up where they left off. Isn't that a good thing?"
Mia just stares down at Kinzie some more and finally says, "How the hell did you save her anyway I thought it would alter events."
"We were able to use the time machine to slow time down long enough for us to replace The real Aisha with a lifeless clone just before the blade took her head. Then we brought her back here and have been trying to fill her in but all she wanted to see was Johnny."
Mia glared down at her shoes and with a heavy sigh Mia looks up at Kinzie and says, "Good work."
Then slowly Mia turns and heads for her room. As she walked off she heard Johnny and Aisha coming out of the lab Aisha giggling like a school girl with a crush. Her heart fell farther and her walk turned into a slump. When Mia walked in to her room she was greeted to the beer and narcotics she had requested for earlier, waiting for her in her room like a comforting hug. Mia drank and smoked until all she could feel was numbness. A release from the world by entering a zombie like state.
Mia is rudely awoken by painfully cold water being thrown on her. She quickly jumps up in surprise and begins scanning the room for the water throwing culprit.
"Damn playa you look pathetic!" Benjamin King stand over the boss bucket hanging in his hand.
"What the hell did you do that for?" Mia growls jumping off the bed.
"Well nothing else was working to wake you up and you were starting to smell."
Mia just glares at King until she began to feel goosebumps rising on her arms from the ice cold water.
"Look playa just go take a shower then meet me back here. I'll have your blankets and everything changed before you come back. Were also gonna need someone to clean up this mess." King says clicking the call button on the speaker above her bed and shooing Mia away.
The boss stands there for a moment but then turns and obeys. Normally she wouldn't take orders but her hangover was so bad and he was so loud. She turned on the hot water and set it to a temperature that suited her. She stripped and stood in the shower facing up to the falling water.
Mia walked out of the bathroom wearing a purple robe and using a separate towel to dry her hair. King was sitting on the edge of the freshly made bed.
"Much better." King says patting a place beside him for the boss to sit.
Mia reluctant but still to hung over to argue and tell him to leave sits beside King.
"What's wrong, playa?" King asks kindly.
"Why does there have to be something wrong?" Mia rubs her eyes and yawns.
"Bitch don't fuck with me. You have been up here for two days drinking non-stop."
'Only two I thought the official number was three."
"What?"
"Nothing never mind, just ask C.I.D.
"Your an ass hole sometimes you know that right?" King says giving up trying to talk. This wasn't really his area of expertise.
"Puckish rogue." Mia grins.
"Well puckish rogue, you have an empire to run now. So get off your ass and get down there. We have released everyone from their pods and taken them to their home planet or we gave them jobs on the ship. Johnny and Aisha are..." King stops suddenly when he sees Mia flinch slightly.
"Oh I see." he simply states then gets up and proclaims, "I'll get Pierce."
"No" Mia sighs, "I'm coming. Forget this conversation and DO NOT say anything to anyone. Just this once King don't argue."
Without another word Mia walks into her closet and shuts the door to change.
Mia walked into the lab where Kinzie and Matt were flirting. Ignoring them and walking to the computer screen Mia silently demands for someone to explain what she's reading.
"That's nothing boss. Just readings for Johnny and Aisha's minds." Matt says clearing his throat.
"Why do you have their readings pulled up?" Mia asks fiercely.
"Their in the simulation. Johnny is trying to update Aisha on everything she missed."
Just for a moment Mia saw the screen that showed the simulation. Johnny and Aisha stood their smiling and holding each other.
"I missed you Aish. Took it pretty hard." Aisha smiles up at Johnny who leans down and gives her a small peck on the lips.
"Johnny you have barely kissed me. What's going on with you? I figured after thinking I was dead for so long it would be hard to keep your hands off me."
Mia watches the screen evil selfish wishes bubbling in her mind. The boss can watch no more as Johnny gives Aisha a good long kiss.
Kinzie and Matt watch as the boss hurries out, her face hard and silent. Mia pushes back the pain with a numbness and enters her thrown room where people in purple hang around different sections of the room chatting.
"You look like you need a bowl." a voice says walking up to the boss who had her face in her hands.
"You have no idea young Shaundi." Mia replies letting out a loud sigh and looking up at the hologram of young Shaundi from the simulation.
"Here try this." Shaundi motions one of the saints to bring the pipe they were smoking put of.
Mia takes the pipe and takes a huge hit instantly feeling the side effects. She could feel her face going all stupid from the pot. Young Shaundi always has the best shit even in the simulation. How she does it no one knows but in that area she will never let you down.
Mia allows herself to sit back and relax against her throne. She realizes she had dozed off in her chair when sirens started blaring. She jumped up in a panic and looked around the room. The saints who had been partying before she went to sleep where loading their guns and running out of the room.
"Pierce!" Mia called as pierce finished loading his gun.
"Oh look who decided to wake up from her beauty nap to help the rest of us catch Killbane before he makes it off the ship." Pierce remarks throwing the boss a gun.
"He's loose again? How the Fuck did that happen?" Mia followed Pierce out of the room running behind him.
"Oh he's not just loose he's almost got one of our escape pods. Apparently he got that cowardice Zinji to free him. He's gathered a crew of Zins who were pissed about Zinyak to follow him to take you down. What did you really think all the Zins bowed down that day?"
Mia is instantly pissed instantly,"Where do we stand on his current position?"
"He nearly got off on one of the pods Kinzie caught it in time to use her hacker manic to keep him from leaving. He's in the storage deck right now fighting off our crew."
Determination and adrenaline run through Mias veins as she turns the last corner her entire crew standing around Killbane their guns pointing at him hut not firing. Mia struts in the room command all over her. She catches a glimpse of Johnny and Aisha off to the right out of the corner of her eye but ignores them completely.
In Killbanes arms he holds Kenzie to him a gun to her head.
'So here we are again Saint only this time I have more of an advantage ."
"Yeah? What would that be? You're trapped Killbane just let her go."
Killbane gives out a mocking laugh,"Trapped? You might have got me once Saint to think it will happen again. You know that magical cloning machine your scientist use to save Aisha. Well my crew may just have picked it up for me, and as it happens just before you took over Zinyak took a sample of his DNA and stored it in the event death he could be brought back. Of course it will only be a clone but with all memories."
"You're going to bring back Zinyak? You want a leader?" Mia caught eye contact with Kenzie whose eyes showed her fear.
"I will be leader. Good thing about clones is their easy to alter. That's why I need your little genius to reconstruct Zinyak to serve me. The only reason I told you anything Saint is because you willdie shortly." Killbane slowly reveals an evil grin.
"You're never getting out of here." Mia spits through gritted teeth she pulls her gun up and aims for Killbanes head.
As she is about to fire Killbane hits a big red button by the cargo door behind him and he and Kinzie shoot out and fall into another space ship in only six seconds. The emergency lock down shut the cargo doors catching the Saints being pulled in the draft from outter space. The pull was strong enough to pull everyone a little bit and vacuumed all the oxygen out. The system in emergency relapse quickly sent air back into the room but people were still on the ground catching their breath. Mia take a big breath and runs to the cargo door grabbing a space suit and trying to put it on as she runs. She is almost to the cargo door to jump out after them when someone catches her and throws her to the ground.
Mia fights to get back up but the body pins her down,"Don't be stupid you know you won't be able to get them. She's gone Boss but well get her back."
Mia looked up at Johnny Gat with furious eyes and pushed him off. He looked at her but said nothing, he then jumped up and stormed out of the room Aisha followed. Mia stormed out as well but in a different direction. Matt Miller followed behind the boss calling out to her.
"Matt unless you have a plan shut the Fuck up. Get everyone in position now we're not going to let them get away."
"Would you listen for a moment? Kinzie is fine!" Matt yelled stopping allowing the boss to get a head of him but she instantly stopped in her tracks and turned around.
"The fuck are you talking about, Miller?" Shaundi says as her and Peirce come up to the boss and Matt.
"After Killbane got loose did you really think that Kinzie and I wouldn't take our own precautions incase he got loose again?"
"Get on with it Matt", Mia growled.
"Ok. Ok. Look after last time Kinzie and I cloned ourselves hard wiring them sober could control them using the same devices we use to enter the simulation. We made avatars for ourselves because we knew that in the event of Killbanes escape he would have to have one of us to work the system. He may have been able to recruit Zins scientists but let's be honest their minds are nothing compared to ours."
"So Kinzie is still here?" The boss replied and turned toward the lab taking off running.
"More running really?" Matt said as he, Shaundi, and Pierce took off after her.
Mia burst through the lab doors to see Kinzie come walking out of a secret door.
"You couldn't have warned me?" Mia snaps Kenzie.
"No. I needed Killbane to think he had me so I could link our ships to track him."
"What about your avatar?" Shaundi remarks behind the boss.
"Shut down as soon as my consciousness left." Kinzie states,"now I have work to do so go and do whatever y'all do."
The boss watched Kinzie as she turned to her computer and began working but soon Mia did as she was told. Mia sent Pierce and Shaundi to gather the crew and meet her in the throne room A.S.A.P. They nodded and quickly ran off.
"I never asked you to bring her back." Johnny said smoothly and quietly behind Mia.
The boss jumped and turned to him her heart sinking again. Why won't he just leave her alone? Why does he have to drag it out?
"Look all I did was ask Kinzie to look into saving her."
"You didn't ask me first." he replied still calm as can be.
"Well it's done now go on and leave me alone." Mia snapped.
Johnny was no longer patient he quickly jumped up and snagged her arm and pulled her back around to face him.
"Hey you have no right to be mad at me. I didn't even know about this you just had to be a stubborn ass and meddle with shit."
"It sure didn't take you long to cozy back up to her." Mia was beginning to shout.
"What the Fuck was I supposed to do Mia? Fuck! She has been dead for so long my personal hell was watching her die again and again. You knew how it affected me. What did you think would happen?"
"I don't know ok. I didn't think it through. When I asked Kenzie I thought that's what you would want." Mia was shouting again.
"You don't know what I want!"
"Why the hell can't you just leave me alone you got her back. After everything Johnny, after all you went through you finally have her back. So why the Fuck are you still messing with me?"
Without hesitation Johnny threw her up against the wall and pressed his lips to her with such anger and lust Mia didn't know how to react. She tried to fight it but she couldn't help but give into the kiss. Johnny pulled away first allowing them to catch their breaths. Then without a word began to walk off.
Mia turned to him and shouted, "What the Fuck do I do with that?"
She wasn't going to let him get away and followed him.
"Hey what was that? Look at me when I'm talking? What do you want?" Mia cried out.
"I don't know!" Johnny shouted as loud as he could, "You put me between a rock and a hard place when everything was just fine. I have always wanted Aisha back but she died I mourned and moved on. But then just as I was getting better you had to tell me how you feel then throw her back into the game. How is that fair? I mourned her for turn long to just turn my back but times have moved on and I loves again. So you tell me Mia. You tell me what you think I should do?"
Mia just stared at him, he was right this was her fault. Aisha is back because of her and Johnny deserves for her to let him go. So without a word Mia just nodded at Johnny silently motioned towards Aisha who was coming in the room. As Johnny turned to look behind him Mia made her exit and headed to the throne room. She heard a loud bang behind her as Johnny punched the wall. She could hear him and Aisha talking but the sound faded out as she entered the throne room.
Saint and Zins dressed in purple stood around her waiting for orders from their leader. Johnny and Aisha weren't long behind entering the room but staying in the back.
"As you all know Killbane got loose earlier today. He had his own ship and crew waiting for him. He out smarted us this time but my as much as he thought. He believed he left the ship with Kenzie to use as a way to hack the system and bring Zinyak back. He failed in that but that doesn't mean he won't try again. We need to be ready. Kenzie set a tracker on his ship. We can get him before he gets us. I want you to prepare train in the simulation but in shifts. I don't want all my guys unconscious when Killbane makes his attacks. Kenzie Matt I want you to hack into their cameras I want to know what their doing every second of the day. You all know what to do if you have more questions you know who to go to. How get started."
Without a second to think all the saints and Zins left the room leaving Mia alone. She rested her head in her hands and sighed. She will not cry she is not weak. She's handled worse then this. She told herself these things in an attempt to get her self together when a voice rang out.
"Hey boss. I never got a chance to thank you for sending them to save me." Aisha says quietly.
Mia lifts her head to look at the pop singer, "It was no problem Aisha, Johnny needed you back."
Mias words hang in the air before Aisha replies, "That's not exactly true is it?"
Mia stares at Aisha wandering where she planned to go with this, "How do you mean?"
Aisha as patients as ever says, "I'm not a fool. I knew about you to as soon as you walked through those doors the first day. Instinct told me, but I ignored it and just took Johnny back. But...it's not the same. He's not my Johnny there is to Mich time between us and now he loves you. This Johnny just isn't for me. I told him just before the meeting when you hurried off. I'm going back to earth Kenzie has made me a profile on earth with a new identity. I'm going to reopen Kingdomcome Industries and I am going to begin a new."
Mia continued to stare down at Aisha but then simply said, "I'm sorry."
"Don't be. I will mourn my Johnny but I will move on. I give you both my blessingshame wish you the best." Aisha turned around and began to lea've.
"Goodbye Aisha." Mia said quietly.
"Goodbye Mia." and she left.
