Chapter 4: Rocket Queen 3

As the couple fled the place in their scooter, Johnny ran to a motorbike and proceeded to turn on the ignition. Corine then appeared at the door of the building besides him. "How are you? You're in pretty bad shape…

-Just go after them, angrily answered the woman.

-Shit there's only one helmet, you want it?

-Fuck off, our targets are getting away I'm hurt because you're a chicken. Just drive, I'll take care of these fuckers, no one humiliates me like that!

Meanwhile Trish was driving the scooter, Mista on her back and prepared to shot anyone who followed them. "Any idea about where we're headed, asked Mista.

-We should head north, to my apartment."

Out of nowhere, another scooter began to follow them, Mista readied his revolver, only to quickly hide it, as the drivers were clearly not gang members, they were two young girls. "Hey Trish, woohoo it's us Dahlia and Alice!" Trish then turned her head, recognizing her friends' voices, who were art students as well. "Hey Dahlia, hi Alice, what are you doing?

-We should ask you the same, replied Alice, my my who's this handsome one? He's a foreigner, maybe he's your boyfriend from Italy?

-Screw you, said an embarrassed Trish. Anyway we've got to go…

-Hey say Trish, where did you get this scooter, asked Dalhia, I didn't know you had one.

-I kinda borrowed it, well it's great to see you, have a nice weekend!"

The scooter took a turn to the right, leaving the girls. "I'm totally talking about this to the others, said Dalhia, Trish always turned off every boy who proposed to her…"

A motorbike passed by the two girls at high speed, it was the two Roses gang members pursuing Mista and Trish. Mista was quick to see them, and as Sex Pistols number 3 recognized the woman who sniped at them, the gunslinger quickly readied his gun. "Dammit how did they get here so fast?

-This scooter must have a speed limiter, they're going to catch up to us!"

When the scooter and the motorbike were 60meters apart from each other, Mista fired thrice, Corine retaliated by shooting her own marbles, as predicted, the marbles destroyed one bullet, then another. "Useless, said Corine, my marbles are indestructible when shot, you'd better off shooting yourself, you fucker.

-I know that, shooting straight at you wasn't my goal. My goal was to position my Sex Pistols so the bullet gets around your marbles." The little imps proceeded to kick the bullet n°5 was riding around the marble, and redirect it straight into Corine's face. However, instead of panicking like earlier, Corine kept a straight face, confident in front of the bullet in front of her. Suddenly, the bullet stopped, or rather distorted itself as if it hit a wall, staying still in midair.

"What? Shouted Mista, how can she stop the bullets?

-It's got to be the second one. He has a power we don't know about. Said Trish

-Leave the defense to me Corine; shoot them down." Johnny accelerated, reducing further the distance between them.

The traffic jam in the streets worsened, Trish slalomed between the cars, trying to get at least some cover behind some trucks. Not hindered the slightest by the cars, Rocket Queen was keeping on shooting its marbles, having them slice through the metal of the cars, and stopping right were the Rose wanted them to stop. Trish and Mista could barely avoid the marbles only thanks to Trish keeping on changing the speed of her scooter. And each marble would scrap their skin, strangely staying still in the air as to stop further movement. "Shit, I can go on shooting position like this, said Mista, we need to bail out of this!

-I'll take a turn, said Trish." And as scooter took a turn in the left, Corine thought to herself: "Not learning you lesson, are you?" She led her shots and again Rocket Queen's marbles came scarily close to the couple. "Oh fuck! It touched my ear!" Mista shot again at the motorbike, redirecting the bullets as usual, however the gang members were now prepared to every trick that would come into them. With every redirected bullet, Corine would make her marbles bounce at each other, as sparks flew when the marbles made contact, they would change trajectory and vaporize the bullets. Corine thought to herself, in this position her stand was invincible, her preys had no chance as they stood, not with the shooter uncovered and in an uncomfortable shooting position.

What is precisely Rocket Queen's power? Let it be explained here: Rocket Queen regularly sprouts marbles out of its body, which are then placed on the plate that serves as its left hand, and then shot with the "billiard cue" that serves as its right hand. It severely reduces the firing rate of the Stand, but then the mechanism of the marbles comes into play. When shot, the marbles will not be stopped by anything, whatever object they encounter, it will go through it and leave an empty space where the marble was, the exception being other marbles which will bounce at each other much like ordinary marbles. Arrived at their intended destination, the marble will stay still for about ten seconds, and then will drop to the ground. The trajectory of the marbles can be straight or have a curve depending how Rocket Queen shoots.

Trish was now riding along the Seine, the moto following the closely, now at 50m behind them.

The fight was desperate, with no defense but Trish's skill with the scooter and Mista shooting off some bullets to keep them under pressure, while each of said bullets would mysteriously stop short in front of their pursuers and being pinned down by the marbles. Corine and Johnny were literally playing with their targets. "We got them here, Corine, shouted Johnny, just shoot them straight to the head or at the scooter, get over it!

-No,no, I want to kill them in a more spectacular way, there…" The scooter was getting close to a car, and the sniper saw an opportunity. Having placed two marbles in the plate, she shot the two of them right into the car's gas reservoir and made them bounce each other. The sparkles lit the gas on fire, and the car exploded, engulfing the scooter in flames. "Got them!" However, except for the scooter propelled into the Seine by the explosion, the two of them were absent. Corine tried to look for them then felt a sudden pain going through her right shoulder, it was a bullet. "From where did he shoot that!?" She looked up in the sky and saw three of the Sex Pistols, who redirected the bullet, and then came back to Mista. He was on a taxi, while Trish was on the bonnet. "I've seen everything I needed 5 minutes ago, said Mista: the way you reload, how you marbles makes sparks, how you were toying with us… One way or another, you were going to make a car explode near us, but with Sex Pistols on the watch among the cars as I continuously shot at you, we wouldn't be taken by surprise and with the explosion and the smoke caused by it, you'd provided a perfect cover for me. All we needed was to stay close to two vehicles, and now with a bullet in your shoulder, reloading's gonna be a pain in the ass won't it ? Fate is now favoring us, time to counterattack… Trish, we're taking control of the taxi!"

Mista hung itself at the side of the taxi, and opened the back door of the taxi. The taxi was occupied by the taxi driver and his client; there would be no problem in getting rid of them. "Hey you, said Mista to the man at the rear, stay clear or you're gonna have problems." Even if Mista was waving his gun his front of the customer, the latter didn't feel particularly threatened and with an arrogant face, said:" I refuse, people like you who think they are hot shit need to learn their place someday." As Trish entered the taxi by the right front door, she took a look at the passenger, she was astonished, she couldn't think she would meet someone like him in such circumstances: "Oh my god, shouted Trish.

-What, asked Mista, you know him?

-Sort of, he's a celebrity among artist: it's Rohan Kishibe!

-Who?"

Mista then noticed the sirens approaching their position, the police was near, and their escape would be harder than he thought…