Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran or any characters.
The Red-headed devils steered the Trickster onto the landing platform on Xrai's only spaceport.
Donning disguises, the group prepared to exit the ship.
Kimika still wasn't sure where the twins had acquired a military grade disguise machine and she really didn't want to.
Asking too many questions only complicated an already complicated situation; her mind was still reeling with questions as they stepped onto the dock.
The four of them casually checked in, ordering more fuel before heading into the market. -They'd left Yoshian behind to guard the ship since he'd be too easily recognized as Kyoya-.
The Red-Headed Devils found a shop that caught their eyes, and peeled out with promises to meet up later, leaving Kimika and Takashi alone.
Kimika could feel Takashi watching her, silently asking her where to go but she had no idea; she'd never been to a marketplace before.
"Takashi, is there anything you wanted to look at in particular?" Kimika asked casually.
Takashi thought for a minute before heading down a side street.
Kimika followed him to a weapons shop. She glanced up at a sign which read: Kassanoda Family Weaponry, before stepping inside after Takashi.
A scary looking redheaded, approximately her father's age, stood behind the counter cleaning a gun. A more cheerful looking man, around the same age, looked up from his paperwork. "Takashi?" he asked in shock, "is that really you?"
Takashi shrugged in a non-committed way, while Kimika stared open-mouthed; did Takashi know everyone? For that fact, they'd seen through the DNA scrambler, maybe there was a glitch somewhere.
The scary redhead looked up from his gun, "Admiral Morinozuka? They set you free early?"
"Sort of," Takashi said shortly, but not in a rude way, only Takashi could give a two word answer and not appear rude, Kimika mused.
The brown haired man noticed Kimika, "Haruhi?" he looked like he'd seen a ghost.
Kimika stared back in shock," Ah-no, I'm her daughter, Kimika…" she trailed off.
The two men's eyes narrowed, "So you're Kyoya's daughter?" the redhead said.
"…I guess so." Kimika laughed nervously.
"So the wanted posters are true! Where are you hiding Kyoya?" The brunette demanded.
"Wanted posters? Hiding my father? What are you talking about?" Kimika glanced around flustered at Takashi who'd taken a defensive step forward and placed a firm hand on her shoulder.
"Takashi! How could you think I'd turn you in? You're my master, I could never betray you." The red-head said indignantly, reading Takashi's body language.
Takashi visibly relaxed and Kimika took her chance to push the topic further, "So you're our allies. What is this warrant you mentioned? Why do people think we're hiding my father?"
"Not hiding, you kidnapped Kyoya. Didn't you? That's why you're using DNA scrambler disguises right? Not that it works on people who know you personally." The redhead remarked.
"Kidnapped, but he's-"Takashi silenced her with a quick motion of his arm.
"He's what?" the brunette asked. "He's with us willingly," Takashi replied warily, "he had a change of heart."
The red-head stared at them warily. "Alright…"
Takashi flashed him one of his small rare smiles "trust me Bossanoda."
Agitation flashed behind the redhead's eyes before a grimace-smile settled on his features. "I trust you sempei."
"I thought so. Now we need fuel packs and standard issue laser pistols and some more subtle weapons."
"Of course, Tetsuya, go get that for General Morinozuka please." 'Bossanoda' jerked his head towards the back room. "Sure thing, Boss." Tetsuya said brightly.
Once Tetsuya was gone Bossanoda face Takashi, "You could've talked openly in front of him; he hasn't worked for Ohtori syndicate since you were framed."
"We can't be too careful," Kimika interjected on behalf of Takashi. "But how did you hear about the warrant for our arrest?"
"It's all over the news. Now, is Kyoya really with you willingly?"
Kimika and Takashi shared a look. Kimika was preparing to speak when someone spoke for her. "Of course I am," Yoshian said from the doorway.
Bossanoda's jaw dropped, but he recovered quickly. Then from out of nowhere, a laser gun appeared in his hand its beam trained on Yoshian.
Takashi stepped in front of the laser beam, "Stop." He said authoritatively.
Automatically, Bossanoda lowered the weapon. It took a full minute for him to realize what his arm had done.
"What's going on here?" he asked suspiciously glancing between the three of them.
Yoshian spoke, "I'm actually an android Kyoya gave Haruhi. Kimika killed Kyoya back on Luna."
"Well I guess the cat is out of the bag," Kimika rolled her eyes. She turned back to the redhead, "please don't tell anyone, we're on our way to clear our names. My father was an evil man, it had to be done; I have reason to believe he either killed or plotted to kill my mother. " Kimika pleaded.
Bossanoda gave her a scary smile that was obviously meant to be comforting, "I shall do whatever I can to help Master Morinozuka. "
"Er-thanks." Kimika replied.
"Bossanoda," Takashi said abruptly, "Can you make adjustments to Yoshian? He has a few issues."
"Eh, yeah. Should be a simple fix." He stepped over to Yoshian "I'm going to have to access your matrix." He told Yoshian reassuringly with the same grimace-smile.
Yoshian looked him up and down in a very Kyoya-like manor before nodding slightly.
Nodding in reply, Bossanoda opened up a panel at the base of Yoshian's neck. There were a few muttered uh-huh and mhmms, while Yoshian stared blankly forward.
Before Bossanoda could close Yoshian back up however, Tetsuya walked out carrying a box of fuel cells. "I found-" he froze at the sight in front of him.
Everyone stared back at him before some quick thinking from Kimika took the lead. She stepped in front of Yoshian and Bossanoda, "excuse my father, he's having your boss check out his prosthetics…"
Tetsuya stared at her like she was an idiot, "that's not a prosthetic, that's an android I helped build a century ago for Kyoya."
"Ah-Well…" Kimia open and closed her mouth. "I guess we can't lie to you then." She said regaining her composure. "But now that you know our secret, you must promise not to tell anyone!"
Again, he looked at her as if she were an idiot. "Miss Ohtori, I'm a servant eternally tied to the boss, ever since he rescued me from the Ohtori syndicate, I only promise what he tells me to promise."
"Tetsuya," Bossanoda said sharply, "Don't you dare breathe a word again Haruhi's daughter and Master Morinozuka." He shot Kimika what should've been a bashful stare, if it hadn't been so terrifying.
"Whatever you say boss," he replied dropping his box onto the counter.
Bossanoda shook his head closing Yoshian's panel, "Upgrades are done, send me a message if he starts glitching."
"Thanks, Bossanoda. Now, what weapons do you have that are undetectable by galactic patrollers?"
"Right," Bossanoda walked over to his counter and powered on his screen which hovered in the air before him. "I have some guns and weapons without serial trace. I don't think its necessary to mention how acquired them, do I?" he smiled a little suspiciously.
"What about something that can't be traced by weapons scanners as well?" Takashi asked.
"Right, untraceable serial and scanner resistant…" he pressed a few buttons on the screen. "How about this?" He pointed towards a complicated looking laser gun, "Silencer and cloaking device, very handy."
Takashi nodded firmly as Kimika walked over to look also. "How many do you have? I need at least four if you have them."
"For you, I can give you double that for the price of four." Bossanoda smiled once more in his scary way.
"Deal," Takashi said pulling out some credits he'd swiped from the twins.
They completed their transaction without incident and headed for the door. Bossanoda stopped Kimika with a hand on her shoulder. She glanced up at him, "I heard about your mother's passing, she was a good friend of mine, I was sorry to hear it." Bossanoda said gently, "You remind me a bit of her."
Kimika blinked in surprise, "You knew my mother?"
"Yes, very well." He smiled and it was nearly pleasant.
"Did you know her because of Takashi?" Kimika asked a she returned his smile.
He nodded, "I did. Those two were always together for as long as I could remember."
"How'd you meet them?" as she asked Takashi was going over each new weapon with a fine toothed comb.
"We went to the same school on Luna." He said wistfully.
Kimika frowned, "How is that possible? Each of your families were from different districts."
"We all attended Ouran academy on Luna, or… at least it was until the Oohtori syndicate closed it down. Back then, it was the most elite boarding school in the coalition, turned out more senators and military officials than any other school."
Kimika nodded preparing to reply when Tetsuya called out from inside the shop, "Patrol, heading this way."
Takashi was by her side in an instant, "Time to go." He said sternly, nodding to Bossanoda before wraping an arm around Kimika to guide her away.
"What about Yoshian?" Kimika asked in a worried tone, "They'll recognize him as Kyoya."
"Don't worry about me, Kimika, my upgrades allow me to talk my way out of any situation." He smiled in an eerily similar way to Kyoya himself.
"Let's not try that just yet. Try this code." Bossanoda ordered and shot off a list of numbers, a moment later Yoshian no longer looked like Kyoya.
Yoshian's face transformed, his nose became broader, blue eyes replaced grey and his black hair grew to brush his ears.
"Bossanoda, you've out-down yourself once again." Takashi remarked.
"Thanks." He replied bashfully.
"But it was Tetsuya who originally built that capability into it, I just wrote a quick code to activate it." Bossanoda added, causing Tetsuya to also blush.
"You're both amazing!" Kimika said brightly. "But we have to get out of here and find the red-headed devils."
"They're back at the ship already, I'm tracing their comlinks," Yoshian put in while hefting the fuel cell box in his arm.
"Great." Kimika said heading away from the shop, "Let's get going before the patrol catches up with us."
Holding the special guns, Takashi led them towards the spaceport.
They rushed down the city streets while Yoshian provided updates on the patrols locations.
Eventually the arrived at the trickster without incident.
Back on board, Kimika was hanging about the cockpit, "where to now?" the red-headed devils queried.
"Let's go test Yoshian's new programming on a small part of the Ohtori syndicate in the fifth district." Kimika suggested, eager to see what happened.
"Sounds good to us!" the twins cheered.
"Then let's go," Takashi said buckling in for take-off.
A few clicks of the controls and they were off, deeper into the districts and even deeper into their search for their innocence, and for Kimika closer to answers.
Author's Notes: Hopefully there aren't any continuation errors in here. I was writing while stuck in a car during a twelve hour drive and nicluvly was at work. So we did all of this from memory and then tidied it up some when it got typed up at home.
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