Kuo's Hunt
The Militia had come with a plan, and even after the explosion and Cole, they were able to use it. When Kuo reached the ground, she saw the Militia throw Wolfe in a pick up truck, and when jumped in, it took off.
"Wolfe!" She screamed while shooting at the truck.
But it was too late, the truck was gone. She ran as fast as she could to try to find it before it hade gotten away, but they were gone.
"Damn" She sighed.
Cole called her after he tested out his new powers.
"Hey Kuo, any luck?"
"No, I lost the guys with Wolfe, but I'll find them. So what did Wolfe say about the Blast Core?"
"They'll power me up enough to use the RFI, but that was it."
"Really? Would Rayacite fragments help too? Wolfe had a large collection, but it was blown sky high with the lab."
"Raya-what?"
"The radiated shards of earth from Ray Sphere testing? Wolfe said you'd know what to do with them. They glow blue?"
"Oh! We just call them blast shards. Found quite a few in Empire, I got this."
A weird sound buzzed over the phone
"What was that?" Kuo was startled.
"Ugh…I absorb them into my body, they let me hold more energy."
"Well there should be quite a few, collecting as many as you can wouldn't hurt."
"Guess not, hey look, Zeke's trying to get through, go look for Wolfe, good luck." He hung out without even waiting for her answer.
You too…"
She searched talked to every one she saw, but every time she got "No, sorry," or "I didn't see anything." She was losing hope. She went through and every one of her old contacts, but nothing lead to Wolfe, only the dead or members of the Militia.
However, she did hear Cole's name more and more as she searched, saving people from the Militia, healing the injured. She was glad that he wasn't a power hungry monster as those who are given power usual end up as.
"Hey Cole, I keep hearing your name around town. At this rate, you'll be known everywhere, people will be asking for help everywhere you go."
"Well that's better then be known as an demon, right?"
"Yeah, well I'm glad your making headway, because I'm finding nothing. However, there is one lead. Bertrand will be an appearance-
"Bertrand?" Zeke questioned.
"The leader of the Militia, Joseph Bertrand. He will be at a press conference, if we can get to him, we will hopefully lead us to Wolfe."
"What time?" asked Cole
"Two hours."
"Alright, Kuo, keep working on finding other leads if this doesn't fall though, Zeke and I will handle Bertrand."
"See you there Brother." Zeke hung up.
"Be careful Cole." With that, Kuo hung up.
The night of the conference, the corrupted attacked, they weren't enough to take out Cole, but they gave Bertrand the chance to get away.
There only lead. Gone. Kuo was distraught, she really hoped that Bertrand would lead them to Wolfe.
She was looking up everything about the Militia she could find, and fortunately for her, she found something, the interrogator for the Militia.
He was a lot easier to find then Wolfe, thanks to a few bartenders and gamblers, she knew exactly when and where he would be.
Finding him was easy enough, but now Kuo had to wait.
"One please." She said taking her seat at the bar while waiting. He didn't seem to be winning, so hopefully she wouldn't have to wait too long.
Unfortunately his luck changed in Black Jack, and he started winning interrogator won over four hundred dollars in the hour he was playing, and Kuo had gone through 3 drinks.
"-sigh- When will he finished?"
"Hey there beautiful." Came a cocky voice.
Kuo turned to find the interrogator close to her, too close.
"Excuse me?"
"Just wondering what your name was gorgeous." His breath was smelled like alcohol.
"Uh…Stacy…"
"Stacy huh? Can I by you a drink or two dear?" He starts getting closer to her.
It took all of her strength to not gag right there.
"No, I have to be leaving-" He grabbed her wrist.
"Surely you wouldn't mind one little-"
"Goodbye." She got out of his grasp and left the bar.
"Disgusting…"
She called Cole.
"Hey, I picked up another lead, the interrogator for the Militia, he's winning pretty big at Black Jack, but he should be going to visit Wolfe soon. I would follow him, but he just hit on me…"
"No problem, I follow him from the rooftops, no one ever looks up."
"Okay, good…I have a good feeling about this one. I'll go…appropriate a vehicle.
The plan was set, Wolfe was almost in their grasp, but Bertrand wasn't ready to give up Wolfe just yet…
It took about three hours, but the interrogator finally had his fill, he left the casino,nwith Cole tailing him.
"Alright Kuo, I'm on his trail, how are we gonna get Wolfe out?"
"Well, I am going to...'appropriate' a vehicle for our use."
"Isn't that stealing Miss agent Kuo?"
"Well...do you want to save Wolfe of not?"
"Yeah, yeah, okay. the it's the tan house on 18th"
"Really? There are roadblocks...can you take them down while I get Wolfe?"
"As you command special agent thievery."Cole said in a joking tone.
Kuo sighed as she hung up.
She made it up to the house without any problem, Cole was still dealing with the fist roadblock, but it was the perfect distraction to get into the house.
It was deserted, Cole had taken all of the attention, but Kuo wasn't going to taker any chances. It looked like a normal house, very filthy, but normal. However things often are more then they appear, she carefully opened every door, making sure that there were no Militia hiding out, fortunately, it was empty, unfortunately, that meant no Wolfe.
"A dead end, damn it." She felt so defeated. Outsmarted by Bertrand again.
She was so frustrated, she could scream, but instead she shot up a poster of Militia propaganda.
"I wish shooting things could solve all of my problems." She said with a sigh.
He pleas were apparently heard, as a hidden door revealing a staircase opened in the wall, she looked back to see that the poster hid a secret switch.
"About time things started going my way."
She descended into the darkness, the staircase eventually came to an end, Kuo couldn't see much, but a ray of light showed there was a door.
She wasted no time, as she opened the door, the earth shook, but only for an moment. "That was odd..." She thought to herself.
Back on task, she entered the room, there were two rooms, she could see from the two sided mirror that Wolfe was bound to a table, he looked drain, emotionally and physically. She was able to break the door down.
"Kuo..." said the exhausted doctor.
"Don't worry, Wolfe, your same now." She said as she freed him from his restraints.
"Thank you..."
They quickly returned to the surface, but as soon as the stepped foot out of the building, an alarm went off.
"Cole, I've got Wolfe, but we set off an alarm on the way out, get to the truck." She called.
"On my way."
Cole hopped in the back, there was a small generator, Kuo was obviously prepared in case this happened.
"Hey Doc, good to see you in one piece."
"Yes...more or less-" an explosion cut him off.
"Hold on Cole!" Kuo took off, the last thing on her mind was safety, the first was getting Wolfe to safety.
Explosions and gunshots surrounded the truck, but Kuo was able to stay focused in spite off all of the chaos. She was forced to take a lot of turns, and eventually ended up right back where they started.
"Hey Kuo, we didn't get very far."
"I see that Cole."
The three of them saw it at the same time.
An armored truck.
It didn't have Militia goons shooting at them.
It wasn't trying to block it's their pass.
It had one reason, one job, one thing to do.
Ram them
Time seemed to stop for all 3 of them.
Cole's POV
"They really don't want to lose Wolfe..."
Wolfe's POV
"I'm going to die now...I've done all I can here...but it wasn't enough...I'm so sorry..."
Kuo's POV
"After all that...we lost?"
Time rushed forward, as did the vehicles.
"No, no, no, NO!" was all Kuo could scream as the two smashed together, and they went flying...