Chapter 12
So yeah a lot of people are picking up on the Robins' common distain for Mariko's attitude. Oh and because I forgot to explain the (*) Rrruules, it's a reference to PSG (panty and Stocking with Garterbelt) in the original cast instead of saying Rules they role the 'R's I guess it's how they pronounce the word. Either way I love that they do that. It sounds cool, and since Mariko Miko is an Otaku I figured a bit of anime references wouldn't be so bad. Anyway ONWARD TO THE BATTLE FIELD!
"Are you absolutely sure about letting Mariko Miko be a part of this Dick?" Robin asked, everyone had split into groups; Dick Robin, Mariko, Tony, and Misato with one, Conner, Match and Tai-li, and M'gaan on another, and the others filling in the last team. Each of them were assigned a different location to blend in with the people captured for the Light's new partner, "You said yourself, the woman's crazier than Joker."
"Aww you talk about me?" Mariko cooed, flipping the stray hair from her wig out of her face. Since Mariko had such obvious physical traits, that the light could easily pinpoint she had to wear a disguise. Hers consisted of a long wavy hazel brown wig and colored contacts that made her eyes blue.
"Hey don't want me to hear you? Don't talk so loud kid." She said shrugging. Robin scowled as Mariko stood with her arms crossed and an annoyed smirk on her face. Meanwhile Tony was doing his best to keep the other captives calm by talking to them, he was doing fairly good job of it as well while Misato tapped her foot impatiently as more excitement filled her.
"Dick, how are we supposed to keep in contact with the others?" Mariko asked quietly grabbing Dick by the shirt sleeve, "We aren't exactly telepathically connected. How do I know Tai-li will be ok?"
"You said you trusted M'gaan and Conner, well trust them to keep Tai-li safe." He said. Mariko nodded, then glared as she saw Kaldur and some masked black haired, woman arrived to the docking bay. Dick, noticing Mariko's displeasure in seeing the Team's former member and, placed a heavy hand on her shoulder.
"Don't do anything stupid Mariko," He said, "We're only here to save your girls."
"And anyone else that's on that ship." Robin said fixing his sunglasses. Mariko's eyes shifted between the duo.
"I'm a genius, I don't do stupid." She hissed, Robin huffed.
"You're track record would beg to differ…" He grumbled, then felt a sudden zap of electricity jolt through his body. He looked down to see Misato glaring up at him.
"Don't pick on sensei." She said crossing her arms. Robin glared back through his dark shades at the small pink haired girl, he went to say something but before he could the black haired woman shouted.
"Alright, everyone into the pods, anyone who tries to play hero won't be happy." She said holding up a sword. Suddenly people who wore the same uniform as Black Manta and Kaldur opened the chain link fence that the captives were forced to stay behind. They began filing everyone into pods and rolling them onto the ship.
"Guess it's close to curtain call." Mariko muttered as the masked woman shoved her into a pod and sealed the container. Then a gas filled the pod and everything went dark.
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When Mariko came too again the first thing she saw was that she was now in a room filled with pods. Mariko then started shuffling for her belt, which thankfully was still around her waist, she smirked as she dug into the compartments to get a small remote. Then placing it on the glass she waited for it to decipher the code to unlocking it. Once free she looked about the room, none of her children were in this room, which meant that they were elsewhere, probably with Savage's new partner. Mariko glared, then saw Dick and the others. They had yet to wake up.
"Hm, guess I should wake Tony up first. Having a set of muscle would really help." She mumbled, then looked about the room to see if she could find Misato. She froze. No sign of the young pink haired girl. "Alright, new main priority, find Misato. Then I can wake these bozos up."
With that as her last statement Mariko slipped out of the room and disappeared. Shortly after Mariko left Dick and the others came too and escaped from their pods. They noticed Mariko's empty pod.
"Where's Mariko?" Robin asked, Dick face-palmed as Tony looked around.
"My guess is that she went looking for Misato." He said pointing out that Misato was also not in the room, "After all if something happens to either her or Tai-li this whole thing was for nothing."
"Ok, point taken so what then?" Robin asked.
"I'll look for Mariko," Dick said, "You look for any trace of Mariko's girls, and while we're at it release any of the other captives."
"Got it." Robin said. Tony hesitated for a moment looking to Dick with narrowed eyes. He didn't like taking orders from him, but for Mariko he would do what he had to. Even if it meant taking orders from some self righteous prick. He also nodded, then the trio split up.
Farther away Mariko walked down the halls, there weren't very many guards—which was somewhat surprising—as she searched for Misato. Suddenly there was a flash of pink light behind her, Mariko turned and saw Misato, who grinned. When the young girl went to speak, Mariko, in a quick motion, grabbed Misato by the arm, placed her hand over the child's mouth and pulled her into another room filled with pods. Mariko then made shooshing sound to silence the muffled noises coming from the young electric girl as a set of guards walked past them. Once gone Mariko sighed and released Misato.
"Where the hell did you come from?" She hissed. Misato beamed and jumped up, electricity sparking from her feet.
"It was super cool! I think the electrodes in my body zapped that gas they hit us with and I didn't get effected by it at all!" She said rapidly, "Then I zapped my way through the wires in the ship! It was totally electrified! Then I found you this is so much fun sensei!"
"Cool it." Mariko said placing her hand on the top of Misato's head to try and calm the little girl down. She seemed a bit too excited, "Well at least you're safe, come on, let's go back for Tony and the others."
"OK!" the young Misato said happily, then followed went to follow Mariko only to be stopped by her teacher. More guards walked past this time they paused in front of the room they two were in. Mariko cursed under her breath.
"Oh sure, now they want to keep guard. Ok, new plan…" she grumbled then looked Misato, "Misato-chan, think you can travel through the wires again?"
"Mm-hm!"
"Good. Now listen to me carefully. I want you to look for Nightwing and Tony." She said, "Oh yeah and the mouthy little Robin kid too."
"What am I supposed to do when I find them?" Misato asked looking rather confused.
"Just find them. If I know Nightwing—and I really do—he'll already have a nice little plan going on." Mariko said with a wink. Misato grinned and nodded feverishly as her body morphed into a flash of pink lightning and was gone in a flash. This of course left Mariko alone in the room full of pods. She looked around, some of them were empty and some were filled with young teens. Mariko glared at the pods, Savage had another thing coming if he thought he was gonna get away with kidnapping children. She dug into one of the compartments of her belt and began picking the electronic locks on the pods. Not exactly part of the plan, but Nightwing would get over it….eventually.
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"So what's the deal with you and Miko?" Robin asked as he and Tony searched for the academy girls, and silently taking out any guards in the process. Tony cocked an eyebrow.
"What are you talking about?" he mumbled as he held an unconscious guard by the shirt collar. Robin crossed his arms.
"I mean why are you with her. You can't possibly be as twisted in the head as that woman." He said pointing his finger to the side of his head. Tony rolled his eyes and dropped the insensible guard, he then grinned.
"Some punk kid like you, wouldn't get it." He said, then scowled and walked off. Robin scowled.
"You realize that I was trained by Batman right? The Batman, I could kick your ass if I wanted to." He said, a bit of a whine behind of voice. Tony frowned and looked back to the young boy.
"And you realize I'm a cyborg? You know, part robot part organic? Meaning I'm ten times stronger than you. I'm older than you and a bit more experience so I have ten times the know how to take you down, plus I've dealt with the first Robin, and he was more of a threat to me than you are." He said in a very calm tone, "Now, in explaining all this we've wasted time that could have been used to find the girls, and save anyone else. Are you happy?"
"You're…a bit of an asshole…" Robin mumbled, Tony rolled his eyes.
"I'm on edge, Miss Mariko built this school to keep meta-human kids safe. Now the Light is once again, screwing with our lives." He said, "I don't like being jerked around by some old man with a god complex."
"Ok, I get that," Robin muttered, "But if you had come to the League for help in the first place—"
"Might have, but since half the people we knew retired or aren't officially part of the Team anymore, we decided to not, and handle it on our own." Tony said, "Now are we done with the twenty-Q?"
Robin said nothing and followed Tony down another hallway.
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Meanwhile Nightwing was still searching for Mariko and Misato. So far no sign of either of them until Misato appeared in a pink flash before him.
"Hiya Nightwing!" She said gleefully. Nightwing scowled.
"Misato? How did—did Mariko let you out?" he asked, Misato shook her head.
"No, I let myself out. By the way Miko-sensei is in trouble." She said, then began explaining how she escaped and that Mariko was trapped. Suddenly an alarm went off, lighting up the entire ship with red light and sirens. Nightwing groaned and face-palmed.
"This is what I meant when I told her not to do anything stupid." He grumbled. Misato grinned.
"This is so exciting!"
and that everybody is the end of this chapter. It wasn't all that great—to which I apologize—but hey it'll get better with time. And Hopefully in the next chapter I wont be smacked with writers block. THE WRITTER'S DISEASE! Though, I found something really cool on youtube that inspired me to do more typing on this chapter. So I'll just keep listening to that. See you later armadillos—unless I see you first. HAHA! REVIEW!
