Chapter 11

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To pi: Well, if you`re talking about the underlined parts, it`s only curse words. It just cannot be translated. All the longer words are used in everyday life where I live to express anger or when we`re pissed off… We use "de" (of) to link them in chains. That`s something that can`t be done with the usual sex-related curse words. As for "je m`en câlisse", keep in mind it`s like "I don`t give a shit".

SHADOW`S HOUSE
MAY 27th, 3250
6:00 PM

Alexis grabbed he bottle of wine.

"I bet you`re kidding now," Janet said.

"No, seriously, I only felt like some big electric shock." Alexis poured some wine in Janet`s glasses, then in his. "I was waiting to die, but… nothing happened. Zero pain. Isn`t it true, Shadow?" He asked his partner. "When the bullet passes through you can pass ten minutes without feeling a thing?"

"Well, I usually try to solve a case without getting shot at all," Shadow answered.

"So, what happened to the guy who shot?" Matt asked, intrigued.

"Well, I shot him back," Alexis replied. "And he died before hitting the ground. But because of the bleeding, I was stating to feel, um…" Alexis motioned something near his head with his hands, and Shadow understood. "… dizzy."

"Dizzy?"

"Yes, dizzy. So, um, because of that, I decided to go outside and get some fresh air. I`d wait for the backup outside. So I handcuffed the guy…"

"That sounds cautious, even though it is stupid…" Shadow commented.

"…why?"

"I mean, if the guy is dead, it`s no use handcuffing him. He won`t get back on his feet, he`s dead."

"Yes, but the day before, I had seen a detective series… and in the episode, the hero thought the enemy was dead, he had shot him and everything, but all of a sudden, BLEEEEH!" He grimaced, making Janet laugh. "I was not6 going to take any risk, we never know what might happen."

Alexis took a sip of his wine. Matt, Janet and Shadow were listening. They were taking a bite once in a while.

"So, I`m in the backyard, I`m waiting for the backups, trying to calm down and get some fresh air, when suddenly, that guarding dog or whatever it was attacks me."

"You mean those robotic dogs who look a lot like real dogs?" Matt asked.

"Yeah, that. Well, all of a sudden…"

"All of a sudden," Shadow corrected.

"All of a sudden, that robot dog attacks me, it jumps on me, it`s mad in tabarnak."

"That means it was really, really, really mad," Shadow explained.

"Do you think he`s just telling a story or it happened for real?" Janet asked.

"No idea myself," her stepbrother answered.

"No, I`m dead serious here. Look, I even got a scar to prove it." Alexis shows the scar, somewhere on his chest, and Janet touches it, for the fun of it. Alexis said a little "Ow…" to make her giggle, and continued his story. "So, I; m bleeding like crazy, and I have to fight that dog, with my, er…" He motions grabbing something with his hands, and Shadow understands.

"With your bare hands?"

"Yes, that's it. I`m fighting the dog with my bare hands, and when looking to it I see the On/Off button, and when it attacks me to the face, I catch it and turn it off."

"Why didn't you shoot?" Matt asked.

"The robot was just doing what it had been programmed for, Matt," Shadow explained.

"Exactly. So, I immobilize the robot in a headlock, I finally push the button to Off, but then I pass out from blood loss. But the backups arrived right then and found me on the ground, with the robot dog in the arms, er…"

"Spooning?" Shadow asked.

"Yes, that`s it. They also found the dead guy handcuffed in the living room."

Matt laughed a bit. It was a funny story.

"Lucky dog…" Janet said in a seductive tone. She looked at Alexis and he looked at her in return.

SHADOW`S HOUSE
9:00 PM

Shadow was cleaning out his face with a towel, in his bedroom`s washrooms. Outside, someone tried to unlock the front door from outside. That someone being unable, he broke the glass, passed his arm through it, unlocked the door and entered. Shadow heard the noise.

"Matthew?" he asked.

The person entered the house. He was wearing a white mask with a long vertical hole in front as well as two triangular holes on each side. The man walked in the hall. The man loaded his gun. Shadow came out of his bathroom, wondering about the noise. "Matthew?" Shadow asked, but then he saw the man, shooting in another direction. The hedgehog grabbed the man`s arm, and they fought. Shadow tried to stop the man, but they broke a window in their brawl. As if it wasn`t enough, they fell down the stairs and broke some thing around, but the fall knocked the masked guy unconscious. Shadow approached the guy and took out his mask. It was… Luck?

"You?" Shadow muttered, until Luck woke up and grabbed Shadow at the throat. Shadow and Luck switched position, now each trying to strangle the other. Shadow threw Luck on the ground, but the helicopter driver dragged him down, and he fell on top of the walrus. Now Luck had caught his gun back, and was threatening Shadow with it. Just then, Matt arrived in the room.

"Dad!" the fox yelled, jumping at Luck. "Leave my father!" Matt held to the walrus` shoulders and did not let go, so Luck threw him down in front of him. Luck took his gun and prepared to shoot the teenager, but Shadow grabbed a nearby item and smashed Luck`s arm with it. Luck tried to regain composure, but Shadow just attacked more. Luck finally threw Shadow on the floor, but Shadow pulled out a gun. Luck escaped. Shadow rushed to his son.

"Are you okay?"

"I think so…" the fox answered.

"It was great, sonny. Thanks." Just then, Shadow remembered about Alexis. "Coolette!"

Twenty minutes later, the hedgehog and his son ran to the guest room, and knocked at the door. But nobody was answering. So they tried to find him, and knocked on Janet`s private room, decided to ask her where Alexis was. That`s when they were greeted by Alexis, wearing something with red feathers.

"What the hell are you doing in there?" Shadow asked.

***

SHADOW`S HOUSE – JANET`S PRIVATE ROOM
9:00 PM

Alexis and Janet, lips locked, were trying their best to move without falling on the floor and they walked awkwardly to the guest room. They were dizzy, as their waking was erratic; or maybe they were drunk. Touching a wall, they kept kissing, as if they were madly in love with each other. They finally reached the bed, and as they were now on it, Janet was teasing Alexis.

"You`re such a hard-churned detective… Show me where your weapon is."

"Search me then."

They started kissing again, until Janet fell over him. As she was sitting over him, he grabbed her throat lovingly, not trying to strangle her but trying to touch her bat face.

(Important notice: the actual sex will not be described. So, for anyone who wanted to see that, there`s tons of M-rated fics for that.)

They were fighting for dominance until the real act begins. As they kissed passionately, Alexis switched positions and laid Janet on the bed. Janet folded her bat wings. They kept kissing even more, until they turned again. Janet`s shirt was thrown on the floor.

"Teach me something else," she ordered.

"Leo and Lea go to school."

"Leo and Lea…"

They got prepared for a night of intense love, in which Alexis often told Janet something in French and she repeated it. She was a good student. As they were going at it, Janet was yelling the motto of Four-Lakes "I regret nothing". A little inappropriate for the situation, but she kept repeating it.

Bu after twenty minutes of this, they got interrupted by someone knocking at the guest room`s door. It was Shadow, coming to tell him about what happened on his side. Alexis rushed to put on his pants, hid Janet beside the bed, put on his head an object with red feathers on it, and opened the door. Just then he noticed he was shirtless. He also noticed it was actually not his bedroom.

"What the hell are you doing in there?" Shadow asked.

"Janet? It`s for you," Alexis yelled, revealing who he was with.

"Why, of course it`s for me. It`s my stepbrother Shadow! So, what happened?" She had put her clothes on.

"Well, I saved dad`s life," Matt told her.

"From what?" Alexis asked, searching for his dark blue shirt. "From destroying the house because his curling team lost tonight?"

Shadow looked at him with an air saying "One day you`ll regret what you just said."

"No, Luck. He was alive. And he tried to kill me and my son."

"No way, you`re kidding me, right?" Alexis said.

"No, we fought, and he got away. I harmed him though."

"Are you really sure it was him?"

"Yes, when I removed his mask, I could see the long teeth, the think mustache, and the eyes… it was him, no doubt on that."

Alexis paused as he found his shirt and began putting it on. "Why was he trying to kill you?"

"He wasn`t just trying to kill me, he was trying to kill the two of us. He had no idea you were fucking my stepsister."

Alexis thought for some seconds as he replaced his shirt. "If it was him, then… who was in my car trunk?"

"I have no idea, but then, the body was left in Four-Lakes, and Luck`s here. Call Hood," Shadow suggested. Alexis did so.

***

The phone rang a cool techno tune. This awoke Hood, who was sleeping on the job. "Last call! Last call! Last g…" He grabbed his cell phone and answered. "Yoh?"

"Hood?" Alexis asked.

"Yes indeed."

"You were still working at this hour?"

"That`s me."

"Anyway, it`s Alex. I was wondering if you had anything about the guy in my car trunk."

"I was, er… working on that. You`re making me do some freaking overtime, you know that, right? That body is like a puzzle with five thousand pieces that you have handed to your blonde cousin, and when she gives it back to you it`s a mess, there`s half the pieces missing, there`s some in the sofa`s cracks, some others in the dryer, and you`re missing a sock, and…" He had said that in his typical Mach 5 talking speed.

"Hood! Got no time to talk."

"Hey, by the way… if it was really a guy in your car trunk, the operation sure was successful."

"What are you talking about?" Alexis asked.

"Because the guy… it`s a girl. A bat."

Alexis looked at Shadow, who wasn`t understanding either.

"Yeah, I couldn`t really take out a part of her DNA, so I took some of her teeth and tested them, I got her dentist file. I gave her a crappy toothbrush and a surprise, she`s very happy." He was kidding when saying the last sentence, of course. She was dead,

"HOOD! Who is it?"

Hood grabbed some papers, noticed it was the papers about the victim of arsenic cake, moved on his chair to another table, found the papers and read them. "She`s… her name is Carta. Carta… cute name."

"Carta… Carta the barmaid?" Alexis said loud enough for Shadow to hear it.

"That`s why she was texting me "HELP!" when we were watching your daughter`s ballet recital!" Shadow said, explaining why he looked scared when reading the texto.

"Thanks Hood for the info," Alexis ended.

"Wait wait wait!" Hood yelled. "Two things before you go. You know the arsenic cake? I found out it also had opium, lichen scum, narcotics, rat poison, cobra venom, and three segments of grapefruit. Kinda a killer mix, isn't it?" Alexis was about to hang up. "Waitwaitwaitwaitwait! I noticed something else… Carta backwards… is "Atrac"."

Alexis hung up. "Shit…" He turned to Shadow. "She had your number, she could have called you. That`s why they killed her. Luck must have known and got rid of her."

"But that`s impossible!" Shadow yelled. "Remember, he was in the trunk of your car. For all that, he should have gotten out, stolen a car, gotten back to the bar, kidnapped the barmaid and taken the bomb, came back, locked her in the trunk and rigged the bomb? The recital was not long enough for all that."

"That means he`s not alone," Alexis deducted.

To be continued…

I got about 3/4 of the movie complete! That means this fanfiction will end probably around chapter 15. Maybe 17, if I add a lot of new stuff. And believe me, I will.