Chapter 36
Last chapter Mariko enlisted the help of Livewire—who was the inspiration for my Oc's name hardwire. XD yay. Anyway uhm—crap oh yeah! There's been some debate on whether or not this is Robin/oc or oc/oc oriented…actually I'm not gonna answer that…ONWARD TO THE BATTLE FIELD!
"Alright kid, so now that you got me outta that cell how do you plan to get outta here?" Livewire asked, Mariko shrugged.
"I don't know just yet." She said as the two walked down the halls doing their best to not get noticed by the guards. Livewire glared.
"What? What do you mean you don't know yet? You break me outta jail and you don't even have a plan? You're crazy!" She shouted in a whisper, Mariko smirked.
"You say that like it's a bad thing." She said, Livewire gawked, "And for the record I always have a plan, this one however I have to depend on a certain witch-boy—and he's hard to work with."
"Witch-what?" Livewire asked,
"Witch-boy; anyhow I have no idea where he is right now, nor do I know when he's gonna show up. Like I said hard to work with." Mariko explained, suddenly a figure appeared behind the two.
"I am not hard to work with." Klarion pouted, Mariko frowned.
"Baka! I told you to be ready!" she hissed, Klarion shrugged.
"And I was but then I got bored," he said then opened a portal. Livewire stared.
"What the heck is going on here?" she growled, Mariko sighed and pushed her through before anyone could notice her missing.
"She asks a lot of questions." Klarion said Mariko narrowed her eyes.
"Too many for my liking—now let's go!" She growled dragging Klarion through his portal. Klarion laughed. Once the trio where through they appeared in Mariko's old safe house, Mariko smirked.
"Huh, the Light still hasn't found this place, well that's depressing—for them." She said, beside her Klarion shrugged.
"Alright shrimp tell me what it is you want." Livewire said, Mariko narrowed her eyes at Livewire—not at all happy to be called shrimp.
"Not short…" She mumbled, Livewire made a face then turned her back on the duo.
"Whatever hurry up before I change my mind." She growled.
"You seem to be under the impression that you're in control here." Mariko said plainly, Livewire looked over her shoulder and frowned.
"Listen kid I could leave anytime I want; you've got enough electricity for me to recharge and be on my way." She said.
"You can try but the moment you try I shut off my power supply and then you're stuck." Mariko said, Livewire stared as Mariko spun around on her heal and walked toward her computer humming a tune to one of her j-rock bands.
"Now you're familiar with Lex corp right?" She asked sweetly, Livewire frowned and crossed her arms.
"Yeah who isn't?" She mumbled, "What's it got to do with you?"
"I want you to blow it up." Mariko said darkly. Livewire grinned.
"What's wrong? You're daddy get fired or something?" she taunted, then saw Klarion flinch and grin as he looked to Mariko.
"You probably shouldn't have brought up the D-word to her." He said then floated off toward the furthest part of the room and Mariko narrowed her eyes and looked over her shoulder.
"Electricity and water don't mix," She mumbled.
"What?"
"Nothing!" Mariko shouted sweetly, "Now it doesn't really matter what happened between baldy and me, I just want his company to suffer."
"Lex Corp's helped me out in the past why would I go about destroying the place?" Livewire asked, Mariko's face contorted in anger.
"Because you never know when baldy might try to strike you down! All the members of the light are nothing but two face jerks who use you as pawns! Only a handful of them are any good! And that's when they're simply tagging along for the ride to see how far you go until your ultimately caught and…" Mariko paused in her insane rant only to sigh and grin madly.
"Any who the point is stop asking dumb questions and get on with it; I have something else to take care of later." She said, Livewire huffed.
"Alright weirdo; you've got a deal." She said, Mariko smirked and tossed her the taser she just recently used.
"Be sure to do it so that I can watch," She said, as Livewire recharged her powers, "and I want the entire company out of commission for at least three months."
"You got it." Livewire said then zapped her way through Mariko's circuits, Mariko smiled evilly.
"I'm going to make Savage watch as I take his stupid little club apart." She said, then felt Klarion's presence behind her.
"Why do I get the feeling that last comment in your rant was directed at me?" He asked, Teekl meowed from his shoulders.
"Should I have made myself clearer?" Mariko asked, "That is the only reason you stick around isn't it?"
Klarion pursed his lips in thought then shrugged.
"Well you're partially right." He said. Mariko's eyes shifted to him.
"Why do you stick around anyway?" She asked.
"Boredom." He said with a shrug. Mariko sighed and took a seat at her computer desk, she opened the drawer from her left side and pulled out a strange looking straw doll.
"Jigoku,"
"What?"
"Have you ever heard of Jigoku Shoujo?" Mariko asked, Klarion frowned, where did that question come from all of a sudden?
"In English the title translates to hellgirl." She continued, "You type in the name of the person who gives you grief and she sends them to the netherworld."
Klarion gave her a look, but stayed silent as she continued with this story of hers.
"When I was a little kid I watched the anime constantly, I also secretly wished that she was real and would one day take my parents away." She said, "Of course no such thing happened. Then when I met you I remembered you reminded me of her, which of course made me wonder—"
"Is there a point to all this?" Klarion asked in a bored tone, Mariko gave him a look that surprised him. It wasn't annoyed, nor anger, nor happy, there wasn't a way he could describe Mariko's expression but it bothered him to the point where he wondered—for the first time ever—what was going through her mind.
"I want to enter a covenant with you." Mariko said.
~0~
Tony sat around the Cave, the members of the Team were out on a mission leaving him alone in the cave. The fact that they all trusted him there alone surprised him. He supposed, however, that without Mariko they didn't think he posed much of a threat. Tony was lying on the couch that was in the den of the Cave he stared up at the ceiling as he wondered what was going through Mariko's mind, and Robin's. Robin had shown a recent interest in Mariko's recent plans. Was Robin starting to develop feelings for the young genius too?
"If that's the case I'm royally screwed." He mumbled, then heard a growl behind him. He sat up and saw Super-boy's pet dog; Wolf. Tony remembered seeing this oversized mutt the last time he was here with Mariko. Mariko seemed to be interested in the wolf, and he didn't seem to hate Mariko either. Tony on the other hand he wasn't a big fan of.
"Hey Wolf," Tony said, Wolf growled, "Oh do you want the couch?"
Wolf barked, and watched as Tony stood up and walked away. Once at a safe distance Wolf climbed up on the sofa and lied down. Tony sighed.
"I don't know why you don't like me." He said, then looked down at his hand, the one that had been replaced by machine covered in a type of gel like that was meant to look and feel like skin. The fibers also had a way of mimicking the sensation of touch. It was impressive that something so complex had been done by a girl who was younger than him. If she wanted she could turn his nerves on or off with a flick of a switch.
Tony sighed and sat down on the chair furthest away from Wolf and switched the TV on. Wolf looked up.
"What? I'm not allowed to watch the news?" he asked, Wolf grunted and went back to lying down. Tony nodded and looked to the screen, it was a story on Lex Corp. Tony's eyes went wide. There had been a fire that caused a massive explosion, the entire building had almost been leveled. The reporter said that it was a short circuit fire that caused the explosion. Lex luthor then came on saying that no one was killed in the explosion though there were several injured.
Tony gawked, had Mariko taken out Lex Corp? No she was only after Savage, she wouldn't bother with anyone else related to the light, her focus was on Vandal Savage. Right? Tony looked to the large dog that was now also staring at the screen.
"I think I need to leave." He said then stood and ran out of the room.
~0~
"HAHAHA! I wish I could have seen the look on Lexy's face when his entire company was ruined!" Mariko shouted gleefully as she watched the events of her doing take place on TV, she then sighed, "Sah! I realize, however, that Lex Corp did build most of metropolis it would be a shame to level an entire City for revenge….oh who am I kidding, it would be worth it to see the look on Savage's face!"
"Miko you're talking to yourself again." Klarion said hovering above him, his cat Teekl sitting on his shoulders. Mariko looked up.
"Was I? Oh well I'm just in a good mood! Livewire did exactly what I wanted her to." She said with a grin. Then there was a sudden flash of light followed by a zap of electricity behind the duo.
"Alright pipsqueak I did what you wanted me to; now hand over the man of Steal." Livewire growl. Mariko spun around in her chair.
"When did I ever say that I had the kryptonian?" She asked, Livewire stared.
"You said if I took out Lex Corp you'd get me Superman!" She shouted, Mariko tilted her head to the side as a toothed grin spread across her face. Livewire froze, that wasn't the expression she was expecting.
"Jigoku-kun, do you recall I ever saying that?" Mariko asked, Klarion landed on the ground next to her and shook his head.
"Not really but you humans do so much it's hard to keep track." He said, livewire glared as electricity sparked between her hands.
"You brat! I'll—"
"Hold there sparky!" Mariko shouted, "It's not like I mean to send you back—though I suppose that would be easier…"
"Just try it, I'm over 1,000 watts of pure electricity, I'll fry you before can lay a finger on me." Livewire warned. Mariko made an 'ohreally' face then stood.
"Baka! I'm the smartest girl alive! Even if you were ten thousands watts I'd have a way to contain you." She began, "However the name of this game is chaos."
"Meaning?" livewire asked, Klarion grinned behind Mariko.
"Meaning I don't care what you do now; just don't come back here ever again." Mariko explained, "If you do I'll be forced to kill you."
"SO you're letting me go?" Livewire asked Mariko nodded.
"So long as you create as much chaos for baldy and keep Superman occupied." She said then made a shooing motion with her hands, "No good little lightning bug, spread chaos and turmoil throughout Metropolis."
"I can do that. Yaknow you're alright kid." Livewire said, Mariko shrugged as livewire took her leave. Klarion wrapped his arm around Mariko, making the young genius jump in surprise.
"Yaknow if you weren't so darn right annoying sometimes I think I'd fall in love with you." He said, Mariko shivered.
"Let's not ever go there," She said removing Klarion's hand from around her, "EVER!"
"You're no fun." Klarion said with a pouty grin. Mariko huffed.
"I'm tons of fun, just not in that gross kind of way." She hissed. Klarion shrugged.
"So where to now?" He asked, Mariko looked to him and grinned madly.
"Gotham."
So Mariko's plan is pretty much keep both heroes and vilians busy to pull of her little scheme to get revenge on Savage. Clever no? Anyhow I thought it would be cool to have Livewire and Hardwire(Mariko) team up for a bit. I might do a fan arm of the two of them and post it on my Deviantart page, look for my link on my profile! n_n. Also, what kind of Contract has Mariko entered with Jigoku shonen(Klarion)? We'll find out later, so keep reading! 'See you later armadillos—unless I see you first. Haha!' Review—can you tell I'm a Klarion fan?