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The Mask of Zeo 2
Counter Fight
Ashes
Previously on The Mask of Zeo:
"15:00...this is the hour," Johnny put his wrist watch down.
Outside Zeo pushed a car into place outside the doors.
They were all in place and Zeo got in through a window in an office after climbing onto a shed roof and shimmied across the pipe.
Zeo looked in shock and horror as the Bitbeasts charged at him.
The Spirits focused into one light and impacted into him.
Zeo dropped to the floor.
He was still screaming in surprise.
Johnny knew never to kick...or shoot a man when he's down...it would have been different if Zeo was still an android.
"So...this is how it ends? Pitty..."
Zeo came out of the flame and grabbed Ryoko.
"HELP..."
"RYOKO!" Ling screamed.
Ryoko was climbing a ladder.
It was warm and getting hotter.
Zeo was behind him.
Finally the flames fell under Jess's attack.
They were still there but weaker.
"Okay...we move through now or not at all."
Zeo punched Ryoko and grabbed him breaking his arm.
"AAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH!"
Ryoko then dived off the beam and reached out catching Zeo's legs and knocking him off balance.
Both Ryoko and Zeo fell into the inferno.
"NO!" Makoto was holding back Ling who was crying, she wanted to run towards Ryoko.
"No, he's dead already."
Now the continuum:
"RYOKO!" Makoto held the girl in his arms, he was pulling her into his chest.
She fell to her knees and wept.
He comforted her.
A pair of hands grabbed onto them.
"You need to clear this area."
It was a fireman.
They nodded and Makoto pulled her away to Gou.
All of them were horrified to what they had seen.
"Ling...I...I'm so sorry," Jess said trying to comfort.
The fire crew were busy trying to put the fire out.
Ling just cried.
"Ling...Ryoko did a brave thing...he gave his life for us so we could live happily...it's finished."
"It's over," Oliver repeated.
They were all fixated on the burning building.
If the fall hadn't killed them then the fire would have.
"Wa...wa...was it quick?" she asked.
"I'm sure it was," Gou assured.
"I hope so...I don't want him to suffer."
"He can be with Kevin now and his mother...Ray and his other family and friends...I'm sure he'll rest in peace," Johnny said.
Twenty minutes of silence past until the fire was out.
The crew cheered that the fire was out.
"Excuse me, do you know who started the fire?"
"Yes...but he died in the fire," Jess replied.
"Did any of you start it?"
"No!" Johnny snapped.
"It was just a question," the chief explained.
"How many died in the fire? Was there anyone in there?"
Ling nodded.
"Yes...two."
"I'm sorry for your loss."
"Only one that we cared about died," she said.
"But none should have died...he went in to save the other."
"Died bravely." the chief commented.
Ling nodded.
"Can we go in there?"
He was going to go in to where the platform fell.
It collapsed three minutes after Ryoko killed Zeo.
"Escorted yes but not now...too dark."
"I understand," Makoto said.
Police pulled up and Carlos got out.
He ran to them.
"My god...was anybody in there?"
"Aye," Johnny replied.
"HE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE SURVIVED IF YOU HAD BEEN THERE!" Ling shouted.
Makoto had to hold her back.
"I'm sorry, it wasn't my decision, it was my boss's."
Ling was crying again.
Makoto was trying to calm her down.
"I'm going to have to interview you all...back down in the station."
There were three police cars there.
Johnny and Oliver drove them back.
Their cars were in the lot away from the building.
At the station they were taken into the room one by one.
Each told the truth.
If there was any bail to be made Johnny and Oliver would make it.
But luckily since they had committed no crime they were let off the hook.
The only thing they were guilty off was taking the failed law into their own hands with Zeo.
They had tried but the law wasn't very good in this situation.
When they returned Ling was crying and she was in a tight hug with Makoto.
The memory of Ryoko's death was still strong in her mind.
"I can't believe he's gone."
Jess gave her a drink of water, with all her crying she was very dehydrated and very depressed.
Ling eventually cried herself to sleep an hour later.
She woke a couple of hours later hoping it was a dream.
Sadly she was devastated when she learned Ryoko was still dead.
"Ling, I don't think he'd want you to be so upset over all of this."
"I know," she sniffed.
Makoto gave her a tissue and she blew her nose.
"That's two loved ones I've seen die in front of me."
Makoto was sad about Ryoko.
They all were, Ryoko was someone they'd all miss.
Galman was also gone.
At around 9PM the food was ready.
It wasn't much as none felt like eating.
It was a victory but a victory that felt like defeat.
Ling didn't eat anything.
It wasn't anything that had meat or was cooked.
Doing that would have felt like they were mocking Ryoko's gallant death, too many had died.
No one else would.
It was over.
Zeo was dead.
So many had died in the war.
In the morning they were escorted into the ruins.
No trace of any body could be found.
Ryoko had fallen in and died.
His body had been burned to ashes.
Cast to the four winds.
Also there was no trace of Zeo.
Both were gone.
They didn't want to say he was dead...just MIA.
Ryoko was missing in action.
Author note
Beywriter: Aww, a nice way of saying it.
Ray: Thanks goes to everyone for reviewing.
Max: You too can review, none members can review...don't be selfish and just add it to favourites.
Tyson: MIA means Missing In Action.
