The next day had dawned and the sun was now beginning to rise. Kiara opened her eyes to find herself on the bed with Bruce's arms wrapped around her body. She felt him kiss the back of her head which made her smile. Part of her didn't think Bruce could be this affectionate, but then again, she hadn't really expected him to say that he loved her after they mated. She wondered if Bruce had been kissing her as she slept, or if he had done it just because he noticed her waking up. "Bruce." Kiara quietly said.
"Yeah?" Bruce replied.
Kiara grinned as she said, "I'm going to be on top next time."
Bruce chuckled as he thought about her getting on top of him and shouting dirty things at him. "Oh, is that so, ice queen?" he responded with a little smirk on his face.
"If I have to fight you to be on top, I will." Kiara told him before giggling.
"Alright, I'll let you on top next time. But you better put on a good show for me." Bruce said before stroking her right cheek.
Kiara's grin grew before she said, "I have something special planned for you next time we're alone."
"Can't wait to see what you have planned for me, you horny little ice rat." Bruce chuckled before quickly kissing her lips and standing up. "Still got that fucking cold." he quietly said to himself as he walked towards the bathroom.
While that was happening, Owen was now talking to Rhea about the location of the new recruits. "So our guy has some company then, a Gardevoir? Usually they don't like to be associated with people from Kanto, must have grew up together." Owen guessed.
"Well you can ask them when you meet them." Rhea replied.
"What are they doing here in Unova anyway? It's more than a little coincidental don't you think?" Owen asked.
"Do you think he may be working for Silas?" Rhea questioned him, already knowing the answer to that question.
"It would explain why the private survived where the rest did not, but I doubt he's working with Silas. But it's still a possibility we should keep in mind, can never be too careful." Owen responded.
"Especially when it comes to janitor's closets." Rhea mocked him before she chuckled a little.
"Damn closets get me all the time. Anyway, I'm on my way to wake up the others and get to the arms dealer before heading out to pick up our guy and the Gardevoir. Talk to you later Rhea." Owen said before she said goodbye and the line between the two was quickly cut.
A few hours later...
Everyone was back in the car, after visiting a man with a load of guns in his van. Kovick got his guns and so did Louis where as everyone else got ammo instead, or didn't get anything at all. Kovick's gun, an LA85A2 is an assault rifle that was a bullpup style gun, meaning the magazine is behind the trigger. He picked the gun because he had used it before, and was very familiar with it. In his hands, it was a very deadly weapon. Louis had picked the M4 assault rifle for a different reason. He had seen people shooting them in movies. He didn't really know much about guns and had only really shot pistols before, so he just got one of the rifles he recognized. Louis hoped that he wouldn't get into too many firefights, he had only managed to kill slavers before by catching them by surprise.
Owen was driving the car on seemingly abandoned road in the middle of the forest, but they were close to where Rhea said their recruits would be. Everything was quiet, mostly because Kiara was asleep and Bruce didn't seem to want to get on anyone's nerves today. Things seemed to be going normally, until everyone heard the sound of a car catching up to them from the right side of their car within what seemed to only be a second. Owen quickly looked to his right to see a jeep charging down a dirt path directly towards them. Before anyone could say anything, the jeep rammed straight into the side of the car and before anyone actually registered what had happened they were tumbling around inside the car. When everyone stopped tumbling, most of them were groaning in pain, but not Tobias.
The first thing the gray haired agent did after realizing the car was resting on its roof was to crawl off Kovick and over to the cracked window. He saw people quickly getting out of the green jeep that had rammed them and grabbing assault rifles, mostly AK-47s. The next thing he saw were grenades landing at their feet, and nearby the car. "Grenade!" Tobias shouted to the others as he covered his face with his arms while several deafening bangs went off, followed by what sounded like shots from sniper rifles which were quickly followed by automatic gunfire. Tobias guessed that the grenades that were thrown were flashbangs since they were still alive, but the question was who was throwing them.
The whole team was completely disorientated. Most of them couldn't see straight and the ones that could, only saw their teammates crawling off each other. By the time the gunfire had stopped, everyone had regained most of their senses. Reaper now looked around for Louis, and saw him getting out of the car through the smashed out window. "Louis!" Reaper shouted out to him, knowing he could get himself killed if those people were still out there.
Louis crawled out on his stomach, out onto the dirt. He guessed that the car must have been completely run off the road and towards the forest. He had his rifle in his left hand and nothing else in the other. He rolled onto his back and took a look at his right forearm which had a massive cut in it. Blood dripped down his arm, it was bleeding profusely, yet he could hardly even feel it.
"Louis!" Reaper shouted again to get his attention.
Louis now got on his feet and was now crouching with his back towards the car as he looked all around him, backing back up towards the broken window. "I'm bleeding." Louis quickly said back to Reaper in an almost panicked tone of voice.
"Keep your head down and don't panic." Reaper said back to him, sounding calm despite his gut feeling that this might be the end of them.
"I'm not moving anywhere." Louis said back to him as he kept looking from side to side and occasionally at his wound. He couldn't tell how deep or long it was with all the blood, but he guessed the cut must have been about five inches long. He guessed one of Reaper's claws accidentally slashed into his arm when they were tumbling around.
Everything was quiet for a few seconds, until all the humans on the team with an earpiece received a message from what sounded like a male human. "If anyone is still alive down there, hold your fire. We're friendlies."
Owen immediately replied through his earpiece and asked, "Who is this I'm speaking to?"
"Call me Mark, we were tipped off that they'd ambush you by your friend, Rhea. Anyway we've got your recruits here and we're coming down with them now, so don't fire on us." Mark responded.
Owen sighed as he realized that Rhea had just willingly dropped him into an ambush without telling him. He guessed she had her reasons, but he was more than a little annoyed with her right now. "We'll hold our fire, come on down." Owen replied before looking towards the smashed out window that everyone was crawling out of.
Tobias however was not moving towards the window. "We don't know if they're friendlies yet, you better be ready if they start firing on us." he warned him.
"Don't worry, I'm always careful." Owen told him before crawling out of the window.
Richard was now crouching by the car with Tera, looking at everyone that crawled out. He realized that both Tera and himself were lucky, they had only got thrown around inside the car and would probably only end up aching a little, but some others looked more bashed up than they did. Louis was the worst, his right arm was covered in blood. Bruce now had a cut on his bottom lip right in the middle that now left a trail of blood down his chin, he tried tried wiping it away but it only smudged the blood around his face. Everyone else looked pretty much unharmed which was pretty surprising to Richard.
Tera now looked at Richard and asked, "Did you get hurt?"
"No, not badly anyway. What about you?" Richard asked in response.
"I'm fine, and I hope those people over there are friendly." Tera said as she pointed towards a group of people that were now coming towards them from the other side of the road, from where the jeep had come from.
Everyone that had a gun was holding it, ready to pull their triggers if the people heading towards them were hostile. A group of eight people cautiously inched towards them, past the jeep that had rammed into Owen's car. They stepped over the bodies of the slavers they had killed as they approached the team. Owen approached the group that wore ghillie suits and face paint. He noticed that the majority of them carried sniper rifles. One man stepped forward, most of his face was obscured by the paint and clothing he wore but he could tell by the sound of his voice that this was the man he had talked to over his earpiece.
"These are your recruits. Good luck on your mission." the man simply said as two people stepped forward, a Gardevoir and a man as the rest of the team walked away back towards where they came from.
Bruce walked over to Owen and asked, "Where the fuck are they going? Couldn't they at least help us get our ride upright?"
Owen shrugged and said, "Maybe they have more important things to do."
Bruce now turned his attention to the two people in ghillie suits and looked at the male human, who he recognized. "Hey... This is that guy from Kanto isn't it? Shit, I forgot his name now." Bruce said out loud.
"My name is Robert." the man replied.
"Yeah, that's the one!" Bruce exclaimed before he realized something. "Oh... Fuck no!" Bruce shouted as he ran back over to the car as Kiara looked on curiously. He quickly went back around the car and climbed back into it through the broken window before he spoke again. "It's fucking happened AGAIN! Fucking cock suckers! They really know how to piss me off!" Bruce yelled.
The Gardevoir looked at Owen and stuttered, "W-what's wrong w-with him?"
Owen sighed and said, "By the sound of things, his drinks have gotten smashed."
Kiara giggled at Bruce before sarcastically saying, "Oh, it's a living nightmare."
Bruce looked back over his shoulder towards Kiara and sighed. "If I didn't have something better than booze then I'd be really pissed off."
Kiara looked at him and said, "I'm better than your drinks? Ohh, how touching."
"Feeling bitchy today are we?" Bruce retorted.
"Yep!" Kiara said with a grin.
"Heh, never change." Bruce quietly said to her before crawling away from the car and picking up his combat shotgun.
Owen ignored the others and turned his attention back to the two people in front of him. "I can't remember if I told Robert before so I'll just say right now, my name is Owen. I picked everyone that's here to be here for a reason. I am not the leader of this team, I gave that job to Richard." he stated as he pointed to the man talking to the Lucario. Just as he did that, he began to wonder if these two were in a relationship, but he pushed that thought out of his head after he remembered that they're from Kanto. "He's a friendly person. You can talk to him if you have any further questions. But now, I'm going to say this once. If you want out of this mission, now is the only time to back out." he told them.
Robert looked to the Gardevoir besides him before looking back to Owen. "We'll go with you guys." he replied.
Owen smiled as he said, "Good, now we'll sort out the problem with our injured and try and get our car upright."
Meanwhile, Kovick was crouched next to Louis, now bandaging up his arm. "That's the best I can do right now." he stated.
Louis looked at his bandaged forearm and said, "It's better than nothing."
Kovick stood up and began to walk away, until he heard a few unexpected words from Louis.
"Thanks Kovick, I'm sorry about pissing you off before. I didn't mean to." Louis told him.
Kovick looked back to him and said, "It's okay, everyone has different views."
Shortly after he said that, he walked over to the others to check if anyone was injured. Now, Reaper walked over to Louis and said, "Sorry about the arm."
Louis smiled slightly before saying, "Things could've been worse."
"I'm feeling sorry for you, first a bullet grazes your thigh and now this." Reaper said back to him.
Louis chuckled before saying, "I'm not sure if I'm unlucky, or really lucky to still even be alive."
"I'd say a bit of both." Reaper said before looking over to the other people around them who now looked like they were preparing for something. "I think the others are planning to flip the car." Reaper said.
"I'd help them but..." Louis said before he pointed to his forearm.
Reaper just chuckled before saying, "You're just lazy."
"Don't let anyone else know that or they might get me to do something useful." Louis joked before standing up and now watching the others attempt to flip over the car.
Author's notes: Okay, thanking the usual people! hironada and BigBossSonic for editing these, the readers for reading, and... Well, that's just about it. :3
