I knew exactly how this looked, there I was already wanted for the murder of three other people all killed in similar fashion, and I was standing over the body of a forth victim. I was innocent for this murder obviously but when your already wanted for past crimes it is basically impossible that you are going to convince ten cops pointing their weapons at you that you are innocent. I knew I had to get out of here, there was no way I could clear my name in prison, but overpowering ten armed cops without killing them was definitely going to be a challenge for someone whose powers were basically meant for killing.
My back turned to the cops I lifted my hands up, giving the impression that I was surrendering and not a threat. Then I waited patiently for one cop to approach me, I waited long enough until I could hear him reaching for the handcuffs, then I struck. Grabbing the officer by his left arm I wrapped my free hand around his gun and melted it, then I pulled the officer's arm backwards, twisting it out of place before striking him over the head with my elbow. I hated doing this, this officer was probably a honest cop just doing his job, and hell I sure have done enough that warranted getting arrested. But I couldn't go to jail right now, not like this.
The other nine officers instantly started shooting at me, causing me to slide between the legs of the second officer and dig my razor tipped gloves into both of his legs, causing them both to instantly start gushing blood.
"Sorry I have to do this." I replied as the officer fell to his knees, I then dropped kicked him in the back of the head before leaping in the air and shooting out two hues, making sure I only hit the guns in order to not hurt the officers holding them. "I know your just doing your jobs." As I landed I made sure to watch my aim as in a flash I shot out hues that quickly melted the guns of the remaining six officers. "But I can't let you arrest me quite yet. I still have a score to settle."
Disarmed the eight cops still standing lunged at me, most of them swinging their night sticks in my direction. Quickly I leaped in the air grabbing one officer by the wrist and pulling him up with me. I then slammed him back first into the hard ground. I could hear the bones break as I twisted his wrist, and as the officer let out a agonizing scream I instantly slammed my heels into his face knocking him out.
Charging back into the pile of seven remaining officers I grabbed two by the collars and after lifting them up off the ground I slammed the back of their heads in the ground so hard I for sure gave them a concussion. Did I feel guilty doing all of this? Hell yeah, but it needed to be done.
One officer attempted a drop kick across my face but I dodged his attempt and sliced a hole in his right ankle, digging my gloves in so deep I think I got a few chunks of skin stuck in them.
"Ew, I'm going to have to wash these afterwards," I griped as I delivered a punch to the back of the officers head.
As I turned to face another cop I didn't realize that another cop was behind me until I felt his night stick across the back on my head.
"OW!" I screamed as my vision got fuzzy for a little bit. Okay, now I'm a little angry. Reaching behind me I grabbed that officer by the wrist, twisted it with one hand while I grabbed a vase sitting next to me with my free hand and smashed it against the second officers face. I then completely pulled the first officer's arm out of socket while I flipped the officer over me, while still holding on to only his wrist. The officer landed on his back screaming in pain as I took his nightstick and struck him over the head three times until he passed out.
The last two officers lunged at me at the same time, hoping that if they tag teamed me that they could over power me. How wrong they were. As soon as I was close enough I leaped into the air, landing behind them I grabbed both of them by the back of the head and slammed their heads together knocking them out.
"Forgive me fellas." I said as I dug through the keys of one of the officers before stepping over the unconscious bodies that separated me and the exits. "But I still got a job to do. Sayonara!"
I ran outside and using the unlock button on the keys I found which police car these keys went to. I started running to the police car but before I hopped in I saw a police helicopter flying above me, shining his light on me.
"Freeze Shego!" A officer in the helicopter said over a megaphone. "In the name of the Japanese police you are under arrest."
"Yeah going to prison isn't on my schedule for today, come back and ask again tomorrow." I shot back before getting in the car and speeding off. The helicopter stayed right on my tail shining it's spotlight on me. I knew that the officers inside was calling for backup and I also knew that as long as that helicopter was in the sky I was never going to lose it.
"Think Shego!" I thought out loud "How do you take out a helicopter without killing everyone on board?" I didn't have time to think long before about sixteen more police cars came speeding down the same road as me.
"Aw shit" I moaned "this day just keeps getting better and better doesn't it?" As if trying to escape a helicopter wasn't bad enough, now I have to try to take out sixteen police cars all with the intention of bringing me in or bringing me down. Shit, shit, shit.
Lowering the drivers side window down I started to reach my arm out only for a bullet to barely avoid grazing my arm.
"Shit!" I seethed quickly reaching my arm back inside. "Okay focus Shego, you got to get these guys off your tail somehow." Reaching my head out of the window to see where I was shooting I fired a green hue at one of the police cars, striking a front tire causing the police car to steer out of control and hit a second police car. The second police car turned sideways causing a third police car to smash into it, ending the pursuit for those three cars.
"Okay, three down, thirteen to go." I sighed before thinking about what my next move would be. That was when I decided hit the breaks and start driving backwards. If I could confuse these officers maybe I could cause them to have a accident and get them all off my tail. Driving eighty miles per hour in reverse, I watched as the police car up front turned to try to follow me, only to hit the car next to it, what happened next was a major pile up, eight out of the remaining thirteen cars all ended up getting caught in the pile up. I was hoping that all thirteen would end up in the crash and this would be over quick, but I can never be that lucky. Still though, if I could knock out that many with just one move, then one more fancy trick just aught to do it.
Unfortunately for me though a machine gun from the helicopter just started to shoot at me. One bullet struck the roof of my car, going through the roof and luckily landing in the passenger seat.
"Shit, shit, shit!" I screamed. I had to take out that helicopter. I got lucky this time that none of those bullets hit me. But if that helicopter kept shooting at me, then eventually it was either going to get me or take out the car, and if either of those happened I was good as fucked.
"Man, I really hope I don't kill anybody doing this," I said to myself as I shot a hue up at the helicopter. I hit the helicopter in the back fin, causing it to spin out of control, it then crash landed right in front of the remaining five cars. At first I cheered the fact that I got away, until I saw the helicopter explode resulting in both the helicopter and all five police cars going up in a giant fireball.
"Great," I cried "more innocent lives gone at my hands." What was I supposed to do? Those cops showed that they weren't against bringing me in dead and if I didn't react fast than death was going to be a real possibility for me. I HAD to make a instant decision to save my own life. Sadly though the decision just cost those cops their lives, which was something I was trying my hardest to avoid. "Oh Shego, you are in some deep, deep, shit right now."
I couldn't go home, I knew that would be the first place the cops would look. And now that I was inadvertently responsible for the death of a few of their own, I knew they were now more desperate than ever to take me in. With nowhere else to go I went to the Catholic Cathedral a few blocks down to not only hide, but also to repent.
The same priest that I had confessed to a while back was still in the church, lighting some candles getting ready for a fellowship in a couple of hours. Sitting down on a front pew I buried my head as the priest came in approach me.
"Speak your mind my sister."
"I have really blew it, I thought that I was doing what was right by myself but all it has caused is me to be in more trouble then I ever was back in America. I got involved with some bad people I thought by offering my services that I would be making use of my unique abilities. I knew it was a dishonest living but as long as I was making money I didn't care. But the people was using me. I tried making it right, I tried making up for my mistake but it only made things worse. Now I have a target on my back from both sides of the law and my walls are closing in. I have hit rock bottom Reverend. I have no where else to go, no where else to hide. I want to make things right but, I don't know what to do. A friend told me once that no one is past redemption, that despite everything one has done that as long as they are still breathing that they can still change. I want to believe that but, how can someone that has done the things I have done change? How can I change, when I am the reason that friend is dead?" I buried my face in my hands in wept harder than I have ever wept before, knowing that I was the cause for Hanna's death. "I don't know what to do anymore Reverend?"
The Priest was silent for a minute, then getting on one knee he knelt down to where I was sitting and put a comforting hand on my shoulder as I mourned over my friend.
"Making things right isn't easy, and a lot of times it takes a leap of faith. But it starts by confessing your sins. You are hurting my sister, you are grieving. You want to make things right but you are scared of facing the consequences for your actions."
"Of course I am scared. I have killed people for money, broken up families. I have been cursed with these hellish powers and I thought the only way I that I could make a living with them was by being a mercenary. But now I have been framed and set up. I know I deserve to go to prison for everything I have done in the past but I don't want the people that have wronged me to get away either. I am angry, I am scared, but mostly I am grieving knowing my lifestyle caused the one person I truly cared about to die. I want to believe that there is still hope for me, that I can still avoid hell, but I don't see any way out of this."
The priest was silent for a second before getting up and signalling for me to follow him. I obeyed and he led me down a hall where there was a stain glass painting of three men on a cross. "You see this painting? It is a picture of the crucifixion. The one in the middle is Jesus and the other two are thieves."
"I am familiar with this story, I did grow up a Catholic." I replied
"Well then you must know that the thief on Jesus's left before he died repented his sins, and you know what Jesus said? Today you will be with me in paradise."
"I'm not a thief though I killed people."
"Doesn't matter, as long as you repent, and as long as you are truly sorry for what you have done, it is not to late to be redeemed."
"But even if I do repent, how do I make things right?"
"That is up to you, but I do know this, before this is all over, you are going to have to face the fruits of your labor before you can finally have peace."
I knew what he was hinting at, once this was all over, I would have to face the penalty of my action. "I understand Reverend. But promise me this, please don't be the one to turn me in. I need to be the one to do it myself."
"I won't say a thing. Now, you are welcome to stay for the sermon in a couple of hours."
"Really, after everything I have confessed?"
"It's not the healthy that needs a doctor my sister, but the sick. I just hope that the message will speak to you, and you will be a better person when it is over."
I don't know why, but this man reminded me a lot of Hanna. Was this what a person of faith was truly like? I grew up in church, why did I not turn out like this? I still didn't know how everything was going to end for me, but I knew one thing. Staying and hearing this message might just give me the answers I am looking for. So with a smile I nodded and accepted.