Attention all plagiarizers and people looking to sue me, DON'T! I admit that some characters are the property of MIB The Animated Series, while other's belong to Delia and/or Chanda, but hey, the rest are mine along with this story! ^_^ Enjoy!

Written in the Stars: A Destined Romance

Part 25: X to the Rescue!

X charged out towards the large resort and Kay caught site of him out of the corner of his eye. "Let's go Slick," he tapped Jay on the shoulder and woke him up, "X is here and he and Chassidy just took off for that large resort."

"What? If that maniac spots those two he might hurt Elle!" Jay stammered as he rubbed his eyes.

"That's why we have to follow and cut off his exits," Kay continued, "go over to U and tell him to cover the side exits with W, then come around the back with me and we'll make sure that the perp has no way out."

Jay nodded and took off. Normally they would've talked through their communicators but they had no way of knowing if an old pro like Ziphron had technology used to sense the signals and alert him before they could move.

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"And here comes the cavalry," F chuckled staring out the window.

"Time to get the guest of honor out of the closet," Ziphron stated as he opened the closet door and was promptly kicked in the ribs by an untied and angry Agent Elle.

"What the-" he gasped doubling over in pain.

"Stop her!" F demanded as Elle scrambled to her feet and fled towards the door.

Ziphron snagged the agent by her arm and clung her against the wall forcefully. "That ought to knock the wind out of her!"

Elle stared up at the blurry shadows approaching her. Everything was getting dark, her head was throbbing, NO! She jerked herself up and stumbled for the window, it was her nearest escape route and she had to get out of there, had to stop X before he got himself killed!

"X!!!" Chassidy shouted to her brother pointing up at the resort with a horror stricken expression. He looked up to see what had frightened her so much and noticed that a small figure had stumbled out onto the ledge several stories high.

"That's Elle!" he exclaimed, he'd know that tiny figure anywhere!

"We've got to get to her!" Chassidy screamed and spotted the fire escape leading up the side of the building, it would take them right to the ledge.

"Wait!" he see a second, then a third figure crawl out onto the ledge in hot pursuit of Elle, Ziphron and…no, it couldn't be! F!

X dashed up the stairs once crashing through the doors, thankful that he was wearing his human suit as he sometimes forgot to do. Chassidy had taken the fire escape and was determined to save her friend, even if it meant risking her own life, she owed Elle that much!

Elle backed away along the ledge as the figures took shape and came at her, "You won't get away that easily!" Ziphron snarled.

"Just yank her back in so that we can get of this thing!" F snapped.

Neither con saw Chassidy rapidly making her way up the fire escape or knew that X was nearly at their door as he sped up the stairs.

"You're more trouble than you're worth human!" Ziphron lunged at the terrified agent causing her to slip of the ledge to avoid his grasp.

"Aaahhhh!!!!!"

Elle was plummeting towards the ground, 'This is it!', she frantically thought as the pavement got increasingly closer to her skull.

"Got'cha!" Chassidy gasped as she caught Elle's foot from the ninth story where she had climbed up the fire escape, "Don't worry Laurel!"

"X!" Elle panicked as Chassidy pulled her up over the railing, "Where is he?!"

"He's rushed up the stairs!"

"NO!" Elle glanced upwards and saw F and Ziphron crawl angrily back into their room, "He's running into a trap! They're going to kill him!"

X burst through the door, weapon drawn, but too late to see that Ziphron and F had snuck into the adjoining room, scaring the daylights out of the honeymooners and causing them to flee down the hall.

The crashing sound caught Ziphron's attention and he charged back into the room, tacking his X partner and shouting to F, "I've got him! Get the bonds!"

F nodded and went to get the bonds that they had purchased from the pawnshop owner, passing the window and failing to catch sight of Elle as she slipped back in. "Oh F!!!"

The raven haired con artist turned around to meet Elle's fist. "That's for kidnapping me." Elle hissed as F staggered backwards and collapsed on the floor.

Ziphron glanced up from the struggling X and noticed Elle storming over towards him, "Make one move and your boyfriend dies!" he threatened, holding the weapon that X had dropped against the helpless alien's throat.

Elle stopped dead in her tracks, 'Oh great,' she thought, 'what now?!'

Chassidy had climbed back down reluctantly to alert the other agents while Elle had been making her way back up to save X. "Freeze scum!" Kay demanded as he charged into the room and with a lightening fast reflex kicked the gun out of Ziphron's hands.

"I'm not going down that easily," he muttered and swung X in front of him, intending to use his ex partner as a human…ur…alien shield.

Meanwhile F stirred and noticed Elle standing there, watching the dramatic scene play out and totally unaware of the danger lurking right behind her. F silently drew out her weapon, a Droxi Heat Beam Discharger and aimed it at Elle.

W, who had just entered the room behind Kay and Jay saw this and shouted a warning, "Elle! Look out!"

Elle turned and dodged the blast but not in time to save herself from being shot in hip.

"ELLE!" X screamed and rammed Ziphron in his stomach with his elbow before dashing over to her.

"You sentimental fool!" F screeched and took aim at him.

W held up her blaster and shot the Droxi Heat Beam Discharger from F's grasp. "That's Agent X to you!"

F stared at her bleeding hand in shock, she wasn't going down, not now, not ever! She reached up and grabbed Elle who was clutching her injured hip and jerked her back against the window, "You're coming with me Sweetheart!"

"Elle!" she had been jerked right out of X's grasp. Ziphron saw this as a chance to get away.

"Not so fast!" Jay exclaimed when he saw the alien dart back into the adjoining room at towards the window.

Jay charged in after him, "Slick!" Kay yelled at his rash partner.

"Release the agent!" W ordered as U fumbled with the handbook to remember what to do in a situation like this.

F backed away, putting one foot out on the ledge and then the other, forcing Elle to step out with her, "Make a move and I'll chuck you off this ledge and you'll never see your precious Agent X again!" she sneered into Elle's ear.

Elle nodded, she hated this! Hated the terrified expression on X's face and knowing that there wasn't a thing that she could do about it!

Ziphron came around from the other window and gestured towards the fire escape, if they could just make it over there with their hostage they'd be home free!

F nodded and forced Elle to walk over to it. Backwards so that the agents wouldn't be able to fire without hitting Elle, it was just assumed that if they shot Ziphron F would hurt her.

Jay and Kay made their way out onto the ledge as well, keeping a close eye on Elle and ignoring Ziphron's threats for them not to come another step closer. X had had enough of this, no one was going to hurt his human while he was around! He raced out down the hall and over to the room at the end, where the corner of the building and more importantly , the fire escape, would be.

"Oh!" a middle aged heavy set woman in a pink fuzzy bathrobe and matching shower cap screamed when X burst through her door, "Who are you?!"

"Uh, I'm Inspector, um…no.246 with division 6 in hotel safety inspections, this room is hazardous due to uh…well it has a great many fire hazards and…oh, just get outta my way lady!" he stuttered pushing past her.

"Oh, my. I had no idea that this room was so unsafe, my husband is going to be in a real tiff when he hears about this." the lady went back to her bathroom and put on her bedroom slippers and took off down the hallway demanding that the resort manager explain himself for giving her such a perilous room.

X paid no attention to the hysteric woman as he climbed out, 'Yes!', just as he had planned he had come out right behind F and she hadn't noticed he was there!

He reached out grabbed F by her shoulder, "Now human, it's time you learned not to pull one over on the superior Agent X!"

"Oh please," F spat, "Touch me and you're precious partner is done for." She shoved Elle over a bit letting her dangle her heels off the edge of the ledge for a moment to prove her point.

"Ah X," Ziphron sneered, his wretched voice dripping with sarcasm, "just the alien I wanted to KILL!"

He made a move to come around F and Elle, "Wait you idiot!" F hissed, "You'll knock me off!"

"NO!" Elle screamed as Ziphron's arms reached around her and F in an effort to wring X's neck, she pushed herself back on F and kicked out at Ziphron with all her might. This knocked F off balance and sent her falling backwards off the ledge taking Elle with her.

X reached out and grabbed Elle's arm just as Ziphron and F fell. "I've got ya." he assured her.

"MORON!" a voice shrieked for the next story down, Elle and X glanced over to see that F had caught hold of that ledge as she fell and Ziphron was clinging desperately to her waist.

"Me?! You're the idiot who had to have an elaborate death for that stool pigeon!"

"And it was your idea to use a well known resort for a hideout!"

F's grasp on the ledge was slipping. "We've got to pull them up." Elle sighed to X.

X nodded and went over to the fire escape. "You're not that far out!" he called to them, "Give me your hand and I'll pull you both over!"

F glared at X's hand, "And you'll turn us over to the JeeDangian government too! You think I'm going to allow that? HA!"

She made a futile move to get a better grip on the ledge but failed, "You'd better do as he says, F! Or you'll both make nasty stains on the street!"

"You keep out of this Blondie!"

"I opt for letting them fall." Elle muttered.

"Oh just give the lout your hand!" Ziphron shouted.

"I'm the brains of this outfit, lackey!" F mumbled as she tried again to pull herself up, "You just remember that!"

Ziphron had had enough lip from this human, "It was being your lackey that got me into this mess! If I had gone out and committed the same crime on my own I'd have gotten away with it! Not to mention that I'd have gotten a bigger share!"

"How dare you!" she argued, losing her grip the whole time as they rocked back and forth. Her kicking at Ziphron in a vain attempt to make him fall and Ziphron trying to climb up her back intending to knock her down afterwards.

"They're gonna kill each other," Elle called to X who was unsuccessfully trying to reach F's hand. He didn't like either of those two backstabbers but it just wasn't in him to let them fall to their doom.

The struggle got uglier as Jay and Kay made their way down to help X. Elle let them pass and watched with concern as the ledge began to crumble around F's clenched fingers.

"She's gonna fall!" Elle shouted. Kay sprang out to catch her with Jay clinging onto his jacket but F slipped before he could get over the rail and with a loud scream that faded as they both fell, Ziphron and F plummeted to the ground and hit the cement sidewalk with a sickening thud!

Elle cupped her hands over her mouth, she was going to throw up, she just knew it. X noticed Elle's horrified expression and raced over to her, not understanding why she could dissect bodies but not handle the sight of the two dead cons below. Surly she had seen worse in the morgue? He rocked her back and forth in his tight embrace as she sobbed for the loss of life.

Kay was pulled back over the railing by Jay and W was fanning U's face with the handbook, "Typical," she muttered, "he blacks out at the sight of blood."

"…and guts." Chassidy added with a quick glance out the window.

"Kay," Zed's image appeared on the communicator as Kay pulled it out of his pocket.

"Sir, the situation has been resolved," Kay replied, "Elle's safe, the kidnappers fell off the resort, killed at impact…"

"Are X and Chassidy there with you like we assumed?"

"Yes Sir," everyone's safe and sound, and so as not to get X into too much trouble he added, "Elle almost fell but X saved her, she's safe now and practically owes her partner her life. All in all, it's been a pretty typical day for us agents."

Zed just nodded, he didn't feel like yelling anymore anyways. At least everyone was safe, that was all he cared about for the time being.

Jay and Kay looked up at the window to see W and Chassidy sighing about something on the ledge, "Awww…."

They turned to find Elle and X locked in a passionate kiss, "They've flipped!" Jay stated and headed back up to the window.

"Where's U?" Kay asked, trying to ignore the puzzling sight.

"Out cold," W moaned, "who wants to help me drag him to the elevator?"

Elle and X pulled apart, "X, I thought I was going to lose you." Elle exclaimed with tears running down her cheeks.

"It's okay Little Ears," X whispered running his clawed hand through her beautiful blonde hair. "No one will ever tear us apart. I promise. I love you."

Elle looked up at her partner in surprise and Kay nearly slid off the window sill. "I love you too." Elle blushed, "I'm sorry about biting your head off earlier, thanks for rescuing me."

"Anytime Angel Eyes."

This was a new nickname! She liked it. "Oh X." she smiled and kissed him again. "I'm still calling you Cowboy."

"Don't think you won't be hearing Little Ears again," he chuckled.

"Okay this is getting' mushy," Chassidy laughed and walked away from the window.

Luckily for the other agents Chassidy rode back with W and the unconscious Agent U (who was in the backseat with W's jacket thrown over his face) and Elle and X were in the separate SUV. They didn't have to deal with all the 'I love you's' and the flirting. Every time there was a stoplight though, there they were kissing! Kay noted this as he stared into his rearview mirror. He was going to have to talk to Zed about setting these two up an appointment with Zeeltor!

"Elle…" X moaned as they kissed.

"Yes, Cowboy?"

"When we get back to Headquarters," the light turned green and Kay's LTD pulled ahead, "I've got something I need to ask you."

W practically laid down on her horn behind the lovebirds causing U to jerk up and bang his head on the roof of their SUV. "I can't see a darn thing. Oh no----I'm blind!"

W snickered as U banged around in the backseat, "Fasten that seatbelt partner," she smiled as X and Elle sped off, "Cause here we go!"

Chassidy laughed till her sides hurt when W floored it sending U flying against the back window and into the floorboard where he got stuck with the jacket still covering his face.

"Yep, that's my partner alright," she muttered and then laughed.

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