We're at the climax of the story here, I think. So don't plagiarize or sue me, that won't make me very happy, grrr…. Some characters are mine, others are Chanda's or Delia's, and the rest are the property of MIB The Animated Series. Now play some dramatic background music in your head and read on! ^_^
Written in the Stars: A Destined Romance
Part 29: Light Up the Night!
Elle and X were marched up the stairs to the Windbreaker's Palace shopping duplex and shoved out onto the roof. "Time to pay you back for ratting on us years ago you little snitch!" Ziphron scowled.
"Did you honestly think we'd forget?" F sneered, then turned to Elle. "I really considered letting you watch your little partner go first. But I think it would be much more dramatic for you if you got to hear each other's screams of agony, while roasting together, side…by…side!"
X and Elle glared at the witch as they were forced up to the light tower and tied to it via the Balbyan bonds. "And this is where it gets good." Ziphron chuckled, dumping the kerosene on the angered agents.
"Nice PJ's Agent X." F laughed as he spat away some of the kerosene that soaked his lips.
"I'll see you both imprisoned for this, for LIFE!" X shouted as the two cons cackled.
"And if you have no objections dear," Ziphron chuckled to F, "I think I'd like to do the honors."
"Hearing their screams of agony will be enough for me." F laughed.
N rushed up the stairs and burst through the door to the roof, panting she exclaimed, "I…thought….you…said…that…you…wouldn't….hurt….X!"
"What's she doing here?!" Elle asked X.
"She's the traitor that gave those creeps access to the latest cloning technology." X grumbled.
"Fool," laughed F, "you trust a pair of con artists to keep their word?"
"Although we haven't forgotten that your help is what led us to gain our little revenge," Ziphron smiled from the light tower, "so you're going to get exactly what's coming to you. Your share and ours, of the blame!"
N sneered at the two miscreants, "Don't count on it."
Agent O had come out of the door too, after N already had the attention of both cons. He had scaled the small side of the stairwell wall and climbed up just behind Ziphron and the captive agents.
"Now if you'll sit still like a good little duped agent," F laughed, ignoring N's threats, "we've got some unfinished business to take care of."
Ziphron held the lighter up between the two bound agents and began to flick it, in a millisecond it would ignite and send the two agents into oblivion. Ziphron slowly stepped back, intending to fling the flame onto the two soaked captives. "Been nice knowing you, Agents."
Time slows and nearly stands still at moments like this, the moments where evil appears to be winning and the goody goods can kiss their tales good-bye. The flame was all but lit in that one millisecond that became an hour, and the Men In Black, can do A LOT in a millisecond.
O leapt out from around the light tower, tackling Ziphron and sending him crashing back down on top of the cemented roof. The lighter was knocked out of his hand and slid across the roof stopping when N's foot came down on it.
Turning gracefully to a startled and infuriated F she scoffed, "Now who's the pathetic little duped agent?"
"You don't honestly think you've won?!" F screamed and charged N.
The two women tangled on the roof, punching, biting, scratching, a real cat fight! N wasn't about to let F get that lighter, not now or ever! No one was going to cook her green honey bunny…ur…Agent X!
"Think we can wiggle out of these soaked bonds?" Elle asked X as Ziphron and Agent O exchanged fierce blows below them.
"Doubtful, but it's worth a try." X replied, smiling at his partner, forcing a hopeful grin.
Elle nodded and both of them began wriggling against the bonds, the thing that makes Balbyan bonds so strong and virtually unbreakable is that they constrict when pulled against. The two agents had to give up when the bonds were so tight that their breathing became extremely labored.
Kay and Jay rushed up the stairs and found the entire chaotic scene on the roof a bit surprising, why hadn't Agents N and O just called for backup?
Then Jay spotted Elle and X choking against the bonds against the light tower, "Kay! There they are!"
"Good work Slick," Kay stated and climbed up to where the agents were.
'Yeah, great work Hawk Eye,' Elle sneered sarcastically.
"Get…us…loose!" X choked out as Jay tugged at the bonds, making them tighter!
"JAY!!!" Elle gasped, he was not helping!
"Cut them humans!" X snapped.
Kay took out a small pocketknife sized blade that glowed faintly neon green. "That's not gonna cut these thick ropes Kay!" Jay exclaimed, "We'd need a hack saw, or a chain-"
With one quick slash Kay cut away the bonds and Elle and X fell to the ground, gasping for air. "One more minute and they'd have been suffocated." Kay said as he knelt down offering X his hand as Jay picked up Elle by her shoulders. X graciously excepted while Elle batted Jay away with a look of intense fury. "Way to go and strangle us Jay!"
Jay was about to protest when Agent O collided with him. "F!" Ziphron shouted over his shoulder, "Get that lighter before they get away!"
"Don't order me around Ziphron!" F snapped, "I'm in charge here and don't you ever forget it!"
N shoved the agent away from the lighter again, this was just like when the two clones had fought!
"Sorry to double-cross and run but," she kicked the lighter out of F's reach as she lunged for it, "you two are under arrest!"
"Not likely," F swung her hand around and slapped N across her face, knocking the ray bans off her head and sending them shattering onto the roof.
O was furious, he got up to attack the gutless con but Jay held him back, "Easy dude, you've already had yourself tore up once tonight."
Ziphron ran over to the lighter as Kay drew his gun, "I wouldn't try it if I were you."
"I've got nothing to lose," Ziphron sneered and kicked the lighter up into his hand.
"Over here!" F called, she had N by her throat and backed her over to Ziphron. "Give me the lighter you idiot, he won't shot one of his fellow agents to get to me."
Kay aimed the gun at F, well N too, none the less. "I said not to try it and I meant it. Now put down the lighter and release that agent!"
N cringed, would Kay really shoot her? He would if he only knew what she'd been up to over the last couple of weeks.
O kept his gaze on Kay's trigger finger, it rocked back and forth on the trigger of the weapon, he wasn't going to let N get shot, not if he could help it.
"Put down the lighter and let her go slime balls or I'll blast you both into next Tuesday!"
Kay sounded serious, no one on the roof could really tell if he was bluffing. Elle and X still reeked of kerosene so if that lighter got lit and flung over to them, everyone standing around them was going to go up in flames. And if Kay took his shot he'd not only be shooting F but a fellow agent. The stakes were high and things didn't look good, but Kay had been in this situation many times before, and he knew what he had to do…
The shot was fired and N's eyes widened as the blast came straight for her, "NO!" O's voice rang out and the agent hit the ground.
Jaws dropped, Kay had done it, he'd actually fired at another agent, knowing that it could be fatal. And from where the shot had hit, it probably was.
"No…" the agent would've sunk to their knees had they not been held up, tears streamed down their face, a cold and all too late realization hit.
Ziphron had drawn out his riffle and held it steady so that no one dared to draw close to the fallen agent. "Idiot," he muttered.
"He is not!" N shot Ziphron a furious look, O had just taken a blast for her and now this…this….heartless creature had the nerve to go and call him an idiot?! "I swear you'll pay for that! You won't live through this night for what you've done!!!"
"I'm not the one who shot the love crazed fool." Ziphron chuckled.
"You're the one responsible for his death cretin!" N spat, literally spat, at Ziphron. "You and this witch behind me!"
N was furious, ashamed, and most of all heartbroken. Why hadn't she seen it before? If only she'd never gone along with this plan, double-crossing intentions or not, and what in the galaxy had possessed her to get poor O involved?!
Kay didn't take aim again, he watched the lifeless form of Agent O on the cement before him. He hadn't expected him to jump out in front of the blast like that. To risk his life. Kay knew he had to shot N but he never intended to do it anywhere critical, a simple shot to the shoulder, it would go right through and hit F. F would've dropped the lighter and N could've stumbled away while Kay took out Ziphron with a second blast. He'd just never counted on Agent O getting in the way like that, the poor agent had been shot through the back at close range.
N elbowed F as hard as she could and dashed out to O, Ziphron rose his riffle but Kay was faster and shot the weapon from his hands.
"Fine, we'll let them play out their little drama then," he sneered, rubbing his sore clawed hand.
She knelt down over O and turned him on his side, sobbing when she noticed that the blast had gone all the way through. Blood stained the front of his suit and a small pool of green blood formed beneath his body.
"O?" she sniffled, "Please be okay, I'm so sorry. This is all my fault. I shouldn't have drug you into this." she laid her head down against his, her tears pouring down onto his cheek.
Elle watched, wanting to break into sobs herself. It was obvious now that N's crush on X had been the reason that she and O had gotten here first. She must've pretended to go along with F and Ziphron's plan. Not the worst idea in the world. Too bad she had to learn too late who had really loved her.
Unarmed the two cons had no choice but to surrender when the agents advanced on them. Ziphron and F were taken into custody and shipped back to the JeeDang galaxy to face charges, Lyndon and the Alien Rights Committee were now breathing down F's neck as well for the way she had acted resulting in O's injury. Elle and X were relieved to finally have the nightmare end. Kay felt bad that things had taken such an unexpected turn but Zed assured him that there was no way he could've known, it was all part of being an MIB. N was an emotional wreck after the disaster with O, surprisingly, it was Elle who offered the most comfort to her. Things weren't going to be the same for N, she blamed herself fully for what had happened to Agent O. It didn't look like there was a happy ending for this agent, but then, happy endings weren't always what agents got…
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