Secret Agent Mia

Secret Agent Mia

Chapter 8

By: Kallie

Mia and Rowen . . .

Mia walked into the room and started to look around. She motioned for Rowen to follow her. All her senses were on alert. The room was pitch black, so she and Rowen fanned out to look for a light switch. Mia made to the other end of the room when she heard a sound to her right.

Whirling in the direction of the noise she cocked her gun. "Who's there?" she asked the darkness.

The answer she got was evil sounding laughter. A minute later the lights were thrown on. They blinded Mia and she had to put her arm over her eyes. She still had her gun pointed though.

"Look at that. You're a deer caught in the headlights. How pathetic."

Lowering her arm and glaring at the light Mia motioned for Rowen to come next to her. "I don't need your opinion, Rob." Mia spat out his name.

The lights had dimmed and weren't directed at her eyes anymore. She got a good look around the room quickly. She noticed something behind Rob.

"I know you've noticed what I'm hiding. Well would you like to see what it is?" Rob stepped aside and revealed Ryo tied to a chair. He had a gag in his mouth and looked extremely pissed.

"Ryo!" Mia yelled.

"Hey, Ryo. Hold on buddy." Rowen yelled and started toward Rob.

Rob calmly looked at him and then whipped out a gun. "If you want to live, get back there by Rose Red." He said Mia's name mockingly. Rowen started to back up. He didn't want to chance it this guy. Mia was gonna need all the help she could get.

"On second thought" Rob said and shot Rowen. The bullet hit him in the stomach. Rowen landed behind Mia and laid there in shock.

"ROWEN!" Mia screamed. She turned around and went to check him out. She kneeled down next to him. His stomach was bleeding heavily. She tore part of her skirt off and stuffed it in the wound. Then she tore a strip of his shirt and wrapped it around the wound.

"Don't worry Mi. I'll be fine. Just go kick his ass, OK?" Rowen said. Mia nodded tears in her eyes. She knew one day her past would come back to haunt her. She just didn't think it would involve her friend's lives. Rowen was struggling to remain conscious, but in the end he lost the battle. When he fell unconscious Mia patted his shoulder and stood up. She glared at Rob, her look promising death.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Did I hurt your little friend." He said sarcastically. "Well that's what happens in this business. You should know that better that anyone. How many people have you killed over the years?"

"Shut up! You don't know a thing about what I do! All you do is betray your comrades. I kill only when necessary."

"Oh, really. What about Krojack, was it necessary to kill him?"

"He was endangering the safety of this country and you know it. I gave him a better death than he would have got had he been captured, or worse had he went back to you failing his mission."

"I'm hurt. But it's true. Well Mia, have you repented after what happened at Sicily?"

When he said that Mia got a look of sadness and horror in her eyes.

"It was all your fault. Your teammates died because of you. Not to mention all those innocent people."

Rob had started to walk towards Mia. While he was talking she was backing up. "No. NO! It wasn't my fault!" she screamed while shaking her head.

"Oh but it was. How does it fell to know you caused all those deaths . . ." Mia had crouched down and tuned him out. A horrible memory from her past coming back.

Flashback

Mia and Danielle were running down a hall in some ambassador's home. The place had been crawling with people. But now they were all in one place. Mia and Danielle had other teammates for this mission. They had gotten separated, but were suspected to be in with the guests. Mia and Danielle had been ordered to blow up the house. They had to get the guests out first. Terrorist had rounded them up.

The mission had taken a turn for the worst when two of their teammates had been shot. Mia and Danielle had no choice but to rush the terrorists in hopes of drawing their fire. One teammate had succeeded in driving some of the guests out a window. It was a bit of a fall, but the river was beneath the window. The rest of the guests were starting to move in that direction.

Danielle and Mia didn't fool the terrorists. They turned and started to randomly fire into the crowd. By now most of the guest had gotten outside. But so had the terrorists. Danielle set the explosive and it blew up the house. A large crowd had started to gather outside and help the guests out of the river. The terrorists decided to shoot down the rest of Mia's team. But they had to go through several people in order to do that. Half of them were a diversion. They snuck up and captured Mia's team.

It was only her and Danielle left. The other half was randomly killing people in the crowd. By the time Danielle and Mia had made it outside 15 innocents had died. They made it in time to see their teammates murdered. Mia kinda went a little crazy and started shooting the terrorists. Only problem was her aim was off because of her grief. She ended up hitting 3 people. Danielle also joined in; her aim was better because she had shut off her emotion. But she also killed 1 people. Mia's shots permanently injured 1 of the people and killed the other 2.

The event had made global news. The media had gotten all the information except who it was that was responsible and the two agents names. Mia and Danielle had gotten a month off to grieve. Both had had nightmares for years. Danielle hid her scars better than Mia and seemed to recover. But both still carried the deep scars and had the fears before a mission. End Flashback.

Mia snapped out of her flashback and lunged at Rob's legs. He was taken by surprise and toppled over.

"You have no idea what happened that night!" Mia yelled at the top of her lungs.

"Oh, I know all right. I was there."

Mia looked at him in shock. Then it snapped in her head. It all made since. Him hating her from the first, the sense of deja vou she'd had when she first saw him in HQ. He had been on the other team and gotten away. She whipped out her gun and pointed it at his face.

Danielle's group . . .

Danielle and the guys had been fighting for awhile. They would just get some of the guards knocked out and more would come. Danielle was getting sick of it, so she decided to pull out her secret weapon. She reached behind her and pulled out a rod. The rod was a dark wood and had a dark colored end. She pushed part of it and it extended. Then a huge blade popped out. When that was all done, the weapon was a full-blown scythe.

The guys noticed Danielle stop fighting for a moment. They stared at her weapon in shock, then looked up at her face. She had this disturbing look in her eyes. It was a mix of remorse and glee? She jabbed it at the nearest guard. He fell easily and she started to attack the next one. The guys shrugged and turned back to dispose of their guards.

After a while the guys noticed that they were being separated from Danielle. They started to work their way back toward her. They got a short break when someone accidentally knocked something over and blocked the door. They looked up at Danielle and gasped.

Danielle truly looked like the code name she had chosen. She was holding her scythe so that the blade was pointed downward, but it was slightly behind her. The blade was stained red. (I think you can guess what stained it) With her black outfit that was torn in several places, and her light hair, which was mostly out of its braid, she looked the picture of death. You would have a hard time not thinking of her as the Angel of Death. She also had blood smeared on her face, although they weren't sure whether that was from cuts or something else.

Danielle looked at them questionably, "What?" she asked.

"You, umm, picked your name well. You look just like death." Kento said without thinking.

"Thanks. You know I just love it when people tell me I look like death." She said sarcastically.

"It was supposed to be a compliment."

Then they heard someone clapping. They all turned to look. A woman stepped out of the shadows. "Bravo. Well done Angel. You know if you keep this up you might never get your wings." She said.

Danielle gasped then glared at the woman. "I never thought I'd see you again, Nefertiti."

The woman had lavender colored hair that she wore in a ponytail. Her eyes were a dark brown, and her skin color was tanned. She had on a black tank top and jeans. Her eyes although exotic were cruel looking. She had a long scar down her left cheek.

"I couldn't just let go. I have to pay you back. And I will." She said while advancing on Danielle. They started to circle each other.

"I'll kick your sorry bum just like I did before." She said, while thinking, Note to self, stop hanging around Cye. I'm starting to talk like him.

"You barely defeated me before. I know all your tricks this time, but you know none of mine." And with that Nefertiti sprang at Danielle. The two started to really go at it. They didn't use a certain style of fighting. It was a free for all. The fighting temporarily stopped when Nefertiti pinned Danielle down.

Danielle got a hand lose and the guys saw she had a dagger in it. She brought it up and slashed Nefertiti's right cheek. She jumped back in pain, holding her cheek.

"Now you have a matching pair." Danielle said. She sprang up while Nefertiti was busy. Nefertiti glared at her. "I will kill you now. I was going to let you live, but no longer. I'll give you a scar just like the one you gave me years ago and then I'll kill you." She stated matter of factually.

Nefertiti pressed a button in the wall and part of the floor gave way to show rotating blade. She pressed another button and the floor where Danielle and her were standing lowered toward the blade. She held a remote type device that controlled the floor.

The guys ran over to the edge and looked down. Danielle was on her own now. She knew a way to get out of this though, or at least a way to go down fighting. Danielle lunged at Nefertiti and caught her hand. Nefertiti was expecting it though and was ready. They struggled for a few minutes and the remote ended up flying into the blade. It was smashed to pieces.

"You fool! Now we'll both die!" Nefertiti shouted.

"My soul is ready. Is yours?" Danielle answered. She had a grim look of determination about her.

"Why did you do that, Danielle?" Cye yelled down at her.

She looked up at the guys and smiled. "If I have to go down, I'm going down fighting." She turned toward Nefertiti "And I'm taking you with me."

"Are you really ready to meet your maker with so much carnage on your hands?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about."

"You know perfectly well what I mean. Have you forgotten Sicily so quickly?"

Danielle's eyes widen. "How'd you know about that?"

"You fool! I was there! I saw the whole thing. And I know that you were behind it?"

"Shut up! I was not behind it!" Danielle yelled. She had tears in her eyes. "It seems no one will let me forget it, will they?" she said in a voice the guys had to strain to hear.

"Hey Danielle, what's he talking about?" Kento asked.

Nefertiti started to laugh. "So you haven't told them yet. Well let me help."

Before she could say anything Sage yelled down "She talking about that disaster a few years age isn't she, Danielle?" Danielle merely nodded. The other guys got grim looks about them. They remembered that. It was on the news for months.

Nefertiti started to taunt Danielle. " I saw you blow up the house." With each accusation Danielle winced. "I saw you kill the guards, set the explosives, kill all those people standing in the crowd, and I saw your partner go crazy and lose. She killed 3 people you know. It's your fault. You should have stopped her."

At the mention of Mia's name Danielle snapped her head up. Hate was blazing in her eyes. "You leave Mia out of this. She had nothing to do with it."

"We both know that's a lie. She killed people because she couldn't handle it."

"How would you know any of this? And why would you have been there unless . . . "

"That's right I was the leader of the other team. I started it all. I must say it went a whole lot better than I thought it would." Nefertiti smirked. "But still all that blood on your hands. Tsk, tsk."

"I've put it behind me. I never meant for the mission to go that way. You can't make me fell guilty about something I had no control over!"

"You've put it behind you. But have the families of those who were killed put it behind them?" Nefertiti started to laugh. Danielle looked behind her and saw that they were almost to the blade. She had completely forgotten about it. She couldn't let this insane person live. So she did the only thing she could do. She pushed Nefertiti backward into the blade.

She then high-tailed it to the other side of the platform. Not that there was much of the platform left at this point. She looked frantically for a way out. She looked up to Kento leaning down his hands outstretched. She would have to jump to reach them. She backed up a ways ran and jumped.

Kento caught her hands, but barely. He then yanked her up and out of the shaft. He set Danielle down on the ground and she stood there for a moment. Kento gave her a huge bear hug. "You could have been killed you know."

"Really, that thought never once crossed my mind." She replied sarcastically. She then winced in pain. She had gotten cut on her during the fight. When Kento set her down again. She started to wobble. He caught her.

"Are you all right?" Cye asked.

"Yeah. Just a little light headed. I'll be fine. Put me down." But Kento refused.

"I don't think so. It won't hurt you to rest. I'll carry you back to the meeting spot. But, um, first you'd better show me the way."

With that they walked out the front door. Right after they left, the front half of the building blew up.

Meanwhile . . .

Rob was starring down the barrel of Mia's gun. She was pissed beyond belief. Ryo had never seen her like this. He would love to get out of the chair and that guy up for hurting Mia and Rowen. But at the moment he was a little tied up.

"Any last requests, Rob? I'm giving you 2 seconds."

"You won't shoot me in cold blood. You don't have the guts."

"Do you really want to push me, Rob?"

" We both know you won't go through with it."

Mia looked at him and pulled the trigger. " EHHH. Wrong answer." Mia said. She stepped over Rob's body and went to Ryo. She untied his wrist and ankles. Then helped him up from the chair. Ryo pulled the gag out of his mouth and hugged Mia. She was taken aback at first then relaxed into it. She started to cry.

When she was all done crying she looked up at Ryo. "I thought I lost you there for a minute."

"Hey, I'm tougher than that to get rid of."

She smiled, then looked him in the eye and said, "I'm really sorry I didn't say anything before. But I love you Ryo."

Ryo smiled down at her and responded "I Love you too Mia. But I already knew that you loved me."

"Really, how?"

"A little birdie told me."

"Danielle told you didn't she." It was more a statement than an answer.

Ryo laughed then leaned down and kissed Mia. They were interrupted by someone saying " I hate to break you two love birds up, but I'm in a lot of pain here."

"Oh my Gosh. I completely forgot about you Rowen." Mia exclaimed.

"Gee thanks."

They ran over to Rowen who had regained consciousness long enough to see Mia shoot Rob. Ryo supported Rowen and they made their way to the door. Since Danielle's group had provided a big enough distraction they had no trouble getting out.

They met up with Danielle and the guys at the appointed spot. They walked into the clearing to hear Danielle yelling at Kento.

"Put me down Kento! I can walk you know."

"Not in your condition, now just settle down. I know what's best." Cye and Sage burst out laughing at that. Kento glared at them.

"Why are you doing this Kento? I don't need your help."

"I'm worried about you. You almost got yourself killed."

Everyone could see Danielle soften at that. She pulled Kento's head down and kissed him.

When Kento pulled away, he had confusion in his eyes. "Why'd you do that?"

"Because your sweet. That's why.

"Yeah, but so is Cye. Are you gonna kiss him too."

Mia couldn't help but laugh at that. Everyone looked at them. "What happened to Rowen?" Sage asked.

"I slipped and broke my ankle. WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENED!? I was shot you idiot!" Rowen yelled, then winced.

"Come on you guys, we need to get Rowen some medical help."

And so everyone headed back to headquarters.

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Well, there will be only an epilogue after this. I hope you liked it. Please review. Thank you for reading it.