"So, how many more of these things are loose in the city?" Zed asked as he led Sakura, Madison and Kero through the halls of MiB with Jay and Kay following. He had already decided that he couldn't take a chance on neuralyzing the girls and the teddy bear. Not with those things running around. They would need them with their memories intact to handle the situation before someone got hurt. There had already been one too many close calls.
"Around twenty or so," Sakura murmured sadly. "Of course, some of them aren't really dangerous, just a bit annoying."
Twenty of those things. In their encounters with those cards so far, they had only been able to handle one and most of the MiB had been taken out before they did it. The MiB was created to handle aliens, not magic. Come to think of it, Zed wasn't even sure that he believed in magic, or at least he hadn't believed in it until today. He hoped that Zeeltor had been able to pick something up during the demonstration of the Shadow card. If the cards gave off some sort of energy signature, it might make them easier to find.
Just then X came down the hall and joined the procession, followed a few minutes later by Elle. The two were being careful not to look at each other for some strange reason. "Doesn't she look just like my bodyguards?" Madison said to Sakura when she caught sight of Elle.
"Bodyguards?" Zed asked.
"My mom is the president of a big toy company back home. I have four bodyguards that dress just like her," Madison explained with a smile before catching sight of another alien and involving herself in filming again. This was going to be so much fun to watch when she got back home and could play with the tape.
Kay frowned as Madison talked about her family. Something about the description of her mother sounded very familiar, brought back an incident from years ago. Something that he thought that he had forgotten. He needed to check the MiB mainframe as soon as possible. If his suspicions were correct....
Kero was fluttering along behind Sakura when a sweet odor drifted into the little creature's nose. "I smell cake," he murmured as he silently slipped away from the group and flew off, following the delicious smell as fast as he could go.
"Uh, excuse me," Madison said a few minutes later as she noticed something odd about what she was filming, "Are we lost? I know that I filmed that before." She motioned towards a wall with a sign in some odd alien language.
"What? That's impossible," Zed said. There was no way that they could be lost in their own headquarters.
"Here. Take a look," Madison said as she fiddled with the video camera a bit, rewinding the tape to the desired place before handing it to him.
"How in the world," Zed muttered as he stared into the view finder, looking at the tape as it played back. They had passed that sign before but how?
"Oh, no," Sakura murmured as she realized what had happened. "The Maze Card!"