Mission

Mission : Date (Part 2)

Cye knelt down beside the slightly damaged bicycle and shook his head, "Kento's not going to be happy about his bicycle."

"He never used it anyways." said Rowen holding Makoto's head set in his hand. "I'm not extremely worried about Makoto either. She should be fine. It's Sage who we need to worry about. When he gets back and finds out Makoto's gone, he's going to be extremely T'd."

Ryo snorted, "You could say that again and from what Mia told me, Sage is planning on taking Makoto somewhere."

Ryo looked out over the surrounding forestlands below and frowned.

"You and Cye should go on after them and I'll take the bike and I'll wait here for Mia and Kento." said Rowen suddenly.

"That might be best. We may never find them if we don't move soon." agreed Cye. "It's been half an hour since Makoto called."

Ryo nodded in agreement and Rowen took the headset from Cye.

"Contact me every ten minutes so we can keep track of each other." instructed Rowen as Cye and Ryo turned to leave.

Ryo casually waved back at the archer to let him know he would and then quickly took off full speed with Cye. Rowen sighed and leaned against the handlebars of the bicycle as he watched his friends run off in their sub armor. Yes, if Sage knew

he'd hunt down the kidnappers and use his sword to slowly peel of their skin. The though made him flinch and he felt a small pang of sympathy for the poor fools.

Meanwhile, Cye had stopped on a peak and noticed a sudden rise of the bird population from the north.

"Ryo!" he shouted. "Over there!"

Ryo, not realizing Cye had stopped, turned around and made his way back quickly. Standing next to Cye, his blue eyes narrowed and took in the scene.

"That must be them. They're at least an hour ahead of us," he said after a moment of calculation.

"Then lets go," said Cye leaping from the cliff side and shouted. "Must not keep Makoto waiting."

Ryo grinned and jumped after his friend, "I'm with you!"

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Makoto's head banged down and she groaned softly, turning on the bed of pillows to continue her slumber. However, there was a larger jolt that sent half of her body up into the air and back down abruptly and her green eyes flew open in confusion.

"What's going on?"

Sitting up slightly, she found herself on a number of pillows in a vehicle. For a moment she struggled to remember why she was there and then she remembered her sudden road side abduction.

"He is soooo going to get it," she mused sourly.

She pushed herself up a little more so she could see over the middle seat and saw that her captor was still driving, oblivious to the fact that his captive had awaken. She laid back down on her side and stared at the back of the van. A small smirk crossover her face and she gently scratched her chin.

"Question is. Do I give into curiosity and see where he's taking me, or do I make him earn this kidnapping?"

The smirk grew into a semi-evil grin and she slowly used her hands to pull herself to the back of the van on her belly. With one hand she slowly lifted the latch and carefully pushed it open an inch.

"Now, once he comes to ..."

However, any further planning was cut off sharply as the van bounced again and her hand lost it's hold on the door. Instantly the door swung outward and she heard a sharp cry of alarm from her driver.

"Now or never."

Makoto pushed herself to her feet quickly and jumped out the door, landing on the ground in a roll that momentarily knocked the wind from her. A few seconds later the van breaks were screeching and the birds gave flight as the dust rose on the road.

"Must get away," she chanted to herself as she leaped to her feet and took off running into the woods.

"Come back!" shouted her ex-captor as he took chase.

Makoto grinned and ignored him, pressing herself to run faster. When she felt that she had lost him in the woods she slowed a bit and looked back.

"Well that was easy," she laughed. "I didn't think he'd give up so fast."

Abruptly the bushes parted from where she'd just comes from and she caught sight of her captor who was no dressed in sub armor. Her grin vanished as her eyes widened and she turned and ran. She could hear him gaining on her quickly and struggled to think of a way to loose him.

"I didn't count on him having his sub armor with him!"

She felt a small breeze to her right and saw an armor clad hand grasp at her. She gasped and ducked and the young man tripped over her and to the ground. Straightening up she laughed and took to running again while a new idea came to mind.

"Jupiter, Crystal Power, Make-Up!"

A bright light encompassed her mid-run and left just as suddenly, leaving Makoto running in an emerald green sailor fuku very much like the one Eternal Sailor Moon wore. Instantly, her speed was increased and she easily eluded her captor as he took chase again.

"He won't be able to catch me so easily now," she thought with a smug grin, glancing back to where she'd left him.

However, he was no longer in sight and Eternal Jupiter frowned in concern.

"What is he up to now?" she cast a second glance around and started running north. "Best not stick around to find out just yet."

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"Looks like they headed north." said Cye, running a hand of the broken foliage at the side of the road.

"There's a lot of privately owned summer homes of rich executives in that direction." informed Rowen's voice. "It's possible he's taking Makoto there to hide out for a while."

"How does he know that people even know Makoto's been kidnapped yet?" challenged Cye, raising a brow.

"It's just a possibility." returned Rowen, sounding slightly annoyed.

"I think it may be more than a simple kidnapping." said Ryo suddenly from where the car was sitting. "Check this out."

Cye walked over to the parked van and his eyes widened, "Those are armored footprints."

"Think the Dynasty's back," asked Kento in anger.

"Could be. Kayura was just over yesterday telling us that everything was going well," interjected Rowen.

"I agree with Rowen on that." said Cye. "I trust Kayura would alert us if there was even the slightest sign of trouble."

"Cye, your kanji is trust," pointed out Kento. "You'd trust anyone."

Cye prepared to snap back a retort about being hard-headed when Ryo laid a hand on his shoulder and shook his head.

"I don't think it's Dynasty either, but if we fight among ourselves we'll never find out for sure. Rowen and Kento; Cye and I are going to follow them as best we can. Try to meet us as soon as you can."

"Sorry Ryo. We'll be there A.S.A.P."

The link closed and Ryo chuckled at Cye's slightly red face, "You to fight about the strangest things."

Cye rolled his eyes and mumbled something indiscernible and Ryo pushed his way through the bushes.

"Let's go Cye. Let's try to find Makoto before Sage knows what happened."

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Running parallel to his target, the young man smirked to himself. Who'd have thought that she would be so obliging as to run towards the lodge he was taking her to. This would make things so much easier. Especially since he wouldn't have to worry to much about the others following the van.

Makoto paused a second and looked around and he watched as her eyes tried to spot him. It was an nearly impossible thing to do with the color he was wearing. Fortunately for him, the emerald green of her senshi uniform was not a hard color to follow in this forest.

"I bet this is driving her nuts." he thought with a silent laugh. "Everything is going perfectly despite the fact that I'm not actually taking her there."

Makoto started running again and he once again fell into step a couple yards away.

"Soon she'll reach the lodge and when she looks for help, I'll show Makoto what I have planned for her."