Just a Tourist: Part II
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"Hey, I saw nothin. I'm not getting involv…" *splat*, Jeebs' head splattered all over the wall.
"Don't make me ask twice Jeebs," said Agent Kay in his regular monotone voice.
"Yeah, word from the pug is that you talked with the stranger, and said something that made him run off," quipped Jay.
"OK, geesh fine! Nothing much happened anyway. It was all weird," Jeebs said as he scratched his head. "Come to think of it, he just seemed so….cheery at first."
"Cheery?" repeated Jay.
Kay just lifted up an eyebrow.
"Yeah, it was just weird. He acted like a regular tourist. He said something about looking for an item for a friend of his, "back home"…and…" Jeebs continued to recall the events.
*Flashback*
Jeebs gasped as he looked at what the scanner was telling him.
"Hey! Take anything you want, OK!? I don't want to cause any trouble, really!"
"Huh? What on this planet are you talking about?" the man looked confused, then a look of realization came over him. "How the heck did you know?" he almost shouted.
"Well umm umm…" Jeebs muttered nervously. "I got a bio scanner I got the other day. You want it?? Its yours!" Jeebs.
The alien in disguise shook his head. "No! Ah hell. Just don't tell anyone I'm here OK?!" He turned around, mumbling to himself as he headed toward the door, "Geez, my first day here and I'm already calling attention to myself." He took out another candy bar from his pocket and started eating it, nearly stepping on a small dog that came by.
"Whoa sorry boy," he said quickly and left.
The small pug growled at him as he left and then went into the shop.
"What was that all about?"
"I-I-m not sure. He was all weird and stuff. Definitely not like the bugs we usually get down here."
"A bug?! You sure? I mean, he nearly toppled over me, but then said 'sorry', I didn't think that was a part of their vocabulary," Frank said.
"Well that's what's so freaking weird! Just out of curiosity I put a scanner on so I could know what kind of merchandise I could offer and it told me he was one of them!"
*End flashback*
"Give me the bio scan Jeebs." K said flatly.
"What? Hey, that cost me a lot of money to get…" the sight of Kay's gun at his head again made him stop, "OK, OK! Fine, take it."
"Put it on our account," J said with a smile as they took the small laptop-like object and walked out.
"So what do you think? A nice acting bug? Sounds sorta far fetched to me," Jay said as he got into the LTD.
"I'll have Elle take a look at the scanner and make sure that it was working right. If it was malfunctioning it could give off false readings."
"Sounds plausible. More then that story Jeebs was telling us. So Kay, when am I going to drive the LTD?"
"When you're older."
"I'm sorry, last time I checked I was old enough for a drivers license." Jay grumbled to no one but himself. Crossing his arms, he looked out the window sighed. For some reason he had the feeling this case was going to be an interesting one.
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"Damnit!" he snarled as he walked hurriedly down the street. He'd just been on earth for just a day and he got discovered. They had always told him to stay alert and to not draw attention to himself, even from other aliens, but how the heck was he suppose to do that on his own. He made a quick turn toward a somewhat secluded phone booth, and took the phone off the hook and put it to his ear. He looked around, making sure no one was there. Pulling his sleeve back revealed a smooth metallic band around his wrist that had a small ensemble of buttons on one side. He sighed as he looked at it.
"Mira," he said as if exhausted and annoyed at the same time.
"Yes master Katra," came a feminine, but not quite human, voice.
"Transmit your voice to the phone so I can talk to you there." He paused for a moment. "Now, do tell me why you didn't warn me about the scanner before I went into that shop."
"You did not ask." Came the response on the phone.
Katra gritted his teeth together, trying to contain a growl. He about to say something else, but the wrist band beat him to it.
" I could not have warn you about it when you entered the shop because I would have revealed my presence."
"Uh-huh. That's you're only excuse?" Katra said with less anger.
There was a pause. "Incoming call from Travel Adviser Jergan."
Katra winced. Great, just great, he thought. He was being checked up on.
"Alright, let it through the phone as well." It seemed like he'd be making a long distance call, Katra thought. He thought it'd be better if he talked through the phone, so then it'd just be a one sided conversation to any eavesdroppers that could be listening nearby.
A green light on the wristband blinked, and a male voice came through.
"How is everything on your first day, Katra?"
"Fine Jergan." Katra tried to act enthused as he talked. "I was just on my way back to the hotel from a long sight-seeing walk."
"Just calling in. Your mother wanted to voice her concerns. You know how she is. Remember, avoid any aliens, and don't get involved with the MiB. We have nothing against them of course, but it would just complicate things. But you already knew that, right?"
Katra sighed, exasperated from hearing the same advice over and over again, "Yes, I know Jergan. I went through all the information I had to know before coming here." He paused thoughtfully, "Oh yeah, tell Kaelan the disguise feels and looks fine. He crafted it well, maybe a bit too well. It's feels a bit odd getting giggly stares and hit on by girls every now and then. If only they knew." Katra smirked to himself. He could hear Jergan chuckling.
"Well, I'll let you go then. Don't forget to call, or else you're mother will."
Katra inadvertently grimaced. "Yeah, I don't want that happening. Bye Jergan"
"Bye Katra."
Katra sighed as he hung up and walked out of the phone booth. He continued his trek through New York.
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"What's the prognosis, Elle?" Kay asked as he walked up to the table where Elle was. Jay was close behind. She was at a computer monitor pushing buttons and reading data.
"Well, from examining the data it recorded, and the condition of the scanner, it seems to work fine. There is nothing wrong with it." She quickly gave a sideward glance to Jay. "Don't touch that. Unless you want your atoms reorganized."
"But I thought it was just a scanner…"
"It's a scanner, but a scanner with a few accessories."
"Oh." Was all Jay could say and put his hands into his pockets as he absentmindedly took a step back away from the device.
Kay took out his communicator. "Zed, we have a bug." He put the communicator away and then turned to Jay. "We have some research to do, Slick."
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At the newsstand…
"Hrm, doesn't seem to be any news of anything out of the ordinary." Jay commented as he skimmed through the papers.
"What's the word on our little visitor, Frank?" Kay asked.
"Amazingly, not much. Only bit of news that might be related, is that I heard about a secret landing about a day ago. No deaths or sightings though."
They continued talking, and once finished got back into the LTD.
*****
Not to far away……
Katra sighed deep in thought as he walked down the street. The temperature was cool enough that he could see his breath. He pulled out a map and started looking at it as he continued to walk down the sidewalk. People bustled about him; cabs and buses drove by, bumper to bumper, some occasionally honking. Boy this was a loud place he thought to himself, "Maybe next time he should pick a more quiet and rural area." He mumbled quietly to himself.
He continued to walk until he came to a bit more quiet part of the city. Passing an alley, he heard a muffled cry, or at least he thought he did. He stopped short just a few steps passed it, and looked around. No one seemed to notice. Curiosity taking over, he turned back and looked down the alley, and saw a shadow. His acute hearing picked up the sounds of a struggle. Katra stood there for a moment pondering whether or not to get involved. He had been taught to help those that needed it, but that was under normal circumstances. Currently he was undercover and didn't want to get into any more trouble then he probably already was. Oh hell with it, he thought and followed the sounds deeper into the alley.
A growl started to grow deep in his throat as he saw an estranged looking man trying to get a blindfolded woman into the back of his car.
"I suggest you let the lady go while you still can," Katra shouted out warningly.
"Oh? And just want do you plan to do pretty boy?" the man responded, not in the least bit nervous.
"Oh, I could probably do a lot of things," Katra grinned devilishly, "but then I never did like the taste of human flesh."
The man gave him an odd look, and then smiled. "Now what's that suppose to mean?"
"I won't give another warning. I suggest you go, now."
"I don't think it's that easy junior," the man said warningly.
"Oh I think it is," and with that Katra reached under his sweater and pulled out what looked like a pendant and squeezed it tightly. There was a sudden flash of blinding light.
The stranger turned away and shielded his eyes briefly.
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From the corner of his eye he saw a white flash come from not to far away. "Kay! Did you just see…?" Jay began to say as he sat up right and alert, pointing in the direction in which he had seen it. "Whoa!" he yelped as he held onto the door as the car quickly swerved, and turned around. "Guess ya did."
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The stranger looked up and gasped, but then narrowed his eyes. "Its one of you!" he spat as he pulled out an unearthly looking weapon. "This doesn't concern you!"
The tall creature loomed over him, and snarled, "Is everyone a freaking alien around here?" and then slashed at the stranger.
The "man" dodged, fell to the floor, rolled, and fired at the large roach-like creature.
Katra tried to dodge, but the beam caught him in his shoulder. He reared back, roaring in pain.
"You'll pay for that!" Katra hissed, this time picking up a trash can with one of his limbs and throwing it at the stranger. As the stranger fired at the trashcan Katra saw his window of opportunity and lunged close to the offender. He swung with his good arm and backhanded the perpetrator, sending it flying. The stranger lost hold of his gun as he landed out of the alley and onto the street.
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The LTD's tires screeched as it came to a halt inches away from the man that just came flying out from the alley.
"MiB, freeze!" Jay yelled, but the man paid no attention to him and got up and ran. "I'm on it!" Jay jumped out of the car and started going after the perpetrator.
Kay's attention was turned back to the alley by another flash of light. Kay ran out of the car and into the alley. His attention first was caught by a blonde haired woman, who was tied up in the trunk of a car, then he quickly turned as he heard the foot steps of someone running away down the alley.
"MiB, freeze!" but the runner did not pay any attention to him. Kay aimed and fired, but missed as the suspect quickly dodged to the left down another alley and into a street.
The young man seemed to be injured in his arm, as he held it with his other arm as he ran. He ran into the street and stopped as a car sped past in front of him honking, nearly hit him. However, he was not so lucky with the semi truck.
Horns went off, and tires screeched. The impact of the truck sent the suspect's body flying.
Kay watched it all happen at the edge of the alley. He slowly caught up with the semi truck, which had soon screeched to a complete stop. He walked over to the front of the semi.
The driver had already started to get out of his truck.
"Oh my God! I didn't even see him!" he exclaimed, obviously shocked by what just happened. More people started to slowly gather around. "Just what the heck was he doing running out in front of…" his sentence was cut short as his attention went to the man on the ground, which groaned and moved slightly. "Holy shit! How the hell could someone survive a hit like that!?" he said as he backed away a few steps from the body.
"The suspect got away!" Jay said as he arrived back. He was panting, which probably meant the perp he had gone after gave him a good run.
"Don't worry Slick, we'll get him later. Right now we have to deal with this one."
"Just who are you people anyway?" the driver asked suspiciously finally noticing the two FBI looking characters.
Kay reached into his coat and pulled out a pair of sunglasses, as did Jay.
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That's it for now. I bet you're all going "huh!?" "whats going on??" right now. That's ok, it'll all be explained later…to some extent.
Just a quick note though, Katra is not talking to people that are from the bug homeworld, or whatever its called. He is a bug, but he comes from somewhere else. That's all I'm going to say for now. Reason I say this is to clear up some stuff that won't be answered for a while.(Well, depending on when I get the next part(s) up.) It will probably be a long while too. I have to first go and finish another part of a fanfic series thing I got going in the Matrix section.
Anyhow, if anyone's wondering, I got the idea for Katra's name from Gundam Wing's Quatre. I just spelled it differently, more like the way it sounds.