The huffing of both Blaze and Axle was much understood, as they stopped their run within the lower reaches of a garage parking lot, hoping to hide there while Axle called for backup. Once he did so on his cell phone in code, he looked towards Blaze, whose face looked towards the ceiling, and chest heaved in and out for his slight enjoyment. "Damn," he said. "What," Blazed forced to ask in her returning breath. "I never noticed how much of you there was for Adam to love," Axle answered. "It was only for a few months," she remarked, "and besides, he's married now. But let's fast forward to the guys that blocked our bullets with their swords, please?"
"Yeah, sorry," Stone apologized as he checked his magazine, "those were the Hornets. In less than six months after coming on the scene, they became to high rollers as the golden arches are to Richard Simmons hopefuls. Aside from the high tech look and Ninja cycles, they're just like what Mister X used to have for himself." "Killers for hire," Fielding guessed as she reloaded, "but how are they that skilled to pull the stunts?" "Let's team up on one to find out," her partner suggested, just as they could hear the same bikes coming for them again.
The three Hornet members seemed to come from the very darkness of the garage, as they came from enough sides to disorient their target's movement, and trap them between parked cars. One got off their bike and approached Blaze with their sword ready to cut her down, but she quickly kicked the sword out his hands, then caught him in his chest with an elbow before a kick, and knocked him into his parked bike. Another closest to Axle attempted to stab him, but Stone twisted his arm behind him, and chopped the same arm hard enough to break the Hornet's elbow, and finished off with a powerful chop to the biker's throat. The third one, "Six", looked at "Two" getting up, and "Leader Four" possibly down for the duration, before he decided to get back on his bike and try to run the two over.
Blaze rolled on the back of the car to avoid the onslaught, as Axle jumped up to grab a sturdy pipe and hang on it while he kicked the Hornet member straight into his helmet. The bike fell into the side of another car, which set its alarm off. Blaze, after getting off the car, looked to the alarm-set one and wistfully remarked, "Protected by Viper (c)? Yeah, like anyone here cares anymore." Just then, "Two" got off his feet and kicked his sword off the ground and to his hand, catching Blaze and Axle's attention as he seemed to have what the others lacked, that being skill. The two backed into more open space as the man gave chase, while without warning, Six and Four were back on their feet, emanating the same presence of power within them. "Looks like they were playing with us the whole time," Axle realized. "Not like we were putting effort in what we just did," Blaze added, just as the three split up to break the duo down.
Axle reunited with "Four", who repaired his arm with a sound that resembled bionics in his elbow, while Blaze was already well into her battle with the other two. "Great!" "What," Blaze yelled to her friend. "I don't think these guys are human, that's what," Axle screamed, just as he began to fight with the Hornet Leader, blocking his first attacks before seeing the opening to jab the leader in their stomach, then punching his helmet which cracked the tinted visor. The confirmed machine returned fire by turning its body while backhanding Axle in the face, then kicking him in the stomach and uppercut into the back of a car. Axle flipped onto his feet so he could jump off the car and over the mechanized biker. As the leader turned around, it saw Axle's foot kick him square into the head, this time breaking the helmet visor completely off. Smoke poured out the headpiece, as the machine-like mutant sounded as if he choked to death.
Blaze, meanwhile, was being fully tested by the other Hornets, as she almost on the more receiving end of the pain. As she countered and blocked every move she could, Blaze could tell that Axle was right. That such scrawny thugs could posses so much strength plagued her mind to the point where she repeatedly lost focus of the fighting. Once she got off her back one last time, she knew it was time to instill the lethal infliction that made her the literal scourge to the underworld.
The Hornets were taken out in blinding speed by Blaze's powerful kicks to one's head and the other's ankle, but they returned with varied double attacks. Blaze didn't fall this time, but once she pushed one away, she immediately went for the crotch of the remainder, before twisting to sweep kick the biker. The Hornet managed to jump over the kick, only to be met with a powerful uppercut to its helmet visor, finally falling to its knees. The last Hornet speared her to the ground, and before it could stab her straight into her heart, a shot from the distance fired and went into the Hornet's arm. Sparks shot out the wound, but gave Blaze the chance to push the biker away. Once she rolled off the ground, she pulled out her Magnum and fired three times; twice in its chest to immobilize the killer, and the last dead on to its visor.
As the Hornet died in front of her, Blaze looked to where the other shot came from, as she asked Axle, "Were you waiting for my to scream for help or something?" "Yeah, kinda'," he smiled, as Blaze forced a look of ill-amused nature. "Glad to still see you got the moves, though," Axle complimented. "Actually, since I reopened the dojo, it's been a while since I've seen a good fight," she replied as she got on her feet again. "You call having your life threatened by stronger oppositions a 'good fight'," he asked. "The best fights are the ones that you have something worth fighting for, and in this case, it was to continue living," Blaze mentioned, "besides, when you still teach dance, you're always ready to move around."
"Even if you're weighed down by your C-cups," asked Axle.
She looked to him with agitated eyes, "Is that all you see in me? A deadly chimera of intellect, beauty, and T-and-A?"
"Tell no one."
They both laughed, before a powerful hand turned around Axle on his shoulder, and within a matter of seconds, sounds of an automatic ripped through the air. Blaze screamed at the sight of Axle absorbing each shot through his vest into his chest and through his organs. Blood was coughed out his mouth and onto his clothes, some even sprayed onto the fourth Hornet that awaited his chance. Axle's body fell to the ground knees first, and the Hornet pointed his Uzi towards Blaze, as the last of her Magnum's rounds made sure he couldn't fulfill the end of its deal.
Despite the fatal shots it took, the Hornet was able to squeeze the trigger as it fell to the ground. The last few bullets spread to hit Blaze deep in the arm and side, as she tried and failed to avoid the ordinance, and hit her head on a nearby car in the process. Blaze, without doubt, fell in pain as she looked to Axle's dying body, but one of the dead Hornet's bodies lied mostly in her way. Before she passed out in a cold unconsciousness, she could've sworn that she saw Axle smile, as he died right then to her fading eyes.
"Yeah, sorry," Stone apologized as he checked his magazine, "those were the Hornets. In less than six months after coming on the scene, they became to high rollers as the golden arches are to Richard Simmons hopefuls. Aside from the high tech look and Ninja cycles, they're just like what Mister X used to have for himself." "Killers for hire," Fielding guessed as she reloaded, "but how are they that skilled to pull the stunts?" "Let's team up on one to find out," her partner suggested, just as they could hear the same bikes coming for them again.
The three Hornet members seemed to come from the very darkness of the garage, as they came from enough sides to disorient their target's movement, and trap them between parked cars. One got off their bike and approached Blaze with their sword ready to cut her down, but she quickly kicked the sword out his hands, then caught him in his chest with an elbow before a kick, and knocked him into his parked bike. Another closest to Axle attempted to stab him, but Stone twisted his arm behind him, and chopped the same arm hard enough to break the Hornet's elbow, and finished off with a powerful chop to the biker's throat. The third one, "Six", looked at "Two" getting up, and "Leader Four" possibly down for the duration, before he decided to get back on his bike and try to run the two over.
Blaze rolled on the back of the car to avoid the onslaught, as Axle jumped up to grab a sturdy pipe and hang on it while he kicked the Hornet member straight into his helmet. The bike fell into the side of another car, which set its alarm off. Blaze, after getting off the car, looked to the alarm-set one and wistfully remarked, "Protected by Viper (c)? Yeah, like anyone here cares anymore." Just then, "Two" got off his feet and kicked his sword off the ground and to his hand, catching Blaze and Axle's attention as he seemed to have what the others lacked, that being skill. The two backed into more open space as the man gave chase, while without warning, Six and Four were back on their feet, emanating the same presence of power within them. "Looks like they were playing with us the whole time," Axle realized. "Not like we were putting effort in what we just did," Blaze added, just as the three split up to break the duo down.
Axle reunited with "Four", who repaired his arm with a sound that resembled bionics in his elbow, while Blaze was already well into her battle with the other two. "Great!" "What," Blaze yelled to her friend. "I don't think these guys are human, that's what," Axle screamed, just as he began to fight with the Hornet Leader, blocking his first attacks before seeing the opening to jab the leader in their stomach, then punching his helmet which cracked the tinted visor. The confirmed machine returned fire by turning its body while backhanding Axle in the face, then kicking him in the stomach and uppercut into the back of a car. Axle flipped onto his feet so he could jump off the car and over the mechanized biker. As the leader turned around, it saw Axle's foot kick him square into the head, this time breaking the helmet visor completely off. Smoke poured out the headpiece, as the machine-like mutant sounded as if he choked to death.
Blaze, meanwhile, was being fully tested by the other Hornets, as she almost on the more receiving end of the pain. As she countered and blocked every move she could, Blaze could tell that Axle was right. That such scrawny thugs could posses so much strength plagued her mind to the point where she repeatedly lost focus of the fighting. Once she got off her back one last time, she knew it was time to instill the lethal infliction that made her the literal scourge to the underworld.
The Hornets were taken out in blinding speed by Blaze's powerful kicks to one's head and the other's ankle, but they returned with varied double attacks. Blaze didn't fall this time, but once she pushed one away, she immediately went for the crotch of the remainder, before twisting to sweep kick the biker. The Hornet managed to jump over the kick, only to be met with a powerful uppercut to its helmet visor, finally falling to its knees. The last Hornet speared her to the ground, and before it could stab her straight into her heart, a shot from the distance fired and went into the Hornet's arm. Sparks shot out the wound, but gave Blaze the chance to push the biker away. Once she rolled off the ground, she pulled out her Magnum and fired three times; twice in its chest to immobilize the killer, and the last dead on to its visor.
As the Hornet died in front of her, Blaze looked to where the other shot came from, as she asked Axle, "Were you waiting for my to scream for help or something?" "Yeah, kinda'," he smiled, as Blaze forced a look of ill-amused nature. "Glad to still see you got the moves, though," Axle complimented. "Actually, since I reopened the dojo, it's been a while since I've seen a good fight," she replied as she got on her feet again. "You call having your life threatened by stronger oppositions a 'good fight'," he asked. "The best fights are the ones that you have something worth fighting for, and in this case, it was to continue living," Blaze mentioned, "besides, when you still teach dance, you're always ready to move around."
"Even if you're weighed down by your C-cups," asked Axle.
She looked to him with agitated eyes, "Is that all you see in me? A deadly chimera of intellect, beauty, and T-and-A?"
"Tell no one."
They both laughed, before a powerful hand turned around Axle on his shoulder, and within a matter of seconds, sounds of an automatic ripped through the air. Blaze screamed at the sight of Axle absorbing each shot through his vest into his chest and through his organs. Blood was coughed out his mouth and onto his clothes, some even sprayed onto the fourth Hornet that awaited his chance. Axle's body fell to the ground knees first, and the Hornet pointed his Uzi towards Blaze, as the last of her Magnum's rounds made sure he couldn't fulfill the end of its deal.
Despite the fatal shots it took, the Hornet was able to squeeze the trigger as it fell to the ground. The last few bullets spread to hit Blaze deep in the arm and side, as she tried and failed to avoid the ordinance, and hit her head on a nearby car in the process. Blaze, without doubt, fell in pain as she looked to Axle's dying body, but one of the dead Hornet's bodies lied mostly in her way. Before she passed out in a cold unconsciousness, she could've sworn that she saw Axle smile, as he died right then to her fading eyes.