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                           Operation Mess Up

 On the other side of town, Reiji Takatori assembles "Schwarz" his elite group of bodyguards. "I have a mission for you." Schuldig interrupts while smirking evilly "Do we get to frame Weiß today?" 

 "Shut Up! I have something more important than that! I want you to steal the "Aphrodite of Kyoto," an ancient fertility statue." "Schwarz" sweat drops and answers in unison, "HUH?" Brad requests "Could you repeat that? I want to make sure I heard you correctly Mr. Takatori." 

 Takatori resumes "The Aphrodite of Kyoto" has mystical powers of love and attraction to whomever possesses the statue. I'm getting rusty on my techniques of attracting women and with this baby I'll have all the women of Japan on their knees begging to be my bride! Mwaaahaaahaaahaaahaaa! 

Crawford laughs condescendingly "You expect us to steal this statue? What do we look like petty thieves?" Takatori screams "GET THAT STATUE NOW CRAWFORD! And never question my orders again." 

Schuldig complains "Who does he think he is? We don't even work for him! Where does he get off ordering us around like we're his slaves? I say we should sic Farfarello on him."

 Farfarello licks his knife, "I'm getting turned on just thinking about it." Brad interjects "Not just yet, Reiji Takatori will get what's coming to him. I see it in the future, Mr. Takatori's fulfillment of love. Hah! Hah! Hah!" 

They arrive at the "The Museum of Ancient Civilization" It's a large building on the East side of Tokyo. Approaching the door, they stall before entering the building. 

 "Nagi, why don't you go in and do it? You're a cute little kid so no one will suspect you unlike carrot top and fruitcake." Schuldig growls and punches Brad in the arm but Farfarello ignores the comment. 

 Nagi refuses "What do you think I am? Stupid? I know what you were planning to do. You were going to ditch me while I went in." Arguing ensues among three of the men over who will be elected to steal the statue. Farfarello aloofly awaits their decision. 

Four hours pass and they're still arguing over who will steal the statue. They have fifteen minutes left before the museum closes. They decide to draw straws and paper sacks will be placed over their heads before they enter the building. 

 Nagi notices the short straw and telepathically passes it over to Brad's direction. Brad foreseeing this event pushes the short straw over to Schuldig. 

 Schuldig who read Brad's mind could tell what he had planned and gives the short straw to Farfarello. 

 Farferello is excited as he anticipates his next move. "This will be fun!" Licking his knife and placing the bag over his face as enters the building.

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                       Brad, Schuldig and Nagi stand close to the doorway as Farfarello prances over to the statue. Brad notes while holding his temples, "This is not a pretty sight," as he turns to Schuldig and Nagi. "He better be quick! Too many people are staring in our direction." 

 Hiro nudges Shuichi "Hey Shuichi-kun, looked at that clown in the paper sack! He's more limp-wristed than you are!"

"WHAAAA! Why are you insulting me? I'm not that bad! I just lost Yuki! Are you trying to rub it in?" Hiro pats him on the head "Gomen, Gomen; I'm just trying to cheer you up."

 Hiro wonders "Who comes into a museum with a paper sack over their head?" Then looks over towards the door and sees three more people with bags over their heads. "Oops! I spoke too soon as he covers his mouth." 

Farfarello reaches the statue, "Huh? There are two of them. I wonder which one is the "Aphrodite of Kyoto?" Suki, what do you think? Yep, that was my choice too!" Grabbing the statue on the left, he runs towards the exit. 

 Attention Everyone! "The Museum of Ancient Civilization" will be closing in five minutes. Please make your way to the nearest exit. Thank you for visiting and please come again.

Shuichi, Hiro, Suguru and Sakano make their way towards the exit. An alarm is blaring, Beep! Beep! Beep! "Oops I did it again." Farfarello exclaims as he begins to run faster.

 Hiro smacks Shuichi upside the head and yells "Baka! What did you touch now? Come on! Let's get out of here!"" 

SMACK!! Shuichi collides with Farfarello, causing the statue to fly into the air. Brad, Schuldig and Nagi jump towards the flying statue and crash into Sakano, Hiro and Suguru. A strange sparkling dust sprinkles the eight men as the statue continues forward. 

 It hits some poor guy in the head, knocking him out cold and then shattered into a million pieces. The eight men scramble out the door leaving the unconscious man to take the blame.

The men from Schwarz disappear and Shuichi and the gang gather around the window, watching as the police arrive to apprehend the culprit. 

 "You thought you could get away with stealing the "Buddha of Transformation" huh?" The nerdy guy responds "I didn't do it, I tell you! It was some oddball in a paper sack! He framed me!" The Police handcuff him and drag him outside. "Sure, sure tell it to the judge." They throw him into the backseat of the squad car and drive away. 

 Shuichi whines "Can you believe that guy?! He was such an idiot! I can't believe he tried to rob the museum. Then you tried to blame me for it too, Hiro!"  Shuichi sobs loudly again.

Hiro pats him on the head "There, there Shuichi-kun there's no need to make a scene. Come back to my place and I'll order us some pizza."