Chapter 20: Ryu's Plan

Magumi and Tetsuo walk out of the fast food place together, holding hands. Tetsuo luckily remembered to wear a long sleeved sweat shit so people wouldn't freak out about his arm so bad. Yamagata dosen't notice them.Otherwise he'd start teasing Tetsuo and calling him a pansy or what not. Kei helps Akira strap on his helmet. No one else wears one. Tetsuo hops on his bike, with Magumi holding his waist gently. Tetsuo glances in the mirror at her. Kaneda was long gone having got pissed off at the manager and the whole group. Tetsuo decides he wants to lead the rest of the group so he does. The order pulling out of the parking lot was Tetsuo and Magumi,Yamagata, than Kei and Akira.

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" So she wants all of us to go out there in all of our danm gear and find some fuckn dumb kids?!" A trained soilder for their base complains. " Yup. That's about right. Just because one phyco escapes!" Another one comments. They are all piled into the same white van that took Tetsuo from his home in the first place. They are smoking and dinkng. None of them have their gear on. " Well I guess we could go cruise around in this hunk o' junk, pick up some more booze and actually try to look...yeah right...and than come back here." One of them suggests. Everyone nods and grunts an agreement and they pull out. Miss Gena watches from the window. She crosses her arms. " Fools.."

" Ryu...so what's your plan?" The woman with the Auburn hair asks. " Well..I think-" He suddenly stops. " Whoa hold on..." He looks out the shade. " Do you see that?" Ryu asks. The woman and the man jump out of their seats to look. " AH---!!! It's ...it's AKIRA!~!!!" The woman shouts. The three adults are crammed into a small hidden cubicle somewhere inside a strip mall, where the gang has stopped and is looking around, with Akira.
" We need to do this smoothly.." The man says. " This may be our only chance here..." He whispers.

" Ah...Tesuo..?" Magumi asks. " Yeah?" He murmers. " Now are you going to tell what happened to your arm?" Magumi asks. " Sorry....not here..." He says. Magumi sighs. " Why is he keeping this from me? Does it have something to do with Akira?" She thinks. Tetsuo puts his arm around her. " I promise I will eventruly let you know." Tetsuo says, smiling. Kei and Akira walk behind. Yamagata trails way behind. " Why did I haft to come?" Yamagata murmers. Akira looks around him. But still he remains silent. Kei smiles a bit. Yamagata notices Tetsuo and Magumi up ahead acting all lover like. He snickers and starts to run past Kei and Yamagata and smacks Tetsuo over the head. " HAHAHAHAHAAAAA" Yamagata laughs. Tetsuo puts him in a head lock. " HAHAHA..ack kinda tight..hehehe ack!" Yamagata snickers. Magumi laughs as Tesuo pushes Yamagata into a bench. Yamagata pokes him in the ribs hard. " Ooo that's it!" Tetsuo pretends to chase him around the bench, they end up on opposite ends. " NAHHH" Yamagata says, stickng out his tounge. " HM? GERONAMO!" Tetsuo hops on the bench ,jumps and pulls down Yamagata to the floor laughing. They get up and brush themselves off. Tetsuo returns his arm around Magumi, who is laughing.

Ryu's gang follows closely behind AKira and Kei, acting casual. And it was working, just blending in with the other people was easy for them. Ryu fingered the gun in his pocket. He didn't want to pull it out in public and cause a MAJOR distraction. Nope. This had to be done smooth and " Why can't we just grab em?" The man asks, interupting Ryu's thoughts. He sighs. " NO." He says quietly, extending his finger over his lips. They hush up.
They walk around to an empty part, outside the mall. It's like a dirt parking lot people can use. Half is pavement and the other is gravel. They parked their bikes on the pavement part away from the cars and the theives. " HEY!" Someone shouts in a man's voice from behind them. They turn around. It's Ryu. But they don't know that. " What?" Yamagata asks. Akira and Kei are standing behind Tetsuo, Magumi and Yama. " Hey..who is that kid with you?" The woman asks. " AKira....?" Kei murmers. Akira slolwy backs behind Kei. " Aw shut up.." Ryu says, pulling out the gun. " Ah, crap." Yama says. " What do you think it's loaded with?" Kei whispers. The look puzzled. " What do you want?" Tetsuo asks, angrily. Ryu points the gun at Yamagata, the tallest in the group. " Hey..! HEY!! Don't be pointing that THING at me!" Yamagata says waving his hands in front of him. Ryu pulls the trigger and something hits Yamagata square in the forhead. " AH! Ah?" He pulls it out. " This isn't a damn bullet! HA! I'm ALIVE!! And I'm gonna kick your ASsssss.." Yamagata falls over on his stomach. "YAMAGATA?!" Kei shouts. " HEY! What do you want?!" Tetsuo shouts. Ryu points the gun at Magumi and fires. Tetsuo tries to block it. It sinks into his robotic arm. " Tetsuo!" Magumi says. Tetsuo jerks it out. " DAMN I MISSED!" He fires again. It hits Magumi in the leg. She gives Tetsuo a puzzled look. Why hasn't he fallen asleep? She falls to the ground, after Tetsuo catches her and lowers her gently. Tetsuo stands ready in front of Kei and Akira determined not to let Akira fall into this man's hands. " Danm...that one must have been a dud.." Ryu murmers. " FOR THE LAST TIME WHAT DO YOU-eh?" Tetsuo looks at his arm. It is pulsing widly. Like a high heart beat. " What?" The woman asks.
His arm rips through his sweatshirt and the metal begins to come apart revealing a pinkish reddish substance that pulses outwards. " Don't tell me that's the phyco that escaped!" The man says. " Tetsuo ShimA!" The woman screams. His arm is pulsing out like stringy puddy all over the ground and comming twards Ryu in a huge blob. The woman screams. Ryu quickly loads his gun with a real bullet and fires it at the blob of Tetsuo's arm. Tetsuo is screaming in pain. Kei watches in horror. AKira's facial expression is in pain. Kei's jaw drops open. This can't be happening.
The bullet causes the arm to fling back into it's robotic likeness. But it lunges out at Ryu and takes his gun. It turns back into Tetsuo' s robotic arm. Tetsuo is on his knees panting and sweating. " What ...was that?" He chokes. Kei watches the group of three run for their lives. Akira is holding on to Kei with all of his might. " Te-Tet-Tet-Tetsuo?" Kei murmers. Tetsuo is on his knees, with his forhead on the ground. He is holding onto his arm. He is just panting.

.. To be continued []