Chapter 23:CHAOS

" All right than..." Kei says. " Remeber when Kaneda did this?" He asks. " Well I don't think it's gonna catch on fire again.." Yamagata says. " Hmm..why are we doing this?" Another one of their friends asks. " Because it's cool to make stuff catch fire.." Yamagata laughs. The three guys are sitting out in the yard. Magumi wouldn't let them burn the house down while Kaneda was out so she'd get blamed for it. They has a long yellow corn trailing from the door, carefully plugged into the charred outlet on the coffee maker. A pile of leaves blankets the coffee maker. " Well...this is a good time for a bon-fire eh?" Kei asks. Yamagata nods and smiles, dumping gasoline into it carefully. Magumi watches them from the front step, shaking her head. " Turn it on and run..I'm not sure how it works but after this it's just gonna be ashes!" Yamagata says. Kei and Yamagata turn to the other guy to turn it on. " Don't worry we have a hose.." Kei holds it up. " ....." The other guy flips the coffee switch, he leans over it for a long while. " I don't think it's gonna work." He says. " Don't worry, Ty." Yamagata smiles. Kei holds the hose. They are standing five feet away from it. They put a half a gallon of gasoline around the coffee maker and some in it. " Well.." He stops. The coffee maker suddenly explodes, as the yard lights up with a big WOO-OOSH of fire. Magumi gasps. Their friend Ty, is running around with his arm and sholders on fire. " HANG ON!! " Kei laughs, hunting him down with the hose. Ty falls to the ground, attacked by the hose. He staggers to his feet quickly. " You think that's funny?" HE shouts, taking the hose from Kei and spraying Yamgata with it down his pants. Yamagata scrunches up his face. " IT's COOOLLD!!!" They run around the bon-fire like maniacs. Magumi laughs.
After a while they are soaking wet. " GET MAGUMI!!!" Yamagata runs twards her with the hose. " NO!!" Magumi starts to get up, but Yamgata gets her soaked. " AHHH!!!!!" SHe screarms. " THAT'S IT!!!!" She says, half laughing. It wasn't too warm out but the gigantic fire they made was alright. She grabs an old peice of gutter and chases after Yamagata with it, raising it over her head. " AHHH!!!!" Once again they run around the bon-fire.

Kay and Kaneda pull up, after their fun evening. " What are you doing?" Kay asks. " They are having fun, looks like Yamgata's gonna get bashed with a gutter.." Kaneda laughs. " I wanna hit Yamagata!" Kaneda adds, joining them. Yamagata realizes he has the hose and gets Kaneda and Kei. " YAMGATA!!! NOW YOU'RE DEAD!!!" Kaneda tackles him to the ground and sticks the hose in his shirt and goes after Kay. Kay runs twards the door. Tetsuo walks out and gets a face full of cold hose water. " BLAH! What the---what are you do'n?" He asks. Kaneda shrugs, peeling off his red jacket and tossing it over to one side. " THIS!" Kaneda sprays Tetsuo some more. Tetsuo starts to run after him. His arm is no longer blood stained, he is all washed up and clothed.

Kaneda throws the hose to Magumi and Magumi sprays down Tetsuo. Tetsuo picks her up by her waist and grabs the hose. "YOU CHEAT!" she laughs. Tetsuo sprays Kaneda. Ty is singed. Everyone laughs and Kay stands a distance. She dosen't want to get wet, but eventruly Kaneda manages to get her wet.

After a long while they are sitting around the fire, some hobos sit with them from their neighborhood, talking and laughing. It is late in the night and some head in to sleep and some stay and sleep. Magumi wakes up with the suns Rays beating down on her face. Yamagata and Kei are snoring like crazy. Tetsuo is lieing next to her with his arms around her. They slept on the ground the whole night. The raging bon-fire is now a smoldering pile of leaves and coals. Magumi sighs and snuggles into him and sleeps.

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" WAKE UP!!!" Kaneda shouts, running out of the house. " Akira is gone! And so is Tetsuo!!!" Kaneda shouts. " Huh?" Yamagata wakes up. So does Magumi and Kei. Magumi dosen't feel anybody next to her. Tetsuo was just there! Or has it been hours since she last woke up? AKira is gone!? Kaneda shakes Magumi to wake up. " Where is Akira?" He asks. " AKIRA IS GONE?" Yamagata shouts. Kei gasps, tired. " He was just here..." Magumi murmers. " Akira?" Kaneda asks. " No, Tetsuo..I swore.." She said. Kaneda curses. " What the hell happened to them?" He asks. Magumi looks dazed.

Tetsuo stares out over the city on top of a building. " So...this shall be our empire?" Tetsuo asks, smiling. Akira looks over it with him. Their capes are flapping gracefully in the wind. " I have a feeling we'll get what we want very soon.." Tetsuo says. Akira glances at him. " Soon.."

The millitary wasn't going to give up hope that easily. Now they had bigger problems. Three missing projects, or the three mutant children. " We must attempt every possible way to get the phyco,Akira, and the children back, and get the Colonel punished as well as the phyco's friends.." Miss Gena says, bitterly. She is very angry and upset beyond words. She plans on attacking Tetsuo with the whole millitary, the whole shabam of weapons as well. " Let's begin the search on the heat seaker..up high.." She says, to a soilder sittin gnext to her on a radar and headphones. He types in a few things and soon they have picture of heat objects, buildings, birds, and clouds. " Birds...buildings...no humanoid form dete- wait! There are two objects on top of a building in the city.." He says with anxiousness. " What? ZOOM IN!" she says. The man does as he is told and on the outline, is a man and a small child, or a small man. " SOUROUND THEM NOW!" Miss Gena shouts. " We're not going to let them get away with anything this time..."

Tetsuo shifts downwards at the steets. People are being smoked in mobs. A woman is being carried around on a platform, she has many, many followers, raising sighns and shouting chants. She is chanting loudly. " AKira the savior has come!" Some chant. " HM? so they know? Or...are they guessing?" Tetsuo wonders. Suddenly he sees hords of millitary vehicles and personel moving in, tanks, hellicopters, tons of soilders. " Damn..our party has to wait.." He tellaports to the ground. People stop and stare at him. The millitary take their positions and hold the angry citizens back who haven't been smoked. " STOP!" A soilder shouts.

Tetsuo keeps walking twards him.
" FIRE! FIRE THE TANK!" One soilder shouts. " BUT..he's just..a kid.." He replies. " FIRE FIRE FIRE!!" He screams at the man in the tank. The man in the tank cringes and fires at him. Smoke engulfs a large portion around Tetsuo as well as a large explosion, with a lot of fire. The man looks up. " WHA!?"
Tetsuo emerges from the smoke, unharmed. The millitary is blown away in an instant, along with a few hundred people on a bridge, that collapses. Other units of the millitary begin to scatter after seeing the destoyed sections of the city. Tetsuo just smiles. Akira watches from up on top of the building.

By the time Miss Gena's section of the millitary has arrived, Tetsuo has destroyed a good chunk of the city. Miss Gena hesitates. " We..should come back.." She murmers to her troops. " This is too much for our plan A to handle.." She says. " Report back here in 1500 hours." They move out.

Magumi and Kaneda decide to ride into town to look for the missing duo. " This was a bad idea.." Kaneda murmers, seeing all the millitary and police troops, running around the destroyed city sections. " Uh..what happened?" Magumi asks, looking around. " I don't know but we're in this mess now..HEY! That's..." Kaneda shouts, and stops suddenly. " IT'S TETSUO!" Magumi shouts. Tetsuo is destroying millitary personal left and right, streets, buildings, sidewalks, people..everywhere! " Is he is comming this way?" Asks Magumi. " We better get the hell out of here.." Kaneda starts to ride off but some millitary personal are blocking their way, with some tanks. " WE'RE GONNA BE TOAST!" Kaneda shouts. The tanks are flaming and Tetsuo's destruction is comming twards them. " Hang on.." Magumi jumps into his spot, and pulls back the gas. " We gotta help Tetsuo!" She says. " Are you crazy!" Kaneda holds tightly around her waist. " YEAH!" She rides twards him, over millitary personal and through the chaos. Tetsuo dosen't see them untill it's too late. Magumi takes a jump over a slanted cement chunk to get over some things and Tetsuo is just unleashing his wrath. Some heavy peices of cement flies twards them. "TETSUO!!!!!" Magumi shouts. " MAGUMI!!! YOU'RE CRAZY!!" Kaneda shouts. They make contact with the cement and the bike flies to the ground. The two people hit the ground and remain there, motionless.

" Magumi?" Tetsuo turns around. The bike landed at his feet, with the passengers over twenty feet away. Tetsuo gasps. He picks up Magumi carefully, she has blood running down her face. " What have I done?" Tetsuo tellaports.

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this one kinda sucked but i can garunteed the next one is gonna be good! ^.^