Lymph Nodes 3rd Precinct 9:00 AM
When Osmosis Jones pulled up in front of the police station, he noticed that all of the squad cars were missing form their usual parking spaces.
"What's going on here Jones?" Sirus asked.
"I don't know." Osmosis replied sounding a bit confused.
When Sirus and Osmosis stepped out of the car, one of the members of Stryker Team Beta came rushing over to Sirus.
"Sir." He said with a salute.
"What's going on?" Sirus asked.
"There is a situation down in the stomach sir."
"In the stomach? I was just there and everything was fine."
"The incident took place after you left sir. All of the officers, including The Chief, left in a hurry. They told us to tell you and Officer Jones to get back down there as fast as possible."
"Why? I checked the scanner. Draco is dead. We have no more business here."
"Well then the scanner must have been malfunctioning because according to the FPD, Draco and that other virus-"
"Thrax." Osmosis Jones interrupted.
"Yes, Thrax. Both of them are alive and killing innocent cells in the stomach sir."
Sirus looked flabbergasted.
"Alive!" he shouted. "Draco is alive! Fire up the choppers boys! We're going to take her down!"
"Yes sir!" The Beta Team member said with a salute as he ran off to the helicopter.
"Meet us down there Jones." Sirus said, walking off towards the helicopters as well.
"Yes you royal pain in my nuecle-ass." Ozzie said to himself as he got back in to his car. "Damn viruses."
The Stomach 9:30 PM
When Osmosis Jones arrived he got out of his car and rushed over to where The Chief was standing. Drix was there as well.
"Chief!" He yelled.
"Jones, where were you?"
"Bring his high and viralness back to his chariots."
"Be serious Jones. This isn't funny."
Ozzie's expression shifted from his usual flamboyant self to his serious self.
"Is it true Chief?"
"Yeah Oz. It is. Both Thrax and Draco are still alive."
"I can't believe it."
"Neither can I Jones."
" I just don't understand how they can keep coming back to life like that." Drix commented.
"I do." A voice said from behind.
Osmosis Jones, Drix and The Chief spun around to face Sirus.
"It's a theory that we've been testing. The results so far have been less then conclusive but if Draco and Thrax are live examples, then we will have proven our theory."
"What theory?" Ozzie asked.
"It's called Single Strand Replication. It's very rare and is the only explanation that we can come up with for viruses that are supposed to be dead but keep on coming back to life anyway. As I have said, it only happens to a select few out of billions, even trillions of viruses worldwide. It happens whenever the virus's body is destroyed somehow but one DNA strand still remains. That single strand grows under literally any condition and makes the virus stronger than before. The process is thought to be very painful but the rewards are great. At least, that's the theory. Single Strand Replication has not yet been proven."
"Okay so let's say your theory is true. And if your theory is true how much stronger would the viruses become after under taking the process more than once, let's say twice?" Ozzie asked.
"I wouldn't know. I've never even seen it happen once, much less twice."
"Great." Ozzie said, putting his sunglasses on. "SO in other words we have no idea what kind of power we're up against?"
"I wouldn't say that. The likely hood of surviving the process once is very slim and twice is almost zero. I really don't think we have a lot to worry about."
"Oh I think we do." The Chief said, pointing to the entrance to the stomach. Sirus, Drix and Osmosis shifted their gaze to where The Chief was pointing.
Standing in the entranceway were Draco and Thrax. Neither of them looked to be in a pleasant mood.
The weapons of every police officer on the scene were pointed at the pair. Stryker Team Beta was among the group of cells. Sirus grinned and stepped forward.
"Draco, you're under arrest for the murder of your father." Sirus said, flashing his badge.
Draco laughed. "So they put you in charge Sirus. I should have known. Well, looks like you've finally managed to accomplish something in life. I applaud you."
Draco and Thrax both began to clap.
"However, your reign on the VIN throne will be short lived. But first, there are a few things that need to be taken care of." Draco said as her eyes began to glow bright red.
From behind her, Thrax was grinning. Draco made a fist and then pointed to a row of police cars where several officers were placed. A red light surrounded the cars and police officers. Draco raised her arm up and the police cars and officers began to rise off the ground. Draco snickered as she quickly extended her fingers, causing the police cars and the police officers to explode. The hood of one of the cars fell at Draco's feet and the blood of the police officers splattered all over the ground, walls, cars and people who were one the scene. A small drop splattered on Draco's face. She allowed it to roll down her cheek and fall to the ground before wiping it off.
"Not a problem eh?" The Chief said to Sirus. "Open fire!"
All of the officers on the scene began to open fire on the pair.
"My turn." Thrax said, stepping forward. Thrax's eyes began to glow red and he held out both arms. As he raised them, the ground beneath the shooters began to shake and several fissures appeared. The fissures shot out fire that engulfed the shooters and their vehicles. Stryker Team Beta avoided this fate and so did The Chief, Osmosis Jones, Drix and Sirus.
When the path was cleared Thrax and Draco began to walk down the stairs and onto the street.
"Now Sirus, where were we?" Draco asked.
"Ah yes, Draco." Sirus replied, taking out his gun. "You are under arrest. Your Striker Team Alpha would be but they don't seem to be present at the moment."
"Hya asslick." A voice said from behind.
Sirus spun around to find himself face to face with Diego and his 10 gauge automatic shotgun. The barrel of the shotgun was about an inch away from Sirus' nose.
"Diego." Sirus said not sounding the least bit surprised.
"So you're in charge of VIN, eh asslick?"
"Yes, I am."
"I don't know whether to congratulate you or laugh. So the office Nazi has become the king, no the Reich of the office. Pretty big accomplishment for someone who spent his training days in the VR room instead of on the field and in the gym. You can't even pick up a ten microgram weight without if snapping your puny arm of." Diego said with a cynical laugh.
Sirus said nothing but it was easy to tell that his anger was building.
"Diego!" Draco shouted.
"Hey commander, miss us?"
"You bet."
"Draco, Thrax, catch!" Xion yelled as he tossed two items into the air. Draco and Thrax caught them with ease. When they saw what the objects were, they smiled.
"Thank you Xion." Thrax said with gratitude. "Let me guess, Zen went and got this for me?"
"Of course. It's funny though. They didn't bother moving your bracelet so I knew exactly where it was from the last time I stole it back." Zen replied.
"WILL YOU ALL SHUT UP!" Sirus screamed.
"Gee, touchy." Diego said, pushing the barrel of the shotgun into Sirus' head. "Draco, did you want to kill him or will you give me the pleasure?"
"Actually Diego, I'd like to kill him, if you don't mind that is."
"Be my guest." Diego said, lowering the barrel of the shotgun to Sirus' neck.
Draco began to walk towards Sirus and Diego when the weapons of Stryker Team Beta rose and aimed at her. Stryker Team Alpha responded by aiming their weapons at the heads of Stryker Team Beta.
"You guys are no fun you know that?" Draco said. "Alpha, please, lower your weapons."
The members of Stryker Team Alpha looked at each other and then slowly lowered their weapons to their waists. Draco took another step forward and the guns of Stryker Team Beta all clicked in readiness to fire. There was no response from Alpha.
"Take one more step and we'll fire." The leader of Beta said.
"Well looks as if we have ourselves a little stand off here. Alpha, come behind me please. You too Diego. If we're going to do this, we'll do it the old fashioned way."
Diego put down his shotgun and walked over to Draco. The other members of Alpha did the same.
"Lower your weapons." Sirus ordered.
"But sir-"
"Just do it damn it!"
"Yes sir!"
Stryker Team Beta lowered their weapons and allowed the members of Alpha to file in behind Draco. Thrax then walked over to join the group.
"What are they doing?" Osmosis whispered from the sidelines.
"I'm not sure Jones. We'd better find some cover though." The Chief said.
"Let's go behind Ozzie's car." Drix suggested.
"Good idea." The Chief said as the three walked behind Ozzie's car, the only one left in the entire area.
"It's like old times." Draco said, taking in a deep breath of fresh air. "The war between Alpha and Beta will end in a final climactic battle."
"War? Baby, what war?" Thrax asked, sounding a bit confused.
"For hundreds of years Stryker Teams Alpha and Beta have been at war with each other. They have both been trying to figure out who is the better team. Now obviously since we're Alpha and their Beta outta give you a little clue who's better but-"
"But these idiots just don't know when to give up." Raven finished.
"Exactly. Our counterparts still wish to fight us even though we can and have bested them in everything that we do."
The members of Stryker Team Beta had blue skin instead of green skin and weren't nearly as cute as the members of Alpha. Each member of Alpha had a counterpart in Beta. Xion's counterpart Leo wore glasses, had shaggy black hair and a goatee. Zen's counterpart, Omega was the shortest member of Beta and had long orange hair. Demo's counterpart Exo was ironically the tallest member of Beta and possessed short red hair. Rip and Spike's counterparts, Dex and Rotor, had brown hair and were both built as well. Raven and Shade's counterparts, Blackbird and Shadow, had very short hair that was navy blue in color. The pair was serious instead of silly and spontaneous. Diego's counterpart Filipe was French in origin, not Spanish and had never gotten a date in his life. Draco had no counterpart since Beta's commanding officer died during their last mission. Her counterpart for this battle was Sirus, her younger brother.
"Beta, on my mark, open fire." Sirus ordered.
"Alpha, blow those bastards out of the water!" Draco shouted.
Stryker Teams Alpha and Beta got their weapons ready and each team selected an area to use as cover. Alpha selected a nearby bus that had been flipped over on its side. Beta selected a pile of rubble that had been created during the initial battle between Draco, Thrax and the FPD.
"FIRE!" Both commanders shouted.
Both Alpha and Beta opened fire and a barrage of oncoming bullets hurtled towards the position where the other team was located.
The bullets from Alpha's two Heavy Machine guns took large pieces out of the pile of rubble that Beta was using as cover. Alpha's snipers were positioned to fire at anyone who came out from behind the rubble to fire at them. Demo and Zen both threw hand grenades while the shotgun bullets from Diego tore holes through the rubble.
The top of the bus was being ripped to shreds by machine gun fire from Beta while the occasional grenade would explode nearby, causing the glass from the bus windows to rain onto Stryker Team Alpha. Beta's snipers were aiming for the gas tank, hoping that the bus would explode and take their rivals with it.
From the other side of the bus Demo, Xion and Zen were draining both the gasoline and oil from the bus to make makeshift incendiary bombs. The bombs were lit by Draco and Thrax and tossed over the bus to Beta. There were several explosions as the bombs made impact.
The battle between the two teams raged for a few hours until both sides had run out of ammo. The harmless clicks of their guns were heard as well as the sounds of their empty shells and magazines falling to the ground.
"So you're out too?" Sirus yelled from behind the rubble.
"Yeah, it seems that we both are." Draco replied, yelling from behind the overturned bus.
"How's about we resort to a more primitive form of combat?"
"You mean hand-to-hand?"
"Yes."
"Fine by me." Draco agreed. She looked over the Strykers and noticed that all of them had packed up their guns and were now either holding knives or swords with extendable blades. Draco extended her claw. Thrax had also done the same.
"Then on three we'll all come out." Sirus yelled.
"Agreed."
"One."
"Two."
"THREE!" They said in unison as both Stryker Teams Alpha and Beta came out from their cover.
Each member from Alpha and Beta matched up with their counter part and began fighting with each other. Draco and Thrax tag-teamed Sirus. Draco began the fight.
Sirus and Draco charged at each other and locked hands.
"It's been a long time, hasn't it brother?" Draco snarled.
"Too long sister, too long." Sirus replied, kicking Draco in the stomach.
Draco winced slightly and then tightened her grip on her brother's hands. There was a loud cracking sound as Draco began to break Sirus' hands.
"YEOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" Sirus cried out in pain.
Draco let go and tossed Sirus up into the air towards Thrax.
"Your turn baby!"
Thrax responded by jumping up into the air and kicking Sirus in the stomach. Sirus spat blood as he flew through the air and landed on top of Ozzie's car, pushing the roof in and spraying glass everywhere. Thrax landed like a cat on top of the hood.
"I'll deal with you afterwards Jones." He said smoothly as he noticed Jones kneeling behind the car. Thrax picked Sirus up by the shirt collar and tossed him onto the overturned bus. The impact caused Sirus to scream out in pain as the glass from the windows and small pieces of metal covered him like a veil.
"You're go babe." Thrax said, putting his sunglasses on, walking over to Draco, and giving her a high five like a real tag-team wrestler would.
Draco grinned as she walked back over to the bus and stepped on top of it, looming over Sirus like a dark shadow.
Suddenly the sound of a gunshot was heard. Everyone stopped fighting when they heard it. Draco had a shocked look on her face as her hands went to her stomach.
"Draco!" Thrax yelled rushing over to her. Draco began to fall over but Thrax got there and he put both of his arms around her to give her support.
"Draco." He whispered with great concern.
"He had a gun." Draco whispered back.
Thrax looked over at Sirus. He had blood flowing from his mouth and bruises were starting to form on his face. He was still pointing his gun at Draco.
"You bastard!" Thrax shouted, not letting Draco go.
"One bullet left." Sirus said weakly. "And I saved it for you."
The members of Stryker Teams Alpha and Beta rushed over to their respective parties, ready to defend them at any and all costs.
"The little fuck had a gun!!!!!!!" Draco screamed, doubling over in Thrax's arms. There was a small trickle of blood flowing down from the side of her mouth.
"Take it easy baby. You're in no condition to-"
"I'LL KILL YOU!" Draco yelled, totally ignoring Thrax. She struggled in Thrax's arms, trying to break away from his grasp. Her claw was now glowing bright red instead of orange and her eyes were wide with rage. Thrax did not let go, he only pulled tighter.
Realizing that Thrax would not let go, she screamed again, this time in pain and agony. The blood was now beginning to flow from her gunshot wound. It seeped out from in between her fingers and landed on the ground in front of her, forming a small puddle. Stryker Team Alpha formed a circle around Draco and Thrax as Thrax kneeled down, with Draco in his arms. There was a tear forming in the corner of Thrax's right eye. Draco was breathing heavily now. Thrax ran his fingers through her hair.
"Baby, just relax, everything is going to be fine." Thrax said reassuringly, motioning for Rip. Rip kneeled down next to Draco and Thrax. Thrax moved, let go of Draco and allowed Rip to examine her wound.
"How bad is it Rip?" Thrax asked.
"Pretty bad Thrax, pretty bad."
"Can you save her?" He said, closing his eyes for a moment to try to prevent himself from crying.
"If this injury had happened to one of us, no I would not but I think that Draco is strong enough to survive it. Just give me a few minutes to remove the bullet and patch her up." Rip answered, taking out his portable emergency field medical kit. He motioned Thrax to get up and give him some space. Thrax reluctantly did so, giving Draco a kiss on the forehead before he left her to Rip's care.
"SIRUS!" He yelled, anger rising in his voice. "You'll die for this you bastard!"
Thrax broke through the circle and stood before Stryker Team Beta.
"You're not getting through us." Filipe said, brandishing his knife with a blade bigger than Thrax's head.
"I wouldn't bet on it." Thrax replied. His eyes began to glow red and that same red light surrounded each member of Stryker Team Beta. Thrax grinned as he waved his arm to the side, cutting the air horizontally. All eight members of Beta rose into the air and smashed into a near by building, leaving the wounded Sirus totally defenseless.
Thrax bent down and picked up Sirus by the shirt collar.
"You should have saved a second bullet in that magazine for me." Thrax said grimly, raising his deadly claw into the air. Sirus closed his eyes and prepared for Thrax to deliver the final blow.
With out warning a gargantuan metal tube plunged through the flesh above them. Through the tube came a rush of air but soon the rush became a vacuum. The metal tube began to suck up everything in the immediate area, including the rubble, the over turned bus, the empty shells and magazines that still lay on the ground, Ozze's car, Osmosis himself, The Chief, Drix, both Stryker teams, Thrax, Draco and Sirus. Everyone screamed as they were sucked through the tube and into the unknown.
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Hey you guys! Hope your enjoying the fic! Tell me what you think so far! -Draco