A/N: Yeah yeah yeah, don't tell me that it's been like ... 7 months since I last updated, I told you that these came sporadically ... what can I say? Senior year is hard work ...

!!Warning!! I know that this is a pg-13 ficcie, but there is one teeny line here that may break that just a teensy bit ... but not high enough to be rated R. You have been warned!

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Chapter 12: Under Arrest

Immediately several guards rushed forwards and grabbed hold of the new prisoners, and despite Haruka's attempts to fight them, she was eventually restrained by them. They searched and stripped her of all weapons, before tying her wrists behind her back with a length of nylon rope. "Now now Tenoh, why on Earth would you come back here?! I daresay it's for ... her."

Haruka struggled against the men who held her up by her arms, "What can I say? I just wanted my face back." She hissed back, not liking to see her own face plastered onto someone so unworthy of it.

Dr. Markusson glared at her before turning his attention towards Michiru, who couldn't manage to keep herself together, "And it seems like our new tests had some interesting side effects." Placing his hands in his pockets he grinned mischievously, "Well, now that you're back Tenoh, I can resume my experiments to reverse this uhh, physical changes." Pulling a syringe from his pocket he tapped the needle lightly releasing any air bubbles trapped in it before approaching Haruka.

"Don't touch me." She gritted through her teeth.

"Or what?"

"Or in less than 30 seconds you and all your men will be face down on the ground."

The doctor laughed hysterically at this, "What can two girls do?" His insane laughed bounced off the walls of the room, "Well, since your uhh, partner over there is barely conscious, and you at my mercy, it doesn't seem like there's much that you can do. Don't be so foolish, you two can't do anything!!"

"Who said those two girls were going to do anything?" A voice suddenly came from the door frame, causing Markusson and his men all to jump. "Cloud, now!" Before they could even turn around, Cloud threw down several gas bombs, immediately exploding upon contact with the ground creating a heavy cloud in the room.

"Hello Agent Kaioh, Tenoh will be with you in a moment." Cloud grinned and turned around to join the fighting masses. "It almost seems cruel, doesn't it?!"

"What does!?" Riva shouted back, grunting as she smashed her knee into a guards gut, letting him fall lifeless onto the ground.

Cloud dodged a punch before returning another, "Well, look, it's like 4 to 1 ... have to feel just a little ... sorry for them!" She paused midway as another guard came lunging at her.

"Sorry, but is this really a ... the time for a conversation!?" Haruka cut in, throwing a guard over her back and onto the floor. "Where's Michiru!?"

"She's just back he---" Suddenly a shot rang out of nowhere followed by a hard thump on the ground. The gas bombs were slowly filtering away, and Riva quickly pulled her mask off her face.

"Cloud!!" She was about to run to her fallen friend when more gunshots were being fired. "Damnit!" Riva cursed to herself as she dived towards Cloud and dragged her behind a table for cover. "Why do they always have to use their guns!? You'd think they'd be man enough to handle us ..." She whined, pulling her own out and making sure they were loaded. About to peek over the counter, a large chunk blew away from the edge as a bullet rammed into it, causing Riva to immediately retreat into her cover. "Ok ... so maybe not yet."

"Ouch ..." Cloud groaned, rolling onto her side looking down at her chest where a bullet was trapped in her kevlar vest. "... bloody hell that hurts." she cursed as she pulled her guns out.

"Well, better the vest than your chest!" Riva chuckled, "Where's Haruka!?"

"How should I know!? I was frickin unconscious!" Cloud retorted.

"Ok ok, calm down ..."

"Look, there's Agent Kaioh ... I'm gonna try and get to her." The spiky blonde barely poked her head around the corner when another bullet took another chunk out of the desk. "Actually, she looks pretty safe right there." She replied at a giggling Riva.

"You're not getting out of here alive!" Haruka shouted from behind a corner, before retreating quickly as Dr. Markusson opened fire at her.

"I'd like to see you try to stop me! I've already evaded you twice, what makes you think you can catch me now?"

"You know what they say, Doctor. Third time's a charm." She held out a broken shard of glass to see the reflection around the corner; the doctor was changing the clips on his gun. She immediately lunged out - just as he finished and removed the safety and turned the corner - firing her own armory and nailing a shot in his left shin. He fell backwards from the impulse and the gun could be seen a couple feet away from his grasp. The blonde slowly advanced on the squirming doctor, "By order of the american government, you are under arrest."

A/N: Ok, so that wasn't quite the most fulfilling ending to a chapter, but there's lots of studying to get at ... please review and tell me what you think! Thanks!