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Chapter Five
Broken Trust
It was crazy one second everyone had fine laughing and having a great time, for once, they should have known it would never last.
Krimson Guards pored into the Naught Ottsel. Before the experiments could react they were cuffed. Both Kick and Ruth were shouting obscenities, Trick came meekly her eyes wide and scared.
"If any of you hurt her like last time I swear..."
A swift kick to the gut cut off Kick mid threat.
"Kick!" Both Ruth and Trick shouted.
"What the hell are you guys doing?" Sig demanded.
"These...things are here by under arrest for the kidnapping of the Governess Ashlin." The guard said.
"What the fuck are you guys talking a-"
Another guard hit Ruth over the head with a gun silencing her. She slumped forward unconscious.
"Ruth!" Trick cried out tears steaming down her face.
A guard had grabbed Hope and Strife too but Strife bit the guard causing him to let go. Hope grabbed Strife and they ran out of the bar.
"Hope! Let me go!" Strife complained, Hope covered the Ottsel's mouth.
The guard ran out after them, he looked left and right looking to see where the brat could have ran but saw nothing. He didn't notice the ripples in the water.
"Get back in here we need help." Shouted another Guard.
The guard ran back in Sig had started attacking the guards. Because of this the guards weren't paying attention to Trick since she had been quiet so far. Daxter told Tess and Keria to duck behind the bar as he crawled over to Trick who was huddled against the wall.
'This chick is scared witless what happened to her in prison?' Daxter asked himself.
"Did you have anything to do with Ashlin being kidnapped."
Trick shook her head. "Daxter, you have to tell Torn he can't lock Ruth up."
"Your still worried about Ruth?" Daxter demanded. "What about yourself? I see your shaking what's so important about the red chick?"
Daxter and Trick had to duck as a Guard was thrown against the wall.
"Ooookay, that will go a long way to repairing Sig's rep." Daxter said as the guard slid down to the ground and didn't get back up.
Trick looked at the guard for a moment before she turned back to Daxter.
"It's not Ruth I'm worried about, Tell Torn that if he locks Ruth up what ever happens is on his head, it's his fault not ours." Trick flinched at the sound of bolts being fired. "He can't say we didn't warn him."
Trick flinched again and tried to cover her head as more blaster bolts shot widely inside the bar. Daxter pulled out a lock pick he had stared keeping under his hat and used it to free Trick from her cuffs.
"Well what are you waiting for?" Daxter asked. "Leg it!"
"But what about Ruth and Kick?"
"Their own cold Trick, even if I unlocked their cuffs how are they getting out of here?" Daxter ran back to the bar and joined the girls.
Trick looked at her brother and Ruth for a long moment before sprinting for the door.
She got out of the door a few moments before a guard finally managed to knock out Sig. They left him behind but carried out Kick and Ruth. There was a lot of swearing when they noticed Trick had vanished.
A figure walked in though the door way, it was Torn he looked around the bar as he surveyed the situation.
"I want constant patrols until the other three are found." He ordered.
"Three sir?" Asked the guard. "There were only two."
"Don't make the same mistake as Erol, I want the red rat was well as the others." Torn said to the guards as they left.
"Torn, old pal." Daxter said in a sweet voice. "HAVE YOU GONE CRAZY?"
Torn glared at Daxter.
Nether one noticed Jak enter the building.
"One of their group kidnapped Ashlin." Torn said poking Daxter so hard he nearly fall of the bar. "One of these experiments must know where she's being kept."
"Their not Experiments." Jak growled. "They're people."
Keria ran out from behind the bar to Jak. She wrapped her arms around him and buried her head in his shoulder. Jak was surprised and looked a little lost as to what to do about her.
"Jak it was terrible!" She said as Jak slowly encircled her with one arm. "They just came in and started taking them, no explanations or anything and look what they did to Sig."
Jak turned to Torn a very dark look on his face.
"You said you were going to question them not beat them up." Jak said in an dangerously angry voice.
"You mean you knew!" Keria gasped taking a step away from him.
"I said we were taking them in for questioning, and my methods are none of your concern." Torn answered.
Jak walked up to Torn, Torn was getting, concerned, about what Jak was going to do if he lost he temper but Torn couldn't back down.
"What if they have nothing to do with it?" Jak demanded. "What if they can't answer your questions!"
"Then I'll let them go but you you've seen the tape's Jak we know Eric is one of them."
Jak walked further into the bar, 'bumping' into Torn as he passed.
"Just don't forget, Kick and Ruth have friends on the outside." Jak warned. "So you better treat them well. And don't forget, it's not just their friends on the outside you have to worry about."
"Torn, Trick said you can't lock Ruth up and she wasn't worried about Ruth."
Torn shot a contemptuous glare at Daxter.
"She sounded more worried about you." Daxter said meekly.
Torn didn't even respond he just turned and followed his men out of the bar.
"Damn it!"
Jak punched the wall, causing one of the trophies to fall of the wall and land on Daxter.
"Hey! I don't like it ether so don't take it out on me!"
Jak tried not to laugh at his friend trying to get the metalheads...err...head of him. It was just what he needed to see to break his growing anger before it got dangerous.
"Sorry Dax." Jak said as he pulled the trophy off Daxter. "But, I should have known Torn would do something like this."
Keria laid a hand on Jak's lower arm in support. He looked at her and felt much better for the warmth in her smile. Then he felt guilty that he was doing so well when others that had been experimented on were ether about to be tossed in a cold cell or were being hunted. Jak remembered being hunted all to well.
"If Torn did have evidence that they kidnapped Ashlin he had to do something." Tess said as she tended Sig. "But going of the deep end like this..."
Tess shook her head unable to finish.
"We're talking about the man who sold out the underground to protect Ashlin." Jak growled. "He doesn't care what he has to do to protect Ashlin."
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Hope pulled herself out of the water. Strife sat shivering on her shoulder. She looked up at him.
"I don't know what to do next Hope." Strife sighed. "They are going to be looking for us."
Hope fell to he knees. Strife jumped of her shoulder and looked up to her face now that they were almost at eye level.
"Hey Hope don't give up. We know that they can't hold Ruth for long, one way or the other, we had better hope for the Guard's sake that they don't put her on her own." Strife starting pacing. "Did you hear what the said about the Governess."
Hope nodded.
Strife started pacing. He wanted to shout at Hope for running away and taking him with her, he wanted to make sure Ruth was okay, he wanted to stay with Trick. Kick could handle being locked up for a while, but the girls...
Strife turned on Hope ready to shout at her, but her scared green eyes cut him short. She had only been doing what she had thought was best. If they and all been caught escaping would be more difficult by tenfold.
Strife bit down on his temper and resumed his previous train of thought. Although he did keep pacing, he had to do something.
"Okay so we know why they did this, for all the good that does us..." Suddenly Strife doubled over in pain. "Hope....I...arrgh"
Hope's eyes grew twice their normal size she grabbed Strife and ran for the nearest cover, the under port they could hide just inside the entrance and come back out the same way once Strife was...feeling better..
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Trick had ran right when she got out of the bar, he had ran with only the aim to get as far away as passable, and she didn't stop running until she reached the Bazaar She lent against the entrance arch gasping for breath. She remember the old soothsayer that her mother used to visit here, maybe she could get some advice here.
It took her awhile but eventually she found Onin's tent.
"Er....hello?"
"What do you want?" Said a grumpy Pecker. "Oh I remember you, your the daughter of that woman who would ask Onin for gambling tips well like we told your Ma, we don't do that kind for soothsaying."
"I'm here for advice, not to be shouted at." Trick complained "Or insulted."
"Were do you usually go to be insulted." Pecker asked.
Trick opened her mouth then snapped it shut. "Grow up."
Onin having had enough of the argument waved her hands for silence. Then she started to 'speak'.
"Onin say's that you are hunted, and haunted by something that happened in your past."
Trick crossed her arms and nodded, she knew that she had to be patent but it was hard when she had just seen her twin brother carted off by guards, that and the fact she was being reminded of something that she didn't want to remember.
"And you are scared that once back in prison you will face the pain you faced once before."
Trick bit her lip and nodded.
"Look for the man who helped you cope with the pain you've suffered. He's with the sorrowful one in the under port. Wait for them by the exit."
Trick swallowed and nodded. "What about Ruth and my brother?"
"Onin said that it is you and the ones in the under port that will have to face the destroyer."
"T-t-the Destroyer?" Trick stuttered, trick only knew one thing that matched that discrpition. "But I can't fight."
"Trust in the pained one."
"The pained one? Strife?"
Onin nodded.
"Why don't you just use their names?"
Onin glared at Trick.
"Er...never mind, I'll just go and meet Hope and Strife at the under port exit."
Trick stopped at the flap of the tent.
"Onin, If the pained one is Strife, then the sorrowful one must be Hope, why on earth would you call her sorrowful one?"
Onin waved her hands in some kind of answer, Trick looked to pecker for an answer.
"Trust me kid, you don't want to know." Pecker said. "Goodbye Trick."
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Kick and Ruth had been tossed into the same cell until Torn could interrogate them.
"Two fish in a tank."
Kick was laying on the bed staring at the ceiling.
"Shut up Kick."
Ruth was standing by the door, one foot against the wall, she was glaring at the floor.
"And one fish said to the other...."
"Shut up Kick."
Kick looked at Ruth.
" No he said 'I don't have a clue how to drive this thing.' Get it?"
"Shut up Kick."
"No body knows the trouble I've seen, nobody knows my sorrow..."
Ruth glared at Kick.
"Keep singing and I'll pull your tongue out."
"How about I try something else...Swing low sweet chariot, coming forth to carry me-"
"I'll carry you some where!"
Ruth stepped towards Kick menacingly.
"Where? To Heaven and back?" Kick leered at Ruth.
Ruth growled and stormed back to her spot by the door, Kick was quite for a while until he noticed that Ruth was tapping her foot against the wall and she was looking pale, she was scared.
"This...is...the...song...that never ends yes it goes on my friends. People started singing it not knowing what it was and now they'll be singing it forever just because....this...is...the...song....that never ends yes it...OWW OWW OWW OKAY QUIT IT"
Ruth had started twisting one of Kick's long ears.
"No more singing?" Ruth asked a smug little smile on her face.
"Not even a little? ARGH! Okay no more singing I swear just OWW! Let my ear go!"
The door to the cell opened.
"Okay that's it your being put in separate cells."
Ruth was led out my gun point, a second guard held a gun on Kick.
"No...you can't. If you lock up Ruth on her own..."
"Well get some peace" The guard interrupted. "Move it red."
"What ever happens is your fault understand. I warned you." Kick was shouting, his face looked almost as white as his hair.
The guard shut the door in Kicks face. He shoved Ruth into the next cell.
"Damnityoumoronsifyoudon'tlistentomewe'regoingtobeuptooureyeballsinshit!" Kick shouted though the door.
The guards ignored the Blue Eco Experiment.
Less than an hour later Ruth was screaming and punching the door.
BAM BAM BAM
"Let me out!" She was shouting.
BAM BAM
"Please! I can't breath!"
BAM BAM
"I CAN'T BREATH DAMN IT!"
BAM BAM BA-
There was the sound of sobbing and then a low growling.
"Ruth?" Kick called out from his own cell. "Ruth? Listen you me you have to calm down okay Ruth?"
"I...can't...Kick...I'm sorry..."
There was more growling suddenly the door and part of the room was smashed though, but it wasn't Ruth that had done it.
"What...what is that thing?!" The guards asked levelling their guns at the red beast.
Before they could fire though a blue streak of lightening grabbed them and pulled them into Kick's cell though a hole the Red Eco beast had made when she had broken out of Ruth's cell.
It had happened so fast that the beast hadn't even noticed.
It was laid out on the ground still growling, suddenly it grew twice it's original size and bashed though the wall out of the cell block.
In Kick's cell to guards looked up a furious Kick.
"I tried to warn you, but would you listen to me? NO! She'll keep going until she's out of the city wreaking everything in her way!" Kick shouted at them. "Allbecauseyouwouldn'tlisten!"
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Well that's another chapter in the bag, I hope you liked it, please review.