Blossom had left the ending party; she was kind of down since Mitch was out on organization business, but she wasn't out and out depressed. Just down.

Blossom was slightly different then herself four years ago; she was now a very powerful spirit entity that could clean the clock of the worst monster without much effort anymore. But besides that, and her lengthened ears and a tail, she was basically the same.

She was floating homeward when she spotted something odd, a smoldering crater by a parking lot. When she landed she found a pile of sparking cybernetics parts, speckled by what seemed to be Chemical X and other things she couldn't identify.

She wanted to act, but remembered the last time she acted on something that involved Chemical X. She'd created the thing that was Bubbles and that had gone on to destroy Citiesville. Instead, Blossom headed home right away and told the Professor about it.

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Mitch sighed; he wished he could be back in Townsville with Blossom, but the gezoisya zubatsu organization usually came first.

He shifted through the paperwork on his desk and found what he needed to finish the night; signing the form, he placed it into the out box and chuckled.

'Time to leave!' he thought as he got up.

But the second he opened the door an older man with a buzz cut came running down the hall at full speed. The man passed Mitch, heading towards the holding area.

'If he was in such a hurry to get to the holding area that means-' Mitch stopped in mid thought as he too dashed down the hall. He was right; he found one of the cell doors blasted open. Mitch peeked inside and found that Usagiko had escaped.

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Usagiko was silent; she watched goons rush by her hiding place and moved to a new one quickly.

She was almost out of the building; almost, because something slammed into her and sent her sprawling to the floor. Moving fast enough to avoid getting the business end of a steel rod cracked into her skull, she looked at the girl.

She was slightly shorter then Usagiko, had brown wavy hair and deeper brown eyes. She was African-American.

Usagiko rolled away from the angry girl and stood up quickly, only to earn a jab to the stomach then be nailed in the side of her head with the girl's weapon.

Staggering away and slightly dazed, Usagiko managed to dodge a downward thrust; the girl advanced to ram the missed thrust into Usagiko's throat but Usagiko lashed out and nabbed the rod, then started to fall back with her foot planted firmly on the girl's sternum.

The girl realized that she was going to be thrown via judo style and quickly, carefully, let go of the staff and ducked down, then delivered a sweeping kick to Usagiko's supporting leg.

Usagiko somehow managed to keep from fully falling onto her back and becoming helpless, and got back up with the girl's weapon. The girl delivered an open palm strike to Usagiko's nose then her throat; Usagiko reeled backwards, holding her bloody nose. The girl sent a kick to Usagiko's knees, only to have it countered with a short kick of her own and a hard crescent kick to the girl's side.

"Enough of this," Usagiko said as she made her break for freedom. By this time everyone in the building knew where she was and were all coming to get her, but by sheer luck and the skin of her teeth she escaped.

Except she lost those documents during the fight with the girl, and by the time she (Usagiko) realized it, she was long gone and kicking herself.

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Lichung "Lee Lee" Siu-qin adjusted her deep green beret and smiled into the mirror, turning and walking out of her quarters to the area's experimentation labs. She was ready for duty.

Dr. Zeighger was looking over some robotic creatures when Lichung snuck up on him; he turned quickly before she could shout his name and scare him half to death (pity.)

'Good gods, why do I have to deal with you?' he thought before speaking, "Today the mistress orders that we should attack the Citiesville Cyber Police Department; there is a special power suit in development there and she wants both it and the blueprints."

"Aye aye, Captain Nonads!" Lichung said mockingly, saluting Dr. Zeighger before heading to the armory.

"I hate her," Dr. Zeighger said.

"Don't worry," a voice from the shadows spoke, "The guilty shall be burned off this plane of existence soon enough."

"Hope so, she's really getting to me."

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Usagiko walked into the base but didn't head for the vending machines like she usually did.

This struck Lichung as strange as they walked passed each other; she stopped for a moment and turned her head to look at the depressed kunoichi.

Lichung wanted to do something but Usagiko had a 'don't-bother-me' air about her; facing the armory's door, Lichung lingered for a moment before going in.