Lilly opened her eyes and looked around. Aki, Furu and Taya were being treated for minor cuts and burses. There was a bed that was surrounded by a curtain stained with blood.
"Hey Taya who's behind that curtain?" Lilly asked.
"Its Ayame she was stabbed." Taya said.
"Is she ok?" Lilly asked sitting up.
It was then she realized she had the biggest headache she had ever had in her life.
"Yea she'll be fine the doctors stopped the bleeding and sowed her up." Taya said.
Lilly slowly stood up and walked over to the curtain and pulled it pack. Ayame was bandaged around her whole chest with blood soaking through the bandage. Ayame was sleeping so Lilly pulled up a chair and sat down and waited for her to wake up.
Hemora Memorial Hospital
Linna couldn't feel her arm a few minutes after she was given morphine for the pain and a doctor was trying to set the bone into place.
"So how did this happen?" He asked.
"I fell off of a latter." Linna said.
"Good job." The doctor laughed.
"No kidding." Linna said with a snicker. "Umm how's my husband?" Linna asked.
"He has a deep gash over his left eye and is getting it stitched up." The doctor said. "Your kind of an accident prone family aren't you?"
"Well when the latter wobbled and I fell off it hit him in the face." Linna said. "It was a nice chain reaction."
"Sounds like it." The doctor said and yanked on her arm.
There was a snap and he let go.
"Got it." The doctor said.
The nurse began mixing cast cement and started making the cast.
'Who's voice was that?' Linna thought trying to place it.
Josh walked into the room with a bandage around his head.
"You almost finished here?" Josh asked.
"You're done." The nurse said. "You're free to go."
"Thanks." Linna said and stood up.
"Lets get moving." Josh said. "Sylia and the others are in the waiting room."
Linna and Josh walked into the waiting room and found Sylia and the others.
"You two ready?" Sylia asked.
"Yea lets go." Linna said.
"Alright move out." Sylia said and they walked to the car and drove back to the silky doll.
"Then right after that I want to go home." Linna said.
"Tired?" Josh asked.
"That and we need to think what we're gonna tell Ayame happened to us." Linna said as Sylia pulled into the street.
GENOM Medical
Ayame finally woke up and saw Lilly sitting next to the bed.
"How's your head?" She asked.
"Oh your awake." Lilly said looking up. "It's fine. What about you?"
"My arm hurts like hell." Ayame said.
"Well Mr. Mason was just down here." Lilly said. "He said as soon as you can walk we can go home. Their working on getting you on disability so you get paid wail you recover."
"Does he think we failed?" Ayame asked sitting up.
"No he said he was surprised at ho fast we responded and how good we were with our suits after less than two days." Lilly said helping her out of bed.
"Was anyone else hurt?" Ayame asked.
"A few cuts and burses but that's it." Lilly said as she put a robe around her. "Lets go get you dressed and get home."
'What are we gonna tell my parents?" Ayame asked.
"What's wrong with the truth?" Lilly asked.
"I don't want them to worry." Ayame said as they walked into the locker room.
"It will be ok." Lilly said.
The rest of the team was in the locker room still in their suits when they walked in.
"Caption Thompson are you ok?" Lynn asked.
"I'll be fine." Ayame said.
"What about you caption?" Lynn asked looking at Lilly.
"Mild concussion I'll be fine by Monday." Lilly said.
Lilly and Ayame changed into their clothes and said bye to the girls and stepped into the hallway.
"Take care Ma'am." The guard said and snapped a salute.
"We will thanks." Lilly said as they walked into the elevator.
"Its gonna be a bitch holding on with only one hand." Ayame said as they walked to the bike.
"I'll go slow." Lilly said as she got on the bike.
"Do you know the meaning of that word?" Ayame joked.
"Let's find out shall we." Lilly said and Ayame got onto the back of the bike.
The ride took a little longer to get home than it did to get to work because Lilly really did go slowly. She wasn't going slow for Ayame's sake she was going slow because her head felt like it was gonna crack in half at any moment. They arrived at Ayame's house just before 3:00pm and got off the bike. Ayame had a jacket on and was covering he wound when they walked into the house.
"Mom dad we're home." Ayame said when they walked in.
"Well I knew you were at work but where have you been Lilly?" Linna asked.
"I got a job with her." Lilly said.
"Oh I see." Linna said.
"What the hell happened to you?" Lilly asked seeing the cast.
"I tripped while jogging." Linna said.
"How did you trip?" Ayame asked.
"I tripped over your father." Linna said.
"Your just gonna keep rubbing that in aren't you?" Josh asked walking into the living room with the bandage on his head.
"Damn you two got the hell kicked out of you." Lilly said.
"I'm gonna go lay down.' Ayame said in a strange voice.
Ayame and Lilly walked into the bedroom and closed the door.
"Why didn't you tell them?" Lilly asked sitting on the bed.
"Think about it." Ayame said. "I kicked the green Knight Saber in the arm remember?"
"Yea and then the guy in red stabbed me and you kicked him in the face." Ayame said.
"Yea so?" Lilly said.
"The injury's they have ate exactly what that Knight Saber and Knight would have." Ayame said.
"Oh get a grip do you really think your mom and dad are the Knight Sabers?" Lilly asked.
"Lets go see." Ayame said and took off her jacket and shirt so only her bandage was left on.
Ayame and Lilly walked into the hallway and into the living room.
"Mom dad I need to tell you a little about my work." Ayame said walking into the living room.
Linna looked up and went pale.
'I knew I knew that voice.' She thought. 'Shit I was fighting my own daughter.'
'Lilly and I are members of the GENOM Advanced Security Team." Ayame said. "The building was attacked by two groups calling themselves the Knight Sabers and the Knights."
"Are you ok?" Linna asked seeing the stab wound Josh gave her.
"I was gonna ask you the same thing." Ayame said. "That was a hell of a kick you took."
Linna fell silent for a moment and Josh lowered his head.
"I was surprised you broke through my armor." Linna said confirming Ayame's idea.
"Holy shit." Lilly said putting her hand on her head.
"Who's all involved?" Ayame asked.
Linna was silent.
"Tell me." Ayame said.
"I can't." Linna said. "We're under orders that if anyone
finds out about us we are to kill them."
"I didn't hear a thing." Lilly said raising her hand.
"Don't worry." Linna said. "Just go to your room and close the door I'm gonna make a call."
Ayame and Lilly walked down the hallway and into Ayame's room and closed the
door. Linna picked up the phone and called Sylia.
Silky Doll
Sylia and the others were sitting in the living room acting as though nothing had happened when the phone rang.
"Hello." Sylia said picking up the phone.
"Sylia its Linna." Linna said. "We have a problem."
"Now what?" Sylia asked.
"You know that Advanced Security guard that broke my arm and Josh stabbed?" Linna asked.
"Yea what about her?" Sylia asked.
"It was Ayame." Linna said.
"Oh shit." Sylia said. "Dose she know?"
"Yes." Linna said not wanting to hear what Sylia was gonna tell her.
"Ok bring her and Lilly down here." Sylia said.
"What are you gonna do?" Linna asked.
"I'm not gonna kill them if that's what you mean." Sylia said and hung up the phone.
Everyone was looking at Sylia when she looked up.
"Call your kids and get them down here right away." Sylia said. "Its time we tell them about our pasts."
Everyone in the room went pale and slowly stood up. Priss called Andrew and told him to get down there. Terry called Linna and Nene called Josh. Linna and Josh along with Ayame and Lilly arrived shortly before the others.
"Your all in on this?" Ayame asked as she saw all of her parent's friends sitting in the living room.
"Yes." Priss said coldly. "I'm guessing it was you I kicked in the face." She said looking at Lilly.
"Lucky shot." Lilly said.
You could feel the tension building in the room.
"Ok you two this is not the time." Sylia said stepping in.
"I think it's the perfect time." Priss said standing up.
"Same here." Lilly said stepping forward.
"Oh shit." Sylia said shaking her head.
Priss and Lilly met in the middle of the room and stood face to face. Priss's eyes scanned Lilly's face. Lilly looked back into her eyes without blinking. Priss's eyes began to water and she started to sob.
"I'm sorry." Priss said stepping forward.
"Me too." Lilly said and hugged her mom.
The tension in the room lifter instantly as the two embraced and everyone felt better about the situation between Priss and Lilly. Lilly Josh and Andrew arrived and found everyone sitting in the living room waiting.
"Where is Rose?" Andrew asked.
"Her name is Rosemary not Rose." Sylia said.
"What ever." Andrew said. "Is she here?"
"She will be out here in a moment." Sylia said.
"Cool." Andrew said and sat between Ayame and Lilly. "Hey lezbos what's up?"
Linna and Ayame answered him with a shot to the ribs making him yelp and slink away.
"Everything is taken care of at the store." Rosemary said walking into the living room. "What is so important you made me close the store?"
"Sit down please." Sylia said.
Rosemary sat next to Andrew and he put his arm around her.
"There is a reason you are all here." Sylia said. "There is a section of our pasts that we need to tell you. Umm well twenty-seven years ago The GENOM corporation detonated an experimental earthquake device destroying most of Mega Tokyo." She said.
"What?" Rosemary asked.
"Millions of people were killed because one man pushed a button. They were trying to bury a android named Galatea. My father Dr. Stingray was killed by the abomination and Mackey and I were left as orphans."
"Mom you said grandpa died right before I was born." Rosemary said.
"Please let me finish." Sylia said and continued. "Shortly after Father died GENOM started mass producing Boomers to repair the city they destroyed. Now and then a Boomer would go rouge and start destroying everything. The ADP was formed to combat the Boomers but they were for the most part ineffective. I found one of my fathers old co-workers Nigel. With my wealth and his brains we created suits of armor to combat the Boomers. I called the team the Knight Sabers."
"What?!" Lilly, Josh and Rosemary said at once.
"Bullshit." Rosemary said standing up.
"Rosemary!" Sylia yelled.
Rosemary sat back down and folded her arms about her chest.
"Linna, Priss, Nene suit up." Sylia said.
"Right." Priss said and stood up.
The three women walked into the elevator and disappeared.
"There was two teams. I led the first one into battle directly but I was still young and stupid. They were killed. A few years later I restarted the team and recruited Priss. She was bold and strong so I appointed her as the leader. Next I found Nene when I was trying to hack into GENOM and I recruited her. About a year later Priss came to me about making another suit and brought me Linna. Linna and Priss got into a competition for leader ship of the Knight Sabers. After a few months later Galatea resurfaced and Priss Linna and Nene went into space and waged the final battle."
"You are so full of it." Rosemary said. "In the twenty-one years I have lived here I haven't seen any suits of armor."
The elevator doors opened and Linna, Priss and Nene stepped out in their armor.
"You were saying?" Sylia asked.
Rosemary was dumbfounded and stood there with her jaw on the ground.
"Galatea was destroyed and we thought our use was at an end. Then two years later when Priss and Leon were on their honeymoon The STAR corporation had a scientist started placing bad cores into boomers so they would go rouge and we were back into action." Sylia said. "I was badly hurt in a battle with a boomer. A metal pipe pierced my stomach."
She stood up and lifted her shirt to show the scar.
"I was out of action for months. And it was up to Linna and Nene. The president of the STAR Corporation Jack Walther called in his friend that was the leader of the Crimson Knights an American team of armored vigilantes. That leader was ex US Special Forces member Josh Thompson. He and his team headed for Tokyo and arrived in time to save Linna and Nene. Obviously Josh and Linna fell in love and got married. The GENOM Corporation once again detonated the earthquake device but it was a small quake. Josh broke his leg and his team was back in America. Priss Linna Nene and I headed to GENOM to investigate. We were ambushed by Boomers and it appeared that Linna was killed. Josh was devastated and he called his team back to Tokyo to take out GENOM. They killed the President Vice president and CEO and told them if they ever came back so would they. Soon after Linna's funeral Josh headed back to the USA." Sylia said.
"I take it She wasn't killed." Ayame said looking at her mother.
"No she wasn't." Sylia said. "Josh along with Mike Hessen rejoined the Army and reformed the Crimson Knight squad an elite Special Forces group. Three years later they were assigned to transport a VIP prisoner to a prison came to await execution. It turned out to be Linna and Josh came up with a plan to get her out and his team was all for it. They rescued Linna safely and returned her to her friends. The next day Josh was heading down to the Army base when he found out one of his teammates went nuts and was gonna kill Kim one of his other teammates. Josh killed Kevin but was shot in the chest. We was gonna die but Because Josh and Kevin had the same blood type the Hospital took Kevin's heart out and put it into Josh. That night Linna told Josh that while in prison she had a baby. The Knight sabers went in and retrieved her. Her name was Ayame Kansas Thompson. Twenty years have passed and now GENOM is back. Ayame and Lilly work for them as Advanced Security agents using the same suit design as Linna's old suit. The Knight sabers and Crimson Knight went in to investigate and got into a fight with the AST. Ayame wound up braking Linna's arm and Josh stabbed her. Lilly smashed Josh in the head splitting his head open and Priss smashed Lilly in the head knocking her out. That was today." Sylia said.
"Ok." Rosemary said. "Where do you keep these suits?"
"Come with me." Sylia said and everyone walked into the elevator.
Sylia pressed a series of numbers that was a code and the elevator started to move.
