Bubblegum Crisis – Aftermath
=== Standard Disclaimer ===
The characters Linna Yamazaki, Priss S McNichol (formally Asagiri), Nene Romanova, Mackie Stingray, Leon McNichol, Sylia Stingray are owned by AIC and I am borrowing them.
Raven McNichol, Sylvie McNichol, May 'Day' Yamazaki, are owned by Jonathan Robert 'Hawkeye' Howard, me A.K. Knight-Hawk.
Videl is owned by BloodjinVidel
Whatever characters are used belong to whoever created them and whoever bought the rights to them. Praises to the creators and may you never get writers block. Gratitude to both the US, British and Japan distributors, now get on the stick and BRING US MORE. This work is for entertainment only, no profit should be made from the distribution of this piece of my imagination.
Note: to any reader out there, that wish to comment on my spelling, this a small note to the Yanks, I'm English and using more of the Queen English, rather then the English you guys use. Such as Mom, is Mum here e.g. Mum's the word (Mu ha ha ha ha ha) sorry couldn't resist the laugh.
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Chapter Two New Knights
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What happen at the bank, all of it happen in a flash. Faster then anyone could imagine. Across the street in a deserted shop the scene was watched by one lone man with white hair. Just a second before the AD police officers was about to pull the trigger as he could take out the lone gunman on the steps, a high pitched sound erupted in his ears, he turn to see where it was coming from. What he saw, he couldn't believe it for the first time in 15 years, a Knight Sabre was active. The same blue female hardsuit sailed through the air performing a back flip on it jets. It extended it right arm forwards towards the boomer, and then it fired two shots from the palm of its gloves aimed at the boomers at the entrance of the bank. The heads of the boomers exploded in a bright flash.
During all this the Raven, who had been targeting the gunman, saw his chance and slowly eased the pressure on to the trigger as he looked through the sight. As the shot from the gun fired, the re-coil of the gun hit back, breaking his sight on the gunman. Suddenly a cry broke out.
"All units move!!!" shouted Sergeant Carter, as he rose from his position behind another car and all the ADP officers stormed the bank.
In the middle of it all, Videl who had managed to shake herself free from the armed gunman during all the confusion, as he looked up at the Knight Sabres. She rushed down the steps in front of her, a different type of shot sounded from the two that she heard the hard suit had released. She looked back towards the gunman that had been holding her hostage, his head burst open like a water melon as he was hit by the weapons fire from Raven rifle. She stop in her tracks as she saw the Blue Knight sabres land on the roof of the building opposite and disappeared. The brought fear to her face, as she thought 'No it not possible they couldn't have tracked me down', two ADP officer rushed pass her as they rushed into the bank to deal with the last boomer there. While one other officer rushed up to her, he grabbed her by the arm and led her away from the steps and he said something that she didn't catch.
"Hun... What?" she asked, tears running down her face, drops of blood running from her nose and mouth from the injury caused by the gunman.
"Are you Ok" the young brown haired officer asked as he stared into her eyes, he was afraid that she might be going into shock. Before she could answer his question, weapons fire sounded from inside the bank answered back.
"Dispatch, the final boomer is down, we need medics" shouted Sergeant Carter, as he rushed back outside the bank. He jogged over to Raven, who had managed to get the girl to sit down on the side of the steps leading up to the bank.
"Rookie, you OK, how the girl?" Carter asked, Raven turned and answered
"I'm fine, but I think she going into shock, we need to get her to a hospital now!" Carter looked at the kid again and soon realised something about the Rookie, he was cool under pressure, something he must have got off from his old man.
"Ok Rookie, the medics are going to take their sweet time getting here. Take the car and get her to a hospital" he said as he pulled a set of keys out of his pocket and threw them at Raven. "In all my days on the force kid, I never thought I see a Knight Sabre at work" he said as he helps carry the silent girl to their petrol car. This seemed to make the girl more scared as the sound of the word Knight Sabre. Suddenly the sound pf multiple sirens sounded from the TAC units that where making their way towards the scene. With in a minute, Carter and Raven had managed to successfully secure the girl into the passenger seat.
"Report back to me as soon as possible" Carter said, as Raven open the driver's door of the car.
"Roger that" He simply said as he slid into the car and buckled up.
"See you later" Carter called out as he slammed the door shut and with that Raven turned the key in the ignition and the motor turned, springing to life. As he pulled away from the scene he turned to look at the girl sitting in the passenger seat beside him 'God' he thought as he looked at her 'She must really be scared of something'.
"Don't worry, we will get you to a hospital soon" he said as he turned the car onto the main road, this brought a sudden reaction from the girl.
"No... It not safe there, anywhere other then a hospital" the girl said, Raven looked over he was glad that the girl was speaking.
"Ok, it nice to hear you speak, what's your name?" he asked as he slowed the car down.
"My Name... my name is Videl, O'God thank you, thank you" she said quietly from her seat not looking at Raven at first, she first was looking out at the city. Then she turned towards Raven, who was driving the car "They will be after me now, I need to go someplace that be safe" she finally said, fear showing in her face.
What was going through Raven mind was a puzzled, what he had seen and what he knew was extreme puzzling for him and he needed some answers and he knew where he could get them.
"I know the exact place that we need, it is both safe and secure" Raven said as he turned a sharp right turn into a side road towards district.
"Where are you taking me" Videl asked as she looked over at Raven who was driving the car.
"Some where, where you will be safe, don't worry" he answered back, mind you Raven also knew it was somewhere that he could get some answers. Because of what he had just seen worried him. She wouldn't, would she? He thought. He and his sister had been told, a family secret on their 18 birthday. And what he had just seen earlier had a direct involvement with that conversation. Both of them sat in silent for the rest of the 15 minutes drive.
To Videl, it was worrying, she knew who had been wearing the hardsuit at the bank and knew if she had been spotted it would be trouble for her. She hoped she would never see that side of her life again. She only hoped for the moment that she hadn't been spotted by the hardsuit wearer. Videl noticed that Raven had parked the car outside a nightclub.
"Here we are" he said as he unbuckled his seatbelt and reached for the cars door handle. Videl followed suit and when she stepped out she looked as the night clubs sign.
"The hot Leg's" Videl asked with a puzzled voice as she looked again.
"Don't look at me, mum told me that was the original name for the place" he said with a shrug of his shoulders. He beckon Videl to follow him, he led her around to a side door on the building and rang the buzzer. They waited for a while, until again, Raven hit the buzzer again. This time they got an answer with the sound of a bolt unlocking, but before the door opened up the full way. A female voice spoke out.
"Who is it" it asked, in a comedic southern belle tone. This lead Raven to bring his hand up to his head, while he shakes his forehead.
"Sylvie, it Raven will you please open up" Raven answered back, it resulted in all the locks on the door be open. As the door swung open, it revealed a girl of the same age of Raven. She also shares the same golden brown hair of Raven. She was also angry at him for some reason.
"Err... shouldn't you be at work?" she asked as Raven brought the girl Videl inside. He turned and looked at her.
"Been busy, Seen mum" Sylvie looked blankly at him for several seconds before answering
"Yes, she upstairs working on the accounts, why?" she asked, as she closed the door back up, as Raven showed Videl onto the club floor.
"Been watching the news" Raven asked as he sat Videl on a stool as the large bar.
"No" replied Sylvie, she noticed the bleeding nose that Videl had and made her way behind the bar for the first aid kit that she knew was there. Raven asked her to turn on the television that was above the bar, which she did. After several seconds of silences between them, Raven picked up the remote and began to flick through the channels, until he came across a news channel.
"And we go live to Trish, at the Giro bank, where word has just come to us that a bank robbery has been foiled, by what we believe to be the vigilantly group known as the Knight Sabres. Trish we go over to you..." the male newscaster said before Raven muted the sound.
"She wouldn't would she?" Sylvie asked Raven
"I don't know, that why I asked if you seen mum" Raven answered back, Videl was going to ask them a question, but before she could ask them some spoke out.
"What the hell are you talking about Linna, Ok I am looking at the TV now" the three of them turned to see an older woman who looked like Sylvie speaking on a mobile phone. "God" she said as the old woman eyes viewed the TV screen.
"Mum, god you're here" Raven said as he saw his mother, "Please tell me you haven't done anything strange today" he asked.
"Linna, I call you back, better yet get yourself down here as soon as possible" she said before ending her phone call to her friend. What the hell is going on?" she asked still looking at the screen above the bar.
"There was a bank robbery today, which had some boomers involved, I was there and I saw a hardsuit" Raven said as he picked himself up a bottle of Carlsberg beer from below the bar.
"You're kidding me" the woman shocked her head; she couldn't believe what her old friend had said over the phone. Now seeing it on the news, and hearing it from her own son made it much more of a headache for her. Who the hell, was trying to use the Knight Sabres image. If Sylia was here, these impostors would be knocked into next week by the time Sylia had finished.
But thinking this brought back bad memories, of Sylia death. She didn't die from the hands of a boomer, she died in a stupid simple car crash, and they never did catch the other diver all those years ago. Since her death Linna, Nene and Priss vowed never to wear the hardsuits again.
It had hit Linna hard, but she had her daughter May to look after. So she had someone to look after. Before Sylia death she had fallen desperate in love with someone, and he had given her the chance to have a family. But before she gave birth to their child, he had been killed. Linna might have killed herself if it hadn't been for the child growing inside of her, after giving birth to her daughter. She found new hope and raised her child to the best of her abilities; she only hoped that she would have a normal life unlike her mother.
The death of Sylia put on a strain on Mackie and Nene relationship, they soon broke up after it. Mackie soon moved to Germany, where he set up shop. This left Nene with a void to fill in her life; she soon found her career in the ADP a sure let area to let off steam. Priss couldn't still believe that Nene had been the chief of the AD police for the past two years; neither could her husband of eighteen years.
Leon asked Priss to marry him, after he had told her that he knew about her little secret, after few months she found out see was expecting. They soon had two twins to care for, a little boy and girl. She named them after some of her close friends that meant something to her in her life. Since he retired from the ADP four years ago, Leon brought the old club Priss use to play at. And they set about refurbishing it; they soon had a thriving business. Their two kids had soon fully grown up; both of them soon joined the ADP after finishing high school, following their dad into the force.
Raven had just started his first day today 'Damn he grown up fast that kid' she thought 'and Sylvie being to sound like me, God' as she then thought about her little girl. She still had some training to do for the ADP, being a rebel's kid she had to join the armoured suit unit. They had both just turned 18 a couple of months ago, and Priss thought it was wise to inform them of their mother secret double life of her past. They had taken it pretty well, they couldn't believe it until. Priss showed them the remains of one of her old hardsuits.
Now there was some one who was impersonating the Knight Sabres, with the same level of technology of hardsuits they once had. This wasn't good and Priss knew it. She was going to need to speak to Nene and Linna, and get hold of Mackie as soon as possible. She knew that he wouldn't do anything like this without informing them. She looked over to her son and asked "Pass me one" she said pointing to the beer, Raven had in his hands. Out of no where, while Raven was pulling another beer from the shelf, Videl spoke out.
"What do you know about the Knight Sabres" Videl asked, both Raven and Sylvie looked at Videl, they hoped she didn't fully know the truth, that she was just making a wide guess. While Priss turned towards her, 'She knew something, not about them, but about what happen today at the bank and who the impostor might be' Priss thought, how was she going to play this one.
"You tell me, what you know and I tell you what I know" Priss said as she sat down to face to face with Videl.
"Maybe it will be it better if I tell someone else" she said "but I warn you now, if they find out about you knowing about them, they will kill you"
"Go on" said Priss as she waited for Videl answer. Raven lean back against a fridge, while Sylvie pulled her self up onto the bar top, where she made herself comfortable.
"The reason I know who was wearing that hardsuit; it was because I worked with them. They had been selected to form a team which was to use technology based on the designs from the hardsuits of the Knight Sabres" she said. Priss leaned forward and asked her this question.
"And how do you know this" and almost immediately Priss got her answer.
"I was selected to be a member of this team, that how I know" she answered "I became a problem for them, when I learnt too much about their overall plan" Videl answered back trying not to look any one directly in the eye "they tired to kill me for what I knew, I have been on the run for about a year since then" the girl answered.
"Do you know who was in charge" Priss asked the girl, what she had answered has given Priss an idea of what happen, but had not fully answered the question she wanted to know.
"No, we never knew who was behind it or why, but if you don't mind would you answer one of my question" she young girl asked. Priss was a bit taken back by this.
"Sure, fire away" she said looking at the kid.
"What is your interest in the Knight Sabres?" she asked. Priss thought for several seconds wondering if she should give the Kid some straight answers or hold back. 'O'what the hell the kid being honest with me' she thought.
"My interest in the Knight Sabres is a personal one, it to do with an old friend of mine and her plan to free this city from a certain evil several long years ago" Priss said, taking a long swig of her drink. "But what you told me, lets me believe that I can trust you" Priss said as she leaned up against the bar top "So I am going to tell you the truth, I was a member of the Knight Sabres" she said before finishing her bottle of beer. The reaction on both Raven and Sylvie faces showed their shock of their mother telling the truth to this girl Videl. While the reaction on Videl face was more of 'I don't believe it' look because of all her training, never prepared her to meet face to face with one of the original Knight Sabres.
"You where a Knight Sabre" Videl asked pointing to Priss, still trying to take all the information in.
"Yes, before I became the mother of these two. I had little to live for and I recruited for my skills and my hatred for Genom" Priss said. Suddenly the room was filled with the ringing of a mobile phone. Everyone turned to look from where it was coming from, all eyes turned to Raven. Who pulled his communicator out of it holster on his belt.
"Give me a moment" he said as he walked out to the back storage room to answer it. "Hello" he said as he switches on the phone.
"Raven! What in the world are you playing at!!! You haven't been following protocol" Came the scream of Nene Romanova as she shouted down the line; Raven pulled the mobile away from his ear. Hoping not to be made deaf from this call.
"Sorry, sorry, the girl we rescued didn't want to go to hospital, plus she told her some interesting information about these new hardsuits" Raven said over his communicator
"So what their saying on the news channel is the truth" Nene asked, her voice sounding down.
"Yep, One hardsuit at the Giro bank" Raven replied, "As soon as you got the chance, I would say it wise that you got down here and speak to mum" he commented to her.
"My shift ends in an hour, I'll be there as soon as possible ok" Nene said before the two of them said goodbye and Raven hang up the connection. As soon as he switched off the communicator, he walked back out to the bar area. Where he found that Videl was now speaking to his sister and his mother on her phone speaking to what he thought was Linna. 'God how did I get into this mess' he thought as he looked round 'I never thought it was going to be like this on my first day'
Mean while, while she was speaking to Videl, Sylvie too was thinking 'never thought that this would come back and haunt us, what are we going to do'. While the person who to most focus on was speaking to her old team mate.
"Linna, I think we got to reform the team, yes? Well we can't let them get away this. I know I'm to old to be doing this that broken leg from a year ago proves that" Priss sigh as she felt her right leg which she broke, while out riding her old bike "But I been thinking, Raven and Sylvie they both learned martial arts from Leon. I also shown them a few moves, I think you should lest speak to May" screaming came off from the other end.
"Sorry, but I think we need her, She getting better then you Linna. With out her on the team, it won't function" she paused for a second and listen to her friend. "Ok I let you tell her but I think you should get over here as soon as possible, we need to have a meeting, yes we need to contact Mackie. See if he knows anything about this" Priss said to Linna "I speck to Nene, when she get here. OK Bye" Priss said goodbye as she hanged the phone up. 'God what are we going to do now' she thought as she looked to the three young kids in front of her.
Fin for now...
Next Chapter... 'New Enemy'
Finally this chapter is finished for now; I would like to thank any one who finished up to this point. This story started off for me as a RPG, I was in. I just had to turn into a story, as I could really see a storyline that I could continue on. Reviews welcome and wanted you can contact me on KnightHawkJrfanfiction.net
