Ginharu had history before the final bell and she was released from the dungeon called school, her friends - Kyoko, Natsucho and Itomako - where gathering around outside near the school gates.
"What do you guys want to do?" Itomako asked as she placed her hands behind her head looking up at the sky, "go to the arcade?"
"Maybe," Natsucho said. "I heard a new karaoke place opened, want a go there?"
"Sure," Ginharu said as she swung around a tree. "I need a little time to sing, makes my voice box feel a little better."
The group slowly walk down the street chatting, Ginharu was laughing at something what Natsucho said when she felt a sharp tingle going through her entire head that made her stop dead in her tracks. The other girls stopped and stop to gave her look, she shook her head than look over her shoulder to see a man walking into the school.
"Guys," Ginharu said as she raised a brow. "I think I might have to the met you guys later, there's something off about what I felt."
"Well, we're coming with you," Natsucho said. "You might need help."
"No, don't worry about this," Ginharu said. "I can hardly this by myself, but I'll have my cel phone in case I need help."
"Be careful, Gin-chan," Itomako said.
"Don't do anything stupid like the other times," Kyoko crossed her arms.
"I'll call later," Natsucho said.
"I'm going to follow but wait to see what he does," Ginharu said. "If it gets too hairy I'll get out of there." Ginharu said before turning away and walking back to the school, the tingle in her head and this strange feeling came back. At the corner was a strange man in a business suit with his back turn to her, Ginharu blinked and raised a brow at the fact she was seeing a strange aura around this man.
Deep purple and angry Ginharu knew not to mess this guy too much, she's was just going to stay behind and see what he's up to. When he crossed the street and enter into the school yard she floated above the fence and quickly slip through a closing door that this guy opened, staying around corners and watching him Ginharu was lead up the Principle's office.
Ginharu settle into the shadows across the hall, she used her X-ray vision and super hearing to see what this guy was doing. At the moment he was at the computer pulling out a small data disk from his pocket, after four minutes of typing and clicking he finally said something.
"She's right, many of the left overs from Mugen Gakuen system is still buried here after so many years. Here it is!" He inserted the disk into computer, "now we have one."
Minutes later the man took out the disk and turn off the computer, Ginharu pretend to be a normal student that forgot her books as he came out of the office. Ginharu thought about following him afterwards but decided against it, the better course was to allow everything to fall into place so she would have a idea of what's going on.
But she couldn't stop thinking on her way home about what that man needed from the school system that was so important. And what he mean by "now we have one"?
Somewhere is someone with the answers.
Normally darkness and total silence would comfort her, sooth her mind and body but tonight it was making everything worse. She had payed a visit to another villain, after tearing everything up and heading back a memory had dislodge from the familiarity of the dark lab.
A dark haired woman who's face she couldn't make out standing there with a clipboard and a smile. A place of darkness surrounded by strange toys and a man silhouetted by the same darkness, her doing something horrible to some kids at a school where she went - but somehow it didn't feel right -.
Guilty couldn't handle being alone anymore and just walked out onto the street, she had no direction or destination in mind as she wonder around.
She stopped at the Harajuku station as she came face to face with a young lady in a kimodo selling rice balls for some company, the same hair colour, eyes and the red and black cat ears of the girl she saw in China two years ago. Guilty walked up to her but said nothing as she took a free sample, leaving she could tell the girl had remembered her.
It was like fate was direction her to this girl for brief moments, preparing them for something. And Guilty didn't like that idea.
She didn't like the idea.
Lee lee being around Usagiko all the time, one could say that the raven haired girl was jealous and they would be right. But it was also the air around Lee lee, something about her didn't seem right.
Dee dee was on auto-pilot when she logged in the large amount of data into the system, She hadn't seen Akumaru or Jack lately so she assume that they were taking care of a few deals. The base was a bit quite and she couldn't stop thinking about Usagiko, who was in Bangkok with Lee lee stealing weapons off a small time rival.
She pass the time with various tasks, a message came in from Thailand. They have secured the weapons and now were coming back, Dee dee didn't show it but she was almost near ecstasy when she heard Usagiko was coming back.
She kind of deflate at the news of Lee lee coming home too.
Now at least she can put more thought into what she was doing.
Fuuma had finished another class, his body was aching and his knew there was going to be bruising but it was worth it to learn a few new moves and techniques.
He was surprised at how well his master could throw him around. Working out a kink in his shoulder he sense something off about the atmosphere, a strange feeling coming from something around the area. There was a sharp pain in his skull as his surroundings blurred and wavered, Fuuma almost collapsed but manage to hold up. Seconds the episode went away, but the feeling didn't stop.
In fact it got stronger, he look behind him to see a strange figure that was hanging there in mid-air. Whipping around Fuuma took in what details he could of this being, messy black hair that kind of overlapped his black eyes that was hidden behind round black glasses. A black cloak with tatter ends and there wasn't anything else that was available to take in.
Fuuma could sense this guy meant business, he reach down to grab his nunchuku, both pairs, and ready himself. The man fazed than reappear behind Fuuma, Fuuma didn't know what happened but he was knocked off his feet and falling to the ground. And when he land it was hard!
"Pest," the psycho said before floating away.
Fuuma lay there in pain and trying to figure out how did his pride got broken, the guy was so fast he didn't have time to react. Slowly he pulled himself off the ground, he was still aching but at least now he can move.
That's when he heard a second person.
"Can you wait a minute before pulverizing me," Fuuma said. "I need to get my guts back into place."
"Don't worry," the person said. "I'm not where to hurt you. You better count yourself lucky, if he wanted to kill you he would have done it faster than he kicked you."
"Is that suppose to make me feel better?" Fuuma said as he looked at the person, he was a few years older than him with pink hair and dressed in a trench coat.
"Expected that," he said as he caught Fuuma after he lost his equilibrium. "Sorry about that, he is very strong."
"Okay, you sound like you know something about this." Fuuma limp to a bus stop bench with the stranger's help, "what's going on?"
"Can't tell you yet, but all I am willing to say is your training isn't going to cut it, the twelve angels are going to eat you alive." The stranger smiled and waved, he left just as quick as he appeared.
Twelve angels? Fuuma thought, if he wasn't still sore he would have gone after the kid and ask - forcibly - for answers.
Just great, a new crisis.
Alex hadn't come home for days, Gemini was now semi-permanently staying with Buttercup helping out. Princess had been stopping by to drop off a few thing and checking in on Gemini - and to a extent Buttercup -, she was angry at Alex for not taking care of her birth mother.
At the moment the young spoiled girl was busy in the backyard raking up leaves, Buttercup was at work. Princess had came over to drop off some clothes and walk into the backyard.
"Hi sweety," Princess said as she stood in the doorway. "How you doing?"
"I'm fine," Gemini said while raking. "Mom's getting better, she's happy to have someone around."
Princess didn't say anything, while it was been lonely around the house but her ex-wife is more important.
"Alexandria came back yet?"
"You see a dirt mound here?"
"Point taken," Princess said. "Well, I better get going, I have some prototypes to work on."
Princess smiled as she walked off, she hope Buttercup is going to be alright.
Jude was face and face to a Japanese man near the waterfront where she usually meet her friends. But the guy didn't look like he wants to fight, instead he lean against the railing waiting for her to say something.
"Are you Jude Mojo?" The man asked.
"Yeah," Jude said as she pushed a stray blond hair out of her eyes. "What do you want?"
"I was hoping that your friends will be here, but this is very important stuff," the man said. "My name is Toji, and there is something going on that will destroy this earth and all the other cliche stuff. Although it is not yet known what the source of this cataclysm yet, but I do know it's associates are very dangerous and powerful."
"So, are you going to disappear now like so many other doom sayers?" Jude ask still on guard, she doesn't trust anyone that just appears and says that the world is going to end because of something in a bottle.
"No, that would be rude," Toji said as he pulled out a piece of paper. "Here's my e-mail, at the moment me and my friends are very busy trying to uncover some kind of clues to what is going on."
With a small gust of wind Toji was gone.
They were all there, standing before the master awaiting an order.
"Madam," a young girl said as she stepped up to the desk. "We have one code, at the moment there still other scatter around the world but we will find them. There's only four left."
"Maybe it's time we begin to show our claws a little," the boss said. "And take out our enemies while continuing our search."