Warning this chapter may have some violent images/sounds…please don't report me!
Code: Fatality
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I involuntarily tense up at the sight of the Black Falcon Syndicate building coming ominously into view. The long, brand new building slices across the sunrise like a stiletto. I narrow my silver eyes; there is little margin for error. I'll have to take on Daemon, while Shin and Andy find where Faye and Julia are. Just then, a communication window popped up in our zipcraft.
"Shin person and Silver person Ed brings trouuuuubling neeeeeeews." My eyes dart to the screen, as do Shin's. What went wrong? The security systems and doors should have been disabled completely, giving Faye enough time to hide somewhere. It isn't by far a neat perfect plan, but it was all that could be done. Faye is resourceful.
"Ed was only able to open doors in the cell block where Faye was and tap into security cameras. Ed is very troubled, Daemon has Faye-Faye and he killed that pretty woman too!" I clench my pale hand into a hard fist. This went completely wrong. If Daemon has Faye he has the upper hand, and who isn't to say that he hasn't done something to her already?! If he harmed her in any way ill make sure he is sliced into little shreds.
"You're kidding me! Ed! Dammit, what do we do now Vicious?" Shin looks at me with a panicked look on his face. This has just become more complicated and more simplified at the same time. For one, we don't have to look for Faye, but she couldn't be in a more dangerous fix than she already is. Faye is really nothing but trouble; I chuckle to myself.
Our zipcraft fleet is nearing the Black Falcon building quickly; time is running out. Then a plan hit me…instead of letting them have the upper hand, by us just using the other zipcrafts as distractions and infiltrating the building secretly; we will attack them.
"Ed, I need you to tell me where Faye is now." I command quickly, while dancing my long fingers across the control panel of the zip craft. This attack is not what I had in mind, but it might prove useful if we are able to bring Julia's troops into disarray. Besides, attacking has always been my specialty.
"She is in the Northern Wing ding fling ping!" I roll my eyes as Ed claps her feet together over her head. I look to my right; the right half of the building will go undamaged. I press the communication button on the dashboard and Shin looks at me curiously. I narrow my silver eyes as I lock onto the other fifteen ships in Shin's command.
"There is a change of plan. Attack the Black Falcon syndicate building, but leave the Northern wing undamaged. Don't let us down." My voice quips sharply, followed by a chorus of 'Yes sirs.' Shin looks at me wide eyed. He probably thinks that my plan is a little too harsh, but if there is one thing to learn about the Syndicate and their battles, you are either the attacker or the attacked. First strike is everything.
Shin swerves to the left and the fifteen ships lined up in three arrows of five behind him, like silent ravens. My silver hair catches in the thin morning light as Shin flips the missile switch and fires the first shot at the first guard tower. The missile sails like a meteor and with an incinerating crater; the alarms go off across the compound.
People like ants pour from the building that they half-devotedly want to protect. But their efforts are in vain as a wave of missiles from behind us hone in on their targets with tragic precision. At this time, the fool Andy wakes up from behind me in time to see the Black Falcon hangar open to reveal its own armada; how stupid this has turned out. This is nothing like three years ago; Syndicates are more like their own small army than a crime syndicate.
Then again, that is probably only because of the fools that have led the syndicates to this point. Three years ago everything was subliminal and secretive, but now, it seems as if everything is now out in the open for the whole planet of Mars to see.
"Vicious, we're out of missiles; I'm landing the zipcraft." Shin's voice confidently announced as he brought down the zip craft near the north wing of the building. I look out towards my left; fire and metal erupt through the sky like firecrackers. This reminds me of Titan too much, figures it would be like this in the end. I lift up the door, the sound of scattered machine gun fire and explosions enter my ears immediately as I search the ground for a suitable weapon.
"Perfect." I pick up a long steel pipe with a sharp jagged end and twirl it once to gauge its weight. I look behind me, seeing Andy looking around, almost aloof to the whole situation. Then I look to me left, Shin's slanted teal eyes look back at mine for a second as he gets out his .45 and checks his coat pockets for two extra clips.
Shin looks older now, he doesn't look like the small, young naïve kid who would lag behind and serve as back up, or an information boy. He looks ready, but looking ready and being ready are different things. My mouth remains a straight line as a group of Black Falcon Syndicate lackeys try to surround us in a small circle.
"You ready Vicious? I'd like to see you try and take on Daemon with a piece of pipe." Shin laughs as he aims at a man and shoots him before he could shoot. I smirk as I swing and crack the pipe into the heads of three men before impaling another with its jagged edge. I hear slashes behind me; I assume that aloof excuse for a fighter, Andy, is ready too. Then a faint rumbling sound comes from behind us, sounds like its coming from the air.
"Heads up!" Andy yells in his drawled, laidback style. Shin and I dive to opposite directions as a zip craft falls from the sky and explodes in a fiery sphere where I was fighting not two seconds before hand. I rise, with help from my pole, from my diving roll and scan across the area quickly. It didn't take me long to find the entrance to the North Wing. I quickly dart to the cracked glass doors with Shin fast on my heels.
"Hey! You weren't thinking of leaving me were you?!" Shin grinned "I'm not that easy to get rid of you know." Shin said with a humorous tone, though I put a hand to his mouth, he talks way too much, anyone could hear us.
We silently but swiftly ran down the appropriate hallways, and up two flights of stairs. Shin's nervous teal eyes darting like bats to the darkened, windowless hallways, the missiles knocked out the electricity. I don't mind the lack of light, but I do mind the lack of noise, it is graveyard quiet.
As we entered the main room on the North Wing, the morning light peaked through two large windows, flanked by heavy pulled back curtains. A desk separated us from the windows, making the light silhouette the high ceiling room. A lone, dark figure stands behind the desk; I can tell immediately that the figure is female. I tighten my death-grip on my weapon as I make a running dash and flip over the desk and mightily strike down on the figure. I didn't connect.
"Ohayo Vicious." I whip to my right as the figure comes into view. I scowl, it is Julia. I back-flip back over the desk, towards the door near Shin.
"Julia." I spit as I watch her take out her gun and aim it to my head; I spin my pole in response to my side, preparing to run her through with it. Shin a few yards away from me aims his gun at Julia's figure as well.
"Vicious, three years of being out of the Syndicate have made you sloppy. I think it's best if we just bury the problem." Julia's soft, normal voice floats by my ears like a trickle of water. I sneer. The only problem I see, is a woman who won't let the past go.
"Where is Faye? I will only ask you once." I calmly bark. Julia smirks, her once vivid blonde hair now looks like ashen beige against the morning sky. She is no longer who she used to be, she is just a ghost. And ghosts should just stay dead.
"That is so cute Vicious, you think she is still alive…." By this time, I hear Shin getting restless behind me. I turn my head slightly to see his teal eyes twist and contort in anger.
"You said that we had three days! We are here on the third day; you promised you wouldn't kill her! What do you want?!" Shin shouts as his finger quivers on the heavy trigger like a writhing snake. Julia smiles, a deadly venomous smile; the same smile she wore when I found out about her and Spike
"Shin, I want you to kill Vicious." I scowl immediately. I knew Julia was up to something sadistic, but not this. I turn my silver-veiled head to Shin who was standing there trembling with unspoken anger and trepidation. I narrow by silver eyes and glare back at Julia. She is just simply standing there smiling. I have had enough of this. I take my jagged pole and raise it like a lance, I will simply impale her with it here.
"If you make a move to harm me, Daemon will not hesitate to take her life." I don't put down my weapon, but I do lower it a small bit. She has given us few choices, and I am wondering how Daemon knows when Julia is hurt. Will Shin actually go through with Julia's scheme? He has never shown any loyalty towards me, nor any emotion that shows any type of partnership. Then a rather strange question enters my mind…why does Julia think that Shin can beat me?
"I…will not participate in any scheme that will help you Julia! I refuse! You can use your own sweat to take Vicious down! I will not fight him!" Shin thundered from across the room. I stand slightly relieved, a ghost of a grin comes across my lips, perhaps Shin is not as disloyal as I once perceived.
"He killed your brother, and you do not wish to see that justified? What type of brother…aligns himself with his killer?" Julia forlorn voice floats by my ears. I almost growl. I did not kill Lin…Julia knows that. I am tired of being blamed for killing someone I have not slain! Then a soft noise escapes Shin's mouth, a slight laugh as he lets his gun slide from his hand and clatter to the floor for effect.
"Vicious didn't kill him, besides Julia, the past is what should be buried, not Vicious. Julia, it's time to bury the past, you." Shin pointed his finger at Julia, who was blank in response. She stood there; I know at this point that something is up. She has a plan in case Shin said no. My eyes dash around the room for evidence of a trap. Then I see Julia make a small hand motion on the desk that she is standing behind. I don't see anything, but obviously Shin does.
"Vicious look out!" I turn sharply to see Shin sprinting towards me; I feel his hands push my unsuspecting right side roughly. My body reacts with a stumble backwards and wide silver eyes as I see something wiz by my head. A bullet, there was a sniper in the high-ceiling room this whole time! I see Shin pull something from his sleeve, a switchblade, and hurl it at the adversary before the inevitable happened and I feel my stomach tighten up into a knot.
But that isn't the thing that made my stomach curl and knot into a small ball. It is witnessing Shin's wide, teal, fearful, yet sure eyes, spark as the bullet struck him right below the ear and jaw, through his unprotected neck.
'Tluck' was the sound of the bullet as it went through one side of his neck, and out the other.
As his body crumpled, limp and bloody to the floor, I hear a silenced shout, and out of my peripheral vision I see a body fall from the scaffolding with a knife coming out of his forehead, along with a piece of equipment and his sniper rifle. But I am not focused on that… I kneel down to Shin's sputtering face, his eyes glazing over like stained glass windows, and I frantically rip off a piece of my clothes to try to control his immense bleeding.
It is like being in a play and you have forgotten your lines. I don't know how to react or what to say. I feel so stupid for not noticing the sniper, stupid for letting Shin push me out of the way. He has always been so selfless…giving his life just for the chance of seeing his friends alive once more. I have never met anyone like him before, it isn't right that he should die, and that I can't think of anything to say to him but this one sentence that seems to be burned in my brain like a toxic omen.
"I told you not to follow in your brother's footsteps…you…you fool…" It was all I could think of speaking, my words were caught in my throat like crawling insects. What could I say to Shin? He wasn't really supposed to die here, I meant for him to lead the Red Dragons, to be their leader. I check for a pulse, but it is so faint it will definitely fade away.
I want him to rule. He would better at it than anyone I can think of, dead or living…and now he is dying! I will not stand for this! That bullet was meant for me, not Shin, and I will be dammed if I let Julia see the satisfaction of me taking his sacrifice in vain! I tighten my white-knuckled grip on my pole.
Shin's his watery teal eyes look up to mine; I realize that no matter how I want to deny it, he is one of the most honorable people I have met. I will do everything in my power to make sure he doesn't die here. I tie off the bandage around his neck carefully as I turn my flaming eyes towards Julia with a contempt only matched by a demon. Her hard, blue eyes widen a bit.
"Did I make the demon mad? You are the one who is supposed to be dead." As she spits out her retaliations, her gun lowered to the desk. I feel my self control become paper thin, and my rage take over.
"Shut up you perfidious snake!" Without another thought in my head, I rush over like a lightning bolt, leap over the desk, and with my tense, outstretched arm, I plunge the twisted piece of metal pole into her chest. Her mouth is agape with unspoken words as her bloody body arches backwards and hits the hard floor with a sickening thud.
As my temper wanes and her eyes glass over like marbles while she takes her last breath, I know I don't have any words to say to her, she doesn't deserve any. She will finally be where she belongs, and I hope that is a special place reserved in hell. She has created too many tempests in my life, and been too unfaithful deserve any last words. With a crack and a slight noise of gurgle of blood, I rip the pole from her heart and turn my head to the window…
…I still need to find my Faye
"Vicious, whoa what happened here?" Andy emerges from the double doors, I whip around to face him, his brow is sweaty and his body has some superficial grazes and wounds, and he still has that odd lopsided confused look on his face. His katana is by his side, in its sheath. He can get Shin out of here.
"You, take a zip craft and fly Shin to the nearest hospital…hurry! I will handle things from here." He runs, picks up Shin from his puddle of blood, and walks out the door without a word, he, like Spike, knows when to ask questions and when not too. I turn back to the window, and look out it, and I notice there is a large group of people outside, one person looks female…
…Faye and Daemon are outside.
I also notice with stark realization that someone looks about ready to fire the gun he has pointed to her head. Without a second thought, I run to the window and with my pole I crash through the shattering glass and jump from the third floor. A group of heads turns abruptly to watch my daring leap, but all too late. In mid air, I have already launched my jagged pole at the man who is about to shoot Faye.
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AN: I know…im evil…poor shin keeps getting the crap beat out of him L But hey, Julia got what she had coming… sorry if the images in this chapter were a lil graphic…but I think you can deal with it.
Also sorry about the long wait, I have been out of town and my VBall tryouts are really taking up proofread time
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Omega Neko…well if I told you it wont be a surprise….silly! Oh and about the whole Julia exchange, I thought it would be fun to portray her as more of a bitch, because we never really saw her around Vicious in the series (except the scene w/ the gun to her head) and I think that after being 'dead' for three years that she would become bitter and hate Vicious for what he did…but then again, she could just be OOC…XD
Roxworld Yeah, at first I wasn't going to have him say it..but then, what the hell! Vicious can say anything he well wants to b/c if you disagree with him..he could kick your booty! I am also glad your opinion of Vicious has changed…he really didn't get enough air time in the series..that made me mad because he is a great character who needs to be unraveled a bit!
Pimpin Satan- yo! You got your wish, she's dead! Yeah, though its so sad….poor Shinnie! I hope you liked this chapter!
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Lets Play with Matches Vicious is without a doubt UBER SEXY. I mean just look at him..his silver hair, his ability to kick ass without flinching and…his voice is so good in the dubbed version when he speaks his like three lines of the entire series! And the Italian thing, well, personally if you dyed his hair black, cut it a bit, and put him in italy…he would be the epitome of a Italian lover….XD
Jade YEAH! Another vicious/Faye lover, we need more of these fics…there aren't enough even though this pairing is a stretch alternate!
Saminathanks for the compliment! I tried really hard not to make the space scene boring and predictable, im glad I achieved that! And yes, I do hate Julia, because it is just really low to cheat with your boyfriends best friend, especially with Vicious…b/c…it turned him all cold and that is sad. And don't worry you wont go fluff deprived for long!
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