Is That You? By: OtakuSailorV
Chapter 15: Mission Impossible?
"Agent L? We have a situation. Gather the boy and his Monster's immediately."
Hikari was used to these kinds of calls and was instantly alert, swinging her legs over the side of her bed and hurriedly getting dressed while pressing the phone to her ear by employing her shoulder for help.
"Situation?" She demanded rather than asked as she pulled socks on. "Where?"
The man on the other end did not hesitate in answering her question. "You'll find the location on your beeper." He informed her.
"What an excuse for just being lazy." She grumbled through grit teeth as she pulled the beeper from the depths of her pants pocket. Hikari took one look at it before gritting her teeth in astonished anger.
"What is this?!" She demanded loudly, making the man on the other end flinch suddenly. "How am I supposed to move them, or even myself for that matter, all the way tot he other side of the country in such a limited time period?! The place will be in ruins by the time we get there!!"
"It's not my fault, L." The man griped back at her. "I was only given orders to contact you."
Hikari groaned loudly, pressing the palms of her hands into her eyes to try and calm herself somehow. "Alright, alright. Look, transfer me to the Boss, maybe he'll find some way to transport us."
"No can do, L. Sorry."
Hikari hissed angrily. "Why not?" She barked at him.
"Look, I already know what he's gonna say. Save your breath, L. He's not going to help you with that, it's under your jurisdiction, right? You should know him better than that by now."
Hikari was silent for a moment, mulling it over. When she said nothing, her companion on the other line inquired tentatively: "L?"
"Yeah, yeah I'm here. Ok, I'll see what I can do. And if the whole city burns tot he ground before we get there, tell the Boss what I think about him for me, will ya?"
Her companion smiled, laughing slightly. "Alright, alright." But he became instantly serious. "Now get on the job, L. That boy and his Monster friends are our only hope. You understand that?"
"Copy."
Hikari stormed into the cabin that Genki and them were staying in. She hated to wake them so early, she knew that they were probably dead tired from the day before, but she had no power over this at all.
Tiger opened one lazy eye and peered at her, irritated by her loud intrusion on his sleep. "What is it?" He managed to ask, though his voice was raspy.
Hikari turned toward him, and he saw the fire of determination and hatred burning in them. "Something big is going down." She informed him tightly.
Tiger looked at her a moment longer through the single eye before shutting it slowly and rousing himself to his feet, ignoring her tone of voice as she spoke.
"I'll go wake the others." He said, trotting into another room that the monsters were staying in.
Hikari sighed angrily before shaking Hare slightly by grabbing his shoulder. "Hey." She called softly, peering intently at his closed eyes. "Get up."
The monster groaned and shifted in his sleep, his long ears twitching. Hikari didn't want to be too hard on him, but she had to wake him somehow, so she shook him harder, her voice picking up its tone. "Hare, you've got to get up."
Meanwhile, Tiger had succeeded in getting everyone else up, though Golem had already woken when Hikari had trudged by him earlier. He came in to see Hare still snoozing, oblivious to the gentle shake he was receiving, and Hikari's pleading voice in his ears.
Tiger had to chuckle. For someone who was supposed to be a 'special agent' she didn't act very much like one at times like these. She acted more like she was trying to wake a child than a full-grown monster that, mind you, slept as soundly as a log.
Now, Tiger did not actually understand what this 'special agent' thing was, but from Genki's reaction to it and the limited information he had acquired, he could assume that the job needed someone with an authoritative voice who could take command. That this job, as the name denoted, was very 'special', and not just anyone could be an 'Agent'. Still, this strange woman acted nothing like what he would have presumed an 'Agent' to act like. In fact, he had expected her to be quite stoic in times like this, to not truly care what happened to them, but to command them as if they were her subordinates that had been trained in the same way she had. None the less, she did not and he preferred this to what he had presumed of her.
Bemused, he walked up beside her at a steady gait. Putting his paws up on the side board of the bed frame so that he was equal in height with her crouched form, he smirked knowingly down at Hare. "Here, let me." He offered before raising one paw over his friends' head and letting it drop so that it smothered the rabbit monster into the pillow.
Hare immediately waved his arms wildly, his legs kicking the sheets off of him as he struggled to get up and breath.
Tiger allowed him the breath after a moment of contentedly smothering him into the pillow.
Hare gasped, sitting straight up and taking in several long, deep breaths before glaring at Tiger angrily. "What was that for?!" He sputtered, waving his arms frantically at the wolf monster.
Tiger chuckled, striding away after briefly glancing at the rabbit over his shoulder. "It's time to get up." He replied simply.
Hare looked out the window and saw that the light was just barely visible. It was still pretty dark out. "But it's so early!!" He complained, instantly hit with a wave of exhaustion.
Hikari bit her bottom lip briefly. She hoped that they had enough strength left to fight again. She wasn't sure they would make it anyway, but if they did, they wouldn't hold much of a chance in a fight.
Taking a deep, calming breath, she forced herself to shift into her most authoritative voice, commanding everyone's attention as she got to her feet and strode in front of them all.
"There is another monster appearance, as you may have very well guessed." She began, looking them all over sternly. "However, there is one minor problem. . ."
They all leaned in, eager to hear what they were woken so abruptly and early for.
Hikari lifted her eyes to theirs, determination and blind anger shining in their swirling depths. "The location is on the other side of the country."
Silence fell, and they all became tense as they shared the same thought. 'Impossible.'
Genki clenched and unclenched his fists angrily gritting his teeth. "How. . .how are we supposed to get there?" He asked, breaking the silence with the question that everyone was dying to ask the 'special agent'.
Hikari sighed, expelling anger that had built up in her chest. "To tell the truth, I have no idea. My stupid boss won't lend me any support because he's a-" She stopped herself short, noticing the young and innocent ears present. "Because he's a total loser." She corrected.
Hikari continued on, ranting and raving, totally unaware of the strange looks the others were giving her. "He could at least send me some support!! What does he expect me to do?! Rip a hole in the air that'll send us straight to our destination!! I wasn't trained to wield magic!! I was trained to execute elite strategies against my enemies!!" Hikari was ruffling her unbound hair angrily. The others were sure that she was about to pull a tuft out in her frustration.
Finally, though, she stopped to take a breath and Suezo took the chance. "I may be able to help." He tried not to sound too pompous, but the tone still managed to slide into his voice as he spoke.
Hikari stopped mid-stride and looked at him curiously. "Really?"
Suezo nodded proudly. "Yes. I happen to have a special technique that will help us."
The others sweatdropped, aware of what he was referring to immediately. Hikari and Pixie, however, did not, and peered at him, his words furthering their curiosity.
"Uh, Suezo, I thought you couldn't use that move." Holly stated, trying not to hurt his feelings.
Suezo brightened up further. "I'm sure I can use it now, Holly."
Tiger and Hare exchanged a glance before sighing and shaking their heads.
"What move is this?" Hikari questioned, quizzically studying everyone's reactions to Suezo's words.
"Teleport."
The others heaved a sigh, sweatdropping again while Pixie and Hikari started to get the idea that they were seriously missing something.
The monster and human exchanged a confused glance before inquiring about this strange technique that the others seemed unsure of it.
"You are sure you can perform this?"
Suezo seemed to catch on and gave them all a hurt look. "I can." He grumbled rather angrily.
Hikari let her lower lip go and ushered for them to follow her out the door after a few seconds of inward debate. "It's worth a shot, c'mon Suezo."
They trudged out after her, frantic to help, but too tired to really know where they were going.
Hikari stopped as soon as they were all out the door and gestured for Suezo to come forward. Suezo came up, straightening up and hopping proudly in front, smiling broadly at them all.
The blond agent fell back, inwardly praying that this 'power' of Suezo's would work. She wasn't sure what would happen if they didn't manage to get to the city that was in certain peril at the moment.
"Everyone form a circle and hold hands around me." He ordered. The congregation of monsters and humans did as they were told; though it was a bit harder for Tiger, who could not participate in the handholding. Rather, the two standing on either side of him had to place a hand on his back.
"Now, concentrate your energy on me and the place that we are destined." They closed their eyes and again did as he told them without a word.
Suezo grew still and silent in the middle of the circle, power licking up like flames from him suddenly. His bottom lip quivered in his concentration; his forehead twitched briefly.
Finally, after a painfully long silence, Suezo's single eye flew up as wide as it could go, the black pupil within his eye becoming so small that it was barely distinguishable against the green coloring.
"Teleport!!!"
Sorry to cut it there you guys, but you need something to hang on to until my next update right? wink I'm so happy that I got a new page breaker now too. My friend, skitz, told me about this when I was complaining to her and now i'm absolutely loving it, though I don't like it as much as my old ones. . .but whatever.
Thanks for the reviews as always, I'm trying to update as much as I can. High School is great so far but very demanding.
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