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Syaoran's Angels

Chapter 11: No mercy

Tomoyo smirked as the strange device she held in her hand beeped again loudly. With a grin, she ran her hand across the desk's surface until she felt a strange cold metallic lump. Examining the lump closely she found a small metal object about the size of a nail's head embedded into the desk's mahogany surface. She pried it free and held it up triumphantly examining it closely in the light before dropping it down onto the carpeted floor and crushing it with her foot.

"I think that's the last one," Tomoyo said switching off the device she held in her hands.

Behind her Meiling grunted something intelligible as she continued to pace around the room.

"Meiling?" Tomoyo asked concerned, "All the bugs and hidden microphones Spinnel Corporation hid in here are gone."

Silence.

"Meiling? Hey, Meiling!"

"What?" Meiling asked blinking at her in confusion.

Tomoyo sighed.

"Look, Sakura is probably just sleeping off last night's reunion party," Tomoyo smirked, "You know how those things are. You meet up with your old friends and have a few drinks before flirting with all the cute guys."

Meiling finally allowed a small smile to chase the worried look from her face.

"Yeah, she's probably nursing a hangover by now," Meiling flashed Tomoyo a small grin but her ruby eyes remained worried.

Plonking themselves down onto the leather couch, Tomoyo leaned over and pressed one of the instant speed-dial buttons located on a phone sitting on the small coffee table standing in front of them.

With a sputter and crackle, the cream-coloured speaker box sitting on the mahogany desk opposite them came to life.

"Good morning Angels," Syaoran greeted.

"Good morning Syaoran!" the girls replied cheerfully.

There was a slight pause on the other line.

"I'm pretty sure I hear only two voices..." there was another slight pause, "Where's Sakura?"

Tomoyo smirked.

"Sakura? She's sleeping off a reunion party she just had."

"Oh," Syaoran's voice turned serious again, "Angels congratulations on rescuing Marcus Flaron and his daughter. I'm currently arranging for him to go under Witness Relocation Program again."

Meiling shifted uncomfortably as she thought about Marcus moving away from her. She shuddered but smiled slightly at Tomoyo patted her knee sympathetically.

"Are you sure it's safe?" Tomoyo asked, "I mean, last time Marcus was exposed and his daughter was kidnapped."

"I'm making sure that never happens again," Syaoran told her.

Meiling spoke up.

"There's been a giant leak in our information," she told him.

"What?!" Syaoran asked surprised.

"You know Derrick?" Tomoyo asked, "He was killed before we arrived on the Gold Coast. Some creep from Spinnel Corporation took his place and lured us into a trap."

Syaoran was silent for a while as he digested that piece of information.

"Damn," he growled rage appearing in his voice, "Are you Angels alright? Do you know how this leak occurred?"

Both girls remained silent for a while. Meiling's ruby eyes seemed to burn with some kind of unholy light as she clenched her fists her rage almost tangible. Tomoyo's eyes became as cold and hard as a slab of rock.

"Angels?"

"Spinnel Corporation. They bugged this office," Tomoyo told him with as much calm as she could muster, "We got rid of them today."

"Bugged?" Syaoran sighed, "Do you think any other vital information got leaked?"

Meiling shook her head.

"Don't think so."

Syaoran sighed again.

"Just to make sure, Tomoyo I want you to try and hack into police files and Spinnel Corporation try to find out if any other information was leaked."

Tomoyo nodded her head.

"I'm on it," she said.

"Meiling?" Syaoran asked.

"Yes?"

"There has been a recent kidnapping right here in Los Angeles. I want you to go check it out I think there is more than meets the eye," Syaoran told her, "Use your fake FBI badge and go infiltrate the crime scene try to out the motive behind the kidnapping, its located at the man's house at..."

He gave Meiling the address and directions as the Asian Angel nodded.

"Good luck and Angels?"

"Yes, Syaoran?"

"Be careful Spinnel Corporation is even more powerful than I had guessed before, bye Angels."

"Bye, Syaoran."

The light on the speaker box went dead as both girls rose.
"I'm going up to my room," Tomoyo told her walking towards the door.

Within the headquarters each Angel had her own separate room where they sometimes slept, they also kept some of their equipment in their rooms as well. Meiling nodded and also went upstairs to her room to change into her pseudo uniform.

Tomoyo opened the door to her room and plonked herself down onto a chair inside and stared at the blank computer screen standing in front of her as she waited for it to boot up. As the screen flickered to life, Tomoyo shoved all her thoughts into the back of her head and concentrated on the task at hand.

What other information did Spinnel Corporation find out from them?

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Sakura carefully put the table upright again gingerly stepping over the broken glass littering the floor.

She worked mechanically trying to stop the random thoughts that came into her head. Her father was gone, kidnapped by Spinnel Corporation.

She knew it was them. Who else could it have been? They wanted the location of the second book and they knew Fujitaka had that information.

But how?

How did them find out?

Her mind flew back to something Hayden had told her just before he had died.

"How did you know we were here?" she had demanded.

"Easy, we bugged your headquarters."

Spinnel. Sakura gritted her teeth. They were going to pay for what they did. By god they were going to pay. Stretching her sore back she saw it was now daytime, she had been working diligently throughout the whole night fixing up her apartment as she prepared herself for what was ahead.

She was going to storm Spinnel Corporation, alone. She was going on a solo mission against the awesome might of the corrupted company.

She was going to make them give back her dad.

No matter what she had to do.

"No mercy."

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Meiling stepped out from her car and calmly strolled up to the yellow 'Do not cross' police crime-scene tape. A policeman stepped in front of her and held out his hands halting her.

"Sorry marm but this is a crime scene. Only authorised personnel is allowed through," he told her eyeing her dull brown suit.

"I'm Special Agent Mina Wilson of the FBI," Meiling said coolly flashing the man her badge, "I'm here to investigate the recent kidnapping."

"I didn't know that FBI were involved..." the man begun.

"Than check it if you want," Meiling told him coolly, bluffing, "But get out of my way otherwise your commander would get a word or two from my supervisor. And I can ensure you those words wouldn't be praises."

The policeman hesitated as Meiling looked at him coolly, a pair of sunglasses hiding her ruby eyes, as she waited patiently for his answer.

"Fine," he said, "Here you go marm."

He raised the tape as Meiling ducked under it and strolled into the small suburban house. She took off her sunglasses as she stepped out from the bright morning sun and entered the dimly lit hallway. She could dimly hear the sound of people talking and wandered into that general direction, as she walked down the hallway she took note of the many bookcases that lined the walls, each one packed with books.

She spotted an open door and walked through it entering the living room. Meiling blinked seeing the trio of police inside deep in conversation.

"Marm?" one inquired looking up, "How may we help you?"

Meiling nodded.

"I'm Special Agent Mina Wilson of the FBI," Meiling told them smoothly, "I'm here to investigate the recent kidnapping."

The policewoman who had spoken to her, nodded understandingly.

"Is there anything you want to know?" she asked.

"Yes, who exactly was kidnapped? I was given a file but I didn't have time to read it," Meiling lied convincingly.

The woman turned to one of the men who spoke up.

"We believe that the victim is Professor Haddock, who owns and lives in this house. We came around here about six in the morning and found there has been signs of forced entry and a small struggle in his bedroom," the police told her.

"Do you mind if I look in his bedroom?" Meiling asked.

"Not at all. It's the second door to the right," the man told her, "just don't touch anything until the forensics are through with it."

Meiling nodded and walked out of the room and back into the dimly lit hallway. She followed the man's direction and soon came to an open door. Careful not to touch the door, Meiling slipped inside and studied the mess inside.

One of the windows had been smashed and a beside table had been overturned. Meiling frowned seeing a stack of photos lying on the ground. Carefully picking through the broken glass, Meiling knelt down and studied the photos careful not to touch any of them.

"What the?" she murmured seeing a familiar photo.

Lying amongst the many photos was one she had seen before. Meiling closed her eyes and gasped as she realised where she had seen it.

Just before they had left for Australia, Sakura had shown them a picture. A picture of the second book.. the Book of the Hong Bao Shi Hu Die. Meiling looked down at the photo.

It was exactly the same photo.

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Sakura parked her car in the Spinnel Corporation underground car park and checked herself in the mirror one more time. Her blonde wig was in place and her contact lenses still covered her eyes. Satisfied she was well disguised, she peered into the back seat of her car, a large black blanket rested on the seat concealing her secret weapon.

Sakura took a deep breath and stepped out of her car. Strolling towards the elevator, she reminded herself once again to keep her cool, the last thing she wanted was to blow her cover before she could pull off her mission.

As she stepped into elevator, she took one last deep breath and prayed that she could pull this off.

She had to.

Her father's life depended on it.

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Tomoyo looked at Meiling worry evident in her eyes.

"Are you sure it's the exactly the same book?" Tomoyo asked.

Meiling sighed.

"How many ancient books with butterflies on them are there?" she asked her friend and fellow Angel.

Tomoyo stared off into space for a moment before turning back to her computer, she entered one of the many online databases she had and typed in something. A second later, a loud beep informed her that several matches had been found. The Japanese Angel clicked onto one of the files and scanned the text quickly.

"Professor Rupert Haddock," she read, "Professor of archaeology at Tokyo University before moving to America to work in the California State Museum of Science and Industry as head of the archaeology. A year ago, he went off to an archaeological dig, the location is vague but is believed to be located in... Asia."

Meiling blinked.

"Sakura's father. Didn't he go off to a dig as well?" Meiling asked.

Tomoyo looked at her sharply.

"Think the two are connected?"

Meiling shrugged.

"I don't know but I'm going to make sure."

She stood up and turned to leave.

"Where are you going?" Tomoyo called.

"I'm going to check on Sakura."

Tomoyo nodded.

"Okay."

As Meiling left Tomoyo looked at the file on her computer screen and sighed.

Things just kept getting more complicated by the second.

Why couldn't life be easy?

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Sakura plastered a fake smile onto her face as she pushed open the ebony door, which a golden plague reading 'Lilia Faren' screwed into place above the golden doorknob. Taking note of the expensive furniture decorating the room and the thick carpet on which she walked, she strolled up to the secretary's desk. The secretary was sitting at his desk typing something onto his computer, which Sakura noticed was one of the most advanced models on the market.

"Excuse me," she said with a fake accent, "I have an appointment with your employer."

The man looked up and sent her a charming smile.

"Do you have an appointment?"

"Yes," Sakura smiled at him.

"What's your name?" the man asked.

"Yolane Heidrich," Sakura told him one of her many aliases.

The man began typing into his computer.

"I'm sorry, "he frowned, "you don't seem to have an appointment. Can I arrange one for you?"

Sakura smiled.

"Yes, can I come in this afternoon?" she asked.

"This afternoon?" the man checked his employer's schedule, "Yes, that will be fine."

He typed into the computer once more.

"And the purpose of your interview?" he asked looking up.

"This."

Sakura knocked her fist back and punched the man in the face. For a few seconds, the man blinked at her in confusion before pain flooded his senses and he slumped onto his desk, unconscious.

Knowing that a security camera was in the room, Sakura knew she had only ten minutes maximum to pull of her mission.

She sprinted around the desk and stopped in front of another ebony door located on the far wall. She jerked it open and walked inside.

The first thing Sakura noticed entering the room was the large ceiling to floor window located on the far wall, shifting her gaze downwards Sakura saw who she wanted. Sitting at a mahogany desk littered with files and papers, sat a brunette-haired woman. The woman looked up from her laptop and frowned seeing Sakura standing there.

"Who are you?" the woman asked bluntly.

"You know who I am," Sakura smirked strolling up to the desk.

"How did you get pass William?" the woman demanded standing up, "What the hell do you want?"

"What I want?" Sakura repeated.

She reached the desk.

"Revenge."

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Meiling unlocked Sakura's apartment with the spare key Sakura had given them. She stepped into the hallway and frowned seeing the broken glass that littered Sakura's lounge room.

With a sinking feeling in her stomach, Meiling walked to Sakura's bedroom. She knocked gently on the door.

"Sakura?" she called.

Silence.

"Sakura, I'm coming in," Meiling called again.

After a few more seconds of silence, Meiling opened the door and peered inside. Sakura wasn't inside and the bed didn't even looked like it had been slept in. Meiling frowned in confusion.

Did Sakura stay over at a friend's house or something? Or something else had happened.

Meiling shook her head and moved over to the guest room. She stopped seeing the door was open.

She peered inside.

"Oh god," Meiling gasped.

The scene spread out before her was almost exactly like the one that had happened at Professor Haddock's house. There had been a struggle in here and lying on the ground were... the photos.

Meiling gritted her teeth.

She dug into her jacket pocket and fished out her mobile phone. Punching in the familiar numbers, she waited impatiently for the other person to pick up.

'Hello?' Tomoyo greeted.

"Tomoyo, it's me," Meiling told her tersely, "I'm at Sakura's place. There's been a struggle in here. Sakura is gone. Tomoyo..."

'Yes?'

"I think that Sakura's father has been kidnapped. The guest room is a mess. The photos are on the ground like at Haddock's place. The two are definitely connected."

Tomoyo swore.

'Spinnel must have done this. They're after the second book. Damn,' Tomoyo went silent for a few moments, 'Do you know where Sakura is?'

"No, but if I know Sakura she's after her father."

'You don't think...' Tomoyo trailed off.

"She's at Spinnel Corporation building probably," Meiling closed her eyes and sighed, "Okay, I'll get back to the headquarters than we'll figure out what to do."

'Fine, be careful,' Tomoyo hung up as Meiling jammed the phone back into her pockets and ran out of the apartment quickly.

Hopefully Sakura hadn't been stupid enough to try and take on Spinnel on her own... hopefully.

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If Meiling was watching the scene developing within Lilia's office she would have swore at the top of her voice.

"What?' Lilia asked.

"Revenge," Sakura repeated.

Before the startled woman could react, Sakura vaulted over the desk and grabbed Lilia's collar slamming the woman down onto the hard wooden surface scattering paper everywhere.

"I know for damn sure you masterminded Hayden's death and now you've kidnapped my father," she growled.

"Haddock?" Lilia asked.

"No, Fujitaka Kinomoto," Sakura snapped.

"Oh, that stupid fool who was so kind to let us in," Lilia laughed.

Her laughter was cut off as Sakura tightened her grip on Lilia's collar effectively cutting off her breathing. A few seconds later, Sakura let go allowing Lilia to suck in a few grateful breaths of air.

"Where the hell is he?" Sakura asked dangerously.

"I don't know..." Lilia began.

This time Sakura kneed Lilia in the spine.

"I repeat, where the hell is he?"

Lilia managed to turn her head around and shivered seeing the rage in Sakura's eyes.

"What happens if I don't tell you?" Lilia challenged.

Sakura glared at her.

"Then you'll die," she said flatly.

Lilia gulped.

"He's in Hong Kong," Lilia told her.

"Be more precise," Sakura commanded.

"Okay, okay," Lilia gasped as Sakura began cutting off her air supply again, "He's held captive somewhere in Hong Kong. I don't know where exactly but it's on my computer."

"Find out," Sakura growled, "Now."

Sakura let Lilia go as the woman slowly turned back to her laptop. She typed quickly and a file came up.

"Print it out," Sakura commanded seeing a printer lying on the desk.

Lilia remained silent for a minute.

"NOW!" Sakura yelled grabbing the back of Lilia's neck.

Lilia hurriedly printed out the file. The printer jerked to life and soon produced a piece of paper with the location of Fujitaka Kinomoto on it. Sakura snatched up the paper and read it hurriedly.

She was so engrossed in her reading; she didn't notice Lilia slowly picking up her phone.

"Security!" Lilia screamed into her phone, "There's an intruder!"

Sakura swore and turned back to Lilia. Lilia smirked at her.

"You'll never get out of here," she said smugly, "The whole security force would be here in a few minutes."

To the Spinnel Corporation's employee's surprise, Sakura laughed.

"Oh, I'm not worried," Sakura told her, "What do you think they'll be worry about? One simple intruder or an explosion?"

"Huh?"

Sakura reached into her pocket and withdrew a small black box. Flicking the cover off, she showed Lilia the big red button that dominated the box surface.

"Boom," she murmured.

She hit the button.

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Deep below Lilia's office in the underground carpark of Spinnel Corporation building, lying in Sakura's car's backseat, hidden by a large blanket, lay a bomb. As Sakura hit the button, the bomb whirled to life. The timer located on its side lit up counting down from three seconds.

3...

2...

1...

Detonation

The bomb exploded reducing Sakura's car to a puddle of molten metal. Giant concussive waves radiated out from the bomb shattering car windows and throwing the nearby cars into the air. A giant wall of fire burst into life reducing cars to burnt metal skeletons. Fire alarms burst into life but it was too late as large sheets of flames blackened the walls and fed on the cars.

"BOOM!"

"BOOM!"

As the fire rich some of the cars' fuel tanks, they exploded causing more devastation and gave birth to new fires.

The fire burnt out of control fed by its fuel of petrol, fabric and metal.

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High above the destruction, Sakura Kinomoto smirked.

"What do you have to say now?" Sakura smirked.

The building shook as the bomb went off. Lilia gaped at her.

"Well, what do you know?" Sakura asked looking at her watch, "Time for me to go."

"You'll never get out," Lilia spat, "You'll be caught before you can get out of the door."

"Who says I'm leaving by the door?" Sakura asked.

Before Lilia could speak, Sakura grabbed the woman's head and slammed her face into the desk. Lilia's body went limp as Sakura charged at the large window behind her.

The glass shattered as Sakura barrelled through. She stood for a second on the large balcony behind the window, overlooking the city below. Seeing the small waist-high fences, made out of the intricately shaped pieces of steel, surrounding the edges of the balcony Sakura smirked.

She ripped off her jacket revealing the strange harness she swore beneath. Coiled up into a roll and strapped onto her back was a long length of rope. Not just any rope, bungee rope. Sakura unrolled the elastic piece of rope and tied it securely threaded it through the gaps between steel fences, tying it securely. Sakura clipped the other end to her harness.

Without another thought, Sakura leapt onto the fence and jumped off into empty space.

She hurtled down the side of the building as her wig flew off. The ground came rushing up to her and just as she was about to hit the pavement and become a meat pancake, the rope jerked reaching its limit. After bouncing up and down in the air a few times, Sakura managed to unclip her the rope and fell the final metres down to the ground. Ignoring the strange glances people gave her as they walked past, Sakura leapt up and ran away as the sound of sirens filled the air.

It was definitely time for her to leave.

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Meiling opened Tomoyo's door and walked in.

"What took you so long?" Tomoyo asked.

"Traffic jam," Meiling shrugged.

It had taken her over an hour to get back after leaving Sakura's apartment. She had hoped by now Tomoyo had found out something and luckily the computer genius did not disappoint.

"Okay," Tomoyo began, "Do you want to the good or the bad news first?"

Meiling paused for a second.

"Bad."

Tomoyo sighed.

"Spinnel Corporation's carpark has just been blown up by a car bomb possibly planted by terrorists," Tomoyo snorted.

Meiling stared at her in disbelief.

"You don't think... Sakura..."

Tomoyo looked at her.

"Damn!" Meiling swore, "Jeez, even for me this is going overboard."

Tomoyo shrugged.

"Want the good now?"

"Yes, please."

"I know where Sakura is."

"What?!"

Tomoyo nodded.

"I managed to discover that a certain Cherry Avalon has bought direct flight tickets to Hong Kong," Tomoyo explained.

Meiling raised an eyebrow hearing her home country being brought up.

"Hong Kong?" she questioned, "Why would she go there?"

"I don't know," Tomoyo shrugged, "Maybe she found out something at Spinnel's."

"Well, one thing is for sure," Meiling began.

"What?"

"We're going to Hong Kong."

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A day later, location: Hong Kong

Sakura stopped in front of the modest house located on the outskirts of one of Hong Kong's many busy cities. She checked the address again. She did not want to kick down any doors and charge in only to find out she was raiding the wrong house.

"Yep, this is it," she murmured folding up the piece of paper she was reading from and slipping it back into her pocket.

Sakura walked up the to door and raised her hand to knock.

No, I don't want to give any warnings Sakura thought lowering her hand.

With a deep breath, she kicked the door with all her might. The door flew open as Sakura stepped into the dimly lit house.

Following her instincts, she moved down the hallway until she gave to another door, this one had a bolt on it. Sakura grabbed the bolt and tried to slide it across but the rusty piece of metal refused to move. Pouring more strength into it, she finally got the stubborn mechanism to open.

Opening the door careful not to make any noise, Sakura stepped into the dark room.

She stopped seeing two blindfolded and gagged men, each was securely handcuffed to a pipe running down the surface of the far wall.

"Dad?" Sakura murmured softly.

One of the men's head turned.

"Sakura?" he murmured in disbelief, "What are you doing here?"

"Dad!" Sakura sighed in relief as she ran to her dad and pull his blindfold off, "Thank god you're okay!"

She hugged him as tightly as she could even though he was handcuffed to the wall.

"Sakura..." her father murmured weakly, "what are you doing here?"

"I'm here to rescue you," Sakura told him confidently, "Here I'll see if I can free y..."

"Stop right there!" a female voice cried.

Sakura jumped as two overhead lights suddenly burst into life throwing bright light onto the walls. She stood there stunned for a second before whirling around and studying the woman standing in front of her.

A petite woman with black hair and piercing teal eyes glared at her. Sakura blinked noticing how the black hair seemed to appear brown beneath the bright light.

"Who are you?" the woman demanded.

"Who are you?" Sakura snapped back, "How dare you kidnap my father!"

"He's your father?" the woman gestured at Fujitaka, "I feel sorry for you."

"Why?" Sakura growled furiously.

"Because you have a murderer for a father."

Sakura stared at her blinking in confusion.

"What?" Sakura choked, "You're lying."

"No, I'm not," the woman smirked, "Your father is a murderer."

"He murdered Nadeshiko Kinomoto."

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ANOTHER CLIFFHANGER!! You must hate me!! So, did Fujitaka kill Nadeshiko? Well, you'll just have to find out.

Next chapter:

Sakura is stunned at this new mysterious woman's accusation. Did her father murder her mother? But that is not the only shock in store as Sakura discovers the truth about her mother and this woman. But wait, Spinnel Corporation is after the second book and the Angels will have to act quickly if they want to discover the location before the corporation does... find out what happens in... Revelations

A/Note: Well, the mysterious woman introduced in this chapter is yet another character created by a winner of the Syaoran's Angels Competition.

Don't worry ms. evil, your character is coming...

ATTENTION ALL S/S FANS! SYAORAN IS GOING TO APPEAR PROBABLY IN THE NEXT CHAPTER!!
YAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!