Chapter 11: Walk on the Wilde Side: Part 1
Bayville New York
A few days had passed since the Mystique fiasco, and Yusuke tried to get Hiei to try to track her down, but the fire demon wouldn't have it. He had enough of helping inept humans, and was going off on his own in the city; unseen and undetectable.
"What do you mean Hiei? We need you, we're a team! And you know how dangerous Mystique is!" Yusuke argued, and the fire demon gave an arrogant huff.
"This Mystique person doesn't concern me, and I've had enough of babysitting you detective," Hiei told him, "The only reason why I was on your team during the Dark Tournament was because Toguro put me in a bind. Once Toguro ceased breathing, our alliance was over. The only reason I helped you detective was because I thought I owed you, which I don't anymore."
"Hiei…" Yusuke growled, clenching his fist, "You jerk! Go if you want to! We don't need you anymore either!"
Hiei smirked, and then vanished right before Yusuke's eyes. They were a team in the Dark Tournament, now one of Team Urameshi had left. Yusuke yelled in anger, since he needed more information on this case. He punched the wall on the building he was standing on, and decided to go home.
Yusuke was tired; he had stayed out to long. Hiei, when he doesn't want to be found, is very hard to track down, and it took him most of the night to find the fire demon. When he reached the mansion, he saw Logan waiting for him.
"Out a little late, kid?" Logan asked, pointing at his watch.
"Yeah yeah, Logan, what time is it?" Yusuke asked wearily, he wanted to go straight to bed.
"Almost 2 AM, what were you doing kid?"
"Finding Hiei, that's what," Yusuke replied, "I wanted to tell him we dealt with Mystique, and I wanted him to help us find her again. He walked out on the team though…damn."
"Come on kid, time to go inside, and"Logan said, "Hey, losing a teammate, whether they die or they walk out on the team."
"Like you ever had to lose a teammate, death or no," Yusuke mumbled as he followed Logan into the mansion.
'Little punk…' Logan thought as he closed the door, 'The comrades I lost would make your head spin…Captain America is in a cryogenic state, thanks to that damned Sabertooth I lost Silver Fox and Maverick to Omega Red…'
Logan clenched his fists, 'I don't remember a lot about my past…but I do remember the sacrifices of my friends….and why I hate Sabertooth with passion…'
Logan calmed down, and walked up to his room. It was going to be a short night; he had to wake up the kids for practice in the morning.
Sub Basement of the Mansion
Scott was going down to the into the lower levels of the mansion to fetch Jean and Amara, who were training in the control of Amara's powers. He pressed the DNA scan on the elevator and walked in. He looked at the screen as he was lowered down farther into the Earth. When he reached his destination, he walked over and heard the voice of Jean talking to Amara in a deep construction hole and he leaned down.
"Remember, focus your concentration. Don't let your powers control you. I know it's difficult, just maintain your discipline," Jean told her, "Okay, ready?"
Amara nodded slowly, and Jean put her fingers on her temples and lifted a bunch of rocks surrounding one huge boulder, and lowered them into a bridge like crossing. The boulder fell a little lower, and staggered to stay balanced.
"Now, melt them together."
"If this doesn't work, I'm not taking the blame. I told you I wasn't ready for this," Amara told Jean as she rubbed her hands and flames engulfed her body, and she shot a beam of heat at the rocks, fusing them together. It took only a few seconds for it to cool, and Jean walked out on it.
Scott stood up, and lifted his wrist, "Jean you there?"
"Scott?"
"I just wanted to remind you, the Professor and Genkai don't want Amara to be late for her first day of High School."
"Don't worry, I got it covered," Jean told him, and she turned to Amara, "Listen we're just finishing up her last training exercise. Now, let's see how you did."
Jean then walked onto the fused rock bridge, "Not bad, just one little crack."
"Then the session was a failure," Amara shrugged depressingly.
"No not at all," Jean encouraged her, "Learning how to handle things that go wrong is part of the training. You just got to repair it."
Jean walked a little further, "Don't worry, I'll keep us safe."
The huge boulder began to rock, and then it started to fall.
"Amara! Melt that boulder back into place!"
"I'll try!" Amara gasped as she rubbed her hands and shot some fire out, and missed it by a hair as it fell.
Just as it was about to hit, Jean lifted her hands up and caught it with telekinesis, "Don't worry! I got it!"
Then a red beam of light shot down and blasted the boulder, sending pieces of it everywhere and both girls screamed momentarily. It was Scott who shot it, and they both looked up at him.
"You guys okay?"
"Scott, what did you do that for?" Jean asked angrily as she and Amara both floated up to the surface, and she wiped the dust off her uniform, "Fine."
"It's a good thing for you girls I was here. No need for thanks. That's what heroes do, save damsels in distress."
Jean sighed angrily, and then walked away from him towards the elevator, "What?"
He went into the elevator and pressed the button that led them up to the top floor. He kept glancing back and getting dirty looks from Jean, who was really pissed off at him for some reason. When they reached the top floor, he tried to find out what was wrong. As they walked out he began to ask.
"But what did I do? Tell me."
Jean stopped, turned back to him and leaned into his face, "All right. You were being…a guy!"
"I'm…sorry?"
"Scott, I was trying to teach Magma how to handle things that go wrong….and that didn't mean asking for a big strong man to save you!" Jean vented as she walked into her room and slammed the door in Scott's face.
"The nerve!" Amara added as she also slammed her door at Scott.
Scott sighed, and heard a groan, "Yusuke, you're still in bed?"
"Until Jean's yelling woke me up. Man, what did you do?" Yusuke asked after he gave a long yawn and went to his door, "Jean sounded pretty pissed off if you ask me."
"I just went down there to remind her that the Professor didn't want Amara to be late, right after she and Amara had just made a bridge. Then, a huge boulder fell and I blasted it to save them."
"Uh, Jean was there man. Did it look like she couldn't handle it?" Yusuke asked, before Scott realized something, "She could have just caught it with her psychic powers ya know."
"Damn, you're right!"
"No worries man, just give her time to calm down, she'll be fine later," Yusuke told his friend, and watched him walk down the hall, "Now…time to get changed for school…"
Bayville High
Keiko and Kitty were walking Amara to her first class, passing the other students on the way. They stopped in front of Keiko's first class, and Yusuke walked in.
"And right over here is your first period class. Be sure to sit by a window, you'll be able to see the track team sweating, trust me, it's worth it," Kitty told Amara, and started to walk away, "Keiko, get her a good seat. Well, I'm off, ciao."
"Okay Kitty," Keiko said as she waved goodbye to her friend, "Come on Amara, you'll like the class."
Keiko led Amara to a desk one desk away from the window, "I'm going to sit next to Yusuke, talk to you after class!"
Kuwabara walked in, and sat in the third seat near the window in the back of class. Amara thought about it, then moved her stuff to the far window seat. Tabitha walked in with her walkman playing Walk on the Wilde Side. She put her things down and Kuwabara gazed at her.
'She gets prettier everyday!' Kuwabara thought, gazing longingly at Tabitha.
"Hey Amara!" Tabitha shouted cheerfully.
"Hey Tabitha…"
"Hey girl, what's wrong?" Tabitha asked as she started painting her fingernails with purple nail polish.
"Jean's been putting me through a lot of training, so has Genkai, I don't know if I can handle it," Amara explained, "Plus, during our training session this morning Scott messed it up."
"Forget that Amara, I did," Tabitha told her as she applied more nail polish to her right index finger, "What you need now is a good mall crawl. How about I treat you to one after school?"
"That sounds like fun!"
"Then it's settled then," Tabitha concluded as she put the brush back in it's bottle, "Now lets watch the track team…"
They both walked over to the window and began to watch the first session of the track teams practice.
'If she's interested in that…what chance do I have...?' Kuwabara thought as he looked over to Tabitha, and good thing there was a sub today or they all would have been busted for walking to the window like that and doing nothing.
School passed by quickly and before you knew it the final bell rang. Kuwabara, Yusuke, Keiko, and Kurama walked out to see Jean standing there, looking like she was waiting for Scott.
"Maybe Scott was able to apologize after all," Yusuke whispered to his friends, not trying to get Jean's attention.
"She did seem rather peeved at Scott during class, and from what you told me she has the right to be upset," Kurama added, and he saw Rogue coming out of the school, "I'm going to talk to Rogue guys, see you later."
"Yeah, see ya Kurama," Yusuke waved, and he decided something, "You know what? I am going to go to the arcade and whoop the nerd's asses there…"
He then turned back to Kuwabara, "Coming man?"
"Nah, maybe later. I told Bobby and Evan that I would play basketball with them today, and you know I am a man of honor," Kuwabara told Yusuke, and he snickered.
"I'll come with you Yusuke," Keiko offered, and he blushed a bit, "If it's okay with you that is..."
"Yeah…sure…no problem," Yusuke grinned sheepishly as he started leading Keiko towards the mall.
When they were gone a far enough distance, the sound of screeching tires was heard from the back of the school. Jean turned back to hear booming sounds and she saw Tabitha throwing her little time bombs into trashcans startling all the students. What shocked her more was that Amara was with her, waving to her no less. She ran over to Scott, who was talking to a few of his friends.
"Scott, I need to borrow your car!" Jean told him, "Amara is with Boom Boom and I'm afraid she'll do something stupid!"
"Gotcha, I'm on it," Scott said proudly, throwing his keys up into the air and catching them, then noticing glare that Jean was shooting at him, "Not that you couldn't do it…and about this morning…I'm sorry…"
"I know you didn't mean it, but I just get angry being treated like the weaker sex…" Jean then smiled, "And I know you want to ask me to the dance, don't worry, I'll ask you and get the tickets…."
She then noticed the unsure look on Scott's face, "Unless you already got the tickets a few months in advance…"
Scott chuckled nervously and Jean snatched the keys right from his hands and stormed off to his car angrily.
"Man, you just got shot down!"
Scott shrugged, his pride pierced by another arrow and his embarrassment meter had gone up a lot. Jean sped off in his car, not even offering him a ride.
Meanwhile, on a basketball court a few blocks away from the school, Kuwabara, Evan, and Bobby were playing two on one, with Kuwabara all alone on the one side. He was being schooled, and was having a hard time keeping up with his opponents in the game, and was down by 20 points. Kuwabara then heard a scream coming from an nearby alley.
"Hey! Did you guys hear that?" Kuwabara asked as he jumped down.
"Now no changing the subject of your owning Kuwabara," Evan told Kuwabara, who looked intently at the alley, and another scream was heard, "I heard that."
"Someone's in trouble!" Kuwabara shouted as he ran across the street, narrowly avoiding the traffic, and ran into the alley.
Evan and Bobby followed, and the three of them saw a woman surrounded by four huge guys.
"Stop! Leave me alone!"
"You're late on your payments lady…and our boss isn't too happy about that…" one of the men growled, taking out a switchblade, "Now, if you give us the money, we'll leave you and your shop alone…and if you don't…"
"No! Stop! Please! I don't have your money! Just leave me alone!"
"I think she needs to be taught a lesson…"
"I think you punks need a lesson," Kuwabara said angrily, making the four men turn around, "And I'm going to do the teaching!"
"Get a life little boy, this is big man's business."
"That's it!" Kuwabara yelled as he ran full speed into the nearest punk, and slammed his fist into the punks gut, then kicked him to his friends.
"Why you little!" one of them yelled as he charged Kuwabara.
"Yeah, that's right punk!" Kuwabara dodged the punch and threw the second guy into the wall with minimum effort.
"Enough of this…" the guy with the knife snarled, and then he charged Kuwabara with knife drawn.
Kuwabara sidestepped the first jab from the knifeman, and blocked the following back fist. He then kneed and elbowed the guys arm to make him drop the knife, and threw him into the last guy.
"Wow, nice job Kuwabara," Evan commented as the four men got up and began to run out of the alley.
"You alright?" Kuwabara asked, and the woman nodded, "Now, if you'll excuse me…I'm going to leave those punks for the cops!"
Kuwabara then took off at full speed, and looked around to see the four men still running. He smirked and then started running after them again.
"Hey! Kuwabara, wait!" Evan yelled as he started running after Kuwabara.
"Our games not finished!" Bobby added as he took off after his friends.
Kuwabara caught up with the four men, who piled into a nearby car. It stayed there for a second, and Kuwabara waited.
"This is what you get for messing with us, little man…" the driver snarled, taking out a .44 pistol, and pointed it at him.
'Oh crap!' Kuwabara thought, and then he remembered, 'That's right…'
"Die."
The gunman shot at Kuwabara, who leapt into the air and did a roll sideways. He took out his training sword from his left pocket, and channeled his spirit energy into it. Instantly, a blade of flame shot up out of it, and he smirked.
"What the…?" the gunman asked, "That's some freaky stuff there, too bad it won't save you."
The driver/gunman shot at Kuwabara, who used his Spirit Sword to block it. The flame was so hot, it vaporized the slug! The driver/gunman's eyes widened and he continued to shoot at Kuwabara, who kept blocking it with his sword like a Jedi would to blaster fire.
"Dude! Let's bolt!"
"Yeah!" the gunman put away the pistol, and put the car into overdrive, speeding off out around the corner.
"Hey! We're not done yet!" Kuwabara roared and he put back the training sword and began to run again, but the car was too fast, "Hey Iceman! A lift!"
"Huh? You want me to become Iceman now?" Bobby asked as he caught up with Kuwabara and Evan.
"There's no one around, and those guys need to be busted!" Kuwabara replied, and Bobby transformed his body into ice, and both Kuwabara and Evan went to him.
"Hold on guys!" Bobby told them, making an ice arch over the nearest building and they were all lifted up by the ice, and they began following the extortionists' car.
"Evan! Shoot at their tires!" Kuwabara ordered and Evan nodded, making the spikes come out of his body as the car that the extortionists were driving turned into an alley.
Evan shot the spikes at their back tires, making the car swerve out of control. Kuwabara turned to Bobby, who nodded, and shot out an ice blast with pinpoint accuracy at the car's axle, freezing it up and stopping the wheels. The car was instantly stopped and the sound of sirens was heard.
"Good, she called the cops," Kuwabara muttered, seeing that the alleyway was also a dead end, "Let's get out of here, we won't be spotted by the cops if we go now."
"Right," Bobby agreed, pointing the ice bridge back toward the sidewalk without anyone noticing, and they started walking away as the cops arrested the beaten extortionists.
Xavier Mansion, later that day
Scott had entered the kitchen and gotten a cookie out of the cookie jar. Yusuke, Kurama, and Keiko walked in a little later, and they got some sweets as well. Sitting around the table, they turned on the television and watched. Amara and Jean sat near the window as they walked in, and Kuwabara, Evan, and Bobby leaned against the wall. The news came on, and no one decided to change it.
"The Capture of the notorious carjackers was attributed to a group of mysterious good Samaritans who disappeared just as the police arrived. The suspects are part of a larger car theft ring operating in Bayville…" the reporter told the viewers, "In other news, a group of extortionists were also captured today, and their car was part of the models stolen by the car theft ring. It is speculated that they're connected."
"I think we better just keep this to ourselves, okay?" Jean whispered to Amara.
"Right, it's not like we'll be doing anything like that again."
"Exactly," Jean put her arm around Amara's shoulder, and they walked out of the kitchen with Scott falling out of his seat as he continued looking at them.
"Kuwabara, probably we shouldn't go public with this, you know," Evan whispered to him, and Kuwabara nodded.
"Yeah…but it was fun ya know," Kuwabara grinned, "It's been a while since I smashed a punk against the pavement."
Bobby nodded, and they all got up and walked out of the room.
"Scott, you okay man?" Yusuke asked, drinking some milk that he got out.
"Uh…yeah…" Scott replied as he got back into his seat.
To be continued, please read and review…
Oh, I skipped the car chase sequence because we all ready know what happened in it. Next chapter will have two songs, the one Jean, Amara, and Tabitha chose out, and a hardcore rock song for Kuwabara, Evan, and Bobby…I was thinking Sun Doesn't Rise by Mushroomhead.