Life Will Be What It Was
By Ryoko Kashino & Kitana blade studios
Hey all! This chapter has a little bit of action in it. I'm warning you now, some of the chapter is boring, but at least you've been warned! Yay! I think things are moving nicely a head! Don't worry your pretty faces I have more flash backs and very happy but very sad things planned for the future chapters!!! I hope y'all like this! I'm working my butt off to get this thing further along! I'm proud of this fic! Ooh and I'm working on chapters 12 & 13!! I hope you are all enjoying this! Ooopp, I just blabbing on and on… so here we go! Oh yeah I don't own Cowboy bebop 'cause if I did our favorite cowboy would still be hunting the galaxy!!! Thanx! Read and review please! And remember you cannot deny or escape the fate you make with KARMA!
Chp 11 Jail Brake
Ayame stood next to the gurney in the isolated room. The machines beeped. She saw that the poisons still needed to be pumped into his veins, but the tubes attached had no liquids in them. She smiled slyly to herself as she ripped free the needles. Quickly she pulled all the monitoring machines cords from his body. She pushed the gurney into the adjoining hall and ran with all the power that her body held. She was getting out of here. The hall came to an abrupt end. A single elevator was before her. She pressed the button and as the doors opened she gripped her gun and aimed at the empty elevator. She smiled and pushed in the giant patient.
"Halt!" came from the opposite end of the hallway. Ayame laughed as she spun around and pulled the trigger. Her assailant ducked down fearing to get shot, he stayed down till the firing stopped. As he rolled back into the hall, the doors to the elevator closed.
"Fuck," he ran towards the elevator and then used in communicator, "She's on her way up, be ready she has her robot with her."
"Roger." came as the response.
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The alarms sounded and sent chills up Ash's back. What the fuck is going on?, he asked himself. He wanted to ignore the high pitched buzzings and the heavy foot steps of the guards. Instead here, Ash sat in the room again with the two bodies. He looked at the tanks in fear. He couldn't go through with this. To see his face again and especially as a mass production unit! Fuck that, he thought. He walked over to the control center and drained the preservative fluids. He then walked over towards the liquids chamber. He removed all the bottles that read flammable. Ash then ran over towards the freezer and grabbed all the samples of tissue and the brain. He dragged out the burnt body and the fresh one to the floor in front of him. He broke open all the samples and placed the brain on top like a cherry on a chocolate sundae. He splashed the pile with all the flammable liquids he could and then he stuck his head out into the hall, released his breath and noticed the fumes of the liquids getting to him. Ash turned on his heels and lit his lighter.
"Fuck off, Vicious." Ash chimed coldly and threw his lighter at the bodies piled on the floor.
The suddenness of the flame caused the gases to explode sending the doctor flying back into the wall. After shaking his head, he calmly got to his feet. He walked towards the faux lounge and then raced out of the opposite door and into a plain hall. He noticed no cameras. Yes this is my fucking day, he thought. He ran along the walls feeling in the gun way heavy on his left side. He ripped off his lab coat and pocketed the gun. As he came to a cross hall, he looked in both directions. He noticed the emergency stairwell. A smiled crept at the corner of his lips as he ran the stairs. Now here was the dilemma, up or down?
"Fuck it, lets go up!" he said to himself excitedly.
Slowly he began to scale the stairs. At the fifth flight he paused for a moment and thought, this is too fucking easy! But a moment later he shrugged it off as he saw a door only two flights up. He ran faster then he'd ever had in his whole life. Freedom was only twenty steps away, yet it felt like an unattainable dream. As he stood before the door, the box above it read Exit. No this was a dream! It had to be how much fucking easier could this get, his brain mocked him. A second later he felt his arms push down on the bar, the alarms still sounded and even if his jail break added another buzzing, these people seemed to be preoccupied with something else. The door opened to the roof. He looked at the outside world for the first time in years! Wow, it was boring. Nothing but buildings all around, he shook his head and noticed a ladder for a fire escape. He ran over to the edge of the building and quickly shot down the three story ladder. He dropped the last six feet. His legs hurt but who gave a damn, he was free and that's all that mattered to him. As he rose to his feet he looked both ways, no way was he gonna run out to the main drag, he turned his head the opposite way and ran further into the maze of concrete.
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Ayame leaned over the body as the buzzing increased. Dammit, she thought. She shook her head as she stalled the elevator between the lobby and basement. She climbed up on to the gurney and kissed her lover.
"Wake up, baby, I need you with me. I can't do this alone. We need each other to get out of this fucking place!"
There was still heat coming from his body. They hadn't had time to put in the last regular injection of the sleeping toxin. The plan was to let his body clean it out. Be free of drugs for the data transfer, the brain needed to be drug free, he should've been semi conscience.
"Wake up! Damn you! I'm doing this for us! You can't leave me here alone! Wake up!!" She slammed down on his chest with all her power. She heard the metal doors just above her beginning to get pried open. Tears filled her eyes, her sobs came out slowly. A small movement caught her off guard; she looked over to see his hand grasping at her forearm. Her breath caught in her throat as she turned her head to see his eyes squinting at the light in the elevator.
"What happened? Why are we in an elevator?"
"Oh, baby your back!" She touched his cheek as tears streamed down even harder.
"Ayame, what's wrong?"
"I'll tell you later, right now, we have a problem."
From above came the sounds of foot steps atop the elevator.
Marius' eyes still squinted when suddenly the lights of the elevator cut off seconds later the back up generator systems brought only half the power back, his eyes opened wider and focused easily.
"We in the middle of escaping, I need you to be ready to fight, baby tell me can you fight?"
"Yes, I might be stiff the first couple of punches, but…"
"Well, you'll need to be ready to take a couple bullets."
Marius smiled and said, "I think I can handle that," then quickly kissed Ayame's tear stained cheek.
He grabbed the gun from her hand and then stood on the gurney; he scanned the roof and noticed only two men. His smile broadened as he broke through the small exit door and popped off a few rounds into them. Ayame released the emergency brake and the elevator jerked back into motion closing off the previously pried open doors, meanwhile Marius handed her a gun from one of the assailants. He grabbed whatever else he could and jumped down. Quickly, again as the elevator reached a stop the emergency brake was back on.
Marius looked at Ayame. She seemed a little different, maybe the stress of the moment was making her seem out of character, but it didn't matter, she was still incredibly beautiful. He stood the gurney up and looked into her eyes, "Stay, behind this until I tell you to come out."
Ayame nodded touched his cheek in a small gesture of love. Marius took a deep breath and kissed her palm, "I know," he said, "I know."
Ayame took position behind the gurney and was signal with a head nod to release the brake again.
Seconds passed the ten armed men saw the light above the elevator light up and a ding. They steadied their guns and a few audible gulps sounded as the doors slowly opened. There stood a semi well dressed man. A few released breaths and most loosened their stance. As they did a smirk crossed his face and seconds later the bullets came flying their way. A few ducked behind pillars while about half lay mortally wounded on the floor. As the man entered the lobby, he neared a body on the floor then quickly shot a round into the head with the gun in his right hand. His left arm out stretched and armed with a machine gun, he clearly wasn't going to play nice. Four men hid behind pillars while five men so far are dead. He closed in on his sixth victim and as he popped off a round into him he began to call to his enemies' brethren that hide, "Now, I just want out of the building, let me and the girl go! If not share the same fate as your fallen comrades!"
The hiding men peeked around from their safety points and saw the brain matter of their friends splattered all over the lobby carpeted floor and linoleum, three fell to their knees and tried to hold in their disgust, but couldn't and wretched. One, man looked at the three pansies and shook his head. He's seen plenty of this shit and it didn't even make him sick, in fact he wanted some eggs, he was hungry. Bravely he walked out from behind his pillar nearest the door. With the gun pointed solely at the man in the center of the chaos. He was aiming directly for the center of his head. A smirk played at Marius' lips.
"Just try to pull one off before I do!" Yelled Marius as he dove to the side and sent off ten rounds. The man jumped back behind the pillar and jerked as he heard each round smack into the concrete. When the noises stopped he looked around the edge and cursed under his breath. This fuck head with the machine gun was good. He took three deep breaths then rounded the pillar and ran towards Marius with his gun blazing. Marius pulled the trigger again but the gun was out of ammo. He threw the weapon to the floor and pointed the simple handgun at the stupid son of a bitch that rushed at him. Two bullets hit the man in his right arm. As a third shot skimmed the man's left shoulder the gun clicked. It was out of rounds.
"Shit." Marius muttered under his breath. He threw the gun at the man hitting him square in the forehead. Marius jumped to his feet and grabbed his attacker's right arm and began to fight with him for the gun.
Ayame heard all the shots and then silence. She shoved the gurney out of her way and watched Marius break the goons arm. Something burned in her. She ran over to the man and pulled the trigger on her hand gun. Blood and bone sprayed in the air. Marius looked at her with his eyes full of shock. Suddenly he heard other foot steps. He snatched the gun for her hands and placed a single bullet in each other man that remained.
When all the bodies around them ceased to move Marius grabbed Ayame's hand and bolted for the doors. Across the street from the building was a single seat pod. It would have to do for now. He broke through the window and jumped in. Ayame followed suit and sat in his lap as Marius hot wired the ship. Seconds later a wave of syndicate cronies ran out with guns firing at them. Marius laughed and then noticed the weapons on the ship. He smiled and let loose of two rockets and at least 200 rounds from the machine guns taking out all the syndicate men and blowing a massive hole in the front of the building. Ayame gripped hard to Marius and they flew towards the closest city. She felt the heat of his body against her for the first time in year. Tears fell from her eyes as she slowly traced the side of his face with her finger. He looked at her and smiled with his eyes. Ayame gently kissed his cheek and whispered, "I missed you."