Renegade:
Chapter 22
Bushido sat with Beast Boy in his cell explaining the admittedly confusing recent events.
"So, what's going on again?" Beast Boy was understandably confused, to go from hypnotized to thrown in the middle of a story good enough to make a cheap novelette must have been a baffling experience for anybody, but for Beast Boy and his tendency to be confused at certain times, it was down right mind boggling.
"I'll go over it again; you were in a battle, a battle that you lost. The victor's of that battle took you here, to an old feudal castle in Japan." Bushido understood how Beast Boy felt, along with the fact that everything he said went right over the poor boy's head. In a way he reminded Bushido of his younger brother, somebody he was very close to.
"Okay then, if you're here to rescue men, then why aren't we outside yet?" Just then the alarm sounded; it seemed somebody noticed that there was an intruder inside Beast Boy's cell that matched the description of the intruder that had recently entered.
"Good question." Bushido replied.
The young changelings warped into a stegosaurus and used his long, spiked tail to take out the wall to his right. Bushido dashed out the hole in the building with Beast Boy not far behind. The guards stationed on the ground took a special interest in the two boys, an American eagle sighting was rare in Japan, and let loose their weapons upon the unsuspecting boys.
"Yikes!" BB shrieked while bullets whizzed past his head, wings, and every other part of his body. All the flailing bullets around him made it too dangerous to continue flying so he decided to join in Bushido's escape on land in wolf form. The two young men dashed in the shrubbery and miscellaneous plants that grew in the out laying forest until the Ninja and his wolf were both impossible to detect. A faint sound came to BB's keen ears; it sounded something like "prisoner escaped" or something like that to him.
Back at the castle the ground guards were calling in for support and out of the door came ten well armed, well trained, and well built guards. Judging from their physic you could tell that they were of an elite core. They began to march south after the two criminals at an impressive speed, eventually catching up to the two boys.
Beast Boy and his rescuer continued to run faster and faster despite the fact that the sound of bushing leaves behind them was getting louder. Just then, another sound came to their ears, gunfire.
"Ah!" Beast Boy yelped. A bullet barely grazed his right leg, but even such a small wound would keep him from trotting foreword. Bushido, hearing his comrade's cry of pain, ran at the guards and was able to surprise them since they didn't expect for the escapees to turn around.
With the sound of both gunfire and sword strikes three guards lay dead. Bushido turned his attention to the other seven and the other seven turned their attention of Bushido. He quickly dodged bullet after bullet hoping aid would come before one of the guards got lucky.
Luckily, Beast Boy came in and took down two guards before they even noticed him. What happened next was approximately twelve seconds in which BB and Bushi struck down the remaining five, and before anybody else could catch up to them, the two boy's jetted off into freedom.
The two entered a clearing which was offset by a strange looking bush. Bushido walked over to the strange bush, pulled it back, and revealed a moped before Beast Boy's shocked and amazed eyes.
The youngest titan stood there for a moment waiting for the realization to strike him. A ninja, with a moped. Ninja, moped. Nimojaped…MOPED! Beast Boy, who came out of shock hugged Bushido until he nearly died of suffocation.
"Dude! You have a moped!" Beast Boy exclaimed in an over-excited voice. He really liked his mysterious friend now.
"Um, yeah, so?" Bushido was confused, as confused as Beast Boy was when he just woke up from his 'coma.'
"Dude, you are like, the coolest ninja ever!" Beast Boy again hugged his new friend.
Bushido recalled that his brother's response was very similar, each time he had to rest to catch his breath and get the blood pumping through him again.
"Hop on." Bushido said.
"Where are we going?" Beast Boy asked.
"Oh, you'll see."
The boys arrived at their destination, an old shack that could have been a martial arts academy at one time, but now it was just a dump. To the right of the shack was a modest fountain that was barely more than a birdbath. To the left there was a cherry tree that in its blossom. The cherry tree made it feel beautiful, even though that was not the case for the rest of the house. Bushido walked through the door with Beast Boy trailing behind. Upon entry, the young men saw an elderly man sitting in a rocking chair.
"Hello, uncle." Bushido said with a simple bow.
"Uh, hello, mister, um-" Beast Boy tried.
"Saikoge." Bushido whispered to him
"Hello my nephew, and hello green one." The old man got out of his chair and bowed before them. "What brings your friend here."
"Injustice and Security, he will be staying here for a while."
"And why is that, may I ask?"
"He was taken prisoner by the same men that took my brother."
"You are lucky then, green one. Not many who are taken prisoner live to speak of it."
"Would I be lucky enough to get some food?" Beast Boy piped in.
"Beast Boy-" Bushido whispered to him.
"Of course. You may have whatever you wish."
Beast Boy's tired stomach thanked Saikoge. Beast Boy was a little surprised by Bushido when he said he had a brother; the young titan knew little about the men that showed him such hospitality, and all he thought about was his stomach. He walked into the kitchen, which was the only other room in the house, thinking about food, Saikoge, Bushido…and more food. The old man looked humble, but at the same time strong and wise, like he was some famous man who trained chosen ones until they were ready to fulfill their destiny. Beast Boy blew off the idea thinking to himself that he had watched too many kung-fu movies, but his assessment was not far from the truth.
The kitchen was basically a room full of selves and other miscellaneous places to store food. He opened one of the drawers; and was completely surprised.
"Dude! You have TOFU!" BB shouted.
"Uh, yeah." The mysterious ninja replied.
"Dude. You. Are. The. Coolest. Ninja. Ever." Once again he hugged his new friend but this time he felt something on Bushido that he did not notice before.
"Hey, is that my Titan Communicator?" BB asked.
"Yeah, it is. You can have it if you want." Beast Boy took the communicator out of Bushido's hand just when it started beeping. Beast Boy pressed a button on the communicator that caused the front to slide open revealing a video screen with Cyborg's face on it.
"BB! Is that you!" Cyborg shouted. Beast Boy nodded affirmatively in response.
"Great, I was beginning to thing there was no way out. Do you know how hard it is to program a Titan Communicator from scratch!" It seemed to the boys that Cyborg had had his own troubles.
"Um, no. How hard is it." Beast Boy asked.
"Really, really hard. First you have to a GPS uplink and then I had to connect my newly created communicator to everyone else's, all without getting caught."
"Sounds hard."
"It is," Cyborg said, "Wait, how did you get out?"
"I had a little help."
"Awesome! Is Robin free?"
"No, not Robin. He's a ninja and he's really, really cool!" Beast Boy turned the Communicator to Bushido.
"Ummmm, hi." Bushido said.
"He's awesomely cool! He's got a Moped and he likes tofu and…" Beat Boy went on and on continuing his rant until both Bushido and Cyborg became enraged.
"Yeah, I'm happy that you were about the rescue BB but…are you really that cool?"
"Yes. Yes he is." Beast Boy answered for Bushido.
"Anyway," Bushido interrupted. "You said you had a GPS uplink. Do you think you could send us your GPS coordinates?"
"Yeah sure here you are," Cyborg said, "Oh crap, somebody's coming! I've gotta go!"
The communicator went blank; the two men looked at each other knowing what the had to do, save Cyborg.
"So, when do we leave?" Beast Boy asked.