Trials of a C'tarl C'tarl :By
D.K.S.
Chapter2:Survivor
A couple days had passed since the explosion of the poison bomb in the city of which Gene didn't even know the name He never bothered to find out he felt kind of bad about it now. They still had no way of contacting the outlaw star so him and Aisha had been living in a house of straw and stick while they worked on building a cabin. They'd been relatively happy considering the circumstances and Gene had come to really deeply care for Aisha he dared not say he loved her for the magnitude of saying such a thing boggled the mind the repercussions and after effects would be seemingly endless so he made sure to avoid using those words. She knew and accepted the fact that he just wasn't ready to say them to her. There'd been no sign of the C'tarl C'tarl that had bombed the city and searching through the jungle would have been just crazy without any idea where your going or how to get there. So they stayed put and figured eventually something would come up. And it did about Midday one of the Fusians that had been living in the city managed to wander out to where they were he looked bad and he was headed toward the straw hut calling for help hoping praying someone would be inside. Gene stepped outside and when he saw him he called for Aisha to get the Antidote that they'd collected in case any survivors made it out. As the man(I geuss you can call them men..well close enough anyway.) got to the door of the house he passed out Gene lifted him just barely and placed him on a mat they had Aisha placed the herbs on him and soon he recovered.
"Hey there you alright now?" Gene asked looking him over carefully.
"Yes Thank you...The poison...we thought it'd have dissipated by now but we were wrong it's still thick and heavy like a cloud that won't go away hanging over the city." He said still a bit weak
"you mean there are other survivors?" Aisha asked now interested.
"Yes they're holed up in a underground facility for some reason the poison mist doesn't sink." He explained
"I see...Is there any chance we could get a message through?" Gene asked his hopes rising
"No I'm afraid not...we don't even have a radio to find out if any other cities have been hit." The man answered.
"Damn" Gene said his hopes going right out the window.
"Do you know the way to any of the other cities?" Aisha asked. "uh yes I do why?" The man asked
"Well we need to contact some friends of ours they can help us out in finding the guys responsible we were hired to find and stop him but the job went sour and one guy escaped and then later on our way back we saw the explosion and the mist." Gene explained
"Oh I see... You need to find a city that isn't wiped out yet. To get supplies and back up?"
"Exactly and also we can find out how many cities have been hit and from there we have a chance to catch him." Gene said
A meal and an hour later they set out heading from city to city they found 3 others already hit though finally they found one that wasn't but judging from its proximity to the previous cities it would probably be next they had to do this quick the had to warn everyone get a message to the outlaw star and keep a look out for the C'tarl C'tarl man all at once.
"I'll go call the ship Aisha you and him warn the mayor of the city or whatever I don't care how you do it just warn as many people as possible as quickly as possible." Gene said running off to the nearest terminal to call the ship.
Aisha told the man to go start the warning and she'd keep a look out for the C'tarl C'tarl she remembered his scent he'd be easy for her to find if he was nearby.
On the outlaw Star The phone rang and Jim answered it. "Yo Jim here" "JIM!" gene yelled. "Gene? Wow hey how are ya? How'd the Job go?" Jim asked. "Jim things went terrible Aisha almost died and now this guys got bombs that release enough poison to wipeout cities before anyone can get word out. Send Suzuka down now! And get me some equipment damnit! I need to be in contact at all times from now on and I need to find out how many cities on this planet have been hit! You got all that?" Gene asked hurridly "Whoa whoa whoa whoa! Aisha Almost died? Is she okay? Where is she now?" Jim asked. "JIM WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS NOW! AISHAS FINE NOW HURRY UP! THIS TOWN I'M CALLING FROM IS PROBOBLY NEXT!" Gene yelled irritated by Jims' idiocy. "Alright alright! I'll start getting it all together right away gene!" He hung up Suzuka! Gene wants you on the surface NOW they need your help apparently everything's going downhill real fast down there." Jim said while rushing to gather electronics and gadgets together for Gene. "Alright sounds pretty bad I'll go" She said heading for one of their newly acquired drop ships. "Oh and take this with you!" Jim Said handing her a suitcase stuffed with gadgets. And with that she was off her drop ship landed just outside the city she got to Gene quickly he wasn't hard to find he was making a huge commotion in the street. "Gene!" She yelled "I'm here!" "Suzuka! Glad to see you. We have a bit of a problem Aisha has picked up the scent of the guy planting the bombs but we still don't know where it is or how long till it detonates we've got to find it and stop it from going off! Look for anything suspicious a briefcase left in the street or on a corner a unattended stroller anything!." "got it! Oh and your gadgets are here." She said dropping the suitcase in front of him and hurried off looking for Aisha. She spotted Aisha following a tall C'tarl C'tarl sort of dark skinned must have been the guy she thought she back tracked and looked for anything suspicious on their path but saw nothing So she picked up following him again. He was carrying a briefcase and was carrying a cane as well wearing a suit and hat. Meanwhile Gene was setting up the gear. He set up the uplink to the ship fairly quickly "Alright Jim how many cities?" He asked "Uh 5" Jim answered. "Five? Damn...this is a small planet and there weren't many cities to begin with that must be a big chunk of the population here." Gene said more to himself than to Jim. "Actually he hit the five Major cities so it was more than half the population of this planet." Jim said. Now Gene was really pissed this guy was out to wipe out a civilization for no apparent reason. There had to be a purpose a reason somewhere 'hmm..he's c'tarl c'tarl could that have anything to do with it?' gene thought perhaps the c'tarl c'tarl empire wanted this plant for their own for some reason or maybe they just wanted this race gone for some reason or maybe this guy was out to take the planet for his own. Who knows? Only he did. Gene didn't care about the reward anymore this was personal now. Besides his employers were probably already dead anyway. And dead men surely can't pay you. "Hey Jim try and contact the remaining cities warn them there's a mad man on the loose with extremely poisonous bombs." Gene said "Right gotcha gene." Jim said typing furiously on his laptop. "Done!" He announced a few moments later. "Good now can you get me a reading on the city I'm in now?" Gene asked having an idea. "Uh yea sure why?" Jim asked curious as to what Gene was thinking. "Isolate C'tarl C'tarl life signs and upload it directly to my mini map down here." Gene ordered. "Ah I see you can find him much easier that way." Jim said "Exactly" Jim started the upload and not too much later Gene had the reading the problem was there were 3 Gene knew one of them would be Aisha but that meant there was another guy walking around they didn't know about before. Since two of the life signs were close to each other he figure that Aisha was already following one and headed for the Isolated one.
He found the guy just as he got there the man had left behind a briefcase and was walking hurriedly to a nearby car. 'That's gotta be him' Gene thought. And made his move "Hey you!" He yelled at the man who stopped turned and saw gene and then took off got in the car and was gone before gene could even get halfway to the car. He turned around went back and got the briefcase. And ran with it out to the jungle held his breath and opened it. There before him was the bomb and the timer was counting. "JIM! How do I stop this thing?" Gene asked franticly. Jim was already looking up bomb schematics and found the ones they needed cut the yellow wire then the black wire then cut the blue and red at the same time!" Gene followed his direction as he said them and the timer stopped he let out a sigh of relief and tossed the thing in the nearest river and headed back into the city to find Aisha and Suzuka.
Meanwhile Aisha had Isolated the man she was following and pinned him to a wall "Remember me dirt bag?!" She yelled. "Uh...No can't say that I do pretty face though..." He said "Don't Play dumb with me! I know you know who I am!" She yelled slaming him against the wall. "Okay okay...I know you..But how are you still alive?" He asked. "That's better. I'm still alive because I had a friend that cared enough to save me that how!" She yelled throwing him through a pillar. "I'm SO going to rip you apart for what you did to me!" She said walking over to him and picking him up off the ground "Ugh...Cal calm down you know if you kill me you'll never find out everything. "He said smirking. Then suzuka showed up. Holding the cane he'd dropped and suddenly he went white with fear. "You! Get that out of here!" He yelled. "Oh this?" Suuka said holding up the cane. "I thought it looked suspicious Aisha ignored it but I didn't." She said smiling "So unless you stop it I geuss we're all going in a cloud of poison."
"Okay okay! Open it and hit the numbers 4720 on the number pad!." He said suzuka did exactly that and the cane deactivated. And the man let out a sigh of Releif. "Okay Aisha you can do what you want now the city is in no danger" Suzuka said starting to leave "Wha?! You can't!" he yelled As Aisha reared back a fist but Gene appeared just in time to stop her. "Wait! He's not the right guy I already saw him and threw the bomb in the river. He got away though." Gene said "Wha? But this guy had a bomb too!" Aisha exclaimed "So then there must be more than one person setting bombs." Suzuka said simply "It makes sense as to how they cover an entire city." She added.
Just then Suzaka sensed a presence "Someone's here" just as she spoke a hail of bullets ripped through the room Suzuka deflected the bullets coming her way with her sword and gene found a pillar to hide behind. Aisha just stood there the bullets not phasing her in the least. She turned and walked right up to the man while still dragging the other man from before. As she walked the man with the gun was shooting more and more franticly as she approached. Now that she was right in front of him she grabbed the gun and crumpled it.
"WHAT ARE YOU?!" He screamed absolutely terrified of her. "I am a Immortal C'tarl C'tarl Your gun and those stupid bullets won't kill me." She said now reaching for him and as he saw her arm move he tried to run but it was much too late for that she quickly grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up holding him and the other man she'd captured. And from the look in her eyes they could both tell she was not happy.
"Gene you okay?" she asked without looking away
"Yea I'm fine." Gene replied coming out from behind the pillar which was now riddled with bullet holes on one side.
He started to ask suzuka if she was okay but when he saw her standing there as if nothing had happened he figured she was fine.
"Now who sent you?" gene asked the men walking up and standing by Aisha's side.
"Nobody sent me! I sent myself!" The first man replied
"Yea same here" said the second.
"Right....sure..you guys got names?" Gene continued questioning
"call me boomer." Said the first.
"Right...boomer geuss your gonna tell me your name drove you to start bombing cities. And what about you?" Gene said looking toward the second man. But he just kept silent.
"Okay we'll just call you trigger from now on then since everyone wants to go by what they do." Gene said almost laughing at his own stupid joke.
"Lets take them to the ship. Suzuka Let the authorities know we've got them but tell them not to let down their guard just yet we don't know if there are anymore of them and if they ask why we didn't go straight to them with these guys tell them its not over yet theres still a few....Personal things that need to be taken care of." Gene said walking off while motioning for Aisha to follow him.
"Right I'll catch up with you later then." Suzuka said hurrying off.
Aisha followed Gene keeping both men tightly in her grasp. She was still pissed off and there wasn't much chance of her mood changing in the near future. In the back of her mind she wondered how Melfina would react to the idea of her and Gene being together and the others too and she wondered if Gene would really stay with her or would she end up having been just another girl to occupy him? She was a bit worried about it but the thoughts never fully registered as she was more focused on the task at hand.
Back on the Outlaw Star.
"Gene! Welcome back!" Melfina said cheerfully going to hug him. She up and about since she wasn't needed to at as the ships guidance system right now seeing as how they weren't going anywhere.
"hey mel." He said hugging back. Aisha watched closely expecting gene to do something more but he didn't he just hugged her loosely and walked in Melfina herself was a bit surprised by it she had expected at least a peck on the cheek or something. Then she saw the two Aisha was holding and figured it had something to do with them.
"Geusts?" Melfina asked looking at the two and up to Aisha
"Hardly...These two are prisoners till they talk or it may be quite painful." Aisha got a slight smirk as she said the last part and the two men looked at each other worried.
"Oh you can put them in the storage room then." Melfina said turning around and walking away to finish the food she was cooking.
Aisha did just that she took them to the storage room and chained both of them to the walls facing one another so one was on one side of the room and the other was on the opposite side.
"I'll be back for you two later." She said and left happy to finally to be rid of them for the time being. She went to sit by Gene and leaned on him sighing "It's been a long ouple of days gene..." she said
"Yea it has...a lot's happened." He said
Jim who had been watching Gene since he had come in was amaze by the closeness of the two any other day and Aisha probably would be yelling at him for something by now and she surely would never have so much as sat next to him much less put her head on his shoulder.
'she must be either really tired and not realizing what she's doing or ...or hell there's no other explaination!' Jim thought to himself
"what're you gawking at?" Gene said noticing Jim for the first time since he'd sat down.
"Uhh...nothing its just.." Jim started trying not to be too blunt or find a way around it entierely.
"Just what?" Aisha spoke up though sounding tired as she spoke.
Jim couldn't think of a way around it so he decided to just ask. "Just since when are the two of you so friendly?" He asked
Aisha got silent and waited to see what Gene would say. Gene on the other hand was hoping she'd be the one to speak up he was still trying to think of a way to explain it all to Melfina he had been ever since he'd gotten on the ship and she'd greeted him with a hug. He knew she was expecting him to kiss her but he wouldn't...couldn't not anymore anyway not after all that happened down on that planet and when he thought he was going to be tuck with Aisha forever he remembered he never once really thought of it as a bad thing he could've dealt with it if things had really turned out that way. He'd figured if it had they probably would've ended up with a rather large family down there. Well once Aisha came around anyway which was much sooner than he'd expected he hadn't expected her to fall in love with him so easily or so quickly. Maybe she'd always felt that way? Who knows? All he knew was he'd always felt Something for her he never knew exactly how deep it went but he knew he never wanted anything to happen to her. So it was a good thing she was immortal. He knew he argued with her just because he didn't really know what to just talk to her about. He knew since day 1 he at least liked her after all she kept trying to kill him and all he could do was talk and try and convince her to do anything and everything with him but fight until eventually he just fried her knowing she'd be okay since she had been toting her immortality and all.
He sighed and thought about everything that had ever happened between him and Melfina and then thought about how quick he was to get with Aisha. In the end he figured he was making the right choice even though it'd hurt Melfina either way he had to hurt someone at this point.
"Hey mel?" Gene said speaking for the first time after a long time.
"yes?" She said from where she was.
"I need to talk to you...in private meet me in my room in a few minutes." Gene said getting up and going to his room "Oh and Aisha you answer jims question will you?"
"Uh...but I..."She started but Gene was already gone She sighed and stretched out as much as she could.
"Well?" Jim said still waiting.
"Oh right...the question.. Well you see jimmy a lot of stuff happened down there in that jungle and Gene and I have..." she yawned "Man I'm tired.." She said and slowly drifted to sleep.
"Hey! What about my question!?" Jim yelled trying to wake her up but it was no use Aisha slept like a rock when she was really tired. He sighed "Oh well...I got enough out of that to make p my own answer anyway." He said to himself. Figuring that her and Gene had gotten together and that was what gene had wanted to talk to mel about.
Aisha popped up "Oh really? I'll be going then." She said bounding off suddenly full of energy.
Jim just sat there silent somewhat mad and somewhat annoyed. But it was just more evidence that he was right. 'Gene and Aisha? Who'd have thought of that?' he thought to himself and going back to tinkering with parts.
Genes room
Gene was sitting on his bed as Melfina came in she walked over to him and sat on his lap with her arms around him.
"What'd you want to 'talk' about Gene?" She asked laying her head on his chest.
"Umm Mel...Its about us..." He started pulling away from her and standing up.
"What about us?" She asked standing in front of him.
Just then Aisha had just gotten to his room and put her ear to the door to hear what was going on inside.
"I...I have...no that's not the right way to put it....what I mean is I love someone else..." Gene said hesitantly he didn't want to be so blunt about it but there was no use dancing around it.
Melfina looked shocked as if he'd just shot her or something. "s...someone else?...who?" she said quietly
Gene got silent for a moment and hesitated to tell her but Finally he said it"........Aisha"
Outside the door Aisha could've jumped for Joy and thrown a celebration party all by he lonesome he'd just said he lover HER not Mel not some other girl but HER he really did care. She hadn't just been another fling and he was going to leave Melfina for her now. Then it occurred to her how hurt Melfina must be and for a moment she felt bad but the feeling was soon overcome with the joy that knowing she was loved brought her.
"Aisha?....Aisha.....Aisha!" Melfina said now somewhere in between hating him for doing this and hating Aisha for taking him from her and at the same time so deeply sad that it almost didn't matter.
"How could you...Why? Why her? Why now? "She asked.
"Because down on that planet Aisha and I got real close and she almost died when that happened it just kinda slapped me in the face ya know? Like just a sudden realization of how I felt and when we thought we were going to be stuck together we slept with each other..I..I'm sorry mel... but it just wouldn't be right for me to go back to you now...not after all that and not after telling her I loved her...when she said it back to me it was.....it was special it meant a lot to me to hear it from her.
Melfina now understood Aishas near death experience was what had thrown the two of them together. That would do it for a lot of people She was still hurt but not as angry anymore knowing that they hadn't intended to hurt her it just happened. It made Melfina feel like maybe this was something that was always supposed to happen. Maybe her and Gene weren't meant to be. She stood there thinking for awhile before speaking.
"Gene do just one thing for me?" She said looking up at him.
"yes mel?" He said waiting to see what she wanted.
"Kiss me...just one last time." She said he eyes watery but not a single tear had fallen.
Aisha heard her say that and started to bust in 'what if he kisses her and changes his mind?' she thought. 'then where will that leave me?' 'he can't have both of us..' She shook off the thoughts Gene said he loved her and if he really did then kissing Melfina one last time wouldn't make a difference.
Gene granted Melfina her request and kissed her she kissed back obviously trying to spark something in him but he wasn't feeling anything nothing but more guilt. Once they parted she looked at him hopefully.
He saw her look and said simply "Sorry...but it didn't change anything My feelings remain the same."
Melfina finally gave up defeated she started to leave mumbling 'stupid cat shes nothing but a brainless blood thirsty beast what does Gene see in her?' Melfina thought to herself angrily it was the first real time she'd felt rage. But she contained it. He let it all out elsewhere away from everyone.
Aisha could hear someone approaching the door and quickly bounded off down the hall she saw Melfina exit and then quickly run off once the door was closed.
"poor thing." Aisha said to herself feeling guilty again knowing she was the cause of melfinas pain.
Aisha went into genes room and found him sitting on the bed with is back to her staring out the window at the stars She went to him and put her arms around him.
"Hey lover.." She said kissing his cheek
"Aisha...I just.." he started.
"I know" She said before he finished.
When turned around to look at her she explained she'd just seen Melfina in the hall.
"I love you Gene" she said kissing him.
"I love you too Aisha." He said putting his arm around her and laying down with her Resting his head on her chest.
"I could lay like this all night." He said
"Only like this? I've got a couple of ideas...." She said smirking at him.
He knew what she was implying but now wasn't the time he was still feeling truckloads of guilt and it wouldn't help to have Melfina hear them doing that so soon after he'd broken up with her. "not now Aisha not tonight its too soon" he said.
Aisha Nodded understanding. "Okay we'll just lay her then." She said and they both slowly drifted off to sleep.
Meanwhile back on the planet suzuka was just leaving the planet and heading for the ship as her shuttle left another bomb went off and the city went up in a cloud of poison she just barely escaped it when she arrived on the outlaw star she first ran into Jim.
"where's Gene?" She asked
"He's sleeping with his girlfriend." Jim answered.
"oh..." Then suzuka noticed Melfina sittingnot cooking for one but not doing anything "hey wait melfinas over there.." She started.
"Exactly she's not Genes girl anymore.Aisha is!" Jim said expecting suzuka to be shocked. But she didn't really react
"Oh that makes sense...explains a lot but that not important right now we've got a problem Another city just went up! In a cloud of gas."
"What?!"
End chapter2
Okay okay a cliffhanger here so what? I'll be writing chapter 3 soon enough so don't worry you'll get to find out every little thing I won't leave any loose ends when I'm done..but be warned this things gonna get REALLY long.
Next chapter chapter3-Secrets – the mystery behind the bombings and the bombers wo seemingly come out of the wood work will be Revealed! And a whole new problem comes into perspective.
Chapter2:Survivor
A couple days had passed since the explosion of the poison bomb in the city of which Gene didn't even know the name He never bothered to find out he felt kind of bad about it now. They still had no way of contacting the outlaw star so him and Aisha had been living in a house of straw and stick while they worked on building a cabin. They'd been relatively happy considering the circumstances and Gene had come to really deeply care for Aisha he dared not say he loved her for the magnitude of saying such a thing boggled the mind the repercussions and after effects would be seemingly endless so he made sure to avoid using those words. She knew and accepted the fact that he just wasn't ready to say them to her. There'd been no sign of the C'tarl C'tarl that had bombed the city and searching through the jungle would have been just crazy without any idea where your going or how to get there. So they stayed put and figured eventually something would come up. And it did about Midday one of the Fusians that had been living in the city managed to wander out to where they were he looked bad and he was headed toward the straw hut calling for help hoping praying someone would be inside. Gene stepped outside and when he saw him he called for Aisha to get the Antidote that they'd collected in case any survivors made it out. As the man(I geuss you can call them men..well close enough anyway.) got to the door of the house he passed out Gene lifted him just barely and placed him on a mat they had Aisha placed the herbs on him and soon he recovered.
"Hey there you alright now?" Gene asked looking him over carefully.
"Yes Thank you...The poison...we thought it'd have dissipated by now but we were wrong it's still thick and heavy like a cloud that won't go away hanging over the city." He said still a bit weak
"you mean there are other survivors?" Aisha asked now interested.
"Yes they're holed up in a underground facility for some reason the poison mist doesn't sink." He explained
"I see...Is there any chance we could get a message through?" Gene asked his hopes rising
"No I'm afraid not...we don't even have a radio to find out if any other cities have been hit." The man answered.
"Damn" Gene said his hopes going right out the window.
"Do you know the way to any of the other cities?" Aisha asked. "uh yes I do why?" The man asked
"Well we need to contact some friends of ours they can help us out in finding the guys responsible we were hired to find and stop him but the job went sour and one guy escaped and then later on our way back we saw the explosion and the mist." Gene explained
"Oh I see... You need to find a city that isn't wiped out yet. To get supplies and back up?"
"Exactly and also we can find out how many cities have been hit and from there we have a chance to catch him." Gene said
A meal and an hour later they set out heading from city to city they found 3 others already hit though finally they found one that wasn't but judging from its proximity to the previous cities it would probably be next they had to do this quick the had to warn everyone get a message to the outlaw star and keep a look out for the C'tarl C'tarl man all at once.
"I'll go call the ship Aisha you and him warn the mayor of the city or whatever I don't care how you do it just warn as many people as possible as quickly as possible." Gene said running off to the nearest terminal to call the ship.
Aisha told the man to go start the warning and she'd keep a look out for the C'tarl C'tarl she remembered his scent he'd be easy for her to find if he was nearby.
On the outlaw Star The phone rang and Jim answered it. "Yo Jim here" "JIM!" gene yelled. "Gene? Wow hey how are ya? How'd the Job go?" Jim asked. "Jim things went terrible Aisha almost died and now this guys got bombs that release enough poison to wipeout cities before anyone can get word out. Send Suzuka down now! And get me some equipment damnit! I need to be in contact at all times from now on and I need to find out how many cities on this planet have been hit! You got all that?" Gene asked hurridly "Whoa whoa whoa whoa! Aisha Almost died? Is she okay? Where is she now?" Jim asked. "JIM WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS NOW! AISHAS FINE NOW HURRY UP! THIS TOWN I'M CALLING FROM IS PROBOBLY NEXT!" Gene yelled irritated by Jims' idiocy. "Alright alright! I'll start getting it all together right away gene!" He hung up Suzuka! Gene wants you on the surface NOW they need your help apparently everything's going downhill real fast down there." Jim said while rushing to gather electronics and gadgets together for Gene. "Alright sounds pretty bad I'll go" She said heading for one of their newly acquired drop ships. "Oh and take this with you!" Jim Said handing her a suitcase stuffed with gadgets. And with that she was off her drop ship landed just outside the city she got to Gene quickly he wasn't hard to find he was making a huge commotion in the street. "Gene!" She yelled "I'm here!" "Suzuka! Glad to see you. We have a bit of a problem Aisha has picked up the scent of the guy planting the bombs but we still don't know where it is or how long till it detonates we've got to find it and stop it from going off! Look for anything suspicious a briefcase left in the street or on a corner a unattended stroller anything!." "got it! Oh and your gadgets are here." She said dropping the suitcase in front of him and hurried off looking for Aisha. She spotted Aisha following a tall C'tarl C'tarl sort of dark skinned must have been the guy she thought she back tracked and looked for anything suspicious on their path but saw nothing So she picked up following him again. He was carrying a briefcase and was carrying a cane as well wearing a suit and hat. Meanwhile Gene was setting up the gear. He set up the uplink to the ship fairly quickly "Alright Jim how many cities?" He asked "Uh 5" Jim answered. "Five? Damn...this is a small planet and there weren't many cities to begin with that must be a big chunk of the population here." Gene said more to himself than to Jim. "Actually he hit the five Major cities so it was more than half the population of this planet." Jim said. Now Gene was really pissed this guy was out to wipe out a civilization for no apparent reason. There had to be a purpose a reason somewhere 'hmm..he's c'tarl c'tarl could that have anything to do with it?' gene thought perhaps the c'tarl c'tarl empire wanted this plant for their own for some reason or maybe they just wanted this race gone for some reason or maybe this guy was out to take the planet for his own. Who knows? Only he did. Gene didn't care about the reward anymore this was personal now. Besides his employers were probably already dead anyway. And dead men surely can't pay you. "Hey Jim try and contact the remaining cities warn them there's a mad man on the loose with extremely poisonous bombs." Gene said "Right gotcha gene." Jim said typing furiously on his laptop. "Done!" He announced a few moments later. "Good now can you get me a reading on the city I'm in now?" Gene asked having an idea. "Uh yea sure why?" Jim asked curious as to what Gene was thinking. "Isolate C'tarl C'tarl life signs and upload it directly to my mini map down here." Gene ordered. "Ah I see you can find him much easier that way." Jim said "Exactly" Jim started the upload and not too much later Gene had the reading the problem was there were 3 Gene knew one of them would be Aisha but that meant there was another guy walking around they didn't know about before. Since two of the life signs were close to each other he figure that Aisha was already following one and headed for the Isolated one.
He found the guy just as he got there the man had left behind a briefcase and was walking hurriedly to a nearby car. 'That's gotta be him' Gene thought. And made his move "Hey you!" He yelled at the man who stopped turned and saw gene and then took off got in the car and was gone before gene could even get halfway to the car. He turned around went back and got the briefcase. And ran with it out to the jungle held his breath and opened it. There before him was the bomb and the timer was counting. "JIM! How do I stop this thing?" Gene asked franticly. Jim was already looking up bomb schematics and found the ones they needed cut the yellow wire then the black wire then cut the blue and red at the same time!" Gene followed his direction as he said them and the timer stopped he let out a sigh of relief and tossed the thing in the nearest river and headed back into the city to find Aisha and Suzuka.
Meanwhile Aisha had Isolated the man she was following and pinned him to a wall "Remember me dirt bag?!" She yelled. "Uh...No can't say that I do pretty face though..." He said "Don't Play dumb with me! I know you know who I am!" She yelled slaming him against the wall. "Okay okay...I know you..But how are you still alive?" He asked. "That's better. I'm still alive because I had a friend that cared enough to save me that how!" She yelled throwing him through a pillar. "I'm SO going to rip you apart for what you did to me!" She said walking over to him and picking him up off the ground "Ugh...Cal calm down you know if you kill me you'll never find out everything. "He said smirking. Then suzuka showed up. Holding the cane he'd dropped and suddenly he went white with fear. "You! Get that out of here!" He yelled. "Oh this?" Suuka said holding up the cane. "I thought it looked suspicious Aisha ignored it but I didn't." She said smiling "So unless you stop it I geuss we're all going in a cloud of poison."
"Okay okay! Open it and hit the numbers 4720 on the number pad!." He said suzuka did exactly that and the cane deactivated. And the man let out a sigh of Releif. "Okay Aisha you can do what you want now the city is in no danger" Suzuka said starting to leave "Wha?! You can't!" he yelled As Aisha reared back a fist but Gene appeared just in time to stop her. "Wait! He's not the right guy I already saw him and threw the bomb in the river. He got away though." Gene said "Wha? But this guy had a bomb too!" Aisha exclaimed "So then there must be more than one person setting bombs." Suzuka said simply "It makes sense as to how they cover an entire city." She added.
Just then Suzaka sensed a presence "Someone's here" just as she spoke a hail of bullets ripped through the room Suzuka deflected the bullets coming her way with her sword and gene found a pillar to hide behind. Aisha just stood there the bullets not phasing her in the least. She turned and walked right up to the man while still dragging the other man from before. As she walked the man with the gun was shooting more and more franticly as she approached. Now that she was right in front of him she grabbed the gun and crumpled it.
"WHAT ARE YOU?!" He screamed absolutely terrified of her. "I am a Immortal C'tarl C'tarl Your gun and those stupid bullets won't kill me." She said now reaching for him and as he saw her arm move he tried to run but it was much too late for that she quickly grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up holding him and the other man she'd captured. And from the look in her eyes they could both tell she was not happy.
"Gene you okay?" she asked without looking away
"Yea I'm fine." Gene replied coming out from behind the pillar which was now riddled with bullet holes on one side.
He started to ask suzuka if she was okay but when he saw her standing there as if nothing had happened he figured she was fine.
"Now who sent you?" gene asked the men walking up and standing by Aisha's side.
"Nobody sent me! I sent myself!" The first man replied
"Yea same here" said the second.
"Right....sure..you guys got names?" Gene continued questioning
"call me boomer." Said the first.
"Right...boomer geuss your gonna tell me your name drove you to start bombing cities. And what about you?" Gene said looking toward the second man. But he just kept silent.
"Okay we'll just call you trigger from now on then since everyone wants to go by what they do." Gene said almost laughing at his own stupid joke.
"Lets take them to the ship. Suzuka Let the authorities know we've got them but tell them not to let down their guard just yet we don't know if there are anymore of them and if they ask why we didn't go straight to them with these guys tell them its not over yet theres still a few....Personal things that need to be taken care of." Gene said walking off while motioning for Aisha to follow him.
"Right I'll catch up with you later then." Suzuka said hurrying off.
Aisha followed Gene keeping both men tightly in her grasp. She was still pissed off and there wasn't much chance of her mood changing in the near future. In the back of her mind she wondered how Melfina would react to the idea of her and Gene being together and the others too and she wondered if Gene would really stay with her or would she end up having been just another girl to occupy him? She was a bit worried about it but the thoughts never fully registered as she was more focused on the task at hand.
Back on the Outlaw Star.
"Gene! Welcome back!" Melfina said cheerfully going to hug him. She up and about since she wasn't needed to at as the ships guidance system right now seeing as how they weren't going anywhere.
"hey mel." He said hugging back. Aisha watched closely expecting gene to do something more but he didn't he just hugged her loosely and walked in Melfina herself was a bit surprised by it she had expected at least a peck on the cheek or something. Then she saw the two Aisha was holding and figured it had something to do with them.
"Geusts?" Melfina asked looking at the two and up to Aisha
"Hardly...These two are prisoners till they talk or it may be quite painful." Aisha got a slight smirk as she said the last part and the two men looked at each other worried.
"Oh you can put them in the storage room then." Melfina said turning around and walking away to finish the food she was cooking.
Aisha did just that she took them to the storage room and chained both of them to the walls facing one another so one was on one side of the room and the other was on the opposite side.
"I'll be back for you two later." She said and left happy to finally to be rid of them for the time being. She went to sit by Gene and leaned on him sighing "It's been a long ouple of days gene..." she said
"Yea it has...a lot's happened." He said
Jim who had been watching Gene since he had come in was amaze by the closeness of the two any other day and Aisha probably would be yelling at him for something by now and she surely would never have so much as sat next to him much less put her head on his shoulder.
'she must be either really tired and not realizing what she's doing or ...or hell there's no other explaination!' Jim thought to himself
"what're you gawking at?" Gene said noticing Jim for the first time since he'd sat down.
"Uhh...nothing its just.." Jim started trying not to be too blunt or find a way around it entierely.
"Just what?" Aisha spoke up though sounding tired as she spoke.
Jim couldn't think of a way around it so he decided to just ask. "Just since when are the two of you so friendly?" He asked
Aisha got silent and waited to see what Gene would say. Gene on the other hand was hoping she'd be the one to speak up he was still trying to think of a way to explain it all to Melfina he had been ever since he'd gotten on the ship and she'd greeted him with a hug. He knew she was expecting him to kiss her but he wouldn't...couldn't not anymore anyway not after all that happened down on that planet and when he thought he was going to be tuck with Aisha forever he remembered he never once really thought of it as a bad thing he could've dealt with it if things had really turned out that way. He'd figured if it had they probably would've ended up with a rather large family down there. Well once Aisha came around anyway which was much sooner than he'd expected he hadn't expected her to fall in love with him so easily or so quickly. Maybe she'd always felt that way? Who knows? All he knew was he'd always felt Something for her he never knew exactly how deep it went but he knew he never wanted anything to happen to her. So it was a good thing she was immortal. He knew he argued with her just because he didn't really know what to just talk to her about. He knew since day 1 he at least liked her after all she kept trying to kill him and all he could do was talk and try and convince her to do anything and everything with him but fight until eventually he just fried her knowing she'd be okay since she had been toting her immortality and all.
He sighed and thought about everything that had ever happened between him and Melfina and then thought about how quick he was to get with Aisha. In the end he figured he was making the right choice even though it'd hurt Melfina either way he had to hurt someone at this point.
"Hey mel?" Gene said speaking for the first time after a long time.
"yes?" She said from where she was.
"I need to talk to you...in private meet me in my room in a few minutes." Gene said getting up and going to his room "Oh and Aisha you answer jims question will you?"
"Uh...but I..."She started but Gene was already gone She sighed and stretched out as much as she could.
"Well?" Jim said still waiting.
"Oh right...the question.. Well you see jimmy a lot of stuff happened down there in that jungle and Gene and I have..." she yawned "Man I'm tired.." She said and slowly drifted to sleep.
"Hey! What about my question!?" Jim yelled trying to wake her up but it was no use Aisha slept like a rock when she was really tired. He sighed "Oh well...I got enough out of that to make p my own answer anyway." He said to himself. Figuring that her and Gene had gotten together and that was what gene had wanted to talk to mel about.
Aisha popped up "Oh really? I'll be going then." She said bounding off suddenly full of energy.
Jim just sat there silent somewhat mad and somewhat annoyed. But it was just more evidence that he was right. 'Gene and Aisha? Who'd have thought of that?' he thought to himself and going back to tinkering with parts.
Genes room
Gene was sitting on his bed as Melfina came in she walked over to him and sat on his lap with her arms around him.
"What'd you want to 'talk' about Gene?" She asked laying her head on his chest.
"Umm Mel...Its about us..." He started pulling away from her and standing up.
"What about us?" She asked standing in front of him.
Just then Aisha had just gotten to his room and put her ear to the door to hear what was going on inside.
"I...I have...no that's not the right way to put it....what I mean is I love someone else..." Gene said hesitantly he didn't want to be so blunt about it but there was no use dancing around it.
Melfina looked shocked as if he'd just shot her or something. "s...someone else?...who?" she said quietly
Gene got silent for a moment and hesitated to tell her but Finally he said it"........Aisha"
Outside the door Aisha could've jumped for Joy and thrown a celebration party all by he lonesome he'd just said he lover HER not Mel not some other girl but HER he really did care. She hadn't just been another fling and he was going to leave Melfina for her now. Then it occurred to her how hurt Melfina must be and for a moment she felt bad but the feeling was soon overcome with the joy that knowing she was loved brought her.
"Aisha?....Aisha.....Aisha!" Melfina said now somewhere in between hating him for doing this and hating Aisha for taking him from her and at the same time so deeply sad that it almost didn't matter.
"How could you...Why? Why her? Why now? "She asked.
"Because down on that planet Aisha and I got real close and she almost died when that happened it just kinda slapped me in the face ya know? Like just a sudden realization of how I felt and when we thought we were going to be stuck together we slept with each other..I..I'm sorry mel... but it just wouldn't be right for me to go back to you now...not after all that and not after telling her I loved her...when she said it back to me it was.....it was special it meant a lot to me to hear it from her.
Melfina now understood Aishas near death experience was what had thrown the two of them together. That would do it for a lot of people She was still hurt but not as angry anymore knowing that they hadn't intended to hurt her it just happened. It made Melfina feel like maybe this was something that was always supposed to happen. Maybe her and Gene weren't meant to be. She stood there thinking for awhile before speaking.
"Gene do just one thing for me?" She said looking up at him.
"yes mel?" He said waiting to see what she wanted.
"Kiss me...just one last time." She said he eyes watery but not a single tear had fallen.
Aisha heard her say that and started to bust in 'what if he kisses her and changes his mind?' she thought. 'then where will that leave me?' 'he can't have both of us..' She shook off the thoughts Gene said he loved her and if he really did then kissing Melfina one last time wouldn't make a difference.
Gene granted Melfina her request and kissed her she kissed back obviously trying to spark something in him but he wasn't feeling anything nothing but more guilt. Once they parted she looked at him hopefully.
He saw her look and said simply "Sorry...but it didn't change anything My feelings remain the same."
Melfina finally gave up defeated she started to leave mumbling 'stupid cat shes nothing but a brainless blood thirsty beast what does Gene see in her?' Melfina thought to herself angrily it was the first real time she'd felt rage. But she contained it. He let it all out elsewhere away from everyone.
Aisha could hear someone approaching the door and quickly bounded off down the hall she saw Melfina exit and then quickly run off once the door was closed.
"poor thing." Aisha said to herself feeling guilty again knowing she was the cause of melfinas pain.
Aisha went into genes room and found him sitting on the bed with is back to her staring out the window at the stars She went to him and put her arms around him.
"Hey lover.." She said kissing his cheek
"Aisha...I just.." he started.
"I know" She said before he finished.
When turned around to look at her she explained she'd just seen Melfina in the hall.
"I love you Gene" she said kissing him.
"I love you too Aisha." He said putting his arm around her and laying down with her Resting his head on her chest.
"I could lay like this all night." He said
"Only like this? I've got a couple of ideas...." She said smirking at him.
He knew what she was implying but now wasn't the time he was still feeling truckloads of guilt and it wouldn't help to have Melfina hear them doing that so soon after he'd broken up with her. "not now Aisha not tonight its too soon" he said.
Aisha Nodded understanding. "Okay we'll just lay her then." She said and they both slowly drifted off to sleep.
Meanwhile back on the planet suzuka was just leaving the planet and heading for the ship as her shuttle left another bomb went off and the city went up in a cloud of poison she just barely escaped it when she arrived on the outlaw star she first ran into Jim.
"where's Gene?" She asked
"He's sleeping with his girlfriend." Jim answered.
"oh..." Then suzuka noticed Melfina sittingnot cooking for one but not doing anything "hey wait melfinas over there.." She started.
"Exactly she's not Genes girl anymore.Aisha is!" Jim said expecting suzuka to be shocked. But she didn't really react
"Oh that makes sense...explains a lot but that not important right now we've got a problem Another city just went up! In a cloud of gas."
"What?!"
End chapter2
Okay okay a cliffhanger here so what? I'll be writing chapter 3 soon enough so don't worry you'll get to find out every little thing I won't leave any loose ends when I'm done..but be warned this things gonna get REALLY long.
Next chapter chapter3-Secrets – the mystery behind the bombings and the bombers wo seemingly come out of the wood work will be Revealed! And a whole new problem comes into perspective.
