In Today's Case: Gun War
Tess ran in the rain. Water dripping from her wet hair in front of her face. The rain also poured over her mouth causing her to spit it out of the way once in a while. Her clothes soaked causing more weight adding on to her.
Her eyes widened slightly as she came to a slow stop. In front of her was Dojoma. Standing there with a cut above her left brow. Blood also trickled down her nose. Her hands on her hips with a slight smile on her face.
"Going to meet up with Jack?" she asked. Tess stared at her without answering. Dojoma pointed to the cut above her brow as blood poured over her eye. "You're little boyfriend Jimmy Kudo did this to me. I happened to get away before your uncle showed up with that Inspector. So the doctor is in safe hands."
"Step out of my way." Tess demanded her.
"Tch. Even if I step out of your way, you'll never have the ability to defeat Jack." Dojoma said to her. Tess smirked a little bit as she removed water from her face.
"How do you know that?" Tess asked Dojoma. Dojoma pulled a cell phone out of her pocket tossing it onto the ground. She reached into her jacket pulling out a modern pistol.
"I just know. But Jack gave certain orders that I must follow." Dojoma said to her. She pointed her gun at Tess. Tess watched the barrel of the gun as the streetlights shined off of it. Suddenly, Dojoma turned her barrel so it was no longer facing Tess. She tossed it up into the air with its direction towards Tess.
Tess reached her hand upward catching the gun with her good arm. "Were your orders to give me your gun?" Tess asked.
Dojoma nodded her head. "They were. And I'm supposed to lead you to the warehouse where he's hiding. But I suggest that you want to kill me."
Tess had the barrel of the gun pointing up into the air as she cocked back the hammer of the gun. "You're right." Tess pointed the gun at Dojoma. Dojoma smirked.
"The warehouse where you'll find Jack at is the one at the end of this street." Dojoma said pointing down the street. "You'll find the backdoor unlocked."
"Thank you." Tess pulled the trigger. The bullet entered Dojoma's head. Dojoma's body jerked with the movement of the bullet. Blood splattered onto the concrete of the sideway as her body fell. It hit the ground with a 'thump.' Tess lowered her arm as she walked forward stepping over Dojoma's body. 'Here I come Jack… coming to finish you off.' Tess thought as she broke out into a sudden run.
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Jimmy continued to follow the signal on his tracer glasses. He came to a stop seeing a body lying on the sidewalk. He walked up slowly. Being careful for thathe didn't know if they were dead or not. When he approached he saw a dark hole in the middle of the body's forehead.
He stood to the right of the body looking down at it. The blood continued to pour out of the head. Jimmy looked into the eyes of the body. He sighed as he looked forward tossing his glasses to the side.
"Looks like I found another clue that you left behind Tess." Jimmy said to himself. He glanced at the body and then took off running again.
Jimmy came to a stop in front of a warehouse. The backdoor was flung open. He poked his head in looking around in the dark. "Hello? Tess?" Jimmy called. He placed his hand onto the wall of the room searching for a switch but didn't find one. He then reached out grabbing onto a levy. He pulled down turning on the light.
The room was empty and full of dust. Wooden crates laid on the sides of the room leaving the middle of the floor empty. Jimmy stepped into the room looking around. He coughed at the dust in the room but he suddenly stopped when he saw another body lying on the ground. He walked up to find the body of the fat man from the Black Organization named Vodka.
"Looks like she did a number on you as well." Jimmy answered. Jimmy blinked when he saw a trail of spots of blood on the floor. He narrowed his eyes on it following it out of the room. He kept his eyes on the trail when he felt something cold touch his forehead.
He looked up to come face to face with a barrel of a gun. Standing before him was the other man of the Black Organization named Gin.
"Where are you going Mr. Kudo?" Gin asked. Jimmy nearly began to shake in fear. But he remembered that he had Tess's gun and he still had his stun gun watch. He doubted that he would be able to grab onto Tess's gun without being shot. He flipped up the stun gun watch aimer. He pointed it at his chest without Gin noticing. "You're going to die here."
"Sorry, it's not my time!" Jimmy then launched a needle into Gin's chest. Gin's eyes widened as he felt his body freeze. Jimmy snapped Gin's gun out of his hands and kicked it over the floor as it fell into a hole. Gin stumbled back but keeping on his feet.
"What… what did you hit me with?" Gin asked. Jimmy smiled as he brought up his arm.
"A stun needle." Jimmy answered shooting another one into his neck. Gin let out a gasp almost like he lost his breath. He placed his hand onto his neck and then collapsed suddenlyonto the floor. Jimmy leaned forward a little bit looking at Gin. He was out cold. Jimmy sighed in relief as he closed the aimer. He then ran around Gin to find Tess.
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Tess walked around the hallway. She leaned up against the wall giving herself support. She weakly placed her right hand onto her left side. She then turned pressing her back against the wall. She lifted up the left side of her shirt to see that the bullet just missed her and it was bleeding slightly.
"Looks like you need to see a doctor." Someone called with their voice echoing in the empty hallway. Tess's head jerked upward. She pushed her body off the wall looking around.
"I don't need a doctor Jack." Tess said looking around in the darkness. There was laughter and a light flicked on. Tess looked over to see Jack standing underneath the light. The light began to flicker giving Jack a horrible look on his features.
"Looks like to me you do." Jack said to her stepping closer. Tess glared at him. "Looks like Dojoma got you good on the shoulder. She got you twice." He said.
"Yeah, but I also nailed her in the head before I came here." Tess said coldly.
"You did, did you? Hm, interesting." Jack said placing his hand onto his chin. "And I'm guessing… that… Vodka was the one who got you on your side right?"
Tess didn't answer.
"I'll take you're silence as a yes." Jack said. Jack reached into his pocket pulling out a lighter. He flicked the flame on as he stepped to the side and then took one step back. Tess's eyes widened as a gas tank was sitting there on the floor. Jack smiled as he kicked the gas tank down. The cap came flying off and the gas spilled all over the floor. "I wonder what will happen if I burn this place?" Jack asked holding the lighter outward.
"DON'T!" Tess shouted reaching outward towards the lighter. Jack smirked.
"Why not? Oh, I remember. It's because of Shiho and Darien right?" Jack asked. Tess didn't answer directly.
"Please… don't set this place on fire. This is between me and you." Tess said. Jack smiled as he jumped over the gas with the lighter still in his hand.
"I know that, but not anymore." Jack answered creeping towards Tess's face. He then dropped the lighter into the gas and suddenly there was burst of a flame that flowed through the gas that was on the floor. Tess's eyes widened as the flame turned the corner. Then there were screams beyond the corner which caused Tess's eyes to widen like saucers.
"Shiho… Darien…" Tess said softly. Jack nodded his head. Tess looked at Jack as she backed away a little bit.
"Yeah. And the fire is going right towards them as well." Jack said with a smirk. Tess lifted up her gun as Jack did as well. "Let the war begin."
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Jimmy continued to wanderer around the warehouse hallways. It seemed to get hotter and hotter every time he climbed a staircase. He wiped sweat off of his forehead. He was about to place his hand onto a doorknob when he saw a light, like an orange tint light sneak out from underneath the door. Jimmy's eyes widened.
"Ahh!"
"Ahh! Help!"
"Help us please!"
Jimmy's eyes widened further hearing those screams for help. "SHIHO! DARIEN!" Jimmy called from the other end of the door.
"KUDO! IS THAT YOU!" Shiho called. Jimmy coughed as smoke began to rise in front of his face.
"Yeah! It's me!"
"What are you doing! Get us out of here!" Came Darien's voice. Jimmy placed his hands onto the door.
"Hold on!" he shouted through the wood. Then he placed his hand onto the doorknob but his hand easily burned considering it was metal. "Ow!" He said softly jerking his hand away quickly. He backed up as he then began to kick the door.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The door raddled in its spot on the hinges. Jimmy looked franticly around trying to find something to break the door with. But he then remembered Tess's gun. He could shoot the hinges off of the door causing it to fall inward in the room.
That was his plan. He pulled Tess's gun from behind him. He held his arms outward holding onto the gun tightly as he began to shoot off the hinges. The door didn't go anywhere till Jimmy then kicked it inward. Jimmy entered the room stepping onto the door. Smoke flew into his face quickly escaping the room. He coughed and coughed. He placed his arm in front of his face blocking the heat from his eyes.
"Shiho! Darien!" Jimmy called.
"Over here Jimmy!" Darien called out. Jimmy looked over to see Darien and Ai tied to chairs. They had knocked over their chairs to keep themselves clean of the smoke. Jimmy coughed as he walked toward them closing his right eye from the heat. He bent down appearing in front of Ai. Ai blinked a few times looking at Jimmy oddly.
"Kudo? You got you're body back… how?" Ai asked. Jimmy crawled behind her untying her from the chair. Once Ai felt her arms get loose and pulled placing them onto the floor.
"I took the antidote Dr Agasa was working on." Jimmy answered as he began to untie Darien.
"How do you know that it'll last?" Darien asked. Jimmy pulled the rope on Darien. Darien then fell onto the floor. He pushed himself up.
"I don't." Jimmy said. "I'll just have to risk it. Now come on." Jimmy grabbed onto Ai placing her onto his back. He ran out of the room with Darien following him. The fire had spread into the staircase. They stopped at the top of the stairs watching them burn.
"What do we do now Kudo?" Ai asked looking over his shoulder.
"I do-…"
Suddenly the floor underneath them collapsed. They screamed hitting the floor getting stuck underneath the rubble. Ai was able to climb out. She coughed as she looked up seeing the fire and bits of ashes falling onto the floor. She looked around to see that the fire had not yet spread onto the first floor. She turned and faced the rubble that Jimmy and Darien were stuck under.
"Kudo? Darien?" Ai called.
"Shiho…" Came Jimmy's faint voice.
"Where are you?" Ai called moving around the pieces of wood that she could move with the little body.
"Over here." Jimmy called. Ai then heard something slamming against a beam. She looked over to see it jerking. She then ran over looking at the beam. She moved the same blanks of wood seeing Jimmy and Darien.
"I don't know if I can move this." Ai said to him. Jimmy managed to get his feet up onto the beam.
"I'll push with you." Jimmy said to her. Ai nodded her head as she grabbed onto the edge of the beam. With all of her strength she began to pull the beam upward. Jimmy pushed with his feet with all of his might. Darien reached forward placing his hands onto the beams considering that there was a blank of heavy wood on his right leg.
They managed to get it off. Ai backed away as Jimmy emerged from the rubble. He grabbed onto Darien's right arm wrapping it around his neck pulling him out of the rubble.
"Out the backdoor." Jimmy instructed. Ai, Jimmy, and Darien made it out the backdoor and into the rain. Jimmy placed Darien onto the sidewalk as Ai stood next to him.
"Tess is still in there." Darien said. Jimmy looked up at the burning building. Suddenly they began to hear gunshots. Their eyes widened as the gunshots could still be heard.
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Tess took cover behind a wooden crate that was inthreat of being burned. Tess had her back pressed up against the wooden crate as Jack continued to fire. Tess ducked her head as she listened to the bullets fly past her.
"You can't escape Tess!" Jack shouted out to her. "This fire makes it impossible!"Tess then jumped out of her hiding place as she began to shoot at Jack. Jack ran across the room and then dove for a crate. But Tess knew she got him in the leg or something.
Suddenly Jack's upper body appeared from the crate he was taking cover from. He shot off his gun. Tess felt a bullet pierce her left side throwing her body back. But Tess placed her foot behind her stopping her from going anywhere. She then began to shoot off her gun hitting Jack in the chest causing him to fall onto the floor. Tess winced at the pain that throbbed through her shoulder.
She struggled with her right arm placing it onto her shoulder as she walked forward. She looked over the crate to see Jack with his gun pointed up at her. Tess's eyes widened as his gun went off.
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Jimmy then ran forward into the building. "Kudo!" Ai called after him but Jimmy didn't stop. He ran right through. But he tripped over someone. He looked behind him to see Gin. Jimmy growled as he rolled his eyes.
"I'm going to hate myself for this." Jimmy stood up grabbing onto Gin's right arm wrapping it around his neck and taking him outside. Darien sitting on the wet sidewalk saw Jimmy emerge with Gin.
"That's not Tess you know! And if that is, I never knew she was a guy!" Darien shouted out. Jimmy didn't response. He placed Gin onto the ground taking off his stun gun watch shooting another needle at his neck. He then handed the watch over to Ai.
"Shoot him with that again if he begins to wake up." Jimmy instructed. He turned and ran right back into the burning warehouse.
"He's crazy…" Ai said.
"No… I think its that… he's possibly in love with Tess." Darien said. Ai turned and looked at him blinking a few times.
Jimmy was running up the burning staircase. He coughed and coughed as he came onto a floor with fire all around him. He walked forward shouting out Tess's name. He heard a couple more gunshots. When he heard them, he bolted forward. He ran through flames and thick smoke. He came to a stop seeing Jack's body lying on the ground with his eyes wide open,dead. He looked around knowing that Tess was somewhere on the floor.
"Tess!" Jimmy called out. "Tess!" he called again.
"Jimmy?" Jimmy turned to see Tess leaning up against the left wall. She stood on her feet breathing hard as sweat poured down her face.
Jimmy nodded his head, "yeah. It's me." He said.
Tess nodded her head as she closed her eyes. Her body suddenly fell forward. Jimmy ran up to her catching her body. He looked at the wall to see blood smeared onto it. His eyes widened as he shifted Tess into his right hand looking at his left to see blood. Jimmy's eyes widened further as he opened up Tess's leather jacket to see about two or three bullet holes in her chest.
"TESS!"
Next Time on Case Closed: "I need to tell you the truth." Jimmy's at the hospital with Rachel and Richard. There he decides that he's going to tell everyone who he was and where he was. But after he had given all of the information out to them, the doctor arrives to tell them the news about Tess. What's going to happen to her? Is she dead?
Next Time: Loving Goodbyes