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OUTSIDE JUMP CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
Iqbal had just finished attending an evening class and was on his way home to get ready for dinner when he bumped into the Taj again. The University's medical campus was located on a huge, beautiful garden, a very tranquil environment, a lot of students liked sudying in the garden. It was even more beautiful at night with the lights, and was safe so Iqbal planned on bringing Darkness here after they had dinner. However, his plan was interrupted by Taj who had showed up in front of him with his very big, kind looking smile. Iqbal saw behind the smile, saw the enemy behind it. However, Iqbal didn't show anything was wrong and smiled when he greeted, "Hello Taj uncle," he said as he bowed a little, and stuck out his hand for a handshake.
"Ismael, I have somethings to discuss with you!" Taj said excitedly as he clasped his hand with his. He brought him to a hug and whispered, "Lets talk at the university's cafe now."
Iqbal nodded and walked with Taj to the small cafe, they were making small talk, it is amazing how spies can blend in the environment and not draw attention to themselves. They entered and found a small table and Taj began speaking in a variant of his and Ismael's language that no one in the cafe would understand. "I wonder what your mission is in America?" Taj asked.
"I could ask you the same question," Ismael responded cooly.
"But you know, you know my country is following your every move now," Taj said with a smile.
"It seems India has lost its touch, sending an outdated, sadistic, murdering, spy to follow me," Iqbal answered.
"Still upset about your partner, Yahya? What was it again?" Taj asked.
"Youseff, his name was Youseff," Iqbal responded, keeping his emotions straight, he so wanted to kill Taj right now.
"You know before I put that bullet in the back of his head he said something to me," Taj said with his grin growing wider.
Iqbal's eyes widened, he knew Taj killed his partner, but he didn't know he had executed him.
"He said, quote, "Forvige me for leaving you Maham, forgive me for leaving you my precious Ama," it was at that point I pulled the trigger.
Iqbal was about to jump across the table and strangle Taj but he knew he would just sacrifice his mission if he did attack the man. "That was the name of his wife and daughter you bloody murderer," Iqbal replied, trying to keep his face straight.
"Oh, too bad they will never find his body," Taj said as he lit a cigarrette.
"What the hell do you mean? He is burried in India, not even the Indians play dirty," Iqbal said, not believing his partner's body would be desecrated, it was an unwritten rule to respect the dead in South Asia.
"I personally got rid of the body," Taj said with a smile, "But now it comes to my warning to you. I know you are planning some mission, I know you are good, so I probably wouldn't catch you if you made a move, so now I will black mail you," Taj said as he threw afew of photos on the table.
Iqbal picked them up and his eyes widened in shock, they were pictures of him and Darkness eating at the restaurant and a couple more photos of him making out with her at his front door. Iqbal now couldn't hide the shock and disgust that Taj would play so dirty with him.
Taj saw he had struck home and went for the kill, "Tsk, tsk, what would your government think if they got a hold of these pictures? There number one spy having big expensive dinners in America with an American girlfriend, and what would your mother think if I sent her a picture of you kissing this girl, huh, what would the Pakistan media do!" Taj said with a laugh.
"So what do I have to do?" Iqbal asked.
"Get the hell out of here within the next five days or else it is released. Don't worry, the pictures will all be right here in my coat pocket," Taj said as he slipped the pictures back in his pocket, "Have a nice dinner," he added as he got up and whistled as he left.
Iqbal slowly got up, slowly reached his apartment, slowly got dressed, and met his date one hour late at the restaurant.
RESTAURANT
"Sorry I am late, got stuck on the campus," Iqbal said quickly as he led her to their seat in the restaurant.
At the dinner Iqbal at one point just stared at Darkness. "What are you looking at?" Darkness asked, her eyes staring into his.
"Oh my baby you really burn me with those eyes, you are cutting me down to size," Iqbal said to her, still staring.
Darkness blushed, and said, "Snap out of it Romeo," Iqbal did and just smiled at her.
The dinner went well when they were about to leave Iqbal turned to her and asked, "Darkness, come with me and lets let ourselves go," he said to her.
Darkness noticed Iqbal was a little different at dinner but liked the smile and kindness in his voice. She said, "How do we do that?"
"Trust me," Iqbal said with a very big smile on his face as he led her on a walk towards the beautiful garden in the medical school grounds. The restaurant was near by and they arrived to the well lit and beautiful garden after a brief twenty minute stroll. Darkness was surprised by the emense beauty of the garden and fell in love with it right away.
"Its so beautiful," she whispered, to no one in particular.
Iqbal heard her though and said quietly with a smile, "I knew you would love this."
They began walking down the lonely garden, getting to know eachother, when Iqbal suddenly stopped and began chuckling.
"What's so funny?" Darkness asked.
"You love reading, I enjoy writing, you like staying up all night, and I love sleeping, some would say we are crazy. Hell I agree, but that's okay that's just fine with me," Iqbal explained with his smile.
"God, quite the poet and romantic tonight aren't we?" Darkness asked playfully.
"Lets dance," Iqbal said as he led her to the small dance hall in the park. They entered to find other students inside dancing and a slow song seemed to play on cue. Actually it was on cue, Iqbal planned it. Anyways, Iqbal and Darkness began dancing the night away. At one point Iqbal whispered in her ear, "I am holding on to you, and you are gripping me tight, so tight. You don't seem to care, and please, I don't mind, I was just not aware you liked to act so kind," Iqbal told her.
Darkness grinned and kissed Iqbal as they left the dance floor slowly. After a minute of kissing Iqbal broke the kiss and gasped, we should get to my place, its getting late," he said to her.
"Lets go drop you off, then I can fly home," Darkness said in agreement. The last thing both of them wanted was to get carried away.
IQBAL'S APARTMENT
Darkness and Iqbal made it to the apartment and to the front door. They stood there uncomfortably until Darkness broke the silence. "I...I guess I should get going, it is getting late," she said quietly. Iqbal looked like he was about to say something, but then shut his mouth. He was very uncomfortable, unsure of what to do. Darkness, a little disapointed, began turning to fly away. Iqbal noticed the disapointment and quickly grabbed Darkness and brought his face to hers for a deep kiss.
Darkness after several seconds looked up, before she could say anything Iqbal began whispering to her as he stroaked her hair with his hand, "Hush my little baby, don't you say a word,becauseI am going to give you everything I promised I would," he was smiling at her gently.
"What exactly have you promised me?" Darkness asked, becoming playful with Iqbal again. She always felt free around him for some reason.
"Well, I'll give you my heart, I will give my soul, and if you like you can even have control but all I want from you is a little bit of faith and a little bit of love. Maybe I will recieve honesty because that goes a long way you know. Ever since I met you, I have missed you every moment I am alone," Iqbal explained to her.
Darkness looked at Iqbal deeply and asked, "Do you feel alright being alone?"
Iqbal looked at her closely and intently, with dead seriousness he said, "No, it is a terrible feeling, and I go through it all the time," he said.
Darkness smiled at Iqbal and said, "You are never alone, I will always be there for you," with that, and a kiss, Darkness returned to the Tower. Leaving a happyIqbal staring in the sky at his angel.
JIM'S HEADQUARTER'S
Jim had realized his ambitions were not being met because he trusted too many people and shared power, because of this his organization was very corrupt and wasn't getting anywhere. So Jim decided to disband the Anti-Hartwell Youth League and replace it with is own organization, which had no name. It was Jim's private army and spy network. Jim considered the Titans his allies and believed with their help he could take over Jump City and replace Hartwell, but he foolishly believed he would be a good leader and absolute power wouldn't corrupt him. He didn't even realize that the city was making him much more ruthless.
"Sir, I got a planwith boss Isaac, he says we tell him some stuff about the Titans and he says you can get the North Side Slums while he expands to the Sea Front," one of Jim's officers, Jim no longer had a crew, he had officers.
"Perfect, we can deal with him tonight," Jim said.
"Yeah, perfect, we can meet him at the docks!" the officer said beeming with pride at making such a great deal.
"Good, Bill, get our top gunment and tell them to get ready to take out Isaac," Jim said with a smile.
His officers looked at Jim in shock, one of them brought up the courage to speak up, "Assasinate Boss Isaac?"
Jim looked at his officers with anger in his eyes, "Yes, is there a problem with that?" his voice had an edge to it.
"Yeah, that could start a war with Hartwell," one of the men spoke cautiously.
"I am ready to deal with him, once Isaac is dead, I get the North Side, and a base, from there we will take a couple of attacks, and with the Titans we will completely drive Hartwell out. The time to win this war is now, no more delays, I want this city, and I want it soon," Jim said fiercely as he pounded the table with his fist.
TITANS TOWER
"The HIVE are burning down a building in the North Side, we have to get there now," Robin ordered to the two other Titans in the room. The Titans had killed the morning and afternoon chilling out and training. At around four in the afternoon, Guardian had left, and now, it was three hours latter and the HIVE were back.
"Where is Guardian?" Fireteen asked, worried they wouldn't have enought firepower to deal with the HIVE.
"I-I honestlydon't know," Robin admitted.
"I couldn't even talk to Ismael, he isn't answering anything," Darkness added.
"They must be up to something, but regardless, we have to go, no matter how much we will miss Guardian's powers," Robin said as he began leading the way out.
INDIAN EMBASSY
JUMP CITY
The compound was very large and well protected from the dangerous streets. India opened the building after the huge influx of its citizens into the city, and so far the building had served India well. Not only did it help guard its people but it also kept secret documents inside, very secret documents.
On the Eastern Wing, the most dangerous secret was heavily guarded by security. However, since Taj told the authorities about a Pakistani super spy in Jump City security was very tight and jumpy, Taj was also in complete control.
Outside that large wall which surrounded the compound, Guardian, in uniform, along with Iqbal, dressed in his black infiltration suit. They were in a tree and quietly whispering to each other. "How do we do this?" Guardian asked.
"Alright, take out the power on the West Wing, and cause a small fire, while security concentrates I will infiltrate into the East Wind, and when I call you on the calm, I want you to take out the power in room A-C of the East Wing, just that room. Understood?" Iqbal asked, dead serious, any of his humor and cockyness he showed before was replaced by seriousness, and intense planning.
"Yeah, I got you," Guardian said nodding his head. "What about Hartwell?" he asked.
"My boys are dealing with him while we speak," Iqbal said.
HARTWELL'S OFFICE
Hartwell was sitting with the meeting when he noticed one of the bosses wasn't there, "Where the hell is Isaac?" he asked.
"He has a meeting which could deal with the small time gangster who is supplying the Titans with information," a boss answered shakily.
"Good, good, then once we got him in our group, then we can shoot him and all his men," Hartwell said, very happy Isaac took the inititive on the issue. "Now, lets discuss the gambling situation and prostitution after the Titans raid..." the meeting had begun.
ISAAC'S HEADQUARTERS
"Should we bring any guns and boys," one of Isaac's officers asked.
"No, they are only kids, just bring your own gun while I bring mine," Isaac was preparing to leave and had decided only him and three of his officers would bring guns. The group would be Isaac, all his officers and of course drivers, the drivers were armed by default, so there was no need to mention them.
"Hartwell will be happy," one man observed as he smoked.
"Damn right Hartwell will be happy!" Isaac said as he finally left for the meeting.
NORTH SIDE
"This is kind of fun," Rocker said as she devestated another building with her powerful powers, another dozen familes had lost everything they had ever owned in their lives.
"Keep on blowing stuff up, Titans should be here soon," Jinx ordered as she destroyed several cars with her powers.
"We already are here," Robin said as he jumped in front of the five very powerful HIVE members. Fireteen and Darkness landed right behind him.
"Just three of you? You stand no chance," Jinx scuffed at them as she led her team forward for what she hoped would be her final battle with the Titans.
"Titans...GO!" Robin screamed as he began his attack. A titanic battle was unfolding in the North Side while on the river front to gangsters were going to make decisions that could effect all of Jump City, and at an embassy the relations between three countries were in the hands of a spy and a spy killer.
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