002: rolls eyes Whatever, so long's you remember you don't own anything.
I don't! At least, not today. Tomorrow, though, might be different...BTW, please tell me if 006's restaurant is not in Tokyo. I have no idea where it is, so for the sake of convenience, I placed it in Japan.
mik0021: Glad you like it! I had no idea how people would receive this idea, so it's nice to get a little input every once in a while.
kukabura: Thanks! I really hate formulaic OC's, so I tried to make them stand out from the crowd a little. Everyone always seems to use the same templates, which gets really old, really quick. Personally, I think they turned out pretty well!
Over in Hong Kong, a pair of obviously foreign men were causing a rather large commotion as they walked aimlessly about.
"Would you knock it off already, Gio?!"
The black haired man looked over at his companion curiously. "What now, 0024--"
"Don't call me that HERE, moron! In the real world, I'm Nick Seldom, NOT 0024! And you know exactly what I mean!" The brown haired man hissed furiously.
"...Oh, you mean the juggling, right?" Gio responded after a moment's thought.
"People are throwing money at us! They think we're street performers!" Nick shot back,
holding up a coin that had hit him in the back of the head.
"Good! Then we can afford lunch, I'm hungry." Gio decided, oblivious to his partner's rapidly rising temper.
"Look, we're supposed to be looking for a restaurant owned by Cho Chang, a.k.a 006! You know, one of the people we're looking for..? Let's try NOT to attract attention. After all, this IS a kidnaping thing. Stop thinking about your stomach for once and help me, we've been out here for three hours looking for this place!" Nick informed him for the third time that day, trying to resist a growing urge to blow the other cyborg to bits. It was times like this when he really wanted to hurt the weirdos who had done this(and made him work with Gio). But those urges seemed to disappear almost as soon as they'd come, for no good reason. Weird. Oh well, nothing he could do about it, at least for now.
"Don't say it like that! All we do is take the guy back to the place and we're free! Good deal, no?" Gio answered thoughtfully.
"I suppose so..." The cyborg muttered grudgingly.
"Look! There's a place right there, can't we just grab a sandwich or something? I can't work without food!" Gio pleaded.
"You can't work, period." Nick mumbled darkly.
"I'll stop juggling! ..Well, at least for a little bit." Gio bargained hopefully.
"Fine! Whatever, I don't care anymore! Just. Stop. Talking! I suppose I was a little hungry myself anyway..." Nick decided, gathering up the scattered change on the ground as they entered the smallish shop. A tall bald man appeared shortly.
"Oh! Customers!" The man said, clapping his hands together in delight.
"Don't tell me you're closed..!" Nick exclaimed unhappily. If Gio had something to stuff in his face, maybe things would be a little quieter.
"We WERE about to take a little break, but it can wait for a bit." The man told them cheerfully as they took their seats.
"Was it just me, or did he seem familiar to you too?" Nick asked his partner as soon as the stranger had disappeared into the kitchen.
"Long-lost-brother familiar, or old-friend familiar?" Gio inquired curiously.
"Try psycho-cyborg familiar! I'm almost positive that guy's one of the 001-009 Series Cyborgs!" Nick told him excitedly, keeping his voice low.
"Well, only one way to find out for sure." Gio responded, getting up from his chair.
"What do you me--" Nick began suspiciously.
He never got a chance to finish, seeing as how the other cyborg chose that moment to shout 'Hey, 006!' quite loudly in the general direction of the kitchen.
"What are you doing?!" Nick shouted at the same time as Cho Chang himself.
Gio, oblivious to the chaos he had caused, began to collect silverware from the other tables, taking off his gloves as he went. "See? They responded, proving that they're the guys we're looking for. Besides, they match the pictures."
By this time, 007 had come out of the kitchen to see what was going on. With a sigh, Nick got up as well and started to stare at the wall in front of him.
"What--" G.B. began, but was cut off as the wall blew up within seconds, missing the occupants of the room entirely but causing a lot of dust. In the midst of all this, what appeared to be an army of forks marched out of the rubble towards the hapless 006 and 007. Several minutes later, the two were unconscious and ready to take back to Black Ghost.
"An army of cutlery. Only you would have thought silverware made good weaponry." Nick said, shaking his head.
"Hey, you blew up the wall and missed the people." Gio reminded him, hoisting the unconscious men over his shoulder with ease.
"Come on, we'll take the back way so nobody sees us. Everyone's probably waiting for us at the Seabird anyway." Nick decided, slipping through the back door with Gio close behind.
In another part of the city, a teen girl with brown hair jumped about the streets of Tokyo joyously, followed by an older woman with auburn hair, spectacles and a laptop slung over her shoulder.
"Would you calm down, Tabby? It's only Tokyo." The woman asked her younger friend.
"It could be the Bermuda Triangle for all I care! I'm away from that crappy base for once!" Tabby sang out happily, skipping along the sidewalk.
"We still have to go back to deliver these 'renegade cyborgs', remember?" Her friend reminded her.
"I STILL don't get it. If you ask me, this whole thing seems a little shifty." Tabby said stubbornly, putting her arms behind her head.
"Apparently, the shock from the operation was too much for these guys, so all nine went insane and started killing people. Small wonder they want these people brought back in. I even checked Black Ghost's files, even though I'm not that suspicious unlike some people, and their story checks out." The redhead explained for what felt like the twenty first time that day.
"So they say. So, what do these guys look like again, Tegan?" Tabby asked the other cyborg.
In response, Tegan walked over to a nearby pay phone and leaned against it, her hand on the cord. Although she looked to be resting, Tabby knew her to be using the phone line as a node so she could mentally access the web and check the files. Normally, Tegan would have just used her laptop, but had found this to be a little conspicuous in public. After a minute or so, Tegan straightened up and walked back over to the teenager.
"A New Yorker with bright red hair and a huge nose, and a Japanese man with shorter brown hair and ruby eyes. I think we'll know 'em when we seem 'em." Tegan told her with a sardonic grin.
"Like those two over there?" Tabby pointed to a familiar looking pair of cyborgs in the middle of a crowd of people.
"Told you. Remember, these guys have the Accelerator program, same as us." Tegan reminded the younger cyborg as they both went into Acceleration Mode, but the girl was already rushing after her red-haired quarry.
"Guess I got the Japanese guy." Tegan mumbled to herself, using the top of a tree as a springboard of sorts to land in front of 009.
"How'd you..?" Joe trailed off, temporarily stunned by the approach of this strange woman who was obviously a cyborg. However, most assassins didn't appear in the middle of huge crowds of people.
"I think we both know the answer to that." The woman smirked, lightly laying a hand on the other cyborg's shoulder. Before he could shrug it off, however, he found his legs and arms moving of their own accord. Quickly, he began thinking of a way to escape.
"I wouldn't try that last one, I'd know before you would. Now come on, the Seabird awaits us." The woman grinned oddly, her hand still on his shoulder as they walked along towards the harbor, and incidentally, where Tabby had been heading.
The girl in question had scared Jet off when he noticed her blurry form. He had then started to chase her and both were now in an old warehouse, devoid of any other humans. However, only Tabby knew where the other was. Jet was searching the warehouse for her as she watched.
"Come on out, kid! I know you're in this place somewhere..! This is what I get for coming to visit Joe and the others..." Jet threatened, his voice echoing in the dark and dusty building.
"Up here, genius."
Startled, Jet looked up to see Tabby standing on the ceiling as easily as if it was the floor.
"Hey! Get down here!" Jet called up, trying to mask his surprise.
"Okey-doke." The girl said agreeably, walking down the side of the wall. Then, without warning, she headed off in the opposite direction. Jet gave chase--and slammed straight into a thick wall, knocking him out. Tabby stuck her head out of the middle of the wall curiously.
"I didn't think he'd actually try to follow me through the wall. Oh well, can't be helped." She muttered to herself, dragging the other through one side of the wall and out to where she was to meet the others.
The other OC Cyborgs will appear in the next few chapters. Anyway, a quick recap of the four so far:
Nick Seldom(0024): Can cause spontaneous combustion whenever he wants.
Gio DeLuca(0025): Has the ability to bring anything he wants to life Tegan O'Connor(0022): Can mentally access computers or anything else mechanical simply by touching it and going into a trace like state. She has the Accelerator Mode as well.
Tabitha 'Tabby' Morrow(0023): The laws of physics do not apply to her, letting her walk through walls, stand on the ceiling, etc., etc. She also has the Accelerator Mode.
R&R please!