My Disclaimer: Oh how I wished I owned you Getbackers! I would keep Makubex around to do all my homework, Ginji would be plugged into my house for a free source of electricity, and Juubei, Kazuki, and Sakura would all make me the most awesome clothes ever. Shido would take out the trash and keep the house in shape. Paul would make me delicious coffee. I would sell Emishi to a TV. Network so he could have his own comedy show. Oh, and I would sell Ban out to rabid fan girls and make lots of $$$$$ But I would keep Maku-chan all to myself MINE I SAY! BUT I don't own them so...I'll just go live in my author cardboard box and keep writing fan fiction. Please enjoy.
Now presenting:
Getbackers: Get Back the Future
Chapter3: Inconsistent Time
Cold eyes stared down at the body before him. The Bloody joker was dead. There was no doubt about that. He had put up a bit of a fight but to the Raitei, it was the buzzing of a fly around his awesome power. He looked around the dark half destroyed room. What manner of place was this and where did the other two that he had sensed gone? He did not see them and his anger was beginning to rise once more. His energy crackled across the room and as fate would have it, the generator turned once again and power was restored to the room. He walked up to the two cylinders and touched them each in turn. The electricity sparked at the second one. Makubex had been there. Traces of the energy given off by the projector box were still lingering. Raitei wandered in. If Makubex had gone in here, where was he now? He glared angrily at the glass surrounding him. He did not like it. Raitei slammed his fist against the glass sending a tremor through the cylinder. The thick glass held but a piece of rubble that was hanging from the ceiling over the half melted control console by a wire fell free slamming onto the buttons.
Raitei was startled as he was engulfed by a bright light. When he was expelled from the portal, he got quickly to his feet crackling angrily with power. Was this some kind of trick? He slammed his fist into a nearby brick wall pulverizing a part of it to expose an empty hall. He hated tricks. Raitei looked about for a few moments then looked back to the darkness of Mugenjou which towered several streets away. Something seemed very different and he did not like it at all.
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Ginji shifted from foot to foot by the pay phone where Shido was calling Madoka to tell her that he would not be back tonight. He kept glancing over nervously at Ban who had -Makubex- slung over one shoulder and was yelling at Shido to hurry it up that this was not a dating service hotline. Ginji felt as if he should be doing something to help. His thoughts went worriedly to -Makubex-. After all, he had carried a constant weight on his conscience ever since the whole IL scrape had brought Mugenjou back into a constant of his life. While he never regretted his decision to leave Mugenjou, he did regret almost forgetting about who he left behind. He had burned the memory of the pain that it had caused everyone into his mind so that he would never forget again. It had pained him most to see the damage that it had done to Makubex who was as close to him as a little brother. To see him falling to his death was an image that bothered Ginji in his nightmares. He had vowed to himself that he would never abandon the boy like that ever again.
"Oi, hurry up or we're leaving you behind." Ban's voice called into Ginji's thoughts.
Ginji started to, "Ban-chan, wait!"
After a few minuets of travel, their journey brought them to the door of an apartment. Ban kicked it twice, "Open up!"
The door was answered by a yawning annoyed looking Toshiki, "What he hell do you want at this hour, Mido that you go kicking at people's door for?" He noticed -Makubex-, "So you managed to catch him."
"Toshiki, who is it?"
"It's just Ginji and company." Toshiki turned briefly to look back in.
"Go ahead and let them in."
"You heard him."
Toshiki stepped aside allowing Ban and the others entry. Ban walked into the main room, dumped -Makubex- into a chair, and then slouched down on Kazuki's couch. Kazuki entered the main room moments later flanked on either side by a Juubei. Ban's eyebrow twitched. One annoying Needle Master was enough, two just looked plain annoying. Kazuki, however, looked pleased.
"Now what is this intrusion about—" Kazuki began when -Juubei- dashed from his side.
"Makubex!"
-Juubei- checked -Makubex- worriedly for any injuries, "What did you do to him?"
Ginji stepped forward, "I…it was an accident."
"Ginji fried him when he touched that scar." Ban spoke up. He took out a cigarette.
"How did that happen?" -Juubei- looked suspiciously at Ginji with narrowed eyes. Ginji wilted. Juubei had never been mad at him before.
"He said something about the 'Raitei' and the scar started bleeding. Ginji was only trying to help so cool it pincushion." Ban waved his hand annoyed then took another drag of his cigarette.
"The Raitei?" -Juubei's- expression looked shocked, "But that's impossible, there's no way."
"No way, what?" Ban raised an eyebrow, "I'd really like to know."
I would too. That presence we felt at the Honky Tonk was it really Raitei?" Shido leaned against a wall.
"What the hell are you two trying to do anyway?" Ban glared at -Juubei-, "I'm sick of playing cat-and-mouse with you!"
"Stopping… the permanent emergence of the Raitei."
"Makubex, are you ok, now?" Ginji watched the man shift weakly until he was sitting upright in the chair.
"Yes, Ginji-san. I'm fine." -Makubex- turned to look up at -Juubei-, "He's here. I don't know how but he is."
-Juubei- became alarmed, "You mean he followed us?"
Kazuki's expression turned nervous as he heard the tension in -Juubei's- voice, "What is happening? Please tell me." He felt Juubei put a hand on his shoulder comfortingly.
"Something happened a week from today. It caused Ginji to become the Raitei for the last time and Amano Ginji to cease to be. At first no one realized that it had happened but shortly after people began to die. Lots of people…" -Makubex's- voice trailed off and he took a deep tired breath.
"What do you mean 'no one realized', surely I—" Ban began offended that they would dare think that Ginji's partner would be so blind as to not notice something so obvious.
"You were at the hospital with Himiko." -Juubei- put in, "She was supposed to have been in an accident, remember?"
"I see." Kazuki began to put the pieces of the puzzle together in his mind.
"So what happened?" Toshiki asked, "We could help to divert the problem if we knew."
"I don't know." -Makubex- answered truthfully, "I was the last one to know that it had even happened. Raitei did not harm Mugenjou in the beginning. So I've only known for the last year and a half."
"How could you of all people…" Kazuki started to ask when he saw -Juubei- shaking his head 'no'. He stopped. Perhaps it was a topic best not touched.
"So whose brilliant idea was 'this'?" Ban waved at them.
"Raitei turned out to be completely unstoppable. We all tried to stop him and failed. Some of us didn't even get a second chance." -Juubei- spoke, "It was Paul who first thought of traveling back in time. He worked most of it out on his own but the task and the variables turned out to be too much for even him to do alone. He was the one who built the projector box to bring Makubex out of Mugenjou. When we managed to get -Makubex- back, they finished building it together. By that time though, so few of us were left. Even Paul never made it to see the finished product."
"So what exactly did you plan to do by coming back in time?" Shido inquired crossing his arms for comfort.
"We compiled a list of events that happened before the Raitei incident hoping that if we managed to solve all the little problems that perhaps we would have changed everything just enough so that it would have never happened. But since we don't really know what triggered the change, it makes that kind of hypothesis difficult to calculate in terms of result." -Makubex- explained.
Ban looked as if a sudden bad notion had crossed his mind, "And what were you going to do if that didn't work? What were you going to do then?"
"We were…we…" -Makubex's- brow creased and he looked suddenly unwell at the thought of speaking it aloud.
"We would have killed him before he began his rampage." -Juubei- finished.
"Kill me?" Ginji's voice seemed distant. Even Kazuki looked shocked.
"You would have murdered Ginji!" Ban stood up angrily, "Ginji never hurt anyone!"
"But he will. You have no idea of how many people died! The Raitei went completely mad without the presence of Ginji. It didn't matter who got in his way! No matter what we can't let it happen again." -Makubex's- lips pursed in agitation. The mere thought of being the ones to kill Ginji made him feel ill.
"There must be a way to stop him then. You obviously didn't try everything!" Ban accused. He moved a bit closer to Ginji.
"We have tried everything! I tried everything! Ginji just isn't there anymore! He's gone!" -Makubex- looked almost ready to burst out into tears, "Shido and Kazuki are gone. You are gone! How dare you even say that!" He had stood up but -Juubei- had put a hand on his shoulder to keep him from doing anything rash, "And now Emishi is gone too."
"Maybe you're—" Ban started snidely when Ginji grabbed his arm. Ginji looked upset.
"Please stop."
Silence reigned for a few moments broken only by everyone's breath. Shido was the first one to speak, "It doesn't really matter what has or has not been done. The thing is what to do now."
"I don't know anymore…" -Makubex- put a hand to his forehead again, "Everything changed too much. The events may or may not happen they way they are supposed to anymore. I just…and now he's here and I don't…"
"Here? So earlier you had meant that the Raitei from the future is here now?" Toshiki looked quickly to Kazuki noticing that he had caught on as well.
"Yes." -Juubei- said.
"It's late and everyone is tired. There's nothing we can do right now anyway. We should sleep and make plans in the morning." Kazuki said, hiding his own nervousness.
"Well, what if he tries to come for us while we rest?" Juubei asked.
"I'll know if he's close." -Makubex- put a hand to his neck.
"Yes, sleep is good." Ginji said. He wanted everyone to stop being upset and worried, "We will all feel better in the morning."
"Fine." Ban stood up, "But we're staying here, and you," He looked to -Makubex-, "had better be here in the morning."
End Chapter 3
Sorry it's a bit short but I wanted the 'blah' 'blah' 'blah' outta the way so I can get to explosions and more fun stuff. By the way thanks for the review (you know who you are)) I really appreciated it!