- Warning horrendously short! -
6:30pm The neighborhood was old, crumbling, and just the place you'd expect a fugitive to hide, the streets where narrow and horribly uneven, you'd be walking down an ally and then suddenly a building would be right in your path to force you to squeeze between two more houses just to get around it! If their suspect decided to run and they couldn't catch them then they'd seriously be out of luck. Only a native would know which roads to take and which sliver of an ally to run to avoid the police and foreign ones at that. Batou had a most significantly difficult time navigating the small streets and even smaller alleys even the Major with her small frame found at times to be hard pressed. Though he doubted she'd ever formally admit it but he could see how at times her body had no room to physically breathe at times, squeezing through such passages proved very slow going for him his large frame just didn't really permit such action and jumping on top of unsuspecting civilian's roof tops was definitely out of the question, if they wanted their suspect unaware of them then they'd have to do this as stealthy as possible who knew if any of these villagers were his private look out system, and who knew if they hadn't already been alerted to their unusual presence already?
" There it is just ahead," the Major finally said, " it's the blue shutters Batou."
" I see it. You sure they're in there?"
" I'm only sure that they were there."
" Do I even want to know where you got this so called intelligence? "
" It's better then nothing, or would you still prefer to continue on wondering around a foreign city looking for a man you only knew to have taken a flight that stopped here?"
She did have a point though even if he wouldn't indulge her with such an idea. She was right if he'd come on his own he'd still be doing just about the same thing he was doing now, looking for a criminal and having only a vague idea of where to start. He sighed trying to prepare himself in case this really turned out to be Togusa hacked or not it would still be very difficult, if it was indeed him, he hoped if this was his friend the man was merely brain washed seeing those torture tapes a captive would've done anything just to be spared further, but the last one almost proved he was dead was he cyberized? But then what would be the point in spending that kind of money to cyberize someone you wanted dead? What could you gain? Would they be loyal could you count on that? And why the hell was he even entertaining the idea!
" What's the plan Major," he asked in an attempt to re track his mind.
" I'll take the front and you take the back."
They'd finally gotten out of the small space they'd been forced to squeeze through and ended up surprisingly in a small side garden of a home. The owner of the home seemed to enjoy plants or at least what was available to them he never really considered cactus as a plant though…. looking away from the plants the Major had her hands on her hips expecting his full attention.
" Are you done sight seeing yet?" She asked her voice sounded slightly annoyed.
He gave her a large smile in apology, " So," he began folding his arms over his chest, " what do we have for weapons."
" Get creative," she said not bating an eye.
" What do you mean get creative!" He almost yelled dropping his pose.
" We aren't under the radar for nothing Batou, let's go."
" You're kidding right? Tell me you at least have a 9mm on you!" She ignored him and kept walking towards the garden's side exit. She had to be kidding him! Improvising on a mission and no weapons! He'd done it before sure, but not to this extent! There was at least a gun or two with in reach, and all he was seeing as far as weapons went were cactus…. " Great I'm going to quill them to death," he sighed exhausted and out of time.