OH MY! i've never had so much contraversy with a story, its either sucked or rocked...
ms-commander: well, i think the story its self is quit simple. its a rather nonchalant self insert that fails to be funny that i rather enjoy writing. it was not the story but the concept... i should have kept my mouth shut.
Jemisard: . i'll work on it.
i would like to thank every one who reviewed just for taking the time to reveiw.
Lorana! don't jump!
ps. I own nothing but my self!
---no skillz-- ch5
here we were outside of the hq, and neither of us had the guts to go in. i had the disconcerting feeling in my stomach that felt like I had eaten a bar of lead. so i stood there in the rain simply dreading with that childlike feeling that my life was over.
"Come on!" Erika sudenly yanked at me and propelled us towards the sliding door. surprisingly it simply lurched open, not even locked.
she started to drag me down those long narow steps, at least we're out of the rain, i tried to think optimisticaly.
"alright alright" I pushed her way, "you can let go now..."
she continued down the steps ahead of me with our even looking back.
"TORN!" i heard her voice shout out in the small room bellow.
the lead bar in mystomach started excercice classes.
"WHAT!" a gruff angry voice bellowed. I faintly heard Erika 'eip' in distress. i hurried down the stairs and hopfully to her rescue.
Torn is an intimidaiting man, by sheer force of being angry. he was glaring death rays at erika from behind his table of maps. i bite the inside of my cheek and bounded up behind Erika, "You seen Jinx?"
Torn turned hisslits that served as eyes to me. he crosssed his arms and staightened up, "he was here earlier, said he forgot to tell his eran boys where to meet him..."
Erika looked down at her feet, i mentaly sighed, "yeah thats us."
Torn grumbled and rumaged through his pile of stuff. i betr hes gota swim suit edition of somthing in that pile.
he looked up and chucked somthing metalic at me. I fumbled it sliped through my fingers and Erika snatched it up.
"he said to give you that and to tell you that he'd eat you alive if you stole his money." he actualy gave us a rougish grin. I scrunched my face up in what must have been a guilty look.
"don't tell me you were stupid enough to get mugged?"
I tried to look him in the eye but those tatooes were just too distracting. Erika nodded slowly.
I groaned dramaticaly, "came up behind and took every thing, Jinx's money ours... our weapons even..." i said biterly.
Erika's head snaped up and looked at me funny, "ah, yeah! there was a whole lot of them!"
I grited my teeth, Torn wasn't stupid and Erika wasn't very convincing. Come on you pointy eared bastard! i screamed inside my mind.
it wasn't going to work i admited to myself, torn was blue faced greedy bastard. i shrugged, "come Lets get going," I nudged her toward the door.
"Torn sucks." Erika mumbled under her breath in that way that no one but me ever heard.
a loud beeping sounded, it sounded like the theme song to funky town on crack. I looked back, quirked an eyebrow and looked at erika and we shruged. i snickered. Torn was going to, Funky Town!
torn picked up the com device on his table and promptly began yelling at who ever was on the other side.
as torn talked i turn back to erika and started to dance abit with my hands, "take me To! Funky Town!" i sang softly trying to cheer her up.
she rolled her eyes and started to drag me back up the stairs.
"i'll send some one right over..." torn grumbled into the device, "You!" he snaped his fingers.
Erika frooze and turned back.
He hung up, "its a nonprofit thing, but in this weather your sure to get some tips,"
he held out a small box, erika scampered over and grabed it.
"Just don't get mugged and i won't tell Jinx you were here." he turned back to his table and ignored us.
"Um...where to..." erika asked a bit to hapily, he looked up and glared at her.
"safe house number 5 down in hte bazar," he said iratly as if we should have already known this information.
Erika turned and grinned. I groaned, more rain.
to my relief the rain had subsided to a light drizle. so there we were, in the middle of the night deleivering more crap.
"torn's a douche." i said biterly.
"he was kinda nice..." Erika mutered, "we need some money!" she proclaimed loudly.
"thank you captain obvius."
"this way!" she pointed and took a right leading us into the bazar section. there wasn't a soul on the street.
"wheres number five?" I asked agrivatedly.
"how should i know." she asnswered. i heaved a sigh. we were doomed.
we stopped under an overhang to get out of the rain, we had been walking in circles for a while and it was getting a little ridiculus. the whole thing was quite ridiculus.
"well," I said taking a seat on a large crate, "this isn't all it was cracked up to be."
"this sucks." she said and sat down next to me.
"at least we have mad mesage carieing skills."
"what are you talking about!" erika mumbled as load as she could mumble, " you call getting mugged skills?"
"HEY!" i shouted, sudenly spotting a small red symbol on a door acrooss the street.
"What?"
"isn't that the same symbol as at head quarters?" I asked. I love my dumb luck.she nodded and we scampered across the street. I knocked once. then again.
"post man always knocks twice," I informed her.
a small peep hole sudenly pushed open, "ELLO!" i said a bit startled.
"Torn sent us!" Erika chirped leaning towards the dark eye staring dwon at us.
The door flew open and we were greeted by a tall dark blue haired young man. he had pointy ears. my mind twitched and i reminded myself they all had pointy ears.
"quik," he said and ushered us in. he voice was nice, i liked it.
The safe house was small, one room with a large table and a stoved in one corner, a set of narow stairs lead up to somewhere else.
"Here you go mister safe house man!" Erika said holding out the box. i felt like slaping my head at her stupidity. So I did.
the blue haired pointy eared guy looked at us strangly.
"I'm Leni," I pointed at Erika, "thats Eruka." Erika nodded.
"Marc." he said and held out his hand, i shook it. then i stood there awkwardly for a moment.
he had on some kicken black cargo pants. I decided i wanted his pants. and a bagy gray coat. his hair was bit long for a boy by my standards, and his eyes were a lonly shade of gray and he seemed to be as dripping wet as we were...
"OH MY LOVING GOODS YOU! YOU! ROBBED US!" i screamed with the full force of my temper.
"CURSES!" erika yelled at him.
"Oh precursors... I robed Torn's messagers." he took a step back , he sounded horified, "Don't kill me...please"
I sighed, he just sounded absulutly so pathetic, "just give us back our money!"
"I...I...It's gone."
"What!" Erika screeched.
"I only robbed you cause I owed Jinx his money!" he said almost pleadingly. he hugged his wet sleeves around himself.
"GREAT NOW WE OWE HIM!" I screamed! this was unbelievable. this was ridiculus.
"I hate you!" Erika chirped angrily.
"I can pay you back!" he offered.
"What you gona do steal more?" Erika yelled at him, she was actualy quite flustered.
the gray eyed theif looked down guiltily.
"WEll." i said mater of factly, "we'll just call Jinx and sort this whole thing out..."
"NO!" Marc yelled, "don't!"
I paused, "why shouldn't I?" his subserviant maner was bothering me.
"I...I...I just payed off all my debts..."
"SO?" Erika grabed our com and puzzled over how to call our imployer.
"I'll pay you back!"
"what good will that do us now?" I asked him cynicaly. iwas staring to feel bad for the guy.
"HELloOoOoO?" Erika sang into the little green com unit, "Jinxies? you there?"
"Hello?" Jinxs weasely voice rang through.
I watched Marc eyes bulge out of his head. I wished I had I had somthing pointy to pop them with.
I snatched the com, "Yeah Jinx, this is Leni," i felt odd saying my name was Leni. to late now, "we gota problem."
"what? how could you mess somthing this simple up! leave it to women..." he mumbled the last part. I frowned at the little squak box. I looked over at Marc.
"We got robbed..."
"WHAT!" Jinx roared over the com, "that was three hundred credits!"
"Whoa whoa Jinxies..." Erika smirked at me. Marc had retreated to the table and had sat down. he buried his head in his hands and just sat there.
"we got the thief right here...name's Marc... said he piad you the money?"
the com was dead for a moment.
"were is that bastard?" jinxies highly acented voice asked a little more levely.
I opened my mouth to answer but erika snatched it back, "He RAN off." she said sounding a little crazed. Marc looked up from his sulking and gave me a disbelieving stare, i shrugged.
"you guys did good..." his voice crackled over the static.
Erika grinned at me, "We got a job then mister Jinxeis?"
It was silent for a moment. "don't call us we'll call you." his oily voice chuckled over the subpar cell phone want to be.
"Thats a good thing right? hey wait! YOu going to PAY US!" Erika shouted despratly. he had already hung up. "Curses" she clicked the buttons and aperantly it shut off.
"what am i gona do, what am i gonna do..." Marc mumbled.
"Get a job?" I said sarcasticly.
He glared at me.
Erika walked around to the other side of the table and started poking the little brown box we had delievered.
"whats in the box anyway?" I asked for pure conversations sake.
"Its a bomb." he said flatly as if he said these things every day.
"What!" we both screamed in unision.
"i'm goningt o blow up the KG dispatch building?" he asked ignoring our reaction.
I groaned.
"Your an odd one..." I told him, he ignored me.
"EEEE explosions!" erika squealed to herself.
"whats wrong with your ears?" the mild mannered unibomber asked me.
"hehehe explosives..."
I groaned, and hoped to the heavens above there were beds upstairs.