It's me, agian.I'm back with Chapter 3!

Ican assure you, this one will make much more sense then the last.

In this chapter: Featuring the return of Robin or is it . . .?

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Ch. 3: Mysterious Message

Six months later another black car stopped in front of Raven's Flat. A tall blond woman who looked to be in her late-teens stepped out and without the slightest hesitation, she marched boldly inside. "Hello Miss Robin welcome back. Do you wish to go upstairs and see the others?" The man at the front desk said.

Robin nodded curtly and the man let her pass. A few minutes later Robin entered into the room where a frightened Najira was trying in vain to tell the STN-J about a murder he had seen but was too shaken to describe well.

"Najira please take a seat and tell us what happened." Soothed Doujima..

The Robin tapped her heals impatiently when it was evident no one had noticed her. Karasuma looked up. "Oh, I'm sorry to keep you waiting . . . Robin!"

Robin smiled and reached inside her purse and pulled out a small white envelope and held it out to Karasuma. Karasuma reached out to take it but the second she touched Robin's handshe sharply drewback her own. "What are you? You're not Robin Sena!" She exclaimed.

Robin dropped the letter on the floor and with that she left as mysteriously as she had come before anyone could stop her. Everyone watched in surprise as Robin from disappeared from the flat. Nervously they stared at the letter on the floor. "Should we open it?" Haruto asked.

"No. That wasn't Robin. It was an illusion." Karasuma insisted.

"I agree. Quite frankly I don't trust it. That was all just too weird" Michael replied.

"I say we should. It might be important." Doujima replied.

The group decided to take a vote and after much deliberation nominated Haruto to open it. Unhappily he picked the small while envelope from the floor and broke the seal. Inside it was a small thick piece of whitepaper, which read:

Dear LT-,

A 9A# LR I$$C LR R G&RL RD$L#ATX !$W ADIRWLGTL.

QR DG SATV D$ GL JHB0 T$9 &GC$W LW$$L AT WRRD BUU.

"What the, whatever is on here has been written in some kind of code!" Haruto exclaimed.

"Let me see." Michael insisted.

Haruto tossed it over. He'd seen enough codesto make his head hurt for one day. It was pointless for him toeven try to figure it out. He never had a head for codes and he was more then happy to let the computer nerd handel it. "I don't know what to tell you. Who ever sent this to us wants us to know what's on here but no one else." Said Michael.

"Wonder what it says? Maybe I'm hoping for too much but maybe it's a clue about Robin and Amon." Suggested Karasuma.

"Is it possible for you to decode it Michael?" Inquired Doujima.

"Maybe, but it will definitely take sometime." Michael replied.

Two days later, on the rainy one year anniversary of the collapse of the factory, Michael sat alone in the office working on the letter. Suddenlyhis phone began toring.

Michael scratched his head in confusion. No one should be calling him. The team never used this line. Ah, what the heck. he decided. It must just be a prank call or something. "Hello. Michael speaking."

"Hi, Michael." Robin's soft voice replied from the other end.

Michael couldn't believe his ears. Robin was actually on the other end of the line. "Robin is that you?" He said a little too excitedly.

"Yeah it's me."

Michael set down the phone began to dance and holler. "I can't believe it! Robin's alive! Robin's actually alive!"

After several minutes of celebration Michael picked up the phone. On the other end Robin giggled softly. "Sounds like Amon and I are have been missed."

"Missed is an understatement. The rest of the team is going to be thrilled to know you called and probably more than just a little envious they didn't get to say hi."

"I can imagine. Tell all of them hi for me, okay."

"Of course Robin. Are you going to be coming back to the STN-J anytime soon?"

"I'm sorry, Michael, but I can't. I'm not feeling to good right now."

"Not feeling good that's a shame. I certainly hope Amon's taking care of you."

"Sorry Michael, but I have to go. I need to get some rest."

"I understand. Take good care of your self. Bye Robin."

"Bye, Michael."

There was a click and then silence. Michael set the phone down carefully. Robin was still alive. She was out there and he was determined to know where.With renewed energy Michael went back to work with a ferocity unknown even to him. Checking and double-checking every code that could possibly crack the message. Then out of the blue he stumbled across an old STN-J code that hadn't been used since a sting operation that occurred back when Amon was a new recruit. Comparing it to the letter he finally got a readable message that said,

Dear STN-J,

I wish to speak to you about something very important.

You may find me at 1826 New Western Street in room 200.

Now at 1826 New Western Street was a ritzy hotel run by a business tycoon named Mr.Yukimori. Only the rich could afford to stay any length of time there. So it did make sense that someone would have sent this letter from there owing to its delivery and the fact it was encoded. Michael called the front desk of the hotel and asked if anyone was in room 200. He was told no, it was vacant. As Michael was pondering over the origin of the letter the rest of the STN-J along with Najira in tow returned from following up on a lead to the murder Najira had seen. "That was the worst waste of time ever!" Doujima fumed.

The others nodded in agreement. "Hey Michael any luck?" Haruto inquired.

"Yeah I have. I've got two things to tell you. First of all Robin called a few minutes ago. She sounded pretty bad and couldn't talk long but she did say to tell all of you hi."

The rest of the STN-J stared in shock at Michael for some minutes. On their faces was the look on shock and disbelief. "Seriously?" Doujima demanded.

"Seriously."

"This is great! Did she say where she was we just have to go see her!" Haruto Demanded

"I'm sorry Haruto she didn't say."

"What!" Karasuma exclaimed.

Michael nodded. "I know, it's a shame."

"Why?"

"See sounded bad. I think she's sick or in a tight situation right now so she couldn't really talk long."

The whole group seemed dismayed by this info. "What about the letter? Will that be of any use?" Miho inquired

"Afraid not. I think I found the right code, but there are two things bugging me. The code was an old one of ours and there is no one where the letter directed us to go."

"You mean it was addressed to us?" Asked Doujima.

"Yeah it was."

"Let me see." Karasuma demanded.

Miho studied it in silence for several minutes. "Why don't we try looking at the Tokyo Hospital? It's at 200 New Western Street and I'm sure it has more than 1,826 rooms."

"What gave you that idea?" Inquired Haruto.

"I can feel a lot of concern from whoever wrote this letter and you said Robin sounded real bad. Maybe she's in the hospital and Amon wrote it so we would find her."

"In room 1826!" Exclaimed Doujima.

"Aren't we getting ahead of ourselves? Just because she sounded bad doesn't mean Robin's in the hospital." Haruto pointed out.

Karasuma defended herself "Hey, it was just a hunch. You can't blame me for that!"

"True, true." Michael replied.

"You said Robin called you, right. STN-J always monitors the incoming and outgoing calls why not try to use that information to trace it?" Inquired Doujima

"Good idea! Wait, how would you know that?" Inquired Michael.

"Well, I, uh . . . no comment." Doujima stuttered.

Haruto gave Doujima a severe look. "Well,"

"Well, okay, so I've made more than a few shall we say personal phone calls while at work and Chief Kosaka has yelled at me for each one. At first I didn't know how he'd found out until I did a little research . . ."

"I see." Said Michael.

"Don't look at me like that Michael. You should be worried about tracing the call not worrying about what I've done."

Michael shrugged with exasperation. Turning to his computer he began to type at a furious pace. "Ah, ha!" he cried triumphantly a few moments later "Robin's call was made from the hospital at 200 New Western Street!

"Awesome! Let's go see her!" Karasuma exclaimed.

"Yeah!" Everyone else chorused.


So things are finally begining to pick up steam . Is it getting good yet?

Amon: "No it sucks. I haven't been able to show off my handsome dark looks and your on what chapter?

Me: Aw, come on. It gets better and you get your staring role later on.

Amon: I better and it's going to be really good . . .

Me: Right!

In Chapter 4: What will the STN-J find when they arrive at the hospital? You have to read to find out?