Omi and Kimiko raced after the girl, leaving Clay on the ground clutching his privates.
"Kimiko!" Omi yelled during the chase. "If that girl has your roller-knives from the goblins, there may be a chance she has the other shen-gong-wu!"
Unfortunately, since the girl had Kim's roller-blades, she could go faster than them without tiring easily. After a while, Omi and Kimiko's pace began to slow. They had raced all around the city. The girl may have gotten away if she hadn't done two very stupid things. The first thing was that she was so focused on losing her pursuers that she didn't realize she was going in a huge circle. Second, she looked back to see if they were still after her just as she was rounding a corner. Thus, she ran back into Clay, who had recovered from his painful blow. Before the girl could react, Clay whirled her around so she couldn't kick him again, and grabbed her arms. Once again, the pizza box fell to the ground.
This time the girl didn't struggle. She knew how futile it would be. Clay waited for Omi and Kimiko before her questioned the girl. When they finally showed up, they were so out of breath they could hardly talk. Kimiko didn't let that stop her though. "You-gasp-are so-gasp-dead-gasp-meat. You're-gasp-totally going-gasp-to pay-gasp-for that. Do you have-gasp-any idea how-gasp-much of our time-gasp-you've wasted?"
The girl scoffed. "Your time? I wasn't kidding when I said I was running late you know. Geez, now the pizza's probably ruined after all that. Silvertongue's gonna kill me."
"Oh come on." Kimiko sneered. She had caught her breath now. "You don't actually expect us to believe you came here to pick up a pizza, do you?"
Kimiko reached down and picked up the box. She opened it to reveal a half-cheese, half-pepperoni, medium pizza pie. Kimiko looked at the girl questioningly. The girl gave what Kimiko assumed was a shrug; it was hard to tell with her arms restrained over her head. "There aren't any pizza places in Mundo Tres, and after awhile, you get to miss it. Rustfoot especially."
"Who?" Omi raised an eyebrow.
"Mundo Tres?" Kimiko asked.
The girl gave Kimiko a weird look. "You know," She pointed to the ground as well as she could. "Mundo Um." Then she pointed at the sky. "Mundo Dois."
Clay decided to just skip this and go to the important stuff. "Who are you?"
The girl turned her head toward him and grinned in way that made Clay uncomfortable. "I'd tell ya, but then I'd have to pick apart your mind and soul."
Well. That freaked all of them out. Just something about the way she said it sent chills up their spines. They didn't even really understand what she meant. Omi hastily changed the subject by firing another question. "Why have you chosen to work with the forces of evil?"
The girl snickered at him, then looked at Kimiko. "Seriously, does he really have acute paranoia?"
Kimiko blushed and turned away to hide her smile. Omi have paranoia? That was a laugh. He was the most trusting kid on the planet. Kimiko shook her head.
The girl looked back at Omi. "I'm working with what you call 'the forces of evil' because they don't care about who I am or if I'm insane."
This kid was just getting weirder by the second. And they weren't getting anything good out of her. Kimiko said "You have a Merkabah on you." She didn't bother forming it in a question.
"Yeah."
"Why?"
The girl tried to shrug again. "Makes work more convenient."
"What work? How does the Merkabah make it more convenient?"
"Lucifer's work." The girl smirked. "Now we can devil worship anywhere we like."
Kimiko gave her a look. Was she serious? They were questioning an enemy without any threats, so they couldn't be sure of honesty. Heck, this was most likely just a huge waste of time. But they had come this far, so Kimiko decided to keep at it. They may just get a few honest answers from her. "Where'd you get the Merkabah?"
"Bought it."
Kimiko blinked disbelievingly. "You can buy Merkabahs?"
"Yeah. People sell them in Mundo Um for just twenty bucks. But they're pretty much useless if you don't know how to work them or if they're not active."
"What is Mundo Um?" Omi asked.
The girl gave Omi a look that clearly said 'what, are you from Mars?'. "You're standing in it."
Omi looked down at his feet. "Hold on, Omi." Kimiko got out her laptop, used it for a few moments, then got this disgusted look on her face. "Your leader came up with those names, didn't he?"
"Hey, we weren't looking for creative. We just wanted to call it something." The girl said defensively. "We'll give it a real name when it's all over."
"When what's all over?"
The girl gave Kimiko the same look she had given Omi awhile ago. "The war."
"What war?"
"Hold it, Kimiko." Clay said. "Let's take this one step at a time. What's Mundo Um?"
"Well, I found out on a search engine that 'Mundo' is Portuguese for 'World'. And Um, Dois, and Tres means One, Two, and Three."
"So what's World Two?" Clay asked the girl.
"Whatever's beyond the galaxies." She replied.
Kimiko sighed. "So what war are you talk-"
"Why are you wearing sunglasses when there is no sun?" Omi interrupted. It had really been bugging him, he had to ask.
The girl frowned and looked at the ground. "I have to." She said in a low voice. "I don't want to scare anybody."
"What do you mean?"
Her answer was the straw that broke the camel's back. "I don't have any eyeballs."