Ein and Hitomi both find themselves uneasy as they enter the alley and begin to look around. There is almost no lighting only what little comes from the moon and the few windows sprinkled along the various buildings. Hitomi notices something sparkling about twenty feet ahead of them and touches Ein's arm and the points toward it. He nods and they slowly creep along the alley towards the flashing object.
As they get closer they can make out some faces and a faint blue-green light. They also see the object is a tiara in what looks to be Helena, they can't be sure since her back is towards them.
"Helena," Calls Hitomi hoping she is not embarrassing herself.
Helena flips around to look behind her, as she does Hitomi and Ein can see who she is talking to, they can see the where the blue-green light comes from. They each gasp, and then each of them falls back into an attack stance. Nikita and Bayman do the same, Helena is left in the middle between four people who have every intention of fighting to the death. She reacts quickly moving toward Ein and Hitomi, she waves her hands to say calm down.
"Wait, they called me because they need help, they are not here to harm anyone," Says Helena.
"Why are they here at all, she… it is a killing machine, that is all it knows!" Hitomi retorts.
"No she is different, apparently when the towers exploded some kind of EMP designed to destroy all the data went off. She was still close enough that the blast neutralized the chip that directed her thoughts towards evil," Explains Helena. "Bayman ran across her in China and since then they have been on the run from some Ninjas, the Russian secret police, and the security force from an Italian genetics company."
Hitomi and Ein relax slightly and look at each other, neither one is totally convinced, her but her story is plausible. They put their fists down and move closer to Helena. Nikita (Alpha-152) and Bayman also come closer, their hearts still pounding from the expectation of a fight.
"So how did you know Helena would be in Germany?" Says Hitomi.
"We had no way of knowing, we come through Poland evading enemies and stay night in Berlin," Says Bayman.
"Where to after Berlin?" Says Ein.
"We were going to eventually make our way to America. It seems Europe and Asia are too hot for us, we need someplace we can escape from everyone," Nikita says.
Everyone but Bayman is shocked, all three still believed she was unable to speak. She looks at them and smiles a bit, embarrassed as though she has said something wrong.
"Apparently her silence was part of chip. When broken she speaks like champion," Says Bayman.
"We should move before someone sees us, we will head to my house, it has a large wall around it and tomarrow I will have my private plane ready." Says Helena.
"You have your own plane?" Hitomi asks.
"Well my father was a successful industrialist," Replies Helena.
The five of them head toward the end of the alley to hail a taxi. From the roof above Ryu watches his prey and bides his time for the perfect moment to attack. As he looks at them go he notices something flash him in the eye. He pulls out a pair of binoculars from the back of his belt and turns on the night vision. He looks through them at the rooftop across the alley and sees a man aiming a large rifle into the alley, more specifically at the creature he is to destroy.
Ryu determines the would-be assassins methods unacceptable, he pulls out a cuboid piece of metal about six inches long and one half inch on all sides. It has been sharpend to a point at one end, and he places the blunt end against the palm of his hand. He snaps his wrist quickly and the object flies over the alley and finds soft flesh in which to bury itself. The sniper across the way grabs his neck and the piece of metal sticking out of it, he pulls the foreign object out as his eyes roll back into his head. His body falls to the rooftop making a quiet thud sound.
The group of five on the ground manages to hail two taxis and Helena, Hitomi, and Nikita get in the front one with Bayman and Ein in the second car following. Ryu reaches into a small pouch and finds it empty, he had expected to find one of the self adhesive tracking bugs he kept with him. Without the bugs he will need to track them in person. His first task is getting off the roof. He pulls out a small piece of wire and swings it over a telephone pole and slides along the cable to another pole with a ladder which he goes down, jumping to the sidewalk about half-way down.
On the ground he sees the headlights of another cab, he pulls the black cloth down exposing his dark brown hair trying to make himself look as normal as possible. As the car approaches he pulls out the same small plastic piece he sent the message to Hayate with, and presses a button on the side, a red light on top begins flashing. He gets in the cab and knowing he speaks no German hopes the driver speaks some English.
"Follow… that… car," He says the driver looks at him strangely.
"Yeah sure buddy, no problem." Comes from the driver.