Sorry about this but first I have to take this opportunity to insult world wide the Uruguayan referee present in the game PORTUGAL – FRANCE. Man you're a fucking son of a bitch and I would love to know how much that French bastards paid you for you to create that penalty for Thierry Henry. And besides you need a new pair of glasses because it's simply impossible that you haven't seen that disgusting foul against Ronaldo and the hand of that French jackass touching the ball. Well, and know that I've set my mind about this, the story. And once again sorry about the language.
Disclaimer: the usual, I only own Beth
3. Both sides of the gun
Kyo walked towards the notice board.
"What? Have you quitted already?" asked Koji, his friend. They were both at school at the moment but right now they weren't having classes.
"It gave me more trouble then I would have expected," Kyohei answered.
"I've got it! You were hired by the mafia to do the dirty job. Then you saved this hot chick who hugged you and declared you eternal love," the boy seemed very pleased with his quick made theory. Kyo shook his head. "What? That could have happened. You prefer quitting to trying."
"Looking for a job again, Tachibana?" asked Miss Futagami, their teacher. She had midnight blue hair tied in a bun and wore brown glasses. She was dressed in a skirt suit. "You should listen to Hashimoto," she looked at Koji, "and don't quit. 'Sleep on the rock till you get used to it', you know what that means."
Kyo shrugged. Suddenly his mobile rang. "Yes? Who is this? What? Look through the window?" Kyo did it. Outside Sei waved him leaning against her red car. 'Oh… One of these days I'll die sleeping on this rock!' he said to himself. But Sei had managed to convince him.
Kyo walked away and Koji approached the window and looked through it. "Um, it seems I wasn't that far from truth…" He had seen Sei.
Sei took Kyohei back to the truck. There Beth and Ami were monitoring Meg and Jo's mission through the laptop.
Sei brought a bowl of cookies that she placed over the table. Beth and Ami grabbed some cookies.
"Kyo made these cookies today at school," Ami told Meg. "They're great! If you don't hurry we'll eat them all."
"Are they really that good?" asked Meg.
"Uh-huh," answered both Ami and Beth.
"At least leave one!" begged Meg.
"Uh-uh," Ami shook her head.
"You shouldn't eat some many cookies or you'll get fat," Meg attacked.
"Envious! If it was really that way then you wouldn't need to eat," Ami replied.
While they were on this 'fight' Beth was eating most of the cookies. Ami didn't notice a thing not to mention Meg…
Then Sei arrived into the room. "D'you remember the mission, Meg?" she asked.
"No," the red hair answered.
"Don't kid, Meg. Keep your eyes open," Sei recommended.
"What was the mission really?" Meg went on joking.
"Meg!" Sei was firm on this.
"Keeps without any sense of humor," Meg commented to Jo.
"Sei hasn't got humor," Jo answered.
They were walking through some pretty dirty and grey streets.
"Remember that the mission is to retrieve him," Sei recalled. "Don't kill him."
"That will depend on the target," Jo answered.
"Do whatever you need to but bring him back alive," insisted Sei.
"You're getting close to the lane," informed Beth. She was now coloring her nails on their usual blood red.
"Bastard! Son of a bitch! What d'you think you're doing? The moon… Even the moon… The moon will fall!" Just a bit ahead of Meg and Jo a disturbed male kept screaming. They could hear him but he was still out of sight.
"Oh… I think I've stepped on something soft!" Meg complained.
"It's just a…" Jo began.
"Don't say it!" Meg was hysterical. "Don't! Oh… I've stepped on something else!"
"It was a…"
"Don't say it! Not everybody is as cool as you about this."
Meg and Jo got closer. They hid behind a crashed wall.
"I know you're here!" Now they could see him. He had shoulder length orange hair and seemed desperate. His hands were on his head and he kept screaming and muttering at the time. His name was Wong. "I'm gonna kill you! To you and to all your friends!"
Beth, Sei and Ami were hearing it all through the intercom.
"Better get the guy before he runs," advised the strawberry blonde. "He seems a bit… flighty."
"This is too dangerous," said Meg. "The guy is flipped."
"Then take advantage of it," Beth suggested.
"I'm going," said Jo getting up.
"There you are," said Wong, but he was not talking about Jo. A man dressed in a long dark trench showed up.
"Who's that?" whispered Meg.
"I have no idea," answered Jo.
"I don't like this…" said Beth.
The unknown man got closer to Wong and unloaded a tranquilizer on his forehead.
"He killed our target!" Meg screamed eyes wide open.
"His not dead," corrected Jo.
"I knew that, I was just testing you," said Meg.
"It's RAPT. They're taking him," said Jo.
Wong's numb body was being taken inside what seemed to be an ambulance by some men dressed in lab gowns.
"I'll send you all the info," said Sei. "And Beth too. You may need help."
"Right," said Jo.
"Damn! I haven't finished my nails yet!" Beth complained.
The ambulance got out of the lane and got into the streets.
"Move out of the streets! Move out of the streets!" The warning was being made by the ambulance.
Meg and Jo ran after the ambulance as long as they could. When it got to the streets they couldn't no longer follow it.
"I've got a cab," said Meg.
"Lets go," Jo answered. They entered the taxi.
"Strange times these when two girls ask me to follow an ambulance," commented the driver.
"Oh, it's a friend of ours who's inside that ambulance," explained Meg.
"I've got a daughter your age," the driver continued. Meg smiled. "I don't wanna give you a sermon but you shouldn't walk around here all by yourselves."
"Don't worry. We never go to the dangerous areas. We're careful." Meg smiled.
"Does your father wait for you? I work at night and I can't wait for my daughter. When I get home she has already left. I wish I could but I have to work," the driver went on.
"You know, we don't really have a father. But we have a cranky older sister, which is quite the same," answered Meg.
"That's good to know. Family's important. There's nothing more important," said the driver.
Suddenly Jo heard Ami through the intercom.
"I've found him. They took him to a factory in the industrial area of Shinagawa," she said.
Both Meg and Jo left the cab. Meg wasn't liking what she was seeing.
"This looks like it's hunted by ghosts," the red muttered.
"Have you ever seen a ghost?" asked Jo.
"Not personally," answered Meg.
"Thought so," replied Jo.
Back in their huge truck Kyo was finishing dinner.
"Dinner's ready," he turned to Sei.
"Thank you. You may go," she smiled.
"Uh… This is my last dinner," he informed.
"You know, they're all very happy because you cook so well," said Sei on a soft caring smile.
Kyo didn't know what to say.
"It's important to them," Sei continued. Kyo remained silent. "So, till tomorrow at the same time?" she opened her smile as she asked him.
"Yeah, every time you wanna eat," Kyo answered.
In the meanwhile Beth arrived to the factory riding her motorbike.
"Ami," she called, "drive it back home, okay?"
"Okay-dokay!" Ami answered initiating the automatic pilot.
Beth checked Meg and Jo's sign and as she guessed they weren't on the entrance or any other public assessment floor. She went through the back and found some men lay on the floor.
"Here you are," she said looking at the men.
"Piece of cake," Jo answered. Beth smiled.
They went through a corridor and ended up in front of a huge glass window. They all got down beneath it and found it belonged to a sort of lab where several men in gowns worked.
"Those guys look spooky," said Meg.
"There's something spooky here and it's not ghosts," replied Jo.
"Here they must all be psycho murderers," continued Meg.
"You have a very quick imagination," said Beth.
"I'm getting strong electro-magnetic readings in front of you," said Ami. "I can't feel the ambulance anymore."
"Fine. Lets look for it," said Beth.
They left and got deeper in the factory but then a sign saying "KEEP OUT" caught Jo's attention.
"This way." The others followed her till some sort of store house with several electronic equipment.
"I found the ambulance but I can't find Wong," informed Jo looking around.
Meg was looking not very far and Beth was behind her.
"What the…" Meg whispered. She had found Wong, inside an organic capsule all naked. "Uh… Jo? What is he doing here?" Suddenly she heard a click, a familiar one, except it wasn't usually behind her. "Stop that Jo," she heard another click.
"Meg… It's not Jo…" Beth immediately unlocked her gun producing the same click as she aimed it to a guy hidden by the dark. He had his gun leaned against Meg's head.
"Why did you that?" he asked pointing to Wong.
Jo looked back and found the whole scene. A third click was heard as she too aimed the gun at the stranger.
"What? It wasn't us. The men in the white gowns did it," Meg tried to explain.
"Drop the gun," Beth commanded.
"No, you two drop it," he turned to her and Jo.
"You heard the girl, it wasn't us. And besides you won't get out of here alive, even if you shoot her. You have two guns aimed at your head, you can't expect to live," said Beth.
"I don't believe you. I saw these two," he pointed at Meg and Jo," in the lane."
"So what?"
"Then explain me the wound in his chest. You shot him. Drop your guns or I'll shoot her," the man threatened.
"Try it," said Jo.
"Jo… It's hopeless to explain him, he doesn't seem very smart," said Meg. "He'll try to kill me."
Beth stared at Jo, she knew what the crimson eyed was up to. They both dropped their guns slowly but when Jo's was about to hit the floor she pulled Meg and Beth and she grabbed back their guns, aiming them to the man.
"Who are you? Are you with the lab guys or RAPT?" inquired Jo.
Suddenly some guards showed up.
"They're here. Get them!" The guards immediately followed the command and prepared to arrest the girls.
"Freeze or I'll fire," one of the guards was right in front of Jo.
Jo began firing her gun and the guards fired back. It was chaos. Again.
"Meg!" Jo called as she noticed the red was stepping too far of the exit.
They all ran, Beth and Jo unloading their guns. They went to through the tunnel where the guards had come but when they arrived in the middle they found themselves face to face with an unpleasant dark steel surprise.
"It's a cybot!" yelled Meg.
"Really!" replied Beth with all her sarcasm and irony.
They tried to destroy it but they were forced to run. The blue cybot was huge but still really fast.
On the truck Sei and Ami watched it all through the laptop.
"They put Wong on that capsule like a specimen. The situation is out of control," Sei walked in circles on the kitchen.
"This is getting nasty." Ami didn't take her eyes off the computer for a second. "They sent a cybot after them. Shall I send Jango?"
"No, not until we know who's behind this. I wonder if the answer isn't inside his body…"
Back on the factory Meg, Jo and Beth kept running out of the tunnel, the cybot always chasing them. Now they had returned to the beginning, the storehouse. But it wasn't "exactly as they left it".
"They've taken him," cried Meg. She was right, Wong and his capsule had been taken to some railway truck.
"Meg, go underground," commanded Jo. "Beth, find me that body. I'll take care of this." And for 'this' she meant the cybot.
"Deal." Beth ran following the capsule tracks.
Meg went to the lift and Jo remained behind.
"Move!" Meg hit the door of the lift. The guards were still after her and she couldn't waste time waiting for the lift to open. Finally she decided on taking the stairs.
Beth was getting some trouble finding the capsule. It seemed to have vanished, the tracks had simply disappeared. There was only one answer to that: the capsule had been lifted.
Back with Jo, she was tired of that metal junk and climbed up it breaking the glass that protected the pilot.
"Get out," she commanded the scared guy. That was just something he had never seen coming.
Jo entered the cybot and took it downstairs through the tunnel.
Ami on her turn was investigating the facilities where Wong's body had been.
"I've found it!" she said happily. Sei took a look at it.
"Hinode Labs built this factory as a cover for a warehouse. When things the cover was blown they pretended to abandon it. But still they asked RAPT to protect it." Sei was getting worried. This mission was completely turned from its original purpose.
"Yes." Ami clapped her hands. " 'Your pain is our pain. Lets help each other on the cure. Your children are our children. Hinode Laboratories.' " Ami sang reproducing the commercial of the labs. "Wait a second, labs also produce meds. I'm going to check the routs of their sales." The map appeared on the PC's screen.
"They're spread all over the country." Concern completely took over Sei's beautiful features.
"And protected by the police," added Ami. Sei nodded.
On the underground tunnels of the warehouse, Meg had just reached the end.
"A secret train? Predictable." She had just come out of the stairs and was in front of a huge red train waiting to be loaded. But one of the things inside was exactly the damn capsule.
Meg remained stand and still watching as some men took care of the last details before leaving while some other guarded it.
"Meg, I'm coming!" Suddenly she heard Jo's voice coming from the huge cybot that had just entered the secret railway station.
But Meg had different ideas. "Very well, this is my opportunity to shine. Jo and Beth aren't the only tuff girls in the team. I'm too." And she climbed to the top of the train while the guards were distracted with Jo's cybot. It wasn't difficult for she was used to do the same on their truck.
But what she wasn't expecting was for the train to start moving. Threatened by Jo's presence they had hurried the escape. But luckily Jo was there.
"Quick!" Meg cried.
"Meg, are you alright?" Jo asked from inside the cybot.
"How did you get inside that thing?" That was so like Meg! Ask about stupid things while in danger.
"Meg!" Beth had just arrived. She had got lost in the tunnels.
But as they talked the train was getting faster and faster…
"Jo! Quick!" Meg no longer wanted to know about the fights she had missed.
Jo jumped out of the cybot and Meg intended to do the same form the train.
Both Jo and Beth tried to follow the train running after it through the new tunnel, this one lit with a strange orange light. But obviously they weren't fast enough and the cybot, their only hope, was too big to fit the between the tunnel's walls.
Finally Meg realized they couldn't help her, not for the more they tried. But that was the least of her problems…
"So we meet again," said a dangerously familiar voice behind her.
She turned back expecting to meet the man who had aimed her his gun. She hadn't forgotten his voice. But what she couldn't believe was that in his place was…
"Wong? Can't be…"
And this was chapter 3. Sorry for the LONG wait but now that I'm on vacation I'll be faster up dating. Anyway, please R&R. Do it for this girl who would get tremendously happy if you did. I would LOVE to know what you think of this story so far. Well, see ya on chapter four that is named "Alternative end".