Warning: Rated for language, violence and adult behavior.
The main characters of this story are based on characters from the cartoon 'Code Lyoko.' I do not own, nor do I claim, any copyright to these characters.
This story also uses characters from the graphic novel 'Sin City' by Frank Miller. I do not own, nor do I claim, any copyright to these characters.
This story also uses characters from the movie 'Wasabi', directed by Luc Besson. I do not own, nor do I claim, any copyright to these characters.
References to 'The Goon' in this story do not refer to the character of 'The Goon' by Eric Powell.
The man grumbled as he dragged the two girls along.
Next time, Junior can get his own doxies, he thought to himself, the yellow bastard.
Milly and Tamiya were gagged; their hands tied together. A lead went from their bound wrists to the man's hand, and he used it to near drag the two girls along. They screamed and cried as best they could from behind their gags, but it didn't slow the man down a bit.
He finally made it to the hatch where he had entered earlier. Standing there was a deckhand, no more than a boy himself.
"You there! Boy! I was told someone would be here to see I got on my way!" the man called out.
"Yes, sir, you came to the right place," Ulrich Stern replied as Miho separated the man's head from his body. Miho kicked the chattering head over the side, leaving him with the task of heaving the spurting body over.
When he turned back around, he realized that the two little girls were Milly Solovieff and Tamiya Diop. They screamed when he turned around, all drenched in the man's blood and gore.
"It's okay! It's me, Ulrich!" he said to the girls. He slowly walked over to them and removed their gags, then untied their hands. Now that he was closer, both girls recognized him and threw themselves at him, heedless of the mess that covered him.
"Oh, Ulrich, it was awful!" Milly cried, "they took us and poked and prodded us and were gonna do bad things to us!"
"And they did do bad things to Yumi," Tamiya added, "and they made Aelita do nasty things too."
"You're gonna get them, aren't you, Ulrich," Milly said, "you're gonna make them sorry they did this to us, aren't you?"
"Yes, I am," Ulrich replied, "and so are Odd and Jeremie and Marv, too. When we're through, the bad people are gonna wish they never even thought of this."
Behind him, Miho stood silently, her face a mask of terrible retribution, ready to fall on the wicked.
As Gail rounded a corner, she was confronted by two guards. They just stared at her while she stitched them with her machine gun.
Well, there goes the element of surprise, she thought.
The two girls that followed her sprinted ahead. They came to an open doorway just as another guard stuck his head out to see what the fuss was about. He got his brains splattered on the wall for his trouble.
The girls ducked in the room and began firing. Gail moved in to support them, but found they didn't need any help. The room was a Rorschach blot of blood and bodies. One of the girls had already searched the room for survivors, then signaled the all clear. The three then proceeded down the hall.
At the other end, they met up with the three girls Gail had sweep the floor below. They were quickly followed by three other girls, leading a line of children.
"Get them back to the yacht, then two of you stay to watch them!" Gail said to her troops. Then to the little ones, she said, "don't worry girls, we're here to take you back to your mommies. You go with the girls that brought you out, and we'll get going as soon as we take care of the rest."
"Lady, are you an angel?" one of the children said in unsteady English.
Gail smiled, "you could say that, honey. But we're tarnished angels, though. We're here to make sure the bad people don't tarnish any of you angels. Now you move along and we'll get you home soon."
Marv was half way to the bridge when he heard gunfire.
Damn, too soon! he thought as he raced the rest of the way.
He burst onto the bridge just as the captain was getting the first reports of an assault. Marv pulled his guns and fired. Each shot took out one crew member. The captain stared at the big man, unharmed, as Marv walked up to him and brought his massive fist down on the man's head.
After securing the captain, Marv reloaded and moved on. His next stop was the radio shack. He killed the radioman just as he starting to send out an SOS. Marv then destroyed the radio equipment and moved on. There was a lot of crew left to neutralize, and they had to quickly get control of the the engine room.
They tried jumping him in the engine room. One of them tried braining him with a massive wrench. Marv dodged the blow and shot the man in the face at point blank range. His head exploded.
Marv emptied his guns again as he killed the rest of the crew. There was one man left when he ran out, a brawny man, used to heavy lifting. The man bellowed and charged him, aiming to crush Marv's skull with a pipe he picked up.
Marv met the man and blocked his blow, staggering him with his parry. The man put up a valiant struggle, but he wasn't a killer; despite his strength, he never squeezed a man's life out with his bare hands before. But Marv had. Marv twisted and clutched as the man finally broke his hold and tried to claw Marv's hands away from his throat. Marv laughed as the man choked and gurgled, as the life slowly fled from him. As Marv's opponent finally went limp in death, he wept, for there were no men left to kill.
When he heard the gunfire, Hubert shouted, "now, Momo!"
He then pulled out two pistols and began firing at the guards. Momo, in the meantime, pulled his own firearm and fired.
The guests screamed and panicked and ran for the doors, blocking Hubert's aim. The other guards in the room took no notice, they began firing through the crowd at the two men. Hubert ducked down, sighted, and shot one of the guards.
When Hubert started firing, Odd and Jeremie sprinted over to Yumi, knocking her down. She screamed at the indignity inflicted on her by her friends, and tried to tell them to let her up, or at least move their hands. But every time she tried, Odd forced her head back down, shouting, "stay down, Yumi! We didn't come half way around the world to see you die!"
Hubert and Momo kept on laying down fire. Each time one of their guns sounded, a slaver dropped dead. Soon, almost all of the slavers had been killed.
As soon as the smoke cleared, Jeremie shot up and ran from the room. Yumi struggled with Odd for a moment, managing to throw him off. The next thing she did was to remove that damnable thong, heedless of the view she was providing the room. Just as she threw the vile thing to the floor, she screamed as the collar around her throat shocked her.
As she writhed in agony, Momo walked up to her. He squat down and stared in her face. Even in her agony, Yumi recognized him. Not the man, but the thing controlling the man, XANA.
XANA watched impassively as Yumi flailed in pain. It had wanted an outcome like this many times, but had never been able to achieve it. Now, its enemy lay defeated at its feet, dying by inches.
But XANA didn't defeat her. XANA wasn't killing her.
Momo reached out and grabbed the collar, the electricity flowing into him as well as the girl. XANA concentrated and located the transmitter of the signal activating the collar. It then sent out a bolt of purple energy to the source, to the last surviving guard, holding Yumi's remote. The energy engulfed him and killed him, his screams filling the room. XANA didn't relent until he was silent and smoke was rising from the body. It then snapped the collar from around the girl's neck.
As XANA once again looked at Yumi through Momo's eyes, it said, "no one shall deny me my prey, no one."
Momo then stood up and took out after Jeremie.
Jeremie ran down the hall, trying every door he came to. They all were unlocked so far, and none of them contained Aelita. He ran on, looking for her, the object of his desire, the balancing half of his equation.
He finally came to a locked door. He pounded on it, calling out her name, and was rewarded by her voice calling in response. He then frantically cast about, looking for something to open the door with.
"Why don't you try using the key?" came a voice behind him.
He turned around and saw the fattest man he had ever seen. The man was more like a hog than a man. The man held a gun in his hand, pointing it at Jeremie.
"You must be him," the man said, "the one she desires most in the world. I'm happy to make your acquaintance, boy. Now take the key and open the door. I wouldn't want to spoil the reunion."
The man held out a key chain with a key on it. Carefully, Jeremie reached out and took it from him. The piggish man stepped back, still pointing the gun at the boy, and Jeremie opened the door.
"Carefully now, step inside," the man commanded.
Jeremie stepped inside the room, and there she was, Aelita, his friend, his love, his life. He ran over to her and took her in his arms and embraced her like he had always wanted, but feared to. She cried as she returned his embrace, then buried her head in his neck, weeping in joy of their reunion. All the while, the fat man stood in the doorway, watching them.
"How touching," he said, "I envy you, boy. I took her and forced her to feel the things she felt, the things I caught in those pictures. But it wasn't me she felt them for. It wasn't me she desired. Even now, as I'm about to snuff your lives out, her face, her body, beckons me, makes me wish that I was the one she wants, only me. She will haunt my dreams for the rest of my life, but it's not me she wants, and never will be. Kiss her one last time, boy. Hold her close, feel her smooth skin. With your final breath, accept what she gives you and only you; accept her love."
The man raised the gun, taking careful aim. Seeing that the end had come, Aelita turned Jeremie to her, placed his hands on her bare chest, then drew him close and kissed him passionately, the way she longed to do, for the last time. He returned her embrace, her love, glad that they finally could share it, and sad it had to end so soon. They embraced, two lovers, and waited for the gunshots that would end both of them.
They never came. Instead, they heard a gurgle and a heavy weight hit the floor.
Jeremie whirled around, removing his hands from her breasts, and saw Momo standing in the doorway, over the fat man. Aelita looked at the strange man and quickly recognized XANA's possession of him.
"So Aelita, do you still think they're worth saving?"
