Chapter 2- The Commander

The men stopped, puzzled.

"You lie, Commander Bruce has a scar going down his face from the left over his right eye," One of them said.

"I hide it," Bruce responded.

"Yeah right, eat THIS!" The man lunged at Bruce. Bruce acted swiftly and with out mercy, snapping the man's neck in two as his body continued forward, right on to the black area. The last man lost his nerve and went back to Asuyuka, knife to her neck again. Bruce then reached for something on the left side of his face right where his hairline was and pulled. Fake skin came off as a pure white scar was shown to run from there, across his right eye and to his jaw ending under his right ear.

"Stay back! I, I'll, I'll, I'll kill her if you don't." The man was shaking so bad that he knocked off Asuyuka's hat, showing her sliver fox ears. He recoiled, and would have cut her face, had Bruce not come in, pulled her away and snapped his arm in three places. He yelped as Bruce moved in on him. His sword reappeared from inside his coat and he held it threateningly at him.

"Do you wish to die?" The man whimpered something as an answer.

"I SAID, DO YOU WANT TO DIE?" the man whimpered again, but said.

"N-n-n-no, com-com-Commander Br- Bruce."

"Very well then. If you ever harm the innocent again I will personally oversee your slow death."

"Ye-yes, si-sir."

"Now leave my sight, before I change my mind." The man turned and ran away as fast as he could, forgetting that his arm was bending the wrong way in places that should not be bending. Bruce then held out a hand to Asuyuka, who had fell when he pulled her away from the man. She took it and met with his eyes. The left one seemed to stare into her soul, which was disturbing enough without the right one seeming to have nothing in common with the left except the dark brown color.

"Sorry about that, had a feeling that you were from out of town."

"Thank you Commander."

"I just saved you from those rapists, call me Nate.

"All right, Nate, I am Asuyuka Meya Kimeno. He seemed disturbed by this.

"Did you say 'Asuyuka'?"

"Yes, why?"

"That means we have a possible problem." He tapped something in his ear. "Bruce to base, we have a code 8, level red here, requesting immediate transport."

"This is base, code 8, level red acknowledged, transport commencing."

They disappeared into blue beams of light as they dematerialized.