The spies quickly grabbed every gadget they could carry before rushing out to the jet bay. "Wait girls, I wanted to give you something I've been working on." Jeri said handing a ring to each of the girls.
They all looked at the rings and were about to ask when Gato shoved them into the jet. "We have zero time to wait; if we do then it will be too late to stop them." He said as he pushed them in to a pink jet.
Clover took the controls and they prepared for lift off. "Here we go!" Sam said as the jet shot off.
When the jet was cruising high in the sky, Clover set the auto-pilot and pulled Gato back to the bathroom, locking the door. "Now what was it you were going to tell me back at W.H.O.O.P?" Clover asked as she looked longingly into his eyes.
Gato scratched his head and thought. "Nothing important, it's just that I like the fact that you aspired to your dream of being a super spy." He said bluntly.
She pushed him to the wall so unsure of her feelings she placed her head to his chest and began to sob. "I'm sorry but I was so young and your face haunted me worse than that man's sick ways. You are a murderer, but you had good reason. I hate you….I…hate…you…" She sobbed into his chest.
An awkward silence fell over them. He looked down at her; he wanted to say something comforting but only 'I'm sorry' came to mind. "Clover, please don't cry, you are stronger than you realize." He said as he rested his chin on the top of her head. She pulled back and looked into his eyes; she smiled before leaving from the room.
After a short flight they came landed on top of a building the roof was scarred with signs of battle. "Nexus and Sam, you two scale down the side of the building while Ore and Alex take the service elevator, and Clover and I will take the steps down." Gato commanded.
Alex and Sam shook their heads. "You aren't team leader, that's Sam's job this time." Alex said to the metal master. Ore pulled her back and through a roof access.
"I'm only giving orders because my clone is leading this group." Gato said as he walked with Clover down a flight of stairs.
As the groups followed their orders inside alarms were blaring to signal their arrival.
"Connection, you take Nexus, Hard boot you take Ore, and I want Gato." A man who looked like an older version of Gato said before kicking a hostage. They scrambled to the different locations to battle their counter parts. "Now I will finally get the answers I want from those useless brothers.
At the side of the building Nexus was easily walking down the side of the building while Sam was using her bungee belt. "How are you doing that?" Sam asked out loud. Nexus looked at his feet and pointed to the paper spikes holding his feet to the building. just before Sam could speak a figure in a cloak tackled Nexus knocking loose his footing. Nexus grinned as he pulled out a stack of paper and turned it into a wolf which dug its paws into the building as it raced back up.
"Howling wolf claw!" The figure said as he swung and cut open Nexus's Hoodie with a claw made of razor sharp paper.
"That didn't even hurt." Nexus said as the hoodie's fabric fixed it's self.
"The sniping Parakeet of Alphonse!" Nexus announced as a paper bird shot from under his sleeve. It hit the figure square between the eyes and sent him flying into the building.
"You did it!" Sam cheered. She went in through the window to get a better look.
"What? Not with an attack like that? I could stand it with ease." The figure said tearing the cloak from his body. He was just like Nexus but taller and more feminine.
"Wow, what a freak." Sam said as she looked at the guy. "He looks like a girl..."
Nexus fumed a little bit. "I'll look like that when I get older..."
Connection threw a hand full of playing cards at Sam who dodged them with ease. She saw who he was really aiming at... Nexus. The cards began tearing away at his hoodie again. "Damn, I missed." Connection said readying another hand of cards.
Sam made a dash for Connection but he just stepped out of the way and drove her knee it to her stomach. "Stay down, I'm not after you." He said as he turned his attention back to Nexus. "Where did he go?" Connection yelled as he frantically searched for his target.
Sam started to laugh as she lay at the evil paper warriors feet. Her skin started to flake of in large patches. As the flakes hit the ground they turned into paper.
"I'm right here." Nexus' voice came from Sam's mouth. Connection blinked and it was no longer Sam but Nexus at his feet. "Rain of Sakura." Nexus said before the paper around them exploded into paper cherry blossom leaves. The paper was every where and cut off all vision in the office room.
"Nexus, there are you!" Sam said using her X-powder to lock on his D.N.A. pattern.
"Don't Move and don't speak!" He yelled back to her.
She wanted to ask why but kept quiet. She took a step and a card almost cut her leg off, luckily her attacker barely caught her.
"I said don't move!" Nexus yelled at her. The sound of pins falling was heard as he was yelling. Nexus looked down and the ground was littered with playing cards. "Damn." He said holding his arm. Blood slowly dripped from the cut he received from the rain of cards. He took a deep breath and charged blindly into the cloud of paper.
"I've got you now!" Connection yelled. He dropped from the air and drove a paper spike into Nexus' back.
"Water you doing?" Sam said throwing a foundation water bomb and soaking Connection. He threw a sheet of paper but it flopped to the floor wet.
"You little bitch!" He yelled before pulling a knife from his belt. Everything seemed to move in slow motion as Nexus tackled the evil paper master and sent him through the wall.
"Did you just call my girlfriend a bitch? I wake up and I hear that coming from your mouth, which is a big problem." Nexus uttered smuggly with a hand on his hip.
Connection stood up laughing as he did. "Nexus, you're all wet." He said before ripping a water pipe from the wall and soaking his counter part to the bone.
"This is bad." Sam said looking at her lover. Nexus raised an eyebrow and looked at the water. "A little water never killed anyone." He said standing up.
He raised his hand to the air and all of his paper formed a long blade around his hand. "The towering blade of Babel!" Nexus yelled bring the blade down on Connection. As the blade cut him blood splattered all over Sam and Nexus.
"And that concludes his life on earth; Tune in next time to see what happens on the next episode of boy meets god." Nexus said as the paper reformed into his clothes.
Sam slapped him in the back of the head for his comment. "You didn't have to kill him, he was a human being." She screamed in his ear.
Nexus walked past Sam and shrugged. "That was no human being; that was a slap in the face of god." He said pulling her through an office building showing her the people Connection had killed. Sam's face twisted and contorted in horror. "He slaughtered the innocent and even worse he defiled these women before he killed them." Nexus said explaining himself.
They made their way through until they found themselves at a dead end. "Damn the only people getting through here are Gato and Ore." Nexus said groaning like a little kid. Sam clutched the leg that had been cut, the pain intensifying as she began to cry.
"What the hell did he do to you?" Nexus asked frantically. The wound was throbbing as if to a different heart beat. "It's the paper resurrection technique." A voice said from the cut.
A hand reached down and wrapped around Nexus' neck and began to squeeze tighter and tighter. "I've never mastered that technique, how could you?" Nexus growled with his last breath. Connection just laughed.
"You are trying to get me to monologue; it won't work, I'm the most powerful brother of this group." Connection yelled as if he had lost his mind. While Connection was busy talking to himself Nexus slipped out of the grip of the paper.
"You've got Mail!" Nexus said raining down envelopes like knives slicing Connection to ribbons. "And you couldn't have done that five minutes ago?" Sam asked as she limped over to her love.
Mean while at a different part of the base Ore and Alex were confronted by Hard boot. "This is what they mean by stone cold humor." Alex said looking between Ore and Hard boot who hadn't said a word but insults were flying a mile a minute. Alex raised her hand and let it drop. "FIGHT!" She screamed. The two earth masters pointed to the ground and sent a tidal wave of concrete barreling down on each other.
END CHAPTER