Chapter Three:
Qing and Isuel stood before Kosuke. "So you believe there is a high ranking resistance member hiding out nearby." Kosuke said.
"That's what we heard." Qing replied.
"Then we should inform Arashi."
"I think we will be rewarded more if we deal ourselves." Isuel suggested.
"Very well, you have 24 hours to bring him in."
My eyes fluttered open and I looked around to see an unfamiliar room. It took me a bit of time to figure out what was up, but then I remembered. After getting dressed I walked upstairs to see Akio and our host sitting at the table.
"So your up." Akio said.
"I have breakfast." the man added.
I joined them at the table and ate. "What's the plan."
"You should stay here until things die down." the man said.
"That what safehouses like this are for." Akio noted.
"Okay, sit and wait." I remarked. "But when will we know the coast is clear?"
"They may be looking for you, but they are not looking for me."
I then heard a knock on the door. The man walked over to the door and slid open the peepdoor. He then signaled for Akio and I to hide.
I grabbed my plate and silverware and headed for the stairs. "Why are you... oh yeah." said Akio.
He followed me down the stairs. "Where do we hide?" I asked.
Akio approached a stereo system. He pushed a few buttons and the wall lifted up. We slid into the hidden room and Akio pressed a button closing the wall. "I wondered why you cared so much about food," he said.
"Then you realized a table set for three would look suspicious."
We heard footsteps coming down the stairs and we went silent. "See, there no one here but me." our host said.
"We'll see." a voice replied. "Check there."
We heard a faint door creek. "Nope." another voice said."
"Oh c'mon." the original voice complained.
He stomped around searching for places but gave up with a sigh. They went up the stairs and we waited for the all clear.
Eventually our host opened up the wall. We stepped out and went back upstairs, were we finished our breakfasts.
"Did they suspect anything?" Akio asked.
"Seems like they are searching the whole neighborhood."
"So they do think we are nearby. I added.
"Where are Akio and Fai?" Kuma asked. "It's been a day, they haven't returned.
"It's hard to search with all the gang patrols." Katashi replied. "They seem extra heavy in certain areas."
"Then maybe there is a reason they are searching those areas." Kuma noted. "We should search there too."
They left the base and observed the various gangs patrolling the streets. Kuma knew not to make eye contact and keep on the move so they would not challenge her. As she moved on she noticed them demanding there way into homes, or just breaking in.
It was clear that Akio and Fai were not far away. She knew there was a safehouse in the area, so that was where she and the troops were going. She found the house and knocked on the door.
The peepdoor opened up, and the man recognized her and let her in. Her troops followed shortly.
"Kuma, you made it." I said.
"We were stranded, and there is a manhunt for me." Akio added.
"Well let's get you out of gang territory." Kuma replied.
"How are you going to do that?"
"Just walk out."
Akio, Kuma, the troops, and I walked down the street. "It's them!" a Triad member shouted, shocked by there brazen display. "Get them!"
"Come on and try!" Kuma replied as she dropped into combat stance.
The triad members charged down the street towards us. Kuma swung her sword and the ground crumbled beneath it. The triads stumbled and tripped over the jagged rocks and we were onto them before they could get up.
I swung my shock glove and it hit a triad member who tensed before falling limp. They tried to lift up water whips, but we attacked first. We tied them up and dragged them down with cable, and stunned them punches and gloves.
I dodged a few wild shots and stunned a triad with my glove. Another lunged at me, but I leapt out of the way and he tripped over a taut cable. We continued down the street, leaving the scattered group of triads behind.
I saw a puddle expand across the road. "Stop!" I yelled out.
We all quickly slowed to a stop before the puddle froze in front of us. Triad gangster jumped out of alleys. Kuma stomped the ground, sending pieces of rock and ice and the gangsters.
The gangsters lifted up water to block the incoming shards. We threw bolas at there legs and some of them were restrained. Still other grew more aggressive. They came at us, twirling there whips over there heads.
One of them struck down his whip right next to me. I jumped as it flew under me, then backed off as he came closer and closer. "Learn your place." the gangster snarled at me.
I swung at him with my glove, but it missed him. He cracked his whip again, and it hit my gut. The gangster grinned and came closer. His whip struck my shoulders, then my back.
I reached and grabbed the gangster by the wrist. I swung again with my glove, but he leaned back and it missed again. As the gangster leaned back in, I swung my head at him. The top of my head struck his nose and mouth.
I quickly shocked the gangster before he could recover. I turned and saw Kuma battling some gangsters. She swung her sword in wide arcs, and the gangsters continued to jump away to avoid it. Kuma easily dodged there whip attacks and kept on swinging, to keep them on the defense.
I threw my bola at a gangster and he tripped as it wrapped around his legs. The gangster looked up at Kuma in fear as she lifted up her sword. "Okay" Kuma said as swung it down, driving the pommel into the top of his head.
Two water whips wrapped around Kuma's sword. Kuma wrested with the gangsters to get it back. I grabbed the sword with my glove. "Let go." I said to Kuma.
Kuma did so, and I activated my glove. The gangsters shuddered as the electricity coursed up the whips and into them. Kuma recovered her sword. "Clever." she said to me.
We turned around and saw another gangster, but he fell down revealing Akio. "Good job guys, let's keep moving."