"Are you trying to tell me to turn my back on my brother?"
"No, I-"
"The man I grew up with? The one I gave my loyalty to over twenty years?"
"I..I'm just worried about his sanity."
"Listen to me, I trust his vision, I always have."
"How do we know it isn't Helios talking? How do we know he's not just a mouthpiece for that computer?"
"The Illuminati and the Templars are just saying that because they can't handle his vision! He's at a higher level now!"
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JC was reclining on the grass, his head against the trunk of a cherry tree, watching the blossoms fall from the branches, dancing in the wind. He turned to see Alex D standing near him.
"I've never been to Japan before, when I was alive," he said softly.
"Is there one day I can go by without thinking about you?" Alex said in a tense voice.
"Why would you want to?"
"Because you're driving me nuts! I can't go on a date without thinking about you!"
He stood up and yelled, "If you want to get rid of me so badly, why don't you go and see somebody about it?"
"I can't, John, I can't!" she screamed.
"Yes, you can! If you don't this guilt is going to eat you up until there is nothing left!"
"Why couldn't you have been more than just a brother to me then?" Tears streaming down her face.
"Because you had a job to do," he answered coldly.
The sky turned from day to night in the blink of an eye. The leaves and blossoms blew away in the wind leaving the trees bare. Snow fell. Buildings were rising from the ground. Blood stained the white snow.
"Back to Liberty Island, eh?"
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"Let me out! I didn't do anything to Alex! I heard a thud and I went to check downstairs, and there she was!" Tatsumi shouted banging against the door. None of the strange men answered. The freakish red-eyed men had thrown him in the bathroom because they didn't know what to do with him until Alex woke up. After a couple of times of banging on the door he finally gave up and sat on the toilet. Hope she's ok. She's the only person to look after me who's lived more than five hours. It was a wonder how he always managed to escape all the assassination attempts. If another innocent person dies I'll never forgive myself.
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Alex's mind swirled. Words echoed in her mind, "What you did was wrong but you can put it to rights. Come and find me! Come and find me!"
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"Ms D, are you awake?" Alex opened her eyes to see an Illuminati Commando hovering over her.
"Yes, I am. How long have I been asleep?" she answered.
"At least fifteen minutes."
"The boy is in the bathroom. We didn't know what to do with him until you had woken up."
"Why? He didn't do anything wrong."
"I saw him touching your leg and I had to intervene before he did something very inappropriate!"
And with the commando's comment she got off the sofa and stormed towards the bathroom door. She took a few deep breathes and then unlocked the door. The bathroom door slid to the side and Tatsumi fell out.
"You were touching my leg while I was unconscious?"
"I…I was going to get you some help…but…but…I…I…" Tatsumi wished the ground would just swallow him up after saying that. She's going to throw me out now, she's going to throw me out, and I'll have no where else to go! "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I know it was wrong, but I got distracted and I-"
"And you're a young boy with raging hormones."
"Well, what were you doing there anyway?"
"I think I was overtired. Don't worry about it."
"How many times has this happened? Maybe you should see a doctor."
"Don't worry about me."
"You should at least get it checked out."
"I said, don't worry."
"I always have to worry about the people who take care of me, I always do."
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"Next stop, the Blossom and Tea Hotel penthouse roof! You good to go?" shouted the pilot with the Australian accent to the man in black, dressed head to foot in form-fitting ballistic armour. His name was Isao Yano, the best nano-augmented assassin in all of Tokyo. He could make anything look like an accident if he was told to. None of his missions had ever failed. At only nine years old he had been nano-augmented. People always said he had the luck of the devil on his side, as he never failed at anything. Tonight the Yano family will finally show Ayano what happens when you mess around with the Yakuza. Isao closed his eyes and jumped out of the helicopter while activating his parawing. Landing on the roof the parawing quickly dissolved away. He ran towards the glass roof window, looking through. There the window showing the lounge was covered by five gold level lasers. Also patrolling the area was a Hunter-Seeker bot. But other than that he couldn't see anything else in the room. Like I was going to go in there. You have to be a fool to go through that. If the lasers don't kill you the bot will finish you off. He scanned the area until he found a ventilation shaft. He switched on his vision enhancement, there were no spider bots at all in there. What kind of idiot would not keep spider bots, if not to keep away the vermin to at least keep the assassins busy? So he thought while crawling in the shaft.
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It was official, her head hurt like hell, and worst of all she started falling asleep in strange places and the dreams were driving her nuts. Maybe I should go to see someone? Then maybe I could finally understand what these dreams are all about? I could finally put this all- Strange banging noises were coming from the ventilation system, and they didn't sound like rodents either, they sounded human. She had a bad feeling about this. Whoever was in the vent was probably after Tatsumi. She reached into her gun cabinet, pulled out a pistol and climbed into the ventilation shaft.
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Isao crawled until he reached an opening, then turned on his vision enhancement. No one was in the room. Continuing forward he detected a person of adolescent height, it seemed he had actually found the target, but he couldn't be sure as he was quite far away. He pulled out a laser tool and a magnetic clasp and cut a hole through the metal. He activated his cloak and lowered himself down by a winch-descender through the hole. He actually got a good look around the room as well as the boy. Inside the room was a double bed with navy blue duvet and golden leaf patterned pillow covers. A desk was against a wall. The young boy was seated at the desk. He appeared to be writing something on a piece of paper. Whatever you're writing does not concern me as your blood will be spilled and then your mother will understand why not to mess with us. Pulling out an energy blade he lowered himself down, closer to the boy. Then, just as he was about to slice the target's throat, he heard a sound coming from the air vent. That's strange, that doesn't sound like a spiderbot, that sounds like a person. But who could be up there? He pulled himself up to have a look. When he peeked through he couldn't see anyone, even with his vision enhancement. Then a gunshot came and hit him between the eyes, he fell backwards, hanging, blood flowing from his head. The assassin was dead before he knew it. He never saw his killer coming.
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"Good morning Tokyo, this is the news with me, Yoko Kono! Crime statistics in Tokyo have gone up 20 in the last fifty years but the WTO are confident they can bring the figure down by 36 in the next three months. NG Resonance has revealed that she'll be having a world tour, including Tokyo in a couple of week's time. Critics are raving, saying this will be her greatest tour yet. In other news, a body of what is believed to be aYakuza assassin was found in the Blossoms and Tea Hotel penthouse suite."