"Why'd you leave your car in the parking garage?" Vash asked "it'll be easier to avoid the cops with that decoy up, besides I've got all the money manga, anime, and a dozen of those crispy-creams you seemed to like in here" I said patting my backpack so the car for now isn't necessary right now, as we walked through the city we noticed many people paying oddly close attention to us, probably some of them thinking Vash was a dude in a really good cosplay outfit, so we walked through the city until we found the only place that might have a lock to fit the skeleton key Ella had given me, an old factory building that had fallen into disarray the lock on the front door was to big to use a normal key on so we figured it must be for the skeleton key. But when we stuck it in it just got stuck until we wriggled it out. Undaunted Vash kicked the door off its hinges and we walked in, it was a dark empty room, it had the look of an evil lair, but not the feel it had squirrels running around in it, and besides there was no one here from the looks of it. "What was that?" Vash said excitedly "what?" I said but then I heard it, footsteps running downstairs. Quickly we were both running around looking for stairs. Apparently whoever was below us heard us because they all started screaming and shooting up through the floor until someone through a grenade and the explosion took the floor out, sending us strait down into an angry mob of people who simply looked possessed. As soon as we hit the ground we were out cold.

I woke up with my face in a velvet pillow with someone on my back, I looked up around and saw that it was Ella. She kissed me deeply on the lips and said "throw the key I gave you, throw it at the guards feet" I looked at her confused until she kissed me again and I woke up for real this time.

I woke up with my face on cold concrete and I swore at myself. "Finally you wake up" Vash said "you've been there for a whole day, and that's just considering I only slept a few hours which I doubt." Without moving my head out of a feeling like I'm about to puke I asked him "why didn't you move me?" "look" he replied and when I did I saw that he was in a separate cell. "oh" I said as I pulled out the key and threw it at the guards' feet before slowly getting up from my stomach. While I was getting up Vash said whispered "look at that, a penguin" with that I got up quickly and looked at the guard looking at the penguin that I recognized as that girl from the streets, wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a bowtie the penguin the penguin walked strait up to the guy and after a few seconds of just staring at him squawked loudly and jumped up trying to uppercut him in the jaw but the man stepped back avoiding it, and swung a hammer strike at the penguin, quickly the penguin dodged it and sent his flipper strait into the mans ass (high voltage fury jab from hell aka the enema punch). The man fell on his face, passed out. The penguin grabbed the key and carried it to the cell and hopped up putting it in the key hole, probably thinking the guard dropped it. It fit perfectly and I reached around and turned the key. As I did I heard a satisfying click, I ran to Vashe's cell and opened his with the key. Quickly we ran out looking for our weapons. We found a door that said weapon storage. We opened the door and along with a collection of other guns three revolvers were in there, two obviously belonged to Vash and I my .44 and his revolver I don't know the caliber of in a locked glass case, as Vash and I started prying it open Gin jumped up and punched the glass open we both took our guns but my peacemakers and snub nose were nowhere to be seen we were going to look for them when we heard someone coming towards the room. We hid at the wall and as the door started to open I put my shoulder into the door and smashed the door into whoever was opening its face. We decided to get rid of their weapons so I grabbed a grenade from the counter, pulled the pin out, and dropped it as I ran out the door and down the hall, we were well out of the blast radius by the time it exploded but I felt a sharp pain in the back of my leg anyway, I kneeled down and put my hand on the back of my calf. "Fuck" I said "what's wrong?" Vash asked finally realizing I'd stopped, he ran back with Gin holding onto his back "a stray bullet got me" I said "but I think I can keep going" I said as I got back on my feet and started running with a limp, must have been amusing to watch

We ran for what felt like miles in the plain hallway, it seemed like we never moved though, everything looked the same except for whatever was in the distance. A brighter light, it looked like sunlight we kept running as Gin clung to Vashe's back. As we got close to the light several men showed up, probably not from this world because they carried swords and wore black robes. With one look at the swords Gin dropped off and decided to bring up the rear. Vash and I grabbed our guns from the holsters and started firing. But most of the bullets were just blocked by the swords, as we looked at our obvious fate I decided to try one last time. Quickly reloading my gun and raising my other hand to the back of the gun, so that it crossed over the hammer. Standing there getting ready I took a deep breath and as they jumped their moves started to slow. Even while they were falling towards me they all seemed to be moving so slow, quickly I jumped forward and as the guy landed I pressed the barrel of my gun against the back of his head and blew him away. As he fell I grabbed his sword, about five feet long with a relatively thin curved blade and an oddly broad hand guard considering the blade size. Things were still moving slowly but getting faster, I did a quick count and saw that there were eight of them left. With people still moving slowly I turned and cleaved ones head off, a second was running right at me and I threw it right through him before grabbing the hilt and used it to dodge one mans attack that went through the one I'd already stabbed, I grabbed my human shield and pulled him hard so that one I'd be able to get my new sword and take the new guys sword, I pulled his sword out and threw it at him hard enough to go right through him until the hilt. Then I grabbed my sword and used a sweeping attack to take out three more, with three left I pulled out my gun and took two of them down with shots to the head, then putting my gun back I swung at the last one, only for him to meet my attack with a guard. As our swords met time was back to normal, he pulled back and moved to swing but before he could take the swing I pulled back and stabbed him through the throat.

I went to the first man I killed and took his sheath. After putting the sheath at my waist I walked toward the light, I shielded my eyes as we walked in. the first thing I could make out was red hair.