Chapter 2

Sylia Stingray, Priscilla (Priss) Asagiri, Linna Yamazaky and Nene Romanova were forming the mercenary and vigilant team known as the Knight Sabers.

They were right now assembled at Sylia´s home. Sylia was in private the owner of a lingerie-boutique. Probably the last person, anybody would suspect to be the leader of a mercenary team. Priss was a singer and biker, Nene a police officer and Linna a dancer and fitness instructor. The Knight Sabers and the people connected to them were in fact a secret organisation. They should have nothing to do with each other in private live, as Sylia originally intended for safety reasons. But it never really worked out like that. The four women were the best friends with and without their battle-suits.

"The estimations are that over 30.000 are dead", Sylia declared to the others.

Priss sprang up.

"I don't believe it Sylia. Again and again we risks our lives, we fight and stop boomers. And for what?"

"Priss! Nothing we could have done would have changed anything. We can only stop the boomers who are running amok here and you know it. We can not protect the entire world."

"Can we at least try to find out who is responsible?" asked Nene. "We have good sources after all. If we find out anything, we can inform the police."

"Okay Nene, we will do that. We should also wait and see how genom will react to this."

Genom Tower, 1 day later

The chairman of genom was speaking to the assembled executives. He explained the situation and what he expected of them. The latest boomer-massacre had actually only been the last of a very long line. Some of them, inscinated by genom, itself. But the dimension of the last incident, ten thousands dead and an entire town destroyed, put genom in the critic like nothing before. This time alone for building and selling the boomers. And this, many feared, could also open the doors for critic for all that happened before.

"…You see, Ladies and gentlemen, together we will handle the present crisis and bring genom out of the critic. I expect all of you to work for the best of the company." As he was finished, everybody, except for Kate Madigan, left.

Two of the company officers, Megumi Taiko and the man sitting next to her, George F. Stanton, were the last ones leaving. She was a Japanese woman in her mid thirties had shoulder length dark hair and was dressed in a typical busyness suit female officers were wearing. He was an a bit overweighted man around forty years old. Both of them got their position through the death of their predecessors. In fact Stanton´s was killed by the "hough bang" tryade last year. As he was passing her he asked her a question. "Have you noticed that the chairman only gave none of us detailed information's? He only explained the new direction on genom."

"Yes and Madigan stayed behind", she answered. "It is obvious that she is the one trusted by him."

"You mean the chairman don´t trusts us?"

"Somehow this terrorists got their hands on a large number of Combat-Boomers. Do you really think he would trust any of us?"

"You mean he suspects us in this?" Stanton seemed to be very out nerved.

"Who knows what the chairman is thinking."

As they were gone, Kate Madigan asked Quincy. "You didn´t tell them of the boomer that was shot down. You actually told them that all of them has escaped after they attacked the soldiers?"

"Yes", answered Quincy, "I have made sure that nobody knows about this boomer at all. If someone in genom is involved, they will not know that you are after them."

AD Police-Office

"Hey has one of you seen Nene?" Leon asked.

Nene´s friend Naoko answered him. "Sorry she has just gene a few minutes ago. She wanted to check something."

Meanwhile Nene was busy searching the databanks of the police for hints about the massacre. The AD Police of Mega-Tokyo was not responsible for this case. So she was hacking into the system. She did this for the Knight Sabers. Anyway after she had seen the pictures in the news, she hoped she could actually find something about the bastards who were responsible.

"Nene, what are you doing here?" Someone asked behind her.

Nene turned around. She didn´t hear anybody enter. Before her stood Jessica Kaneda. Nene cried out. Jessica was one of her colleagues from another unit. They normally got along quite well. Despite being from different units and the fact that Jessica was regularly going on patrol and Nene was for the most part at the office. But now she hat caught Nene breaking unauthorized into the police's databanks.

"Oh, I was doing some research. You know."

"You don´t have to explain anything. You were researching the massacre right?"

"What! No! I mean!"

"It´s alright. I understand. We all would like to find something out in that case and you are the best Hacker I know."

"You understand? I didn´t find out much."

"What have you found out."

"Unknown terrorists got their hands on a few entire army of Combat-Boomers and let them slaughter an entire town. No known motive. No sign who is responsible."

"Okay Nene. I won't talk about this."

"Thank you. Bye.

"Bye."

A short time later, Jessica went to Leon, who was sitting on his desk.

"I have just found Nene in the computer room."

"Do you still think she is one of them?"

"Yes."