Chapter 5

A Bar in Mega Tokyo, four days later

Sylia Stingray was meeting an old friend. She was sitting and drinking something. Around her were a number of other people. The man she was waiting for just came in. Fargo was her most important and most reliable informant. He was also one of the few people who knew about the Knight Sabers.

"Hello", she greeted him, "I was already waiting for you."

"It´s nice to you too", the man replied a bit sarcastic to her less than polite greeting.

"What do you have for me?" She simply asked him. The relationship between this two was mostly based on Fargo´s use for Sylia as an informant. At least on Sylia´s side. A contact on a personal level had Sylia never let come up. Despite knowing him for years, she had to admit that she barely knew anything about the man. You could also say, here she actually followed her philosophy to never let a personal relationship compromise her organisation. In opposite to her relationship with her Knight Saber partners. But despite that she trusted him with some of her most important secrets, trusted him to bring her information's about important jobs and always believed his information's and she let him contact clients for her. Sylia and Fargo trusted each other absolute. So they might be closer than it seemed on the first look.

Fargo sat down next to her. He looked around to see if anybody was in hearing distance.

"It looks as if anybody in genom has been selling boomers to a terror organisation, behind the back of the company, for a few years. This organisation now used this boomers for the attack on this town and most likely the assault four days ago too."

"Do you know something about this organisation, who are they and what are their aims?" Sylia wanted to know.

"No I and my contacts couldn´t find out anything so far." His contacts were the best Sylia had ever heard of. Even she didn´t know about the most of them. Another reason why Fargo was so important to her.

"I am about to make contact with someone. This people might know something about, who is behind it. Maybe we can find out over them, maybe."

"Good", Sylia answered. "Do you know anything about, who their contact in genom could be?"

Fargo smiled. "Yes, indeed I have. Vice president for international export Megumi Taiko."

Sylia returned the smile, she knew she could count on this man.

"Tell me everything you know."

"Taiko came to her position when her predecessor Paul Smith was murdered two years ago. Someone broke into his house and shot him along with his wife. A few things were stolen from his house but nothing worth much. The murderer was never found", Fargo explained and Sylia listened.

"But it seems just after this happened the illegal selling's of boomers and other genom goods have started."

"You mean Taiko had made a deal with this people? They kill her rival and she is supplying them with weapons for it", Sylia asked.

"It is at least a interesting theory about what happened, right." Fargo grinned.

"Since smith´s death have the sales of Taiko´s department an unexplained increase about three percent and since more money comes in, nobody in genom is asking any questions." Sylia felt a knot in her stomach. Taiko was responsible for selling's on three continents. Genom was producing the majority of the military equipment on the market. And that over two years. How many weapons were now in the hands of that criminals?"

"Damn, this is not good. Is there anything else?" Fargo shook his head and Sylia stood up.

"When you find something out from this people contact me again. Sometimes I think I owe you some thanks for your good work", Sylia said.

"If you want to thank me, stay and take a drink with me." Sylia rolled her eyes, turned around and left.

Later the same day, an block of houses somewhere in Mega Tokyo

It didn´t really surprise anybody anymore. It happened again and again.

At first it looked like a normal, average looking, man. But then he suddenly gripped a man next to him, lifted him off the street and broke his neck. In the next moment his skin was bursting apart and his weapons were activating. The boomer was starting to fire on one of the houses, leaving it in flames.

A short time later the Knight Sabers appeared. That was nothing new too. The boomer, a few minutes after he fired on the house, flew off and disappeared. All what later the Knight Sabers still found was a burning ruin.

"Sylia", Linna asked, "what should we do? There could still be people inside, but the boomer is gone. When we are here it could attack someone else."

"We stay", Sylia decided. "Macky", she contacted her brother at home.

"We are at the house, the boomer attacked. If he attacks anywhere else, contact us."

"Yes Sis", Macky answered.

AD Police central, a few minutes earlier

They had just heard about it. A Combat boomer had started to fire without warning.

Nene was nervous. She knew the other Knight Sabers would be there but she simply found no excuse to leave. They would need to do that without her. Nene looked around and saw Jessica approaching her. She looked as if she wanted something.

"You look somewhat distracted Nene", Jessica pointed out.

"No, no everything is okay. I just remembered that I have something important to do", Nene answered.

Damn, Jessica thought inside. This was a complete surprise. This time she had no time to manipulate her shifts. The Knight Sabers will be short of one member. They will probably do it anyway but who knows. It can always go something wrong.

"You know", Jessica said to Nene, "if you have something to do, we can go to Leon. I am sure he will release you for a few hours."

Äh That is really too nice. I don´t want to let you down here but…"

"I know, it´s something important."

Nene was thinking. Jessica was normally nobody who skipped work and nobody who shows understanding for somebody who does. And she approached her right after they heard of the boomer attack. Could that mean?

At the entrance, a young woman was entering the building. She didn´t say anything. Two officers asked her.

"Can we help you miss?" She pulled metallic claws out of her hands, stroked one of them down and shot the other one with a weapon mechanism in her hand. The cop who was sitting on the security camera was screaming in the microphone.

"Watch out. It is one of this goddamn assassin-boomers on the door!"

A short time later the boomer run firing inside the room. Several cops were hit. A young police-woman was shot in the head. A detective shot the boomer three times but his gun was useless against this enemy. He was killed right afterwards. Nene and Jessica were taking cover behind a desk. Jessica yelled at her.

"If you have to go Nene, go."

"What."

"Nene, I know you are a Knight Saber. So if you have a way to contact the others go", she said, this time quietly.

Nene could for a moment not move.

"No, no you are wrong." Nene was stammering. „I am no Knight Saber how do you come to that idea?" She was shocked. Her cover was blown and a amok running boomer was still in the room, shooting at cops.

"Nene, do you really thing nobody had noticed all your manipulations on the computer system, the shift changes, that you are always gone during boomer attacks? I know it and I promise not to tell anybody and now go." She was screaming the last part.

Nene came back to herself. The boomer had wounded two of their colleagues as they were arguing. When the boomer was looking in another direction, she was running to the exit. Jessica gave her cover by firing at the assassin. As Nene was at the door, Jessica had gone back in cover. The most cops had left the room by now. She saw Leon running to her.

"Nene", he called out, "come, we are getting the heavy weapons and take that bitch out." The ADP had more than enough weapons to take a 33C out. The only reason that the boomer could cause so much damage, was the surprise.

"Yes Sir", Nene replied.

Sylia, Priss and Linna had meanwhile saved several people from the burning house. Thanks to their combat-suits, they had not much to fear fron the fire and could easily get from one floor to the other.

"Sis can you hear me?" Macky contacted them. Next to Nene, he was the other computer and communication expert of the Knight Sabers.

"Yes I hear you."

"The AD Police centre is under attack. Do you hear me? But not from this boomer, it is another one."

"Damn", Sylia guessed what that meant, "this is a diversion", she told the others."

They were ready. Leon was wearing a combat-suit, Daley and Nene were carrying two guns with armour piercing ammo. They were on their way to the room the boomer was occupying.

Jessica and two other officers were the last in the room. The boomer was still firing at the others. She stood up to fire a few shots and give them and herself a chance to escape. In this moment the boomer was turning around. The 33C fired two shots at Jessica. Both hit her in the hearth, the other in the lung. For a few moments she was still aware that happened around her. Then it was over.

Nene, Leon and Daley came in the room a moment later. They saw Jessica and two other cops lying on the ground. All three concentrated their fire on the boomer. In seconds the assassin was down. Several shots in head and torso disabled her completely. With a last shot from Leon she wasn´t moving anymore.

As the Knight Sabers appeared, they saw a ambulance and a few cops been carried out. Leon, Nene and a few others were standing outside. Nene couldn´t forget that the other police-woman had found out her secret and now she was dead. She didn´t know what to feel. Then three Knight Sabers appeared. Nene was somewhat glad to see her friends, even if she couldn´t show it. Sylia asked Leon.

"Did you take care of the boomer here?"

"Yes", Leon answered. "Did you take care of the other?"

"We…" They didn´t Sylia had to admit. The boomer escaped. They let him go to save others.

Suddenly Priss shouted. The other boomer, the one who shot the house, had yust fell out of the sky. In the moment he was on the ground, he fired on the next best target.

"Linna!" Priss called out.

One of the projectiles hit the green Knight Saber right in the back.