"Rotagor, get the heavy artillery out!" Mijima cried ducking back behind the car again. The gunfight had stretched on for nearly ten minutes now and the Autoro Gang had already lost a tenth of it's forces. Of course, there were only a hundred of them there, so that only meant ten dead, but it was more than she was willing to account for. As the short but muscular Rotagor scurried off to get the big guns on-line, the girl turned her blue eyes towards the large truck were Autoro sat with his arms crossed.
At the sight of him just sitting there she scowled. "Damn him." she muttered.
"He's not worth the breath." Gainin said climbing out from under the car. "I'm out of ammo. What do you say to cutting the crap and just blasting them to hell?" Mijima's answer was cut off by the loud roar of the large machine guns firing. She moved over and looked around the corner of the car. The larger and stronger bullets of the big guns tore through the cars like paper but were still being deflected by the armored cars.
She looked up and motioned to the gunners to shut down again. As the silence prevailed again she stood up and moved out around the car tossing her sub machine guns off to one of the others. Gainin stood as well and moved around the other side of the car until he was standing beside his sister. "You ready?" he asked.
Mijima merely smirked. The twins turned and pressed their backs together. Mijima raised her right arm and Gainin his left, their palms side by side. And then both of them took on looks of intensity, as though they were trying to push an enitre mountain. Light began to swirl around their palms. Blue and red. It swirled and gathered into a single purple ball. The cops across the way, nearly fifty yards, watched on in wonder. They'd heard of these two but none had seen them in action.
Finally the looks of intensity and concentration faded. "Double Barrel Blaster!" they cried in unison. The purple ball of light they'd formed shot off at high speed across the distance between them and the cops. Those hiding behind the cars instantly dove for cover. The blast hit the side of one of the armored cars and exploded flipping it onto it's side and denting the point of impact considerably.
"Whimps!" a voice called laughing over the speakers as the cops quickly gathered up their things and ran. As the door to the truck opened the twins made their way back over to the others. "Nicely done you two, chased them off good!" Autoro laughed. "Alright you misfits, let's check and make sure they're all gone!" he called loudly. "Don't want no one screwing up the others!"
All those still alive and uninjured instantly scrambled off to check on the police cars with Gainin taking up point. Mijima was the only healthy fighter that hung back as she moved about bandaging the injured. As she moved over toward one guy she saw him holding his arm, his sleeve stained with blood, she came to a stop. There, at her feet, was the new girl, Neophia. She'd almost missed her laying in the deep grass. Bending down she checked the girl's pulse and frowned, it was pretty weak. She had a gunshot wound in her abdomen, probably pretty bad. "Damn. Dactar!" she called over her shoulder. "I need the full kit!"
"Scratch that!" Autoro called over to Dactar who'd made to get the primary medical supplies.
"Without the right treatment she's not going to make it!" Mijima said darkly.
"That's her problem. I'm not wasting good supplies on trash." Autoro growled as he walked over to the two of them. Reaching where Neophia lay he nudged her with his foot a couple times and the girl grimaced but made no sounds. "She's already half gone anyway. You'd be lucky to have a 50/50 chance even with the full kit. Now, go tend to the others you can do something about."
"I can do something about her!" she yelled. "Dactar, the kit!" she yelled over her shoulder.
"Maybe you didn't hear me." Autoro growled. His foot shot out and smashed into Mijima's face knocking her onto her back. "Now, go tend to the others!"
The girl reached up and touched a hand to her face, pulling it back she saw blood and scowled. Glancing up she saw Autoro glare at her a moment longer and then head off toward the others and the police cars. As soon as he'd gone she was up on her feet. "Dactar, the kit!" she ordered still wiping blood off her chin.
"But Autoro sai..."
"Give me the damn kit, now!"
The man nodded quickly, turned, and rummaged through the supplies in his jeep. A second later he pulled out the large full kit which had the more useful and more expensive supplies. The stuff needed to deal with the more extreme injuries. A moment later she was kneeling beside the girl again, the kit open beside her, and treating her wound. She'd just finished applying a couple of medicines, the healing spray, and a bandage, when she felt the ground vibrating under her.
Pausing in what she was doing, she looked at the ground for a second. She could just barely make out the small pebbles shifting their positions. Standing she looked around for any sign of what could be causing the rumbling. Looking to the east she could just barely make out something large glinting in the light and moving slowly. "No fucking way..." she breathed. "Kataki! Kataki's coming!" she called frantically.
Instantly those still in the area stood alert and looked around. It only took them a few moments to spot the massive armored vehicle in the distance that carried Kataki and her own little gang. The main rivals of the Autoro Gang. Now was not the time to be getting into a fight with Kataki and her men. Not when their own forces were split up and a number of the ones with them were hurt or dead.
As they spied the vehicle nearing quickly, cries sounded throughout the area and Mijima turned and ran toward the police cars and the others. "Kataki! It's Kataki!" she called as she ran. She was halfway there when someone in the other group finally heard her and turned. A moment later those at the police cars were moving back quickly to the cover of their own vehicles. Rumor had it Kataki and Autoro had once been on... very good terms. And then something had caused a falling out between them. Only Mijima and Gainin knew the real truth, and only due to circumstances.
By the time the large armored vehicle pulled to a stop, all of Autoro's gang was gathered back behind their own vehicles again, and Autoro himself was standing in front of them. There was a hiss and then a rush of air as the side of the armored vehicle opened. A moment later Kataki emerged. While Autoro was a bald, massive, six and a half foot tall, built like a tree with massive muscles that made his triple extra large clothes seem painted, hulk of a man, Kataki was a short five foot even. Long flowing black hair, slim and slender. And female. It was often pointed out the two, by appearances at least, were exact opposites.
However, anyone that spent five mintues with them both would soon realize that while they were opposites on the outside they were identicle on the inside. "Autoro. Going after my money I see." she said with a scowl.
"Your money? What the hell are you talking about?"
Kataki laughed. "My fifty million Zenni of course!"
Autoro smirked. "Really, it's yours is it? Says who?"
"Me, for one, you dumb oaf. And that's all that matters. Though I thought I'd stop by and thank you for getting the cops off of my men."
"Actually, I got them off of mine." Autoro replied. "So, I suppose you sent people ahead as well, no? This is most interesting. By now your other morons are all dead and my men have my money."
Kataki turned around and walked back to her ride without a word. As she did, however, the front of the vheicle split open to reveal two metal skeletons. Instantly their eyes began to glow red and they walked out into the light of day. Kataki turned and faced Autoro again, grinning. "The latest in technology." she said. "Snatched them up from Mech-Tech last week."
"New toys." Autoro said shaking his head.
"Well, they're much more reliable than the trash you run with..." as she said this her eyes fell on Mijima and Gainin and her scowl returned. "Unit Two, Unit Three, kill them all."
"Orders confirmed. Extermination mode active." they replied mechanically. Their arms then came up revealing a pair of machine guns mounted on them. However, they never got the chance to fire at Autoro and his gang. With a cry Autoro thrust both of his arms forward and a rush of force knocked them both flat on their backs, their bullets sailed high into the air instead.
"Oh, now I'm really scared." Kataki said rolling her eyes. "Well, those things are obviously defective. But that's no problem. I've got one last little trick up my sleeve to deal with you Autoro. You see, once I learned of the kidnapping and ransom incident, unlike you, I prepared. I had a feeling you'd try and steal my money. So I hired someone."
Someone new emerged from her vehicle. He was wearing a simple outfit, had his hands clasped behind his back, and seemed to be wearing a metal helmet with built in binoculars. He moved to stand beside Kataki and cast a glance down at the robots which had finally stopped shooting. "I can recomend much better robots than those." he said after a moment. "Another employer of mine makes them."
Turning his head from them, he gazed first at Autoro and then those behind him. After a moment his eyes fell upon Gainin and Mijima. "Most impressive..." he said, before turning his attention back to Autoro. "So then. Shall we get this over with?"
Autoro laughed. "Sure thing you shrimp. I'm going to enjoy snapping you in two!"
"Don't kill him, Tao." Kataki said. "I want to do that myself... at a later date."
"Very well." Tao replied walking forward slowly. Autoro growled and launched a large fist at the man walking toward him but he simply vanished. Autoro turned at the sound of startled gasps from his men and found Tao standing behind him, his back to him. With a loud roar he threw another punch but once more his opponent vanished. Then came the crack and Autoro fell to the ground, flat on his face. No one present, however, had seen what had knocked him down.
"There, it's taken care of." Tao said, turning around again. "What of the rest?"
"Leave them." Kataki said with a shrug. "We have money to get to." And with that they re-entered the vehicle and rode off.
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Present, the Lookout:
Gohan had listened intently to 18's story, having eventually taken a seat at the edge of the Lookout beside her, and felt sad for her. He wasn't the only one either. Krillin and Yamcha were both staring at their feet fidgeting a little. Both thinking they should say something but not sure what. Fortunately, Bulma saved them from having to. "Wow... that's..."
18 smiled slightly and laughed a little too. "Ya, not the best, is it? But it was life." She shook her head slowly as she looked down at the Earth. "My brother and I had never seen Autoro lose before. We'd never even seen him challenged before. So it was rather shocking. He wanted to go chasing after Kataki and find out how Tao was so fast and strong but... I managed to talk him out of it. As bad as things were with Autoro we'd have been worse chasing after Kataki. Little did we know Tao would come back looking for us later."
"I'm impressed the two of you could use Ki attacks like that." Bardock said moving over to the edge of the Lookout and taking a seat as well.
"Autoro went to the 21st Budokai with the intent of stealing the winner's prize money." 18 said. "After the tournament ended, however, he didn't care about the prize money anymore. He wanted to learn how to use attacks like those he'd seen in the ring." she sighed. "He spent years figuring it out and we sort of just picked it up along the way..."
"You were with him then too?" Videl asked, suprised. "But... the 21st Budokai was so long ago... you'd have just been little kids back then..."
"We were four." 18 said nodding. "It'll make sense later."
"So what happened after Kataki and Tao left?" Hecule asked.
"While I convinced my brother not to go chasing after them Dactar tended to Autoro. He finally came to again several hours later and by then the rest of our men had returned. They'd managed to get the money from Kataki's people but then ran into her and Tao and didn't stand a chance. Half of them had been killed in those two fights... it was the worst blow the Autoro Gang had ever taken... and the fact it came from Kataki had Autoro seriously pissed off.
"We moved off to the north, into the mountains, and set up a temporary camp while he worked out a war plan. He'd become determined to wipe out Kataki's entire group. So, for the next couple of weeks, he planned and prepared, sending small teams out to get supplies and to scout out Kataki's activities."
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March 27th, 5 years ago, about 50 miles southwest of North City:
It looked almost like an "in progress" city. A mini construction site. There were small wooden shacks scattered about through the canyons and on the mountain sides. Canvas covered guard posts dotted the landscape as well. It was the most fortified and organized outpost Autoro had ever established. The entire purpose of it was to wipe out Kataki and her men. It had become clearly apparent to everyone that Autoro had become obsessed with it.
Mijima was suprised only that it had taken him so long. "Lover's quarrels are pointless." Gainin said dropping another pile of firewood to the ground with the others already gathered.
"You think love is pointless." Mijima pointed out, not even looking up from the gun she was cleaning.
"True." her brother replied with a shrug. "But just look at all this. All this effort just to attack Kataki. If he even put half of this thought into anything else we could probably take over Capital City."
"Well, look at it this way. If we're lucky they might kill each other."
Gainin snorted. "If we were lucky they'd have done that years ago."
"Alright!" A voice echoed through the canyons. Autoro's voice. "Izu's on his way back, just called in. So, everyone, start packing up! We move out tonight!"
"He'd kill us all if it gave him the chance to get Kataki." Mijima said with a sigh. "Well, let's get packing."