Part Two
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Slade was laying down staring at the chess board. Sora watched the board intently, waiting for him to make his move.
He focused his eyes and pointed a finger, one of the pawns drifted forward.
Sora smirked and blew gently on the board, one of her pawns moved forward.
Slade moved a knight, Sora moved another pawn.
The point was not to win the game, at least not the game of chess. The point was to see who had their powers under control and who didn't. By moving his chess pieces around one at a time Slade was being forced to focus his power to a small, narrow sphere around each piece and avoid knocking down the others.
It was dificult to say the least.
Sora, who was literally blowing her pieces around had a much harder time of it, so he wouldn't complain out loud, but it was a poor way to train.
The doors to the hideout swung open, there was a chorus of barks and growls from the two large dogs at the door as the fiery eyed hot head and the earth bound muscle mass entered the abandoned warehouse.
Slade smiled weakly at them but didn't say anything, Oyu groaned loudly, "Look out, the hot head's back!"
Tokai scoffed and said "Shut up Puddles, the hell's the boss?"
"We got a good haul!" Brock added, holding up about a dozen purses.
"Well, well, well." Fenrir said, appearing from the shadows, the two large dogs at the door rushed over to their master.
Fenrir was very tall, a little taller than Tokai. He had more muscle than seemed necessary, and long unkempt black hair. Though they were brothers, he looked nothing like Slade, who's short white hair and lightly tanned skin made him the opposite of his pale older brother. Fenrir had a narrow face and dark eyes that made him seem intimidating, whereas Slade's features were actually rather striking, or so he was told.
"You got a good haul? How good?" Fenrir demanded.
"We got plenty." Tokai said shiftily.
"How much exactly?" Fenrir asked, and his dogs growled.
"What's it matter?" Tokai asked.
"I guess it doesnt." Fenrir shrugged. "Except . . . oh yeah, the fact that there's no room in this gang for purse snatchers! If you want money we'll get money, but we dont lower ourselves to something so . . . common."
Tokai raised his eyebrows, "What you got in mind?" He asked.
Fenrir smirked, "I hear an armored car's going to be going through down town tomorrow. Since that monster attack they want to move some valuble things from the down town bank to the uptown branch, apparently the building was damaged in the rampage."
"Was that you, by the way?" Oyu asked, her blue eyes sparkling with interest.
"No it wasn't, probably some freaky government experiment." Fenrir scoffed.
"Fucking government." Tokai comented.
"Tokai, can you like . . . not swear all the time?" Sora asked.
"Fuck you."
"Maybe if you were less of an ass hole." Sora scoffed.
Slade smirked, it was obvious that Sora would be dating Tokai if he'd just try to stop swearing all the time. Tokai however took her attempts to change his speech paterns the wrong way and often asked Oyu, being a girl herself, if she knew what the "fucking problem" was with women in general (meaning Sora) and why they always bossed him around.
"Moving on . . ." Fenrir continued, "no other gang in the area has the balls to take this car."
"I resent that remark." Oyu said.
"Shut up." Fenrir said calmly.
"You think only men can be brave?" Oyu demanded. Oyu was always down for a debate about the sexes, especially with Fenrir because she knew him to be downright sexist.
"No really, shut up, I'm not going to discuss this man and woman garbage with you, and I'm not going to be interrupted again." Fenrir said, "Now we've got skills that the other gangs dont have. Won't ever have. We're special and they're not. Time to show off our skills."
"So everyone will know that it was us?" Sora asked after waiting to be sure Fenrir was done speaking.
"You don't think we can take some police?" Fenrir asked.
"I don't think we're immune to bullets, sir." Sora said.
Fenrir looked at Slade, it was Slade's job to come up with the plan. Slade was the tactician, he thought and he planned, he didn't like to get involved, didn't like to fight, but he could plan.
He closed his eyes for a moment and said "Armored cars are never a good idea."
"Chicken shi-" Tokai began, but Slade held up a hand.
"However, they're not unbeatable and with our unique talents we should be able to take the car without causing any loss of life." The young man said. He held up a chess piece, "We diguise ourselves and use code names, King, queen, bishop, knight, rook, pawn."
"Dude I'm the knight." Tokai declared.
"I'll be the queen." Oyu said.
"I want Rook, it rhymes with rock!" Brock said.
"No it doesnt." Sora complained. "Anyway I guess that makes Fen the King, so do you want to be the Bishop, or should I, Slade?"
"I don't care." Slade said, "I'll be Pawn, it's just a mission."
"So what next?" Tokai asked.
"Nothing. I'll come up with the battle plan once we get there." Slade said, and he put his pawn back on the board, exactly where it had been, though both he and Sora had given up on the game.
Everyone was talking about taking down and armored car and showing up the other gangs. Slade was wondering why it was even necessary.
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Maggie surveyed the scene of destruction, had it really been her?
She looked at the ruined downtown area, what a mess.
"Returning to the scene of the crime?" A cheery voice behind her asked.
Maggie turned around and saw a rather pretty blonde woman dressed in black standing behind her. She was probably a few years older than Maggie herself, but still quite young. She was carrying a large black case, "I'm glad to fing you so quickly Agent Mui. I'm Agent Chan . . . I hope we'll be friends."
"What?" Maggie blinked.
"You're agent Maggie Mui of Dokusensha, right?" Chan asked cheerfully, handing Maggie a picture of . . . well, Maggie!
Maggie didn't remember ever posing for the picture, she said "I've never heard of Dokusensha."
"Oh cut the act," Michelle laughed, "we can do this the easy way or the hard way."
Maggie was suddenly very scared. She was a head taller than this woman and still she felt as if she was about to be badly beaten if she didn't comply with the lady's request.
So she did the first thing that came to her mind. She threw a book at the woman!
The pages flew out and a large white wolf materialized , the woman leapt back and used her case as a club, whacking the wolf in the snout.
Maggie turned and ran, her wolf following her, she'd moved maybe two steps when she bumped into a man even taller than her and dressed in black. He had a mohawk black sun glasses.
His hand shot out and he grasped Maggie by the neck.
The teenage girl sqirmed and tried to pry his hand loose, but it wasnt working and soon she'd suffocate . . .
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Slade heard some commotion and looked down from the building where he and the others were waiting for the armored truck.
There was a boy down there getting strangled by some guy, some woman getting attacked by a dog.
Slade tapped Tokai on the shoulder, the other boy smirked and said "A damsel in distress . . . my super hero senses are tingling."
"I thought you didn't like women, Knight?" Sora scoffed.
"I dont like flat women like you, the babe down there is totally built!" Tokai snapped and threw himself off of the building.
"Idioit, you don't fly!" Sora cried, shoving both her hands forward the winds suddenly picked up and blew upwards, slowing Tokai's descent.
But Slade already had him, his eyes didn't leave the fiery youth as he descended towards the ground at a decelerated rate.
Slade himself leapt over the edge.
His super hero senses were tingling too.
Tokai landed softly on the ground and Slade followed.
"I'll get blondie, you help that dude!" Tokai said.
Slade scowled, why was he the one stuck with the big scary guy?
Never mind, he thrust his hands forward together, then spread them appart.
The man and the boy were seperated, both went flying though the man's landing was rough, Slade didn't throw the victim.
He looked at the boy and suddenly realized . . . he was a girl.
"What's the trouble here?" Slade asked, trying to sound confident and sure of himself like Tokai always did. In reality he had no idea why he was doing this. It wasn't any of his business.
"The hell kind of dog is this, Pawn?" Tokai screamed and Slade looked before hearing the girl's response.
He examined the situation before him, Tokai was standing in between the blonde and the white dog, the dog however seemed not to be moving anyway.
It wa scompletely white, and really he wasnt sure it was a dog, it seemed somehow artificial. The blonde woman was quickly opening her case and assembling something, Slade quickly recognized it as a . . . bow?
Why a bow? She drew back an arrow and said "Surrender now Mui, we're taking you back to Dokusensha one way or another!"
Dokusensha!
Slade knew that name.
He glared at Tokai, "We need to go, this is none of our business!"
"Oh you don't think anything is your business!" Tokai spat, "Where's King? He could get this mangy beast under control!"
Slade was thinking at top speed, the man in black was getting up and he didn't look happy with the fact that Slade had just thrown him twenty feet.
The young man watched as Tokai tried to finish off the dog, and the blonde woman kept her bow aimed at the young girl he'd just saved.
He closed his eyes for an instant, then opened them again and thrust his hand forward.
The woman "fell" onto the wall behind her, dropping her bow.
But she fired her arrow before she fell, and it soared towards the girl!
She screamed and held her hands up, the white beast suddenly melted away and became a big white wall in front of the girl.
Then Slade understood. "She's like us!" He exclaimed.
"Whazzat?" Tokai asked, eyeing the advancing man in black.
Slade wasn't so sure it was the right time to explain, however his heart went out to his fellow freak and though it probably meant crossing Dokusensha he was willing to do so.
He looked at the girl and said "If you want to go on breathing you'll follow us. C'mon Knight, we need to run!"
"What? Why don't we just toast this guy and get on with the plan?"
"Yeah, why not?" Sora asked suddenly.
"You'd better have a good reason for leaving your position little brother." Fenrir said.
"Whoever you all are you're interfering with matters bigger than yourselves!" The blonde woman warned.
"King they're from Dokusensha, this girl's an Unusual just like us!"
Fenrir's eyes blazed, "Shit!" He swore-and unlike Tokai, Fenrir rarely swore-he seemed uncertain for a moment.
Slade knew Fenrir was weighing his options. Kill the Dokusensha agents knowing that they might be under surveilance by others, or lose face by telling the gang to run.
Slade mouthed the word "run" to his brother, and Fenrir complied, "Get out of here, everyone just run, get back home!"
The gang didn't need to be told twice, especially when Fenrir himself turned around and ran as if the devil himself were chasing him.
Tokai however didn't run, "Who the fuck is Dokusensha?" He demanded.
"Just shut up and run!" Slade snapped, he grabbed Tokai's wrist, and then he grabbed the girl's.
She was shaking.
To Be Continued !
A/N: And here it is, your weekly update for whomever cares.