Part Three
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Michelle sighed as her target ran off. This meant she'd have to find her again, she really wasn't into the whole chase scene nonsense.
Her partner was it seemed.
He stalked off at first, then broke into a paced run.
She sighed, he'd never catch them like that. She whipped out her cellular phone and called a secure channel.
"Daiten Library, how may I help you?" Was the answer. It was a Dokusensha line, there was no Daiten Library in Hong Kong . . . at least Michelle didn't think so . . .
Michelle sighed a third time, this was really more stress than she wanted, "Hey, is there another unit in zone nine?"
There was a pause, so Michelle added angrily "This is agent Michelle Chan, and I want to know if there are any other agents in zone nine, downtown Hong Kong!"
"Yes there are, we've got a team tracking a pair of Nekekami. Is there something to report?"
"My target has just been kidnaped by a bunch of people who seemed to know about Dokusensha is all, I wanted to know if I should let them live or not. How many Nekos did you say, a pair right?"
"Yes, but I'll contact that team anyway. Whoever it is if they're interfering with your mission assume them to be hostile, eliminate them, Chan."
"As ordered, thank you so much!" Michelle said cheerfully, and hung up on whatever nameless secretary had dared to tell her how to do her damn job.
Were these people Dokusensha agents, that's all she wanted to know.
They weren't.
So they were in fact messing with the agency. People who messed with Dokusensha ended up dead.
Michelle and her perfect aim had helped quite a few of them reach that state. The assassin believed she'd help quite a few more before the end.
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Maggie didn't know what was going on, who were all these people around her all of a sudden?
There was some guy who tried to choke her to death, some crazy blonde girl who talked about taking her to someone named Dokusensha, a red headed kid who seemed to like to swear, and then a guy who despite his obvious youth had gray hair and seemed to know this Dokusensha person as well.
She was running for her life from the former two with the latter two.
"They after us?" Red hair asked.
"We'd be dead if they were!" Gray hair snapped.
"Do some gravity shit, slow 'em down!" Red hair commanded.
"I told you they're not after us, and I can only affect what I can see!" Gray har said.
"But if they aint after us why're we running?" Red demanded.
"Sometime's I'm wrong." Gray said simply, "Besides, we need to get as far away from these people as we can!"
"Can . . . I ask a . . . question?" Maggie ventured.
"Don't see how it could possibly matter if we die." Gray hair said.
"Who is Dokusensha?"
"People that'll want to kill us, keep running!" Gray said, looking around.
"What? Well the fuck for?" Red demanded.
"Later!" Gray snapped, suddenly he released the Red's wrist and threw his own arm up, a sewer lid flew into the air.
"In." He commanded.
Maggie stared at the sewer. She wrinkled her nose and said "I don't want to."
"Oh you want to die instead?" Gray scoffed.
"How do I know I can trust you?" She asked.
"You cant." Red said calmly, he grabbed her suddenly and threw her down into the sewer.
She expected to land with a splash, she was not disappointed.
The smell was terrible, and she'd probably need a shot after this. She didn't like shots.
Next came Red, and then Gray, the sewer lid slammed shut after he got in and he hurred them on. "Keep moving, don't talk, I don't think they saw us come in here but we're not safe until we get back to King."
"What's so great about dog breath?" Red scoffed.
Gray didn't answer, but down the sewer, about where they'd entered they suddenly heared a loud crash.
Gray frowned and said "Hurry! Don't say anything!"
"Where?" Red demanded.
"It doesnt matter, anywhere!" Gray said.
The three teenagers ran for their lives.
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Tokai held back a scream as Slade suddenly threw him up a shaft.
He knew it was coming, knew that the sewer cap was already gone and he could freely exit and do his thing.
He just really hated these sudden flights.
And he was covered with human waste.
Son of a bitch he probably smelled even worse than Fenrir's dumb dogs!
Whats more he'd figured out about half way through their run for their lives that the guy they saved was a girl and he'd been unable to say anything cool to her since Slade had said not to talk.
It was easy for Slade, this was the most talkative he'd been in months, but for Tokai who really did need to hear his own voice it was unnerving.
Not speaking left him to thinking and he didn't like to think.
He looked around and saw no one so he whispered "All clear kid!"
Next came the girl, she shot out of the sewer.
She'd be fine as long as Slade could see her, but Tokai leapt out and caught her anyway.
Damn it was good to be so cool.
"Careful," He said in a cool, good guy voice, "You wouldn't want to fall and break something."
The girl blushed and shoved her way out of Tokai's embrace. Ah, hard to get . . . or she was a lesbian. Either way he now had to have her, he hadn't been serious before but now he was.
He shoved the lid back on the sewer after Slade got out. They were in a back alley, Tokai didn't recognize it. He turned to Slade and said "You've gotten us lost."
The kid just shrugged.
"Can we talk now?" Tokai asked.
"You're already talking." Slade scoffed.
"Okay, cool. In that case I'll fucking say that it's too bad Oyu isn't here to hose us off." Tokai sighed. "We're gonna smell like shit Slade, you know that, right?"
"Had no idea sir." Slade sighed. He pointed to a nearby apartment complex, "Let's just take a shower."
"You live there?" The girl asked.
"Someone does." Tokai said.
They walked into the building, for what it was worth they wiped their feet before entering. Slade pulled the doors open with a little gravity, and they entered.
People stared so Tokai said "Hey, no problem right? We just did a fucking shoot for a porno flick is all, Shity Suckers, that's the name, make sure you see our premier eh?"
Slade held out his hand to Tokai, who raised his eyebrows. "What?"
"Here take it, I've got way too much so you can have some too."
"Fuck is it?" Tokai demanded, pressing the button for the elevator.
"It's called "shame", have a bit of it when you address crowds." Slade said.
"I dont do fucking drugs, man." Tokai said simply, waving Slade's hand away. Damn was that why that kid was so smart? Well if you had to be a pill popper to get smart Tokai was happy being simply average. Shame, what a stupid name for it too.
Slade shook his head, mumbled something that sounded like "moron" and pressed the elevator button again.
The girl said nothing. She just looked at her feet.
The elevator came down and Tokai got in, followed by Slade. They waited a moment, then Tokai cleared his throat, the girl looked up and quickly got in the elevator.
"Do you guys know who lives here?" She asked.
"Fuck no. Do you?" Tokai asked.
"No." The girl said.
"Oh. Good." Tokai said happily.
"But isn't that bad? How'll we take showers if we don't know anybody?" The girl asked.
"What's your name?" Tokai asked in return.
"M-Maggie."
"Well Maggie," Tokai said, infusing emotion into his voice to make it seem as if her name were the most pleasant word in the world to him, "the fact is if we knew anybody the mother fuckers had better let us take showers or we wouldn't be their friends anymore, would we? But we don't know any of the bastards in this building, so we can like . . . y'know."
"I . . . I don't know." Maggie said.
"Just go in. Take a quick shower, leave."
"You mean break into the apartments?"
"Well just a little." Tokai said.
"You guys are robbers?" Maggie whispered.
"Oh hell baby we're everything your mommy told you not to love in a man." Tokai said with a wink. Slade groaned. "We rob from the rich and give to the poor, we fight oppression, we-"
"Swipe purses, right Tokai?" Slade sneered.
Tokai grinned at Slade, "I liked you better when you never talked. What the hell happened to the quiet guy who never opened his mouth unless it was to talk tactics? Sure miss him, this loud mouthed little shit in front of me is gonna get roasted if he don't shut the fuck up."
Slade made a hand motion of zipping his lips.
Maggie, who'd backed into a corner of the elevator and watched both Tokai and Slade nervously finally spoke up, "So your names are Slade and Tokai? But then why were you calling him Knight before?"
"Code name, we super heroes gotta keep our mild mannered alter egos to ourselves." Tokai said. "I'm the Knight, he's the Pawn."
"Like chess pieces." Maggie said.
"I guess so." Tokai shrugged. Was that the game Slade and Sora always played?
"Why are super heroes robbing whoever lives in this apartment?"
"Why not? They never did anything for us, and we're in need. Now they'll have done something for us, so if they're ever in need we'll help 'em out.
"Oh . . . okay." Maggie didn't sound certain, "That's kind of neat." She ventured.
"Yeah." Tokai said. Too bad it was a lie.
The elevator stopped, Tokai didn't even remember pressing a button-he supposed Slade had-and they got out.
They chose an apartment and Maggie whispered "What if they're home?"
"Then we have the honor of getting permission to use the shower." Tokai shrugged. "You want to do it Slade? I'm all . . . gross."
The gray haired boy sighed and punched his fist forward, the door shook, then creaked open.
They walked in, "Okay we've got to be quick, dont know when they'll be back so ladies first." Tokai said. He considered asking her if she wanted company, but he knew that'd be a bad idea, they'd only just met after all and he didn't want to come on too strong.
Especially if she was a lesbian, he'd have to ware down her lesbian defenses if that were the case . . . not that he knew how, shit girls were so damn hot he didn't blame them for liking each other more than most guys.
But he wasn't like most guys, so he figured he had a shot.
Maggie left to take a shower, but then came back, "What am I going to change into?" She asked.
Tokai frowned and Slade said "Just shower with your clothes on."
Really that kid needed to just go back to being quiet and antisocial. He'd just killed Tokai's plan to see what Maggie was working with by "accidentally" going in for his shower too early.
Tokai waited for Maggie to leave, and waited until he heard the shower running before he began to investigate the apartment.
It was sparsely furnished, but there were a lot of boxes. Okay, so these people were either moving in or moving out. Good to know.
He turned to Slade and said "So why'd Dog Breath break and run when you said that name? What was it again? Dorky sensor?"
"Dokusensha." Slade corrected. "Let's just say Fenrir's been going through a lot of trouble to keep us from getting noticed by them."
"Oh hell yeah let's say that. But let's not say just that, let's say why, let's say why we broke and ran from a wannabe punk rocker and a blonde babe I so would have banged if you'd given me the chance! Seriously I'd have her at a motel right now, in bed!"
"You're not a ladies man Tokai . . . deal with it." Slade said calmly.
"Kid I am damned sexy!" Tokai said.
"I wouldn't know. But even if that were true . . . you're a jerk." Slade said. "Women don't like that."
"Okay, fine I'll prove that I'm better with women than you think. I'll bet you I get Maggie in bed before you do."
"See, that's your problem." Slade said calmly, "you're wagering that you'll be first to take advantage of her emotions and her body and you don't even know her. You're assuming that I want to do the same thing you do and I don't even know her."
"You sound like a fucking woman . . . hey you're not . . . y'know . . . that way are you? I mean it's cool if you are, just I aint so don't be hitting on me or nothing." Tokai said.
Slade frowned, "You really are a jerk."
"That means you are then? I didn't hear a 'no'!" Tokai laughed and went back to inspecting the apartment.
Something occurred to him, "Hey you little shit, you didn't tell me about Dokusensha!"
"How could I? You wanted to talk about getting into Miss. Maggie's pants."
"Miss. Maggie? She your fucking school teacher?"
"I call you 'sir'." Slade shifted uneasily.
"Duh, I'm stronger than you, you know I'll beat the shit out of you. Why you calling her "miss?"
"Because it's polite."
"She aint here, she's . . . damn it you're doing it again! Stop changing the subject, tell me about Dorky Sensor!"
Slade's eyes narrowed, "Fine. I'll tell you everything . . ."
To Be Continued!
AN: Due to inability to log on to the net I have been unable to update this past . . . however long. So double updates for all until I'm back on track, hurrah!