At a prison bus, the barred doors open and close and dead guards are littered in the bus, bleeding. A bad dude named Tucan, with a wine bottle, approaches Uda Taxim, a very dangerous man.
TUCAN: (holding a bottle of wine) Hey, did you do that by your self?
Tucan drinks from the bottle and Uda stares at him.
TUCAN: (holding a bottle of wine) Hey now, let's be friends.
TUCAN: (holding a bottle of wine) We really shouldn't waste what our whimsical bartender has given us.
UDA: Our bartender you say?
TUCAN: (holding a bottle of wine) For these guys it would be the devil.
TUCAN: (holding a bottle of wine) Want some?
TUCAN: (holding a bottle of wine) It's Dom Perignon.
Tucan gives Uda the bottle and Uda pours the wine into the mouth of one of the dead guards.
UDA: (holding up the bottle of wine) Cheers!
UDA: (holding up the bottle of wine) To the bus that has charmed the dead ones.
Else where, at camp, Vivi complains to Zet, while he's cutting the bonsai trees.
VIVI: What in the world is going on with the lake?
VIVI: This is the fourth time.
VIVI: (talking and yelling) The FOURTH time.
VIVI: Even Buddha gets up set after the third time.
VIVI: Are you listening?
ZET: (cutting little bonsai trees) The lake is warm, there are leaves in it, and the fish pokemon bite.
VIVI: If you know about it, get rid of them!
ZET: (cutting little bonsai trees) I'm busy right now.
Zet's walkie talkie cell phone radio rings. Vivi grabs it before he can and picks it up.
VIVI: (talking on Zet's walkie talkie cell phone radio) We're busy.
Vivi hangs up.
ZET: (cutting little bonsai trees) Don't just hang up.
ZET: (cutting little bonsai trees) What if it's an emergency?
Zet's walkie talkie cell phone radio rings again and Vivi smiles.
ZET: (trying to start a camp fire) Oh all right.
ZET: (trying to start a camp fire) You'll be happy if i clean the lake, right?
Vivi answers it again.
VIVI: (talking on Zet's walkie talkie cell phone radio) Hi!
VIVI: (talking on Zet's walkie talkie cell phone radio) He'll call you back.
VIVI: (talking on Zet's walkie talkie cell phone radio) What's your name?
VIVI: (talking on Zet's walkie talkie cell phone radio) I'll tell him, Fad.
Zet finally sets up a camp fire and Vivi hangs up again and puts his walkie talkie cell phone radio down.
ZET: Did you say Fad?
Zet accidentally lays his robotic left hand in the camp fire.
VIVI: Don't you feel that?
Zet notices and removes his robotic left hand from the fire.
VIVI: Why don't you fix that?
ZET: I told you i'll clean the lake.
VIVI: No, your arm.
VIVI: I mean reconstructive surgery doesn't cost that much now a days, right?
ZET: This burn is my burn and this arm is my arm.
ZET: Don't tell me what i need to do!
The next day, at another prison bus, the driver, the one remaining officer of the bus, is held at gun point by a large bad dude named Naro. A seedy bad dude by the name of Dug, makes an announcement.
DUG: Listen good you death row criminals.
DUG: I'm sorry to say this, but the ride to the prison in Ploto has been canceled.
The others laugh.
DUG: This bus will now go on a secret adventure.
DRIVER: Do you think this bus is enough for you to escape?
DUG: I wasn't talking to you.
DRIVER: Stop wasting your time like this now!
Dug pulls out a gun and shoots the driver 3 times in the back.
BANG BANG BANG!
DUG: (holding a gun) I told you to shut up.
TUCAN: Oh man, there goes our precious hostage.
DUG: (holding a gun) I'm not letting any one tell me what to do.
DUG: (pointing a gun at Tucan) If you got a problem with that, step forward.
Uda approaches Dug.
DUG: (yelling and holding a gun) YOU!
Dug points his gun at Uda and a concealed blade drops from Uda's sleeve, down to his hand. He slits Dug's throat with it and Dug dies.
TUCAN: I remember you now.
TUCAN: You're that assassin Uda from the syndicate.
Else where, at a bridge on Ganymade, Zet throws a rock into the water and a gun is pointed at his side. It's his old IKP mentor, trainer, and part time partner, Fad.
FAD: (pointing a gun at Zet) Caught you red handed, tossing a rock at where boats sail.
FAD: (pointing a gun at Zet) That would be a fine of 100 dollars, Zet.
ZET: Then i'll need to collect that loan i gave you with a few years' worth of interest to cover it and then some.
FAD: (pointing a gun at Zet) When did you buy me that cup of coffee?
FAD: (pointing a gun at Zet) That's long past the statute of limitations.
Fad holsters his 6 shooter.
ZET: So you still think you're a gun man with a gun like that?
ZET: Sure is a waste of IKP budget money.
FAD: My gun?
ZET: (putting a candy cane in his mouth) No, your salary.
FAD: Oh really?
Zet offers Fad a candy cane.
FAD: Nah, i quit a long time ago on those sugary cigareets.
ZET: (holding a few candy canes in his hand) I see.
Zet puts his candy canes back in his pocket.
FAD: It's been 10 months since i quit.
FAD: It's a hard cane to swallow when you give up sugar canes.
ZET: I never thought you would and what was it that you wanted to tell me?
FAD: There was trouble on the prison transport bus headed for Ploto.
FAD: That happened 6 hours ago.
FAD: Apparently there was an electrical malfunction.
FAD: The prisoners took advantage of it and started a riot.
ZET: Any thing else?
FAD: Uda is on that bus.
FAD: We don't know where the bus went after it left the Ganymade police station.
FAD: The IKP is frantically searching for it.
ZET: Just don't get any stupid ideas.
ZET: It's out of your jurisdiction.
FAD: The reason you quit being an aid to the cops was because of him.
ZET: Now that's past the statute of limitations.
FAD: If he gets free after what he did, how are you going to feel about your missing arm, partner?
ZET: That story of my past doesn't interest me any more.
[Zet's flash back of his past, from 5 years ago, begins]
On a dark day long ago, near a row of ware houses, Fad and Zet separate.
FAD: (running next to Zet) Zet, i'll go around from this side.
ZET: (running next to Fad) Got it.
They run their separate ways. Zet soon finds Uda standing alone.
ZET: (holding hand cuffs) Uda Taxim, you've got no where to run from me and the cops.
A bright light shines into Zet's eyes from up above and he covers his eyes with his left arm.
ZET: (holding hand cuffs) A trap.
A loud gun shot fires.
[Zet's flash back of his past, from 5 years ago, ends]
Back at the prison bus, the criminals discuss their next plan of action.
TUCAN: What are you gonna do?
TUCAN: The coppers from the IKP are gonna come any minute, the bus driver is dead, and the bus isn't running right.
UDA: We're gonna break through of course.
NARO: Easy for you to say.
NARO: We only got enough weapons for self defense.
NARO: What are you gonna do?
A bad dude named Elroy, with a scar on the left side of his face, takes the wheel.
ELROY: I'm sure they've set up a barricade.
ELROY: It would be better for us to attack and break through where they're thin.
NARO: Can you steer this thing?
ELROY: I was a cop in Vis once.
TUCAN: You used to be a cop and now you've gotten a sentence for life?
ELROY: Cops are humans too.
Back at camp, Zet gets on his bike and Ellie has her fingers in the back wheel of the bike.
ELLIE: You got back.
ZET: (getting on his bike) I'm heading out again.
ZET: (getting on his bike) It's dangerous for you to touch my bike like that, so please stand back!
Ellie lets go and gets up.
ELLIE: If you're going out, please get gifts for Ellie!
ZET: (siting on his bike) Ellie, if i don't come back, water the bonsai trees for me!
Zet pedals off.
ELLIE: Yup!
Ellie starts dancing around.
ELLIE: (singing and dancing) Bonsai, wise guy, and chicken pot pies.
ELLIE: (singing and dancing) Lights shine bright in the many towns of night.
Else where, out on the open road, a fleet of police cars approach the prison bus.
OFFICER: (talking on the radio) Team leader, do you read?
OFFICER: (talking on the radio) This is group D7.
OFFICER: (talking on the radio) We have spotted the prison transport bus.
OFFICER: (talking on the radio) The bus is sending an SOB, save our bus, signal.
OFFICER: (talking on the radio) Apparently they ran into some mechanical trouble.
UDA: (talking on the radio) We're releasing a tow truck.
UDA: (talking on the radio) On the bus are 4 officers and 12 bad dudes.
UDA: (talking on the radio) We're requesting a pick up.
A few minutes later, the tow truck is blown up and with it, most of the fleet. Heavy gun turrets on the prison bus fire, making short work of the rest of the police tow trucks.
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!
Else where and a little later, Fad and Zet approach scraps of the police tow trucks in Fad's cruiser.
OFFICER: (talking on the radio) Number 12 and number 13 have no response.
OFFICER: (talking on the radio) We request emergency back up!
OFFICER: (talking on the radio) Repeat, we request emergency back up!
OFFICER: (talking on the radio) We have lost sight of the squad.
OFFICER: (talking on the radio) Current location is 745.
OFFICER: (talking on the radio) Group D7, initiate code 10 8!
FAD: (driving and listening in on the radio communications) No good.
FAD: (driving and listening in on the radio communications) Apparently, the police don't know where they went either.
ZET: What do you think their next move will be?
FAD: (driving) If they're going to hi jack another bus, they'll be some where close to their original route.
FAD: (driving) Probably at a place where they can hide.
ZET: I don't think so.
FAD: (driving) Than where?
ZET: Europa!
FAD: (driving) Europa you say?
FAD: (driving) What makes you think that?
ZET: If i was Uda, i would go back to Europa.
FAD: (driving) He hasn't contacted the syndicate in quite a while.
ZET: He's old fashioned.
ZET: So much so that he's not the right kind of guy to live in this day and age.
ZET: He'll go back.
ZET: I know it.
FAD: (driving) The black poochyena that won't let go once he bites, huh?
FAD: (driving) Okay!
FAD: (driving) Europa it is.
FAD: (driving) If you're wrong, you're paying for the gas.
ZET: Yes!
Back at camp, the lake gets uncomfortable for Vivi again.
VIVI: (hopping in the lake) Wait!
VIVI: (hopping in the lake) What in the water is going on?
VIVI: (yelling and hopping in the lake) OW!
VIVI: (hopping in the lake) Some hungry fish pokemon just bit my ankle.
VIVI: (yelling and hopping in the lake) WHAT PART OF THIS LAKE IS SWIMABLE?
Else where at camp, Ellie throws cups of water over the bonsai trees. Poochyena jumps at the water and the water runs out. Max approaches to see what's going on.
MAX: What's this?
MAX: Zet's gonna have a fit.
ELLIE: (holding a cup) He asked me to water the bonsai plants.
ELLIE: (holding a cup) He may not be coming back.
MAX: Just don't drown them with your love.
ELLIE: (holding a cup) Okay!
Ellie and poochyena run off.
MAX: (talking to him self) What's up with him any way?
Vivi approaches.
VIVI: Hey Zet.
VIVI: (looking at the bonsai trees) What in the water happened here?
MAX: A watery rampage.
Back at the prison bus, Uda attempts to contact the syndicate.
UDA: (talking to some one over a laptop monitor) It's me.
VOICE: (talking to Uda over a laptop monitor) You seem to have done some thing outrageous.
UDA: (talking to some one over a laptop monitor) We need a new bus.
VOICE: (talking to Uda over a laptop monitor) There's no further relationship between us and you.
UDA: (talking to some one over a laptop monitor) Are you betraying me?
VOICE: (talking to Uda over a laptop monitor) If you want to feel that way, go a head.
UDA: (talking to some one over a laptop monitor) I have info.
VOICE: (talking to Uda over a laptop monitor) That threat won't work any more.
VOICE: (talking to Uda over a laptop monitor) The times have changed since you were in prison.
VOICE: (talking to Uda over a laptop monitor) The syndicate no longer needs Uda Taxim.
Else where, while in Fad's cruiser, he and Zet spot the prison bus from a great distance.
FAD: (driving slowly) You win.
FAD: (driving slowly) He's near.
Fad stops and parks the cruiser.
ZET: We should split up.
ZET: I'll come around from the other end.
Zet gets out to get on his bike that's in the cruiser's big trunk.
FAD: You're crazy.
FAD: That bike doesn't have any weapons.
ZET: (walking away with his bike) You know how i work better than any one else, right?
FAD: Hey Zet, why don't you quit being a bad dude bounty hunter and pair up with me again?
ZET: (holding the handles of his bike) I'll think about it.
At the prison bus, they spot Zet on his bike and Fad's cruiser.
ELROY: (looking out the bus window) I've spotted intruders.
TUCAN: Some one is after us.
ELROY: If it's the IKP, i doubt they would come alone.
Naro shows the heavy artillery he has found.
NARO: (holding the weapons) I found some thing good in the cargo trunk of this bus and we have the perfect target.
Back at Fad's cruiser, he communicates with Zet by radio.
FAD: (talking to Zet through his radio) Zet, we'll approach them using the big rocks for cover.
FAD: (talking to Zet through his radio) Please stay there until i signal!
Zet pedals off on his bike again, despite Fad telling him to wait. Fad then decides to start up his cruiser and drives slowly towards the prison bus.
Else where, at the prison bus, Tucan mans a small gun turret.
TUCAN: (talking to him self and holding a gun while on his motor bike) I don't know who you are, but i'll give you a warm welcome.
He shoots at Zet's bike, but Zet dodges the shots.
BANG BANG!
A back door on the prison bus opens and Naro fires a small rocket at Zet, but it misses him.
BOOM!
Tucan continues shooting.
TUCAN: (holding a gun while on his motor bike) Here you go.
BANG BANG BANG BANG!
Zet's back wheel is hit, but Zet shoots the side of the prison bus and rides closer to it.
BANG BANG!
Fad's cruiser is barely hit by one of Naro's rockets.
BOOM!
NARO: (holding a rocket launcher) Bingo!
Fad's cruiser crashes into the side where Naro is standing and ends up crushing him. Zet enters the big prison bus, but Uda and Tucan are outside the bus and they see him with security cameras.
TUCAN: (looking at a small camera monitor) That kid has guts to come here alone.
Zet spots one of the security cameras. He smiles and then shoots out the camera.
BANG!
TUCAN: (looking at a small camera monitor) That punk.
Uda slowly walks away.
TUCAN: (holding a security monitor) Where are you going?
UDA: To greet my guest.
Gasoline leaks out of the bus, where Fad crashed. Tucan puts the security monitor on the ground and runs to the bus.
TUCAN: You've got to be kidding.
TUCAN: I'm not gonna put up with all of this.
Tucan gets back on his motor bike, not knowing that Fad put a little device on it. Tucan gets blown up.
BOOM!
Else where, in the dark corner of the big prison bus, Uda shoots at Zet and he dodges the bullets.
BANG BANG!
He shoots right back at Uda and he dodges the bullets.
BANG BANG!
Outside the bus, Fad is down to his last 2 bullets, after shooting Elroy dead, 4 times, with his trusty 6 shooter.
Else where, in the big prison bus, Uda and Zet clash.
UDA: (holding Zet in a body lock) You came all the way here to see me?
ZET: (holding a gun) I didn't come here because i wanted too.
Zet shoots at the roof of the bus once.
BANG!
Uda wrestles Zet to the floor of the bus and he steps on Zet's right hand. He takes the gun away from Zet.
UDA: (holding a gun) Please don't say that!
UDA: (holding a gun) I came here just to greet you.
He aims the gun and shoots at Zet's face, but Zet blocks the bullet with his robotic left arm.
ZET: (wrestling for the gun) I didn't want to come, but some thing else made me want to see you.
UDA: (trying to push Zet away) What is it?
ZET: (wrestling for the gun) The left arm i lost because of you.
Zet head butts Uda, but Uda tosses a blade into Zet's left leg and puts Zet's gun down.
UDA: You're a chump.
UDA: You never knew any thing, did you?
Zet pulls out the blade.
ZET: (bleeding and sweating) Never knew what?
UDA: I wasn't the one who shot you back then.
UDA: It was your mentor slash trainer slash part time partner.
UDA: It was all planned out.
UDA: To get rid of you, who was a threat to the syndicate.
UDA: You were long since betrayed.
Fad shoots Uda in the head which kills him.
BANG!
ZET: (bleeding and sweating) Why did you shoot him?
ZET: (bleeding and sweating) Was it because he was telling the truth?
ZET: (bleeding and sweating) Did you come here to shut him up for good?
ZET: (bleeding and sweating) Why aren't you answering me, partner?
FAD: (holding a gun) It was your fault, Zet.
FAD: (holding a gun) You know what happens to people who go against the syndicate, right?
FAD: (holding a gun) Either they all quit like you or they die.
FAD: (holding a gun) We can't live on with our pretty little ideals.
ZET: That's why you betrayed me and kept tricking me?
FAD: (holding a gun) I wanted to team up like back in the old days.
Fad points his gun at Zet.
FAD: (pointing his gun at Zet) Fare well partner.
As Fad is about to pull the trigger, Zet ducks, grabs his gun, shoots Fad, and then drops his gun.
BANG!
He falls to the floor.
ZET: Fad!
FAD: (dying) Zet!
Zet examines his gun and sees that it had only 1 bullet left.
ZET: (holding Fad's gun and looking at it) Only 1 bullet.
ZET: (holding Fad's gun and looking at it) Did you let me shoot you on purpose?
FAD: (dying) Can i have a candy cane?
Zet reaches in his pocket, pulls out a candy cane, and puts it in Fad's mouth.
FAD: (saying his last dying words) I guess i couldn't quit after all.
Fad dies and Zet slowly walks away. He gets out of the prison bus and walks towards his bike. He pedals back to the camp site with a sense of closure and disappointment.
This was another good chapter about Zet's past and when i say good, i mean it had action, adventure, realizations, and lastly, a surprising twist. Fad must've had a lot of hate and anger in him to betray his own friend slash student slash former partner. Even so, may Fad rest in peace. Zet can now move forward with his life. Please type up your reviews for what you thought about this chapter! Stay curious my friends!