Jing-galing walkies
An Astroboy/ Reno fan fiction
By Dan Rush
Astro BOY Anime 2003 Tezuka Productions/ SONY Pictures. All rights respected. Fiction for non-profit fandom enjoyement only.
Chapter two
Tsukasume
Volks Steak House
7:23pm
The explosion was muffled and blew the door off the bathroom stall as the North Korean man advanced with his short barrel machine gun raised on his shoulder. He swiftly rolled around the edge of the broken toilet stall to take a pair of red moon boots to the chest and get toss back hard against the wall! Astro snatched the rifle, broke it in half and slugged the man in the stomach hard enough to knock him out!
Astro turned quickly and took a few shots to his body before Atlas bursted through the bathroom door amidst the chaos of fleeing patrons to slap his hands on the second attacker and shock him unconcious...
"What took you so long?" Astro asked as he stood pulling his torn clothes off.
"I was picking my toes?" Atlas replied as he walked up to see the shrapenal embedded in Astro's body. "What the hell did you do?"
"I wasn't going to let the stupid thing blow up in here was I?" Astro replied as he picked shards from his body.
"You alright?" Atlas asked as he picked some of the fragments.
"My ears are screaming." Astro said as he rubbed his stomach..."And my casing's dented...that's gonna be a fun repair bill."
Nikki came running into the bathroom..."Astro?! "Gasp!" "Oh...are you hurt?"
"No...I catch hand grenades all the time." Astro replied as he took Nikki in his arms. "You...might want to watch out? I may have a few shards left in me in a few places?"
Atlas stood pouting. "Gee...care for the dufus."
Nikki looked at Atlas. "You're Atlas? Wow...what a disapointment."
"Hey!" Atlas replied. "Bad things often come in small packages you know?"
Astro gestured..."We should like...get out of here?"
"Yeah...but not before we drag these idiots to the cops." Atlas snarled as he grabbed the man he shocked, checked his mouth for poison capsules and dragged him out of the bathroom...
Astro was about to go after the other guy when Nikki wrapped her arms around his shoulders and kissed him tenderly..."I'm so glad you're not hurt."
"Well...the nights still young you know?" Astro replied. "Can I get this other guy or...are you thinking of having fun right here?"
Nikki let Astro go and watched as he picked the goon up over his head. "Wanna see me bench press him?"
"Silly." Nikki replied. "Let's just get out of here?"
Mirakai Town
30 Miles east of Tsukasume
7:23pm
Reno stepped back and took a moment to admire the dress..."I like how it came out." He said nodding. "Hey Scott? What do you think?"
Scott Tracy took a moment from watching around the shop to gazing at the light blue dress Abby was wearing..."Did you design that?"
"I sketched it out." Reno replied. "Actually I got it from a dress Queen Elizabeth the Second wore in 1949 before she became Queen of England. I saw it on a YOU TUBE video and thought it might look nice on Abby with a few changes."
"You should seriously consider fashion design. It looks perfect on her." Scott said as he suddenly got a message in his ear piece..."Hey?" He said turning to Reno. "Your friend Astro got assaulted in Tsukasume."
Reno snatched out his cell phone and called..."I hope he's ok...I told him not to dance with these people...Astro?"
"Obviously you're calling about what just happened?" Astro replied.
"Are you ok?" Reno asked.
"Oh..." Astro replied. "Some chipped paint, a stupid grenade to my chest, nothing too bad. Everyone is ok. We're going back to the hotel and I'm sure the North Koreans are right behind us."
Reno sighed. "Astro's ok. We're still laying low with the Tracy's by the way and Penelope and Parker should be backing you up."
"Not like we need them...right Atlas?" Astro asked Atlas.
"Not at all...we have it all handled. Except paying for all the damage to Volks stezk house? Don't know how we can cover that one."
Reno rubbed his hair..."Why don't you guys lure them to more suitable places for a fight?"
"Hey! It wasn't my fault they ruined my date night." Astro snorted. "Just take care of Abby and let us worry about keeping these North Koreans off your back."
Reno raised his cell phone and took a quick picture. "So what do you think of this dress?" He asked as he sent the picture to Astro...
"Oh...that's cute." Astro replied. He showed the picture to Nikki and Atlas...
"She's very beautiful." Nikki said.
"She could do better." Atlas snorted.
"Can't you say anything nice?" Astro huffed.
"I'm me...get over it." Atlas snapped back.
"Oh whatever guys." Reno replied. "Just...be careful please?"
"Define...careful?" Atlas asked.
Astro clicked off the radio and picked Nikki off the ground. "We'll fly back to the hotel and stay put. What's your plan Atlas?"
Atlas looked like he'd been rejected. "I'll just float around. By myself...which is what usually happens."
Nikki reached out a hand..."You don't have to be lonely if you don't want too."
"Well...I think you two would rather be with each other, I mean, kinda awkward to be a third person in a room? If you catch the drift?" Atlas replied.
Nikki smirked. "You have a dirty mind."
"Like I said...gotta be me ok?" Atlas said shrugging his shoulders. "Besides you know me by now Astro? I gravitate towards fire fighters and fire engines; my thing you know? But I'll be close just in case."
Atlas flew off leaving Astro still holding Nikki. "Ummm...if we're a fountain statue? I don't have water." Nikki said shurgging.
"Oh yeah!" Astro said. "Yeah...we were going back to the hotel...yeah..." Astro lit off his rockets and they flew back to the Hotel.
Tsukasume
Un-known location
8:13pm
Yo Jun of the North Korean Secret Services paced before another woman with a pistol slapping against her head..."Is there something about orders that some people fail to understand? Am I lacking in intelect or are people hard of hearing?"
"The opportunity was open Comrade Yo..." The other woman said. She didn't live long to say anything else.
"Thank you for being insiteful Comrade She Jin...idiot." Yo snarled as she put her pistol back into her holster. "At least the Griffin adheres to orders."
"Of the Griffin, comrade? We have had no progress reports since our mission began. Are not worried?"
" As I said before Comrade Jing...At least someone follows orders." Yo replied. "I am assured that the Griffin will execute things exactly."
Tsukasume
The Hotel Sendai
8:42 pm
Astro walked in and flopped backwards on the bed..."Sheesh...my ears sound like bell towers right now."
Nikki walked up and started to pull Astro's moon boots off..."Ummm...I can do that myself Nikki?"
Tossing them aside...the blonde girl bot climbed onto the bed and started to move her hand over Astro's chest and stomach..."What are you doing?" He asked her...
"Keep still." Nikki replied. "You want these shards of metal out of your skin don't you?"
Astro watched as she went up his chest till her face was close to his..."Ummm...I think most of the "shrap" is a little lower?" He said softly as he squirmed nerviously when her lips came close...
"I'm not interested in the shrap really..." She said as she tenderly kissed him on the lips...
Astro felt his insides heating up and he gasped as Nikki pulled back..."I hate to disapoint you Nikki? But I'm not "plumbed up" if you catch the drift here?"
She came back down to kiss him again..."Obviously? I don't care."
"Mmmmm..." Astro replied smiling. "Obviously...you don't."
They rolled around in the sheets for a moment totally absorbed in French kissing until Nikki straddled Astro's hips..."You are so cute, you're blinking scrambles my brains." Nikki said as she teased Astro's lips.
The boy bot's hands moved along her face and slowly parted Nikki's dress top... "You're certainly better made." He snickered playfully. "I may not be plumbed? But I kinda think I'm capable of...other things?"
Nikki smiled back. "I'm capable of other things too..." Astro tried to rise up as the feeling of a swift surge of static electricity fired him out of his love stupor...
"FUCK!" He screamed as a surge of power raced through his body and everything went black soon after.
Tsukasume
The Hotel Sendai
9:20 pm
The pounding of the door jolted Kennedy out of his sleep and he rolled over his mother and flopped to the floor in a crazy scramble to undo the door lock..."Wait!" He yelped. As he opened the door, Atlas rude-fully snatched him by the robe...
"Get the lead out of your ass! Damn it!" The red boy bot snarled. "I knew I should have followed my worries and gone with them to the room...damn it!" Atlas yelped. "Stupid idiot."
"What?! Atlas hold up!" Kennedy protested as Atlas led him to Astro's room.
"They got him!" Atlas snarled as he and Ken entered the trashed hotel room. "And I fell for that little bitch!"
"Nikki?" Ken replied as he shook himself more awake. "You're saying Nikki..."
"Well you don't see signs of a serious fight do you?" Atlas huffed. "Grrrr...ugh! I knew it! I knew it and I let it happen!"
"Well Astro's got a tracking device doesn't he?" Ken asked.
"Doesn't do any good if they sucked all the power out of him does it?" Atlas replied. "Fuck...I don't even have a way of calling Reno or anybody...Astro had all the numbers, we haven't got time to be looking for Lady Penelope."
"Wham!" Atlas hit the nearby dresser draw so hard that it cracked down the middle. "You gotta try and find Lady Penelope or that crazy car she has, I gotta try and track down where they might have taken Astro."
Ken nodded. "Where do you want me to send Penelope when I find her?"
Atlas brought up a map of the city over his eyes..."The Crystal Dragon glass shop in the Ginza. Easy to remember."
Atlas snatched up a piece of paper and a pen. "This is my radio information so they can call me...hurry up, I bet they're planning to take him to North Korea."
Ken rubbed his lips with worry...
"Don't worry." Atlas replied as he placed a hand on Ken's shoulder. "If they get him to Pyongyang? They'll regret they EVER tried to fuck with me. Just make sure we don't get that close."
Atlas ran for the window and bounded out through the shattered glass and into the night.
Unknown location
Japan
10:48pm
Astro's systems rebooted him awake to where he felt his body jolting and shaking about. Obviously he was hanging by his wrists and his legs were strapped or fixed tight to a wall and someone was messing around with his chest door not figuring out that it was going to be really annoying trying to get it open when the magnetic lock was triggered by him going "cold iron".
Cracking his eye lids a little, he watched as Nikki was trying to work a crow bar in the small crack between the door and his body and she was becoming a little ticked off judging by her face...
"Uh? If you wanted to have rough sex, you just have to ask you know?" Astro said smiling. Nikki answered him by rifle butting his chin with the hook part of the crowbar..."Ok...not a conversationalist huh?"
The girl bot gave him a wicked hate filled look. Then she kept right on working over his door...
"Now...let me try to figure you out." Astro said smirking. "The Bazarkanians made you as a walking nuclear weapon for the North Koreans and to sort of make things easier you sweet talked Mother into feeling sorry for you and she carried your processor out so there would be no paper trail and no one would know better. Am I on target?"
Nikki clocked Astro off the chin again..."Silence!" She screamed.
"Do you know what you are in my book right now?" Astro asked.
Nikki looked up frowning.
"A fucken little bitch." Astro snarled.
This time the robot girl cranked up and swung for the fence! She knocked Astro's head off his shoulders where it dangled to the side on the thick cord of wires that held it and serviced the electronic brain...but Astro quickly reeled it back into place...
"Strike one you dumb little bitch!" Astro yelped...now Nikki was really torn up, she struck his stomach again and again with the crowbar while he hung smiling at her...
"You really are pathetic." Astro snorted.
Nikki dropped the crowbar, snatched up an AK-47 and shoved it in Astro's face..." Make another stupid comment...DO IT YOU PIECE OF JAPANESE JUNK!"
"Oh wow...shoot the stupid thing already...sheesh...maybe a bullet will bounce off me and hit something vital on you? Hope its' not the nuke though, then my day would really suck!" Astro snapped.
Nikki...or rather..."The Griffin"...draped the rifle over a shoulder. "You think you are so smart don't you? How smart you will be when we get to Pyongyang and we have all your secrets."
Astro huffed..."Yeah right...enjoy the fantasy while you can. When Atlas finds me gone? He will go ballistic. And...if you do get me to Pyongyang? That will be the worst mistake of your life Nikki. The only sympathy you'll get from Atlas is that he will kill you last so you have enough time to repent before he rips your guts out."
"Talk big while you can." The girl bot snorted. "No one will find you and you won't be able to protect your secrets for too long from us. And let's see what your dear Atlas can do against the might of our air defense system."
Astro frowned back..."You're a little bitch and delusional too. Why are you helping these maniacs? You're a robot! Don't you understand the harm you'll inflict? Don't you see what that maniac in North Korea does to his own people?!"
Niki turned and butt stroked Astro in the chin. "What the Great General Kim has done for me and out kind far out-weights the weak and soft extortion used to keep robots like you leashed and docile."
"Let me out of these restraints and I'll show you weak and docile!" Astro snapped as he pulled at his restraints. "If you think I won't turn a girl into junk, you're really stupid!"
Nikki walked out of the cell and slammed the door shut behind her as Yo walked up. "My but he's a mouthy piece of trash." She snorted as she clapped her hands together.
"Were you able to break into his processor?" Yo asked.
"No...not unexpected." Nikki snorted. "He's guarded by a very powerful magnetic lock which may take some time to over-come. When are we taking him home?"
"Within a day." Yo replied. "Right now it is very unsafe on the coast. The Japanese have increased their naval patrols. So long as he stays in that cell, he can't call for help. But don't take all day to get his door open or we will have to use stronger measures which for sure will break our new toy...or rather...The Great General's new toy."
Tsukasume
The Crystal Dragon glass works
11:39pm
Atlas stood outside the from door pacing and cursing a storm of frustrated obscenities..."Oh come on! Ugh! Where the hell did they disappear too?"
Just then, the lights of the FAB-01 came into view down the street causing Atlas to run towards them. "About time!" He yelled as he ran up and slid to a stop as Parker came out of the driver's seat...
"The North Koreans have Astro!" Atlas said with worry. "I can't get a signal, I don't know where he could be, I'm going fricken crazy..."
Parker put a hand over Atlas's mouth..."Chill gov-ner before you piss oil over yourself?"
Penelope came out of the car with another man in tow. "Atlas? Tell us what happened?"
Atlas sighed..."Astro went out with this girl robot he met while snow boarding. She called herself Nikki. I think...I'm sure...that she's a damn North Korean plant, I knew the...um...girl was too cute! Obviously I got like major trust issues but...but she was way too nice! Ugh! If they get him to North Korea?"
Penelope turned to the other man..."Virgil? Where is Thunderbird Two right now?"
"Twenty miles north of here. I can have it in fifteen minutes." Virgil Tracy replied.
"I think we'll need it to cover the Pacific slot between Korea and Japan in case they try to use a submarine or ship. Better notify the JMSDF of the situation and have them cover the air. Also...notify John up in Thunderbird Five to radar sweep the Sea of Japan constantly."
Atlas snorted. "That's it? We're going to play pin and haystack and that's it? These jerks are ruthless! If we don't get to Astro soon they'll rip him apart!"
"The best course of action right now Atlas? Is to not lose your head and go off like a loose cannon in a glass shop." Penelope said.
Atlas pointed to the glass works with a smirk..."Doy?"
"Don't worry your head off kid." Virgil said. "You haven't seen nothing yet."
Atlas frowned back. "You call me a kid again mister? And you'll see your prostate with your eyes."
end of chapter 2