Dido and Kennedy woke up in a cell of some sort. After getting a hold of where they were, they both sat up and puzzled on where they were, why they were there, and the heck they were going to get out of this mess.
"Where are we? Why are we here? How the heck are we going to get out of this mess?" asked Dido.
Kennedy made no effort to respond, however, due to the fact that she was 1) angry that she was currently in a cell in who the heck knows where and 2) that Dido's incautious dealings were probably the reason why they were in this mess.
After sitting there and festering for a while, a man in uniform walked by. Dido wasted absolutely no time at all in scrambling over to the hate of the cell and repeating her earlier questions verbatim.
"Where are we? Why are we here?!" she called to the passing man, who promptly ignored her. "Hey, I'm speaking, dammit! Listen to me! Obey, you worm!"
Once the man had gone out of sight, Dido allowed herself to fall back onto the floor. To Kennedy's surprise, she began sobbing a little.
"Hey…" Kennedy spoke. Dido continued sobbing.
"Hey, Dido?
"This is all my fault… I didn't want it to end this way!" she wailed out.
"Hey, Dido…"
"I'm so sorry, Kennedy! I'm so sorry you have to go and die on account of me!"
"Hey… who said anything about dying? Look, we don't know why we're even here. And if they really wanted to kill us, wouldn't they have shot us back out the compound?"
Kennedy put a hand on Dido's shoulder.
"Look, we'll make it through this, alright?"
Dido sniffled and stood up.
"That's right!" she said as she recomposed herself. "We are witches, dear sister! There is absolutely nothing that can get in our way! These fools will rue the day that they dared to mess with us!"
Kennedy smiled. For all of her insanity and selfishness, there was something about Dido that made you want to go along with whatever it was that she was doing, even if it was, for intents and reasons, absolutely insane.
Suddenly, the guy who passed earlier came back with two other equally unpleasant-looking fellows and opened up the cell door.
"Alright, ladies, time to get going. The Captain wishes to see you."
"Hold it right there! Who do you think you are, ordering us around, telling us to-"
The man lifted his rifle and pointed it at Dido.
"I'm the guy with the nice, big gun, that's who I am. Now, any more questions?"
Dido made an audible gulping noise and simply lifted her hands in the air, with Kennedy following suit.
So, being led out at gun-point, Dido and Kennedy left the cell and were led down the halls to meet "The Captain."
Meanwhile, some distance west of here, Ricardo had made it back to the hotel. He went up to the room that Naide and Ellis would have been in, and lacking a key, forced the lock. He barged into the room, only to be met by emptiness.
"Damn it! Where the hell did they go?"
He ran out of the room, passing a cleaning-lady on the way.
"Señor!" she called out.
Ricardo turned to look at her.
"If you are looking for the two young women and the girl, I believe I saw them going out to eat later. I think they headed to a restaurant about ten or so minutes from here."
"Which way?"
"I believe it's south."
Ricardo resumed running.
"Gracias!" he shouted back.
"My, what strange people we get sometimes." She mentioned to another cleaner who had stuck his head out of a room to observe.
"Yeah, you telling me, Amiga. First, you had that guy with the horrible sunglasses and the Hawaiian shirt, and now this!"
Shrugging off the weirdness as just typical everyday oddity, they resumed their duties, completely unaware of the gravity of the situation.
The girls plus Luis were now standing a small distance away from the front of the restaurant. Sonia stood some distance away, watching anxiously, and Jorge easily passed himself off as just as someone who was walking on by and decided to stop to see what was going on.
Lirio demonstrated first how Ricardo taught her to hold the boomerang, and then demonstrated the proper angles to throw it at.
"Wow, you're quite a smart girl!" spoke Luis.
"Go on, Lirio! Show us how you use it!" encouraged Nadie. Tossing her arm several times in preparation, Lirio at last let loose of it, and the boomerang went flying.
The boomerang, in its flight, brushed up against a bucket that was one a nearby girder. This bucket fell and hit a board leaning up on a barrel (for what reasons only the gods knew), which flung a brick that almost hit a passing man, who dropped the soda bottle he was holding. The noise of the bottle shattering startled a flock of pigeons, which promptly flew off in the direction of the large squad of demons. One of the pigeons, who just happened to have finished eating not too long ago, took a large drop on one of the demons.
"Oh, this is just great. Hang on, guys, I'll be right back."
The demon then proceeded to try and find something to clean himself off with. In the darkness, he tripped over a sandbag, in the process knocking over an oil barrel. The oil poured out to underneath a stack of other oil barrels.
"Um, hey, do you think that we should be concerned about that?" asked one of the demons.
"Why? It's not like something's going to light it up."
In the distance, the smaller party of demons was closing in on our heroines. However, they were soon stopped dead in their tracks by a group of really unpleasant-looking fellows with machine guns pointing at them.
"Oh." Said one of them.
The men proceeded to open fire on the demons, tearing several to shreds with the rain of bullets. The one holding the flare fired it off in distress. The other party of demons saw this and moved in for what they assumed would be the kill. A passing vagrant with a cigarette, surprised at the scene of the demons before him, dropped his cigarette. Some of the oil had poured to where he was, and quickly spread to the larger pool underneath the barrels. One of the demons had just long enough to turn around and go "Oh, shit" before a massive explosion happened behind them.
Meanwhile, in Guatemala, are two witches were brought into what looked like a garage. In the garage was the tank of flesh from back at the compound.
"Well, it seems that things have gotten a little bit bad-"
"Very bad, Dido. Things have just gotten very bad."
Standing next to the tank was a severe looking guy in military dress wearing a white beret.
"Who are you? What do you want form us? Why the bloody hell do you have my tank!?"
"You will stop your speaking now, witch." Spoke the man.
"And what if I do-"
"Then I'll kill your friend over here."
A grunt lifted a gun and pointed it at Kennedy.
"…fine. Are you the 'Captain'?"
"No, I am not The Captain, but his right-hand. My name is of no importance to you. I am here to relay orders from The Captain to you two."
"And these orders are?"
"You are to carry on your ritual and resurrect this being for our usage."
At this Kennedy spoke out.
"Are you out of your mind? Do you know just who this person is? I mean, I'm not too sure myself, but if it is what I think it is, resurrecting it would be a very, very bad idea!"
"Silence! The Captain has declared his resurrection to be essential to our plans. Now, if you would just co-"
"Don't you get it? This being, if it is what I think it is, will have absolutely no loyalty to you at all! It'll just run off and pursue its own goals!"
"It does not matter what you think, witch. All that does matter is what The Captain desires. And what The Captain desires is that you resurrect this being. Those are your orders; everything that you will need has been provided. He expects to see results within the next twenty-four hours. I advise you get to it."
The man then ordered most of the grunts out of the room with him, leaving just three to watch the witches as they worked.
Dido and Kennedy just stood there, not completely sure what to do next.
"Well…" started Dido, "if we perform the resurrection, there is a possibility of us dying. However, if we don't perform the resurrection, we are sure to die. What do you think we should do, dear sister?"
Kennedy stood there for a moment and sighed.
"Well, I guess we have no other choice…"
Meanwhile, our protagonists could not help but notice that a giant explosion had just happened right behind the restaurant. Of course, this attracted the attention of everyone within hearing distance, and people came pouring outside to see what was going on.
"W-what the hell was that!?" Nadie stuttered out.
Now, it was at this moment that Lirio, for all of her sense, made a run in the direction of the explosion. The reason she did this was because she wanted to recover her boomerang; being a gift from Ricardo, it meant something dear to her. Thus, completely ignoring common sense, she ran in the direction she saw it fly to.
"Hey, Lirio, come back!" Ellis called out as she began going after her.
"Eliis! Lirio! Wait!" Nadie called out, chasing after both of them.
Luis was about to call out to Nadie as well, but he noticed a figure moving in the smoke: one of the demons had survived, and was focusing its entire malign gaze on the girls currently running.
"What the… heck is that…?" Luis said to himself.
He saw the demon lift its gun.
"Well, Luis, if you're ever going to repay her back, now would be the time." He thought to himself. Giving out a cry, he lunged his full weight (which was not much) into the demon. The demon, now distracted by Luis, quickly aimed its gun towards him, only for a stunner to come out of nowhere, implant itself into the demon, and shock it.
Luis turned around to see Sonia, stun-gun in hand.
"You know, that was an incredibly stupid thing you just did." She said.
"Well, I, um… oh, who am I kidding?" He looked out in the direction that the girls had run to. "Well, at least I got to pay her back. Good luck, Nadie."
"Wait, repay?" spoke Sonia. "You were repaying a favor?"
"Yeah, actually, funny story. I was up in Baja several years back, and this girl, Nadie, came bursting in and saved me from some thugs who had me captive. Of course, she was after the boss for the price on his head, but she still saved me. I don't know where I would be right now if it wasn't for her."
"Oh." Was all Sonia said in reply. "Great, Sonia, you were badmouthing a heroine. Don't you feel special now?" she thought to herself.
Just then, unbeknownst to her, another demon that had survived the explosion was creeping up behind her, shovel in hand.
"Look out!" cried Luis.
Just as Sonia turned, a sledgehammer came crashing down onto the demon, and it dropped. Jorge dropped the sledgehammer, panting from the effort.
"You kids alright?"
"We should be asking the same to you, old man." responded Sonia.
"Well, they're gone now." Jorge said, looking in the direction the girls were heading in.
"By the way, my name's Luis" spoke Luis to Sonia, offering his hand. "What's yours?"
"Ah. Well, um, I'm…" Sonia gulped and mustered up her courage. "My name is Sonia. Sonia Villas Manjarrez. Yours?"
"My name is Luis, Luis Armando. " He shook Sonia's hand.
"Well, while we're in the habit of introductions, my name is Jorge Zavala."
Nadie made her way through the site, looking for any sign of Ellis or Lirio.
"Ellis! Lirio!" she called out. "Damn, they're fast."
Nadie saw two pairs of footprints leading up into a building that was unoccupied.
"Well, those are probably them. Might as well check inside."
Just then, panting as he approached, Ricardo entered the site.
"Ricardo! What are you doing here?"
"Doesn't matter. Where's Lirio? Where's Ellis?"
"That's what I'm trying to figure out. Lirio went chasing after her boomerang, and Ellis went to follow her. I think that they may be in here."
"Well, there's no point in just standing here. Let's find them."
Nadie entered, Ricardo following.
"Ellis. Lirio. You here?" Nadie called lightly.
"I don't like the feeling of this place."
"Neither do I."
"To me, it seems as if we're heading into a trap…"
Nadie then stepped on something and felt it go down under her foot. Before she could ponder what it was, a large boxing bag deployed from the wall and knocked her into the opposite wall, which opened up to let her in through a secret slide leading down.
"Nadie!"
Ricardo tried to follow, but a bag from down the wall came rushing down towards him and knocked him off his feet.
Nadie slid down a long tunnel, until she ended up in a small padded room. She heard an eek when she came in, and even though there was no light in the room, she could tell who made the eek.
"Lirio, is that you?"
"Yes, it is. I'm here too, Nadie."
"Ellis! Thank goodness you're both safe. Um…"
Nadie looked around in the dark, as if it would change how dark it was.
"…any idea as to where we are?"
The ceiling was not very high, probably four feet at best. Nadie had to stay on her hands and knees. She felt round for a bit until she found Ellis and Lirio, and they all huddled together.
"Do you think someone did this all on purpose, Nadie?" asked Ellis.
Nadie put her arm around Ellis, pulling her closer.
"I'm not sure. Let's just stick together and hopefully we'll get out of this alright." She put another arm around Lirio and held her close as well. Just then, the rom began shaking, and Nadie could feel the room moving.
"We're moving." Stated Ellis
"I'm going to hazard a guess that we're on a vehicle of some sort."
"A vehicle? Where do you think it's going?"
Nadie pulled the two of them a little bit closer to herself.
"I don't know…"
Ricardo rushed out of the building, to see on the road below a large truck moving away with a large storage container attached.
"Crap…"
He ran after it for a while, trying to remember the numbers on the license plate. After it had escaped his reach, he ran to a payphone.
On the other end of the phone, Jodie picked up.
"This is Hayward… "
"Hayward, it's Ricardo."
"Ricardo? What's wro-"
"Look, some crazy shit's been going down. I think the girls have been kidnapped."
"The girls? You don't mean…"
"I do. And worse, Lirio…"
"Oh my God. Ricardo…"
"You have any agents nearby?"
"Yes. What should I-"
"This is the truck's license plate number." Ricardo relayed the number to Jodie. "It's rather large. If you can, have someone follow it. I'm going to try and find a way to catch up to it as well."
"Alright. Be careful."
Ricardo hung up and went searching for a vehicle he could commandeer.
The girls eventually fell asleep save for Nadie. Nadie took a watch out of her pocket to try and keep track of the time. When the truck finally came to a stop, about five hours had passed. It picked up again, for another four hours.
"Damn, I'm getting hungry…"
After stopping again, the truck went on for another three hours. By this time, the other two had woken up.
"Nadie, where do you think they're taking us?"
"I'm not sure. Probably somewhere not good."
Suddenly, Ellis got an idea.
"What if I…"
"No. If you try and light it on fire, you might burn us up. And I don't know if we're inside something or not, so freezing it may just do the same to us as well."
"Oh…"
Ellis slumped herself against Nadie.
"I'm hungry."
All Nadie could do was just helplessly sit there and do her best to comfort the two.
Eventually, they came to a stop. She heard the sound of some large doors opening, and then part of the top of whatever they were in opened up.
"Time to get out." Said an unpleasant looking man.
"Who the hell are you?" said Nadie as she raised her gun.
"None of your business. Also…" the sound of several guns clicking came from around. "…hostility is unadvised at this current point in time."
Grunting, Nadie put her gun back in its holster.
"Whatever you do, you better not harm Ellis or Lirio."
"Do not worry. We have been instructed to do no harm unless you attack any of us first."
"Ordered? By who? Just what the hell is goi-"
"Just shut up and get out."
Nadie slowly got up and stepped outside, seeing that the three of them had been in a container of some sort. She also noticed several air tanks affixed to it, thus solving the mystery of how they were able to breath in a closed up space.
Once all three were out, they were each both grabbed by their arms and led out the back of the truck. By their surroundings, Nadie deduced that they were in a jungle somewhere.
"Where are you taking us?"
"Look."
Nadie looked forward and saw a several-story tall building. By its design, she judged that it used to be an outpost of some sort.
They entered the building, and Nadie and Lirio were led off down a different hall then Ellis.
"Just wait right there! Where do you think you're going with Ellis? Ellis!"
"Nadie!" Ellis called back.
Both girls were struggling to run towards the other but were being restrained.
"Ellis! Ellis! Don't worry, I'll get you! And if any of these bastards harmed you in anyway, they're dead! Ellis!"
"Nadie!" Ellis was led around a corner and was lost from sight.
Nadie and Lirio then found themselves thrusted into a room and the door locked behind them. Nadie ran up to the door and began banging on it.
"Let me out, you bastards! I swear, if you plan on doing anything to Ellis, I'm going to make you gag on your own testicles! You hear me! Hey!"
Nadie slumped against the door, tears beginning to form in her eyes.
"God damn it… why is this happening…. Ellis…"
Just then, Lirio, who had curiously been calm this entire time, tugged on Nadie's poncho.
"Lirio…?"
Lirio was pointing towards the window. Nadie needed a moment to sustain her shock. The goons had thrown them into a room with an open window. Nadie had to keep herself form bursting into laughter.
"Good job, Lirio!" Lirio giggled happily at this.
"Hey…" Nadie said, turning towards, Lirio, "want to bust out of here, kick some butts, and save the day?"
"Yeah!" said Lirio, the fact that she made a sort-of word accentuating her eagerness.
"Well, then let's get to it!"
Author's Note: Okay, this turned out much more serious than I wanted it to be, but at least the story is progressing! Will Nadie and Lirio save the day? Where was Ellis being led to? Was Ricardo able to trail them? And just who is this Captain, and why does he want Ellis, and furthermore, why does he want the Witches to resurrect a certain individual? These questions and others will be answered in the next installment! Stay tuned!