(Opening Theme: Hamatora the Animation Opening 1)
-Present-
The group were currently hiding behind a boulder looking to a vehicle that was nearby. Fiona and the Stranger were both looking over to the car while Rhys, Shadow and Plutia sat against the rock.
"Got one." Fiona said, seeing a Bandit try to replace the tire.
The Stranger armed his gun and pointed towards the Bandit and prepared himself to fire. Shadow looked over to what was happening, and said to the Stranger, "You should let the guy finish up first. Don't waste the bullets over nothing."
The Stranger looked over to him, and said, "Yeah, okay." And he went ahead to put the gun to the side. He turned to Shadow, "I'm curious, why did you decide to split up? What was there to gain?"
"It felt like it was the right thing to do." Shadow said to the Stranger.
"The right thing to do? Really that sounds a bit cliche don't you think?" Rhys said.
"At least your good buddy had the right idea there!" Fiona said with a pissed off to him.
The Stranger said to him, "Well, we all have our reasons. I suppose your reason is good enough."
"Yeah, if they were, we wouldn't be here!" Fiona said, glaring at Rhys.
Rhys stood up and said, "A man can only take so much!"
"Luckily your a safe distance from a man!" Fiona retorted.
"You guys come on." Plutia said trying to calm the two down, "Don't argue again."
The two seemed to ignore Plutia's protest to stop fighting, and they continued to argue.
"You had a car!" Rhys said, "And we were stranded out in the desert, not to mention Shadow and Mion were both injured! Did you even CONSIDER to come back and get us!?"
"Hey!" Fiona said, "We had our own-"
BANG! The gun rang through their ears cutting them off. They all picked up their heads when they saw the Bandit that owned the car was dead. They gave him a look and the Stranger looked at all of them. They could almost swear that he was giving an innocent look to them.
"One of you will have to change a tire." Was all the Stranger said to them.
Shadow sighed and said, "I got it."
"I'll help!" Plutia said with a smile.
The two of them walked over to the car and started to work on changing the tire.
-Sometime Ago on Pandora (Fiona & Plutia's P.O.V)-
Rhys, Vaughn, Shadow and Mion flew out of the caravan, as it continued to drive throughout the desert. Soon enough they had disappeared over the desert horizon. "FUCK!" Iris cursed when she Shadow and Mion went flying and at the fact that Plutia's doll went flying out as well.
"GAH! DAMN IT ALL!" Fiona shouted as well.
They soon hit another bump on the road as they kept driving with the boost.
"WE CAN'T TURN AROUND! NOT WHILE THE BOOST IS STILL ON!" Sasha shouted to them.
They hit yet another bump and some stuff in the caravan went flying. Iris noticed that Shadow's sword was about to fly out but was quick to grab ahold of it. "GET US TO HOLLOW POINT, HURRY!" Fiona shouted to Sasha.
They eventually made it to Hollow Point with most of the caravan in tact. "I can't believe we made it." Sasha couldn't help but say as she drove further within the cave. She turned to Fiona, "You think the guys will be okay?"
Fiona had replied, "They've got those two teens with them that lived on Pandora for almost their entire lives. So I'm sure they're alright. Besides we couldn't help them even if we wanted."
"Good point." Sasha said.
Plutia who had already changed back was in panic. She bit her finger and rocked back and forth. Fiona noticed this behavior, and went over to her. "Plutie?" Fiona said, "Hey what's the matter?"
"My doll… My doll that mother made me…" Plutia said to Fiona, "It fell out of the caravan."
Fiona gave Plutia a comforting pat on the back, "Don't worry, once we get the caravan fixed up, we'll drive back to look for it."
"O-Okay." She said still distressed about it.
They had eventually drove up to a shop that was tilted "SCOOTER'S". "I hope he'll be able to fix it." Sasha said, "We're not exactly rolling in cash right now. How are you gonna get him to do it?"
"Oh please." Fiona said to her, "This is ME doing this. Nothing I can't handle."
"Alright, just don't get too, cocky." She told her.
"Don't worry, we'll figure it out. You stay here with Plutia. I'll do the talking."
Fiona went to open the door of the caravan, but it ended up falling out of place; Literally. It took her by surprise when she pushed the door open. "Wouldn't have it any other way." Sasha said, before going over to Plutia.
Fiona stepped out of the caravan and entered the shop. She looked around the shop, seeing that there was posters and such plastered on every inch of the walls. A lot of the posters contained the death race; some being of Bossanova and other's being of the Black Wind. She continued to look around the place until she heard a voice that had belonged to the owner.
"Alright, carry the three, divide by twelve… What the hell man, I gotta cut down my wrench budget…"
The owner looked up and noticed Fiona was in the shop; He tossed the clipboard he had in his hand to the side.
"Aw hey man, welcome to Scooter's Catch-A-Ride!" He said, "What can I do you for today?"
SCOOTER
LOVES CARS, WOMEN AND CARS (IN THAT ORDER)
Fiona was a bit confused when she saw that Scooter was doing a pose, to well… No one in particular. She looked in the direction he was doing his pose, and just stood there dumbfounded.
Scooter had said not really noticing her expression, "Sorry if I seem a little distracted-Hopefully handing the place over to the new proprietor today, and I gotta get all these numbers and stuff in order, and uh, it's a lot. I don't know if you know this but transition from "small business owner" to "franchise order" is surprisingly difficult."
Fiona took another glance around the shop. "Nice place you got here Scooter." She commented.
"Aw thanks man." Scooter said with his usual smile, "That means a lot. Business has been a little slow so far-y'know being in a hidden cave town and everything-but it'll pick up, haha. Hope it picks up."
Scooter soon noticed the caravan outside of his shop. " .CRAP." He said, "I knew I recognized this rig from somewhere-You were in the latest Bossanova Death Rally!"
Fiona was a bit surprised that he actually knew about that, but not really considering he had posters of it all around his shop.
"Oh I was there man!" Scooter said, "D'you see me I was waving! You were a BADASS!"
Fiona just smiled and went with it, "Yep, you caught me." She said with a smile.
Scooter took another look at the caravan. "That thing's beat up as hell and back man. I can fix it, but it's probably gonna run you about twenty-five hundred cold ones."
Fiona's eyes widened when she heard the price. "Twenty-five hundred?" She said, "That's a little out of my price range."
Scooter turned to her, "Not to be impolite or nothin'... but you must've won a buttload of money from that race, right? Where did it all go? Cuz my cousin, right? He said that his sister's friend's neighbor's husband won one of them races one time and the cash kept them fed for WEEKS."
Fiona had replied, "Yeah, someone stole it. Can you believe that?"
"Yes. Actually, yes I can." Scooter said.
Scooter rubbed the back of his head. "Well tell me this: You think you could ever see yourself racing again?" He asked her, "Let me pitch ya somthin' and it might be crazy. But if you keep racin' I would love to endorse you as a SPONSOR. Whaddya say?"
Fiona had replied, "Scooter sir? You have got yourself a deal!"
They both shook hands, "Yeah!? Aw man this is AWESOME!" Scooter said with excitement, "You will not regret this, no way, no how man. BadASS! Say it once for me, y'know the catchphrase? Catch-A-Riiiiiiide? You know it? Come on say it once for me!"
Fiona didn't really want to say it; but she wanted to endure it, since they really needed to fix the caravan. She had her arms spread and said, "Catch-A-Riiiiiiiiide!"
Scooter couldn't help but let out a high pitched laughter when he heard her say those words. Scooter had then suggested, "I'm thinking that we put a big ol' ad on your van-Y'know, like maybe a picture of me with, like, "Catch-A-Riiiiide" up above it, y'know, all cool right? I'm looking at all badass with you, and we'll put some… Badass pictures of you with your car and your hat and all that…"
Sasha and Plutia (Who had her hair braided again) entered the garage while Scooter was giving suggestions on how the advertisements were going to be. Sasha got his attention, "Hi, "Scooter" right?"
Scooter couldn't help but stare at Sasha looking very dumbfounded. The sisters didn't really take notice of his expression on his face. Sasha asked Scooter, "Everything okay?"
Scooter said, while almost stuttering, "I was uh, I was just gonna, y'know… go grab the paperwork. Lemme take care of that, okay bye." Scooter went ahead to get all the papers that were need together. He handed the clipboard and pen over to Fiona.
"Alright man, here's my standard endorsement contract." He said, allowing Fiona to take them, "Don't mind the sub-clauses about, uh, explosions and whatnot. I might'a copied it from, Torgue… Anyway I figured as long as I'm in there and, ha, doin' it for free, maybe you wanna splurge and get some of the special packages? I got some good ones!"
Plutia couldn't help but ask Fiona, "Can I choose big sister? Please! I promise I'll chose a good one!"
Fiona said to her, "I don't see why not. Just don't choose something too expensive."
Plutia jumped up and down with excitement, before going over to computer where Scooter was.
As they waited for Plutia to make her decision, Fiona, Sasha noticed two suspicious people walk into the shop; Scooter noticed them as well. "Awww, crap, this does not look good." Fiona and Sasha ducked behind the table and Plutia was out of sight from them; Scooter went over to them.
"Heya fellas, what can I do you for?" He asked them.
One of them took out two wanted posters from behind his back; one had Plutia on it and the other was Fiona.
"Oh, no." Sasha whispered.
Scooter took the poster taking a closer look at it.
Sasha said to Fiona, "I just hope that little deal you two struck is enough to get him to look the other way."
"I wouldn't worry too much about it." Fiona reassured her, "He won't sell us out, or our sister."
"You don't know that. We don't even know what the reward is this time!"
"Come on, you just gotta have a little faith."
They saw one of the men punch Scooter in the gut, and elbowed him, causing him to fall to the ground, and they walked away. Plutia came over to Fiona and Sasha when she finally realized that there was something going on.
"Is everything okay?" Plutia asked them.
Fiona and Sasha got up and Sasha said, "Don't worry Plutie, everything is fine."
Scooter got up from the floor and wiped the blood off of his face, "... Yeah, that'll teach em! Hope you ladies weren't too scared. Just doin' my duty, keeping ruffians and crap out of my garage. I'm a real protector type."
Fiona couldn't but ask, "Why did you do that?"
Scooter replied, "Hey man, you three are my customers, and seem like nice folks. If you got people after you, that ain't none of my business but I ain't the type to turn you in."
"What if they try to kill you?"
"Then it'd just be another day that ends with "Y". Ha, HA. 'Cause the days ends with a "Y". But seriously, folks tryin' to kill me ain't new. I'm used to it. But it does seem like bad men are looking for you, you got a place to lay low while I get your ride fixed up?"
Plutia had then suggested, "Maybe we can go to the safehouse? We can get what we need there."
"If Felix hadn't been there first." Sasha said.
Fiona told them, "It's only option we got. We better get going."
While Scooter got the Caravan into the garage the three sisters made their way to the safehouse passing by a wanted poster, not even realizing that they were being followed.
-Later at the Safehouse-
Sasha was the first to open the door with her gun armed and ready, none of them were really surprised to see that no one was inside; but they did see that the safehouse was a mess. "Looks like he had company while he was away." Fiona said.
Sasha shut the door behind her, "It could be Felix." She said.
"Could be."
Plutia couldn't help but wonder aloud, "Maybe it wasn't Felix, maybe it was someone else."
"Let's not worry about that." Sasha said, "We need to get what we need and then get out of here." Fiona and Plutia nodded there heads and started to take a look around the place. They didn't really find much, except for a homemade grenade.
"I don't see any other extra cash lying around here." Fiona said, "He must've cleared everything out before we got here."
"As to be expected." Sasha said with a bit of an angry tone in her voice.
Plutia went over to the panel, "Big sis, don't jump the conclusions. Maybe there's something in the safe."
"Well, couldn't hurt to look." Fiona said. She moved the panel and it had revealed the safe from behind the panel. It scanned her hand and the safe door opened. When she opened it, she found another homemade grenade and what appeared to be a-
"Great, a flashlight." Sasha said, "Maybe if we go camping…"
"It doesn't look like a flashlight." Plutia said.
"It's called a blacklight." Fiona said, "Felix used this to check our first counterfeit bills."
Sasha had said, "Oh, it did look familiar. It's hard to believe that asshole would be sentimental enough to keep in his safe."
"Not unless he meant for us to find it." Fiona said.
She picked up the homemade hand grenade, and the blacklight, with a flick of a switch she turned on the blacklight near the paint can and found something interesting. "Big sis, come look at this!" Plutia said.
Sasha looked over Fiona's shoulder. "What the hell?" There they saw on the paint can, was actual paint that they weren't able to see before. "What kind of paint is this?" Plutia asked.
"It's ultraviolet paint." Fiona replied. She saw that there was a trail of it. "I guess he wanted to keep all this a secret."
"Well, he left for us to find." Sasha said, "So… There's something he wanted us to see." Fiona followed the trail and it lead right to Felix's favorite chair which had read, "Hot!" Fiona moved the light downward and saw that the arrows pointed underneath the chair.
"There it is!" Plutia said, "Under there!"
"Sweet!" Sasha said.
Fiona moved the chair back enough to see what appeared to be a loose floorboard. Fiona removed it and found what appeared to be an ammo crate. "I swear if you find another a flashlight in there I'm leaving." Sasha said.
She opened it and found tons of money as well as, ECHOComm device. "What is it?" Sasha asked her.
"An ECHOComm." Fiona replied.
Sasha sat beside her two sisters and looked over Fiona's shoulder. "Why is there a-" Sasha said but she got cut off, when the ECHOComm turned on.
Felix appeared on the small screen, "If you're watching this… I'm either dead, or worse… My plan worked." Felix said in the ECHOComm, "Fiona, Plutia, Sasha, I'm sorry. There's so much I want to tell you, but the less you know, the better."
"Give me a break." Sasha said, before Plutia shushed her.
Felix had continued in the ECHOComm, "Halfway through the con I realized that we were messing Vallory's people. The same people that have said to have outgunned the Black Wind himself. I knew that and I never revealed it to any of you. If you're watching this, it won't be long before she comes after you. Change your names, change your appearance, change your life, take what you need and go. Forget about the life you had, forget about me… But know that I love you all. With all my hea-"
Sasha had grabbed the ECHOComm, and out of rage, she threw it across the room; making Plutia jump. "Big sis…" Plutia said sadly, "Are you mad at what Felix did?"
Sasha didn't answer her, she just paced angrily; making grunts. Fiona had said, "You know… It's okay to be mad Sasha."
"GOOD!" Sasha yelled, "CAUSE I AM! I'M NOT GONNA LISTEN TO ANOTHER SECOND OF HIS BULLSHIT! I can't believe you let him live… Why did you worn that son-of-a-bitch? You should've let that blown up right in his face!"
"I couldn't let that happen to him." Fiona told her.
"Big sister is right." Plutia said, "He took care of us, so he's our family. She couldn't just let him die."
"DON'T YOU TWO GET!?" Sasha couldn't help but yell, "IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT THE MONEY! THE SECOND A BIG SCORE SHOWS UP HE BETRAYED US! We had it… Ten million dollars… We had it right in our hands… It was enough to get us off this planet… For good."
At that point, tears started to run down her cheeks; all of it was out of sadness. Plutia immediately went to go and comfort her. "Big sis, it's gonna be alright." Plutia said, "Everything is gonna be just fine. You still have us."
Sasha couldn't help but hug Plutia out of comfort; Plutia just hugged her back.
"Plutia isn't wrong." Fiona said to her, "First thing we do, is we'll find this Vault, take all the riches it contains, than we can get off this miserable rock. I promise you, one of these days you'll be looking down from Pandora in space."
Sasha broke out of the hug and said to Fiona and wiped away her tears, "I'm gonna hold you to that."
"You always do." Fiona said.
Plutia's stomach suddenly made a growling sound. She laughed out of embarrassment. Sasha laughed and said, "I guess we should eat something, who knows when we'll eat again." She went over to the pan and started to cook up an egg sandwich. Fiona looked within the crate and saw that there was a total of three boxes. One was labeled, "F", the second was labeled "P" and the third was labeled "S".
Fiona took out the box that was labeled "F". She opened and saw what was inside. "What is that?" Plutia asked her.
Fiona replied as she examined what was inside, "It looks like some sort of an upgrade, but it still only hold one shot." She had looked further within box and found a second bullet, "Sweet! Now I have two bullets!" She said. She took out the box that was labeled "P". "Here Plutie." Fiona said handing her the box, "He left you something as well."
Plutia took the box from Fiona and opened. "A bracelet?" Plutia said taking out of the box, "Made from crystal?"
"It looks beautiful." Fiona said.
Plutia nodded her head, and placed it on her left wrist. She couldn't help but admire it so. Plutia picked up the box that was labeled "S" She was about to open it but Fiona stopped her; She shook her head and took the box from Plutia's hands. "Sasha." She said, getting her attention, "This one's for you."
Sasha took only one glance at the box, before going back to cooking, "I don't want it."
"Are you sure big sis?" Plutia asked her, "You're not curious?"
"Yeah, at least not a little bit?" Fiona asked her.
"I'm sure I don't want it." Sasha told them not making eye contact.
"Oh, alright." Fiona said before putting it away, "I'll just, hold on to it for you. In case you change your mind."
"I won't." Sasha had said to them.
They soon heard the door creak open, causing them to turn around. Plutia couldn't but let out a gasp, as did Fiona and Sasha.
"So stubborn. You're really gonna turn down a man's going away gift?"
(Ending Theme: Bleach Ending 6 My Pace)