Chapter 5-500
What had started out as a favour and a few more dollars to keep him alive on the streets had turned into a nightmare, Dragon thought. While he watched Spirit read, he tried not to scowl too noticeably because Fox would get on his case. Being on a team with a bunch of losers (excluding... no, including Fox) was not what he had in mind when he had robbed that bank with Fox and Gouki. Food and shelter became annoying babysitting. However, he had to admit, the job had given him a room, three square meals a day, and contacts that beat to hell what he had on the streets. Within a few more missions, he would be granted full pardon for robbing the bank and eventually be paid to do something he had been trying to do for years. But that did not mean he was going to let Spirit World take the mission that should have rightfully been his and give it to the "legendary" professionals, Team Youki.
Team Youki may have ten years of experience on Team Reiki. They might all have driver licenses and a variety of weapons that Team Reiki could only dream of being trusted with. They might even be of legal age to enter the bars without beating up the bouncers like Team Reiki did but that did not mean they deserved mission 345!
Thankfully the rest of his team agreed. Even Spirit.
"They can't do that!" The black haired, brown eyed loud-mouth shouted.
Fox shook his head. "Unfortunately they can. If they feel we are too emotionally attached, they can give the case to anyone. That was why we were given Mission 654 instead of Team Bishonen."
"But we traded them that for mission 267," Spirit said before he frowned. "Think we can get Team Yucky to switch with us?"
Fox sighed. "I doubt it. Doing that got us into more trouble than it was worth and all of Underworld knows that."
"But this is our case!" 45 said as he sat in his chair properly. "It was our case since my friend, Spirit's cousin, and Dragon's sister went missing!"
Fox nodded as he closed his eyes. "That is probably why they gave it to someone else. They probably thought that we were too emotionally invested to be able to make logical, safe, and sane decisions."
"But you make the decisions and you aren't emotionally invested so they should give us the case!"
"I agree but the facts remain. Team Youki have the mission." The man gave a small shudder as his eyes narrowed and, in the light of the setting sun, appeared gold. "But that doesn't mean we can't force them to turn it over," Fox's other side said.
While 45 and Spirit frowned, Dragon started to smirk. He already had a few ideas that he was sure were going to work. As long as the two idiots didn't stop him and Fox didn't change back, the mission will be theirs.