Ch.2 Revenge

Now that they had agreed to get the money back, all they had to do now was to figure out a way to do it. When Lasse woke up, he found all four members of Celestial Being crowded around his bed, jostling to ask him questions.

"After they took the money, did you see where the robbers were headed?" Allelujah asked.

"Um.." Lasse struggled to revive the memory. "I'm not sure. They hit me on the head, so I was half unconscious by then…But I think I heard them heading north," he said.

"That's the train station," Tieria said. "They're leaving the country tonight."

"Tonight?!" said Feldt shrilly. "They're escaping with all our money?!"

"Calm down," said Tieria. "I know for a fact that the train will pass this way tonight. All we have to do is to wait at the railways, ambush the train, and get the money back."

After a brief discussion, Celestial Being came up with a plan. They would put up a roadworks sign along the tracks, create a diversion to distract Ribbons and the rest of his gang, and at the same time unload all the money that the Innovators had robbed from them.

It was a simple plan, but a very good plan. Sumeragi, however, still had some doubts.

"The railway…" she said hesitantly. "Isn't that where the Masked Rider usually appears at night?"

Everyone fell silent. The Masked Rider was a lunatic who had been in the army years ago. His real name was Graham Aker but all the kids in the vicinity called him the Mask, because he was never seen without one. Furthermore, Graham had a personal grudge towards Setsuna because Exia had accidentally kicked him in the balls once. After that, Graham was always trying to kill Setsuna by popping up in unexpected places. He usually roamed the wild moors at night, howling "I'm coming to get you, Shonen!" Everyone found it extremely disturbing, apart from Setsuna himself, who thought Graham was a total moron.

"I don't care. I'm going to do this anyway. I am Gundam," he said. Nobody understood this but they were all used to Setsuna's cryptic sayings, so nobody bothered to ask what he meant.

That night, all four members of Celestial Being hid at certain checkpoints along the route that the train was supposed to pass through. They had put a Roadworks sign in the middle of the track to ensure the train would stop at the right place. Sure enough, the train containing the evil overlord, Ribbons, and his gang the Innovators came along at the exact moment that Sumeragi had predicted. Upon seeing the sign, the train came to a halt.

Inside the train, Ribbons jerked awake. "What's happening? Why have we stopped? We're supposed to be out of the country in three hours," he snapped, looking around at his henchmen in anger.

"There's a roadblock," Wang Liu Mei, one of Ribbons' loyal henchmen, explained. Ribbons gave her a stinging slap. "Deal with it!" he said shrilly. He turned to the rest of his henchmen. They were all of uncertain gender and were used to their leader's temper tantrums.

Outside, Tieria and Allelujah were preparing for the 'diversion' to distract the Innovators. The plan was that the two perform magic tricks to entertain the Innovators, making them lose track of time, while Lockon and Setsuna were supposed to creep to the back of the train and unload the bags from the freight carrier. Allelujah was meant to be the 'magician', whereas Tieria had assigned himself the role of 'beautiful assistant'. However, Allelujah wasn't very cooperative today. "Hurry up and change!" Tieria said, irritated. His partner in crime didn't move. For some reason, Allelujah was staring fixedly at something in the night sky, his eyes wide and glassy.

Tieria looked up. Then he realized: it was the night of the full moon.

The next thing Tieria knew, Allelujah's eyes had turned from their normal grey colour, to a bright, manic yellow. "Who gives a **** about this ****!!" he yelled. "I'm gonna **** their ******** ***** and **** up their ****!!!" (You get the idea.) Tieria never knew that Allelujah knew such words. "Who are you?!" Tieria squeaked. This was definitely not the calm-tempered Allelujah he knew.

"I AM HALLELUJAH," came the reply.

- tbc -