Chapter 4
W000t! 4th chapter already! Haha Yaknow for any readers who read the other YJ stories I made you know 'Klarion gets a girl,' and 'Dark Beloved' I was reading back on those; and I gotta say I miss writing Klarion gets a girl. Hehe not saying they were the best Klarion Fanfictions in the world, but it was a blast to type up. Also I know I spelled it 'Wilfred' not 'Alfred' I have no idea what went through my mind when I typed that word; but I'm not going back to fix it….Ima be lazy, but if I ever use Alfred again it will be Alfred not Wilfred. I know the characters trust me I do, I just messed up .. Sigh oh well ONWARD TO THE BATTLE FIELD!
When Mariko and Tony arrived at Gotham Academy they were greeted by—well, everyone. Tony looked over to Mariko who greeted everyone back with a kind and happy smile.
"Oh it's so good to see you back Tony; a shame you caught such a nasty bug." A girl with brunette hair said as she walked past the two. Tony smiled meekly then looked to Mariko.
"Uhm Miss Mariko, h-how long was I in your basement?" He asked, Mariko's face contorted in annoyance.
"It's not a basement. That was my bedroom you jerk." She hissed, then smiled as another person walked up to them, "And about a week."
"A…a WEEK!?" he shouted in surprise. Mariko leered.
"Yes, a friggin week. Problem?" She asked through gritted teeth. Tony shook his head, "Good; and you'd be amazed how easily people believe you got some foreign virus."
"You lied to them?" he asked.
"Kid I'm lying to them anyway." Mariko said vaguely, "This project requires human specimens for the Light."
"H-human specimens?" Tony stuttered, "F-for what?"
"For the Light of course; didn't I already tell you about all that. At the very least it programed the knowledge into you." Mariko explained, "Oh but don't worry; Savage-sama only wants to help the world. You can't do that without cracking a few skulls right?"
Tony groaned at her bad joke and felt the back of his head where Mariko hit him. He sighed; thinking on how he got into all this.
"S-so what exactly do you want me to do; Miss Mariko?" He asked. Mariko smirked darkly.
"Round up some useful people; Smart ones, athletic, Yaknow the works." She said then pushed Tony in the opposite direction, "Now bring me someone useful! Or else I'll get mad; and you don't want that. Tony-boy."
Tony stumbled forward into a fairly large boy who glared down at him. Tony laughed nervously then looked behind him only to realize that Mariko had disappeared. He looked back up at the boy.
"H-hey Theodore." He mumbled, the larger boy—Theodore—glared down at him. "Long time no see eh buddy?"
"Don't call me buddy, I don't like you worm." He said, Tony gulped.
"R-right, well. I'll be goin' now." He said and began to back up then turned to walk away only to be grabbed by the shirt collar.
"Where do you think you're goin' worm?" Theodore growled, tony looked up.
"As always nowhere when I meet you." He said with an exhausted sigh then a thought came to his mind, "S-say any chance that instead of beating my face in you'd like to help a friend of mine?"
"Why would I help a friend of yours?" Theodore asked, "Geek."
"You Mariko Miko right?" Tony asked, Theodore gave him a look and set him down back on the floor.
"Mariko Miko? That cute new girl that transferred her a week ago?" he asked, Tony nodded, "I heard she's working on some project; needs nerds like you."
"Well today she also needs big tough guys like you. I'm sure she'd be dying to use you." He said, "You and your gang."
"Oh really?" Theodore mused. Tony nodded feverishly.
"Fact; I know she is." He said darkly, "C-come with me."
~0~
"Hey Dick, what's up?" Barbara Gordon asked, walking up to Artemis and Dick Grayson. Dick looked up(might I add that's just a horrid name for a person.) and smiled.
"Hey Barb." He said.
"Dick can I talk to you in private?" she asked, looking to Artemis out the corner of eye. Dick nodded.
"I'll be right back." He said, Artemis made a face but nodded as the two went off. Once out of ear shot Barbara looked down at him.
"Have you noticed that new girl lately?" she asked. He nodded.
"Mariko Miko? Yeah she's a nice girl, looks like she's getting pretty popular around here too." He said, Barbara frowned.
"Yeah but; have you noticed that some people have gone missing since she came here?" She asked.
"Like who?"
"Tony Dex. He's been missing for a week." She said, Dick looked over Barbara's shoulder and cocked an eyebrow.
"Uhm, Barb," He mumbled pointing to the area behind her. Barbara turned to see Tony, the boy who went missing for a week, walking past the two, "He's just been out sick for a while."
"Look if you're that concerned about her why don't you just follow her as Batgirl, if she's suspicious tell Batman." He said, "I'm going to go back to Artemis ok?"
"Alright fine; but I'm going to get to the bottom of this." Barbara said, "I'm gonna go check this out."
"Ok, I'll see you around then." Dick said then went back to where he sat with Artemis.
~0~
"Alright boy; what cha got for me?" Mariko asked at the end of the day. She was only half interested however as she followed Tony down the halls of the school at the end of the day. Tony led Mariko down to the science wing of the school until they made it to a room marked '608.'
"W-well I managed to find a few people; but they're all sorta big; if that's fine Miss Mariko." He explained opening the door for Mariko, "But if you don't mind me asking; what exactly are you doing?"
Mariko narrowed her eyes and smirked at Tony as she walked into a room with three large boys—no doubt members of some kind of athletics team. One of them was Theodore—the boy who had nearly pummeled Tony to a pulp not long ago.
"You did well for me; Tony-boy." She said, Tony blushed as Theodore and the other two stood up.
"You're that cute new girl Mariko." Theodore said, Mariko frowned.
"Yes." She said with a slight hiss, then smiled walking to the front of the room and sitting on the Teacher's abandoned desk.
"I must thank you all three for coming." She said sweetly, gesturing to the trio that stood before her, "I'll tell you what Tony-boy; keep it up and I'll give you a treat."
Tony's face grew redder as Mariko then looked to the others, Theodore and his crew looked at Mariko—as if they were some kind of wild animal staring at a piece of hanging meat. Theodore smirked arrogantly and gave her a suggestive look.
"You were smart to have Tony-boy come lookin' for us cutie." He said, Mariko narrowed her eyes as her expression changed to a frown.
"Oh?" she asked, a little bit amused by the jock's tone of voice.
"Yeah; so what's this whole project thing about anyway? What're you doing? He asked.
"Why human experimentation of course!" Mariko chuckled as she flipped onto the desk and pulled out a small device. The trio looked confused as she then grinned crazily as she aimed the device at Theodore and pressed a button, sending a shock of electricity throughout his body, like a Taser. Theodore then dropped to the ground. The other two—and Tony—looked to Mariko who was laughing like a mad-man—or woman as the case may be. She then sighed, and looked to the other two boys and aimed her device.
"Who's next?" She said darkly and grinned. Tony stared as the girl—half his size—was taking down three boys ten times his size on her own. He then heard a slight chuckle as Klarion appeared and looked to him.
"Hahaha! Talk about funny. Right Tony?" He asked, Tony gulped and looked to Mariko as all three boys now laid unconscious at her feet.
"Y-yes…really funny." He mumbled as he began to laugh a little himself. He then stopped when Mariko leered at him.
"Now that that's outta my system," She said, "Tony! Drag the specimens outside. I'm going to call Savage-sama and ask him to bring in a truck for these Neanderthals."
"Uhm, yes Ma'am." Tony mumbled, "But how?"
"Helllllllooooo! Tony-boy have you listened to a thing I've told you today?" Mariko hissed knocking on his head with her hand like a door, "You're beyond the limitations of your human adversaries. Pick 'em up and carry them roboy! And hurry up; I'd hate to keep my experiments waiting."
Mariko then turned and walked passed Klarion. As his cat meowed loudly Mariko paused as a smirk crept across her face.
"Enjoying the show so far?" She whispered. Klarion smirked back.
"Very much so; as always you never fail to entertain me." He said. Mariko chuckled.
"And the fun is only just beginning." She said walking off, "That I promise you."
~0~
"Hey did you hear?" A girl asked as she and another girl passed Dick Grayson and Barbara at Gotham Academy.
"You mean about the people who've been going missing over the last few weeks?" the other girl asked, the first girl nodded. Barbara and Dick looked over to the duo in interest.
"Yeah; what's up with that?" she said. The other girl shrugged.
"I know right? I saw that Tony kid—you know the creepy one who keeps stalking Mariko Miko around?" she said.
"Yeah that kid's creepy; what about him?" the first asked. The second girl shuttered.
"I saw him the other day; he was leading some people from the orchestra to the science wing." He said, "What do you think about that?"
The two girls giggled, not exactly taking the whole ordeal seriously. Dick and Barbara looked to the duo as they past.
"I don't like this." Barbara said. Dick nodded.
"Neither do I. I think we should go talk to Tony." He said. "I'll talk to Tony; you go find out anything you can from the friends of the students."
"On it." Barbara said, then the two departed completely unaware of the pair of eyes that watched them. As Barbara walked towards the band hall, she was stopped by Mariko who blocked her path.
"Hey; you're Barbara Gordon right? Commissioner Gordon's daughter?" She asked sweetly. Barbara nodded.
"Uhm yeah…" She mumbled, Mariko smiled.
"I heard he helps the Batman I'm such a fan of your father's work." She said, then began to lead Barbara away from her destination, "I've always wanted to know what a person could do to become a person on the force."
"Oh really?" Barbara asked, as an idea formed in her head, she then took Mariko by the arm, "Well let me tell you all you need to know."
Once the two girls were around the corner and out of ear shot of other students Barbara glared and then grabbed Mariko by the tie on her uniform.
"What are you up to Mariko?" She growled, Mariko gave an innocent look up at the red haired girl.
"What are you talking about? I'm not up to anything; I just want to know how I can become a good police officer." She said. Barbara glared and tightened her grip on Mariko's tie.
"I know you've got something to do with the kids that are disappearing." She said, "I don't know what you have to do with it but I'm going to find out."
"Ooh maybe you aren't as dumb as you look." Mariko spat giving Barbara a foreboding look as she grabbed her by the wrist, "You're right I am up to something; but you'll never figure it out."
Mariko then tightened her grip and twisted Barbara's wrist until she released her. She then continued to inflict pain upon the Bat-brat until Barbara was on the ground and looking up at her with a pained expression.
"And good luck trying to prove anything to anyone else; I've already fooled the entire student body; they'd never believe you," Mariko said with a smile, "And if you do try to tell anyone; I have no problem in inducting you into our fun little science club Do we have an understanding?"
Barbara nodded painfully as Mariko released her hand and smiled a bit more earnestly. She then helped her stand and dusted Barbara's uniform off. She smiled up at Barbara sweetly.
"Glad we had this talk Gordon-san." She said kindly then walked off. Barbara held her injured hand as she watched Mariko walk away as if nothing had just happened.
"Holy shoot! That girl's insane." She mumbled, "I've got to warn Dick."
Now we're getting itno some real stuff. I hope this is all making sense I've had to change the story several times before I could post this chapter. Forgive me. *sigh* stressful say today; my calf got out of her pin and now I'm a little worried she might not come back in. poor Lily, heheh I'm a total farm girl. Oh well review! 'See you later armadillos—unless I see you first! Hahaha!'