Chapter 30
So Mariko's out on her own, with Klarion and Tony—oh yeah and his dog Yukie I'm gonna skip ahead a few months. In regards of the show; anyone else think it was too soon to trust Green B? I totally saw that coming! So not cool! ONWARD TO THE BATTLE FIELD!
"We've got a blip on Mariko," Zatanna shouted, "She's started hacking foreign computers from a library in Metropolis."
"A library in Metropolis?" Conner asked, "Why there?"
"She said she liked Metropolis." Robin said, "Let's go, if we can find her so can the Light."
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"I've found her! Stupid girl was better at hiding than I thought she'd be." Gizmo said he had found Mariko Miko after months of looking. The fact that it had taken that long to find her bothered him.
"After last time I might have ask for help from some old friends. On this one." He then said, and began to make a few contacts.
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When the Team arrived in Metropolis, they headed straight for the exact library Robin had tracked Mariko to.
"You're sure she's going to be here?" Wally asked, Robin nodded.
"She has to be it's the only place with a computer that's giving off that same frequency." He said, as the group entered the library they started searching for Mariko.
"Well on the bright side she shouldn't be too hard to find; with that green hair of hers that is." Artemis said as she walked forward and bumped into a short girl with a hat over her head and covering her face and a stack of book in her arms. "Oh, excuse me."
"My fault." The girl said with a smile as she continued on.
"Let's go, we'll split up this place is huge she could be anywhere." Robin said.
"Or she could be right outside." Wally pointed out, the girl that had bumped into Artemis being held by the neck by Mammoth.
"You're a hard girl to find Miko." Gizmo said, the disguised Mariko glared down at him.
"My name is Mariko…not Miko chrome dome." She growled, then looked to Mammoth "And I see you've brought a big stupid gorilla with you."
"Mammoth not ape." Mammoth said simply, Mariko narrowed her eyes at him.
"Mammoth; make sure she can't call for help. I'm sure that stupid cyborg is around and within her shouting range." Gizmo said, Mammoth grinned and tightened his grip around Mariko's neck. She gasped and began clawing at Mammoth's hands. Gizmo laughed.
"You can't hurt him; Mammoth's thick skinned noting you do will hurt him." He said. Mariko glared. "Yaknow I could always save you; convince the Light to keep you around."
Mariko gave Gizmo a strained look as she struggled for breath. Gizmo looked to Mammoth who let her drop to the ground. Mariko gasped for air.
"And just what…would I have…to do…to get you…to do that?" she asked as she struggled for air, Gizmo grinned.
"You're an intelligent girl, and I'm an intelligent boy." Gizmo began, "We'd make an awesome…team."
Mariko made a face and stood.
"I don't think so; I don't date people dumber than me." She said then grinned as she saw the Team running toward them out of the corner of her eye.
"Doesn't seem as though you'll be getting away with this either." She said as the team caught up.
"Hey Robin, what took ya?" she asked.
"Why do I get the feeling you were expecting us to find you." Robin grumbled, Mariko smiled.
"See Gizmo that's smart; you on the other hand…not so much." She said, Mammoth growled only to be held back by Gizmo.
"Later Mammoth, we're out numbered." He said glaring at Mariko and the Team. "You may have the upper hand this time but remember I found you once I'll find you again."
Mariko stuck her tongue out at Gizmo as he and Mammoth turned and made their escape. Robin and the others turned to see Mariko, wearing a black long sleeved halter top and shorts with rainbow colored thigh high socks with a pair of knee high convers shoes, and where her usual strangely pony tailed hair would be was a short black wig. The only thing that was remotely Mariko was her blue and purple mutated eyes. She grinned as she picked up her hat and books.
"I knew it was a good idea to draw you here, I had a feeling Gizmo was going to try and find me." She said, "You can come out now Tony; you weren't needed today after all."
Tony silently came out from behind the bushes of the library's garden with his dog Yukie. Mariko smiled.
"What are you doing here of all places?" Conner asked.
"I told you I liked Metropolis better; they have the manga I like to read at their library." Mariko said.
"You expect us to believe that this is all you're doing here today?" Wally asked, Mariko frowned.
"I don't expect you to believe anything, I did do a little hacking but it was only to get some music, and siphon a little bit of power." She said, "Living on my own and lying low isn't easy you know."
"You could always come back to the cave with us Mariko." M'gaan said, Mariko shook her head.
"I already made it perfectly clear I don't belong with you people." She said placing her hat back on her head, "I want revenge at any means, and I can't do that with you people on my tail."
"So what then?" Robin asked, Mariko smirked handing off her books to Tony, and walked off toward her scooter.
"We'll keep in touch; after all there's a reason I bumped into Artemis." She said with a smirk, as she revved up her scooter. "Let's go Tony. Yukie here girl!"
"Ja-ne! heroes. Maybe next time we meet it'll be by chance." She then said, then sped off. The others looked to Artemis who was searching herself. She checked one of her pockets and found a florescent pink communicator.
"When did she plant that?" Wally asked.
"When she bumped into me I guess; but why?" Artemis wondered, "Should we keep it?"
"For now, she might try calling us later on." Robin said, "She gave it to you Artemis so you should hold onto it, if she calls tell us ok?"
Artemis nodded; though none of them knew why Mariko gave her communicator to her and not Robin or M'gaan.
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"Well that went well," Klarion said flying over Mariko and Tony's head. Teekl meowed as he rested in his master's arms.
"Yeah, for now anyway, but now Gizmo might also have a way in finding me. Who knows what else that Mammoth thing of his can do." Mariko said, Tony frowned.
"What that kid said about you joining up with him, you wouldn't seriously consider it would you?" he asked, "I-I didn't really get to hear that conversation."
"I don't date people who are dumber than me besides I don't trust anyone in the light anymore." Mariko growled, "Why do you even care anyway?!"
"N-no reason." Tony mumbled as Mariko slowed to a stop. Klarion rolled his eyes above them as he landed beside the two.
"Yaknow Jigoku Shonen I can't thank you enough for this cloaking spell you've cast. Even with my scooter sitting out in the open there's no way anyone will find us just by looking." Mariko said, oblivious to Tony's downed mood. Mariko then grabbed the books she took from the library and walked ahead. Klarion looked to Tony.
"Usually I would ignore how pathetic this is, but you've gotten to the point where I pity you." He said. Tony's face went red.
"H-huh?"
"Please don't pretend you've made your feelings for Mariko perfectly clear, along with your dislike for Robin, who at the moment has Miko's attention." Klarion went on. Tony groaned, not this again.
"M-miss Mariko's either oblivious or doesn't care; either way doesn't matter to me." He mumbled. Klarion gagged.
"You're boring." He said.
"Oh yeah and what about you?" Tony hissed, Klarion smirked as Teekl climbed to his shoulders.
"Miko's the most fun I've had with a human being in a while, as soon as she gets to be a bore like you I'll do away with her like I do any other toy that I've grown tired of." He said. Tony made a face that said he didn't believe him.
"Liar, otherwise you'd have done that a long time ago." He said. Klarion frowned as Tony walked inside after Mariko. Teekl meowed.
"Quiet Teekl, and that's not true. You should know better than to listen to humans." Klarion hissed, the teleported inside.
"I'm gonna take a bath!" Mariko announced, then looked to Klarion and Tony, "No peeking."
Tony's face went red again as he tried not to let his mind wonder, Klarion smirked.
"Wouldn't dream of it." HE said.
"Hentai," Mariko growled then went to the bathroom shutting and locking the door behind her. Meanwhile outside the bathroom Klarion floated to the door. Tony blushed again as he ran to Klarion.
"W-w-what are you doing?!" he whispered, Klarion rolled his eyes.
"Exactly the opposite of what I was told." He said, "Come on like you haven't ever wanted to."
Tony went silent then cleared his throat, "I-I respect Miss Mariko's privacy."
Klarion narrowed his eyes.
"Well you're just full of lies aren't you? it's perfectly normal to want to see a woman's body." He said, "I do it all the time; if you ask me Mariko's well-endowed for a thirteen year old."
"Mariko was right you are a pervert." Tony mumbled.
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Meanwhile on the other side of the door Mariko sat in the tub dwelling on today's activities. She sighed and sunk deeper into the water.
"What am I gonna do?" She sighed, "The Justice League of Morons will probably find that communicator I put on Artemis, and will probably come looking for me."
Mariko pulled her hair out of her many pony tails, and let her green-blue hair fall into the water.
"Not only that but that little Gizmo kid is on the move for me too," She growled, "Ick I can't believe he'd actually think I'd have any kind of feelings toward him. Little brat makes me sick. I can't stay here anymore."
Mariko then let out a growl of frustration and slammed her hand into the water creating a big slash.
"None of my safe houses in the cities will work!" she shouted to herself, then thought, "But then again I do have Tokyo. Riza and the Twins would be more than happy to see me."
Outside the room Tony was trying to get Klarion away from the door, and failing miserably. Finally Klarion snapped his fingers and the entire wall went see through. Tony stared.
"Now you're a pervert too." Klarion laughed. Tony glared his face turning red from embarrassment.
"Y-you're horrible!" He shouted in a whisper. Klarion laughed.
"Oh please you're enjoying it too," He said with a grin, when suddenly Mariko stood up. Her back was to them and her hair covered most of her body.
"Jigoku shonen," Mariko said, "I know you're watching, little creep."
Klarion snapped his fingers and the wall went back to normal and Mariko was hidden. He grinned but stayed on his respected side of the door.
"Yes Mariko?" He asked.
"Get Tony and tell him to get ready to move," Mariko said, "We're going back to Tokyo."
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'We're going back to Tokyo!' Mariko's voice shouted, Gizmo grinned and turned to Mammoth and a new masked companion that had been given per Gizmo's request,
"Mariko thought she could outsmart me; but she has no idea I bugged her clothes." He said with a laugh, "Mammoth; I'm done with you, get lost."
Mammoth growled and looked down at the masked woman who's mask wore a mocking grin. He then grumbled as he left the building.
"So what's the plan little man?" She asked leaning on Gizmo's chair. Gizmo frowned.
"We're going to follow her duh. Stupid crud-muncher." He growled, "And you Cheshire, are going to finish her off once and for all."
So Gizmo bugged her, literally and figuratively haha. Now you'll really get to see the twins and Riza from Mariko's past. I hope you all are ready, we're drawing closer and closer toward the conclusion of this story, and whether or not Mariko Miko will get her revenge on Savage. See ya next chapter! Review! 'See you late armadillos—unless I see you first. Hahaha!'