Chapter 42
Last chapter Mariko got into contact with Robin and M'gaan to get her girls back. Now there's a second Mariko running around fooling Riza and the Twins. The two have met and you know the fur is gonna fly! Now in response to the actual YJ show. I knew M'gaan was eventually going to break up with L'gon, she's gona try to get back with Superboy who is probably not going to bite to be honest I think it serves the girl right yaknow? And I seriously hope that the Beetles are free, I'd hate it if they weren't. anyway ONWARD TO THE BATTLE FIELD!
Mariko stared at Mariko2 as she stared back. There was a long pause as the trio stared at each other.
'M'gaan, we have a problem. You and Tony get over here quick!' Robin said mentally. Mariko and Mariko2 stared, until finally Mariko glared.
"Who the heck are you!?" she shouted, Mariko2 scowled.
"I'm Mariko Miko, the smartest girl alive, who the frag are you?!" She shouted back, suddenly three girls came out of the room; Riza, Haruhi, and Haruko.
"Mariko-san and…" Riza mumbled, looking between the two, "Mariko-san?!"
"How can…" Haruko.
"…This be?" Haruhi asked, Mariko1 glared, and grabbed Mariko2 by the strap of her top and dragged her into the room.
"I don't know what or who you are, but I swear when I'm done with you, I'm going to make you regret you stole my face." She said, "You have no idea the hell I went through to get here, nearly getting killed by Savage's stupid lackies, and now that I'm here I have to deal with some weird Gemini freak? Are you KIDDING me?!"
"Oh yeah, no contest that's Mariko-san." Riza said, pointing to Mariko one. The twins nodded.
"No contest, no contest." They said, Mariko1 smiled.
"Well that was easy enough—" she was cut off by Mariko2 grabbing her by the shoulder and slamming her to the ground. Mariko1 let out a pained 'oof!' Mariko2 then grinned and rolled around on the ground for a while and let go. When the two stood up the group stared.
"What?!" Marikos 1 and 2 growled, Robin stared.
"Which one…"
"Is Mariko?" Haruko asked, staring at the duo. The Marikos stared at each other with the same annoyed and shocked expression.
"Oh you little witch!" Mariko shouted, Mariko crossed her arms and glared.
"I'm a witch? You're the one who stole my face! Stupid!" she shouted back. Mariko set her jaw and stared.
"I'm stupid! I'm the smartest person alive! You're the doppelganger stereo type!" She shouted.
"Enough!" Robin shouted, "Geeze , this is hard enough to figure out without you two shouting at each other."
"It's not hard at all." Mariko growled, "I'm the real Mariko, and she's the fake. Case closed, problem solved!"
"You've got to be kidding me." Mariko groaned crossing her arms and narrowing her eyes, as M'gaan and Tony came into the room.
"Woaw, double." Tony mumbled, "Who's the real Mariko."
"Well obviously if we knew that we wouldn't be here in this mess now would we Tony-boy?" Mariko hissed, Mariko glared.
"How dare you call Tony by that?! He's my cyborg not yours!" She shouted (anyone else feel sorta Schizophrenic right now? Haha) Mariko scowled.
"I built him what are you talking about how dare I?" She hissed back, "Stupid."
"This is…" Haruko.
"Very confusing…" Haruhi mumbled as the two looked at the double Mariko. Mariko huffed.
"This is ridiculous. Only one of us is the real Mariko Miko, why not just test it?" She said. Mariko frowned.
"That's….actually not a bad idea." She said, "Alright I'm game."
"We can do that!" Haruko and Haruhi shouted gleefully, the Marikos cocked their eyebrows at the twins.
"Wait if she is a clone she's gonna know everything I know." She mumbled.
"She's right," Robin grumbled. M'gaan scowled.
"She won't share everything she has." She said, then smirked. Suddenly Mariko2 held her head in pain.
"Ah! What the heck are you doing to me?!" She shouted, falling to the ground. Mariko1 scowled.
"Good Question M'gaan, what did you do?" she asked, looking down at the second Mariko. M'gaan smiled.
"Well, only the real Mariko would be able to withstand the feeling of a Martian being inside your head. Since you've gone through this before." She said. Mariko smirked.
"That makes sense, I never did tell Savage about that." She said then kicked Mariko2 in the side.
"God you psycho-witch!" she shouted, her shape reforming into a woman with long black hair. Mariko glared.
"Oh you have got to be kidding me!" She shouted with a big grin, "Gemini?! They sent you, of ALL people to pretend to me?!"
Gemini glared up at the girl who began laughing hysterically, she then grabbed Gemini by the jaw and hoisted her up against the wall.
"Haha, I'm going to kill you now." She said her grin no longer visible. Riza and the twins stared.
"Mariko." Robin shouted, Mariko paused and looked back.
"I have to, if she tells Savage, she's going to tell Savage. I can't have that now can I?" She asked turning back to Gemini, Robin frowned.
"Mariko—"
"Listen if you don't want them to see get them out of here. Otherwise shut up and leave me alone about it! I'm going to do it! No one endangers my girls and gets away with it!" Mariko screamed, Robin scowled as he grabbed the twins and Riza and left the room to leave Mariko with what she had to do. Once gone Mariko smirked.
"Oh Gemini you have no idea how much I'm going to enjoy this." She said with a laugh, "It's because of you that I was arrested by the police, the reason I was thrown in Arkham TWICE mind you TWICE!"
"Oh save your psychobabble, you were put in the asylum because you're crazy, I just help Savage do what needed to be done." Gemini hissed. Mariko glared.
"I liked you better when you were beneath me. At my feet." She hissed, she then tilted her head to the side and asked, "Ippen, shinde miru?"
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"I can't believe that the Mariko we've been with the past few days was a fake." Riza mumbled, they were outside the building with Robin, M'gaan and Tony.
"It's alright, there's no way you could have known." M'gaan said.
"So Mariko-chan."
"Isn't finished?" Haruhi asked, Robin shook his head.
"He told us that she was done, that she wanted us to come to the U.S. with her." Riza said, "He lied to us."
"Don't worry about it." Mariko said coming out of the building behind them with Yukie, "I promise you, Luthor won't be lying to you again."
"Mariko-chan, Mariko-chan." The twins shouted hugging Mariko. She smiled and hugged back.
"Eh! Ah, we should probably get out of here." She then said, Robin frowned.
"Why?" he asked.
"Does it matter? I hate Luthor, and want to take my girls away from his building." She hissed back. Robin scowled. She was up to something, "Neh, neh. Haruko-chan, Haruhi-chan. Wanna ride on an alien spaceship?"
The twins smiled and nodded their head.
"Alien space ship?" Riza asked, M'gaan smiled.
"Don't worry it'll be fun." She said, Riza cocked an eyebrow, then the twins hugged her from behind.
"Alien Spaceship! Alien Spaceship!" they shouted gleefully. Tony then ushered the girls toward the Bio-ship and they were off.
Once at a far enough distance for Mariko to be satisfied Mariko smiled. Robin scowled.
"Mariko, what did you do?" He asked whispering into her ear. Mariko's eyes shifted to him her smile still visible.
"What d'you mean Robby-kun?" She asked sweetly. Robin frowned.
"I've been with you long enough to know what that smile means you've done something wrong." He said. Mariko's smile fell.
"I did nothing wrong, Luthor should have thought about what he did before he decided to kidnap my girls." She said in a dark tone. Robin stared.
"Mariko what did you do?" He demanded however Mariko didn't answer instead she looked ahead.
"So where are we headed? Your Base of Operations? The Cave?" she asked. Robin glared.
"Yeah, we figured it'd be the best place for you four to lie low." He said Mariko smirked.
"Good." She said.
"We're so high up! Higher than the plane!" Haruko and Haruhi shouted excitedly, "So high up! So high up!"
"They're kind of adorable." M'gaan said, "I've never met a pair of earth twins before."
"So you're a Martian? Riza asked, M'gaan nodded.
"Yeah, I came here to look for my uncle. He's part of the Justice League, Martian Manhunter." She said, Riza scowled.
"That's kind of ominous." She said.
"I guess that does sound kind of scary, but he does the world so much good. I'm surprised that you all haven't heard of them." M'gaan said. Riza shrugged.
"We've never been to U.S. before. This is our first time." She said, "It's a huge culture shock."
"I know what you mean, when I first came here from Mars, I didn't know anything about it. Other than what my uncle sent back to us. It was out dated." M'gaan said with a sweet smile, "Welcome to the U.S, by the way."
"Arigato gozaimasu." Riza said with a slight bow, "So what's this cave thing?"
"Their Base of operations, super secret agent stuff." Mariko said walking over to the duo. "Gotta keep it secret."
"Secrets, Secrets are no fun, secrets hurt everyone." Haruhi and Haruko said, Mariko turned and smiled.
"Oh but this is good secret stuff, this secret agent secret." She said.
"Secret? Agent? Like the movies?!" the twins cried happily. "Double O seven?"
"yup, just like James Bond." Mariko said with a giggled, "So better keep it a secret you two ok?"
'I gotta say seeing Mariko like this, is a little odd.' M'gaan thought to Robin. He nodded.
'These girls are important to her, she called them her family.' He said, 'It's understandable that she'd be more calm around them.'
'It's sort of nice. To see her this way.' M'gaan said with a smile seeing. Meanwhile further away from the group Tony stared. Mariko looked back at him.
"Tony-boy." She said, Tony perked, "Good to see you again."
Tony smiled, even if she wasn't being all happy and joyful to see him out in the open. He had a feeling—however wishful—that she was being sincere.
Wow this chapter was much shorter than I thought it would be. I finished in a day, I'm a little ashamed. I'm sorry. But hey it was still good right? And we'll leave what Mariko did to grin like she did to the imagination yes? Feel free to tell me what you imagine she did to Luthors building. Let the imaginations run wild! See you later armadillos—unless I see you first! Haha! REVIEW!