Riley
"Open up Durendal, Li!" Xan shouted. "I don't want to make this harder than it has been!"
"Why knock?" Kylie asked. "It's not like they'll-"
Slowly, the door opened, showing a dark room. A metal ball came flying out, and Xan immediately went to the floor like a freakin' action hero.
"Hit the floor!" Xan shouted, releasing the magnetic field so all the Meisters hit the floor.
As I rolled to the ground, I thought 'Whaddya know, he's got some heart. Maybe.'
The bomb exploded, but Xan kept us from getting shredded with his magnetic fields, making me wonder if I should've paid attention during science class. Oddly, the room had been blown to bits, and the explosion sent if flying off.
"What the crap was that?" I asked, looking up.
"That was one of Li's bombs. It appears that it is now time to answer their knock. Do you mind fighting Li? I need to kill Durendal myself." Xan said.
I don't like violence, or cussing, so I just shrugged. "Whatever you want, man. Long as we save Death City."
"Okay. But be warned, Li, no matter how old he looks, is a fierce fighter, and won't avoid cheap shots."
"He's evil." I said. "'Course he'd cheat."
Xan used his powers to break the steel door off its hinges. Of course, there was another barrier using energy behind it.
"It appears that I'll have to do some heavier breaking!" Xan said and, before I could say 'this is ridiculous,' Xan blew the walls of the room off the car so we were on a flat steel platform in the middle of the train.
'Lot of good that did, Xan.' I thought.
In front of us, there was a half-circle of energy, with Durendal in it. Li stood outside it, freaking out.
"Durendal, come on! There's two of them! They'll kill me!" Li shouted.
'No honor among murderers? Bet Li wishes he was a thief.' I thought.
"Li!" Xan shouted. "What have you been reduced to since I left? When I knew you, you weren't that good of a person, but you'd never do this sort of thing! And begging for your life, too? That's just embarrassing!"
"What would you know? You left, most others followed, and I was reduced to working for these people. Scientific research doesn't come without sacrifice, and the Academy and the Police were closing in. I was offered shelter from these forces if I would work for them. They provide me with the resources to conduct experiments!" Li shouted.
"Sorry to interrupt," I said, "I'm Riley, and I was wondering by what you mean by resources. 'Cause if you mean Orochumaru-resources, we're gonna have a problem."
Li pretty much said 'I mean test subjects, dumbass.' Then, he called Stein a coward.
"What would you know about bravery?" Kylie asked, pissed off. "We just saw you begging to get away from my 'simpleton' brother!"
"Okay, I'll fight Orochimaru here while you do your thing." I said, and ran at Li while Kylie changed into a claymore and Eva, shocked silent, was a cutlass.
Li took out a dagger, and blocked Kylie as he threw some powder into my eyes.
I walked backwards, blinking and coughing. "I can't see!" I said.
Eva changed into her human form and raised her fists.
"Oh jeez." I said, rubbing my eyes.
Eva
"Careful!" Kylie cautioned.
I nearly laughed. They had no idea how good I was at fighting. Li stabbed at me with his dagger and I grabbed his wrist, twisting it until he dropped his dagger. Then, when he tried that powder stuff, I kicked him right in the family jewels.
"I thought Li was going to cheat." Riley said, able to see again.
I hit Li in the face, sending him back, and grabbed Riley's hand, blushing a crazy amount as I changed into a cutlass.
Riley
"You're a fist-fighter?" I asked, surprised.
"Looks can be decieveing." Eva said shyly. I blocked an attack as Li swung his dagger at me, and sparks shot up. Kylie suddenly changed into a gun.
"Riley, your wavelength's all messed up!" Kylie said. "You want me to be a sword, but your wavelength wants me to be a gun."
"How'd you know I want you as a sword?"
"You aim like a drunk."
"Ouch. My Irish pride." I said sarcastically, then shouted in pain as I shot myself in the foot (physically, not metaphorically.)
Li laughed. "You are so stupid!"
I frowned, then took a deep breath and pointed Kylie at his head.
"You can't aim. You can only shoot yourself." Li said, but nevertheless, he stuck his hands up.
"Dude," I said. "I got a sword." I then knocked him out by smiting him with Eva's handle.
Who said simple never worked?
