Meeting Enemies
After arriving in Little Innsmouth, the hosts and the Medicis were walking around the little town, looking for clues "By the way, Walker," Francis asked "how do you know Fortune?"
Walker had his hands behind his head "Well, let's say that she liked to interfere in situations where she shouldn't stick her feline nose into."
"Took the rat before you did?"
"Oh yeah." He looked around "Consider this as a payback."
Filia then asked him "Where are you taking us anyway?"
"The only place I know that she'll be." He finally spotted it. A small restaurant on one of the trees that had the sign 'Yu-Wan's Restaurant.' (Forgive me; I can't remember if I got the name right)
"This is it?"
"Yep." They head up the stairs leading to the restaurant and entered to see it slightly filled with customers "Table for four, Minette." He asked a young Dagonian girl.
"Walker, nice to see you again. Right this way, please." She took them to a table by the window and gave them the menu.
"How do you know her, Slick?" Francis asked Walker when Minette left.
"Me and the gang got into a fight with another gang here, and we indirectly freed her. She thanked us by giving us free dinner here." He then looked away before looking back "Though the old fish fart owner demanded for tip."
A voice was heard from the kitchen "I'm old but I'm not deaf, you delinquent."
Walker flinched at the noise "If it wasn't for the little lady's googlie fish eyes and a few of the members who looked at her face begging me, I would've sunken this restaurant."
"You're not serious, are you?" Filia asked him.
"Remember our fight?"
"...Point taken, kid." Samson replied.
"Hey, muscleshirt," Cerebella asked her partner "aren't we on a job?"
"Come on, don't be a stiff, baby." He put his arm around her "You're a circus star, you should know that if you work hard, you should play hard."
"Keep your arm around me and I'm gonna hit you hard." Cerebella threatened.
Walker couldn't help but laugh a bit "You have no idea how entertaining this is, Franny."
Francis stretched his arm underneath and pushed Walker's chair away "You're right, I won't know how entertaining it is for you, but this is for me."
"So is this." Walker stood up and pulled Francis' shirt and let go as it hit him hard.
"That's it." Francis cracked his knuckle, ready to smash Walker into bits, while Walker thought of doing the same thing to Francis while cracking his neck.
Cerebella then whispered to Filia "Crap, we gotta do something!"
They were looking around seeing if there was anything they could distract the two with. Samson suddenly yelled "Look, a ninja and a giant floating ball!"
Stalker opened his eyes "What the hell're you talking 'bout, Samson?" He stretched his eyes to see "Holy crap your right."
Now everyone was looking. Indeed, they saw a ninja on the roof with what looks like an orb of shadow following him.
"Kid."
"Yeah?"
"Did you smoke anything?"
"Not recently."
"Good, I thought I was insane."
They were silently observing this, while the other cstomers just don't seem to notice "Let's follow him." What Walker said caused everyone to look at him.
"You sure you didn't smoke anything?"
"Shut it, Stalker. I just have this gut feeling that we should follow him."
Everyone was thinking whether or not they should go with this plan. Cerebella then spoke "Better than sitting here and doing nothing."
Francis nodded "Alright then. Lets go."
As Minette came to their table Walker told her "Sorry, Minette, we're leaving early."
Walker, Filia, and Cerebella all ran but Francis stayed behind and took Minette's arm and, in his French accent, said "But Madam, would you like to come with me to the city after all this?"
A long black tentacle then wrapped around him "Come on, silver tongue, we gotta move."
Just before they got to the door, Francis yelled out "Come to the city sometimes, eh?"
Minette was just left there confused "So...no lunch?"
At the same time, a little ways from Little Innsmouth, a pair of deadly young teens face off against a pair of deadly enforcers of law. There was no clear victor so far as both sides were still fighting with everything they had.
"Stand. Still." Parasoul was trying her best to hit the dodging Peacock with her Lugermorph and had not hit her at all.
"You call that a gun, Royal Pain?" Peacock jumped and whipped out her own gun "This is a gun." She fired 6 rounds at Parasoul, who opened Kreig, her umbrella, to defend against the bullets. When she looked, she saw Peacock's feet aiming at her face. It connected and Parasoul flew back.
Arselite looked to see the Princess hitting the asphalt "Milady!"
"Where are you looking at?" Arselite held his knives up in time to block the incoming blade from Mage's wand. He pushed him away and aimed his hand at him.
"Eat lead, Twinkle Toes!" He fired a barrage of bullets but they all hit an invisible wall Mage conjured up.
"Twinkle Toes?!" Mage conjured a fireball flying fast towards Arselite.
He sides-stepped and throws a smoke grenade, which starts to cover both of them up quick. Mage looked around and was keeping his guard up "Think fast." Mage turned around only for a metallic fist to uppercut him and send him flying out of the smoke and into the air. Arselite fired his hand which is connected to his arm by a wire as it grabs onto Mage's leg and smashes him into the ground next to Peacock. He then runs to Parasoul.
Peacock walks up to him and helps him up "You handling things fine?"
"I got smoked, uppercutted by a steel fist which then grabbed onto me and smashed my face into the ground. What do you think?"
"You'll live."
"How can you be so carefree at a time like this?"
On the other side, Arselite helped Parasoul up "This fight is going nowhere, those kids are damn strong."
Parasoul picked Kreig up "As difficult as it is we can't give up."
"Got a plan?"
Parasoul nodded.
Mage picked up his hat as he looked at his opponents "I don't like this, they're plotting something."
Peacock looked at them and smiled "Don't worry, we're smart enough to counter whatever they come up with."
"I am, at least." Mage thought.
Arselite cracked his knuckled "Okay, plans in motion. Though I don't feel too proud of it."
"Neither do I, Commander, but we have no choice." She got into a stance "Ready?"
"Let's do it."
They both were in a stance and looked like they were prepared to do something. Then they both ran in to different directions, Arselite heading to the left side of Mage, and Parasoul heading to the right side of Peacock.
"What are they planning? Patricia keep your guard up." He said as he held his wand tight.
Peacock had her gun with a familiar Buster Sword sticking out of her gun "Ya got it, chief." They were both back-to-back as both military leaders were on either of the Skullgirl hunters side.
Arselite, who was on Mage's side, threw a couple of smoke grenades at the two as it manages to cover them up completely "The same trick twice? You obviously know nothing of the magician's code, Commander." Mage made a gust of wind appeared as it blew the smoke away, however...
"Ah crap." Peacock muttered as they were surrounded by bombs floating in the air close to them or stuck on the ground "I gotta hand it to Miss Snobby, she's smart."
"Kreig." Parasoul stuck her umbrella to the ground "Detonate!" The area was soon covered with explosions. A gray smoke then covered the area "Perhaps I went overboard."
The cronies only looked with shock as their leaders got blasted in every direction. When the smoke cleared, they found they found their leader's on the ground and in pain, but still intact and alive "BOSS!" They all ran to their individual leaders.
"Boss, BOSS!" Avery was slapping Peacock in order to get her up "Come on, their gonna premiere the new season of your show, and you can't watch it if you die!"
"Boss, LIVE, DAMMIT!" Bob was shaking Mage in order to get him up "C'mon, your career is launching higher than the skies, you can't just drop that now!"
They heard footsteps approaching and watched as the soldiers moved in closer with the leaders in front "Don't come any closer!" Lady yelled.
Andy went beside her "How dare you hurt our boss!"
Parasoul looked away "Indeed, I did not expect to hurt them that much. Just enough so they won't fight back."
"It doesn't matter what you intended!" Bob flew up "Our leader is hurt, and you're okay with that?!"
"You think we want to hurt kids?!" Arselite yelled.
Parasoul held up her hand to silence Arselite "We are not fine with this, but they wouldn't stop fighting. We had no choice."
"Walking away is a good choice, you bitch." Said a weary sound coming from the damaged Peacock.
"BOSS!" Peacock's minions gathered around her again. The same for Mage's when he showed signs of waking up.
The two authoritative figures walked up to them "What, want some more, Fancy Pants?" Peacock said, still feeling cocky.
Parasoul stared at her with no emotions her eyes "I believe you should come with us if you seek medical attention."
"What's this? Showing pity for the enemy?" Mage responded.
"No. A form of apology."
"Apology?"
Arselite scratched the back of his head with his robotic arm "Yeah, we didn't exactly mean to hurt you that much, we just wanted to talk."
"And you had to beat the ever-loving crap out of us?" Peacock stated as her cronies helped her up.
"Who was it that attacked first?"
Both Magus and Argus user froze at Parasoul's question before looking at each other. Mage stood up "Forgive me."
Peacock, despite being hurt bad, stood up suddenly "Don't apologize!"
"Patricia, it is true that we assaulted them first."
"Yeah, and they're the one who went overboard!"
"Sorry about that, you were just too damn powerful." Arselite apologized.
Peacock crossed her arms "We are, aren't we?"
"That was a fast change." Mage thought.
Parasoul made a coughing sound to get their attention "Regardless, I believe you should come with us."
Mage and Peacock stared at each other for a while, deciding what to do. With a nod, they have made their decision.
"Very well then."
"Fine. Under one condition."
"And what would it be?"
"I want" Pause for dramatic effect "a buffet waiting for me!"
Everyone face faulted at her request "I guess there's nothing wrong with it." Parasoul said as she slowly got up.
"Great. So I guess you won't mind if we follow you in our car, right?" Peacock started walking to the cart as of the fight was just an exercise "Let's go, fellas."
"R-right, boss!" Peacock's gang started running towards her.
"So, just follow us, got it?" Arselite said as he turned around to his jeep with Parasoul.
"Hm?" Mage noticed something thin fall out of Arselite's pocket. He picked it up and saw a picture.
"Boss? You coming?" Bob was poking his leader's cheek when he just stood there.
"...Y-yeah. Lets go." Mage hesitantly replied as he stuffed the picture in his back pocket.
And so, the temporary allies went to the closest Egret base. As for Mage, memories and questions were running through his mind.
"Let me out, dammit! I'm claws-trophobic!" Ms Fortune yelled from within the orb.
"This orb might hold her, but it definitely won't keep her quiet." Kage jumped down to a large warehouse used for storing fishing equipments.
"You can never cage this kitty!"
"SHUT UP!" He kicked the orb up as it hit the roof and bounced back down "Annoying cat."
"Me-OW! That hurts!"
"And why should I care?"
"Is that how a man should treat a feline like me?"
The orb then formed a ripple as it spat out Ms Fortune's head as it kept on rolling before being stopped by Kage's foot "Listen here, feline, I didn't drag you with me just so that I can hear your pathetic puns. Now keep your mouth shut or I'll stitch it shut!"
"What a noisy bunch."
A menacing voice suddenly grabbed their attention. Kage looked around for the source. He then fixated his eyes on a stack of crates "There."
"Seems even my invisibility can't hide me from the senses of someone from the Shinobi Hound Clan." Then a big red dot appeared at the top of the crates before a metallic figure materialized. It jumped down as it stared at the half-breed ninja.
"I see. So the technology you used allows you to cloak." Kage observed.
"Yeah. Keep up with the program why don't you and stop using old techniques." The figure said as he extended his claws.
"Hm, I smell a Lab Zero rat." Ms Fortune mentioned.
"Can it, cat." He kicked her into the black orb.
"NYAH! NOT THE DARK, AGAIN!" She yelled from within the orb.
"What is your purpose here, figure?"
"Nothing really. Just waited for you to get lost so I can move out with some heavy luggage. But that ain't possible with you bickering with that stray."
"I AIN'T A STRAY!"
"So make my job easier and beat it, will ya?" Spike told him.
Kage looked back at the orb momentarily before staring back at the figure. He then drew out his short sword and aim it at the boy "As irritating as that cat is, I must take into consideration about what she said."
"About her not being a stray?"
"About you being associated with Lab Zero."
The figure chuckled a little "And why would I be a part of them?"
"The technologic suit, and the fact that you have something to deliver."
"Yes, but have you considered that maybe I work for the Kingdom? That the suit was made by them? That under no circumstances should I reveal the package?" He looked at his claws "Have you considered that?"
He started to lower his sword "I have." He stared back at him "But since when has the Princess allowed the use of synthetic parasites?"
The figure froze in his tracks "Clever dog. Guess it was a big mistake on my part to show me these bad boys." He stated, referring to his claws. Then a crate behind him began to rattle as the figure sent out an electric shockwave to the crate to make it stop moving.
"This might not be under my Sensei's orders, but I cannot allow you to proceed with what you are doing." Kage took a stance.
"So, playing the good guy, are we?" The figure extended claws from his other arm as he gave off a bit off electricity "This is my last warning, take a hike or I take your head."
"And this is my last warning, surrender and you will not be hurt."
The figure laughed "That's funny. You hurt me?! I hate doing unneeded work, but looks like this is needed."
"Seems we think alike."
"Let's start this!"
Kage charged towards the figure with the power of the shadows behind him and the figure charged towards Kage with the power of electricity behind him. As blades and claws clash, the fight begins.
Krauser and Valentine arrived in front of a gigantic building resembling a cathedral. Of course, it was just a coverup, for deep inside the depths of the building hid a true evil "About time we arrived." Valentine stated as Krauser started walking up the steps "Hey, don't leave me."
"The sooner we complete the task at hand, the sooner I can go back to my experiments, and to your surgeries." Krauser replied.
They entered the Cathedral which was at empty currently, save for two figures at the end "You have finally arrived." The monk, Shadow said.
"We would have arrived early if not for someone's violent and hormonal tendencies."
"Krauser, I'm hurt." Valentine said in mock pain.
Double then walked up to the pair "I must ask, how did you lose her?"
"Marie? She walked away when I was looking the other way." Valentine answered.
"So, through your carelessness, we lost a potential enemy." Krauser harshly told her.
"Relax, we'll get her back." Valentine said "She really doesn't have much of a choice."
"Indeed."
"Let's go bring our Marie back."
Note: I'm sorry I haven't updated in a long time. I have had other work to do and writers block to deal with. And I think the next chapters are gonna suffer the same fate. So until then, please bear with me.