Riuko: Okay, here's the improved chapter 2 of White Cat/White Dove. The two are very similar at the beginning, but they begin to vary starting here. Please enjoy, and if you haven't already, check out the other version of this story.

Eve POV

The window behind the woman exploded and a chain wrapped itself around her neck before dragging her through what was left of the frame. The one controlling the chain let her crash to the ground ten feet below. She let out a small shriek of pain as a pool of blood formed over her injured side. The man controlling the chain callously dragged her across the ground to him and lifted her off the ground, leaving her just enough space to keep her feet on the ground. The man with grey hair smiled wickedly at her. The woman cringed and spat in his face. The man sneered and lifted her a few more centimeters of the ground. The woman struggled with the chain around her neck that was slowly choking her. Train, being the show-off he is, stood in the broken window frame and fired a single shot, hitting, with remarkable accuracy, one of the small openings in the man's chain-mail gloves. The man loosened the chain from his captive's neck to cradle his injured hand. The woman took this opportunity to slip the chain from around her neck and taking several large leaps away from her would-be captor before glaring at Train.

"Stay out of this," she snapped. Train leapt from his window perch and landed with a cat's grace next to her.

"I don't remember taking orders from you." Train looked up at me. "Come join the fun Princess."

"And I don't take orders from you," I responded before leaping out the window and landing beside him.

"I'm surprised you managed to avoid a direct shot to the hand," Train stated, motioning to the man's grazed hand which had, surprisingly, already stopped bleeding.

"I'm surprised someone as strong as you seem to be is willing to help that woman," the man replied swinging his weapon lazily at his side. "Hand her over and I may not kill you." Train laughed.

"I was about to say something similar!" He laughed.

"You think this is some kind of game?" The man snarled.

"Well, you seem more like a game to pass the time than an intriguing battle to me," Train grinned.

"Are you trying to piss him off you idiot?" The woman beside us snapped. Train smiled at her.

"Pissing off the enemy just makes things more interesting," he replied.

"I am no child's game!" The man before us roared as he leapt forwards, lashing his chain at us. I focused my excess nano-machines to my hand and made a thin rod. Just before his chain hit me, I leapt up and threw the rod into the ground, catching his weapon in the hole of a chain link and tagging it to the ground. I did a quick somersault in the air before landing behind him. Train raised his pistol and placed it against the man's forehead.

"See, checkmate!" Train grinned at his joke. Part of me rolled my eyes. The man before him gave a nasty grin.

"Not quite." It was then that I noticed the other members of his party; tall, lean men with semi-automatics pointed directly at us. Train leapt back before the firing even began and grabbed the girl we'd been protecting, leaping into the air with her and placing her behind a tree, all while she protested that she didn't require help. She was as stubborn as Train. I relocated my nano-machines to my hand to form a rather large shield to protect myself from the barrage. Train leapt among them, slamming his gun into the napes of their necks and knocking them out one by one. I altered the shield to a lance and pointed it at the man's neck.

"This is Checkmate." I was a little embarrassed to be borrowing a closer from Train, but it seemed right. The girl stumbled out from behind the tree and stood in front of the man.

"Go home Chains. Tell World's End that I am not participating in that genocide he calls 'The Purge'. Find yourself some other person like me."

"You don't get it yet do you Dove?" The girl flinched at the name. "We searched for decades for someone like you, and, now that we have you, we won't let you go. We'll come after you as many times as it takes until Our Lord is happy." The girl he'd called Dove glared at him.

"Then I guess I'll have to destroy that organization."

"How can a little Dove like you take down Rumors? You're nothing Caress, but we need you, so we'll just keep coming back for you." It took me a moment to realize that his hand was in his pocket, but, before I could do anything, he threw down a flash grenade, and, when I could see again, he and his followers were gone. I dropped the lance and let it dissipate. The girl turned to me.

"Who the hell are you people?" Train appeared behind her.

"We told you, didn't we? We're Sweepers." The girl scoffed.

"I will thank you for your help, but only because it would've been harder to escape again if you hadn't. I still have no intention of sticking around, especially now that they know where I am. Binding Chains will most likely return with back up, most likely someone even stronger than him will be with him, and that person doesn't have a particular preference to keeping me alive." Train placed himself behind her. As Sven walked up and completed a triangle to trap her.

"Yes, well we do. You are in no shape to be moving around," Sven replied. "While it would be wise to change locations, I don't think we'll be releasing you just yet. The doctor said you showed symptoms of malnutrition, meaning you haven't been eating well." The girl looked away, embarrassed. "We can't, in good conscience, let you go off again. You need to at least stay with us until your rib heals."

"There's no way I'm getting away from you, is there?"

"Nope!" Train clapped a hand on her injured shoulder, eliciting a whine of pain from her.

"Are you some kind of idiot?" She shrieked.

"No, he's a breed of idiot all his own," I mumbled.

Now, with that conversation out of the way, you need to at least give us your name," Sven stated. The girl looked at the ground and blushed. Was she embarrassed by her own name.

"Caress. My name is Caress Lambert." And for a moment, I felt Train tense up.

Riuko: Mwahaha! Cliffy! At least to those of you who've never read this before. I always wanted to do a cliffy. And not a crappy one. To those of you who've read this before, yes, I gave her Aria's name. She has a last name now, though not her real last name. It occurred to me that Aria and Caress were like father and daughter, so she'd obviously take on his name.