Maki had woken up after being knocked unconscious by Sodam as the others reassembled for their next plan of attack.
"Ugh my head, those bastards." She muttered.
"Take it easy Maki; you're still hurt from that attack Sodam had given you." Guy said.
"What happen to the others?" she inquired.
"They were ordered to retreat as they used a very thick smoke bomb to elude us." Guy replied.
"That's just great, now we have no way to trace these losers." Maki complained.
"Well not exactly." Guy corrected. As he played back a message recorded from the TV.
"Hagger! I know you and your buddies are out there, so why don't you come out of hiding. Come to the abandon building by midnight for a lovely reunion between old friends, if you don't Lucia may accidently suffer." The boss demanded.
"It is no doubt that it's a trap set up by the Mad Gear." Carlos said.
"I'm just curious to know who's controlling the Gear's here and now." Hagger scowled.
"Even so Lucia's life is at stake and we can't risk it, so we'll head there in a few hours, so be on your guard everyone." Guy announced.
A few hours later they arrived at the abandon building on time meeting up with the Mad Gear members. The boss came out of the shadows revealing Belger now half man half machine.
"Welcome everyone; it is good to see you again." Belger greeted.
"Hey Belger what happen, did you get a makeover. You look uglier than usual?" Cody teased.
"Those are big words coming from an escaped convict. I see you personally haven't changed." Belger shot back.
"How did you survive being knocked off the building?" Hagger asked.
"It is true that I was near death, but I had an ally to help me create a new stronger body, so that I wouldn't meet my end so soon, but after the way you guys destroyed my operation it took some time to rebuild while you had your hands full with other Mad Gear activity and even those damn amateur Skull Cross gang. It was only a matter of time until I got my revenge on all of you." Belger explained.
"We came here as you want; now tell us where Lucia is?" Guy inquired.
The Mad Gear pulled out a chair revealing Lucia tied up in front of them. Damnd, Rolento, Sodam, and Abigail stood by Belger side with the purple quarts in their hands. As the grasp the purple quarts a surge of power surrounded their fist.
"You want her, than come get her." Belger tempted.
Guy and the others charged at Belger and his gang for an attack; however, their increased power pushed them back.
"That was only a lucky punch; I'm just going started now." Cody challenged as he went charging in for a second Rolento, but was dodged. Rolento countered by whacking Cody with his staff.
Ibuki then threw multiple kunai knives at Sodam, but he cut through then with his sharp katana's. He swung his katana's and released a projectile attack against Ibuki. Maki quickly grabbed her out of the way.
"Be careful, those quarts are very powerful, I know from experience." Maki warned.
"Let's see how you deal against this." Hagger exclaimed trowing a trashcan at Abigail; however he threw a hard fist shattering the trashcan into pieces.
Guy then charged at Damnd for an attack. Damnd whistled summoning shadow clones of Guy aiding him in battle. Guy then found himself matching his own shadows.
"Say goodbye!" Belger said. He shot his rocket fist at Dean and Carlos.
Dean used his static power to counter Belger's attack, but his attack overwhelmed him due to the quarts power. Carlos charged at Sodam matching katana with katana.
"You may have the mighty power, but you don't have the mighty blade." Carlos said.
He cut a blade off of Sodam's katana and quickly took his distance. Sodam went for a strike on Carlos, but Ibuki threw a smoke bomb confusing his Sodam's senses. She then went in close to Sodam and launched a point blank close range projectile attack as she nearly got into contact with the quarts it amplified he power pushing Sodam back..
She threw multiple kunai knives down pinning Sodam down to the ground and grabbed the quarts from his grasp.
"Give me that!" she exclaimed.
Abigail charged at Ibuki for tackle as Koji quickly saved her by throwing Abigail towards Belger.
"Enough of this!" Belger slammed his fist the ground releasing a massive earthquake making the others shake on their feet. Dean then snuck behind Belger and struck him from behind with his electric fist short circuiting his systems.
"No! Why didn't I see this coming?" Belger grabbed Dean and slammed him to the ground.
Koji then snuck behind the other Mad Gear members as the others were occupied with the leaders and released Lucia tied up from the ropes.
Rolento released multiple grenades at the others, but then detonated creating a powerful explosive.
"We are no match for them; we have to pull back at once." Guy ordered.
"You kidding, I'm just getting started." Cody muttered.
"This is not debatable, if we stick around some more, we would only lose the battle, we have to retreat and re think out plan of attack." Guy ordered.
"Well I sure hate run from a fight, but it seems like we don't have a choice." Hagger agreed.
"Ibuki, create a smoke screen and get us out now!" Guy commanded.
"You got it." She replied.
She tossed a very thick smoke screen confusing the Mad Gear senses of sight.
"Search for them now!" Belger ordered.
The Mad Gear members searched all over the abandon building for Hagger and the others through the mist of smoke.
"They are around here somewhere, maybe I just blow the place up." Rolento suggested grasping his grenades.
"Forget it, we can't risk causing a ruckus, and right now our targets are Hagger and his buddies not the Tokyo police." Belger halted Rolento.
"Damn it and I was looking forward to testing out this power further." Rolento complained.
"Don't worry they will be back, I know it." Belger said.
Guy and the rest of the gang met out back at the hideout to rethink their next attack.
"Are you okay?" Koji asked helping Lucia.
"Yeah, thanks to you." Lucia replied.
"What happened back there?" Guy inquired.
"These punks got the major jump on me. I'm embarrassed for not being able to even see it." Lucia muttered.
"Its fine all right, we were all a little careless, even if it was a trap, we still had to save you from their grasp." Guy replied.
"And the fight was just getting good, but it had to get interrupted for your sake." Cody complained.
"Hey, I didn't ask to be captured for your own amusement, and I see you haven't changed one bit Cody ever since Jessica left you, and to think I was near then happy to see you again, but seeing you now. I wish you did get beaten badly." Lucia shouted as she stomped out of the room angry at Cody.
"So what's up with those two?" Koji asked.
"Lucia and Cody are childhood friends. They have quite a history together. While Lucia joined the Metro city police force Cody went to do his own thing. Those two haven't seen each other in years." Guy said.
"Jerk, who does he think he is lecturing me like that, that idiot just doesn't get it?" Lucia muttered.
"You were worried about Cody weren't you?" Ibuki asked trying to confer Lucia.
"He is so stubborn at times that completely disregards other people's warnings. What's wrong with him?" Lucia continued to mutter.
"If I didn't know better I say you had feelings for him." Ibuki teased.
Lucia stood as she turned her back on Ibuki to hide her face blushing deep inside as she was found out.
"Just don't tell Cody about this or I'll rink your neck ninja girl." She threatened.
"I hear you." Ibuki replied.
To be continued…