Hello everyone it's B-B-B here, and I would like to apologize for my vast inactivity. I just started college and I had a looooot of work to do, and my friend Mayhemb has been in a bit of a rough spot...So I'm going to try and continue on with our Infamous series, this one will be following the Good Path and if things go well I may try to do the Evil path.

It took a few hours until Eugene finally left his beloved realm of protection, and as soon as he stepped foot into reality he was bombarded by Maya's grasp.

"We need to go."

"W-what..? Why! I-is the D.U.P. here or-"

"No, not go-go, I mean go." The red-head huffed, frowning. "They're blocking off the bridge and scanning people, th-they're locking up innocent civilians..! W-We need to help!"

The blonde male frowned softly, and carefully took the Ink Conduit's hands off. "Maya, look, we need to stay hidden..."

"What Rabbit-Eugene-Please...! Please, these people they-they don't have anything to do with this phenomenon that has befallen upon their city! They didn't do anything wrong..! So please, please just...Just help me."

"Maya..."

"Look I'll-I'll get us some help..! That pink haired girl, I-I can find her, and get her. I just..I need you, Eugene."

Maya didn't use to be a dependent person. Yet almost seven years being chained, not capable of moving all that much besides in restricted areas, and having activities like being fed, bathed, and other things done for you by other hands...It changes a person.

Plus being ripped away from that scenario makes a person...Clingy, at times. Especially at times of need and protection.

"...Maya I...I can't..."

"Just send out a few of your angels o-or demons..! To protect me and the other girl, o-okay?"

"...Fine." The Irish-Greek girl grinned brightly up at him. "Only to protect you two..."

"Thank you, thank you, thank you."

"Yeah...But...How are you going to find her..?"

"Where there is a will, there is a way White Rabbit...!"

Maya's "way" was to simply stake out a few buildings from high places...So it wasn't her best idea, but she didn't personally know the girl. Evening began to fall upon her, the sun lowering a bit. This was beginning to become tedious...Maybe she should just go and try and rescue everyone by herself.

Oh but then that may not work...They could possibly over-throw her...And then she'd be taken back to Augustine's 'City'.

Thankfully though she saw it. Specks of neon pink that didn't seem to belong.

The red-head melted into ink, slithering along buildings before going up to the odd spirals of floating light...Her hands fluttered through the levitating streams, eyes wide.

This...This was the girl, it had to be...Unless another Conduit ran away also. That may have been possible...Maybe?

Oooohhh focus Maya, you need to find the source.

She ran along, following the fading lights of neon pink-magenta until she found herself in a few dark alleys. Chilling really, to be in the places where the lowest of the low would go to do their dastardly deeds.

"Well hello there~" She turned, noticing a male behind her that may or may not have been intoxicated. "What's a pretty th'a'ng like you doin' in a place l'ah'ke this~?

Oh Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul-She didn't have time for this...! With a huff she turned back around and ran, ignoring the sayings of drunk men or others. Female women in scantily dressed clothing, older men that handed out bags with unmarked herbs, people scrounging on the streets.

Run.

That's all ya gotta do.

Run.

Flashback

Maya panted as she was suspended in a glass tank over her specified training area, a floor of blazing hot iron with just one doorway to the next tank. It was a simple and standard test for her. Drop to the floor, run, don't get twenty bullet wounds in her physical body or no dinner.

Simple really. All she had to do was run.

The bottom of the glass tank was unlatched, making her fall as she grasped at the air to try and pause the approaching metal

Snap, here went her right foot.

With a grunt she was forced into her ink state to regenerate the bone, her liquid sizzling and searing against the iron like an egg to a skillet.

She started slowing down as her body became sludge it seemed, the burnt ink churning with the fresh liquid. Regenerating itself as the bullets tried to remain inside her.

Five minutes, about a fourth of the way there, Maya was forced to go physical. Her arms and upper torso was made first, pushing herself up as her legs and feet came shortly after.

Those few seconds after re-generation were terrible as things tried to go back to normal. The doctors could never tell if it was the skin, muscle, or bone that returned first...Yet it always felt weird.

Especially when four bullets lodged into your right hip, left shoulder, pelvis, and neck all at the same time. Yep, good times.

Yet dwindling on the pain never got you far in Curdan Cay. Your main objective was to stay alive.

Her main objective was to stay alive.

So just run kid, run.

-Present-

Maya panted as she finally came up to a gate leading into some building, slipping through the bars with her ink and walking inside...Glancing around a bit it didn't take long for her to find...Well...What looked to be an altar.

The word 'Brent' was spiraled and vortexed towards a ledge that had several lit candles all around it. Several pictures in frames on it also, with one of them looking like the other Conduit that had escaped with her and Eugene...

...

She should have kept track of time, she should have set a trap...But what does she do instead?

The Irish-Greek made flowers. A lot of them, placing them around the altar carefully and making sure they didn't go ablaze.

It took a lot to not freak out over the little flickering flames but...She felt good doing this. This was right an-

A searing pain suddenly injected itself into her back, almost making her fall. "What are you doing...?.!"

Turning around the red-head saw it was Miss Pink Hair... "...I'm paying my respects..."

The girl opened her mouth to ask, before seeing what she meant... "..Thanks.."

"It's no trouble..."

"..Ya know, I never got your name.."

"..And I never got your's..."

"...My friend's call me Fetch."

"I'm Maya."

"Nice ta meet ya...D'ya want some...Uh...Chinese...?" Maya blinked as she noticed the Chinese Take-Out boxes within a plastic bag..

"Uh..No thanks. But I..I need help."

"What d'ya need?"

"Have you...Heard about what they are doing on the bridge..?" It was odd to try and repress her usual jargon, yet it was needed in this situation.

"'Bout the barricade...?"

"Well..Yes.."

"What about it..?"

"...I need help in stopping their actions..." The girl looked a bit...Dubious.. "Please. They-they're taking in innocent people."

"And? Some 'uh those people are who let us be locked up...Besides, I'm not messin' with that. I got my own business I need to take care of."

"Please Fetch..! They're taking in innocent kids..! Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters..! And they could be letting in so many more bad people who are taking advantage of the panic! Politicians, workers on the streets, drug dealer-"

"Drug dealers?"

"...Uh..Yes, Drug Dealers."

"...Alright, I'm in."

"R-really?"

"Yeah, so, what's the plan kid?"

"Oh..Uhm...Go in and stop them?"

"..Seriously?"

"In all honesty, I didn't expect you to say yes."

"...Fair enough."

Maya gulped as she slid through the forest around the bridge, on the side that wasn't Seattle. She would take it from this side with Fetch and Eugene storming the D.U.P. from the other. If things went well, hopefully they could help the people who were being captured...

"Maya, you ready?" Her White Rabbit asked through her electronically communicator, making her softly smile.

"Yes White Rabbit. I told the girl as soon as she sees your Angels, that she's good to go."

"A..Alright...I'll wait for your signal then.."

"Very well." She moved to hang up..

"...Maya?"

"Yes?"

"...Be careful."

..."We don't live careful lives...Nor will we leave careful moments." With that the device was closed and slipped away for safe keeping.

The red-head huffed as she got out from the tree lines, looking at the D.U.P. trucks passing by...Before slapping her hand down on the pavement.

A wave of ink flowed free from her, rushing beneath one of the trucks and gurgling, only to shoot up a stalagmite through the touch vehicle. The officers scattered, yelling things to one another as Maya lifted her hands to shoot a burst of flashing red ink into the air.

An Angel dove beside her then, blue swords whipping out and ripping apart the D.U.P. equipment. From ahead neon swirls and spirals was seen shooting too and fro. Things were chaotic...

Good. It would give people the chance to run then. Oh yeah, people were running. Many ran away from the D.U.P., away from the road and driving off...Others...Others couldn't.

Maya ran towards them, forming little ink bridges to help them out from the chaos and destruction. Yet her actions were ignored as the civilians screamed at her to get away and to not hurt them. Geez...Grateful much...

Yet she paused, hearing more screams behind her. Whipping around she saw the cement raising around cars and trying to ensnare the people within them. No...Nonono, they couldn't.

"STOP!" The red-head raced ahead, ink whipping out and forming a structure around the car. It hardened in seconds and even though it wasn't structured well enough...The cement followed up the black substance.

Not much could be done, but thankfully the civilians took the chance to get out of their vehicle. Good, safety.

Keeping people safe an-

"STOP! BIO-TERRORIST!" She yelled in pain several bullets raked through her body, arms flying up to try and shield herself.

Her ink wall flew up to stop a few from the front, yet more from the back hit. Things were..Getting blurry and...

Two arms went beneath her legs and supported her back, a set of wings flapping as they took flight. Opening her eyes Maya saw the near-blinding color of one of Eugene's angels...Oh Oh Jesus, Buddah, Satan, and Gandhi was she glad to see him-her-it.

Maybe she should ask him what gender, if any, these Angels and Demons had...

Eh, stow that question in the back pocket.

Her hands slowly fiddled to open her Electronic Communicator, and died Eugene...

"M-Maya...?.! Maya, a-are you alright?"

"Fine I just...Ah...I'm..Things are...Blurry, White Rabbit.."

"Maya, Maya stay away okay? Stay awake."

"I'm going..Down the..Rabbit Hole, White Rabbit.."

"Maya please I-"

A gunshot singled itself out in Maya's ear as the bullets ripped through the Angel and it dissipated in a flurry of blue and white. For a moment she felt...Light...

And then gravity decided to rear it's ugly head.

She let out a scream as she felt through the air, the phone slipping out of her grasp as her body turned to ink in case of a hard object being beneath her.

Oh sweet sorrow, why did this have to be the one time it was over Water...

"Maya..? MAYA?" Eugene's voice was heard feebly, before her phone was short circuited within the water.

Aaand that is where I will leave it off. Terribly sorry if this seems like an odd chapter, this is my first time writing in a while and I was never really all that good with fight scenes...That was more Mayhemb's thing...Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed what I could make and I hope to see you around...!