On the sidewalk just outside of the Alley. > 
    Ashlyne and Wing were walking.  Actually, they were cursing and
limping.  Apparently, moments before, something cancelled out their
teleportation spell and threw threw them VERY hard into a VERY solid brick
wall.  Just as they neared the entrance to the alley, they noticed the
flash of yellow light and peeked in.

    "Wow... hey! Wing, it's all the bounty hunters and and... THE
PANDA!", Ashlyne hissed to Wing.

    "Really?", as he glanced in, "Oh. Who are the twins?"

    "Dunno... but it looks like they aren't friends of Kendra's."

    Wing smiles, silently picking up a sharp rock from the ground.
"That's good enough for me."

    Smiling, Ashlyne drew a few blades, whispering, "Always the
foolhardy romantic, huh?"

    Nodding, Wing threw the rock at the clone on the left, striking
the back of his skull.  Ashlyne unleashed her stiletto's into the other
clone's back, their slim metallic edges digging deep.

    Giggling, the two walked on, not really interested in the Panda,
having as yet to deal with Nagisa's raging temper. -_-

    The bounty hunters and Panda stood stunned as the rock and 
stillettos dealt with the Erin 2.5's. Ideally, the rock would've 
hit the Erin in the T-shirt and jeans, and the stillettos would take 
care of the Erin in the trenchcoat. But, life seldom works out the 
way we'd like, and the exact opposite happened.
    The Erin in the T-shirt hit the ground face-first as the knives 
embedded themselves in his spinal column. Meanwhile, the rock 
connected with the Erin in the trenchcoat's skull and caused him to 
drop his gun. Panda scooped it up and trained it on the both of them.
    "Hold it," he said. The trenchcoated Erin laughed.
    "I really must remember to thank whoever did that. They've just 
insured that I'll be his next clone replacement."
    "What the Hell are you talking about?" asked Kendra. 
    Erin smiled. "Allow me to introduce myself, _I_ am Erin Mills 
version 2.*6*. And I'm afraid I must leave you now..."
    With this, before anyone could act, Erin 2.6  pressed a button on 
the remote and vanished in a similar blast of yellow light.
    "...no...stop him..." Erin 2.5 gurgled as his life's blood began 
to run out. The others crowded around him, not sure what to do.
    "...reality stabilizer...deactivated..."
    The rest was silence.
    
                                        ---Erin 2.5?