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"Unit One, this is Unit Two, we're in position."
"Roger that, Unit Two," a shadowed figure replied. "Unit One will be going through the front door in 1 minute and 50 seconds."
"Understood," came the reply. "Unit Two will enter the compound from the back 15 seconds later," a pause, then, "Be careful Gunner."
"Don't worry Rick. Out."
Lyon, or Gunner, went back to studying the house and its surroundings, looking for anything out of the ordinary. The success of the mission and the lives of his comrades depended on him. He was in command of this mission, it was his first command. He was promoted after the last and first mission that he did for the TDC, Temporal Defense Corps. The General said that not only was he promoted to command Units One and Two, but he was supposed to train them also. He has been training them for a month and a half and they've all improved a lot. His training consisted of a gravity room and martial arts, just like in Dragon Ball. If they knew that his training method was from an anime more than 1000 years old they'd all think he was crazy and he definitely would not have gotten promoted, he thought. He'd just wanted to see if it worked, so he experimented with himself as the test subject.
He looked at the rest of his unit, like him they were all wearing full combat gear. On their heads were the latest combat head gear, helmet made of plasteel that covered the whole head and face. There was a rectangular visor that acted as eye protection and heads up display of sensors data. Their helmets also had an antenna pointing backwards diagonally on each side. The antennas were for sensors, communications and radar. They were all wearing full body skin tight suits made of a malleable version of plasteel, it wasn't as tough as the plasteel of the helmet, but it could bend and stretch a bit so it was perfect for a form fitting body suit. They were also each wearing a body armor made of the same material as their helmets for added protection. Their gloves had reenforced knuckles in case they had to fight hand to hand and their boots were made of a combination of the two different types of plasteel. All their gear was black, the natural color of plasteel, which was just perfect for night missions.
It was time to move in, he gave the signal. All members of his unit moved quietly towards the wall of the surrounding the compound. Just as quietly they were up and over it. On the other side they moved quickly towards the front door. They had to shoot three guards and the security cameras on the way. The cameras were the most important, without them the people guarding the compound won't be able to tell their numbers and exact position. With the first cameras down the guards should know that there was an attack at the front and send more of people to repel the attack. Hopefully a lot more, and that would leave the back lightly defended. That would leave Unit Two an easy way inside the house while his unit draws attention.
After a while and there was still no sound of an alarm, and no sign of additional guards. He began to run over the intel he was given. It only said to assume light to medium resistance, that's why he only took his two units of ten even though he could have taken another two units. It seems that resistance will be very light.
"Unit Two, how many guards?"
"Only two so far."
"Okay. Switch to plan B."
"Copy that, Unit One."
The rest of unit one were already flanking the front door, waiting for him to enter. One of them opened the door, another guards. No one was in sight, he entered the house followed by his unit. The first floor was clear except for the washroom where who he assumed to be the guard of the monitoring room was. They left the guard sprawled on the floor, unconscious not dead, and went down to the basement just as Unit Two was entering the house.
****
Down in the basement a mad scientist was flicking switches, pushing buttons and powering up machines. Computer screens were scrolling with technical data, that the scientist was checking once in a while.
"At last!!" the scientist shouted in joys, there was a crazy glint in his eyes. "Once I push this button, I can go back in time and no one will be able to stop me from taking over the world." He was already imagining himself as the ruler of whole world. He will crush any opposition with superior technology. Too bad that his calculations showed him that the temporal gate could only handle three to five transition. That was why he would be going by himself, but he'd take hi-tech equipment instead of men. It should be easy enough to recruit an army. "The coordinates are already set to 1999." He'd already pushed the button, activating the temporal gate when the door to the lab banged open.
He turned towards the door, saw what looked to him like a policemen and panicked. He stated ran towards the temporal gate. He was so panicked that he didn't notice the gate waver and start fluctuating. The computer screens were filled with warning signs. He jumped into the gate and what he thought was his only escape from the authorities.
As he went through the gate he felt a hand on his back, but it slid away. Then he was traveling through an energy tunnel. That was when he noticed that the tunnel wasn't stable and knew that he failed in his quest.
****
Two minutes earlier outside the door to the lab, Lyon was positioning and giving instructions to Unit One. They could all hear the sound of machines powering up and knew that they might soon be out of time.
With a signal from Lyon, a member of Unit One kicked the door open and entered. Gunner's eyes immediately locked on the man in a lab coat, then he saw the temporal gate. He did some quick thinking and shot what looked like the control panel of the gate. He was about to arrest the scientist when he suddenly started running for the gate.
He did the only thing that he could think of to stop the mad man, he ran after him and tried to tackle the running man. But he wasn't fast enough, he made a grab for the man but only barely touched him as he was about to go through the gate. Its was then that he realized too late, he was going to fast to stop before he entered the wildly fluctuating gate.
He'd traveled through temporal gates before, heck he had to because he live in the year 2000 and the TDC HQ was in year 3153. By now he was used to flying through a tunnel that looked like it was made of energy. That was what he was experiencing now but this time it wasn't smooth sailing. The ride was rough and dizzying with what seems like a hundred twist and turns.
After getting very dizzy to the point of being nauseous, he realized that transit through a temporal gate should not be taking this long. He started worrying weather or not he's going to be stuck in the tunnel. He hasn't heard of any case of someone being stuck in a tunnel, but he's heard of gates that didn't open at the designated coordinates. On those cases they always found out that the gate opened somewhere. Those incidents happened back when time travel just got started, there hasn't been an accident involving time travel in at least 500 years, according to records that is.
He was looking straight ahead, like he always does when traveling through time, so he saw what was supposed to be impossible. There was a fork in the tunnel, which was impossible, the time tunnel was supposed to go straight. Thinking about that, he realized that the twist and turns were impossible too.
He didn't have a lot of time to consider the impossibilities of it all before he was pass the fork, he went to the left, and saw that the tunnel opened not far away.
Temporal Corps Production
Proudly Presents
A Wandering Lyon
by: Leobert Naldoza
Disclaimers: insert standard disclaimers
He groaned as he got up, rubbing sore muscles, trying to clear his head of dizziness and his stomach of nausea. That was some ride, he didn't want to repeat the experience anytime soon. Although he was grateful that he wasn't going to be stuck in the tunnel. The dizziness and nausea tells him that he was still alive, after all he couldn't fell this bad if he was dead. He slowly got to his feet as the world slowly stopped spinning and his stomach began to settle. After he got up and was feeling better, he looked around and saw that he was in a darkened alley. He decided to contact HQ first and tell them that he was alright. "This is Lieutenant Lyon, come in HQ." After waiting for a few seconds he tried again. "HQ do you read me." There was only static coming from his ear plug, it was like the Temporal Defense Corps HeadQuarters didn't exist. He kept on trying to make contact with headquarters for ten more minutes then decided to give it up.
He could not understand it, there was no way that headquarters could just disappear. Even if he went back as far as the age of the dinosaurs he should still have been able to contact headquarters. From his surroundings, it was obvious that he didn't go back in time that far, maybe around the year 2000 give or take 30 years. So he should be able to contact HQ, either something was wrong with his equipment or there was no headquarters to contact. Either way was very bad, but he preferred the first, that way he still had a chance of getting home. It would be just a matter of looking out for other TDC agents.
His musings was suddenly interrupted by the sound of footsteps, he turned towards the noise, the entrance to the alley, and found himself looking at what looked to be a gang of bikers from their clothes. He reached for his gun but realized that he'd dropped it when one of the gang members picked it up. It was a good thing that no one else could use the gun but him.
"Hey look at this fancy looking gun boss," said the guy, holding the gun to the leader of the gang.
"Hmmm... Pretty big gun, feels light for its size though," said the leader. The leader of the gang was tall about six feet, he had black hair and a scarred face. He wore a leather jacket and torn denims. And he held the gun as if he knew how to use it, not that he could though.
Lyon, studied the others, there were ten in all including the leader and the guy that picked up the gun. They all looked like thugs, they obviously had a weird sense of hair color. There were light blue, green, purple, pink, and any other color in a rainbow. They also all have weapons, knives, pipes, and chains. Some of them had what looked like bionic implants, on their arms, legs and even faces. Deciding that they were no treat to him, he spoke out.
"Better give that to me before you hurt yourself." Lyon was wearing full combat gear, so he wasn't really worried if they decided to attack him if they got mad.
"It's you that's gonna hurt, buddy," shouted the guy who picked up the gun. "This is Outriders territory, and this alley is ours. Right, Boss."
"That's right, little fella, you're gonna get hurt if you don't hand over everything you have right now."
"Oh, I don't think so." Lyon quickly got in to a martial arts stance that was best for dealing with multiple opponents.
"Boss! what if he's a boomer." Lyon head a guy in the back say quietly. Something about that and the name of the gang got his attention.
"He's not a boomer, he's just some punk playing dress up," said their leader, "Get him!!!" Then they rushed Lyon.
When the closest of the thugs were about half way to Lyon he bent his legs then jumped the remaining distance between them. What followed were a bunch of thugs flying towards walls, garbage cans and out of the alley and into the streets. A little later the alley was filled with groaning bodies and there were only two figures left standing.
"I told you to give me the gun before you got hurt," Lyon said with what he thought was enough menace in his voice. "I'm telling you again. Give me the gun."
The gang leader's reply was to point the gun at Lyon. "Who.. What are you?" His hand was shaking, he'd just seen his entire gang defeated in under a minute, but he wasn't going to give up. He was stupid. He did the only thing that he could think of, he pulled the trigger.
There was a faint click, the sound of the guns trigger being pulled, then Lyon was in motion. He grabbed the gun out of the gang leader's hand with one hand and shot a palm strike to the guy's chin. The gang lead flew backwards and slammed into a wall.
Lyon was already checking his gun for any damage caused by his rough arrival and journey through an unstable temporal gate. When he was satisfied that nothing was wrong, he put it back to its holster at his waist. He was just about to leave when it came back to him. Boomers and the Outriders. God! he was in Mega Tokyo. He noticed one of the thugs getting up and decided to confirm it and ask what the date.
"You!" He walked towards the guy getting up from the street and picked him up by his shirt. "I have a few questions."
"Any thing! Please don't kill me," begged the scared thug. "I knew he was a boomer." The last was whispered, but Lyon still heard it.
"Nope, I'm not a boomer or a boomeroid."
"Gulp! Okay, your not a boomer."
"Now, I want to know if I'm in Mega Tokyo."
"Y.. Yes, you're in Mega Tokyo."
"Good. What's the date, year?"
"May 16, 2032. Can you let me go now?" asked the guy, sounding pathetic.
"Okay." Lyon replied and then he let go and started walking away while the thug crawled away so as not to be noticed. It was another impossible thing, he was really getting tier of impossible things. If he's right and he was in Mega Tokyo then that would mean that he was in a different dimension. That would also mean that there was no TDC HQ or agents to contact. He was stuck, the chances of getting home was null. But there was a bright side to all of this, he was all ways looking at the bright side of things. He was in one of his favorite anime and the series should only just be beginning. He could watch the Knight Sabers in action, live!, or he could help out. And maybe they'd help him get back to his own universe, Sylia Stingray might be able to help him. As far as helping the Saber go, it would be fun and he would be carrying out TDCs directives. Stop anyone using time machines who were bent on world conquest. Genom might not be using time machines but they were bent on world conquest.
First though, he needed money so he turned around, walked back to the fallen bodies and looted them. He let the one crawling away alone, he'd already given him more important information. He still got around 75 000 yen in cash though, he guessed that they all didn't believe in banks. He also took all their jewelry and watches to pawn of later. He also decided that he didn't want to walk so he grabbed all their keys. When he was out of the alley, he looked for the gang's bikes and found them all parked a few meters away from the alley. The closest bike looked to be the newest, and he always did like bikes built for speed. It was a very slick racing bike, painted black with white go-faster stripes. It should match with his black combat gear very nicely, so he tried the keys he took from the bodies one by one, then dumped the rest when he got it started.
He was riding around, obeying every traffic law he could think of so that the cops won't have any reason to pull him over. Unless of course the Outriders have already gone to the police, but it would really be hard to explain that the guy that you were going to rob robbed you instead.
Suddenly there was a streak of light, at first he thought it was lightning but when he looked the wasn't a cloud in the sky. Then came the explosion, from the looks of it an entire section of Mega Tokyo has just been demolished. He only knew of two instances of a satellite particle beam strike in the entire series. One was in the first episode, the other hit Largo, from the date this was the first one.
****
Later in the basement of the Lady633 building, the Knight Saber were getting out of the Silky Wagon. They were all out of their hardsuits and back to wearing civilian clothes.
"I said I'm fine!" Priss said to Nene, getting angry and brushing of Nene's attempt to help her. "It's nothing serious and Sylia already fixed me up."
"If you say so."
"Did anyone get a good look at that chopper? Was it Genom?" Priss asked no one in particular.
"Yes." said Sylia, answering the second question.
"Some day, I'm going to find a way to make Genom really pay." Priss said, some of her anger going into her voice.
"Speaking about pay, are we still going to get paid or what?" Linna asked Sylia.
"The USSD hired us to get Cynthia back for them, no we won't be paid." Sylia replied.
"Oh well, there goes being rich."
****
Three days latter Lyon was sitting in the small room that he was renting in a motel. He was listening to the news on the TV, it was about what had happened in Aqua City. A USSD official was saying that what happened was an accident and would never happen again. There was no mention of Genom at all, they covered their tracks too well for that.
Lyon shut off the TV and began to think. The money he got from the thugs won't last long. He got around 110 000 yen from the Outriders, the cash plus the pawned items. Minus the money he spent on the motel and clothes. He needs to get a job, because he doubted that the Outriders would kindly give him some more money. To get a job, he needs ID, but getting fake IDs would cost more money than he's willing to part with right now. What he thought of doing, was to approach the Knight Sabers and ask for their help. He doesn't know how he'd do that though.
Another thing that's bothering him was the fact that Irene was going to get killed. He can't decide whether to save her or not. He didn't have it in him to just let her get killed, but it was TDCs policy not to interfere with the time line. On the other hand TDC also doesn't have a rule that prevents someone from interfering with the time line, its just policy. The main objective of TDC was to prevent anyone from using time travel to take over the world, to prevent major disasters, and to stop illegal transport of technology from the future to the past. Still the policy was there for a reason, no one can predict what a change, how ever small, would do to the future. He just couldn't let Irene die though, time to start planning.
A couple of weeks later he was sitting in a coffee shop across the street from the aerobics and martial arts club where Linna worked at. The news about the Genom lab explosion was in the news yesterday, so Lyon decided that it was time to start following Irene and Linna around.
****
A few hours later Irene and Linna were coming out of a restaurant when Linna noticed that her car has been towed. After talking about it, Irene decided that she'll walk home and Linna decided to call someone to pick her up.
As Linna was about to enter a telephone booth a black car came barreling towards her. She jumped out of the way and the car smashed the into booth and kept on going. Linna saw that the car was heading where Irene went to and decided to call Sylia for help.
"Sylia! a car just tried to run me over," Linna contacted Sylia with her watch, a Knight Sabers communications device. "I think it was after Irene." After giving Sylia more detail she started running after the car and Irene. Hoping that she'd get there in time to help.
****
Irene was scared, someone was trying to run her over with a car, to kill her. She was praying that someone had heard her call for help, that someone would save her. She was walking home from lunch in a restaurant with Linna when a black car started chasing her. She knew it was someone from Genom. They want her dead, just like they killed her fiance.
Irene turned into an alley, hopefully the car won't follow her into it. She was wrong, as soon as she started to catch her breath the car that has been chasing her turned into the alley way. She ran to the other end, turned left and went into another alley, trying to at least slow the car down. She was running to the other end of the alley when she felt someone grab her from out of the shadows. She was about to scream when she heard a command.
"Quiet! I won't hurt you. I'm here to help."
Irene felt the hand holding her let go and started to back away. She made sure to observe the figure in the shadows for any sudden movement, ready to run.
Lyon stepped slowly out of the shadows, he knew that a wrong move would scare Irene and she would start running again. He didn't want that, she would be safer with him for now. And he didn't want to chase he by roof hopping again. "Don't worry, remember the Hou Bang? I'm here to help," Lyon said, trying to keep his voice as soft as possible.
At the mention of the Hou Bang Irene started to believe him. She was the granddaughter of the Hou Bang's leader, if this guy was a member then he would not dare to hurt her. She studied him for a moment and started to relax more. He was about 5'5" of medium build, he had straight short black hair and dark brown eyes. He had a friendly face except that she had the feeling that his main attention was elsewhere. He wore black pants, white shirt and a black jacket. All in all she didn't think that looked like a person who would hurt her. She was almost relaxed all the way when she saw the black car stop at the entrance of the alley. A woman stepped out of the driver side door, Irene recognized her as one of the bodyguards of Mason. Then she almost screamed when with a sound of ionized air, first a very thin white streak of light hit the woman then after a second or two, a brighter streak of light hit the woman again. As she watched Mason's bodyguard blow apart. There was no blood, she realized that it was a boomer bodyguard. She turn towards where the white streak that blew apart the boomer came from and saw her savior holing some kind of gun.
"We have to get going. I surprised that one, they might send more after you," Lyon said. And besides that second shot was with the gun on full power, his gun only had four shots per power cell on full power. He only had three power cells for his gun, but he didn't want to tell her that. The first shot was on stun, just in case the woman was human. It had no effect so he set his gun on full and fired again. "Come on, I'll take you somewhere safe."
****
At the Lady633 building, at Sylia's penthouse, Sylia, Priss, Linna, Nene and Mackie were at the living room sitting, drinking coffee or tea and discussing the destroyed boomer and the car that tried to run over Linna and chased after Irene.
"I'm worried about Irene," Linna said. "We don't know if she's safe or if she got away."
"What I want to know is what could have destroyed that boomer," Priss said. "Even if it didn't have that much armor it still doesn't explain what could destroy a boomer that way. Could Irene have destroyed that boomer? Did she have a gun or something?"
"No, I don't think Irene had a gun or anything that could have done that to the boomer," replied Linna.
"I don't think Irene could have had anything to do that to the boomer either," put in Sylia. "Even in our hardsuits we couldn't have caused that much damage, except maybe if we hit it with two or three knuckle bombers at once."
"Do you think it's a new type of boomer could have done it?" Nene asked Sylia, getting worried.
"If there's a new type of boomer capable of doing that then we're going to have to be more careful when fighting boomers." Sylia set her cup down on the coffee table. "But why would Genom send a new type of boomer to interfere with Mason's bodyguard boomer? No, I don't think that a boomer did that."
"I'm still worried about Irene you guys." Linna said again.
"Don't worry Linna," Nene said patting Linna's hand, trying to reassure her. "I'm sure that she's alright."
"Nene's right Linna don't worry about Irene for now, I'm sure that whoever she's with right now is just hiding her somewhere safe." Sylia turned from Linna to Nene and asked, "Did you and Mackie tracked down that truck that left the lab before it exploded?" Then turned to her brother, Mackie. "Mackie is the Silky Wagon ready?"
"Yes."
"It's ready sis."
"Then let's suit up for the mission," said Sylia in a commanding voice, "Linna we'll look for Irene tomorrow after the mission, alright?."
"Yes Sylia, let's go. I want to pay Mason back!" said Linna getting up from the couch.
****
"You should be safe here for now," said Lyon entering his room at the motel. "No one should be able to follow us here." He made sure of that by having them take three cabs to different parts of the city and finally taking a bus and walking the rest of the way to the motel. The fares for the cab took a lot out his remaining money but he was sure it was worth it. "Make yourself comfortable, are you hungry? thirsty?"
"Thank you, no," Irene replied. "Um... you haven't told me your name."
"My name's Lyon and you're Irene Chang not Irene Chan," Lyon hesitated then added, "Um... I gave you the wrong impression back there."
"What?" Irene asked confused.
"I'm not from the Hou Bang," Lyon said. "But, I am here to help you." He added when Irene started looking wary. "Look if I wanted to harm you I would have already, I just didn't want you to keep thinking that I'm from the Hou Bang."
"How do you know my real name if you're not from the Hou Bang? And how do you know about the Hou Bang?" Irene asked still a little wary of Lyon.
"Hmmm... Do you have any way to contact your Grandfather? Can you call him or anyone with the Hou Bang?" Lyon asked avoiding Irene's questions. "You'd be safer with them, I alone, can't protect you that well."
"I can call my grandfather," said Irene. "I talk call him all the time."
"That's good," Lyon said handing Irene the phone, "there's the phone, call and tell your grandfather what happened. Get him to send someone to pick you up. I'll just go out and get us something to eat."
"You're leaving me here alone!" Irene exclaimed.
"Don't worry, I'll be back in less than 10 minutes, there's a diner across the street," Lyon said. "Don't open the door to anyone, I'm going to lock it." With that said Lyon went out and locked the door to his room.
When Lyon got back to his room carrying take out food, Irene was still taking to her grandfather on the vid phone. Her grandfather was an old man, but he looked like he was still fit. From the way they were talking, he could tell that they loved each other very much. When he closed the door he deliberately made a lot of noise to get Irene's attention. Irene turned and waved for him to come into camera range of the phone. He walked towards her, setting the food on the bed, and looked at her grandfather in the eyes.
"Grandfather, this is Mr. Lyon, the one who saved me." Irene introduced Lyon her grandfather. "Mr. Lyon this is Chin Chang, my grandfather, he wants to talk to you."
"First of all I'd like to thank you Mr. Lyon for saving my granddaughter." Mr. Chang said as soon as Irene was finished talking. "I don't want to lose her like I lost her parents."
"You're welcome, but I only did the right thing to do. I couldn't allow her to get killed without trying to save her. And please just call me Lyon."
"Yes, I see," said Mr. Chang with a thoughtful look, studying Lyon's face. "Second, I'd like to meet you in person to thank you appropriately. I'll send a private plane to the nearest airport to pick you and Irene up so you can fly here to the States where I can protect her better. Is that alright with you Lyon?"
Lyon nodded and said, "I don't have an ID or a passport, I assume that you can take care of that? Good, the farther your granddaughter is from Mason the better."
"Mason?" asked Mr. Chang his eyes becoming more alert.
"Yeah, Brian J. Mason an executive of Genom, he's probably the one who ordered her assassination, it was his bodyguard that tried to kill her." Lyon looked at Mr. Chang's alert eyes, "Don't worry sir, Irene will not be in danger for more than a few months. Mason should be dead by then." This Lyon said with his voice full of conviction. "I'll even make sure of it personally if necessary." At this statement Irene gasped and Mr. Chang looked at Lyon more closely.
"I take it that you don't like Mason?" It was more of a statement than a question. "You implied that someone else wants Mason killed." Mr. Chang prompted Lyon to explain.
Lyon smiled and nodded. "Mason has been causing a lot of trouble, if the Knight Sabers don't get him, then Quincy will."
"Oh?"
"The Knight Sabers?" Irene asked interested, she'd joked about getting the Sabers to avenge her with Linna if something happened to her.
Lyon smiled some more. "The Knight Sabers don't like people getting killed and if Mason continues to do business the way he's doing right now he's going to push them to far." Lyon explained to Irene and Mr. Chang. "And as for Quincy, Mason is planning to over throw him."
"Hmmm... You've given me a lot to think about." Mr. Chang said thoughtfully. "I'm sure you two needs some rest, so I'll see you tomorrow. The plane will be at the airport at 9:00 pm, get some rest, Kou will pick you up and bring you to the air port when the plane arrives. Until tomorrow then, good bye."
"You should eat first and then take a nap on the bed, you have a couple of hours." Lyon handed Irene some take out and chopsticks. He took some for himself, sat then preceded to eat.
"What about you?" asked Irene before starting to eat.
Lyon pause from eating, "I'll be standing watch just in case. I'll sleep on the plane."
****
In Sylia's penthouse later that night, the Knight Sabers were discussing their latest mission.
"I guess we're not going to get paid again, huh?" asked Linna to no one in particular. "But that should teach Mason a lesson, I just wish we could do more to him. I hope that Irene's okay."
"I'm sure that Irene is fine, Linna," said Nene.
"How can you be so sure that she's fine?!" asked Linna. "She could be dead or someone could be holding her captive."
"Calm down Linna," said Sylia. "First she's not dead or you and Priss would have found her body instead of the boomer's. Second if she is being held captive by someone we'll look for and rescue her."
"Yeah, we'll make whoever has her pay!" puts in Priss.
The Knight Sabers went back to discussing their recent mission, pointing out what they did wrong, what they did right and what changes could have been done. This went on for about an hour then they all said their goodbyes, agreed to meet next day to start looking for Irene and went to their respective homes.
****
"It's good to meet the man who saved my granddaughter's life in person," said Mr. Chang shaking Lyon's hand from across the table.
"It's nice to meet you too, sir," Lyon said. They were in Mr. Chang's office at the Chang Family Estate. The office was decorated in what looked to be a mixture of Oriental and European style. The office looked to be tailored to Mr. Chang perfectly. The only other people in the room were Kou and Irene. Irene was seated on a chair on the side of the desk and Kou was standing behind and to the right of Mr. Chang.
"Please sit," Mr. Chang waved to the chair in front of the desk. "I trust that you've rested after your flight? Good, we have some things to discuss. First I'd like to reward you for saving Irene's life, ask anything and I'll see if I can provide it."
"Thank you, yes I do need something," said Lyon. "I said earlier that I didn't have any identification. If you could arrange to have someone make me an ID, drivers license, birth certificate, passports and any other document necessary to provide me with a background."
"I can certainly provide that, but is that all you require?" said Mr. Chang with a frown.
"Yes I'm sure that is all I need," replied Lyon. "With those I should be able to get a job and find some place to live in Mega Tokyo."
"Hmmm... I'll provide you with a place to live, Chang Conglomerate owns a hotel in Mega Tokyo. Now to the second item I wanted to discuss. Are you sure that it is only Mason that threatens my granddaughter?"
"Reasonably certain, yes," Lyon replied. "Besides by now Genom should know that Irene is your granddaughter, Quincy isn't about to start a war between the Hou Bang and Genom."
"Yes, I see," Mr. Chang nodded. "Third and last, I would like to offer to make you a member of the Chang Family. If you accept, you can ask for help from any one in the Hou Bang, should you require it. I think that you are involve in something dangerous and might need help sometime in the future." He looked at Lyon intently, then continued when Lyon remained silent. "Don't worry, I'm not going to ask you what you're up to. I get the feeling, though, that Genom is not going to like it."
"I'd like to thank again for saving my life, Lyon," said Irene standing up with Mr. Chang.
Lyon nodded and also stood up.
"Kou will take you to see Tseng Sung, he should be able to give you what you need. Kou, I want you to give Lyon one of the private rooms in the hotel and open an account for him in a bank in Mega Tokyo, 2 million yen. It's the least that we could do for you."
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"This makes for the third boomer rampage this week! How come there are so many boomers going berserk all of a sudden?" Linna heard Nene say from her seat inside the Silky Wagon. They were headed to a boomer rampage, and as Nene said it was the third time this week. Not only that but every incident involved more than one boomer. The boomers were causing a lot of property damage and lost of life. Boomer incidents were becoming more frequent all of a sudden. The police have gone so far a deploy their own hard suits, the K-11s, but it still wasn't enough. The Knight Saber have had to go out and help them.
But Linna mind is not entirely focused on their upcoming battle with boomers. She was still thinking about Irene. Sylia and Nene have been working hard trying to find her, but it seems like she just disappeared. None of Sylia's contacts can find her and Nene can't find her through the Net. Linna was getting really worried despite Sylia's and Nene's reassurance. She starting to think that Irene might already be dead.
"One minute Sis." She heard Mackie say. She brought her thoughts back to the mission at hand. According to the ADP, there were five BU-55Cs that went berserk, the AD Police should just be getting there and setting up a perimeter before they move in. Hopefully they'll get there before anyone gets killed. The back door of the Silky Wagon opened signaling that they were close to the action. A few minutes later Linna jumped out of the Silky Wagon following Sylia, firing her heel jets to control her fall. On the streets Sylia and Linna jumped onto a roof top followed by Priss and Nene. They were observing the boomers who seem to be intents on doing a lot of property damage to the surrounding area. Two boomers were firing at a restaurant, another two were causing havoc inside a store and the last was wrecking parked cars. It was a good thing that the area was evacuated quickly.
"Sylia, the ADP has just finished setting up a perimeter to protect the civilians, they're getting ready to move in." Nene was keeping tabs on ADP activities. They would be able to help them better if they knew what the police were doing.
"Alright, Nene start jamming the boomers in 15 seconds, Linna stay close to Nene after we've engaged the boomers. Priss you and I will attack the boomers head on." With Sylia's signal all of them leapt off the roof and attacked the boomers.
The boomers, alerted by their sensors, all turned to watch the Sabers land on the streets. They abandoned what they were doing and were about to engaged the Knight Sabers as a team when Nene's jamming started.
"Priss and I will take the ones out on the street, Linna, you and Nene take care of the two in the store." The Knight Sabers used the momentary confusion, caused by Nene's jamming, of the boomers to their advantage. The boomer that was wrecking the cars went down quickly, Priss took it down with a knuckle bomber while it was still suffering from the surprise of suddenly being jammed. That left one each for Sylia and Priss, but by that time the boomers were already back to normal. They just couldn't work together.
While Sylia and Priss were fighting the boomers in the street, Linna and Nene approached the two boomers coming out of the store carefully. Linna was not engaging them on a head on battle because she had to protect Nene and Nene had to keep jamming and study different sensors data.
Linna and Nene quickly fired their lasers at the boomers to keep them pinned down. Unfortunately their lasers only served to slow the boomers' advance towards them a little bit. When the boomers were half way to their position, Linna jumped forward, hoping to engage both boomers. The did not agree with her idea though. She engaged the boomer on the right, shooting it with her laser and moving around it and dodging its attacks to get better chance to use her monomolecular ribbons. But the boomer on the left ignored her and went after Nene, whom it perceived as an easier target.
Nene saw Linna run forward and start fighting one of the boomers, that left the other boomer to her. She kept firing her only weapon, a laser, at it but the boomer either dodge or when hit there was little effect. She was getting worried, she could probably take it on, but she'd have to drop her jamming, ECM and ECCM. Nene started to back away, hoping that one of the others finishes with their opponents quickly to be able to help her.
The boomer was almost on her when a white streak came from above, hit the boomer on the chest and threw the boomer back a couple of meters. The boomer's chest was damaged to the point where its heat cannon was useless, but it still got up slowly to fight. The boomer was up and looking towards origin of the shot when Nene noticed a communications signal flashing on her HUD. She keyed her computer to receive and started to look up towards the source of the shot.
"..me in Pink Saber. Need a little help?"
"Yes." Nene saw a guy wearing a helmet that covered his whole head, body armor with leg and some sort of skin tight full body suit, jump from a roof to her side. He also had some type of gun in his hand. "Who are you?"
"Call me Gunner," Lyon said while aiming at the boomer.
Nene saw another streak of energy hit the boomer, this one taking its head off. As the boomer fell to the ground she turned back to look at gunner. "What are you? That can't be a hardsuit you're wearing."
"No its not a hardsuit. Can you tell Green Saber to back off from the boomer." Lyon took aim at the boomer Linna was fighting, waited for her to get receive Nene's message and get out of the line of fire.
Linna having received a message from Nene that the other boomer was down and to back of a little did so. She saw a streak of light hit the boomer, it goes down. She took advantage of the situation and leapt forward, snapping her head, her ribbons flew out and sliced the boomer's head off. She looked to make sure that it was dead, turned towards Nene and saw her standing with a guy. He was wearing some kind of armor but there was no doubt he was a guy. The skin tight suit he was wearing didn't do anything to hide the fact after all.
"Who is he, Nene?" asked Linna.
"He said to call him Gunner. Here I'll patch you in, um, remember not to use our names. Use Green Saber, Pink Saber and so on, that's what he's calling us." Just then Sylia and Priss arrived and Nene repeated the same to them.
While Sylia was listening to Nene she studied their uninvited guest. He showed up as completely human to her scanners, what interested her though was that he did not show up on any radar. Her radar should at least be able to pick up his armor, obviously it was made of radar absorbing materials that she did not know about. She was also interested in his gun, it couldn't be an ordinary gun and she wondered what technology was involved in making it.
"Nice to meet you Green Saber, Blue Saber, Saber Prime." Lyon nodded to each of them and turned to Nene. "Could we talk on a secure channel?"
"Okay, first let me reassure you ladies that I am neither a boomer or a boomeroid," Lyon said when they were on a secure channel. "Second, Irene is safe."
"Irene? What do you know about Irene? She's safe?" Linna stepped forward from the rest of the Knight Sabers.
"Yes she's safe. Her family is hiding her right now. And I was the one that saved her." Lyon noticed that the ADP were closing in on the area. "I have to go, the police are here. I'm sure you do too, see you around. We could sing or dance or have ice cream together sometime." He jumped to a roof before they could react, then he was gone.