I read this and my mouth dropped open. No, really.
Wai!
(Now, let's see...Ami and Akane are drawn similar, and Rei could almost
pass as Ami with colored lenses and a lobotomy...hmm, who else could I
cast as runaway Reis?)
[God bless! You know how evil an idea I got once I saw that:
"How close?" The red-head peeked over her partner's shoulder.
Her blond partner studied his tracker, checking the distance to
the plip that registered on its small screen. "That school over there,
second floor."
The redhead smiled. This one wouldn't know what hit her.
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They were here, but how did they find her? She had to hide and
quickly. Ah, yes, the janitor's closet. Perfect.
"Akane?" Her dark-haired companion stopped munching on his
last rice ball and idly wiped his greasy hands on his red Chinese
tunic, just registering his friend's disappearance. "She was here
just a minute ago..."
Without warning, two people dressed in suits ran up to the pigtailed
boy. The redhead regarded him for a moment, studied the
surrounding area, and cursed.
"Shit, she should be here!"
The blond gentleman accompanying her calmly turned to the boy showing
him a crumbled photograph of a girl with red eyes framed by short black hair.
"Have you seen this girl?"
The boy blinked. "Um, yeah, she was here just now."
"She must have seen us." The redhead hissed.
This was getting weird. "What's going on? Did Akane do something
or what?"
The boy's presence didn't further register with the couple as they scoured
the hall with their eyes and ears.
"Come ooonnnn..."
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Carefully, the dark-haired girl cracked the closet door. How did they find her?
She had spent so much time into disguising her identity. The hair
color, the contacts, and the personality classes; nothing seemed to
misguide these folks. The others were right, they were relentless.
The groan of a door perked the redhead's ears. Snapping her head
towards the janitor's closet, she could see a murky black pupil studying
her through the cracked door.
The girl jumped back and gasped. "Crap."
The redhead called to her partner. "The janitor's closet!"
"Got it." The blond marched over, readying his gun.
The girl took a deep breath. "Here we go."
Before the blond could reach the door, the girl shot out from the
closet. Succeeding in knocking him over, she made a v-line towards
her last obstacle to freedom, the redhead. Leaping towards the woman,
the girl readied herself for a fight of her life.
'At least in all those fights, I got some practice...' She mused while in mid-air.
Unfortunately, the net entrapping her prevented the girl from exacting a proper
lesson in martial arts. She looked up at the redhead holding an empty container.
"Net in a Can. God I love this stuff..." She murmured as she tossed the can
over her shoulder. "You okay?"
"Hey, what are you doin' to Akane!?"
The blond rose to his feet dusting himself. "I'm gonna have to get this suit
to the dry cleaners, but I'm fine. You got the girl?"
"Hey! I'm talkin' to you!"
"Yep." Through the mesh of the netting, the redhead looked over their pouting
specimen. "We went through a lot of trouble finding you, ya know."
"I'm goin' hurt someone if I don't get an answer soon!"
The redhead shoved her badge in the advancing boy's face. "We're Anime
Character Bounty Hunters. Gainax sent us. We're taking this girl back."
The boy stared dumbfounded at the woman. "Akane?"
"Akane Tendo was just her alias, son." The blond gentleman informed the
boy. "She is, in actuality, Rei 42."
"But she was my fiancee."
The older man put a reassuring hand on the boy's shoulder. "Don't worry,
son, I'm sure there are other girls out there for you. Lots of fishes out there
and all that rot."
The boy watched, dumbfounded, as the bounty hunters dragged away his
fiancee.
-stop-
Grrrrr, damnit, I hate you guys...]
Bastion
Make the evil ideas go away...