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	Insertion Reflux
	Part 5
	The Hong Kong job.	
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	Ranma Saotome was naked under the sheets of his bed. He was still in
the hotel room and had a little over an hour and a half to make it to
his meeting. It was roughly five blocks away. He wasn't in any hurry to
move. 

	Sai was curled up on top of his chest with an absolutely petrified look
on her face. It had been horrible, the most awful thing imaginable had
happened to her. She had loved it. Surely, she would be punished for
centuries. She so wanted to stay quiet, but the master must know of it. 

	"Master, Sai is sorry."

	"Huh?" said the boy as he glanced down at the top of her head. He
wasn't really all there at that moment. 

	"She did not mean too, but she had fun," she rolled onto her knees and
looked at him with the biggest saddest eyes he'd ever seen. 
	
	"It's okay," he muttered sleepily. 

	"But...what shall Sai's punishment be?" She glanced away from him
fearfully and shivered. 

	The boy was simply looking at her in absolute confusion. "Um, do that
pleasure thing again? Try not to enjoy it so much this time?" 

	"Very well Master," said Sai as her voice changed. Her form had changed
and she appeared as a very attractive Chinese woman. She still wasn't
clothed and reached under the sheets slowly.

	"Ranma!" cried Amelia in shock. 

	"What happened?" asked Gai. His brain wasn't working entirely at the
moment. "Great idea kid."

	Sesshoumaru was relatively indifferent, but remained mostly silent
during the events following the bathroom incident. Ranma was so
petrified that Gai had actually had to ask Sai to take them to the bed.
He did speak up to answer the question. "Sai is a servant. I believe she
is only permitted to use her current form when following his commands.
She seems unaware of our condition and will follow any instruction given
to her. However, only Ranma may command this form." He chuckled at the
surprised gasps the two women gave. "An interesting way to discover this
isn't it?"

	"I feel weird," grumbled Amelia.

	Faye seemed to be enjoying herself. "Ooh. I like it when she does that
though." 

	"What!?" cried the girl uncomfortably. She had passed out at first, but
it was pretty much out of her system now. She had little choice but to
ride it out, and though she wouldn't admit it, it wasn't really a bad
feeling. "It's a demon! She's not even human!"

	"Close enough!" grumbled Guy. 

	"Hello? Ranma? Anyone there?" chimed Faye. "Are you having fun?"

	"I'm busy," he grumbled irritably.

	"Right," she said cheerfully. "This is nice, but our way is better."

	"Even I am not aware of that experience. Odd that you are able to have
anything over me," commented Sesshoumaru.

	"Jerk," growled Faye.

	"Look, unless the two of you want running commentary while you do your
business, shut the hell up," growled Gai. "I feel like I'm bein
videotaped!"

	Sai was trying her best to look pathetic and unhappy, but she was
failing miserably.

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	Ranma stood in front of the full-length mirror on the door and buttoned
up a blue Hawaiian shirt as he put his sunglasses on. Sai was standing
behind him in her cute demon form again. She looked worried and pensive,
but was now wearing her tight leather dress. She didn't look
particularly winded or ruffled by the last hour or so of activity. Ranma
was relatively fresh looking himself as he glanced back at her. His gaze
was particularly glassy though, the original occupant hadn't said much
of anything. The rest of him was functioning actively and normally.

	"Sai is sorry she failed master, what shall she do to herself while
we're out?" she shuffled her feet pathetically. 

	Ranma sighed and stared at her for a moment. "You can't come. I've got
to meet other people, they won't like someone else around."

	"Sai must remain with the master. She is not safe without him near. Sai
knows to remain hidden, she is very good at it."

	"She cannot venture far from our side without specific instruction,"
said Sesshoumaru. "She is correct, it would be dangerous for her if we
left her here alone. She will present her uses, the bond is more than
just obeying commands. You may use her eyes if you wish, or her ears. If
you focus enough, you will be able to control her completely if you
desire to do so. Commands do not always have to be verbal ones either.
As she is bonded to you, only you may use this power."

	"You were going to try and take off with her body weren't you?" snarled
Faye. 

	"Yes. What of it?" replied the demon coldly. "I would have been
merciful in killing you. It wouldn't have taken me more than a year or
so to do it."

	"You'd have met the business end of those guns if you'd tried," replied
Ranma calmly. He put his hand up in front of their face and smirked as a
green glow formed around his fingers. "May not be much, but I remember
that stuff you've been teachin me real good. Sooner or later, we won't
need you around anymore."

	The demon growled angrily. "Your power is pathetic compared to my own.
Don't even begin to imagine you might ever become as strong as I. It is
laughably pathetic to even begin to imagine you could match
Sesshoumaru's power." His voice changed quickly into a sort of amused
arrogance. 

	"I know enough about this attack to realize that if I can use it, you
can't use it against me," replied the boy calmly. "I may not be smart,
but I ain't stupid. If you try anything like that, I'm gonna kick your
ass Fluffy."

	"You would fail miserably," growled Sesshoumaru.

	"What are we going to do about her? We're gonna be late, and that's not
a good idea with these people," said Faye irritably.

	"All right, you can come along, but you'd better stay out of trouble. I
don't want any interruptions because of you," the boy's face was almost
angry looking as he said this. He looked quite intimidating.

	She nodded fearfully. "What about Sai's punishment?"

	"No time for that, I'll be late," replied the boy as he opened the door
to the room and stepped out into the lobby.  It was late night and
things were relatively quiet in the hallways of the hotel. The streets
outside would not be much different. 

	Sai sulked after him as her wings, horns, and tail vanished from sight.
She appeared human at least and quietly strolled behind him. "Where are
we going Master? What should Sai do when we get there?" She had been
especially vocal as of late. She kept asking questions and complaining
in the hopes of punishment for being so insolent. Her master appeared to
be very tolerant of her, she would have to work very hard to invoke his
wrath. It wasn't going very well at all.

	"Find a quiet place to hang out outside this place. I'm not sure how
long I'll be, so stay out of trouble and don't bother anyone. Don't go
anywhere either."

	She nodded at her instruction and sulked behind him.

	"Try to look normal, people will stare if you keep sulkin that way,"
said Ranma. 

	"All right," she said as she stood up straight and tried to look even
tempered. She didn't want to look like she was having fun, or the master
might be angry.

	Ranma's various occupants decided that she'd received enough warning
and instruction to make the trip relatively painless. They turned away
and started walking outside.

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	Ranma Saotome walked down the street towards his destination. He was
dressed in a Hawaiian shirt yet again. It was bright yellow with green
palm trees blowing in the wind printed across the torso. Sai followed
behind him, appearing as nothing more than a cute girl of about the same
age that was with the boy. Even if she was dressed somewhat like a
prostitute from America. She was also wearing high heels, and was moving
quite nimbly as she kept up with him easily. It didn't take more than a
few minutes to reach their destination.

	They stood in front of the restaurant and he glanced around. Sai had
gone missing, but somehow, Ranma knew she was right beside him still.
She waved at him as she slipped away. The others could see her when she
moved, but only because the light bent slightly different around her
when she wasn't motionless. 

	"Cool," muttered the boy dumbly.

	"She appears to be much more useful than I anticipated. We should leave
her inside once we exit. Ranma, order her to do it now, before we meet
them."

	The boy nodded and turned to look at Sai. "Sai. I want you to stay
hidden like that and hang around inside for a little while. Listen in
and see what you can hear after I leave the room."

	"Sai is to wait outside," reminded the demon.

	"I didn't know you could do that. Now you're coming inside."

	"Well, all the master has to do is ask and Sai can tell him what she
can do."

	"Worry about it later," grumbled Faye. She strolled into the room and
opened the doors. The place was empty, except for his meeting.

	Two old men sat at one of the tables, eating calmly and ignoring each
other's presence for the most part. They glanced up at the boy who
walked into the room as he frowned at them both. 

	"Five minutes early, I win," said Li Shao.

	Mao Sheng frowned and grumbled something under his breath as he passed
a few coins over to the man sitting across from him. 

	"What do you want?" asked the boy simply. 

	"To the point then," said Li Shao as his face fell slightly and he
returned the money into Mao Sheng's waiting palm. 

	"You are a demon hunter?" The man tossed the coins in his palm a few
times before placing them into his pocket. Li Shao wasn't very upset by
it, they had ended up even in the end after all. 

	"Why do you care?" replied the boy. "Stop skirting around the subject.
I think I've got the basic terms of this deal already. Tell me what I
have to do, so that you will leave me alone."

	"A temple. It is a cursed place."

	"I suspect this involves those Black Lotus friends of yours."

	"Indeed it does. Occasionally, one of our kind will fall prey to the
darkness. Their weaknesses force them to turn to dark paths to save
themselves from their enemies, and gain domination over their allies."

	"And you want me to clean it up?" said the boy coolly. "I should
destroy you both for such impertinence."

	Both men turned their heads to stare at him as he frowned at them both.
They were quite surprised to hear it from him.

	The boy promptly punched himself in the face and shook his head.
"Sorry. Sometimes I forget to stop him from talking."

	Both of the old men nodded and settled down in their chairs a bit. It
was obvious they hadn't fully understood that.

	"What's this place you're telling me about?"

	"It is his home, a perverted place he bought after we discovered
his...condition. He has defiled a temple in southern Hong Kong. It has
made the streets there a very dark and dangerous place. No one ventures
very far into that cursed place of tortured souls. I have heard some
very serious tales of it in recent times." Mao Sheng stared at the boy
calmly. "My men will kill him if he doesn't go, if he speaks the truth
and is the man he says he is..."

	"Your men would die," responded the boy coldly.

	"I think you're mistaken," said Li Shao. "Even for one who hunts
demons. I do feel I should warn you, the place we ask you to go, it is a
very dangerous place. He may be destroyed either way. We must be
prepared for that."

	"You'd be wrong," replied the boy as he stared the man dead in the
eyes. "What am I after?"

	"We will be prepared for your failure. A great many people would die to
contain such evil. They suffer already, it would be like ending their
misery to us. You are their last hope."

	"A task only a legendary hunter could accomplish," agreed Mao Sheng.

	"You'll know where to find the temple once you reach Southern Hong
Kong. My reports have told me that the farther in you go, the worse it
gets."

	"You have forty eight hours."

	The boy turned his head and looked towards the south. He remained
motionless for a moment. After a short time, a slight smirk formed on
his face. "I'll be back in a few hours." He strolled out the doors
dramatically and promptly ducked around the corner.

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	Sai was hanging off one of the corners on the ceiling and watching the
room below as her master commanded her. The two old men were doing
nothing more than eating. "How long is Sai supposed to stay for?" she
wondered for a moment. Her master was still outside waiting on her. He
hadn't called her yet, but if she came back without being called she
would be punished, of course, she'd be punished anyway for taking so
long. She felt like her life was so predictable sometimes, but her
former master had been quite creative in his torments. Now her new
master was downright confusing. It was awful, she had been allowed to
experience pleasure, and her master hadn't even tried to punish her yet.
She was growing worried, perhaps he was just saving up enough anger to
destroy her completely. "Ooooh, that would be horrible," she muttered as
she shivered. Neither one of the men heard her over their own eating.
The two old men eating dinner was quite boring even for her. 

	"What do you think?" asked Li Shao.

	"I cannot turn back. Even if he succeeds, he must be destroyed. I have
already accepted the contract."

	"If he succeeds, what makes you think you can kill him?" asked Li Shao
calmly.

	The man glared at him and frowned. "I will consult with the Amazons. I
suspect they are as unaware as I was. It can wait until after he is
finished, it will do much to the boy's credit. I should also have time
to verify the contract with those women."

	"I suspect it is pointless to discuss at this point," snorted Mao
Sheng.

	"Better now, than after it has already happened."

	"I should be leaving. I'm sure the both of us have business to attend
too."

	"Agreed," said Mao Sheng calmly.

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	Ranma squealed down the street on his bike. Traffic sped past him in
either direction as he opened up the bike all the way. Everything around
him was a blur of red and white light tracers. 

	"What the hell are you doing!?" screamed Ranma in horror as they
shifted sideways on the bike and slid under the back of a large semi
truck to the other side of the street. 

	"Relax, I got this," said Gai.

	"Now without my help you klutz!" snapped the boy angrily. "It's hard
enough keeping balance on this thing as it is!"

	They shifted sideways on a small bridge and shot through the air over
traffic on the street below into oncoming traffic. They passed the front
of a small delivery truck narrowly missing both the truck and a concrete
barrier that nearly blocked them from the correct lanes. 

	"Stop that you asshole!" cried Ranma in horror.

	"Hey. You need me to steer right? Quit whining, you can handle it. Our
skills must be in top form, if we're ever to become a true hero!"

	"So this is training then?" asked Amelia with a small cheer in her
voice. She was starting to look at their speed as merely thrilling as
opposed too scary.

	"But of course!" said Gai.

	"Training?" muttered Ranma dumbly. "Hey. Think we can make that jump?"

	"Now you're talkin like a true Cruzin 1987 fan!"

	"What the heck is that again?"

"Never mind."

	"What jump?" asked Faye. The street in front of them appeared clear,
and they should have long since passed anything they might have seen.

	Ranma smirked. "That one."

	The stretch of highway they were on was raised off the ground. Jutting
up from below one of the barriers on a turn ahead, was a large crane.
"Oh shit. No!"

	"Aw, we can make it," said Gai cheerfully.

	Sai was clinging to their back silently and hadn't said anything the
whole trip. She wasn't bothered by the imminent danger that surrounded
her, and was hoping her master would toss her off the bike soon. Moving
at the speed they were going now, it would probably hurt quite a bit. It
would leave rather nasty marks. 

	She noticed their direction and nodded. Her master wished to splatter
himself and her onto the ground. That would be quite unpleasant. She
nodded firmly as she steeled herself. She did deserve it after all.

	"You crazy assholes!" screamed Faye. The men were holding her back to
keep her from stopping. Fluffy was helping them stay the course. She
could see the rooftops of the city's southern quarter. A dark and
ominous cloud rumbled in the sky above as they passed through traffic
and jumped the concrete barrier. The bike landed on the left edge of the
crane and climbed the massive steel beam well over four hundred feet
above the ground.

	"Quit whinin, I can do this no problem," said Ranma calmly. "Uh, I
think."

	"What!?" cried Amelia. 

	The bike flew over rooftops across several city blocks and shattered
into the side of a high rise building through one of the windows. He hit
the brakes and shifted sideways as he slid across the fourth floor of a
rather large skyscraper. Shattered glass and crushed desks littered the
area around his entry as he revved the engine a few times. "Oops."

	"You're gonna get us all killed!" screamed Faye. She passed out cold.

	"Wow," gasped Amelia. 

	"Man. I thought nuthin could shut her up," commented Gai.

	"Let us enjoy the silence. This is where we were told to go?"

	"I think so, he said this guy runs things in the south part of town.
I'm pretty sure this isn't exactly the right place though," said Ranma. 

	Gai glanced around. "Um, it's some sort of office. Good thing it's so
late, we might have hurt someone."

	"We are expected then," said Sesshoumaru coolly. 

	"Master, Sai doesn't think we should be here. A very dangerous demon
controls this area. It is better if we do not remain." The little demon
looked quite nervous as she gripped him a little tighter from behind.
"His time grows near, a great rise in power will come to him from his
plans. We shouldn't upset him."

	"What do you know about this thing? I heard it was some sort of Triad
boss gone bad." 

	"It is old and powerful, and has tempted the leader of the Black Lotus
organization. It now owns his soul, and will make him rule Hong Kong for
him. Those men you met earlier, the ones who still might want to kill
you. They said they hadn't decided yet. They will be destroyed by this
demon if you do not kill them first. Sai will be happy to dispatch of
them for you master. She will make sure to kill them horribly and
consume their evil souls."

	"Uh..." The boy looked quite unsure how to respond to that. "I think I
can handle that on my own thanks."

	"Very well master." 

	Ranma found it somewhat hard to talk to her. She was insanely cute, but
always had the most serious look on her face when she spoke to him. It
looked out of place, almost disturbingly so. "We can take this guy
right?"

	"We have little choice. As disgusting as it sounds, given my
limitations thanks to you, we are better off appeasing the Triads. The
demon would hunt for us anyway once it learned of us. Your insistence on
not harming the pathetic human cows will severely limit us in dealing
with them."

	"I ain't killin nobody!" snapped the boy.

	"Well, not with out a good reason anyway," added Faye diplomatically. 

	"I was wondering how long you'd be out," said Gai.

	"You shut up! I almost died!"

	"Um, I'm not so sure about this place," muttered Amelia. 

	"You should feel that way. We are being hunted as we speak. Our task is
a bit more difficult than I expected. We cannot overpower our opponent,
we must outclass them."

	"Why do you say that?" asked Ranma.

	"He is far more powerful than we are. Not so strong that we cannot
accomplish this task. It will be difficult though. It is better to get
it over with as quickly as possible. He has control of this area, and
everything within it. If we do not strike, his forces will overwhelm us.
The only way to stop them is to destroy him, or find safety outside of
this area. You are not willing to turn back, and I am not willing to
move forward yet. So, we find ourselves trapped."

	They wheeled the bike up to a window on the other side of the room and
peered down into the city below. Sai jumped off and walked along beside
him. 

	"My god," muttered Faye in horror.

	Dozens of vaguely human zombies were stumbling up the stairs that lead
to the entrance to the building. The streets were in ruins, cars burned
on the street and trash covered the ground. It was complete chaos. Shots
could be heard in the distance, along with cries of pain and horror that
echoed through the streets. The glass in the window they were standing
in was gone. From a distance the area of the city didn't look that bad. 

	"Magic. Humans who enter this far into this place do not venture out of
it. It is disguised from the world around it." Sesshoumaru seemed quite
impressed.

	"What? How could anyone not notice this?!" cried Faye.

	"No! This is horrible! We have to do something!" cried Amelia. Below
them the zombies were making their way slowly up to the center of the
marble staircase that lead up to the building. There were dozens of them
now, flooding towards them slowly as they crawled out of the surrounding
area.

	"There is little we can do. You'd be surprised what can be hidden from
the human world. I imagine this is nothing more than a bad side of town
to the rest of the city. Demons can have a firm hold in communities if
they wish to manipulate humans. Seems like a waste of time to me. They
are better destroyed and removed from the way."

	"Seems like a lot of missing people, too many for this to be ignored,"
said Gai.

	"Ignored? Why do you think they sent us here?" commented Fluffy.

	"So they wouldn't have to bother killing us," said Faye flatly.

	"We'll discuss it with them when we meet them again," replied
Sesshoumaru.

	"So now what? What the heck are those things? They'd better not
sticking their heads in their crotches again!" Ranma seemed more annoyed
than anything else.

	"Come on," said Gai. "We'll take the shortcut."

	"No!" screamed Faye. Alas, it was too late, the bike was already
rocketing towards the open window.

	They came down in a graceful arc that landed the bike sideways with
them standing on top of it on the stair rail. Both weapons were drawn as
sparks flew off the surface of the bike as they slid down the railing
towards the street firing in both directions. The rail ended and they
flipped into the air as the bike came crashing into a mess of the undead
things. They were rotten and burned corpses that screamed in agony and
rage as they tried to turn and chase the boy.

	The bike exploded in a ball of flames from the damage it had suffered
and Ranma casually kept walking down the road with his weapons ready.
All of the zombies on the stairwell were lying motionless on the stairs. 

	"These creatures will present no problems," said Sesshoumaru. "Weak
magic meant to capture and destroy humans."

	"Cool," said Ranma. "Anyone know where this place is?"

	"That would be a good guess," said Amelia as she turned them towards a
large skyscraper in the center of the infected area. A sickly purple
light seemed to light the darkness around it. Dark clouds had formed
overhead and thunder and lighting was centered on the building.

	"Good call," said Gai as he shot down two more of the zombie monsters.

	Unfortunately, it was quite a ways away. There was a lot of debris and
places for nasty things to hide away or crawl up from in their path as
well.

	"Thanks for blowing up our ride Guy," grumbled Ranma.

	"How was I supposed to know it would explode? That wasn't in the game!"

	"You asshole!" screamed Faye angrily.

	"I'm still dizzy," muttered Amelia.

	"Where is Sai?" asked Sesshoumaru. "She would be very useful right
now."

	"Master, you should have told Sai to stay on the bike, so she could
have been mangled." The demoness landed beside him and folded her wings
up. 

	Ranma frowned at her. "You want punishment? Fine, fight those things
and keep them away from us."

	Sai bowed as she grew into her adult form. Her clothes did not grow,
but simply became skimpier. "Yes master." She didn't think it was a very
good punishment. "Sai is allowed to enjoy killing!"

	"Really?" asked Ranma in surprise.

	"Yes. Sai's master encouraged it."

	"Well, have fun." He shrugged and turned to start walking.

	Sai looked absolutely petrified with horror. Her tail fell limp and her
wings drooped down as she simply stared at him slack jawed. "Huh?"

	"Sai, I can see some of them up ahead. I don't want to waste power
fighting them."

	Her wings spread wide and she blasted forward towards the things that
would dare annoy her master. 

	Ranma simply watched as a green flame burned around her body. She
landed and howled angrily before the undead things. They paused their
forward motion for the briefest of moments. 

	"My master has sent me to destroy you," she hissed with an inhumanly
evil grin on her lips. Her tail snapped back and fourth behind her like
a whip. Vicious looking claws had grown out of her fingers and toes. Two
foot-long horns protruded from her head and her teeth were now razor
points. 

	"WOAH!" cried Gai. 

	"Holy shit," muttered Ranma.

	"You made us sleep with it!" screamed Amelia. She promptly fainted. 

	"Wasn't so bad," replied Ranma with a small shrug. "I guess we won't
have any problems then."

	A huge ball of flames erupted up ahead of them as Sai planted her claws
into the ground and became enveloped in a bubble of fire. She tore
through the half-destroyed remains with her claws and ripped chunks of
meat off with her teeth. She swallowed it greedily and put her foot
through the crotch of the one behind her. It did nothing more than stand
there twitching as she arced her leg up and cut it cleanly in two. 

	"She's brushing her teeth and taking a bath before we let her touch us
again," said Faye.

	"We need to find some mouthwash too," added Gai. "They got that stuff
that kills anything."

	"That's a good idea," agreed Ranma.

	"I would be helping her," grumbled Sesshoumaru. Their stomach growled a
little.

	"No one say anything," said Ranma firmly. "Just forget about it all
right?"

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	"He definitely knows how to make an entrance," grumbled Shu ho as she
stared up the length of the crane. The place was crawling with police,
and she had heard of the stunt from them. No one had been sent in to
find him either. 

	She remembered spotting the briefest glimpse of him while walking
through the streets. He was turning onto the road she was standing on
now. It had been about a half-hour since she had spotted him. She wasn't
sure why she followed him at all, especially on foot. Her hunch had been
right, she knew where he was. "What's in Southern Hong Kong?" She was
already moving in that direction when everyone in the street jumped
suddenly. A loud explosion sounded somewhere in the near distance. From
inside the city streets. "What the?"

	Everyone had reacted instinctively. None of them seemed to notice
anything after that but her. "What's going on here?" She glared down at
the road firmly as she walked. "It seems I'm on the hunt again." She
needed to talk with him before she was willing to go to Cologne and stop
the hunt. She had to be sure he wasn't dangerous. She still wanted that,
but apparently it would require her to work a bit. 

	She pulled a rolled up sword from her back and carefully removed the
cloth covering it. She folded it up and put it into her pocket. She was
dressed for walking around the city unnoticed. A T-shirt and blue jeans
with a denim jacket. She also had a red and worn looking backpack on her
shoulder. She tossed it into the bushes along the side of the road. It
would probably be there when she came back for it. "If I come back for
it," she muttered grumpily. Dark magic was becoming more and more
apparent around her. "Something is hidden here." She continued to move
forward towards the sound of the explosion.

	Her grip on her sword had grown firmer as she continued forward. There
was no sound around her she could hear her own breathing quite clearly.
There was also no light from anywhere but the sky. The moonlight gave
everything an eerie black and white look.

	"This is nuts! I'm in the middle of Hong Kong," she whispered
fearfully. She turned around and a bright and hot orange light suddenly
appeared all around her. Flames burned on the sides of buildings and in
the middle of the street. They appeared to have no fuel at all, but
simply burned.

	"Oh man," she gasped as sound suddenly returned to her. Horrible
screaming and suffering hit her like a tidal wave of sound. She fell to
her knees and closed her eyes. "NO! This can't be!" She quickly regained
herself and forced herself to her feet with her sword in her hand. "I
cannot allow this!"

	She took the cloth from her pocket and wrapped it around her wrist.
Flicking her arm back she laid it across her shoulder by holding that
arm across her chest. The other arm held the blade ready. "I can't
afford to lose again."

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	Genma Saotome sat back with a smile on his face. He had a pillow behind
his head and headphones over his ears. His minions had insisted on him
flying first class and even paid for his ticket. Once he had finished at
the customs office at the dock, his lead minion had asked him about
flying home. 

	The nerdy minion burst into tears.

	He and his minions then had a bonding moment as they laughed at him.
Genma was quite pleased with himself. Such a profitable venture, if only
he could find the boy. He'd check around a few old haunts and see if his
son had returned yet. If he hadn't, well, he would return to Japan. He
knew where to find his son within a month of his return. 

	As it was, he found his grin fading somewhat as an angry looking flight
attendant glared at him and tapped her foot.

	"What is it stewardess?" he grumbled. 

	Her eye twitched, she had a nametag that was no more than two feet from
his eyes. Still, she continued to smile. "I'm sorry sir. You're going to
have to come back to coach to keep your minions under control."

	"Huh?" he replied in confusion.

	"They stole the complimentary peanuts of half the passengers, and there
isn't any more on the food cart. Half of our sodas have vanished as
well. We even tried confining them to the seats. We couldn't even let
them go to the bathroom. They've flushed all the toilet paper away."

	"Hmmm. Perhaps the toilet paper was a bit too much," said Genma with a
serious nod. "What if I have to go to the bathroom later?"

	Her grin cracked as she stared at him through what remained of her
smile. Her eyes were bloodshot as she stood up straight slowly. "This
way...sir."

	She opened the door and Genma rushed into the rear cabin at what his
eyes met. "What the hell are you doing?!"

	The minions were standing in the middle of the plane around a lone
little boy. They were simply standing around him smiling darkly as they
glared at him.

	Everyone else was cowering around the edge of the plane and the child's
parents were huddled fearfully away. 

	The boy was clutching a stuffed Pikachu fearfully.

	"We are worshiping the dark god!" The lead minion pointed at the
stuffed animal. "The lord of evil!"

	"That kid?" said Genma dumbly.

	"No master, the effigy of him the child carries in his arms," replied
the minion coldly. He poked the creature in the eye with his finger.
"Most horrible indeed."

	"Stop that! I command you to sit quietly and share those peanuts and
sodas you stole with me!"

	The lead minion sighed. "Very well. Let us hope that we have given this
boy nightmares at least."

	The plane relaxed, but gave Genma and his minions plenty of clearance.
The mother of the child had the boy firmly in her grip and was shaking
her finger angrily at her husband. 

	The man was white as he simply nodded. His wife had seen so insane when
she told him that Pokemon was the devil. He had just assumed his son's
interest was a normal phase of childhood, something he would grow out
of. She was pointing at the glaring minions in her rant and was using
one of her hands to cover her son's ears. His stuffed toy was sitting in
the trashcan nearby, and he simply stared at it in a sort of horrified
awe. 

	"Pikachu is Satan? Mom was right? Awesome!"

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