Cyber-Mech Ninja Clan
By: Galen Muhammad

Mission 8

Previously:
	Elijah awakens to find that he and Taj are in the 
enemy's hands, but instead of being tortured they're being 
treated. Elijah and Kuma share a conversation. They talk 
about each other's inner thoughts and of the battle that 
shall happen between them. We then go back to Jennifer and 
Galen who just arrived at a local skating center. Tora and 
Sakura show and Galen challenges Tora to a new game the 
skating place made up.

[Let's venture back to Japan where we left Brandon and 
Keith engaged in a battle with some Kuro Kage special force 
soldiers. Keith has escaped the clutches of a deranged 
scientist and joined Brandon in the fight.]

Brandon: I came here to rescue you, and you ending saving 
my carcass. How ironic.

Keith: How many of them are there anyway? We've been 
fighting them for a while now.

Brandon: I'm pretty sure we went through the first and 
second wave already. These may just be the reinforcements. 
There's no use in hiding anymore. The long we wait the more 
numbers they'll gain. Then we'll never make it to our MCUs.

Keith: I guess your right. I was just waiting for our twins 
Raion and Neko. They must still be around here somewhere 
enjoying this. Because they're the ones who set it up, and 
it's not like them to run away from a potential battle 
between us.

Brandon: Right, but why are they waiting? Wait! You think 
they're waiting for us to tire down then spring on us.

Keith: That's a possibility. Either that or they want to 
challenge us on a two on two basis.

Brandon: Well that's just fine with me. (A panel on each of 
his legs flips over and he pulls out two metal cylinders. A 
short beam extends from the cylinders to create a pair of 
laser daggers.) I say its time we finish this.

Keith: Yea! There's no need in allowing this battle to 
delay us from our mission. We're here to destroy a base and 
that is what we're going to do. (He reaches behind his back 
and pulls out a stick with two blades on the end. He gives 
the handle a quick tug with his hands near the blades and 
produces a long chain.) Its go time motherfuckers!

(They both jump out from behind the large stack of boxes 
from which they were hiding behind. The soldiers looked 
just up as Keith and Brandon descended, but by then it was 
too late. One of the frontline soldiers shot at Brandon, 
but it didn't faze him long enough so that he couldn't 
decapitate him. Then Keith threw both of his blades. Each 
pierced one soldier's chest. Keith landed and gripped the 
handle, which triggered an electrical shot to be sent 
through his victim's bodies. Then with a quick twist of the 
handle the blades withdrew from the soldiers. One of the 
soldier's heart came with the blade. Keith discarded it and 
stepped on it.)

Soldier Green: They killed them, just like that.

Captain Black: Don't wimp out now; we'll fight till death.

Soldier Gray: No one shall stand in the way of Commander 
Kurt's dream of universal domination.

Brandon: I don't understand you people. Why would you want 
someone who's an utter jackass to rule you? Our government 
is fine as it is, and why must the space colonies be 
involved in this. Isn't world domination enough?

Soldier Red: Your asking the wrong people, we're just the 
enforcers of the Commander's law. And all who are against 
him shall be punished. 

Soldier Blue: Who are you to be deciding how the world is 
run. You don't seem to be from Earth. I bet one of the 
space colonies sent you here to foil our plan. We already 
have plans to deal with them.

Brandon: So you are dragging the space colonies into your 
war. I guess we'll have to report this to the Council Of 
Space & Earth Alliance. (C.O.S.E.A.) They'll need to 
prepare their forces. That is, if any of your bases are 
still standing once we're done with you.

Soldier Brown: You won't leave here with that knowledge, 
plus the colonies trust the alliance we've made with them.

Keith: (He holds up a small cassette tape.) Not when they 
hear the recording I just made. Now that we have the 
information we need, it's time for you to meet your maker.

Soldier Yellow: We can't allow them to live. Let's kill 
'em. It's seven to two; they don't stand a chance.

Keith: Well, lets see what you got. (He places his hand at 
chest level with his hand out and motioned his finger that 
could mean only one thing...) Just bring it.

(The soldiers charged forward with their various melee 
weapons.)

Keith: It seems that these guys don't specialize in long-
range combat. Do they really want it to end this way? I 
mean look at us, were packed to the teeth with short-range 
weaponry.

Brandon: Just goes to show how ignorant humans are, they 
can't see past their own ambitions to save their lives. 
Though we may be suicidal enough to do something dumb, at 
least ours is for a good cause.

Keith: Ok, here they come. When I give the signal, jump.

Brandon: Ok. (He readied his laser daggers. His arm shot a 
couple of sparks.)

(The soldiers approached kicking distances when Keith 
yelled) Keith: Go! (Both he and Brandon were now airborne, 
a few soldiers scattered but Brandon's daggers and Keith's 
chain claw impaled the Red and Blue soldier.)

Soldier Brown: Their speed is incredible. Close combat is 
out of the question. (He pulls out his auto plasma rifle 
from its holster.)

Captain Black: No! Don't fire here. There's oil drums and 
highly flammable equipment around here. One misplaced shot 
and we'll all go up in smoke.

Soldier Brown: Well since we're going to die anyway. Why 
don't we all go out with a bang? Hahaha (He aimed his gun 
at one of the randomly placed oil containers and fired.)

(Before the shot barely left the barrel of the gun, Keith 
extracted an energy-absorbing dart from his wrist and 
hurled it into the path of the shot. It came into impact 
with the shot, absorbed it, and implanted itself in Soldier 
Brown's shoulder where it injected the energy into his 
bloodstream.)

Soldier Brown: What the hell. (He reached up and pulled out 
the dart, which left behind a purple spot on his uniform.) 
I don't know...(He stopped all of a sudden and fell to the 
ground.)

Soldier Yellow: What did you do to him? (His facial 
expression was twisted into a face of fury and anger.)

Keith: I basically stopped his heart. The energy from 
plasma guns, especially the X-5 series; has a special 
chemical in it that has properties of the fat that comes 
from animals. My dart sends the chemical mixed with a 
chemical of my own called "speed" straight towards the 
heart and blocks all blood flow. See it works like leftover 
fat from food that clogs your veins, but my speed chemical 
makes it works one thousand times faster. (He snaps his 
fingers.) Then bam! Instant heart attack. So you can say 
that he contributed to his own death. But don't worry; he 
died painlessly. But I can't say the same for you guys 
though.

Soldier Yellow: But how could you do this. He was my 
fiancé. I swear that you will...(He receives a dagger to the 
head, courtesy of Brandon's swift hands.)

Brandon: I usually like to listen to my enemies' last words 
of revenge before I kill them, but I can't stand 
homosexuals. They make straight guys like us look bad. (He 
turned his hands over as to get a high five and his dagger 
magnetized back to his hand from the guy's head.) Now, if 
you'll kindly get your ass's over here so we can kill you 
and get on to what is important, I'll appreciate it very 
much.

Captain Black: We appreciate you saving our lives, but you 
will not leave this base alive.

Brandon: I like the way you keep your fighting spirit to 
the end, you have courage that is very rare in today's 
society, so I'll allow you to die next.

Captain Black: Victoria, Erika get them.

Victoria and Erika: Yes sir! (The gray and green clothed 
soldiers jumped in front of us and into a Kung Fu fighting 
stance.)

Brandon: You know; I take back what I just said. You send 
women to fight in your place while you make an escape. I've 
lost my respect for you. (Brandon flung out his hand and a 
barrage of ninja stars flew towards the three soldiers. 
Victoria and Erika being faster got out of the way, but the 
black suited captain was cut all to pieces by the 
superheated blades that disconnected his body. The stars 
that missed stabbed into the wall and without the ones that 
remained in the man's body, you could see the outline of 
the body that used to be by tracing a line between the 
stars.)

Brandon: Anyone who uses women to fight their battles for 
them never deserved to live in the first place. That is 
another reason Kurt Liehanu must die, allowing his wife to 
fight while he escapes, man that burned me up. (He turns 
his attention to Victoria and Erika who are just staring 
dumbfounded at the remains of their captain. Instead of 
vowing their revenge they bow to Brandon.)

Brandon: Hey, what's this all about? Aren't you going to 
try to kill me and exact revenge against me or something?

Victoria: No, we want to thank you. You've freed us from 
that evil man.

Keith: Explain.

Erika: Well Captain Mitoya was blackmailing us. He had 
information that would ruin our parents. So in exchange for 
him keeping his mouth shut, we had to work for him in his 
squad and at his strip club. And we tried killing him, but 
he was always being protected by his guards. He was a powerful 
man and getting to him was physically impossible, and 
tonight he was going to make us accompany him in his bed.

Victoria: But thanks to you that won't happen. We're 
eternally grateful to you. Please don't kill us, anything 
we said or done was because of him.

Keith: Why should we believe you? (He raised his arm to 
fire some more of his deadly darts, but Brandon grabbed his 
arm, he had a really serious face on.)

Brandon: Their telling the truth. Let them go.

Keith: How can you be so sure? They could run off to their 
headquarters and call for reinforcements. (The two girls 
dropped their walkie-talkies and discarded their badges.)

Victoria: We are no longer a member of the Kuro Kage 
military.

Erika: We now pledge our allegiance solely to you.

Brandon: That isn't necessary, if I allowed you to do that; 
I'd be no better than that guy over there. And Keith, I 
know they're telling the truth because I have a built in 
lie detector that was installed as a joke. Because the 
previous Brandon used to be able to tell when this boy 
Jeffrey was lying. You may go girls, but first take off 
those uniforms; they make me sick to my stomach.

Erika: (Blushing) You want us to do what?!

Victoria: (Whispers to Erika) You want to question a man 
who can kill someone with one strike?

Brandon: Don't worry. I have a change of clothes for you in 
these compression cartridges. (He tossed them two 
cartridges. He turned around and they started to change. 
Brandon realized that he forgot about Keith and he turned 
him around as well.)

Keith: Hey, whatcha do that for?

Brandon: Have a sense of dignity. Allow them change in 
peace without them being gawked at. If they wanted you to 
see their bodies, they would request it of you. I'm a 
gentlemen above all else.

Keith: Fine, whatever. Save your honor and pride speech for 
someone who cares.

Victoria: We're done. (Brandon and Keith turned back 
around. Victoria and Erika were clad in beautiful Japanese 
dresses.)

Erika: They're not my type of clothes, but they'll do until 
we get to the next clothes store. And again, thank you...Uhh 
we haven't quite caught your name.

Brandon: The name's Brandon Wade and this is my friend 
Keith Anderson. You should have seen our pictures on signs 
across Tokyo.

Victoria: Brandon and Keith, I'll remember you, until we 
meet again. (She blew him a kiss, and they jumped into a 
nearby jeep and rode off.)

Brandon: There's not much of a chance that we'll see them 
again.

Keith: Then you should have looked at their Victoria 
secret's undergarments. And let me tell you, Victoria's 
secret is out.

Brandon: You looked! What kind of man are you. You have no 
sincerity.

Keith: So what, I couldn't resist. It was a once in a 
daytime's chance. I just sneaked a little peek while you 
were giving your little speech, its no big deal. And why 
did you have those dresses anyway?

Brandon: Well. (Started scratching his head and smiling 
embarrassingly.) I bought them so that if I got a date and 
got lucky that she might need a change of clothes.

Keith: That doesn't explain the second dress.

Brandon: Well that one was for if she had a twin sister or 
a friend she wanted to bring along. And this third one (He 
pulled out another cartridge.) was for if there was three 
of them.

Keith: And you say I'm bad, you're a hypocrite.

Brandon: I resent that. I said if a woman wants you to see 
her unclothed then that's ok.

Keith: Oh forget it. Lets get our MCU's and get on with 
this.

Brandon: Right, can't forget why we came here. *I can't 
tell him that I also took a quick peek at them. That Erika 
is thick. Damn, I would so love to hit that.*

(They approached the hangar where their MCUs were stored 
and opened the door. The MCUs were still there but 
something felt wrong.)

Neko: It seems that you finally made it. Hope you had a 
good break because the real fight begins here.

Raion: We'll track down those traitor girls and take them 
to headquarters where they'll be tried for treason. Or 
maybe I'll take them home and make them my slaves. (Neko 
and Raion jumped off of the shoulders of Brandon and 
Keith's MCUs.

(Hearing what Raion said made Brandon totally ticked off.)

Brandon: You listen here motherfucker; you won't lay a hand 
on those girls as long as I'm around.

Raion: I'm sorry, but neither of us have a mother to fuck, 
but those girls would do nicely, wouldn't you say so Neko.

Neko: Your horrible, is that all you think about. Girls are 
going to be the death of you if you keep this up. Even were 
not immune to STD's, yet you still go out constantly and 
come back with a new girl!

Raion: There's no need in putting my business out there, 
lets concentrate on the task at hand!

Neko: Your one to talk! (Raion and Neko continue to argue 
and large sweat drops appear on Brandon and Keith's heads.)

(Brandon up to this point has had about enough. He jumps 
forward and lands a punch across Raion's face and Raion 
flies back into a wall leaving a large dent. He stands up 
after a few seconds.)

Raion: That was a cheap shot, and now you'll pay. You and 
me, man machine to man machine.

Neko: Hey, I wanted to fight my twin. Ughh, this sucks. It 
looks like I'll just have to settle for you then.

Keith: Don't talk about me like I'm not better than you. 
I'll trash you.

Brandon and Keith: Be prepared to pay for your sins, 
because you're about to be thrown to the wind. (They strike 
cool poses.)

(The air blows by and is the only thing that can be heard 
in the silence.)

(Raion and Neko's serious faces started to crack then they 
burst out laughing and rolling all over the floor.)

Neko: What the hell was that?

Raion: Are you warriors or Power Rangers?

Brandon: We should have put more thought into that.

Keith: It took a day to just think that up. You think you 
can do better?

Raion: I know I can. Forget what you said, were here to 
stay, plus your shit was totally gay. (He and Neko start 
laughing again.)

Keith: That's it! I can't stand being laughed at.

Brandon: Yes, their incessant crackles are beginning to get 
on my last nerve. (They both charged forward and kick Neko 
and Raion in the stomach. They flew back to he same wall 
Raion hit earlier. Neko hit the wall and made a dent, but 
Raion hit the same spot as last time and went all the way 
through to the outside. Brandon and Keith slapped each 
other high fives and laughed.)

Raion: You dare laugh at my humility. (He climbs back into 
the hangar, but in the process he slips and falls on his 
face. Keith and Brandon laugh harder, but this time Neko 
joins in. Raion jumps up and gets in Neko's face.) What's 
so goddamn funny? (Neko instantly shuts up, but a smile 
remained on his face and he seemed like he was going to 
start laughing again.)

Brandon: Alright. It's time to get serious. We have a 
couple of girls to protect, and not to mention ourselves.

Keith: You're right. That threat Raion gave needs to be 
taken seriously. It's hard for me to believe he's like me.

Brandon: Not really.

Keith: Hey, what's that supposed to mean. (But Brandon was 
already charging forward so Keith went behind him.

Raion: So you finally want to start, ok then. It's go time 
junior.

Neko: This may prove to be an interesting day after all.

(The four charged toward each other. The battle was about 
to begin.)

[In Antarctica]

Hiru: Wake up sleeping beauties. The day of reckoning has 
approached.

Kuma: You don't want to fight on an empty stomach so I made 
a little breakfast, get it before it gets cold you idiots.

Elijah and Taj: Alright, Alright all ready. Sheesh!

Elijah: You sound like my previous self's mom. (Elijah and 
Taj have fully recovered and are ready for their battle as 
well.)

END OF MISSION 8