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The walk back was quiet. Seid� was carrying Tekk�, after refusing to let me and we laid her in the room me and she had slept in just hours before. Neither of us could be-lieve what had happened. Benji, the kid who showed us this place, befriended us and be-trayed us. Tekk� knew something about him was funny. She had told us that from the be-ginning, but we didn�t listen to her. I know now we should have killed Benji when we first had the chance way back when. But we didn�t and now Tek was gone.
I closed the door as Seid� walked past me. I stood there in silence, listening to Seid� out in the kitchen till I heard him swear. I ran out there. �What are you looking for?�
�Where did Benji put that box of cards we got?� he kicked the cabinet door and slammed his fist on the counter. �I�m gonna kill that little son of a bitch if it�s the last thing I do.�
�You won�t be able to get close to him.� I crossed my arms. �It�s just a lost cause.�
Seid� turned to me. �Lost cause? That little bastard killed my sister Akira! Be-cause of you Tek��
�Ah, no, don�t go blaming this on me! Who�s the one that trusted him first?! Who�s the one who decided this would be the perfect place to hide out? That wasn�t me Seid�! And you know it. You�re at just as much fault here as I am! And I know he killed Tekk�! But try to think about this logically for a moment, we will never be able to get to him. They know we�re gonna want to kill him, so they�ll be waiting for us to show up. Or they�ll come here looking for us.� I stopped as Seid� looked at me.
�Akira I think Tekk� wore off on you. That�s it. We need to get out of here! They�ll come back here. We can�t have any place that we return to, keep moving around the city that way they can�t track us!�
Oh boy. Yeah, he�s lost it. A great idea, don�t get me wrong, but there are only so many places you can hide in a city that won�t turn you in, especially in this city. Every-where you go there are agents or people working for them. It�s like a zoo! �Um, Seid�, and what about all the informers about the city?�
He shrugged. �We�ll kill them too. I want them dead. They killed my sister.�
�I know, but there isn�t much we can do.�
�Akira! Did you see the same thing I did?! They forced you to watch that too, right? They raped her till they killed her! Or close to it and she died before we had the strength to get up! Are you just going to live with that fact and not do anything or are you going to help me kill every last prick that was there today!?�
I clenched my fists and looked away from him. I refuse to cry in front of that per-son. �Yeah, I�ll help you. But on one condition. Who ever comes across Benji first kills him.�
There was a small pause in his reply. �Done Akira. Now, let�s get outta here.�
There wasn�t much to pack and we were out of that small underground hell hole in a matter of minutes. We had no idea of where we were going to go, so we just headed back to our first stop. In the old city where we first were. The place was just as we left it. Not a thing was different�well not except for the layer of dust to mark the fact that no one had been there.
Seid� sat at the window and tapped his fingers quietly. So things were going to be quiet. That�s okay; I�ve never had much to say to Seid�, just to Tekk�. I sat at the table and watched out the window from a few feet away. Seid� never moved. It was incredible. I wonder if anything is racing through that mind. Me�I can�t stop thinking at all. I�ve always had a busy mind.
The man known as Ikerus Martin hasn�t been seen since the day he let the three of us walk away. The look on Seid�s face was one�I can�t describe it to you. It was al-most as if he knew the old man was kind-hearted, not just letting us walk to kill us an-other day. Almost as if Seid� would return the favor one day. As he did that Petri Burns kid Tekk� always would bring up. Whoever he was, he must have meant a lot to Seid� or else he wouldn�t let a name like Burns affect him like it does. At the mention of the name he stops; in all actions. In killing, fighting, thinking for that matter�except about him. It was like that with Benji Leigh too, although Seid� wants to kill him now. Me too. He was the basis of Tekk�s brutal murder and Seid� wants Leigh killed. Dead. Probably more so than Benji wants us dead�and he knew all along. He played the three of us for the fool and won�well, for the temporary win at least. Seid� is working on a plan now. He must be; sitting there doing nothing less than two feet away from me. I just want to kill him! Benji, I mean, that Ikerus guy too. What kind of a name is that anyway?
Besides, I don�t understand. The Special Forces either want us dead or to lead their army. Army for what? They�ve already conquered the planet. Killed millions of people. All I know is that who ever�s going to kill me, I�m fighting back. It�s kill or be killed and there�s no way I�m going to let a mere Human take me down. I�m not entirely sure why, but I don�t think me nor Seid� are going to be able to rest until every last Spe-cial Force Agent is dead. Or every one involved in Tek�s demise is killed. I can�t get that day out of my head. I�ve never felt so weak! Neither of us could help her and what if we could?! Would she still be alive?! You never know what you have until it�s gone right?
Tek kept the three of us together. We both loved her. I just wish I could have told her. Neither one of us are ever going to be able to forget her nor rest until we feel we�ve�what the? Ah great. More Agents. Fakka.
Seid� stood up and took aim with his pistol. With out the slightest warning he fired off the two shots that killed both of them. Then he turned to me. �You have the ammo right?�
I just looked at him. �Huh? Yeah, right here.� I picked up my backpack and handed him a box of bullets.
I knew it was going to be one of those days. Two days after Tekk�s death. I should have known they�d be looking for us in the city already. God knows they couldn�t get into Benji�s house. Not after the way we made that house a tomb. And Seid� was al-ways willing to fight. That we all knew. Well I knew it for a fact. I bet the Special Forces knew too, but no telling for sure.
And the plan? What plan? I knew Seid�s plans�shoot first, ask questions later. Although now I bet it changed a little. Shoot the mother-fuckers first, gain revenge for Tekk�s murder; ask questions later. Yup, that�s Seid� for you.
He flew out the door, still slamming the clips into his pistols. I saw that name Bronze flash on the handle of one as he opened the door. I looked down at mine as it sat on the table. The name Akira plain as day. The other pistol was in my hand; that too bore the name Akira. Come to think about it, so did my katana. Bronze on his pistols. Tekk� on hers. Was there a meaning to this madness?!
I put it behind me as I followed Seid� out the door and into the street. It was sunny and warm. The Agents were wearing sunglasses as well. I came out of the door firing, covering for Seid� and myself. The echoes of the firing was deafening, but I didn�t hear it anymore. I was concentrating more on the Agents in front of us.
The Agents were many, but one after one they fell and we kept moving. Slowly one step, then another, we walked slowly towards them, firing rapidly.
�Fuck!� I turned to Seid� as he threw the pistols down and ran head long into the fray of Agents. He was instantly absorbed by the black sea and I was soon to follow, sword drawn, cutting down Agents left and right.
I saw one Agent fall back into another and that�s when I realized they had stop-ping firing on us. As soon as Bronze entered their numbers, they set the guns aside. Dis-tracted by their fallen comrade, I took the opportunity to grab guns and fire.
The two right in front of me fell even before the echo of the shots sounded. I heard Seid� yell and saw a third Agent fall to the ground. He was still going. So was I. I had seven shots in all in the two pistols I held in my hands. And they left chamber quickly.
Seven more Agents dead within seconds and two more wounded from flying pis-tols. This day was going to end in a fucking mess. I could feel it. I turned to see Seid� get punched in the jaw and a group of Agents pounce on him as I drew my sword�it hap-pened that fast�he was once again pinned to the ground. I took a running lunge into the fray, but even before I could reach Seid�, I felt some one grab my arm and something hit me in the back of the head.