"I'll leave the pirates to you two!" Man Child hollered out as he dragged Robin away—slamming the door behind him.
Lucci felt a deep rumble of dissatisfaction leave him, "Seems like my fun has just been ruined." He spit out a bit of blood to the side. A hand coming up to flex his jaw incase it was bruised from the punch.
Faythe grunted and grabbed the nearby window sill to help herself up, "It was about damn time too."
Wyper stayed still as he noticed that Luffy hadn't moved from his spot or his gaze from Lucci, "Oh boy..." He curled his fingers around the trigger in anticipation.
But the first to move from their spot was the female agent. Her moves precise as she had appeared right in front of Faythe, her palm landing on her face as she slammed the redhead right through the window. Toppling them both out of the room and into a free fall.
"HOLY SHIIIIiiiitttttt....!!!" Faythe scream was trailed off as they fell.
"WYPER—!" Luffy yelled.
"WAY AHEAD OF YOU—!!" Wyper immediately went sprinting towards the window with his shooters. Breath dials at the end of his shooters to add more boost. But his eyes widened in horror as Lucci appeared in front of him, ready to slice him down with a swing of his clawed hand, "You bastard...!" He instantly pulled up his bazooka to meet the man at point blank, but the feline agent was kicked out of the way almost as quickly as as he appeared by Luffy himself.
Luffy stood towering over Lucci with a silent blank look. His voice stern and heavy as he ordered Wyper, "Go ahead and help Fae! I'll keep him here and give it to him!"
"Right!" Wyper nodded and was already throwing himself out the window.
Lucci released a heavy roll of a chuckle, his shoulder shaking in amusement as he wiped a smear of blood from his nose, "She'll break. Any moment now in the face of that woman. Whether it be physically or mentally, she'll be on her knees, begging to be held accountable for her actions. And when she does... She'll have no choice but to join our ranks to repent for her misdeeds." He laughed with an almost sinister grin.
Luffy held up his fists into a fighting position, "Then I just have to not let that happen." His hands clenched into a fist until his knuckles turned white, "Let's dance, motherfucker." He glared with a nasty scowl.
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The feeling of being weightless. The bottom of your stomach flying up to your throat as you decend at a very rising rate. Massive amounts of hair and locks whipping your face as you try to squint your eyes through the mess flying around you. The wall against the tower becoming a blur as they fell.
And to top it all off?
The woman that was trying to use her as a meat shield, was smiling like a maniac.
"You're absolutely crazy—!!" Faythe shouted as she swung a leg at her.
Quinn caught the leg and threw it to the side as she raised a fist.
Faythe twisted her body midair as she slammed her wrist into her opponents to get her hand off her face. Using her elbow, she jabbed her in the side to avoid a finger bullet.
"I can't wait to make you squeal....!!" Quinn hissed out as she wrapped her legs around Faythe's waist and twisted around so that she had her in a choke hold as they fell.
Faythe gritted her teeth and opened her mouth as wide as she could, before biting down on her forearm.
"AGH!" Quinn released her and backhanded Faythe into a spinning spiral. Her shoulder crashed into the side of the building—scraping it harshly.
"AUGAHH!!" She bounced off and managed to regain a grip on her balance for a few agonizing seconds.
They both had some distance against the other until they spotted Wyper come rocketing down with his shooters on his feet. His wings spread out to steer his way farther downfield.
Capturing the flailing redhead into his arms, he tucked himself into a ball and rammed himself through a window that was thankfully open. They bounced off the floor a few times, sprawling out in the ground and taking a moment to breathe.
"Well shit... Now I want my wings back." Faythe abruptly sat up with her hair in a frizz.
Wyper rolled over with a grunt and managed to get up first, "If so, we need the key to your cuffs. And you said Lucci has them..."
The sound of destruction could be heard transpiring above them a few levels.
"Luffy.." Faythe had her eyes up to the roof for a moment. She then felt something tickle her chest at the thought of him saving her from the feline agent. Taking a moment to exhale her nerves away, she spoke up, "He doesn't have them. I said he gave them to the female agent. She was supposedly on par with Kaku."
"On par with Kaku...? The square nosed guy?" Wyper rubbed his chin in thought, "It can't be that Kalifa chick then. Because she was the first one to get slumped if that Kaku fella didn't interfere."
"She's obviously one of the weaker ones then." Faythe concluded before thinking of that other lady that tossed her out of the window, "Then it has to be..."
The wall that had the window they jumped through was destroyed by a second party. Their heeled boots clicking as they walked calmly over the destroyed debris.
Quinn leaned on a hip, swinging a set of keys as she looked the red head in the eye, "I think it's about time we have a hot-to-hot chat, Bloody Raven."
Wyper and Faythe immediately squared up with their fists raised. The shandorian had put his massive gun away as they were now in tight quarters, not wanting to fire it off and catch Faythe in the blast.
"Ask me out to dinner first, you animal. You're skipping way too many levels for my comfort." Faythe commented on that strange comment.
Wyper deadpanned, "Now is not the time, Faythe."
Quinn let out a sarcastic laugh, her eyes squinting into a narrowed look, "Is that what you call yourself now? Faythe?"
Faythe narrowed her eyes at the woman, "There's nothing wrong with the name."
Quinn sighed and held up the keys to her eye level, "It is when the documents say it's Faelyn."
"Faelyn...?" Wyper frowned.
A shot from a rifle was heard as Quinn had barely managed to dodge with the keys equipped to her belt. Her eyes staring wide eyed at the red head.
"Where'd you hear that name...?" Faythe scowled.
Quinn giggled mockingly, enjoying how much power she gained by just sharing her real name, "Didn't I just say? From the documents, Oh! How careless of me...! I mean the documents from District Lab ZX-73." A smirk slowly lined her face as she watched Faythe's face pale at the location.
"Did you work there...?" Faythe gritted her teeth. Her finger itching near the trigger.
Quinn raised a brow, "No. but I had relations there." She gave Faythe a pointed look.
"Then you'll have to die here."
Wyper jumped at Faythe's statement, "Faythe! What!?"
"That place is full of nothing but bad people... And when I say this, I mean it...! Even the children would have turned against you...!" Faythe stated sternly.
Wyper frowned at her words, his eyes trailing down to the shaking gun in her hold. Her hands trembling at the idea of using the rifle to kill the woman. Closing his eyes with a sigh, Wyper slowly took the gun from her hold.
"Wyper..!" Faythe gasped as she felt bare without a weapon in her hands in front of the woman.
Wyper tossed the almost worn down rifle, "If you wanna stop this bitch's heart, then we'll do it in the most efficient way." He took out a reject dial.
Faythe's eyes widened, "But..."
"Is that what you say? The children will eventually turn against you? Is that how you justify it?" Quinn slowly unsheathed her blade. A thin looking Cutlass sword, "Is that how you coped with killing him?"
Faythe froze, her finger clenching down on the dial that it almost formed a crack, "What are you talking about...?"
"It seems like you just don't get it? Have you slaughtered so many people that you'd forget about killing a child—!?" Quinn vanished in a blink of an eye, and reappearing before Faythe with her Cutlass raised.
Faythe not expecting the last part was caught off guard and was struck at her shoulder by the blade, "AGHHH...!!"
Wyper rushed over and blocked the second attack with his berserker shield in front of Faythe, "Don't get distracted!"
Covering her shoulder in a tight grip, Faythe peered up at the agent. Her eyes finally get a good look at the woman. She was slim, like most woman you would see, but she had one of the most angriest and hateful looks forever imprinted on her face. Like it had been kept locked away and finally able to dwell on the soul source of her wrath. Those grudge full eyes peered down at her like she was the one that killed her.
"It was an evaluation they said... Nothing bad would happen, they said..." Quinn chuckled, her free hand running down her face in self retrieved anger, "Yet once I come to check on him... I see his body being covered by that dreadful cloth!!" She hollered at Faythe accusingly.
Faythe stepped back at her outrage. The look that she was the one that took the only thing she cared about, "That was no evaluation... It was an accident I didn't mean to kill him..."
Wyper kept quiet as he watched with a frown at the woman's rage. It seemed like a discussion that he shouldn't be listening too, but he didn't seem to have a choice as Quinn came rushing in with that air walking technique. He grunted at the sheer force of her strength as he was sent flying into a nearby pile of stacked crates.
"An accident...!? Is that how you call it...!?" Quinn laughed, but it was anything but amusing, "HOW DARE YOU!!"
Faythe jumped out of the way as Quinn sprinted and went to slam her heeled boot down on her, "BUT IT WAS—!! I HAD NO CHOICE!!"
"BULLSHIT—!!" Quinn retorted, her cutlass cutting down a pillar that the red head ran behind, "He was stabbed in the eye!! You struck him dead in the face—!! He suffered!! And you watched him die a slow and painful death—!!"
Faythe grunted as she twisted out of the way of a swipe from the agent's blade. And then fucking lowly as a finger bullet was shot her way, "We were wearing shock collars!! If we lost, we would have to suffer by electrocution!!"
"That's not an excuse to kill him!!"
"I was trying to survive!!" Faythe sent a few jabs towards the agent but watched her easily slip through them like nothing.
"He was just a child!!" Quinn grabbed the red head and tossed her over her shoulder—slamming her into the ground.
Faythe used her forearm to smack away the blade in her hand as she grabbed the agent by her collar and tugged her closer. She ended up using her weight against her and tossed her off of her, "I WAS A CHILD!!"
Quinn managed to catch herself and sent a finger bullet towards the redhead. Her cutlass back in her hand, "And he was my brother."
Faythe steadied herself as she felt all air leave her.
"...What?"
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There you have it!
The reason why Quinn hates Faythe so much!
Reference for the murder is in the Prologue.
Hoped you liked it!
Enjoy and wait for the next one!
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