Please Enjoy the 4th Installment of the Team MLC!

    Mxskai  was throwing darts at the target on her door. That was all she'd been doing for the past several hours, slumping around in her office, just waiting for any reports from the Team MLC. Her thoughts where interrupted by a knock on the door.
"Come in." she said.
Tollieo1 opened the door, holding a bag of mail over her shoulder.
"Here's the mail. I still can't believe that paper can be so heavy," said Tollieo laughing.
Mxskai chucked in return, taking the bag over her shoulders with ease.
Tollieo's eyebrows raised.
"How....?"
Skai winked in return.
"You get used to it after doing it every day."

      After Tollieo left, Mxskai looked through the mail. It seemed that a lot of protesters were up lately, due to the disappearance of the Team MLC. She sighed. She hated answering these letters; it was pointless. After several moments of this, AnnChoEve entered tossing Skai a Team MLC suit and some equipment.
"You know how to use these?" Ann snapped, hastily adjusting one that she just putted on.
"Yeah.....but, geez, what's this all of a sudden?" asked Mxskai in disgust, observing the uniform. Those leggings were definitely going to stick to her thighs.
"What do they look like?" asked Ann. She sighed, ran her hand through her hair, and began to speak again.
"Listen, don't tell anybody just yet, but I just got a call from GinKazeRyuu. The Team is having their hands full over there, 9261993 just pressed the self destruct button-"
"They have a self destruct button?" interupted Skai, laughing.
"Sweet.....I have to remind you to give that girl a raise."
"That's not my job, that's-! Never mind." sighed Ann. This was no time to argue over Nine-chan's salary.
"The point is Rokusho is sending agents over here. I don't know how many, but we need to defend this place, including the dorms...Damnit! Where's NearlyMello when you need her?!"
"You're the one who sent her to lead the mission." Skai pointed out.
Ann threw one of the darts at her in frustration.


"I CAN'T HOLD THEM OUT ANY LONGER!" roared Mr.GBH, firing his gun at the ninjas. Grinzor was covering his back, also shooting down ninjas, but it wasn't enough.
"WELL, TRY THE BEST YOU CA-AGH!" replied Kankuro15, who was punched, and got thrown through the air.
She did a graceful back flip and got into position again to face her opposing ninja.
"I'm almost out of ammo!" declared  Grinzor, trying to search his pockets for ammo, meanwhile star throwing.
"Have mine!" ForTheCraic growled, knocking over a ninja with the butt of a rifle.
Grinzor quickly reached into Craic's pockets, searching until he found the bullets. He jammed them into his gun, only to find out that the water had soaked through. Mr. GBH cursed loudly, his problems similar to Grinzor's. The sprinklers were interfering with his weapons, jamming up several of his best guns. He sighed, placed the guns away, and took out his sword. Grinzor followed his lead.
"DIE!!!" Kankuro roared at her opponent, breaking his neck.
Mr.GBH scoffed.
"A little over dramatic, don't you think? 'Die'?" he chuckled.
Kankuro smiled weakly, wiping away the blood from the scratch on her head.
"Where do all these ninjas come from?" she moaned, as twenty more attacked.



The office was quiet. Shyone1 and 9261993 got into a fighting position, Mack was secretly holding her gun with one hand and her other was on the computer. GinKazeRyuu got into her fighting stance, slipping on metal 'claws' that fell in position between her knuckles; three, sharp, deadly blades for both hands. All four kept their eyes on Rokusho and Calamari.  The ninja and his hostage  had arrived at the office just moments before,  after Gin's detector  saw them coming.
Calamari smiled calmly. She was dressed in a long, elegant gown, not bonded or harmed in any way. As if she came willingly.
Rokusho laughed, facing Gin.
"I've got to admit, I was so surprised when you showed up. You were always.....hopeless in some areas, ne?"
He turned to Mack.
"Stupid of you to hire her as an assistant- what's the use of a kid who can't make herself powerful enough for THIS?"
Instantly, without warning, Rokusho threw a punch at Gin intended to send her flying to the wall.
Which she did. Only, in such a way so that the punch only provided as a booster to send her to the wall, and rebound right into his face, so that her left claw was directly pointed at his neck.
"What was that you said about power?" she whispered, her eyes flashing in fury.
Nine-chan laughed silently in her head; the name "Ryuu" , or "Dragon", wasn't just a decoration.
"Enough. You can't fool him. Put the claw down." said Calamari, staring Gin in the eye.
Gin hesitated. This was Calamari's orders, but, still...
"She said to put it down, girl." Rokusho whispered.
For a second, all anyone could see was a flash, as he moved his hand fast.
Gin screamed in agony, jumping to the wall, cradling her left hand; Rokusho had almost sliced it off. She examined the wound; a long, somewhat deep slash on her wrist. She swooned a little, as the blood came out. She quickly ripped a part of her outfit to cover the wound.
Mack pressed a button on the computer swiftly. Instantly, a small robotic spire attached itself to Rokusho's arm.
"Clever design." she whispered horsely, as if in a trance.
"Too bad it'll destroy it's master..."
"You weren't born to kill." said Calamari calmly.
Mack smiled weakly, then slowly walked toward Rokusho.
"Maybe not, but you could explain some things....."
She grabbed Calamari's arm, in attempt to take her away, but Rokusho made her let go.
"Touch the hostage and the next thing you know the MLC is gone forever."
"What do you mean?" asked Shy boldly.
Rokusho turned to face the girl, smiling broadly as he destroyed the small spire, ordering his guards to attack.
"I sent a few uninvited guests over to your place. I do hope you don't mind."



   Ann looked across the room; LionChia5 was helping OwlScrach into a uniform, Tollieo looking self-concious in one, 50YenCoin fooling around, Ari-chan calling her family....Ann turned to Skai and nodded. Mxskai spoke into the mic.
"Attention, everyone." Mxskai said.
The room fell silent.
"We have just received information that under twenty minutes or so the entire MLC premises will be attacked. This includes the dojo, dorm rooms, media center, store, fan service, and especially this building. They'll hit here first, so we must be prepared and heavily guarded and weaponed."
"That's not a word." hissed AnnChoEve.
Skai shrugged, and moved on.
" Nearly Mello's department will be split. I want some of you guys to cover here, especially the roof and lowest floors, some to cover the dorms and other areas. I want Mello's department to form squads among the other departments, as well."
Nearly Mello's department all nodded.
"50YenCoin, you are Mello's head assistant, yes?" asked Skai.
Yen nodded.
"Who's the best hacker out of everybody who is present?"
Yen thought about that for a moment then shouted a single word.
"Airi-chan!"

   The following five minutes were a blur. The MLC buildings were filled with people in their positions learning how to handle their weapons properly and waiting anxiously. AnnChoEve was positioned in her office with Airi-chan trying to copy the codes that  Mack and Gin had left behind.
"Right, I got in." said Airi-chan.
Airi-chan sighed, thinking about her family and hoping that they'd be safe.
"How close are they?" asked Ann, pacing.
"About a ten minutes distance away. Looks like about.......Holy...." Ari-chan's voice faded weakly.
"What? What's wrong?" asked Ann anxiously looking over her shoulder.
Airi turned to face the President.
"Rokusho just sent what looks like an entire flying fleet of ninjas in helicopters."
Ann looked at the computer; sure enough, about fifty or so choppers where flying in range of their radar. Ann turned on her walkie-talkie.
"50YenCoin, I repeat, 50 Yankee-Echo-November-Charlie-Oscar-India-November, there's a fleet of a hundred or so ninjas coming our way towards our northwestern skies."
"Damnit, stop doing that! Theres only one 50YenCoin here, spelling it in radio code confuses people!" whispered Yen harshly into her walkie-talkie.
"Send a missal!"
"Hey, don't give me orders." Ann murmured.
"Please?" asked Yen sarcastically.
"Soldiers....." Ann murmured and turned to Ari.
"Send a missal."



    9261993 was in a panic. She was viciously fighting ninja after ninja, covering for GinKazeRyuu, who was busy sending AnnChoEve a message right after contacting NearlyMello.
"ARE YOU DONE YET?" she yelled.
"Yeah." murmured Gin, slipping on her claws again as she rushed toward another ninja.
Rokusho's office was like a dance studio in which the ninjas and the several MLC agents fought with grace as they circled Rokusho and Calamari, who calmly observed the ceiling, doing nothing.
Almost no emotion..... 921993 thought.
"NINE-CHAN, LOOK OUT!"
Lost in her thoughts, Nine-chan failed to see a ninja attack her. With a scream, she threw a punch, which landed in the ninja's gut.  With ShyOne1's help, they both knocked him out.
"Thanks." said 921993, to which Shy only nodded. ShyOne was too busy scanning the area to pay attention.
All the guards were knocked out (or killed, but nobody wanted to think about that), but things were looking really bad. Shy secretly wished for the other four agents to hurry up and come their way.
Mack groaned, her arm was wounded with several star wounds and Gin now had a nasty sword cut running down her left cheek and her hand was still staining the cloth that bandaged it.  Shy was out of breath and limping due to wounds on her legs and Nine-chan had a deep cut in her left thigh.
Rokusho chucked.
"True, you have improved...but this is getting rather dull."
He smiled again and sat down in his chair, leaving Calamari in the middle of the room.
"Why won't she speak?" Mack murmured to GinKazeRyuu.
"I don't know....."
Gin stared with worried eyes at Mack's arm and handed her some makeshift bandages swiftly turning her attention to Rokusho and Calamari.
Rokusho sat down at his desk, looking at the computer, making "tisk" sounds.
"I should have made my system harder to hack into.....next time.....Oh, dear, and the clock is ticking away, isn't it?"
Rokusho laughed.
"All right, I'll make a deal with you, spill the beans, if you like. But let's be frank, time is of the essence."
He turned the screen over so everyone could see.
The timer only had 30 minutes until the building blew up.



The agents huffed in silence.
"Injuries!" barked NearlyMello.
"Got an arrow head stuck in my arm. How'd it get there?" said Mr. GBH, tending to himself.
"Nothing serious." answered Grinzor, tending to a scratch on her leg.
"Do broken nails count?" joked ForTheCraic.
"Yeah, if we were at a spa. Nothing here." reported Kankuro.
Mello nodded.
"Ok, we need to get to Rokusho's office. Fast."
"Shouldn't we disable the system first though?" asked Grinzor.
The alarm was still going off.
"This building will self destruct in 28 minutes and 52 seconds. Please find the nearest exit and evacuate immediately," said the robotic voice of a computerized announcer.
"Crap......Twenty-eight minutes?" said Mr. GBH.
"We have to hurry." agreed Mello.
"The button to undo it should be someplace where the ninjas would have easy access to it, but would need a sort of password to get in. Only several people would know the code." said Kankuro.
"It's how these ninjas work."
"We need to split." Mello said.
"Kankuro and Craic, I want you two to find this button, now. You know the floor plan?"
They both nodded, memorization was easy for them.
"Mr. GBH, Grinzor and I will go help the others. We need to be back at the jet before this thing explodes, if it does. Let's go."
The departing friends hugged, wished each other luck, and went onto their separate ways.

"So.....where would it be?" asked Craic uncertainly to Kankuro.
"Think.....what's a place that everybody has access to at all times?"
"The bathroom?" was Craic's quick answer.
"The kitchen."  was Kankuro's reply.
"Turn left."
"Why?" asked Craic.
"That's where most ninjas put it...besides, its the only other place with multiple knives."
"But can't you use water and stuff in the bathrooms?" asked Craic.
"Yeah, but that was before pirates invented Ecoli." said Kankuro with a slight laugh.



Ari-chan watched the computer screen as the missal she sent had taken down another chopper.
"Keep on doing it until we run out. I need all of them down! Even shot down they can still fight us."
Ari looked into the screen and frowned.
"That was our last one."
"What?!"
"They'll be here any minute."
Ann checked and cursed under her breath. Kankuro was being stingy, yet again. She paused.
"Do we have any bazookas?"
Ari shrugged.
Ann called Yen again.
"Yen, do we have any bazookas?"
"Yeah, in the basement." said 50YenCoin confused.
"Take them out, as well as any far ranged things we have. We have run out of missiles."
Yen agreed and called for Toillieo.
"We need the bazookas  all over the place. Oh, and get out the cannons. And the catapult."
"Catapult?" ask Tollio.
Yen shrugged.
"It was from that Quest thing that those guys did a while ago, with GBH being a Knight and all......for some strange reason, Cal never wanted to throw away that old thing."

  The bazookas, cannons, and the catapult were all ready to go with people tending to them when the helicopters came into view.
"Now?" said Mxskai into her walkie-talkie. She was in position, holding the huge gun with difficulty.
"FIRE!" shouted 50YenCoin giving the signal.
Skai and many others aimed and fired.
The once blue sky was shot out in black smoke, as if hell itself had, for that moment, took over the heavens.


 
"You still haven't given us any answers."  said Mack.
"Ah, and you're right!" said Rokusho cheerfully leaning  back into his chair.
"It's simple, really, the MLC annoys me. Too many are being careless, and carelessness leads to mistakes, leading to failure! You're clan is dying and you know it. I'm just making it a bit easier for you, that's all."
He frowned at his computer, turning off the sprinkler system. He smiled.
"That's better. This thing doesn't work so well in water."
The door crashed opened. It was Nearly Mello, Mr. GBH and Grinzor. Grinzor gasped when she met Rokusho's eyes.
"Rokusho..." he murmured.
GinKazeRyuu looked closely at both of their reactions on this reunion. Rokusho was shocked to see his old best friend standing before him, his eyes opening wide slightly, but then turned cold once more.
"More guests, huh? Don't you know it's rude to enter without knocking?"
"Calamari...." whispered NearlyMello. 
Mellow saw Cal, who was standing in the middle of the room, this time observing the floor, finding the porka quite interesting.
Calamari ignored her.
"What are you doing?" Mr.GBH hissed.
Calamari stared him in the eye and he said no more.
"But what has keeping Calamari hostage have to do  with it?"  asked ShyOne.
Rokusho  turned to her then and smiled, walking toward Calamari, placing his hand on her shoulder.
"Everything. After all, it was her idea."
Calamari smiled smugly.
"Surprised?"
Nearly Mello stared her coolly in her eye, pissed.
"You have no idea."
The automatic announcer's's voice broke through the rising tension.
"This building will self destruct in 15 minutes and 12 seconds, please find the nearest exit and evacuate immediately."


To Be Continued...