RPG SYF: Special Youth Force: Garrotted Threats...

[Raiha]

[COLOR=royalblue][i]The poor guy's search was fruitless, then he got an idea and quietly slinked up to Jaudiar. She crossed her arms and looked at him lazily....through half closed eyes.[/i]

Liam: Have you seen my baby?

Jaudiar: Oh...you mean this?

[i]She bent down and drew back the cloth covering one of the sideboard tables. There it was. Liam gasped then straightened up and threw his arms around her neck.[/i]

Liam: Oh I could kiss you!

Jaudiar: ....is that a fact?

[i]The older female grinned at him and winked with her left eye.[/i][/COLOR]

[liamc2]

Liam checked the MS1.
?Huh.? He said, ?Only one cartridge?? He glanced at Jaudiar expectantly.

Jaudiar rolled her eyes and removed the lid of one of the large soup tureen?s beside her. Liam grinned when he opened it. Inside were almost all of the clips that he hadn?t used and that had been confiscated. He clipped them all around his belt and into various pockets of clothing.

He looked at Jaudiar and said, ?You know, I am going to be forced to hug you again. I mean, how many girls have I known that give me packets of bullets?? He paused to rethink his last statement. ??well, other than the ones that were keen on shooting them at me first??

Jaudiar resisted the urge to laugh and was hugged around the middle. Liam kissed her on the cheek and released her before looking rather sheepish and pretending to be preoccupied with reloading the MS1.

Siren handed him a com set and hefted a flak jacket at him. While he was slipping it on she gave orders,
?Liam we?ve got to get Pizaro into the hummers. From there we?ll wait for Adam and the relief choppers. But first we?ve got to disable the automatic anti aircraft on the roof??

?Ahuh?any type of nasty bomb or Pizaro created booby traps for dooming the world if he?s caught??

?Not that we know of?but we?re keeping Pizaro under close scrutiny, he won?t touch a thing, that way he can?t activate anything???

?Great. I really, really needed to know that. Now I can be certain that we?re going to be in a whole pot of trouble very shortly?? Liam wandered towards the roof staircase, grumbling to himself.

[Lady Asphyxia]

[color=darkred]Pizaro sat in the dark room he'd used to hold Liam captive. Rae and Ryan were standing guard, talking between the two of them, while the others were leaning on the opposite wall.

"How do you want to handle him?"

She thought for a minute. "I don't know. He's a tad complex." She shrugged. "I'll figure it out." Rae stood still again, smiling at Niomi and Siren before walking up to Pizaro. She circled him twice, then stopped at his blind left side to move some mussed up hair. "Are you scared?"

"Jenna," Pizaro whispered. "Jenna, please, you wouldn't do this to your father, would you?"

Rae shot a surprized look at the others then shrugged and looked down at him again. "Yes."

"Please, Jenna, someone's turned you against me. Don't listen to them, Jenna. Listen to me."

Smiling as an idea formed, she shot a glance at them, then moved foward to Ryan, sidling close to him. "You're right Daddy. Someone has turned me against you. You can thank Ryan for that. he showed me how wrong your business is. I'm sorry, Daddy, but you'll have to pay the price." Smiling fondly at him, she turned and kissed Ryan softly, then turned back to Pizaro, fingers twined with Ryan's.

She noted the pain in pizaro's eyes with satisfaction, then started tellin her hastily concocted story. "I honestly can't believe you didn't realise. Didn't my school tell you of those visits with strangers, my abnormal behavior lately? No? Well, what about those detectives and guards you place on me? No? You should have hired better people, Daddy. I thought you knew the first rule was to know your family. They know the most about you. Everyone in this business knows that the people you know are the ones you hate. Do you believe that? No, I can see you don't. Well, I have to say, I believe it. With all my heart. I hate you Daddy."

The man's face crumpled, looking as if he were about to cry. Rae grinned, keeping her eyes trained on him. "What do you think? Do you think I should forgive you? That I should invite to my house when I get married. To let you give me away?"

He nodded, eyes searching hers, pleading for the forgiveness she offered. "Well," she said, smiling at him prettily. "I won't. You've commited too many sins, Papa. Tell me. Tell me why I should forgive you."

Pizaro looked down, and Rae stormed over and pulled his chin up so he faced her. "Tell me."

He was silent.

"You can't, can you? Then tell me what you've done, and maybe I will decide to forgive you."

Pizaro nodded, and started listing his sins from the time he was 3. Rae sent a glance at the others on the wall, silently telling them to start recording. Their faces stone, they nodded.

When he finished, Pizaro looked up at her hopefully. "Will you forgive me, daughter?"

Rae's face hardened. "No." And she turned and walked from the room, hearing Pizaro's soft crying echoing behind her. [/color]

[Raiha]

[COLOR=royalblue][i]She sighed and squeezed Rae's shoulder reassuringly. The younger female smiled quietly and nodded to Jaudiar....from experience came a quiet calm that satisfied the younger girl.[/i]

Rae: Thanks.

Jaudiar: ...don't worry.

Liam: Hmm?

Jaudiar: Come on.[/COLOR]

[liamc2]

Liam nodded. Five minutes worth of jogging later and they were on the roof. Liam whistled at the proficient weaponry.

?It?s like something out of a video game,? he muttered as he ran a hand along one of the silkworm missiles, ?not even the Government uses this much defence?No wonder there hasn?t been a air team sent to blow this place up?you wouldn?t get two metres into this airspace before you were blown into a million bits??

Jaudiar inspected a particularly large calibre A-A gun. ?The question is,? she said, ?how are we to disarm all of it??

Liam glanced at the twenty odd missile turrets and the five or so A-A mounted guns. He groaned and said, ?we?re going to have to do it manually. With all this explosive firepower clustered together, there?s no way we can blow it up??

Jaudiar nodded and began wrenching the automatic A-A turret next to her. Liam focused his attention on the Silkworm missile. As he was unplugging it from the mains, a wave of ingenuity washed over his face. With added zeal he removed the nose off the missile and carefully wormed the explosive itself from the cradle.

Jaudiar noticed what he was doing and hissed, ?what the hell do you think you?re doing? Are you insane? One false move and BOOM! No more us!?

Liam didn?t respond. A second later and he was waving the explosive in her face.

Grinning, he said, ?Hey, I suffer from Pirotechnomania! I can?t help but steal high powered explosives.? His face twisted into mock innocence, ?oops. Looks like you just found out why I?m never allowed on the missions involving nuclear weapons.?

Jaudiar?s eyes narrowed as she said, ?there is no such disease??
Liam shrugged, still smiling, and repeated the process on the other turrets. Pretty soon he had quite an array of powerful explosives.

When he had finished, half an hour later, Liam screwed up his face in mock concentration and began counting up the explosives at his feet.

?Hmm.? He said. ?Twenty gun turrets with four missiles each?each missile had a kilos worth...[I]no[/I] one and a half kilos worth of explosives?so that leaves me with a bomb weighing one hundred and twenty kilos.?

Jaudiar kicked over the remaining A-A turret. As Liam had insisted on having the missile turrets left to him she had been left to completely decimate all of the machine gun turrets. As crude and pointless as it was, smashing up a heap of very expensive metal was rather a lot of fun.

Jaudiar walked over to him and raised an eyebrow. ?You can?t carry all that you know.?

?Oh,? Liam replied, ?I don?t intend to. See that edge?? He pointed over the side of the roof, Jaudiar could just make out the parked hummers below. ?Well,? Liam continued, ?all we have to do is chuck this here pile of fireworks over the side and into them. I?m sure the lab would appreciate a large stockpile of missile explosives.?

Jaudiar put two and two together and ended up with a vivid image of what would happen if you threw a hundred and twenty kilos of unstable explosives over a balcony. She tried to stop Liam, but his throw was already too far-gone. Her breath caught in her throat as the slowly rotating explosive hit the open back of the hummer?and didn?t explode?

Liam looked at her quizzically, ?What? They need their detonator?s to explode. It?s plastic explosive, I might as well be throwing plasticine over the side.?

Jaudiar faced him with a ?why didn?t you tell me, you are so dead? look.

Liam replied with one of innocence. ?Hey,? he protested, ?I may be a pirotechnomaniac, but I?m certainly not stupid.?

[Raiha]

[COLOR=royalblue]Jaudiar: ...that can be argued.

[i]She chuckled to herself, and quietly slipped the last belt of ammo over her shoulder. Like he said, no sense in going back empty handed.[/i]

Rae: What a nutcase.

Jaudiar: Could be worse.

Liam: Yeah, I could be like you.

Jaudiar: You have ten seconds to run before I open fire.

Liam: Um....[/COLOR]

[liamc2]

Liam scratched the back of his head and grinned. ?You wouldn?t do that to me. I?m too adorable!?

Jaudiar folded her arms and glared at him. Liam chuckled and jogged down the staircase.

Siren looked up from the communication laptop and asked, ?So is the airspace clear??

Liam nodded, ?We?ve pulled everything on the roof to pieces. Tell Adam to feel free to come and get us and place me in a nice and comfortable intensive care unit somewhere??

A long sarcastic drawl, that could have only come from Adam, crackled in Liam?s headset. ?I was thinking more along the lines of a nice, white, padded cell somewhere??

?Aha?ha?ha?? Liam replied. ?I?m warning you Adam?I [I]do[/I] have my MS1 back you know??

~~~

Jaudiar peered over the balcony, pistol in hand.
?I wonder if I could whack him from up here.? She said to Rae.

?Not before me. I?ve got dibs.? Rae responded. ?I?ve got to get him back for constantly putting down Adam?honestly?Adam has enough to put up with without Liam riding on his case??

Jaudiar holstered her pistol and stuck out her hand to Rae.

Confused, Rae took it.

?So,? Jaudiar said, ?we?re in agreement. If either of us feel the need to shoot him or otherwise, we?ll do it together??

Rae laughed and shook Jaudiar?s hand, ?Yup, deal, we?re in agreement.?

~~~
Twenty minutes away, over the dense jungle, a squad of helicopters flew towards the base.

[Raiha]

[COLOR=royalblue][i]In complete compliance with her natural character, Jaudiar sat back, and began to apply another coat of black to her nails. Rae grinned and sat down as well.[/i]

Jaudiar: Hmm?

Rae: Why do you insist on always wearing black?

Jaudiar: I must be mourning my lost childhood.

[i]She winked and waved her black nailed hands in front of her face mysteriously. Rae chuckled and looked up at the night sky.[/i]

Rae: ...whatever. Liar.

Jaudiar: Maybe it's just me. I always liked black. It's scary.

Liam: Like....you...?

Jaudiar: Can it bucky.[/COLOR]

[Lady Asphyxia]

[color=darkred]Rae flicked a bug from her bag with her newly painted fingernails. "Eh, you know, Jaudiar, that we should probably get the other SYF agents out too. Not our group. The last one."

Liam looked at her, turning his back on the scenery - lots and lots of trees. "Who are they?"

"Iono. I just heard about them from the guards. I'd say that they aren't in the best shape, though. Come on." Rae led them through the passages. After collecting the agents, most of the group proceeded to ignore them.

Rae herself was thinking. They needed to get back to base. The group was tired; Siren, Iitashi, Craig and Ryan more so because of their joyful jungle trek. Jaudiar, reading her thoughts from her expression, smiled. "I think it's time to go home."

_______

Filler is finished... [/color]

[liamc2]

Liam nodded. The din of helicopter blade?s started and Adam ran over.

?We?ve got everybody loaded up. Lets go before the bad guys get reinforcements.?

The group swiftly entered the choppers. They took off, and the jungle was left silent once more.

[b]48 hours later: Central Command. Location Classified[/b]

Liam kicked back in the plush chair. They?d been at this new skyscraper base for a couple of hours now. Enough time to shower, get some sleep and vaguely resemble human beings.

The first minute Liam was comfortable, Adam accosted him. Something to do with a counselling session because of ?recent events.?

~~~

Adam strode briskly up to the seated Liam. Liam looked up from his glass and the television in front of him.

?What?? he asked.

?Liam. We?ve seen some files. Craig recovered a couple of recordable DVD?s and a digital video camera. We?ve seen what caused the damage to your back.?

Liam?s gaze hardened.

?And besides coming to announce to the complex this wonderful news,' he said, 'what?s the purpose of this meeting??

Adam?s enthusiasm deflated slightly.

?The Commander of SYF, upon viewing the DVD?s has decided to place you in a counselling program. The current events and past ones have brought an alarming change from your original self??

Liam was standing now, the glass and television sat forgotten.

?If the [I]Commander[/I] thinks my mental health to be so important, why isn?t he telling me personally!?

?Because he had other events holding him up.? The burly voice of the Commander came from behind Liam. ?I?m expecting you to take these session?s now Liam. The future of the SYF depends on it. It seems the course has put an alarming amount of pressure on your psyche, we don?t want that happening to any other agents. So we?re going to put you under the microscope and see if any permanent damage has been done??

Liam scowled.

?Fine. But I?m only doing it because of the papers Commander.?

The Commander took a slight step back.

?I don?t know what you?re talking about Liam.?

?Pfft, sure you don?t. You know the one?s I?m talking about. Where?s this session??

Adam looked clueless. He restrained himself from asking the Commander what Liam was talking about until he had pointed him off in the right direction..

When Liam was out of earshot, Adam turned to the Commander,

?[I]What[/I] papers??

The Commander?s face was grave.

?That information is classified Adam. Privileged information only, you won?t find it on any computer so don?t worry about it. Resume business.?

The Commander turned and left, leaving an oblivious Adam behind.

~~~

Liam cleared his throat and yawned. The smell of the leather seat was making him drowsy.

The SYF Psychiatrist looked up from his notebook computer.

?Liam,? he said, in a tone that could only be used by naïve thirty something psychiatrists. ?You see here, your problem is that you?re making things to complicated for yourself. Look at how you dress! Constant changing from formal to casual! One minute you?re one of those ?teenyboppers? the next you look like a Matrix wannabe. As you change these clothes you change your lifestyle and demeanour??

Liam snorted and unsuccessfully tried to turn it into a cough.

The Psychiatrist looked over the lip of his laptop.

?What is it? What?s so funny??

?I dunno?it just is?did you get this entire spiel of yours from that Avril Lavinge song ?Complicated?? I mean honestly doc, get a life??

The psychiatrist visibly reddened behind his half moon glasses.

?Ahem. Moving [I]right[/I] along. You need to build yourself a hobby, something that hasn?t been influence by your work. What about basketball??

?Killed someone in the grandstands when the Chicago Bulls
scored, while the crowd was distracted.?

?O?k then?Lets see, Soccer??

?Garrotted a Mafia kingpin while he was watching his son?s peewee soccer match.?

?Right then?lets move away from the sports shall we? What about karaoke??

?Hmm, took out a triad boss after he had finished singing ?My Way.? Actually, I didn?t know he was a triad boss at the time, I just hated his horrible singing. I found out he was a triad boss when the entire café started shooting at me??

?.......?

The psychiatrist rapidly scanned and read out his list of possible work distractions. For every one of them, Liam answered with someone he killed there, even adding what weapon, calibre, number of shots and the date and time to got with it. He was getting desperate now, it seemed he couldn?t find a single hobby.

In exasperation he said, ?What about stamp collecting??

Liam was silent. For a very long time. The psychiatrist was smiling in triumph, and then Liam opened his mouth and his hopes were shattered.

?Stamp printing factory, Switzerland. My first mission on my own. It turned out that the factory was a front for money laundering. Killed the boss by drowning him in a vat of ink?that stain on my hands took months to wash out??

The psychiatrist sunk in his chair.

?Right?? he said, ?I guess there?s nothing I can do for you then?as far as I can tell all that SYF has done to you is turn you into a sarcastic, embittered teenager with the tendency to shoot people that annoy you. All of which can be classified under normal hormonal changes?good day??

Liam got up to leave when the psychiatrist called out,

?How about movies??

Liam opened his mouth to reply, but the psychiatrist raised his hand,

?Wait, I already asked you that. That was the incident with the ?James Bond sleeps around so much he must have created his [I]own[/I] venereal diseases.? After when you said that you used the disturbance to stab that triad assassin under the ribs before he could shoot the Prime minister?s daughter??

Psychiatrist fell back into his chair as Liam closed the door behind him. For all three thousand two hundred and eight suggestions, Liam had come up with a very detailed response of how he killed someone?sometimes even with play by play actions.

The psychiatrist reached into a drawer and pulled out a particularly large bottle of vodka to ease his nerves and forget.

Especially that particular account with the toothpicks,

?That poor guy?imaging having your brain stabbed through the left nost with a large amount of toothpicks??

The psychiatrist twitched involuntarily and swigged from the mouth of the bottle.

[Raiha]

[COLOR=royalblue][i]The female hellcat watched Liam exit the facility, muttering to himself and shaking his head. She dropped down from her position on top of a nearby rooftop and smiled into the face of his drawn gun. He opened his eyes and looked at her, then put the gun back into its holster. She smiled and took the blade away from his crotch.[/i]

Liam: Ee....too close for comfort.

Jaudiar: So what's the verdict?

Liam: I'm legally insane. Hormones ya know...

Jaudiar: I wouldn't know. I was over that awhile back...

Liam: How old are you again...?

Jaudiar: I've gone mysteriously deaf and haven't the faintest idea of what you're talking about.

Siren: She's 26!!!

[i]Jaudiar colored furiously and looked at Siren's rapidly retreating backside. The younger female turned and waved, happily out of range. Liam grinned at Jaudiar's red countenance.[/i]

Liam: Is she right?

Jaudiar: I just turned 26. I had my birthday while we were watching your torturing. And by the way, my scars are uglier than yours...

[i]She smiled at him, then kissed his cheek playfully and danced out of range.[/i][/COLOr]

[liamc2]

Liam shook his head and looked across the street. When he looked back, Jaudiar and Siren had gone. Liam sighed and soaked in the ?civilised? atmosphere. Around him people were bustling along on their way to work. When surrounded by barbarianism and brutality it was nice to get a giant booster shot of civilisation.

Someone barrelled into Liam hard. Liam took a step backwards while the teenager that hit him fell to the ground rubbing his head. In his hand was Liam?s wallet. The crowd walking around Liam and the teenager paused momentarily to see what was going on, before continuing along their way.

The teen looked up at Liam, grinning. He stood, standing a good six inches above Liam. Liam sighed and put his hand. The teen didn?t place the wallet in it.

Unwise decision.

Liam, apathy in his voice, said, ?I?d like my wallet back thankyou very much.?

The teen smirked, showing some atrocious dental work, ?Nah mate, whatcha goin? to do about then eh? I found this here wallet fair and square on the ground. Public property that is.?

The teen smacked Liam smartly on the crown of his head and laughed, shoving Liam as he walked past.

Inwardly Liam groaned, he really couldn?t do anything without attracting the attention of the already rampant media?not to mention that this was Sydney, an loaded with suspicious and people that?d ring the police at any sight of violence in case of terrorist actions?there wasn?t a place in a kilometre radius that wasn?t in sight of a hundred people?well?actually?

Liam grinned and vanished amongst the ever-moving crowd of people.

~~~~~

The wallet thief, real name actually Steve, continued waltzing along in his own little happy world. He?d stolen a wallet that felt like it was loaded with cash, not to mention without a fight from the shrimp he got it from. Stupid rich kid, probably his weekly allowance in there?

Steve rubbed his shoulder. Man it was still hurting?odd, that kid should have fallen over without a problem?

Then the world vanished.

Steve landed with a thick slap on something smelling foul. He rolled over, groaning and rubbing an extremely hurt belly. He glanced up, seeing the only light to be coming from an open man hole, far, far above?

He winced, blinking, when he had finished?the kid was there?
Liam grinned and plucked his wallet from Steve?s hand.

?Thankyou, so much. It?s been fun??

Steve blinked, dumbfounded. Liam vanished.

Suddenly the world felt so cold?Steve got up and ran to the ladder on the wall, harrowed by the event.

In the distance, someone was whistling a tune who?s which name had been long forgotten?

~~~~~

Liam slid the steel rectangle of the Telstra communications hub aside and climbed out into s shocked public, waiting at the traffic lights. Liam saluted, slid the sheet back and vanished into the crowd.

Liam trotted up to the hundred or so story shiny sky scraper. Jaudiar was sitting on top of one of the benches outside, under the shade of a large Camphor Loral. A grin was on her face.

?I saw that you know, you can?t help yourself can you??

Liam put on a great show of being offended, and finished with a smile before entering the lobby.

[Raiha]

[COLOR=royalblue][i]She laughed uproariously, then hopped down and walked in beside him, softly, quietly. Siren greeted them, coffee in one hand, scone in the other. She gestured to the sideboard, loaded with food. Jaudiar smiled and stepped in front of Liam.[/i]

Jaudiar: Ladies first.

Liam: Age before beauty.

[i]She turned and glared at him venemously, hand straing to his daggar.[/i]

Liam: I take it back!

Jaudiar: ....good.

Siren: Oh brother.

Rae: I think they're adorable together!

Liam/Jaudiar: .....[/COLOR]

[liamc2]

Liam?s face went a slight shade of red, but before anyone noticed he excused himself. Liam took an elevator up two floors to his apartment in the complex. As he reached for his keys, an alarm distracted him. Suddenly red lights lowered from alcoves in ceiling and someone was barking over the PA that there had been a breakout. Liam spun around and faced the elevator. Behind him, his apartment door opened.

A hand reached out and caught Liam around the throat.
Liam made a very undignified ?hurk!? sound and fell back into his apartment. Something cold and metallic was pressed against his head.

?In case you?re wondering boy?this is real?you so kindly left it in your drawer, next to ample ammunition clips??

Yup there was no mistaking that voice. It was Pizaro. Two and two make four. Five if you include the mirror and the reflection of his shiny Desert Eagle. Damn paranoia. Always usurps you in the end.

?So Pizaro,? Liam said with deceptive calmness, ?why not just leave the building? Why make your way through so many levels from the basement lock up? If you got this far, you could have easily fled the building.?

Pizaro?s grip on Liam?s throat tightened and he shifted his weight. Pizaro kicked the apartment door shut. Three deadbolts locked automatically.

Damn paranoia?always usurps you in the end.

Pizaro didn?t move the gun from the side of Liam?s head. Someone had taught him well.

?So Liam?? Pizaro started, ?I didn?t leave the building because,? his arm-lock tightened, ?you?ve ruined me boy-

-huh? Me??

?Shut up!? Pizaro hissed, ?you know it, you?ve turned my little girl against me.?

?Hey, I didn?t do that, it was all Ryan?s fault, Ryan alll the way. Go hunt Ryan-

Pizaro whacked Liam with the butt of his gun. Somewhere in his mouth, something began to bleed?something hard was slightly loose too?

?Shut up about this Ryan character?it?s you I want?you started this whole mess-

-I beg to differ??

Another hard whack?that hard thing was now moving freely in his mouth and so was the blood. Liam spat the rapidly pooling blood out of his mouth. When paranoia turns, so does the big mouth syndrome?

?Shut the **** up. Just listen, you hear boy? You are going to listen to me very carefully now?you are going to take me very carefully to my daughter and tell her the truth!?

?What? That her dad is a weapons dealer that turned her into a frigid-

Two whacks this time.

Liam rolled his jaw, several somethings were free now?

?Ow! Dude?do not do that again??

[Lady Asphyxia]

[color=darkred]Jaudiar was the one to notice his absence. It wouldn't have been a problem, but for the fact that he wasn't responding to the calls over the earpiece. Rae herself was getting a tad paranoid - these missions never went as planned. For some reason, Pizaro still thought she was Jenna, and insisted that she was brainwashed.

Jaudiar paused for a moment, then decided that they'd better check out this recent development. They strode up to check the common room first - a shabby joint with one threadbare sofa and a black and white television that only picked up Prime. "Come on," Jaudiar said. "Check his room."

Nodding, she started walking towards his room. They encountered Adam on their way. He was looking harried and upset, panicky, almost. "You watch out, Rae. Pizaro's free." Were his only words before he went running towards the security area.

Jaudiar and Rae glanced at each other, then started running towards Liam's room. They got there, and Rae stopped. "There's three deadbolts."

"How'd you know?"

Rae grinned. "You haven't guessed yet? I know everything. I make it my business to know." [/color]

[Raiha]

[COLOR=royalblue][i]Jaudiar sighed and quietly slipped out the back door and edged her way from the balconey to the sliding glass door on the other side of the apartment. She surruptitiously cut away the lock and slid herself inside....almost lazily. Pizaro was in plain view, along with Liam. The first thing she noticed was the Desert Eagle, the second was his position. Vulnerable....but not yet. He wasn't too high strung yet, but Liam's bleeding face wasn't a strong encouragement. The quiet padding behind her told all about Rae's presence.

Jaudiar slowly slipped herself behind the perefrial vision of Pizaro, slingblade resting in her palm. He still didn't turn, but Liam's eyes registered....The hellcat smiled and quietly positioned herself behind him, and Rae had gone to earth.

From the other side, she could see her standing still. Pizaro groweld at Liam and raised his hand again. Suddenly, an icy cool voice broke into the conversation.[/i][

Jaudiar: ...break that and you're paying for it.

Pizaro: Hello Hellcat.

[i]He didn't turn around, unfortunatly. Jaudiar narrowed her eyes and stepped closer, slidding one leg around his waist, purring.[/i]

Jaudiar: If you let him go, we'll make it easy for you....I promise.

Pizaro: Yeah, what's your promise worth?

Jaudiar:. ..quite a bit actually.[/COLOR]

[Lady Asphyxia]

[color=darkred][b]OOC:[/b] I have the prediciton, that this will be very, very short.
_____


[b]IC:[/b] Rae stayed silent. Despite Liam's predicament, she knew the danger to herself. Pizaro, the crazy old coot, thought that she was his daughter. She was, in actuality, really getting sick of it. Leaning back and her hands, Rae silently sat down, crossing her legs. Interference would be a last-chance sort of thing. This time, she was just going to watch.

Pizaro didn't bother to reply to Jaudiar's latest statement, instead demanding in a hard voice. "He is going to tell my daughter the truth. You damned bastards turned her against me. You brainwashed her!"

Jaudiar smiled pityingly. "No, we didn't, Pizaro. She came to us."

It struck Rae as odd that no one had told Pizaro that the real Jenna was being held captive somewhere else. It took her a while to realise it was because if he believed Jenna to be her, he'd tell her more. Another thought occured to her. Why hadn't Pizaro told her that he was going to try to escape? [i]He think's you're brainwashed, of course.[/i] Rae nodded and realised that she knew it, but she hadn't connected everything before now.

Getting sick of the wait - she was one of the most impatient people in the world - Rae silently stood up and moved to the shadows. She poked herself with her nail in either eyes, and started to cry. "Papa?" She asked tearfully. "What have they done to you?" Pizaro dropped Liam, and Jaudiar let Pizaro go. He let out a noise like a strngled chicken, and enfolded Rae in a hug. Rae's stomach lurched, but she returned the hug, trying to forget that the gun was pressed to her back.

"Jenna," Pizaro whispered, unaware of the gun's position. "You've come back to me."

Rae opened her eyes, and gestured to Jaudiar and Liam, trying to tell them he had the gun at her back, even if it was accidentally. "Yes Papa, I'm back." Pizaro shifted his grip and the gun was dropped. Rae breathed a sigh of relief.

Pizaro jerked, then slumped, leaving Rae to take all his wait. She shouted in surprize, then stepped backwards and to the side, letting Pizaro fall to the floor. "What the hell happened?" She asked, then saw Liam holding a drawer from the dresser. "Never mind."

Liam stood over Pizaro, and spat out the three teeth the Pizaro had dislodged. "Maybe the toothfairy can give you bail."

Rae rolled her eyes at the remark. They all knew that Pizaro would be denied bail when he was finally sent to prison.[/color]

[Raiha]

[COLOR=royalblue]Jaudiar: ....rat bastard.

[i]She kicked his prone form and sheathed her blade. Then she turned and opened the deadbolts, then kicked the door wide open. Rae smiled and waited for the authorities to arrive. Liam grinned and wipped his chin.[/i]

Jaudiar: The missing tooth thing can be easily fixed.

Liam: Oral surgery.....goody.

Jaudiar: How about I snap your neck so you don't feel a thing?

Rae: *snicker*

Jaudiar: Or maybe I just do a tournequet around your face.[/COLOR]

[liamc2]

Liam winced, ?why do I suddenly believe that I would have been safer in Pizaro?s arms???

Liam rubbed his jaw. It was hurting like the blazes now?it didn?t hurt this much before. He rolled his jaw and ran his tongue along the lengths of his mouth. Finding three teeth missing and the tendons loose?was not a very nice feeling?

Adam crossed the threshold, taser in hand. He called back to two burly security guards who walked in and picked up the groggy Pizaro. Liam gave a cutesy wiggle of his fingers at Pizaro as he passed. Pizaro managed to scowl and tried to break free of the guards grasp. Both guards punched him in the ribs and winded him. Adam walked forward and hit him with the taser. Pizaro fell unconscious.

?Adam,? Liam said in a voice of someone who has a mouth filling with fluid and who is trying not to spray anyone with the fluid, ?where?s a dentist??

Adam noticed the teeth on the carpet.

?We don?t have one on staff?but I?ll get one in for you. It?ll take a while though, confidentiality agreement contracts to be signed first and all that you know??

?Whatever Adam?I really don?t want to argue?just?do it.?

Adam looked slightly taken aback, as though Liam had never agreed with anyone before. But he nodded and left the room.
They could hear him walking down the corridor and talking into his mobile phone. When the elevator doors had opened and closed, Liam sighed and walked into his bathroom. Jaudiar and Rae heard him spit and gargle.

?Gross? said Rae and she screwed up her face in disgust.

Liam came back out and picked the teeth back up off the ground.

?Knowing Adam, he?ll get someone good. And if he gets someone good, I?ll be needing these??

?What are you talking about?? Said Rae.

Liam pointed out one of his teeth next to the canines.

?That one was knocked out by a rifle butt to the face in the Sudan. Managed to have it put back in, we?ve got some remarkable genetic sinews here. The normal dental public are only just using it now??

[Raiha]

[COLOR=royalblue]Jaudiar: You're adorable either way.

[i]She grinned and pecked him on the cheek, then slung her jacket over her shoulder and sauntered out. Rae gave him the thumbs up/wink combo then followed quickly. Once inside the condo she shared with the other two women, she tossed her clothes into the hamper hanging from the wall, then went to the kitchen and poured herself a glass of Sprite.[/i]

Rae: Gonna hit the rocks?

Jaudiar: More like cloud nine. Cheers.

[i]She toasted Rae then knocked it back, and promptly burped. Jaudiar topped off the glass again, then drained it easily. She stood up, crushed the can in her fist, then walked to the bedroom and flopped down on the futon.[/i]

Rae: ...you really like him then.

Jaudiar: I guess so. Should I know for sure?

Rae: You could be the only one who could bring him a degree of sanity.

Jaudiar: We all play our parts.

[i]She smiled suddenly at a fond memory, then leaned back and stretched her spinal cord.[/i][/COLOR]

[liamc2]

Liam rubbed his jaw as he woke up after the surgery. The dentist above him was slightly out of focus, Liam blinked a good deal and he jumped back into spectrum. The dentist was smiling and Liam rose from his seat, shrugging off the numbing effects of the tranquillisers. He ran a tongue along the insides of his mouth, the three teeth were back into their normal positions. Good, good.

Liam looked at the dentist, ?how long have I been under??

The dentist checked the clock, ?about twenty or so hours, its just before lunch. Speaking of which??

Liam nodded and said his thanks and the dentist left, with the reminders not to eat anything like hard candy or otherwise until the teeth were fully set. Liam tottered out of the room and into the lobby.

The SYF officials felt it necessary for the procedure to be done under SYF observation, in case any attempts on Liam?s life were made. Liam laughed them off, but they insisted and the procedure was done on campus.

Liam called an elevator and took it up to the cafeteria. It was full of people buying their lunch, mostly SYF and ASIO officials and desk jockeys. Luckily none of them recognised him. That must have been why this particular skyscraper had been chosen?

Liam, shirking the line, grabbed a can of softdrink and a packet of chips from the vending machines.

He then took the elevator up once more and entered into his own apartment. He finished the junk food and chucked the wrappers into the bin beside the bed before collapsing on it He fell asleep almost instantly. For being unconscious for twenty or so hours, he was seriously tired?

[Raiha]

[COLOR=royalblue][i]She quietly stripped and climbed into the shower, then shivered until the water heated up. When she was through, she kicked open the doors, towel clad....and headed for the bedroom. Once there, she brushed out her hair and pulled it out of her way, then pulled on the usual lingere and pants...

Finally, she tossed the towel onto the rack, and it wrapped itself on easily....and then she smiled. Perfect enough. She crawled into bed and sat down with the down sheets pulled over her shoulders.[/i]

Jaudiar: G'night Rae. Siren.

Siren: Don't sleep too late.

Rae: Nighty....say hi to Liam tomorrow.

Jaudiar: Why can't I sleep late?

Siren: You're training with me at 7.

[i]The oldest of the three women groaned and sank deeper under the covers.[/i][/COLOR]

[liamc2]

Liam woke up and yawned, stretching out some uncomfortable kinks in his back. He checked the clock. Four in the morning. He rolled over and tried to resume sleeping, but his internal battery, for once in a long time, was full. Seeing no other way around it, Liam got out of bed and had a shower. He then got changed and took a stroll around the complex.

Even at this hour of the morning, people were still rushing around the corridors. One could say the term ?No rest for the wicked? applied here. Liam entered the elevator and slid his key card into a slot next to a blank screen. He typed a pin number in and the screen was no longer blank. Ten basement levels popped up, each with their names alongside. Liam selected level ten, ?danger to state.?

The elevator hit the ground floor and the doors opened. Liam crossed the threshold and stepped into a white room. The room flashed red for a second and a door opened at the opposite end of the room. Liam went through it and two very well armed and armoured burly security guards greeted him.

?This is a surprise visit,? said one through his re-breather gear, ?I take it you?ve come to see Pizaro??

Liam nodded and the two security guards escorted him through to the end of the corridor. Liam couldn?t help but notice the very menacing sentry cannon above the door. He suddenly felt very glad that the bad guys weren?t half as security conscious as the government itself.

The second security guard typed in a very complicated pin before the door flashed green and opened. They entered the room. It was a massive circle shaped monstrosity, every two metre gap there was a steel reinforced cell door with a painted number.

Hanging in a bracket in the centre of the ceiling was an even larger sentry cannon. Every three seconds it cycled around the room to a different cell door.

Yes?very glad indeed.

The guards opened the door directly opposite to the one they came in. The sentry cannon quickly cycled round to face it as the door opened.

The guards saluted Liam and closed the door behind him. Liam entered an all white room separated by a huge sheet of bulletproof glass. Pizaro watched him beadily from his bed.

?So,? said Pizaro, voice tinny and amplified, ?have you come to make a deal??

Liam snorted. ?Not likely Pizaro, not [I]bloody[/I] likely.?

[Raiha]

[COLOR=royalblue][i]Jaudiar woke up with a start. She checked the clock....4. So much for resting for long. She sighed and picked herself up....her body was sore from the long work, but she didn't mind much. She pulled on her jeans and a bra, then walked outside the condo and followed the scent of Liam. She finally ended up outside the doors. As one of the more senior members of SYF, she had no trouble getting past the guards...who didn't even escort her down.[/i]

Siren: ...where is she?

Rae: Went to find Liam maybe...

Siren: *yawn* Whatever.

[i]Pizaro turned and looked behind Liam. Jaudiar smiled and put her hands on his shoulders.[/i]

Jaudiar: ...hello Pizaro. Sleep well?

Liam: What are you doing up this early?

Jaudiar: Making sure nobody else makes an attempt on your life. For a change.

Pizaro: How sweet.

Jaudiar: Say that again.[/COLOR]

[liamc2]

Liam raised an eyebrow, ?how sweet??

?I?m going to ignore that you said that.?

Pizaro rose from his bed and walked towards the glass, placing his sticky forehead against it.

?So?? he muttered, ?I would never have thought it. Well it?s all much clearer now. Boy, you?d have never gotten out of my complex alive without her help.?

Liam ignored the comment. Pizaro was trying to get a rise out of him, and that wasn?t going to happen anytime soon.

?Pizaro, I want information,? said Liam, ?I want all of your family contacts and weapons dealers now.?

Pizaro chuckled, ?and what do I get in return??

Liam smirked, ?absolutely nothing.?

?Well that?s not a very good deal is it? Come back boy, with your officials, some real deals will be made then.?

Liam laughed, ?Pizaro, no deals will be made. Ever. I?m only here because I don?t want to run all over the planet tracking down the mess you?ve made.?

Pizaro snorted. ?What happens if I don?t co-operate then? I just sit here in this wonderfully furnished apartment, living on another countries taxes? Safe from my enemies? Sounds good to me.?

It was Liam?s turn to lean on the glass.

?Well Pizaro,? he said softly, ?if you don?t give me what I want, I?ll just have to take your daughter?? his voice was a whisper, ?you know Pizaro?you do have a very pretty girl there??
Pizaro blanched.

?You...you...wouldn?t?your government doesn?t do that??

?My government,? said Liam venomously, ?doesn?t know a damn thing. I?m sure Pizaro, with the amount of brainwashing we?ve done so far?pretty soon I?ll be able to make her do anything I want?? Liam finished his last words with a whisper and tore his gaze from the breaking Pizaro.

Liam turned to leave and called over his shoulder to Pizaro, ?I?ll leave you to think about it Pizaro. I will be back.?

The steel door closed behind them as Liam and Jaudiar entered the circle room. Jaudiar was silent, yet another curve to get her head around.

Before she could say anything, Liam said, ?standard tactics. Maybe not standard from your training?but they were from mine. Problem is though?every time I use them, a part of me vanishes?odd ain?t it??

The elevator doors opened and Liam and Jaudiar entered.