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The two of us stuck around till the police arrived, for a number of reasons, one of which was because the gooey orange Rahn store owner was afraid that the robbers would attempt to run off or continue robbing the place before the cops would arrive. As I polished off my, I looked down at the many bags of cookies that I've eaten, my fourteenth bag of cookies, it felt odd waiting for the same people that we shot at almost two weeks ago, once I finished off my last bag and dropped it onto the floor Gaz chimed in to mess with me,"Jesus why don't you just eat out the whole store while your at it Ash."

I rolled my inky black eyes, sighing at his comment as the paddy wagon showed up and gathered up the criminals in the store. As me and Gaz tried to walk away from the scene, one of the Lady cops, who was oddly enough a pig humanoid, stopped us." Hold up." She ordered us, doing his best to resist calling her bacon Gaz rubbed the back of his snowy white hair along with me." Yes, miss officer." He answered her. 

The pig cop snorted before saying."We need to know what happened here, from what the Clerk told us, you two handled the situation and you pulled a gun boy. Do you have a license for that firearm?" She asked. 

Gaz crossed his arms before simply telling her." We're planet rushers, just came back home from one of the newest planets out there, last one we came back from was a planet with worms that try to crawl into your ass." He bullshitted her while taking out an I.D. After she looked it over from back to front, she handed it back to him before looking to me." What about you?"

I patted my jeans realizing I had nothing in my pockets, nor did I have any real form of identification on me, seeing me hesitate Gaz threw his arm around my shoulder before saying." Sorry miss, my gal Ash just tossed some clothes on, doubt she really got her id on her, she didn't really expect to help take down a robbery with me today and be a hero." He then kept true to his bluff and gave me a kiss on the lips before looking back to the pig cop. 

The swine grabbed the tip of her police cap and said an extended "Well." She turned from the two of us saying."I'd hate to ruin a nice couple and run you in M'am, but please carry your identification around with you in the future."

Once the cops were off and the Rahn began cleaning up her store, I was still frozen there surprised by the silver tongued devil and how far he went with that bluff, once he hopped back onto his bike, Gaz padded the sidecar's seat." Come on Ash, it's kind of a long ride to the hospital and that fucking robbery cut off a lot of time." 

I hopped into the sidecar and like a bat out of hell, Gaz had us take off heading to the hospital, I tried to push back him kissing me to the back of my head as he sped through the streets and narrowly ran through yellow lights and just caught green lights, at one point he even drove up onto the sidewalk to get past a line of traffic, he whizzed by people on the street and a couple kids before we dropped back into the street and made it to the hospital's parking lot, Gaz drifted into a parking spot, leaving skid marks on the asphalt. 

The whole ride here, the thought of who we might be visiting peaked my curiosity as he took the keys out his bike and started heading off into the hospital, I did my best to keep up with him, but all I could manage was getting to the doors before I began huffing and puffing trying to catch my breath. When I finally caught up to Gaz at the front desk, I caught the ending of the conversation between Gaz and the Leithian secratary,"Yes she's in room 101 Sir, and visiting hours aren't over yet, they end at 9pm. Take the elevator up one level and go down the end of the hall." 

Thanking her looking back to me Gaz took it slowly as we walked to the elevator, once inside, he began speaking the second he hit the button." The person I know here, she's been through a lot really." The elevator trip was short and the doors opened quickly letting us out, as we continued down to the room he kept speaking." I had the chance to stop what happened to her and even could've saved her parents, but at the time I was a fucking selfish asshole." He stopped at the door and I nearly bumped into him as he reached for the door." But I let Mishka get her hands on them." 

When Gaz mentioned that name my mind when back to when we first met, it wasn't a great moment of my life and I almost made the biggest mistake in my life, all because of that woman. My memory of Mishka was of a large dark amazon woman standing taller than both me and Gaz, with bright white hair in a ponytail, when I fought Mishka, it was like fighting a robot that showed no pain, remorse, or even signs of slowing down, she was a living horror movie monster that would always come back to hear her name just puts me on edge. 

As Gaz opened the door, we both were greeted with the sight of a young woman covered in bandages from head to toe, she was laying in bed and quickly turned to us before getting up and wobbly walking towards us with her arms out. Her form and walking style reminded me of the old movie we all watched the other night, a horror movie about a human wrapped up in bandages and shuffle stepping toward their enemies, when the mummy closed the distance instead of biting Gaz and eating him, she instead grabbed him and did their best to hug him with their skinny arms. 

Acting a bit different for once, Gaz picked up the mummy and put them back into bed, he turned to me and introduced me," Ash this here is Rika. Rika, this is Ash." He introduced her to me. Then, before anything else he clapped his hands together before saying." Now that you two ladies know each other, I'm going to. Go and take care of something." 

Once Gaz disappeared, I stood over the bandaged girl and bluntly asked what happened to her, but I didn't get a response from her, but she put out one of her wrapped up hands and waved it around as if she was trying to act it out, then closed one of her hands into a fist and extended all of her fingers and understanding it, I asked out loud." An Explosion?" She shook her head and waved her hand back and forth and soon I started to understand." A fire, right?" 

The mummy girl nodded, then she put her hand on her arm and rubbed it up and down and I understood." Mishka burned you." I thought out loud. Her tired purple eyes widened in alertness once she heard the name before nodding a second time." Damn, I knew Mishka was a monster, didn't know she would just do stuff like this." I sighed, before either one of us could make the situation more morbid Gaz popped back into the room with a wheelchair." Surprise Motherfuckers!" He yelled before noticing the somber mood." Damn I wasn't expecting to come back and see you guys looking all down." 

He brought the chair next to Rika's bed saying." Alright Rika we're going on a little field trip, and let's make it quick because I beat the shit out some cripple dude to steal his chair." Without fighting Rika plopped down into the wheelchair before we began heading back to the elevator, he hit the lobby button, once the doors to the elevator opened we headed out to the hospital's outdoor courtyard and took the two of us to start of a long track. 

"Okay Rika, I got a present for you, hell, maybe even two of them, but you have to work for them." He let go of the chair." You have to beat my muddy Ash in a foot race."

"Wait, what?" I asked him. 

He ignored me." I know the odds may seem against you, waking up from a coma and all, but I'm gonna give you an edge to get back on your feet." He pulled out a medipen." This stuff is some old school drugs that will give you your motor skills back in a matter of moments, only down side or upside is that it will increase your libido and make your breast grow up a cup size." Gaz spun the medipen in his hand before asking." So you want to get the surprise? Or not?" 

The moment she nodded, Gaz injected her with the medipen in a way that wouldn't get others staring at us, then he pointed to the end of the long track." Alright, Go!" He yelled out and I took off running. I wasn't running that fast, but I was moving, when I looked back to Rika and Gaz she was struggling to stand up and when she got out the wheelchair she fell on her face. Not wanting to feel like an asshole and being a cripple in a foot race, I stopped and took a breath, but the second I did Rika was getting off the ground with Gaz's help, she began taking her time, one step at a time to catch up, then she looked as if she took a deep breath and began moving faster and soon she was catching up to me on the track. 

Before I knew it, the mummy was running once she got close enough to nearly pass by me, I went into a jog before sprinting trying to stay ahead of her and in mere seconds my lungs began feeling like they were in a vice, my stomach started twisting into knots, my muscles began to burn, and it felt like my veins were pumping battery acid. Then to add to all my problems at the moment the mummy girl passed right by me and reached the end just as I made it to the end of the track. 

I held back my need to vomit before we walked back, sweat flowed down from my brow into my clothes and almost soaked them completely, I collapsed at Gaz's feet and nearly fell into the wheelchair before saying." I'm out of shape." In between huffs. 

"You don't say?" Gaz stood over me answering, he took what looked like some type of bulky codex device from his hoodie, but it was covered in odd switches and buttons," What is that?" I managed to ask. 

Gaz handed the device to Rika, before saying."It's an old school tape recorder, an ancient device used to record audio nearby." 

"Correct." The device played a feminine voice after Rika hit it's play button. 

The white haired human, turned away from Rika saying." I couldn't save your house in Silicon valley, nor could I save your parent's money, but I managed to save this from the fire Mishka set."