Lina and Leviathan weren't aware that someone was following them as they went to their jet bikes.
"So Lina what do you want to do now? We've pretty much got the whole day to do whatever we want since the others all went home."
"I don't know!" Lina whined. "Don't you have any ideas?"
Leviathan shrugged. "We could go back to HQ."
"And do what?"
"I don't know, work?"
"On what?!"
Leviathan sighed. "Well I guess we could go out and do something. Like go see a movie maybe?"
"We're supposed to be on call Lev."
"So let them call if they need us. When was the last time you did something fun?" Leviathan asked Lina. She in turned grin and was about to answer but Leviathan cut her off. "That didn't include beating people up or training?" He glared at her.
Lina scowled. "Fine I haven't done much lately. But that's just because of this whole case."
"See then? We should go do something." Leviathan insisted.
"Lev when we aren't in HQ and on-call but not patrolling we're supposed to be working. Not skipping out and goofing off."
Leviathan raised an eyebrow. "And since when did you start playing everything by the book? Any other time I would have asked you, you would have said yes. So what makes this time so different?"
"This isn't a normal case Lev. We have a very brilliant and deranged scientist helping out an extremely sick, sadistic and dangerous criminal. Lots of lives are at stake and I don't think it would be right it I decided to go and goof off someplace and ignore my work."
"Lina we're not the ones that have to deal with Ozer. We're not the ones that have to catch him. What we have to do isn't dangerous like that and there are many other agents working too. This investigation doesn't rely solely on us. Our job is to oversee the LPD's agent training. And besides you have done more work on the Ozer/Vernas case then any agent of our status. You deserve a break Lina."
Though Lina did hear Levithan's little speech she still didn't agree with him. "But I still don't think -- "
"Fine I'm contacting Dad and asking him what he thinks." Leviathan said pulling out a separate communicator. It was one Blitz had given him after that Felmen incident. Basically wanted to make sure that no matter what Lina or Leviathan could contact him if they were in trouble. Blitz had naturally enough given Lina one of these communicators as well. The difference with this one rather then the normal standard STF communicators are that you can't block the signal and it could only reach one number. And that number was the one to Blitz's communicator.
"Hello, is there something wrong?" Blitz answered. A hint of concern was evident in the green agent's voice.
"Can Lina and I take the rest of the day off? The LPDs went home for the day and Lina is going nuts with work. She refuses to do anything else." Leviathan said sardonically.
Lina glared at her twin brother.
"Since the LPDs are gone for the rest of the day I'd say go for it. And Lina has been working way too hard lately and definitely deserves a break more then anyone. She's done way more work and helped out the case more then practically all the agents working on the case! So go for it, take the rest of the day off. If anyone complains they can complain to me. Just make sure you two have your communicators on you just in case something does happen."
"Okay thanks Dad. See ya later." Leviathan switched off his communicator.
"So what did Dad say?" Lina asked.
"We can have the rest of the day off provided we keep our communicators on us just in case."
Lina narrowed her eyes at her twin brother. "And how do I knew that you aren't lying because you really want to see what new Skyla Terrance movie?"
Skyla Terrance was Leviathan's favorite actress. According to Leviathan, very few women were as beautiful and as lovely as her.
Leviathan scowled. "I wasn't lying and I don't care what movie we see! And that's even if we even see a movie at all!"
Lina rolled her eyes. "Okay, whatever Leviathan. So should we get going?" Lina suggest getting on her jet bike.
Leviathan complied and they started up their engines. The two of the drove off not knowing of another jet bike tailing them close behind.
De Tanga walking into the special care unit with not a single emotion displayed on his face.
"Oh hell De Tanga!" Have you come by to visit Lina gain?" One of the yellow agents assisting Rezo asked as De Tanga came into the room.
"Yes I am." De Tanga's voice contained as much emotion as his face.
"Well I'll have you know that Luna is doing much better now." The yellow agent said walking off.
Rather then flag down that agent or any other agent De Tanga went in search of Rezo to find the answers he wanted. He found Rezo standing over Luna whom was still bedridden but was no longer hooked up to the machines.
"Dr. Rezo? How's Luna doing?" De Tanga asked approaching Rezo.
"Actually she's doing extremely well. Her body has finally recognized the toxin and her antibodies are now fighting it. We're giving her treatments to increase the strength of her antibodies and everything seems to be going well."
This was a shook to De Tanga. He hadn't heard any news concerning the break through Rezo had with the toxin. "She's going to be okay?" De Tanga asked more asking himself then Rezo.
"If nothing else bad happens, then yes Luna is going to be okay. It's going to take a while, but we're expecting a full recovery from her." Rezo smiled patting the blue agent on the back. Like most of the people whom had been working in the special care unit working on Luna, Rezo was aware of Luna and De Tanga's relationship. He knew Luna and De Tanga were more then friends. I wonder if Blitz is aware of how De Tanga feels about his eldest daughter? But I know that De Tanga would make a fine son-in-law. Rezo mentally chuckled. But he wasn't going to dare say anything to Blitz. At times Blitzfaust Inverse could be a very unpredictable person. [Relm: Yes, Blitzfaust Inverse, that is technically Blitz's full name. People usually call him Blitz for short]
Vernas tried to get back to his work, but he was having quite a bit of difficulty. His mind was occupied with thoughts of his last conversation with Jake. He had wondered why Jake had suddenly hung up so fast. Vernas briefly glanced over to the phone as he attempted to work. Though it didn't help matters that Ozer was sitting in a chair nearby constantly staring at Vernas.
"Ozer don't you have anything else better to do?"
"Nope."
Freak. Vernas shook his head and went back to his calculations. But he still glanced at the phone every now and then.
"Vernas if you are that curious about what Jake is up to then why don't you just give him a call and find out?" Ozer suggested sweetly.
Vernas gave a funny look. Now what's he so amused about? "I don't know what he's doing and I don't want to risk possibly blowing his cover."
Ozer shrugged and went back to staring.
After an hour or so the phone rang. But before Vernas had the chance to answer it, Ozer picked it up instead.
"Hello?" Ozer grinned as he talked.
"Dr. Vernas?"
"No I'm sorry, Dr. Vernas is indisposed at the moment. But you can talk to me instead if you'd like." Ozer was far too gleeful. But then it wasn't rare that he talked on the phone as it was.
"Oh Mister Ozer! (The person on the line laughs nervously) Ahem. Ah this is Jake reporting with the current situation."
"Hello Jake how are you?"
"Um, fine I suppose I -- "
"Really? You don't sound to good. And your voice is so low and scratchy. You aren't getting a cold are you?"
"I just don't want anyone to hear. The twins have gone into a movie theatre. I don't know what for but I'm going to have a little surprise for them when they come out."
"Oh goody! I love surprises! But make sure you don't kill them."
"Alright I wont -- wait a minute! You don't want me to kill them?"
"Well don't try to kill them. If you do by accident I wont be angry. I'd just like to toy with them a little bit so I'd rather have them alive. I'd like to see how much of a challenge they can give me. So don't try to kill them, but try and make things a little difficult for them."
"Alright Mister Ozer."
"Thank you Jake, and make sure you take care of yourself now. Bye bye." Ozer hung up and started to hum that twisted and off key song again that he was humming earlier.
"So how's Jake?"
"He sounds like he has a cold. I sure hope he isn't coming down with something. I really like him." Ozer paused his humming to say and then continued humming again.
"No I mean about those two Inverse brats."
"He's going to have a surprise for them but I told him not to kill them."
"Why?! If Jake could get rid of them now then they wouldn't interfere with our plans! It would make things a lot easier not having to worry about them getting in our way." Vernas exclaimed.
"What fun would challenges be if they were all easy?" Ozer left on that note humming the same song as before.
Lina and Leviathan ended up heading to the closest movie theatre that was only a few blocks away. And what movie did they end up seeing? Tainted the newest Skyla Terrance movie. It wasn't likely that they would have seen anything else, not with Leviathan dictating on what movie there were going to watch.
Lina had no problems with the movie, it's just that she was starting to get sick of the roles Skyla played. No matter what she was always this some sort of action hero fighting some evil foe. She was never anything else. Her characters were always tough and strong. And since Tainted was an action flick naturally enough Skyla's character reflected that.
"Wasn't that the best movie! Skyla's acting was awesome in this one!" Leviathan gushed one they were out of the theatre.
"Well it should have been, she practically plays the same damn character in every movie she does." Lina said against her better judgment.
"She does not! Her acting is flawless because she's a fantastic actress! And her characters are never the same! How dare you even suggest such a thing!" Leviathan exclaimed obviously offended by Lina's comment.
Lina suppressed the laugh that was trying to escape her throat. She knew she would get this reaction out of him. You couldn't insult his precious Skyla without pissing him off and paying the consequences. "Alright, alright Leviathan I'm sorry."
Leviathan just snorted but didn't respond.
"So should we head off home now? It's practically dinner time." Lina suggested looking at her watch.
Leviathan didn't respond (he was still peeved about Lina's insults to Skyla) but did get on his bike.
Lina shook her head and got on her bike as well.
The two of them started their engines and sped off home. It was when they reached their first red light that they noticed a problem. Both Lina and Leviathan tried to slow their bikes down with their brakes as their approached the light but the bikes' speed didn't decrease.
"Lev there's something wrong with my bike!" Lina radioed over to Leviathan.
"Mine too! The brakes aren't working!" Leviathan radioed back.
With the upcoming red light the twins knew there in trouble. Now if they didn't put their feet back on the gas pedal their bikes should slow down till they stopped. But that would take quite a few blocks and they were already going at a high speed as it was. And they were nearly at the red light and the intersection looked to be pretty busy with cars and other jet bikes.
Luckily they both had red agent training so they were both very good driving their bikes. With some very risky driving the two of them managed to just get through the intersection without hitting anyone. Unfortunately their driving spooked a few other drivers and caused them to have accidents. But luckily it wasn't too bad and no one seemed to be hurt from what Leviathan and Lina could tell as they continued speeding off ahead.
"We'd better make sure we take a route with very little traffic stops." Lina radioed Leviathan.
"Roger. Follow me."
Leviathan leaded them through a twisting route with as little traffic lights as they could manage. Only problem was that they had to go over the occasional hill and that sped them up a few times when they wanted to slow down.
Eventually their bikes came to a stop. Leviathan's stopped first, while Lina's continued a block ahead. Once off their bikes both Lina and Leviathan wheeled their bikes over to each other.
"What the hell happened?!" Leviathan exclaimed.
"Our brakes didn't work."
"I know that! But why did they suddenly stop working like that?! They were working just fine before we went into the theatre." Leviathan mused looked over both his and Lina's bikes. Lina joined him examining the bikes. The two of them eventually came to a startling conclusion.
"Someone tampered with the bikes." Lina pointed out the handy work that had been done to their bikes. Looks like someone must have done this when we were watching that movie.
"Ah man so we've got someone trying to kill us now! Leviathan groaned.
"Lev when don't we have someone trying to kill us? You know what we have to do now don't you?"
"What?"
"Call Dad to get a ride home. We're too far from home to walk."
Leviathan groaned again so Lina decided to call her Dad this time.
"Hello?"
"Hi Dad, it's Lina. Could you arrange to have someone pick us up? Someone kinda tried to kill us and now our bikes aren't working too well."
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