[Roll Back: 3AM]
Fernando holds himself up on his arms above Gadget, looking down at her.
“That’s what, fourth time in a row today so far?” She asks him.
“About that much...” He replies, adding, “You seem to want it as much as I do.”
“Oh god, if I had you as a boyfriend a long time ago, we would be making love all the time.” She says to him.
“Though it does not solve any problems, it does make us feel better about them and to deal with them accordingly.” He says to her.
“Only problem I want to deal with is having sex with you as often as possible.” She tells him.
He kisses her on the forehead, following with, “The problem we both have is what happens after the mission? It’s one thing if I end up divorced from Tammy and you a widow from Chip’s execution.”
Gadget shushes him, before saying, “I do not want to think about what that poor excuse of a man did to me. You gave me a new life, a new body, and removed that chip from my head. I’m a new Gadget, and I rather spend my time with you for what you did for me than to spend it with anyone else. If Tammy does not see what she is losing then it is her loss. I’m willing to fight for you and if I have to, I’m willing to share you with other women, for as long as you come back to me, that is all I care about.”
After a brief moment of silence between the two, Fernando gets up onto his knees. He says to her, “It’s getting late, we need to get home. But before we do, I need to check out a few things.”
“What time is it?” She asks him.
He glances over to watch before telling her, “Damn, it is 3 in the morning.”
“We’ve been doing it for almost four hours?” She asks.
“If you include the foreplay, fondling and talking we did, then yes.” He replies.
“I did not mean it in a negative way. I’m just awed in that with you, we are doing it for a long time – we could almost do it all day! But with Chip and his friends, it’s less than a a few minutes! It is only longer if I had to service more than five guys and they had to take turns on me.” She says as she sits up and then leans over to him to hold him. She then adds, “If we are doing this now, I can imagine would our honeymoon would be like.”
“Let’s see what the future holds for us.” He tells her.
“I see our future living out a honeymoon of non-stop sex during this mission as I need it as much as you do.” She says with a smile.
“We need to do a lot more than just have sex during this mission. We are collecting intel and writing reports which is sent to the emperor for his advisement. Furthermore, we are helping the Tokyo Metropolitan Police gather intel for them act on and make arrests. Unfortunately, your ex-husband to be fell into that trap and got caught in a net for the terrorism and other deeds of villainy he did, and for his actions, is facing the death penalty. Dale and Monty were freed because of me taking them under my wing as it was Chip’s decisions as to what was done, and they were there to witness what he said and did. But Zipper is missing and presume killed, as that cyborg was caught trying to impersonate him. We need to find out what happened to him good or bad.” He explains to her.
“I’m not holding out any hope for Zipper. He was getting slow and weak in his age and though he was good in a fight, who ever caught him probably ganged up on him and killed him deliberately or accidentally. For an insect, he was a good person.” Gadget was about to ramble on but stops herself from doing so.
“Whatever the case maybe, the truth is out there. We as a group have to find it.” Fernando tells her.
Gadget nods.
“Now let’s get dressed before we end up doing it again.” He tells her.
“Well, if I had a choice…” She begins to say.
“Gadget...” He calls to her.
She leans over to him and kisses him on the cheek, “I know, I know.”
She then starts to get dressed, following his lead. In another 20 or so minutes they were ready to leave the palace. They get into the car and start driving around Tokyo.
The Streets of Tokyo in the late hours of the night is not like that of New York City as New York City never sleeps but Tokyo does with the exception of various cleaning crews, bars, late night “24 hour” restaurants and assorted sex shops. With the exception of these few places, Tokyo was dead quiet. In the shopping district he parks the car into one of the parking garages and they both head out into the night of the streets of Tokyo.
“Where are we heading?” Gadget asks.
“Just following a hunch.” Fernando tells her.
They continue to walk around. They end up at the Marriot Hotel where Gadget and Misao have their rooms though Gadget has only been there sporadically. He takes Gadget to the elevator and activates the button for the 30th floor. Though it had a keyed entry, circumventing key entries was never a problem for Fernando. The elevator takes them to the 30th floor, and opens its doors. They step out into a hallway that connects to a few private suites, usually it is several private rooms per floor. Fernando follows his hunch to a door furthest on the right of the elevator. He knocks hard on the door.
A female voice can be heard, “I’m Coming! I’m Coming!”
A few seconds later the door opens with Misao on the other side of the door way tying up her robe. She does not notice Fernando putting his foot against the bottom of the door to prevent it from being closed. She looks at him.
“You...” Misao growls at him.
“You got 30 seconds to hand over the Time Travel Cane I lent to Jeanette or else I’m taking it outright.” Fernando tells her.
“You are not getting it.” Misao tells him.
“Right...” He says to her, before shoving her into her suite and then cuffing his hand into her neck tightly and guiding her to the balcony. Through control of his cane, the door to the balcony opens automatically when they get to it and step outside. She tries to struggle but he is much stronger than she would ever be. They stop at the fence that separates the 30 floor drop to the streets below from the outdoor concrete floor of the suite. He lifts her up by her neck and flips her over the balcony, grabbing her ankles before she falls too far and goes splat on the floor.
She yells and screams, making comments about how this is assault and that she would get even. Fernando lets her go.
In calculations, it would take Misao about 10 seconds to hit the ground floor, but Fernando manipulates space and time around her. Before she hits the floor there is a bright flash of light.
Misao is sitting on the end of a tree limb some 50ft feet above the floor with a loud roar echoing in the background. Feeling the tree limb sway, she holds on tightly.
“You’re going to hand over the Time Travel Cane or not?” Fernando asks as he stands on the same limb of the tree by the main trunk.
“Where in the world are we?” Misao yells out.
“Where? Same place, well, one day it will be Tokyo Japan and this would be the Tokyo Hilton in about 65milliom years. Now – the last time, are you going to hand over the Time Travel Cane or not?” Fernando explains to her.
“You will never get it back for what you just did!” Misao yells at him.
“Then goodbye.” Fernando says to her before he disappears in a bright flash of light. She sits on the tree limb alone, listening to the loud roars getting louder and closer.
Back in the hotel suite a bright flash signifies Fernando’s return. Gadget walks over to him.
“Where’s Misao?” She asks.
“She’s Dirty Dancing with the Dinosaurs.” He tells her.
“You left her in the Jurassic?!” She exclaims.
“As long as she remains in the tree she will remain alive. But frankly, I do not care. She wants to be a Time Bandit then she can face the consequences of being a Time Bandit.” He tells her. He then adds, “Stand back over there by the wall, so when it arrives, Jeanette’s cane does not hit you.”
Gadget steps back to the wall. Fernando concentrates as he holds out his cane, the crystal on the top of the shaft begins to glow. There was a sound of items crashing about in the other room. Still holding on his concentration, he walks to the sound of the crashing. Opening the door it leads to Misao’s bedroom. The crashing noise is coming from the closet, which is opened. Inside is a trunk where the noise is coming from. He breaks open the lock to the trunk and flips the lid open. Jeanette’s cane comes flying out from the storage trunk and into his free hand. He then walks to the living room area where he left Gadget.
“Let’s go.” He tells her.
Back 65million years ago, Misao managed to crawl to the trunk of the tree as lesser sized carnivorous dinosaurs shakes the tree from its base. They all disperse as a loud roar echoes across the valley. Thunderous steps shakes the tree in place, getting louder by the second. Then it stops, replaced with a thick hot fog that surrounds the tree at her level, smelling of rotting flesh. She tries to move out of the fog, noticing an eye about the size of her head staring at her. Just loudest roar begins she disappears in a flash of light.
Misao lies crumpled in the middle of the livingroom of her suite shaking and crying.
Fernando and Gadget make their way through the streets of Tokyo on foot. He holds onto Jeanette’s Time Travelling cane horizontally while walking normally with his cane.
Gadget asks, “Will I be getting that Time Travelling Cane?”
“No.” Fernando replies.
“Why not?” She replies.
“First of all, this cane will be in storage outside of this dimension so no one but I can access it. Second – the last time you had access to Time Travel equipment, you caused havoc across the Time Line I had to repair. Furthermore, you and Tamara wound up in the hospital for almost three months and the Time Travelling Delorean was destroyed. You are rather reckless with Time Travel Equipment, for you to use it you need to regain that trust for it and learn how to properly use the equipment and respect the Time line. Until that day you do, the answer is ‘No.’” He tells her.
“What if I decide to take it?” Gadget tries to challenge.
Fernando stops in his steps and holds it out to her, “Go ahead and try.”
Gadget reaches out and grabs the cane, suddenly releasing it as large electrical sparks fly out at the point of contact. “YEOW!!” She yells as she falls on her ass onto the floor holding her hand.
He just looks down at her, “The unit is biometrically tied to me, and me only as I reset its identity of ownership to me as its creator. Consider that as a warning for the next time you attempt to grab it, it will hurt more.”
“That is so unfair, you could have told me.” She tells him.
“I can tell you everything and you would still not listen. So it is better for you to learn by experience.” He tells her as he extends his hand to help her up.
Gadget takes his hand and with his help she gets up. Once on her feet she dusts herself off.
“Look, I’m sorry. But that is a lesson you need to learn – like Jeanette needed to learn long ago and Misao never got to learn but is now paying the consequences. If she survives the Jurassic, she will be brought back in a couple of hours. But frankly, I hope some giant carnivore gets indigestion from eating her.” He tells her. He pauses for a second, “Look, what can I do to make it up to you?”
“We could go to my room and have more sex until the sun rises.” She tells him.
“Are you insatiable or something?” He asks.
“In saving me and restoring me, I want you to have me as often as possible. If we were husband and wife, we probably be #$@!ing all the time.” She tells him as she steps in front of him to face him while putting her arms around his back.
“Gadget, as much as we love each other without saying it because we show it to each other through what we do, there is a time for every purpose under heaven. There is a time to have sex and a time to do other life’s things, a time to do this mission and a time to rest at home – wherever home is, a time to work and a time to rest, a time to love and (he sighs) a time to hate. As much as I would want to have sex with you as often as possible, doing it all the time is not possible. OK girl?” He tries to explain to her as he holds her hips against him.
“OK.” Gadget sounds like a dejected child in not getting what she wants. He lowers her head to looks down between them.
“Look, Gadget...” He begins to say, waiting for her to look up at him. She does and then he continues, “I appreciate all that you have done for me, even in being a girlfriend who constantly trying to lower my stress levels. And like I said that I won’t say I love you but I will show it to you by what we do.”
She continues to look up at him and give a half-hearted smile.
He then throws in, “But just to let you know, if we are going to continue what we are doing, we need to be friends. I do not like drama in any form and you should be woman enough to solve any problems without me unless some guy is physically assaulting you, then I will step in and kick his ass.”
She nods at him before leaning to him and kissing his cheek.
“Gadget...” He calls to her.
“You are willing to do so much for me, not like Chip who would have left me high and dry.” She tells him.
“Well, let’s go home.” He tells her.
In a couple of minutes they were at the garage at him car. He uses his cane and teleports them and the vehicle to their rented home. Gadget goes into her room and eventually goes to sleep. Fernando goes into his room and dressed down, keeping his pants on. He goes back out to the livingroom and goes to sleep on the couch though with Tammy gone he could have went to sleep on his own bed.
Everyone wakes up at about 5AM. By 7:30AM, everyone had breakfast and had left for the day. Charles leaves with Dale.
Quote:“Hey Fernando! Dale, the rest of the team, and I are going to head out. We will get some groceries on the way back.” Charles says loud enough to be heard.
“OK. Be careful.” Fernando replies.
Fernando stays at home for much of the morning, resting and cleaning up Tammy’s room though she had taken most of her things to go to Italy. Hondo and Val stay behind for most of the early morning until they left later on. Fernando’s daughters and friends also had left.
The place is basically empty with just Fernando and Gadget, with Fernando sweeping and mopping the floors of the house. Gadget comes out of her room in just a short t-shirt and panties. She looks like she had just woken up. She takes a seat at the couch as Fernando finishes cleaning up the place. He was about to put away the cleaning supplies and tools when his smartphone goes off. He answers the phone and puts it on speaker.
Charles voice on the phone says in a hurry “Uh, Hey Fernando? Someone just sent us a big message by using drugged teenagers to attack us!”
Before Fernando can give a reply, the phone hangs up.
“Aren’t we going to help Charles?” Gadget says from the couch.
“No.” Fernando begins, “As harsh as it may sound, we are all in it to ourselves and without knowing where he is, I can’t go. Furthermore, chances are he is in Tokyo, we in the suburb of Funabashi, outside of Ichikawa and Tokyo. There is no way we are getting there in time to save them, even if we teleported there. They are on their own, like we are on our own. I can only wish him the best of luck and he can save himself.”
“OK.”Gadget replies, before she adds, “What about these teens on drugs?”
“The Tokyo Metropolitan Police will have to deal with them. Croc* has been a powerful drug that hit Russia hard in the 1990s and it is now all over Asia. But it is only a tiny few uses it, so it is easier to deal with. In fact hold on.” Fernando explains. He then pulls out the smartphone and makes a call on speaker. It is answered on the third ring.
“Hello boss!” A female voice answers the phone.
“Don’t ‘Boss’ me, Kei.” Fernando tells her. He then adds, “You ladies in Tokyo?”
“Yes we are!” Yuri answers.
“Good. Charles is in one of the malls being chased by drug crazed teens. Scan the radio and help him out if you can.” Fernando tells them.
“Got it Boss!” Kei replies.
“Cut it out with the ‘Boss’ crap.” Fernando tells them before he throws in “And if you help Charles out, Do Not Blow Anything Up!”
“We’ll try our best...” Yuri answers.
“Yeah, do you best. Fernando out.” Fernando tells them before hanging up the phone. He lets out a sigh.
“You think they can help him?” Gadget asks.
“Giving him help is the easy part. Giving him help without blowing up the mall is a different matter all together.” Fernando replies.
*Note: “Croc”, short for “Crocodile” is an illegal Codeine Based Drug taken intravenously (like Heroin) and has some adverse side effects, similar to PCP (Angel Dust). Users have been known to rip their skin and flesh off because the drug made them to do so and they end up looking like zombies. It is currently with the Russian Federation but is slowly spreading to other countries.
https://www.drugabuse.gov/international/abstracts/emerging-drug-in-ukraine-croco
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[Tokyo Japan, between Nakamise Shopping Street and Asakusa Nishi-sandō Shopping Street Centers]
A white Ford Mustang speeds across the streets between the two sister malls just blocks from each other, following the police cars and listening in on the police radios. Several foreigners in suits are seen running down the streets with a mob of zombie drugged crazed teenagers as they make their way out of the Nakamise Shopping Street and towards the Asakusa Shopping Street malls. Kei (driving the white Mustang) drives through the herd of teens, knocking them off their feet and rushing to the foreigners ahead of them. The top was down on their convertible vehicle letting Charles and his group to jump into the moving car, and speed away.
With everyone accounted for, Kei asks as she continues to drive, “What was that all about?”
“I don’t know!” Charles replies. “One second I was looking at a nice dress for my wife through a store window, next second a garbage can missed our heads and crashed through the window and we have been running from those crazy teens ever since!”
“Something had to happen. People usually do not go about attacking foreigners without some reason.” Kei replies.
“Kei...” Yuri calls to her.
“What is it Yuri...” Kei replies in an annoyed tone.
“Those kids look like they were on Croc.” Yuri says.
“How is that possible? Croc is a Russian drug problem.” Kei tries to dismiss her comment.
“You and I did the research on Croc, and you and I know the symptoms. I had a better look at them while you were driving. They looked like Flesh Torn Zombies to me, and you can only get that from Croc.” Yuri explains.
“Alright. Supposed they are Croc users. What then? We are working with Fernando, not trying to solve society’s drug problems.” Kei throws at her.
“Then there is nothing we can do.” Yuri says.
“It is not our job to get involved other than rescuing one of our own. Speaking of which, Charles, where’s your car?” Kei says and asks.
“It’s in the parking lot at the Asakusa Hanayashiki Amusement Park.” Charles reply.
“Oooo... Asakusa Hanayashiki! I have not been there since I was a high school girl!” Yuri says.
“Right.” Kei replies. She then turns to Charles verbally, “OK, we will drop you off at your car and you’re on your own again.”
“Alright. I hope those crazy teens do not go attack us again.” Charles says.
“Then how about we sit at a café for an hour or so drinking coffee, the police should have cleared the streets of the teens by then.” Yuri says.
“Coffee? They got donuts and cheesecake too?” Dale lets out, licking his lips with his tongue.
“Yeah, they got donuts and cheesecake...” Kei lets out.
“Yeah, you ought to now – with every slice of cheesecake going to your butt!” Yuri lets out.
“Now wait a minute! Who’s side are you on?” Kei protests.
“Quit complaining, and let’s put away the car near Charles’ ride and we can go to Matcha Sweets Kaminari-Issa. It is only two blocks from the park…” Yuri throws at them.
“Yum yum... Cheesecake here I come!” Dale says to himself but is heard by everyone.
[Maria B&B]
After almost half an hour later, Fernando’s smartphone rings with a text message.
“Charles and his crew have been rescued and are safe. We are at the Matcha Sweets Kaminari-Issa having a break and readjusting plans. – Kei.”
He lets out a pent up sigh.
“Is Charles and his crew OK?” Gadget asks.
“They are. They are having a break at some fancy coffee shop for now.” Fernando replies.
“Fancy coffee shop?” Gadget asks.
“Starbucks raised to the N-th level, a tiny cup of Espresso would go for $20 and a slice of cheese cake just as much.” He explains.
“Oh.” Gadget replies. She then asks, “What do you do want to do today?”
“I need to rest. Might as well be today.” He says.
“But you’re cleaning up the place. That is not resting.” Gadget points out.
“It’s resting as in it takes a lot off my mind while I do it. Then I’ll make a simple lunch for later and make sure Ms. Maria’s things are clean so she can make and bring in our dinner later.” Fernando explains.
Fernando continues to finish cleaning up the place and setting up the garbage bags outside in the metal cans for the city sanitation to pick them up.
- To be Continued... -
EDIT: Grammar and Situation corrections by Fernando
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