The Turn: Chapter Forty-Three

The Turn

Chapter Forty-Three

~The End of the Order – Part 3~

The Turn

The driver ditched the limo a safe distance from the mansion. He grabbed anther car and continued on. The driver sped through the streets. He was unhappy, very unhappy. It was true. When Scar had seen him as a friend, the driver had seen Scar as a necessary resource to bring the New Order into being. Scar was just a mindless pawn that the driver had used for his own proposes.

He had had everything planned out. Scar would have lived a few more months, maybe a year if the driver allowed it, and would die from natural causes leaving him, the driver, in charge of the New Order. Everything was going according to plan. But then there was that pesky Tower and its Agents and the driver dealt with them accordingly. He thought that the rest of his plan would go on smoothly. But no, the Tower didn’t stay dealt with.

After the Tower fell, he made valiant efforts to find and capture its leader without avail. He did, however, find several documents, mostly newspaper clippings and pictures of a prominent family. With their pictures taken frequently, the driver assumed that that was who he was looking for. So he went behind Scar’s back, as he did frequently, and hired Others to go to the Island and find anyone in the family there.

They evaded the New Order’s watchful eyes until the driver got news that two of the family members had been spotted traveling together: a boy and a young girl. The rest of the family had been rumored to have escaped the Island. The driver commanded their capture and hoped that they would draw out the rest of the family from hiding. It didn’t work. The two evaded the hunters that he sent after them. As of six months ago, there was no sight of them.

If that wasn’t bad enough, now his whole plan to rule the world was in jeopardy and was starting to fray at the edges. Now, the former members of the Tower and many Others were fighting against the New Order. HIS New Order!

The driver gripped the steering wheel. The anger inside of him was building. Was it really any of the Tower’s business what he did? They should stay out of peoples business.

As he though angrily, someone walked casually out into the street. The driver swerved to avoid hitting the person. He crashed into a light pole. The driver managed to get out unharmed and looked around the deserted street. There was no sign of the man that he had seen cross the street.

He walked into the center of the street. There was only a doll laying on the pavement. The doll wore a grey coat and a grey hat. Its silver colored hair was neat and orderly, strange for something that could have been tossed onto the ground. It had no eyes, just shallow craters for eyes. The driver looked around but there was indeed no one to be seen.

The driver swore and turned up the street to look for another car. He heard something and turned. A ways away was another doll sitting on the curb of the road. It sat in a pink dress and had blond curls. A pink and white lase bonnet sat lightly on her head. The driver turned away and looked at the car. Sitting on the back trunk was another doll wearing a tiny suit and tie. It looked at the driver underneath its long black bangs.

The doll that lay on the ground sat up and got to its feet. Startle, the driver kicked the doll. In flew into a building wall and fell to the ground. The doll got back up and shook its head. It started walking toward the driver. The other dolls also got to their feet and started walking toward him. More dolls walked out from the alley ways. The driver turned and ran.

He ran down the street away from the strange dolls. The driver found another car and smashed the window open. He took the car and started driving. When he looked into the rearview mirror he slammed on the breaks.

“Who the heck are you!?” the driver shouted at the man in the back seat.

The man shrugged, “Who knows really? My parents called me Aaron, my uncle called me his apprentice, and my friends call me Puppetmaster. But my enemies,” Puppetmaster glared at the man, “You can call me Reaper.”

The driver drew his gun, “Get out.”

Puppetmaster held his hands out in front of him and smiled, “Now, now, there’s no need for that. I’m just here to tell you’re not going to win. Figured it’d be fair if you had a little warning at least.”

“I said get out!” the driver yelled.

The gem in Puppetmaster’s hair started to glow, “Don’t say I didn’t warn you.”

Puppetmaster snapped his fingers and he vanished in a swirl of purple mist. The driver looked around to make sure the intruder was truly gone. When he was confident that he was, the driver continued down the road.

There was a thump as a doll fell on the windshield. It sat up and looked at the driver. Another on fell on the roof, though the driver couldn’t see it he could hear it walking around on the roof. More and more fell from the sky on to his car. They blocked his vision of the street. They hung on his side mirrors and windows. The driver tried every way to rid himself of the dolls.

Ahead, Hina walked into the center of the road. The driver was blinded and was swerving all over the road. Hina placed her hands on her hips and sighed. The chains were still attached to her hands and fell to the ground. She looked over to her brother who was on the roof of the building next her. He tossed his head over to the car as if to say ‘well, get on with it’. Hina shrugged and raised her arms.

The chains whipped into the air and glowed a purple color. When she pulled the chains down they struck the ground. The shock wave that was created flipped the car over. The car spun over Hina as she ducked down. The car crashed and rolled further down the street.

Deontay walked out of an alley way toward the car. Dolls were scattered all over and he tried his best to avoid them while they got to their feet again. Deontay grabbed the driver side door and pulled it off its hinges. He threw it to one side and reached into the damaged car. He pulled the driver out of the car and pulled him to his feet.

“Well, look who we have here,” Deontay stated.

“Isn’t that the guy who spoiled our mission that time?” Vicky stood a ways a way.

 Zara walked up closer. She stood barely an inch from his face. With a smile she took a few steps back before uppercutting the driver in the chin and kicking his legs out from under him.

Chaud stood back and raised an eyebrow, “I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that it is.”

The driver was sprawled on the ground. He tried to reach for his gun but Zara kicked it out of his hand. Vicky stooped down to pick up the weapon. Zara grabbed the driver and pulled him to his feet.

“I hate losing,” she stated, “I really, really, really hate losing.”

“It true,” Deontay nodded, “The girl hates to lose.”

“And as I count it,” Zara smiled, “You’ve beaten me twice. I mean you walked into that building and pointed us out. At that point I was pretty ticked. After that my team and I set out to find out where this New Order hang out was and we lost. So you can understand my frustration when you destroyed my island, right? I lost twice already and that you appear off our shores and blow everything up. That made three losses. At this point, right now, it’s personal.”

Zara punched him in the face and let him fall to the ground. She took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

“You feeling okay?” Chaud asked.

Zara nodded, “It wasn’t Scar but it felt good. Didn’t realize how much I hated this guy until now.”

Hina shrugged, “It happens.”

“What do we have here?” Kaiba walked up.

Fang stayed in his wolf form. He walked alongside Kaiba.

Kaiba looked at the driver and sighed, “Aren’t you supposed to be on the other side of town?”

Chaud looked at the others, “We got done early so we decided to do a little sightseeing. Found this guy here in the process.”

The others agreed, nodding their heads and saying agreeing statements. Kaiba sighed and rolled his eyes.

Fang walked up to the driver, “You won’t be causing us anymore trouble will you?”

“What are you doing here?” Chaud said, “Aren’t you supposed to be on the other side of town?”

“We’re here for him,” Kaiba nodded to the driver, “He killed Scar.”

“Wait,” Hina shook her head, “Aren’t they on the same side?”

“Apparently not,” Naru appeared out of nowhere. He was always light on his feet.

“We’ll know more later,” Kaiba stated, “For now we have a lot of work to do.”

The Turn: Chapter Forty-Two

The Turn

Chapter Forty-Two

~The End of the Order – Part 2~

The Turn

Kaiba walked up to the high fence. He lacked his usual coat and wore casual black clothing. The guards who had been posted at the gate were incapacitated over to one side. He looked over his shoulder. Kiri stood not too far away, his ever loyal shadow. His brother, Lynx yawned and he crouched on the ground

Fang looked bored as stood behind the other. Shadow had an annoying smile on his face as he tried to get Fang’s attention, good or bad. Dr. Jekyll was his usual doom and gloom self. Somehow throughout all they had gone through, Jekyll had managed to hang on to that hat of his.

There was even a human in their company: Row Harper. When the New Order attacked the States the Detective was almost killed in the initial attack. He was rescued by Kiri as she looked for Kaiba. Harper was brought into the Underground Tower. He turned out he was a big help. There were several more Agents behind them ready for whatever came next.

After Kaiba and his family got away from the Island they went into hiding. From that moment, Sirius had started plans to right everything that had otherwise gone wrong. As more Agents got to the U.S. it was Kaiba’s job to give them their overall objective. The first meeting was in person and any interaction after that was through notes. Now, finally after a long year, it was time to free the world from the New Order’s grasp.

“Is everyone ready?” Kaiba asked.

Jekyll’s tone was monotone, “Why on earth wouldn’t we be? The ‘guards’ that we’ve run into so far practically knocked themselves out they were no trouble.”

Kaiba breathed heavily in an attempt to control his anger, “Let’s get going then.”

“I think I’ll sit here,” Lynx said, “I mean it doesn’t look like you’ll be needing m—”

“Lynx,” Kaiba stated.

Lynx got to his feet, “I’m up! When are we going to storm the castle?”

Kaiba rolled his eyes and sighed. A blade came from his arm and he cut down the lock on the gate. The gate swung open letting the Others in.

The driver looked at a television screen. He stood up straight when the camera went dark and static took up the screen. The blimp that the camera had been on had been shot down. He had thought that he had dealt with the Tower a year ago but it seemed that they had crawled out of the woodworks and were now causing trouble.

An alarm went off and the driver looked at another screen. The camera showed that the property’s perimeter had been broken and more Agents were piling through. He looked and several other cameras and they showed pretty much the same, the perimeter being breached. The driver narrowed his eyes and walked out of the room.

The mansion he walked through was surrounded by green fields and trees. It was Scar’s estate, inherited from his parents who died when he was only nine. The mansion was beautiful, large and spacious. There were other servants walking around the mansion going about their respective tasks.

The driver walked up the stairs to an upper lever. He walked up to a room with double wooden doors. The driver knocked and waited.

“Come in,” Scar called.

The driver walked in. He stopped suddenly when he saw Scar. Scar sat in the red chair that was seen in his announcements and wore a nice white suit. He looked at the driver with sad eyes. The camera that he was sitting in front of was off. When he did see the driver he sat up and tried to look more put together.

Scar smiled, “What can I do for you?”

“Are you alright, Scar?” the driver asked.

Scar looked at the camera, “I don’t know.”

The driver walked closer, “You don’t know?”

“I’ve just been thinking that maybe this wasn’t a good idea,” Scar confessed.

The driver looked at him, “What do you mean?”

Scar shrugged, “I don’t know. I’ve always wanted the New Order to exist ever since you told me about it after my parents died. It was like a dream of mine to see it take place. But now it seems things are worse off than they were before. Those things that I said in the announcement weren’t true and anyone with a brain can figure that out. I guess I never really thought what the New Order would really do to people if it ever took effect.”

“But you have, in essence, the entire world at your disposal,” the driver walked toward a cabinet, “How long have you had these thoughts?”

“I’m not sure,” Scar confessed, “I guess they wormed their way in over time. I’ve…I’ve been thinking of disbanding the New Order. I know it’s been a dream of yours but I’m sure you can see that this is hurting people.”

“Is that what you really want?” the driver asked.

“As one lifelong friend to another, I just want you to see what this is doing to the people,” Scar said.

“Lifelong friend?” the driver looked over his shoulder at Scar.

Scar looked at him, “I’ve known you all my life. I’ve always considered you a close friend.”

“Really?” the driver walked back to Scar, “I’ve only seen you as a means to an end. And right now, I can’t have you pointing fingers at me.”

There was a single gunshot that rang through the house. The driver took the gun with him. He showed barely any emotion as he walked out of the room and closed the doors behind him. The driver started walking down the stairs and out into the front yard. There was a black limousine in the round driveway. He walked toward the driver’s seat and stopped.

A knife was pressed against his throat. He turned his head slightly to see who it was. The brim of the other man’s hat covered most of his face. Only a thin smile could be seen of the man’s features. The driver stayed perfectly calm and still.

Jekyll turned to Kaiba, “What shall I do with him?”

“Please,” the driver stated, “I’m only the driver. The master is inside.”

Kaiba walked up toward the large doors of the mansion, “Leave him, we’re here for Scar only.”

Kiri followed Kaiba inside. Jekyll released the driver and tipped his hat as an apology. He then walked along side Shadow into the building. Lynx yawned and walked slowly after them. The driver looked to his left. Row looked back at him with suspicion in his eyes. Fang stood near him. Row started to walk toward the driver when Fang stepped between him and the driver.

“Let’s go,” Fang said quietly.

Row looked at him, “But—”

Fang walked on, “The others are already inside.”

Row paused a moment. He took one last look at the driver before following Fang. There was this feeling that he got from the man in the suit. Usually, his feelings or intuition, were right.

Inside they met little resistance. The staff were all frightened of their appearance and did little to stop the intruders. The team kicked down doors and basically trashed the place looking for any secret entrances. They split up into three teams. Jekyll and Lynx found the surveillance camera system.

Lynx sat in the chair and typed away at a keyboard. He wasn’t as good as his older brother but he could manage a security system such as the one that was before them.

“This shouldn’t take long,” Lynx said over his shoulder to his partner, “I should be able to access what the cameras saw the last few hours.”

Jekyll shrugged and leaned against the door way, “I could care less how long it took. Just get it done.”

Row barged into a room, gun raised. He looked left and right before proceeding into the room. Fang rolled his eyes as he followed while Shadow tried to stifle a laugh. In the time that they had known the detective, he always seemed to be trying to prove something. Understandable it you’re surrounded by Others with a firm grasp of their abilities.

“Clear,” Row said.

“My nose could have told you that,” Fang muttered.

Row looked at him, “Well, can your nose tell me when I even asked for your opinion?”

“No,” Shadow answered, “but I’m sure his bite can.”

They walked into what looked like a treasure trove of data both written and digital. There were computers in the center of the room with a row of filing cabinets lining the outside wall.

Row sighed as he looked around the room, “Can your nose sift through these papers?”

“No,” Fang looked at Shadow, “But he can.”

Fang left the room as Shadow stood in shock, “You want me to look through all this?”

“Remember about a year ago when I told you to read through those paper files?” Fang paused a moment and looked over his shoulder, “This is your punishment. And besides, I have better things to do at the moment.”

Shadow’s shoulders dropped, “You don’t let things go do you?”

Fang shrugged, “Have you ever seen a wolf give up its hunt?”

“Come on, Pretty Boy,” Row rolled up his sleeves, “If there’s one thing I’m good at its paperwork. You take that side, I’ll take that one. Divide and concur. Look I don’t care what you two are talking about but if you don’t start working I’ll shoot you, so come on!”

Shadow sighed and got to work.

Fang looked for Kaiba and Kiri. There were a pair of large doors, one of them was opened. Fang entered and found Kaiba standing in the room. He looked up from what he was looking at. Fang looked at the lifeless body in the chair. Kiri walked around and examined the body.

“He’s still warm,” she reported, “His killer just left.”

Fang shrugged, “Killer? How do you know he was killed? He probably just killed himself.”

“You don’t believe that, do you?”  Kaiba looked at him.

“Of course not,” Fang stated, “He was shot point blank in the forehead and the gun is nowhere to be seen. I’m not one for percentages but the chance of the gun falling from his hand if he committed suicide is right around a million to one.”

“You were being very generous with that number,” Kaiba noticed.

Fang shrugged, “I was getting bored with the problem and rounded. What’s interested me now is the question: who would kill the head of the New Order?”

“You know the answer to that too?” Kaiba almost smiled.

“Approximately .5 seconds before you did,” Fang looked at Kaiba.

Kaiba sighed, “Let’s hunt down that driver.”

Fang nodded, “I think he’s a little more than just the driver. I think he thought up the whole “New Order” thing and used the kid’s resources to get what he wanted.”

“We’ll see what the others can dig up,” Kaiba left the room. “Either way, you and I are going to have to catch him.”

Fang sighed, “I’m getting too old for this.”

The Turn: Chapter Forty-One

The Turn

Chapter Forty-One

~The End of the Order – Part 1~

The Turn

The Prologue takes place here:

It might be a good idea to re-read it.

Zara took off the cowl of her hood. She gripped both of her katana. The other five figures around of her turned toward her. She smiled and walked up to the first figure in black. Zara pulled off the hood. Chaud’s face appeared. He smiled at her. His hair was dyed completely black. He drew his weapon and looked at her.

“Long time no see,” Chaud smiled.

Zara raised an eyebrow, “Really? You’ve been keeping an eye on me all this time. I just haven’t been able to spot you. How’s your little sister?”

Chaud nodded, “She’s alright. I’ve got her hidden away somewhere while we finish things up here.”

“Speaking of which,” Deontay walked up, “When are we going to get started?”

His curly brown hair was shaved off. He smiled his signature care free smile as he looked at his team mates. Deontay playfully punched Chaud in the shoulder. Chaud rubbed his sore arm.

“Watch it, Deontay,” Hina laughed, “You’re going to get us all bruised up before the fun even starts!”

Hina didn’t look to different. Her hair was in a pixie cut. She had her hands on her hips. The chains that that Puppetmaster gave her were wrapped around her arms. The diamond pendulum hung at the end of the chains. Her brother stood beside her. He had a more dramatic appearance. A snake tattoo decorated the left side of his face. His hair was tied back. A compound bow was on his strapped to his back. Deontay raised a curious eyebrow.

“Well, you look…different,” Deontay stated.

Naru shrugged, “Seemed like a good idea at the time. Luckily when this is all over we can head back home and I can take this off.”

“I think it looks fine,” Hina nudged her brother.

Naru narrowed his eyes, “It was your idea.”

Hina shrugged, “Who said you had to listen?”

Vicky stood off to one side. Her hair was cut short as if she pulled her hair into a ponytail and cut the tail off. A large shuriken hung from her back and she held a throwing axe in one hand. Zara noticed that there was a look in her eyes that was different. It seems that the time Vicky had over the past year had changed her in some way. She looked more confident and sure of her abilities. Zara wondered what Vicky had gone through. Vicky steadied her stance.

“Look out, Order-bots,” Vicky pointed.

Zara looked over her shoulder. The street behind them was filled with robot. Unlike any of the Tower’s android robots, these looked very primitive. They had a basic human structure but had a metal frame instead of a human appearance.

“Looks like we’ve done a great job on out end so for,” Chaud smiled.

Zara glanced at him, “Yeah, but we need to keep this up while the others deal with Scar.”

Chaud shrugged, “I guess so.”

“STOP! IN THE NAME OF THE ORDER!” the robots chanted in unison as the marched forward.

Deontay cracked his knuckles and slammed the ground. Slabs of rock jetted out from the ground toward the coming enemies. Hina ran forward on top of the flat rocks. She leaped up and unwrapped the chains around her arms. The chains sailed through the air with a purplish tinge to them. Hina landed on the ground, a shock wave radiated from where she landed. The chains landed in front of her. The ground broke where the chains landed, throwing the robots to either side.

Zara ran forward with Vicky by her side. Vicky grabbed the shuriken from her back and threw it. The shuriken spun creating a kind of tornado picking up several robots and threw them in all directions. Zara took a katana and drove it into the nearest robot. She spun around and beheaded another robot with the other katana. More robots charged at her. Zara gripped her katana and a blue flame engulfed them both. She slashed at the robots sending out waves of fire, engulfing several robots at once.

Vicky took one of her axes and threw it at a robot. The axe lodged in the robots forehead. Vicky took the other axe and lunched at another robot. She jabbed the blade of her axe in the robots shoulder where the shoulder met with its neck. Vicky pulled the axe out and attacked another robot while she pulled out her second axe from the downed robots forehead.

With most of the robots down in their vicinity, Vicky looked around and saw Zara looking at her. She smiled sheepishly before she caught her spinning shuriken in the air. Vicky looked at Zara again and pointed.

“Look out!” she cried.

Zara looked over her shoulder. A robot raised its issued gun at her. Before it could fire the gun it was riddled by bullets and fell into a heap. Zara looked around and saw Chaud standing a ways back reloading his gun. He smiled back at her and waved. Zara rolled her eyes.

“He never takes anything seriously,” Zara muttered.

Chaud fired into the crowd of robots. He stayed back with Naru shooting down any robots that got through the others and started for them. Chaud kept an eye on Zara and Vicky, firing at the robots that threatened them. Several robots charged forward toward Chaud. He grabbed his other gun and it turned into a blade. The sword crackled with electricity.

He slashed down several robots. Electricity jumped from one robot to another overloading each system before jumping to the other. Chaud stabbed a robot in the chest and used it as a shield. Many robots fired at him as he got his gun and fired back. An arrow shot through one of the robots’ heads.

Naru stood back firing arrows. He crated arrows out of water and ice and fired them with the bow he had. His aim was spot on. He barely aimed before firing each arrow and each arrow found its mark, sometimes several marks. Naru shot the last robot that Chaud was facing and turned his attention back to where his sister and Deontay were.

Hina and Deontay were doing well on their own but they were surrounded by robots. Naru raised his bow, aimed and fired. A snake made of water slithered underneath the shadow of the ice arrow causing damage where ever it could. Ice shards jetted up beside it, slaying robots left and right while clearing an escape route if they needed it.

A shadow loomed over him and Naru looked up. There was a blimp-like object hovering over them. Zara looked up and swore. A device was dropped down into the center of the battle field. It was like the Silver Void device that was used on the Island. It crashed down and gave an ominous hum as it activated.

Zara and the others fell to their knees. Chaud reached into his pocket and pulled out a jet injector that looked very much like a pen. He pressed the button on top and jabbed the pen in to his thigh. The blue liquid entered his system. There was a rumble of thunder in the distance and the sky darkened.

Chaud looked up; his eyes were now a gold color unlike his usual blue. A bolt of lightning shot through the blimp destroying the balloon. The blimp crashed further up the street from their current position.

A robotic dog appeared to walk out of explosion. It’s solid blue eyes and lines looked to glow. There was a massive Gatling gun strapped to its back. It opened its mouth releasing a robots arm that it had been carrying. The gun started to spin as it made a cranking sound. Zara and the others knew enough to get out of the way. The dog gunned down the remaining robots. When the gun was spent the gun stopped spinning and the dog walked forward.

The dog grabbed the device in its teeth and looked at the others, “I think I’ll be taking this with. It’s been great seeing you guys.”

Hina crossed her arms, “You weren’t on that blimp were you?”

“Well, no,” Miwa looked at Chaud, “It did almost fall on top of me though.”

Chaud shrugged, “Sorry.”

There was an explosion in the distance. Zara turned to look. With hands on her hips she nodded.

“Looks like the others a waking up to,” she stated. Zara looked at Miwa, “Go ahead and get that thing out of here. I hate the way it makes me feel.”

“Right-o!” Miwa started walking off, “See you guys later!”

Zara looked around, “Looks like everything is going exactly as your dad planned it.”

“It’s just another big turning point,” Naru stated.

“Yeah, but it will be a little harder to hide the Island’s existence now,” said Deontay.

“Speaking of the Island,” Vicky said quietly.

Zara cut in, “We’ll worry about that when it comes. For now, I just want to punch this Scar guy in the face.”

Chaud raised an eye brow, “I thought it was Kaiba’s job to apprehend Scar.”

Zara looked at him, “Yeah, but not before I get to punch Scar in the face.”

“Ha, ha,” Deontay laughed heartily, “That’s what I’m talkin’ about!”