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Chapter 16: Rescue Mission

"So where do you think our plan of finishing off the keyblade kid will take place?" Biggs asked Xanirb, & the dragon just made a loud humph sound and grinned.

"I've got interests on one of the secret warehouses that are miles away from here." Biggs didn't look very excited from it and just took the chance to ask another question.

"Why should we use that warehouse? That seems pretty dull for a suitable battlefield, don't you think?"

"It was dull Biggs, & I'll tell you why. See one of these?" The Postality Knight superior then reached into his pocket and pulled out something to show his two lackeys. He held in front of them a bright green crystal shard which glowed with a combination of teal & emerald. "I sent Garczon to use one of these crystal shards to alter the area so we'll have a more suitable arena where we can finish off the Keyblade master when he arrives." Wedge made a really loud whistle, & was trully impressed.

"Leave it to that bull to pull off a job like this." Biggs said. Xanirb looked back to the door in front of the stairs as if he heard something.

"Speaking of jobs to do, we have our own to do." And with his magic, he changed back into his human commander duisguise perfectly. "Lets go." The other two nodded and changed back into their duisguises as well and had left the room.

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I panted heavily from all the running I did to escape from prison, & I'm glad we're off of it. Now it was all a matter of time until we get Kimahri back, I thought, & with Joe Honda behind me, I don't see how I could lose. My panting became less and less frequent and I looked back at Honda and saw him running into the town loaded with an assault rifle loaded. This can't be good, I thought. I ran down and saw him shooting down different billboards and signs while avoiding the screaming teriffied crowd that are fleeing.

"Honda?! What are you doing?"

"I'm shooting down all of the McCain/Palin signs!"

"Why?"

"'Cause they remind me of Bush! Those damned Republicans are greedy bastards."

"Oh yeah." I changed into my gunner class and shot down an anti-Obama poster out of spite, realizing that there are people out there who hate Obama. Honda spotted a truck close to us and starts forcing the door open and the driver got off and ran screaming. He got in and opened the passenger door for me.

"Get in!"

"Ok!" I ran around and got in the passenger seat, buckling up my seatbelt & closing the door. I braced myself in fear as he sped up the truck down the road starting our rescue mission.

"Be prepared, it won't be long until the police start catching up to us and the chase begins."

"Right." And sped down we went, it seemed like it was only a few seconds ago that we we're hijacking that truck, that now we're already on the highway, preparing for that long journey ahead of us.

"Just so you know, this is gonna take several days before we come rescue you're friend & find yo brotha. DC is about several thousand miles away." I made a huge sigh out of that, hoping that they, the government, didn't do anything wrong to Kimahri. Honda noticed and looked at me intently. "Seems like he matters more to you than I thought. As if he's your own little treasure, right?" I looked out at the road, watching the cars as we go by, listening to the sound of the roaring engines and speeding tires, & nodded.

"Yeah." I then started to reminesce upon all the good times and experiences that I've had with Kimahri. From the first time we met, to the pillow fighting, & Sue's birthday party, along with our first hug, & so forth as I said. "Kimahri rescued me from certain danger, so I'm thinking of this as to pay back the favor, by rescuing him." Then my voice switched from my mouth to my thoughts. Soon Kimahri, soon.

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Kimahri slowly woke up and groaned, feeling uncomfortable for being strapped in his restraints for so long. It had been days since the two of us we're separated, & the Ronso felt nothing but sorrow. He looked around the seemingly empty room, noticing a lot of the plates of half-eaten, stale, & unappatizing food near him. He couldn't help but think about me, thinking that something bad had happened to me. He knew that he had to break free, but he just couldn't try. Every time he did, it was just another painful electric shock after another. The Ronso then picked up some voices in his ears. He at least got the mobility of moving his head upwards to look out the window, as he saw two guys watching a small TV set set on a news program. He listened intently on the reporter.

"Two prisoners have escaped the California State Pennetentry: Former Marine Lt. Joe Honda, & Runaway Eric Lewis." Kimahri was shocked when he found out it was about me, & continued to listen. "Police so far have no traces of their escape, but are slowly progressing to hopefully find their trail. In other news regarding Mr. Lewis, the protesters have practically camped out near the white house refusing to leave until the Eric Lewis conflict has been resolved. We now go live to the Pennetentry where Mrs. Lewis.........." The report went on as the Ronso's focus was shifted to the two guys as they're barely starting to talk.

"The kid? With Honda?! No way!" One guy shouted.

"If this is true, then we gotta warn the president." The other guy said. "He'll probably want some revenge."

"Yeah, let's go...." Then the two ran off going upstairs as fast as they could. Kimahri now just KNEW that I was in danger. More over than the last several.

"Eric!" He shouted as he made one last ditch effort to break free from his ropes. But the voltage reactor went off again, to shock him once more. He was roaring in pain, but didn't want to give up. He went down after one shock, then got up and tried again. The voltage became higher, & the pain was more & more intense, & the poor creature was roaring his loudest, determined to finally break free. But, the pain started to prove too much, & started to give up, & collapsed, feeling unconcious. Then two other guys came to his room and noticed him down on the ground.

"Seems like he used up all his energy." One guy said.

"Yeah, let's untie him." The other guy said. "I think it's time we put him in the liquid tank there for further study." They nodded & the first guy got the keys, & started to unlock the cuffs for his restraing. Kimahri felt the oppurtunity at his waking moment and waited for the ropes to go free. At the very second, they we're caught off guard as the Ronso sprang out & bashed their heads until they we're unconcious. He looked around and felt relieved to be free, & got his clothes back together. He didn't hesitate to sieze the oppurtunity to escape & ran out the door, passing the TV & the stairs.

He found himself in the testing room which he destroyed the weapon from several days ago & looks around & up. He grunted into a huge jump & hit one of the top windows with his knee with sheer force, finally breaking the glass. A red alarm sounded off & all the scientists scattered around screaming, & finally running away. The Ronso quickly looked around and saw his spear & his armlet cased in a glass container, & rushed to punch it, breaking the glass hard. He strapped his armlet back on & grabbed his weapon, & started his escape, hoping to find me.

Before running off though, Kimahri had spotted the samples of himself that we're taken from him, both blood & semen, & growled at the horrible memory of his rape with that commander, & destroyed them, not wanting to be disgusted with such acts of animal testing. As the alarm continued to sound off, he noticed that the soldiers we're heading his way, & started fleeing to the underground tunnels.

Meanwhile, the two guys that ran off just bursted into the president's office, startling Bush as he looked up.

"Mr. President!" The first guy shouted.

"Yes?!"

"Lt. Honda escaped from prison, & I think he's coming after you, & I think Eric Lewis is with them too, trying to get the creature back."

"What?" Then another guy bursted in giving the president even more bad news.

"Mr. President! The lion creature has escaped sir."

"What?!?!"

"What should we do sir?!" The second guy asked. But President Bush just sat there, slowly turning his seat around. He now realized that he didn't know what to do, & hid himself in shame.

"I.. don't know sir..... I don't know."

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The sky was starting to change colors with an orange tint as the sun is starting to set. We've been through over hundereds of miles in, with which I lost count at how far we've become. We stopped by several gas stations earlier, but it was enough to keep us on the road. At this rate, we ought to be lucky, I thought to myself, ever since the economy was fucked over, gas started to get cheaper & cheaper, and that is good enough for me. We we're driving among the two lane roads that was right next to a mountain & I have noticed we're the only ones driving on this road, & I was starting to feel stiff & tired.

"If you need to rest." Honda said. "Get some sleep."

"But, what about you?" I asked.

"Don't worry about me, just worry about yourself. I can keep myself awake for days & rest only when necessary. One of the things a tough Marine must do."

"Ok." Then I just decided to stretch & get comfortable, when Honda suddenly spotted something and went.

"WhOa!" Then he swerved really hard causing the truck to skid, luckily coming to a halt preventing any crashes or damages to the car. I just sat there teriffied.

"What the hell was that?!" I asked, we got out of the car to see what was blocking us in the road, & we we're shocked at what we saw. Standing there was a blue aquatic creature about knee-height that looked like an askewed fish with fins for hands & feet, & a small tail. What is that thing? I thought to myself, & then the creature came to attack as he leaped up, ready to slash us. Honda was caught off guard before he could shoot & was scratched hard in the arm, causing him to drop his rifle.

"Damn!" Was the marine's response, & pulled out a thin katana that stood about six & a half to seven feet long & made a slash at the creature, which it dodged. I looked as the creature started forming a ball of water with his upper fins, as if it was magic, & was ready to aim at us.

"Look out!" I cried & we jumped out of the way before he could shoot us & hit the truck hard with water damage showing on the door, but giving it only a nudge. There's only one thing left to do, I thought to myself. I grabbed my pendant and called on it's power. Class Change: Mage! And with the power of light, I changed to my mage robes, hat, & staff & was ready to attack. "Thunder!" I pointed out the staff & a bolt of lightning crashed at the beast, killing it with the electric shock. "That should do it!" Then I saw the creature disappear with something floating away from it out of his body. It had a pink glow and was shaped like a heart, & like the ghost I fought before back in the church, I saw it leave behind gold peices exactly the same as what the ghost dropped, except a little more. I picked them up and saw Honda sitting there just completely shocked and confused at what he saw as he looked at me.

"What the hell just happened?!" I paused for a minute as my appearance changed back to normal.

"... It's a long story." I saw something unusual on his arm, which got me worried. When I inspected it, I asked. "Hey, are you ok? You're bleeding." Honda just looked at me and said.

"It's alright, I've had worse. Nothin' like some bandages should do." And he went into his vest and got out a roll of bandages & something else that I'm not sure what it was to clip it together. I helped him with the wrapping and when we had enough, I cut the piece apart with the Keyblade. When we we're ready, we hurried back into the truck and went back on the road.

We took the time to pass by through our speeding as I started to answer his questions with my stories about my pendant and the crystal shards, how they've worked for me so far, & explained to him about the Keyblade. We got through every detail I could possibly explain to pass the times, visits to the gas station, & the distance as we get closer and closer to washington DC. I finished and Honda decided to tell me his life story, starting with his time in high school. He decided to join the marines on his junior year & when he graduated from his senior year, started explaining about boot camp, after boot camp, his road to promotion to Luitenant, & finally up to his time in Iraq.

From there, he explained to he about how he was framed. Everyone thought he tied up the innocents & killed them afterwards when really, the terrorists just decided to kill them before Honda could get the chance to save them, & really killed the terrorists. More unjustified bullshit, I thought to myself. His story ended at about the time that we first met when I landed in his cell. I just looked out there in the distance enjoying the relaxing breeze. The feeling was short lived though when I started hearing police sirens from the distance to my surprise. I looked at the mirrors & even looked behind to see red & blue flashing lights & black & white cars behind us. Sure enough, the police was right on our tail.

"Damn it!" I cursed. "They caught up to us." And it was all thanks to that monster that attacked us. Honda was aware of it & grabbed a pistol ready on his right hand while keeping his left on the steering wheel.

"I was afraid this was going to happen." He said. "Do whatever you can to keep them occupied, even yo magic things."

"Ok." Class change: Mage. Again, I changed back & with my staff already in hand. My mind concentrated on conjuring a fireball, which was glowing fiercely in my left hand, floating there, ready for the attack. "I got that covered." I took a look back & saw a couple cop cars speeding up to our sides, ready to attack as we all sped through the highway, & I started to think. I'm pretty sure I got this. Last time I fought them, I was tired from the battle against Inura, but now I'm full of energy. Let's go! Honda started firing his weapon whenever a cop was getting too close on his side, holding them off until he found us an escape route. The two cars on my side got ready to pin us down, but I held them back by casting my fire spells. After one hit from each, they both exploded & flew backwards, & fell behind as we sped off leaving them to burn. The cops on Honda's side saw this & pulled back, obviously checking for their comrades. Honda looked forward again & quickly saw the next obstacle standing in front of us & quickly swirved out of the way.

I yelped as I felt him swirving out of the way of something & was too freaked out to know what happened. I looked & saw that the police tried to lay a spike strip on us. That was close, I thought. Honda now realized that he had to go faster, & faster, giving me the feeling of being on a roller coaster ride, except more dangerous. I looked above us and saw that a helicopter was following us, giving us insight on the chase.

"Damn it!" Honda responded. "That chopper is a big nuisance." I wasn't going to take anymore of their crap & just went ahead & casted.

"Thunder!" Then a clash of lightning came down & struck the chopper from the propeller, sending it back down to earth to crash & burn with a fiery explosion. With this, I realized that I was getting even more stronger than before. If Kimahri saw me now, he would be proud, I thought to myself. Which the thought reminded me of Kimahri, & I wouldn't let any police force get in my way this time. For this time I had to stand up & fight to claim my prize back.

Honda saw that we now have the upper hand & saw the oppurtunity to see if we could get away.

"What do we do now?!" I asked him.

"Hang on, we're almost there!" I looked ahead & saw what he was talking about. A broken road with a cliff below it, seeing the peice in front of us as a kind of ramp. I now felt that it's a matter of life and death and it was a leap of faith. I started screaming & clenching my eyes as we made the leap, with Honda slamming his foot on the gas pedal, due to my racing fear of falling off & dying. A huge bump hit below us, causing me to jump, but I quickly opened my eyes & saw that we made it to the other side, & sped away. I looked back to see the cops stopping & staring in total awe as we slipped away from their grasp.

"We did it!" I shouted & cheered, which was followed by a calming sigh. "That was close."

"That was a lucky shot," Honda said. "But hopefully we won't have any more encounters the rest of the way there now." He was saying as I once again changed back to normal. And he was right, the next few days was just pure travel & a nice breeze as we drove across the country just to reach our destination, & along the way, we became really close friends. With all the money I have, getting gas was no problem at all, & we even have made more stops to get other supplies like a couple of sketch books & pencils, erasers, & pens because I wanted to work on my drawing to keep me busy for the trip. We went through miles & miles, saw many wonders, & the feeling of it all was completely fascinating. Unlike anything I've ever seen, but nowhere near as cool as any of the games I played. Every time I kept thinking, I wish Kimahri was here to see this. But it was impossible for me to think of the Ronso without the feeling of sorrow & despair. More & more I wanted him beside me. To comfort me, hold me, & love me. It was all I could do was wish.

Throughout all of the night, whenever I was sleeping, Honda's body was still awake & kept going non-stop, which one night I asked.

"Don't you need to sleep though?" To which he replied.

"I can go on for days without sleep. That's just how my body was trained." With him being a former marine, it was no surprise.

"Ok." It had now been a couple more days & we're miles away from the city limits of Washington D.C., and we both had only one thing on our minds. For me, it was to bring Kimahri back. For Joe Honda however, it was to assassinate President Bush after all the shit he put him through. I was deep in a dream, a dream from which I sworn I saw my brother Ryan, awakening in a ship somewhere in space, with his black chess shirt transparently bloodstained in red, walking along the halls until he stopped at which I guessed was the cockpit. Ryan? My concious was asking, where are you? I then felt a nudge, causing me to wake up a little.

"Wake up kid. We're here."

"Huh?" Was my tired response, & I got up slowly to look around. I saw that the sky was an orange tinted color giving the hint of morning, & we we're driving along a street so familiar, that I was sure it was Washington D.C. That got me more awake & put in total awe. "Hey, we're here!" I laughed in excitement & smiled as I cheered, knowing that my journey to find Kimahri came to an end. "We made it!"

"Now don't get cocky!" Honda stated. "We still have a job to do, remember?" I looked back at him & my expression quickly changed to a more serious look as I nodded.

"Right!" I faced the road again, full of confidence. We drove through slowly through the crowded streets for several minutes, from which, we saw a huge gathering about a mile long & wide which I knew was the protesters from those news cast. Everyone there was blocking the road that passes to & from the white house & they we're all repeatedly chanting "Free Them!" as Honda told me.

"I guess this is it." He shut the truck off & grabbed his equipment, locking & loading it. "The end of the road."

"Finally." I said, & put away my drawings that I made into a convenient little book bag I got & put it on my back as we stepped out of the truck, & walked up to the crowd. One of the guys from the back spotted us as we arrived.

"Look, there he is!"

"It's Eric!" Another guy shouted, & the crowd cheered happily. It's not over yet, I thought to myself. Even though it is nice for them to know that I'm free, it's still not finished. I pushed through the crowd trying to get through and Liutenant Joe Honda followed.

"Excuse me, coming through, excuse me, excuse me."

"Let him through!" Two of the protesters shouted. "Let him through!" I then finally reached the end of the crowd & found myself in front of a podium with a microphone, which then gave me an idea that I should try to get the message across. I ran up the steps & walked up to the podium. I looked out to the thousands of people cheering & shouting & looking right at me, as if I was gonna give a famous speech. I cleared my throat in front of the microphone & started speaking.

"Fellow citizens fighting for my rights! The battle is not over yet! That monkey of a president still has my friend prisoner! We have to go save him!" And the crowd had once again cheered on, then I continued to speak. "We will not let them deny us of our rights ever again! Let's fight for my freedom, his freedom, & our freedom! They can't keep this up forever, but lets show them that we'll never give up. We will remain strong & be heard, & they'll meet our demands! Free Kimahri!" Then the crowd had cheered louder before & the cheering was even better.

"Yeah! Free him, free Kimahri, woooooo!" We're some of the chants from the crowd. I jumped off of the podium & Honda followed suit & we gathered everyone together.

"Let's go!" I shouted & we all marched towards the entrance to the gates, only to find it blocked by two national guardsmen.

"Alright you protesters! Enough is enough!" One guard shouted.

"Stand back!" The other one said, & we ended up coming to a halt. I stepped up to the front & the first soldier barked at me.

"This has gone on long enough, now go home!"

"No!" I shouted back at him. "Not until you give me back Kimahri."

"No one is getting near here now get back!" Now they we're trying my patience.

"Please! What you're doing is unnatural, sick & stupid. That isn't right. Human or not, you cannot deny him or anyone in the world their natural rights. So come on, just let him go." Again, they tried my patience & continued making it worse.

"Get back, the police are on their way to take you all home."

"Let him go!"

"You pot smoking hippies aren't getting in here now stand outside!" The guardsmen now started to push & shove me out & I growled angrily at them. Now they have made me pissed.

"GOD DAMN IT! JUST LET ME IN!"

"LET HIM IN!" Was the crowds outburst, & they all started to barge in, assaulting the two guards with power & literally pushing me & Honda inside. I managed to finally squeeze past the blockade & looked back. I saw Honda standing behind while in the distance riot police started showing up to maintain order against the protesters.

"Honda!"

"Just go kid. Save him on your own." I couldn't just leave him behind, like Kimahri he was my friend.

"Not without you."

"Don't worry about me! Just GO!"

"But..."

"Hey kid, I'm sorry that I couldn't stick with you for your journey, but this is your part, & no one can accomplish that part but you. Though I have failed on getting Bush...." He paused & struggled around, staying silent until he asked me. "When this is all over, ya guys wanna come visit me again sometime?" I nodded.

"Sure. I'll hold us to that."

"Good, now get goin!" Again I nodded, & ran away, prepared for what I was about to encounter, except for.

"Hold it right there!" Shit, I thought as I was freaked out from what came up to me. I looked to my side to see two soldiers & another guy in front of them, to which I guessed was their commander. He simply asked me with a smirk & walked closer. "What's the rush?" I glared at him & replied rather rudefully.

"You should probably know. Where's Kimahri?!"

"Who?" He rose an eyebrow & still kept his smirk.

"The 'Blue Lion Man' that you guys captured wrongfully. Where is he?"

"Oh him?" He recognized what I meant. "He escaped, he went into the warehouse over there, looking for you." He pointed to a lone warehouse that was running distances away from the white house. How did he know that he was looking at me? I thought, oh well, at least he escaped. "I let him get away in exchange for a little..." His smirk became bigger. "Fun." Instantly I realized what he meant from the way he said that.

"You raped him?!?!" Again, the commander smirked & chuckled.

"That depends on how you look at it." Now I was clearly pissed off & made one swift kick, going straight to his nuts. He gaped at the pain & instantly fell down on the ground.

"Fuck you!" I shouted at his face while giving him the middle finger, & ran into the warehouse, hopefully trying to find Kimahri. One of the soldiers grabbed his rifle & aimed straight at me as I went running in, but the commander raised his hand to give his command.

"Hold your fire." He looked at the two and winked. "Biggs, Wedge, just go after him." They nodded & jumped out of the background & started running across the building. He looked back & noticed that the stage was set. "We got you right into our trap. Keyblade Master!"

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For days Kimahri had trekked through the countless underground tunnels to escape his captors. The Ronso sat there, breathing heavily with only one thing on his mind. To find his mate, to find me. He got back up with his spear at hand & ran down another tunnel which to his surprise, was guarded by seven SWAT soldiers in front of him with their shields up & guns ready. The soldier in front gave the command.

"Fire!" Then there was a barrage of gunshots! With quick reflexes & mind, Kimahri dodged some of the bullets while others he blocked with his spear, as he rushed up to them. He made a battle grunt as he tripped two of them down on the ground, & quickly spun around to perform a powerful kick to their chests, causing them to fly & hit the wall hard. They groaned as they slid down to the floor unconcious. The other five members we're stunned, shocked by the sheer strength of Kimahri's power & looked back as he started to conjure up a spell. He held out two fingers of his free hand & without warning, a barrage of lightning struck the rest, leaving the rest laying there dead.

He ran to the end of the tunnel & found himself up at a mid level catwalk in a giant warehouse as he ran. Going across the metal bridge only to be stopped by an incoming bullet that barely missed him smacking the metal with a huge bang. The Ronso looked up to his left & saw three snipers loading their guns. Kimahri quickly ran back & made a huge leap for that level & grabbed the ledge & hopped on flawlessly. He roared as he quickly dashed on to them, knocking each one off to let them fall to their deaths. After their defeat, the Ronso continued his escape, jumping out of the window, breaking to the outside & rolled onto the ground in safety. Then he found that more SWAT soldiers have gathered outside & was now facing another ambush.

He focused his energy again & fired a huge seed from his mouth & hit the shield with brute force, the force causing it to break. Wave after wave he fought them with his spear, combining his martial arts, skills, & magic powers taking them out one by one. Then he finds the last one, who he finishes off by firing 1000 needles at him. The victim screamed & fell backward to his death, falling below an increasingly long cliff which he looked down at. He looked around & saw nothing, but heard a vague sound coming from an above level of the cliff. He had to investigate & made the jump to the wall & ran up, jumping to the top ground, ready to confront his next opponents.

End of Chapter results

Eric Lewis

Human

Class: Freelancer

Lv. 9

Exp: 2625

Next Lv: 406

HP: 398/398

SP: 39/39

G: 0 ($2319.04)

Kimahri

Ronso

Class: Ronso Warrior

Lv. 48

EXP: 572,889

Next Lv: 42,844

HP: 4911/4911

SP: 431/431