16 Meeting George

Recap: Causing the whole sphere tank to blow up. The whole sound wave from the blast cause us to be push back. Dad grabs me and puts me in front of him. So he can take the brunt of the hit as we hit the wall behind us. As we hit the wall, we cause it to crack and fall a little on us.

"Dam...Crazy SOB." Dad says and I want to say the same thing but I have gotten the wind knocked out of my lungs.

"Raiden, Lavender-eyed?! Raiden, Lavender-eyed, what happened?!" Boris's screen comes up and is asking us frantically.

"B#$%^&d blew himself up..." I say, once I get the proper amount of air back into my lungs.

"I see...Time to get both of you out of there. We're sending a helicopter. Secure an LZ." He tells us.

"Understood..." We both say to him as we look at the damage that the explosion causes.

**********Back To The Present**********

Callista's POV:

We are in a black car just driving in the streets in a town of Mexico. Heck I am just happy I get to wear one of my new outfits, one of my chicas made for me. You see I have a friend who lives in Mexico, but only comes up when her family, who lives in the states is having a family fiesta or is celebrating a birthday.

**********Flashback**********

I am just walking down the street and went by a fabric store, with fabrics outside too. It is at this store is where I met her. She sees me walk by her and sees my fashion taste is really good. So she calls out to me. When I turn around to her, she asks me to come over. I do and she asks me on what my opinion on the fabric she has in her hands. The fabric is a beautiful shade of a maroon with black and white diamonds on it.

I tell her my honest opinion on what I think of the fabric and I also tell her what she could make the fabric into. What I think is the fabric could be made into is a crop top with long skinny to fat sleeves. She agrees with me on that and tells me, she is going to do that.

She then asks me for my phone number. I ask her for her reasoning on wanting my number. She tells me she loves having an outsider's opinion on what she could do with the fabric she grabs from fabric stores. She also tells me, she is a seamstress, and owns her very own clothing store. After all of those reasons I give her my number and a few days later she sends me a picture of the shirt with the fabric she shows me. I tell her it turns out better than I imagined in my head.

That is how our friendship blossoms from there. I text her on days telling her I cannot talk, but I don't tell her it is because I am on missions. But I do text her on the days I am not on missions with dad. So I text her back a few months asking her if she can make me a simple but cute, short like down to the knee type dress with the colors of dark green and a purple between a bright and normal shade. She says right away she will have them done in two weeks. I tell her to take all the time she needs to make them.

I also sent her a text with my measurements on it, and a mailing company's address which works with our department. But after I sent this text, I had to call the mailing company and tell them if they get a package from Mexico, have them send it to me. They agreed and we hang up.

One month later I get the package and I hide it in my room so dad doesn't find it at all.

**********End of Flashback**********

'I always had the dark green one folded neatly in my pack for I want to give it to my little sister, Sunny. But I rarely get to..." I think to myself before I am interrupted from my thoughts by Uncle Kevin.

"So you've both got some kind of disguise lined up, right?" Uncle asks us.

"Yep, all set." We both say at the same time.

"You guys got to stop that. Hope so, you'd both be a little conspicuous just walking the streets." He tells us in a matter of fact tone.

"Relax, Kev. We'll blend right in." I say to him while dad tips his sombrero up.

And I just fix my black leggings under my purple dress along with my black boot.

"Yeah...Well, just get into the sewer system ASAP. Hopefully anyone who notices you both will just mind their own business. You sure you both want to take the K-9000 there along for this one?" Uncle questions us.

"I had the good Doktor make some adjustments along with the repairs. Remote piloting and AI wiping have been disabled. So yeah, I say let's throw him a bone." Dad says to uncle, while I look behind my right shoulder and see Wolf raise his head.

"Wordplay: My exoskeleton resembles a canine; Canines enjoy bones. Amusing on two levels." Wolf states. I just laugh and dad just rolls his eyes.

"Let's go." Dad states after finding a manhole cover on the sidewalk.

Dad stops the car and we both open our doors to get out. I look at dad and see him wearing a poncho with the sombrero in order to look like he is in the mariachi band. I just shake my head, as I look at my own outfit.

I decide to wear a cute black boot I can get messy with, a purple short, Mexican style type dress with below the knee, black leggings, and I just put my hair up in a ponytail with my bangs covering my left eye to finish it off. But I still have my gear over it and my sword on my back too.

I noticed two Mexican guys stop to stare at us.

"¿Quién es ese güey y chica?" (Who is this guy and girl?) The one in a striped shirt asks the one in the plaid shirt.

"¿Un mariachi y una bailarina? No..." (A mariachi player and dancer? No...) The one in plaid says to stripes.

"¿Unos cyborgs?" (Some cyborgs.) Stripes says to plaid, while the roof of our car comes off to let out Wolf of it.

I am grateful for this distracts them because I am going to go crazy on them since I knew what they are saying clear as day. I had a lot of good teachers back at base who would be proud of me for not lashing out verbally in the Spanish native tongue.

"¿Ese sombrero que?" (What is up with the hat...?) Plaid says to Stripes.

I am very close to lashing out, but they see Wolf stretch and get out of the car. This is what shuts them up a little more. Dad opens the manhole to let both Wolf and I go first. But before I go down, I say really quickly, "Mente su propio negocio, hijos de putas." (Mind your own business, b#$%^@ds.), then jumps in. The car went to auto mode to go back to base.

Once the car moves out of the way, the two men move closer to the edge of the sidewalk on their side and sees dad is halfway in the manhole. Dad then takes off his sombrero and says, "Adios, amigos." Then places the sombrero by the entrance to the sewers and letting the lid slam down.

"¿Viste y esa chica es grosera?" (You see that and that girl is rude?) Stripes says to Pilad.

"Que raros, eh... Hay que hacer que no lo vimos. ¡Vámonos!" (What freaks...Let's just forget we saw anything. Let's go!) Plaid says to Stripes, as they quickly flee from the area.

Dad hears them quickly leaving the area, leaves the poncho on the bar of the first step on the ladder and starts to climb down the ladder. As he gets to the level Wolf and I are on, then he contacts Uncle.

"It Raiden. We're in the sewer system." Dad said and Uncle's screen came up on our radar, as we start walking down the tunnel.

"All right, let's get started. Both your mission's to investigate the Desperado-affiliated research center somewhere in that area. According to the Intel from our client, the lab's been dumping illegal waste into those sewers. FYI, they're also involved with the cartels in human trafficking. Allegedly, anyways." Uncle debriefs us on the info we need.

"This just gets better and better." I said before dad could.

"Tell me about it. We need you both to infiltrate the lab, and find out everything you both can. Of course you'll both have to find it first. We still don't know the exact location." He tells us and I sigh in annoyance.

"So we're looking for anything the lab might hook up with the sewers?" Dad questions.

"Yep. If they're actually dumping waste, they've gotta link up somehow. Find that connection, sneak into the lab, and see if you both can find any evidence implicating them on anything." Uncle answers dad's question.

"No problem. Stealth's our specialty." I say while slamming my fist to my open palm.

"Right. Well we'll see." Uncle teases back.

"Do we have any idea what kind of research they're doing there?" Dad questions uncle and I am thinking the same thing.

"Not really. Maybe something related to all the people they're trafficking." Uncle tells us with uncertainty in his voice.

"Like...experimentation? Or even worse." I ask with fright in my voice as I speak for the both of us as I grab dad's free hand.

Dad squeezes back, "It's possible. First things first, though; find a way into that lab. Oh, right: says here that the locals say 'black crocodiles' live in those sewers, so, y'know...what out." Uncle tells us.

"'Black...crocodiles?' Could they be talking about UGs?" Dad questions as we turn a corner on the right.

"Maybe, just an urban legend, but still...be careful." Uncle says as he hangs up.

"I will scout ahead. You both will provide backup." Wolf orders us.

Both dad and I just chuckle, "Sir, yes, sir." We both tell him.

"Commence operation." Wolf says as he starts running ahead and we follow after turning left.

"Raiden, Lavender-eyed Nightmare: unidentified UGs are patrolling the sewers. Exercise caution." Wolf tells us through our comm-links.

We stop close to the entrance, we just came through after Wolf tells us this. We then sense something behind us and when we turn around, all we see are a few pieces of the ceiling fall into the sewer water. When we look up, we both see a UG hanging from the ceiling.

Once we notice it, it starts shooting at us and we both back flip, well me doing it with my left hand, to get away from the bullets being showered down on us. It causes us to slide back a few inches as we get up with swords in hand.

The UG then drops down right in front of us, causing some sewer water to splash everywhere, from the ceiling. As it stood back up, it bangs on its chest, like a gorilla would to try and intimidate their enemy. Then slam its fists together to make a loud bang noise and hangs them down by its knees.

The dam thing then starts hopping in all the places, we are previously just at, trying to land a hit on top of at least one of us. Next it stops moving, letting us have the advantage to start attacking it. It then moves its arms, grabbing dad into a hold like it wants a hug, and I went behind it. I decide to take a few swings from behind, trying to get it to release him from its hold. But all dad had to do is give it a swift kick, with both feet, to the head. With this kick, it releases him from the hold.

So we did this trick about two more times because I notice the kicks to its head did more damage than taking swings at it. I tell dad this in order for him to remember for in the near future battles ahead.

When I notice it is weak enough, it won't attack us anymore. I did some freestyle cuts at it from the side and slice it into many pieces, causing it to blow up. As the smoke clears up, we continue to head further in the tunnels. Wolf then suggests to us, we should go up on to the catwalks up above in order to be stealthier and not to alert our enemies.

So we did this and is able to sneak up on a few enemies. I point to one dad should attack, while I took on the other. He agrees and stays in his spot, while I ninja run silently, on the wall to the catwalk ahead of us. I did this to make it easier for myself to reach my next victim.

Once I get into my position, I front flip off the catwalk I am on, grabbing my sword, slicing my victim's arm clean off. But before it could make another sound to alert its buddy, I quickly slice off its head, causing the head to land in the dirty water and the body to fall backwards. I flip away from the body, as it blows up, so my outfit doesn't get dirty from the sewer water.

While I am doing this, dad just front flips, grabbing his sword, and slamming it into his victim's back, instantly killing his. When he flips off of his victim's back, and it blew up. We then head left to another fence-in area. But this time I am the one to cut the fence down from top to bottom.

As I finish cutting the fence, I then kick it out of our way in order for us to be able to jump down to the lower level. Wolf then comes up on our comm-links again, this time telling us there is a boy in the sewers, we are in.

We then start running ahead. But right before we could turn the corner some UGs, who were with Mistral, came at us from the ceiling and starts attacking us. There is a few who were able to grab us and they wouldn't let us go free. But we are able to get them off of us. There is no end to them as we continue heading on down the tunnel.

After we defeat the last of those little UGs. We continue to follow Wolf to wherever he is heading. Until we get to the end of the tunnel, we turn left. As we turn left there is a fence in front of us. But this time dad cuts the fence down and we continue through to the next area.

Just a few steps in, we hear off in a distance ahead of us, someone cry out in pain. We instantly start running to the area where the sound came from, which leads us to a cliff.

When we get to the cliff, we look over the edge and see a boy sitting in the water, get surrounded by two UGs. We both instinctively want to help the poor boy.

So we start ninja running down the wall with blue electrical streaks coming from our feet. Well most of it is from dad because I have only one metal foot and he has two. Dad throws one of his knives at one UG, while I jump from his right side and land on top of the other with my sword getting slammed into it.

As I take my sword out of its body, I am instantly at dad's right side again and we both yell to the boy to get out of here without even glancing at him. But instead of listening to what we tell him to do and run away from the scene. The boy instead looks up and down at us both.

He then said, "Two ninjas? Cowabunga? Go ninja, go ninja, go--."

"What're you...¡Huye!" Dad looks over his left shoulder and still sees the boy is still behind us.

He tells him to leave again and the boy does this time. We then get ready for our next battle with three medium-sized UGs, which looks like the big metal gear, we went up against back in Africa.

Raiden's POV:

We start attacking the UGs, but we had to wait until they had their heads looking up to the ceiling. In order for us to get to the UG's weak spot, which are plugged into its chest. One of us had to grab it, unplug it from the other body, and then have to split it in half. In which our sword would then split the bigger body in half too. We both get hit back a little, but Marie is extra careful since she is only a half-borg.

We are able to defeat all three of those UGs in about fifteen minutes. But once the very last one is done for, Marie went running to the area where the boy went running off to.

"¿Está bien?" She asked him.

"Wah yuh say?" (What'd you say?) He said back to us, as I came up behind Marie and put my right hand on her right shoulder.

"Oh." We both say at the same time, as Marie goes up to him.

"Mi a Guyanese. From Guyana. You bra speak English?" (I'm Guyanese. From Guyana. You both speak English?) He tells us, as Marie helps him out of his hiding spot.

'Marie is going to be a perfect mother in the future.' I think to myself quickly, as Marie comes back to my side. I am able to get my hand back onto her shoulder.

"Uh, yeah. We're both from America. Call me Raiden and this is Callista." I introduce the both of us to him.

"Mi name George. Like 'Georgetown'." (My name's George. Like 'Georgetown'.) He introduces himself to us.

I look down saying his name to try it out and I hear Marie doing it too.

"An just like all dem America president." (And just like all those American presidents.) He expresses on.

"Yeah." Marie and I say at the same time again, as we nod in agreement.

"So what are you doing down here, sweetheart." Marie asks him gently.

"Mi? Wuh de rass ayu fuh bra do here? Yuh bra lose da map a ninja hideout, ninja people?" (Me? What the heck are you both doing here? You both lose the map to your ninja hideout, ninja people?) George asks us, which causes us to both chuckle.

"No. We're looking for bad guys." I tell him and Marie nods to prove what I said is true.

"Ah, dem skunt a research lab." (Ah, those punks at the research lab.) He tells us.

"You know about it, sweetheart...?' Marie asks him quickly, but comforting too.

"Mi know mi no go back. Hey...Yuh bra na wan of dem skunts nah?" (I know I'm not going back. Hey...You're both not one of those a-holes right?) He asks us before looking over our shoulders to look back at the UGs.

"Nah...I guess yuh bra all right. If yuh bra a cyborgs, yuh bra know who dey is?" (Nah...I guess you're both all right. If you're both a cyborg, do you both know who they are?) He asks us with uncertainty in his voice.

"Sort of. What happen to you, sweetheart?" Marie gently urges him to tell us his back story on how he got here.

"Mi bin live on da street, rake an scrape fuh a bobb, nah? Den did kutnee dress like da mafia say, 'Hey boi, yuh wan a job?' Wah da worst gon happen, nah? But da mudda skunt done put mi on a rass boat! Dey pack us all a bigable dutty containah. Next ting we know, we here. At dat jumby lab." (I was living on the street, begging for quarters, you know? Then this creep dressed like the mafia says, 'Hey kid, you want a job?' What was the worst that could happen? But the mother heifer put me on a dam boat! They packed us all in a big, dirty container. Next thing we know, we're here. At that messed-up lab.) He starts his story.

"All kids, like you?" I ask him.

"Yeah, alotta boi. But den mi bin over here wuh dem skunt wan a do. Snuff us out...an gut all dey organ..." (Yeah, lots of boys. But then I overheard what those punks want to do. They wanna kill us...and cut out our organs...) He continues the story and Marie looks pale, like she is starting to have flashbacks on what happen to her while she was kidnapped/tortured.

"So you ran." I ask as both Marie and I see something white is attached to the back of his neck, as he has his back to us.

"Uh-huh. Ise shame mi notta bad-ass robot-ninja-mons same's you bra. Mi bin strongest cyborg ever. Walack all dem Phantoms an Black Clothes dat eyepass mi." (Man, too bad I'm not some kind a cyborgs like you both. I would've been the strongest cyborg ever. Whack all the Mafioso and bad guys that mess with me.) He continues to tells us, but is starting to get off topic of the story.

"Starting to sound like a bad guy yourself." I tell him.

"Raiden, don't be mean to him." Marie says to me, while she smacks me on my shoulder.

I also notice her color is starting to come back to her skin again.

"Just playin', nah? Mi done plenty bad ting, but mi nah kill no man. Nah, nevah." (Just joking, you know? I've done some bad things, but I've never killed anybody. Don't want to, either.) He tells us with honesty in his voice.

"That's good, sweetheart." Marie tells him comforting and I nod in agreement.

"Mi try to warn dem boi, I say 'Ayodese brain will get cut out! Run yuh rass out a dey!' But dem bois wi mi no understand. Dey like Spanish or some'ting. So mi the only wan fun escape. Den dey machine came afta mi an--." (I tried to warn the other boys and say, 'All your brains are gonna get cut out! Get your butts out of there!' But the boys with me didn't understand. They were like, Spanish or something. So I was the only one to escape. Then that machine came after me and--.) He finishes his story.

"And we know the rest." I tell him and Marie smacks me on my left shoulder again.

As well as giving me the look again. While we both look back to the destroyed UGs. I then turn back around quickly to George and grab his shoulders, but not too tight to hurt him, asking him, "George, we need every detail about how you escaped."

George gives a surprise look as I did this, but his eyes shrink back down and nods his head. "Oh..." He said while he nods in confirmation.

TO BE CONTINUED...

A/N: Hey there my little wolf pups. I had a little hard time on trying to write down George's language in my notebook and also trying to read it on my TV at the same time. I had to rewind on a few parts so many times it really annoyed my little brother. It annoyed him so bad he grabbed his headphones and started listening to his music on his phone. But he was in another room. Anyway while I was typing this, my brother put on jacksepticeye on our smart TV. We were watching a few episodes of Turbo Dismount, even other episodes of other games he played too. Anyways I hoped you little pups liked this chapter. Leave a comment on what part you liked in throughout the story. I'll howl to you later, my little wolf pups in the next chapter. *Howls*