Chapter 12: Like Clones To An Open Flame

[Trackman281]

LIKE CLONES TO A OPEN FLAME

The sun sets over the forests of Matsuyama and Felicity wonders through the woods after receiving a message from Tina to meet up with her.

“Hey Tina, are you out here? Come on I’ve been circling around for hours and the sun is starting to go down.” Felicity called out, but she didn’t get a response.

However as Felicity made her way in slightly deeper, suddenly a very thick fog painted the forest yellow consuming all other colours it came into contact with. Felicity of course was none of the wiser and moments later she accidentally took in a deep breath of this yellow fog which immediately caused her to violently cough.

“Ggaahh......Screw this, okay Tina I’m heading back now okay. If what you wanted to talk about is really that important, just drop me a message alright.” Felicity said as she turned to head back.

However as soon as she turned to leave she noticed a figure with their back turned to her facing a tree, from behind it looked a lot like Tina wearing one of her cat suits.

“Finally, there you are, I’ve been looking everywhere for you, so you good or what? Eeerrrmmm hello, Earth calling............Yo can you hear me or what?” Felicity touched this figures shoulder.

The figure turned around and revealed itself to be horrifically burned version of Tina. As this figure walked forward a smile stretched across its face.

“Forgive the looks, but I really wanted to look HOT for tonight.” The figure said before moments later its head rolled off it shoulders and onto the floor.

“Oh haha, whoops, aren’t I a butterfingers, getting a head of things as always HAHAHA!” The head followed up with.

Felicity couldn’t comprehend with what she was seeing and fight or flight responses kicked in and she just turned around and absolutely ran as fast as she could, as she was running she turned and couldn’t believe her eyes. The headless body was now sprinting after her at full speed. Felicity screamed as her adrenaline levels accelerated rapidly and she gained a huge amount of speed as she quickly gained pace through the woods. Several minutes later she ducked behind a tree and peeked around it. Luckily she had lost the headless figure. As Felicity leaned back to catch her breathe she suddenly heard music. She peeked round the tree again and this time, she saw an old gramophone playing a really loud song while a different dark figure danced with a mannequin wearing a rabbit mask. Felicity took gulped hard and tip toed towards the figure. “Maybe it’s somebody who can help me?” Felicity was thinking to herself as she approached.

“Run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run. Don’t let the farmer have his fun, fun, fun. He’s gonna get you with his gun, gun, gun. So run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run.” The music from gramophone sang out while the figure continued to dance.

“H-h-h-Hello?” Felicity said as she got within range of the figure.

Suddenly the music stopped and the figure stopped dancing, the figure dropped the mannequin and slowly turned around to meet Felicity’s gaze, this figure of course was revealed to be Kuebiko. Kuebiko let out a smile before responding with......

“Hello.”

We now join Tina who’s fast asleep at her desk, it’s been four days now since her previous assignment, but these haven’t been peaceful nor restful as all of her downtime has been focused on finding Soph, yet every time Tina thinks she might of found something, it always turns out to be a dead end. All of a sudden the sound of Tina’s door opens which causing Tina to wake up suddenly by surprise, as she slumps back on her chair she notices one of her fellow clone troopers staring at her in confusion.

“Eeerr, you okay?” The trooper asked.

“Me? Yeah, yeah I’m alright, just a rough night that’s all, and anyway what are you doing here?” Tina asked still half asleep.

“I’ve been sent by our commander to come and get you, come on, you were given your new assignment three hours ago, you’re extremely late and running out of time.” The trooper replied while checking her watch.

Tina looked up and saw the notification on her laptop.

“Aahh, damn it, right you go, I’m literally twenty seconds behind you.” Tina responded with a sigh.

The trooper just shook her head and left the room. Afterwards Tina quickly got changed and drank her now cold Chai Latte before closing down her laptop. Before she left her room though, Tina closed her eyes and placed her hand face down on her laptop. It didn’t matter how long it would, Tina swore to herself she would find Soph, one way or the other. She opened her eyes again and quickly hurried out. Tina sprinted down the corridors and got her commander’s office, she quickly tidied up her hair in her reflection in the window, Tina’s hair had grown significantly long now, since she’s been so preoccupied with everything, she just hasn’t got down to having it trimmed it yet. Tina looked at the clock hanging above her commander office door, before she let out a disappointed grunt and a sigh, then she opened the door and went inside.

“You’re LATE CI-1138 or rather more exceptionally late, care to explain yourself?” CO-1010 glared at Tina.

“I’m sorry Ma’am, I completely over slept.” Tina said honestly.

“This is becoming more and frequent CI-1138, do I need to report this as an ongoing thing?” CO-1010 said while raising her eyebrows.

“NO Ma’am, I know I have to do better and I promise you I WILL do better.” Tina said while trying to sound as convincing as she could be, she knew she didn’t care, but she still had to play it smart, just in case.

“See that you do. Well without further delays, allow me to present you with today’s assignment.” CO-1010 allowed Tina to view her computer screen.

On the screen Tina saw several pictures of various female fighters ranging from boxing, cage fighting, mixed martial arts and even Thai kick boxing. All the women while alive were seriously beaten and their bodies had been brutalized. They’d all live and pull through but it was going to be a long road for them, they were all in various hospitals around the world.

“What’s the connection?” Tina asked as this one genuinely had her stumped, or for now at least.

“Well, we’re not entirely sure. Despite the fact they’re all across the world, they are all giving the same testimony, they’ve all won championship fights only to be suddenly knocked out afterwards before waking up in an arena. They all say they can see a crowds of female soldiers cheering before a great hulking female warrior dressed like a Nordic warrior emerges and challenged them to fight one on one for their freedom. They all say that her fighting style is crazed but precised, almost as if she’s this rage possessed warrior whose need is to fight. Well CI-1138 I don’t think I need to go on any further as I’m sure you can work out what’s happened next. The only other thing we’re finding strange is that where the police are finding their unconscious bodies, there’s always a circle of blue powder that been sprinkled around them.” CO-1010 explained.

“Wait a moment, did you say, blue powder?” Tina inquired.

“Yes, why do you know of it?” CO-1010 frowned.

“No, I just wanted to make sure I heard you correctly that’s all.” Tina lied, she knew who this was, she knew the blue powder and based on the description these women were giving, it was none other than Theron, evidently coming back for round two.

“Show me, where I’m heading commander and leave the rest to me.” Tina said confidentially knowing what she was about to walk into.

“Good, you’re eager, I like that. Okay it seems you’ll be going to the city of Chicago as another fighter has been found with the blue power around her, start your investigation there.” The commander said.

“Yes Ma’am I’m ready to leave immediately if the pilot is.” Tina replied.

“I’ll radio through now, dismissed CI-1138.” CO-1010 said as she picked up her radio.

Tina didn’t respond but just got up and left her commander’s office. She made her way down to the hanger where her pilot was waiting for her. A couple of minutes later the dropship had departed and was making its way to Chicago. On the ride there Tina thought to herself.

“Could it really be Theron, I mean all the signs point to her and the description of the attacker fits perfectly, plus who else goes around dressed like that, but why now, why has she waited this long to return. Guess this is something I’ll have to piece together as I go.” Tina wondered.

A few hours later the dropship reached Chicago and Tina was safely and discreetly deployed on top of a building just opposite a street which the police had completely cornered off. Tina made her way down using the stair cases of the said building she was on until she reached the ground level. Once she got outside she noticed police cars were everywhere and uniformed officers were crowded around an alleyway. Tina guessed that’s the where victim was but she had no idea how to get down there without being noticed. Tina knew that naturally, she’d need a disguise. Tina quickly hurried over to the other side of the street where the police were and she ducked down behind a dumpster. Just as Tina got herself hidden from everyone’s view, three black sedans with tinted windows pulled up and several detectives’s got out. All the detective’s got out and made their way down the alley, apart from one, who instead was still fiddling around with some equipment in the boot of one of the sedans a choice that was about to cost her both her clothes and a great deal of embarrassment later on. At this point Tina whispered a relieved chuckle to herself as she genuinely had no idea how she was going to get a disguise without being spotted, but thankfully it seems this detective has just offered up her cloths to Tina on a silver platter.

The detective whom Tina was about to jump was a 37 year old Mexican woman by the name of Juana Ramirez, she was wearing black tight fitting business trousers, a vanilla blouse shirt with a black Peplum blazer over it, she had long wavy black hair and she had dark tanned skin, to finish it all off she was wearing a pair of Bleu de France blue high heels.

Ramirez was digging around in the boot of the car, possibly for some forensics kits to take to the others, but because the boot was wide open it was hiding her from anyone else’s viewing, something Tina was going to take advantage of. Tina snuck out from behind the dumpster and had a quick glance around to make sure no one was watching, when she knew the coast was clear she very carefully and quietly snuck up behind Ramirez who was now full bent over getting the last bits from the back. Once Tina was in range she quickly grabbed the back of Ramirez’s blazer and slung her upwards as hard as she could. Tina hit the back of Ramirez’s head on the boot of the car this in turn caused Ramirez to let out a sharp but fairly faint groan before she fell unconscious. With that Tina quickly slung Ramirez’s unconscious body in the back of the car and began to strip her. Tina struggled a bit with how tight Ramirez’s work trousers were but she managed to slip them off of her, she followed this up by slipping off her shoes, her blouse and her blazer, reducing Ramirez to her undies which were revealed to be a sage green plunge bra and a pair of candy apple red Tangas panties. Tina got changed into Ramirez’s clothes before she found several pairs of handcuffs in the car, which she used to handcuff Ramirez wrist and ankles together, Tina also found some non scented and non chemical wipes which she used as a gag, Tina of course made sure to dry them off thoroughly first just so Ramirez doesn’t accidently choke or suffocated from the liquid on them. Now that Ramirez was safely tied up and out of the way, Tina grabbed her police badge and a pair of sunglasses she found and closed the boot on Ramirez, she didn’t close it fully, but left it on the latch so fresh air could seep inside. Tina then made her way down the alley.

Once she got down there she found a medical team checking the vitals and the condition of the victim. Tina noticed blue powder and been scattered in the shapes of Nordic runes, she also heard other police officers gossiping about the situation, each coming up with there own ideas behind the attackers motives, but of course Tina was the only one there who virtually knew the truth. Just as she got closer to the victim she heard a voice call out behind her.

“Ramirez, I’m pleased to hear you finally left your desk for some field work.” A male voice called out.

Tina wasn’t sure if the voice was aimed at her as she didn’t catch the name of the woman she was impersonating, so she kept her sunglasses on but turned around slowly. Here she saw a male detective smiling at her.

“Oh I’m sorry we haven’t actually met, but I’ve heard all the stories about you. My name’s Marcus Pinzerowski but everyone just calls me greenie.” Greenie introduced.

“Right, well it’s nice to meet you, can you catch me up on what where we’re at?” Tina said, not really wanting to waste any time with this guy.

“Oh, straight to buisness huh? I guess you don’t want your hazelnut latte first, like they say you always do?” Greenie pondered.

“No not today thanks Greenie, I had one back at the car, and hence why it took a while to get down here haha.” Tina bluffed.

“Ha ha, knew it. So anyway, the victim is Laura Fry, she’s 27 and is technically a boxing middle weight champion as of a couple nights ago, however as soon as she won her match she mysteriously disappeared and now boom here she is. She’s alive but she seems to have fallen in a coma, so I doubt we’ll be getting any statements from her for a while.” Greenie read off of his note pad.

“So the attacker only targeted her, not because she had won a fight but because she had won the championship making her the best fighter in her division.” Tina said out loud trying to work out Theron’s motives.
“Huh............Interesting analysis. But what’s with all the blue powder?” Greenie inquired.

“I’m not sure; maybe it’s just a calling card so we know the attacker has struck again and so nobody else can take credit for their work.” Tina explained trying her best to only use the words like their or they and not she or her otherwise they might question why Tina keeps referring to the attacker as a woman and get suspicious.

“Hey I’ll be right back, I’m getting a call from HQ.” Tina lied.

“Alright, hurry back.” Greenie said getting back to work.

Tina went back the car and found Ramirez’s phone in the glove box, she quickly opened up the boot and thankfully Ramirez was still heavily unconscious. Tina grabbed one of Ramirez hands and used her finger to unlock her phone before she gingerly lower the boot back down, Tina quickly scoured the internet for any fights happening in Chicago, a few moments later she found one. There was going to be a boxing title match happening in just a few short hours. Tina quickly changed the password on Ramirez phone to all one’s so she could use it later, then she grabbed a headpiece from the car, to use it later and listen in on the police for when they eventually find the real Ramirez, bound and gagged in her undies. Tina decided not to take the car for obvious reasons and made her out on foot, it took a couple of hours of wondering around but she eventually came across the arena of where the fight was taking place. It didn’t take long for Tina to gain entry to the building; thankfully Ramirez’s police badge was coming in handy at this stage. Once Tina had done a full sweep on the arena and the stands of where hundreds if not thousands of fans were sitting waiting for the fight, she quickly realized that the abduction wouldn’t take place until after the fight, so they’d know whom the victor was. Tina made her way towards the ringside entrance but found out that it might seem a bit suspicious if a police officer was wondering around the actual ringside, but Tina also couldn’t afford to be far away as she needs to stay close for the eventual abduction attempt. Just as Tina was pondering her next move a dressing room door opened and a group of ringside girls appeared and formed a line. They were wearing Bronze tank tops with thin skin tight bronze shorts on. They all had knee high angel white boots on, with the monster energy drink logo on the sides.

At the bank of the line was a Korean - American woman who was 25 years of age, she had a perfectly toned body and medium length brown hair which had been dip dyed blonde at the ends. Her name was Kimberley, as all the ringside girls began to move out Kimberley suddenly felt a hand grab her shoulder.

“Chicago Police department, I sorry ma’am but I need you to come with me.” Tina said holding up the badge.

Kimberley nodded and followed Tina into an unused room.

“What’s all this about if you don’t mind me asking officer?” But before Kimberley could get the answer she wanted Tina gave her a sharp chop to the back of her neck which sent Kimberley to the floor out cold.

“Sorry about that, but I had no idea what I was actually going to say to convince you that an officer needed your outfit.” Tina tried to rationalize to a very knocked out Kimberley.

It really didn’t take long for Tina to strip Kimberley of her ringside attire, because of her revealing tube top, Kimberley was not wearing a bra underneath but she was wearing a bronze G-string just underneath her shorts. With Kimberley now being reduced to nothing but her G-string, Tina quickly trussed her up with some old rope she believed came from a previous boxing ring before gagging Kimberley by ripping a sleeve off of the blazer she was wearing and using it as such. Tina then got changed into Kimberley’s outfit and dragged her unconscious body behind a stack of old crates, just in case someone came in. Tina however did keep hold of both the earpiece and the phone she managed to hide in-between her breasts. Tina then left the room and joined up with the other ringside girls.

“Hey, whoe why haven’t you got a belly button.” One of the ringside girls asked.

“Oh God I forgot.” Tina whispered to herself. “Eerr it’s a birth defect, you know that celebrity Karolina Kurkova doesn’t have one either.” Tina explained.

“Oh my god that’s so cool, can I touch it?” The ringside girl asked.

“Uurrgghh sure......” Tina responded confused.

The ringside girl rubbed where Tina’s belly button should be before smiling back at her.

“Whoe that’s unique, hey wanna touch mine?” She asked.

“No I’m good.” Tina nodded back.

Thankfully before the other ringside girl could respond they got the call to go out. They got to the ringside through a wave of cheers and whistles, a few moments later the fighters were introduced and the fight itself was underway. The fight lasted all the way until the eleventh round, but the whole time Tina’s eyes darted around the room, she was trying to find anything of the abductors or of Theron herself, yet she turned up empty each and every time. But Tina’s luck was about change as just before the end of the eleventh round, one of the fighters gave a winning knockout blow sending her opponent to the floor dazed and confused and unable to continue the fight. Tina knew that it things were about to get very loud in here. As both women exchanged respectful hugs and the belt was given to the winner. Suddenly canisters of tear gas flew into the ring and several parts of the stands causing panic all around and both staff and attendants all scrambled for the nearest exits. Tina tried her best to push past everyone as quickly as she could when she caught a glimpse of three uniformed woman wearing gas masks and carrying rifles get into the middle of the ring and quickly slap a cloth full of chloroform over the winners face. With that two of the uniformed women grabbed the female fighter’s hands and feet and proceeded to carry her off while the third fired wildly into the air causing more fear and panic. Tina knew she wouldn’t stand a chance against those rifles dressed as she was, so she quickly diverted and made her way up a nearby staircase onto the third floor. Once she was there she saw the unknown combatants toss the fighter into the back of a windowless van, wasting no more time Tina jumped from the balcony onto the roof of the van and laid herself out flat, hoping that because of all the noises going on around them, the soldiers wouldn’t hear her land on the roof. Thankfully they didn’t as all three women got into the van and quickly sped off down the road.

The journey was bumpy and wind tore through Tina’s exposed body parts, it was a horrible feeling but she just had to hold on for dear life and hope it would be over soon. A little while later the van came to a stop outside what seemed to be a derelict industrial estate. At this point Tina still didn’t move as she wasn’t sure just how many soldiers would be down there and might see her, so she remained still and waited. She heard three sets of boots followed by a few others who came out to greet them. Tina heard various female accents but they were all speaking English, she felt the van doors open and slam again moments later. Tina also heard them talking about getting her a cell to sleep in before checking on their other captors as apparently Theron was itching for her next fight. Once Tina heard that, she was relieved to know that she was at the right place and that Theron herself was on site. Tina allowed herself an additional minute to make sure the coast was clear before rolled off the roof of the van and quickly rolled underneath it. The coast was clear and no one had seen her so with that Tina rolled back out from underneath the van and quickly made her way to the only building with lights on in the whole estate.

As Tina approached the building she realized that the security was heavy outside as multiple females wearing black combat fatigue trousers, shirts and boots which had been splashed with blue as a symbol to Theron were standing guard by the main door. Tina noticed that the building currently didn’t have any CCTV operational so using this knowledge she snuck her way round to the back of the building and climbed onto the ledge of an open window. However she stopped herself from going into the building straight away as she suddenly smelt the smoke off of a cigarette and sure enough she looked down and saw a female soldier leaning back against the wall enjoying a smoke.

This woman was a 33 years old, she wore the standard attire of black fatigue trousers and shirt, again these have dashed with blue marking and paint to symbolize Theron, she was wearing black laced combat boots, she had white skin and long blonde hair which had been braided in a style as they would have done during the Viking era. She had a thin posture which meant she probably doesn’t do field work but rather manages things at the HQ. She also had teal blue eyes. She did have a helmet and a rifle however both were propped on top of a crate which she naturally done as she was on break. Her ID tags read Private Michelle Peterson.

Tina got herself into a crouching frog position on the windowsill before she leapt into the air. Michelle realized the light around her had gone dark and she turned around just in time to see Tina come crashing down on her causing the back of her head to hit the floor, it all happened so quickly that Michelle didn’t even have time to react and or even make a grunting noise. Tina quickly smacked the cigarette from her mouth so Michelle didn’t accidentally let it slip down her throat. Just as Tina was about to strip Michelle she heard a knock at the door.

“Peterson, let’s roll Captain says ten minutes is all you get.” A female voice called through the door.

“Roger that, be out in thirty seconds.” Tina responded in Michelle’s place.

“Alright and hey you might want to take a lozenge, your voice sounds different than usual.” The female voice replied.

With that Tina heard footsteps of the other soldier walking away; luckily she didn’t feel the need to come in. Tina closed her eyes and let a relieved gasp before opening her eyes again and focused on the now unconscious Michelle. Tina un-laced Michelle’s boots and pulled off her ankles and off her feet, Tina let Michelle keep her white trainer socks that she was wearing underneath. She then unbuckled Michelle’s belt and pulled her trouser down past her thighs and off her legs. To finish up she swiped Michelle’s ID tags before unbuttoning and stripping her of her top, it’s here we see that Michelle was wearing a Lava Grey stick on bra and a Rhino grey Low Rise Thong. Tina quickly hunted around the room and found a roll of copper wiring, which she used to tie up Michelle’s arms, wrists, legs and ankles. Tina then found and old dust sheet which she quickly tore off a couple of pieces and used them as a gag on Michelle. After this Tina got changed into Michelle’s uniform, making sure she didn’t forget to grab her helmet and rifle on the crate before she left. But just before she left she switched the tracking device on Ramirez’s phone back on as she knew that the police would of found the real Ramirez by now and they could track her phone to Tina’s location so they could put a stop to this operation but in the mean time it was time to find Theron.

Tina made her way down the corridors, checking every room as she went, she pretended she was on patrol duty so thankfully none of the other soldiers really took notice of her. It took a while for Tina to go through every hallway and corridor doing her best to get be recognised by anyone she came into contact with, it was then that Tina suddenly found herself staring at a pair of thick double wooden doors. Tina gave a quick look over her shoulder to make sure no one was looking then she opened the door gingerly before slipping inside. Now she was inside she noticed that this must be the centre of the building, which had been somewhat hollowed out and converted into a makeshift arena. Giant wooden fences encased a sanded yellow floor with light above shining straight down. It’s here that we see dozens of female soldiers all crowded round the arena shouting and cheering, then as Tina moved in closer she noticed a female bare knuckle fighter on the floor covered in blood and badly beaten, standing above was a very focused but angry Theron who was wearing her same armour from her previous encounter with Tina. The female bare knuckle fighter pleaded for mercy but Theron just laughed and proceeded to land a series of punches to the fighter’s body and head while Theron’s soldiers cheered in amusement. Tina couldn’t let this go on any longer. Tina ran and placed her right boots on one of the fence posts before launching herself up and over the fence before landing hard on the floor. The thud caused a wave of silence amongst the soldiers and Theron stopped and slowly turned to see who would dare interrupt her.

“At last, you have arrived.” Theron said with a smile on her face as Tina removed the helmet to let Theron have a good look at her.

“So this is how you get your kicks now huh. Not going to lie, I think I preferred you when you just that cultist leaders servant, speaking of which where is she anyway?” Tina inquired.

“Who Chun-Hei, well you should know shouldn’t you.” Theron pointed to a Chun-Hei’s cybernetic hand which had been placed on a remembrance wall, Tina knew what this meant unfortunately.

“I’ve been waiting a long time for this, ever since you so cowardly ran away AGAIN during our last encounter.” Theron shouted, but Tina couldn’t help but wonder “What did Theron mean by again?”

“Well I’m here now, so please show me that you are actually a warrior of honour and let that woman go and we can settle this, I mean after all this is what you want isn’t it.” Tina really, REALLY did not want to get into a one on one fight with Theron, but if it meant saving this fighter, then she had no choice.

“HA and what would you know about HONOUR girl, but your right I have been waiting looking forward to this, so much so that this won’t be a traditional fight, oh no I’ve prepared something special just for us.” Theron clicked her fingers and a couple of her soldiers dragged the female fighters body out of the arena while another presented Theron with a case. Inside the case were two traditional Viking swords known as “hurstwic’s” Theron got one of them and tossed in towards Tina before taking the other one for herself.

Tina knew that the police would be on their way by now, but they wouldn’t get here in time, maybe just maybe Tina thought she could stall her long enough. But as soon as she thought this, Theron lunged at her with a warrior’s scream. Tina barely had time to block as she felt the sword thunder down on her own causing a strong shock wave to shoot up her arm. Theron set upon Tina and series of strikes and swipes which caused to Tine to really use all of her training as she used all of her wits to block every single strike, then with a quick opening Tina quickly performed a low chop and managed to slice at Theron’s leg causing to fall to one knee.

“Yyyyeeesss......After all these years, you finally show your true colours.” Theron said while seeing to her cut.

“ENOUGH of this pointless battle, I will not continue to fight you.” Tina said lowering her sword. However Theron regained her composure and swung her sword around to meet Tina’s however Tina simply ducked and kept her sword lowered.

“No, I will not battle you for your amusement; there is no honour in it.” Tina proclaimed.

“HOW DARE YOU WHEN MY GOAL IS WITHIN MY GRASP!” Theron shouted in anger and she again attempted another strike, however Tina ducked out of the way again but this time threw her sword to the ground.

“Strike me down if you must, but I will NOT fight you.” Tina said nervously trying to gauge Theron’s response.

“Uuurrgghh I cannot strike while you are defenseless, this battle must be concluded by the warriors code. I BEG YOU, rise warrior, pick up your sword and continue this fight.” Theron pleaded.

“Why.........” Tina responded.

“For freedom.” Theron followed on with, this in turn caused Tina to raise her eyebrows in suspicion.

“you must remember or you must know that beneath all this hatred and anger is just a woman, a horrifically burdened woman trapped in vengeful body. *sigh* while you don’t seem like the one I met all those years ago, you certainly resemble her in virtually every little detail, just minus the blood lust, please allow me to elaborate.” Theron sat down crossed legged and stared at the ground while her memories took over.

“There once was a time when I wasn’t filled with rage and had voices drowning my every thought. I have engraved that day in my memory so my family would not be lost to the dust of time. Once I had beautiful farm thrived in the lush countryside, it was truly a sight to behold, but the jewel of it all and the centre of my happiness was a beautiful family of my husband, two daughters and a faithful canine. My life was good, the land was rich and my family prospered. It was on my return one day from a successful hunting trip when it all happened, a black ship blocked out the sun and loomed over my home. From the ship a dark figure emerged and began to kill my farm hands, they tried to retaliate but they were no match as this figure cut them down one by one, until I alone was left to defend my home and family. My weapons were worthless, my attempts actually amused the attacker and they struck me down. I lay before them ready to battle for the last time. But they did not kill oh no they had other ideas, they strapped my arms, legs and my body down to the floor, denying me a warrior’s end.......I was helpless as I watched the figure kill my entire family right before my eyes, it was they’re enjoyment that day to make me suffer by keeping me alive, forever cursed to relive that day over and over again. Never being able to joy my family in both rest and peace............Before you left the figure utter the phrase. That’s one more loose end severed.” Theron monologued.

Tina watched as tears started to trickle down Theron’s cheeks and onto the sand below, Theron not only spoke the truth but this was true pain that would never go away. Suddenly Tina realized what Theron just said and she couldn’t believe it, she remembered where she heard that saying before. It was none other than CI-1262 the last time she said that was just before she cold heartedly executed Kulap Saae-Lim back in Thailand. Suddenly rage started to fill Tina’s veins, all this suffering was due to her own so called sister CI-1262, Tina knew she had to make it right, she knew she didn’t have to kill Theron, just beat her in battle. With this Tina picked up her sword.

“Prepare yourself.” Tina said.

“At last, the warm embrace of my family, open to me.” Theron said as she too drew her sword and stood back up.

Tina and Theron once again clashed swords, sparks flew as they fought, both women landing equally the same amount of strikes and blocks, the fighting lasted for several minutes before a sudden breaching explosion was heard above, this caused both Tina and Theron to look up as they saw riot police officers swarm in and started to clash with Theron’s hired soldiers. Tina turned around just in time to see Theron’s sword coming down, suddenly something awoke in Tina, possibly from a combination of both ehr anger and her training and she blocked the attacked followed by a sudden backwards thrust which struck Theron right through her stomach.

“GGGGAAAAHHHH...........After all these years, my freedom has arrived.” Theron said as she crumpled back and onto the floor.

“THERON!..........I........I......I’m sorry I............” Tina shouted after she realized her mistake and dealt Theron a killing blow, she knelt down a held Theron in her arms.

“Please don’t worry my friend, please hand me my sword.” Theron said with a smile on her face. Tina leaned over and grabbed Theron’s sword before giving to her to which Theron grasped it in her hand and held it against her chest.

“Thank you.” Theron said with one last smile before gently closing her eyes and passing away peacefully.

Tina was both distraught and happy at the same time. But this was something she’d need to focus on later as she gently lay Theron back down and proceeded to run for an exit.

A line of police officers were running down a corridor when a female officer at the back of the line suddenly heard a noise call out.

“Hey can you give me a hand with putting the hand cuffs on this one?” This voice called out.

With that the lone female officer ran towards the voice hoping to assist.

“Detective Greenie sir, we’ve rounded and secured everyone we could, we now have full control of the building sir.” An officer said to Greenie.

“Nice work sergeant, bring in a body removal team for this one, then let’s start getting the other processed back at the station.” Greenie ordered.

“Sir, you might want to come take a look at this.” Another officer shouted over.

Greenie and the sergeant came running over and they saw a white skinned policewoman with brunette hair lying down in a star shape on her back wearing nothing but her lacy blue panties and her green bra. This was the officer that had originally answered the voice asking for assistance earlier.

“Apparently we didn’t get all of them, search the area now!” Greenie barked.

But it was too late and a couple of miles away, Tina revealed to have been the voice calling for help and wearing the policewoman’s uniform was now already making her way down the industrial estate and into a woodland area so she could call in for her pilot to say the job was complete. However before she did, she quickly made a makeshift grave out off some stones and scratched onto the biggest stone a simple sentence which read. “Theron, FREE.” With that Tina radioed in for her pickup, she has feeling she’s going to get some interesting responses when she gets back to base and Tina was also devastated, she had broken her only rule, never kill. A tear rolled down Tina’s face, she was happy she had finally united Theron with her family, but at such a high price, she also felt uncontrollable rage towards CI-1262, clearly her so called sister was nothing a monster leaving other monsters in her wake. Something Tina knew she’d had to address at some point.

THE END OF CHAPTER TWELVE.

[meditions142]

Thanks for another fun chapter. I particularly enjoyed the take out of soldier girl Michelle.

I love the imagery of Michelle relaxing on her smoke break not aware of the danger. She only has time to turn to see Tina diving towards her. Poor Michelle can do nothing before the weight of Tina falling on her knocks her out cold.

[Trackman281]

Thank you very much Meditions142. I'm pleased you enjoyed it. Sorry its taken me a while to resume Tina's adventures, but I'm pleased to say I'm going to be uploading a new chapter virtually every week.

[meditions142]

Great news. Anxious to see more great stories!

[rufusluciusivan]

And you continue your trend of bringing unheard types of damsels with Kimberley the ringside girl. Poor Kimberley though. Her outfit didn't allow her to wear underwear that would have (a little) protected her modesty after falling into Tina's clutches. Also a good scene with Ramirez, which shows how resourceful Tina is: using the objects she found in Ramirez's car to bind and gag her. First time I've seen a "wipes-gag".^^

The story won't spare anything to poor Tina... I wonder how she will respond to this latest reveal. And I'm anxiously waiting for her to finally confront Kuebiko and put an end to her threat. Though I also fear what will happen when she reunited with Soph. Can't wait to read part 13^too. The idea reminds me a little of the Episode 20 of Dirty Pair when the heroine disguises herself as a train waitress to infiltrate a travelling group of models, while leaving the real waitress hidden inside a cupboard of the train (and even apologizing to her for making her uncomfortable as she closes the door with her foot^^), one of my favorite scenes ever.

[tirepanted3]

And Tina returns! Several memorable scenes in this chapter. Tina's takeout of Michelle was great - and a good lesson why uniformed women in these stories should never take smoking breaks.

I also liked that little scene with the poor policewoman at the end. Basically an afterthought; Tina didn't even bother tying her up. A brief scene, to be sure, but those can be a nice change of pace every now and then.

[Trackman281]

Many thanks to you both for the awesome and kind comments.

I really need to sit down and read both of your new chapters. They look amazing so I do need to do that. Hopefully this evening.

Rufusluciousvan - thank you I'm going to lie with both your good self and tirepanted3 always coming up with new and original ideas of how your characters knock and out and replace their targets. I wasn't sure if I could ever come up with something. But I'm pleased I somehow have.

Also Tina now has to be careful with this knowledge, while yes she nows just how cold CI-1262 can be. Lashing out at her suddenly might land her in some serious trouble. She'll need to play it smart.

The inevitable between Tina and Kuebiko is coming. Kuebiko will change how she deals with Tina this time. Because last time Kuebiko was brash, cocky, she'd never seen anyone like Tina before. Well Tina didn't just hurt her mentally but also physically and this will show as Tina made her realize, she is still human.

Don't worry I definitely haven't forgotten about Soph. But having spebding so much time around Kuebiko, who knows what's been going on. I'm looking forward to revealing it all.

Tirepanted3 - I know, it taken me long enough hasn't it. I guess Tina was so overwhelmed with everything and the fact she inadvertently broke her number one rule, she just wanted to get out of there and properly reflect on things.

[rufusluciusivan]

I think I have an idea about what will happen during the reunion between Soph and Tina... I dread it. (Kuebiko affected me through the the fourth wall, she would be so satisfied .) Out of curiosity, I'd still like to insist, was the scene and episode from Dirty Pair I mentioned above a source of inspiration for Part 13 or is it a coincidence and I'm seeing links where there aren't any? Can't wait for Part 13 in any case. An idea of when it will be released?

[Trackman281]

Oh heck sorry I didn't answer your question. Eerrmm as much as I honestly don't want to say this. It is purely just coincidence I didn't even realise I had made a dirty pair reference until you pointed it out hahaha.

I'm pleased to say chapter 13 will be uploaded this Saturday as I would like to upload one chapter a week now. While Kuebiko may take a back seat for a while after the next encounter, the seeds she'll sew will be ever lasting. Honestly some of it will be for the best.

I'm really looking forward to showing off the next villain in the next chapter. She's an ex magician whos turned infiltrator for Atlantic Co. I think you'll like what I've done with her. Plus it's going be a USB vs USB. who's the better deceiver of the two.

On a side note I'm contemplating doing a few spin offs featuring other infiltrators with different views, appearances and personalities. Naturally it would all be set in the same universe. Just because I think while CI-1262 and Tina are assigned to the obsidian whisperers. They can't be the only 2 infiltrators in the army (not including Soph). Its just an idea but still in very early stages.

[rufusluciusivan]

Okay thanks. Curious to see what type of uniforms and clothes will be involved. Maybe there's still be a train waitress... One thing's certain; between two uniform stealers, I'd wager that the stealings will be numerous. Hoping for a long story.