From alt.pub.dragons-inn Thu Apr 27 07:26:50 1995 Xref: netcom.com alt.pub.dragons-inn:8379 rec.arts.anime.stories:1068 Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn,rec.arts.anime.stories Path: netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!world!megazone From: sms27538@centum.utulsa.edu Subject: Interlude 12-13 [Lupin/Fire] [FanFic] Message-ID: <1995Apr19.224408@centum.utulsa.edu> Followup-To: poster X-World-Archive: Miscellaneous/lupin.fire.interlude.gz Keywords: Fire,Lupin,Sex Sender: megazone@world.std.com (MegaZone) Organization: The University Of Tulsa Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 00:27:32 GMT Approved: megazone@world.std.com Lines: 264 Part 12: Heist "It's tight in here," Fire whispered. "Are you sure this will work?" Lupin whispered back "Trust me, were already in the museum." "You mean they actually took this ugly piece of twisted metal and glass as art?" Lupin grinned ear to ear in the dark "I guess we have ourselves an art critic. Well modern art doesn't do much for me either." "Shhh, here comes a guard." A large man passed by, he was about 6'5" but he was stocky and hunched over, so he looked two inches shorter "Damn this job is boring, but the pay's good. Too bad it's only for a few more months before I head back to Ritchmond." "Your from Virginia, Harold?" A voice behind him spokes as his flashlight crossed the area. "Nah, Richmond, Indiana." "Well looks clear to me, lets go." Footsteps trailed off in the distance. "They gone yet Fire?" Lupin asked. "Hai," She answered quietly, "Now can we get out of here?" "Sure thing." The both crawled out of a mesh of wire, twisted bits of metal, and shards of glass and mirror. Lupin begin remove a section of the sculpture and held it up. "This should get us passed the lasers. These mirrors will reflect the laser light so that the beams are never actually broken, when you leap through the hole they make." "What about those, noise hearing devices they talked about, I can move pretty silently, but..." there was a hit of trepidation in Fire's voice. "That's what this is for." Lupin pulled another object out of the modern art and strapped it on to Fire. "What is it?" She asked. "It's a white noise generator. It will create enough background noise to mask your presence from the passive sonar." "You still need to be quiet though, so be careful." Lupin switched the device on, and a noise much like that of static came out of it. Fire covered her ears for a bit as she adjusted to the sound. They carefully moved the mirrors into place, creating a two foot square for Fire to leap through. 'This is just like leaping through the hole in the knives.' Fire though 'I've got to time it right and come out in a roll so I don't make to much noise.' Time seem to stand still for Lupin as he watched Fire's leap. She moved with a fluid grace that he found incredibly attractive. Like a gymnast, the movements came naturally, as if she had practiced them for years. She tucked her legs under just as her hands reached the floor, and almost with out a sound, she rolled up onto her feet. Lupin fought down the urge to clap as he passed Fire a canister to roll the five paintings in. Fire cut the painting out with her katanas quickly and accurately, leaving the art work in tact. It wasn't bad work, but something about it unnerved Fire. Perhaps the coloring was a bit strange, she just couldn't place a finger on it. Well anyway, this was no time for a critique. She carefully placed the paintings into the container and passed them back to Lupin. Fire heard something. "We have company." She told Lupin. "I knew something was wrong with the picture on when I saw our shadows pass it." It was Harold, apparently not all the security guards were a stupid as the curator, Lupin thought. One of them bothered to pay attention to the view of the camera, which he and Fujiko had set up to play back a recording earlier Fire leaped quickly thought the square, and she grabbed Lupin pulling him into the shadows. Fire checked the ceiling, and noted that they were past the panel that would shut down on them. She covered Lupin's mouth and signaled that she had an idea. The guards approached the mirror. "Hey this looks like a part of that ugly statue." The other guard nodded. "This is rich. Thousands of dollars spent on security, and it's defeated by a cheap mirror trick." As the spoke Fire threw one of her shurkin out of the dark. It whizzed passed the pair and went through one of the beams. "Look out." Harold called as he rushed up out only to be cut off by the Transparent wall slamming down in front of him. His smaller partner close behind. Fire grabbed Lupin and ran for an exit. "Stop!" the smaller guard called and raised his gun. Harold grabbed it from his hand. As Lupin waved at them with a large grin on his face. "You eeediot," Harold shouted "That's bullet proof glass, the ricochet could have killed us!" Meanwhile Lupin managed to catch his breath "Nice thinking Fire, I have to admit I like your style." "Well the door is looked from the inside," he spoke as the ran to the door "I guess I'll have to use plastique explosives, not time to pick the lock." He ran hunched forward, trying to keep up with Fire, who had a strong grip on his arm. As they reached the door Fire let go of him and leaped up in a flying kick that smashed the door open. "Hey that was made of... how'd you? Never mind, just remind me never to make you mad." "I wouldn't advise it." Fire grinned. Part 13: The Chase. The sound of the alarms were driving Fire crazy, she certainly couldn't understand why they were named sirens, after creatures that lured men to their deaths with beautiful voices. "Quick," Lupin told her in a hurried whisper, "The guys will be waiting for us on the other side of this ally." That made sence to Fire, she'd never leave her horse outside the seen of heist, to suspisios, but it was a good thing to keep it somewhere near by in case of persuit. Fire perfered to avoid persuit altogether when she could, but in this case it looked inevitable. In the darkness Zeningata waited muttering to himself, "I can't cover all the possible exits with the men I have. I only wanted a few more men. Damn Chineese." As spoke the blare of alarms pierced his self pitty and he body tensed up for action. He ran in towards the museaum hoping to catch the Wolf. On his way out he heard "This way Fire" an instant before he rammed into someone knocking both of them down. In the dim light the two adversaries stared at each other stuned, not so much from surprise, they'd been running into each other like this for years, but more from the shock of collision. Lupin was the first to regain his wits. "Long time no see, Zeningata." "It's been too long Wolf," while the reply was humorus, their was much truth behind it; it had been a while since the two had clashed, and Zeningata missed the thril of the chase. It was almost too bad that it would end here. Zeningata's men had gotten lucky and spoted the escape vehicle, they were compitent enough to keep them busy just long enough for Zenigata to ferrit their boss away. "I'd love to stay and chat Inspector, but I have a plain to catch, litterally." Lupin leaped to one side of the alley and began to run. Zeningata countered with a characteristic barage, not of missiles or bullets, but handcuffs. His form was at a rare peak, he had throuwn so many at once that Lupin was shouded by a cloud of handcuffs, and even before they struck the Inspector had thrown off his special extening cuff with the intent of realling his quarry in. The cuff never reached it's mark. Despite the drone of alarms, the inspector recognized the sound of katanas wizzing through air. How could this be? Not even Goemon could be two places at once. When the dust setaled Zenigata was stuned. His efforts had not been deflected by the expert hands of Goemon the sword saint, but by a woman. Her hair was a radiant flaming red, and she move with a eligant grace that Zeningata could not help but respect. She wasn't as built as Fujiko, but that made her no less sexy. 'Why does Lupin always get the girls?' a small voice inside him asked, 'Because you are dedicated too dedicated to your job to activaly chase women,' Came an answer that drowned out the other like 'Because he's better looking.' Fire smiled as she lowered her twin katanas allowing the various hancuffs and restraints to fall off, the last of which returned via an automatic reel to Zeningata's wrist. "Oh, I'm being so rude," Lupin spoke with a grin that could almost tickle his ears, "You haven't been introduced. My beautiful ninja friend here is called Fire, and she is assisting us for reasons over her own." "Pleased to meet you inspector," Fire spoke in an almost melodic voice "Lupin's told me a lot about you, and not all of it's bad." Fire bowed as a gesture of respect, something that startled but not entirely surpised Zeningata. After all, the Wolf and his compainions may have some of the begruding respect for him that he had for them. Regaurdless, the game was still afoot. Lupin was about to make one more remark when Fire tackled him dragging him through the alley. "Hey," Lupin cried, "What was that for." Fire's tone didn't carry her normal humor "Verbal jousting is all fine and good, but if you kept it up we would have missed our ride." Lupin saw the VW appoaching. "And," Fire continued, "the longer we stayed, the more likely I'd have to fight him and his underlings." They both leaped into the car as Fire spoke "I don't like hurting good men, who are just trying to do their job." "Well that's Zeningata for you" Jeigen spoke "He eats, breaths, and sleeps to catch Wolf." "Nice to see you boss." ------ "Why'd you get a Bug, boss" Jiigen spoke, "did it remind you of the Fiat 500 we to to Cagliostro or something." Lupin responded as the turned around a sharp corner with Zeningata's men close behind. "Nah, it's inconspicous, and it's cheep enough to allow me to aford some modifications." "Whatever, let's see if we can lose them." Fire huddled in the back as they drove at beakneck speed taking rapid ninety degree turns. Fire covered her eyes with her hands occasionally peeping out to see where they were. A few times she felt so sick that she almost tried to get Eddie to take her home. Lupin looked down at his watch, as the nearly slid into a wall, screeming tires launching the car in at a right angle from their original trajectory. "At this rate, we'll miss the rendezvous." "Hang on, I'll take a short cut." Jiigen smashing through a pair of glass doors. Fire could barely make out what was going on from the flashing lights following them, to the various signs flying past. It looked to be what Fujiko had called a mall. "Hey Fire," Lupin spoke as the vehicle skidded to a temporary halt. "Screwball in the Sharper Image." As he spoke Jiigen gunned the engin evading a police car that smashed into the aformentioned store. Fire looked to see Lupin holding a crystal ball with a wizard inside, "The Answer is in the stars." it chanted and Lupin casually tossed it out "Cheep junk, too bad we couldn't run through the Nike store, I could use a new pair of shoes" Lupin joked. Fire on the other hand was using meditatio techniques to keep herself from redecorating the car's interior with a nasty shade of green. "Don't worry Fire," Jiigen reasured her as he smashed throught a toy store totally ruining the Barney the Purple Dinosaur display "we're almost out." As they smashed out of another set of glass doors, Fire looked back to see another vehicle, one like the car's chasing them, but without the flashing lights, crashing out of yet another set of glass doors. In the distance she could see the drivers, a tall man and a shorter fatter man wearing hats, black suits and sun glasses. "Who are they?" Fire asked, her curiosity overcomming her motion sickness. "Who knows," Lupin replies staring at his watch "Kick it Jiigen." The little VW accelerated with a start, rocketting forward as Lupin counted down the second "5, 4, 3..." As they an intersection Fire heard the distinct sounds of sirens moving towards them form the side, but before she could alert Lupin a red blur passed in front of them. Jiigen slammed on the gas and the zoomed past the intersection. Fire glanced of at the red blur to see that it was a car of some sort, but from what she could tell it was driving sideways, but then again what did she know about cars. "That was Bean, in the Roadbuster," Lupin explained answering Fire's unasked question. "We're providing distractions for each other." As he spoke the sound of cacophany of crashing metal and sirens arose behind them, Fire turned to watch police cars piling into each other at the intersection. "Too bad the Interpool people didn't think to check with the Chicago PD, otherwise they might have avoided this." Lupin Chuckled. "Ok Jiigen, turn into this gas station." "But the tank's almost full boss." Jiigen responded. "I believe he has something else in mind." Goemon spoke quietly as they turned in. "Ok, we should have time before the cops untangle themselves" Lupin spoke, "Put these tokens in the slot and go threw the carwash." "Huh?" Were being chased by Interpool and half of Chicago's finest and you want to wash the car?" "Just do it, Jiigen, you'll see why in a moment." As they went through the hood of the car changed from yellow to black, and fire could hear strange popping noises. as the car seemed to shift around them. "The cold water is activating the color changing crystals, just like on Hot-Wheels cars. And the outer body is made of memory material, so the water will change us into a totally different car. Gomen, you get down while the rest of us put on masks." Lupin pressed a buton and the plates on the car shifted "Appropriate to use that trick in Chicago, since the first version of it was invented for Al Capone."