Wrath of Tyranno ch7

ch 7 Bladetail's Deception

Yamato turned around in surprise. “Bladetail you followed me?”
“My mother died protecting that scroll! Did you really think I'd be okay with you just burning it up? The feud might be over but I can't allow you to burn our family treasure.”
“Hey it wasn't my idea. Besides, its not like we can use it anyway!”
“You mean you non-primates can't use it! You seemed to have forgotten who the scroll's original owners were. This was originally the Jinsoduo clan's most treasured item. My mother gave her life protecting it, I will not allow it to be destroyed.”
“Hey listen guys” Marty interrupted. “If you don't mind, my business here is over with, so if you fellas don't mind we'll just be-”
The next sequence of events happen in a matter of seconds, Bladetail suddenly drew his sword from its sheath in less time than it took to blink an eye and thrust it towards Marty's chest. Marty's sharp reflexes saved him only by half an inch as he jumped out of the way of the blade. The sword buried itself halfway into the wall, Bladetail abandoned it there since it would take too many milliseconds to yank it out. Marty was pulling his gun from his coat when Bladetail punch him in the face with all his might. Marty fell to the floor, but not before the monkey grabbed Marty's gun from him before he hit the floor. Then he turned to Yamato who had by this time finally gotten over his shock and was lifting up his own gun, preparing to fire, but his instincts kicked in a second too late. Bladetail fired three shots with Marty's gun into the red panda. Yamato fell down dead. He then threw down the gun and drew his sword to finish Marty off. But before he could stab Nora swung her handbag at him. There was obviously something hard and heavy inside because it connected with his head with a loud resounding crack. Bladetail fell to the floor stunned.
Nora quickly began to drag her own dazed mate out the room and down the hallway toward the elevator. At that moment Kenji and several other creatures, alerted by the gunshots, spilled out into the hallway.
“What's going on here! Where's Lord Yamato.” Kenji demanded.
“He's dead!” Bladetail grunted recovering from his blow to the head. “Those raccoons shot them. They found the scroll and decided to keep it for themselves!”
“Wha-”
“Hurry they're getting away! You gotta stop them!”
Nora had been desperately jamming her paw on the elevator call button but it was taking its time arriving at their floor.
“Hey you, hold up a minute!” Kenji ordered pointing his gun at her.
At that moment the elevator dinged and slid open.
“Sorry handsome, no can do.” Nora grunted as she heaved Marty onto the elevator.
Kenji fired a shot off at them. But it bounced of the elevator doors as they slid shut.
Inside Nora hit the button for the top floor and with a soft jerk, the elevator began its ascent.
“C'mon sweetie, I really need you to wake up now.” She said giving Marty several quick but firm slaps across the face.
Marty finally roused with a groan. “Huh whazzit whats going on? Someone shooting?”
“Oh thank goodness” Nora sighed with relief. “I was afraid I was going to have to drag your heavy butt all the way across the roof.”
“That monkey!” Marty groaned, his memory returning. “That sneaky bastard monkey! Got the jump on me!”
“That ain't all.” Nora said. “He set us up!”
“What do you mean?”
“He was telling Kenji you shot him as we were getting on the elevator. And I think he planned it that way from the start. That's why he used your gun on him instead of killing him with one of his own blades.”
Marty sighed “So now everybody in the building is trying to kill us, well isn't that just swell! You know, none of this would be happening if we had done what I wanted to do and went out on a normal date.”
“Oh do shut up Marty,how was I  suppose to know all this would happen?”
“Why are we headed up anyways? Isn't the exit on the first floor?”
“Because that's the route they're expecting us to take they probably already have it blocked off with thugs.”
“And how are we suppose to get away on the roof?”
“I saw a catwalk that connects to the garden. If we can get through the door to it up there, maybe we can leave  that way.”
The elevator then dinged and slid opened delivering them to the roof. They both rushed through the garden crashing through the sand and plants, this time not being very concerned about disrupting the feng shui. They came to the door, which was locked.
“Hang on I got this.” Marty said reaching in his coat. But then he frowned. “Oh darnit! I forgot, that stupid ape's got my gun!”
“Its ok.” Nora said showing him the gun. “Hd threw it down after he shot Yamato. I figured we'd probably  need so I picked it up.”
Marty grinned at her. “That's why I love you baby, quick give it to me!”
“No I'll do it.” She said pointing the gun at the lock. “I've always wanted to do something like this.”
BANG!!
She blasted the door lock open with the gun and then kick it open.  Marty's ears picked up the faint ding from the elevator. He looked back.
“Don't look now but Kenji and a couple of armed goons just got off the elevator.” He hissed at Nora.
“Then lets get outta here before he sees us!” Nora responded
They rushed out onto a catwalk that stretched across the Geltempo City night skyline. The ran until the cat walk split into two directions. Marty looked down the left and saw that the path led to a big landing pad, where a long city hover bus floated over it hovering inches from the ground.
“That way” He shouted to Nora, together they took off towards it.

For a bat working the nocturnal shift, Midnight was Marv's favorite time of the night. For fifteen minutes, he could park his hover bus on the docking pad and not have to listen to the constant yammering and complaining of the jabbering idiots that commuted throughout upper-level Geltempo on his route and enjoy his fifteen minute lunch break in peace. He was supposed to turn the hover engine off when he took his break but he left it on because he found the soft low humming sound it made to be somewhat relaxing.
His mouth watered in anticipation as he opened the take out bag that he picked up from his favorite diner.  It was a grilled termite larvae and sweet grass sandwich on rye bread and an ice cold chicken blood smoothie to wash it down with. He was just about to take a sip from his smoothie when he heard a loud banging on his hover bus door. He scowled over out the window in irritation at the creatures who interrupted his precious lunch break. It was two raccoons one male and the other female.
“Hey! Beat it ya lunkheads” He snapped at them. “Can't you two morons see I'm on break here?”
“Please sir, you gotta help us!” The female raccoon begged. “There are some creatures after us, and they're trying to kill us!”
“Well sorry toots but that ain't my problem. I'm on break now, go call the cops or somethin'”
“Oh come on guy,” The male raccoon shouted. “Just take us somewhere away from here! There'll be a nice sized tip in it for ya. You got my word on it.”
“Look, I ain't going to be telling you nimrods again-”
BLAM! BLAM!
Two bullets shattered through the glass of the door. Marv dropped his lunch and spilled his drink all over the floor as he ducked down throwing his leathery wings over his head.
“Gimmie the gun!” the male raccoon shouted at the female. She handed a pistol two him. The raccoon then began firing back at their shooters.
It was at this moment that Marv decided that his current bus driver salary wasn't quite suitable enough to cover this sort of situation. So he quickly forced opened the window, jumped through it and flew away putting as much distance between him and the gunfight as he possibly could.


“Oh, great now our driver's gone!” Marty groaned after glancing at the bat's fleeing figure.
“Its okay, let's get in the bus! I think I can get us out of here.”
Marty grabbed the frame of the bus door and forced them open. The quickly fled inside the bus.
“So you know how to drive this thing.?” Marty asked.
Several windows exploded as Kenji and several other of Yamato's gang returned fire. Marty and Nora reflexively duck below the windows.
“I took a hovercraft class in college once, I never got a license but I think I know the basics.” Nora said.
“Well I guess that's good enough for now! Get us out of here!”
Nora made a dash for the driver's seat and after fumbling around for a bit she found the lift controls. The Hover bus began to slowly lift off of the hover pad and into designated Geltempo airspace. Marty looked behind them out the back of the hover bus window. Kenji and his goons had stop firing. Kenji was now casually brushing the dust of his neat white suite as he watched them fly away.
An then Marty saw why they stopped firing. Bladetail was now after them, running on all fours at toward them maximum speed.
“No way he's going to make that jump.” Marty said to himself as Bladetail approached the ledge. “No way”
 In a spit second the nimble monkey assassin hit the edge of the platform and sprang from it, hurtling through the air like a brown furred missile. As he near the hoverbus, he managed to lash his tail out and latch onto the floor with the blade on his tail through the window by an inch.
“Aw crap.” Marty muttered. “Keep driving this thing. I'll try to handle him.”
Bladetail charged at him with his sword raised high.
“Here use this” Nora shouted throwing a Iron steering wheel lock she had found next to the drivers seat toward Marty.
Marty caught the Iron bar and with both paws, he brought it up just in time to block Bladetail deadly attack. The sword struck the bar with a loud clang.
“you know that's real dirty setting us up like that!” Marty said. “I not sure how proud your clan of whatever would feel about you resorting to such cheap tactics.”
“You left me know other choice detective.” Bladetail said. “If you didn't stick your snout into things you wouldn't have had to become involved in this at all. Yet here we are. But don't worry I can end your lives quickly if you don't struggle.”
“Sorry Bladey.” Marty replied. “That's an awfully kind offer you made there, but I guess we're just not the submissive type.”
He swung the bar at Bladetail's head. Bladetail lashed out and hooking on to the bar with his tail blade, he yanked it out of Marty's paw and then with a flick of his tail he flung it out the window. “Very well then.” He said jabbing the point of his sword at Marty's throat. Marty dodged out of the way and the moved in towards Bladetail to strike him in the face with his paw. But Bladetail grabbed his wrist  and stopped Marty's paw before the attack reached him. Then gripping his arm with both hands, he flipped Marty onto the ground.
Marty hit the ground hard his face landing near a green half eaten lettuce flavored lollipop. He turned on his back to see Bladetail raising his Katana again.
“Marty! Hold on to something!” He heard Nora shouting from the front. Instinctively he reached out and grabbed the leg of a seat nearby. As he did this Nora  forcefully yanked the control stick as far down as it would go. The Bus made a sharp dip into an almost vertical nosedive. Everything began to fall to the front of the bus. Marty was now hanging from the seat leg. Bladetail realized what was happening a little too late and he fell down the Bus and crashed through the front window. As Bladetail plummeted down through the Geltempo airspace Nora quickly righted the bus.  
“Woowee” Marty said catching his breath. ”You are one crazy sow you know that?” (Sow was the casual term used for females of various species in Geltempo.)
“Well it worked didn't it?”
“Heh, yeah, guess I can't argue with you there.”
“You think he's dead?”
“I sure hope so, I don't no if I can fight him again, he's really good!”
Suddenly they heard the wailing of sirens. Several ULGAP hawks and a GCPD hover car following up on the report of a stolen city hovercraft, was behind them.
“Looks like you better land this thing Nora.” Marty said, “We got some explaining to do.”

Further below Bladetail had managed to latch onto a nearby railing with his tail blade as he was falling. He pulled himself upon the ledge. He found himself to be in the rooftop dinning area of the Lettuce bowl, a fined dinning establishment for those with a vegetarian diet. Ignoring the shocked gazes of the diners Bladetail pulled out his cell phone and called Kenji.
“They got away.” He said.
“What?! I though you were supposed to be some sort of top rate assassin!” Kenji responded.
“I can still track them down and kill them, all I have to do is-”
“No, I called his  brother in Ponipia. He said the raccoons are not to be harmed until he comes to Geltempo himself. He wants to kill them with his own paws.”