Forever Caged

Disclaimer: I don't own Ai No Kusabi nor do I make any money from this fanfic. But I do own all the original peeps that I've chosen to invade the AnK world.
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Iason/Riki, Raoul/Katze, Original characters and novel character pairings.
Parts: 35 of ?

Edited by the lovely Scarlet Tigress

Sheleeta - This has probably been the first time Iason has been so completely in the dark about something. Make you pity the one that has to be his messenger in his quest for information.

alexxgalaxy - Thank you very much! hehe as for Riki being preggy in FC..sorry but it's not in the books abut the picture you painted is interesting...very interesting hehehe

shishi - A little shorty of Sky and Aisha's blast to the past. I actually was able to get this chapter out faster then anticipated YAY! and it wasnt because i felt guilty at all for posting the last chapter so late...


Hope you all enjoy this chapter :)

~~**Forever Caged**~~

"Shit! Grab him!"

"You grab him shit-head! He fucking nearly ripped my head off the last time!"

"Get Jade to control him!"

"He can't butthead, his voice is shot!"

"Fuck!"

"Crap he's cornered me! Help me damn it!"

"Don't be such a bitch Luke. All you need to do is lower your eyes and submit to him. I said lower your eyes dumb shit!"

"Shut the fuck up Rio! Why the hell is your puck ass here anyway?"

"Hey don't get snappy at me just cuz your slow."

"Where the fuck is Sky with a trank gun when we need him! Fuck even Lilly is gone!"

Struggling with the strangling arms of the darkness holding him down, Riki fought his way to the surface towards the voices that called out all around him and blinked at the scene that came into focus. As if a curtain had been just lifted from his mind Riki tried to grasp what was going on around him and wondered if he was dreaming.

His back was against the wall of an unfamiliar room, the first thing Riki noticed was that the wallpaper hung in taters the smell of mold was strong and the room destroyed. Limbs of broken furniture lay scattered everywhere, the stuffing from what once was a sofa lay in clumps around the room. Riki's eyes darted around taking in his surroundings with such speed that it unnerved him. He was able to see every detail of the room with such clarity that he began to wonder if he had gotten an eye transplant, it was so surreal.

The crippling pain that had ripped throughout his body was gone, in fact he felt better then he ever had been in his whole life. The restlessness he'd always felt, the gaping wound within him that had always festered was gone. Even the overwhelming pain of being away from Iason…well that was still there but he was able to manage the crushing pain more then he had been able to before.

Riki took a deep breath and felt…free for the first time in a long time.

"Stop fucking struggling Luke or he really will rip that stupid head of yours off this time!"

Riki turned in V's direction and saw his friend with his arms spread out to his sides looking to the entire world as if he was absolutely harmless. Even the expression he currently sported on that pretty boy mug showed the sincerity of his peaceful intentions. A look that V could have successfully pulled off it wasn't for the blood that was smeared across his forehead or the calculating glint in those lovely eyes.

"Hey Riki! Wild man! You don't want to hurt our good friend Luke now do you?"

Riki narrowed his eyes at the cooing tone V used on him. "What the hell are you doing?"

Confused amethyst eyes stared at him. "Riki?"

"Is there another Riki here that I should know about?" Riki asked, raising a brow.

V grinned. "Fuck ya there was." V put his hands down and signed in relief. "Are you going to let go of Luke now that you got full control of your brain again?"

Now it was time for Riki to look confused. "Luke?"

"Yeah then one you're currently choking the life out of?"

Surprised Riki looked down to see he had Luke in a head lock. "I didn't even realize…" Riki let go of Luke's head and watched as the mongrel collapsed at his feet coughing and wheezing.

"Fucking….asshole."

Riki rubbed his forehead. He hadn't realized he held onto Luke…Didn't even feel him struggling. "What the hell happened? Where the fuck are we?"

"Rio, go check the doors." V ordered a grinning blonde kid.

Furrowing his brows at the handsome stranger that stared at him, Riki watched as the guy gave him a wink before taking off. "What the fuck is going on?" Riki demanded.

V laughed and shook his head as he picked up an over turned chair that was the only survivor to whatever went wild in the room and sat down. "We're in fucking hell man. I mean this place is fucked up. It has to be a hundred if not a thousand times worse then Ceres."

"This place?"

"Hell."

"…Seriously not in the mood for one of your jokes V." Riki stared down at his hands. They looked as they always had down to every last scar but…they felt strange…Just as how his eyes didn't feel like they were his, so did his hands and that feeling applied to every else on his body that Riki flexed and stretched.

"I'm not shitting you man. That's the name of this world."

Off in the distance Riki heard the muffling of guns being fired. The wooden floors vibrated as he heard an explosion in the vicinity of those guns. "Why are we here?...How long have I been out of it?"

V picked up a random rag off the floor and wiped the blood and grime from his face. "Umm…About three days."

Riki looked up from inspection his hands and arms when V didn't continue. "You going to continue or are you going to sit there staring at me?"

"If I had time then yeah I would."

"How about I kick your ass?"

V sighed and stood, groaning when he did. "Follow me wild man."

Eying the violet haired mongrel suspiciously Riki stepped over Luke who still lay on the floor and noticed that Luke was in the same condition as V. Dirty and bloody.

"You freaked us the fuck out when you got sick Riki…You flipped the fuck out so bad that Jade and Lilly had to team up and take you down."

"I remember that…" Riki concentrated and thought hard about what came after that but all that came up were blurred shapes and colors. "Nothing else though…that's the last thing I remember."

"Well…you changed."

Riki couldn't be more lost. "Changed? What the hell are you talking about?"

V didn't say any thing else as he took him down a hall. Every room Riki looked into had its windows boarded up as were the windows at the end of the hall. Riki blinked at the glaring light V flicked on in the room he finally stepped into, squinting at the sudden brightness.

"Full length mirror. The only one in the house, that hasn't been broken to smithereens yet." V motioned to the across the room.

Riki stared at the stranger that stared back at him with the same dumbfounded expression. "What the hell…"

"Ha, you should have heard the words that came out of all of our mouths."

Long hair fell down to his hips, hair that Riki had only seen on Elites on Amoi and even though Riki never paid much attention or cared about the color of his hair before he was shaken at the purity of the ebony tress that caressed his back. Riki fingered the new length with trembling fingertips before touching his face, a face that had shed at least five years. His body looked the same if not a tad bit firmer. Riki probably would have continued staring, half in wonder and the other half in horror, at his new face if the walls didn't shake from the deafening explosion that echoed outside causing the plaster from the ceiling to rain down on them. The gun fight was getting closer to their location.

"Freaked out?"

Riki was speechless. Freaked out was too mild of a word for emotions that were threatening to over take him. Riki could feel something within him pacing, wanting to come back out. Heart pounding Riki took comfort in the only thing that appeared to be the same. His eyes.

"It's not like you don't look the same. You've just…become prettier."

Riki looked at V through the mirror and glared at him.

"Don't give me the stink eye buddy. I'm just telling you the truth."

Riki curled his lip at his reflection. "Why didn't you cut it off?" Riki motioned to his hair but strangely cringed at the thought of someone taking a blade to his mane.

V huffed. "Cut off your pretty black locks? Yeah right. Man, you tried to take Luke's head off when he looked at your hair. The only one you would allow to come close enough to touch you was your son."

Riki looked at V from mirror. The way V called Jade his son didn't have the irritating teasing note as it use to have. "…You guys had the maternity test done?"

"Yup."

"…Holy shit…"

"Same words we all said too. We hadn't really believed that you were the kid's biological father…hell you're the first one we've ever seen."

"How the fuck can that be possible?"

"The kid was even more shocked then you. He went on about being created from some kind of super being or some crap like that. The boy got pretty aggravated and scared as hell."

Riki turned when V his normally carefree friend, no matter what kind of circumstances they were in, worryingly began to pace in the empty room. "What else V? What else are you not saying to me?"

"Sky needs to be here to explain…"

"Why"

"There is shit that I can't explain- don't know how to explain without Sky that's all."

"Then why don't you tell me about this place. How did we get here and who took the tests that singled me out to be the kid's old man." Riki fully turned around to give Violet his attention, tired of looking at the strange alien face that gazed back at him.

"…"

"What? You need Sky to hold your hand just to answer those simple questions?" Riki snapped.

"Low blow, man…Me and Sky agreed that we would talk to you together, that's all."

"I'm not getting any fucking younger V. Spill it already."

V laughed at Riki. "You're joking right? In two days you did get younger."

Riki growled.

"Fine, fine. We nearly shook the ship apart getting you down to the planet and took you to see a doctor. Jade and Lilly knocked you out cold and while you were in Lala land the doc took some blood from you and at the same time Sky told him to take some of Jade's as well. The equipment the doctor used was ancient…hell I didn't know they still had shit like that still floating around it was so old-."

"V." Riki hissed in warning.

"Oookkay…Anyway as I was saying. The doc found nothing wrong with you….Not in terms of you being sick but one of the things he did discover was that the probability for you being the biological father to Jade to be ninety-nine point nine percent."

Riki was suddenly hit with the thought that Iason knew along about the kid… Riki's knuckles cracked when he clenched them into fists when Jupiter's comment about Iason and looking into his blood made sense to him now. But Riki was conflicted…Thinking that Iason knew about Jade's existence from the very beginning was doubtful just as trusting anything that AI bitch said to be true.

The damn Blondie, even with how close their relationship was now, always kept his cards close to his chest, throwing down his winning hand only when the pot was worth taking so to think that Iason would hide Jade from him was unlikely. Jade was a winning hand, an effective tool that could have successfully been used against him, that Iason would have used to enforce the chains he already had wrapped tightly around him.

"What the fuck is going on…" Riki whispered. "Wait…You said "one of the things he did discover" what else did the doctor find?"

"…We need to wait until Sky gets back to answer that one."

"Then where the hell is he?"

"Off playing war games with the boys."

"What?"

"Fidget is off scouting where the enemy is and Sky took Lilly for what he called "Operation Chemical Warfare". It's kinda fun actually."

"You guys are on a strange planet that's at war and you think it's a game?" Riki crossed his arms. "Are you stupid?"

"Hey don't give me that look. You're the one that's escalated it to how it is now."

Riki braced himself when the house shook causing more plaster to fall from the ceiling.

"It's getting closer." V mumbled.

"I created all this mayhem?" Riki asked in disbelief. "First why don't you tell me how we got here?"

V scratched his head and reached into his back pocket, pulling out two cigarettes and lit them giving one of them to Riki. "We…got into some trouble at the planet we landed on…" V sank wearily to the floor, propping his back on the wall. " And not just a little bit of trouble…Some freaky dudes in Amoi clothing showed up and fucked up the doctor's clinic…They killed him and anyone that got in their way then set the whole place on fire…"

Riki took a drag from the cigarette V gave him. "Amoian soldiers?"

V slowly shook his head. "Nah…they weren't soldiers. They were too perfect looking, plain, but perfect if that makes any sense. Jade and Lilly fucked with their heads while Fidget and Sky took them down and even that was hard. They seemed like they didn't want to hurt us only to capture us but fuck if we were going to take the chance of finding out."

"How did you get away?"

"It wasn't fucking easy. Those fuckers wouldn't stay down. Luke and I carried your heavy unconscious ass and ran while Jade and Lilly teamed up to allow the twins to escape from their spooky fast asses. That's when we met up with Rio and his band of assholes."

Riki flicked the ash of his cigarette onto the floor. "Rio? That's the blonde prick that winked at me?" Riki scowled at the memory.

V snickered. "Yeah that's him. With his help we were able to get to our ship and then followed him to his world."

"Which is?"

"Which is what?"

"What world is he from?" Riki was becoming more then irritated by V side stepping his question. The wild thing within him clawed at him to be released so it could force Violet to tell him. Riki struggled to keep himself under control.

"What world?...Not sure…We weren't there for very long so it wasn't very important."

"Then how about why you shit heads thought it would be alright to follow some pricks you knew nothing about?"

"Shit Riki…without you to smack us up side the head we did what we thought was best. Rio and his crew was the best bet we had in shaking those freaks off of our scent. They gave us a place to stay and fed us."

Dropping the cigarette to the floor and stomping out the burning cherry Riki sneered at the accommodations. "Yeah…They gave us a great place to stay…"

"This place? Nah, this is a deserted planet that Rio's people come to train on. No killing. All their weapons have paint bullets. Two teams."

"And why did we come here?" Riki rubbed his forehead, feeling the beginnings of a headache coming on from repeatedly asking the same questions over and over again on top of fighting the savageness that stalked around within him.

"You picked the worse time to get sick Riki…We've been getting dogged not only by those scary ass Amoians but also by that guy Kirin who officially took us off the wanted list but is still having the low down scum hunt us."

Riki narrowed his eyes. "And?"

V sighed. "And Sky just got word that a Tanagura Blondie is on our trail as well.""

Gideon, Riki cursed silently.

"We are fucked no matter how you look at it. Our faces are plastered everywhere as is the description of our ship so trying to land anywhere and not get recognized is impossible. Shit the bounties for our 'safe' capture could feed an entire city."

"And these guys that are helping us?…You're telling me that they can be trusted?" Riki didn't believe for a second that perfect strangers would hold out a helping hand without expecting something in return.

"Trusted? Fuck no, with the exception of Rio maybe. They are all mercenaries. Their whole planet is a school in how to become the best assassin. The only reason why they haven't turned our asses in is because of you."

"Me?"

"Yup. When we got to Rio's world one of his guys snuck into your room and tried to touch you. We got to your room just in time to see your black peepers pop open and before we could blink you had broken both his arms. When he started screaming Rio and his band came running and without our help you took them all down, even the chick they had on their team. In total there were eleven mo fos you took down. It was fucking awesome."

Riki turned back and looked at himself in the mirror. "I don't remember any of it…"

"Fidget thinks that you were going by instinct. Your beast was unleashed when that asshole thought to take advantage of you since your rational side was still sleeping. You were fine when one of us came to check on you but once a stranger came your sense of survival took over and you went nuts."

"Fidget said that?"

"I know. Insightful words coming from that little bastard. But because of your snap from reality Rio and his gang were so impressed that they begged us to come to their training grounds and play war with them. They want to try and take you down and while doing that learn how you're able to hunt them without them noticing. But don't let your head get too big because it wasn't just you that they were impressed at. Everyone, even Luke, got them hot and heavy with our unbelievable talents." V wiggled his brows at Riki. "Luke's strange way of fighting, Fidget's way of escaping from the impossible, Sky's brain at weapons, bla, bla, bla, you get my drift."

"A band of killers for hire is going to pass on a rich bounty if we teach them basic Ceres survival skills?" Riki gave V a skeptical glare.

"Don't worry we don't buy it either but what choice do we have?" V took out another cigarette and used his old one to light the new. "We're trapped. With so many eyes looking for us the only place we have to hide is right here. All of us have been taking shifts, keeping a lookout while the others sleep. Jade's voice got fucked from using it to the max to slow those Amoian freaks down and completely broke trying to control you and anyone trying to sneak up on us. Lilly…Shit man I think he's about to go crazy from not being able to nut and I also think that whatever you had you passed along to him. He's been having aches and pains and that scent thing of his, has been going haywire."

"You sure it's not cuz he hasn't had sex?"

"Not really…that's another issue too. Everyone is getting frustrated in the 'Not getting any' area. Fidget and I are cool since we had that sex marathon at Femland but Sky hasn't had any since before we left Amoi and that boy has started to eye Lilly since the sexy pet brought up the fact that he liked getting punished by his master."

Riki opened his mouth to comment when running feet in their direction had him straightening from his relaxed stance.

"V! V! They are getting closer to the house!"

Rushing to the door at the sound of Jade's ruined voice; Riki caught the boy as he tripped while running to warn them. "…Your voice," Riki held the boy at arms length, looking down at Jade's bowed head. When V said Jade's voice was ruined he really meant it. Riki flinched at how painful the words the boy shouted must have been to say.

"No talking Jade. The doc said that if you didn't rest your voice the inflammation in your throat will only get worse."

"Sorry."

"Jade?" Riki forced the boy's head but when he refused to look him in the eye. Riki smile reassuringly into worried jade eyes and a sense of pride filled him. I have someone that I can claim as blood. Someone I have a connection with that truly can call family, Riki tried to swallow the lump that lodged in his throat. Now he knew why Sky and Fidget couldn't bear to be apart from one another. Just knowing that Jade was apart of him filled him with wonder, anxiety and such fierce protectiveness that it threatened to bring him to his knees.

"Are you angry?"

Riki kept a firm hold on the boy's chin so he couldn't lower his glaze from his. "Why would I be angry?" asked Riki, breathless as he tried to control the emotions the boy brought out of him.

"The boy thinks that you'll reject him." V mumbled due to the cigarette dangling from his lips.

Awkwardly Riki put his arms around the boy and gave him a quick hug. "I'm not mad at you nor am I planning on rejecting the fact that you're my offspring." Riki's chest felt tight when the boy searched his face with a tear filled eyes. "I swear kid…" Riki prayed that the boy didn't start crying. Anger Riki could understand and deal with accordingly but he didn't know what to do or how to react to tears.

"Wow…the very first father and son bonding ritual I've had the privilege to witness."

Riki snapped his head towards V to rip him a new one but held back his verbal tongue lashing when he saw the envy shinning in V's amethyst glaze. "Who knows V, maybe Lilly's your kid and we just don't know it yet." Riki laughed when V shuddered in horror.

"God I hope not! Not with all the dirty thoughts and fantasies I've had about him."

"Really?" Riki gave V a wicked grin. "How dirty-"

"Jade did you warn V and Riki?"

Watching V jump to his feet and snatch the radio Riki never noticed that Jade had in his hand, he listened as V demand to know what was going on from the person on the other end of the radio.

"Damn Sky took control of the opposing team's camp and with Fidget and Lilly's help captured a large number of the "enemies". Now the other side is retreating and regrouping to try and stop Sky before he can turn in his prisoners for a prize." V ranted. "Those crazy pricks are already in a rage because they haven't won one game from us and Sky doing this is shoving them over the edge."

"Prize?"

"The object is to capture your opponents and turn them in at the check point. Prizes depend on how many people you've captured. If the information Rio just gave me is true then Sky finally has enough people to get the grand prize which are original blue prints to creating some kind of weapon. He's been fucking hot and heavy to get his hands on that shit since he heard about it." V checked his holster vest, checking the ammo in the firearms he had on him. "Chambers are filled with paint rounds but they also have neutralizers in them so that when we shoot someone they will stay down."

Riki frowned. "I thought you said this was a game? How much trouble can they be in?"

"As I said. The object is to capture you opponents not kill but accidents do happen. Rio and his team want to learn from us but the other team doesn't share the same opinion."

"What kind of world do these people come from that this kinda shit is normal?" Riki narrowed his eyes when V and Jade exchanged looks. "What? I'm getting tired very fucking quickly of you hiding shit from me."

"We can talk about all of that later Riki. Why don't I show you around Hell, huh? Have some fun cracking some skulls while at the same time giving Sky and the gang some much needed back up?"

"Hell?"

Riki homed in on Jade's confused whisper. "You're lying about the name of this world V? I want to know now what's going on," Riki whispered angrily as his fixed V with a dark look. Waking up to a strange face. Waking up feeling like who he was had altered completely, to think that someone that he trusted to watch his back could be deceiving him threatened to break free the beast that he had been trying to hold back the whole time.

"It's not a good time-"

"Now V!" Riki moved Jade gently to the side as his body tensed, readying itself instinctively to attack the one that angered him. Riki sneered when V threw his hand up thinking that that would stop him from stomping his ass.

"Ho! Calm down, man!"

Riki began to stalk the nervous mongrel and like it. "Start talking V."

"Jade, kid, help me will you? Get your old man to back off," V begged.

"We found the traitor…"

Riki froze.

"Shit Jade. Couldn't you have thought of anything else to say besides that?"

Ignoring V, Riki tiled his head towards the boy. "Who is it?"

"It's not important right now-"

"Shut-up V." Riki hissed. "Tell me who it is Jade." Riki tired to remove the tread of rage that interlaced in his words so not to scare the boy more then he already was.

"Y-you Riki…The traitor is…you…"

oOoOoOo

Seated comfortably in front of the large video screen in his spacious private cabin aboard his ship Sir Gideon Lagat nodded respectfully to the superior Blondie that appeared on the screen. "Sir Iason it is good to see you."

"You as well Gideon. Tell me what you have discovered so far."

Taking no insult to the abruptness in his esteemed leader's voice, Gideon smoothly reached to his side, to the small computer tabled next to him and transferred his report of the information he obtained to the fearsome Blondie watching his every move.

"I'm strapped for time Gideon so I will review your report at a later time. I have exactly fourty-five minutes before my next meeting so you have half of that time to give me a summary of the data you just sent me."

Gideon nodded and got to the point, not wasting any more time with pleasantries. "I have spoken with the main leading authority, Mr. Kirin, and while we have never dealt in this part of the system our name is much feared. Removing the price on Riki and those he is journeying with was not a problem once the man realized who he would anger should he continue his foolish pursuit in capturing the mongrels."

"But?"

"But from Kirin's mannerisms while speaking of your pet I foresee him to be a future annoyance to us and in my opinion should be removed before he becomes one." Gideon's tolerance of the little man was at its limit and on more then one occasion had been tempted to end the human's life. The undisguised lust that shinned in the man's eyes and voice while caressing the glossy security pictures of not just Sir Iason's pet but also that of the boy he claimed as his own had sent waves of rage through his body like he had never felt before.

"I normally would agree with your assessment but looking into this man's background and unearthing everything he has ever done, even if he will be come a future annoyance, as you put it, his illegal dealings and contacts intrigue me."

Gideon didn't inquire as to why such dishonorable things would interest his leader. It was common knowledge amongst all the Blondies that Iason was the Dark Lord that ruled the Black Market on Amoi. Knowledge that was wisely never voiced not even in private for fear of that Jupiter's chosen golden child would rain hell down upon their heads. Gideon only smiled in dark satisfaction in the knowing that the arrogant little man and his so called empire would soon come crumbling down.

Iason Mink was just like their creator in the sense that they both were not known for their forgiving natures. And Kirin's interest in Riki and the desire Gideon made sure Sir Iason was made aware of immediately had brought the feared ruler to shin his cold shinning light down upon the human. One thing that all Elites and enemies, that still lived, knew was that The Tanagura Syndicate Leader loved to play with his prey before killing them.

"What of the allegations of Riki being responsible for the kidnap and murders to the man's newly purchased pet and guards?"

"While Kirin tried to entertain me I had teams conduct our own investigation against the charges placed on the mongrels. These killings it is said they did are false….and true. Video footage that I was told was corrupted was found and it showed that the female pet Riki was accused of murdering was terminated by the hand of Kirin's own man. There was no audio but it is most likely that she was killed by Kirin's order. All personnel were alive when Riki and the other mongrels escaped."

"You know this for a fact?"

"Yes. The cameras were surprisingly of good quality. Riki was in a dangerous position for a moment but his associates arrived and boldly disabled the threat with an electrical device that effectively neutralized the situation. I just received and reviewed the footage and as we speak the recording is being transferred to a compatible disk so that I may send it to you," Gideon had been extremely impressed with the black haired mongrel when he had first seen the tape. The pain that clearly be seen etched on that strangely delicate, handsome face, but it was the rage in those raven eyes, the strength and stubbornness that kept him from succumbing like all the others had, had earned Riki his respect.

"And the prostitute?"

"The charges have been dropped that Riki stole the female from the club. Entertainers like her, live above the club and are prohibited from leaving and by allowing the prostitute to leave the club with Riki they essentially sold her to him and thus lost all rights to her."

"They allowed him to take her? I was under the assumption that this club's security was that of our own pet actions. How could they have just let him take her without noticing?"

Gideon frowned and shook his head. "Allowed might not have been the word to use…From my understanding it wasn't that they allowed him to exit the building with her. To hear the ones questioned, they didn't believe Riki noticed the female following so closely behind him."

"Then why didn't they stop her."

Gideon smiled. "By stopping her they would have had to stop Riki and they were intimidated by your mongrel and that is why they did not." Gideon relaxed when he saw the unmistakable humor and lightening that shone on the powerful Blondie's face.

"Were they now…So I am to take it that Kirin has falsified all these allegations to obtain Riki for his own selfish purposes?"

"Yes. Which is why I commented that to permit this insect to keep his life would be troublesome in the future. He has built an empire and placed himself on the throne convinced that nothing and no one can take him down. While he acknowledges that we are a formidable foe, he thinks he can still do as he wants without us knowing."

"Leave Kirin to me Gideon. I will deal with him as I see fit."

"Of course." Whatever Iason had in store to the human Gideon only hoped he could be apart of it.

"Now where is the female now?"

Gideon hesitated. "Eye witnesses saw her running with Riki down the streets then and on their ship."

"So he may not have taken her from the club but in the end he still took her."

"It would appear to be so." And just like that the mood shifted once more as Gideon watched Iason's eyes narrow and his perfect lips tip down in displeasure. "The actions of the mongrel have created a wave but even though it is a mess that needs cleaning up it is also has carved a clear trail for me to follow."

"So you have a new lead on where Riki is?"

"Yes…but I have also run into a problem that needs your attention. Please review the last four pages of the report I sent you Sir Iason." Gideon waited patiently as Iason eyes scanned the information he requested of him to do.

"You saw Jupiter's servants destroying a hospital? Jupiter's personal servants?"

"Correct. I followed a lead of the ship Riki is in to a planet not far from PA98 and a first class Amoian ship was at the dock. The destruction Jupiter's androids did was vast. If I was not a Blondie they would have undoubtedly continued with their disregard of the damage they infected."

"What were they after?"

Gideon tilted his head. He had a feeling that Iason already knew the answer but wanted him to confirm it. "When I questioned the androids they would only say that they were on a mission from our creator to retrieve a few items and bring it back home." Frowning Gideon watched Iason closely the other Blondie rested his chin on his interlaced fingers. The suspicion of what the items could be was slow to dawn upon him since the answer has been preposterous, laughable but it was too much of a coincidence for Jupiter's androids to seemingly be every where that Riki was.

Amoians had been the ones that sold the murdered girl to the club who's people happen to have been on the first planet Riki had stopped on and also a great many had seen a group wearing robes of that girls people entering Riki's ship, and than he lands on a planet that Riki might have visited and that planet is attacked. It could only be one thing. Jupiter, who helped the mongrels escape, was now trying to bring them back…but why?

Whatever game that was being played between Jupiter and Iason the one thing Gideon new was that he was enjoying himself. He had been pitted against advanced adversaries with ships almost as fast and powerful as theirs but to quickly their technology overwhelmed his enemies and the chase and fight would be over before he finished a cup of coffee. But these mongrels not only fooled his fleet above their home world and escape but, even with a three day head start, still managed to elude him. Gideon chuckled.

"Care to share the jest Gideon?"

"I was just thinking that, in light of the situation, I am astounded by the cleverness of your mongrel Sir Iason. He has fooled us as no one as ever fooled us before." And the thrill Gideon felt now he knew would be greater once he'd captured them, especially Jade, it made him feel alive.

"Riki's cleverness is just one of the many attractive qualities about him but his unsanctioned vacation needs to come to a close now."

Gideon smiled. "And that is one of the reasons why I contacted you Sir Iason. Before I sent Jupiter's servants back to Amoi I commanded them to tell me of all the males and females that they sold of the girl's people that Riki tried to steal from Kirin's but ended up dying. From the course they were on before one for her kin was just a few hours away. I will go and claim-"

"No…You will do exactly as I tell you to do Gideon. Mikhale is on his way to you as I speak and he has a plan that you will incorporate to the one I am about to tell you. Follow it to the letter Gideon and you will succeed."

TBC…..