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Chapter 10. I got a good friend

The wind hit hard against their faces, actually making them think they’d be better off with a pair of helmets, but not keeping them from enjoying the ride.

“I should burn you at the stake, y’know?” Agni spoke, “’cause you’re one hell of a lucky witch!

Joss scoffed, “So ya’ll like my new ride?”

“Love it!” she replied shamelessly, “You better let me play with this baby one of these days.”

Pressed against Joss’ back, Hanna turned around giggling at the pale pre-teen.

“Not you, lil’ mutant.”

“Mutant?” the driving brunette repeated, “Callin’ the kettle black?”

“Oh, zip it!” her friend replied while adjusting the toddler between them.

“Hey…” Joss began, her eyes taking quick glances at the wheel’s mirrors.

“Can’t zip it, uh?”

Agni…” Joss called, the use of her comrade’s actual name getting her attention, “please tell me Ah ain’t seeing what I’m thinkin’ I see behin’ us…”

Confused by the farm girl’s words, Agni took some distance from the driver’s upper body to turn around just enough to look… and be left with her eyes and mouth wide open.

“You gotta be kidding me!” she exclaimed, “Those cockroaches can drive!?”

Effectively, as her friend suspected, behind them there were two roofless Cadillac driven by monkeys, nonetheless! There were over a dozen in each car and they were chasing them as fast as they could.

Not your usual babysitting afternoon, that much was certain…

“Gonna be a wild rodeo!” Joss announced, holding the wheel tightly.

“Get to the highway!”

“Ya wanna make this cliché?”

“Just do it!” she insisted as she re-adjusted herself on the backseat, right hand lighting up, “I’ll keep ‘em busy.”

Deciding to go with the plan, Joss narrowed her eyes and focused on the road. The highway was just five blocks ahead. She just hoped Agni had the right idea…

On her end, the green girl was already firing blasts of plasma against their enemies from the tips of her index and middle fingers, as precise and as concentrated as she could make them, as if shooting with a gun.

But while this managed to put some stress on the two driving monkeys, it led to the rest of them retaliating by getting atop the Cadillac to play their usual number of shuriken and kunai.

Seeing the weapons coming, Agni changed tactics and threw a wide, disperse wave of fire, managing to deflect most but not all of the projectiles.

“ACK!” the driver yelled when one of the shurikens wounded her shoulder, “What’d Ah have ya coverin’ our behinds for!?”

“Pity it’s not making you go faster!” her friend replied, but then her eyes opened wide when realization sat upon them, “Wait…”

“What?”

Agni smirked, “Look forward and get ready!”

What!?

Without further warning, Agni extended a hand in the motorbike’s exact opposite direction, and after concentrating and charging up her power for a moment, she turned her right hand into a fire propeller, effectively speeding up the vehicle on the streets!

“Yer’ gonna get us killed!” Joss complained, doing her best to avoid any vehicles ahead of them.

“Watch out!” Rufus announced as they crossed a red light, with a large truck right ahead of them.

With no other option in mind but to try the crazy stunts she saw in movies, Joss turned the motorbike making it dash right under the enormous vehicle. Thanks to Agni giving them impulse wherever they needed, they actually managed to keep the bike from losing its balance and restore their equilibrium before continuing.

“Yer’ gonna get us killed!”

“Highway ahead!” she reminded her.

Seeing as the approaching ramp for taking the highway required quite the narrower turn for their undeniably high speed, Joss could all but care to watch her mouth any longer.

“Shite! Leash yerselves tight!”

Having grown to trust her partner’s tactical judgment, Agni held for dear life to the driver’s waist with both arms around it, pressing Hanna and Rufus between them to keep them safe and steady.

The turn was violent and without warning. Both girls had their bodies’ just inches away from the ground as the bike sliced towards the ramp, the tires practically crying out their abuse throughout the brief but tense moment.

Until the turn was done, and their ride had a brief moment of slowness before Joss made it take off at no less than full speed and straight into the highway.

“YEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!!!” she yelled in euphoria.

“Way to go, Montana!”

“Yeehe!” Hanna tried to imitate.

“Yay!” Rufus added, keeping it simple.

Their cheers were then eclipsed by the loud noise of something crashing, and then crashing again. Looking back, Agni saw that one of the pursuing cars had met a nasty end at that curve, whereas the driver did not perform as well as them, ‘causing their vehicle to end up upside down.

“One down!” she announced.

“What ‘bout the other?”

“Coming right up!” she replied, seeing the second car getting to the highway.

“Not gonna get us!”

Putting all of her focus on the road ahead, Joss accelerated and starting passing by cars and leaving them behind, knowing a motorbike would easily outrun a car if traffic was on their side.

Their focus, though, was stolen when they began hearing quite an alarming noise above their heads…

“A helicopter!?”

“Please tell me it’s not…” Agni began, taking advantage of her position on the backseat to take a better look.

Which just confirmed her fears.

“…monkeys.”

“On a chopper!?”

“And not just that…” she added as a familiar figure showed his ugly face through the aircraft’s open side door.

‘Monkey Fist…’

“We ain’t losin’ a chopper in the highway!” Joss protested.

“But we can from the railway,” Agni retorted, “there’s an interception up ‘head.”

“THAT was yer plan all’long!?”

“Well, ya got any better!?”

“Yer gonna get us killed, Green…”

“Not moving is gonna get us killed,” she replied, looking back when she heard another alarming noise, “heads up, reinforcements!”

When she looked around, Joss noticed hers wasn’t the only motorbike around anymore, but that there were two others, each one with two monkeys in them – perhaps survivors from the crashed car – one for driving and the other one with weapons ready for combat.

“Ya know, I gotta admit…” the green girl began, paying Hanna a quick glance, “never thought babysitting would be this exciting!”

Joss smirked, “Give ‘em some!”

One hand holding to Joss and the other one ablaze, she fired towards the nearest bike. Surprisingly enough, its driver was smart enough to apply evasive action. Worse yet, the other bike had snuck up to them, and by the time she knew it, Agni had her arm trapped in a black chain and yanked by those accursed monkeys.

The pull almost threw the bike off balance, but Joss managed to hold steady. Not only that, but then she reached out with one arm to seize the chain capturing her friend, and with one synchronized pull and turn of the wheel, she made both bikes get close enough to then punch both chimps off their vehicle.

“Good move!”

“Ya got the chain,” she retorted, turning to face the other bike, “leash ‘em!”

More than comfortable with that idea, Agni swung the chain over their heads a couple of times to speed it times and then whipped the monkeys’ motorbike with it, getting it tangled around their wheel. With one pull they got them close, and then both girls delivered a simultaneous kick, destroying whatever little steering they still had.

“Two down!”

“Yeh, but what ‘bout the chopper?” the brunette asked.

“We got a more immediate problem,” her friend replied, “the big one’s caught up to us!”

As she said, the Cadillac – coming at full, reckless speed – had managed to level itself with them, and now all sorts of bladed weapons were flying towards them. Joss had to turn away and Agni had to blast plasma to avoid getting hit, but that was doing little to actually get rid of them.

“Can ya get me closer to the driver?”

“Ya can’t face ‘em all ‘lonely!”

“I don’t need to, trust me!”

“Awright,” she declared, readjusting her grip on the wheel, “speed it up!”

Agni extended her fiery hand away and did the same trick as before, managing to give their bike the necessary boost to get closer to the car’s front faster than they could do anything about. Without wasting a second, Agni jumped from the bike and to the Cadillac.

Alarmed, the driver monkey shook the wheel irregularly, forcing Agni to kneel down or else she’d fall. Taking the opportunity, one monkey jumped at her with a katana in each hand. Agni raised an arm to defend herself in whatever way was possible, yet…

“HIYA!!!” Rufus screamed, delivering a dual dropkick right on the side of the monkey’s head and throwing him off the car.

With the ground clear, the green girl didn’t waste another second before standing up, putting one foot over the glass and blasting away, particularly right at the wheel of the car. The driving monkey cried in alarm as the only mean for controlling the vehicle disappeared, sending all the other monkeys into alarm.

Agni, on her part, quickly picked up Rufus and jumped off the Cadillac. Joss intercepted them and held herself firm as Agni spun around her shoulders to get back to the backseat.

“Aunt Amy!” Hanna welcomed her back.

“Now you’re just trying to annoy me, aren’t you?”

The Cadillac, out of control, ended up crashing and spinning over itself, and then it exploded. Despite how cliché it was, the girls couldn’t help but laugh at the scene they were making.

“Now that covers that,” Joss spoke, “but…”

“I know,” Agni replied, keeping an eye on the helicopter still following them.

“We’re reachin’ the interception.”

“Think you can do it?”

“If you can give me an extra push…”

“You can bet-WAIT!” she suddenly yelled.

“What!?”

“He’s crazy!!” she said, making Joss actually turn her face to see the helicopter and what Monkey Fist was doing: Aiming a rocket launcher at them! “STEP ON IT!!!”

Joss accelerated the bike as fast as it could go, while Agni propelled them with both hands this time. The bike soon reached what was definitely an unhealthy speed, but that didn’t make the girls even consider slowing down.

A small sound alarmed them when the rocket was launched, which only doubled their efforts.

The missile hit….

It missed them…

But that didn’t matter.

The explosion didn’t just send a wide distortion around it, but also made the whole highway tremble. And at the ridiculously high speed the girls were driving, even the most minimal disturbance was lethally dangerous.

Their balance was done for.

Reacting the best she could in this emergency, Agni blasted against the ground with everything she got, causing an explosion beneath them that sent them all flying up…

And off the highway…

Quick on her instincts, Joss reached out her grapple-hook, the only thing she got to take from their house before leaving, and fired it to the nearest viable target in the vicinity, which was the end of the highway itself. The very moment she did so, she reached out and grabbed Agni’s hand.

And then Hanna fell off her back…

But Agni caught her just in time.

With everyone secured (Rufus included, who was holding tightly to Joss’ ponytail), all that was left was where they’d end up.

The fall and rope led them towards an industry building. Demanding as much as she could from her muscles, Joss managed to – before she had to let go of the grapple hook – steer them towards the best option in this desperate situation: A window.

They crashed right into the glass, shielding as much of their bodies as they could. Not knowing what to expect, they kept doing just that, but Agni at least extended one hand in an attempt to hold from whatever she could.

She didn’t reach anything, but Hanna, who ran up her arm faster than she could do react to, held to the edge of a catwalk, and actually held Agni’s hand as well, turning their fall into a curve that ended up sending them both upwards.

Agni’s confusion lasted only ‘til they stopped going up, for then she completely left behind any uncertainty and changed it for the only thing that was definitive: She had to land.

She brought Hanna back to her chest and threw one simple but sufficient blast of plasma to make herself spin, obtaining a direction and finally landing on feet and knee against the roof of a dissembled car.

After taking a couple of – pretty much necessary – deep breaths, she looked around, noticing they were in a large garage, with plenty of dissembled vehicles, tools and other things of the sort. There didn’t seem to be anyone around, though. So either they were not working today or they had already left for home.

“Auhm-Ahmy!” Hanna called.

Only then Agni realized she was nearly crushing the little toddler against her chest. She gave the little child her space, but still held her in her arms. Then she remembered what this child had just done… and the realization was nothing if not quite heavy and worth mentioned.

She saved her.

“H-Hanna…” she spoke, slowly bringing herself to caress the baby’s hair and face, “Geez… you’re one hell of a baby, y‘know that?”

“Hey!” a squeaky voice called, making Agni’s head turn to find Rufus on the floor, jumping and signaling at her like crazy, “Help!”

Realization dawned upon her, followed by horror: “JOSS!!

She jumped off the car and quickly followed the naked mole-rat through the place, finally finding Joss sitting against a pile of junk in a corner. She rushed towards her friend, kneeling beside her.

“H-hey, you okay!?”

The brunette gave her a pained expression, which confused the green girl for a moment, since she couldn’t see any wound on her friend. But then again, Joss had one leg raised against her chest, and when she lowered it, she let the other one enter Agni’s vision.

The already pale girl got paler.

“Oh, fuuuuuck…”

Language, you…” she actually berated her, daring to chuckle, even, “There’s a kid in your arms, remember?”

“There’s a saw through your leg! Did you even take notice!?”

Joss laughed at it, but the fakeness of it showed in the pain it caused her.

“Never mind,” she replied, “had worse back at the farm.”

Agni punched the floor, “Don’t try to play though now! This is serious!”

“And more importantly,” she began, pointing at Hanna, “not somethin’ a baby should see.”

Hesitant but supposing Joss had a point – and supposing the farm girl might be more cooperative if she listened to her priorities, despite her personal disagreements – Agni left little Hanna right behind her.

Please sit still for a moment, ok?” she spoke before turning back to Joss, to find the girl holding the saw on her leg with a hand, “H-hey, WAIT! What are you thinking!?”

“Ah’ll remove it,” she told her, looking at her straight in the eyes, “Then, ya have to cauterize it.”

Agni gulped, wondering how Joss could be so cool about this when she was already sweating under the situation. Had she really had worse back at the farm?

“Y-you sure?” she asked, “It’ll probably cause an infection.”

“Got that covered,” she said, pointing with her thump to a medicine box placed on the wall right above them.

Agni stood up and checked the box before doing anything else, forcing it open by melting down the padlock that sealed it. Thankfully, the box indeed have plenty of stuff for them to work with, including a bottle of alcohol, cotton, a box of gauzes, and some burning medicine, all of which she brought down with her. The only thing lacking were bandages…

It didn’t really make her feel anymore calm, though. It just meant there was no escaping what was about to happen.

“O-ok…” she spoke, “but first… we need to remove your pants from over the wound.”

Of course, it wasn’t quite possible to take off Joss’ pants with the saw in the way, but all that was needed was to remove the fabric from there. Picking a pair of short scissors from the medicine box, Agni cut the fabric of the jeans around the wound, adding a cut to the center at the end. She ended up removing as much as she could, fearing she might get the cloth on fire.

But once it was done, she knew that was just the easy part.

“Alright,” she said, then took a deep breath, and added: “Do you… need help?”

“Just… hold my leg.”

Nodding, Agni placed her hands around Joss’ tight, the saw ending up between them. Joss took the instrument’s end between both hands, taking a solid grip while taking deep breaths.

One…

Two…

She closed her eyes during the third during the third, and last pant.

Her scream echoed throughout the whole garage, and the blood jumped up to her face, but she covered her own mouth right after throwing the saw away.

Even though she was used to blood and violence, Agni still felt her stomach twist at the sight. She didn’t flinch, though. She knew Joss was the one having it worse here, and she couldn’t fail her now of all times.

Still holding down the leg with one arm, she applied two fingers, her green power barely covering her fingertips, against the bleeding flesh.

It only lasted three, very stressful, seconds and then it was over. The worst part, at least. Agni then picked the bottle of alcohol, soaked a handful of cotton in it, and cleaned the wound with it. Joss cringed, but the pain seemed to be numbing. Next, she rubbed some cream, probably more than needed, over the leg. Her partner barely seemed to have felt that.

Lastly, she grabbed the gauzes and covered Joss’ wound with them. Because of the lack of bandages, she just ripped off one of her shirt’s long sleeves and tied it up around the leg. All in all, the cowgirl would certainly have to get it checked later on, but for the time being, it felt like a decent enough job.

“How do you feel?” Agni asked her.

“Honestly?” the brunette asked between heavy pants.

“Well, duh!”

She smiled at her, “Like I got a good friend…”

Agni actually smacked her across the head, “Gosh, you just had to be your cousin’s cousin, didn’t you!?”

Joss just kept on giggling, “Shut up, ya like her.”

Agni stopped what she was doing – picking aside she all the stuff they just used – to speak directly to her friend while pointing to herself with the current instrument at hand.

“And I’m gonna be the one to tell her that!” she declared, pointing then to Joss, “That clear?”

“Y-yeah,” she replied, looking nervously at the saw – covered in her own blood – in Agni’s hand, “Jus’ get that away from me!”

Only then the green girl realized what she was holding, “Ups, sorry!”

The brunette let out a sigh of relief, and tried moving her leg to see how that went. Her tight was hurting, but not as badly as she had expected.

“Hanna’s fine, right?”

“Pfff… better than either of us.” Agni replied, stepping aside to clear the way between the toddler and the farm girl, “She even saved ME from the fall! Seriously, she should be protecting us, not the other friggin’ way ‘round!”

“Aww, who’s a cute lil’ hero?” Joss spoke in a playful tone, extending both arms towards the ninja baby, “Come here.”

In one moment, Hanna began crawling towards her babysitter with a big smile on her face.

The next one, right after the sound of something fast barely reached their ears, Hanna’s body fell to the ground completely inert, sending both pre-teens into nearly panic.

“Hanna!” they both yelled, approaching the toddler.

The baby had a pulse and was still breathing, but other than that, she was inexplicably out like a light. Inexplicably, that is, until Agni noticed something on the child’s leg…

“What the…?”

She took hold of it, removed it from Hanna and brought it to her face. Anger engulfed her as she realized what the item was: A dart.

Her angry eyes quickly turned to the direction she could tell it had come from, finding the one to blame standing atop the catwalk.

“MONKEY FIST!”

“What did ya DO to her!?” Joss questioned.

“What’s the problem? It’s about time for the little girl to take a nap, after all.” he replied smugly, “I should know, after all, I’m planning to take good care of her…”

“Yer not taking her anywheres!”

“The only one who’s gonna take a nap is gonna be you!

“So you plan to stop me?” he questioned, “You and what army?”

To emphasize the point of his question, with a simple click of his fingers, the garage was suddenly jam-packed with monkeys all around. Armed, combat-trained, genetically enhanced monkeys. And they had the small team, who didn’t even know where the exit was, totally surrounded.

‘I’m starting to see why Goldilocks hates monkeys so much…’

Taking a deep breath, Agni relaxed her mind, starting to take everything in the best she could.

“Joss,” she called, “can you get up?”

“Of course Ah can!” she replied, already getting back on her feet, although clearly not without some difficulty, “Who’d ya thinkin’ Ah am?”

Agni gave her an amused smile, but the reality of their circumstances didn’t escape her. Joss’ mobility, and especially her speed, had been compromised. If they couldn’t run away before, with a motorbike on their side, their chances now were next to zero.

That only left them with one option…

“Can you take care of Hanna?”

“Ah can, but… Agni, ya can’t…”

“I fight better when I don’t have to worry ‘bout my surroundings.” she interrupted.

Letting out a resigning sigh, Joss nodded at her friend.

“Awright,” she said, picking up the toddler and holding her tight against her chest. “Go wreck some hell!”

Taking a couple of steps away from her friend, Agni reached out to her shoulder and ripped off her shirt’s other sleeve. With the inflammable fabric out of the way, she lighted up her hands feverously. The flames burned brightly all across her arms and up to her elbows, and extending by their sides, reaching beyond her shoulders, almost like a pair if flaming wings growing out of her forearms.

Almost like an angel brought into hell…

“Let’s do this!”

Chapter 10 of The Hardest Mission. Next chapter might take a little longer to come around...

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reapergrimm8's avatar
I know Joss is from a Cyber-Ranch, but what the hell could be worse than having a saw go through your leg?