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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Midnight" data-source="post: 602671" data-attributes="member: 69">The captain approaches the table, looking pensive. CAPTAINYau.CHEN YAU doesn’t flinch, just looks up at him with a kiss-my-ass grin and downs his drink.CHEN YAUCaptain.CHEF TSO returns with a strung-out looking man wearing a lab coat. He’s wiry and thin, has unkempt yet striking hair, and buggy eyes. He licks his lips a lot, and his eyes dart around like he’s thinking at an extremely fast rate. CHEF TSO(sounding rather sloshed) Hey, I want you all to meet my pal Bazooka. We dr… we get together now and then. BAZOOKABazooka Tetsuhara, hi, that’s me. Yes. CUDDLY JACK gives the man a big friendly smile and handshake. CUDDLY JACKWell met, Bazooka, how are ya? How d’ya know our pal the Chef?BAZOOKAI, well, I met him in the alley behind the restaurant. We traded stories about blowing things up and drank SEVEN WHOLE BOTTLES of some expensive foreign concoction I can’t quite remember the name of, I think it was something like… anyway, he told me about your adventures last year and everything he’s detonated since, and I told him the amusing tale about the time I ACCIDENTALLY spilled the bottle of ammonium sulfate into the dish of… uh… I don’t remember, but it was green. Anyway, that’s how I blew up THAT laboratory. After that…CUDDLY JACK(leaning over to Willy) Crikey, the jaw on this one, eh?WILLYI want to go home.CUDDLY JACKShush Willy, Bazooka’s talkin’.BAZOOKA…So that’s how I managed to destroy most of the labs in Hong Kong.CHAI TONGWhy did Chef Tso meet you in an alley behind this trough of swill?BAZOOKABecause that’s where I live. See, I managed to destroy most of the labs in Hong Kong. CHAI TONGOh. CAPTAIN(Clears throat) Um, hello… I’m still standing here. I wanted to talk to you.CHEF TSO(Hiccups) Well, there’s Yau. Take him and talk. Go ahead. CAPTAINI, uh… I wanted to talk to all of you.CHEN YAUGee, for a second there, I was almost touched, Captain.CAPTAINYou shut that smart mouth of yours, Chen, or I’ll demote you to… OH, WAIT, I already did that. You know what I’ll do though? (yells) I’ll promote you back to beat cop, then demote you BACK DOWN to traffic cop.CHEN YAUI miss these little talks. Ling Ling wanders over.  LING LINGWho are you? Are you making my fiancé drink? He needs to keep his head clear, so we can keep making hot dog money.CAPTAINNo, ma’am. See, I’m here to talk to you all about…GRANDMA LINGI think this is enough lollying, William. Get up and go about your duties. CAPTAINIf you could just give me a moment, I’d like to…GRANDMA LINGWilliam doesn’t have a moment. He’s busy owning horrible restaurants with gaudy decorating. CAPTAINNo, but…GRANDMA (turns to Chef Tso) How are you going to support my daughter selling these hot wiener dogs?CAPTAIN(explodes at Granny) HEY!! I’m STILL standing right here, I STILL have something to say, and if you interrupt me again, I’ll bust YOU down to traffic cop, DAMMIT!! How would you like that? ‘Welcome to the force, little old rude woman! Guess what, you’ve been demoted already!’ Furthermore...GRANDMA hobbles over to the CAPTAIN and looks up, smiling pleasantly, into his face. She slaps it. GRANDMALanguage. CHEN YAUEnough. What’s this about, Captain?The CAPTAIN rubs his face, clearly shocked. GRANDMA hobbles back to her seat. CAPTAIN(pulls out a videotape) Yes. Ahem. Do you have a TV and VCR in the building? I’d like to show you something. In a few moments, CHEF TSO has rounded up a TV and VCR. They’re in the back room, away from the customers. The CAPTAIN puts the tape in.CAPTAINWhat I’m about to show you is eyes only, understood? I don’t want you discussing this with anyone.BAZOOKAUh… Sir? If this is so important, then why are you showing it to all of us? Isn’t police business off limits to civilians?CAPTAIN(Eyes Bazooka) I don’t know who you are, but if you’re friends of Tso, you’re perhaps just the kind of man I’m looking for… and to answer your question, this isn’t police business. This is business the police can’t handle. CHEN YAUWhat??CAPTAINShut up and watch the tape, Yau. He hits PLAY. We see grainy black and white footage of the outside of a building. BAZOOKAHey, I know that place… That’s IniDyne.CAPTAINThat’s right. This is the surveillance footage edited together during a robbery two nights ago. For those that don’t know, IniDyne is one of China’s top tech and bio buildings. BAZOOKAThere was a robbery? What was stolen?CAPTAINJust watch…The CAMERA is aimed downward at the front of the building. Two black SUVs pull up and park right outside of the entrance. The cars’ doors open. Five mooks get out, followed by a man wearing a duster jacket and cowboy hat, a small woman in a black businesswoman’s outfit, a man wearing a colorful old Chinese robe, and a bald man in a Nike jogging suit. They enter the building. The CAMERA cuts to the inside and we see that the lobby is lined with security guards on all sides… roughly ten of them. The man in the duster and cowboy hat stands at the center of the lobby while the jogging suit man asks a question of the front desk clerk. The man responds, and the mooks pull out guns and order everyone to freeze, while the others walk to the elevator, leaving the cowboy and mooks here. The group goes upstairs and walks to the end of a long corridor. They test the door- it’s locked. The robed man and jogging suit man step aside. The small woman puts one hand on the door and slowly straightens her arm. The door bows forward and crunches inward until it’s concave. It then falls off the hinges to the floor, looking like a large steel Frito. CUDDLY JACKHoly… Strong one, isn’t she?The others walk inside, and the woman takes off a thin latex mask to reveal that her face is painted to resemble a Japanese demon’s. She turns and looks behind her, giving a frightening glace towards the camera. CAPTAIN(pauses the image) This woman is known as Iron Violet. She’s Yakuza. Has a degenerative cell disease called Eleosynfria Riaginecitous, more commonly known as Atlas Syndrome. Her cells are replenishing themselves faster than they die off, and as a result they’re cramming into an incredibly tight space. Her body is ultra-dense. She’s in incredible pain, constantly, and is expected to die within the year… But until then, she’s got the strength of a dozen men, bones as hard as iron, three hundred pounds packed into a ninety-seven pound frame… and a mean streak. He unpauses the image. Downstairs, one of the mooks hears the police report coming in over his lapel police band radio. There’s been a SWAT team ordered to IniDyne. He screams at the desk clerk, who’s apparently pressed the silent alarm button. He shoots the clerk and the lobby explodes in gunfire as the security guards pull their weapons. In the midst of it all is seen the cowboy, who whips his coat aside and (in slow motion) whips out two gleaming 9mms. He begins to blast. The mooks are soon all dead, and the security guards are all down. The lobby is strewn with debris. The cowboy hasn’t taken a hit. CAPTAIN(pauses the tape again on the cowboy) This is the Marshall. He’s one of the best open combat gun men that any of the crime organizations on this side of the world have. He’s got an affectation for westerns, as you can see… Doesn’t go anywhere without his Stetson, boots, jacket, and authentic 1876 gun belt. The guns, though, are pure HK gangster… Twin silver-plated Ruger k89s, and as you see, he can play them like an opera. He unpauses the tape again. The MARSHALL’s guns are empty. He stands there and puts one gun back in his belt, and releases the empty clip on the one still in his hand. He pulls out a full clip and is about to load the gun when he hears a voice behind him yelling to freeze. A single security guard has somehow survived the attacks, and now has his gun trained on the Marshall, who holds his hands up and hears the SWAT team pull up outside… dozens of armored cops are just about to invade the building. He drops the clip but not the gun, and turns slowly.CHEF TSOOoh, he’s screwed.GRANDMA(smacks Tso) Language, William.CAPTAINLooks bad, right? However- if he didn’t live through this, I wouldn’t be standing here telling you about him, right? He’d just be another corpse.CHEN YAUBut… how can he survive? The SWAT team is RIGHT OUTSIDE the door. LING LINGCould he have a bullet left in the clip?CAPTAINNope… look at the gun. The slide’s in the back position… that gun is empty. CHEN YAUSo… how… how can…?CAPTAIN Watch this…</blockquote>

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