Villains Ch 3 Peril
A/N: I still own nothing.
***
L crouched nervously in his seat. He hated flying. Despite years of conditioning it still made him nervous.
And when L got nervous he had a tendency to get sparky…
And a spark could send this metal coffin spiraling down…
The very idea of which, in turn, made L nervous…
And they wouldn't even let him work on his laptop! That would have been a welcome distraction. He could have concentrated on something less scary… such as the patterns of mysterious heart attacks… rather than the fact that they were 30,000 feet up and flying over the ocean.
L didn't like that idea either.
If the fall didn't kill him… he'd probably fry himself in the water, courtesy of his own powers.
L could only attempt to console himself with his bowl of candy.
But it wasn't just flying over the ocean that was setting him on edge.
He was dreading this assignment already.
Yes. L understood, Wammy's Policy-one of us, one of them.
…And sure good ol' Horn-Rims is one of the best of Them-the Normals, in fact, his work is legendary.
He always got the mission done, cleanly and efficiently.
But L knew from experience that his partner had a dark side…
He hid it well but L knew-for some reason Mr. Yagami had an intense hatred for Freaks...
***
"Misa what's the matter?" Rem asked as they headed back to their apartment. Misa had seemed depressed ever since she leapt off the building…
"My life is over, okay!"
"But come on… this is awesome! Really!"
"I've been hit by a car, broken every bone in my body, had a steel rod slammed through my neck and I don't have a mark on me!"
"Misa…"
"I'm a FREAK!"
"Misa… "
Rem's hoop earrings dangled comically as she effortlessly lifted a nearby car up above her head with one hand.
"If you're a freak, than I'm a freak too."
"Rem! WHY DIDN'T YOU EVER TELL ME?"
Rem looked sheepish as she put the car down. "I was afraid you wouldn't want to hang out with me anymore."
"Idiot!" Misa hugged her and cried on her shoulder.
"So we can be freaks together okay?" Rem reassured her "Don't go all emo on me."
"What am I going to tell Kimiko?"
Rem scowled. "Nothing."
Kimiko Kujo, Misa's adopted older sister and legal guardian since the day her parents were murdered in front of her as a child, the woman that Rem oh so affectionately referred to as the Wicked Witch (only with a B). Rem had long thought Misa would be better off if her "sister" was out of her life, but kept her peace…
As the girls walked along they heard the sounds of screaming, when they turned the corner they found the source… an apartment complex was on fire.
"How hot do you think it is in there?" Asked Misa.
"There are still people trapped on the third floor!" Someone screamed.
Misa brightened. "Hey Rem… throw me!"
"What!" Rem was now seriously regretting showing Misa her own power…
"I'm serious, Rem, throw me up there!" Misa pointed to the third story window. Rem gave a "you've got to be kidding me" look. Misa pointed again, more urgently. "Now!"
Rem groaned. There was no talking her out of it. Misa just smiled. "Just remember to keep that camera rolling!"
Rem tossed her as she asked and Misa went through the window. The glass splintered against her skin as Misa tucked and rolled.
Misa pulled her arm back into place with a loud crack, then removed a large shard of glass out of her thigh and just stood there for a moment, panting and in pain, her lungs burning from breathing in the scorching air.
Misa found the man passed out from the smoke a few rooms over…
"STEADY! STEADY!" Shouted the firefighters as Misa emerged through the front entrance, half carrying half dragging the unconscious man out of the inferno.
The firefighters tackled her with blankets.
"I'm fine!"
The firefighter ripped her shirt open to treat her wounds… "There's no burns?"
When the firefighters turned to attend to the man she had rescued Misa took that opportunity to escape…
***
"Look! I don't know how many more times you want me to say this!" Matsuda covered his face with his hands, half collapsed on the interrogation table. He was at his wits end. "I just heard her calling for help!"
"A room full of cops and you just heard her call?"
"I don't know… It was like a voice… in my head."
Naomi sighed. "These voices tell you to kill the Prime Minister?"
Matsuda shot her a look. "No."
"Can you hear what I'm thinking right now?"
"I can't really control this…"
"Try me."
Matsuda sighed. "That I'm nuts…. or stupid..."
"…or a trick. Don't waste my time."
Come on Matsuda, work with me here. I need this more than you do… nobody believes in me.
"…Nobody believes in you. Yeah, I know what that's like."
Naomi shared a look with the man taking notes. She approached him and unlocked the handcuffs.
"Look, can I go now?"
"Maybe… Matsuda, how would you like to work with the NPA?"
Matsuda gaped at her open-mouthed…
"You can close your mouth now, it's rather unflattering… Well?"
"Yeah… I mean sure!"
Just then there were the sounds of shots fired. Matsuda heard Maki screaming down the hall. He locked eyes with Naomi.
"You heard that right?"
They dashed down the suddenly darkened hall, the fluorescent lights blinked off and on at irregular intervals. There… on the ceiling, was a body of an agent, impaled on office furniture.
"It's Saiko!" Naomi shouted.
Maki screamed. Naomi and Matsuda ran faster. There at the end of a hall was a man cast in shadow trying to steal the struggling little girl. She was kicking and screaming and fighting for all she was worth.
All that Matsuda could make out of the man's identity in the flickering lights was a black trenchcoat and baseball cap.
"FREEZE!" Naomi fired her gun. The shot just missed the struggling man… this apparently startled the killer. He dropped the girl and took off running.
Matsuda ran to where Maki had fallen, trembling.
He found me! He found me!
Matsuda held and tried to comfort the traumatized girl.
"It's okay. It's going to be okay…"
Naomi pursued Saiko down the darkened corridors and out into the parking garage.
"I SAID FREEZE!"
The man stopped and turned around…
It was still too dark to see his face…
And then suddenly Naomi was pinned to the fencing by an outside force, unable to move.
Her own gun swiveled towards her head. Naomi fought against that force, trying to make her pull the trigger...
Just then Matsuda was there emptying his own gun into the killer. Saiko was down!
Naomi was released from whatever force was holding her. She collapsed to the floor breath heavy with fear…
"Hey, you okay?" Matsuda crouched down next to her… meanwhile in the background Saiko was getting to his feet…
Naomi got out a panicked noise of warning, Matsuda turned around…
There was a chill draft of air...
Saiko was gone.
***
Near sat alone in his room, bored and depressed, his eyes wandering to stare idly at the Godzilla movie poster on his wall. Unnoticed behind him, his clock began spinning forwards at a rapid pace. Near blinked. His room had disappeared. He was standing in the middle of a city. The signs… were in Japanese.
"Well… looks like I'm in Tokyo. Now isn't that interesting?" Near twirled his hair; a grin slowly spreading across his face. "I did it. Yes I did. Mello will be so jealous!"
As interesting as this discovery was it was also disconcerting. Near had rarely ever been outside before, let alone traveled anywhere. There was also the question of getting home…
As Near wandered the streets he passed a newsstand that sold manga… what caught his eye was, a manga that was front and center and had a picture of him on the cover.
Near picked it up and began to read…
Amazing Tales Presents… The Death Note!
This is the tale of a boy cursed with the powers of a demon! Can he break the curse and become a Hero?
Near scoffed. Seen it a million times…
Then as he was flipping through the pages he saw something else…
"Mello, I did it. I stopped time. I even made the clock jump back a second!"
"That's impossible Near. Now quit playing around. That test is coming up, and I'm going to beat you this time, just watch me."
How could a comic book know what he had talked to Mello about yesterday?
…And the comic indicated something else. If these thought bubbles were to be believed… Mello had been acting like a jerk because he was concerned for him!
"Hey! This isn't a library pal! No pay, no read!"
"Uh…" Near carried no money and he needed it for his current investigation.
Surely the shop owner would understand…
"HEY!" The shop owner shouted as Near took off running.
***
Once Near had lost his pursuers, he read the comic through-multiple times-but was no closer to finding answers…
The back cover gave him the author's name and address…
***
"Rue Ryuuzaki-san? Hello?"
Near tentatively came in through the open door of the run-down apartment. He was wary. His cursory investigation of the author indicated that he had only recently beem released from a mental institution… But still, this was the only way Near could get answers…
"Ryuuzaki-san?"
Near suddenly became aware of the trail of blood on the floor. He followed it to find…
Rue Ryuuzaki... minus one brain.
Just then the doors burst open, it was the police!
"Oh Jesus!"
"Freeze! On the ground, now!" they screamed at him.
Near put his hands up, took another look at that bloody scene… and promptly fainted.
***
A/N: Yeah, I think we're gonna go with Misa x Rem and Matsuda x Naomi too.
And from the suspect list you can eliminate Beyond Birthday, he obviously isn't Saiko...
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***
L crouched nervously in his seat. He hated flying. Despite years of conditioning it still made him nervous.
And when L got nervous he had a tendency to get sparky…
And a spark could send this metal coffin spiraling down…
The very idea of which, in turn, made L nervous…
And they wouldn't even let him work on his laptop! That would have been a welcome distraction. He could have concentrated on something less scary… such as the patterns of mysterious heart attacks… rather than the fact that they were 30,000 feet up and flying over the ocean.
L didn't like that idea either.
If the fall didn't kill him… he'd probably fry himself in the water, courtesy of his own powers.
L could only attempt to console himself with his bowl of candy.
But it wasn't just flying over the ocean that was setting him on edge.
He was dreading this assignment already.
Yes. L understood, Wammy's Policy-one of us, one of them.
…And sure good ol' Horn-Rims is one of the best of Them-the Normals, in fact, his work is legendary.
He always got the mission done, cleanly and efficiently.
But L knew from experience that his partner had a dark side…
He hid it well but L knew-for some reason Mr. Yagami had an intense hatred for Freaks...
***
"Misa what's the matter?" Rem asked as they headed back to their apartment. Misa had seemed depressed ever since she leapt off the building…
"My life is over, okay!"
"But come on… this is awesome! Really!"
"I've been hit by a car, broken every bone in my body, had a steel rod slammed through my neck and I don't have a mark on me!"
"Misa…"
"I'm a FREAK!"
"Misa… "
Rem's hoop earrings dangled comically as she effortlessly lifted a nearby car up above her head with one hand.
"If you're a freak, than I'm a freak too."
"Rem! WHY DIDN'T YOU EVER TELL ME?"
Rem looked sheepish as she put the car down. "I was afraid you wouldn't want to hang out with me anymore."
"Idiot!" Misa hugged her and cried on her shoulder.
"So we can be freaks together okay?" Rem reassured her "Don't go all emo on me."
"What am I going to tell Kimiko?"
Rem scowled. "Nothing."
Kimiko Kujo, Misa's adopted older sister and legal guardian since the day her parents were murdered in front of her as a child, the woman that Rem oh so affectionately referred to as the Wicked Witch (only with a B). Rem had long thought Misa would be better off if her "sister" was out of her life, but kept her peace…
As the girls walked along they heard the sounds of screaming, when they turned the corner they found the source… an apartment complex was on fire.
"How hot do you think it is in there?" Asked Misa.
"There are still people trapped on the third floor!" Someone screamed.
Misa brightened. "Hey Rem… throw me!"
"What!" Rem was now seriously regretting showing Misa her own power…
"I'm serious, Rem, throw me up there!" Misa pointed to the third story window. Rem gave a "you've got to be kidding me" look. Misa pointed again, more urgently. "Now!"
Rem groaned. There was no talking her out of it. Misa just smiled. "Just remember to keep that camera rolling!"
Rem tossed her as she asked and Misa went through the window. The glass splintered against her skin as Misa tucked and rolled.
Misa pulled her arm back into place with a loud crack, then removed a large shard of glass out of her thigh and just stood there for a moment, panting and in pain, her lungs burning from breathing in the scorching air.
Misa found the man passed out from the smoke a few rooms over…
"STEADY! STEADY!" Shouted the firefighters as Misa emerged through the front entrance, half carrying half dragging the unconscious man out of the inferno.
The firefighters tackled her with blankets.
"I'm fine!"
The firefighter ripped her shirt open to treat her wounds… "There's no burns?"
When the firefighters turned to attend to the man she had rescued Misa took that opportunity to escape…
***
"Look! I don't know how many more times you want me to say this!" Matsuda covered his face with his hands, half collapsed on the interrogation table. He was at his wits end. "I just heard her calling for help!"
"A room full of cops and you just heard her call?"
"I don't know… It was like a voice… in my head."
Naomi sighed. "These voices tell you to kill the Prime Minister?"
Matsuda shot her a look. "No."
"Can you hear what I'm thinking right now?"
"I can't really control this…"
"Try me."
Matsuda sighed. "That I'm nuts…. or stupid..."
"…or a trick. Don't waste my time."
Come on Matsuda, work with me here. I need this more than you do… nobody believes in me.
"…Nobody believes in you. Yeah, I know what that's like."
Naomi shared a look with the man taking notes. She approached him and unlocked the handcuffs.
"Look, can I go now?"
"Maybe… Matsuda, how would you like to work with the NPA?"
Matsuda gaped at her open-mouthed…
"You can close your mouth now, it's rather unflattering… Well?"
"Yeah… I mean sure!"
Just then there were the sounds of shots fired. Matsuda heard Maki screaming down the hall. He locked eyes with Naomi.
"You heard that right?"
They dashed down the suddenly darkened hall, the fluorescent lights blinked off and on at irregular intervals. There… on the ceiling, was a body of an agent, impaled on office furniture.
"It's Saiko!" Naomi shouted.
Maki screamed. Naomi and Matsuda ran faster. There at the end of a hall was a man cast in shadow trying to steal the struggling little girl. She was kicking and screaming and fighting for all she was worth.
All that Matsuda could make out of the man's identity in the flickering lights was a black trenchcoat and baseball cap.
"FREEZE!" Naomi fired her gun. The shot just missed the struggling man… this apparently startled the killer. He dropped the girl and took off running.
Matsuda ran to where Maki had fallen, trembling.
He found me! He found me!
Matsuda held and tried to comfort the traumatized girl.
"It's okay. It's going to be okay…"
Naomi pursued Saiko down the darkened corridors and out into the parking garage.
"I SAID FREEZE!"
The man stopped and turned around…
It was still too dark to see his face…
And then suddenly Naomi was pinned to the fencing by an outside force, unable to move.
Her own gun swiveled towards her head. Naomi fought against that force, trying to make her pull the trigger...
Just then Matsuda was there emptying his own gun into the killer. Saiko was down!
Naomi was released from whatever force was holding her. She collapsed to the floor breath heavy with fear…
"Hey, you okay?" Matsuda crouched down next to her… meanwhile in the background Saiko was getting to his feet…
Naomi got out a panicked noise of warning, Matsuda turned around…
There was a chill draft of air...
Saiko was gone.
***
Near sat alone in his room, bored and depressed, his eyes wandering to stare idly at the Godzilla movie poster on his wall. Unnoticed behind him, his clock began spinning forwards at a rapid pace. Near blinked. His room had disappeared. He was standing in the middle of a city. The signs… were in Japanese.
"Well… looks like I'm in Tokyo. Now isn't that interesting?" Near twirled his hair; a grin slowly spreading across his face. "I did it. Yes I did. Mello will be so jealous!"
As interesting as this discovery was it was also disconcerting. Near had rarely ever been outside before, let alone traveled anywhere. There was also the question of getting home…
As Near wandered the streets he passed a newsstand that sold manga… what caught his eye was, a manga that was front and center and had a picture of him on the cover.
Near picked it up and began to read…
Amazing Tales Presents… The Death Note!
This is the tale of a boy cursed with the powers of a demon! Can he break the curse and become a Hero?
Near scoffed. Seen it a million times…
Then as he was flipping through the pages he saw something else…
"Mello, I did it. I stopped time. I even made the clock jump back a second!"
"That's impossible Near. Now quit playing around. That test is coming up, and I'm going to beat you this time, just watch me."
How could a comic book know what he had talked to Mello about yesterday?
…And the comic indicated something else. If these thought bubbles were to be believed… Mello had been acting like a jerk because he was concerned for him!
"Hey! This isn't a library pal! No pay, no read!"
"Uh…" Near carried no money and he needed it for his current investigation.
Surely the shop owner would understand…
"HEY!" The shop owner shouted as Near took off running.
***
Once Near had lost his pursuers, he read the comic through-multiple times-but was no closer to finding answers…
The back cover gave him the author's name and address…
***
"Rue Ryuuzaki-san? Hello?"
Near tentatively came in through the open door of the run-down apartment. He was wary. His cursory investigation of the author indicated that he had only recently beem released from a mental institution… But still, this was the only way Near could get answers…
"Ryuuzaki-san?"
Near suddenly became aware of the trail of blood on the floor. He followed it to find…
Rue Ryuuzaki... minus one brain.
Just then the doors burst open, it was the police!
"Oh Jesus!"
"Freeze! On the ground, now!" they screamed at him.
Near put his hands up, took another look at that bloody scene… and promptly fainted.
***
A/N: Yeah, I think we're gonna go with Misa x Rem and Matsuda x Naomi too.
And from the suspect list you can eliminate Beyond Birthday, he obviously isn't Saiko...
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