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Agent_Magnolia the white Aisha sighed despondently. This
mission, in its entirety, was not going as she had planned--not at all. In a
little under a week, Magnolia had landed herself dangling outside a window,
tied by her arms to the Miroshima Teahouse. She looked up and saw an open window
from which she hung. She looked down and saw a lily pond below her.
Thinking about getting out of this situation
was bad enough, but thinking about what Izumi Hanagami was up to was even worse.
For all of her trouble, Magnolia had found out close to nothing about what she
was plotting, and absolutely nothing about this "broadcast" she'd been told
about. Magnolia only hoped that she could make it out of the teahouse without
any trouble.
Quit moping, Magnolia, she told herself. There are plenty of ways
to get out of this.
"Well," she said aloud, "I've seen those
spy movies where they untie themselves with their feet..." Magnolia tried
to bend her legs upwards, but failed.
"Not going to happen," she murmured. "Well...looks
like I'm stuck here till they take me down." Magnolia sighed. Soon after, she
felt something hard in her black wig. Tiira_Misu's pen! She did have
a chance!
Magnolia shifted her head to the side until
she imagined the pen's point was facing her arms. She winced as she leaned against
the wall and the pen. Suddenly, a narrow beam of light shot up from behind her,
passing through the ropes binding her to the window and cutting them. Consequently,
it also shot up into the roof, and as Magnolia hit the lily pond, she was covered
in debris.
"Lovely."
Magnolia coughed, pushing herself up with
her arms and glancing around for a moment. The coast was completely clear. She
stood up and quickly ran around the hallway towards the room where she had come
from--the room where Tiira_Misu was being kept.
Meanwhile
"NO! NO! STOP THE TORTURE! I WON'T TELL
YOU ANYTHING, I SAY!"
Tiira_Misu shrieked, desperately trying
to pull herself away from the chair where she was tied down as Izumi Hanagami
ran a comb through her hair recklessly. "Do you KNOW how many TANGLES this is
going to cause?!"
"You are the single vainest person I've
met in years!" Izumi exclaimed. "So... are you going to tell me which
buttons to press like a good little girl?"
"NEVER! AUUUUGH!" Tiira_Misu replied. "PAIN!
SUFFERING! MAKE IT STOP!"
Suddenly, the door was knocked down with
another loud thud. "Tiira_Misu?" Magnolia inquired, once in the doorway.
"I JUST fixed that door!" Hisuke cried.
"Where's the courtesy in this world?"
"You!" Izumi exclaimed. "You just
will not give up, will you? Trust me, you'll never get in the way of
PHTDWTOTWBMOASATWFANCTBOPATWSTWCAWSBTOTW!"
"P-H-WHAT?" the room's inhabitants inquired.
"Project having to do with taking over
the world by means of a satellite advertisement that will force Neopian citizens
to buy our products against their will so that we can, as was said before, take
over the WOOOOOORLD!"
"Advertising?" Magnolia queried.
"That's what this is all about?"
"No!" Tiira_Misu shouted. "Izumi's trying
to get back at Miroshima for being unfair to her. She's planning on taking control
of the company and broadcasting a universal advertisement that will effect everything
that either has a screen or a radio--televisions, speakers, calculators, anything!
She's using the satellite that was originally going to be for a SysTech service
to show the broadcast all over Neopia, so that people will be forced to buy
her products, making her one of the richest people in Neopia. So, this is all
about revenge and money."
Magnolia grinned. "Now this all makes sense.
Shirosuma was a setup."
"Why, you're catching on quickly!" Izumi
replied. "Enough chitchat. Let's settle this quickly." Izumi clasped a paw on
a bamboo stalk nearby and twirled it a few times. "I don't have all day. Hisuke,
try all the key combinations to start the program."
"But that's over a thousand!"
"'But that's over a thousand!' I DON'T
CARE! JUST DO IT!"
Magnolia quickly parried Izumi's first
strike with the bamboo stalk, before taking one of her very own from a pot nearby.
She side-stepped another attack and struck at Izumi for the first time, missing
terribly. Instead, Magnolia flung her stalk across the room and out the door.
CRASH!
"MRROWW!"
BANG!
"REE-EEEOW!"
"You HIT my Angelpuss!" Hisuke cried. "I
reiterate, where's the courtesy in this world?"
Lunging at a defensive Magnolia, Izumi
ignored Hisuke's comment and nearly hit a curtain blocking the window. Pushing
herself up quickly enough to chase after her, she began striking relentlessly,
giving Magnolia no chance to draw a weapon of her own. Magnolia began to defend
herself with her arms, but was quickly pushed against the wall next to the open
window from which she dangled helplessly earlier.
"Looks like this is it, Magnolia," said
Izumi, nudging Magnolia towards the window. "Last words?"
Suddenly, everything seemed to move in
slow motion.
"NNNNNNOOOOOOO!" cried Sys-op, running
down the hallway with a bucket on her head, just outside the door. "WWWAAAIIIT!"
"HHHHEEEELLLLP!" Magnolia screeched,
clinging to the wall outside the window.
"MMMAAAG!" Sys-op exclaimed, stopping
in front of Izumi. She grabbed the bucket of ink by the handle and thrust it
at the white Acara. The once-white Acara.
"Oh... my..." Tiira_Misu murmured.
"Hanagami-sama!" Hisuke exclaimed.
Suddenly, Tiira_Misu burst into laughter,
pointing at Izumi. "Black fur? That is so last season!"
"L-last season?" Izumi queried. "N-no matter.
I don't care--I'll still finish you off either way!"
"I wouldn't be too sure about that," Sys-op
interrupted as a swarm of police officers entered the room. "I was just stalling
for time. You did look pretty funny, though."
"You... you..." Izumi sighed irately. "Clever,"
she finally said coolly. "Shinichi Miroshima is the true culprit here, though.
If it weren't for him, none of this would have happened, I assure you."
"Keep on saying that," Tiira_Misu murmured.
"That reminds me, Shinichi ought to be removed from his current position, seeing
as to the fact that he took it unlawfully. He just...took over."
"He did? What about Shirosuma?" Magnolia
asked.
"Like you said: it was all just a setup.
Shirosuma just started working for SysTech a week ago."
"Huh." Magnolia sighed. "Say, what was
that key combination for the broadcast, anyway?"
"Key combination--? Oh, right! Heh, there
was none. I only said that to get them off my fur."
"You sneaking little..." Magnolia began.
"Back to Neopia Central?" Sys-op suggested.
"Yes!" Magnolia and Tiira_Misu exclaimed.
And so, Shinichi Miroshima was arrested
for raiding and taking over SysTech, if only for a while. Izumi Hanagami and
anyone else involved in the PHTDWTOTWBMOASATWFANCTBOPATWSTWCAWSBTOTW plan were
immediately arrested and thrown into the big house for quite some time. Tiira_Misu
is back at home modeling and studying biology as well as technology, and Magnolia
is currently complaining to Chief about how little time off she gets in the
springtime. Once winter ends, she's very determined to have at least a month
off to herself.
The End
Author's Note: And so ends my series! Did you like it? Hate it? Have any
suggestions or comments about any of my stories, including this one? Go ahead
and feel free to drop
me a line, anytime! Thank you and konbanwa!
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