Crossover Fan Fiction ❯ Not Your Normal 9 to 5: Overtime ❯ Prolouge: Unwelcome Guests ( Chapter 1 )

AN: well here we are again!!! Yay, Time for a sequel. I hope you all like it. This is just the prologue but I hope to have chap 1 out soon. I actually outlined this story hooray!! Well here you go, read on and review if you like

 

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He ran though the dense forest as fast as his legs would allow him. He sometimes ran on the ground and then jumped to the trees, bouncing from limb to limb, before dropping to the ground again, trying desperately to reach his destination and discourage any pursuit. Unfortunately, thanks to his new senses that he had learned to use almost 8 months ago, the young fox demon named Shippo knew pursuit was nipping at his heels. He could feel the energy signatures of two men following closely behind.

 

While his pursuers looked like men, his sense of smell, one of his keenest and oldest senses, told him they were not human. They smelled different, almost alien. He had smelled someone not of this world before, and while these were different smells, they had a similar base to them.

 

And if Shippo's sense of smell wasn't enough, his eyesight was perfect being a demon. And his eyes told him these people were not of this world. Even Kagome had never brought back such devices and weapons with her, and first hand knowledge of the future had shown Shippo that no such tech existed. This knowledge came from a different kind of gadget from the future.

 

A belt that allowed him and his friends who could not already pass through the Bone Eaters Well, the well that linked Kagome's future with his past, travel through it. He had been to the future many times due to these belts. The world was wondrous and new and it excited the young fox child to see everything there was to see.

 

Now there was nothing but terror. The battle that had ensued between his group of friends and these outsiders was fierce, but one sided. Shippo had evaded detection and watched as his friends fell prisoner to this new enemy and bided his time to try and rescue his friends. While watching their defeat was hard, watching their imprisonment was heartbreaking. Finally after a fierce cry from Inuyasha to retrieve help from his brother after hours of torture, the fox demon ran with tears in his eyes.

 

But his flight had not gone unnoticed. He took to the forest as fast as he could and started to leave illusions behind him to throw off the two following him. But they must have been able to detect power levels like he had learned how to because the illusions did nothing to deter them.

 

He had run for the area that they had last encountered Sesshomaru, Inuyasha's half brother, at first but then his mind had switched gears. This enemy was new and unfamiliar, but some of the ways they attacked he had seen before in his newest friend from the future. The man who had taught him to sense power signatures and to augment his own fox powers using his own body's energy. This is why he had changed direction and hurried towards the bone eaters well, and the hidden spot where they kept the three belts that allowed Sango, Miroku, and himself to travel the currents of time.

 

The thoughts of his friends brought a fresh wave of tears to his already swollen eyes, but he shook his head viscously. They were strong and could handle their situation for a bit longer, but if he wanted to help them, he had to put his childish nature aside and act the role of an adult.

 

He had already taken steps in that regard after their second future visitor had come into their lives. Lennex had taught him how to be a hero in the short week he spent in the past. And after he left Inuyasha had taught him even more. Whether it was because of his mind growing in maturity or a self conscious effort of his own, His body had aged a bit.

 

He was no longer the little fox cub he once was but now resembled an older child, not quite a teenager. He stood taller now and was unable to ride on the shoulders of his companions like he used to, but was still the smallest of the group. On his trips to the future he stood just a few inches shorter then Kagome's little brother, Souta.

 

He had learned so much going to the future from Lennex and his odd group of friends. They had passed on quite a few things to him. Simple things by their standards, but amazing things to him. And Inuyasha had taught him many things about what it was to be a true demon of honor and courage.

 

His reminiscence was cut short as a ball of energy whizzed by his head, splintering a tree in front of him and causing the towering giant to fall. He dodged the falling oak and picked up his speed. He knew they didn't know quite where he was or that shot would not have missed. It looked as if they had grown tired of chasing him and were trying to flush him out. He was almost there. He just had to last a little longer.

 

He pushed his body with a final surge of adrenaline and energy and the fox child burst from the forest line into the clearing of the well. He ran the edge of the clearing looking for the spot where they hid the capsule that stored the time belts. The capsule itself was coded to only open for the people of his group so they had embedded the capsule in a little hollow of one of the surrounding trees, courtesy of Inuyasha's claw. And then the piece of wood was stuffed back into the hole after being trimmed making the tree look unblemished. He quickly located the tree and bounded to it, pulling the piece of wood away and prying the capsule out of its hiding spot

 

He quickly hit the plunger on the top and dropped the capsule in front of him. With a popping noise, the capsule expanded into a small silver box. Shippo threw open the lid and pulled out the three belts, looping all of them around his shoulder and down along his body, bandolier style. He didn't need all three but he wasn't taking the chance of leaving the other two out in the open, and he didn't have the time to replace the capsule in its cove. He quickly ran towards the well, powering on one of the belts as he ran. He jumped the last little bit of the way and landed on the rim of the well.

 

“Hold it!” a voice shouted from the tree line. The two men that had been chasing him had bounded into the clearing, their silver armor reflecting the sunlight, making them look like they were glowing. The helmets they wore covered one eye with a screen of clear color and their right arms were adorned with a long tube that came to a point just above their wrist. Both arms were being raised to point at Shippo.

 

“Not another step further runt.” One called out to him. Shippo glanced at them and then let gravity do the work as he fell forward into the well. He heard two sharp cracks and watched as two golden balls of energy impacted the well and blew right through the top. Splinters and chunks of charged wood fell down the well after Shippo, and the fox demon could see a charred half circle in the top of two of the well's formerly square sides and one whole corner missing; the corner he had been closest too. Finally as he fell, the nimbus of blue light that signaled the passage through time surrounded him and the view from above faded away into nothingness.

 

He had made it.

 

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The two men stood above the well and peered down into the inky blackness. One kicked a still smoking piece of wood, breaking it off the once intact wooden structure and down to the bottom. The muffled clunk of the wood hitting the earth greeted their ears, but the fox was nowhere to be found. Their eye pieces cycled information across the clear crystal screen but showed no trace of their quarry.

 

They looked at each other as one pressed the side of his helmet, hitting a form fitted button that cleared the screen and took the device into communication mode.

 

“Unit 2 reporting in. Subject lost. Awaiting further orders.”

 

The voice that responded could not be heard by the second man but by watching the first's face wince at the response, he knew his superiors were not happy with them. He walked over to the little silver box at the edge of the clearing and picked it up to bring back with them.

 

“Understood.” The first man said and clicked the button on the helmet again. “We are to report back to the forward outpost and debrief there.”

 

The second man nodded, and together they turned and started to retrace their steps back to their origin.