InuYasha Fan Fiction / Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Not Your Normal 9 to 5 ❯ The Chase ( Chapter 1 )

A little update. For all those who have been reading my story so far I apologize. When I write I block everything else out from my mind and just go with my creative flow. I use my word programs spell check and grammar check features but as you all know those are limited. I tend to make some rather large errors. My beta helps me out a lot with that. He gives me ideas on how to reword things that don't work and to make sure my continuity is dead on. However in looking for these large mistakes, we have both let little ones past our attention. I didn't realize the mistakes were there until a re read of what I wrote before to get my creative juices going for the later chapters. So I have been re editing. Slow work because I'm reading everything very slowly and multiple times. Once again I apologize, if you have read this in the past and got through it I thank you a lot. For you new people, be glad I caught the error lol. Here's hoping to a smoother read enjoy.

 

Chapter 1: The Chase

 

They called him Eddie the eel, which was funny because his real name was Eugene, but only his mother and a few close friends knew that. It was safer to have an alias anyways so he let the name stick. After all he was a thief. One of the best thieves the world had ever seen. He'd never been caught and anything he stole either made it to the person who hired him, or was destroyed in the event of being caught. No evidence, no crime. He even designed special c4 micro charges just for that occasion. Any time he felt like his back was to the wall, just slap a charge on the merchandise and case closed. Of course he had to take payment after delivery. Most people didn't like to pay for bits and pieces, but that just gave him incentive to get better. There wasn't a security system designed that he couldn't find a way around, no lock he couldn't pick, not a safe in the world that was actually safe from him.

 

He smiled to himself as he clipped the wire leading to a fuse box. This particular wire controlled the pressure sensors under the floor of the hallway and the room at the end. He was on a job now, nothing like a little early morning adventure. It was just after 1 am and the place was dead as could be. He thought more about the job he was on. This one was destined to retire him at an early age. He was hired buy a 3rd party. The only thing he knew was this party was employed by one of the biggest energy developers and providers in the United States. He probably could have figured out who he was working for but he'd been paid half up front, something that never happened because as said before, people didn't like his contingency plan for not getting caught. But this was a special case. This company led the market on finding new ways to improve energy output and production, and also how much to charge for their services. They were not happy in learning that Japans biggest R&D Corporation had just developed a new type of energy material. One that was easily massed produced at a very low cost. The only reason Capsule Corporation had not released the material was because of a small anomaly in the gelatinous substance. The scientists had said that whatever the property was it was safe. Nothing bad could come from it, but the owner and head inventor, Bulma Briefs, said no material that had something that couldn't be properly analyzed and explained was not leaving her company.

 

She'd been sued once in her younger days for producing an unsafe capsule because she didn't research a potentially problem that was deemed “safe” and she wasn't going to make the mistake again. So here he was, Eddie the Eel, being his slippery self and stealing the material. . Apparently the bigwigs of the US based company didn't like the idea of someone moving in on their territory and had hired him to steal the material for their own scientists to study and produce. While Ms. Briefs had qualms about not releasing the substance, they were had no such convictions. Oh well, it wasn't his place to say what was safe and what wasn't. The large amount of money sitting at home and the other half waiting to be delivered made sure he didn't care. He walked down the hallway toward the lab room he had learned this stuff was being tested. He snorted to himself, the least they could have done was give it a name.

 

The one they had given was xo-l2257, not a very conversation friendly name. He reached the end of the hallway and pulled out a small flat box from under his coat. The box had on simple switch on it, which he pressed before opening the door. Before he had cut the wire he had taped into the security systems camera array and had put a small loop device into play. With the push of the button every camera would play a thirty second continuous loop of nothing. To the guards in the guard room everything would seem to be as it was. Nice and quiet, because after all, who would break into Capsule Corporation. He smirked to himself again after that thought. Who indeed? Most criminals were scared off by the electronic security system, which was cutting edge stuff, but he wasn't worried. The other half had heard rumors of the head of security in the corporation. They said when he was after you, there was no escape. He'd believe that when he saw it.

 

After a few seconds to give the cameras time to reset he opened the door. Inside was a normal lab setup, tables with high tech scanners and equipment spread out and workstations for smaller projects. On one of the tables sat a small class case. Inside was a 40 ounce cylinder full of what looked to be runny lime green jello that seemed to emit a soft green glow. He knew this was the stuff he was after because his information had told him the stuff sort of looked like liquid kryptonite. To bad he didn't have a superman to test it out on. He quickly pulled out a couple tools from his inside pocket and had the lock to the case opened in record time. After stowing his tools he took the back pack he wore off and pulled out a form fitted cylinder case. He opened it and set the container inside, and closed the case. He inserted the container back into the backpack and threw it over his shoulder. He turned around and headed back towards the door. He opened it and came face to face with two young men in white lab coats. “You got to be kidding me.” He muttered.

 

Without thinking he threw a punch at the one on the left dropping the man cold, his partner however had a bit quicker reaction and instead of waiting to be taken out he rushed back down the corridor and hit the alarm switch. The eel was close behind trying to stop the call for help but wasn't able to catch the quick scientist. He would have thought a guy who worked this late at night in a lab would be this quick. Hell he didn't figure on anyone working this late. He changed course away from the second workaholic and ran as fast as he could towards his exit point, all stealth forgotten. He kept his head low, knowing that since the security had been triggered, and the cameras would now see him. His loop device would be ignored. He made it without incident to the outside of the building and found the car he was using as a getaway. He'd use if for now but would have to find another one very quickly. As he threw the backpack in the back seat and got in the car and started it up. He threw it into drive and hammered the accelerator to the floor. As he sped off he saw a uniformed guard come out the door and watch him drive off.

 

“Well Eugene, there's a first time for everything.”

 

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They call him Eddie the eel He's one of the best corporate thieves in the world and his record is almost flawless.” A little blond haired officer said as Lennex looked at the video on the security monitor. The man was trying to shield his face fairly well but one of the cameras was able to get a decent view of his face, a good enough one to find a suspect file. It had been three hours since the break in and Lennex was not happy to be out of his nice warm bed at 4 in the morning. His lovely girlfriend was out of town on a model shoot and he already wasn't sleeping well because of that. He missed the simple presence of Bra, that and he liked waking up to a good view

 

“Did you hear me sir?

 

He was shaken out of his thoughts by the Security officer. He shook his head at himself, Bra had only been gone a week and by the way he was acting you'd think she'd been gone years.

“Sorry Minako, it's still very early.” He replied. Minako shook her head and repeated herself.

 

“The Eel has a special signature tactic which is why he remains free to this day. If he feels he's going to be caught he'll blow up whatever it is he's stolen and I don't have to tell you he has almost all of the xo-12257. We only have the sample that was being tested, which is only 20 milliliters. You know the boss would be upset if we let him destroy this stuff.”

 

“That's a polite way of putting it.” He replied. He knew Bulma would be pissed beyond belief. Not even a sparring match that tore her front lawn up would make her as mad as if this stuff was destroyed. She had worked on the theory of this material for a long time, ever since hearing how the future Trunks' world suffered because of all the destruction to power stations and generators due to the androids of his time. She wanted to have something the world could use that didn't require big power stations or dams or anything like that.

This liquid could produce the power of a 40,000 watt power station in a generator the size of a water melon. Her idea was to replace the larger power stations with small manageable sites, that wouldn't be targeted quite so noticeably. Most definitely saying she'd be upset if she lost all her prototype material would be a massive understatement.

 

“Any ideas on were he's heading?” he asked. Minako shook her head negative and pulled up a map of Japan.

 

“We can assume that he won't stay in Satan City, he'll mostly likely try to get out of town. Find another city to lay low. We do know that whoever wants this stuff isn't located in Japan, so he'll be looking for a way out of the country.”

“Are we sure the mystery men are outside Japan?” Lennex asked

“There are only 6 other companies that know about this material, and none of them are in country. There are two in Russia, one in England, one in Germany and the last two are in the States. “

 

Lennex nodded his head as he listened; Minako had been one of his personnel since she started. He hired her himself and was pleased to see she was becoming very adept in her job. He studied the map of Japan for a little longer. “I am making an educated guess but if he wants out the best places to leave Japan would be Tokyo. It would be easy to get lost in the crowds and he could probably sneak something out there. Let's get a couple teams there. I want all the major airports staked out and also check the shipyards. I don't want him slipping by us by going to mainland Asia by water. I'll head there right now myself, its time this guy got caught!” He turned and walked out the door knowing Minako would put his orders to action.

 

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It had been a long nine hours since his getaway from Cap Corp and little did the eel know, Lennex had guessed correctly. He was indeed in Tokyo for a flight out of the city to England and from there to the U.S. The drive to Tokyo had been uneventful. He switched cars before skipping Satan City and when he got here he ditched that car also. He wasn't afraid to walk. The best hiding spot he thought was out in the open. He calmly walked towards one of Tokyo's International airports. He had pre-booked a flight to England as the first leg of his journey out of Japan. He was on his way to check in and board the plane. The container in the backpack was designed to fool the scanners in the airports so check in wasn't going to be a problem. All he had to do was arrive, hand the counter person his ticket and board his flight. Sorry to say this job just didn't seem to be going right.

 

He noticed the tall, dark haired man scanning the crowd. He knew who he was. He always made sure to study a security system, and that included the men and women of the security force. This was the head of Security at Capsule Corp. They simply called him Lennex. No last name no title, just Lennex. He turned around calmly and started walking the other way. It looked like he'd have to lay low a few more days until the heat died down. He walked by a candy store and stopped to look into the window display. It was a tacky move but sometimes the old tricks were the best. While he pretended to look at the selection of sweets he was actually looking back at were he came from. He saw what he didn't want to see. Security boy had spotted him and was walking his way. Once again it was time to lose stealth in favor of speed. He quickly turned and walked a little faster down the street and turned a corner. As soon as he was out of view he took off in a sprint.

 

 

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Lennex had been staring at faces all morning. Tourist and business men and families leaving Japan all walked past him while he stood trying to take everything in. That's when he saw him. It was Eddie all right. He committed the face from the video to memory and knew he had his man. But from the looks of things he himself had been spotted by his prey, because Eddie was now walking the other way. Lennex moved to follow and radioed the teams he had with him. The back up would be nice in cornering him but they were across the city and other airports and the shipyards.

He'd have to catch him himself, which if there weren't so many eyes around it wouldn't be a problem. He was Sayjin after all. He could move faster the almost everyone on Earth. Unfortunately unless he wanted a media circus trying to figure out how he could do the stuff he could, low profile was essential. That's the way he and his friends all operated. If the world only knew the threats that came to Earth that had to be dealt with. Oh well no sense in trying to change what couldn't be changed. He saw the Eel look in to a shop on the street and then continue his walk down the street, a little quicker then before.

 

No doubt about it, the Eel was good. Lennex picked up the pace and rounded the corner. He just caught his prey two blocks down and rounding another corner. Regrettably the street was extremely crowded so he couldn't use his super speed. He took off at a run. He couldn't move as fast as he normally could but he could still augment his normal running pace without drawing too much attention. He ran to the street he saw Eddie turn on and looked around. It took him a moment but he found Eddie running up a large flight of stairs in the middle of the block. He ran towards the stairs and saw that Eddie was running into a Shrine.

Great;

Lennex took off up the flight of stairs.

 

 

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“Good bye Mama, I'll visit as soon as I can but you know Inuyasha.” Kagome Higurashi called to her mother. She hefted the large yellow pack that carried her food supplies, first aid kit, and the occasional piece of homework. She had only been able to stay for two days in her time but knew she had to get back other wise she'd have a very unhappy half demon traveling companion. Inuyasha and the rest of her friends were so close to finding all the loose jewel shards that they were getting excited and impatient to find the rest. After the loose shards were collected they could finally concentrate on finding the shards Naraku had. Between him and her group the shards were all but accounted for. Only two were embedded in the legs of the wolf prince Koga, and one was in the back of Kohaku, Sango's younger brother. They were so close to finishing and were ready to make the final push in ending the threat of Naraku and completing the Shikon Jewel. Thankfully though the group agreed to give her two days to go home, restock on her supplies, see her family, and try to catch up on school and her friends in this time. It wasn't easy trying to live in the here and now and 500 years in the past. She wished they could either hurry up and complete the jewel, or graduate high school so she could stop leading a double life.

 

“Ya that will be a wish come true.” She said to herself. Although it was hard going to the feudal era and coming back to the present, she would be sad when it was over. The possibility that when the jewel was completed, the well would close and she'd have to make a choice on were to stay, past or present. Well she'd cross that bridge when she came to it and for now, would live in the moment. She walked across the shrine from her house towards the old well house. If only she would have turned around she would have taken in an odd site, but she continued her forward pace and walked into the well house, shutting the door behind her.

 

 

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The Eel made it to the top of the stairs cursing all the way. He knew Lennex was gaining ground so it was time for his contingency plan. He kept moving across the grounds as he pulled off the back pack and pulled out the container. He tucked the pack under his arms as he slapped two charges on the case and headed for the back of the shrine. He watched as a girl in a white sailor shirt and green skirt exited the house and walked towards a smaller structure. Perfect. He turned to see Lennex crest the steps and start coming towards him. A plan was born.

 

 

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Lennex watched the eel move quickly towards a smaller structure that was off to the side and behind the family house of the shrine. He also observed a young girl in a high school uniform enter the small structure without a care in the world. The eel saw this too. He stopped just outside the well house and turned to face Lennex, who was still 100 yards away. He raised a cylinder container and Lennex knew what was inside. He also saw the charges located on the container. The eel smiled and opened the door to the small structure and tossed the tube inside. He then turned and ran off.

 

“Damn it!” Lennex said as he used his power to zip to the doorway of the building. Hopefully none of the shrine goers had seen him seemingly blur from one point to another but oh well, this girl was in trouble and his hero complex was in full swing. Vegeta always told him acting like Goku and trying to save everyone would get him in trouble.

 

He entered the building and discovered that it was an old well house. The well sat in the middle of the building with a few shelves along the walls. He looked around and found the mini bomb for lack of a better word at the base of the well, but no girl. He raced down the small flight of stairs to the well and picked up the bomb, no telling how much time was left before it blew. He powered up to protect himself and turned back towards the doorway, he didn't know if the girl was hiding somewhere inside or not so he meant to take the bomb outside.

 

That's what he was going to do anyways when the canister in his hand blew up. The force of the blast was relatively small for an explosion. It disintegrated the container and threw the liquid inside outward in all directions. Lennex didn't feel the blast at first. He was powered up enough to take a whole truck of c4 exploding on him, but when the liquid splashed on him he felt his power drop. It dropped so low so quickly that the last part of the shockwave of the explosion hit him tearing at his clothes and skin. He hadn't been hurt by something so small in a long time and that in itself was a shock The second shock was that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't seem to get his power back up and he was getting weaker and weaker in the seconds that ticked by. He stumbled a few more feet back until his legs hit the back of the well. Sadly the rest of his body didn't stop as he tipped backwards and fell into the well.

 

“This is going to hurt.” He thought. His energy was still leaving him as he fell and just before he blacked out he thought he saw a strange blue glow, before everything turned black.

 

 

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“Its about time you got back Kagome, we'd like to start the search sometime this year!” the red clad half demon, Inuyasha groused as he helped the girl out of the well. Good old Inuyasha He could be so nice and help her climb out of the well and still yell at her like she was three years old.

 

“I'm sorry Inuyasha,” she replied, “but I had to get a few things for this hunt. It could be quiet awhile before I get back and I wanted to spend some time with my family just in case….” She left the statement in the air. She knew ever since she started this journey with Inuyasha that it could be very dangerous, possibly lethal, which it almost had been a few times, but in the last two years she never left his side and didn't plan on it anytime soon.

 

“Feh, woman I keep telling you everything is going to be all right. I'll protect you. Nothing will happen to you while I'm around got that. I don't know why you keep worrying about things like……” he trailed off in mid rant. Kagome looked at him and watched him sniff a few times. He turned around and looked at the well, one hand resting on the hilt of his sword, Tetsusaiga

 

“What's wrong Inuyasha?” Kagome questioned, reaching for her bow.

“Oi, woman did you bring someone back with you?” he answered with his own question. Kagome blinked a couple times. No one besides her and Inuyasha had ever been able to pass through the well.

 

They both crept forward and looked down into the well. Inside laid a man, about mid twenties in age. He wore a simple pair of khaki pants and polo shirt covered by a dark jacket. His clothes also looked torn and he had a few cuts and bruises. Inuyasha and Kagome looked at each other bewilderment in their eyes.

 

“I guess we better get him out and see how badly he's hurt.” Kagome said, not sounding too sure of her statement. Inuyasha shrugged his shoulders and hopped into the well to retrieve the injured man.

 

This was definitely a new experience to him, and he hoped it wouldn't turn sour like usual. He picked up the man and slung him over his shoulder. By smell he could tell he was hurt pretty good and there was also two strange smells coming off the man. Well best get him back to the village, he did need a healer. He jumped out of the well and nodded to Kagome, “We need to get him to Kaede. She'll be able to fix him up.” Kagome nodded and together with their unconscious new friend slung over Inuyasha's shoulders, they set of towards the village.