From: coram@ed.ecn.purdue.edu (Chaosmage)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Angels in Paradise Chapter Six
Date: 28 Sep 92 17:52:39 GMT
Organization: Shadow Walker's Annonymous


                           Angels in Paradise
              Chapter Six: A gamble pays off unexpectedly.

     Make haste slowly.
          -- Latin Proverb

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     As Yuri reached the mouth of the alley, she spotted Randy
turning right.  "There he goes!" she exclaimed.
     "Don't let him get away!"  Kei responded.
     As the Pair rounded the corner, Yuri, slightly in the lead,
came to an abrupt stop.  Kei crashed into her from behind.  "Yuri! 
 Why did you . . . ?" she started.  The reason was immediately
obvious.  Randy was smiling about 10 meters away.  Between him and
the Pair were half a dozen very large "toughs," all armored and
armed.
     "I'm sorry to leave when things are getting interesting, but
I have an appointment," Randy smirked.  "Gentlemen, I'll leave you
to your sport."  With that, he turned and strolled down the alley.
     A noise from behind alerted Yuri, who turned and saw several
more toughs closing in.  "Kei, more goons back," she whispered.  
     "Roger.  I'll take front," Kei whispered back.  With a shouted
"GO!" Kei whipped a tiny laser gun from the change purse she was
carrying and fired at the lead tough.  It was a perfectly aimed
shot that took him full in the chest.  Unfortunately, his armor
reflected the beams harmlessly away.
     At the same instant, Yuri whipped her skirt away, revealing
that she had her WWWA uniform bottoms on underneath, complete with
her gun.  With her patented quick-draw, Yuri had her gun in hand
and had fired at the closest thug behind the Pair.  Her shot was
only slightly more effective than Kei's.  The thug was knocked back
a step, but was otherwise unhurt.
     The remaining toughs, their weapons already in hand, opened
fire at the Pair.  Only their trained reflexes kept the two from
being hit.  They dove behind some nearby trash cans.
     "Damn their armor!" Kei snarled.  She looked askance at Yuri
as Yuri pressed her larger gun into her hands.  "Huh?"
     Yuri's answer was an evil little grin, as she drew the Bloody
Cardtm from her bra.  "I'll cast, and you target their faces."
     "Butbutbut!  Well, I guess even *that* can't make things any
worse.  Okay."
     As one, the Pair stood.  With a banshee scream, Yuri cast the
Card.  For once, it worked the way it was meant to.  Half the thugs
were cut down as it arced through their midst.  Using the shock
that Yuri's shout had caused, not to mention the devastating effect
of the Card, Kei quickly downed several more.
     The remaining two thugs, not looking so tough any more, turned
to flee.  With deadly grace, the Lovely Angels, now *avenging*
angels, leapt the cans and in a few strides were on top of the
fleeing men.  Yuri executed a flying kick, catching her opponent in
the back of the skull.  He went down like a ton of bricks.  She
turned in time to see Kei throw her opponent to the ground with a
fancy judo move.  A karate chop to the neck finished him off.
     "That's the last time I go out without my rocket launcher,"
Kei muttered.
     The sound of hands clapping together caused the Pair to spin
in attack stances.  They relaxed as Chuck came into view.
     "I saw you go running down that alley from my car down the
street.  I called for backup, and then ran down here myself.  Geez,
it looks like you didn't need *my* help."
     "Did you see where that creep went?" Kei asked.
     "Who?  Oh, Randy?  No, he must have left some other way."
     "Damn."

                        *        *        *

     Back at police headquarters, Kei wanted to question the two
surviving thugs herself.  Chief Olstein wasn't having any of it.
     "No!  We have experts at this sort of thing.  Let them do
their jobs.  We need these two alive afterward," he exploded at her
suggestion.
     Argue as she would, Kei couldn't convince him to change his
mind.
     "Kei, it's been a long day.  Why don't you and Yuri get some
rest, and we'll tackle things fresh in the morning," Chuck said, in
one of his most reasonable tones.
     Kei looked like she would argue further, but a yawn stopped
her.
     "Come on, sleepy head," Yuri said.  "Let's get some sleep.  I
sure could use some."
     "Okay, okay.  I guess I *could* use forty winks."
     "Tell you guys what, I'll swing by your hotel tomorrow morning
at breakfast, and fill you in on what the interrogation turns up,"
offered Chuck.
     "Deal," the Angels said together.


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