A Not So Fresh Start

Moving On
''Wow, It's 11:00pm already? I always lose track of time when I'm working''. "Hey Gyo, I think I'll call it a day."

"Fine, boss. I think I'll stay a bit more, I'm not done analyzing these samples."

"Well, good luck. My brain needs some rest, and a lot of booze, you should come! HAHA!"

"Umm, I don't think booze is actually good for your brain."

"Aaah come on, don't be such a workhorse! Let's go grap a couple of drinks, maybe even some beautiful ladies!" "Workhorse?"

"Come on Gyo!."

"Fine, if it gets you to stop YELLING AT ME!"

"Sheesh! Quite the temper, eh boy?"

"I've politely asked you, literally a thousand times to stop calling me "BOY". I'm older than you!"

"Yes yes, come on! Grab your stuff and let's go." As he was grabbing his stuff, Umori Kenshiro stopped in his tracks, and looked at the floor intently, as if somehow seeing what was below them. "Heh...guess the gig is up." He then went to his desk, opened a bottom drawer, and from it he pulled out a large briefcase, and a small metallic apparatus.

"What are you doing?" asked Eren Gyo, Kenshiro's assistant and an expert in bio-engineering.

"Listen to me Gyo. I think we have been found out. As I speak, Rita is walking up the stairs to our office, followed by at least fifteen more individuals. That can only mean, she knows the truth."

"What!? Are you joking? No, it must mean something else. No, no, no, no! This can't be happening. What will I do know. No, no!" Gyo was freaking out. Kenshiro looks at him, grabs him by the neck and pins him to the wall. "Listen to me you coward, I have an escape plan. But I need you to pull up your pants, grab your stuff, and stand behind me!" Just as Kenshiro was finishing up that sentence, the front door is smashed open, and a beautiful, armored marine woman enters furiously, with ten other armed marine soldiers beside her. Behind them, five men dressed in lab coats stand just behind the smashed door.

"KENSHIRO!!" The woman yelled at the top of her voice. "You will not get away with this, Kenshiro! You have betrayed my trust, you have betrayed the Marines and the Government!...I never", her voice began to break down for a moment. "I...never expected you would go to such lenghts!"

Kenshiro analyzed the situation briefly. He recognized the five men with lab coats at the entrance. They were scientists who worked in the lab and had helped him and Gyo with many experiments.

"Ohoho...so these were the rats." said Kenshiro with a serious look on his face.

"Don't ignore me Shiro!" As she said that, Rita smashed a nearby table with her heavy axe spear. Kenshiro directed his gaze at Rita. "Tell me why? Why did you kill Tristan and the others!? Weren't the prisoners you were permitted to experiment on enough? You had to go and kill fellow Marine officers!"

Kenshiro took a deep breath, and sighed. He looked at Rita, who with every minute that passed, was gripping her axe spear tighter. "My dear Rita, please, don't get so emotional. Although I understand why you're so upset. Truth is, I wanted to tell you, but I knew you were going to be against the experiment, so, well, I, WE, did it in secret."

"ARE YOU INSANE!" Rita lifted her axe spear, and with a powerful swing, she smashed the axe into the wall at her right. Gyo, who had been hiding behind Kenshiro, led a small shriek as the wall was smashed, which prompted Kenshiro to shock his head in disappointment.

"Shiro", said Rita, calling him by the nickname she gave him out of trust. She seemed to had calmed down a little. "Umori Kenshiro, I, Commodore Escaria Rita of the Marines, place you, and your associate, Eren Gyo, under arrest, for unsolicited and illegal experimentation, and subsequent murder of twelve marine officers caused by said experiments. I ask both of you, to surrender yourselves peacefully and quietly."

Kenshiro just stood there, without uttering a word. "Shiro...Shiro...Ken, Kenshiro...Kenshiro!"

"Woah!" Kenshiro suddenly woke up, he abruptly sat down, and grabbed his head with both hands. ''I keep reliving that moment. Guess it was quite intense. ''

"Kenshiro!"

"Gyo! What is it!? Man!"