Surprise

Viceroy clicks the close tab to shut off his second voice program, the program that deleted the files at Interpol. Opening a file that says the Ting family, he reviews the current information in the file. After a few minutes, he starts to type in it the percentage that he’d be receiving from the job. A beeping noise startled Viceroy momentarily as he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a small device that is the source of the noise, and also is flashing.

The device is his security warning, notifying him that someone is getting too close to his location with a weapon of some kind. Taking a small cross from around his neck, he puts it up to the USB port on his laptop and downloads all of his files to it. Then proceeds to activate a function on his laptop that says WHD (wipe hard drive). Viceroy takes the cross and puts it back around his neck and grabs a suitcase beside him.

He walks over to his bed with his back towards the window, lays the suitcase down, and unlocks it. Meow and Butterfly burst through the window to Viceroy's apartment, the cut on Butterfly makes her struggle to stand up straight. Butterfly then points to Viceroy's laptop and Meow goes over to check it. Butterfly limps closer to Viceroy and pulls out her butterfly swords. Viceroy reaches behind his neck and grabs his long white ponytail. He then pulls his ponytail around to his mouth and bites it hard. Meow quickly walks over next to Butterfly with her whip-knife in hand.

“I can’t find anything sister, either he deleted all the files or transferred them,” Meow said while trying to search his laptop.

Butterfly then points her weapon at Viceroys back; “Tell me Viceroy, who put the hit out on us, was it Leon Wong, prince of Zaynon?”

Viceroy puts his head down and then spins around with an axe in his hands. As Viceroy begins to fight off the Ting sisters, X knocks the last butterfly out of the air. With cuts all over him, X focuses really hard to heal all of his wounds. Once he starts to heal he walks over to the edge of the building.

Looking over to a broken window, X sees Viceroy fighting the Ting sisters. X heals completely and continues to watch the fight carefully. As Viceroy blocks Butterfly’s butterfly knife, he gets whipped by Meows whip-knife. X comes flying through the window, kicking Meow into Butterfly. X then stands next to Viceroy with his sword at the ready.

“What took you so long, you know I’m not as young as I used to be. I could’ve gotten hurt just now,” Viceroy says panting out of breath.

X looks at Viceroy and smiles, “come on old man, you hurt. You fight almost better than I do.”

Butterfly and Meow glance at each other then looks back to Viceroy and X. “Mr. Viceroy, I’d like to use your services.” Viceroy, X, and Meow look at Butterfly confused.

“I’d like to pay you to kill the person responsible for putting a contract on our family. If you accept this I’ll pay you $700,000 cash.”

Viceroy stunned, looks at X, then looks back at Butterfly, “the contract was for $100,000 for each of you and an extra $100,000 for all those cats.”

Butterfly and Meow look at each other and then look back at Viceroy.

“My cats, you had to kill my cats.”

Viceroy looks at Meow, “honestly we still have to kill you. Nothing personal my dear, just business.”

“Wait! Take me, spare my sister. Please…” Butterfly says abruptly.

Meow grabs Butterfly’s arm, “what’re you doing?”

Butterfly grabs Meows shoulder, and Meow passes out. Butterfly looks back at Viceroy and X. “My sisters pregnant, that’s why I need her to live. I’ll give you an extra $300,000 if you allow her to live. I need my sister to have her child, our family must live on.”

Viceroy looks at X, “What do you think?” X looks at Viceroy then back at Butterfly. He stares his firm blood-red eyes into her lime green eyes and places his sword back in its sheath. Butterfly bows to them both then drops to her knees awaiting her life to be taken. X looks to Viceroy confused, Viceroy looks back at X and then to Butterfly.

“You do know you have to pay us before anything happens, right?” Viceroy says sarcastically. X looks at Viceroy, “you know we don’t have to kill either of them now.” X turns his head towards Butterfly, “if you guys quit your blood lusts we could let you both live without anyone knowing.” X looks back at Viceroy, “plus, after this incident you could use 2 well-trained ninjas for protectors. They get to live and get jobs in the process. What do you think?”

Kamikaze X starts to smile and begins to laugh, Viceroy smiles and puts his axe down.

2 days later…

As Mei-Ling Chan arrives at her apartment, she notices a note pinned to her door. The note reads that 3 Interpol agents have gone missing near Zaynon and that she should investigate it tomorrow, signed by her commanding officer. She wonders why this note is on her door and decides that she’ll call her commanding officer once she enters the apartment. Once inside she sets her things down and walks over to her phone, there isn’t a dial tone. She checks the cord and sees that there’s nothing wrong with it.

Mei-Ling finds this odd and walks over to her kitchen to check the phone in there. Her shoes begin to make a sound as if she’s stepping in liquid. As she looks around the kitchen she notices that her refrigerator is slightly open. She opens it and sees that there’s water on every shelf and that everything is ruined. She opens her freezer and sees that everything has melted but she doesn’t see a reason for it. The power is on and she remembers shutting the fridge. Suddenly, Mei-Ling sees that there’s a set of footprints leading out of her kitchen.

Mei-Ling withdrawals a handgun from under her jacket and turns the safety off.

As she begins to slowly walk out of the kitchen, she pulls her cell phone out and flips it open but there isn’t a signal. She puts her cell back in her pocket and ready’s her handgun. When she steps into the next room she sees someone kneeled on the floor.

“Freeze!” she commands, “Put your hands above your head and stand up slowly.”

The person stands up slowly without raising their hands.

“I said put your hands up. Don’t make me ask you again.”

The person then starts to turn towards her slowly.

“Freeze!” she yells out.

“Mei…” the person says slowly, “Mei, help me… help me, please…”

Mei-Ling stops moving almost completely frozen by what she sees.

“Mei…” the person says staring at her.

“Mei, why… why’d you let me die?”

As Mei-Ling hears this she falls to the ground staring at her dead brother eye to eye.

“Mei…” the voice echoes.

“AHHHHH!” Mei-Ling screams as she wakes up in her bed in a cold sweat. Breathing heavily she starts to shake and begins to cry.

This recurring nightmare keeps Mei-Ling up most nights. Always looking to capture the person who killed her brother. Oddly, her bedroom seems very cold. When she looks to her window she sees that it’s open, with the wind blowing her curtain wildly. She stands up to close her window then notices something out of the corner of her eye, a sword. Housed within its beautiful black ebony sheath is the blade of Kamikaze X, she recognizes it due to its red accents. She begins to look around the room but sees nothing, no one. She reaches under her pillow for her gun and finds nothing.

“Looking for this Ms. Chan?” Kamikaze X asks Mei-Ling in a very subtle voice.

“I have that one too, Ms. Chan. There’s no need for you to look for another one.” X walks over to his sword and sits her gun on the dresser that it's resting on.

“I believe that Viceroy spoke with you some time ago, that’s why I’m here today.”

Mei-Ling looks at Kamikaze X with a puzzled look on her face. X looks back with a smile, “you wanted to talk to me, talk now, here’s your chance.” Mei-Ling looks at X in disbelief of what he just said. She sits back on her bed and covers herself up.

“I’m very disappointed in you Kamikaze. I’m dressed in my nightclothes and you snuck into my bedroom. Were you hoping to see me in the nude?” X looks at her as if he was disrespected.

“Excuse me, Ms. Chan, this was the only opportunity that I had. As you know better than anyone else.” X smiles at her then pause, “I’m a very busy man.” Mei-Ling looks at him than an image flashes in her mind. The image that she sees is of her brother, his dead eyes looking up at her in their final moments together. Remembering she gives X an angry look. X notices this change in her character and waits for her to say something.

“Do you know who I am?” she says abruptly.

X’s face shows a look of confusion.

“Before you knew of me as an Interpol agent, you’ve met me before. Do you remember who I am?”

X looks at Mei-Ling, “Yes, I remember you. It was twelve years ago when those twenty people attacked that couple. You and your friend were about twenty yards off in the distance.” X looks at her with remorse, “I can never forget that day Mei-Ling.” X begins to walk over to her. Mei-Ling gets out of her bed and begins to walk toward X. The look in her eyes as she looks back into his, X is riddled with questions to ask.

“He wasn’t my friend, he was my brother. We were going to school, walking our normal shortcut, and became witnesses to a massacre. On top of it, all my brother lost his life thanks to you, and I was admitted to a mental institution for a month.”

“I was completing my assignment and at the same time I was trying to protect you.” Mei-Ling squints at him, “Protect, how were you protecting us.” In anger Mei-Ling begins to pace her room, “You came into our lives and ruined them. My brother was only 13 years old.”

“I was trying to complete my assignment and that’s it. Everyone I killed that day had to be killed.”

Mei-Ling looks at X and rushes over to him, staring him in his face once more, “Everyone Kamikaze, everyone you killed that day had to be killed. Why? What did anyone there do? Huh, you tell me.”

X walks towards the open window, “I told you already, Ms. Chan…”

“Yes, you said an assignment. Was my brother apart of your assignment? That wasn’t fair.”

“You both were there and I had to adapt to the situation. I tried to…”

Mei-Ling, consumed by anger pushes X.

“Adapt, what did you adapt to? killing everyone there except for me. What the hell is that supposed to mean?”

X steps closer to her, “It means that what happened that day was necessary.”

“Necessary, my brother was innocent…”

“You don’t know your brother like you think.”

“He was protecting me!”

“By attacking me?”

“You frightened us.”

“I was protecting you,” X yells out.

“You killed him…”

“I had to…”

Mei-Ling slaps X across his face, “you bastard…” X frozen solid from Mei-Ling’s action turns his head slowly until he’s staring her in the face. He watches her tears roll down her cheeks, “Mei-Ling, your brother's death was… an accident. I did what I had to, to make his pain go away. If I were not to have taken your brother's life, he’d have suffered a horrible death. Eventually choking to death off of his own blood.” Mei-Ling starts to cry out loud and bang on X’s chest, “it’s your fault, it’s all your fault.” X embraces her pain and holds her tightly hugging her. He lets her release the pain she’s held in for the past 12 years.