Courage In Me

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So, things were definitely not going as smooth as Mondo had hoped it would... To think when Mrs. Gecko first came into their house, he thought it'd be an easy missing item case. Turned out to be much, much more, with many, many obstacles... He thought about how he was going to convince Ruv to saddle back up and bring him back to his former guardians' tavern in order to find where he may have stashed Marcie. He did try to call him earlier on the communicator, but the Russian didn't answer. Strangely enough, neither did Leon. If Ruv was that upset with Mondo, usually he'd pass the communicator over to the redheaded rockstar. He hoped he wasn't trying to hide away, but he knew Leon would at least keep him in place. Besides, hiding wasn't Ruv's thing... Then again, neither was being scared shitless over one person who only had to give a menacing stare. Mondo shook his head to himself. No... He knew Ruv. Or at least knew him enough that he wouldn't allow his fears to get the best of him. Surely his words over the communicator would have gotten to him, right? The biker sighed to himself as he pulled into the motel's lot. He wasn't very good with mushy confrontation... It was hard enough to do it over the communicator. Now he had to it all over again, and in person! The things he goes through for his clients... He pulled up to their motel room, shut off the engine, stepped out of the car, and made his way towards the door... and only then did he realize there was a problem. The big glass window to their room was completely shattered. Something definitely happened! He raced to the door, quickly unlocked it, and smashed through. 

Mondo: Ruvvy?! 

Kiyotaka: Leon?! [They frantically looked around. Some of the furniture was knocked over and jolted. There were definitely signs of a struggle. He got on his knees and peeked under the bed, then quickly got back up and opened the drawers, if only to make sure at least one of them was left behind... He then slammed open the bathroom door. The window above the toilet was also broken. Apparently, there were two intruders... And both Ruv and Leon were taken. Mondo cursed to himself. What was he thinking leaving them behind to fend for themselves?! Leon's only a trainee! And on any other given day Ruv could protect him... but his nerves were all over the place. There was no way he could've kept it together! There was only one person he could think of who would do this... But he just saw Yamanaga back at his tavern! Unless... Then it suddenly hit him...

 Then it suddenly hit him

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[Flashback...]

Mondo: Where is yer little goon squad anyway?

Yamanaga: They're running an errand for me!

[End of flashback...]

So THAT'S what he meant! It WAS Yamanaga, only he got tweedle-dumb and tweedle-dumb-as-rocks to kidnap his team for him! Now it was more than just finding and rescuing Marcie, he had to find and rescue his boys too. That did it... Yamanaga was in deep shit now! Kosuke groaned as he tossed his phone on the coffee table]

Kosuke: Well, Mashoru's on his way! [Ruv's breathing hardened] But he says hands off until he gets here!

Shintaro: Awww... but they look like so much fun!

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