Tiger Lady

Meal Train Mayhem

Bria and the others were back at the hideout. It was six o'clock, meaning for Arthur, a proud American, it was dinnertime.

"Ok, it's six o'clock and I am hungry! As warriors we must eat to keep our strength. No warrior can fight on an empty stomach."

"I want some Chick-Fil-A." Bria suggested.

"Nah, that's too mundane." Arthur rejected Bria's offer. "This is Atlanta, where things look small but are bigger on the inside." Bria and Zuri wanted to know where Arthur was going with this. "How about some Chinese food!" Ji-Ae's attention had been caught.

"Ooh-Ooh-Ooh!" Ji-Ae chirped. "There's a Chinese/Korean/Japanese place not too far from my residence, which is built into a Korean salon."

"Well, why didn't you just tell me that?" Arthur agreed. "Buford Highway, here we come!"

"Will we be taking the TigerMobile?" Zuri asked.

"Not very subtle if we're just going to eat, so how about a Bentley?" Arthur proposed.

"Much more subtle." Zuri agreed. Zuri was so excited to ride in a Bentley that she sang a song about it.

"We're riding in a Bentley; we're riding in a Bentley!" She sang to herself. Arthur had to warn everyone about the precautions.

"I am warning you; this Bentley does not come cheap. It doesn't grow on trees or in the ground. It isn't sold at a department store either. So if you manage to get even one scratch on it, I will put you down." His cold eye and scowl stared into Bria's soul.

"Why don't you drive then?" Bria asked the obvious question.

"Oh, yea." Arthur forgot he could drive his own car, since he normally uses a chauffeur to drive his cars for him because he was so rich. Arthur got in the driver's seat, Zuri got in the shotgun seat, while Ji-Ae and Bria got in the back. Carrie and Layla waved goodbye to them while they drove away.

They drove away to Buford Highway, seeing the beautiful orange sunset in the sky.

"Wow, beautiful sunset!" Ji-Ae commented, staring from out her window.

"Yes, I know, Captain Obvious." Arthur rudely replied. "That is a sunset. Less focus on the scenery, more focus on the eatery." Arthur drove by a salon named Wong Salon.

"Wong Salon. Ji-Ae, is that your house?" Arthur asked.

"In fact it is." Ji-Ae mentioned. "I have a whole Pikachu room in my house, and it's a spare room that no one else uses. Also, it's ironic that a Korean woman idolizes a Japanese cartoon character because Koreans and Japanese have a long history of hatred between each other."

"Silence!" Arthur snapped. "That's way more than I needed to know." He stopped by a restaurant named Meal Train, mentioning on its sign that it was a Chinese, Korean, and Japanese restaurant. Arthur and everyone else got out and came inside. Once they were seated, the waitress began taking their drink orders.

"What would your drink orders be?" The waitress with the black hair in a frizzed ponytail and round glasses asked.

"I'll have a Michelob Ultra." Bria told the waitress.

"Miller Lite!" Zuri told the waitress.

"I'll have your strawberry bubble tea." Ji-Ae's order was more exotic, since she was of Asian descent.

"I will have ten glasses of your finest sake." Arthur's order was a bit excessive, oddly enough.

"That seems excessive, so it may take some time." The waitress began to get the drink orders. A few moments passed and the waitress arrived, ready to take their food orders.

"What would you like to eat?" The waitress asked.

"I will have the Pork Ramen Soup!" Bria told the waitress.

"I will have the Shrimp Rice Noodle Soup!" Zuri ordered a rice noodle soup like her cousin.

"I want the Roll for Initiative Sushi combo!" Ji-Ae told the waitress.

"You do realize that's 12 sushi rolls and eight sashimi rolls, is that correct?" The waitress asked.

"Yes, nae chingu." Ji-Ae told the waitress.

"Sorry, I don't speak Korean, but if I look it up on Google Translate, you said my friend." The waitress had to do her research to translate Ji-Ae's speech.

"I will have 20 entrees of the Grandma BBQ Pork Noodle Bowl, please!" Arthur's order was a bit excessive, as if he was waiting for something.

"Ok, coming right up!" The waitress went to take the order to the kitchen so the cooks could prepare the food. After an hour and thirty minutes passed, everyone's food was ready. However, an unwanted guest appeared in the form of a white-clad ninja.

"Hello, I am Number 9, or you can call me Shobu Tanoshi." The ninja drew his twin swords and threw three throwing stars at the table. Bria and Ji-Ae turned into their Amazon form while Zuri and Arthur sat the fight out. Zuri began to steal Bria and Ji-Ae's food. Bria, still on her path of vengeance, charged at Shobu. She struck him directly, but he threw a smoke bomb and dodged the attack. He held Ji-Ae hostage, holding a kunai over her throat.

"Come any closer and she gets it!" Shobu threatened.

"Fuck that!" Bria pulled out her gun and shot Shobu in the head, breaking his grasp of Ji-Ae. Bria pulled out her sword and sliced Shobu's head clean off, killing him. Shobu's body and disembodied head disintegrated into black sand that quickly vanished.

"Take me back home." Ji-Ae told Arthur. After the bill was paid, Arthur decided to drive Ji-Ae home.

"Let's go, everyone!" Arthur told the group. Arthur dropped Ji-Ae at her house, and drove everyone else back to the hideout.

"Two down, eight more to go." Bria's muscles were boiling with rage, as if she was being driven to insanity from losing her parents, her aunt and her uncle. Whatever the feeling was, it was not good.