Fishy's Adventures

Chapter Twenty-Nine - The Counterattack

„This smashed laptop cost around three thousand..."
„...and the chandelier replacement is gonna be another seventeen hundred."
„What about the chairs?"
„Most of them broken, will be one grand for all."
„Oh, the fence outside was also partly smashed. The paint job and the metallurgy is gonna ruin this school."
„What about..."
„Stop right there!" - The boys' frivolous damage assessment was cut short by a woman they'd never seen before.
Realizing that the damage inside the Fishy's office was not to be seen by outsiders, Goldy pulled his sword and deftly charged at the broad. She dodged the blow, not even having to do a roll, then grabbed Goldy's wrist and wrestled the weapon from him. She then counterattacked our hero by hitting him with her elbow, right below his ribs. Goldy stumbled to the ground, unfamiliar with this fighting style. Vantami rushed to help him up, however strong was his desire to assume the same tactic as his friend had.
„Who... ..who are you?" - Asked Goldy, his stomach still hurting like hell.
„My name is Counter. Agatha Counter. I'm the new chemist that Fishy recruited to the IIIrd LO. Now, I'll carelessly ignore this violent greeting and start cleaning this mess up. And I'll have it done BY THE BOOKS. Got it? Yes? Now get out of my sight before I am forced to subdue you."
As the young men were heading out, she added;
„But remember: explosions can be done everywhere."
„What?" - Goldy was clearly confused.
„Nope, nevermind. Outta here, now."
When Vantami took Goldy to a safer place, he said: „She may not be the friendliest type, but I'm getting a feeling we'll cooperate just fine. Totally not because of the 'splosions. Trust me. Okay, maybe just a little something?"
„Don't wanna hear about this. I've got the dosh from Fishy and it seems like he won't be going anywhere anytime soon. I'm off home. You can join me for a few days if you like."
„That's an offer I will take you up on."
The lads walked off into the sunset, for that cliché feeling.
Meanwhile, Agatha Counter was busy dragging her injured boss to Mr Waldeck's post, where medical supplies were kept.
„Ouch, aw, fuck, I have glass shards all over my back and you pull me around, you dumb..." - Fishy was interrupted by the sight of Mr Waldeck approaching. Finally a trustworthy person. Counter didn't really give him a chance to speak up, the poor, shy man.
„Really? Didn't notice that at all. It's not like your room's windows have been broken, right?"
„Just let my trusted man handle this, please. You're dismissed for today, Agatha, just leave, I beg you! Oh, the pain..." - Fishy was experiencing pain for the first time since what would seem as ages. It wasn't to his liking. It brought too much memories of his early childhood.
Having heard that, Miss Agatha Counter left the IIIrd LO quickly and cheerily. For now.
„Calling emergency services. Right now. No time to waste. Worry not. You're in good hands. Just sit tight. Erm. I mean lie. Lie tight. And be brave. Boss."
Waldeck quickly called 911 and stuttered the details of the accident.
A bit later, the ambulance arrived and took Fishy to hospital. Much to his frustration, Froggy and Isher were also taken. He couldn't expect that the paramedics would come up with the idea to search the battle site.
A few days later, it'd seem everything was going to be all right. Froggy's condition was worsening, as the doctors marvelled at the scale of destruction of his body on the cellular level, namely the mitochondrias. Isher was hurt quite badly and didn't look like she's going to make it out of the hospital alive. Fishy, despite his fairly mature age, seemed to recover quite steadily. His nurse commended his speedy recovery, little did she know that he was steadily smoking under the bed when nobody was looking, which would explain his regeneration to near full health in mere days. One day, when he felt somewhat better, he thought:
„Hm, so Isher and Froggy are lying here, their condition uncertain, Gregory would have finished me off long since if he had been alive, so it's safe to assume my little Froggy christmas elf lying over there has got the job done. But something doesn't check out..." - he pondered. „...wait, it wasn't Froggy who got rid of my vermin brother. That sucker would never have the balls to do it. It was Goldy! Where does this imbecile think he can be when I'm in need?!"
Michael heard his phone ringing. Fishy. He had learnt to keep this number on the blacklist ever since the bad dream incident last year. He pushed his samurai discipline to its limits and didn't pick up the phone.
„This spells trouble." - he said.
„Let him come for us, I'll be more than happy to pincushion that tyrant just like Isher did." - Vantami replied.
„Now, now, don't get overconfident. Remember this time when he dodged my special blow that I was expecting to be a sure hit? He's not normal, I tell you."
Fishy lost all the connection with his aide and he was absolutely furious.
„This guy had more that one chance, and now he's getting the steel. He knows too much and can do too much harm to be alive while I'm in this city. I just have to figure out how..."
„Why don't we think about this together, Ian? I'm pretty sure I had a book about sneaky planning lying somewhere here..." - said a voice in the shadows. - „With my help and your, uh, arms proficiency, those guys are screwed!"
Fishy smiled, but quickly turned back to his „fishy face".
„Okay, but how the hell did you get here?"

Froggy was lying on the hospital bed, feeling half-dead. It were his final hours, and he knew it. With great effort, he turned to Isher lying on a bed on the opposite side of the room.
„Yvonne, it was all your fault, you wanted to kill Fishy, and what did you achieve? Nothing but damage to the school and death of those who didn't deserve it."
Yvonne Isher could barely move. Her body sustained critical injuries during the broken glass brawl. It was a miracle that her vital organs were kept in working order, though this could change at any given moment. The prognosis for both of the patients wasn't promising. She did not answer to Froggy. She just focused her hearing to get a hold of Froggy's agony, one last bit of sadistic pleasure before ending up on the other side.
Froggy didn't give her the satisfaction. For the first time ever, he withstood pain like a real man, with his teech clenched.
The nurse was sitting at the door gazing at the two poor people whose lives were visibly waning.
Froggy died that night due to damage on the cellular level. One of the many shards that got into Isher during the brawl finally reached the main artery, piercing it. She bled out on the hospital bed before the doctors noticed anything.
Goldy, as one of the last people whom Froggy mentioned, was informed of his acquaintance's death.
„Wow, he really fell for that girl.." - he thought.
Meanwhile, Fishy and Counter were preparing for the elimination of the last threats to their supremacy at the IIIrd LO: the Warriors Two, that is: Goldy and Vantami.