Hometown Justice: Homecoming

Chapter Twelve

Keitaro saw Tai and Jason approaching. He opened the gate and smiled as the entered the lumberyard. 

“How is everything?” Jason asked.

“Not good. Alex is missing in action, Chase may be dead, and Tommy’s goons have taken over the city. We thought we were finally winning, but it looks like Alex led us right into Tommy’s traps,” Keitaro said, noticing Tai’s absent mindedness. “Something wrong, Tai?”

“Just remembered something I’m not proud of. I broke a vow Ken, Alex and I made years ago. I took someone’s life using a set of techniques that we vowed to never use,” Tai said.

“I’m sure it can’t be that bad. I once vowed to never fight Kuro on a mission and I had to break it once, Alex was okay with it,” Keitaro said, placing his hand on Tai’s shoulder, “We’ve all been in your--”

“NO,” Tai bellowed, throwing Keitaro’s hand off. “YOU DON’T FUCKING UNDERSTAND! I NOT ONLY VOWED TO KEN AND ALEX NOT USE THE DAMN TECHNIQUE, BUT TO MY GRANDFATHER AS WELL,”

“Easy, Tai,” Jason said. 

“NO, YOU BE EASY,” Tai yelled. “This fucked up ex-soldier thinks he knows me when he don’t know shit,” 

“Tai, I didn’t mean to offend your honor. I was just stating my opinion,” Keitaro said, shocked.

“Well, guess what, you sorry excuse for a soldier, you did offend me. And now your going to pay for it,” Tai said, throwing down the weapons he was carrying. 

“No, I will not fight you,” Keitaro said, narrowing his eyes. 

“Keitaro, it may be best to just enlighten him,” Jason said, “I’ll referee this bout. We’ll do it based on a points system. First person to score five points, wins the fight. Then we can go help Alex,”

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“I spy with my little Aidan Collins enhanced eyes,” Ken muttered under his breath from atop Polkville Sports Asylum.

Ken, Vinnie, and Aidan stood atop the building with backpacks full of Aidan’s gizmos. Ken now peered through a pair of binoculars Aidan had altered with x-ray vision. He peered through the walls of the building, looking for any sign of Chase. 

“Don’t be peeking at the under garments of the women,” Vinnie retorted, as he and Aidan worked on a signal device. 

“There aren’t any women out. The town is lock down,” Ken shot back.

“Dude, I’m trying to lighten the mood a bit,” Vinnie stated, before the computer screen before him started blinking. “Aidan, check this out. Tommy’s got two squads in the city. We’re practically surrounded up here,”

“Just keep quiet. No one knows how to get to the rooftop of the Asylum,” Ken said, “Only Alex, Tai, and myself know the way up here,”

“Alright, so what’s the plan?” Aidan asked, “Kuro, Keitaro, Jason and Tai should be on their way here soon, what will we do?” 

“I don’t know yet. Keitaro declared this mission a code black. He’s in charge, I was just told to observe the enemy and see if I could tell for sure that Chase was injured,” Ken said, “he told me not to engage the enemy,” 

“So far, I can’t even lock onto Chase’s cell phone signal,” Aidan said, “The binoculars aren’t even allowing you to see inside the store as far as I would like for you too,”