Skyborn

Chapter X: The Double Life Of Launch

Act II

Bad Moon Rising

Brown Country City

Year XR752

She smiled, running her fingers through her freshly washed blonde hair, and stretching her shaven legs out across the silk sheets. It had been a while since she had stayed in a hotel this nice, a very long while, and she was enjoying every minute of it. It wouldn't be long before the cops were at the door looking for her.

She turned on the television and sat up, holding her knees. The news reporter was talking about a robbery that had gone down last night. She smirked as she listened to the broadcast.

The Brown Country Bella struck a bank last night, completely cleaning it out of its entire vault. This is footage of the security cameras.

She paused for a moment as a video of her blowing a kiss to the camera played on the screen. She laughed out loud.

If anyone has any information on her whereabouts they are strongly urged to contact the local authorities. The mayor of Brown Country is offering a substantial reward to anyone who can assist in the Bella's arrest.

She smirked again and threw the blankets back, climbing out of the bed. She enjoyed causing trouble. She had been a hell raiser since the day she was born.

The smile vanished from her face when the loud pounding of the police sounded on the door.

"This is Brown Country P.D. You have thirty seconds to surrender."

She rolled her eyes. That was their problem – they always looked before they shoot. That's why they always ended up empty handed.

She started to pack up everything and quickly put on her clothes. There was only one way she was getting out of the room without the cops catching her and she didn't feel like being on the sixteenth floor in nothing but her underwear.

She grabbed her backpack full of cash and her gun, and walked to the window that faced the city streets. She climbed out of the window and eased her way across the ledge and away from the room. There was a fire escape just around the corner she could climb down and run the two blocks to the alley where she had parked her scooter.

When she reached the side of the building she carefully shimmied her body around the corner, turning so she was now facing the wall. She carefully stepped off the ledge and jumped the two feet to the fire escape. Then climbed down. She jumped the small gap between the end of the ladder and the ground and tore off running down the alley.

She only had two blocks to go and from the sounds of nothing behind her, the cops didn't even know she had left the room yet.

She started the scooter and pulled out into normal traffic. She laughed breathlessly, the wind in her hair.

This was the good life.

That was the last thing she thought before she sneezed.

Not two days later and Goku was back at Roshi's island. The pink shack was right at the center, the Kame House sign shining in the sunlight. He jumped off Kinto'un and ran to the front door. He knocked; it was the polite thing to do.

Nobody answered. He knocked again before he decided to skip formalities and simply walked inside the room.

The hall was nothing fancy. Some coats, some shoes. Goku could hear noise coming from the living room. He headed there. The room was well decorated. There was a square collection of sofas and tables off to the right and a big television set near the wall.