A girl, not much taller than 1.60m, walked through the streets happily, holding a plastic bag with food. It was around noon, so she probably carried lunch for someone else, as she ate a kebab skewer on her free hand.
She wore gym-like clothes, such as leggings and a top, with running snickers. She had short, wavy and brown hair and wore fighting fingerless gloves, although one of her hands had bandages around it.
The girl soon arrived her destination, entering through the houses garage. It had machinery and scraps all over it, and in the back, a man, standing around 1.85m tall, with long, dark blonde hair, rwaxhing just by the end of his neck. He was curved, looking down at something as he only wore a social shirt and pants, with social shoes.
The girl, with a big smile, screamed "Thales, I'm back!" The man lost his concentration, almost throwing his equipment away and breaking his invention. "God! Usagi, don't scream when I'm working!" Thales said as he turned to look at her, revealing his face, with his beard with its failures. holding his food. "Oh, right, you bought lunch, I didn't even remember I was hungry."
He wore steampunk-like glasses, although it of course had something more than it shows, and so he removed it and put on the table, showing his deep dark cicles under his eyes. "Did they have rice today? I missed eating it last week." Thales said as he got closer to her, pulling a chair that wasn't being used for him and another one for her. "Yeah! I asked for them to put a bit more for you!" He reached for his lunch and opened it, seeing what was inside.
"Oh! Even cooked manioc today! Thanks, Usagi." Thales said as he patted her had, making she smile and blush a bit. As he went to eat it with a fork, he noticed the bandages under her gloves. "Did you get hurt? What happened?" He said as he put the food over the table and reached to her hand, holding her wraist.
Usagi reacted by pulling back her arm. "H-Hey! Don't just hold me like that! And I'm not injured, I'm fine, just eat your food!" She said as she tried to hide her hand, but Thales wasn't going to give up. "Show it to me, I know you are injured." He said as he reached for it more gently this time, and removed her glove. "How did you cut yourself in the hand like this?"
Usagi, now wanting to hide her face from embarrassment, answered. "It was supposed to be a surprised! I got some things I think you'd like! You dummy!" She said as she showed her tongue, mocking him, just like a child would do. Thales was confused. Surprise? She never tried to do something like that, and they have been living together for ages. "What did you do this time?"
"I stole some projects from another scientists! They said they were researching something they just found, they said it was a Mango!... Or was it Mana? Anyways! I thought you'd like! I think they were from Forsakery! I only overheard that they don't know much about it!" Usagi said as she smirked, proud of her accomplishments as a thief to help Thales. In another perspective, he was dumbfounded, with his mouth semi opened. He rose his hand and hit the middle of the top of her heas with the side of his hand.
"Are you out of your mind? You should've asked me first, I would've helped!" He screamed at her, of course, he was mad. Thales cared about her and loved her very much, although he never said it, they loved together since she was 10 and he was 14. They were raised all by themselves, they were all they had. For her, to steal national documents by herself was too dangerous, as she could've arrested or worst.
As she was sulking, as she crossed her arms "That hurts! And I used the equipments you made me, they won't be able to know who hit them!" Usagi tried to counter argue with him, but to no results. Thales reached for her and stood closer to her face. "What if they caught you as you were in? What if someone saw or they had that recording things installed?! God only knows what could've happened to you! If the Forsakerian government thinks our goverment stole it it could become a war!"
Thales was really worried about her, but this was the only way he could express those kind of feelimgs through words, but Usagi was just frustrated, as her eyes became watery. "I-I thought you would come for me if something happened! You idiot!" She said as she stormed through the opened garage door and ran away.
"Usagi, wait!" Thales tried to reach for her, but she was too quick and her arm slipped through his grop. "Shit! And I didn't even lunch!" He said as he reached for a top hat on the top of the table and put it on his had, then for his overcoat and a katana, that he put on his right side of his pants and started to go after her after he reached for a cane that he used too and started to run after her.
But, his physical condition was really bad, and he didn't eat or drink anything, so he could only track where she went, although it would take ages to reach her. Time wasn't a problem for him, he persisted and instead of running, he went as quick as possible in a way he wouldn't tire himself too quickly.
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Usagi quickly outruned Thales, and, without noticing, she reached a dead end. "Dumb, idiot! He never thanks me when I want to help him in different ways! He never notices me!" She complained as she removed her tears from her face. Usagi was barely 18, but her hormones were at its maximum, and she, of course, had a soft spot for Thales. Not receiving his recognition was as good as death sentence for her.
"I won't go back to that idiot!" She complained as she turned back to leave the alley, but 4 man blocked the exit as she got close. They were big, holding each one a different metalic blunt weapon. A bat, a scourge, a mace and a big hammer. Probably bought in the scrap market from scavengers. "Hey, guys, it seems there's prey in here!" The one ahead of them said, as he got closer to Usagi. "Maybe we can feast this noon!" The others laughed as they got closer too.
Usagi knew what kind of people they were. She may act like a kid sometimes, but she wasn't dumb. As she got in fighting position, her gloves became metalic and the apparently normal shoes started to glow a bit. They laughed, of course, she was just a small girl against 4 big man.
As he reached to get her wraist, she swiftly dodged and punched him right in the stomach with her metalic fists and kicked rhe right side of his face with an accelerated kick. This, of course, angered the other three, that quickly reached close to them. "Get this little rat!" One of them said. From a bit further distance, the man with the scourge had already launched an attack, that she could easily dodge, but the other two man had already gotten closer, as from each side came a weapon, a mace and a warhammer.
There was no way for her to dodge that close, so she jumped, using her modified snickers, kicking both or their faces and using it as way to jump higher, she accelerated mid-air and jumped the scourge-wielding man and punched his face. This, of couse, wouldn't be enough to defeat them.
"You aren't getting away!" The man, that was fallen, got up with his bat and reached for his assault. She held his bat, changed his direction and kicked his chest, as the other two tried to attack from the back as well. The hammer wielding man's storming attack was dodge, but the mace hit her arm, making she go back. She was surrounded, but she wasn't that hurt, although a metal hit from a mace did hurt.
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The fight continued for quite sometime, as they got tired, until she was hit on her back by a bat, and as she turned to attack him, the scourge man had gotten up, grabbing her leg with it and sending an eletric corrent, making her fall. "You little brat! We took more time than expected to get you! Now, we are going to have f-"
As he tried to finish his sentence, a voice came from the alley's entrance. "I would like if you guys didn't mistreat her like that." The sweaty Thales said. Gladly, they were in Wyndrome, because he would've collapsed otherwise. The already tired man, looked back at him. But, Thales didn't look menacing. He wore those strange clothes like a magician, carried a sword and a cane, and his physique was really... bad. Not only that, he was covered in sweat and seemingly tired too. And he was one against 4.
"And who even are you to ask that? Just turn a blind eye and we won't be kicking your ass, weirdo." The bat wielding one said, looking at him. "I'm afraid I won't be doing that." The man sighed at Thales words, as he then dashed. The man name Elliot, the chief of his group, didn't use this before as they were in close combat. "I'm going to destroy you and show what we are going to do to her!" The arrogant man thought as he quickly dashed throuhh a boost he instaled behind his leg. It was too quick, no normal human could possibly see it coming, even more, a tired unhealthy 22 year-old. The attack was going tk reach his lungs and make him collapse. He couldn't even dodge now.