Being chased by what amounted to a large mob, he was also falling back upon an old method taught by his experienced, and pervered Master: 'Run Like Hell'.
Instead of trying to find some way to make the source of his problems go away, he was running up a hill, to where a man had just emptied a handcart of the crates that had been on it. Genma stepped on it, and the thing rolled down the hill with him on it. He would have enjoyed the free ride, except that he happened to not know that all the stores on the block had hanging signs. Smacking his face into each of them, the panda was too dazed to see his destination.
Which happened to be a women's bath house. Fortunately, if one saw it that way, he missed the water and slid into another room.
The girls in the changing area didn't appreiciate his luck and joined in chasing him through and around the locker room, throwing whatever they could find at him.
He left battered and bruised, but still being pursued. He ran for the closest place that Nerima had to a 'red light district'. Once there he was reminded as to why he hadn't gone there in a while.
On his way out, he thought that he had it made as he tried to hop a bike to make his getaway. except that normal bicycles were not made for pandas, especially ones that rode like the devil was on their heels.
His wild ride ended with his slamming into a property wall, and finding himself launched over it. Landing on grass, he decided that this private place would make a perfect hiding place until the mob went away. The spot near the pond looked pretty nice to him.
Needless to say, Kodachi's pet, Mr. Turtle, was happy to see him too. the panda even managed to get good air time with his leap out of the way, before running for his life.
Up in the top of the Furinkan high tower, he was certain that no one would find him. He'd stay up there and let them scurry about on the ground. In the mean time, he'd stay up all nice and safe.
They'd found him again. No matter. He'd just climb out on the side, and make his way down on the facade.
Some damned worker must have left the spare rope laying there before he'd tripped on it. Still, he had his paws firmly gripping the ledge. as long as it held, he was safe.
Flailing for a few precious seconds, Genma made a quick desent to the ground below. Only, the rope that had tripped him had gotten caught on his foot. That was why his face stopped mere inches from the concrete below. And then the rope snapped, which let him loose, resulting in his face slamming into the ground.
He had one thought as he got up to run away again. 'What did I do to deserve this?'
That was a question that his pursuers would have loved to explain to him, while:
(Posted Sun, 26 Jan 2003 08:02)
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