That hour would be up in ten minutes, and Xero was no closer to finding Shampoo. In fact, what little evidence concerning her he did find was of a very strong magical transit, indicating Shampoo had left the city. So, he fell back on another plan, he gathered as many people as he could, and had them take cover. In his current position, he saw nothing but werecats. And it was from behind him that one of those werecats spoke up, "Excuse me" was all that was needed for the werecat to find Xero's katanas at her throat.
"Where is Shampoo?!"
Trying to stay calm(and barely managing it), the blonde werecat replied, "I don't know! I don't work for her!"
"You were infected by either her or someone she'd infected. There's no way you couldn't be working for her!"
"No, it's true!! Me and a few others somehow weren't affected mentally!"
Most of the time, Xero could identify a lie when he heard one. And this didn't sound like one. But killing her without evidence that she's an immediate danger went against his principles.
But holding her down like this was just fine. "What do you want?"
"I saw you fight Shampoo, and I've been trying to find you since you ran off after her. We need help to stop this before it's too-"
There was an exlposion to the west. The military had started moving in, "Bastards! The hour wasn't up yet!! Listen," he addressed the werecat directly, "Whatever you're trying to do, you just ran out of time. The only thing you can do is help gather up people who aren't infected and get them out."
The girl was silent. Xero removed the blades and put them away in the Vector Trap. "Switch to human form. We're gonna go have a few words with the commander." Xero retrieved two large pistols from his Vector Trap. {I'll have to thank Alucard and Walter next time I'm in London.} "What's your name?"
"Ken Marinaris. Four of my friends are keeping a group of people safe pretty close to here."
"You mean three, don't you?"
The two turned to face the other man.
"Nohman! I thought you were with Dingo!"
"I have more important things to take care of..."
"Long time no see, Nohman."
"Who are you...? Oh, it's you, Xero... Yes, it has been a while. I last saw you when you helped out with the Sons of Iceron... How have you been?"
Xero ponited the white gun in his left hand at Nohman, "When did you become so nice? Last I knew you bashed heads before asking questions. Makes me wonder why you're not bashing heads right now..."
(A/N: Explanation of Xero's guns, in addition to other things, shall be psoted in the Comments section shortly)
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