The Robin Hood Gang 3: A World Joined (Ended)

Ace

Beating up my pillows weren't going to help anything, I finally realized and stopped, sitting on my bed, rubbing my temples. "Think, Ace. She's alive, so that means she probably hasn't been knocked out by a PK. They'd have killed her. So that rules out amnesia. So it has to be..."

I jumped up and ran throughout the house, calling, "Eve! Cleo!" until I found them. I sat them both down in the library; Eve looked thoroughly confused, and Cleo a little irked. "Okay, something has happened to Maitea. She went to Spain, and now she doesn't remember me. It's got to be some substance. Any ideas?"

They conversed with each other for a bit as I took out my computer and started to try and trace the location she was at when I called her. Pulling up a map, I noticed something. "In...the ocean? So she's either on a pleasure cruise, which I highly doubt, or she's on her way back here..."

"Well," Eve began, "if she's on her way back here, but she doesn't remember you, then something's up. Because if she doesn't remember you, then there's no way she'd remember the rest of us, and really, if her memory's gone, why would she be heading back?"

"I bet the PKs got Maitea," I said, starting to panic. "Okay. So if they have, then we have to find some way to bring her memory back, and some way to get her and hold her where she can't turn on us. Ugh, Max, why did you have to die? You'd know what to do!"

"You know," Cleo said, "there are many reasons why she might have lost her memory. We'd have to examine her to really know."

"That's what I was afraid of. Thanks, anyway. I guess I should go tell the leaders." I disappeared from the library to go find someone.

Reg Carter

I pulled up outside the house, it always looked bigger on the television. Yet, the White House seemed to carry little authority in the current troubled times. I stopped the car and delved into the back seat to wear there was a big bag of money. I'd nicked it from the gang's safe. I walked into the White House and explained that I had an appointment with the President of the USA. They checked the bags, and my persons before letting me move on and consult with the President's personal assistant.

"I have a meeting," I snarled.

She whimpered and quickly shuffled her papers placing them on the desk. "Sorry, sir, stressful day, er appointment, you say?"

"I believe that's what'a said."

"Very well, Sir," she checked the appointment book and looked up, "Judge Geoffrey Slate, from Houston?"

I grinned. "You got me."

"Okay, sir, President's expecting you, go right in."

"Thank you," I muttered and entered the President's office.

Riley

Ace walks in on me and Chris. I dismiss her with a wave of my hand. She leaves the room.

"Yes, Ace?" I ask.

"Maitea's gone. I called her, she has no idea who I am." He said, looking more than a little upset.

"Where is she?"

"Flying back over here, on a plane."

"Any idea who she is with?"

"Not at all."

"Then have everyone get some weapons ready. We have to prepare for the unknown. How close is she to us?"

"About an hour."

Alis

"Alis, I'm sorry." Jimmy says again

"Why don't you go back and finish making out with Cleopatra like you know you want to?"

"Alis, I don't."

"Of course not. Jimmy, I trusted you. Well, this reminds me why I kept away from love in the first place. I have learned my lesson."

"Alis, just listen for one..."

"No, Jimmy. If you ever had a chance, you just lost it. You can thank Cleopatra." I say, and walk upstairs, not turning back around, knowing that if I did I would take it all back.

I worked this out with Kay.

Maitea

I get off the plane, and grab my luggage from under the seat. We all walk to the front of the airport, and I do my best to avoid the stares of onlookers.

Four stretch limos wait at the airports front, and we all go in to one or another. Me and Dimitri get our own. Finally, we arrive at the mansion.

I get out first, despite his protests. No sound comes from the aging mansion. Suddenly, a girl walks out the door. He blond hair is unkempt, and her leather coat just adds to her 'tough' look.

"Maitea, what are you doing?" She asks. The rest of Spain's Special Ops step out of the limos.

"This, surprises me." She says slowly. Suddenly, I watch two of the Ops beside me crumple to the ground, shot in the head. The girl makes a movement with her hand, and a few others emerge from the house. The boy isn't with them.

Once everyone is distracted, I sneak around the back, and walk in the door there. How stupid of them, to leave a door unlocked. I go upstairs, and open the first door I see.

The boy is in there, with a girl. He is unarmed, she has only one gun. She has brown hair, and was very pretty. And I knew her.

"Bree?" I ask, "You traitor! You would go with them, in the end." She opens her mouth to speak. I don't give her the chance, and shoot her clean between the eyes. She crumples onto the floor. I point the gun at the boy, but then Dimitri runs in.

"Maitea, wait." Dimitri says.

"What?" I ask.

"Don't shoot him. Trust me, he is dying already, otherwise he would be fighting with the rest. Go find somewhere in the woods behind this mansion to hide. I will find you."

"Dimitri, I don't want to leave you. Come with me."

"I can't, Maitea."

"I couldn't stand it if I lost you." I tell Dimitri. He comes over, and gives me a kiss.

"Fine, I will come, but it might mean ill fate for your parents." I nod, showing him I understand. We both leave the same way we came in, and run towards the woods. As I walk out the door to the bedroom, I catch a look on the boys face that makes him look like he just lost everything he cared about.

Eve

Ace left the room to go talk to Riley. Once again, I tried to talk to Alis, and once again, I was interrupted.

Ace called us all to the living room to talk.

"Maitea's on her way back, but she doesn't remember me." he explained to everyone. Cleo and I already knew.

"There has to be some reason for that. We have to prepare ourselves in case someone's with her. She'll arrive in about an hour."

I noticed Cleo looking around at all of us. She looked confused. I sighed, and headed over to her.

"Take this." I said, handing her my gun. "You'll need it. I can just get one from Alis."

"Okay, but wouldn't it be easier if I just got one from her?"

I chuckled. "Look, Alis is mad at you, and she has a gun in her hand. I don't think that's the best idea."

I get a gun from Alis, and then all of a sudden, a fight broke out.

Bree

"Ace, we can't afford to have you get yourself more hurt. Unless we really need your help, you should stay upstairs. I will stay with you."

"Fine." He grumbles.

"It's for what's best, trust me." I say, giving him a knowing look. I hear a few shots fired downstairs, then the door opens.

I watched slowly as Maitea saunters into the room. She has a gun, and she doesn't look very friendly.

"Bree?" she asks, "You traitor! You would go with them, in the end." Maitea says coldly. I have no idea what she is talking about.

She points her gun at me. I open my mouth to protest, but can't help but know my fate. I am armed, but I don't have time to reach for my gun.

My last thought is, Reg, I love you, I'm sorry. A pain rips through my head, then I feel nothing ever again.

Riley

I hear a few gunshots upstairs, kill the special op I am fighting, and go to investigate. I open the door to Ace's room. Ace is pale as sheet, on the floor, with his head in his hands. Bree is on the floor, shot through the head. I bend down and check her pulse, she is dead.

"Just tell me you didn't do this." I say calmly to Ace.

"Maitea." He chokes out., he seems to be crying.

"She shot Bree?" I ask in confusion. He just nods. I couldn't believe she would do something like this, it was unlike her, even in the worst times. There was something I didn't know about. I go up, and take Bree's gun off the floor.

"Ace, please, can I trust you won't hurt yourself when I leave?" I ask. He doesn't answer.

Reg Carter

I look at the President gingerly as he invites me to sit down.

"I knew it wouldn't be long until you came for me, Reg," He muttered as he closed down his laptop and gave me his full attention. "I guess it was inevitable."

"It was admirably easy to get in here," I replied.

"What do you expect?" He protested, "You seen the shit hole this country's in? Hell you've made a name for yourself after you killed Senator Freddy Carter!"

"Like I told you, anyone who had anything to do with my Sister, would die."

"Oh christ, Reg. You still calling her your sister? You already know you'd never met the girl that died and your real sister is in witness protection abroad."

"I know."

"Then what the hells the point in all this killing? You're just stirring shit up for me," he said, angrily.

"You're the only one left who knows where my Sister actually is. Especially after that Marshall got killed," I said, calmly.

"So what? You gon'a kill me. We go way back, Reg, and although I know you got the guts, I don't see why you would wanna."

"Ha, you're the President. Really think I could kill you and walk out of here alive?" I laughed.

"So what you want?" He relaxed slightly.

I placed the bag of money on the table. "There's about $400,000 there. I want you to get it to my Sister. If I hear one ounce of it is missing, I'm gon'a bugger you high-sky. Got that?"

"I hear ya."

"Good," I replied. As he looked into the bag of money I placed a small box into his jacket pocket and left the room. I exited the White House and got into my car, reaching into the back of it and pulling out a small detonator. I grinned and pressed the trigger. A roar came from the White House as the section where the President's office was blew out of the walls. His scattered remains lie on the field.

"Cremated like he always wann'ed to be," I chuckled and drove off.

I arrived back at the mansion, only to be greeted by the bloody Spanish.

Alis

Sal comes up to me just as the Spanish arrive.

"I will not kill anyone, Alis. I'm sorry, but I've taken Reg's words to heart."

"You're nuts!" I yell at her, but decide this is not time to argue. she can miss out if she wants to. I load my gun, and step out. Maybe I could use this as an excuse to accidentally kill Cleo. Then I pause. That would upset Jimmy.

I watch as a good number of special ops step out of limos, with Maitea seemingly leading them. This was bad, very very bad.

About halfway through the fight, Reg shows up.

"About time!" I yell. He gives me a look. We keep fighting for who-knows-how-long. Finally, the gunshots stop.

"Some special ops. I have fought six year olds who have put up more of a challenge." I say. I see Cleo on the ground, clutching at her side. She is bleeding. She would die if we didn't help her, if I didn't help her.

"Riley, explain what happened with Maitea to Reg." I say as I walk inside. I run up to my room, where I had put a small leaf that stops blood flow. It was incredibly rare, and worth over 1,000,000 dollars an ounce. I open the door to my room, and grab it from under my mattress.

I run back downstairs and give it to Eve. "You know what to do." I say.

Ace

What I wouldn't give to have never run away. I could have handled that one person; I could have, just like I could have handled everything else life threw my way. I could have been out surfing Ocean Beach rather than sitting on the floor in the smallest bedroom, hugging my knees. Humming songs to myself to keep from crying...ones I knew would only make it worse. Benny could still be alive. And Tristan. Yes, he could have been forced to go to therapy or something. Thinking about it, he really didn't have to die.

The only one who really had to was me.

I heard gunshots and a commotion downstairs, and I would have killed--really, Ace?--to go down and see what it was all about.

"Stay," Bree said, pushing me back down and waiting with her gun handy.

"Why do I have to stay, Bree?"

"As much as we like you, Ace, I doubt hacking is going to do much good here." As she spoke, she lowered her gun, and my first mistake was not telling her what a bad move that was.

I was sure she really meant that they couldn't have my emotional problems getting in the way because they always led to disaster. I looked down at my hands once more and started picking at my cuticles nervously when the door flew open suddenly.

Before I could even register what had been said, a shot was fired, and beside me, Bree dropped. I looked over in horror at Bree, and then angrily at Maitea. "Just what--

A man came in, telling her to leave me alone, and she did. I watched, confused, as she left with him. At that point, I didn't even want to do anything. I no longer wanted anything to do with Maitea. Not after what she'd done to me, which I probably deserved. Not after what she did to Bree, who never deserved to die.

I got up a bit after Riley came in, after telling her that I hadn't killed her sister. She probably wasn't expecting that. The whole damn gang was probably expecting me to snap on one of them. It was never my intention.

Riley asked me something about hurting myself, and I just smirked, something that made her stare back at me, almost fearful. She turned to leave, deciding that whatever I chose to do couldn't be helped, I guess, and if that was what she thought, she'd have been right.

As soon as I was alone, I crossed over to my dresser and pulled my 9mm out of my tee shirt drawer, making sure I had extra rounds and making extra sure that nothing would cause it to jam like it had last time.

Someone's going down.

Either her, or me, but only one of us would walk away from this.

Riley

I turn to Reg.

"Reg, Maitea is working with the Spanish Ops. I would have wanted her captured, but then something else happened." I say.

"Now ain't any fit time for riddles, Riles. What happened?"

"We will do our best to hunt down and kill her, when we can..." I say, somewhat avoiding the question.

"Cut to th' chase." Reg growls.

"Maitea shot Bree, and she's dead." I say. I watch the color drain from Reg's face.

"Bree's....dead?" He asks slowly.

"Maitea killed her," I confirm, "Ace, roughly, told me what happened. He is pretty upset right now, so I wouldn't bager him about it. Maitea killed Bree, almost shot him, and then left. That was all I got out of him." Reg didn't apear to be listening to me. I quite honestly didn't blame him. James comes up behind me.

"Give him a moment, this must be quite a shock." He says, putting his hands around my waist and pulling me closer to him.

"This won't be good." I say, still in shock myself. I couldn't believe Bree was dead, but yet in my heart I knew she was.

Maitea

I suddenly feel very tired, and lay down at the edge of the woods. I fall right asleep. I wake up some time later.

"Where am I?" I ask, looking around. How had I gotten here? I see a almost-familiar face in front of me.

"Dimitri, what are you doing here?" I ask.

"Maitea, you might now want to hear this, but....your parents are dead, they drugged you so you lost your memory. You shot Bree and thought I was your boyfriend and kissed me in front of Ace." He says in one breath.

"Ace, is he alright?" I stand up.

"He wants you dead." Dimitri says.

"Oh, no. Dimitri, no. I love him, why would he...?"

"You shot Bree, and basically cheated on him." Dimitri says with a sigh.

"No, I'm going to go find him. Unarmed." I drop my gun, "If he kills me, I probably deserve it." I run headlong into the woods, back to the mansion. Halfway there, I see Ace. He is looking around, probably trying to find me.

"Ace!" I say, and start walking towards him. I can feel the hot tears burning on my cheeks.

"How could you do this?" He asks me. He points his gun at me.

"Ace, wait let me explain, please."

"Why should I?"

"Ace, my parents drugged me. I had no idea what was happening. They lied to me, they told me you had my father. I had no idea. Then Dimitri lied..." I am crying so hard I can barely form words, "And Ace, I love you. I'm sorry."

Cleo

Alis comes out with a strange leaf. Eve takes it, grinds it up, and puts in on my side. Instantly, the bleeding stops. I look up at Alis.

"Thank you." I say.

"This wasn't for you. Jimmy would be upset if you died. I don't want him upset." she says, not knowing he was standing behind her.

"Alis, I kissed him. Really, he had nothing to do with it."

"I wish I could take back what I said, but it's too late now."

"Alis, you do realize he is standing behind you, right?" I ask her me. She turns around, horrified, to find that he was right behind her.

Eve

I looked over at Reg after helping Cleo. He looked pale white. I didn't want to bother him, but I wanted to be able to do something.

Everything was happening at once. I figured it'd be best to just be by myself for a while while I looked for Maitea.

It wasn't long before I spotted her near Ace. I got my gun ready, and came out from around the corner. My gun was pointed at her head.

"No, Eve!" Ace said to me. "It's all right. I'll explain it later." I knew I shouldn't have trusted him, but something inside me made me put my gun down.

I looked at Maitea, who was crying. I knew it was really her, not some drugged maniac that we all thought she was now.

She smiled at me a little, but she was still crying. I couldn't help but run and give her a hug. She hugged me back.

"It's good to have you back, but I better explain this to Riley. She's probably not too happy about this." I said. She nodded.

"What about that Dimitri guy?" Ace asked. "Shouldn't we take care of him first? If he was involved in all of this, he could be dangerous."

I nodded. "That might be best." I said, then headed off to talk to Riley, leaving Ace and Maitea alone.

Reg Carter

"Arrghhhh," I roared as soon as I saw Maitea spill out explanations to Ace, as Eve ran off to find Riley. I didn't think twice and I ripped my pistol from my holster blowing two shots at her. They shredded through her gut and she was thrown to the floor, blood spilling from her. I didn't shoot to kill, though. I'd leave her to bleed. I cried out again and then through the gun at her, the cold metal butt of it slamming into her knee cap. She cried out again but I ignored it.

Ace, wet with tears, lept at me through the air. Probably wasn't thinking. Probably forgot what had happened. I was in absolute fury and laid a punch into his stomach whilst he was still in the air. He flung over my shoulders but came at me again, kicking me in the back of my knee and making me collapse. He laid a punch into my shoulder and I unleashed a horde of pain before slamming my fist into his eye. He tumbled to the ground, his eye black instantly. I cursed but just stood there, before dropping down in a flood of tears.