Flash Sentry The Spectacular Spider-Man Issue #3: Welcome to Tokyo (REMASTERED)

"So you're telling me you messed up the mission. Lost the car and the target?"

Serpent was kneeling. His head bowed down. "Mr. X, I'm-I'm sorry, I don't know what happened. There was this-this thing this person who--"

"Enough." The shadowy silhouette sternly asserted himself. "I hate to be your parent. But what you did is inexcusable and costed me quite a bit."

Serpent, didn't say a word. Keeping silent. Mr. X narrowed his eyes on him. He sighed. Going into his desk and pulling out a picture of familiar family. "You have quite the extended family here."

Serpent's eyes widened. Jerking his head up, a chill went down his spine.

"Two beautiful nieces and a Sister in-Law. And, even a lovely sister. It'd be a shame if something happened to them."

Serpent rose to his feet. "You wouldn't. Please!"

Mr. X chuckled. Putting the picture down. "Then can I trust you to make up for yesterday's....failure." Serpent nodded, prompting him to continue. "Kimi Osana, though she escaped from your grasp yesterday, she's still out there. And lucky for you, we've been able to locate her at a hotel near the airport. She's in seclusion. I want you to take her out from long range, since clearly you couldn't do much from...close contact. Once you got the job done, see if you can find anything of value."

Serpent nodded again, heading for the exit. But Mr. X had one more thing to say. "Oh and consider yourself lucky to get a second chance at this assignment. If you mess this up, then I'll no longer be able to vouch for you. And well, we wouldn't want that to happen now would we?"

Serpent narrowed his eyes. Right there he would've just been dying to snarl at Mr. X. But he didn't, walking away and heading for the exit.

"Well it's about time you finally called. I mean I know you're a slacker sometimes but this is just a whole new level"

Flash chuckled, rolling his eyes. "Well good to see you to Soarin."

"I hate to be a broken record, but how's Tokyo."

"Trust me, I have a list of sentences and phrases people are gonna say to me. And I also hate to be a broken record but it's great! I mean I might stay here longer than I planned if I want to."

"Well good to see you're still a dork. So uh hey what've you done so far?"

Flash sighed, leaning back in a chair he was sitting on. "Well on my first day I felt a little sleep deprived. Went into the city with my relatives, saw and got some really, really neat stuff. Ate some really great food. And uh now....I'm gonna go see a Dora movie in Japanese Dubbing. I got the chance, might as well see it for myself."

Soarin chuckled, nodding his head.

"I know which one what you're talking about. Rainbow Dash practically dragged me into it."

That bit of information ended up being the most shocking thing Flash had ever heard. He went to open his mouth, but before he could. Soarin sighed and further explained.

"It reminded her of Daring Do which is kinda like Tomb Raider which is kinda of a cool game. That and she was all like. Um Ahem.

He proceeded to make his voice as high pitched and raspy as possible,

"Man Dora was the shit back then! No question."

Flash let out a laugh. "Well horrible impression aside, it kinda sounds like her."

A mischievous expression crept on Soarin's face.

"Hey, I think you're forgetting something?"

Flash arched an eyebrow, "Forgetting what?"

"Oh come on you know. Forgetting something you did yesterday."

"I, I don't know what you mean. I've said everything I've done so far."

Soarin chuckled a little, a huger grin forming on his face.

"So, you didn't have conversation with a certain red head we all know and love?"

Flash blinked twice. His eyes widened and his face went completely red. "WHA--How-How did you know---WAIT WHAT!?"

Soarin laughed,

"Oh man, let's just say the term 'Kissy kissy friend' is-is hones-s-s---PFFT!...."

He couldn't help himself and broke down laughing.

Flash grumbled, "WHO TOLD YOU! HOW DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS?! IF YOU DON'T STOP LAUGHING I SWEAR I--"

"Flash chill! Look it may have accidentally got out but still you gotta admit, it's a little funny right."

Flash glared at Soarin from the phone. Prompting Soarin to sigh and do a complete 180.

"Look Flash, umm. I'm not the person that should say this but hell somebody has to say it eventually. Sunset still....likes you..."

Flash's whole expression changed from angry to dumbfounded. "What?"

"You know what I said. Look she-she said told us that she still kinda has 'those feelings' for you. She wanted to go directly to you, but by that time your flight had already taken off."

"You're...being serious?"

"Flash look I know I can be a bit of a dick. But, I wouldn't lie to you about this.....I know you two had a, more than shaky relationship and things haven't exactly been that much better. But...look I'll let you think about it. And please, talk to her man. If it's anybody that has to set it straight, it's you."

Soarin left the call. Leaving Flash more....even I don't know how to put it he's just...just we'll say that. He's feeling 'just'. "Sunset still....likes me?"

Immediately all the memories of the relationship that used to be flooded his head. But in-turn, the memories of Flash bailing out on dates to go be Spider-Man also flooded his head. He looked at the floor , still feeling 'just'.

"Flash are you ready?" Aunt Thunderstar called from the hallway. "Snowstorm really, really wants to go!"

Flash was broken out of his trance. Responding rather quickly, "Uh yeah! Yeah, I'm coming." He stuffed his phone in his pocket. Rising to his feet and starting for the door.

Serpent jumped from building to building. Having traveled a good Hour and a half, he decided to screw with the road travel and utilize structures around him. Leaping onto one more building. Staring at the hotel Kimi was in. He could an Airplane take off as well, which though unnecessary to the plot, was really, really loud.

He knelt down, reaching for his back he pulled out a Sniper rifle. He began calibrating the scope, zooming onto the window which allegedly was Kimi's floor. "Okay room 741!"

Serpent closed on eye, looking into the scope, it seemed his source was right. Kimi Osana was pacing back and fourth, looking like she hadn't winked an eye the night before.

Usually, Serpent would probably chuckle and let out a pun. But he didn't so much crack the slightest smirk. In fact, he was the most expressionless he'd ever been in a while. "Okay Bitch, you've roamed freely long enough."

Kimi was mumbling to her self in panic. Walking with both hands placed on the back of her head. After last night's incident, anything was inevitable to happen. So she had a plan, get out of Tokyo and go to another a place to keep a low profile for a while.

But suddenly, She wailed.

A bullet hit her right in the shoulder. Getting deep in there. She fell to the ground, clutching her shoulder with her left hand. For a moment, there were only two things she could hear. Ringing and her heavy breaths. Blood was pouring out of the bullet hole. She was slowly began to black out.

*CRASH!*

The window panel shattered. Serpent effortlessly landed on his feet. Reaching into his jacket, He pulled out a handgun and walked over to limp body laying on the ground. He stood right beside Kimi, making sure he would be the last image she ever saw. He knelt down, putting the gun right in her mouth. He pulled down in his scarf with his free hand. Making sure she saw the cruel smirk on his face.

"熱いものを見る (See ya hot stuff.)

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