Femme Fatale - C6
January 18, 01
By: raq-UMALI
umalific@hotmail.com


"So what are you guys doing this weekend" asked Michael to the rest of 
the men.

"Nothing.. But I thought I would invite you guys to this party that my 
brother is having"

"Brother.your younger brother"

"Yeah.girls."

"Nathan, your brother just got into college" said Zen

"Yeah SO?"

"That means young college girls idiot" said Jayson

"and what of it?"

"Nathan.. I think Ill pass" said Kyle.

"Me too" said Jayson

"Me three" said Mike

"Oh come on guys."

"hey give me a slice of that pizza will ya" said Mike completely 
ignoring Nathan.

"SO what do you guys think Mr. Barkley wanted Darien for?" asked Kyle 
taking a bite out of his pizza.

"I don't know, maybe a new project" said Mike

"Gosh I would love to be in his shoes having that girl as my assistant" 
said Zen as he looked on towards the entrance of the restaurant.

Darien smiled largely as he opened the glass door for Serena.  The ride 
to the restaurant was surely relaxing.  He was glad to have her there, 
she was definetly lightening his mood.  Serena walked in looking 
around, making herself familiar with the area.  Looking at people and 
just scanning the place before putting her high guards at somewhat of 
at ease.  Darien walked in behind her and found his friends staring 
admirable towards them.  Putting his hand on Serena's back he motioned 
for her towards the men staring.
"Serena lets go over there. I want you to meet some other Co-leagues of 
ours" he smiled largely at her at she looked up to meet his gaze.  

"Did you guys see that?" asked Michael

"I did" said Zen

"what?" said Nathan

"I did too" said Kyle

"Why. I think Dr. Chiba is being too nice to this new assistant of his" 
Jayson

"Since when did he start bringing his assistant to have lunch with us" 

Serena made her way towards the men and presentally smiled.  Darien 
followed closely behind her as he introduced Serena to the group.

"Hi guys. I see you've already ordered" smiled Darien

"Well we couldn't wait for you" said Jayson "We were hungry".  Eyes 
fell on Serena as she awaited for Darien's introductions.

"Darien, will you be introducing me or shall I introduce myself" smiled 
Serena.

"Yeah DARIEN..." said Michael noticing that she was on a first name 
basis with Darien not at all what his usual 'call me Dr. Chiba'.

"I'm sorry.. Gentlemen may I introduce to you Miss. Serena Tsukino my 
newest assistant." arched Darien's brow as he notices all men's 
agitation. 

"This man over here is Dr. Michael Jacobs he's in charge of the 
chemical lab department".  Michael stood to greet Serena as he met her 
handshake half way.

"Its nice to meet you" said Serena as she formally shook his hand.

"Its nice to 'meet' you and you can call me Michael" he smiled as he 
sees Darien roll his eyes. 

"This man over here is Dr. Kyle Manning, he is in charge of our 
computer science department." Darien motioned.

"Nice to meet you"

"Same here.. Please call me Kyle" 

"Thank you"

"moving on." smiled Darien "this man here is Mr. Nathan Garrison, he is 
charge of our weapons/armoury department."

"Nice to meet you"

"Same here.. please call me Nate"

"Will do" she said pleasantly

"This man here is Dr. Jayson Preston, he is charge of our genetics 
department"

"Nice to meet you"

"Its nice to meet you.. call me Jayson" he smiled as he sat back down.

"Last but not least, this man here is Mr. Zen Adams, he is in charge of 
our linguistic department"

"nice to meet you" smiled Zen as he stood to shake her hand "you can 
call me Zen" he said happily.

"Well, its nice to meet you all.. and please call me Serena" she said 
sweetly.  She had all about the guys in the palm of her hands, all rapt 
up in her presence they were unaware of how silly they looked.

"Why don't you guys join us" said Mike as he stood to get a seat for 
Serena only Darien had already beaten him to it.

"Thank you Darien".  Darien pushed the seat forward and allowed her to 
get comfortable.

"Your welcome Serena" he stated while he took his blazer off and 
hanging it behind his seat.  Serena as she sat comfortably.

"Now which pizza would you like?" asked Darien as he made himself 
comfortable searching the table for plates and utencils.

"Um.. I think Ill pass on the pizza and have some salad from the bar." 
Serena stood from the table smoothly.  The guys all stood in unison as 
respect for the lady.

"Guys.. RELAX!" she motioned for them to sit down "I'm a big girl" she 
smiled largely as she left the table leaving the men watching as she 
made her way to the front.  Devouring her as she strode, watching her 
movements more fluidly among the customers.

"woooo.weeeeeee.." 

"Boy Dr. Chiba your one lucky guy"

"Why don't we every get assistants like her"

"Cause what Dr. Chiba wants, Dr. Chiba gets" marked Kyle.  Darien just 
smiled as he placed a pizza on his plate.  Indeed he was a lucky man, 
beautiful, smart and lives with him.  He smiled at the thought but felt 
he should leave that hidden till later.

"Darien would you like a salad?" asked Serena from her place in line.

"No that's okay Serena" he said as he watch her features very dearly.

"She's gorgeous" said Kyle.

"Ditto" smiled Darien.

"So Dr... what about her intelligence" asked Nathan.

"Wait till you hear her back ground" he smiled, really proud of himself 
for acquiring such an assistant.

Serena carefully placed lettuce on her plate and stacked away other 
condiments to make her perfect salad.  The bell rang towards the front 
and instinctively she looked up.  Her eyes sharpened to find a two 
familiar hit-man.  'WOLF' she thought 'I don't think so. Not while I'm 
here' she said walking casually to the group of men engrossed in their 
conversation.

"Where is that man?" thought the short but casual man entering the 
restaurant vicinity. While the other followed from behind 

"His car is outside".  

"Ah..there he is".  Making their way towards a table and sat quietly 
pretending to read the menu.  "Too many people around him but he's 
still readily available to be killed"

Serena sat down casually as the others seemed to stop their 
conversation as she approached.

"Oh don't mind me." smiled Serena as she sat next to Darien.  Placing 
her purse on the floor she casually looked up to find her enemy to be 
watching.  Serena pretended to be at ease as she carefully ate her 
salad.

"I was having problems getting the STC model in testing mode" said Kyle

"What's the problem" asked Darien curious to why this has not been 
dealt with.

"Well. when we made connections to the A wire to bring forth power to 
the left duct it didn't work"

"left duct? Kyle that doesn't sound right.  I've read the blue prints 
on that and your suppose to re-route the micro-conduit to provide un-
interfered power to the main valves not the left duct." Said Darien a 
little alarmed that they didn't catch that.

"Darien.. That was the first mistake.. It didn't work"

"What do you mean it didn't work?. from both of our calculations it 
should hover enough power" said Darien as he looked towards Michael

"Sorry this isn't in my department" he said.

"Darien.. I know we made precise calculations and indeed I thought it 
would of given enough power to highten the motor. but it didn't work."

"Have you tried re-routing from the top down so that the semi-
conductors help generate power"

"We have but the fiber optics that have been installed have been 
blowing and heating to an overwhelming rate. If it is on for longer 
than 20 minutes it melts.  Some areas also generate more power than 
others causing it to be unbalanced."

"It seems that you need a line conditioner" said Serena as she placed 
her fork down and wiped her mouth softly.  Darien glanced at the girl 
as she made movements that seem so earthy, the others too averted a 
little surprised.

"A line conditioner?" asked Kyle.

"Yes, it seems that the problem your having is trying to keep power to 
your robot and you are unable to do that due to the instability of your 
optics.  It overheats and melts within minutes" said Serena as Kyle 
nodded. "well if you placed line conditioners within each connecting 
power line and conduit charges it should help"

"Yes. I see.the device will filter electric power and help reduce 
overheating" said Darien.  Serena nodded then once more spoke.

"It should also help suppress power surges, acting as a buffer between 
the power line and the machines power source." Said Serena as the 
Darien and the others watched her amusingly. "It should also help 
regulate the quality of power to ensure that the electrical flow is 
constant thus giving you power at all areas".  The men stared in 
silence as she smiled.  Surprised they guys mouth gaped and eyes 
bugged.

"Your perfectly right" smiled Darien as he stared at Serena's bright 
features. 

"Serena were you speaking English just now?" asked Michael being a 
chemist he was lost in her description.  Darien smiled largely, surely 
her skills which she has shown perfectly was going to come in handy.

"Michael I'm sure if we spoke about your new project in California on 
water purification you would understand that the ion exchanges are 
rather high.  Giving the water that is some what tainted with too much 
blue isotopes.  But if you look at the kinetics of it all you would 
realize that the rates of change in concentration of reactants should 
occur only if you add enough red isotopes leveling the degree of the 
blue.  Hence giving you a purified and softer water treatment."  Darien 
chuckled slightly as he watched the others features.  Indeed Serena has 
proven herself, more than he ever thought.  His conversations now were 
not going to be lost in his assistants minds when he asked or probed 
for opinions.

"Serena.." Said Darien waiting for her to comment.

"hmmm"

"Your hired!" he pitched the most handsome smiled.  Causing Serena to 
flush a bit.

"Serena. by any chance did you major in chemistry?" asked Michael.

"A degree in Chemistry, Cognitive Science and a masters in Computer 
Science from the world renown MIT" boasted Darien proud of his 'girl'.
"Ghaaa.lie.. Where they hell did they find you?" asked Kyle

"Do they have any more of you where you came from" asked Michael.  
Serena giggled at the comment as she slightly turning her face still 
keeping an eye on her rival.

"Will you all excuse me" said Darien as he stood "natures calls" Serena 
watched as Darien made his way towards the restrooms.  Her eyes averted 
towards the two men as he watched Darien walked off without his group 
of friends, she eyes narrowed to sharp shards as her rivals face turned 
up with a grin.  Whispering something to the other, the other man stood 
and exited out the door. 'hmm.. yes go wait in the car' she said to 
herself.

"Will you men excuse me for a sec" said Serena as she stood.  Serena 
casually walked towards the restrooms.  In front of her was two doors 
one on the left was the women's, the one on the right was the men's 
room and happy to see that their was another small room beside it where 
pay phones were set.  Serena first stayed to were she would get a full 
view to whom was approaching.  Once she set sites on her man, Serena 
held her back against the wall facing the men's door..  Hearing steps, 
she waited as she lifted her skirt a ways to reach between her legs 
around her mid thighs.  Feeling the garter belt she unsnapped her 
little but very leathal weapon.  Relaxing a little she waited as the 
footsteps became more defined.  Serena sighed as she sees the man in 
front of her wanting to enter the men's room.

'I don't think so' thought Serena as she lunged grabbing the man's back 
collar.  He lost his footing surprised he slightly fell back.  Serena 
took this opportunity to wrap her left arm around his neck as she 
slammed him towards the other side of the wall.
'ouf' grumbled the man.

"why are you here?" firmly she tightened her hold.  The man wriggled 
and tried to move against Serena.  "I wouldn't do that" said Serena as 
she held the revolver against his side.  The man stopped feeling the 
shadow of her weapon.

"Who are you?" asked the man.

"answer my question.. Why are you here?"

"I was just having lunch"

"LIAR" spat Serena thankful that the business had slowed.  She held 
more force to her weapon as she asked once more. "What. are.. You. 
doing. here?"

"Like I said I was having lunch" he said.  Serena's patience was 
growing to a thread.

"Lunch huh.." she whispered as she leaned forward with her shoulder 
providing more pressure towards the man.  "Don't get any ideas" she 
whispered as she jagged the gun to cause a painful indentation on his 
side.  Slowly releasing her arm around his neck, Serena took her free 
hand and pulled the spider pin from her hair.  Still holding the pistol 
firmly, she bit the tip of the pin with the front of her teeth.  
Pulling a black cap exposing a pin like needle.  A test squeeze, the 
needle-point set free a black tear shape liquid.

"Come on I can sue you for assault" said the man wondering what she was 
doing.  Within instant just as he was to say another he felt a needle 
like prick by his neck. "What the hell are you doing?".  Serena pushed 
herself off from the man and stepped back a ways a bit.

"Don't think I'm stupid" she spat watching him carefully as she set her 
revolver on the fold of her waist skirt hidden to anyone who would 
come.  The man touched his neck to where the needle pain was coming 
from.  A throbbing pain came when he grazed it.

"What did you do?" asked the man

"Don't play games with me Mr...WOLF" she said with a grim smile.  His 
eyes widen as he focused on the woman that knew his identity.

"WHO.who. are you and.what did you do to me?" he asked still holding 
his neck.  Just then Darien opened the door to the men's room.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" he asked as he looked at Serena than to 
the man.

"Oh I was just using the phone and then making small talk with this 
man" she said.  Darien looked at the man a little suspiciously as she 
measured him as being ruffed looking.

"Ready to go back?" she asked.

"Sure" he said as he waited for her and they began to walk away.

"VENOM" said Serena as she turned.  Darien too turned with interest of 
her venom outburts.

"What????" asked the man

"You asked what type of defense a 'BLACK WIDOW' has. their poisonous 

"VENOM" emphasizing on the word venom.  "It is a black widows favorite 
defense. Mr. Wolf.." she smiled greatly as she sees his features darken 
and horrid.  Serena turned back as Darien now stared at her 
suspiciously.  Serena smiled to Darien and started to walk away when 
she heard a faint whisper.

"VIXEN!". 

Smiling honorable she walked with Darien towards the men until she 
remembered. 'oh shit' .  She needed to dispose of him as well.

"Darien. Ill be back I need to use the restroom".  Smiling sweetly 
Darien nodded and returned with his friends.  Slowly Serena made her 
way back towards the restrooms remembering their was a door for 
emergency exist.  Carefully eyeing the door before opening she was 
happy to hear that their were no alarms. 'Now where is he' she thought 
as she look around to the cars that were parked.  Her eyes quickly 
spotted the man in a blue Crown Victoria sitting impatiently. 'hmm..'
thought Serena.  Serena looked around and walked queitly towards the 
furthest car to her left.  Along the wall it was the only one hidden.  
Lifting her skirt again, to reach towards her garter belt.  She removed 
a small knife like instrument.

"What's taking him so long, he should of finished by now" the man 
murmured through his clenched teeth.  His eyes sparked some type of 
curiosity as he see's a blond woman walking towards him.  Looking at 
her with interest, his eyes focused on her legs that strutted almost 
rythmatically.  "What do we have here?" coming out of the car he was 
prepared to flirt a little seeing that it was no harm while waiting for 
his friend.

Serena saw the man and measured him slightly as he came out of his car.  
Her eyes became a flirtatious glare and her womanly instincts became 
hightened.  She watched the man cross his arms and leaned back against 
the door of the car.  His eyes still focused on her.

"excuse me sir" she batted.

"How may I help you?"

"Umm.." said Serena "Can I ask you for a hand in changing my tire?"  
she almost coo-d

"Well, lets see what do I get for the job" he smiled.  Serena cringed 
at the site of his teeth.  Yellow and grungy dark.

"How about I make payment after its done" she responded.  Getting an 
eyebrow of an interest from the man.

"Sounds good, direct my lady" he said.  Serena began to walk towards a 
green auto seeing that it was the closest to being hidden.  Her hips 
swayed and indeed the man was interested all right.

"Here.. she said" pointing at the deflated tire and leaning on the door 
frame.  He bent down to look and as he did so, Serena made her move.  
With her fore arm she pulled her arm back towards her body and released 
a full-blown hit on the spine of his neck.  Falling forward, his eyes 
went blank and darkness.  Falling forward the man did not move.  
Sighing she kneeled in front of him as she fringed with her hair as she 
grasped for another pin.  This was the way Serena liked to kill, 
silently.  No blood no pain just quiet eternal sleep.

"Where is Serena?" asked Michael.

"Here I am". Smiling and collective she made her way towards the group 
who had just finished up the last slice.

"I need to get going" stood Kyle "I've got a few things to finish 
before I leave tonight"

"Yeah me too"

"and I need to still show Serena around" smiled Darien.

"Oh sure rub it in" mumbled Michael.

One by one they started to decend outside the restaurant.  It had been 
a few minutes since she had ridden of the man behind the restaurant and 
had been 25 for the wolf.  'he should be asleep' thought Serena as 
Darien opened her door. "thank you"

"Your welcome".  Darien's smile was bright and Serena's as well.  This 
was definetly an assignment she was enjoying much.  Siren's were heard 
and an ambulance and a fire truck made their way towards the resturant.

"I wonder what happened?" he asked silently as he drove out of the 
parking lot.

"someone probably fainted" responded Serena with a slight smile.



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