Vash leaned out the window and saw a group of people staring at something, some shaking their heads.
"What's going on?!" Vash yelled.
The closest man to Vash didn't even look at him as he replied. "You must be new around here. This is the monthly bank hold-up."
Vash looked at whatever the rest of the people were seeing. His eyes widened to take in the picture, despite it's ugliness. About thirty yars away, a huge tower of smoke rose to the sky, escaping the wreckage left behind on the ground. It looked like five buildings in all four directions had sustained damage, but the one in the center was almost completely destroyed.
"Monthly? This happens monthly? Who's doing it?"
"The Triple-X Gang, of course. Those damn rats hit that same bank every third Friday of every moth, like clockwork. And they never get any nicer about it."
"You mean...." Vash looked at the man who'd answered him with concern.
"Yup. They each kill three people everytime they rob the place. Hell, they won't leave untill they do. I'd say this month's victims have about ten minutes to live, since the safe just blew." He looked over at Vash. "It's a ritual to them, y'see."
Vash, without thought or hesitation, leaped out the window and ran full-speed toward the smoke. During the run, he passed someone, a beautiful red-haired woman with an amazing body. He turned his head to keep looking at her as long as he could before turning forward again.
'Woah, what a cutie! I hope she likes heroes!'
He got close to the bank when two sets of hands grabbed and yanked him back. Vash's face grew into exaggerated panic.
"YYYAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH, MONSTERS!!!!"
A familiar, stern female voice spoke up behind him. "I can not believe you really think monsters are out here. You are really immature."
And, with her as always....
"Monsters?! Oh my gosh, where?!"
Vash turned to find his companions, Meryl and Millie, frowning with crossed arms and checking over her shoulder worried, respectively. Before Vash could say anything, Meryl started scolding him.
"Do not tell me you are going into that bank, Vash." He grinned, but stopped when Meryl clenched her fists and teeth and started poking him in the chest. "Do you know how very idiotic that is?! Did you forget that you are completely unarmed?!" Vash started to explain that, although his revolver was somewhere in the desert, he still had his hidden gun. But then his face fell. He forgot, Knives had shot that gun off. Crap, he WAS unarmed!! Meryl continued. "Not to mention you also left your bullet-proof coat out there. Unless you have a third weapon we do not know about, even you cannot stop this."
Vash turned serious, despite still being upset at himself for leaving his equipment behind. "Maybe you're right." Meryl and Millie looked at him with surprise. Was he admitting he couldn't do anything so easily? "However....I can't allow them to kill innocent people without at least trying to help. I'll go in, even if I have to do it unarmed." He turned and started running.
"Wait!!"
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