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A Dark World
An SI/Mega X-over
By Tomas Megarson
E-Mail me at: NighthawkTM@Yahoo.com
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Disclaimer: The characters, settings, and places of "Sailor Moon"
were created by and belong to Naoko Takeuchi. The characters,
settings, and places of "YuYuHakusho" were created by and belong to
Yoshihiro Togashi. The characters, settings, and places of "Black
Cat" were created by and belong to Yabuki Kentaro. The characters,
settings, and places of "Bubblegum Crisis 2040" belong to those who
created the anime, and are too numerous to name here.


Chapter 6


"Well, well, I wasn't expecting to see you again."

"Yeah, well, doing the unexpected helps keep a guy like me
alive." Tomas smirked at the large man behind the counter. The day
before he'd spent reading through the book Botan had given him on his
knew life, this time paying close attention to all the details rather
then skimming through it. He'd picked up names and descriptions of
people from his days working for the Yakuza, along with places he
could get in touch with the people.

This was, however, the first time he'd tried to do so, and
he'd carefully picked this man, Sochi, after making a lot of notes on
the people. While still big, the man's hair had turned gray years
before and his face was showing wrinkles that gave away his age.
Sochi, the book had mentioned, was the man who had pulled Tomas into
the criminal side of the world, and was the person that he supposedly
trusted the most in the organization. Tomas just hoped he hadn't been
a bad judge of character.

"So," Sochi inquired, "what are you doing here, you rascal?"

Giving a grin and a shrug, Tomas replied, "I need a favor from
you."

Sochi's relaxed face turned into a huge grin. "Of course you
do, there's no other reason you'd come here. What do you want,
squirt?"

The smirk on Tomas' face remained the same as when he had
entered, and his hand waved at the merchandise that cluttered Sochi's
shop. "I wanna buy a bike, and not have to deal with all the legal
crap that goes with it."

Sochi's eyes gazed around his shop for a few moments, taking
in the dozen custom built motorcycles that rested silently around
them. His shop was a front for the Yakuza, a place
were...acquirements could be dropped off and picked up regularly
without causing suspicion. The surprise from the request took him off
guard for a few moments, and he found himself unable to stop himself
from repeating the request. "You want to buy a motorcycle?"

"Yeah." Tomas finally let the smirk drop from his face, and
thankfully as his face had been starting to hurt. So far, thankfully,
things were going as he'd mentally imagined they would, though he
didn't know if it would last. "I'm getting tired of walking
everywhere, and I've got nowhere to park a car."

"I thought you hated them, though."

"Yeah, when I was younger." Tomas spoke in a slightly painful
way. "I grew up though, especially recently."

"Yeah," Sochi nodded, "I guess so. Well, how are you going to
pay for it?"

Smirking, Tomas pulled an envelope out of his pocket and
placed it on the counter between himself and Sochi. "Vault Thirteen.
It's yours in payment. There's enough there to cover the costs."

The last page of the book on his life had been an index that
told of numerous vaults where he'd stashed things from his thieving
days, ranked in order of the amount that the contents could fetch on
the black market. The lowest vault had been Vault Fifteen, and had a
solid ten thousand American Dollars in it, hard cash stashed in
protective containers. The Vault One's contents had a few rare jewels
he'd stolen that would have brought in a few million dollars had he
sold them to the black market. As for Thirteen, it was worth (at the
time, anyway) slightly over twelve thousand dollars, more then enough
for a motorcycle.

Sochi stared at the envelope for awhile before he finally
nodded. "I can't give you one from my shop, but I can get you one."
His face was serious as his hand reached out and covered the envelope.
"I'll check out your Vault tonight and see what's its worth. I'll get
you something close to its value."

Tomas nodded at the man. "Great. I picked up a cell phone
earlier. The numbers with the instructions, give me a call when you
get my bike in." A grin he couldn't hold back came to his face and
filled his emerald eyes as he took in the man's shocked expression.
"Come on, I know I can trust you. After all, you know if you try to
rob me, I'll get it all back and with interest."

Sighing and shaking his head, Sochi agreed. "Yeah, you would,
wouldn't you. Just get out of here. I'll give you a call."

"Right, see ya old friend." Turning around and tossing a wave
over his shoulder Tomas walked out of the shop and into the bright,
warm afternoon sunlight. A cool breeze blew through his thick black
hair, making it seem even messier then before, not that he really
cared. He decided days ago that if he was going to be stuck in an
anime universe he was going to let his hair follow the rule of letting
it fall as it would. Well, he thought it was a rule, anyway, given
almost no one in any anime or manga he'd seen ever combed their hair.

Walking down the small street, Tomas turned another corner
onto a main drag that was a part of a rather decent business district.
He had to shake his head in wonder and gaze down at Soul Eater on his
hand. The last time he'd been in this part of the city it had been
the slaver's market where he had bought Eve. Now it was filled with
small shops selling books and flowers and electronics and other
things. It was quite a change the True Rune had caused, though one he
was glad for. Had it still existed, he'd have turned Soul Eater loose
on the place.

Sighing, Tomas continued making his way through the streets,
his mood dropping a bit. He still hadn't had a chance to try out Soul
Eater on anyone and wasn't sure if or how it would actually worse.
Everything had been going great since it'd brought him back to life,
and he was waiting for the two-ton weight over his head to drop and
crush him. It would have to happen, he knew his luck wasn't this
good, and he doubted the whole dying thing bought him much since he'd
come back to life.

Turning another street, Tomas sighed once more as a school
came into sight, Eve's school to be exact. One of her teachers had
called that morning asking for a parent/teacher conference for some
reason. Who knew, maybe this meeting would cut the rope holding the
weight; it couldn't be good. At least Eve wouldn't be with him for
it. She was back at the shrine with Rei, getting things ready for the
party he was going to throw. Rei had mentioned she wanted to cook
something for the party, but hadn't mentioned what it was except that
Eve would enjoy helping her. As long as she didn't touch the new
grill he'd bought, he didn't really care.

As he walked onto the school grounds, he had to shake his head
slightly as he remembered that. The look on the postal guy's face
when he'd pulled out a Visa card in his name was almost priceless.
The guy never thought a sixteen-year-old kid would have bought a
grill. A video game console, maybe, but not a grill. All in all, it
had been a very amusing ten minutes.

Pulling open the door, Tomas walked into the school building
and glanced around the halls. There was a desk with a secretary a bit
off to the side, a few padded chairs for people to sit in, and a
display case with a few trophies inside. It looked a lot like all the
other schools he'd been in, really. Walking over to the secretary,
Tomas smiled politely at the woman. "Hello, I'm Tomas Shinkyou. I
have an appointment to see Ketsunoana-sensei."

"One moment please." Tomas rocked back on his heals as the
woman picked up a phone near her and punched a few buttons. He
quickly lost interest with her and gazed around the main hall for a
few moments. "Ketsunoana-sensei will see you in conference room
three. Its down the hall on your right, clearly marked."

"Thanks." Turning away from the woman, Tomas walked down the
hallways, taking his time and reading the various things that were
posted on the wall. They weren't really interesting to him, but they
were better then thinking about the meeting that was about to happen.
He actually took a step past the conference room before his mind had
registered that he'd arrived. Turning around, he stepped to the door
and knocked politely as he stepped in. "Ketsunoana-sense, I'm Tomas
Shinkyou, Eve's father."

The woman's back was to him and her head was down looking at
something on the table in front of her as she replied, "Come in,
Shinkyou-san, and have the seat. Oh, please, shut the door behind
you."

Reaching behind himself, Tomas shut the door, noticing that as
he did so it cut the room off from the world around him. There were
no windows in the room, and its walls were a plain white. It was
pretty much everything that discouraged finding something to do
besides talk to the others in the room. Moving around, and feeling
some dread, Tomas pulled out a chair and sat across from the teacher.

"So," The teacher began, finally looking up at him, "Shinkyou-
san..."

Tomas managed to keep the grimace he felt come to his face as
Ketsunoana-sensei trailed off. "Is something wrong?"

"Alright kid, who are you?" The teacher's voice had quickly
turned sharp and her eyes narrowed in anger.

"I'm Tomas, Eve's father. You asked me to come here to speak
with you." Tomas was unable to stop his grimace this time as the
woman's eyes narrowed even more.

"Don't play with me, kid. What are you, Eve's brother, trying
to keep your parents from finding out she's in trouble? This is just
making things worse."

Tomas drew a deep breath in, doing his best to calm his nerves
and remain polite. "No Ketsunoana-senshi, I am Eve's father. I have
the legal documents to prove it in a safety deposit box and you can
check them out yourself through government records."

"Cute kid, I don't know whether to think you're smart for
telling me that, or an idiot for thinking I'd believe it." The
teacher suddenly shot out of her chair and stared down at Tomas hard.
"Now, tell me the truth kid. You're just making this a whole lot
worse."

As the woman gazed down at him in a very superior manner,
Tomas' limit for politeness was passed, and his old city kid attitude
kicked in. "Look, bitch, I'm Eve's father. You don't like it, just
fuck off and die."

"What!?" Ketsunoana's face was a mix of rage and shock as she
stared at him. "How DARE you speak to me that way! You're parents
are going to hear about this!"

"I don't HAVE parents you goddamned bitch," Tomas snarled back
at the woman, his eyes filled with anger. "You know what, fuck it.
I've been wanting to use this thing anyway!" Shooting out of his own
seat, Tomas raised his right hand so that Soul Eater was facing the
woman who had just royally pissed him off. "Soul Eater!" As he
called out the name of the True Rune, an image of it formed over his
head, the figure of Death turning its cold gaze on the woman. "Finger
of Death!"

As Tomas spoke the name of the magical attack, a black line
shot from his right hand to strike Ketsunoana in the chest. The line
quickly thickened and a black energy rippled down the woman's body.
She didn't even scream as the power passed over here. And then it was
over, and she dropped lifelessly into her chair.

Tomas stood there staring at the woman for a moment. He
couldn't see her moving and the room was deathly quiet. Finally, he
whispered to himself. "Oh shit." The irrational rage that had filled
him was gone now, and he was able to see with cold calculation just
what he had done. "Oh, damn, I think she's dead." His arm dropped to
his side, hanging limply from its socket. Finally, Tomas swallowed,
and turned to the door. "I'm not staying to find out," he whispered
to himself. Opening the door, he stepped back into the school and
closed it behind him. Hopefully he'd be gone before anyone noticed
the teacher's body.

*


As he walked up the steps to the shrine, Tomas let out a tired
sigh, finally shoving what had happened at the school to the back of
his mind. He spent quite a long time out wandering the streets coming
to terms with the fact that he had killed. Sure he had joked about
it, and threatened some people, and had taken a job that would lead
him to killing demons at some point. It took a lot, however, to get
over the fact that he had killed, though.

Now, though, all he wanted to do was crash and let go of the
whole mess. Or maybe try to get in touch with Botan and talk to her
about it, maybe have her drag him up to Koenma's so he could apologize
to the teacher. Releasing another tiring sigh, he crested the last
two steps and took in his home. And stopped.

"What the fuck...?" Tomas' voice was a soft whisper when he
spoke, taking in the crowded grounds. There were people everywhere,
most of whom he'd never met. In fact, almost everyone present was a
complete stranger to him, and he simply stared dumbly at the scene.

"Daddy's home!"

Tomas came out of his stupor in time to drop to his knees and
catch the flying hug from his daughter. His arms went around her even
though his eyes remained on the crowd, noticing Rei walking toward him
and the remaining having stopped whatever they had been doing and gaze
at the pair. Finally, he gave up trying to figure out what was going
on and whispered in Eve's ear, "Kiddo, what's going on?"

Eve pulled herself away from her father and stared at him for
a moment before she let go of him fully and pointed an accusing finger
at him. "You forgot!"

Blinking and unsure what was going on, he replied, "Forgot
what?" this time forgetting to whisper his question.

Rei, coming to stand behind Eve, giggled and practically
grinned at Tomas. "You forgot your own party? That's a good one."

"Party?" Tomas blinked for a second before it came to him,
"Oh yeah, the party. Heh, I did forget after the parent
teacher...thing..." Tomas' voice drew off as the memory of that
incident came through his mind again.

A concerned gaze came from Rei as she caught that something
about the meeting had struck Tomas wrong. "What's the matter?"

Looking up at Rei, Tomas blanked for a second as he thought
about what to say. "Yeah," was the first thing out of his mouth,
though he doubted it'd be enough, and he began thinking up a lie.

"Do you want to talk about it?"

Not really, was the first thing that came to mind, though he
didn't say it out loud. A few more seconds, and he went with what he
had, partial truth. "Oh, the lady didn't believe I was Eve's father.
We fought over it for a bit and then I finally said screw it and left.
She was rather pissed when I marched out."

"Oh, I see, that's expected, I suppose."

"Yeah," Tomas said, standing up. "So, I guess I should make a
speech or something, huh?" Tomas didn't look too thrilled as he made
the suggestion.

Rei gave him an encouraging smile as she replied, "That'd
probably be nice given you weren't here to greet everyone."

Sighing, and wishing he didn't do that so much, Tomas
swallowed and began trying to formulate what to say as Rei led him
over to the crowd. Now that he had his mind off of the killing thing,
he recognized most of the people who were present. Still, that didn't
help him too much.

Letting his gaze take in everyone, Tomas began. "Well, I suck
at speeches, so I'll make this quick. "I'm Tomas. 'Sup?" Seeing the
slight glare on Rei's face, he continued. "Welcome to my home, and
I'm glad to see everyone. Me and Eve are knew here, and I'd only met
a couple of people, so I figured why not throw a party and try to meet
some more." Looking at everyone again, he shrugged. "So, anyway,
I'll stop yapping and start cooking. Please, come over to the grill
and introduce yourselves. Otherwise, have fun, enjoy yourselves."

Shrugging and giving the crowd a quick wave, Tomas made his
way to his new grill. Arriving at it, he turned on the gas and hit
the ignition, starting the flames, smiling slightly as he heard them
roar to life. It'd been awhile since he'd grilled anything. Turning
away from the grill, Tomas took one look around at everyone, quickly
counting how many people were present. There were five Senshi, tux-
boy, four Knightsabers, a kid brother, and two ADPolice detectives.
Fifteen people were present, which was seven more then he'd expected
to have shown up. He hadn't really thought that Nene would convince
anyone to come, or even try for that matter. He did smile, though, as
he saw the entire group of people mixing and talking, not staying
separated by age as he had feared.

Shaking his head and letting the smile stay, Tomas headed into
the shrine and walked through the halls, though he came to a complete
stop when he saw two more people standing in the kitchen. His smile
turned to a grin and he began to laugh. "Botan-chan, Koenma, glad you
came!"

Botan smiled back at Tomas, her eyes seeming to dance. "Hi
Tomas. Of course we came."

"Yes," Koenma said around his pacifier, "Well, Botan mentioned
a party and free food, and I thought we could afford to take the night
off to join you."

"Wonderful," Tomas waved back over his shoulder and down the
hall. "Everyone's outside enjoying the air. Koenma, why don't you go
join them? Botan-chan, would you mind helping me bring some stuff
out?"

"Hmm...that sounds like a good idea." Koenma said as he
headed for the door. "Botan, help Tomas bring out the food. I'll be
meeting people."

"Umm, Koenma, a small request," Tomas said, stopping the small
child.

"Yes? What is it, Tomas?"

"Umm, would you mind not telling everyone you're my boss.
They either wouldn't understand it, or it'd freak them out and they'd
try to kill me."

"Really? Hmm...well...I guess so," Koenma said as he walked
out of the kitchen.

Shrugging that off and hoping Koenma would keep his word,
Tomas turned back to Botan and smiled. "So shall we get the food? I
should really need to get the cooking started." Passing Botan, Tomas
headed to the refrigerator and opened it. "Botan, would you mind
getting the buns and chips? They're on the counter off to the right."

Botan looked around for a second before seeing the packages of
buns on one of the counters. "So, what are you making?" she asked as
she picked them up.

Coming out of the fridge, Tomas had a number of plastic
grocery bags stacked in his right hand and was carrying a 24 pack of
soda cans in his left. "I'm just doing up burgers, mets, and dogs.
Good old junk food, perfect for a spring night." Kicking the door to
the fridge closed, Tomas headed took a step toward the door before
nodding Botan to go ahead. "Ladies first."

"Thanks!" Giving another smile, Botan headed out of the
kitchen and made it two steps before turning to look at Tomas.
"That's because you can't get the door, right?"

Giving Botan a grin, Tomas found himself unable to resist,
"Bingo, Bingo." The grin grew a bit larger as Botan laughed and began
walking again, leading Tomas outside and getting the door.

Back outside, Tomas smiled as he took in the lively group.
Apparently everyone was just relaxing and enjoying what was going on
without worrying about their differences. It gave Tomas a bit of hope
that he could make some friends here. Looking for a moment, he saw
that Eve was standing near Koenma and apparently talking to Nene.
Tomas wondered what they were saying, and grew slightly worried at the
possibilities. Koenma had been someone he hadn't expected even in his
greatest counting of people coming. That could be trouble, but he'd
worry about it later.

Reaching the grill, Tomas placed the packages of meat down on
one of the trays that was connected to it. "Just set the buns down
there, Botan," Tomas said, indicating the other tray as he put the
case of soda down. "Why don't you go talk to everyone, and I'll get
cooking. Enjoy yourself."

"Alright, talk to you later Tomas," Botan said before heading
off.

Opening the grill, Tomas leaned back away from the heat for a
moment. "Wow, that got hot," he mumbled to himself as he started to
pull out packages of preformed hamburgers along with the mets and
hotdogs. Whistling to himself, Tomas began to pull apart the packages
and tossed the meat onto the grill, being very careful not to touch
the raw meat with his hands.

As he closed the grill, Tomas looked up to see Rei almost next
to him being followed by another girl with long blond hair tied into
two braids. Tomas knew who she was, of course, but he couldn't let
that be known. "Heya Rei, who's your friend?" he asked instead.

"Tomas, this is Usagi-chan, a good friend of mine," Rei
replied, waving Usagi forward slightly.

"Hi! I'm glad to meet you, Tomas! Rei-chan's talked a lot
about you!" Usagi grinned over at her friend, in an almost wicked
way. "You should ask her out sometime!"

"Usagi!"

Tomas started to laugh, and shook his head. While he'd found
Usagi to be rather annoying at times as a character, here in person,
it was just too funny. "Sorry, Usagi, I've got other things I need to
do then go out on dates. I have a job, am looking into school, and
most importantly, I've got Eve to take care of. I can worry about
dating when she's older."

"I can watch her for you. It wouldn't be any trouble at all."

"Ha ha ha," Tomas tried to stop laughing, but he found he
couldn't. There was just something about the girl that let his
problems fade away. "Who knows, maybe someday I'll take you up on
that offer." Shaking his head, Tomas managed to clam himself down.
"So, are you two having fun?"

"Yes, it's nice meeting some of the other people you know,"
Rei said, nodding toward the group.

Tomas was forced to shrug and scratch the back of his head.
"Well, the truth is," he said, almost embarrassingly, "I only know the
blonde with short hair, Nene. The rest are friends of hers that she
invited. A lot like you."

"Oh, I see. Well, you should go talk to them."

"I can't," Tomas shrugged, and nodded to the grill, "I got
food to cook. I'm sure they'll come over and talk to me, though, if
Nene drags them, anyway."

Before Rei could respond, Usagi interrupted. "What are you
cooking?"

"Hamburgers and hotdogs. Its junk food all the way tonight.
I've got a few gallons of ice cream in the freezer and Rei said she
was going to make something for dessert."

"Gallons of ice cream...?" Usagi asked in an almost awed
voice.

Tomas gave the girl an amused look. "Yeah, me and Eve are
addicted to the stuff, so I always keep a couple of gallons on hand."

Usagi sniffled a bit as she thought about that. "Eve's so
lucky to have you as a father."

Tomas found himself unable to stop himself from laughing
again. "Well, why don't you go and explain that to her. Maybe it'll
make her pay better attention in school."

"Hmm..." Usagi thought about that for a few moments, the
thought turning around in her mind. "Do you really think so?"

"Yeah, go ahead. She could use a role model, I think." While
Usagi wasn't really his choice of a role model, it'd get rid of both
her and Rei for a bit. He wasn't sure if the others were waiting for
the pair to leave him or not, but it would probably be best to give
them a chance to stop over and say hello.

"Me, a role model?" Usagi asked in an almost daze. "I think
I will!" Turning away from Tomas, the girl hurried away.

Rei gazed at Tomas for a moment in a slight state of shock
before she spoke. "Do you know what you just did?"

"Gave Eve someone to look up to as a big sister figure," came
Tomas' reply.

"Usagi...is not the best person to be a role model, Tomas."

"Huh?" Tomas asked as he faked confusion, while opening the
grill and beginning to turn the food over to cook the other side. "I
thought she was your friend, and she seemed like a fun girl."

Rei shook her head, as she turned away. "She's lazy, not a
good student, and quite the air head. I better go make sure she
doesn't turn Eve into a clone of herself."

"Oh, well, have fun."

"Right," Rei said wirely as she walked away.

Sighing as Rei walked away, Tomas turned his attention back
toward the grill, though it wasn't like staring at it was going to
make the food cook faster. He thought back to the recent conversation
with Usagi and Rei and had to smile again. It had been rather
amusing, he thought, and far better then he'd expected such a meeting
to go. Of course, now that he thought about it, he realized he hadn't
thought of it before. Sighing at the confusion his mind was creating
he looked up to see Nene walking over to him leading a young woman
dressed in jeans and a t-shirt. The woman's bowl cut of brown hair
was blowing in the breeze that had just kicked up as the pair
approached.

"Heya Nene," Tomas said, starting the conversation once more,
glad that he was getting an easy opening again. "I'm glad you came.
Who's your friend?"

Nene turned to look at her friend. "Linna, this is Tomas.
Tomas, Linna." Turning her neck slightly, Nene looked at the grill.
"What are you cooking?"

"Burgers and dogs. Junk food all the way," Tomas replied,
before looking at Linna. Again he was a bit upset he had to pretend
he didn't know these people, as it'd have made things far simpler.
"So, Linna, what do you do for a living?"

"Me? I work at Hugh-Geit. Its mostly office work." Linna
shrugged it off as she turned an inquisitive gaze onto Tomas. "Nene
told me you're a detective." She said, though her voice made it far
more of a questions.

Tomas nodded and pointed toward Botan. "You see the girl over
there with the long light blue hair?" he asked. "She's my partner,
and the one who recruited me, though from what I understand our boss
pointed me out to her."

Linna gazed at Botan for a second before turning back to
Tomas. "But, she's even younger then you are."

Tomas shook his head in response. "No, she's older then me,
by quite a bit, so she and the boss claim. Still, we get along fairly
well, even if we haven't had a case yet."

"Really? Umm...who exactly do you work for?"

Tomas began to sweat slightly as he tried to recall the name
he'd given Nene before. After a few moments and sure he was delaying
too long, he gave up and hoped he could get away without a name.
"It's just a small private agency, nothing you'd have heard of, I'm
sure." Not wanting to leave room for the issue to be pressed, Tomas
added, "I got pulled in because of some unique talents."

Linna frowned for a moment at the evasiveness of the previous
issue, but she shrugged

"Yes, I'm curious as well," came a strange voice from behind
Tomas.

Turning around, Tomas took in the two men who were now
standing in front of him. They were dressed in business suits and
clean cut. Despite that, however, Tomas didn't recognize either of
them at all. Still, thinking maybe Nene had invited them he answered
the question. "Umm...security and acquisition, mostly."

"That's a strange pair of jobs, especially for one so young."
This response came from the man on Tomas' right, and he took the guy
in. He was thin, slightly shorter then Tomas was, with jet hair and a
touch of gray mixed in.

"Yeah, well a guy's gotta live. I haven't got parents, so I
needed to learn to do things on my own." Taking in both men again,
something in Tomas started to scream trouble at him. He wondered
briefly if the pair were really demons in disguise. That would
certainly make his day. Still, all he could do was ask, "Umm...who
are you anyway?"

The man who had been talking continued with the replies. "I'm
detective Sudo, this is detective Takimoto. We need to talk to you
about Mitsushi Ketsunoana."

Tomas looked at the pair, a sinking feeling coming over him.
even as his mind began to run through numerous excuses he could use,
his mouth supplied a simplistic answer that he was sure wouldn't get
him in trouble. "Huh?"

"She's dead."

Tomas looked at the detectives for a second and every excuse
he was creating just died. He responded on pure instinct. "Oh shit."


Author's Notes: Cliffhanger! BWAHAHAHAHA! How wonderful to use it.
For those who were upset about skipping all the mental trauma of
having killed someone, well, I'm not in the mood to write lots of dark
introspection that would drag things down. Suffice to say, there was
some suffering, and he forced his way over it.