Just an FYI. I was cleaning up my comp. and i found this crappy old thing. I must have wrote it a billion years ago, right after the 4th episode of GR came out. I decided to post it, even if it has no plot and also ends abruptly...but hey, its a personal flaw (its over 2,000) mind the grammar, i skimmed over it real quick and only corrected the things spellcheck caught, so, you know...what ever...
"I'm so bored!" Rex yelled up at the extended ceiling of the petting zoo in frustration. He paced back and forth in the dust, kicking up small clouds whenever he would reach a point and turn on the ball of one foot, only to walk the same distance in the other direction.
"Kid! Will you stop your damned pacing already!" Bobo yelled from the top of a nearby tree. "I'm going crazy just watching you!"
Rex paused and glared at the chimp. "Thats easy for you to say, all you have to do to stay entertained is scratch your butt all day!" Rex pointed an accusing finger at his sidekick.
"Hey!" Bobo looked baffled and offended. "Don't knock it till you try it!" Rex's expression softened into an apologetic smile.
"Sorry man." He said as Bobo jumped from the tree and paced over to the Evo teen to bump fists. "I just can't take it! There are no more Evo's left! i'm convinced that we are the last two...you are an Evo right?" Rex didn't wait for an answer, "I mean, this is the worst dry spell ever, why can't Van Kleiss attack or something!"
"Hey kid," Bobo warned, "watch what you wish for, you never can tell, it just might come true."
"I know, but ever since Knight ordered our escape route welded off, we can't get out," Rex's expression changed from angry to accepting/defeated. "I mean, I know they would have done it eventually, but there is nothing to do in this hellhole in the meantime."
"How about capture the flag?" A familiar voice rang out, both Rex and Bobo turned to see Agent Six walk out from the artificial brush twirling a silver modified buzzsaw blade around one finger, in his other hand was a second blade of the same shape, but instead of the standard tempered steel color, it was coated in in a dark green and navy blue camouflage pattern and coated in a homemade clarifying solvent, in short, a item tailor made to hide in the terrain of the petting zoo.
"Six!" Rex yelled in surprise, "shouldn't you be doing agent-y stuff?"
"I go where you go, so...no, I'm stuck here like you."
"But they let you out of your cage to go into the world for reasons other than work." Rex countered smartly. Six merely shrugged and tossed the camo blade at Rex, who barely managed to catch it before it caught him.
"Every job has its perks, you get Mell's side." Six said, referring to the game of capture the flag.
"Sweet. Wait, thats not fair! I get the biggest beast in the box and a camo advantage? How does that work?"
"Mm? I don't mind, the worst that can happen is you winning."
"The odds are still against you." Rex stated plainly.
"No, the odds are against you." Six stepped backward till his back was to a tree. "Ready when you are." he said quickly trowing the ragged disk into the shrubbery behind him.
To Rex (as well as anyone else who may have been watching) it looked like Six had simply tossed a buzz saw into some shrubs, but at a certain angle and with proper speed and skill, the disk could be launched up to five feet into the ground in a diagonal fashion so it looked as if it had vanished into the earth. Rex would never find it where it lay, two feet from the surface.
"Fine!" Rex said aggravated, "But why are you here?"
"The same reason you are, no Evo problems, I have to find some way to stay sharp, if you can pick up a few things on the way too, thats what Knight considers a bonus."
"Well Knight is a monopolizing prick who eats babies as hors devours!" Rex smirked.
"Still pissed about the whole Noah-being-a-spy thing?"
"You bet your over-grown switchblades I am!" Rex muttered. "And I have yet to forgive you for your secrecy as well! I don't think I can ever trust you completely ever again!"
"I'm going to be honest, I have dirt on everyone in this agency, and if everyone I knew secrets about knew I had this information, no one would trust me enough to so much as lend me a pencil." Six smirked, seemingly happy about the thin strings of trust that connected him to everyone in the agency.
"Like how you knew about Holiday's sister? And knowing Noah was being controlled by Knight?"
"No...thats more of a... a need to know basis, you just didn't need to know." Rex looked confused.
"Hey." The Evo muttered, "Noah blew his own cover, if you ask me, he is a sucky spy, but everyone knows that, so why did you cover for Noah and take the heat for him blowing his cover?"
"Because you care about Noah, given you cared about him mostly because you didn't think he had any ties to Providence, but the point is, you need a human friend, if Noah took the blame, Knight would have most likely taken the actions to move him to another continent."
"Oh...thanks then." Rex said, "But why do you always come to drag me back when I go on a field trip?"
"Field trip? Rex, you're the only thing known to man that can cure man. As far as Providence is concerned, you're irreplaceable."
"I'v never felt so loved." Rex rolled his eyes, "or overprotected..." Six just shrugged as Rex handed his camo blade to Bobo. "Can you go put that in a place where Six would never look?"
"Are you doubting my hiding skills, Chief?" the monkey asked quizzically, "because I already have like, nine places in mind." he ran for the treeline, in the direction of Mell's pool.
"Good monkey." Rex approved, before turning back to Six just as a com channel from the observation deck opened into Doc Holidays voice.
"Rex we need you here for a checkup, I know you hate it, but I'v been putting something off I need to do" there was a pause "Six, if you're there, you need to come too, or I'll get Knight on your ass!"
The channel closed.
"Damn..." Six muttered. Rex looked at him suspiciously, then put on a face splitting sneer.
"What?" Six asked, letting his posture reflect guilt and the discomfort he was in, which just added more proof to Rex's theory.
"You're in trouble!" Rex sang, and began to laugh with glee. "What did you do?" He jumped to Six's side and starred him down. Six didn't flinch in the slightest, but sighed heavily.
"I don't know, but it can't be good..." The agent began to walk to the tower, thinking it over, Rex followed like a lost puppy grinning the whole time.
Six stopped just short of the lift door and Rex, not paying attention, crashed into him.
"Whats the big idea, Six?" Rex yelled "Six?" he frowned.
"Crap..." Muttered the agent, getting into the lift car, Rex followed confused.
"What's up?" Rex asked the agent, who shuttered upon rememberance of something that Rex could not disclose. They pulled up to the top of the tower, that which was one of multiple labs scattered throughout Providence H.Q. Doctor Holiday stood by a large machine, one very similar to a cryo sleep pod Rex had seen once. The doctor impatiently tapped her foot as she leaned on the machine and stared them down as they entered.
"I have been lenient with you Six, and Rex! Wipe that smirk off your face! You may be just as screwed as this green chicken." she sighed
"Whats he in for Doc?" Rex asked excitedly, completely ignoring her warning.
"You are getting a dental check up." She smiled as Rex shrunk back and Six twitched, but lost no demeanor.
"Holiday, do we have to do this now?" Six muttered, he looked genuinely troubled by what was about to take place.
"I have to check the fillings," She insisted. " I may as well do it since I have all the equipment out to check up on Rex, its not personal, and to be honest I feel kinda bad for doing it to you after the whole Evo sis escaping thing, but its for practicality reasons mostly." She smiled sweetly.
"You're nervous." Six stated blatantly.
"Not nervous," She scolded, "Nervous is a very nonprofessional word, Six. I'm just..." She faltered. "...Perturbed."
"I'm not scared!" Rex yelled out defiantly, startling Six and the good doctor away from their trains of thought "I brush my teeth!"
"Every day?" Holiday smirked.
"You have to brush them every day!" Rex was in disbelief.
"Yeah, take it from Six, fillings and crowns are hell." Rex glanced at his protector to see Six looking startled and in a trance. He slowly nodded.
"You have cavities?" Rex in spite of himself, was shocked. Cavities were something that seemed only children who ate to much candy could get, Six was one of the farthest things Rex could think of from a child. In fact, he tied with the Flood.
"Something like that..." Six muttered before glancing around, presumably looking for any escape routs, upon finding none to speak of, he planted himself defiantly where he stood, very much like a child.
"How does this work?" Rex questioned, quickly changing the subject. And to be honest, it was a rather baffling hunk of tech. It had tubes and some sort of built in X-ray machine.
"Simple," Holiday sat Rex in some form of chair and made him put a small black square in his mouth, then, placing the X-ray lens to his cheek, pressed a button and then repeated for the other side. The whole time Six watched with mild and wary interest.
After Doc Holiday pulled the x-rays on the big screen on the west wall, she confirmed that Rex had no cavities, but a lot of plaque buildup and suggested he brush his teeth more.
"Like, twice a day."
"Okay, Six's turn." Rex smiled happily. He and Holiday looked to where Six had been sitting, only to find that he was no longer there, or anywhere, for that matter, in plain sight at least.
"Six!" Holiday yelled. "Stop trying! There is no use putting this off, it has to happen eventually!"
"I know." Came Six's voice from behind Rex, causing the teen Evo to jump ten feet.
"Glad you see it my way." Holiday repeated the test on Six, who sat uncomfortably through it. After the rays were taken, Holiday pulled them up on the big screen. Before she opened the files she turned to Six with a questioning glance at Rex. Six nodded.
The prints came up, and Rex was baffled.
"There aren't any cavities!" He exclaimed.
"Yes there are, We stopped using metallic filling years ago on account of...of..." She faltered. "An incident. now we use white cement, see all the really white blotches?" Rex nodded slowly. "Those are the fillings."
"Whoa! Man thats a lot!" Rex said, scanning over the prints to notice the whites, there were to many to count. "Where did you get so many?"
"...Dental torture." Six muttered. Rex was at a loss for words. But Six seemed more embarrassed than anything else.
"...Six...I...I didn't..."
"Relax." Six forced a smile, "nothing to it really, just an occupational hazard." Rex looked far from convinced.
"You are the most emotionless badass in the world!" Rex said. Six looked confused. "Dude, you need to loosen up, take it from me, talking about your problems is way easier than pushing people away!"Rex looked heartbroken. "Don't think that just because I'm a dumb kid with an ego, I can't tell when someones hurting. My nanites can do more than just build machines. They heighten my psyche. And lemme tell you, everyone is an emotional wreck!"
"Rex..." Six muttered.
"Don't you 'Rex' me!" the Evo continued, torn between concern and anger. "You! Six! You're hurting! Holiday! you're hurting! Noah, Circe, Breach, Beowulf, Skalamander, every Evo is hurting!" Rex looked ready to cry. "I can hear them...every time they sleep, Evo's connect! They are forced into each others heads by the nanites...we can read each others thoughts, dreams, mental stability...its a library of emotion, and everyone is a damaged book with pages missing."
Six and Holiday exchanged concerned glances.
"And when the hell did you get tortured!" Rex burst out.
"It doesn't matter Rex!" Six said loudly but firmly. He glared at the E.V.O behind his glasses, chilling the teen to the bone.
"Don't swear Rex." Holiday turned scary. She was very serious about common courtesy and often scolded Six's dirty mouth, but Rex found this was not the time for cleaning up his vocabulary.
He turned to exit the lab (in a hurry, for he had just remembered they had left Bobo in the petting zoo) it was clear the conversation was over, but Rex, being a teenager (and lets be honest, a cocky smart-ass by nature) had to have the last word.
Glancing over his shoulder he glared at them. "I'm gonna change the way everything works in the world, just you tools wait."
And on that last note, he was gone.
Six and Holiday only looked at each other in the dim light of the lab, neither of them knowing whether or not to take the young charge seriously.
AND THATS MY CRAPPY ENDING!11one1! so there.
see? even after two DBQ's, 3 MLA's, and all the standard test format complete-sentence response questions, I STILL can't write for the life a me...):
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