Author's Note: Hey everyone! I know, know I should be working on my other story Kidnapped but I had this idea and I wanted to get it out there. I'm going to be having a lot of snow days from school according to the weather here so I'll be able to work on my other story too. Alrighty, so this story takes place mid-season 3. Rex and Six go on a routine, easy takedown, E.V.O. mission but Van Kleiss shows up and manages to inject something "special" into Rex. What is it? What will it do to Rex? Red and find out!
Disclaimer: I do not own, and never will, Generator Rex or any of its amazing characters.
Lightning streaked across the sky as Agent Six's jump jet flew over downtown Brooklyn. Six and Rex were on their way to take down a minor E.V.O. wrecking havoc in a local hardware store.
Rex let out a long, drawn out sigh from his spot in the passenger's seat, looking rather disgruntled as he stared up at the sky through the glass.
Six glanced over and raise an eyebrow ever so slightly. "Something wrong?"
Rex gestured at the sky as lightning lit up the premature night sky in front of them. "Lightning." Rex said it as if Six was if it was the most obvious explanation in the world.
"So?"
"So," Rex said with a humph, "I'm practically one giant walking piece of metal. I don't particularly enjoy being electrocuted."
"I don't think anyone does, Rex."
Rex just sighed again and went back to staring out the window.
The jet slowed and made it's descent onto the abandoned street outside of the hardware store. The sky opened up and released sheets of rain onto the world below.
Rex groaned. "Could this day get any worse?" he complained to no one in particular before sullenly trudging his way to the front door of the store, except there was no door, just an empty hole leading into a dark store.
"Yes," Six answered as he came to a stop behind Rex. It was quiet, too quiet. The partners exchanged a glance before Rex cautiously stepped inside, Six following in suit.
A hammer came whizzing past his ear and imbedded itself into the wall right where Six's head would have been if he hadn't stepped out of the way.
Six brought out his magna blades as Rex formed a BFS, block-party combo. They both looked around, searching for the hammer-throwing culprit.
A saw came flying by this time, inches for being lodged into Rex's side.
"There!" Six said, seeing a tail slide out of sight behind some shelves to their right.
The pair ran in that direction and found the E.V.O. had cornered itself. The beast looked like a cross between a spider and a lizard. It was black with eight scaly legs, a tail covered in spikes, and an elongated head that had eight eyes.
"Gross! Which do you think it started out as? A spider or a lizard?"
Six rolled his eyes behind his trademark shades. "Just cure it."
"Six, you are no fun," Re mock pouted. He started towards the monster, unmorphing his BFS hand so he could cure it. The E.V.O. immediately hissed and began throwing things at he agents, ranging from a tape measure to a chain-saw that the thing had managed to turn on.
Rex used his block-party hand to block the incoming projectiles and managed to get within a foot of he creature before it snapped its razor-sharp teeth at him. He jumped out of the way and the E.V.O. escaped down the aisle, knocking Six into a wall with it's tail when the man tried to stop it. The E.V.O. then jumped through the glass store-front window and scuttled off down the street.
The two agents quickly followed but could not keep up with eight legs. They came to the end of the road where it split into two roads going opposite directions.
"Split up," Six said. "I'll take the right. Whoever finds it first coms the other."
Rex nodded in agreement and took off on his Rex ride. He stopped when he heard a crash in an alleyway.
"Figures," Rex grumbled to himself as he walked down the dark alley. He formed his fun-chucks to light the way and there was the E.V.O., waiting.
Rex touched the com link in his ear but was met with static. He shrugged and decided to cure it on his own, figuring the storm raging overhead was interfering with the communications.
He walked slowly towards the E.V.O. It didn't make a move once, it just sat there. As Rex got closer he saw a familiar mark on one of the legs. Rex placed a hand on the beast and started to cure it. The E.V.O. turned out to be a dark green lizard that immediately scampered off into he darkness.
"That was way too easy," Rex said to himself. "Where are you Van Kleiss?"
A red portal opened up behind him and as he turned, a needle was jammed into his upper arm. Rex felt something cold rush through his veins and dread crept over his body. Rex spun around to face his assailant.
"You should already be feeling the effects," Van Kleiss said with a wide grin as Rex doubled over in pain.
Van Kleiss plucked the com link out of the boy's ear and said into it, "Agent Six, Rex will be needing some assistance." He then threw it down onto the wet pavement and crushed it under his boot before Six could answer.
"What... did... you... do to... me?" Rex managed to choke out, glaring at Van Kleiss as waves of pain splashed over him.
"Just a little something a whipped up special for you, Rex. You might even thank me for it," he said as he stepped back through the portal, leaving Rex all alone.
Rex's nanites were going into overdrive trying to rid his system of the toxin. He toppled over onto his back, rain pelting him from above, as he experienced even more pain if that was even possible at this point.
System error, system error, system error...
Rex screamed in agony as his body lit up like a circuit board. His nanites were failing.