The jet landed at HQ as the agent jumped out. Looking back up she saw that the rescued captive was being lowered down carefully and being place into the hospital wing. After only a few hours, his diagnosis was listed as not serious. The female operative walked through the halls of the psychonauts compound, turning the corner and going into her room. Takign a breathe, she took off her heavey black jacket she wore on missions. The jacket was bullet proof, fire proof, and water proof, and quite comfortable. Throwing her jacket onto her bed she sat on her bed as someone began to speak in her head. " Nice to see you've returned safely," the female voice said. " We have been reported that Raz's condition is nothing serious, a few cut and bruises."

" What about the cut on his head, what did they do to him?" The agent asked, not aloud but back to her friends mind.

" We don't know yet, you'll know when I know."

" Thanks Milla."

" No problem dear. Get some sleep, you're probably tired. You'd been trying to find him for days." The agent nodded to herself and rested her body on her bed as Milla broke her mental connection. Closing her eyes, she focused her mind, and fell asleep.

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The agent awoke to the sound of her door opening and closing. Opening her eyes she saw a tall man in a trench coat standing at her door. Putting out a cigarate her threw it in her trash can and looked down at her. " Sasha, I told you to never smoke in my room."

" I know, that's why I put it out," Sasha Nein said to her walking into her room. " You've been asleep for three hours." Sasha said, reading her mind before she asked the question.

" I told you to never read my mind as well," The woman said to him.

" Whatever. Raz is out." The woman suddenly was wide and awake, jumping off her bed and running past Sasha. The agent crossed a few hallways and turned left and saw Raz standing there, talking to Milla.

" Raz!" the agent shouted at Raz who turned around. Raz caught her as she hugged him, then let him go. " How you feeling?"

" Fine, but I do have some bad news Lili." Lili looked at him nervously.

" How bad?"

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" As you can see," Milla began, pointing a stick at Raz's cranial x ray. " They implated a chip into his brain."

" What does the chip do?" Lili asked Milla.

" As what we've seen, it's supresses the use of psychi energy. When invoked by psychi energy, it acts by giving its host a painful shock." Raz nodded in agreement, already been shocked a few times.

" Can we remove it?" Lili asked. Sasha shook his head and took the floor.

" No. It's attached to his central brain system. We can't touch it, surgery or psychic. But we can't leave it either. It's a timer as well. If it isn't off Raz's mind within a week, his psychi will shatter and possibly kill him." Lili looked at Raz sadly. Not Raz.

" What's the plan then?" Raz asked, not wanting to worry about it just yet. " Hunt them down and make then take it out?"

" It's all we have right now," Milla said to everyone. " But for the meantime Raz, I hate to say it, but your a little less than useless on the field for this. Lili, your in charge of the search." Raz hated to, but he nodded in agreement. How much use as a psychonaut could he be if he couldn't even use his powers. Lili looked at who left the room.

" Who's my partner on this. Sasha?"

" I haven't worked the field in nine years. Your working with a new recruit for this. You can come in now." Someone in a psychonaut uniform stepped into the room and faced Sasha. " Lili, meet agent Mitch Kiklion." Lili looked at her new partner. He was a kid. Age sixteen, five and a half feet, long black hair that reached his nose, but very muscular for his age. Lili wasn't happy with this.

" A kid. You put a kid with me to assist in saving the life of our best agent." Lili said to Sasha in complaint. " Oh hell no."

" Mitch may be a kid, but he's invaluable to the psychonauts."

" What can he do?" Lili looked at the kid who looked at her. " What can he do?" Lili asked again, though she didn't it by herself. " What the hell."

" I can do the one thing you can't do," Mitch said to her. Suddenly he was behind her. " I can freeze time and rewind it for ten second intervals." Lili looked at him amazed. She'd been trying to master that for years, and couldn't hold it for a milasecond. " As he said, I'm invaluable."

" I still don't like it. He has no experience for a mission this serious." Lili said to milla and Sasha.

" Not my order." Sasha said to her.

" Who's is it then?"

" Your fathers," Milla said with a smile. ' way to go pops.' " Now Lili, be a dear and show him around. He is new after all."

" Not neccasary agent Vodello, I'll show myself around." Mitch walked out of the room as Lili looked back at Sasha a Milla.

" A kid? A god damn kid! Do you two even care about a Raz."

" Of course we do, why ask?"

" Why ask! You've hired a kid to save him!" Sasha shook his head.

" Your father did, not us. If you want to complain, complain to him."

" I think I will." Lili walked out of the room leaving Sasha and Milla. 'unfucking believable'

" Watch your language." Raz said to as she walked out. " And watch what you say. It wouldn't be the first time you embarassed yourself." Lili smiled at Raz and let out a breath. " It's frustrating I know. A kid saving me. But suck it up, an order is an order. The more you bicker about who's saving me, the longer it will take." Lili hadn't thought of that.

" Your right."

" I always am. I'll be over looking this from here. Every second counts."

" I know." Lili looked at him, wanting to kiss him right now. ' I hate this job, it keeps us apart.' Raz held back a laugh, hearing what she said. " I'll get to work on this immediately. See you at briefing." Raz nodded as Lili left his company and started down the hall. ' See you at briefing, smooth.' Raz chuckled and walked back into the room. Walking into another room that was used as a storage room, Lili sat on a box and craddled her chin in his palms.

" You okay Lil?" A woman with a clip board and a pencil in her ear asked. The woman picked up a box with her mind and placed it on a shelf, and checked marked it on the clip board, levitating the pencil with her mind. The woman was short, barely past five feet. Her hair was perfect, and dyed blonde with pink highlights.

" Not now Kitty."

" It's about Raz isn't it."

" Of course it is. It's my fault anyway. If I had done my job, he'd be fine."

" You two were ambushed. There was nothing that could of been done." Placing the clip board on the box next to Lili. Kitty lit a cigarate and inhailed the smoke. Offering her one, Lili shook it off. Lili hated smoking, it disrupted her mind. As why she hated drinking and love. Love she could tolorate, but beer was nicer to her. Love is fun while your in it, when your not, simpily put it sucks. She hated that word. Love. It made her think of Raz, the only person she wanted, but couldn't get because of their occupations. Love had almost gotten both of them killed. So decided that they couldn't be together, not yet at least. Sighing Lili stood up and began to walk to the door. " At least you made psychonaut. I'm stuck here cleaning for you bastards." Lili smiled, then tipped over a stack of boxes.

" You missed a spot." Kitty flipped her off as she closed the door.