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Rex landed at Providence HQ and he and Bobo ran to the Operations Center and found Six and Dr. Holiday enjoying each other's company. Rex cleared his throat loudly to get their attention.

"Oh, um, hi Rex," Dr. Holiday said stepping away from Six. "How'd it go?"

"Clearly not as well as it was for you two," Rex said grinning. "They're back. And they've learned to generate energy from kinetic energy."

"Perfect," Six said. "Now what?"

"Now, we need to find a way to kill them," Rex said.

"Kill?" Six asked.

"They're not going to stop if we don't," Rex said. "Besides, killing comes naturally to you."

"True," Six said. "But they are still living things."

"We give you permission this one time," White Knight said appearing on the monitor. "Help Rex kill them. Then go back to being yourself."

Six nodded just as Five walked in.

"Did I hear someone say 'kill'?" Five asked in her English accent.

"Hey Five," Rex said.

"Sup?" Five said jumping off of the balcony to the floor. "Who are we killing?"

"The Consortium," Rex said. "They're back."

"Good," Five said. "I was getting bored."

"Me too," Six said. "Shall we?"

"No," Rex said. "We still need one more person's help."

"Who?" Six asked.

"I have to make a run," Rex said ignoring him and running from the room.

"Where is he going?" Six asked.

"To get the recruit," Five said.

"I know who it is," Dr. Holiday said. "He doesn't want to have to drag them back into this life because he knows they won't be able to get back out."

"Cricket," Six said.

Rex knocked on the door and within seconds Cricket answered and smiled when she saw Rex. Even as a human she was fast and athletic. He smiled and walked into the apartment.

"What's up?" Cricket asked.

"The Consortium's back," Rex said. "Me, Six, and Five are going after them."

"Can you beat them?" Cricket asked.

"I don't know," Rex admitted. "Maybe not."

"I'm going with you," Cricket said.

"No offense but you couldn't do much as a human," Rex said. "Five and Six are trained assassins but...you're not."

"I know," Cricket said. "But I know that you can turn me back into my EVO form."

"Are you sure you want me to?" Rex asked. "Not even the Meta-Nanites would be able to cure you again."

"I know," Cricket said. "And I'm sure."

Rex nodded and put his hand on her shoulder. Then he transferred some of his own Nanites into her. She mutated back into her old EVO form then smiled. Then the Nanites started to overreact and her hands darkened and clearly got harder. Then the spikes on her elbows extended into short blades and hardened into black metal.

"Looks like you have a smaller version of my powers," Rex said.

"Yeah," Cricket said. "How do I control it?"

"Um," Rex said. "I'm not sure. It just comes easily to me."

Cricket sighed and began trying to get the blades to turn back to normal. After about fifteen minutes, she finally succeeded and began to practice controlling her new powers.

While she did, Rex flew them back to Providence HQ then he, Six, Five, Bobo, and Cricket took a jet to fly to the Amazon.

"Okay," Six said. "The flight will take a few hours so I'm going to take a nap."

"Me too," Five said.

"The door's not soundproof," Rex warned.

Five glared at him for a moment then smirked. Then she sat in the copilot's seat to wait.

"That's what I thought," Rex said.

"So," Cricket said. "What do they want?"

"Same as before," Rex said. "They want the Meta-Nanites that are inside me."

"I thought you destroyed them," Cricket said.

"I had them deactivate," Rex said. "But they can't be reactivated, as far as I know."

"Not true Rex," Caesar said appearing on a monitor. "You could easily tell them to reactivate and they would also reactivate if Black Knight got her hands on them."

"That's wonderful," Rex said. "You're pretty much useless, you know that, right?"

"Rex," Caesar said. "Do I need to mention the hormone scan I just finished?"

"Nope, I'm good," Rex said. "I'm also a teenager."

"Your point?" Caesar asked. "I haven't-"

Rex shut the speaker off then the monitor. then he began banging his head against the wall.

"Knock it off Rex!" Six called from the back.

Rex rolled his eyes and sat back down beside Cricket. It was the only seat open that wasn't the pilot's seat and Rex didn't feel like crashing them. The problem was that the seat was so small that they were practically sitting in each other's lap.

"I hate these jets," Rex said.

"They're faster than you," Cricket said.

"True," Rex said.

He stood and picked up a rocket launcher then sat in its slot. He pointed the unloaded weapon at Bobo and Bobo aimed his pistols at Rex.

"Drop it kid," Bobo said.

"It's not loaded," Rex said lowering it. "Wuss."

He put the gun away and leaned against the wall. He was having trouble standing still because, understandably, he was nervous about facing the Consortium again.

After an hour, a humanoid robot smashed up through the floor of the ship, grabbed Cricket then jumped back out. Rex dropped through the hole and created his Boogie Pack then flew after the robot which had grown a jet pack. Rex followed as best he could but the robot was far faster. After a few minutes, he couldn't see them anymore and had to stop.

"Damn it!" Rex shouted.

Just then, a blood-red portal opened behind him and a metallic hand with sharpened claws grabbed the back of his shirt and pulled him through. He immediately found himself in Abysus.

"Hey Breach," Rex said cheerfully then glared at Van Kleiss. "Van Kleiss."

"Rex," Van Kleiss said. "Nice to meet you. How are you? Good? Excellent. How's the Consortium?"

"Back," Rex said. "But right now my problem is that someone took my friend, Cricket."

Breach opened a portal then picked up four swords.

"Let's go," Breach said.

"Go?" Van Kleiss asked. "No way! I just got out of the bathroom."

Rex rolled his eyes then punched Van Kleiss and walked through the portal. Breach and Biowulf followed and they found themselves at a ruin. They could hear a girl screaming inside. Rex sprinted into the ruin and Breach and Biowulf followed. After a couple minutes, they reached a huge room with pipes covering the walls and a ring in the center. The ring was similar to the one Providence used to hold EVO's while interrogating them.

Cricket was chained inside the ring and was being electrocuted. Rex could feel from a distance that the Nanites were being destroyed but were creating more of themselves to try to keep her alive. Rex created his BFS and moved to free her but the robot kicked him away from her then moved to fight Breach and Biowulf. A second robot landed on top of Rex and pinned him.

"Hello Rex," Zag RS said from both robots. "I've been waiting for you. I could have destroyed her Nanites by now if I had told them to stop reproducing. Shall I tell them?"

"If you do I will tear you apart!" Rex said.

Zag Sat up and turned toward Cricket but Rex drove his BFS through the robot's head then jumped up and cut her shackles. She fell and he caught her then snapped his BFS's blade off and threw it through the other robot.

"Cricket," Rex said. "Wake up."

"Her Nanites are almost gone," Breach said. "She's going to die."

"No," Rex said. "She's not."

Rex placed a hand on her forehead and sent more of his Nanites. When he finished, he had less than half of his normal levels. His Nanites, multiplied until his levels were back to normal and he smiled. Cricket slowly opened her eyes and looked around.

"Rex?" Cricket asked. "What happened?"

"Zag RS destroyed a lot of your Nanites," Rex said.

"Ninety percent," Breach said. "Rex almost killed himself trying to save you."

"You did?" Cricket asked.

"I have no idea," Rex said. "I can't sense Nanite levels link Breach, apparently, can."

Cricket smirked and Rex helped her up. Then Breach took them all back to the jet and Bobo nearly had a heart attack at the sight of Breach.

THE END


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