A/N: Hi everyone! I'm sorry for being so late in updating but, summer's over so I have responsibilities to fulfill. I still plan on continuing with story but things will be slow going, though I should have some time coming up to work on the next chapter. :) This chapter is kind of short but I felt like it should end here and I was eager to get something to you guys. Tell me what you think and please, please review as it keeps me going :).
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SMACK! The monster went flying off of Rex's fist, crashing through the artificial foliage before splashing into the lake bordering the few houses in the gated suburban community. Its massive form overtook the small depth of the shallow waters, leaving half of it submerged and half of it bare above the surface. Flying over, Rex landed and took aim at its naked underbelly with his slam cannon. Seeing it floundering in the water, he fired projectiles at its sensitive hide, ceasing only when all movement stop. Rex hovered over the prone figure for a moment before confirming with Six that the creature was down and he was going in to cure it.
"Affirmative Rex," Six told him, "After you're done there, head back to Providence for some rest. You've cured enough evos for tonight." Rex scowled as Six logged off his commlink; it was Six who had made him go on this nighttime, curing evos excursion. Cursing under his breath, he dived towards the evo laying his hands on the part he took for a head. Rex closed his eyes and sensed the foreign nanites within the body. He sent his own nanites forth and instantly recognized them shutting down enemy nanite function before the body in front of him returned to its normal human form.
Rex sighed, letting go of the mailman that now laid before him. He signaled for Providence agents to come forward to take him into custody before following another agent to the hovercraft. Inside, he found Bobo sitting in one ship's seats.
"Hey kid, nice work with those evos," Bobo commented. The evoid monkey looked inquiringly at Rex when the teen only nodded in response taking the water bottle handed to him by one of the ship's crew member. Sliding closer to Rex as he sat down, the mutated monkey quietly murmured, "I heard what happened with Noah. What a mess. I'm really sorry this had to happen, kid." Bobo placed a hairy hand on Rex's shoulders.
"Thanks Bobo," Rex sighed before taking a swig of water.
"But you know, there's a silver lining to everything. Noah's a good kid. Sure, he's mad right now but what guy wouldn't be? He just found out he's knocked up!" Bobo gestured wildly, "Let me tell you something kid, if it were me, one man's nose wouldn't be the only thing broken!" Bobo opened his mouth to say something else but a beep signaling their arrival at Providence interrupted him. Rex sighed in relief, an action which didn't go unnoticed by Bobo who frowned. Still frowning, Bobo joined Rex in departing the ship once it had docked, but paused as Rex headed in a direction different from the path leading to their room. "Where ya going, kid?"
"Holiday's office," Rex answered, not pausing in his walk. Bobo followed after him anxiously.
"Are you sure that's a good idea kid? Last time you tried to speak to Noah he blew up at you. I think you should give him some time to work things out." Rex turned to his partner.
"Look, I know everyone wants me to give him some space but..." Rex hesitates, looking thoughtful,"I can't really explain it Bobo. When we came in contact with the machine...it was like for a split second I was in full contact with Noah. I could sense...everything," Rex's voice was filled with wonder. "And I just got this feeling, you know, like this intense loneliness and this fear about what's going to happen, in the future. But, it wasn't mine. I mean... the emotion wasn't apart of me. And right after that my nanites started -" Rex broke off abruptly, looking at Bobo worriedly. Bobo responded with a look of curiosity.
"Don't clam up now, kid." Rex flushed.
"Well, they kind of invaded him, activating these dormant functions in all the right order, obeying some primitive instruction from the machine. And then, it was like a part of me merged with Noah-" Rex stopped, caught in the memory.
"And now he's knocked up. You tell Holiday this, kid?" Bobo inquired. A look flashed across Rex's face before it hardened and he turned to continue onto Dr. Holiday's office. "Kid?" Bobo hurried to follow Rex.
"No, I haven't and I don't plan to," the last part was said quietly to himself, but Bobo heard nonetheless. He watched as Rex continued down the hallway.
"You can cut the teenage angst, Rex! What's got you all secretive?" But Rex didn't answer and Bobo considered following him for one split second, but then decided it wasn't worth it. The conversations that would occur in Holiday's office was bound to lead to some bloodshed.
Rex walked towards Dr. Holiday's office in complete silence, consumed with his thoughts. The time he'd spent fighting had forced him to focus all his attention, so as not to lose his powers due to mental distraction. He was actually surprised how easy it had been to put everything out of his mind, but he put that up to what he had experienced when the machine connected him to Noah. His nanites had instantly reacted, but while the whole process was out of his control, the nanites kept up a continuous relay of information explaining what was happening. The result had been that Rex was comforted in the safety of himself and Noah, and he suppose that lack of worry made it easier for him to forget his problems for a few hours and knock around some monsters.
But now he was back at Providence and it was time to face his reality.
He was going to be a father. Though Dr. Holiday was performing the genetic tests that would confirm his relation, he knew, from nanite inspired intuition, that the baby was his. And that made him excited. Finally, he would have a family.
Rex was forced to stop this train of thought and focus it on matters at hand, though, as the door to Holiday's office appeared down the hallway. What exactly was he going to say to Noah? His true aim was to reassure his only human friend that everything would be alright, if only because of the worry he felt at their last connection. His last attempt to comfort Noah, however, had failed and had caused the blond to blow up at him. Rex felt he could understand where Noah was coming from; he was after all, an evo who had foreign entities floating around his body that weren't always under his control, and even worse, seemed to be almost sentient. Yet, Noah knew none of this and, because of his ignorance, he wouldn't let Rex provide any of the comfort Rex was dying to was he suppose to get Noah to open up to him if Noah wouldn't even give him the chance to prove that he was trustworthy? Rex sighed as the answer to this question escaped him and decided that he would just play it cool until Noah eventually let down his defenses. And that's the real problem, Rex realized as he halted in front of Holiday's office door. Rex thought back to the emotions of loneliness and uncertainty that had pervaded his body when he connected to Noah. Noah's afraid of being abandoned, so he's put up a barrier to keep people out. I need to convince him that I'm not going to leave him and then, maybe I will have gained his trust. Then the situation just might be salvageable.
Nodding to himself, and smiling slightly with renewed hope, Rex pushed open the door to Holiday's office-
and immediately dived out of the way as a glass bottle shattered against the wall above his head. Looking around, Rex stood, stunned, as the chaos of Holiday's office came into focus, with the various soldiers and lab assistants running around, and at the center of the commotion was Noah being forcibly restrained by Six as Holiday tried to get a needle into his vein. Just as the full horror of the situation became know to Rex, Noah threw back his head and let out a scream of pure animalistic fear and pain that had many in the office halting in their task and staring at him in shock. Then, Holiday stabbed him savagely with the needle causing Noah to go limp in Six's arms.
And then nothing was heard except the soft patter of falling liquid, as blood seeped from the bed where Noah laid, onto the floor.
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