A/N: it seems I created a little confusion with Timothy. He is a new exorcist introduced in the most recent arc in the manga. His innocence takes the form of an older version of himself (Tsukikami) which only he can see. He can separate himself from his body and possess people. Tsukikami can also possess people. Tsukikami speaks a little differently, his grammatical mistakes are deliberate. Then there is the usual plea for you, the readers, to rate and review. Quite a few people are going to get poked from here on out. Mwahaha. So here is where the fun really begins. I plan for at least sixty percent of the exorcists to get infected. Who wants to hear what happens to Kumoi once it's all done? Hands up. (reviews up to be more precise) anyhoo, enjoy. Oh before I forget first we need (Bum bum bah)

The Disclaimer: I can now draw fat stick men! Yay! Seeing as there are soooo many fat stick men in -man I must own it. Not.

Infection

"What are you guys going on about?"

"Never mind let's get out of here before we discuss this, I've no desire to become a Kebab."

That was one sentiment Lulubell heartily agreed with so she followed them up. She was carrying Rhoade as it seems Tyki couldn't touch anything. They spotted a group of exorcists fighting their way out of the crowd. They had destroyed the lifts and now they were scaling the walls to get out. It seemed to be the best idea. It seemed that Tyki could touch the walls, but a semblance was all it was. He was missing it by a millimetre, as though there was a thin film between him and reality. It was responding to necessity nothing more. She was panting by the time they reached the second floor and was relieved when they chose to stop climbing there. She followed the group into what looked like a storage room and they slammed the door shut behind them.

"wow you're nice Kanda, why are you carrying Rhoade?''

"huh?"

"Baka Usagi! I'm not carrying anybody!"

There was silence and everybody looked between her and another exorcist with a katana strapped to his waist. He drew the katana in question and attacked her.

"What is our problem exorcist?!"

She prepared to turn her arms into whips. She swung her left arm forward, she would wound him but she'd stop him waving that stick at her. Except nothing happened. She then noticed her hand. It was not the grey of her noah self, in fact it was stark white in comparison more than that it was masculine and looked like the hand that gripped the katana.

"What the hell?"

She shook her hand desperately and tried to return to her normal form. She looked desperately to her family, Rhoade's eyes widened in realisation.

"When one of those crazies stuck you with the needle downstairs, it must have been filled with…" she trailed off and stared at Kanda.

"What are you talking about I feel emotionally fine. No attraction nothing!"

That didn't seem to reassure the exorcists, they were all backed against the furthest wall with Kanda pinned behind them. Except for one little boy who was being held by a finder. Why was she not part of the mob? There was another strange man who was not an exorcist but seemed to be unaffected. He could hold his own in a fight which is why Lulubell assumed he hadn't been part of the mob. Except seeing this girl made her wonder.

"So tha's what Kumoi meant. It don't affect noahs th' way it affects the rest of the world. Cause dark matter nullifies innocence and they are actu'lly a l'il different genetically their reaction 're entirely unpredictable."

They all stared at him, she wondered how a little child knew so much.

"How sure are you of this?"

"Very, it weren't designed for use by noahs or th'rd generation exorcists for that exact reason, but we have a slightly bigger problem."

"Slightly bigger how so?" this came from the boy Rhoade was attached to. He had a big golden ball attached to his shoulder. Lulubell would happily kill him, he'd been most of the problem with the egg.

"Well ya see we need an untainted source'f dark matter for the cure and we've only got one left."

"One what do you mean one nobody has got one of those needles near me and Rhoade isn't behaving strangely"

"Tyki you couldn't pick me up."

"Gulp~relo"

Everybody looked at Tyki, horrified.

"No he's right he's been with us," spoke up the finder: "we haven't had a fight since the one near Hevlaska and it was there that he had the problem, right? So we can vouch for him for before."

"Bu' he let people go through him right?"

"Of course I did, fastest way to keep myself safe."

"In the bodies of th' infected the disease is 'ighly dilute, enough that traces of it may have been able to enter ya. There would be few places where it woud've jus' stayed in ya. Ya infected in par's."

Today couldn't really get much worse.

xxx

Everyone was splitting into teams, she'd be going with Allen-kun because he could control the old ark. It was the one place Rhoade never expected she'd need to revisit. Somebody called Kumoi, who was responsible for this mess, was waiting there for her, so they could complete the anti- virus. Tyki was getting more and more annoyed as the teams were finalised.

"I refuse I cannot stand that woman."

"So try sitting"

Cloud Nine it seemed had a bit of a death wish. It appeared that Tyki could touch certain exorcists, assumably the ones whose DNA he had in him. The exorcist he'd dubbed "Eye patch-kun", the general with the monkey, the one called Marie and the little boy were the only ones in the present company but it was enough to make Tyki edgy. Theoretically they hadn't done him damage because it was in such tiny quantities but who knew it was all guess work. He was staying behind with the Monkey lady, Lenalee Lee and Choaji to try and get as many other exorcists through the gate as possible. They would be one of the teams herding too. They would try to get as many of the infected individuals into the cafeteria as possible. They cure would apparently be in a gaseous form. They already had three different packs of "untainted" Rhoade that would be travelling separately. They contained a vial of her blood, some of her hair and something from her dream world. It was for just in case something went wrong. 2 would be taken to the new head quarters and the third would land up at this building's science lab were the boy timothy, who appeared to be about her age, would try to work out the cure. He had some form of link with Kumoi and would be guided from several thousand miles away. Lulubell was to be used as bait, the formula allowed people to identify based on DNA, seeing as she had a portion of Kanda's DNA and she looked like them they should in theory be confused enough to follow her.

"Ok so let's run over this once more. Allen, Link you will be getting Rhoade to the broom cupboard behind the refectory and will open a door to the ark there. You will then use the ark to get to the Andes and scale one of the peaks to get to the new Headquarters. You will then open a door to the ark where Kanda, Lavi and Bookman will be waiting."

"yes"

"Affirmative"

"Okey Dokey"

You three will close the door behind you when you reach the cupboard and wait for Allen to connect again, you will then label the door and open the one to back here. After that you will start rounding up devotees from as many branches as possible."

"Che"

The other 2 nodded their agreement. The man named link took over from Tiedoll.

"Allen and I remain at the doors so that we can get the cure to where ever it needs to be once it is created. Sub teams will also attempt to make it to the ark in case we fail to keep Rhoade clean. Do all the teams know which branches they are responsible for?"

Nods all round.

"Good. Emilia, Tsukikami, Marie you make your way to the science lab and get to work now. Beware of Kumoi's experiments. Lulubell you will deal with this branch, keep far away from anybody from the Asian branch, if anyone can figure out that you are not Kanda they will be able to. When someone finds general Sokaro tell him to get to the North American branch and enlist the crimson crows. General Cloud check what state Fou is in, they shouldn't have been able to affect her. Any questions?"

"Yes," someone murmured behind Rhoade: "Who had the bright idea of pairing our king and queen of tragedy? They'll depress each other."

Rhoade giggled softly. The vampire and the lady from rewinding town, Miranda wasn't it, were going to join General Tiedoll here. She wrapped her arms around Allen's neck, excited for this new game.

"Mmm, this is going to be fu-un" forcing 2 syllables into the word fun. "Can't I play with some of them once you're done? Oooh Lulu, Tyki we could bring some akuma and have a party. He he"

"NO"

"no~relo"

"Absolutely not"

"I am talking to Cyril when we get back and making sure you are grounded."

"Not happening Rhoade."

"We are exorcists here"

"Che"

She sighed, it seemed like everybody was against her at the moment. Even though she'd done some good. It was very lucky that they'd come when they had, how else could they have made the cure and that would have ruined the Earl's plans too.

xxx

Well there was when I was turning into a noah but that was more painful than it was weird. The birthday party I thought was a dress up party so I attacked all the guests and put them in funny clothes. Nope, nothing tops this.

Indeed there are few enough instances that could be considered more strange then hanging by a talking umbrella (which didn't have any intention of keeping quiet) from the back of one of the members of an organisation that was your sworn enemy while he climbed straight up a cliff face with a golden winged ball pulling his hair to try and help him.

"Link?"

"Yes"

"Are we nearly there yet?" Allen panted.

"No"

"Aw Allen-kun are you tired, I don't mind if we rest for awhile?"

He shook his head "No, no that's fine."

"Plan L can be considered a failed project due to the reaction by the general population to the formula. It is advisable that…"

"Allen-kun, what is that guy doing?"
"Writing a report in his free time."

Rhoade raised one eyebrow. This was free time? The man didn't seem very sporty but he wasn't struggling with the climb. A horrible noise broke the silence. It sounded somewhat like the roaring of a bear or the growling of some wild animal. She looked to the men, frightened. She was not in any position to defend herself and nor were they. Worse still it could spark an avalanche. Funnily enough they didn't look very worried. Allen looked little short of embarrassed.

"Allen," Two Pimple reprimanded: "when was the last time you ate?"

Rhoade promptly cracked up.

Xxx

Crash, the sound of falling debris echoed in the immediate area. Barely missing the diminutive figures framed against the mountain side. One woman and two men.

"Noooooooooo, I knocked over some of the paper work. Let me commit suicide by allowing one of the other stacks to fall on me by way of retribution."

"Miranda-san, Miiiiiiiiranda-san. Please don't be depressed." A trembling Crowley attempted to cheer up Miranda but all in all seemed to be tearing up himself. He shook her shoulder lightly prompting another avalanche that buried the pair of them.

"Come, come we have work to do. This is Kumoi's office, nobody will even know the difference." Tiedoll reassured the pair as they resurfaced from under the mound of ignored paperwork. Tiedoll carefully pulled a letter that seemed to have caught his attention from the outer layer of the pile.

"Ah this, I remember it well, I sent it to tell Kumoi that I'd found a trail to innocence a few months ago. Oh well I guess it's redundant now I shall keep it and make it the centre piece of an art work entitled 'the World of Lost Possessions". I'll give it to ma-kun as a birthday gift from Yuu-kun, Choaji-kun and I. I have such sweet sons."

"Who's Yuu-kun"

"It's Kanda"

"He scares me" confessed Miranda

"Me too." agreed Crowley.

Tiedoll wiped the tears from the corners of his misty eyes, returning to business and the present moment. He was about to discuss the next move in their plan when a storm of needles and needles rained down on them, followed by General Winters Sokaro cackling like a demented chicken.

"Don't be naughty children, embrace the wonders of love. Somebody direct me to the divine Cloud Nine. Hey that rhymes. Maybe I should write some poetry for her. How perfect art thou let me count the ways. One you always win your battles, two your muscles are comparable to er ah um cattle"

Crowley had just managed to avoid the needles but watched horrified as his companions had needles embedded in them and Sokaro murdered both his reputation and poetry in general. Most of the cylinders glanced harmlessly off their sides but he saw 1 stick into Miranda's neck and another into her thigh. He hoped it hadn't pierced the material and skin but somehow he doubted that. 3 syringes protruded from Tiedoll's hands, which had been raised to protect his face. Crowley shrunk backwards, burying himself in the long forgotten paperwork, terrified of what would some become of sweet, shy Miranda and gentle Tiedoll.