The white padded room again; why'd it have to be that white room? Both of them hated that room with a passion. They hated everything about each other too, that they had to share the same body; that one cannot survive in the world without the other; that if one were to die, the other would die as well. Kitty didn't know why she was there in the first place, and Samantha knew what Kitty had done to be here. Samantha could not bring it to her power to help Kitty recall her memories that the psychic brat had placed into a far corner of their mind in an imaginary ball. With that fucking door busted open, it was far easier to break free and let loose; but this freakin' collar was pissing Samantha off royally!

This was a dream, both of them knew that was true. They were trapped in the same body, both fighting for dominance. But the situation at hand required them to set aside their territorial pissing match and work together to get to the bottom of just what was going on. The two personalities met each other in the blank space that was their mind and Kitty had removed temporarily the collar that prevented Samantha from getting too violent. The situation called for as much violence as possible.

Samantha sat up in the moving vehicle and looked directly at the blue man next to her. He felt her get up off of his lap and her fire engine red eyes glare right at him, but he had been instructed to give her a muscle relaxant before she could do anything. "Good morning. Did you enjoy your nap?" he stuck her in the leg with a syringe filled with the clear liquid, emptied half the container into her body and the woman went limp.

The car pulled up to a cave opening and drove in to a hanger for planes. The red brother 0010 Plus had Minus put the female on his back to bring to Boss Skarl. They heard her say "When this wears off, I'll tear you both new assholes" so calmly, because the muscles in her face were frozen stiff and no emotion escaped her face or voice. The twins just laughed at her and Plus had cocked his head so that his eyes met hers.

"Now, now Sweetie" he cooed in a mockingly cute voice "that's not the way a lady such as yourself should speak to a man". Right after that however, he felt her bite into his shoulder and he flung her off with "Bitch! You bit me!" This is when Minus had stuck her in the back of the same leg and emptied the remaining muscle relaxant into her. Plus was still mad at her for biting him "I'll teach you to bite me!" he lifted his hand when the boss caught him and threw him back.

"0010 Twins, well done" said Skarl as he took the woman and had her transported to the penthouse suite he had for himself "You may be excused to go to the hospital wing to repair that bite wound, Plus. Minus, come with me to the main conference room please. I have important matters to discuss with you" the twins went their separate ways, following their orders. The door closed behind them as they entered the conference room.

"You entered the psychiatric ward with no incident right?" he asked Minus as he sat himself in his chair at the head of the table "Please go through your steps as they were happening."

Minus was nervous in front of his boss, but he said what he was ordered to say "First we cut off the power to the entire building, then we shorted out the electric combination lock to the cell block. We made sure that she got off the grounds safely and lured her to Tokyo so that you could meet her."

"But… I have you both that mission about five months ago, did I not?" Skarl asked softly, as if he was not mad at all; which is what Minus was worried about.

"Y…yes, Boss" he stammered "we lost track of her when she had concealed her other personality. Our electricity only activates when the other personality is dominant. We almost had something on the radar a two or three months ago, but the 00 Cyborgs got in the way and we couldn't act."

"Did I not specifically say that I wanted her as soon as possible?!" roared Skarl with his eyes glowing red with rage "Do you know how far I had to push back my plans because of your mistake?!"

"F…forgive us! It won't happen again" shivered Minus in fear as his nerves received a positive charge jolt.

"Be sure that it won't" Skarl let go of the manual charge release to let the negatively charged cyborg free of the positive charge jolts he had just given the blue twin. "It would be wise to keep in mind that just because I modified you two so that you could not kill each other with a single touch does not mean that you are immune from internal charge jolts. You may return to your quarters for some rest" he dismissed the blue cyborg, who went to his room to wait for his brother.

The red cybernetic twin walked to the hospital wing, where Hera was waiting for him to psychically close the bite wound. She had been re-animated by Black Ghost after Mount Olympus had went down in a fiery blaze of defeat. It seemed that Doctor Gaia had miscalculated the design of Hera as resistance to magma. At the last possible second, she had encased herself in psychic energy to protect herself, but the magma had breeched the shell and completely destroyed the outer layer of her skin. Black Ghost had re-cast the skin and placed it on her again. She looked up to see him come through the door and she healed him quickly.

"Thanks, Hera!" said Plus as he felt a surge of negative electrical impulses go through his body "Looks like Minus and I are in trouble…" he said as he recovered from the mild shocks. Hera was already leaving him behind as he said "Hey! Where are you going?" he trotted behind her and followed her to the penthouse suite that the Boss lived in.

She turned to him as she opened the door to the room to reveal a sleeping Kitty Greene, and Plus wanted to go in to teach her what happens to people who bit him, but a psychic blast pushed him back to the wall, feeling intense pressure on his body as if a giant hand was crushing him. "Lord Skarl wants the woman unharmed, and so shall I deliver her. I have been given special permission to enter his room and put mental blocks on her so that the cyborgs do not have a means of tracking her here" she entered the room and slammed the door behind her, releasing Plus from the pressure that was being exerted on his body.

He wanted to ask her if she knew what the boss needed this woman for, but she probably was forbidden from reading his mind to get the truth. While walking to the room he shared with his brother, he noticed a door that had the nuclear bio-hazard warning sign on it. He had never noticed it before, so he went in to investigate.

Putting in those new psychic blocks was a hassle, to say the least. Not only did Hera have to break down the ones that 001 had put in, but she had to re-create them again with her own enforcements. She had removed the collar that the baby had placed on the alternate one's neck and placed a shock collar on her body that was disguised as a rhinestone choker. It would allow her to be as violent as she wanted, but it would electrocute her with small volts of electricity if she got out of hand or if she did something undesirable.

By the time she was finished with the woman, she could see why Lord Skarl wanted her. The alternate personality had a very intimidating presence, even to a god like her. He wanted not the woman herself, but the alternate personality to close business deals. He however, could not have her unless they were bound together in matrimony. For the time being, Hera was his most trusted ally, letting her know his plans while leaving the 0010 twins in the dark about the situation. To him, the twins were nothing but pawns; cattle to the slaughter.

Skarl was beyond pissed. Not only did his plans for the new World War he planned to start were pushed back by MONTHS at the least, but his incompetent henchmen where even more useless than he had imagined. Had the psychiatric hospital not had the electric locks on the doors, he would not have had to re-energize the twins at all. It was a good thing he had implanted the opposite charges in each of them for disciplinary use. Hera was the only one he could trust to get things done right the first time around here.

He made his way to his penthouse suite to hear her report about her progress with re-establishing psychic blocks on the woman. He had been keeping a close eye on her for over a year now, since the traitorous cyborgs had defeated the Black Ghost Organization. He had seen the other personality in a fit of rage in the white padded room, through one of his agents posing as an orderly with a video camera. He monitored her progress in controlling the alternate personality, and he liked that this "Samantha" was far more vicious than any cyborg he could ever create, he decided that she would become his bride.

Then those dunces the 0010 twins had to go and lose her trail for three whole months! On top of that, the original 00 Cyborgs got a hold of her AND she had fallen in love with the giant 005! Things were getting too complicated, with those twins making a scene at the diner and attracting attention from the first nine cyborgs. He entered his living quarters to see Hera just finishing up her work on the woman's mind. "Good evening, Hera. Please report about your progress."

She had turned to him and said "The psychic blocks have been taken down, re-made by me and enforced with the shock collar you have provided for me."

"Excellent. You may be excused for the time being. It seems that my bride-to-be is waking up." He had been watching her sleep since he arrived at the room, her soft brown curly hair gracefully resting on the satin pillows of his bed-soon to be their bed. Her eyes fluttered open to see those big brown eyes.

Kitty woke up to the sight of a black masked man standing above her, scaring her with the sight of a mask that early just after being woken up. "Who…who are you?! Where am I?! Where is everybody else?!" she started panicking when she saw the unfamiliar surroundings, and the unknown man took off his mask to ease her fears.

"Please do not worry, my dear. I mean you no harm" his short blond hair had been released from the confines from his mask. He was beautiful…his blue eyes glittered with tenderness, his skin was pale with just a hint of pink in his cheeks. He extended his hand to her and she reluctantly took it. "You are perfectly safe here, in my arms" he drew her into a hug, but it felt cold to her "My name is Skarl."

She had heard that name before, GB had told her about him when the others were explaining about cyborgs and the evil organization Black Ghost. She shuttered in fear as she heard him speak his own name and she stammered out "What…do you want with me?"

He nonchalantly dropped down to one knee, pulled out a ring with an emerald in the middle and said "Miss Kitty, will you do me the honor of being my wife?"

She could not even begin to fathom what he just asked her, but she outright rejected him with "We've only just met! I don't even know a thing about you!"

Her rejection of him seemed to anger him greatly, seeing as how he put his black mask back on and pressed a button on his gauntlet. She felt a jolt of electricity coming from her neck and she dropped like a sack of potatoes. "I WAS going to be Mr. Nice Guy to you, but my plans have been delayed for long enough! Become my wife or see the world plunged into World War Three!"

Samantha had just laughed at his threats and spewed out "You and what army? If I heard correctly, you were utterly defeated by those cybernetic freaks that you made!" she made a big belly laugh as she added "What kind of mad scientist are you?! Can't even control your own creations! That's HILARIOUS!"

That little outburst earned her another, longer more severe shock from her choker. The electric jolts caused her to switch between her personalities automatically, and Skarl had stood over her with his blue eyes filled with wrath from behind his yellow eyes of the mask. "It seems as if we have the paradox of Schrödinger's cat. To put it simply, you are the cat; and I am the box. One does not know if the cat is alive or dead until they open that box. To answer that question in our case, weather you are alive or dead depends entirely on your answer to my question: will you marry yourself to me, or will you let the world be bathed in blood?"

"You…you're bluffing…" she stuttered, but she could not be sure. From what her friends have told her, Black Ghost was ready and willing to do just about anything to get what he wants. "You have to be…"

"Am I? Would you like to see the nuclear bombs I have made and plan to sell to the highest bidder?"

The last comment made her bones shiver, so much that she retracted her accusation. She was in a pickle that not even Samantha knew how to work out of, the paradox of Schrödinger's cat hung over her head for a long, long time. After a moment of silence she said in a quivering voice "…ask me again."

With a coy smile behind his mask, he knelt down on one knee and said for the third time "Will you marry me?" fully knowing her answer already.

With tears rolling down her face for the first time in a long time she squeaked out "Yes" her soul had left her as she allowed him to put the ring on her finger. All the life had been drained from her body and into his ego, with him thriving off of her sadness. She felt as if she had dealt a death blow to her friends, for now her fiancée had ordered her to lead him to their home so that she could collect her things, a trip that he himself would be accompanying her on.

They all were scared to death, with the kidnapping of Kitty at the hands of the 0010 twins. What Black Ghost wanted with Kitty was obvious: he really wanted Samantha, to close business deals faster and more efficient. What he was going to DO with her was another matter all together. It was unclear if he wanted to make her into a cyborg or not, but the only thing that was clear at the time was that they had to find her before something bad happened.

Jet and Albert took to the skies, to see if anything was suspicious from a birds-eye view; Pyunma was underwater in the surrounding ocean, investigating the shoreline cliffs for any openings; Fran and Joe were scanning the flatlands; GB and Chang were underground to see if there were abnormal man-made tunnels. Only the two professors, Geronimo and Ivan were still at the house; with Ivan trying to make a psychic connection with Kitty, but he was being blocked by an all too familiar aura. "Hera's alive".

When Albert returned home from the initial attack, he was surprised to find his and Jet's room covered in roses. Jet had come up behind him and wrapped his arms softly around the older man's neck. They all had heard what Albert had said over the communicator in disbelief, but Jet wanted just one minute of alone time with Albert before they set off on the search for Kitty "I'm so sorry, Bunny. I shouldn't have hit you at all…"

The sting of Jet's sincere apology accompanied by his little pet name of "bunny" for Albert was almost too much for him to bear. Placing both of his hands on Jet's arms, he said "I'm sorry for being paranoid, Sweetheart. I want you back."

"Then it is done" the red-head kissed the back of the other man's neck; something he had never done before. He was getting used to loving another man, and comfortable with having the same man love him back.

It was two long, agonizing weeks before any of them saw Kitty again. She had not shown up on the news, despite having been seen by dozens of people. Not on any of their radars or their scans of the areas that were surrounding the diner. They were losing hope that they would see her as a human again, only Geronimo keeping his silent optimism to himself. Then one day she just showed up on the doorstep out of the blue.

Joe had answered the door with "Kitty?! Oh my god where have you been?!" that got the attention of everybody else in the house, demanding at the same time the exact same question as Joe. Her eyes were sunk in, as if she had been doing nothing but crying for the past two weeks, and her weak smile conveyed that she needed help very badly.

"I won't be staying long. I've just come to gather my things" the bags under her eyes made things clear that she wasn't okay at all, and that this was a life-or-death situation.

"What?" said Fran as she took Kitty's ice cold hands in hers and she looked to Kitty's left and gasped at what she saw. Black Ghost himself was standing next to her friend, cradling her arm as if they were lovers. The others immediately gave Kitty a disbelieving look of utter shock; even the cool Geronimo was slightly surprised that she would lead Black Ghost directly to them.

"What is the meaning of this, Kitty?!" Jet yelled as he took out his blaster and aimed it right at Black Ghost's head "Are you betraying us?!" Kitty flinched at the accusations of her being a traitor, but she was forced to stand her ground.

"You didn't tell them yet, dearest?" Black Ghost had asked her lovingly, holding her hand so that they all could see the brilliant emerald on her hand "We're getting married next week! You all are invited! The Grand Ballroom at three o clock in the afternoon on Saturday!"

Professor Gilmore had choked on his own saliva as Black Ghost announced the wedding and extended the invitation. He had not expected something like this in a million years, but it seemed to be happening. Geronimo had felt hurt that she would betray him like this, but there had to be something else behind it.

Ivan had been pretending to sleep when he began to read Kitty's mind. It was indeed harder to do this with Hera's blocks in place, but not impossible. They seemed to have been weakened by electrical shocks, so he saw everything that had happened in the past two weeks. He knew that they needed to answer the invitation now, and he floated in his basket and said "We accept your invitation. See you Saturday" he slammed the door in their faces, and they left within the hour.

After Ivan had told them all what he had seen through Kitty's eyes, they all wanted to take back what they said to her. But she had to be like that, or Black Ghost would plunge the entire world into another World War.

"All that matters is that we save Kitty! She's in this mess because of me!" said Jet, punching the wall beside him.

"But we do have to consider the fate of the world as well" said Joe "Maybe sacrificing one person's freedom for the freedom of millions isn't so bad" that was met with Albert's knife hand to Joe's throat.

"COWARD!" yelled the older man at the teenager, his eyes filled with rage at even the thought of giving up their friend for the world. "She's in this mess because of me too! If I hadn't been so damn paranoid about life, she would be happy!"

"I just hope she'll be okay…" said Fran with deep concern "she looked awful when we saw her today. That choker looks out of place too…"

"That choker is a shock collar. Like used on noisy pets to reprimand them when they bark, he uses it on her when she refuses to listen" said Ivan "to him, Kitty is nothing more that the dog that is in the way of his goal of getting Samantha."

Geronimo had been silent the whole time, just watching the rain fall to the ground in large amounts. "She's a tough girl, despite the way she looks. She will endure" he reassured them all, and more importantly himself. He could tell by the way she looked at him today, that he was the only man she ever loved, even more than her own father "she will endure."