hey guys, long time no see... *tomatoes being thrown at me* i'm sorry *dodge* it's not like *dodge* i wanted this! *tomato hits face dead on*
look, so i rewatched the series again, fell in love with it, again, and so i'm writing the story...wait for it...AGAIN
hopefully you guys remember the story, sorry i've been gone for what seems like forever, hopefully i'll have the next one up and running soon.
enjoy!
Story: GR-NF
Chapter 7: Fiery Fury Beneath
After dropping of Noah, Spencer, Rex and Bobo were a bit anxious about what was going to happen to them once they got back to base. For one, taking forever to kill that god forsaken evil E.V.O. bunny, two, taking an armored vehicle without permission, and most importantly three, going to prom. It was going to be a hard time getting back.
"Hey you never know, maybe everyone took the night off since it's a Friday anyway." Rex said hopefully.
"Yeah right, that's real likely…" Spencer laughed but then groaned as her ribs started to ache.
"You okay?" Rex asked.
"Yeah, I'm just a bit sore, the healing thing isn't going as fast as I would've liked it to have gone."
"I'm sorry."
"Oh my god, enough with the 'I'm sorry' garbage, it's not your fault, it was my decision, get over it!"
"Come on, I basically begged you to go."
"And I basically begged to get out of that fifth wheeling position I was in, that was pure torture, in the moment."
"Will you two stop arguing, I'm trying to drive discretely up here!" Bobo yelled from the driver's seat.
"Oh yeah Bobo, real discrete, I'm sure no one will notice that you busted three cars and blew up a fire hydrant in the past three blocks." Spencer sighed as she looked back at the retreating damage from the large vehicle.
"Shut you're yap." Bobo growled as he carried on driving. It didn't take long after that they made it to Providence HQ and parked the armored vehicle. They waited a moment, scouted the bay, and slowly crept out of the vehicle, trying to go unnoticed.
"Ahem…" Came a loud and disapproving fake cough from somewhere near the doorway.
"Well, I guess it's time to face the music…" Spencer sighed as the lights flipped on and Six was accompanied by a bunch of Providence troopers.
"We're so dead." Rex groaned.
Six lead them to their demise as they were lectured by White for four freaking hours…the longest experience of either the teenager's lives. It was agonizing and when they were finally dismissed, they sluggishly dragged themselves to Dr. Holiday's lab and collapsed on anything they would deem comfortable.
"You know you guys didn't deserve that, right?" Holiday piped up as she saw the exhausted teenagers lounging about her lab space.
"Try explaining that to White. My head's still pounding from his yelling." Rex complained as he rolled over onto his back and groaned.
"I think I lost some hearing." Spencer complained as she pulled at her ears in annoyance.
"Well how about I check you guys out quickly and then you can take the day off." Holiday giggled.
"Really? Is that even allowed?" Spencer asked shocked.
"As long as there's no E.V.O.s that Providence agents can't focus on, then yes."
"Ah, there's always a catch to a dream come true." Rex sighed.
"Come on. Sit." Holiday said as she patted the examination table.
"No thanks, I'm fine." Spencer sighed shooing off the offer.
"Spencer-"
"Shut it Rex," Spencer interrupted him, "I've healed now, that long agonizing talk let my body do it's thing." Spencer responded curtly. "How about you get examined? You're the one that got the most of the damage."
"Not as bad as you." He countered.
"Quit you're bickering, you're both getting examined and that's final, Doctor's orders." Holiday said ending the argument.
"That will have to wait Holiday." Six said as he entered the room.
"Lemme guess, another rampaging E.V.O.?" Rex asked all knowingly.
"Suit up and head out." Six said as he turned around and exited the way he came.
"Ugh." Spencer groaned as she lied down again.
"Wish you got examined now, then maybe you could've been excused." Rex mocked as he tapped her shoulder. Spencer glared after him but then stuck out her finger and ignited a flame and aimed it at Rex. "YOW!" Rex said grabbing his butt and trying to fan out the flame.
"I'm powerful enough to do that, so I think I'll be fine." Spencer said smirking as she walked past Rex and grabbed a new fire-proof suit that Dr. Holiday laid out for her. Rex glared after her but then sighed and went to his room to get changed.
Soon Six, Rex, Spencer, and Bobo were headed out again and onto a Providence air carrier and headed for downtown in the city and found themselves looking at a rampaging E.V.O. on four legs running around eating cars and terrorizing everyone around it.
"What the heck is that thing?" Spencer asked in minor disgust as it was horribly deformed and some of it's insides were showing and were stretched.
"Does it matter, it'll be cured soon enough and then it won't matter." Rex said with a cocky grin and smacking his fist into the palm of his hand.
"You may not be able to, it's not human. It's either contain or destroy." Six observed as it moved around and looked at a scanner.
"Just because it's not a human doesn't mean it's not nice to kill animals." Spencer argued as she crossed her arms.
"Since you're so conflicted on the matter, go help evacuate the area." Six said emotionless. Spencer glared at him for a moment then sighed and replied,
"Fine." She ran off quickly and to a Providence carrier that was farther outside the battle field. Spencer saw that they near a building that was about to collapse.
"Get out of here."
"We can't, there's still people in there."
"That's why I'm here." Spencer replied with a smile and shot up into the sky with a fiery trail behind her and started crashing through windows and gathering people out of the building as fast as she could. Once she got a couple out of the building safely, Spencer heard a cry coming from the building again and returned back and looked through the many hallways. She heard the scream coming from a door and tried opening but it was jammed. Spencer stepped back and set her leg on fire and knocked the door down. She ventured into the violently shaking room until finally Spencer found the cowering girl in the corner of the room. She was covered by fallen debris though. Spencer did her best to move the debris out of the way.
"Come on!" Spencer said as she made a big enough space for the girl to move.
"I can't!" The girl responded as Spencer noticed the girl was crying ferociously.
"Trust me, reach for my hand!" Spencer pleaded as she bent down to the girl's level. The girl hesitated before touching Spencer's hand and grasping it tightly. Spencer quickly got her out of there and then broke a window and got out of the building before it was completely crushed to the ground. "There, was that so hard." Spencer smiled that got the girl to smile and nod her head. Spencer placed the girl on the ground and she turned around and she looked up at Spencer and said,
"Thank you."
"Melissa!" Came a worried cry from a grown up woman. The girl, Melissa, turned around and grinned widely and called out,
"Mommy!" The two met in the middle and embraced each other warmly and smiled at each other. The woman looked up at Spencer with tears in her eyes and said,
"Thank you." Spencer smiled at the woman and nodded her head and responded saying,
"If you want to thank me than do it by getting as far away as you can from here."
"Bye-bye!" The girl said as she waved to Spencer with her mom carrying her. Once they were out of sight, Spencer turned around and survey the damage the E.V.O. was leaving behind its trail. She watched as Rex got thrown into a car and lied there limply for a moment. Spencer rushed over and grabbed his hand while commenting,
"Ugh, why can't you guys handle yourselves?"
"You wanna try? Be my guest." Rex grumbled as she wiped his clothes clean of the broken pieces of glass. She smirked at him and then flew off towards where the creature was. She whistled to get its attention and it turned around to stare at her.
"Here kitty, kitty, thing-y." Spencer cooed mockingly. It charged forward but Spencer flew up into the air to dodge and she sent a fireball spiraling into its back and it howled in pain. It's head shot-up to the sky and looked at Spencer and climbed up a wall and tackle Spencer to the ground. She groaned and tried burning the creature but its teeth sank into her shoulder and part of her neck and she roared in pain.
"Getting bitten by another animal was not the idea for today!" Spencer complained as she felt the heat in her body increasing through her exponentially. It soon consumed her and she roared again. "AGH!" But this time she was able to explode with a fiery fury and burn the E.V.O. to smithereens and it flew through the sky until landing somewhere else. Spencer lied there for a moment to collect her strength. That last blow took a lot out of her.
"Piece of cake." She mumbled to herself as she tried to peel herself off from the indent in the concrete road. Pain shot up through her left arm and up to her shoulder where the E.V.O bit her. She touched her shoulder gingerly and seethed in pain and looked at her hand and it was covered in her dark red blood. She saw the rest of her arm was covered in blood too. "Ow…c'mon, heal…heal…" She slowly got off the ground and continued to apply pressure onto her shoulder to stop the bleeding but she could feel it seeping between her fingers. She was grossed out and nauseated at the same time and losing the blood was causing Spencer to become really dizzy. She looked over at Rex and tried to call out help but she collapsed onto her knees and then Spencer fell forward and lost consciousness. Rex was with Six who, with other Providence Agents, were loading the E.V.O. into the armored. From the corner of his eye though, he saw something fall and turned towards it and found Spencer on the ground.
"Spencer!" Rex cried as he rushed over to her aid. He gathered her up into his arms and shook her slightly. "Spencer! Spencer…come on." Rex panicked as Spencer wasn't responding, so he decided to try something and heal her with his nanites, but once the glow of his nanites died down, nothing has changed in Spencer's condition. "I-I can't do anything."
"What happened?" Six asked as he rushed over to Rex.
"She got bite, and it looks really bad." Rex said gathering her in his arms and carrying her bridal style. Six nodded and called to other Providence agents who were available for help.
"Take her away and get her to the infirmary as soon as possible." Six ordered the other agents and they simply nodded, placed her on a stretcher and rolled her away. Rex looked after her and then looked at his hands covered in her blood, again.
"Shit…" He growled under his breath. "This is all my fault."
"There's nothing you could've done." Six said trying to make Rex feel better. Six was going to place a hand on his shoulder but Rex stepped away from it before Six could.
"Yes there is! I should've pushed her more to get examined, she was no condition to come out here."
"She looked okay." Six commented.
"Well, she's a really good actor. It's my fault again."
"If you want to help her, then we should get back."
"Yeah…" Rex sighed as he walked ahead of Six and returned to the air carrier and the gang flew back to the Providence HQ and awaited to hear back from the infirmary where Dr. Holiday was diligently working on Spencer's wounds.
After a few hours, Rex and Six heard from Holiday that she was going to be okay but that it would take a long time until she would be able to be out in the field again. Dr. Holiday returned to Spencer's side and started adding the next pair of stitches that Spencer would need. Spencer was beginning to wake up from her unconscious state and moaned.
"Ow…what the?" She mumbled. Spencer's nose then scrunched up and she stuck out her tongue in disgust. "What's that smell?"
"Blood. Now stay still, I'm almost done." Dr. Holiday replied.
"What are you doing to me?"
"You needed stitches."
"Stitches, from what? What happened?" She starts spitting up blood and Holiday cleans her off. "Ew…" Spencer complained.
"Well even though your E.V.O. abilities allow you to heal quicker than normal people, the organs take a lot longer to head than skin does. During both fights it seems that your muscles and some intestines were starting to tear and causing you to bleed internally, until that last E.V.O. bit you in the shoulder."
"Shit…"
"Language." Dr. Holiday said as she smiled at how Spencer was getting her personality back. Holiday then cut the ends of the thread and cleaned up the wound of the dried up blood. "There, now I'm done."
"Good, now I can-" Spencer tried moving from her spot lying down on the medical bed but Dr. Holiday jumped at pushing her back gently.
"Didn't you just hear what I said?"
"Yeah I was bleeding internally but now I'm not. I'm-"
"Staying here. Just because you're stitched up doesn't mean you're in any condition to move, let alone fight. You need rest and to be monitored."
"What? Come on can't I just rest in my room?" Spencer pleaded.
"It'll be easier if you stay here. I'm sorry."
"Ugh." Spencer gave up and reclined on the bed again and huffed.
"You also won't be able to dance for quite some time."
"What am I supposed to do? I teach classes there. I have to show up."
"For now you'll have to, I'm sorry but there's no sneaking off to go there anymore."
"No one else knows, right?"
"Right." Dr. Holiday nodded. "I'm able to keep things under wraps."
"Thanks Doc." Spencer said with an appreciative smile. "Do you know how long I'll be out of commission?"
"Not sure yet, an E.V.O.s healing abilities are varied with each person, we haven't seen enough of your healing to know how long, also these are extensive wounds."
"That sounds pretty hopeless Doc." Spencer sighed once again. "God what am I going to tell Gabi?" Spencer complained as she put her good hand onto her forehead.
"I'll give you some medicine to help with the pain, and to also let the nanites in your body fix you up quicker." Dr. Holiday said changing the IV in Spencer's arm.
"Thanks Doc."
"You're welcome. Now get some rest." Dr. Holiday said tapping her leg lightly and slipping out of the room.
"So, what's the verdict?"
"She's got 35 stitches and she's under a lot of medication."
"Meaning?"
"She'll be in and out of consciousness for now, but since she's so stubborn I don't trust her to stay in bed for long, so I need people watching her 24/7."
"Don't worry Dr. Holiday, we'll sign up." Rex announced.
"We?" Six cocked a brow.
"C'mon Six, you babysit me as it is, what will it hurt to watch over Spencer as well."
"Because I have a schedule to keep too as well as watching your back." Dr. Holiday, Rex, and Bobo all gave him looks that said he needed a better answer and excuse than that. "But, if it's for her safety, then I'm obligated."
"Good."
Hours after watching Spencer lying in her bed as she hiccupped up blood or snored her worries away, it was finally Bobo's turn to sit with Spencer and keep an eye on her to make sure she didn't need anything.
"Ugh, I was just about to go eat and now I'm stuck babysitting." Bobo groaned as he dragged himself down the halls miserably. "What does she need babysitting for? She's out cold most of the time." He paused at the door and sighed before pushing the button on the side and watching the doors slide open dryly. He cleared his throat and called out, "Alright hotshot I'm taking-" Bobo stopped in the middle of his big entrance into the infirmary when he noticed that the sheets were on the floor and there wasn't an auburn haired girl in the bed. "Over?" He looked around frantically for a moment and when there wasn't a sign of her he tilted his head to the ceiling and closed his one good eye and sighed, "Oh crud."
Spencer woke up in a haze from her sleep feeling slightly uncomfortable from her injuries and her infirmary bed wasn't feel as comfy as it felt when she last fell asleep, not that they were the comfiest of beds. "Ugh…Doc? I think I need more medicine…" When no one answered her soft calls, she started to slowly open her eyes, though her eyesight was blurry to begin with, but one thing she noticed in her sleepy haze was that she wasn't surrounded in starch white walls. "Doc?" Spencer tried pushing herself up from her position but failed and ended up turning over onto her back from her side. Unfamiliar and ugly faces of various E.V.O.s surrounded her until one caught her eye. She saw Biowolf in the crowd of E.V.O.s. "I hope I'm hallucinating."
"Looks like we caught you at the perfect moment." Laughed the robotic voice of Biowolf. It sounded much too real for Spencer's liking. She realized she was in Abysus and this sure wasn't a dream.
"Biowolf." Spencer growled.
"Glad to see you remember me." She also sees Skalamander and Breach.
"Yeah, not so happy to say I do." Spencer said as she leaned on one arm in an attempt to sit up.
"My master will be happy to see you." Biowolf said.
"Why? Cuz you're going to kill me and I'll join him in hell?" Spencer asked sarcastically. Biowolf growled and grabbed the collar of her shirt and lifted her up off the ground.
"You are so naïve, but nonetheless your usefulness will run out."
"I don't thinks so." His mechanical claw caught on and Biowolf cried out in pain as Spencer floated in the air and light her fists on fire to ward off the other pressing E.V.O.s. "Never mess with me!" She smirked as she launched herself into the air, as she was about to fly out of the hole in the center of the ceiling a loud whaling carried through the air and Spencer lost focus and couldn't think and fell back to the ground roughly, as she fell screaming, "AH!" Once she hit the ground, Spencer was fading into unconsciousness again with Biowolf's voice ordering someone.
"Good, now take her to her cage."
"What do you mean she's gone?" Knight asked furiously as he stared down at Bobo from the screen.
"Like I said, I came to check up on her because it was my time and she wasn't in her bed." Bobo explained as he held up his hands in defense.
"Where could she have gone? She was in no condition to move." Holiday asked anxiously.
"Guards! Scan the area for Spencer and find her!" Six ordered as a group of Providence agents fanned out and began to search the premises.
"Why would she run off like that?" Rex asked curiously.
"She's never been known to sit still." Holiday joked lightly. Rex sighed but then thought back to the room as they inspected it. He remembered seeing a camera set up in the room.
"Wait, can't you check the security tape?" He asked hopefully.
"Pulling it up on screen now." Six said as an Providence agent next to him looked through the files until a certain time in the camera's memory and something interesting caught their eye.
"No way…" Rex gasped as he looked at Biowolf on the tape carry Spencer out of the infirmary with her draped over his shoulder.
"How'd he get in?" Six asked emotionlessly.
"Breach." Rex growled.
"Why would they take her?" Holiday asked.
"Trying to lure us out." Six assumed.
"They're stooping to a new low." Rex said. "We have to get her!"
"That's what they want us to do." Six stated firmly as he stopped Rex from storming out of the room.
"Not like we have a choice, she's in danger and she can't fight them!"
"We need a plan." Six reasoned.
"What is there to plan? We rescue her and kick their E.V.O. butts."
"Rex! Calm down." Holiday demanded as she got his attention. "We know you're upset, but we do need to make sure by going there that you don't put her in danger."
"Fine." Rex sighed as he began to calm down. He turned his attention back to Six. "Six, I hope you know what to do."
"I'll clear it with White." Six stated as he excused himself from the room to meet with White somewhere else.
"Ow…" Spencer groaned as she was coming to her senses again and feeling a tight feeling across her shoulder and it hurt a lot.
"Sorry, but it's necessary." Said a new voice. Spencer looked up with squinted eyes and stared at a very pale girl with black and red hair stitching up her shoulder, since it once again opened up again from the impact with the floor. She looked very serious and indifferent to the situation.
"Why are you helping me?" Spencer asked suspiciously as she gave the girl a look over. She was wearing a gray long sleeved shirt with yellow sleeves and a overall dress over her outfit with leggings and boots.
"We're not just going to sit here and let you bleed out. You're needed alive."
"Great, nice to see the Pack hasn't changed." Spencer stated sarcastically. "Ow." She groaned again from the girl tying off the end of the stitches. As Spencer tried to get comfortable she realized she couldn't since she couldn't move her hands from behind her back. She turned her head towards her wrists and found weird gold chains that were heavy around her wrists. "What are with these chains?"
"They're made from a special alloy that's nearly invincible, and fire-proof, so I wouldn't try breaking out of them." The girl said nonchalantly as she cleaned up the dried blood from Spencer's body carefully. "There. That should cover it for now."
"Who are you? You're not like the rest." Spencer asked slowly as she felt a lot more comfortable talking to this girl than the rest of the Pack's members, especially Biowolf.
"I'm Circe." The girl said. The name struck Spencer's memory as a name Rex mentioned quite a lot when the Pack was mentioned.
"Circe, as in the Circe? Rex mentioned you!" Spencer gasped.
"He has?" Circe asked with almost a laugh.
"Yeah, sometimes he doesn't shut up about you."
"Nice to see he hasn't changed much."
"He keeps saying how he wants to rescue you from the Pack."
"That I wouldn't have minded changing." Circe sighed as she put her tools back in the small medical kit next to her and she stood up and started heading towards the door.
"You can't possibly like it here, can you?" Spencer asked, stopping Circe in her tracks. Spencer didn't want to be alone, and she knew that Rex would want her to stick around for when they came to rescue her; if they came to rescue her ass.
"Why not? They're like me, we help one another, they're my family now."
"And Providence can't do that for you?"
"No, no they can't." Circe said seriously.
"Why not? Hey I'm a recently added member, I'm adjusting to it, though I would like a little more freedom but hey, I still get it." Spencer tried to reason. Circe rolled her eyes and approached Spencer again as she sat across from her on the ground, though still keeping a distance.
"I have my reasons."
"It would be nice having another girl around, not gonna lie." Spencer smiled at Circe sheepishly and Circe gave a small but noticeable smile back.
"Why are you with Providence?" Circe asked after a moment.
"Well, they saved me when my father went E.V.O. And after that, he lost his memory and my mom died a long time ago so they took me in, though I was pretty against it at first, I've started to like what I do, to help those in need."
"We help people too." Circe commented.
"By turning them bad and making them think they can conquer the world."
"That's not it!" Circe argued.
"Well that's how I've seen it, ever since I met that skunk haired Van Kleiss."
"Don't mention him." Circe growled.
"What? Still a soft spot for the Pack to be reminded that he perished?"
"Stop." Spencer and Circe looked at each other harshly for a moment before Spencer sighed and rolled her eyes and looked away and said,
"Fine. But now that he's gone, shouldn't the Pack be disbanded?"
"We have hope for better things."
"Like what?" Spencer asked curiously. She might as well have information to give Providence once she broke out, she was getting tired of waiting around for the gang to save her. Since Circe had come back into the room Spencer had been playing with burning the chains silently. From what Spencer could tell, it was slowly working. And even when she got through finally she would still wait because Spencer has fully realized the benefit of sitting around and really feeling her body healing up.
"I can't tell you."
"Oh come on, I'm stuck here anyway, I might as well know."
"I'm sorry, but you'd have to be apart of the Pack to know, and that offer will still stand. For you and Rex."
"Thanks but no thanks: from the both of us." Spencer answered.
"How do you know he won't change his mind?" Circe asked her skeptically. Spencer was silent for a moment. She noticed that Rex was a soft spot for Circe that helped Circe open up, and Spencer was going to use that to her advantage.
"I know him well enough now to understand what he wants and what he fights against, and that's the Pack; but he doesn't want to fight you I know."
"I don't want to fight him either." Circe admitted.
"Then don't! You can be with him, with Providence, and be happy."
"It's not like I'm not happy here."
"It's not that cheery of a place, no offense to Kleiss' interior decorating."
"You can say that again." Circe laughed dryly as she looked around the cell they were sitting in and in the hole in the roof that was above them. It seemed the fortress previously owned by Van Kleiss hasn't been treated with the proper care it needed.
"I can come up with several other good points about this place versus Providence and the rest of the world." Circe said as she curled up into herself, hugging her legs closely to her chest and laying her cheek on her knees, cutting off eye contact.
"No one accepts me out here, I'm useful and appreciated here."
"Who says Providence wouldn't appreciate you?" Spencer countered. "I know Rex does, and I can see why he does. You're nice, independent, strong-willed. You'd make an excellent addition." Suddenly there was a strong rumble that shook the whole place and some rubble fell from the ceiling. Skalamander came into the room and got Circe's attention.
"Circe! They're here." Skalamander announced.
"Right." Circe sighed as she got up off the floor.
"I knew that they'd come for me." Spencer smirked.
"Well you're going to have to wait to see them." Skalamander mocked.
"Mm, not likely." Spencer smirked again and broke her chains and stood up proudly, which obviously shocked both Skalamander and Circe.
"How'd you-" Circe was about to ask but Spencer cut her off.
"Not like I haven't been put in handcuffs before thanks to Providence…that sounded wrong…" Spencer said sheepishly as she removed the excess chains from her wrist. "And now that I'm healed, I'm getting out." Spencer fired up and knocked Skalamander to the ground and he fell unconscious. She stepped over him and was about to head out of the cell but stopped, turned around slightly and addressed Circe. "But, you could come with me of course."
"Or, you could stay here with us." Circe countered.
"Touché." Spencer sighed as she was satisfied with still leaving the option open. "I hope the next time I see you I don't have to fight you." Spencer said jetting out of the cell and heading down many different hallways to try and find a way out.
"Likewise." Whispered Circe as she smiled and took a minute to walk over to Skalamander and help him up.
Spencer wandered through the halls of the Abysus headquarters not knowing where she was going, last time she was here it's not like she had blueprints of the landscape. She finally landed on the ground and started snooping, since burning a fiery trail was sure to get Spencer noticed quickly. Suddenly from behind something knocked Spencer to the ground and she was flat on her back and groaned up at the figure above her.
"Ugh, nice to see you too." Spencer whined as she rubbed the back of her head and extended her other hand to Six and he helped her off the ground.
"You alright?" He asked. Spencer dusted herself off and sighed,
"Actually yeah, I stuck around until I healed up. Doc was right of course."
"Good, let's get you to the rest of the group." Six ordered as he led the way out of the castle.
"Aw, did you send an entire army to bring me?"
"Only the best." Six noted as they left the castle and wandered into the forest for a little bit until they were met with two other people: Rex and Holiday. Spencer looked at them and rolled her eyes and half turned to Six saying,
"That's it? Only three of you came to save me? Nice to see how I'm loved."
"Uh, you're welcome." Rex yelled out sarcastically.
"For what? I broke out myself. By the way, I met your leading lady Circe, she's nice." Spencer added with a smirk.
"What? And you left her?" He gasped.
"Hey I asked her to come along, but she declined." Spencer countered. "I'm not forcing her onto our side, she has to come willingly, wouldn't you want that?"
"Okay, okay, you have a point." Rex agreed. Spencer smiled at him and then faced the two adults of the group curiously.
"Well now what?" Spencer asked after a beat. "Are we done or is there something else wrong?"
"The environment in Abysus is unstable and erratic, covered in unstable nanites that are multiplying by the second." Holiday explained.
"Ah, so that's why Circe wasn't happy about Abysus." Spencer commented as she thought back to her time with Circe in the cell. "What can we do here to help?"
"Circe said that somehow I could help." Rex mentioned.
"Circe called you?" Spencer asked.
"Yeah."
"Okay." Spencer mused and then cleared her throat. "Ahem, so, I guess let's go back." She said turning back around to the way of the castle again but suddenly the rocks started moving and Six called out,
"Holiday, don't move!" What was thought to be a rockslide turned into a very large and pasty colored E.V.O. to rise from the ground and hover over the group menacingly. Holiday just dodged the large E.V.O.s foot crashing down where she was just standing.
"Now that's a face only a chainsaw could love." Rex commented. As the E.V.O. was about to try squishing Holiday again, Spencer got fired up and shot up into the air yelling,
"Oh no you don't!" Spencer slammed her fiery fists into the monster's face and it stepped back slightly but regained it's balance quickly and knocked Spencer out of the sky like a fly being swatted. She tumbled down to the ground and decided to not push herself since she just healed herself. When Spencer managed to get up, she saw Rex and Six were cornered up against the back wall like caged in mice until Holiday jumped in front of them with a gun and shot at the E.V.O. until it was knocked flat on it's back again.
"Wow…" Six breathed.
"Yeah." Rex smirked happily.
"Go Holiday." Spencer laughed lightly but still obviously impressed with Holiday. Holiday got up from her kneeled position on the ground and smirked at the shocked men but then her eyes trailed upwards and her eyes widened slightly and then narrowed in annoyance.
"Six, Rex, Spencer." Holiday spoke sternly. They all looked at Holiday curiously and then followed her line of sight and saw Biowolf, Skalamander and Circe standing over them on a ledge.
"It's a trap." Six stated.
"Damn it Circe…" Spencer growled as she stared at her with a tired expression that expressed 'oh come on'. Suddenly the Pack comes sliding down the hill and passes the Providence group and starts to attack the E.V.O. "Huh?"
"Are they actually, helping us?" Rex asked in disbelief.
"No Rex, don't cure it, the nanites could be corrupt like the ones we found earlier. There's no telling what they could do to you."
"Doc, seriously, you worry too much." Rex joked but as he approached the unconscious E.V.O. it disintegrates into the ground. "Uh, never mind."
"That seems unnatural." Spencer commented as she touched the soil.
"Same thing's happening all over Abysus." Circe stated.
"Uh, a little heads up would've been nice." Rex commented rudely.
"I tried, you hung up." Circe argued.
"Whatever." Rex looked away and huffed.
"Yeesh, not the happy couple I was thinking of." Spencer mumbled.
"Do you have any idea what's causing this?" Holiday asked.
"Well it started when-" Circe was starting to explain when Biowolf decided to interrupt, not feeling like he should trust Providence most likely.
"No." Biowolf said sternly. "We don't."
"But it's spreading isn't it." Holiday stated rather than asked.
"Yes, fast." Circe answered.
"There's nothing stopping it from going beyond the border, we're talking about a global threat here." Holiday noted.
"How do we stop it?" Six asked.
"We can't, that's why I called Rex." Circe stated. "You better come with us." She turned around with her fellow Pack members and lead the way back to base. As they walked Holiday and Rex were in line when she whispered,
"She's very pretty." Rex stops in his tracks and shakes it off before continuing his pace.
"She works for Van Kleiss, she's the enemy." Rex stated.
"But you still like her, don't you." Holiday cooed.
"I am not talking about this." Rex huffed and he walked ahead of her a bit. Spencer who was behind them the whole time caught up with Holiday and whispered,
"Boys and their hormones. He's such a mess." The two giggle and continue to gossip about Rex and his predicament until they reach the castle and find themselves in Van Kleiss' old throne room.
"What, is that thing?" Rex asked skeptically as he stared at a large machine in the room that had a glowing yellow circle concealing a container of some sorts. Spencer was getting an uneasy feeling from the place as it reminded her a bit too much of Rylander's old lab.
"Our master left these instructions in case something happened to him." Biowolf explained as he went over to a cabinet and took out an instruction manual and handed it to Holiday to examine.
"Then why do you need me?" Rex asked.
"It won't turn on." Circe stated.
"Did you try a repair guy?" Rex asked sarcastically.
"You're the key, Rex. According to this, your abilities are the only way to get the device running." Holiday explained as she looked from the instructions to Rex.
"Figures. He probably assumed I'd be one of them by now." Rex sighed.
"We can't do this without you. Please." Circe pleaded.
"Rex, Spencer, Holiday, we need to talk." Six ordered as he walked off to someplace more private and huddled with his teammates. "I don't trust them."
"Yeah, that makes two of us."
"Me three, that machine doesn't look good."
"I'm not nuts about helping them either, but we got to put aside our emotions." Holiday reasons. "If these unstable nanites are allowed to advance, they could consume everything in their path. Nobody will be safe. Think about it."
"Okay." Rex sighs reluctantly agreeing to helping the Pack. "This thing better not turn me into a French Fry."
"Rex, thank you." Circe stated kindly.
"I'm not doing this for you, but, you're welcome." Rex smiled a little. "So what exactly am I supposed to do?" He asked as he stared at the foreign machine.
"When I said you were the key, I mean that literally. According to the plans, the machine needs to be turned on from a nanoscopic level." Holiday explained.
"Uh, how do I do that? This isn't exactly telling a vending machine to cough up a soda." Rex countered.
"Try." Holiday insisted.
"Psht, here goes nothing." Rex sighed.
"Ew, what is that thing making?" Spencer asked as she stuck her tongue out in disgust. In between the two beams above the machine there was white and brown mesh that was slowly becoming solid that was forming. Unfortunately that clump of material started growing black hair with white streaks. Rex looked up and growled,
"Van Kleiss!" As Rex saw his lethal enemy forming before his eyes, he removed his hands and the form that was going to become Van Kleiss faded away in the wind.
"Rex, no!" Circe gasped.
"Master!" Skalamander called out.
"You lied to me." Rex growled as he gave Circe the evil scowl.
"I can't believe you Circe, really?" Spencer yelled.
"You wouldn't have come if I told you the truth." Circe countered defensively.
"This wasn't about you needing me, this was about you needing Van Kleiss." Rex spat.
"I need you both. Please Rex, you don't understand." Circe pleaded.
"No, you don't understand, Van Kleiss is gone and I intend to keep it that way."
"You've destroyed us all." Biowolf growled. He was about to unleash his unbelievable anger at Rex but Six blocked his claws with his swords and Spencer went up to Skalamander to make sure he didn't try anything next.
"Don't even breathe." Six ordered.
"You heard the man. I'm not afraid to discipline you." Spencer growled.
"You don't know what you've done." Circe said disappointedly.
"Then I guess we're even." Rex said hollowly.
"You've never understood his power. Van Kleiss kept us safe here, his force was the only thing holding Abysus together, and you destroyed that."
"We're done here." Rex barked as he began to march off.
"Rex, I think she's right, nanites operate on a molecular level. If they've bonded with Van Kleiss, breaking off his connection could have corrupted their internal structure, leading to a disastrous chain reaction." Holiday explained.
"You've got to be kidding me Holiday, this can't be the only way, it, just can't." Spencer sputtered as she leaned up against a wall in a disappointed manner.
"So what are you saying? I couldn't save Van Kleiss and now the world's going to end? This is my fault?" Rex asked disapprovingly.
"This isn't about blame, Rex." Holiday explained as the floor began to shake and suddenly black geysers started shooting up from every direction: from the ground, ceiling, walls, they were going to be submerged if nothing as done soon. "If Van Kleiss' system could actually withstand this many unstable nanites, he could be the only one that could reign them in for good."
"I'm not bringing him back, not now not ever." Rex said, not wishing to argue further, he really had his mind set on never letting Van Kleiss terrorize the world again. "And besides, you don't need Van Kleiss, you have me. Why not go straight to the source?" Rex starts to walk up to a column of the black substance and begins to reach out towards it.
"Nah-uh, not on your life." Spencer said jumping in front of him as she pushed his hand away roughly.
"Stand down. It's too dangerous!" Six argued.
"You don't know what those things will do to you!" Holiday agreed. Rex and Spencer had a stare off as they both argued with their facial expressions about the right thing. Spencer broke the eye contact for a moment to look at Holiday and Six and then back at Rex. She sighed and finally stepped out of the way. Rex stepped forward again and cautiously put his hand through the goo, trying to communicate with the unstable nanites that make up the mass. Though it seemed to work at first, his arm started mutating and bubbling almost.
"AH!" Rex screamed as he could barely stand.
"Rex, stop!" Spencer cried as she grabbed him from under his arms and began to separate the connection.
"Rex!" Six called.
"Ugh, let go of me!" Rex groaned as he tried resisting Spencer's hold on him but was failing, finally his arm had returned to normal though.
"If you keep fighting the nanites they're going to kill you." Holiday argued.
"And if I don't, they'll kill everyone else." Rex countered.
"Not if you listen to me." Holiday said sternly. "It's a long shot but I've got another idea. Instead of trying to deactivate the nanites, communicate with them."
"You want him to talk to the nanites?" Six asked, not sure in Rex's abilities.
"He's done it before." Spencer noted.
"Never anything this big." Rex argued.
"It's the same basic principle. Interface with the unstable nanites, gain control over the programming, and tell them to stop advancing." Holiday explained. The more Rex thought about it, the more geysers shot up and were starting to consume the whole room, violently growing in size and in number.
"I would make your decision quicker." Spencer mumbled.
"Hey, why not?" Rex shrugged as he approached the nanite-spewing geyser again.
"If this works, we should see results immediately." Holiday stated.
"If this works…" Spencer mumbled again, feeling very doubtful of the situation. Rex's arm started to mutate again but as he concentrated harder, the mutations and weird blemishes started disappearing as he was gaining control.
"The nanites are responding. You can stop now." Holiday ordered as Rex quickly withdrew his arm and slumped in exhaustion. Circe came running down the stairs to approach Rex.
"You did it." Circe congratulated.
"Ugh, yeah, I'm awesome." Rex said as he panted for air.
"Uh, why are there more forming?" Spencer asked nervously. "Rex, what did you tell them to do?" She then said with more frustration.
"I thought you said the nanites stopped spreading?" Biowolf asked as he and Skalamander came down the stairs as well.
"They did, but now they're contracting." Holiday said looking at her scanner.
"Bet you didn't plan on that did you Doc." Rex stated.
"Everybody out, now!" Six ordered as the rocks beneath their feet started rumbling and once they jumped out of the way the floor exploded with unstable nanite waves coming like they were just released from a reservoir. Everyone ran in different directions: Biowolf and Skalamander going down a tunnel, Six and Holiday sticking together as they got to higher ground, and Rex, Circe and Spencer were left flying around, trying to dodge the overflowing dark liquid. As the teens continued to dodge the masses of liquid, they saw Six and Holiday get submerged as they fell from high up off the wall from a grappling hook they tried using.
"Holiday, Six!" Rex called out sadly. Suddenly a geyser hit Rex's wing and he had to demount to get away from it and Circe and him, since Rex was carrying Circe, landed on the ground near a cliff and it began to break and Circe was closest to the edge and was dangling with one hand for safety. When she was about to slip, Rex grabbed her wrist tightly and held on for dear life.
"I've got you, don't let go!" Rex growled as he strained to keep his hold on Circe's wrist. Suddenly she slipped but before she could fall into the mass of dark liquid below, Spencer came swooping down and carried Circe in her arms.
"Got you!" Spencer said with a smirk. Circe nodded her thanks when she was on solid ground again.
"Let's keep moving." Circe stated as they continued to find a safe way out of there, suddenly though the wall erupted next to them and a geyser hit Spencer dead on and she got trapped against the opposite wall.
"AH!" Spencer screamed. Rex and Circe looked at her in horror and Rex was about to transform into his wings and pull her out but Spencer called out, "Go."
"Spencer!" Circe said in disbelief.
"GO!" Spencer ordered and then the goo swallowed her up.
"Spencer!" Rex called out again, this time more worried for his comrade. As Rex and Circe began to run again, the ground exploded from underneath their feet and Circe was submerged under the goo as well.
"Circe!" Rex yelled as he stared down at the hole he narrowly missed. Against what his head was telling him, he jumped down into to goo and began to search. He was able to use his connection with the nanites to push the goo away from him so he could walk on the ground and search for his friends. "Circe! Six!" He kept searching and it felt hopeless. "Dr. Holiday! Spencer!" After wondering for a few more moments, he found himself back on top of the room where the machine was. He stared up at where he saw Van Kleiss forming before and growled. "Okay, you win!" Rex caved as he began trying to get the machine to function again. "Agh!" After a few minutes, the machine was able to fully resurrect Van Kleiss and he was knelling on top of the machine as he began to catch his breath and regain some of his energy.
"Van Kleiss, I need you to focus." Rex ordered. "This whole place is being eaten up by this weird goop some kind of nanite-"
"I know, what this is." Van Kleiss said as he interrupted Rex's rant. Van Kleiss held out his hands and began to absorb the unstable nanites into his body and he began to grow in size, almost becoming taller than the room. He suddenly stopped when only Skalamander and Biowolf were released from the unstable nanites' grasp.
"What are you stopping for? Finish the job!" Rex growled up at the towering enemy.
"And what will you do for me in return?" Van Kleiss asked wickedly.
"Are you kidding me? I brought you back! What more do you want?" Rex argued.
"Ha, you know exactly what I want. It's simple really, join us and everyone you care about lives; refuse, and they die." Van Kleiss proposed.
"Fine! Now help them!" Rex growled in defeat. Van Kleiss smirked as the rest of the people submerged were released. Rex immediately ran to Circe as Holiday and Six were coming to and as Spencer was waking up as well she was suddenly grabbed by a large glowing fist and brought up high into the air.
"Circe! Come on, breathe!" Rex pleaded as he held her unconscious body. After a moment she began to cough roughly as her eyes began to flutter open.
"Hey…" She whispered with a smile gracing her lips.
"Hey." Rex said with the same smile.
"What a touching little reunion!" Van Kleiss laughed sarcastically as he looked triumphant as ever with Spencer in his tight fist and she began to scream as his fist glowed, meaning he was sapping her nanites.
"You promised!" Rex growled as he stepped up from Circe's side.
"Fine, I got what I needed anyway…" Van Kleiss sighed as he dropped Spencer to the ground and Rex caught her with his mechanical fist. He carefully lowered her to the ground so he was holding her slightly as he was standing on her feet limply.
"Spencer…" He said nervously as she looked very weak in his arms. She groaned after a moment and smirked up at him weakly.
"Ugh, look at you, saving the day again. Good on you." Spencer gave him a thumb up and he smiled at that.
"Van Kleiss." Circe said coming to her senses as she stared up at the towering evildoer.
"In the flesh, and actually feeling better than ever. Especially now since Rex has come to his senses, isn't that right, Rex?" Van Kleiss said victoriously.
"Rex, what did you do?" Spencer asked as she didn't like the tone of Van Kleiss' voice, not at all.
"Better than ever…" Rex mumbled suddenly as he let Spencer stand as Circe, Six, and Holiday gathered near Rex and Spencer. "A deal's a deal."
"What deal?" Holiday asked.
"What's he talking about?" Six asked sternly.
"It was the only way to save you." Rex said hollowly as he stares at everyone emotionlessly and starts making his way towards Van Kleiss.
"Welcome home." Van Kleiss said gallantly as he held his arms out wide.
"Rex, don't do it." Six stated as he got in Rex's way.
"We'll find another way!" Holiday pleaded doing the same. Rex stepped past them but something stopped him in his tracks,
"Rex, please." Spencer said, not pleadingly but sincerely, Rex looked back at her and she looked very disappointed. Rex closed his eyes and turned back towards Van Kleiss and shook his large hand.
"I admire you integrity, Rex. Now I'd say we were even." Van Kleiss said proudly.
"That's it. You said you feel better than ever? That's because something's changed inside you. Your nanites are different now." Rex said with a smirk in his voice.
"Should that matter?" Van Kleiss asked in a not caring tone.
"Oh yeah…" Rex said devilishly. Suddenly the hand that was holding Van Kleiss' began to glow and Van Kleiss began to cry out.
"AGH!" Van Kleiss screamed as the metal gauntlet on his left arm started to fall off.
"Rex, what are you doing?" Circe asked in shock.
"What does it look like? I'm curing him." Rex smirked "That'd aught to do it." Circe, Skalamander and Biowolf ran up the stairs and healed to their master's side.
"Master, you're…" Biowolf began to speak, though feared his realization.
"Human…" Skalamander finished as he attended to his master.
"You're welcome." Rex said happily.
"This, this is, impossible. I was un-curable!" Van Kleiss roared.
"That's right, was." Rex smirked again. "I noticed something strange when I plugged into that machine of yours. You were coming back, but as Van Kleiss light. But hey, the good news is that now there's nothing stopping us from hauling your sorry butt to jail."
"Except us." Biowolf growled as he and Skalamander stood to protect their master.
"Master, go!" Skalamander ordered. Circe helped him to his feet and they went out the exit behind them.
"Rex, you take care of Circe and Van Kleiss, lemme have the honor." Spencer smirked as she let her fists on fire.
"Be my guest." Rex said as he bowed out of the way.
"HYAH!" Spencer cried as she nailed her foot into Skalamander's face and he was forced against the wall, the bricks crumbling on top of him and then she took out Biowolf with the help from Six. Once the lackeys were on the floor, the Providence gang went after Van Kleiss and Circe. Rex flew ahead and blocked off their escape route and the rest of the gang blocked the way they came.
"Come on Van Kleiss, this is just sad." Rex mocked.
"Taking advantage of me in a moment of weakness is no triumph Rex." Van Kleiss growled.
"It's good enough to wrap up the day." Spencer joked.
"You may have temporarily relieved me of my powers, but my greatest strength is still untouched." Van Kleiss stated.
"Uh what's that, your hair?" Rex joked.
"My intellect."
"Maybe they'll let you do crosswords in your cell."
"Perhaps another time." Van Kleiss said with a smirk as a red vortex formed behind him and Breach with her giant two hands came out and grabbed her master and dragged him into the vortex.
"Oh great, Breach is back!" Rex groaned as he turned his direction towards his teammates but then his eye caught Skalamander and Biowolf running away as well. "And the Pack is gone, awesome." He turned around and saw Circe hadn't bailed yet. "So, how come you're still here?"
"You saved my life. Would've been rude to leave without saying thanks." Circe said shyly. "And Spencer saved my life too, I owe her a thank you as well."
"No biggie, it's what we hero types do." Spencer smirked as she crossed her arms triumphantly.
"Ah that's true, course, you don't have to leave." Rex mentioned on a more serious note. Six and Holiday exchanged looks and Holiday began to say,
"Uh, come on, maybe we should, uh-"
"Start our mission debriefing?" Six asked as he finished her thought. They both nodded and began to walk away, Spencer still stood there as she stared at the two teens intrigued with what would happen next. Six came back for her and pulled her by the arm away from Rex and his Juliet.
"Hey! Aw c'mon…" Spencer huffed. Once they were around the corner, Six stopped pulling Spencer and let Holiday approach her quickly.
"Stay back and comfort him, he'll definitely need it." Holiday winked.
"Go Doc." Spencer mused approvingly. "Alright, I will."
"Good." She nodded and left with Six. Spencer stayed around the corner and carefully eavesdropped on the two lovebirds.
"Stay with us Circe, Van Kleiss is done." Rex pleaded.
"As much as I care about you Rex, Van Kleiss, and the Pack are my family. They took me in when nobody else would. I can't abandon them." Circe said apologetically.
"So that's it? We're always going to be on opposite sides?" Rex asked hopelessly.
"It does keep it interesting." Circe joked. Spencer then heard fleeting footsteps, meaning that Circe had finally taken off. She stepped out from around the corner to see a downcast Rex standing in the middle of the room.
"Hey…" Spencer mused quietly. Rex looked up slightly and saw Spencer approaching, but then turned around and crossed his arms.
"I don't need a babysitter." Rex pouted.
"I know that." Spencer said as she went around him to have him face her again. "Just thought you deserved this." Spencer then gave him a simple hug, wrapping her arms around his until he sighed and hugged her back slightly.
"Thanks." He whispered.
"Any time, lover boy." Spencer said letting go of him and winking.
"Oh shut up." He laughed lightly as he nudged her side with his elbow.
"You were so cute back there and all emotional, it was like watching soap opera, or Romeo and Juliet." Spencer joked.
"Yeah well that's all our, whatever you call it, soap opera, and a cheesy one too." Rex moped as they began to fly back towards where they knew the ship out of here was.
"They're all cheesy, but you know why people still watch them?" Spencer asked.
"No." Rex said, not amused with the question.
"Because we all hope that it will work out in the end, because it's always worth it." Spencer smiled.
"You give really good advise for a single person." Rex laughed.
"What can I say, I'm a love guru."
"Then teach me how to understand your kind."
"My mind?" Spencer questioned with a ridged brow.
"Women." He clarified.
"Ah, that's for another day." Spencer laughed as he finally landed on the ground, now walking towards the ship in sight. "Now cheer up, this isn't the last time for you two." Spencer pleaded. "Just be hopeful for when you see her again, maybe it'll be different."
"Yeah, and maybe it'll bite me in the butt again." Rex replied sarcastically. Spencer shot a little fireball from her finger to his butt, one of her favorite ways of annoying Rex. "Ow, why do you keep hurting me?" Rex complained as he patted his butt, to make sure he didn't need to get another new pair of pants.
"It's part of my job as a friend to make sure you don't go down that stupid road of misery and heartbrokenness. Between you and me, you're not the only one hurting." Spencer whispered.
"You think so?" Rex asked with a more hopeful tone in his voice. Spencer was happy to see she was breaking through.
"I know it. Hey I was stuck in a cell with her for quite some time." They finally came to the stairs that led inside the ship where the Doc and Six were waiting for them.
"You okay?" Holiday asked.
"No offense Doc, but I do not get women." Rex complained.
"Hey what am I, chopped liver?" Spencer asked as she nudged Rex this time.
"One day you will." Holiday said with a pat on his shoulder and then heading up into the ship. Six approached them slowly.
"I still don't have a clue." Six said as he followed Holiday.
"Makes sense since he's totally crushing on Holiday." Spencer whispered in Rex's ear.
"Nah-uh, she's mine." Rex argued.
"You see now I think I know what you're problem is, you keep switching between two different women, no wonder why Circe is holding you out at arm's length." Spencer countered.
"What? You're kidding me?" Rex gasped.
"Hey if I liked someone who liked me and another girl, I'd think he's a jerk and not worth wasting my trouble over." Spencer mentioned.
"What! NO!" Rex yelled as he sank to his knees in despair and Spencer laughed and started making her way inside the ship. "Teach me the ways of wooing a woman."
"My job was to teach you how to understand a woman, not woe them you bonehead!" Spencer argued.
"Same thing!" Rex countered. Spencer groaned and slapped her hand to her forehead.
"I have a lot of work ahead of me."
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