Thank you for all the kind reviewsssssssssss. Hope you like the newest chapter of (dramatic music) OF COURSE. OH THE DRAMA IN THIS CHAPTER IS INTENSE. but not really cause I didn't write any.
Have you ever had one of those days where you are surrounded by the thing that scares you the most in the entire world for hours, and no one even offers you a candy bar for all your trouble?
Well that's the kind of day Six was having.
Six woke up that morning just like any morning, and got ready for work. Luckily for Six today was a Saturday, and that meant that if there was an Evo, that Rex would take care of it while he just keeps an eye on the situation ti insure that nothing goes terrible wrong.
He headed to the cafeteria, which was empty as it always was 6:30 on a Saturday. Six let himself into the kitchen and began making some coffee and toast. As he waited he noticed that something was off.
Looking around the kitchen it didn't take long for Six to realize what he forgotten. Between the pumpkins scattered around the room, and the open box filled with plastic bats and skulls.
It was Halloween.
Quickly Six abandoned his breakfast and began devising a plan. Every year since he had found Rex, Holiday had tried to get him to take the kid 'Trick or Treating'. Can you imagine, THE AGENT SIX, Trick or Treating? No. Because he had skillfully avoided the matter every year.
Well 'skillfully' might be an exaggeration, 'luckily' fits far better. Before Six could be forced into a costume, a giant Evo would attack. Like clockwork suddenly they would have to go off and deal with a large level 2 Evo halfway across the world. 'Unfortunately' the two of them would miss Halloween all together in the process.
So with that Six was off to find a place to hide.
And prayed for Godzilla to attack.
Rex, Noah and Circe where lounging idly around Noah's room. If it was warmer they could be outside, but they really couldn't be bothered. And while the other two didn't mind sitting in silence, Rex felt the need to fill it.
"Sooo... What are we doing tonight?" Circe raised an eyebrow in his direction while Noah continued staring at the celling. Silence filled the room again and Noah sighed.
"What do you mean?"
"Well it's Halloween..."
"So?"
"So what are we going to be?"
"Nothing...? Why?"
"We're not going to get any candy without a good costume." Circe, who had been listening to the conversation skeptically, cut in.
"Trick or Treating? Don't you think we're a bit old for that?" Rex looked slightly offended.
"Hey, I've never gotten to go! Besides free candy... Six has to dress up... FREE CANDY." Noah suddenly became intrigued.
"Woahhh, I think your emphasizing the wrong point there. Your a hero, I bet you could get free candy anytime you want. Getting good blackmail on Six on the other hand is FAR harder to come by." Circe nodded in agreement and Rex raised an eyebrow at her.
Rex was happy that he could hang out with Circe without her trying to attack him. It was nice, but at the same she had told him that a large part of her being there was to spy on him. It was fine though, they had come to an unspoken agreement that they would all be fine as long as they didn't say anything work related.
So the idea of Circe helping get blackmail Six was a little iffy. But really what would Van Kleiss do with this kind of information anyway. The worst that could happen is Six gets publicly humiliated... And that wasn't really Rex's problem now was it? He grinned to his friends.
"So what's the plan."
Six was pondering on how many times he would have to hit his head against the stone wall before he'd loose consciousness. But he couldn't do that. If he got himself hurt then they would take him to Holiday, and he'd be trapped.
So Six had to suck it up and stay down in training with all the newbies. The 'agents' where at the level at which that they had just finished basic training. No one would ever think that Six would hide there. Well most people wouldn't even imagine Six hiding at all.
That's why when he entered the room the instructor assumed that he was there to take over. The man had left before Six could do anything, and now he was down there trying to think of something to teach them. It wasn't going well.
"There is an Evo attacking. What do you do?" The new members of Providence exchanged nervous glances before one man in the back timidly raised his hand. Six nodded in his direction signaling his allowance to speak.
"Di- distract it until Rex gets there..." Six raised an eyebrow at the agent, was this what they where teaching people now-a-days? He picked up the papers sitting on the desk in the front of the room, and began reading, forgetting about the 'students' in the room.
"Umm... Agent Six? Did George get the question right?" The green clad agent looked up from the papers and at the female agent in the front row, before looking back to the man who asked the first question.
"Close enough." The room filled with silence. Another agent slowly raised his hand, Six sighed slightly before permitting him to talk.
"May we ask you questions?"
"You just did." The new Providence man was thrown off by the quick response but continued.
"No, I mean... Well you've worked for Providence for a long time... So you know more about Evo's then most... Sooo... Can we ask you about it...?" Six resisted the urge to leave, he glanced at the clock. He still had hours before he could possibly be in the clear, though it was probably going to get dark soon. Slowly Six nodded, and almost instantly every hand in the room went up.
Hesitantly Six called on one of the students. He really should have known better than expect that they would actually ask questions relevant to the subject at hand. Surprisingly enough the first questions where actually somewhat sane. Things like 'What was the most dangerous Evo you've ever faced?' and 'How long have you been at Providence'. But it didn't last long.
"Why are you still wearing your sunglasses?" Six raised an eyebrow. "We're inside, you don't need to have them on."
"Next." The next student in the row prepared to ask his question. "Yes."
"Why wont you answer Jack's question?"
"Because I don't have to."
"Oh come on, how bad could it possibly be?" Oh the youth of today. Between their video games, their loud music and their general disrespect for their elders, Six was starting to feel like an old man. But he can't give in to the children or they'll win.
"I clearly wear them because I'm demon, and I don't want my blood red eyes to give it away."
"Really?"
"No." Apparently it seamed that even the dumbest of people could get through boot camp because instantly Six could hear the students whispering asking if he had been joking or not. How sad.
And then the door slid open revealing, much to Six's horror, Rex and Noah standing there holding plastic bags. There where no windows in the room, so when Rex turned and used his nanites to lock the door, Six was trapped. There wasn't even an air vent that he could fit through.
"All right new Providence agents! Today you all have an assignment!" Rex and Noah threw their bags to the students, who stood up and examined the contents. The look of confusion of their faces was... a bad sign to say the least.
"Take one and pass them on." They each pulled a can out of the bags, from what Six could see they appeared to be spray paint cans. The green clad agent took half a step back, still looking for an escape root. "Now when I give the signal you all need to spray good ol' agent Six with it. No questions asked."
Rex turned to Six, who was about to pull out his katanas. He rushed the green clad agent, and, using the Smack Hands, pinned Six to the ground (which was far more painful than he let on). Noah signaled the others to advance, and they did hesitantly.
And then everything went silver.
It didn't shock Circe when Rex and Noah had requested that she wait for them at Noah's. It made sense, and if she was them she would have done the same thing. It was just a shame that she wouldn't get to see her plan come together.
When they had come to the point when they needed to decide on a costume for ninja agent, she was the one with the plan. It was rather ingenious really, there was no way that they where to get him to change into a costume. Circe had assumed that stripping Six was out of the question.
So what was a costume that they could get on him, without any of that? Well that's where her plan came in, it was rather simple really. As they all sat thinking she had been idly glancing at the movies sitting across the room.
And needless to say inspiration struck. Something not only that they could do for Six, but it also set up costumes for the rest of them. Rex and Noah had loved the plan and instantly they had gone out and bought everything necessary. Then they headed off to Providence and she came back here and got ready.
Now it was just the matter of the boneheads being able to bring Six back here in one piece. She looked around the room, wondering if there was anything there that she could use as a 'Toto'.
Believe it or not, it is in fact very difficult to see out of sunglasses, at night, when they're covered with silver spray paint.
Who would've guessed?
Yes. Directly after Six had been spray painted, he had been dragged out of Providence and to what looked to be Noah's house, though he wasn't entirely sure. Once there the boys had gone to change and Circe gave Six a silver funnel (that she proceeded to strap to his head) and a child safe silver ax.
After handing Six the finishing touches to his costume, he took time to notice what Circe was wearing. Suddenly it made some sense. The blue dress and the ruby red shoes. Six had just been dragged into THE WIZARD OF OZ. Thusly making him the Tinman.
Six would have escaped then before the two got back, but between the fact that he was already in costume and the fact that Holiday would be quite angry if she found out that he had run off, it simply wasn't worth the effort.
Soon Rex and Noah came back dressed as the Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion respectively. And with that the teenagers each grabbed a pillow case, and Six reluctantly followed them out of the house.
Quickly the four of them got into a pattern, the three would run up to the house, get candy from some parent who gives them a weird look, while Six waited on the sidewalk. The pace at which they where all moving meant that Six was waiting on the sidewalk with the same parents from house to house.
And while he had been lucky to avoid soccer moms at the Open House, he was not so lucky now. He was surrounded by those parents the ones that would obsess over every little thing. They lived to insure that their 6 year old was the most well off of all the little 6 year olds. 'Oh I have little Suzy learning Latin! What a smart girl!' 'Oh well my little Tommy is in advanced math. He almost got put in average math by accident, but I talked with the principle and we sorted it all out.'
It was terrible Six was devoted to many things but never on the level of those women, it was obsessive. And there was no way that those kids wouldn't end up screwed up physiologically later. Six shuddered.
While Six would never admit it, he thought they where the scariest thing in the world. It wasn't funny. Six says one thing that doesn't completely match up with what those women agree with and they would rip his eyes out with their 6 inch nails.
So Six was standing there praying that he could go unnoticed. You would think he would no better by now.
"Oh are you the Tinman?" Six looked over to see one of them trying to talk to him. He nodded slowly. "Which ones are yours?"
"The three teenagers." The woman looked confused. There was another emotion there, but Six couldn't place it.
"Aren't you a bit young to have teenage children?" Six didn't like the way she said that, but he didn't want to do anything to trigger her wrath.
"They aren't mine, I'm just keeping an eye on them." She laughed and put a hand on Six's arm, causing Six to visibly flinch away from he, not that she noticed.
"Oh, I see how very kind of you." Her smile was making Six nervous to say the least. The teenage trio didn't seem to notice and continued from house to house. "I noticed you don't have a wedding ring on ether."
Holiday came to the lab the next morning to see Rex sitting in a chair pulling candy out of a pillowcase. She smiled, knowing that she had been right when she gave the teenagers a list of places to look for the inevitably hiding Six. The teen seemed happy so it looked as if all went well.
"Have a fun night?" Rex looked up and grinned.
"It was great." He paused and shoved half a candy bar in his mouth before continuing. "Well actually it wasn't all that great at first, and a lot of the parents kept giving us funny looks, but watching that mom hit on Six all night was hilarious. And there was one house where-"
"Woah Six was getting hit on?" Rex looked up from the bag, and nodded.
"Oh yeah, it was great, she was like 10 years older than him, and Six kept moving away from her but she just followed him." He grinned retelling the story. "Six practically ran away when we told him we where done."
Just then Six entered the room, looking normal...ish. The agent came in the room and headed for the teenager, ignoring the fact that both Rex and Holiday were trying their hardest not to laugh.
Quickly Six reached past Rex and grabbed a candy bar from the bag and began eating, much to Rex's displeasure. The two stared at each other before Rex angrily picked up his bag and headed for the door declaring that he was going to hide it so no one else would be stealing any.
Six opened the candy and split it in two before offering half to Holiday, who gladly accepted, they sat in silence for a moment before the large screen nearby came on.
Anyone could guess who was on it.
White Knight glared down at the newly silver haired agent in silence.
"Oh 'HA HA', very funny Six. Get it out now." The screen went black leaving Holiday wondering if White had an actual reason for coming to talk to them. She looked over at Six who was still staring at the screen.
"It wont come out will it?"
"No."
"Not even a little bit?"
Six simply shook his head. He was going to be stuck with metallically colored hair for a while.
Look it's done on time! How that happened is beyond me, I had NO time to sit at home and type it, I had to find time to write it on my iPod. Anyway. As always I hope you enjoyed. :) (and while I somewhat doubt that anyone would, I hope no one was offended by the whole soccer mom thing.)
