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Holiday sat in front of her microscope studying the slide in front of her. The door to her lab slid open and she heard the pounding of feet running towards her. She spun her chair around and greeted them with a smile.
"Aunt Rebecca!" Rebecca opened her arms as a little girl flung herself into her open arms.
"Auntie Becca!" Another little voice whined, reaching out his arms for a hug as well.
Rebecca smiled and scooped the little boy up and kissed him.
She looked up to greet their mother.
"Circe, you're early." She smiled.
"Sorry, I hope it's okay. I wasn't sure how long it would take me to get here so I left a little early."
"No, no it's okay but if I had known I would have been ready. Let me prepare the exam room." She placed Violeta and Rafael on their feet.
Walking over to the intercom she paged her lab assistant.
"Remy, please get lab 5 ready for me."
"Yes, ma'am." Came the reply.
"Is Rex here?" Rebecca asked Circe.
"Yeah, he went to talk to Six about tomorrow's mission." Circe answered.
"Ah, yes. " Holiday remembered Six mentioning that they had something important coming up.
"Dr. Holiday? The room is ready." The disembodied voice echoed in the room.
"Thank you, Remy." Holiday said into the intercom.
Rebecca gestured to Circe and the kids to follow her.
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Since Violeta and Rafael had inherited their parents' powers doctor visits were performed by either Rebecca or Caesar. Only they had the expertise to know how to care for EVOs.
"Now who's first?" Rebecca asked as they approached the exam table.
"Me, me, me!" Rafael raised his had. He looked so much like his dad. Holiday suppressed a laugh, picked him up, and placed him on the exam table.
Holiday very professionally took his temperature, checked his heart beat, and looked into his eyes, ears, nose and throat. Just like any normal doctor's visit except…
"Okay Raffy I want you to destroy that target over there." Rebecca pointed to a cloth doll that hung about 10 feet away. Rafael screwed up his face and let out a concentrated sonic blast. The doll was immediately destroyed.
"Very good." Holiday said as she wrote something down on her clipboard. "Someone's been practicing his aim."
Rafael beamed.
"Okay, Violeta, it's your turn." Holiday performed the same routine with Violeta except…
"Have you made any new builds lately?" Rebecca asked the girl.
"Ummm." Violeta squeezed her eyes shut and concentrated. Suddenly red wings with turbines sprouted from her back.
"That's new. " Holiday muttered as she wrote some more notes on her clipboard.
"Can you control it?" She looked at Violeta.
Violeta shook her head.
"I don't know how to turn it on." She said.
"Well let's go to the Petting Zoo and see if you can." Rebecca helped her niece off the table.
They walked into the Petting Zoo. Providence had been caring for sick EVOs from the Nanite Island in the Petting Zoo. So there were a few mutated animals here and there. They mostly left people alone.
"Okay Violeta. Let's try the boogie pack." Holiday said to the little girl.
"The what?" Violeta wrinkled her nose at the name.
"Oh, that's what your dad calls those wings." Holiday explained.
"That's a dumb name." Violeta said but she closed her eyes and concentrated again.
Out popped the boogie pack. She then tried to take off. She jumped. She tried running then jumping in the air.
After several failed attempts she shook her head sadly.
"It's okay. It took your dad several months before he could fly." Holiday reassured the little girl.
Violeta nodded but her face was still downcast.
Circe suddenly gasped. While they were all busy watching Violeta, Rafael had wandered off. He was now on top of the waterfall. He was craning his neck to look at some EVO flamingoes. Then he lost his footing and started teetering over the edge.
"Rafael!" Circe looked in horror as her son started falling.
Then a swirl of air ripped past Circe and Rebecca. As Rafael was about to hit the water below he was quickly scooped up by a whirl of red.
Violeta had managed to form her boogie pack and make it work to save her brother.
Unfortunately, she couldn't quite control it yet. They wobbled unsteadily until they crashed into some bushes on the ground.
Rebecca and Circe ran to them.
"Are you okay?" Circe asked picking up Rafael and looking at Violeta.
"Again!" Rafael yelled gleefully.
Rex and Six ran in.
"Violeta, I saw everything. I'm so proud of you." Rex picked up his daughter.
She grinned but then grimaced. She glanced at her arm which was all cut up.
Rex laughed. "Just like daddy." Violeta smiled.
Rebecca sighed in relief. "Come on lets go patch you up."
"But I wanna go again!" Rafael pouted.
"Not today." Circe told her son.
"How about we go visit Uncle Bobo?" Rex suggested.
"Yeah!" Rafael and Violeta cheered. Violeta hopped out of her father's arms and both ran out of the Petting Zoo.
"Heroes in the making."Circe smiled as Rex put his arm around her shoulders.
"Yup, takes after us." Rex kissed her on the cheek.
