Once they were sure she calmed down and was safe in her apartment they simply talked quietly
*So I get the feeling we don't know everything that happened during the fight*
*Yeah, but at least she's calm now*
*What are you going to do?*
*Wait until she wakes up and then go from there*
*Okay*
Two hours later Kelsey woke up and saw Meteor there
*Hey, can you call your fellow Rider's there's something I need to talk to them about*
*No problem*
While she was waiting Kelsey thought about the day Ichijou found out about Godai being alive
Day of move
*Thanks for helping me move in Ichijou*
*It's no problem, especially considering the fact that we're occasionally going to be working together*
Just then they heard footsteps and someone talking and as soon as the person comes into full view Ichijou receives a surprise he wasn't expecting
*Hey Kelsey I was wondering where you wanted the...Ichijou*
*Godai...*
*You two talk in my room and get caught up*
The two catch up and then help Kelsey finish moving in, once they were done they simply all caught each other up and relaxed for a bit in Kelsey's new apartment
Present
*Hey guys, there's something you need to know, Godai and Ichijou already know but you don't, the Cybertronians are my real family*
*What?*
And with that Kelsey explains the full situation to the Riders and also figures out why she couldn't sense them in their Rider forms
*Now then the solution isn't going to be quick or easy but it will work*
*What's the solution?*
*You transform into your Rider forms with my eyes closed, eventually I'll be able to fight you blindfolded like I do the training robot that I repaired*
*Kelsey are you following proper protocol?*
*Yes Godai I am *
*Protocol?*
*Yes no training with a robot for a month after an incident, and it resets each time there's an outburst related to the incident, now then the month long waiting period doesn't always catch problems, because EDC officers are highly trained people, as such highly trained people dealing with major emotions aren't always caught in the month long waiting period but it does help*
*Which means your month has been reset*
*Yes it has, and I am going to school tomorrow at least part of the day, family would have discussed it further but I have to make my own decisions now*
The next day there was a fire at Kelsey's school which meant she went home and was surrounded by Rider's who had heard
*She's fine, checked her out real quick there and there are no injuries, but also no cell phone she lost it in the fire*
*Not my fault*
*No it's not, but that still means we're out of communication with you for a bit*
*True, since I don't have school tomorrow we can start practicing me being able to sense you in your Rider forms*
*Sorry Kelsey not happening, not until day after tomorrow, you're probably more tired than you think having gone through two incidents in just under twenty-four hours*
*Fine*
The group slowly heads to their homes thinking everything was fine since Kelsey was showing signs of being tired a few hours after she got home. What no one knew was that the EDC had been targeted before their destruction by normal civilians and they had decided to use Kelsey to hit them. Kelsey had been poisoned which would normally take three weeks to discover, however her powers had been fighting the poison since her powers recognized she had been poisoned immediately, however while adrenaline normally helped her powers, in just the right circumstances her powers were hindered by adrenaline and the right circumstances had been hit. No one would know something was seriously wrong for sixteen hours though. Sixteen hours later Ichijou and Tomari had decided to check up on Kelsey expecting to see her being bored, but after rotating five different times getting desperate each time they knocked they came to a decision quickly and easily
*Something must have happened, you or me?*
*You Tomari, you have the better protection*
With that the two draw their guns and Tomari breaks down the door and they do a methodical room by room search, finding Kelsey in her bedroom breathing hard and soaked
*Tomari, call an ambulance I'm going to see about food poisoning*
*Right*
Five minutes later they were back in Kelsey's room having left Belt-san monitoring her in their absence
*No change, but she looks much drier*
*I wiped the sweat off to make it easier for the ambulance crew*
They suddenly hear a noise and turn only to see two uniformed officers who immediately put their weapons away when they saw Ichijou
*Ichijou, we had reports of armed people breaking in to the apartment*
*Yeah, the occupant doesn't have a land line and lost her cell phone in a fire yesterday, when we couldn't reach her through knocking loudly we kicked in the door and found her in this condition*
*And the reason no one thought about being in the living room?*
*Sorry, too concerned about her*
Five minutes later the ambulance crew arrives and she's taken to the hospital where Tsubaki, who was made her doctor of record back when she first entered the country started working on her. Five hours later he went to the waiting room to see it crowded with Rider's waiting for word, seeing as how they all had him as their doctor of record he knew each of them personally
*How is she Tsubaki?*
(Sighs) *I'm afraid it's not good. Godai do you remember the time you were poisoned and I ultimately killed you?*
*First off, not your fault, second of all yes I do, why?*
*The reason you came back and were able to fight so soon afterwords was because not only was your belt healing you but you wanted to come back, Kelsey however...Kelsey has given up I'm afraid, she was fighting a good long while but within the past two hours she's had rapid decline in her health, she might not last the night like this*
*Wait, everyone who can keep her going, I think I have a secret weapon that might just work*
Ichijou leaves with Tomari following right behind him
*Tomari..*
*I think I know what you're after Ichijou, and you should know that the EDC case was spread out amongst the departments, get what you can from your department and meet me at mine since they know my secret*
*Very well*
The two get back to the station and get all the files they can gathered and then in Tomari's department they go through the boxes until finally Ichijou gives out a shout of triumph
*Found it, come on, let's hope we're in time*
They get back to the hospital to see Rider's talking to her and see her still alive
*I'm back, with the secret weapon*
*What is it?*
*Tapes with the language of her family, I'm willing to bet that they wouldn't want her to give up, and by the way the tape recorder has a way of letting someone know it's time to swap out tapes*
As soon as the headphones are put over Kelsey's ears they see immediate improvement of her vitals, it wasn't a big leap as far as normal people were concerned but for Tsubaki and the Rider's it was huge
*Good, you may have just bought us the time we need to find out what's wrong with her Ichijou*
*I may have bought us the time but you need to hurry Tsubaki, I doubt I bought enough time for extensive tests for both what's ailing her and a cure*
*I know, I'll get some new blood work and do new tests since nothing seems to be showing up in the current tests I am running*
Six hours later with Kelsey remaining stable Tsubaki came back in waving a piece of paper
*Found it, she's been poisoned, now that I know that I can produce a cure*
*Good to hear*
*How much time Tsubaki?, she's stable now but...*
*Whoever designed this was smart, they made sure that it could have an antidote in case of accidental exposure, either that or to force the EDC's hand, either way I can make a cure due to recognized compounds that make up the poison, at the same time though they made a major delay so that it's basically too late to find a cure, she wasn't supposed to be affected for another week, and maybe last a week at most once it hit, however due to her powers it was discovered earlier and normally she would last longer, however her adrenaline is affecting her*
*Tsubaki...*
*Two hours Godai, give me two hours and I should have a cure, all of you are on standby though, you especially Tomari, we might need mad doctor for this, if she starts to crash...*
*I understand*
An hour and a half later Tsubaki came back with a vial
*I think I have the antidote*
He quickly injects it into her arm directly in the vein
*All that's left is to wait and see if this works*
*How long Tsubaki?*
(Sighs) *I'm afraid I don't have an answer to that question Hidari, all I know for sure is that if she starts crashing now Tomari is not to use mad doctor, I will try and bring her back myself but if I fail after a certain time then we've lost her*
Over the next several days they see steady improvement, eventually getting to the point where Kelsey was opening her eyes on occasion, but she still needed the ventilator to breath for her only because the poison had done enough damage that the lungs still needed time to heal and the ventilator was giving her body the opportunity to rest and get stronger to heal her lungs, with her powers helping the process along and not fighting the need for the ventilator either
*How is she?*
*More improvement today, still not staying awake long enough to really establish if she's been affected mentally by the poison, however Tsubaki thinks he might be able to take the ventilator out later today, he still has to assess some things first though*
*That's good to hear, she's been on the machine since she got here pretty much*
*Yeah*
*You know, considering what we know about her I'm surprised she hasn't fought the vent at all*
*I think that her...abilities are allowing the vent to work to allow the body to heal more, from what I understand her abilities are semi-sentient and not only give her a very mild healing ability but can also know when something is needed and when it's not, most likely when the lungs have healed enough to handle regular oxygen she'll start fighting for her own breath and the vent will be gone*
*So what exactly does he have to test before the vent is removed?*
*He took some x-ray's earlier plus more blood work, I think he's checking on how effective the antidote actually is and if there's still severe scarring of the lungs, the x-ray's are taken every two days depending on what he sees, sometimes a bit more frequently if he thinks the healing is happening faster than what he estimated*
Tsubaki enters a few minutes later and stops the IV drip for a few moments
*I can now present my findings to the medical world, the antidote is fully effective, however it's only effective if done in a drip over time*
*Speaking of, why did you start doing a drip *
*Remember the initial injection I gave her, and do you also remember the drip I started when Tsugami got bit by that snake?*
*I remember all right, but that's two different things going to work and him being Agito was part of what made the anti-venom work so quickly*
*Turns out that the antidote is the same in a way, I did an initial flooding of the antidote in her body thinking that what I gave her was all that was needed, however while I did see improvement it wasn't by much and it was quickly going back to the levels that were there before I administered the antidote. It turns out that the poison is tricky enough that the cure takes time to administer so that the poison doesn't fully get a chance to fight back. Now then her abilities also helped in the fight but in a normal person if they survived long enough for the poison to be identified the drip would first stabilize like it did her and then more slowly but surely it would repair the damage. Her powers kind of act like your bodies by the way so a drip would have to happen for you as well but you would also be recovering at about the same rate as Kerenai*
*So the drip is no longer effective in taking care of the poison?*
*More like she only needs regular saline fluids, the poison is gone guys, all that's left is for her lungs to heal up to the point where I am only supplementing oxygen, and she also needs to stay awake longer than two minutes so I can finally do some tests that need to be done*
*What about her inability to speak?*
*That isn't needed for the initial tests actually, but it would be helpful I'll admit, for now though I am putting her on regular saline simply for hydration purposes*
Two days later Kelsey was awake and breathing on her own, she was hooked up to an oxygen bottle because her vitals were still not satisfactory for Tsubaki after only half an hour off oxygen, but she was steadily improving and that was what was important for everyone and she had so far passed all his tests that checked her mental capability, everything but one
