Authors Notes: One more and that'll be it :D
Of Smoke and Steam
Fractured Code
Chapter 10
Brothers
Zareth hit the water at full force. He had to have fallen ten feet into the sloshing liquid. It was incredibly cold and it felt like thousands of needles stabbing into his skin at one time. He resurfaced gasping for air. His hip hurt really bad as thats the part of him that hit the water first. Rolling over and over until he surfaced yelling from the cold. Coughing and choking on the water. Reaching for anything to hold onto. Hitting a rock and back under he went. Yelling with pain and breathing in water. The water grew faster and faster hitting yet another rock. He could feel his back panels bend and bow. Water rushing into his workings. His eyes rolled coughing up the water that had gotten into the circuitry. Once again pulling in water into his lungs. His movements having gotten sluggish.
He rolled reached up trying to grab something. To his amazement something grabbed him. It pulled him out of the water with such force that he felt his blood pool a little in his skull. The feeling made him woozy and dizzy. He looked up at what carried him. It was a woman with blue hair, and and green eyes. Her black wings took him into the air. He wasn't sure what happened after that. All he knew was that his back hurt so much.
"Rest now Zareth. I will not drop you." her voice wasn't as gentle as Dannys, actually it sounded far more polite, regal. Zareths eyes closed on their own. Coughing up more water as he went. Letting unconsciousness take him.
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Inky waited within the cupboard. It was quite, far to quiet for her liking. Thats when things started to get a bit more noisy. Glass shattering, furniture smashing, she could start to smell of smoke. She tried to move but she still wasn't able to. She heard something hit the door black smoke began to bellow through the cracks. She could hear Mindroids desperate cries.
'Do you wish to save him?' Gaya's voice whispered in Inkys head.
"No, go away." Inky whispered tiredly. She needed to get out. She began to cough, she threw open the cupboard doors and went to push the door open. It was hot to the touch burning her skin. "Uncle Min!" She cried out. The smoke was stinging her eyes. She heard a loud whistle from outside the door.
'Surrender to me Inky...you have no choice.' Inky could feel the amusement coming from Gaya.
"No I...I'm n…" She touched her forehead. She felt so dizzy. The door began to change colors from white to black.
'You have lost the privilege of choice!' Gaya yelled. Inky covered her ears. Feeling her skin rip open. Ink flowing from those rips.
"No!" Inky clawed at her back. She tried her best to stop what was going on with her. Their was nothing she could do. Gaya had her, Inkys consciousness was pushed to the very back of her mind.
The spiders legs on Inkys back crashed through the door pushing the pile of bedding away from the bathroom door. Gaya could see the men within the room holding guns. One of them ran for the door. Inky ran at him her spider legs shooting out stabbing the man through the back. He fell to the floor spitting blood, she turned to glare at the guy backing away mumbling something under his breath. Holding his hands out in front of him. Inky charged at him grabbing his face pushing him into the hot ash of what used to be the bed. He screamed tried to push her away from him using his face. Her arm swiped and his leg fell to the floor. He screamed trying to get away from Inky who pressed harder on him. She felt someone pulling on her. She turned and thrust her leg forward right into the guy. It sparked. This caused Inky to stop and gasp realization began to hit her hard. Min stood there holding her spiders leg.
"Inky?" He sparked again and sunk to the floor.
"No...No no no please." She pulled the leg from his stomach and pulled him to her. "Please don't…" Tears running down her face. He reached up running his fingers over her face.
"I gotta get you help. Please...hang on." She began to take things apart. The tv, the dvd player, her computer, tablet everything in the house that she could find that might help. Picking up Cryptors care bag and looked inside for any tools. She had to fix him...she had to. It was her fault. She sat down on the floor looking at him through the smoke. At least the fire was out now. She looked over him unbuttoning his jacket, and then shirt to get to the wounded wiring. Pulling pieces and bits off the engineering she brought over.
"I'm no mechanic you're going to have to tell me what I need to do." Inky said leaning down pressing her forehead to his. With a loud scream she was pulling away from him. Mindroid reached forward trying to get to Inky. But the wound spewed more oil onto the carpeted floor. He coughed and lay on his front trying to reach for her. Inky reached out toward Mindroid a cloth fitted over her mouth.
"Zareth should learn to pick his enemies better." It was a womans voice. What happened to Kade? Who was she? Inkys movements were growing sluggish. "I never knew he had a daughter...curious isn't it? This...Danny...must be a knockout. When she was alive." Hillary laughed looking down at Mindroid who grabbed hold of Hillary's leather jacket trying to pull himself up. Hillary kicked him to the side, and stomped on his chest grinding her foot into the wound. "And you...should pick your friends better too...little thing. But that doesn't matter now. Your dead." She laughed looking down at Inky who had stopped moving. Her eyes were still open, but she couldn't register anything. Everything was moving so slowly, she felt so dizzy. She couldn't understand what was going on. She remembered her face being pushed into a carpeted floor board as she was being tied up, and something being tired around her mouth. Her mind gave up trying to understand things and she fell into the blissfulness of sleep.