Reunited

Chapter 10: The End of One Storm, But the Clouds Are Still Not Completely Gone

Miyako awakened in a big blue room. The walls were painted blue, and there was a desk at the end of the room, facing the window. A large bookshelf was in the corner. Covering her was a small, soft, blue-gray blanket. It took her a few moments to remember what the other day. And then she realized whose room she was is in: Boomer's. She plopped down on the bed as she remembered the flash of lightning and how she had freaked out. Miyako pulled the blanket over her face, trying to forget her embarrassing reaction. She then caught the scent of the blanket. It had a sweet smell, but not like flowers or anything. It just smelled sweet, a scent that could not be described. She wondered if Boomer actually smelled like this. She inhaled the scent once more, enjoying the fragrance. What am I doing? She quickly pulled the blanket off her head and blushed. What was she doing? Miyako heard footsteps coming up the stairs. She turned to the door.

Boomer walked in, one hand in his pocket and one scratching the back of his head. He came up to the bed and squatted down, now at eye level with Miyako. "Sleeping beauty, how are you feeling?"

Miyako smiled and looked away at the joke. Or was it a compliment? "Embarrassed." she admitted.

"We all have our moments. At least you didn't, like, faint." Miyako nodded. "What's up with the lightning anyway? Why are you so scared?" Boomer tried looking deep into Miyako's eyes, as if he were trying to see through her pupils and into her brain to know what she was thinking.

"I was just scared ever since I was a child."

"Yeah, I know that. I used to hide under the bed when I first created." Boomer laughed. "And that's how I earned the nickname 'Babyface' or 'Crybaby' from Butch and Brick."

"Me too. I'm always scared over the smallest things, so Kaoru calls me a crybaby as well." Miyako paused and looked towards the window, seeing the gray clouds that had been tattooed onto the sky. "As a child, I have been extremely terrified of thunderstorms. Especially the lightning part. I would hide wherever there was space; under the bed, in the closet..." She paused and Boomer nodded, encouraging her to continue. "And on the day Chemical Z was created, there were white and black lights flying all over the city. The three of us got hit by the white light. And Mojo got hit with the black. When I saw a ray of lighting heading towards a little girl, I quickly thought it was lighting. But I jumped in front of the little girl anyway; worried that she might get hurt." Boomer was looking at Miyako, wide-eyed.

"So even though you thought it was lightning, you jumped in front of the girl anyway?" Miyako nodded. "Wow... that's really unselfish. And ever since that moment, you've been even more terrified of lightning?" Miyako nodded again. "Wow. I sort of get it now. When you see lightning, you imagine that it will hit you right? It looks like it is aiming at you?" Miyako swallowed and looked away. She nodded, again. "Well then, that's no 'crybaby' to me. You really do have courage; to protect the people you care for. Which is why you're one of the protectors of Tokyo City- you care about the citizens." Miyako didn't know what to say to Boomer. She just looked into his eyes.

"Thank you." she said, and smiled.

"I'm only telling the truth."

"No, for taking care of me yesterday." Boomer looked away, trying his hardest not to blush.

"There's no need to thank me..." The two sat in an uncomfortable silence. "So, let's go downstairs?" Boomer stood up and offered Miyako his hand. Miyako smiled and accepted it, and pulled herself out of bed.

Rei woke up in the lab's guest room. Her hair was a mess, and she struggled to find her glasses on her desk without her, well, glasses. As soon as she had found them, she walked up to the mirror, and patted her hair down. Professor and Ken were probably sleeping, even though the two were the biggest workaholics she'd ever seen (like father, like son), even they took a day off every once in a while and slept in "late", which for them meant past their usual 5-6 am. She grabbed her PPGZ belt and slipped it over her white t-shirt and light blue pajama pants. She had made it a personal responsibility to be always ready, even if it was eight o' clock in the morning. She never knew what could happen, and when it could happen. School was cancelled today, because of the storm. She trotted downstairs into the living room of the mansion-like lab. She flung herself on the couch and took out the purple "P" button from her belt. She called Momoko.

"Hello? Rei?" Momoko answered from the other line.

"Yep. Hey, can you call Kaoru and Miyako and tell them to come down to the lab when they're ready? I didn't bother calling them right now, I was afraid they were sleeping, and I do not want to imagine Kaoru when she first wakes up." Both girls laughed.

"Nah, she's awake."

"Oh? How do you know?"

"She's right here with me. And so is Miyako."

Rei paused. "Sleepover?"

Momoko paused to answer. "Yes." she said slowly. "More or less. Anyway, we'll go over there as soon as possible."

"'Kay." Rei reached for the remote, but stopped herself when a better idea popped into her head.

The three girls walked into the lab, and saw Rei sitting on the floor, cross-legged, in what seemed like meditating. A circle of candles surrounded her. Rei's eyes were closed, and she was sitting in her white t-shirt and pajama pants, sitting on a small rug.

"Uh... Rei?" Momoko cautiously said her name, afraid to wake Rei from her trance. Rei did not respond, and just sat there. "Rei?" Momoko said again, this time lightly poking her shoulder. Rei jolted up, just as surprised as the other three girls.

Rei let out a chuckle. "Sorry. Meditating is great in the morning. The wonders it does for you..." Rei stood up and stretched.

"Up to freaky stuff again?" Kaoru asked. Rei let out a laugh, but did not answer her question.

"The reason I asked you guys to come here was because... well I wanted to talk to you guys." Rei sat on the couch, cross-legged again.

"About what?" asked Miyako, sat down near Rei.

"Well... it's about yesterday."

"Hm?" Momoko looked confused.

"Uh... well... Kaoru, you transformed yesterday, right?"

Kaoru hesitated to answer. "Yes... it was for a... dare... during our... sleepover." Kaoru said the sentence out loud. What she said was 100% true. She never said the three of them were the only people there.

"Oh... okay." Rei looked down at the floor.

"Is that it? Is that why you called us here?" Kaoru seemed annoyed.

"No. I have a few more questions."

"Well...?" Momoko asked.

"Well, I had no idea why Kaoru's belt went off, so then I checked your location using the GPS in the belt, and it noticed that all three of you were in the same area. So I was confused until you explained to me the sleepover."

"Stalker." Kaoru muttered quietly. Rei shot a glance at Kaoru.

"This is serious. On the GPS, the three of you are represented by dots of your corresponding colors. And the GPS only shows the three of you, which are represented by dots of your corresponding colors, the Professor, Ken, and Peach, which are represented by white dots, and it used to show monsters, which were represented by black dots. The GPS tracks anything with Chemical Z or anything that was hit by the rays. We also programmed Ken and the Professor Untonium into it. But yesterday, as I checked the GPS..." Rei paused and opened up the belt button. On it were 3 small dots- pink, light blue, and light green. And three more- red, dark blue, and olive green. The three girls blushed. Busted. "We didn't program anything else in there. And by the looks of it, I'd assume it was the Rowdyruffs?" The three girls nodded.

"We got stuck at their house during the storm." Momoko said guiltily, feeling bad about lying to Rei.

"And we had to stay overnight." Kao added, looking at the floor. "So technically, it was a sleepover."

"We're sorry for lying." Miyako looked at Rei. Rei just shook her head.

"It's not about the lie."

"Huh?" Momoko had blurted out. But Kao and Miyako were just as confused. "It wasn't?"

"No. It's about why the boys' dots were on the GPS. Think about it, they had never directly touched Chemical Z, and when the monsters disappeared, we had only assumed that all of the black light was stored inside Him's box. After the box exploded, the rays flew all across town, and I was the only human hit. Or at least I thought so." The three girls gaped at her. "I don't think Professor Utonium would have a specific reason to program them in. If they're appearing on the GPS, I believe there's only one reasonable explanation."

"They were hit by the white light too?" Momoko could not believe what Rei had just said.

"I'm still not sure whether they were hit by it or not, but it's definitely an idea. I'll have to investigate this further."

"Um, Rei? Too much Detective Conan can be bad for you, you know." Momoko pointed that out. Rei looked at Momoko.

"Don't spoil my moment. There are few times that I actually sound smart, and this is one of them." Rei turned back to the other girls. "Anyway, I have another theory as for how they got the white light inside of them."

"Hm?" Miyako seemed interested.

"The kiss?" Momoko had suggested the first thought that popped into her head.

"Bingo." The three girls just stared at Rei.

"B-but it wasn't even a real kiss! It was an air kiss!" Kaoru protested.

"But you defeated them with that one air kiss. It was powerful enough to really affect them. So it must be pretty damn powerful. Not the kiss itself, but mainly the action. It caused them to malfunction and slowly start to lose their black particles. It wasn't light energy straight from you, but that kiss triggered a feeling which started to produce more light energy and lose the black energy." Rei pushed her glasses up higher.

As Miyako and Momoko were trying to understand Rei's scientific analysis, Kaoru had already figured it out. She knew the answer, yet she asked the question anyway. "And that feeling would be...?"

"I think you know the answer to that." Rei grinned. "Speaking of the unspoken word, did my tarot predictions come true?"

"I've got it, it's love isn't it?" Miyako's eyes lit up.

"A little too slow, but yes." Kaoru turned to Rei. "Of course not. As if some silly little cards could predict my future."

"But you're starting to like him, yes? As far as I'm concerned you and Butch even went on a date."

"WHAT!? Where'd you hear that!?"

"I have my sources." Rei grinned even more, and turned to Momoko and Miyako. "And what about you guys?"

The girls said nothing, just looked away. They knew her prediction was coming true. Rei laughed.

"You guys are so cute." She stood up and yawned. "But I'll warn you guys... there will be some obstacles, I can feel it now. And the boys... I don't know. They seem to be purely white light now, but I have a feeling there's something left there from the past."

"As in, black light?" Kaoru scoffed. "And why do you think that?"

"Intuition. If there's one thing I can do well, it's hear and follow my intuition. And it's telling me that there's something slightly off about this. Don't be surprised if they... change." Rei left the room and headed into the kitchen, leaving the girls dumbfounded. "Oh, and be careful about hanging out at Mojo's former lair." Rei shouted from the kitchen. "There seems to be something a little dark about it's aura. Be cautious." With those words, the girls sat stunned and in silence, not saying a word, and not moving their eyes at all.

Author's Note:

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