Kihonne: Hey, how you all doing today? I hope you're having a good day, and if not, I hope this early chapter cheers you up! Anyway, I won't babble for too long, and I'll get to the chapter in a minute, but first, it's shoutout time.
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TheatreChristianManiac: I'm glad you enjoyed it. No, the last chapter was set nowhere near the crossover. If my calculations are correct, then Growing Pains would have happened around the same time as You Posted What? And you're right, the superhero world in general didn't know much about the bionics. However, S-1's video of the lab rats went viral. While most heroes would have no reason to even know about the video, it doesn't make sense to me that the heroes who spend most of their time in the Normo world, such as Alivia, wouldn't have even heard about the video. It honestly surprised me that Oliver knew nothing about the bionic superhumans, even though the rest of the Normo world appeared to. And no, Growing Pains was not an original chapter. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the chapter.
LabGirl2001: I'm glad you and enjoyed them! And which new ship are you referring to? Just curious. Anyway, enjoy the chapter!
Avaoreo1112: I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter, and I'm glad my explanation cleared things up a bit. Anyway, I hope you like this chapter just as much!
FangirlIsh13: Lol, I love your enthusiasm. I think the shipping name we're going with is Kani, but it's really up to the readers. I'm so glad you like Calla so much – she's my proudest creation. She's the person I'd like to be one day, and Challa is one of those special pairings, isn't it? And yeah, they are a bit like Percabeth. And OMG, did you love the Hidden Oracle as much as I did? It was incredible, and since I'm a major Leo fan, the ending was kinda cool too. Anyway, you won't have to wait too long for Kaz and Dani's relationship to hit it off. I'm certainly not going to draw it out the way I did with Challa. Not that I regret doing so with them – it worked well for those types of characters, but probably wouldn't for characters as impulsive as Kaz and Dani. I'm glad you're a fan of Alivia too. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the chapter.
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Kihonne: Anyway, on with the chapter!
Oliver: Kihonne doesn't own Mighty Med. She only owns Dani, Alivia, and anything else you don't recognize.
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Dani's POV
"Alright, Clone Master, it looks like that fracture is healing up quite nicely." I sent a smile at the older superhero before glancing down at his chart. I quickly wrote some things down on a slip of paper. "You're free to go, but remember to pick up these painkillers before you sign out."
"Thank you, Dani." He replied, accepting the prescription paper with the hand that wasn't encased in a plaster cast. I nodded.
"I'll tell Gem you're leaving." I offered, heading off to find my best friend. I found her, Kaz, and Ollie looking at my brother's phone, video-chatting with Jordan. "Hey Jordan."
"Hey Dani." Our friend greeted before getting back to the conversation she'd been having with the others. "So, are you guys coming to the Gargoyles and Goblets tournament at the Domain tonight? Anyone who's no one is going to be there."
"Oh, is that Jordan?" Skylar asked, walking up behind us with a grin. "Hey Jordan!"
"Oh, is that Connie?" Jordan asked in false-enthusiasm before hanging up the call. Skylar looked a little hurt.
"I'm sure I'm just imagining it, but sometimes I get the feeling that Jordan doesn't like me." She mentioned.
"Don't be silly." Kaz told her. "You're not imagining it; she can't stand you."
"It's true." I agreed before turning to Alivia. "Clone Master's checking out, by the way."
"Oh, thanks." Alivia nodded before heading off to go see her father.
"How can she not like me?" Skylar demanded, stunned.
"Don't take it personally, Skylar. Jordan doesn't like anyone." Ollie assured her, trying to help. "She's throwing a 'sour sixteen party'. Nobody is invited."
"But everyone has to like me!" Skylar insisted as we went over the charts of another hero. "I'm Skylar Storm! I was adored by millions! So I swear, by the sacred rings of Caldera, I shall not rest until Jordan is, like, totally my BFF!"
And with a determined look on her face, Skylar waltzed out of the hospital, heading for the Domain. "Well, that's going to go well." I commented sarcastically.
Suddenly, all of our phones beeped at the same time, letting us know that we could leave. "Finally." Ollie muttered, exhausted. "I can't wait to go home and sleep until Monday. I don't know how I let you guys talk me into watching the entire Marvel series marathon last night."
"Oh, please." I rolled my eyes. "You loved it as much as we did."
"Kids." Horace walked over to us. "I need you to work the night shift, which means you won't sleep 'till Monday."
"But Horace, we're exhausted." I protested.
"And what are we supposed to tell our parents?" Ollie added. "Dani and I can't exactly tell our mom that we work here."
"Just tell her that you guys are sleeping at my house." Kaz suggested. Horace nodded.
"Oh, I get it. Then you'll tell your parents that you're sleeping at Oliver and Dani's house." He guessed.
"Don't have to – my parents have eleven kids. They won't even notice I'm gone." Kaz replied, shrugging.
"Alright then." Horace went to leave, then turned back to us. "Oh, and one more thing; you may have heard that the night shift can be a bit scary, but you'll be fine." He assured us. "Unless a once in a lifetime lunar eclipse causes the most horrifying night ever. But what are the odds tonight?"
"Hey, are you guys excited for the lunar eclipse tonight?" Alivia asked, walking up to us. We looked at her, then at Horace.
"Apparently, 99 out of 100." The man informed us before walking away to deal with another patient.
Kaz's POV
Bored. I was bored. I was very, very bored, but no one seemed to care.
I spun around on top of one of those twistable stools, trying to entertain myself. There were hardly any patients, and none that needed medical attention at that moment. Oliver was going through some old files, Dani was copying some of her brother's homework, and Alivia was busy texting Jaime.
"Ugh, nothing's happening!" I complained loudly, hoping for some attention. "Who thought a lunar eclipse could be so boring? How long have we been here?"
"Six minutes." All three of them answered simultaneously, not a single one of them looking up from what they were doing. I sighed and walked over to Dani.
"Do something with me." I requested.
"Can't, busy. Need to pass math." She replied, glancing back at Oliver's notebook before writing in her own. "Ollie, you need better handwriting."
"You need to start doing your own work." Her brother shot back.
"Why?" She questioned, confused. "We're twins; we share everything. And that includes homework."
Before Oliver could argue with her, the doors to the ER swung open, and an older superhero walked in. He was an older hero, with greying hair and a familiar dark brown uniform with shiny sleeves. I recognized him immediately as Neocortex, a hero with telepathic abilities. Oliver, Dani, and I had met him a few weeks ago, while treating him. As usual, things had gone a little crazy for a time, but even after we got everything settled, I still got the feeling that he didn't like us very much.
"Hey, Neocrotex." Oliver smiled, walking up to the man. "We haven't seen you since that time we almost turned your brain into a nuclear bomb."
"What's wrong?" Dani interrupted Oliver before he could remind Neocortex even further about our past mistakes.
"Whenever I try to read someone's mind, they fall into a daydream-like state." He admitted. "But I was hoping to talk to Doctor ANYONE BUT YOU."
"Yeah, it's his night off." I informed him. "And it's pronounce Aniwon Butchoo."
He rolled his eyes at that, apparently not caring. "Well, you're in luck. We just got a device that allows us to create a mind-link that will allow us to see into a patient's mind and diagnose their medical mysteries."
"Why don't you let me show you what's been happening." Neocortex insisted, obviously impatient. Oliver stepped away before he could try.
"Don't try it on me! What if you fry my brain?" He demanded. "Try it on someone who serves no function."
"I serve no function. What do you need?" Philip, the large-headed nurse, offered, walking up to us in hopes of being useful.
"Just put this on." Dani told him, handing him one of the three metal helmets designed to create mind-link. I took another one off the table and put it on my own head, adjusting the size easily. "We just to see if this will let us see what's going on inside that head of yours."
"Okay," he slipped on the metal helmet, "but don't make fun of my head. We all know it's embarrassingly tiny."
Neocortex looked Philip in the eye, using his abilities, just as Oliver hit a button on a remote. Suddenly, my vision changed completely, a sharp image of Philip, dressed in a tuxedo, accepting a golden trophy for having the biggest head in the universe. I could hear applause coming from somewhere I couldn't see as Philip thanked them. "You like my head, you really, really like my head." He cried joyfully.
Then the image disappeared, and I was back in Mighty Med. Philip pulled off the helmet with a disappointed look on his face. "It was only a daydream?" He demanded. "How could a head so small be filled with dreams so big?"
"Thanks Philip." Dani took the helmet from him and he walked away, thinking hard about his daydream. I grinned as I handed my helmet over to her.
"That was cool." I grinned at her before turning to Neocortex. "You're causing people to get lost in their greatest fantasies. Using this thing is like reading Oliver's diary, only interesting."
"I need to figure out how to cure Neocortex." Oliver muttered, thinking. "And, also, how to work that tiny lock on my diary."
"What? Don't fix him!" I protested. "We finally have something fun to do!"
I looked around for a target, and saw Lizardman walking through the hall. "Oh, do Lizardman! I bet his fantasy is Godzilla, but, like, a really hot Godzilla in a bikini!"
Lizardman stopped to consider that, nodding happily at the thought after a moment.
Dani's POV
"So these things work like three ways?" Kaz questioned, looking at the third helmet. I nodded.
"Horace got an extra so that we could have two doctors working on the patient, since it's better to have a second opinion." I replied, placing one on my head. "The two of them with black dot on the back are for viewing what's going on inside someone's head, and the one with the red dot on the back is to be placed on the head of the person we want to see inside the head of."
"Like Oliver." Kaz added, grinning. I glanced at my brother, who was speaking to Neocortex.
"Definitely." I agreed, handing him the two remaining helmets. He put the correct one on his head, then began to sneak up on Ollie. I walked slowly behind him, not wanting to give ourselves away.
"During your battle with the Re-Atomizer, you must have scrambled the neural-connections in your brain." He was saying, writing some notes down on the hero's chart. Kaz slowly lowered the helmet on to my brother's head.
"Put him in a trance!" Kaz hissed, but Ollie ducked out from under the helmet before giving Kaz a look.
"You are really bad at whispering." He informed him before going back to his patient. Kaz nodded.
"I know!" He agreed in the same loud-whisper tone. I rolled my eyes and looked around to see if there was anyone else we could use this on. As far as I could see, there were only a couple of nurses working, Alley Cat, who was fast asleep in a bed, and Alivia, who was playing games on her phone.
"Okay, question: if you were just going to play on your phone all-night, why'd you insist on staying up with us?" I asked, walking over to the Irish girl. She shrugged.
"Well, usually I go visit Jaime on weekends, but she's helping the police with a bank robber, so I doubt there'd be time to do anything together, and sitting here is better than sitting at home doing nothing."
"Fair enough." I agreed. I was about to ask her what game she was playing when a wave of blue-ish green energy floated across the room, covering us in a sort of mist. "What was that?"
"Uh, that was me." Neocortex raised his hand as the mist evaporated. I yawned, suddenly feeling a bit worn down. Alivia followed suit. "I farted, and then that happened."
Soon, everyone in the room was stifling yawns. "Your phsycic burst must have raised everyone's melatonin levels." Ollie decided.
"Meaning?" Kaz questioned, yawning.
"We're all getting drowsy." Ollie explained. "We need to find a way to cure Neocortex before he gets worse."
"Let's not rush to cure anybody." Kaz retorted. "Who are we to say who lives and who gets their privacy invaded for my amusement?"
"And-" I was about to add something to his comment, but was interrupted by Neocortex.
"What's wrong with Alley Cat?" He demanded, concern lacing his tone. Looking over, I could see the female cat-themed superhero twitching in her sleep, tossing and turning relentlessly. I got out of my chair, heading towards her, but Kaz got to her before anyone else could, slipping the mind link helmets onto both of them. After a moment, he let out a relieved breath.
"She's just having a nightmare. Instead of jumping from building to building and landing on her feet like she's used to, she's falling into a bottomless pit. It's a very calm and harmless-AHHH!" He suddenly screamed, a horrified look on his face as Alley Cat went limp. "Okay, that bottomless pit? Turns out it had a bottom."
Suddenly, the machines attached to Alley Cat started beeping, then a long, high-pitched sound came from, signaling that she had no heart-beat. Ollie grabbed her wrist as Kaz removed his helmet. "She has no brain-activity." I announced, looking at the machines.
"And no pulse." My brother added, eyes wide. "That means she's-"
"Dead." We turned to see Horace standing a few feet behind us, plugging his cell phone into a charger. "I forgot my phone charger here, and now my cell is dead. What's going on?"
"Neocortex's powers are malfunctioning and now Alleycat is dead." My brother worried. Kaz and I both sighed, knowing that he'd have forgotten one of the best things about the hero. As we expected, seconds after Ollie announced her passing, Alley Cat shot straight up, breathing heavy and looking around in confusion as her vitals returned to normal.
"Uh, was dead." I corrected.
"Fortunately, one of her powers is that she has nine lives." Kaz explained, gently lowering her back into the bed. "So, she's got eight lives left."
And as luck would have it, a ceiling light chose that moment to fall onto the woman, killing her instantly.
"Seven lives left." I corrected, pushing the light off her just as she came back to life once more.
"So instead of putting people into fantasies, now you're putting people into nightmares?" Ollie questioned Neocortex incredulously.
"And when Alley Cat died in her nightmare, she did in real life too." Kaz added. "Is the same thing going to happen to everyone exposed to your powers that falls asleep?"
"That sounds about right." Neocortex agreed.
"Well, this is great." I commented sarcastically. "We need to find a way to cure Neocortex."
"I've been saying that all night!" Ollie exclaimed. I looked at him, frowning.
"Have you? I didn't notice." I shrugged.
"We will find a way to cure him, but until we do, we have to make sure no one here falls asleep." Horace decided. Seconds later, a lullaby-like melody started playing, the tune making us all a little drowsier.
"Whoops." Horace pressed a button on his cell phone, shutting off the music. 'Given the circumstances, that was an unfortunate choice of ringtones."
"Agreed." I nodded. Horace put away his phone, then rushed to wake up Alley Cat.
"We need to keep everyone awake!" He instructed. Kaz immediately ran to the other side of the room, pulling a few heroes off nearby beds. I started going to each of the nurses, checking to make sure they weren't dozing off. Then, I had an idea.
"Hey, Liv. Wanna help?" I turned to the redhead. She nodded, getting up from her seat. "There's a coffee maker in the staff room, and about twenty people here."
"Good idea." She nodded before heading off to start brewing some coffee. I personally wasn't a fan of the drink, but it seemed like a good idea right about now. I walked over to Horace, informing him of the plan, just as Ollie's phone began to beep.
"Crap, it's Mom." He announced. "She's calling me on video chat."
"What's going on?" Kaz asked, coming over to where we were standing.
"Our mom is calling me on video chat." I explained, annoyed. Perfect timing, Mom. As usual.
"We can't ignore it, or she'll get worried and show up at your house, but if I answer it, she'll see that we're here instead." Ollie worried. "We never should have lied to her."
"Don't worry; I planned for this." Kaz reassured us. We looked at him, surprised. What did he have planned? "Commence Operation I Planned for This. Follow me!"
He led us into the rec room, where he had set up a mini-version of his room. There was a twin bed with a large mattress next to it, clothing strewn all over the floor and the bed. There were two sets of pillows and blankets on the mattress next to the bed, obviously trying to make it look like Ollie and I had doubled-up. It looked pretty good, I had to admit, but there was something off about it.
"My mom is never going to believe that this is your room." Ollie stated, looking at it. He looked around, then grabbed a nearby garbage can and dumped its contents onto the end of Kaz's bed. "Okay, now she'll believe it."
"Pretend like you're asleep." I told Kaz before hitting the light switch. Kaz leapt into the bed, grabbing a pillow and shoving it under his head while Ollie and I climbed onto the mattress. We each placed an earbud into our ears, then Ollie answered the call, making sure to keep the camera focused on us.
"Hey Mom." Ollie faked a yawn and I rubbed at my eyes. "You woke us up."
Mom smiled at us from what appeared to be her office. "I just wanted to check in."
"We can't really talk right now." I told her. "Kaz is sleeping."
Kaz let out a convincing snore to prove our point. Mom nodded, completely buying our story. "Alright. Goodnight."
"Good night." Ollie and I said in unison. Ollie hung up and we both jumped off the mattress, relieved and surprised that Kaz's plan actually worked. "Okay, Kaz. She bought it."
We went to leave, but Kaz was still lying in the bed, making those snoring noises. "Stop fooling around, man." Ollie sighed. I shook Kaz's leg.
"C'mon." I insisted, but he didn't move. Ollie and I stopped, watching him, and soon it became clear that he really was fast asleep. "Kaz, wake up!" I insisted, shoving him rougher. But he didn't move. "Kaz! Ollie!"
"He's really sleeping." My brother said in horror, before shaking Kaz. "Kaz, you have to wake up or you'll die! Kaz!"
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"Horace!" I shouted, racing into the ER. Ollie was right behind me, pushing the cart we'd managed to get Kaz onto. Our best friend was still out like a light, curled up in a ball on top of the medical cart. "Kaz fell asleep!"
"Here." Alivia offered, helping Ollie lie him down on one of the gurneys.
"Is there any way we could use the mind link devices so we could help him before his nightmare destroys him?" I questioned hopefully. Horace shook his head grimly.
"The lunar eclipse has caused all of our technology to malfunction." He explained. "Even our most important piece of technology; my electric toothbrush. I haven't brushed in over an hour!"
"Well there's got to be some way to help him!" I insisted.
"Neocortex!" My brother pushed past me. "You can project your consciousness into other people's minds, and you can read our minds. Do you think you can combine those powers and project our consciousnesses into Kaz's dream?"
The hero hesitated. "My powers are pretty messed up right now, but I can try. What's the worst that can happen?"
"Oliver and Dani's heads could explode?" Horace guessed. Ollie and I stared at him in horror. Explode?
"Yes, of course, but I meant what's the worst that can happen to me?" Neocortex explained. I took a deep breath and looked at my twin brother.
"We have to. It's Kaz." I murmured. Ollie nodded and looked at Horace, a determined look on his face.
"We can't lose our best friend." He told our boss. "We're just going to have to take that chance."
"C'mon." I climbed up onto a bed to the right of Kaz's, while Ollie laid down on the one on his left.
"Wait, Dani, Oliver, before you do this, in case anything goes horribly wrong…" He looked at us, then grabbed a stack of newspapers from under the counter. "I want to put down these newspapers. I just waxed this floor."
"Just send us in before he says anything else." Oliver requested. Neocortex looked at us.
"You guys care who goes first?" He questioned. We shook our heads, and he motioned for me to lie down. I did so, and closed my eyes. I felt him put his hand on the top of my head, and slowly, but surely, my consciousness faded.
Kaz's POV
I always hated taking tests. I was never good at them. Even if I did study, usually with Oliver's help, my mind would blank the moment the paper would be placed in front of me. But what made this even worse was the empty classroom and the teacher that was prowling around me, waiting for me to screw up or circle the wrong multiple choice.
I looked up briefly from the paper, disheartened that I had no idea what was on it, and glanced at the teacher. Suddenly, the woman changed and grew, becoming Megahertz, Tecton's greatest enemy. I stood up in shock, just as two very surprised screams came from behind me. I whipped around to see Dani and Oliver standing just a few feet behind me, stunned.
"What are you guys doing here?" I demanded.
"Oh, you know, just hanging out." Dani laughed nervously, looking at Megahertz. The supervillain laughed menacingly.
"Class is in session!" He announced. "Today's lesson: electricity."
Megahertz raised his hands and red electricity flew from his fingers. The electricity hit the desks and the other furniture in the room, making them disappear. Even the wall decorations vanished. The only things left in the room were Megahertz, Dani, Oliver, and myself. I looked back at my friends, shocked that Megahertz hadn't hurt us with his electricity.
Megahertz then raised his hands, electricity flowing between them. "Kaz, quick! Think of Megahertz inside a cage!" Oliver shouted.
"What, why?" I demanded, daring to look back at them for one more brief second before turning my gaze back on Megahertz. He was powering up his charge, clearly planning to finish us off.
"Just do it!" Dani insisted. I gave into their pleas, thinking hard about that electric cage we'd once rescued Oliver from, and imagining it around Megahertz. To my genuine surprise, said cage appeared, growing up from the ground and encasing Megahertz in it. Deciding not to question it right then, I raced out of the room and into my school's lobby, Dani and Oliver following right behind.
"How did that happen and what is going on?" I demanded, panicking. I glanced down at my hand, shocked to see that it had turned into a fish. "And why is my hand a rainbow trout?"
I shook my hand in hopes that the fish would disappear. Soon, the fish was replaced by my hand, fingers and all. "Kaz, calm down." Dani told me. "The good news is; this is only a nightmare. None of it's real."
"The bad news, though, is if you die in this nightmare, you'll die in real life." Oliver added.
"What?" I don't know if they were trying to be reassuring, but they certainly we're doing a very good job of it.
"Kaz, this is your dream. You have the power to do anything you think you can do." Dani told me, an unusually serious look on her face. "You just have to focus."
"I can?" I breathed, thinking it over. I nodded, getting an idea. "I know what I have to do."
I closed my eyes and created a clear image in my head. After a moment, I heard Oliver's exasperated sigh. "What is that going to do?"
I opened my eyes and looked down at my clothes, which had been covered with a long, cool, black coat. "It always helps to have a cool coat." I told him, adjusting the collar. Dani rolled her eyes at me, then froze when we heard Megahertz escape from his cage.
"Kaz, quick! Get in the locker!" Dani told me. She and Oliver disappeared then, not giving me the chance to argue. I did as they said, climbing into the locker and closing the door behind me. Almost immediately, another locker door appeared in front of me. I stepped through it, finding myself at another part of the hallway. I shut the door behind me, then heard another locker slam shut behind me. I spun around and to my horror, saw Megahertz storming towards me, a furious look on his face.
He created a ball of electricity in his hands and threw it directly at me. I instinctively leapt into the air, my jump so powerful I flew several feet up, and managed to do a backflip before landing gracefully on my feet. I grinned as adrenaline pumped through my veins, surprised that it actually worked.
Megahertz continued to throw balls of electricity at me, but I jumped into the air, hit the wall, and ran across the lockers, dodging each and every attack. I pushed myself off the lockers, going through the air. My foot hit Megahertz in the back of the head, knocking him forwards a step and giving me the extra boost I needed to land on the stairs.
I went to race up the stairs, but Megahertz stopped me by shooting a ball of electricity a foot in front of me. He then created an axe out of the electricity and threw it at my chest. I did another backflip into the air to avoid it, but Megahertz had been expecting it. He used his electricity to catch me mid-air. He held me there, the electricity sending stabs of pain throughout my entire body.
"Dani! Oliver!" I called, hoping my friends would come to my rescue. "He's too powerful! Help me!"
"We can't." Oliver and Dani appeared on the stairs near me, pained expressions on both of their faces. "We're not really here."
And just like that, they were gone. "You're right. I have to rely on myself."
Then, I had an idea. I had to rely on myself, so I would create a second me. My duplicate stood near the stairs, admiring his outfit. "Dude!" I called when he made no movement to help me out. "I could use a hand here."
"Right." My duplicate nodded. "You got it, Kaz."
He looked at Megahertz, who was too busy focusing on me to notice the other me, then my duplicate teleported beside him, and kicked one of the lockers with all his might. His kicked pushed that part of the lockers backwards, and the other end slid forwards, knocking Megahertz into a nearby wall. Then my duplicate used his powers – because if I can do anything, I am totally giving myself superpowers – to psychically push another wall into Megahertz, flattening the villain between the two walls.
The force of the blow managed to weaken Megahertz long enough for me to escape his electric grasp, and I landed on the ground in the middle of the room. My duplicate raced back over to me, grinning. Just then, Megahertz pushed away the second wall, and turned to face us. He raised his hands, which had mysteriously turned into rocket launchers, and launched two rockets, one targeting each of us.
My duplicate and I merely raised our hands, stopping the rockets a few feet away from our faces without breaking a sweat. Megahertz froze, surprised that we were able to do that. I looked at my duplicate and we exchanged grins before sending the rockets straight back at him. He didn't get the change to mount any type of defense, and the rockets hit him dead on, destroying him in an explosion of blue lightning and smoke.
I looked at my duplicate, smirking. "That," I said.
"Was," He said.
"AWESOME!" I exclaimed, as my dream disappeared and I found myself sitting in a hospital bed at Mighty Med. Dani and Oliver were on beds on either side of me, slowing getting up.
"Kaz is alive!" Horace beamed as we all climbed out of our beds. "Well done!"
I turned to Dani and Oliver and gave them each a hug. "Thanks for saving me, guys."
"We got each other's backs, right?" Dani smiled at me, her hand on my arm. Oliver nodded.
"We'd do it again. Just say the word." He promised. I frowned, having always found that expression confusing.
"What word?" I questioned. Oliver and Dani both thought about it.
"I don't know. Help, I guess?" Oliver shrugged.
"Before we start celebrating, we have a problem." Neocortex told us. "Everyone's asleep."
We looked around, horrified to realize he was right. Everyone in the room was fast asleep. Even Alivia was down for the count, her face buried in her arms as a tray of coffees went cold beside her.
"Sorry. My party horn broke and this shoe horn makes no noise whatsoever." Horace tried blowing on a black shoehorn. "See?"
"We have to go into their nightmares and save them!" I insisted.
"There's not enough time." Dani said in a distraught voice.
"There's nothing we can do but hope for a miracle." Oliver told us.
"Miracle? For what?" Alivia raised her head drowsily, her mask askew on her face. To our surprise, the other staff members and patients in the room began to awaken, yawning tiredly.
"That was easy." Oliver commented. Dani nodded.
"The lunar eclipse must have ended." She decided. Neocortex looked around.
"The lunar eclipse must have been what was messing with my powers, because I can read minds again." He turned on me to test it. After a moment of focusing, he gave me a look. "You're bored again, aren't you?"
"So bored!" I agreed. "Nothing cool has happened in, like, twenty seconds!"
"C'mon. Let's go see if we can find something to do until our shift is over." Dani sighed, grabbing me by the arm and dragging me away from the main part of the ER. I glanced at my watch, and to my surprise, I realized that we were only a few hours into our 12-hour night shift. I grinned; if that much excitement had happened in only three hours, who knew what kind of fun we could get into during the rest the rest of the night?
Kihonne: Alright, what did you guys think? You know that I love reviews, and the more reviews I get, the more of a chance there will be of an early update. Anyway, here's the schedule for the next few updates:
August 22nd – Mighty Mad
August 29th – Copy Kaz
September 5th – Free Wifi
Anyway, let me know what you thought of the chapter, and I will see you next week!