I'm not sure why this chapter ended up the way it did. I hope you enjoy anyhow :)
Have you ever had one of those days where you're suddenly glad that you don't have any biological parents?
That was the kinda day Six was having.
Six awoke to find himself in a place that was not his room but had become all too familiar. He didn't need to to look around to be able to tell you everything about the room, he had been stuck there for about a week now. But he was feeling optimistic about getting out today.
Or that's what he was trying to convince himself.
Van Kleiss had captured him last Friday on the 1st, it was now the 10th and Sunday, and Six had no luck escaping yet (clearly). Though he had been close, for example on the first day while playing poker with The Pack he had aggravated Biowulf into attacking him. A seemingly stupid decision seeing as he was tied up and had no means of defense, but his claws went straight through the chains.
Enter Breach. It isn't too hard to imagine that running away is not too easy when there is a girl who can just create a portal and LOOK AT THAT you're right back where you started. Not to mention that Breach then took it upon herself to hold his cards for him, which while being nice because he had been straining himself to see his cards before, now his view of the mirror behind Biowulf.
Which wasn't terrible but figuring out what a large metal Evo wolf's 'tell' is could not be considered an easy task. Looking in the reflection at his cards was much more simple. Eventually Skalamander had joined the game too, followed a couple of hours later by Van Kleiss himself.
The game was enjoyable, not that he would admit that to anyone. But he learned things too, with Circe you could tell how good her hand was by how she sat, slouching slightly when she had nothing. After a while he had figured out everyones tell. He wasn't sure how much help that would be but surely he'd be able to use it at some time.
Or perhaps not.
The next attempt had been better... or worse depending on how you look at it. It wasn't terribly long into his captivity until it was decided that Six did in fact need food. They however made the mistake of giving him a butter knife. It wasn't more than a few minutes until he was out again.
And then back chained up.
Had he mentioned how inconvenient Breach was? Never mind getting Circe on their side Rex should start working on Breach. After that Six wasn't allowed knives. He then proceeded to try the same thing except with a fork. Failure.
Not long after with a spoon as well.
After several failed attempts all Six ended up with was Pack members having too feed him because he had lost his 'utensil privileges' as Van Kleiss had put it. After a few silverware-less plots Six still ended up stuck, waiting for Providence to hopefully come and find him.
From above Six could hear someone knock on what he assumed was the front door. There was a long pause before the door opened, and people began talking, though Six couldn't hear what they where saying. He could only hope that this was his ticket out of here.
Van Kleiss was unamused with the world. Nothing good was coming from his current situation. First off his entire 'trade Six for Rex' ploy was a total failure, mainly because there was no way for White to contact Van Kleiss. It was one way and if he called back it make him look weak.
Some times being evil was a pain in the ass.
And then because the Agent couldn't not try to escape Van Kleiss had to stay in this hide out instead of in Abysus. That could be worse, he no longer needed the soil to stay alive and retain his powers... He just liked his castle. It was his headquarters after all.
But really those problems where minimal. He could get through that without a problem and be ready to rule the world like it was nothing. The issue that Van Kleiss was concentrated on was completely unrelated to his current plots. No it was the date that was causing his current... nervousness?
No that wasn't the right word, he was an evil mastermind he didn't get nervous. Perhaps paranoid was a better description... All words aside Van Kleiss was not looking forward to the day. This... It had to be what he considered as the worst day of the year.
Because she, no matter where in the world he was, no matter what kind of security or extra precautions he took, always found him. It was like he had been tagged and she simply needed to look at some map and know where he was. How such feats where even possible? Providence couldn't track him but she... She could.
There was no doubt it the villain's mind that she would arrive within the hour, ready to make his life miserable. She would come in and say things that if any other person said he would kill them for it. But it didn't work that way in this case, although he wished that it did.
Out of nowhere came a knock on the door, causing the Evo leader jump slightly. Van Kleiss stared at the door in silence, hoping that he had imagined it, but unfortunately for him a moment later a second knock could be heard. Biowulf, who had been standing near by and watching his the man pace, walked towards the door looking (quite awkwardly) out the peep hole before turning back.
"Master-"
"Providence?" He was actually hoping that it was. Anything but...
"No, it's an elderly woman." That. Moving quickly to the door he saw that, much to his horror, it was her. He closed his eyes for a long moment before opening the door, trying to put on the most casual expression possible.
"Mother!" Van Kleiss tried to sound excited to see her. He failed. "What are you doing here?"
"Alexie! It's so nice to see you! You know what day it is don't you?" Van Kleiss frowned. Why parents felt the need to use such demeaning nicknames was beyond him. Being referred to as 'Alexie' was so far below him it was ridiculous. Even 'Alex was below him, if the villain was going to be called by his first name at all (not that he would let anyone do so) he would like his name to be said in full as Alexander.
"April 10th." His mother walked into the mostly gray room examining the beautiful concrete walls.
"Yes, Mothers Day." The evil genius sighed to himself, hoping that not acknowledging importance of that date would throw his mother off. She turned back to him.
"Are you going to get my bags?" He didn't notice the suitcases in the doorway until then. How long was she planning to stay? "I love how you've redecorated since last time!" Van Kleiss stared at his mother for a moment. There was no doubt about the fact that she was old, and in being old she had become... a little confused. He was pretty sure that she had no idea about the nanite event.
"How long will you be staying mother?" There was no answer she was too busy staring at the corner where Biowulf stood.
"You didn't tell me that you bought a dog!" Biowulf was fidgeting slightly not quite understanding that Mrs. Van Kleiss thought he was a normal pet. "What's his name?"
"Biowulf." The evil mastermind signaled the Evo too keep his mouth shut and play a long. Well somewhat, there isn't exactly a hand motion for that.
"What a strange name... Does he know any tricks?"
"You could say that."
"Sit." Biowulf looked nervously between the elderly woman and his boss, not sure what to do. Van Kleiss gave him a curt nod and the metallic Evo sat. His mother proceed to pet Biowulf's head. "What a good puppy."
"Mother why don't I show your room." The two walked off further into the lair leaving Biowulf to run off to find somewhere to hide.
The last week had been unpleasant for Rex and Dr. Holiday to say the very least. Words could not describe how guilty they felt upon learning that Six had actually been kidnapped. Really they hadn't suspected that there was any truth behind what White had said, it had been April Fools Day after all.
The guilt didn't go away nonetheless. It hadn't helped that they for the life of them couldn't find where Six was being held. There was absolutely no way to tell where they had been. This was especially true when you took into account that using Breaches powers the hideout could literally be ANYWHERE.
Well anywhere but Abysus, that was the first place that they had checked. And upon not finding their Agent there Rex proceeded to leave the castle in what could be considered significantly worse condition than when they found it. While Rex had been proud of his handy work it hadn't gotten them any closer to their goal.
Not being able to contact Van Kleiss back was inconvenient too. It's not like a good plan could be formed and a counter attack. What exactly were they expected to do? Having their agents keeping an eye out for The Pack was the best they could do at the moment. Well that was true until something caught Dr. Holiday's eye.
"Edward." Rex looked up from where he sat to stare at the Doctor.
"Edward? What about him?"
"He's awake."
"Why wouldn't he be?" There was a clear expression of excitement on Holiday's face, but Rex didn't quite get where she was going with this.
"Edward has been hibernating, but he's not anymore!"
"And...?"
"And we can use him to find Six!"
"He can do that?"
"That's how I found you and Noah after your 4th of July fiasco!"
"Lets go then!" The screen to the left of where they stood came on there will be no explanation to who exactly was on the screen. If you can't guess by now you clearly haven't been paying attention.
"Where do you two think you're going?"
"To get ice cream." White raised an eyebrow at the two.
"Is that so?"
"No. We're going to get Six."
"And how exactly do you expect to do that?"
"We wer-" There was a large crash coming from the far side of the Petting Zoo followed by an alarm. Dr Holiday turned quickly from the conversation to the nearest computer. Her face paled. "There's a breach in the northern wall." Rex moved over to the window looking to the problem in question.
"Oh no."
"What?"
"Edward. He just left."
"You've got to be kidding me."
Is that a paper clip?
Six stared intently at the silver item on the floor to his right. Between having his sunglasses on and it being almost behind him he hadn't noticed it before. He squinted trying to make sure that he was seeing what he though he was (which was hard the sliver of the item was very closely colored to the silver-gray of the floor) but he was pretty sure.
He slid down where he was sitting as much as possible in the hope of having a long enough portion of his arm to reach his key to freedom. However the problem Six had was that his right arm, the one that he needed to use, was also the one that had been broken when he was captured.
Which didn't discourage the all too determined Agent but it made the endeavor far more painful than he would have liked. Just as he managed to grab the paper clip the door slammed open and enter Biowulf. Quickly Six sat up, hiding the item from sight. The Evo moved quickly to the far corner of the room and sat down next to some of the crates, making is so if anyone were to enter the room they would not see him.
Through the open door came whistling followed closely with the calls of what sounded like an elderly woman. Because that totally made sense. Six contemplated if he had been knocked out and was now having some crazy pain induced dream. It seemed real enough... Other than the total lack of logic. But surely enough enter stereotypical old woman.
"Here Biowulf! Here boy!" Biowulf visibly filched and withdrew farther into the shadows. The woman looked to where he was. "Hello there!"
"...Hm." Six gave a nod to the woman, not wanting to say anything until he had some idea of what the hell was going on.
"I'm Christie Van Kleiss, and you are?" She extended her hand to him expecting for him to shake it. Which he clearly couldn't... Perhaps her vision wasn't as good as it used to be.
"Six." Her expression darkened.
"You know it's rude to not shake a person's hand when you meet them." Six opened his mouth to say something but didn't get a chance before the tirade started, "You know you damn American gangsters out selling drugs and you never learned any manners because you're all little bastard children with parents who don't know what the hell they're doing! Back when I was your age if we acted like you we would get beaten. Not to mention that all you damn foren-!"
"Mother." Six had never been so glad to see Van Kleiss. At the moment Six still had no idea what was going on and what exactly made him a gangster. Where did that even come from?
"This man has never been taught any manners!" Van Kleiss smirked slightly.
"He's terrible isn't he?"
"People like him! People like him should be shot!" Six flinched a little, he prayed that the villainous Evo would not take his mothers advice.
"Yes Mother but I'm afraid that's illegal now a days." There was something terribly amusing about that statement, he couldn't tell if it was just the villain not wanting to do something because it was illegal or the fact that he was talking to his mother. Entertaining nonetheless. "How about we go back upstairs?"
"Fine." She sighed and looked sternly at her son. "But you have to kill that spider."
"I'm afraid that's out of the question, but I can send it down here."
"Aww Alexie still likes to collect his little buggies!" Van Kleiss' expression darkened and he escorted his mother out of the room as fast as possible. Biowulf peeked out of the shadows when he was sure that they were gone. Suddenly that made a lot more sense. Six smirked a little to himself, if this wasn't black mail he didn't know what was.
It wasn't long after the two had exited the room before Breach showed up. Upon evaluation Six could only guess that she was probably the 'spider' that the clearly senile woman had been referring too. He only wished that he could enjoy this entire scene from a safe distance, far away and not tied up.
In this moment the green clad agent remembered that he was in possession of a way out of there. If only he wasn't being watched by two of Van Kleiss' agents. He sighed, he was never getting out of here at this rate.
Fresh air was nice. The shiny rock was gone and everything smelled of life and food. But this was no time to enjoy such things, there was a purpose to this freedom.
It was the rabbit that let her out. The one loyal to the red skinned man. But he seemed to think it was the green skinned man. He had a name for him. She didn't remember it, red skinned man would do fine.
They had to find him. The kind woman said he was gone. Rabbit wanted him back. She wanted the kind woman to be happy. The two were related as far as she could tell. He came to her and asked for help. Anything to help.
The rock outside her usual tomb was not as strong, she knew how to claw through it. A simple movement, and suddenly there was nothing else to do but follow the hopping one. A good nose that one had. Could smell blood from far.
The kind woman and the one who crated shiny metal followed. They where faster but they continued behind. They wanted the red skinned man back too. Or to put them away again. She didn't want to go back.
Rabbit wont go back. Not without his master.
They'd find him.
There are many sounds that Van Kleiss would consider unpleasant. Many of these he shares with the common man; the sound of breaking bones, nails on a chalkboard, his senile mothers voice, but this... This was a new one.
The evil mastermind had been sitting and trying his best to drown out his mothers story about back in the old days (as if hearing them a thousand times as a child was bad enough). She would ramble on occasionally switch from English back to German, her native tongue. He was fairly proud of her English, it was as good as anyone but she from time to time would just forget what language she was speaking.
But that was unimportant. What was really bothering Van Kleiss was the non dialect sound he was hearing. It almost sounded like someone was dumping heavy boxes out of a moving truck, but not quite. No it was getting consistently louder accompanied by a scraping sound.
No matter what was making the sounds one he was positive of one thing; it was bad news. Standing up quickly Van Kleiss prepared to retreat into the depths of his hidden lair. His mother was not pleased with his sudden choice to leave for it had interrupted her tales from long ago.
"Where do you think you're going?"
"Mother we-"
"Sit back down."
"No, we-"
"Sit." He hesitated glancing towards the door, the noises got ever closer. "It's rude to interrupt someone." It was in that moment when Biowulf entered from downstairs.
"Master-!"
"HUSH." Biowulf froze staring at the elderly woman not wanting to do something to aggravate her.
"What is it Biowulf?" Normally such an interruption would have annoyed the super villain but for now he was just happy to not be listening to his mother.
"Master there's-"
"Put him outside." Van Kleiss stared at his mother in silence. "When your dog whines put him outside. You have to discipline him."
Van Kleiss looked from his mother to Biowulf slowly, trying to think of all his options. He couldn't send Biowulf outside because he would surely be spotted and the secret lair would no longer be a secret. Equally so he couldn't ignore his mother.
It is at this point at which you start to question Van Kleiss' manliness but make no mistake he wasn't keeping his mother happy because he was some kind of 'Mama's Boy'. You see directly after the Event his mother had mutated. She was intact an Evo just like he, except she was totally unaware of the fact.
You see when she lost her temper over something things would... Well combust. It wasn't pleasant for anyone present and despite the fact that it has been going on for years she never seemed to catch on. The key was to keep her happy for the short time that he was in range and then let someone else deal with it.
So now Van Kleiss was left with a difficult decision; ruin his plan or let his mother get angry. Makeing a quick decision he decided he would rather risk the failure if his plan than risk being set on fire. He motioned to Biowulf to head towards the door, which the evil man proceeded to open for him.
At that same moment Van Kleiss was attacked by a giant rabbit, who came bounding through the newly opened door.
A large crash from above caused Six to drop the paperclip that he was attempting to escape with. The small ting of the metal hitting the concrete ground was enough to alert Breach to what he had been doing. She didn't seem amused but turned her attention back to the commotion upstairs.
Six had really hoped that he had a chance of getting out when Biowulf left in such a hurry. If he got up fast enough he could have knocked out Breach and gotten out of there, but now it seemed like that wasn't going to happen.
The noises upstairs seemed promising though. It sounded like a struggle perhaps Providence was there? He didn't get his hopes up. The crashes above got loader as it sounded like more people had arrived, this time he could here talking where last time he could not. Breach stood there not moving to go help her colleges.
"Isn't this about the point when you appear out of no where to save Van Kleiss." She turned and stared at him for a moment, her shoulders slupped.
"I was told to stay here." Breach turned and stared at the closed door. Six idly wondered where Skalamader was, he hadn't seen him today. Perhaps Mrs Van Kleiss was fonder of lizards than spiders... Or maybe she mistook him for something different all together (a rock would be feasible enough...).
The roof shook as the fight continued, making Six hope that it wouldn't fall in on him. Breach shifter her weight from foot to another nervously, clearly wanting to go help. It was at this point in which many things happened very quickly, most of which Six could not even attempt to explain.
First all the crates in the room decided to partake in some spontaneous combustion, all of them suddenly catching on fire for no apparent reason. Then enter Van Kleiss followed by none other that Holidays sister who swung her massive claws around catching the side of Van Kleiss' right eye. The Evo leader then shot her backwards by extending his metal arm hitting her against the wall all the way up the stares.
From above Rex could be heard. Van Kleiss look out the doorway motioning for Breach to follow before rushing out of the still burning room, closing the door as they left. Six could hear the fighting continue as the flames got larger and closer to him. The smoke was starting to make is hard too breathe.
Suddenly the door opened letting much of the smoke in the room out but making it impossible to see who it was. The shadowed figure seemed to be looking around before it's sights landing on where he was. "Six?"
"Holiday?" Just as words could not describe how guilty Rex and Holiday felt words could not describe how happy Six was to see her. She moved over to him and worked on trying to unlock him, which was a less than successful endeavor. Moving quickly she stood up took out her gun and shot the padlock. Which was, on a note, way to close for comfort.
"Six are you Ok?" Dr Holiday extended her led hand to help him up, he took it awkwardly with his right hand and stood. She, being no fool, understood that his left arm was injured, hence the lack of use.
"I'll survive." The two left the chamber as quickly as they could. They got upstairs just in time to see Van Kleiss' and The Pack escaping through one of Breach's portals. The building began to shake and everyone exited just before the old building collapsed. Six looked at his rescue party consisting of the Holiday sisters, Rex, and Edward. The standard Providence jet parked nearby.
"You look like hell Six." Rex broke the silence (if you could call it that, the fire behind them was still growing and sirens could he heard in the distance) with a grin. Six appreciated it but at this point he really just wanted them to stop staring at him.
Rex then went to work on ushering the two animalistic Evos onto the jet, so they could head back to headquarters. While not intending to Six fell asleep on the ride back. He had slept as little as possible in captivity and was exhausted. No one minded though.
"Six..." Dr Holiday gently tried wake the sleeping Agent, normally she wouldn't have bothered and would have just had him taken back to his room, but she needed to check out his injuries. "Six.."
"Hm.." Six stretched his legs a little before standing slowly and turning to face the doctor. The two walked in relative silence to the med wing, this late in the day most of the people working there had left leaving the halls empty.
"So where are you hurt?" Six walked over and sat on a near by gurney.
"My arms broken." She put on some gloves and went to examine said arm. It was almost admiral how Six said things as a fact instead of any other way. But the key word was ALMOST for the most but it was just aggravating. But sure enough his arm was very broken.
"I'm going to need to set that. You'll need a cast for a while."
"How long exactly."
"2... 3 months. It depends on how much damage was done." Holiday gave him a small smile "Its ok though you weren't going to be aloud to go anywhere on your own anyways."
"I don't need someone to babysit me." She laughed.
"I think Rex is rubbing off on you." The Agent grew silent. "We were all really worried about you Six."
"...You didn't need to be."
"Why wouldn't we be? You're part of our family." Dr Holiday smiled at Six "Hey there's a bright side to being out of commission for a while." Six raised an eyebrow instead of giving a proper response. "You can always help me out around here."
There was a silence and Holiday couldn't help but wonder if her previous statement had been seen as a good thing or not. But then Six smiled what by normal standards would be considered a very small smile (but it was as good as you got with Six).
"That sounds nice."
I hope you enjoyed and now on the question of the day;
WHAT IS THE WORST TRIP YOU HAVE BEEN ON (IN REFERENCE TO THE TRAVELING PART NOT THE DESTINATION)? Mine was like three days ago, I had a 6 and a half hour flight complete with crying baby, kids kicking the back of my seat, turbulence, the works. Then when we landed our connecting flight was canceled but our luggage went on to our final destination. SOOO NO CLOTHES, TOOTHBRUSHES ECT. Lovely no?
The next chapter will be the last. :(
Anyway... Have a nice day :)