Sorry for the delay. I've been neck deep in family & college problems. GOOD NEWS THOUGH! Thanks to TOPS & Grants & Fafsa, I don't have to pay anything! YAYZ! I gotta buy books out of pocket, but I should get my money back for that later. ^.^

AugustMoon- lol Sorry, didn't mean to confuse you.

I love screwing with chronologic.

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Six's eyes opened wide as he took a sudden intake of air. A sharp pain rolled through his entire body, quickly making him regret the earlier action. His hand met the center of his pain; a wound on his side; while he rolled to his back. Using the other arm, he tried to pick himself up to a sitting position.

With a grunt of pain, his vision focused and his eyes quickly darted down to his feet, where she lay face down against a pool of blood.

The air was suddenly sucked out of the room. "Chris!, he screamed, suddenly next to her, momentarily forgetting his own pain.

"Chris," he mumbled again, carefully rolling her over.

She moaned against the movement and opened her eyes to look up at his relieved, yet still worried, face.

He frantically looked her over, trying to find where all the blood had come from. Spotting the hole in her shirt, he lifted it to see skin, the wound already healed. His eyes fluttered closed as he let out the breath he didn't realize he was holding, his whole body relaxing.

Holiday gave him a wavy smile and muttered, "Are you ok?"

"Am I ok?," he said, looking back to her, "What about you?"

She smiled as she looked him over. "I'm fine, Li," she muttered again, her hand moving to his stomach.

He flinched as the pain enflamed, then quickly disappeared. The wound now healed, she looked back up to him.

He took a few easy breaths and looked down to her smile. Her hand shot up to her mouth as she started to cough.

Six grabbed her shoulders, instantly worried again, "Chris."

She sat up, using his arms as support. "I'm fine," she said again through a scratchy voice, holding her throat, "Just need water, I'll be alright."

Before she could hide it, his hand shot to hers, turning up her palm to see the dried pieces of blood she had coughed up. "Chris-"

"I'm alright," she said, stressing every syllable, "I'm healed now, Li."

His scared eyes searched hers. For the life of him, he just couldn't remember what had happened. So, he tried to start from the beginning.

o0Flashback0o

There were many things that were never a good sign and if there was a red flag around, Agent Six could spot it. Except, this one seemed relatively obvious to everyone. In a high tech facility like Purgatory Base, a facility that was only on a need to know basis, you'd expect everything to work.

Walking down the hallway, his new fiance right behind him, Six glanced to the ceiling just in time to see the lights blink. They both stopped.

He said the first thing that came to his mind, "That's never good."

Being Holiday, she tried to make sense of things. "Maybe it's... umm," she said, her voice drifting off.

"Exactly," he said, turning to her, only to see her turn around to look at the person behind her.

"Rex?," she asked the boy, as he slowly started to walk up to them. "Are you-," before she could finish her sentence all of the lights blew.

The teen brought out his Smack Hand and suddenly knocked Holiday against the wall, hard enough to kill her. The air pushed out of her lungs as everything went black.

Six's katanas appeared in his hands. "Chris!," he screamed, running to them.

Rex switched to the Boogie Pack at the same time, flying down the hall, grabbing Six as he went. Holiday's body went limp and fell to the ground.

The agent maneuvered at the of the his grip and quickly flipped to the teen's back, managing a cut on one of his wings in the process. Rex turned on his back, trying to get the man off, when he hit the ground hard. In a flash, Six was next to him, sword to his throat.

"Rex, what's-," he was cut off by the boy's leg moving up to him and, turning into a Punk Buster, was swiftly kicked against the wall. Before he could open his eyes, one of the Smack Hands had him pinned while the other pulled back for a punch.

Circe's sonic scream sent Rex flying away. I mid-air, he switched to the Slam Cannon, the back end eating a piece of the floor.

Her scream stopped as the boy crouched down, aiming his weapon at the two people in front of him. "What happened?," she hurriedly asked, not really knowing what else to say.

Six tried to say something, but Rex had already fired. The agent smoothly dodged it, while the girl quickly pushed herself against the wall, barely dodging in time.

Bobo raced in from behind her, headed toward Rex with the agent right behind him, while the boy got ready for another shot. Rex swiftly fired again, hitting the chimp square in the chest, sending him flying back passed the girl.

Six jumped for the boy, katana stretched out for a blow. Rex's arm transformed to the B.F.S. on the spot, suddenly parrying the agent's attack. The man, since he was going easy on the teen, didn't put enough force behind the blow, allowing Rex to cut his side and send him flying behind him. Using his reflexes, Six quickly balanced back out on his two feet.

Rex turned around to face the Circe, who had come at him from behind the agent and had jumped for him, trying to land a kick. The boy's arm changed again to the Smack Hands, as he simply grabbed her ankle. In one swift movement, the boy slung her against the right wall, then the left, then threw her behind him, towards the agent.

Six dropped the blades as he caught the girl, both being knocked back again. His back hit the ground and he quickly looked up the boy, who silently looked back and disappeared in the shadows. He crawled out from under her and called after him, "Rex!" A silence answered him.

Circe moved her head, trying to open her eyes.

"No," Six told her, taking his jacket off, "Stay down." The boy hadn't let up on his attacks, so Six didn't know how badly she could be hurt.

She tried to clear her throat, by coughing. "Rex..."

"I'll find him," he answered, laying his jacket on her, "Just stay here." His voice drifted off as he watched a cut on her forehead heal. "Stay here," he said again, getting up to check on Holiday.

Six knelt next to her, trying to wake her up. "Chris, hey." She made no movement to answer him.

Rex's scream was heard through out the base, causing the agent to stand again. Circe tried to move when she heard it. Six took off his shades to see better, walking down the hall where the boy had disappeared. Her eyes opened, watching him move passed her.

"Wait," she whispered, trying to call out to the agent, "Don't..."

"I'll find him," he said again, picking up his swords, "it'll be ok."

She watched him run away.

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Finally, Six had cornered him in the lab. "Rex!," he called out again, bringing out the katanas, "Talk to me, Rex! What's going on?"

The teen was breathing hard, staring blankly at the man in front of him. He was obviously not in his right mind, but it seemed too much like something, some outside force, was controlling him.

The nanites? Another Evo? The bounty hunters? Whatever it was, it was smart enough to take out their strongest player first, quick enough to land an attack on the infamous Agent Six, and inhumane enough to kill them all without a second glance. Six knew that if it wasn't for Holiday's healing powers, Circe would be dead and probably the telepath, too.

Six also knew that Rex was still in there, trying to fight back against this new threat.

If push came to shove, the agent would have no choice than to take him out. That didn't necessarily mean 'to kill him', but if he didn't aim to kill, he'd just end up with another open wound. This put Six in a tight fix. He couldn't kill Rex, but he couldn't let this thing kill him, his fiance, Circe, or the monkey, then get their hands the boy. So... what to do?

The teen took a deep breath, then stretched out his arm, the B.F.S. morphing out. Six took a fighting stance, but Rex didn't move to him. Slowly, the buzzsaw started to rev up, then Rex decided to run to the agent.

Six sighed and got ready for the different attack. The teen's arm slashed the floor in front of, then switched the other arm to the Smack Hand and ripped it up. The agent jumped back in time, but Rex tore off a piece and threw it at him. Six slashed it to shreds, to see the teen on the other side, buzzsaw pulled back for an attack.

He parried the saw with one of his swords, jamming it in the rotor. Rex's Punk Buster flew back up to the agent, kicking him in the earlier wound and throwing him across the room, into a wall.

Six's vision started to fade as he tried to get back up. His limbs starting to go numb, he fell back to the ground.

Rex slowly started to walk up to him with the B.F.S., when he was knocked back from Circe's scream again.

He tried to get up, he tried to help, but his body just wouldn't respond right. That wound didn't hurt him that badly, did it?

o0EndFlashback0o

That's was it. That was all.

"I can't remember," he murmured, looking back to her.

Holiday's breath caught and she suddenly didn't know what to tell him, but a distraction made itself known.

An explosion shook the base, followed by two more in different areas.

Six quickly looked around, on guard.

"No, wait," she said, closing her eyes for a second, "it's Providence."

He took a sigh of relief, but still stood on guard, considering that sounded like they were preparing for an air strike. The agent stood, helping her up.

She leaned against him, exhausted from using her powers so much. "We have to get to Rex," she said, but continued when she noticed he was about to object, "I stopped it, whatever that thing was. Circe should be with him."

"Alright," he said, wrapping her arm around his neck while they started to walk.

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Again, sorry for the delay.

Six doesn't remember ANYTHING! Gasp! Kind of! Anywho, flashback, yesh.

I know it's kinda short, sorry about that.

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