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sky d: the blitzkrieg boys are always proud, they don't socialize with the others and I think that asking for help from other people would make them awkward.
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Previously on Things Are Changing
Tala turned and stormed out. He walked through the stadium corridors feeling angry and annoyed, then he felt it, a familiar feeling in his fingers, this was how it usually felt just before the bleeding started. This time felt different though, he was feeling light-headed and tired, as he looked around for a place he could hide he felt the world spin. Tala began to panic, this was bad, if he passed out or couldn't find a place to hide someone would see him and find out. He turned to get back to the changing room thinking maybe he could just about make it but there was someone behind him blocking him off.
"Tala?" the person asked curiously and Tala realised that he recognised the voice,
"Kendall?" The team Thunderbolt player grinned before raising his arm and swinging at him.
And Now….
Tala raised an arm to block the fist heading for his face, even in his disorientated state Tala was aware of the attack and a need for defence.
"Nice" Kendall commented "but you look tired, how long can you keep going?"
"Longer than you" Tala hissed angrily
"Let's find out" Kendall flung another punch at Tala this time he hit his mark and the redhead was knocked sideways and down to the floor, "Not as tough as you thought huh?"
"Why are you doing this?"
"It doesn't matter" Kendall laughed as he grabbed Tala's arm and twisted it behind his back holding him in place "just give it up"
"NO!" Tala roared kicking out one leg and knocking his opponent off him, Kendall was barely hurt as he jumped up charging for Tala and tackling him to the floor, they struggled together for a few minutes for a little while Tala looked like he might have the edge but his tiredness from earlier was catching up with him and the cloudiness began to take over his vision. He continued to struggle with the raven haired man but he could see he wasn't going to win and he knew that help wasn't on the way.
As the redhead weakened Kendall saw an opening and manged to hit Tala with a forceful, well aimed punch to the chin knocking him out. As Tala sumped to the ground no longer able to stay awake Kendall stood panting heavily as he rubbed his chin he had to admit Tala had put up a good fight.
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The stadium had emptied long ago and very few teams were still around, the empty corridors were almost silent, the whole thing gave Tia an uneasy feeling as she walked along. The lights were dimmed slightly casting eerie shadows that made her nervous
'Get a grip girl! Where the hell am I anyway?' the blonde muttered as she wandered around looking for Team Reformations locker room, Tia had spent the entire day at the stadium learning the routine for Ming Ming's new video, she and the rest of the dancers had finally finished for the day and she was hoping to spend some time with her cousin.
She had been given directions at the front desk but now she was sure she had taken a wrong turn and was completely lost, she decided to keep going until she found someone else who could tell her where she needed to go.
As she turned a corner she saw a dark haired man leaning over an unconscious body
"Oh my god!" she exclaimed running forward "is everything alright?"
Kendall turned and seeing Tia raised his arm to swing for her, Tia dodged it easily grabbing his arm and turning it so that if he moved he would very likely break a bone.
"Get off Bitch" he was surprised, he hadn't expected her to be so quick
"What the hell is going on here?" Tia looked down at the unconscious person and realised that it was Tala "Look I know he's an annoying prick but there's no need to knock him out!"
Kendall was fed up he kept struggling with the girl but she had somehow found a way to hold him so he couldn't move "Fuck You" he yelled out angrily
"Now that's not very nice" Tia twisted the mans arm again causing him to scream in pain, "what is going on here?"
"Fuck you" he said again a little more weakly this time, he was a little tired from the first fight and had very little energy left to deal with a fresh new opponent.
"Now couldn't you come up with a new one?" Tia grimaced, she quickly let him go then before he could move spun a leg round to kick him in the face knocking him out "Now that was just too easy." she looked down at the unconscious body and frowned, she didn't like him but she was unable to just walk away from a person who needed help "Tala? Are you OK?"
He made no move or noise so she rolled him onto his side and checked his pulse, she was about to lift him up when she saw something start to stain his gloves. The red stain started at the fingertips of the gloves and spread. Tia knelt and was about to pull off a glove when she heard footsteps running towards them, she looked down at the unconscious attacker and wondered if maybe had back up. Standing defensively over the body she stiffened herself ready for a fight.
"Tala?" it was Kai, the bluenette she had met briefly yesterday, "Shit! Is he ok? What happened?"
"He's alright...I think, that guy attacked him" she indicated Kendall passed out on the floor "but it's weird he just started to bleed." She bent down again taking one of Tala's hands and raising it to eye level
"Bleed?" Kais' eyes went straight to his friends hands "Damnnit, we gotta get him outta here" with Tia's help Kai lifted Tala from the ground, holding his teammate carefully he carried him to their locker room.
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Hilary sat in her room looking at the photo of her and Ianto, finally shaking her head to wake herself up Hilary picked up the large envelope again. Inside was a black book it looked like a diary, opening up she began to read.
September 24th 1990
I have begun to work with fathers partner, V is an amazing employer. I just can't wait to begin my work. I have been studying the process of cybertnetics for so long that to be putting it into practice at last will be amazing.
I have been able to employ my own team, I have even brought one of my fellow students with me. Samantha was one of my best friends at college and she is just as excited as I am about our work.
Not only that my brother has called his wife gave birth to baby girl yesterday, they are going to call her Hilary after mother. My first niece! I can't wait to see her!
Hilary started to think, as she looked out of the window trying to get her head around what she was learning she dropped the book, September 23rd was her birthday so this diary did belong to one of her uncles. Could she really have an Uncle Brady? And why was Brady never mentioned?
She bent down and picked up the diary again, she needed to understand all this. She pulled out the letter from Ianto, V must be Voltaire. Who the hell was Voltaire anyway?
September 30th 1990
My work on the cybertisation is becoming interesting, with this work we may be able to help so many people. The process could be used to help people with disabilities to recover, we may even be able to help people who have lost limbs to re-grow them. This is a fantastic process I haven't been able to leave the lab or facility in days. My brother has sent me a picture of my first niece, I have it framed and on my desk. I hope to see her soon and make her proud of her uncle.
The diary continued like this for many months, this diary was a personal account of a scientist. It was full of ideals and dreams, as well as theories and hypothesises. Every now and then there were pages of notes, diagrams and references. Hilary read through all the scientific data and found that most of it she understood. All that science she had studied was coming in very useful! Occasionally she would reach for one of her text books and cross reference but mostly she understood it all.
The book also contained references to sacred bit beasts and beyblading, this confused her, her family had never been interested in beyblading and she had been raised to think of it as a silly past time. How could someone from her family understand bit beasts but the rest of her family seem oblivious to them?
Not only that but how could one of her family member understand the importance of sacred bit beasts and the power they held?
June 15th 1993
V has had B watch over me recently I think something is up, if we can't perfect the cybertisation process I am starting to feel as though I will never leave here. I feel afraid sometimes.
I have been sent another family picture, it feels hard to see them all together without me, the niece I have never even met looks just like a mix of Martin and Mum. My father seems proud of his first granddaughter, sometimes I wonder if my father knew what he was doing when he sent me here.
I know my letters are being censored, I don't know how I know this but something doesn't feel right.
Here the diary seemed to stop. It became merely a work book filled with equations and notes. Hilary flicked through it until the last page where there was a letter,
To whomever this reaches
It has been a while since I wrote my future hopes in my diary, at one point I wrote about what I planned, how I wanted to use my work for good! Now I know it will never help anyone. It will only cause damage.
I am ashamed of the work we do. I hope this reaches someone who will be able to reverse the damage I have done and continue to do. I have worked for Voltaire for years now, we will never perfect the process but he still continues pushing and pushing at it. I wish to leave but I have others to protect now, I married my assistant Samantha and we have a child together. Every time I question the work we do he threatens them, I almost wish that I had never had Sam come work with me. I have put her into a situation that I have no control over.
We have performed the process on five boys, the first subject was V's Grandson we slowly introduced the chemicals and cybernites into his bloodstream. He reacted badly to it, the pain his body went through must have been intense. When he woke up he barely remembered who or where he was, for a little while I was worried he may die. V was totally unconcerned, the only thing that worried him was the fact that without his grandson his family line would end.
There are four other boys undergoing the process, the final boy was subjected to it in an alarming fashion. Thanks to our original work we knew how much the final subject could stand and administered the process in one huge dose.
These boys have no real idea what is going on, he is using this treatment to make them reach their peak and then he will leave them. They will never feel happiness after this has been done never have a normal life they will be untrusting and uncaring.
There is a system within the cybernetics called the second brain, this was built as a way to keep the boys in check but we are unable to control it over seventeen boys died while we were testing it out.
I don't know how but one day it could be started off, it could be days it could be months or years before they start to be affected but I know this, what we are doing to them will ultimately bring about their deaths. I know in my heart that this is all wrong but I cannot leave. They will never let me leave. I am a prisoner here. I have a wife and child now by doing anything too risky I endanger them
V does not seem to care that the process will bring about his grandsons early death. I used to wonder how my father could know such a cruel and cold man but I now know that I was fooled by my father. Horatio Tatibana my father the man I spent my whole life trying to impress knows exactly what is going on here, he knows that they hold me against my will and yet does nothing.
There are three symptoms that the boys will undergo, if the second brain is started
No 1. When they battle their fingernails will start to bleed.
No 2. They will begin to feel constantly tired
No 3. They will be unable to eat the swallowing reflex will fail, after this their body will begin to shut down completely.
After they have been through these stages they will have god knows how long before they die. I am looking for a cure but the boys are no longer under my treatment, I know nothing of who or where they are. I can only hope and pray that whoever gets all this is able to find these five boys and find a cure.
If I do not succeed then I want the world to know what happened, if you are reading this then you will probably be a family member.
I apologise for being like my father a disgrace to our family name
Brady Tatibana
Hilary dropped the book. Bleeding Fingernails? B could mean Boris, she knew that Boris had been a part of the whole Abbey thing. And Horatio Tatibana. Well there was only one person that could be. The five boys though...could it be the Blitzkrieg boys? And why did none of her family ever mention Brady to her?
She felt sick, could it be that her whole family were caught up in this web of lies?
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Struggling a little Kai followed Tia through the corridors of the stadium allowing her to check if anyone was coming before he walked after her. He was relieved that Tia didn't seem to see the need to ask him about any of this, finally they got to their destination. Tia threw the door to the Blitzkrieg boys locker room open and allowed Kai who was carrying Tala to enter ahead of her, the others all looked up and were shocked
"Tala?" Ian jumped up and allowed Kai to lay their team mate on the bench
"What happened?" Spencer asked
"Stay with him, I'm going back." Kai looked at Tia "Thanks" then he walked out angrily slamming the door behind him.
"What happened?"
"Someone attacked him, I don't know why" Tia looked at the three boys in the room all staring curiously at her, she paused about to tell them more when Bryan noticed Tala's gloves
"He's bleeding" immediately, instinctively they all stared at the redheads fingertips.
Ok so finally everyone and everything is coming together!
Quite a short one this time but a lot happened!
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