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"She's waking up!" Holiday heard her sister. She struggled to get up. "Take it easy sis." She felt herself being gently pushed back down.
"Wait. Six. I have to get to Six." She remembered what her would-be assassin had said.
"Take it easy, Dr. Holiday." Circe's voice joined her sister's.
"No." Holiday struggled to sit up. "I have to get to him. Where is he?"
"We don't know." Beverly said tersely.
"Well, they might be in China." Circe peeped up.
Both sisters looked at her. Circe turned red as she pulled out her phone and showed them the text.
"You've been in contact with Rex?" Beverly sounded hurt.
"I wanted to tell you but…" Circe knew she sounded lame even to her own ears.
"Nevermind." Holiday interrupted. Hurt feeling needed to be sorted out later. Right now the most important thing was to get to Six. "We have to get there. Someone's out for him."
"Yeah, some guy whose face is covered with cloth and a hoody." Tuck piped up. Holiday's head snapped in the direction of his voice. He stood there with Cricket and Walter.
"What did you say?" Her brain started running a million miles per hour.
"Yeah, Scarecrow said the guy who hired him had cloth over…" Tuck started clarifying.
"Cloth or bandages?" Holiday interrupted.
"Uh… he said cloth?" Tuck scratched his head.
"IV." Holiday said in a small voice.
"You don't need an IV." Caesar said. She didn't even notice him in the back.
"No, he's someone who used to know Six." She explained. "He must be the one trying to kill Six." Holiday fretted. "We need to get there now!"
"Caesar?" Beverly looked at her boyfriend.
"I can do that." Caesar started walking to the control room. Turning around briefly he said, "You might want to strap yourselves down." And then he left.
"Oh no!" Everyone scrambled out in a panic to get to a seat.
In contrast Beverly calmly placed the safety belt around her sister before sitting down in the stationary chair next to her. She put on the lap belt, crossed her legs, and pressed the intercom. "Ready."
Holiday felt all the blood rush to her head as the pod flew off.
0o0
"You are weak, useless!" IV sneered. "You could never be One."
"Maybe at some distant point in my life I had wanted to be One. But I have found something better…" Six paused.
IV lifted Six's own sword and was about to run it through him. But before he was able to carry through the deed, Rex still struggling with the electric currents coursing through his body tackled him.
"A family." Six finished with a smirk as the electricity coursing through Rex transferred to IV.
IV screamed and dropped Six and his sword. Rex gripped him not letting go. In order to stop the shocks, IV pulled off the disc on Rex's back. He then pushed an already weakened Rex off of him. Looking up his eyes widened as Six's fist closed in on his face.
IV flew backwards and hit the wall sliding down in a heap.
"Rex?" Six knelt over the boy. "You okay?"
"Asegúrese de que los respaldos de los asientos y las mesas de bandeja estén en su posición vertical completa." Rex mumbled incoherently.
"Come on, let's get out of here." Six picked Rex up.
"What about IV?" Rex muttered.
"I'll take care that later. But we need to take care of you first." Six said.
Six pulled Rex up the stairs. When they reached the top, they heard a tumult of noise from the outside. Looking in the courtyard, they saw The Numbers fighting for their lives.
Six looked at Rex who gave him a grim nod. Rex formed his Boogie Pack. Pulling down his goggles, he jumped off the balcony. As he neared the fighting, his hand formed his BFS attacking the Number's assailants. Six leapt from his perch. His swords flashed in the sunlight as he landed in the middle of the fray.
"Finally, decide to join us." Dos snorted. One hand was behind his back as he used his cane to hold the thugs back. He was unconcerned about the bullets and cuts as his skin was impossible to penetrate.
"It was a trap." Five filled Six in on the details on how they fought their way out into the open.
"IV put the hit on us. He wants to be One." Six informed them, as he fought off several of the attackers.
Dos snorted unimpressed. "He would, the cowardly jackal."
"I'm going to rip off his bollocks." Five declared as she batted several men away with her guitar.
"Oh ho, are you sure he had some?" Trey laughed at his own joke as he smashed two of the assailants head's together.
"We need to get out of here." Six said.
"No!" Dos objected. "We will confront IV and finish him. No mercy!"
"Really? You think you can fight off all these people?" Six asked. "Even with your EVO powers you can't take down all of them and then take out IV."
"If you want to leave, you may go. I don't need you." Dos snapped.
"Six. This may be our only shot at stopping all this." Rex reminded him.
"You need to rest." Six told Rex pointedly.
"Come on Six, you know me. It takes more than a little spark to keep me down." Rex smirked.
"Who knows how long you can keep that up before your builds fall apart." Six said. And as if to prove his point Rex's BFS broke when a swordsman attacked him. Six jumped in to protect him. He slammed the man to the ground. "You okay?" He addressed Rex who was holding his wrist.
"Yeah, fine." Rex said massaging his sword hand. He then formed his Bad Axes. "Okay, let's go."
"No Rex. You need to go. I told you before, this is my fight." Six said seriously.
"Yeah, yeah, and I told you… tough toenails!" Rex rushed headlong into the fight.
Six gritted his teeth at first but then he relaxed into almost a smile. He knew that whatever happened he would always have someone watching his back.
He began attacking the forces around him. After several minutes of holding their own, The Numbers and Rex were forced into a tight circle. Standing back to back they panted as they wondered why they were not being attacked.
"You should have left when you had the chance." IV appeared on the museum's balcony overlooking the courtyard.
"IV, you pendejo idioto!" Dos shouted in anger. "I swear I will make you like one of those who lie en el infierno!"
"Tut, tut." IV clucked his tongue unfazed by the threats. "Is that anyway to talk to your superior?"
"Superior to what? You're still a paranoid schizo whanker." Five insulted him.
"None of you deserve to be One!" IV shouted. "Look at you! You!" He pointed at Dos. "You're not even human! You!" He turned to Trey. "You're nothing more than a brainless brute." Next he glared at Five. "A woman will never be One." Finally he turned to Six. "And you! You are the worst of all. You have a conscience."
The Numbers stared angrily at IV who stood smugly with his arms crossed.
Then Rex interrupted. "Oh, oh do me next!" Rex raised his arm as if he was in school. His goofy grin dissolved into a smirk. "Puh-leeze! Six told me once that being One means you are the deadliest person in the world. And you? You're too insane in the membrane to ever be a real threat." He formed his Smack Hands. "Thrill me!" He began spinning his Smack Hands. He plowed a path through IV's men. The Numbers followed Rex taking out men left and right.
Six looked up to see IV screaming at his men. He knew this wouldn't end unless…
"Rex! Get me up there!" Six yelled.
Rex turned with his usual cocky grin. He put his Smack Hands together. "Going up?" Six took a running leap and as his foot touched Rex's makeshift catapult, he flew into the air. Somersaulting several times he landed next to IV.
"This ends now, IV." Six snapped.
IV narrowed his eyes. "It's One! And I agree… you die now!" He pulled out a gun from behind him and fired.
Sorry for the cliffhangers. But it's almost done. Hope you've enjoyed it so far. I wish I had more time. I think it would have been better. But I want to wrap this up and start Season 8. That's going to take a while too, I think. And when school starts I know that I won't have time to work on that. And then there's those pesky stand alone fics.
Asegúrese de que los respaldos de los asientos y las mesas de bandeja estén en su posición vertical completa. = Please make sure your seat backs and tray tables are in their full upright position.
Pendejo idioto= stupid jackass
en el infierno= in hell