Okay, here's the next chappie for ya! (Ignore the title if u think its stupid, I couldn't think of anything better to name it.) I'm so happy I got some new reviewers! YAH! Hugs to all reviewers and readers! Oh, and here's my reviewer response:

Tai of the Nine-Tailed- I seem to have very bloodthirsty reviewers out there! U aren't the only one to want more torture, so I'll guess I'll add some more. There won't be any more torture until about chapter 30, but there is more fighting. And I'll up the torture in later chappies when Biovolt comes into the picture.

Zi- awww, thanks so much! Do you really think it keeps getting better?!

Shaedowe- thank you. Well, somebody has to be a baka and Tyson is the perfect candidate.

Crimson Shadows- Thanks for your review, don't worry about it. I like to read your story so it's no problem. You'll just have to read on to get your answers.

Phoenix Bandit- thanks for reviewing!

Sleepy-zzz- more thanks to you as well.

Ch. 20- Hyper-ventilation

(A/N- Sorry if this is confusing, but I am going back to Kai's perspective when he grabbed Marina's hand.)

Kai stared blankly at the back of Marina's head as she knelt to pick up her things. He couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic for her and quickly covered it up as shock. He knew that she hated being pitied. He couldn't get her hand out of his head.

When he'd seen her palm he'd dropped her belongings in shock and surprise. In the center of her right palm was a large, bright blue 'tattoo' in the shape of the pendant on her necklace and on Saphira's armor. (A/N-I'm putting the word tattoo in 'these' because it's not really a tattoo.) The 'tattoo' hadn't really shocked Kai, it was the skin on her palm. The skin around the center of her palm was shiny and scarred, as if her hand had been burned badly. He realized that he had seen the 'tattoo' before on her palm, but her palm wasn't burnt in his memory. Kai knew that Biovolt had done that to her, but he still couldn't remember everything that had happened there. His memory was still foggy in areas. He couldn't help but touch the scarred skin, and it seemed to entrance him before he snapped back to reality. She had jerked her hand violently from his grasp as if the contact had hurt.

Kai turned around at the sound of Marina's warning to see Tyson at the metal door. He didn't see a problem until he realized that the idiot was going to try to open the door.

Marina thought furiously, [That idiot! There's no way I can stop him before he opens the door!]

Suddenly Tyson's body was thrown away from the door as Ray tackled him to the ground hard.

"Hey buddy!" Tyson protested, "What did you do that for?"

"You can't just open the door and walk away," replied Ray, slightly irritated by Tyson's lack of judgement. "Didn't you hear the noise the door made whenever it was opened or closed. A banshee was quieter."

"Oh, right," said Tyson sheepishly.

"Tyson, you should really think before you act," Kai remarked coldly.

"And tell us what's going on, we are a team. Remember?" Max remarked.

"Yah, yah, I got it. Sorry." To take the attention off of himself, he stared at Marina and asked, "What's with the skirt?"

Marina glared at him and stepped forward, crossing her arms. "Are you commenting on my style? Last time I checked, hats were only worn to keep the sun out of your eyes. I don't see any sun do you? And only athletes wear their hats backwards." (A/N- sorry, I had to make fun of him somehow)

Tyson didn't catch the hidden meaning in her phrase but objected all the same, "Hey!"

"Okay, guys, calm down," said Max, acting as peacemaker.

"There are better things to do than argue," Kai commented dryly.

"Alright, so we can't use the door," said Ray. "Then how are we supposed to escape?"

"Like this," Marina said quietly as she strode past Max, her eyes fixed on a large ventilation shaft that was near the ceiling.

There was no way she could get it open or even reach it from the ground, but her eyes lit up as spied the pipes and poles hanging down horizontally from the ceiling. She took a run at the far wall and leaped up. She did a wall kick to get more height and grabbed one of the hanging, horizontal poles that lined the ceiling. Using her arms she swung across the ceiling, clutching the poles. The Bladebreakers watched her in stunned disbelief, as she shouldn't have the energy to even walk unaided, let alone jump or swing. Marina stopped in front of the rusting grate that was blocking the ventilation shaft.

"Someone catch this," she ordered as she struck the gate with her boot. The made a dull, ringing noise that thankfully wasn't too loud as she kicked the side again. Soon the grate swung out on rusty hinges and dropped to the ground. Kai and Ray each caught a side and leaned the grate against the wall quietly.

Marina had swung into the horizontal ventilation shaft feet first, easily, and her added weight made the thin metal clang. She lay on her belly in the airshaft, and stretched her arms down to the Bladebreakers.

"The last person up will have to do what I did, but the rest of you can get a boost," she told them patiently. "So who's first?"

Ray and Tyson gave Max a boost up first and Marina grabbed his wrists in a strong grip and wriggled backwards, pulling him up.

"Thanks," he said gratefully.

"No problem. Can you get the others up?" she asked.

"Sure," Max said as he twisted around to face the opening and grab onto Tyson's hands.

Max almost fell face first out of the shaft, as he wasn't expecting Tyson's weight. "Whoa! Dude, you need to lose some weight."

"Hey! I'm at a perfectly healthy body weight, thank you," he replied indignantly. "Besides, you know I can't resist the smell of food."

Marina moved backwards in the airshaft, unnoticed, until she hit a wall. She turned her body and began crawling forward in the dark shaft, following Saphira's signals. She moved as quietly as she could and suppressed a sneeze. All the caked on dirt and dust was enough to kill everyone if the air-conditioning was turned on. She tried to ignore all the spiders she saw as well.

Meanwhile, Kai and Ray were facing each other uncertainly.

"Here Kai," began Ray. "I'll help you up. I can make it myself no problem," the agile neko-jin added.

Kai shook his head firmly. "No. I'll give you a boost and I'll go up after." There was no way in hell that Kai would undignify himself with needing a boost.

"Would you two decide already?" complained Tyson from above. "We don't have all day, you know." His arms dangled useless from the airshaft.

"Tyson, just back up okay," said Ray after glancing at his equally stubborn teammate, Kai.

Ray easily leaped off the wall and grabbed a pole, copying Marina, and swung into the air vent. He narrowly avoided hitting Tyson, as he was too slow to move and moved back, pushing Tyson and Max further in. Kai followed suit and swung into the air vent soon after. When they were all in the dark ventilation shaft Max asked, "Hey, where's Marina?"

"Marina?" called Tyson. "It's not funny to hide in the dark."

"Uh, I don't think she's here anymore Tyson," Max remarked.

"Oh, well then I guess it's a bad time to tell you I don't like small spaces, huh?" Tyson said quietly.

Kai managed to squeeze further in the air vent, past his protesting teammates, to be farther in than Max. He knew where she would go and hoped she wasn't going to do what he though she might do on her own. He searched blindly in the dark until he came to a fork in the airshaft. Kai felt along the bottom with his fingers until he felt less build-up of dust in one direction.

[Okay,] he thought. [Just follow the path she's made and hope to reach her before she does anything stupid.]

"Uh, do you know where you're going Kai?" Tyson asked, with a little panic in his voice.

Marina was quite a ways in front of them, following Saphira's signal. Her eyes were also better than theirs and could see quite well in the dark. (Maybe with the exception of Ray, who also has good night-vision, being a neko-jin and all.) She hoped the Bladebreakers would leave her be and just find the exit. She didn't want them to see the violence she would probably have to perform. She also didn't want to expose them to her dark side, which was one thing she couldn't protect them against.

She sighed quietly as she reached a gate with light steaming upwards. She looked down into the lab room and saw that it Saphira had led her correctly to her destination.

Another chappie finished! Please review. I know that I made a big deal with Marina's hand, but it actually does have some significance later on. And I have a new review goal that I think I will make easily. (I hope) It is to have 100 reviews by chapter 30. Please help with that, and if you have any questions, then ask away!