Chapter 37

Fang POV

I was awake. I told the doctors to stop putting me asleep, to only do it when something really painful was about to happen. They told me that it was fine; they were using some sort of brain entrainment program that stimulates the pleasure center in my brain. I remembered reading about that somewhere. They even had an iPhone app for it, but that one used sounds. The doctors were using much more reliable pulses, not frequencies that worked on some people some of the time. The whitecoats were doing a Brain Treatment Analysis, or BTA, which lets them activate parts of the brain and analyze how they function.

One of the whitecoats, Ted, walked over. Ted seemed nice enough, and he definitely wanted to genuinely help me.

"Okay, Fang, I'm going to let Max come in, she wants to see how you're doing." Ted told me. "We're going to remove the constraints for a little bit and see how you do. We're confident that the BTA will keep you from morphing."

I thanked Ted and he smiled. He hit a button and the clamps keeping me attached to the bed were released. I moved my arms and legs for a moment and then stretched. I felt numb from having to sit in one place so long.

About 20 minutes later, they let Max come into the room. She ran up to me and gave me a huge hug.

"Fang I was so worried." She sobbed into my shoulder.

A lone tear fell down my cheek. "I'm sorry I cut you. I didn't mean to. I can't control it…" Another tear rolled down my face.

"Look, Fang, we're gonna help you. We know where the cure is." Max explained. "Those drugs Lissa gave you. They're the cause of this. Her dad is a whitecoat. We're going to go after her. But in the mean time, you and Gazzy are going to take down the rest of the Itex locations near here. They're going to eventually realize, and us stopping was not part of the plan. So, you and Gazzy are going to tear the place up while the rest of us find Lissa and get that cure for you."

"Wait, so I'm going to become an Eraser and take out the rest of the branches near here, and you guys are going to get the cure?"

"Well, you're going to use your transforming power, that way the negative effects of being an Eraser don't happen. Gazzy will be there just in case. Besides, I hear his armor is finished, and it looks very cool. Nudge forced him to do a fashion show in the hallway. Did I ever mention that I think Nudge has kinda taken a liking to Gazzy?"

"Umm… Do I have to answer all of that in order?" I asked.

"No!" She laughed.

"Okay, I guess I can use my powers; I have kinda noticed that Nudge is a bit into Gaz; and I think that his armor is extremely cool, Angel sent me a mental picture."

"Okay, so it's settled, you and Gaz are going to plant C4 in the remaining Itex buildings while the rest of us go get your antidote. You guys evacuate good whitecoats from the buildings, then blow them up with C4 after you get any sort of mutants or weapons you can. Oh, and also, there is a mutant here who has blood that can make people heal really fast, plus cure several illnesses. It apparently has cured a bunch of people who had AIDS, so I guess Itex is doing good for once. Ella's voice told her she can't cure you, so trying this kid's blood is worth a shot.

"Jesus, Max, calm down, you sound like Nudge!"

Max giggled. "Sorry." She said.

"So I guess we have a plan then."

"Yeah, we have a plan. For once, we actually have a plan."

Gazzy POV

"It's finished!" I yelled. "The Gazzo-Skeleton Mk I is finished!"

"Seriously? We're done?" Iggy asked.

"Yup!" We high-fived.

"Well, looks like we're gonna have to go soon. Angel says that Fang is ready. They just need to set you up with syringes incase Fang goes berserk, and they have something for me."

"Okay, just lemme suit up." But Iggy was already out the door.

I had set my suit up so it could shoot syringes, that way I could knock out Fang when necessary. Iggy and I walked into the room together. On the table was an odd pair of glasses, and some syringes. I hadn't put on my helmet yet, so I put it down on the table and loaded the syringes. Iggy picked up the glasses.

"What are these?" He asked the whitecoat standing in the room.

"Oh, those are for you. They'll let you see things in thermal vision. Your girlfriend told me that you wanted to see again, so I figured I would set you up with a pair of these. You can't quite see too many things, but you can at least see people. And if you wanna know how they work, if you're blind, well they use brainwaves to send the image to your brain, so then you see it."

I snorted, then laughed, and fell on the floor, laughing. "E-Ella i-i-isnt h-his girl-girlfriend!" I laughed so hard. Then I noticed that Iggy was a bright red. I stopped immediately. "Wait, she is?" I asked.

"Yeah, um, we have catching up to do."

A/N Okay, so remember how you didn't want him to see? Well, I decided that this way, he can kinda see, but he kinda can't. Also, this chapter's question. Actually, 2 since forgot last chapter's.