Moi-Moi: Hey all! I forgot to say in the last chapter, but if you guys were interested in reading a lemon to go along with this chapter, I wouldn't mind including one. It all depends on how you feel really. It won't change the outcome of the story. Just let me know! :D

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Some wise cat once said that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Makes me want to knock the spit out of him…

On day seven of my time in Mary Beth, only three of the germs that I'd hired to carry out my plans actually showed. I tried to keep my cool at the sight of the two, jumpy junkies and a malnourished pan-handler in front of me, but it was a bit difficult. This was not good enough.

"And just where is everyone else?" I asked and paced the room.

"I…uh," the pan-handler started, but a racking cough interrupted him. I rolled my eyes with a deep sigh. "I think you scared 'em off boss," he finished in a hoarse voice.

"Looks like that temper of yours just screwed us over, Thrax," Kat helpfully erased from across the room.

I shot her a threatening look, but she smirked at me in return. "Fine. We'll have to improvise then. Listen up, you three will each take a different part of the body. Head down to the rectum and both of the armpits and find as many germs and bacteria as you can that look like they could be convinced of the cause. Once you have enough men, meet up in the lungs and cause as much noise as you can along the respiratory tract. But stay below the trachea. I need the roads clear when I'm leaving the hypothalamus."

"W-when do we meet up w-with you, boss?"

"Once Immunity gets word of what's going down in the cerebellum, they'll be headed my way. That's when you can scram and head to the nose. We'll make our escape in Mary Beth's next sneeze. Once we're home free, you boys will be paid for your time," I promised with a wide grin. "Now, get to work!"

"Sure thing, boss."

I watched the three stooges leave the room before walking over to the cheap radio I had purchased and turned it on. I fiddled with the dials, trying to find a news station. This was my best means of keeping track of how my plans were progressing.

"How is it that no matter whose body it is, the germs are always the dumbest of the dumb?" Kat asked with a scoff.

"There have to be sheep in this world, baby. Without them, what will the wolves eat?" I asked with a raised brow. Kat shrugged once before returning to her nail filing.

I watched her for a few seconds before returning my attention to the radio. What made her think that she was any better than those stooges that I had just sent to their deaths? Just what had made her believe that she was a wolf in this world- in my world? Did she think that she was safe from my wrath now that we had spent a night together? I sneered down at the radio, gripping the knobs a bit too hard.

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With my shades on, I drove along the more scenic route up towards the cerebellum. Kat was quietly looking out the window and, not for the first time, it made me wonder what she was thinking. Flashes of that night played behind my eyebrows whenever I was alone. I glanced at her from the corner of my eyes before refocusing on the road. I couldn't let this- whatever it was- distract me. But at the same time, I wondered if she knew how distracting she was?

"Forty-five minutes, Thrax," Kat spoke up.

With a few surprised blinks, I realized that we were nearing Cerebellum Hall. "Keep the engine running, baby. I'll be in and out," I said and parked the car in the parking lot of a nearby building.

"Just don't take too long. If you're not back within an hour, I'm leaving you behind," she teased.

"You would leave without me, baby?" I asked and pushed my shades onto my head. I stared down at her for a few seconds until she smiled and giggled softly. I was about to exit the car when her smaller hand came to rest on my cheek. With a deep gaze, she pecked me on the lips and I froze.

"Just come back in one piece."

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Mary Beth didn't have too many cells bustling about the brain. But I wasn't about to complain. An understaffed brain made the job almost too easy. When I picked the lock for the hypothalamus, I was only moderately surprised to find an empty room. Was everyone on lunch break?

Gazing at the rotating DNA helix at the front of the room, I felt a wide grin slip onto my face. Whether it was my first or my 100thvictim, this part would never get old. Humming softly as I observed the sequence, I almost wished I could drag out this part for as long as possible. "Ooh don't you look fine," I cooed to the DNA bead as I plucked it from the sequence. Immediately, the DNA lost its stability and started to twist wildly. "That didn't take much. May have to move up the timeline a bit."

"Not on my watch!"

With a raised brow, I turned around to see an Immunity officer standing in the doorway with his gun pointed at me. "Now I know why this place was so empty. I am curious as to how the Five-O got wind of my plans."

"You viruses all think you're so smart. One of your men came forward. For a criminal, at least he had a conscience," the officer said with a hard glare. "Now, put your hands in the air, and drop the DNA bead."

I could hear the alarms going off as the room gained a red tint to it. I raised a brow with a smirk. "You might wanna get some repair cells in here ASAP or else Mary Beth won't be looking too good," I said and approached the officer with my hands in the air. My posture was completely relaxed as I strolled towards him, but the officer with the picture of tense. His black eyes stared at me intensely and I grinned my most charming smile.

"Turn around and place your hands behind your back," the officer commanded.

"While this has been entertaining, we're gonna have to part ways, officer," I sneered. Faster than he could see coming, I heat up my claw and slashed it across his middle. As he cried out and bubbled away at my feet, I shook the remaining cytoplasm off my claw. I side-stepped the mess he made on the floors with a scoff. "This does look useful, however. Much obliged, my man," I chuckled and picked up the dropped gun. With a dark grin, I slipped the DNA bead into my chain and headed for the door.

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At first, I thought that the Immunity forces in Mary Beth were pretty spit, but they weren't half bad when they put their nuclei together. My one gun wasn't going to do much against the twenty plus guns on the other side of the entrance to Cerebellum Hall. I'd already wasted so much time ducking and dodging the Immunity officers in the Cerebellum that I was feeling more than done with this city. With a sneer, I checked my remaining ammo.

"Come out with your hands up! We have you surrounded!"

I rolled my eyes with a sigh.

Three shots left.

"Come quietly and we won't have to use deadly force against you and your accomplice!"

I froze. "Spit," I cursed softly before peeking out of the window to glance outside. There she was. Looking annoyed as hell, Kat was standing with her hands behind her back next to the officer with the bullhorn. She was saying something to the officer while rolling her eyes, but I had no idea what she was saying. I quickly leaned away from the window and took a deep breath.

I knew that a caught cell was a goner. She knew that too. Immunity didn't take kindly to viruses in their body. And an infected white blood cell from a foreign body? She was lucky that they hadn't shot her on site. They probably wanted to use her to get to me. With a sneer, I headed back towards the emergency stairs. Hopefully, there would be at least one car in the underground garage.

There were a few cars in the garage- all of them police cars. A few officers were outside, not paying much attention to the doors. "Six cops and three shots. The math doesn't quite add up, but it should be fine," I muttered and slunk around in the shadows to the other side of the barricade. I would make it fine. No better than fine. I wasn't about to go down here. Not when I still had so much to do.

As silently as possible, I grabbed the officer in front of me with a hand over his mouth while slicing through the membrane on his neck with my hot claw. I quickly dragged his body behind one of the concrete support beams and left him behind. He was already turning into a puddle on the ground. I had to move quickly before they noticed the mess. With my eyes trained on the officers listening to their walkie talkies, I slipped into the open passenger door of a patrol car.

"Suspect is still at large."

"Upper floors clear. He's not up here."

"He's got to be on the first floor."

"Underground team, keep an eye out in case he tries to make a break for it."

"10-4. We've got eyes on all the exits," one of the female officers replied.

Once I was sitting in the driver's seat, I heat up my claw as hot as it could go before roughly shoving it into the ignition. Immediately, the appearance of the ride changed as the engine revved to life. I didn't have time to admire my hotrod, however.

"We have eyes on him!"

"He's in the underground garage!"

"Where's Mito!?"

Without a second thought, I gassed up the engine, plowed through the remaining cop cars and headed for the exit. The radio in the car was still tuned in to the police chatter and I turned down the volume slightly. I needed to think. There was nothing stopping me from making my escape. I had a ride and a gun if I needed it. I could high tail it out of here while riding on the wave of Mary Beth's next cough and leave this sinking ship behind.

"Take the apprehended suspect back to the station!"

"Spit," I cursed softly. Kat… I looked ahead at the open road before me. Feeling an unfamiliar feeling in my chest, I clenched my hands around the steering wheel.

With a noise of disgust, I turned the wheel to the right as far as it could go, and I made a U-turn back towards the front of Cerebellum Hall. I could see Kat's red membrane sticking out like a sore thumb amongst all the blue, Immunity officers. Once I was close enough, I could see that she was putting up one hell of a fight with several officers- kicking and screaming at them. When I saw her bite an officer to get him to drop her, my eyes widened. The Immunity cell stumbled backward before collapsing in a hot, bubbling mess of cytoplasm. Kat was right. She did make a mess.

Holding down the horn to get her attention, I slowed slightly before turning to make another wild, U-turn. My reckless driving took out at least three cop cars and one of the pillars outside Cerebellum Hall. Whoops.

Most of the officers were ducked behind their cars and shooting wildly. Revving the engine again, I headed towards Kat. As I got closer, I could see her eyes widen as a scream tore from her throat.

"Thrax!" she shouted.

To be fair, I did slow down before running into her.

"Sorry, baby. No time to stop. We've got a flight to catch!" I shouted out the window at her. I could see the angry fire in her eyes as she cursed at me with some very colorful language. I had to drive way too slow to keep from putting Kat in any more danger than she already was. In the rearview mirror, I could see a few cop cars on our tail. "Keep your head down, baby!" I shouted with a laugh and aimed the gum at the windshield. Her eyes widened before she tried to lay as flat as possible on the hood of the car. Shooting out the glass, I did the best I could to maintain control while reaching out to grab Kat from off the hood.

"Ow! Ow! That's my hair, you good for nothing, piece of spit!" she screamed at me while wriggling her body into the car.

"Now, don't be like that, baby. You should be happy that I saved your membrane with such style,"I said with a chuckle. I glanced over at Kat and almost died of laughter. She was laying sideways on the passenger seat with her hands still cuffed behind her. Her hair was the most disheveled that I've ever seen and there were spots of cytoplasm on the corner of her mouth and on her ruffled clothes. She was missing her heels and used her bare foot to kick me in the side. I shot her a glare.

"You left me! You were gonna hand me over to Immunity and save your own skin," she said and kicked me again.

I smacked her leg before shoving her foot away from me. "What would you have done if you were me?"

"I thought we were in this together! I didn't think you'd be so low as to leave me to die!"

"I came back. What's the big deal?"

When she didn't respond, I glanced over at her. She was glaring at me harshly with her jaw clenched. My hands clenched the steering wheel. Noticing the growing, wet spots on her shirt, I looked away. "How badly are you hurt?"

"Like you care," she spat. I sighed.

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This chapter is dedicated to RoseWolfie for being such a loyal fan and an AH-MAZING artist!