Okay kiddies, let's go through this again. Don't plagiarize me, sue me, or get mad over a few borrowed characters. Del and Chand have the rights to a few of them, some are mine, and the rest belong to MIB The Animated Series. Thank you so much, now back to business… ^_^

Written in the Stars: A Destined Romance

Chapter 6: Zeeltor's Lab

Val stumbled through the halls trying to stay awake. 'I'm never gonna make it!' she thought frantically to herself. But she had to make it! Had to get help! What if her friends never recovered? What if she succumbed before she found someone to save them?! NO! She wouldn't let that happen! So she slowly made her way to the door of an agent that she thought could get them some help.

Inside his room Agent Jay had the television blaring as another bikini contest continued on the lovely beaches of Malibu. He had rushed back to his seat with a bag of chips and a liter of soda before the final round began.

"And here come our lovely ladies now!" the announcers voice rang out. "Miss Miami is wearing a luscious little pink ensemble with sequins around the-"

Jay jumped up out of his chair as someone began to pound loudly against his door. "Jay?! Help Jay! You gotta open up!"

"What in the--" Jay mumbled as he turned the volume down and opened the door. Why was Val's voice so raspy? She sounded awful, like she was about to give out.

Jay gasped as he opened the door and Val fell into him, barely able to hold herself up. "What happened to you?!"

"Jay-" Val coughed, "Elle, Yazmine, Delia, W! We were all at the sauna when all this steam started pouring in, we couldn't see! Couldn't breathe!!"

Jay looked down in shock as Agent Val clutched onto his jacket in a vain attempt to hold herself up while she explained. Other agents, including X and R, came out into the hall to see what all the noise was about. Even Agent U had heard the ruckus and came downstairs to see what was wrong.

"Jay, they all passed out! And I think someone's down there! And that they poisoned the steam somehow! I tried to wake Elle up, but she wouldn't move!"

Jay couldn't believe this was happening, but the cold sweat that Val was in made it hard to doubt her story. Not to mention the fact that she was wearing nothing but a short white towel!

"What?!" R burst out and turned and fled towards the sauna. X rolled his eyes and hurried after him mumbling about how humans were constantly getting into trouble.

Jay was about to follow when he looked down and saw that Val had passed out in the hall. He moaned, picked her up, and headed off towards Zeeltor's lab.

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X and R stormed into the sauna and found the four women unconscious inside. "Delia? Delia wake up!" R cried as he knelt down next to his partner.

"They're out cold," X told R as he raised Elle up in his arms.

"What happened here?" R asked as he looked around. X shrugged as U headed down into the sauna and saw his partner at the foot of the door.

"W!" he screamed and fell on the ground beside her. "Wake up, W?!"

"Oh now that's just sad," X muttered in disgust then turned and headed back towards the lab with Elle. Her condition was actually starting to worry him.

R followed his cousin and passed Kay on the way, "You'll need to carry Yazmine back." he told Kay.

U reached down and gathered W up in his arms. She was so lifeless lying there in a cold sweat, he could hardly stand it.

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X hurried to the medical office carrying Elle in his arms. He knew from the cold sweat she was in and by her labored breathing that her body temperature was MUCH too high.

One of Zeeltor's lab assistants greeted X as he entered and motioned for him to take a seat along a row of black leather waiting chairs until Zeeltor had finished examining Yazmine.

Figures that Zeeltor would want to check out his little 'girlfriend' first. X sighed and carried Elle over to one of the waiting chairs. He decided to hold her in his lap so that she'd have plenty of support in order to breathe easier.

He glanced over and saw Agent U in another chair waiting with Agent W in his arms.

Agent R rushed in, in a panic, carrying Agent Delia. "Where's the doctor? She could be dying! I can't just stand by and do nothing!"

"Then sit down and WAIT!" X shouted, annoyed at his cousin's frantic behavior. And all over a HUMAN too! He looked down at Elle, she didn't seem to be getting any better. 'Please be okay.' he silently begged her. He'd feel awful if anything happened to her. And now he knew why!

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