Chapter 3: Questions Answered
The Lymph Nodes, Outskirts 10:50 PM
When Thrax woke up, he was lying in a bed, covered in bandages. The glass from his hands had been removed and he noticed that he had been stripped down to his boxers. Draco was no where to be seen.
"Damn." Thrax said to himself. "I'm in pretty bad shape."
"Not as bad as you could have been. You could be dead." A voice said out of no where. Draco emerged from the shadowy doorway wearing the same clothes that she had on at the bar except she was no longer wearing her leather trench coat. Thrax noticed a bandage that had been wrapped around her wound on her shoulder.
"Where the hell did you come from?" Thrax asked trying to sit up. "Ahhhhhhhhh!"
"I wouldn't do that if I were you. Lay back down or you may aggravate you wounds." Draco warned.
Thrax lay back down.
"By the way Draco, what are my injuries?" Thrax asked, resting his head on the pillow.
"Well you've broken several of your ribs as well as sustained several internal injuries. That's about it aside from the external ones." Draco answered.
"I feel like shit." Thrax said.
"Well I would to if I were you and I had just been beaten up by a 'chick virus' as you call it." Draco said with a grin.
"Thanks baby, you make me feel a lot better you know that?" Thrax said sarcastically.
Draco just laughed.
"And what exactly do you find so funny?"
"Nothing Thrax, nothing at all." Draco answered with a smile.
Thrax looked at Draco and then he understood what was going on. He pulled the covers over himself to hide his boxers from her.
"I like your boxers." Draco commented. "Love the flames."
"Thanks." Thrax said with sarcastic grin.
There was silence between them. Draco looked down and rubbed her hand over her shoulder.
"Draco?" Thrax asked.
Draco looked up at Thrax.
"Why did you decide to save me?" He asked with a curious expression.
"Like I told you before, the reasons for doing so are mine and mine alone but if you want a better answer than that, I can tell you that I felt something special about you. I mean after you injured me. That's the first time that an opponent has ever drawn blood and there was something inside me that told me to keep you alive." She answered.
"Huh."
"Anyway, Thrax, what's the real reason that you're here in this body. What's so special about it?" Draco asked while pulling up a chair next to Thrax's bed.
Thrax explained to Draco about everything that had happened to him over the past few days. He told her about Frank, his plan, his record and about Osmosis Jones. He also told her how he promised Jones that he would take down Frank's daughter, Shane.
"So you see Draco that's why I HAVE to kill this body as soon as possible."
Draco stood up and turned her back to Thrax.
"I'd love to let you do it but I can't. The um… group that I work for has plans for this body and it cannot be killed now. If I had authorization to do so I would have already done it myself." She answered.
"So what is this group your working for?"
"I can't tell you. It's top secret. In fact, I don't think that I should have even mentioned this stuff to you at all." Draco replied, turning around.
"Well it doesn't matter. When I recover, I'm going to do it anyway. With or without your permission." Thrax said with a grin.
"I don't think so. I was sent into this body to take control and make sure that Shane doesn't get killed by another deadly virus." There was a pause. "And I fully intend to carry out my mission."
"So what are you going to do now, kill me." Thrax said sarcastically.
Draco looked at Thrax with a serious expression on her face and replied, "If it comes down to it, yes, I will kill you." There was another pause. "Now get some sleep Thrax. I'll see you in the morning."
Draco then turned around again, shut off the light and left the room. Thrax stared at the door for a few seconds, turned around on his side and fell asleep.
The next morning or rather afternoon when Thrax woke up, he saw that all of his clothes were sitting on the chair next to his bed. This time when Thrax tried to sit up, he was able to do so but not without wincing a few times. Thrax then stood up but didn't move around too much because he was still sore. He grabbed his clothes and put them on.
After a few moments, Thrax started to walk around the room.
"I wonder where Draco is?" Thrax said aloud.
Thrax walked out the door and as he did, he heard Draco and another voice screaming at each other. Thrax followed the sound of their voices. He was lead to a room with a large screen embedded into the wall. Standing in front of the screen was Draco. She was yelling at a rather aged virus that was on the screen. Thrax moved in closer so he could hear them better.
"Look Chief I told you, I'm not going to kill him!"
"Draco, your orders were to stop any killer virus who tried to kill Shane. If this one virus that you helped intends to jeopardize the mission your orders are to kill him. Do you understand that?"
"But sir! This one is different. I know I can stop him with out killing him."
"Draco your orders are to kill him, understood?"
"NO IT IS NOT UNDERSTOOD! WHY THE HELL ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME!?!" Draco screamed.
"Doing what to you?"
"You know what DAD! You always make me kill everyone when I sound like I have the slightest interest in them."
"Draco, I do not. I'm just telling you to get rid of anyone who may ruin the mission."
"Well I don't honestly give a damn. You know me and the team can just leave whenever we want to and you'd be screwed over as the laughing stock of viral intelligence."
"You wouldn't dare."
"I would. Believe me I would. I'm NOT going to kill him no matter what you say."
"DAMN IT DRACO I AM YOUR SUPERIOR AND YOU WILL OBEY ME. YOUR ORDERS ARE TO KILL HIM. THAT IS ALL!" The aged virus said and the screen went black.
"So are you going to go through with it?" Thrax asked stepping through the doorway.
Draco spun around when she heard him.
"You've been listening in on my conversation?" Draco asked with alarm.
"Yeah baby, I have and were you serious about being interested in me?" Thrax asked with some hopefulness in his voice.
"Well, um… yes. I was serious. I'm also serious about not going to kill you. I don't give a damn what he says. For all I care, my father can just go to hell!" Draco said angrily.
Thrax put one of his clawed hands on her shoulder and asked, "Would you mind telling me what the hell I just witnessed?"
"Yeah, sure but first I think I need some coffee." Draco said putting her hand on her forehead and rubbing her eyes.
Draco and Thrax walked into the kitchen and after they each had some coffee, they both sat down on the couch. Thrax put his arm around Draco. She didn't resist.
"Well Thrax, let me start at the beginning and give you the low down. First off, I am a special Ops agent for VIN, the Virus Intelligence Network. That ass hole that you just saw on the screen is my father and commander in chief. He runs the organization. The primary function of VIN is to gather information, track viruses and kill bodies if the world's viruses haven't killed enough. I am also the leader of Styrker Team Alpha, the best viral invasion force in the world. We usually take down hundred of bodies a year and are behind almost every major plague that has ever taken place after the year 1200."
"Wow, that's some tough shit to lay down on me baby."
"I know it is." Draco replied, standing up and walking over towards the window.
Thrax got up off the couch and followed her. He walked up behind her and placed his hands on her waist. She leaned back and he put his head on her shoulder.
"Draco, baby."
"Yes, Thrax?"
"I have never felt what I'm feeling before baby but I think what I'm feeling is love. Draco, I think I'm in love with you." Thrax said smoothly.
Draco leaned in closer and replied, "I'm in love with you too Thrax. I'm in love with you too."
Draco turned around to face Thrax. Thrax still had his hands on her waist. Draco lifted her hands and put them on his shoulders. They leaned in close to each other and then they passionately kissed.
While kissing, they worked their way over to the couch where Thrax fell backwards and Draco fell on top of him. We all know what happened to them that afternoon.
When Thrax awoke, he was on the floor with Draco beside him. He kissed her, got up and put his clothes back on.
"Sorry baby, but I have work to do. I'll be back for you soon, I promise." Thrax said softly as he quietly walked out the door.
The Brain Stem 9:45 PM
Several Brain Security cells were on patrol that night. None of them really took their jobs seriously since nothing ever happened. Well tonight, something was going to happen, something big.
"This is Patrol 1 reporting no signs of activity on the south side. Over."
"Patrol 1, this is control. All is quiet. Stay alert. Over."
"Affirmative. Over. Patrol 1 out."
As Patrol 1 continued his usual routine, he didn't seem to notice a freshly melted hole in the fence. No, Patrol 1 didn't notice anything at all, until it was too late. The last thing that Patrol 1 saw was a glowing orange light coming down upon him. His death was so swift that he didn't even have time to scream. What a pity.
A dark and unnoticed figure slipped passed the rest of the security guards and entered the brain. Meanwhile…
The Lymph Nodes, Outskirts 10:35 PM
"Thrax?" Draco asked into the darkness. "Thrax, where are you?"
As Draco put her clothes back on, she walked around the house searching and calling out to Thrax. She never got a response.
"Now where the hell could he have gone?"
Just then, it hit her like a lightning bolt hitting a tree.
"Damn it Thrax, you didn't." Draco said aloud.
Draco knew where Thrax had gone. He had gone to the one place where she didn't want him to go. Well screw the damn mission.
"I've got to go get him. He's gonna find himself in deep shit if he thinks he can take down Shane by himself." Draco said as she grabbed her car keys and ran out the door.
Hypothalamus 11:00 PM
The Hypothalamus was heavily guarded. There were two armed guards stationed outside the door and two inside. There were also guards standing in the corridor that lead to the Hypothalamus gland. Thrax noted this as he was standing in the shadows at the end of the corridor. However, he was prepared. He swiped a security clearance badge from one of his victims and he was sure that these cells had no idea what a deadly virus even looked like. With the badge pinned to his coat, he simply walked down the hall with his hands in his pockets.
When the guards saw the badge, they waved him along.
"Stupid cells." Thrax thought to himself.
When Thrax reached the end of the corridor the two cells that were guarding the door stopped him.
"Excuse me sir but what do you think you are doing here?" One of the guards asked.
"I was told that they needed more help up here. You know, making sure that all parts of the body read the normal temperature, 98.6." Thrax replied.
"Hold on one second while we varify that." The other guard said as he called his superiors on his walkie-talkie.
Moments later…
"Well sir. My superiors told me that no one was sent here. So who are you, really?" The guard asked.
Thrax smiled and laughed.
"A virus baby. A virus." He replied with an evil grin.
Before the guards could draw their weapons Thrax had slashed each of their throats with his deadly claw. The other hallway guards saw this and came running.
"Careful boys, I'm contagious." Thrax said as he made a ball of fire in his hand and fired it forward into the ground.
The fireball spread across the path and rose higher, creating a barrier between Thrax and the guards. Thrax sliced opened the entrance to the Hypothalamus and casually disposed of the two guards in the room by throwing them into the double helix in the middle of the room. Thrax then killed off the two working cells by impaling them on the thermometers.
"Hello baby." Thrax said putting on his sunglasses and walking over to the spiraling double helix in the center of the room.
Thrax then drove his glowing claw into the barrier that surrounded the DNA strand. Through the newly created hole, Thrax reached his claw in and carefully selected his DNA bead. When he did, he stuck it in his pocket.
"I'll add you to my collection once I get my bracelet back." Thrax said as he patted the pocket that contained the DNA bead.
"Freeze scum bag!" A voice from behind said.
Thrax turned around to see several armed guards who were pointing their weapons at him.
"Hand over the DNA bead." One of the guards said.
"Make me." Thrax replied with a sneer.
"On the count of three, drop him boys! One, Two, Thr- ack, ack, achhhhhhhhh….." The guard said as he fell to the floor, dead.
Thrax heard shots as the rest of the guards fell down dead. Their heads exploded from the impact of the bullets creating a pretty red mural on the side of the wall. Thrax looked up and saw Draco. She was lying on the upper walkway with a sniper rifle. She jumped down and landed next to Thrax.
"Thrax, baby, you are so dead." She said hugging him.
"Are you going to let me keep it or did I come all this way for nothing?" Thrax asked.
"Lets just say that the mission was a failure." Draco replied, kissing Thrax on the cheek. "Now let's get the hell out of here."
Thrax and Draco ran down the corridor, avoiding the guards as they ran by.
"So what's your plan for a get away?" Draco asked as they ran.
"I dunno. I'm just making it up as I go, baby."
"Great."
"Don't worry, we'll get out of this."
"Yeah your right, I mean we're in this thing together, aren't we?"
"Damn straight Draco. Damn straight."
When Draco and Thrax reached the end of the corridor, they were cornered by several groups of guards.
"Give it up viral scum, we have you surrounded. Hand over the DNA bead." One of the guards ordered.
"Thrax." Draco whispered. "I just remembered. I do have a plan."
"Really? Well now's a good time to use it."
"Right."
Draco stepped away from Thrax and pulled out a black box with a big red button.
"I've taken the liberty of rigging this brain with explosives. If any of you try anything funny, I'll press this button and you'll be blown to hell. Now put down your weapons."
The guards looked at each other and put their weapons down on the ground.
"Okay Thrax, see that window over there?" Draco whispered.
"Yeah, why?"
"We need to go over to that window."
"Why?"
"Because this really isn't a detonator and there are no explosives."
"Shit."
"Don't worry. What it actually is, is a remote signal for the autopilot on my helicopter. I already pressed the switch on the underside so our ride should be here any second."
"Oh."
Draco and Thrax made their way to the window. When they arrived, they began to hear the sound of a helicopter.
"Okay Thrax, we're going to have to jump when I say so. Got it?"
"Yeah baby, I got it."
They waited a few seconds.
"And…. NOW!" Draco shouted.
Before the guards realized what was happening, Draco and Thrax had jumped out the window. As they fell the chopper rolled to the side, caught them, and righted itself. The two of them walked out of the cargo hold and into the cockpit. Draco took the pilot's seat and Thrax took the co-pilot's seat beside her. They both put on a headset.
"Nice chopper but I thought that an agent virus like you would have an attack chopper, not a cargo chopper." Thrax commented.
"Trust me, this is like an attack chopper, just a bigger version. It still packs a punch. Now lets get the hell out of here."
As the chopper flew up the esophagus and to the mouth Draco noticed that they had picked up several SPIT choppers on the way.
"Thrax, would you mind pressing that green button over there, we have some company."
"Yeah sure." Thrax replied, pressing the large green button in front of him.
A light on the overhead dash came on and a picture of a missile lit up on one of the overhead monitors. Draco switched on the rear-view camera and saw two missiles fire out of the back of the chopper.
The SPIT choppers tried to avoid the missiles but unfortunately for them, the missiles already had a lock on their targets. Each missile hit their target and two fireballs exploded in the air. Pieces of shrapnel fell from the sky and rained onto Shane's tongue and gum line. However, one very large piece landed through the windshield of a third SPIT chopper, impaling the pilot and causing the chopper to crash into the gum line.
"Boom baby!" Thrax shouted, turning around to get a better look at the chaos they had caused.
Draco and Thrax laughed together as they flew through Shane's mouth and into open airspace.
"So, where are we headed?" Thrax asked.
"Well first, I have to make a stop back at VIN HQ and then we can go where ever you want to. Got anything special in mind?"
"Yeah, I do baby. I do. We'll head to The City of Frank."
"Okay. Frank it is."