Amy Dallon

I felt weak when I woke up. I smelled soup, chicken soup.

"I'm sorry, um my folks kind of left the planet after the attack, and I've been tinkering and, um stuff."

The soup was warm but not hot, I laid back and let him feed me. The little mini tree was working but it didn't have the power output of a real tree, but it could take a month to regenerate a limb with a full grown tree, this was going to be less then that. Fuck, I was going to have to figure out how to get my arm back, and new armor and shit.

"How long was I out?"

"Three days, more or less, I kept you hydrated and um had to wash stuff."

I looked away, not a whole lot of dignity there. I looked at my stump and took another spoon of soup. I let him feed me while trying to think of something to do.

"All done and-"

"Phone."

He nodded and got a cell phone, I got ready to grip it and then notice that it was my stump, I sighed.

"Call a number for me?"

He nodded.

"8675309, whatever you do, don't ask for Jenny."

He punched in the number and put the phone against my head, I listened in and.

"Alpha, Zeta Romero."

I heard a clicking sound.

"Who?"

"This is Amy-"

Thank god, it's mom.

"Are you ok?"

"Well I'm missing a hand, I have burns and scars all over my body but I'm healing up."

"We didn't find you in the hospital."

I sighed.

"I'm at Void's place, he's been helping me heal up, he um kind of found me when I passed out."

"You need to go to the hospital."

"You honestly think they're not monitoring those?"

There was silence.

"Good point."

I leaned back into the bed.

"So how bad has it been since I was gone?"

"The Teeth are dead, what's left of the Empire's in really bad shape, we're dealing with a whole lot of death and mayhem, and the new PRT director got killed."

I tried to remember his name.

"Calvert?"

"Yeah he did a decent enough job but he got killed by the Siberian, the Protectorate's taking it pretty hard, there's talk of bringing Piggot back from Cleveland but I doubt it."

Goddamn.

"Stay where you are and heal up, ok? We're looking for their base and we need you to recover."

"Ok mom."

I turned off the phone.

"Can you get a new tree?"

"Huh?"

"A new Phenix tree?"

"Um I don't know, I..."

I flopped out of the bed and noticed I didn't have any clothing I huddled the blankets around myself and put my hand on the glowing blue tree. I focused my power on it, I could use it as a mirror I think. I mean I've never used it that way before but desperate times and all that. I smiled as I got a view of myself. Let's see I was about 10 pounds overweight, from stress eating if nothing else so plenty of mass to heal the burns, huh lots of bruising, lots of cuts, the tree had enough mass. I decided to ignore the pain as I forced the tree inside myself, using it's own power and my power combined to heal my wounds, to regrow my hand, to... huh you know what.

I've done plenty of work on the family Crystal, Vicky, mom, dad, everyone, we're a family of freaking super models thanks to yours, fucking truely. Ok it looks like I'm going to be pale as fuck because it takes awhile to tan, I'm also going to have to completely regrow my hair, which isn't going to be my normal somewhat bleached brown. Welp better make the best of it, right? The pain faded and I got up, Void looked away. I stumbled and fell.

"Right... so this is embarrassing and awkward for me too, but I'm going to need you to get me to your bathroom because I really need to use the fucking everything there."

"Ok."

"Also your clothes..."

I took in a breath.

"Give them to me."

He stared at me.

"What?"

"Your clothing, give them to me."

"Um Ok I guess I have."

"Your shirt take it off."

He promptly did so, I put it on and then decided to push a little further.

"Your pants too."

He turned beet red.

"Why?"

I took in some air.

"Well you have obviously seen me naked, which of course pisses me off. Thus the only way to make it all even is to see you naked, so you know chop chop."

I made a clapping sound and watched as the look of horror spread across his face.

"Really?"

"I'm fucking with you."

He kind of blinked.

"But I really had you going there didn't I?"

"Yeah so you don't need my help?"

I sighed.

"Still not used to the new nervous system, I'm going to need to have you stabilize me while I go to the bathroom. Then I call up my folks, have them pick me up and we will figure out what to do from there."

"Oh good, um you look um different."

"I had third and second degree burns all over my body, I better look different."

I motioned for him to help me, he grabbed me and we walked up the steps to the bathroom. The house was dusty, deserted, it had the look of people who existed there, not lived, existed. I didn't see a lot of personal touches or pictures or a lot of things you saw in a normal home.

"So Void, your folks?"

"I have enough money to get by so I agreed to take over the mortage, they're on Mars... we talked about a couple things and we split way."

"Oh that sucks."

He shrugged and opened the bathroom door.

"You Ok?"

"Yeah I think I can do this on my own Void."

He left in a hurry as I shut the door. I climbed into the bathtub and noticed he had a bottle of unused bubble bath.

"Score."