Chapter Four



Golden's vision was rerturning and becoming less blurry. He looked toward Bliss, she had been staring out into the forest around them for severel hours. "Hey Bliss. I think we should head back to base. They might have already caught her." Golden said hoping that Bliss would pay some attention. Bliss turned on her heel and cocked her head slightly to the right. She then jumped down over the railing falling almost 20 feet and landing perfecly. Golden walked down the stairs and fallowed Bliss as she hopped and skipped back to the base. When the two of them had arrived, the base looked quiet. So quiet in fact only a small bird a small distance to the south could be herd singing a merry toon.

Bliss entered the front gate fallowed closely by Golden Flare. They both made their way toward the main facility that was found in the northern area of base. The bases layout was a large rectangle with a small building attechment in the west side. Inside that small bulding the teams weapons were stored, packed closley together so that not to consume a lot of room.

The basic building was large and well built. It was made mostly of wood and was desighned to fit right into the sourounding area. But as the base expanded it bacame more and more obvious to overpassing planes and helicopters. But the large command facillity was not redesigned.

Golden entered the command room directly from a side door in the rounded room. Bliss started to fallow him in but froze, while still in the middle of a small step. Quickly she spun and darted off heading towards the storage house. Golden fallowed as quickly as was possible. Knowing Bliss often had high senses and noticed things ignored or unoticed by any other person. Golden circled a corner and saw Bliss leaning over Siphon. Siphon was gasping quickly and was back down to the concrete floor. Golden swiftly walked over to Siphon. "Oh damn." He realised almost immediately after seeing Siphon that she must have had a run in with the enemy. She always was to nice and liked to try and solve conflict which kindness. Which some times, whith her spunky attitude, did not happen easily. "Bliss, help me carry her to the command room. Whith a quick knod she slipped her hands under Siphon's pained back and whith the help of Golden carried Siphon slowly back into the command room. They both placed her carefully upon the round table as others came to see what was wrong.

All the members of X-Counter where there at the table. Skewer placed a hand on Siphons shoulder,"She looks like she's in a lot of pain. Maybe she blacked out or something." His voice was faint and sounded distant, while he ran through all the possible reasons she might have gotten injured in his head.

"Dimness." Golden Flare whispered slowly. Vocalizing what everyone else was thinking, except Intensite.

Intensite jolted up out of his seat in the corner of the room and slammed his fist on the taable."No, it might have been Stator!" Intensite shouted bringing the attention of the entire room on him. Bliss was shocked at the sound of vengence and hate in Intesites voice.

Skewer shot Intensite a direct penetrating glance. "Clam down. You'll get your chance to smash that would be X-Man." Skewer rested his elbows on the table. "Well gang? This is our first real assult on our base. Got any ideas?" He stroked his bristled chin with his thumb while portraying the members of the X-Counter. Golden Flares gase was blank and wide eyed. He looked distanly toward the metalic ceiling. With a closer inspection Skewer noticed Goldens eyes start to fade into a deep glowing yellow.