I've finally updated, Yay! *shrinks back from the glares of reviewers* Um…sorry for the long wait…but don't worry, some interesting things will happen in this chapter, trust me! ^-^ You'll be very interested in this chapter!
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ok, not really, I don't own anything but the PLOT! MUAHAHAHAHA
*cough* Sorry about that.
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*~*~*~*~*~*Chapter 4*~*~*~*~*
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Erika sighed wearily as Karen sat down on another park bench, and preceded to cry.
"Kaarrrreeeennnn!" Erika whined, sitting down next to her.
"I'm happy...I'm happy, I'm very happy, I'm very, very happy." Karen mumbled to herself, a perky smile appearing on her face through her tears.
Erike shook her head, if her friend wanted to cry and smile at the same time, who was she to stop it?
"Happy! Happy! Horribly, depressingly happy!" Karen cried out, drawing stares from startled pedestrians.
"Riiiiiiiggghhhht. Okay. You're happy. Now what?" Erika asked her friend.
"Miss Erika! Ah!"
Erika turned to the shout and mentally groaned.
'Not him, any one but him…'
Dorkbot came running up and hugged Erika's legs, his gigantic glasses practically falling off in his enthusiasm.
"I couldn't find Mr. Ikki or Mr. Medabee, so I decided to wander around till I found somebody, and I found you! Could you tell me where they are? Please?" Dorkbot asked, his voice whining pathetically, nearly drowning out Karen's crying.
Erika felt her left eye twitch as both Karen and Dorkbot continued to wail without end.
"Try going to Ikki's house, Dorkbot." Erika said smoothly as she mentally envisioned ripping Dorkbot's glasses off his mechanical head and stomping on them with a demented expression on her usually serene face.
"His house? What a splendid idea! Amazing! Thank-you so much Miss Erika!" Dorkbot gushed before dashing down the street…exactly opposite to where Ikki's house was.
'Oh well, I won't stop him.' Erika thought evilly, before attending to her distraught friend.
"What's the matter, Karen?" She asked, handing Karen a tissue.
Karen looked gratefully at Erika before taking the tissue and preceding to wet it thoroughly with her tears.
"Well, I heard from my friend Wendy, who heard from her cousin Jane, who heard from her brother Alex, who heard from his best friend's older brother Kevin, that Koji had asked Opal out to the school dance this Friday!" Karen said in one breath, before continuing to wet her tissue.
Erika stared a moment at Karen, her mind had lost Karen between Jane and Alan…or was it Axel?
"Okay, so what are you going to do about it?" Erika asked Karen.
Karen looked up, her eyes red from her crying.
"I don't want to talk to Koji about it because I don't want to ruin our friendship, and I don't want to talk to Opal about it because I don't want to hurt her feelings. I can't do anything but cry!" Karen wiped away from more tears that had slipped down her cheek.
"Sometimes I wish I wasn't so nice, maybe then I could actually confront Koji or Opal, but no, I have to be the nice, sweet, kind personality one, and look where it gets me…and you know what really bothers me?" Karen asked, looking tearfully to Erika.
Erika shook her head. "Noo..."
"That's who I am, I just am that sickenly sweet person, and I hate it sometimes." Karen sniffed, and wiped some tears from her eyes.
"I feel pathetic about how I'm acting, but I just can't confront Koji." Karen added, her voice filled with hopelessness.
Erika suddenly felt her reporter mind hatching a brilliant scheme.
"Leave it to me Karen…Leave it to me."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Get the disk ready." A voice ordered harshly as several people hurried to obey his orders.
"Confirming code."
"Code confirmed."
Voices rang out, as work progressed smoothly.
The shadows smiled.
"Perfect…the plan is working perfectly…soon…very soon…."
A figure walked up to the shadow, obviously shaking from fear.
"S-Sir, we've run into a few problems-"
"WHAT! Fix. The. Problems. Now. We have a limited time…. now move!"
The figure ran away hurriedly to his companions, all working with obvious fatigue, but working nevertheless, the shadows hurried them, and frightened them…better to work for them, then to work against them.
"A little later then intended, but nevertheless, soon…very soon." Laughing radiated in the bodies of the workers, making them pause slightly in their work, before moving back to work harder then before.
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"AAAHHHH!"
A boy and his medabot ran down the street, being chased by a huge clumsy oaf-er- I mean medabot.
"I thought you said you were going to train meeeee!" Dorkbot yelled, struggling to catch up with Ikki and Medabee.
"Later! Promise, just stop chasing us!" Ikki yelled back, beginning to pant from the exertion, after all, running ten blocks full speed does take a little bit outta you.
"That's the problem!"
Medabee turned his head around in disbelief.'
"What do ya mean! You just stop running!"
"I don't have brakes!"
Ikki and Medabee stopped instantly, and watched calmly as Dorkbot ran right past them, screaming the whole way.
"O-kay. What kind of medabot doesn't have any brakes?" Ikki asked to himself, watching Dorkbot and his voice fade in the distance.
"A dorkbot obviously, I almost feel sorry for the guy."
"…."
"I said almost feel sorry for the guy."
Medabee turned to Ikki when he still didn't hear any answer.
"Yo Ikki! Ya gonna talk to me?"
Ikki pointed his finger to a figure in the distance, a hunched back and obviously depressed from the body signals.
"I think that's Koji, I'm going to see what's wrong." Ikki said, beginning to run in the figure direction.
"Wait up!" Medabee yelled, running up with Ikki.
"Hey Koji." Ikki said when they finally caught up.
"Hn."
Ikki and Medabee walked along side Koji and Koji continued to wander the park with his head bent and his eyes mostly closed.
"You feel ok?" Medabee finally asked, noticing that Sumilidon was nowhere in sight.
"Hn."
Ikki and Medabee followed Koji to a park bench and sat down beside Koji.
"Oh, I get it! This is like charades! Alright, I'm taken…depressed, upset, sad, um…oh I got it! Angst?" Medabee sudden shouted out.
Koji glared at Medabee before sighing and leaning back against the bench.
"OW!"
Ikki and Medabee snickered as Koji rubbed his hurt head.
"Why is it that all the benches in this park has backs, but this particular one I just happen to sit on doesn't?" Koji yelled angrily, jumping up and kicking the bench with his foot before yelping from the pain and sat down again, nursing his hurt foot.
"Just tell us, Koji, that's what friends are for." Ikki said, his eyes wandering to the birds in the sky.
"Well, I…well…you know how I feel about Karen, but whenever she's near, I can't seem to form any sentences, and its driving me nuts!" Koji's voice raised as he spoke and he was practically yelling the last part with enormous amounts of frustration in his voice.
Ikki and Medabee stared at him blankly for a moment before relating their own feelings.
"Oh. I know exactly what you mean-"
"That's happens to me whenever I ask-"
"My circuit boards decide at that moment to shut down and-"
"And then I have to find something really nice for both of us to do-"
"Arrrrgh! It's so frustrating and-"
"Then I worry that it isn't any fun and-"
"Are you getting this?"
"Koji?"
Koji sighed and got up from the bench, his face a little more cheery from the support from his friends.
"Thanks guys. Maybe someday soon I'll gather enough courage to ask her out."
"Hey Koji! How are you today?" A cheerful voice asked.
Koji slowly turned around and came face to face with Karen's smiling face.
"M-Me? I'm fine, just fine, never better in fact! Hahaha, wonderful, really, I have to go now, excuse me, bye Karen love, Mph, I mean, Karen, just Karen, yeah, BYE!"
Ikki and Medabee watched nonchalantly as their friend made an absolute fool of himself before running away.
"He's got it bad."
"Oh yeah."
"Huh?"
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"Sir!"
"Is all going according to plan?"
A figure cowered under the voice of the other shadow in the room, the darkness seemed to swallow him up. It was all the poor figure could do to stay in one spot as the shadow moved, coming closer to him.
"Get the Doctor. You know the plan, now. Go."
The figure fled the room as the voice cackled over the loudspeaker, filling the compound with its evil laughter.
"Soon, Doctor! Soon…."
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Doctor Akki paled as he felt a terrible headache came on. Collapsing on the floor, assistants rushed to help him.
"Stop…get…Miss Caviar…now…"
"Doctor!"
Seconds later Miss Caviar was rushed to Doctor Akki's side. Quickly checking his pulse and breathing, Miss Caviar stood perplexed.
"All his vitals are fine, I can't find anything wrong…Doctor Akki? Doctor Akki, wake up!" Miss Caviar felt tears come unbidden to her eyes. Furiously wiping them away with a Kleenex tissue a colleague produced, Miss Caviar helped Doctor Akki into a chair.
"Call 911, tell them we have a situation at the Medabot Cooperation." Miss Caviar instructed a standing assistant.
"That would be all right Miss Caviar, I'm fine now."
Miss Caviar gasped at the sound of Doctor Akki's voice.
"What do you mean? You collapsed seconds ago, you can't tell me 'I'm fine now.' Doctor Akki, sit back down, what are you doing? Doctor!" Miss Caviar stood helplessly, watching as Doctor Akki stood up and went to the computer, pushing aside the assistant working.
"I want everybody in the machinery, we have a lot of work to do." Doctor Akki ordered, before turning back to the computer and typing in a hurried rate.
"But…why?" Corky asked, Miss Caviar watching, forgotten in the shadows.
"Work, Mr. Corky. We have much work to do."
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"You fool." A voice whispered, watching Doctor Akki from the ventilator.
The person watched quietly as a whirlwind of
assistants and workers came and went, all the while, he was watching quietly in
the vent, watching them all.
"What have I done?" He whispered to himself, his voice cracking as
his words were spoken.
"I'm the fool." He whispered, turning away from the vent as a familiar face came into view.
"What have I done?"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*End Chapter 4*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
There you have it, end of Chapter 4. Now, I can't guarantee an immediate chapter 5, but I'll work hard to do what I can. By, the way, I'm working on another story with my sister, Violentdelight, it's a Harry Potter/Sailor Moon crossover, and deals mainly with the inner scouts, no Usagi, and is somewhat centred on Makoto.
Well, please review this chapter, and *cross-fingers* I'll get the next chapter out before the end of the month…maybe a sooner…maybe a lot sooner…hopefully! ^-^