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Chapter 18: Pushing Me Away
Knives awoke in his bulb, looking out into the part of the ship that he is located in. His body completely healed, Knives worked his way out of the bulb. He slipped into his space suit and headed for the lab, which he hoped that the DNA sample would be completely finished and he can then finally figure out what exactly that one vermin meant when she said that she 'wasn't human.'
Walking through the cool-tempered ship, Knives turned left and entered the lab. Luckily for him, the DNA scan was complete and awaiting for him to look over the results. Smiling slightly, Knives walked over to the console and pressed a few buttons to bring up the results of the scan. His eyes moved rapidly back and forth as he read the results and was quite surprised at his findings.
That vermin was quite right about herself, she wasn't human, or at least she's part human. But what really fascinated him was the fact that she's part PLANT. Which would mean only one thing: there are people out there who know that plants are living things.
With this realization, Knives slowly became angry. There were people out there, who knew that plants are living things, and yet they haven't told the public this or tried anything to stop it! And worse yet, they were apparently using its DNA for experimentation and genetic alteration.
Knives' eyes grew wide quickly with that last part. Genetic alteration. If that means that people can be genetically altered to be plants.... he could learn how to do this and thus, change the future of this retched dustball and create the Eden that he's always wanted.
'Hmm.' Knives thought as he turned and walked out of the lab. 'It makes me wonder whether or not there are more of these types of vermin. They could be able to help change the future of this planet. Yes, that can definitely work in my advantage.'
*****
Vash quickly sat up in his bed. He had just received a message from the town plant that apparently been relayed through all the others. Devi was in trouble, AND he knows that he's been heading in the wrong direction the entire time.
Vash snagged his clothing and started to yank them on. He lost his balance trying to pull on his pants and he fell over, making a huge ruckus and waking Wolfwood up. Wolfwood appeared in his nightclothes and looked down at the very wide-awake Vash on the floor.
"What are you doing, needle-noggin," Wolfwood asked between his yawns. "Its three-thirty in the morning. Are you afraid that someone is going to take all the fresh donuts before the bakery even opens?"
Vash stood and pulled his black shirt on. "No, nothing at all like that. I know where Devi is, and she's in trouble. Big trouble."
Wolfwood face vaulted. He was now very wide awake too as he half- shouted, "Why didn't you say that in the first place?"
"Because you started to speak before I had a chance to say anything." Vash snagged his red trench coat and swung it on as there was a knock at the door. Wolfwood disappeared into his room as Vash opened the door to reveal the girls on the other side.
"Mr. Vash," Milly yawned. "It's certainly a bit early to be dressed, don't you think?"
Vash nodded. "I know that, but we have to move out now! I know where Devi is!"
"What," said the two girls in unison. It didn't take much longer for Vash to explain the rest and within a few seconds for everyone to be ready and chucking their things in the vehicle. Meryl paid for the rooms and for a few coffees and a saylon tea for Milly.
"Where are we headed, Vash," Meryl asked as she sat in the front seat and Vash started the vehicle and headed out of town. Right towards December.
He looked over at Meryl a moment. "To December. Or at least its outskirts."
"December!?" Everyone, except for Vash said in unison.
Vash nodded. "It seems to me that we've been heading in the wrong direction for sometime."
"But that's also about a week's work of driving just to get there," Wolfwood exclaimed.
"Which is why I'm driving," Vash said coolly before practically slamming his foot on the gas pedal.
*****
Devi was able to feel it in herself: She was complete with the alteration. It had been about a week or so since she's talk to the plants into contacting Vash. Hopefully they've contacted him and he was just about here, it was the night she was going to escape.
'I can't believe it, I'm going to escape from these people a second time,' Devi thought to herself as she pumped adrenaline through her system to wake her up, it took her a good two minutes until she was completely awake and had control of her body again. The protein nutrient slowed her movement as she slowly worked at her hands, elbows and shoulders, even popping a bit of her upper back. She looked down at herself for a moment. Her hair grew allot since she was first placed in, so much that it curled up to the middle of her shins after reaching the bottom of the capsule. Looking at her forearms and hands, Devi found a short layer of black fur and her palms were completely bare from any fur.
'Oy, this will certainly change everything.'
Mustering up as much energy as she could, Devi started punching at the glass of the capsule. It took her three tries just to crack it, then on the fifth punch, the glass shattered and the liquid goo poured out from the capsule. Carefully, Devi stepped out of the capsule, and then started to pull out the small needles out of her skin. Devi felt the adrenaline wear off as she stepped away and avoiding any pieces of glass the best she could. Her energy was weak and she felt nauseous. She knew this feeling all too well; it was always like this after she underwent an altering treatment of some sort. She'd feel like this for a few days as her body discarded the DNA waste, thanks to a special medicine that was also one of the needles that made that capable.
She fell to her knees and rolled to her back, her black hair twisted around her, covering her body at certain parts and she was glad this happened because Jason came in at that point.
"Devi," he asked as he walked across the glass-strewed floor and knelt beside her. Devi made an attempt to move her head to face Jason, but urged her not to. "You are going to need your strength."
She heard him set something down nearby, open it and shuffle through it a moment. Then she felt something soft and dry against her wet hair and fur. Then Devi heard Jason shuffle through whatever he set nearby again. When the shuffling stopped, Jason reached for her arm and went in search for a vein through her short fur.
"I'm going to inject you with a serum that will help you in energizing you and prevent you from being sick for about forty-five minutes. You have this time on to get ready and escape. Just as a word of warning, once they realized what you've done, they're going to set off the alarm and set the hounds out in search for you. You must be careful if you wish to get out of here alive, Devi."
Devi felt a small prick as he talked and she felt better by the time he was done explaining. Whatever the serum was that he just injected into her, it coursed through her veins like a wildfire. She felt warm and she moved around a bit, grabbing what is apparently a soft towel and held it close to her as she sat up. Jason stood and walked away with his back turned to Devi. She wasn't sure if he was being a gentleman and allowing her privacy or if he was ashamed of the fact that he as helping her escape.
Stretching as she stood, Devi looked at what he set down near her. It was a small black bag. She reached in and pulled out her tight-fitting outfit and trench coat, her face was in awe.
"Jason?"
"Hm?"
"Why...why are you helping me?" Devi looked at his back as she toweled herself off, trying get as much moisture out of her fur before she put her outfit on.
Jason shifted on his feet and bit his lip, even though Devi didn't see it. He wasn't quite sure as to why he is doing this. It just felt right. Before he was completely altered, Jason always wanted to see what it was like outside these facility walls. Unfortunately he was never given the opportunity. Hearing how someone that is like him escaped, but then captured again, made him wonder even more about what it was like outside, since someone else did so. Ever since Devi came to the facility, Jason's head has been buzzing with a wide variety of questions about the planet. What are the people like? The towns? Does Vash the Stampede still live, or is he only a legend that people think is real and the scientists took the opportunity to make someone stronger than ever by means of genetic experiments? Does Devi even have any friends? And do they know her secret?
It took him a moment before he answered. "I'm not sure, really," he started. "It just feels...right. To give someone something that I'll probably never get: Freedom."
Devi stopped. During the moment of silence that Jason was thinking of his answer, Devi had already slipped into her outfit, making sure her tail was completely through too. It seemed to fit a tad bit looser than before. At the moment, she was working on drying some of her hair before she pulls it back. It was a strange response to hear. Jason was giving her freedom.
"You better go," Jason said, looking over his shoulder quickly to see Devi pulling on her black trench coat and noticing something different about it. "Yes, I added the hood to it. I figured it would be of help for when you reach town or something."
Devi slipped her feet into her boots. She pulled her hair up and tried her best to make sure it didn't drag too much and eventually got it into a loop with a tail, a good hairstyle for an important reason. If it dragged, there was a chance that it would snag and all would be lost. Devi then searched the bag and found her gun, holster and belt, and her knives. She put these on at the appropriate places.
"So," Devi said as she made one last check that she had everything with her. "How do you propose that I escape from here?"
Jason pointed to the ceiling vent towards a corner. "Take that vent and go straight. It'll take you out of the building easily. Be careful though the grounds have motion detectors everywhere, that's where you'll most likely be spotted."
Devi nodded. "Alright." She turned to face the vent. "Oh and Jason."
Jason was about to turn around to walk away when he stopped. "Yeah?"
She gave a soft smile. "Thank you. And I have a feeling that we'll be seeing each other sometime in the future."
Before Jason could respond, Devi jumped up and moved the vent up. She jumped again to move it to one of the sides and she gripped the edge of the vent. Then she acrobatically shimmied up and inside the vent and disappeared.
Jason smiled slightly at the vent. He had a strange feeling that she was actually right.
*****
It was Wolfwood's turn on driving and they were actually pretty close to December now. They've been taking turns in driving constantly and they now have about half's a days worth driving now. They've managed to keep this up for three days straight. All of them were tired, yet alert. The suns were down and they were now speeding through the night, spraying sand in their wake.
"Remember Wolfwood," Vash reminded him for the fifth time that he was driving. "She's in the outskirts."
"Yes Vash! I know! You told me that five times now!!"
"I was just making sure you knew!"
*****
Devi was crawling through the vents easily. Apparently she has lost some weight, how she'll never know considering she's already fairly thin to begin with.
'This is probably the easy part,' She thought as she looked ahead and saw the vent where it ended and lead to the outside. To freedom. The one thing she had and lost, and she's about to get it again.
Reaching the vent, Devi removed the vent and moved it to the side. She peered outside. It was rather dark, making it a bit easier to sneak away. It has probably been about a half hour since Jason injected the serum in her system, giving her plenty of time to escape, even though it was only fifteen minutes.
"Well," Devi whispered to herself. "Here goes nothing."
She gracefully leapt from the vent and crouched low on the ground, hand just barely an inch from the sand floor. Looking to the left and right, she examined her surroundings. A chain-linked fence wrapped its way around the building apparently with only a few tall posts for spotlights. At the top of the fence, a barbwire coiled its way like a frozen thin snake with many deadly fangs.
'I better tread lightly, I don't know when they'll realize that I'm gone and I don't have the time to find out.'
*****
A young associate walked down the hallway toward the one room that was sealed off for sometime. He was ordered to come down here because the doctor had a bad feeling something just might have happened. Unfortunately, the doctor kept getting this feeling once a month. What ever happened with this one before, he was obviously paranoid that it'll happen again. But every time he's been sent here to check on this experiment, nothing really happened to it and there was no sign of change.
'Yup,' the associate thought. 'He's definitely paranoid.'
Reaching the room, he punched in the code to open it and it hissed silently. He entered the room, expecting everything to be the same, but they weren't. Glass and a sticky liquid was everywhere. Small injection tubes with needles attached to them hung loosely, the experiment that they once pierced was gone. After a quick examination of the room, the associate turned and ran back to the doctor to report this.
'He maybe paranoid, but this time he was right this time around.'
*****
Devi was just about halfway when she heard the alarms go off. The spotlights on the tall poles turned on instantly, searching for her. Behind her she heard a soft hiss of something opening, and then the sound of dogs and by the pitch, they were big dogs.
'Damn,' She thought as she made a mad dash for the fence. The dogs behind her bounding for her, with big white teeth and powerful muscled legs that helped them run for her. Devi turned and ran for the corner, hoping that she can use the momentum of her running to bounce between the joined fences and leap over the barbwire with little problem.
Gathering as much energy as possible, Devi ran even faster and leapt just a few feet before reaching the fences. She did just as she was hoping would happen, Devi bounced between the joined fences and over the barbwire, just barely missing their deadly metal teeth. Rolling as soon as she meet with the ground, Devi got back up and ran with all her heart into the desert.
She didn't stop until the spotlights would no longer be able to find her, which made her run for like five to ten minutes straight. Out of breath and starting to feel queasy again, Devi found a large rock formation and sat against the cool rock. The serum has started to wear off and she was back to being queasy and heading towards weak again. Devi suddenly felt extremely warm and she carefully peeled off her trench coat and set it on her lap. The queasiness continued and they went from bad to worse.
Moving quickly, Devi got up and ran a few steps before falling down. Once she fell, Devi coughed and, sure enough, she puked. Fortunately for her, it was dark so she couldn't see the green-orange substance that once was her DNA and stomach acid. She feebly got to her hands and knees before she heaved once more. Devi then stayed there, afraid to move, and breathing very heavily. Devi could feel her fur be slightly damp from sweat.
Hoping that she was done heaving for the time being, Devi weakly stood, took a few steps back to where she was sitting and fell face forward. She was lucky that her head hit the semi-soft cushion of her crumpled up trench coat. All she saw after that, was darkness.
*****
Wolfwood continued to drive, Vash telling him to turn slightly to the left towards a huge rock formation in the distance. Something seemed to be telling him that she was there.
After a few more minutes of driving, Wolfwood stopped near the rock formation. All four of them climbed out of the vehicle.
"Devi," Vash called out. Shortly after Vash's shout, they heard a small noise towards the right of them at a diagonally. Moving slowly, the group moved in that direction.
Vash was the first one to spot her, laying on the ground. "Devi!"
The other three followed and soon found her too, kneeling next to Vash.
"She's unconscious," Vash said. "And she's also different. Let's get her to the vehicle and get to a town, quick."
Together, they got Devi to the vehicle. Vash went back temporarily for her trench coat and draped it on her. Vash couldn't see that well in the night, but could feel Devi's face was softer, but it was hair that was on her face.
Meryl volunteered this time to drive, as Vash climbed in the backseat to keep and eye on Devi, who's been placed as comfortable as they could get her in the very back. She didn't seem to be complaining at all really, even though she is unconscious.
'Oh, Devi,' Vash thought. 'What happened to you where ever you were?'
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Chapter 18: Pushing Me Away
Knives awoke in his bulb, looking out into the part of the ship that he is located in. His body completely healed, Knives worked his way out of the bulb. He slipped into his space suit and headed for the lab, which he hoped that the DNA sample would be completely finished and he can then finally figure out what exactly that one vermin meant when she said that she 'wasn't human.'
Walking through the cool-tempered ship, Knives turned left and entered the lab. Luckily for him, the DNA scan was complete and awaiting for him to look over the results. Smiling slightly, Knives walked over to the console and pressed a few buttons to bring up the results of the scan. His eyes moved rapidly back and forth as he read the results and was quite surprised at his findings.
That vermin was quite right about herself, she wasn't human, or at least she's part human. But what really fascinated him was the fact that she's part PLANT. Which would mean only one thing: there are people out there who know that plants are living things.
With this realization, Knives slowly became angry. There were people out there, who knew that plants are living things, and yet they haven't told the public this or tried anything to stop it! And worse yet, they were apparently using its DNA for experimentation and genetic alteration.
Knives' eyes grew wide quickly with that last part. Genetic alteration. If that means that people can be genetically altered to be plants.... he could learn how to do this and thus, change the future of this retched dustball and create the Eden that he's always wanted.
'Hmm.' Knives thought as he turned and walked out of the lab. 'It makes me wonder whether or not there are more of these types of vermin. They could be able to help change the future of this planet. Yes, that can definitely work in my advantage.'
*****
Vash quickly sat up in his bed. He had just received a message from the town plant that apparently been relayed through all the others. Devi was in trouble, AND he knows that he's been heading in the wrong direction the entire time.
Vash snagged his clothing and started to yank them on. He lost his balance trying to pull on his pants and he fell over, making a huge ruckus and waking Wolfwood up. Wolfwood appeared in his nightclothes and looked down at the very wide-awake Vash on the floor.
"What are you doing, needle-noggin," Wolfwood asked between his yawns. "Its three-thirty in the morning. Are you afraid that someone is going to take all the fresh donuts before the bakery even opens?"
Vash stood and pulled his black shirt on. "No, nothing at all like that. I know where Devi is, and she's in trouble. Big trouble."
Wolfwood face vaulted. He was now very wide awake too as he half- shouted, "Why didn't you say that in the first place?"
"Because you started to speak before I had a chance to say anything." Vash snagged his red trench coat and swung it on as there was a knock at the door. Wolfwood disappeared into his room as Vash opened the door to reveal the girls on the other side.
"Mr. Vash," Milly yawned. "It's certainly a bit early to be dressed, don't you think?"
Vash nodded. "I know that, but we have to move out now! I know where Devi is!"
"What," said the two girls in unison. It didn't take much longer for Vash to explain the rest and within a few seconds for everyone to be ready and chucking their things in the vehicle. Meryl paid for the rooms and for a few coffees and a saylon tea for Milly.
"Where are we headed, Vash," Meryl asked as she sat in the front seat and Vash started the vehicle and headed out of town. Right towards December.
He looked over at Meryl a moment. "To December. Or at least its outskirts."
"December!?" Everyone, except for Vash said in unison.
Vash nodded. "It seems to me that we've been heading in the wrong direction for sometime."
"But that's also about a week's work of driving just to get there," Wolfwood exclaimed.
"Which is why I'm driving," Vash said coolly before practically slamming his foot on the gas pedal.
*****
Devi was able to feel it in herself: She was complete with the alteration. It had been about a week or so since she's talk to the plants into contacting Vash. Hopefully they've contacted him and he was just about here, it was the night she was going to escape.
'I can't believe it, I'm going to escape from these people a second time,' Devi thought to herself as she pumped adrenaline through her system to wake her up, it took her a good two minutes until she was completely awake and had control of her body again. The protein nutrient slowed her movement as she slowly worked at her hands, elbows and shoulders, even popping a bit of her upper back. She looked down at herself for a moment. Her hair grew allot since she was first placed in, so much that it curled up to the middle of her shins after reaching the bottom of the capsule. Looking at her forearms and hands, Devi found a short layer of black fur and her palms were completely bare from any fur.
'Oy, this will certainly change everything.'
Mustering up as much energy as she could, Devi started punching at the glass of the capsule. It took her three tries just to crack it, then on the fifth punch, the glass shattered and the liquid goo poured out from the capsule. Carefully, Devi stepped out of the capsule, and then started to pull out the small needles out of her skin. Devi felt the adrenaline wear off as she stepped away and avoiding any pieces of glass the best she could. Her energy was weak and she felt nauseous. She knew this feeling all too well; it was always like this after she underwent an altering treatment of some sort. She'd feel like this for a few days as her body discarded the DNA waste, thanks to a special medicine that was also one of the needles that made that capable.
She fell to her knees and rolled to her back, her black hair twisted around her, covering her body at certain parts and she was glad this happened because Jason came in at that point.
"Devi," he asked as he walked across the glass-strewed floor and knelt beside her. Devi made an attempt to move her head to face Jason, but urged her not to. "You are going to need your strength."
She heard him set something down nearby, open it and shuffle through it a moment. Then she felt something soft and dry against her wet hair and fur. Then Devi heard Jason shuffle through whatever he set nearby again. When the shuffling stopped, Jason reached for her arm and went in search for a vein through her short fur.
"I'm going to inject you with a serum that will help you in energizing you and prevent you from being sick for about forty-five minutes. You have this time on to get ready and escape. Just as a word of warning, once they realized what you've done, they're going to set off the alarm and set the hounds out in search for you. You must be careful if you wish to get out of here alive, Devi."
Devi felt a small prick as he talked and she felt better by the time he was done explaining. Whatever the serum was that he just injected into her, it coursed through her veins like a wildfire. She felt warm and she moved around a bit, grabbing what is apparently a soft towel and held it close to her as she sat up. Jason stood and walked away with his back turned to Devi. She wasn't sure if he was being a gentleman and allowing her privacy or if he was ashamed of the fact that he as helping her escape.
Stretching as she stood, Devi looked at what he set down near her. It was a small black bag. She reached in and pulled out her tight-fitting outfit and trench coat, her face was in awe.
"Jason?"
"Hm?"
"Why...why are you helping me?" Devi looked at his back as she toweled herself off, trying get as much moisture out of her fur before she put her outfit on.
Jason shifted on his feet and bit his lip, even though Devi didn't see it. He wasn't quite sure as to why he is doing this. It just felt right. Before he was completely altered, Jason always wanted to see what it was like outside these facility walls. Unfortunately he was never given the opportunity. Hearing how someone that is like him escaped, but then captured again, made him wonder even more about what it was like outside, since someone else did so. Ever since Devi came to the facility, Jason's head has been buzzing with a wide variety of questions about the planet. What are the people like? The towns? Does Vash the Stampede still live, or is he only a legend that people think is real and the scientists took the opportunity to make someone stronger than ever by means of genetic experiments? Does Devi even have any friends? And do they know her secret?
It took him a moment before he answered. "I'm not sure, really," he started. "It just feels...right. To give someone something that I'll probably never get: Freedom."
Devi stopped. During the moment of silence that Jason was thinking of his answer, Devi had already slipped into her outfit, making sure her tail was completely through too. It seemed to fit a tad bit looser than before. At the moment, she was working on drying some of her hair before she pulls it back. It was a strange response to hear. Jason was giving her freedom.
"You better go," Jason said, looking over his shoulder quickly to see Devi pulling on her black trench coat and noticing something different about it. "Yes, I added the hood to it. I figured it would be of help for when you reach town or something."
Devi slipped her feet into her boots. She pulled her hair up and tried her best to make sure it didn't drag too much and eventually got it into a loop with a tail, a good hairstyle for an important reason. If it dragged, there was a chance that it would snag and all would be lost. Devi then searched the bag and found her gun, holster and belt, and her knives. She put these on at the appropriate places.
"So," Devi said as she made one last check that she had everything with her. "How do you propose that I escape from here?"
Jason pointed to the ceiling vent towards a corner. "Take that vent and go straight. It'll take you out of the building easily. Be careful though the grounds have motion detectors everywhere, that's where you'll most likely be spotted."
Devi nodded. "Alright." She turned to face the vent. "Oh and Jason."
Jason was about to turn around to walk away when he stopped. "Yeah?"
She gave a soft smile. "Thank you. And I have a feeling that we'll be seeing each other sometime in the future."
Before Jason could respond, Devi jumped up and moved the vent up. She jumped again to move it to one of the sides and she gripped the edge of the vent. Then she acrobatically shimmied up and inside the vent and disappeared.
Jason smiled slightly at the vent. He had a strange feeling that she was actually right.
*****
It was Wolfwood's turn on driving and they were actually pretty close to December now. They've been taking turns in driving constantly and they now have about half's a days worth driving now. They've managed to keep this up for three days straight. All of them were tired, yet alert. The suns were down and they were now speeding through the night, spraying sand in their wake.
"Remember Wolfwood," Vash reminded him for the fifth time that he was driving. "She's in the outskirts."
"Yes Vash! I know! You told me that five times now!!"
"I was just making sure you knew!"
*****
Devi was crawling through the vents easily. Apparently she has lost some weight, how she'll never know considering she's already fairly thin to begin with.
'This is probably the easy part,' She thought as she looked ahead and saw the vent where it ended and lead to the outside. To freedom. The one thing she had and lost, and she's about to get it again.
Reaching the vent, Devi removed the vent and moved it to the side. She peered outside. It was rather dark, making it a bit easier to sneak away. It has probably been about a half hour since Jason injected the serum in her system, giving her plenty of time to escape, even though it was only fifteen minutes.
"Well," Devi whispered to herself. "Here goes nothing."
She gracefully leapt from the vent and crouched low on the ground, hand just barely an inch from the sand floor. Looking to the left and right, she examined her surroundings. A chain-linked fence wrapped its way around the building apparently with only a few tall posts for spotlights. At the top of the fence, a barbwire coiled its way like a frozen thin snake with many deadly fangs.
'I better tread lightly, I don't know when they'll realize that I'm gone and I don't have the time to find out.'
*****
A young associate walked down the hallway toward the one room that was sealed off for sometime. He was ordered to come down here because the doctor had a bad feeling something just might have happened. Unfortunately, the doctor kept getting this feeling once a month. What ever happened with this one before, he was obviously paranoid that it'll happen again. But every time he's been sent here to check on this experiment, nothing really happened to it and there was no sign of change.
'Yup,' the associate thought. 'He's definitely paranoid.'
Reaching the room, he punched in the code to open it and it hissed silently. He entered the room, expecting everything to be the same, but they weren't. Glass and a sticky liquid was everywhere. Small injection tubes with needles attached to them hung loosely, the experiment that they once pierced was gone. After a quick examination of the room, the associate turned and ran back to the doctor to report this.
'He maybe paranoid, but this time he was right this time around.'
*****
Devi was just about halfway when she heard the alarms go off. The spotlights on the tall poles turned on instantly, searching for her. Behind her she heard a soft hiss of something opening, and then the sound of dogs and by the pitch, they were big dogs.
'Damn,' She thought as she made a mad dash for the fence. The dogs behind her bounding for her, with big white teeth and powerful muscled legs that helped them run for her. Devi turned and ran for the corner, hoping that she can use the momentum of her running to bounce between the joined fences and leap over the barbwire with little problem.
Gathering as much energy as possible, Devi ran even faster and leapt just a few feet before reaching the fences. She did just as she was hoping would happen, Devi bounced between the joined fences and over the barbwire, just barely missing their deadly metal teeth. Rolling as soon as she meet with the ground, Devi got back up and ran with all her heart into the desert.
She didn't stop until the spotlights would no longer be able to find her, which made her run for like five to ten minutes straight. Out of breath and starting to feel queasy again, Devi found a large rock formation and sat against the cool rock. The serum has started to wear off and she was back to being queasy and heading towards weak again. Devi suddenly felt extremely warm and she carefully peeled off her trench coat and set it on her lap. The queasiness continued and they went from bad to worse.
Moving quickly, Devi got up and ran a few steps before falling down. Once she fell, Devi coughed and, sure enough, she puked. Fortunately for her, it was dark so she couldn't see the green-orange substance that once was her DNA and stomach acid. She feebly got to her hands and knees before she heaved once more. Devi then stayed there, afraid to move, and breathing very heavily. Devi could feel her fur be slightly damp from sweat.
Hoping that she was done heaving for the time being, Devi weakly stood, took a few steps back to where she was sitting and fell face forward. She was lucky that her head hit the semi-soft cushion of her crumpled up trench coat. All she saw after that, was darkness.
*****
Wolfwood continued to drive, Vash telling him to turn slightly to the left towards a huge rock formation in the distance. Something seemed to be telling him that she was there.
After a few more minutes of driving, Wolfwood stopped near the rock formation. All four of them climbed out of the vehicle.
"Devi," Vash called out. Shortly after Vash's shout, they heard a small noise towards the right of them at a diagonally. Moving slowly, the group moved in that direction.
Vash was the first one to spot her, laying on the ground. "Devi!"
The other three followed and soon found her too, kneeling next to Vash.
"She's unconscious," Vash said. "And she's also different. Let's get her to the vehicle and get to a town, quick."
Together, they got Devi to the vehicle. Vash went back temporarily for her trench coat and draped it on her. Vash couldn't see that well in the night, but could feel Devi's face was softer, but it was hair that was on her face.
Meryl volunteered this time to drive, as Vash climbed in the backseat to keep and eye on Devi, who's been placed as comfortable as they could get her in the very back. She didn't seem to be complaining at all really, even though she is unconscious.
'Oh, Devi,' Vash thought. 'What happened to you where ever you were?'
