Magical Secrets
Chapter 20: Brain Chips
Disclaimer:
I own Evan, Falcon, Raven and Crowe! Too bad I did own the rest of the characters though..............
Warning:
Yoai....language...mush....Anti-Rinoa.....you know and all that jazz......I don't think you can change the warning half way through a story.
Enjoy!
Alexandra AKA ~*~Fantasy Dragon~*~
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Zell walked out of his office and into the conference room. Seated around a table were Cid, Selphie, Irvine, Nida, Xu, Dr. Kadowaki and Falcon. All of them were looking at him with concern, except Falcon who was looking at his lap.
"Would all of ya stop looking at my as if I'm gonna explode?" Zell said, then took his seat beside the Headmaster.
"We're just worried about you, Zelly." Selphie insisted. Zell cringed at the use of the name she called him.
"Yeah, man. You've been through a lot in the past couple days. Are you sure you don't wanna rest for a day or two til we start to go after everyone?" Irvine asked, looking up from under his ever present hat.
"Would you wanna wait if it had been Selphie captured?" Zell looked over at him with an evil glare as if to say ask that again and die.
"Point taken." Irvine then slid back in his chair and propped his legs up on the table. The copper haired cowboy then looked over at the brunet prisoner with a look of confusion. Why had his old friend changed sides like that so suddenly? They had been working hard together at being SeeD and it was if no one could tear that away from them, but then as soon as Irvine had left, Falcon turned his back to everything they had earned.
"First off. Doc, were you able to remove the silence spell from Falcon?" Zell asked, not taking a seat, but standing in front of the small group.
"No." Dr. Kadowaki shook her head.
"Well, did you find out what it was mixed with to make it so powerful?" Zell continued on.
"Truth is, it's not a spell at all." The doctor said, causing everyone, with the lone exception being Falcon.
"Not a spell? Then why can't he talk? Is it contagious? Should we be worried?" Selphie burst out, talking a mile a minute.
"Settle down, Selphie." Headmaster Cid said, speaking for the first time since the meeting began.
"It is not contagious, no. Far from it, actually." The doctor stood up and walked over to the chair that seated Falcon then spun it around so that everyone was looking at the back of Falcon's head. "As you can see, there is a small scar right here, just above the hair line." The doctor began pointing at the inch long scar, then continued. " After scanning him a couple times, I came across this and how he got it."
"Well? Are you gonna tell us?" Selphie began to jump up and down in her chair, like a child who was told they had been given a lifetime supply of Choco-Balls, every kids favorite chocolate chocobo shaped cereal.
"I'm getting to that. Anyway, it seems that a small mirco chip has been inbeded into his brain, and is being controlled from somewhere."
When the doctor said this information, Zell stopped his pacing mid stride, Cid dropped the pen he was absently twiddling, Nida's jaw dropped while Xu's face remained emotionless. Selphie stopped mid bounce, and Irvine tipped his chair far enough back to send him sprawling across the floor.
"So you mean he's like a robot taking orders?" Nida asked.
"Not quite. There is someone monitoring his thoughts and verbal communication. So even if we asked him who he was serving, he wouldn't get a chance to reply. Much like what happened. Zell, you must have asked him something he had swore not to tell, because the person controlling him took away his ability to speak."
"So, in other words someone is listening in right now?" Xu asked, a little afraid of a security breech.
Everyone in the room stopped dead in their tracks for the second time in 5 minutes.
"No. I do not believe that it is advanced enough that the person has visual or audio connections. I just believe that they can read his thoughts and speech, but has no influence on what he says or does until they rob him of the ability to do so."
"Take the chip out then. Then he will be able to talk and tell us who this sorceress is that he is serving." Nida suggested.
"No. I'm afraid I can't do that."
"Why not?" Cid was beginning to get a little impatient here.
"If I do, if it doesn't kill him or do permenent brain damage, I think it is rigged up so that if someone does remove it, all him memories from the time it was installed to when it was removed will be destroyed."
"So that's useless. What if we got him to write it down? You said that the person controlling him can't see or hear, so writing it might work." Zell spoke up.
"No good. He'd have to think about writing it and the person can read his thoughts." Dr. Kadowaki shook her head.
"So he's about as good to us as an ice cube to a glacial eye then, isn't he?" Selphie asked, causing everyone to look at her because of her weird analogy. "What'd I say?"
Irvine looked at Selphie again then shook his head with slight laughter. Then a thought occurred to him.
"Falcon may not be as useless as we thought."
"Like how?" Zell asked, looking at the sharpshooter.
"He already answered the first part, the part that he's working with Raven and Crowe Noire. Next, Falcon, are you and Raven still an item?" Irvine asked, knowing that if the answer was yes, the person monitoring him would only think he was thinking of his girlfriend.
Falcon blushed a little, and nodded his head.
"Good. Now we got our bait." Irvine grinned evilly, then looked over to Zell. " We got our bait, so whenever you wanna go busting back to D-District, we've got some sway over them."
"They probably are gone by now. They must have known that we would go back and try to break into D-District and save the 2 prisoners." Xu said, a little irritated by Irvine's cockiness.
"You mean 3 prisoners." Zell interrupted.
"3? Zell have you forgotten how to count? Quistis and Evan. That's 2." Nida said, a little amused by his own joke.
"No. There is a 3 being held captive." Zell replied, holding his ground and Falcon nodded in agreement.
"Well then, boy. Who is it?" asked Cid, a little more impatient.
"Seifer Almasy." A strange voice said from the doorway. All 8 people in the room turned towards the new voice and saw Squall, one hand supporting himself on the doorframe, the other clutching his griever pendent, allowing it to dangle down by his knees. Ellone was behind him, looking paler then normal. All Zell could think was how did he manage to remove Griever when he was suppose to be unconscious.
"The hell? Squall, how did you know?" Irvine asked.
"If you want to save the knight and the blue mages, you will follow me and not ask any questions."
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"You will stay in this room unless you are summoned, and there is no way you can escape, and even your blue magic can not be used." Raven glared at the 3 captives.
"Well, shouldn't we at least get to meet the shrew that owns us now?" Seifer growled.
"Watch it, you filthy git. We are your superiors and you will treat us with the utmost respect." Raven replied, stopping Crowe from calling a spell.
"You deserve no more respect then a common geezard." Evan spat, Quistis the only one choosing not to join in the argument.
"You better watch your back, Brunnard or you'll be jackin' off using your feet." Crowe glared at the redhead.
'Settle down you two. Help is on the way.' Quistis thought in her mind, almost pleading for them to stop. As if she had said it out loud, both Seifer and Evan looked at her and began to back away from the forming fight.
"I see you two finally decided to join your friend over there at the wimp table. Good place for you." Raven said with an evil smirk. Then without warning or spoken word, both Raven and Crowe left the 3 alone in the room.
"Why didn't either of them say anything about you saying that there was help on the way?" Evan asked, sitting down at the table at which Quistis was sitting.
"Yeah, you'd think they'd be fucking worried or something." Seifer growled, rolling his eyes. He took the final seat around the table.
This confused Quistis. "I never said anything."
"Yeah, you did. You told us to settle down and that there would be help coming." Evan said, looking over at Seifer who nodded, agreeing that he too hear it.
"Damn, Trepe. Strange stuff is happening to you in shit loads. First you can use blue magic when it's being blocked, now you're communicating without talking. I think them crazy twins are rubbing off on you." Seifer said with a hollow laughter.
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To Be Continued...............
Sorry about the lack of updates lately, but if you wanna try and put some time into my hectic schedual for updating, good luck. Joryuusakka, your story is on the way, it's almost finished, but not quite, so I can't post it yet obviously. I'll try and have it out by the end of the weekend, but I swear it is almost done. Once again thank you to everyone who keeps reading this story, It's great to know you have fans somewhere in the world. Love and Cookies to you all!
