Chapter 15

(Jin)

'So that's why I couldn't find any information on Akira. No wonder, I should've known.'

"Will you take to me see Akira?" Sendoh's mom, Arisa asked.

"Of course," I said, "lets go now."

We were going down the stairs when I accidentally slipped and fell, hard on my tailbone.

"Are you ok?" Arisa asked worriedly.

I smiled, "Yep."

I tried to get up but my legs showed no response, 'Oh, crap. Not again.'

I reached into my back pocket and pulled out my smashed up palm pilot, 'This isn't good.'

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(NP's Leader)

"You got the location and the security plan?"

She smiled, "You know when a person is angry that is when their mind is easiest to access because that's when they're most real and show their true emotions. Rukawa's mind isn't that easy to peruse but this afternoon it was…open."

I nodded, "Hanamichi and Akagi should be enough to get Davenport back with all the info we have, don't you agree?"

"Yep. I want to use Fujima for a while. Can I?"

I shrugged, "Use him as you see fit."

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(Rukawa)

I looked at the rings, 'I threw them away, so why did I go back and picked them up?'

"Ru, are you inside? What happened? You didn't show up, and I got worried," he said through the intercom, "hello…are you ok?"

'Worried?!' I snort and manipulated the wall over the intercom, 'yeah, worried that I'd spot him with that girl. I should kick him out of here. But…I really want to know what he plans to do…is he really going to betray us...me?'

There was a disturbance in the air. I frowned and went to the balcony and closed it off, 'I can't see him right now or I really might hurt him. What should I do?'

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(Jin)

Arisa was really worried, "You can't move your legs? We got to take you to the doctor!"

"No…it's ok, really."

"How can you say that?!"

"The lower spinal cord of my exo-suit is probably crushed, which renders me unable to my lower body."

"Exo-suit?!"

I smiled and felt like I owned her an explanation after all she did tell me everything. I took off my gloves and exposed the metal that ran over my body.

She looked surprised.

"You see I'm a quadriplegic, and these metallic stuff acts like muscles, enabling me to move by expanding and contracting; so it's made of a soft type of metal and microchips that act as receptors. Problem is this soft metal is quite weak and I crush it all the time, so I have to change suits every couple of months," I explained, "I'm not even hurt, I can't feel it. Um… do you have a computer I can use to contact my friends?"

"I'll be able to get you one tomorrow."

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(Ayako)

I flew onto Rukawa's balcony and morphed back, "Hey."

"Ayako."

"Sendoh wants to know what he's done to piss you off."

He didn't reply.

"Wow, you really do look pissed. Didn't you like him yesterday? You should talk to him," I said and added, "you can't avoid him forever, plus I never known you to avoid anything."

Rukawa frowned, "Did you see who did it?"

At first I thought he was talking to me but then I realize he was talking to someone on his com link.

"Ok, return to your base," he said.

I looked at him expectantly, "What was that?"

He looked at me, "Hanamichi and Akagi just went and rescued Davenport."

"How could they know where he is?"

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(Rukawa)

The first thing that came to my mind was, 'Sendoh. No, it can't be him. He doesn't know where Davenport is. So it could only be me, Ayako, Jin or by chance. But they were prepared, so it can't be chance. None of us would do such a thing.'

"Ayako, have you seen Jin?"

"Hm…he left this morning to get Sendoh's mom. Why?"

'Sendoh's mom?'

"You don't think he's got something to do with it do you?"

"No," I said and added softly, "but I don't know about Sendoh."

"Sendoh? What does he have to do with this? Hey, you still haven't told me why you're so mad at him."

I was so confused, 'Maybe Ayako can analyze this better than me. I'm too emotionally invested to think clearly.'

"I heard something I shouldn't have…" I began.

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(Sendoh)

I sat up, 'What you think about when you're awake really does influence your dreams. I don't want these dreams, why couldn't I have dreamt of something better? Like Kaede or something? Is my father really captured, is that what really happened in this reality, or is it just a nightmare?

'Maybe I should go speak with Juri. At least she can answer some questions I got, maybe she could even help me think where my father's being held and I can go get him.'

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(Ayako)

I listened to everything Rukawa had to say but there was something wrong with the whole thing, 'Maybe the situation was puzzling because Sendoh, himself is a puzzle, we do know nothing about him. But I just can't bring myself to believe he's a mole.'

"So what do you think?"

"I think the first thing we should do is contact Jin and see if he's ok."

Rukawa nodded.

We send to the lab and tuned it to Jin's frequency, "Hello."

"Yea…"

"You ok?" I asked.

"Yeah. Well…sort of. I crushed the lower spine region of my exo-suit and was hoping you could being me my back up suit," Jin said.

"I'll bring it," Rukawa said.

"Thanks."

"You should be more careful and stop sitting on stuff," I said.

"I didn't sit on anything this time…I fell down the stairs."

It wasn't suppose to be funny but I couldn't help snicker.

"I totally hear that, Ayako! See you tomorrow Rukawa," he said and yawned, "bye."

I terminated the transmittion and looked at Rukawa, "I think we better keep an eye on Sendoh, but we should give him the benefit of the doubt."

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(NP's Leader)

I looked at Davenport working in the robot like manner, building probably the mutant transforming ray gun, that Mitsui commanded him to make. I really want to know if Davenport's creation will work. I even got my two test subject all planned, if it does it will be of great use.

~T.B.C

A/N: Juri is an OC, couldn't think of someone that fit the role. I'll update soon, probably next week…I hope. =)