Forgotten Child
Chapter 11

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"JOE!!!!!!!!"

"Ugh!" The group was once again blinded, but from blood red light. As the light cleared, they saw a great sight.

"Are you ok?" she asked him. Joe groaned and opened his eyes. Françoise was looking down at him. Wait...

"Françoise?!? Is that really you?" he asked, surprised.

"Yes, it's me. I'm glad you're ok!" she said with a smile. Joe returned it and sat up. A few feet way from the two was Eric's lifeless body.

"I managed to tilt the gun, but he moved it more and shot himself," Françoise said quietly. Joe looked at her and what he saw surprised him. Quickly, he pulled her into a hug and rubbed her back.

"It's ok, now. Everything will be fine," he soothed her. Françoise sniffled and placed her head on his chest. She felt the rhythmic movement of his breathing and smiled.

"Joe?"

"Hmm?"

"I love you, Joe." Joe looked at the girl in his arms. Her eyes were closed and a smile was on her face.

"I love you too, Françoise. I love you, too."

"Now everything's complete. I am happy now, but will you be?"

"What do you mean?" The others had arrived. Françoise opened her eyes and warily looked towards the rest of the group.

"Will you all be happy now?"

"Hell, yes! No more Black Ghost means more fun!" Jet said. Chang promptly hit him. Françoise chuckled, but Joe noticed it was weak.

"My dear, you should not talk. 009, please bring her quickly to the Lab. She must be healed immediately!" Prof. Gilmore said in a hurry. Alarmed, Joe picked the girl up and raced towards the ship, everyone following him behind.

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"You won't get away with this. You WON'T!!!!"

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"What's wrong with her?" GB asked the professors.

"She's passed her limit. If we don't get her to help soon, we won't have her with us," Izumi said. Suddenly, the air seemed much thicker than it really was.

"You'll be ok," Joe whispered to the beauty, having heard the conversation. She only sighed.

"I know when my time comes, Joe, and I think it's now."

"No! We still have a life to live!" he exclaimed.

"My sweet, Joe," she breathed. Starting to feel desperate, Joe switched to Acceleration Mode.

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"You'll die with me. I'll make sure of that!"

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"She's starting to fade!"

"We need to get to work right away!" Gilmore said as he prepared the lab. Izumi started to hook up the girl with all sorts of tubes.

"It's best if you all wait in the living room," he said quietly. Joe shook his head.

"I'm staying right here."

"Sorry, lover-boy, but you heard the two. Let's go," Jet said as he dragged Joe out of the room.

"This will be a tough assignment. Are you ready?" Gilmore asked his friend after all the Cyborgs were gone. Izumi looked at the girl on the bed. Solemnly, he nodded.

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"I'll kill you. You and that pitiful Cyborg! I"LL KILL YOU!!"

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"Lock the door, 006!" Jet said as he looked for some rope. Chang quickly did as he was told and then retreated into the shadows, all the while watching with a bit of amusement at the sight before him.

"I don't think what you're doing is necessary," Albert said to Jet. The American scoffed.

"I think it is. Professor Gilmore and Izumi need absolute silence and time in order to heal 003. I'm not going to let 009 here interfere with the procedure."

"It's not going to help 003! Stop it!" Geronimo said as he took the rope out of Jet's hands. Jet glared at the giant before sighing and falling to the ground.

"What are we going to do?" he whispered.

"We'll wait." Everyone turned to Joe. He was sitting in his chair and looking nowhere in particular. His eyes were uncommonly blank.

"She's going to be fine. There is nothing to worry about."

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"I'm coming. I'm coming!"

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"This is going to take a lot of time. I'm going to whip us up a couple of snacks," Chang said as he hurried to the kitchen.

"Err...yeah, I'm going to help him," GB said as he too went into the kitchen. Joe walked over to Ivan.

"What happened while you two were in here?"

# I gave back what was hers. #

"The locket?"

# It was the key, 009. She needed something from the past to reopen the door to her memories. #

"Will she make it?"

# That is up for her to decide. # Hoe looked towards the room his love was being kept in.

'Oh, fight it, Françoise. Please!'

"It's not fair. It's not fair," Jet sobbed. Albert sighed.

"We can't do anything about it. Come on, guys. We should be happy. Black Ghost has been destroyed. It's what she would want us to be like."

"We can't, 004. We can't be happy. She's the happiness in our group. If she goes, so does happiness," Joe said as he looked at them. Geronimo sighed and tried to calm down Jet.

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"You won't wake. You won't."

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"How thick is the air in here," Professor Gilmore's voice said. Joe looked at him, eyes hopeful.

"Don't worry. She's going to be fine," Izumi smiling told the Cyborgs. All of a sudden, Joe felt the pressure on his heart lessen.

"Can we see her?" he urgently asked. The professors smiled and nodded. The Cyborgs immediately ran out of the room.

"Well, I suppose that went quite well," Gilmore said to his comrade. Izumi only laughed.

"003?" Joe whispered, afraid he would find her dead. The Cyborgs carefully made their way to the bed and breathed a breath of relief.

"You're ok. Jeez, you had us in such a worry!" Chang exclaimed as he petted her hand. The French Cyborg smiled weakly and closed her eyes. Joe succumbed to the shadows as the other Cyborgs piled around her bed.

"Do you feel fine?" Geronimo asked. Françoise opened her eyes and looked at him.

"Physically, yes, I feel fine, but mentally...no."

"What do you mean?" GB asked, worry in his voice.

"You must leave. There is a danger coming."

"A danger?" questioned Albert. Jet scoffed.

"We can take whatever comes our way." The girl shook her head.

"I doubt you'll be able to take this danger."

"What is it?" Joe asked, emerging from his hiding spot.

"It's not a what. It's a person," Françoise corrected.

"Who?" GB asked.

"We must leave. NOW!!" Françoise said. Joe shook his head.

"We're fine right here."

"No, we must go now!" Françoise said, more urgently this time.

"You won't leave." Françoise gasped and reached fro Joe. He came to her and took her hand. She shivered and pulled him closer, making him sit on the bed with her. The other Cyborgs were busy wondering where the voice had come from. ]

"He's coming," Françoise whispered. Joe looked down at her. Her figure was shaking madly. He looked around as his arms wrapped around the girl.

"You cannot escape. No one can fix you either. Here's the proof." A portal appeared and out came two bodies. Françoise recoiled at the sight and buried her face in Joe's chest. The two bodies were of Professors Gilmore and Izumi. Joe hugged her tighter as his heart tightened. Surprised looks were on both of the dead men's faces.

"Bastard!!" GB said as he tried to jump ito the portal.

"NO! Don't do that!!" Françoise said as she tried to stop GB. He ignored her and jumped.

"Ugh!" He fell back, dead. Chang broke into hysterics.

"007!! No,007! Come back! Who am I supposed to argue with now?!?!" the Chinese Cyborg wailed. Geronimo yelled and sank to his knees.

"STOP IT!! Come out!!" Joe screamed. The voice began to laugh as a figure appeared before them all.

"What?! He's not supp-" Chang never finished his sentence. He was stabbed and dropped onto the floor. He reached for GB's hand and sighed as he reached it. With a smile, he passed away. Geronimo looked at the man.

"Isn't it beautiful?" the man asked. Françoise shook her head as she sobbed.

"Why are you doing this?" Joe asked in a deathly calm voice.

"Don't you see? I'm letting you see your friends' death. Don't worry; you two will soon join them. First, though, is 005," the man said. Geronimo's eyes widened before he too fell at the man's hands. Ivan screamed in fury.

# Monster!! # he yelled as he sent a wave to the man. The villain chuckled as he waved the wave away with a flutter of his hand.

"You are no match for me," he said as Ivan fell to the floor, joining his friends.

"Stop him, Joe! Please!!" Françoise cried. Joe looked at the two remaining Cyborgs, 002 and 004.

"Get out of here," he ordered. The two shook their heads and backed up until they were both by the couple. Françoise was still crying.

"There is no point in staying together. YOU WILL ALL DIE!!!"

"No." A pink barrier erupted around the four friends, blocking the attack that was heading towards them. Joe looked at Françoise.

"It's Black Angel!" Albert cried. He was right. Françoise was leaving and the ruthless Black Angel was emerging. Joe held on to her as the transformation continued.

"You killed my friends, you bastard," Black Angel said as she looked through Joe's arms. Joe felt a sense of power fill him as she tightened her grip on his arm.

'Joe, I need your help with this,' Black Angel's voice said inside his mind. Joe slightly nodded.

'You too have the powers that I have. Unlock them. Unlock them so that we can save the remaining friends we have.'

'How?'

"I don't know, but do it quickly!!" she yelled as she pulled herself free of his grasp. She flew towards the enemy and summoned a dark ball.

"Take this you murderer!!!" she yelled. He only laughed.

"Did you get him?" Jet asked as Black Angel landed next to him. She narrowed her eyes. The smoke began to clear.

"Such a pitiful move," the man chuckled.

"You were an aho to kill my friends.'

"Was I? It doesn't matter. All that matters is that you suffer."

"Huh?" Black Angel gasped. She barely had time to speak when she was thrown back. Joe watched as the girl was being battered up.

"We have to help her!" Albert said.

"Yeah, but how the hell do you propose we do that?!?" Jet growled. Joe took one look at his fallen comrades and another to Black Angel. He snapped.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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i don't think I would consider this a cliffie. Anyways, I thought it was a good place to stop.

Yoko: Almost done?

Yep. Ok, let's go write the next chapter.

Yoko: Ok!

CosmosAngel1

Ja Ne!!

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Yoko

I'm a great muse.

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