Tala smiled at Tyson as he came in.

"Sit down. I have some news to tell you." Tala said. Tyson immediately looked bored.

"Is it news about American snack foods?" He asked, a faint glimmer of hope in his eye. He was crushed when Tala shook his head.

"Nope. It's about Voltaire." The room went deadly silent. Kai threw his cereal spoon at Tala. It hit him square on the chest.

"WHY did you tell them that? HOW stupid ARE you?" Kai began looking round for another object to throw.

"Whoa! You didn't tell me I couldn't tell them!" Tala said defensively while trying to dodge flying cutlery and failing miserably.

"Its common sense, you dingbat!" Kai was about to throw his cereal bowl at the red head when Rei realised it was his cue to jump in and stop the fight from progressing.

"Whoa, Kai, its ok...." He said, placing a soothing hand on Kai's muscular arm. "Kill him later, when there aren't any witnesses, K?" Kai put down the bowl and rested his head in his hands.

"It has to be the worse thing that's happened to me so far, Rei..........This is so messed up!" Kai slammed a fist down on the table.

"Dude, its not like we can't handle a little Voltaire, is it? It just means that we'll have to put the partying aside for a few days while we kick the crap outta him again!" Tyson said, yawning. "Hold on a minute... Kai, did you just say 'dingbat'?"

*~*~*~Voltaire's Lab~*~*~*

It was dark. Not pitch black; the room was long and it had an eerie green light at one end of it. The wall opposite the source of the light was made up of TV sets. Each screen showed a room of the Voltaire household. The larger one in the middle was currently trained on the kitchen. There was a metallic click from the area the green light was radiating from. If you looked carefully you could see that the light came from a large Perspex tube filled with a gloopy looking liquid. Surrounded by the liquid was the shape of a teenage boy with long dark hair. When the click sounded throughout the hall his eyes snapped open and the fluid drained away. The tube cam down and the boy stepped out into the world for the first time.

"Hello, Rei." A malicious voice reverberated around the room. The boy looked up.

"What is it you wish me to do, Sir?" His voice sounded strangely hollow, as if he hadn't ever used it.

"Find the boy. Do as you wish with him. Just make sure he doesn't breath by the time you've finished."

"Is there anything else you want me to do, Sir?"

"Do away with my Tala, too. Pity. He was a good model." With that the unnatural green light snapped off.

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OMG! Sorry it's so short! I've been concentrating on my new fic, Old Laws, New Rules. (Please read it ^_^) And my PC broke, so I had to use my old one!!!