DISCLAIMER: If anything in this story belonged to me, I would make it into a video game, but nothing does. The only thing here that belongs to me is the character Mickey and the plot thing. I also do not own the characters Alethia Black, Tami Delaney, Kai Rumiko, Rachel Saikei, Caylin, Rem Galaxy, Windy D. Rodriguez, Ran Hoshino, Gemini Sai, Brian Anderson, or Kitara. They own themselves.

Crystal: ^-^

Rachel: She's back to just smiling again…

Crystal: ^-^ Well I can't help it! ^-^ People thought the chapter was actually good…actually good! THAT MEANS A LOT TO ME!!!!!! ;_;

Caylin: Don't be worried folks…those are tears of joy…

Kai: Though it was pretty hard to understand still…

Crystal: Well…leave me alone…I told everyone I wasn't good at um and I didn't let anybody preview this before I posted…so no one helped me at all…

Windy: Didn't someone think it was the last chapter?

Crystal: Oh right ^-^; Trust me…the last chapter is way, way, way, way, way, way more intense…

Kitara: Eheheh….

Sai: Why is it that Alethia or I never have anything to say?

Alethia: Well I do…this chapter is based a lot around IE, but we're in it too

Sai: In fact, it switches from us to them to us to them to us to them, etc. etc.

Crystal: Hey thanks ^-^ Now I don't have to say too much…

Rachel: Wouldn't she usually be pissed if someone took her line?

Caylin: That's why she's so fun when she's happy ^-^;

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"Did you see her anywhere?"

"No…she's nowhere on the cliff."

"We'll look, you guys keep helping everyone who's still down."

Sai opened a sky blue eye painfully…to find he had been moved about a foot away from the edge where he had fallen unconscious not to long ago. Well…maybe long ago, since when he looked to the sky he could see the sun setting.

His legs had been bandaged and so had the wounds on his face. He propped himself using his arm, wincing a bit as his head began to spin. All around him…people were being treated. He could see Rem, Tami, and Rachel-who were bandaged up themselves- hurrying around to all of the other members.

Rem ran up to him, holding her hand to his forehead and then checking his legs. Up close, she looked a lot more beaten up, and Sai wondered who had come to treat them if they had all been knocked down. He looked up from her to see people coming up from the side.

It was Kai, Caylin, and Alethia-who seemed to be the only other people conscious at this point. Kai had bruises adorning most of his body, and some of his shirt was in tatters. He had bandages wrapped around his upper arm and shoulder, and he seemed thoroughly confused. Caylin was in, to say, the worst shape of the three, with small bandages placed all over her body to cover cuts. But Sai could see a large and thick layer of bandage wrapped around her middle, and her white shirt was blood stained. And as for Alethia, she had a thick layer of bandages wrapped around her upper arm, and he could see a blood stain forming near the center. She, as well, had many bruises all over her body.

Rem finished checking up on him, before running over to them.

"Any luck?" He could hear her ask. Kai shook his head.

"It's hopeless…she's nowhere…we've searched everywhere" he sighed. Sai looked at them confused, and Rachel walked over to him. She had what looked to be crutches…which she must have made using her pencil. She smiled at him, handing them to him, and checking on his wounds as well.

"Rem already did that" he croaked out, and she looked up. She mouthed and 'oh', before standing and beginning to walk away. He caught a piece of what remained of her skirt (since it had been ripped all the way up to her thigh) before she could, and she turned. "What happened? Who are they looked for?" He asked. Rachel smiled sadly at him, before turning away again.

"It's Mickey…she's gone…" she muttered, before she hurried over to where Ran was reclining against a rock, fast asleep. Sai sat there shocked…his eyes wide. Had…she been kidnapped? Or…was it worse?

He sat there, before maintaining the crutches that Rachel had given to him. He was up like that, and he looked around still. Everyone looked…pretty beat up in fact…but Rem, Rachel, and Tami seemed to have done a good job of propping everyone up and bandaging them.

He looked down at the ground for a moment…and his eyes widened when he saw footprints…footprints and blood…blood that wasn't his own.

His eyes traced along the footsteps, to see that they came from about the middle of the plateau…and there was the same blood there. He wondered how everyone had over passed this…but there was a lot of blood…and sadly…none of it belonged to the enemy.

His eyes went back to the footprints in the dirt, and then his eyes traveled to the edge. He walked closer to it, and then looked over. His eyes widened…when he saw on a ledge just a way down…Mickey's sword. And below that…on the ground…a blood stained body.

"Sai! What are you doing near the edge?! You're going to kill yourself…you're still on crutches you idiot!" Rachel called, running over. He turned to look at her, his eyes wide and horrified. She stared at him quizzically. "What's your problem?" She asked. He stood there, his mouth moving open and closed, and he pointed over the edge. She sighed, rolling her eyes and looking over…her eyes meeting with the same sight he had just seen.

"Oh my god…" she muttered, backing up, her eyes wide. She turned around shakily. "Kai!" She called, and their Assistant leader ran over at her call.

"What's wrong?" He asked, looking between the two. Rachel looked at him, her eyes still wide with shock.

"It's…Mickey…we found her…" she muttered, and his eyes turned hopeful.

"Where is she?" He asked, and she turned. Both her and Sai pointed over the edge…and Kai went to look.

"Oh no…" he muttered.

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Water dropped…in a pattern that seemed to take forever. Boot heels clicked back and forth, and the owner let out a disgruntled sigh, hitting his fist against one of the iron walls.

"I shouldn't have done it…there would have been more ways to do it…" he muttered darkly, running his other hand through his blue hair. A giggle interrupted him, and he turned…to see a blonde standing at the door to the chamber.

"You really should get some sleep, master…don't let that little hussy keep you awake all night" Nina drawled, looping a finger through her hair. Brian sighed, rolling his eyes.

"It's not her that's keeping me up" he said, groaning as he walked over to a dark looking canopy, crows sitting along the top.

"Come my babies" Nina crowed out, and three of them flew to her-one landing upon her arm, another upon her shoulder, and another on her hand.

"Get those blasted birds out of here…all they do is…make noise all the time, I don't like it" he grunted, walking behind a changing shade. Nina huffed.

"Ah…you are so no fun" she hissed, petting the bird on her shoulder affectionately. "Oh! By the way, everyone was wondering if we could have a meeting later…discussing this little…glitch in our whole plan" she said, biting her lip and smiling slightly.

"Glitch…I see no glitch…I see a bump in a rug that needs to be flattened" he laughed, coming out in his same outfit…only cleaner. She laughed with him, as they both walked out the door.

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"Mickey, Mickey, say something." A groan escaped her lips, and crimson orbs blinked open. They shrunk closed again at the light, though it disappeared as faces blocked it out.

"Oh thank god…" Caylin muttered, bringing her hands to her lips.

"It's alright, she's fine. Her backbone is still in perfect condition, which is great so there's no permanent damage. What we do have, is two broken ribs here" Rem said, rubbing slightly on Mickey's left side which had been torn away all the way up to about an inch from where her arm protruded, showing some of her bra.

"We also have a broken lower leg here" Rachel said, touching Mickey's right lower leg, where it looked twisted out of shape. "Broken in about three places…so she shouldn't try healing it herself."

"Same goes for the ribs…other then that, she has some bruises along her upper legs and most of her arms and chest, and a cut right here across her chest" Rem said, pointing to where she had put a bandage a little above Mickey's naval. "All in all…she'll live" she smiled.

"Good…don't want Kai here taking over" Caylin smirked, glancing at the man who had posed as leader for the past few hours.

"You're so mean" he pouted at her, and she rolled her eyes.

"Tami is still up on the plateau, and me and Caylin were about to go back up and help her transport everyone else to infirmary back on the ship" Rachel said, standing from her kneeling position.

"And we'll take Mickey back" Rem nodded.

"W-wait" Mickey said, her voice still stern though with a stutter of pain. They all looked at her. "T-the camp…" she began. Kai looked at her.

"It's already been taken care of…everything's back at the ship" he smiled. She nodded, before her eyes drifted closed again.

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Brian looked around at all team. Only half the size of Mickey's…but it was amazing that they were practically three times as powerful. Though…some of them had gotten their share of hits in the fight, meaning that there may be some power in that bump after all.

"I still don't see what we're going to do" Ryo muttered to their leader, examining his sleeve, and Brian hit his fist against the table.

"Understand this, all of you. We will not let these…things…interfere with our plan. It will carry out, even if they've messed up part of it. Their leader is possibly dead, meaning the team will break apart. Apart…they are nothing…" Brian muttered.

"But what if she's not dead? What if she survived?" Natsume asked. Brian scoffed.

"It's impossible…greatly impossible…from such a height to survive would be ludicrous. The only way she could have saved herself is if she'd had known" Brian answered.

"And what if she did know?" Nina asked, leaning her chin on her hands which were twined together, leading up from her elbows on the table.

"If she did know…" Brian smirked, looking at all of them. "I might be in for more then I bargained for…more trouble…more fun…"

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BEEP…BEEP…BEEP…BEEP…

Rem walked around the infirmary, most of the team unconscious on the bed. Caylin was walking around and helping as well, a lot of the watch still over Mickey who hadn't come back to consciousness since when they had been in the Inuyasha time period.

Rachel and Kai had been in there earlier, but Kai said he would be checking up on something, and Rachel mentioned that she would make dinner. Alethia and Tami had been in there as well, but they decided they would sleep and do shifts to take care of everyone.

Kai walked into the room at that moment, and glanced a little at Mickey, before approaching Rem.

"Any news?" He asked, motioning his eyes to Mickey. Rem shook her head.

"Afraid not…I did a more thorough job cleaning her and bandaging her up here…but she's still out of it. Everyone else has been coming too though, which is good…it just might take a little while longer for her…" Rem said, as Caylin came up with a tray.

"I've finished changing bandages…should we do the medication now?" She asked, raising an eyebrow. Rem shook her head.

"They should eat first…they might fall asleep again if their medication is given before hand" she said, as she looked down at a clip board she was holding, checking up on the information she had taken on everyone.

Rachel walked in at that time, pushing a little cart filled with bowls of soup. Each of them was labeled with a different name, each soup matching to everyone's favorite.

"It's like they're being babied" she said, as Caylin came over and took two of the bowls, walking over to Kitara with one and handing it to her. She was conscious, and she took it smiling, beginning to eat it. Caylin handed the other bowl to Sai, before continuing to pass them out.

"Well they have to be babied…in a condition like this…the faster their healed the better. Who knows when another mission's going to be popped on us" Kai muttered, as he sat down in a chair between Mickey and Ran's beds.

"Yea…it would be bad to have a mission just now…I mean, what would we do? None of us have ever been on a mission on our own, always with Mickey's supervision…and I've seen one of those mission letters…they're all in code" Kitara said, before she took another spoonful of her soup.

"Well…we'll just have to hope she's awake when they do have a mission to give us…if it happens any other time…well…then I guess we're in for it" Caylin said, as Alethia and Tami came in to take over their shift.

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Crimson eyes fluttered open, and a pale hand reached up, brushing against them. A small groan emitted from Mickey's lips as she felt the full afflict of the pain she was in, since she appeared to be on no medication.

She was in the infirmary, and the lights were off. All around her, the other, hurt teammates were sleeping. Alethia and Tami were asleep on bare beds, so they must have been watching people.

She didn't want to awake any of them, but this pain was getting to her and badly. She let out another groan, her eyes closing. She was hungry as well, and her throat was dry.

As she was almost willing to wake some one up, the lights switched on and she closed her eyes. Tami and Alethia jumped up, and walked out of the room, and Rem and Caylin walked in, wide awake. It must have been deadly early in the morning. Kai followed in after them, and Mickey felt as Rem walked over to her and picked up her arm, feeling her wrist.

She did a few check-ups, changing some of the bandages and putting some herbs on some of the wounds.

"Any better?" Kai asked, sitting down in the chair he had occupied earlier. Rem sighed.

"No…she seems to be the same as earlier, though I've put some herbs on her so it should help the healing…her waking up however…" Rem wandered off, and Mickey chose this time to show them she was awake.

She slowly let her eyes open, and she noticed that Rem had turned away and was writing on her clip board. She turned to look around the room, seeing Caylin changing the bandages of the other people there, who slept through it all.

She turned to look at Kai, who seemed incredibly stressed out. He looked up from staring at his fists though, feeling eyes upon him, and turned to look at her. She smiled a bit, and he jumped out of his chair, sending it clattering to the floor, and letting her smile blossom out.

Rem looked over at Kai, her eyes wide and darting about the whole room to make sure no one had awoken.

"Really Kai, you need to be quieter" Rem hissed at him, looking down at her clipboard.

"It wasn't his fault, it was mine" came Mickey's voice, and Rem looked up, almost dropping her clipboard. She looked at Mickey, and she smiled a huge, bright smile.

"Seems our leader is awake…thank god" she smiled, gripping the clipboard to her chest as Caylin hurried over, clasping her hands in front of her, and smiling. Kai still looked like he had just had a heart attack, which made Mickey laugh a bit.

"It's not like I just rose from the dead or anything…" she said, yawning a bit and cringing as her ribs came into full afflict. Rem, who had hurried away real quick, came over with a shot in her hand. She sterilized the skin and needle, and Mickey closed her eyes, biting her lip, as it pierced through her skin and into her blood. It was over like that, and Rem placed a bandage over it.

"Pain killer…it'll help" she smiled, and Mickey nodded. Kai looked down at her.

"It certainly seemed like you were dead…if it hadn't been for the heart monitor and the fall and rise of your chest…we wouldn't have been able to tell…" he said, picking up the chair and sitting down again. Mickey blinked a bit, looking up at the ceiling and letting out a sigh.

"I should have told you…" she muttered, and the three looked at her.

"What?" Caylin asked, sitting at the end of the bed and raising an eyebrow. Mickey continued to stare up at the ceiling.

"I knew I was going to get thrown off the cliff…I knew I would be going through this pain…" she laughed slightly. "I'd be dead now if I hadn't known…" Everyone stared wide eyed at her, not believing her words.

"Why…why didn't you tell us?" Kai asked her, and she continued to look up at the ceiling.

"Because you would have stopped me from participating in the fight…which would have screwed everything up completely…so I didn't tell you. I prepared for it, I softened my landing, got rid of anything that could hurt me more…made sure I was ready for it…and it resulted in this" she muttered, before she began coughing and Rem grabbed a cup, filling it with water from the tap and handing it to her. She drank it, letting her eyes close a bit, and they were all still staring at her.

"Next time…will you at least give us a little warning though?" Caylin asked, giving her pleading eyes. "Just so we don't have to worry our heads off…one little hint is all I ask." Mickey looked at her, and then stared up at the ceiling again.

"It…depends the situation…" she muttered, shivering a bit. Caylin nodded, as if saying 'that's good enough for me'. Kai stood then, walking over to the door of the infirmary.

"I'm gonna head out then…get some sleep…glad your ok Mickey. See you guys" he said, with a slight wave of his hand, and then he left. Mickey glanced at them, beginning to feel sleep come into her from the pain killer. She yawned a bit.

"Is he…upset with me…do you think?" She asked, yawning some more. Rem shook her head, wiping off her face with a cloth.

"No…I don't think so…he was just worried about you and about what would happen to all of us if something happened to you" Rem stuck out her tongue a bit. "I'm confusing myself…but anyway…yea…that's how it was here. We were all afraid to loose you, Mickey…it's why we were so worried and almost mad when you knew it was happening…so don't fret over it. None of us are upset with you…just over all glad to have you back. We just have different ways of showing it…" Rem smiled, and Mickey laughed a bit as her eyes closed and she fell asleep once again. Caylin looked at Rem.

"You always know what to say…and at the right time too" she smiled, and Rem mirrored it.

"Well…I guess it can just be a part of who I am…" and as she said that, they went back to helping the others.

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Brian smiled as he watched the sun come up from the top deck, shielded only as an island in the middle of the sea. Yes…it will all start soon…all of it will start soon…

He crushed a stack off papers in one fist, smirking all the while. Soon…he would have what he want…soon the flower…would be his…

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Crystal: WOOT! GOOD CHAPTER!

Kai: It was too short…

Crystal: Well TOO bad then…

Rachel: Both of you just…be quiet…

Crystal: Ok, ok…now people, I want you to review. Why? Because I need inspiration. I have just gone through finals and a whole bunch of essays, which you don't need imagination for. So all my imagination just…sorta…died…O.o

Caylin: Which sucks…

Crystal: Yea…so…if people review, it might help me get inspiration…yay XD

Sai: Yea…and it's also Crystal's birthday soon, so it would be an awesome present for her, right, Crystal-chan?

Crystal: YEP! February 7 if some of you had forgotten…I'll be expecting reviews with presents XD

Rachel: So go ahead…just review then…we'll see you all around…