~Chapter 12~








~New Faces, Old Places~







A/N- A small note to Renamon: Sorry, I did cut down a little, and did block out the bigger words. I'm gonna try not to swear so much/at all. OK? On with the chapter! :)







Sailor Erika shivered a little bit, rubbing her arms with her hands. Something had gone wrong, she could feel it. She gulped, continuing to follow everyone else ahead of herself.
She turned her head to the left, and blinked her pink optics. She noticed something familar, a shrub nearby a tree..'Wait, I've been here before,' she thought, 'We've walked past
here!'

They soon came up to a old white building, that made NeutraKarin blink. They had passed here before as well! She remembered that when they passed here before, she reconized it then
as well! "This is.." she muttered, "..One of my uncle's headquarters!" she announced louder.

Everyone turned to her. "Just who is your uncle?" questioned Prof. Sakaru.

"Dr. Aki,"

"I used to work with him. He gave me this place when he moved into the city." Prof. Sakaru smiled. "So, your his niece, Karin?"

NeutraKarin nodded. "Well, I guess Exodia didn't expect THAT...everybody must be looking for you for sure!" he turned around, towards the building, "Well, anyways, let's get inside,
and work on that control."

Everybody nodded, as Prof Sakaru opened the door, and everyone walked inside, with Sailor Erika taking one look back, and sighed. 'Meta-Ikki, where are you..?'













Meta-Ikki blinked his red optics once more, and frowned. He looked down, and raised an eyebrow when he saw that he was strapped down. "Why am I strapped down..?" he asked.

"Oh!" Valentina said nervously, "Well..we had to, so that we could make you better!"

Meta-Ikki sighed. "I don't feel any better.."

"That's because...you need time to heal!"

"Well, then get me out of this thing!" Meta-Ikki snarled.

Valentina nodded, and walked over to Meta-Ikki, and upstrapped him. Meta-Ikki sat up, and jumped off of the table, looking at his body. 'I do seem shinier,' he noticed, 'I
wonder why?' He blinked, another false memory coming into view, of Robert taking the time to shin him with wax, when in fact, it was the electricity coarsing through his body
that shined him up. Meta-Ikki blinked, and noticed that the mental link between Metabee and Ikki was broken, so they couldn't speak to each other. 'Oh well,' he shrugged, looking
up at Valentina. She smiled falsely at him, and said, "Welcome to your new life!"

Meta-Ikki nodded, and looked away. "They will pay.." he muttered, clenching his fists, "..For what they did to me."

"So, you want revenge?" Valentina asked, "You'll get it. But first, we must check in with my boss, to let him know the experi-I men..that your healed now."

Meta-Ikki raised an eyebrow, but nodded anyways. "Yes, master,"

Verra looked at Meta-Ikki, and blinked, then half smiled. 'I guess he's not so stubborn after all..but, we still have to keep the control level at 100%, to keep him under control just
incase his memory comes back.'

Meta-Ikki blinked, then looked baxk at Verra. "Hey, stinky, what's up?"

Verra sighed, annoyed. "Some things never change.." he muttered, "Just remember-don't go strangling him."

Meta-Ikki blinked again, as he looked in front of him. In front of him, were many workers scurrying about, and a black door. Valentina guilded him out of it, and a long hallway stretched
out, giving off a dark light at the end. He blinked, looking on into the nothingness.

"Come on," Valentina Urged, "We go this way," She pointed down the other way, which wasn't as long as the other way, and at the end, was another black door, but in silver letters at the top
read, 'Ashura Exodia'. They walked down that way, and when they reached the end, Valentina knocked on the door.

"Yes," a voice grunted.

"Mr. Exodia, sir," Valentina stuttered, "It's Valentina."

"Come in,"

Valentina opened the door, and she and Meta-Ikki walked in. Meta-Ikki blinked, seeing an office, and Mr. Exodia in a chair. He smiled crookedly. "Hello, young one," he said softly, "I see your
going to be working with us now."

Meta-Ikki nodded. For some reason, Exodia made him nervous, but he couldn't be all bad if Valentina worked for him, right?

Exodia nodded back, and stood up. He nodded at Valentina, and she left the room. He bent down in front of Meta-Ikki, and stared at him. "...Don't mind me," he said, "I'm just going to examine you,
to see if your in..full health, even if you do need time to rest."

Meta-Ikki nodded, and watched Exodia go back to his desk, and bring back a few small machines. He walked back at Meta-Ikki,and bent down once more. He placed a small round black metal piece, and
placed it on Meta-Ikki's forehead. The coldness made him shiver, as the machine beeped, and green number appeared on it. Exodia took out a pen and paper, and wrote down the numbers, and thought to
himself for a minute or two..then he smiled, a slightly wicked smile. He looked up, and took off the metal piece. He took another machine, which had a red dot, and a place to show numbers, like the
metal that was on Meta-Ikki's head just a minute ago. It was a bit bigger, and was also round. "Now," Exodia said calmly, "I want you to use an attack, an attack you would normally use in a robattle
on this."

Meta-Ikki blinked a few times, then said, "OK." He placed his right arm in front of him, and his left hand on top of his wrist, as Exodia held the round metal in front of himself. "Laser Cannon!" shouted
Meta-Ikki, as bullets came out of his shooters, and hit the red spot dead on, and a beeping noise was heard. Then, numbers appeared on it-30%. Exodia smiled, then said, "Good, now, think of something
that makes you mad, then do as before."

Meta-Ikki nodded closing his optics for a minute. A thought of being hated by the people he thought were his 'friends' made him angry, as he opened his crimson optics, and let out a very quiet growl.
"LASER CANNON!!" he boomed, letting larger bullets come out of his shooters, and the numbers swiftly changed to 80%. Exodia was a bit surprised, but smiled. "Good," he said with a small chuckle.











Nobody was in the building, except for the gang who had just entered it. Prof. Sakaru leaded them to an elevator, and they all scrambled in, making them all feel pretty squished.

"Hey, get off of my foot!"

"You get your elbow out of my face!"

"That's not me!"

"Then who is it?"

"It's me! Now, get your hands off of me!"

"Settle down!" yelled Prof. Sakaru, waving his hands around without hitting anybody, "It's just on the fivth floor, so don't get into a hissy fit!"

Sailor Erika sighed, looking out of the glass in the elevator. She saw a faint reflection of herself, not paying attention to what was outside the window. She had gotten a bit of dirt
on her because of all the travelling and fights they had been getting into, and her white shirt looked like a faint shade of brown. 'At least I don't stink..' he thought with a sigh.

Beep.

She closed her optics, then opened them again, to see her reflection once more. But, it wasn't her she saw. It was Meta-Ikki, with a faint smile on his face. Sailor Erika sniffed, looking
into his emerald green optics. For the first time, she noticed that she thought that they were..beautiful. She looked deeper into them, and noticed small hints of blue in them, like when
they were normal, and Ikki's eye colour was sky blue.

Beep.

Sailor Erika blinked a couple of times, her optics watering a little. 'I miss you, Meta-Ikki..' she thought, 'Why did they have to take you? Why not me? At least then you'd be safe..who
knows what they'll do to you, what they've already done?'

Beep.

She blinked again, and went back at staring into Meta-Ikki's optics. But then, they suddenly flashed to crimson red, and a smirk crossed his face. He laughed evilly, making Sailor Erika gasp.
'Meta-Ikki..!'

Another beep, and the elevator doors opened, snapping Sailor Erika out of her day dream, and making her blink. She looked down, then back at the window. Now, her own reflection was in front
of her, instead of Meta-Ikki. She sighed, as everyone poured out of the elevator. 'Hold on Meta-Ikki,' she thought hopefully, clenching her fists together, 'We're coming.'












After a few more tests, Exodia was done, and stood up. "Well, your in good shape," he smiled, "Now, Valentina is just out that door, or can you bring her in?"

Meta-Ikki nodded. "No prob, master," he said, and walked over to the door, her metal parts squeaking a little, and opened the door. "Master wants to see you,"

"Wha-? Weren't *I* your master?" Valentina sputtered.

"Well, I guess he changed his mind now, eh?" Exodia smirked.

Valentina sighed a hint of anger in her voice, but walked in with Meta-Ikki, closing the door behind her.

"Now, I have an assignment for you, Meta-Ikki, and you Valentina, as well as the rest of your crew." Exodia started, "I want you to..destroy the other medamorphs."

Meta-Ikki scoffed, "No need to argue there, master."

Valentina grinned. "Always a pleasure to serve you, Mr. Exodia."

"But before you get to that, I want Meta-Ikki to build up his strength, and gain more."

"But, master, I can woop their @$$es in one second flat with the energy I'm packing!" Meta-Ikki protested.

"Yes, but if we do it MY way, then there will be no chance that they will pull up in the end. No stupid 1% chance of defeating you.." Exodia trailed off, then looked
back at Meta-Ikki, "Now, there is a training room down the hallway, and you can take the time to unlease some of your 'powers', as well as grow stronger."

Meta-Ikki nodded. "Yes, master,"

"Now, go away." Exodia waved his hand to the two, and sat in her chair, facing the other way. Meta-Ikki and Valentina nodded, walking out of the room.

While they walked down the hallway, Meta-Ikki narrowed his crimson eyes. 'Soon, I shall have my revenge..'














~To Be Continued...~








A/N- Looks like you guys got your wish, this came out before Sunday(WAY before)! ;) I hope you enjoyed this
chapter! Sorry it was a little shorter than usual... anyways, I'll try and get the next chapter up ASAP! Peace,
and R/R! :)