When they got back to the base the girl and the organoid still hadn't woken up, Dr D had come back to try and help if he could. Everyone was made to stay a night in the hospital, and Thomas suspected his brother had something to do with it.
Irvine agreed to stay with them as a guard, since they did not know anything about the girl. The Organoid was put into a tank in the same room as the girl, Fiona and Moonbay. Thomas, Irvine and Van were in a separate room, (Hospital is X shaped, 1 central room with 4 rooms coming off, girl's room, boy's room, bathroom and surgery).
It was around midnight when, Fiona, Moonbay, Irvine and Thomas heard a familiar sound, Van was snoring and he woke them all up. Thomas and Irvine left the room, in the hope of some peace and quiet, only to find Fiona and Moonbay were talking to the girl who had just woken up too.
"Ok, I didn't expect to see this." said Irvine "So she's not dangerous, that's ok."
The girl was obviously confused and Moonbay explained telling her what happened in the fight. With that the girl understood and said, "I've never done anything like that before, I still don't understand how I could have."
"Well we don't either," said Moonbay, "and, I know it sounds silly, but we don't know your name."
"Jeni," said the girl, "and I don't know yours."
"I'm Moonbay, this is Fiona, Thomas and Irvine." she said pointing to each person in turn, "And the person making all the noise in the next room is Van."
"Oh, ok."
"Look, we know who were hanging out with and I'd like to know why" said Irvine
"Jeni told them what happened to her in the past three months, adding on the end: "He did tell me about you, but I know he was very biased, and I only delivered that letter because I was the only person who may not get shot."
"Did you tell Raven what happened afterwards?"
"No, I delivered the letter and left, if anyone else saw it would have been Reice."
"It fits." went Fiona.
Van was still snoring only it seemed to be louder,
"At this rate there will be a murder tonight." muttered Irvine.
"I've got a better idea, Irvine remember what happened when we first went to the Isolina Mountains?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Remember why it all happened?"
"We had no breakfast and van started . . ." Then it dawned on him what Moonbay was going to attempt. He looked around and saw what she needed. "He'll kill you if he finds out, and I'll say if he goes for me."
"You dare, well, tell Thomas and Jeni what happened and I'll get to work." Moonbay went out of the room and looked around she soon found what she was looking for: a papaya, a knife and some string.
"Listen up you two, this is one of the stupidest things Van has done and the one of the funniest. This happened just after Red River, we were trying to escape the Imperial Army and we had to go through the Isolina Mountains to do so. We were in a hurry so we didn't have any breakfast, so really what happened was our fault, Well we were in the mountains but then Van started Hallucinating; he was so hungry he was seeing flying papayas. We all know they don't exist but Van tried to grab it and couldn't, he thought it was flying away so he ran after it. We lost him for a day. There was a run in with bandits but we all got out alright, except Van who had his pride severely dented."
Jeni and Thomas were trying hard to stifle their laughter, and Fiona looked worried. Moonbay came in and smiled. "Strung it up over him, so when he wakes up . . ." but she never got to finish. There was a loud crash as Van tried to grab the papaya in his sleep, and subsequently woke up. His head hit the ceiling and he fell back onto the bed tangled in the string Moonbay had used and covered in bits of papaya. Fiona rushed in and cried: "Van, are you ok?"
"What happened?" he replied dazed.
"Moonbay played a joke on you." said Thomas, who was quickly regretting those words as Moonbay threw some of the papaya into his face.
"Hey," he spluttered.
Van threw some at Moonbay who threw some back but it hit Fiona, soon there was papaya flying everywhere but it was still quiet, Irvine was avoiding the battle and then he heard voices from outside.
"Quiet." he said, turning the lights off, it was just a patrol, the voices past and Irvine turned the lights back on, only to be hit by three pieces at once. The only person not to have been hit was Jeni; she was looking out of the window, which was splattered all over. "It's nearly dawn." she said quietly.
"Clean up time." said Thomas, "Dunno how the doctors would react if they saw the mess."
They all wiped the papaya from the walls and each other as best they could. Then they replaced the bedding and slipped back to bed. The doctors had no idea of what had gone on in the night.
Authors note: Sorry to all you Van fans out there but I could not resist mentioning The Flying Papaya Incident, (as I and maybe others call it). I am not anti Van, or anti most other characters: (Prozen, Hiltz and Marcus being the exceptions). Ok, I've got 3 chapters left then the sequel comes out. Then I'm concentrating on some Yu-Gi-Oh fics for a while but I've got another zoids plot and story waiting to be written. Also I now have a name for my evil guy in the sequel but I'm not saying what it is.