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Gundam Wing Episode 17 *Fight Between Foxes & Fox is What!!* 4:00am
It's three days since the infiltration of Base Nursery. Nothing serious seems to be happening since then and keeping an eye on the guys is easy enough, but the problem is they won't tell you if they start to change. It's obvious Shimi knows what she's doing, but Wufei will have nothing to do with Shimi at all. He keeps mumbling something under his breath about how incompetent she is and usually leaves the room.
Niko and Daga sit alone in the cafeteria. They had giving up of playing a game of trying to figure out what animal the five pilots were spliced with. It was easy to figure out that Duo was a panther and Trowa's a lion. They other three were confusing since they hadn't showed any signs of changing except for Wufei. Every once in a while his eyes would change the familiar deep blue that Niko's seen Fox possess. Finally finding something else to talk about for a change seemed more interesting to Niko anyway.
"Hah! You forget, that's your motto. Knowing you, you're probably working on wedding plans for you and Mr. Stone Yuy. You don't care whether they've got a sense of humor or not, as long as he's cute and strong enough to make your feet leave the ground."
Daga turns beet red and looks like she was about to protest, then changes her mind. Instead she gave her friend a glare to rival Heero's and stood with her arms crossed, angrily waiting for her to continue. Niko met her gaze coolly, and when Daga finally let her arms go to her sides she went on as if nothing had happened.
"So." She plays with a French Fry on her plate before eating it. "How'd ya manage to build a gundam? Last I checked you were livin' on the street."
"Stole most of it," she replies, shrugging. "I met up with Lady Dream and she gives me missions. Did some assassinations to pay for the stuff I couldn't steal." She saw a dangerous look come into Niko's eyes and quickly adds, "Don't worry, no one you knew."
"How's the search for your dad goin'?"
Niko sighs again. "Bad. Jessie and Sina haven't had any luck either. It's as if the bastard just disappeared." She looks at her hamburger for a moment then asks, "So will you help me?"
"Sure," she answers nonchalantly, "Where do we start?"
"That depends, what colonies have you checked?" says a familiar voice from behind them. Niko stares at what people would say would be his twin, but the red hair gave an easy distinction between the two.
"Jessie?" Niko stands up and hugs his brother then gives him a strange look. "How much did you hear?"
"Daga wants to marry Mr. Stone Yuy."
"No way you were here that long."
"I know, but someone forgot to turn off the bug they planted on yourself so I could find you easy."
"I'll leave you two to your reunion. One more thing please drop the accent? It's drivin' me nuts."
"You are way to easily annoyed for your own good," Niko snaps, dropping the accent. She now sounds like she was from the western U.S.
"I know," she answers cheerily. "I think they put it in my genes before I escaped. But at least I'm not afraid to show who I am." She walks back to the door and opens it. "Oh and I'll get your windows tinted before noon. Sweet dreams, babe." She starts walking down the hall. She heard some curses behind her as Daga leaves. Niko hearing her yells at her retreating back.
"Skirt-flippin', street rat, brink!"
"Transvestite vampire," she calls over her shoulder and turned down another corridor. She ran into Sally, who looks like she was trying very hard to contain her laughter. Daga gave her a grin and walks on to the hanger. After tinting Fallen Angel's windows, she notices the cockpit of ShadowScythe is open. She moves a bit closer to the suit to get a better sent of who it is. Huh, that's strange. I'd expect Heero or Trowa to be the ones to check things out not Wufei.
After taking a piece of what looked like elastic tar from the ring over head, Wufei examines it closely. He notices tiny wires in it like the ones you'd see on a computer chip. Light weight making it better then a space suit that just weighs you down. Something tells me getting the suit on to pilot this gundam in a test within itself because she doesn't make anything easy to work. He looks around as a few screens turn on around him. No seat means you're free to see what's behind you with the help of extra screens.
He takes a moment to sit Indian style in the center of the platform. The environment in here gives you the feel of an actual hand to hand combat like you would in a duel or karate match. A smile crosses his face. Leave it to Sophia to make a gundam only the strange can use and leave the old for the weak. He gets up and after turning off everything. He notices Daga as he leaves, but decides not to bother with her. As he goes to his room, he stops by Sally's office. He watches a moment before helping her clean up.
"Thanks Wufei," she says as he puts away a few rows of bandages. "Jeff seems to be afraid of doctors and Shimi didn't help either."
"I'm turning in." There's a pause as Wufei closes the cabinet. "There's a restaurant downtown that I've had my eye on lately. I was hoping you'd go with me." Sally looks up at him a bit surprised by his invitation. He still had his back turned to her placing the bottles neatly on the counter. They turn to face each other.
"Sounds like something I'd enjoy."
******
"You're leaving, Quatre?" Duo asks as a limo drives up. Quatre stops looking back at Duo at the door.
"Yes, we're a bit behind on construction and I'm hoping we're not as behind as first thought." He says with a hint of impatience in his voice.
"Are you sure it's a good idea to go?" Duo says doubtingly. "You know about the changing thing. You're more likely then any of us to change Quatre because of your business."
"I know Duo, but I have to get back to work. You understand." Quatre says a little dryly. He looks at his watch. "I have a meeting in a few minutes."
"Just don't over do it," Duo gets a bad feeling as he continues, ".take it easy ok."
"I'll be fine." Quatre turns away from Duo who catches a glimpse of his face go lifeless something he'd never seen before in his friend. Something's. not right, Duo thinks to himself as he watches the limo leave taking Quatre with it.
"What's wrong Duo?"
"Quatre left, Niko and I had a bad feeling when he left." Duo says without looking at him.
"Really. maybe he's just worried about his business that's all."
"No, Quatre's. not the kind of person to be rude in anyway shape or form." Duo says with a worried look on his face.
"Well he dose have an important business he has to get back to, you can't just keep him here against his will." He says patting him on the back. "Come on panther boy. You're colors are showing again." Seeing that his friend was right they walk back inside.
"Speaking of against his will. what happened to Robin the raptor."
".Um, let's just say momma couldn't let her baby girl go."
"About to eat you"
"Ooh yeah."
"Learn anything else."
"Only that her whole family was spliced with dinosaurs and they're the guards of the entire facility."
"Big family"
"Yep. how dose it feel to be a panther anyway?"
"Actually, I really don't feel any different. I don't mind the night vision, but." he scratches his head. "I think I might have fleas." Niko laughs at him.
"I'll buy you a flea collar. How does that sound?"
******
Rashid is relieved after seeing that Quatre made it to the meeting. As he continued to watch however he noticed Quatre acting a little strange. He face seemed dead not his usual manner, and after the meeting he seemed to be lost in his own world. He waits until they make it home and pretty much alone to decide to talk to him.
"Master Quatre is something the matter?" Quatre doesn't answer as though he didn't hear him. Confused by his not replying he tries again. "Quatre- " Tikki enters the hallway from his room.
"So, you came back." Quatre voice had a hint of something that Tikki and Rashid didn't recognize. His face seems almost cold as he looks Tikki dead in the eye.
"Yes, I did, but just for a month or two. is something the matter Rashid? You look a bit upset." He keeps an eye on Quatre.
"Quatre's been acting strangely." Rashid whispers taking Tikki to the side to talk.
"How so?" Tikki says noticing that Quatre was glaring at them like he heard every word. "I think I see what you mean." He moves away from Rashid. "Don't worry just, let me talk to him." Tikki says coming closer to Quatre and places a hand on Quatre's shoulder. An angry look crosses his face before he strikes. Quatre's eyes flicker red as he growls at Tikki. Tikki looks at the wound mark on his arm in disbelief. "He. he bit me."
"Master Quatre" Quatre angrily glares at Rashid with glowing red eyes startling him. The growls that escape his throat weren't human. Rashid takes a step back troubled. Tikki tackles Quatre as he starts for Rashid.
"Quatre snap out of it." The only reply was a vicious growl from an angry canine. He lashes out at Tikki with his newly developed claws and ripped at Tikki's face and neck. They roll down the stares landing in the foyer as a few Maganacs enter.
Tikki gets off Quatre taken aback by his new a found ability to use claw. Tikki covers his face a moment then looks at his newly blood painted hands. There's a long pause as they fiercely look at each other. Rage grows in Tikki. Tikki's eyes blare blue as bears his fangs as Quatre bears his. They go at each other like two dogs ripping and tearing at each other until they both started to change. Blood splatters everywhere as they slash at each other. Rashid and the others just watch in disbelief as they both change into giant foxes.
"Mater Quatre!" They move out of the way as the two combating foxes come closer. Rashid immediately recognized the black and orange pawed fox from the one that saved Quatre once before as he makes it down where the two are fighting. Fox really is a fox. and Quatre is. He stares at the red eyed platinum gold fox that was now stained with blood. The two slowly change back still fighting. Their claws are locked in each other in a power struggle.
"Tikki. Master Quatre please stop."
"Isra stand back or do you want your arm ripped off!" Tikki growls at him Tikki's intense deep blue eyes that make Isra jump back in terror. The others reluctantly move away from the fighting two unable to help their master. Tikki unexpectedly pulls Quatre forward with his right hand and flips him in his back. He quickly gets up and stands his ground. Both breathe heavily waiting for the other to attack first. Tikki charges Quatre strikes, and Tikki jumps over him. Quatre turns around and kicks Tikki into an end table that held a vase of flowers by a spinning kick. There's no way Quatre knows those types of moves. Only those who were trained by the Dragon Clan should know them. There's a pause before Quatre starts to get up.
Tikki charges again, but Quatre anticipated it and blinding speed he stops Tikki in mid air. He jams his claw in Tikki's stomach and then slams him into the ground still holding him down. What's that? Something shiny on Quatre's neck catches his eye that he didn't notice before. Is. that a collar?
"Die" He says calmly using his free claw to puncture Tikki's head like a balloon. Tikki moves his head at the last second; Quatre's claw pierces through the tile floor. With a last ditch effort Tikki with his canines grabs hold of Quatre's neck. Quatre's eyes grow wide. "AAAHHHH!!!" Tikki pins Quatre's claws down so he couldn't do any damage while he ripped at this neck.
Before anyone could help it was all over. Quatre's eyes switch from red to blue-green before being rendered lifeless. Tikki's hair obscures the view of his face and upper body as it flows around him mixing with Quatre's newly grown hair blood stained hair. Tikki finally stands up and holding his shoulder slowly limps somewhat from Quatre's body. He takes a look back at the distraught faces in the room then looks at the broken band in his hand. He angrily crushed it in his hand. Osprey Abdul carefully picks Quatre up off the floor. Tikki finally besieged by his own wounds collapses.
"Don't worry Rashid; Quatre's going to be fine. The teeth marks on his neck weren't that deep. He hasn't awakened yet, but he's going to be just fine." Says the golden rod haired doctor, she lowers her clipboard. "We're getting ready to transfer him to pediatrics soon."
"And what about Tikki. he's going to be ok, right."
"She will be fine."
"She?"
"I'm not surprised you don't know." She says looking at their shocked faces. Another doctor comes in the waiting room holding a bag. "Is this all of it?" she asks taking the bag from him.
"Yes, Iria, this is all her clothes. Shall we transfer her to pediatrics as well?"
"She has a previous stomach wound that was reopened. I want to keep an eye on her." She digs in the bag of clothes and takes out what looked like a half chewed vest. "This little vest she was wearing would make any girl her age look like a boy and because it's thin you can wear it under practically anything."
"Very interesting piece of equipment" Rashid takes the vest and is astounded by the weight of it. It was considerably heavy about the weight of an eight year old. "Why would anyone want to make themselves heavier?"
"That's the same question I was asking myself a few minutes ago." She says as they exit the waiting room where Quatre rests. A girl wearing blue scrubs holds the elevator door open after pushing her big trash bin in the far back. The girl's pig tails resembled lolly pops which stops shoulder length. Her sunglasses give off almost a blue glow in the light of the elevator. An unusual way to wear your hair Rashid thinks to himself. She presses the button for the fifth floor as she blows a bubble. As they make it to the fifth floor theirs a sudden jolt and it stops. Before Iria could press the call button the elevator drops two floors before stopping abruptly.
"Is everyone ok?" The girl gets to her feet as Rashid and Isra help Iria and Abdul to their feet.
"Are you ok master?" Abdul inquires seeing that he's concourse.
"What. what happened?" he asks weakly. "Where am I?"
"You mean you don't remember, Quatre." Quatre looks at Rashid confused. He tries to sit up, but Iria stops him.
"Last thing I remember was turned early after the meeting with the other pilots."
"This is just great." The girl says after opening the little trap door at the top of the elevator. She blows another bubble. "I'll be right back." They watch as she goes through the top. After what seemed like hours she slowly comes back in. "Ok, Dr. Winner, now try it." She discards her red and oily gloves in the trash bin. Hesitant at first she presses the button for the fifth floor. It goes smoothly the rest of the way up.
"Thank you, young lady." Dr. Winner says as they start to exit the elevator.
"No, problem comes naturally." She says blowing another bubble leaning in the doorway of the elevator. "I'll just make sure everybody knows this elevator's out of order." She spits out her gum in the trash then moves out of the way of the door. A man drops down from the roof of the elevator.
"Elevators out of order!" She says after kicking the trash can into him hard knocking him off his feet. "Bye, bye birdie" as she finishes her sentence the elevator drops landing with a devastating crash at the bottom.
"Oh, my god" Dr. Winner and Isra look down the shaft in shock. They turn to the girl with the sunglasses, but she had disappeared. "Where did she go?"
******
"And what's this, Yun?" the crimson eyes of Yun's teacher examines the silver ball carefully in his hands. He sits on the couch next to his student. His cloak spills over the couch resting on the floor.
"I'm not sure, Master Cobra." Yun pauses a moment watching his master turn it over and over in his hand looking for anything to what might be a clue to what it is. "I found it that day the girl attacked Amaya."
"And you decide to give it to me now." He says calmly. "That was at least a month ago."
"Are you angry with me?"
"No." he turns it around more in his hand. "I'm sure you were just trying to figure it out so you wouldn't have to bother me if it wasn't anything important." Now with both hands he examines it again. With his long fangs, he pierces the silver ball and pulls it apart till her had two halves. Yun watches in amazement not saying a word. Cobra places the two halves on the table in front of him. "I'm sure after we analyze this we'll be one step closer to finding this girl."
Gundam Wing Episode 17 *Fight Between Foxes & Fox is What!!* 4:00am
It's three days since the infiltration of Base Nursery. Nothing serious seems to be happening since then and keeping an eye on the guys is easy enough, but the problem is they won't tell you if they start to change. It's obvious Shimi knows what she's doing, but Wufei will have nothing to do with Shimi at all. He keeps mumbling something under his breath about how incompetent she is and usually leaves the room.
Niko and Daga sit alone in the cafeteria. They had giving up of playing a game of trying to figure out what animal the five pilots were spliced with. It was easy to figure out that Duo was a panther and Trowa's a lion. They other three were confusing since they hadn't showed any signs of changing except for Wufei. Every once in a while his eyes would change the familiar deep blue that Niko's seen Fox possess. Finally finding something else to talk about for a change seemed more interesting to Niko anyway.
"Hah! You forget, that's your motto. Knowing you, you're probably working on wedding plans for you and Mr. Stone Yuy. You don't care whether they've got a sense of humor or not, as long as he's cute and strong enough to make your feet leave the ground."
Daga turns beet red and looks like she was about to protest, then changes her mind. Instead she gave her friend a glare to rival Heero's and stood with her arms crossed, angrily waiting for her to continue. Niko met her gaze coolly, and when Daga finally let her arms go to her sides she went on as if nothing had happened.
"So." She plays with a French Fry on her plate before eating it. "How'd ya manage to build a gundam? Last I checked you were livin' on the street."
"Stole most of it," she replies, shrugging. "I met up with Lady Dream and she gives me missions. Did some assassinations to pay for the stuff I couldn't steal." She saw a dangerous look come into Niko's eyes and quickly adds, "Don't worry, no one you knew."
"How's the search for your dad goin'?"
Niko sighs again. "Bad. Jessie and Sina haven't had any luck either. It's as if the bastard just disappeared." She looks at her hamburger for a moment then asks, "So will you help me?"
"Sure," she answers nonchalantly, "Where do we start?"
"That depends, what colonies have you checked?" says a familiar voice from behind them. Niko stares at what people would say would be his twin, but the red hair gave an easy distinction between the two.
"Jessie?" Niko stands up and hugs his brother then gives him a strange look. "How much did you hear?"
"Daga wants to marry Mr. Stone Yuy."
"No way you were here that long."
"I know, but someone forgot to turn off the bug they planted on yourself so I could find you easy."
"I'll leave you two to your reunion. One more thing please drop the accent? It's drivin' me nuts."
"You are way to easily annoyed for your own good," Niko snaps, dropping the accent. She now sounds like she was from the western U.S.
"I know," she answers cheerily. "I think they put it in my genes before I escaped. But at least I'm not afraid to show who I am." She walks back to the door and opens it. "Oh and I'll get your windows tinted before noon. Sweet dreams, babe." She starts walking down the hall. She heard some curses behind her as Daga leaves. Niko hearing her yells at her retreating back.
"Skirt-flippin', street rat, brink!"
"Transvestite vampire," she calls over her shoulder and turned down another corridor. She ran into Sally, who looks like she was trying very hard to contain her laughter. Daga gave her a grin and walks on to the hanger. After tinting Fallen Angel's windows, she notices the cockpit of ShadowScythe is open. She moves a bit closer to the suit to get a better sent of who it is. Huh, that's strange. I'd expect Heero or Trowa to be the ones to check things out not Wufei.
After taking a piece of what looked like elastic tar from the ring over head, Wufei examines it closely. He notices tiny wires in it like the ones you'd see on a computer chip. Light weight making it better then a space suit that just weighs you down. Something tells me getting the suit on to pilot this gundam in a test within itself because she doesn't make anything easy to work. He looks around as a few screens turn on around him. No seat means you're free to see what's behind you with the help of extra screens.
He takes a moment to sit Indian style in the center of the platform. The environment in here gives you the feel of an actual hand to hand combat like you would in a duel or karate match. A smile crosses his face. Leave it to Sophia to make a gundam only the strange can use and leave the old for the weak. He gets up and after turning off everything. He notices Daga as he leaves, but decides not to bother with her. As he goes to his room, he stops by Sally's office. He watches a moment before helping her clean up.
"Thanks Wufei," she says as he puts away a few rows of bandages. "Jeff seems to be afraid of doctors and Shimi didn't help either."
"I'm turning in." There's a pause as Wufei closes the cabinet. "There's a restaurant downtown that I've had my eye on lately. I was hoping you'd go with me." Sally looks up at him a bit surprised by his invitation. He still had his back turned to her placing the bottles neatly on the counter. They turn to face each other.
"Sounds like something I'd enjoy."
******
"You're leaving, Quatre?" Duo asks as a limo drives up. Quatre stops looking back at Duo at the door.
"Yes, we're a bit behind on construction and I'm hoping we're not as behind as first thought." He says with a hint of impatience in his voice.
"Are you sure it's a good idea to go?" Duo says doubtingly. "You know about the changing thing. You're more likely then any of us to change Quatre because of your business."
"I know Duo, but I have to get back to work. You understand." Quatre says a little dryly. He looks at his watch. "I have a meeting in a few minutes."
"Just don't over do it," Duo gets a bad feeling as he continues, ".take it easy ok."
"I'll be fine." Quatre turns away from Duo who catches a glimpse of his face go lifeless something he'd never seen before in his friend. Something's. not right, Duo thinks to himself as he watches the limo leave taking Quatre with it.
"What's wrong Duo?"
"Quatre left, Niko and I had a bad feeling when he left." Duo says without looking at him.
"Really. maybe he's just worried about his business that's all."
"No, Quatre's. not the kind of person to be rude in anyway shape or form." Duo says with a worried look on his face.
"Well he dose have an important business he has to get back to, you can't just keep him here against his will." He says patting him on the back. "Come on panther boy. You're colors are showing again." Seeing that his friend was right they walk back inside.
"Speaking of against his will. what happened to Robin the raptor."
".Um, let's just say momma couldn't let her baby girl go."
"About to eat you"
"Ooh yeah."
"Learn anything else."
"Only that her whole family was spliced with dinosaurs and they're the guards of the entire facility."
"Big family"
"Yep. how dose it feel to be a panther anyway?"
"Actually, I really don't feel any different. I don't mind the night vision, but." he scratches his head. "I think I might have fleas." Niko laughs at him.
"I'll buy you a flea collar. How does that sound?"
******
Rashid is relieved after seeing that Quatre made it to the meeting. As he continued to watch however he noticed Quatre acting a little strange. He face seemed dead not his usual manner, and after the meeting he seemed to be lost in his own world. He waits until they make it home and pretty much alone to decide to talk to him.
"Master Quatre is something the matter?" Quatre doesn't answer as though he didn't hear him. Confused by his not replying he tries again. "Quatre- " Tikki enters the hallway from his room.
"So, you came back." Quatre voice had a hint of something that Tikki and Rashid didn't recognize. His face seems almost cold as he looks Tikki dead in the eye.
"Yes, I did, but just for a month or two. is something the matter Rashid? You look a bit upset." He keeps an eye on Quatre.
"Quatre's been acting strangely." Rashid whispers taking Tikki to the side to talk.
"How so?" Tikki says noticing that Quatre was glaring at them like he heard every word. "I think I see what you mean." He moves away from Rashid. "Don't worry just, let me talk to him." Tikki says coming closer to Quatre and places a hand on Quatre's shoulder. An angry look crosses his face before he strikes. Quatre's eyes flicker red as he growls at Tikki. Tikki looks at the wound mark on his arm in disbelief. "He. he bit me."
"Master Quatre" Quatre angrily glares at Rashid with glowing red eyes startling him. The growls that escape his throat weren't human. Rashid takes a step back troubled. Tikki tackles Quatre as he starts for Rashid.
"Quatre snap out of it." The only reply was a vicious growl from an angry canine. He lashes out at Tikki with his newly developed claws and ripped at Tikki's face and neck. They roll down the stares landing in the foyer as a few Maganacs enter.
Tikki gets off Quatre taken aback by his new a found ability to use claw. Tikki covers his face a moment then looks at his newly blood painted hands. There's a long pause as they fiercely look at each other. Rage grows in Tikki. Tikki's eyes blare blue as bears his fangs as Quatre bears his. They go at each other like two dogs ripping and tearing at each other until they both started to change. Blood splatters everywhere as they slash at each other. Rashid and the others just watch in disbelief as they both change into giant foxes.
"Mater Quatre!" They move out of the way as the two combating foxes come closer. Rashid immediately recognized the black and orange pawed fox from the one that saved Quatre once before as he makes it down where the two are fighting. Fox really is a fox. and Quatre is. He stares at the red eyed platinum gold fox that was now stained with blood. The two slowly change back still fighting. Their claws are locked in each other in a power struggle.
"Tikki. Master Quatre please stop."
"Isra stand back or do you want your arm ripped off!" Tikki growls at him Tikki's intense deep blue eyes that make Isra jump back in terror. The others reluctantly move away from the fighting two unable to help their master. Tikki unexpectedly pulls Quatre forward with his right hand and flips him in his back. He quickly gets up and stands his ground. Both breathe heavily waiting for the other to attack first. Tikki charges Quatre strikes, and Tikki jumps over him. Quatre turns around and kicks Tikki into an end table that held a vase of flowers by a spinning kick. There's no way Quatre knows those types of moves. Only those who were trained by the Dragon Clan should know them. There's a pause before Quatre starts to get up.
Tikki charges again, but Quatre anticipated it and blinding speed he stops Tikki in mid air. He jams his claw in Tikki's stomach and then slams him into the ground still holding him down. What's that? Something shiny on Quatre's neck catches his eye that he didn't notice before. Is. that a collar?
"Die" He says calmly using his free claw to puncture Tikki's head like a balloon. Tikki moves his head at the last second; Quatre's claw pierces through the tile floor. With a last ditch effort Tikki with his canines grabs hold of Quatre's neck. Quatre's eyes grow wide. "AAAHHHH!!!" Tikki pins Quatre's claws down so he couldn't do any damage while he ripped at this neck.
Before anyone could help it was all over. Quatre's eyes switch from red to blue-green before being rendered lifeless. Tikki's hair obscures the view of his face and upper body as it flows around him mixing with Quatre's newly grown hair blood stained hair. Tikki finally stands up and holding his shoulder slowly limps somewhat from Quatre's body. He takes a look back at the distraught faces in the room then looks at the broken band in his hand. He angrily crushed it in his hand. Osprey Abdul carefully picks Quatre up off the floor. Tikki finally besieged by his own wounds collapses.
"Don't worry Rashid; Quatre's going to be fine. The teeth marks on his neck weren't that deep. He hasn't awakened yet, but he's going to be just fine." Says the golden rod haired doctor, she lowers her clipboard. "We're getting ready to transfer him to pediatrics soon."
"And what about Tikki. he's going to be ok, right."
"She will be fine."
"She?"
"I'm not surprised you don't know." She says looking at their shocked faces. Another doctor comes in the waiting room holding a bag. "Is this all of it?" she asks taking the bag from him.
"Yes, Iria, this is all her clothes. Shall we transfer her to pediatrics as well?"
"She has a previous stomach wound that was reopened. I want to keep an eye on her." She digs in the bag of clothes and takes out what looked like a half chewed vest. "This little vest she was wearing would make any girl her age look like a boy and because it's thin you can wear it under practically anything."
"Very interesting piece of equipment" Rashid takes the vest and is astounded by the weight of it. It was considerably heavy about the weight of an eight year old. "Why would anyone want to make themselves heavier?"
"That's the same question I was asking myself a few minutes ago." She says as they exit the waiting room where Quatre rests. A girl wearing blue scrubs holds the elevator door open after pushing her big trash bin in the far back. The girl's pig tails resembled lolly pops which stops shoulder length. Her sunglasses give off almost a blue glow in the light of the elevator. An unusual way to wear your hair Rashid thinks to himself. She presses the button for the fifth floor as she blows a bubble. As they make it to the fifth floor theirs a sudden jolt and it stops. Before Iria could press the call button the elevator drops two floors before stopping abruptly.
"Is everyone ok?" The girl gets to her feet as Rashid and Isra help Iria and Abdul to their feet.
"Are you ok master?" Abdul inquires seeing that he's concourse.
"What. what happened?" he asks weakly. "Where am I?"
"You mean you don't remember, Quatre." Quatre looks at Rashid confused. He tries to sit up, but Iria stops him.
"Last thing I remember was turned early after the meeting with the other pilots."
"This is just great." The girl says after opening the little trap door at the top of the elevator. She blows another bubble. "I'll be right back." They watch as she goes through the top. After what seemed like hours she slowly comes back in. "Ok, Dr. Winner, now try it." She discards her red and oily gloves in the trash bin. Hesitant at first she presses the button for the fifth floor. It goes smoothly the rest of the way up.
"Thank you, young lady." Dr. Winner says as they start to exit the elevator.
"No, problem comes naturally." She says blowing another bubble leaning in the doorway of the elevator. "I'll just make sure everybody knows this elevator's out of order." She spits out her gum in the trash then moves out of the way of the door. A man drops down from the roof of the elevator.
"Elevators out of order!" She says after kicking the trash can into him hard knocking him off his feet. "Bye, bye birdie" as she finishes her sentence the elevator drops landing with a devastating crash at the bottom.
"Oh, my god" Dr. Winner and Isra look down the shaft in shock. They turn to the girl with the sunglasses, but she had disappeared. "Where did she go?"
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"And what's this, Yun?" the crimson eyes of Yun's teacher examines the silver ball carefully in his hands. He sits on the couch next to his student. His cloak spills over the couch resting on the floor.
"I'm not sure, Master Cobra." Yun pauses a moment watching his master turn it over and over in his hand looking for anything to what might be a clue to what it is. "I found it that day the girl attacked Amaya."
"And you decide to give it to me now." He says calmly. "That was at least a month ago."
"Are you angry with me?"
"No." he turns it around more in his hand. "I'm sure you were just trying to figure it out so you wouldn't have to bother me if it wasn't anything important." Now with both hands he examines it again. With his long fangs, he pierces the silver ball and pulls it apart till her had two halves. Yun watches in amazement not saying a word. Cobra places the two halves on the table in front of him. "I'm sure after we analyze this we'll be one step closer to finding this girl."
