Here's in case you were confused with the name change…((creator cited like such))
0014 – Tirzah Amethyset ((from Vertia Girl))
0015 – Ra ((from Rachridgeback))
0016 – Kim Porsheka ((from Star-Kitten-The-Rebel-Cyborg))
0017 – Anya Taylor ((from Anya Urameshi))
0021 – Sadie ((from the creative forces of Sadie and Mika, LTD.))
0034 – Tasha Williams ((from Abandoned Child, a.k.a. AC))
0042 – Riko Miyami ((from lilanimefan1))
0043 – Eleanor Pierrot ((from Heather, not a member of this site))
0050 – Deak Deapolow ((from leo blazer))
I wouldn't go as far as calling me sama…jeez. But you people flooded my poor inbox with your reviews. Sadie was cracking up when she saw it. And we haven't even gotten started with what happened in Social Studies…:cracks up: Oh, and by the way, there is a little bit of weird stuff in this chapter. Sorry if it's kinda weird. But I think it makes it a lot funnier to read!
And by the way, I completely freaked out when I saw all the reviews after returning from Disneyland and California Adventure. It was one of the top-review on chapter one stories ever—second only to Extremely Insane House, and it kicked out The Cyborg Children even!
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Chapter Two: Returning to the D.S.
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"We have to go and get them back?" 0021 asked, experimenting whether or not she could get rockets to shoot out of her feet. "Okay, sure! Let's see how they react."
"You do know, 0021, that they've forgotten who we are," 0042 said skeptically. "They've forgotten everything. Black Ghost is sending us to reawaken their memory and get them back on the right track."
0021 flicked her wrist and a hammer fell from mid-air. "Yay! I get to SMASH them!"
"I'm so happy you're happy, 0021," 0043 sarcastically said. "Let's go. I can't stand being around your happy attitude much longer."
"I forgot to mention something," 0042 added, smiling. "We have to put these red uniforms on over our blue ones. Red is the standard Generation 2 uniform." She flashed all her white teeth in the dark with her smile. 0021 scrunched her nose up. 0042 tossed the other four girls uniforms. 0016 smiled at it too.
"I hate the color red," 0021 mumbled.
"It's your uniform, isn't it?" 0016 asked her. "Why shouldn't you be able to do what you want with it? As long as it's red, I don't think that anyone's going to care."
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"So you're telling me that you have no copies of Kingdom Hearts anywhere?" an annoyed 0015 asked, twitching beyond all control. "No fucking food I can live with. I might even survive a drought. But no Riku? Good Lord, how will I SURVIVE?"
0015, 0017, 0050 and 0034 had made themselves happy by camping out in various places, but it was normal to see 0015 stalking about, looking for a copy of Kingdom Hearts. The only thing that she knew that was connected in any form to KH was the Soul Eater blade that her beloved Riku weld in the game. Every other cyborg on board was trying to convince her that there was none to be found, but she would not take no for an answer.
0034, on the other hand, was trying hard to figure out how she'd nearly burnt the couch in her sleep. She had unleashed flames from her right hand, but when she had tried again to do it, it wouldn't come. 0017 had done something of a similar manner by calling all the cutlery out of the closed drawer and having it zoom toward her. When she had thought for it to stop about an inch before it sliced and diced her, it dropped lamely to the ground. The poor girl had been in tears trying to explain to Dr. Gilmore what she'd done.
0050 had been sitting in the control room, watching 002, 004 and 008 pilot the Dolphin through the ocean. The sight of all the schools of fish fascinated her, as did the occasional reef or two.
"Are you going to sit in here all day?" 002 asked after a few hours of having 0050 sitting behind him.
"Do you have a problem with it?" 0050 demanded. "And what is that thing down there?"
She pointed to a red thing that was energetically waving its arm, along with four other red things lying about it. 009 had just entered with 003, and were being followed by 0017 and 0034.
"Hey…what is that thing that just swam up here? It looks like 0015!" 0017 exclaimed.
There was the waving red thing, smiling at them through the huge pane of glass. She was wearing the standard cyborg uniform. Her hair was light brown, her eyes a shade of blue-green with yellow surrounding the pupil, and there was a piece of indigo cloth wrapped around her neck. She pointed downwards, then smiled more.
"I think it's a parallel of 0015," 0034 said. 0015 entered upon hearing her name. She looked out the window and nearly screamed.
"I know…that face…" 0015 said. "But I can't remember from where…but she's a cyborg, the feeling she gives off is the same as you guys."
The cyborg outside looked like she was dragging them up. 004 saw the light becoming clearer, and the water becoming a lighter shade. Finally, he saw an unbroken plain of blue. The cyborg grabbed a small suitcase out of nowhere and smashed the glass inward.
"That's interesting, I was expecting something a little more exciting," The girl sighed, wringing her hair out. "I was looking for someone to help me. Those are my teammates down there, I don't know what happened…"
"Do you know who you are?" 009 asked, remembering the episode with 0017.
"My name is 0021. I don't understand why you want to know, though," The girl replied, leaping down to stand in front of him. "I apologize for this mess. Would you like me to fix it?"
Suddenly, a fish sprang from the water and landed where 0021 had been. In a second, the fish had become a tall human girl with black hair and cornflower blue eyes.
"0016 and the others'll be up soon," The new girl said. "What an interesting bunch of idiots we seem to have stumbled upon. Who decided this?"
"Are you saying that you planned for us to find you?" 002 demanded.
"No!" 0021 shouted. Her eyes blazed. The suitcase in her hand looked a lot more menacing all of a sudden.
"002 didn't mean anything by that," 003 apologized. "Did you, 002?"
"In any case, I really don't care." The raven-haired girl said. "Could you just help us get our teammates and see if they're still alive?"
"I do know you!" 0017 exclaimed. "Aren't you 0043?"
The fish girl's eyes widened. "That's correct. You're 0017. The one that looks like Miss Bubbles over there…" She jabbed her finger at 0021, who was repairing the glass, "Is 0015. And the one with the carrot top is 0034. Let's see…that means we're missing 0050."
A wave of whispers went through the room. 0021 finished her repair job and was admiring it. "Come on, I want to get down there and see if the other three are all right! I didn't fix this for nothing, ya know."
009, 008, 002, 003 and 004 stood looking dumbfounded at 0021 and 0043, who seemed to know everything about the four amnesic girls that they had discovered. 0021 was rearing to go, and was now finger-combing her hair.
"If you just want to watch me all day, then have fun!" 0021 said happily, sitting herself down in the chair 002 had evacuated. She soon picked up the gist of the controls and dove back down, leaving 009 to wonder more.
"0021…can you remember anything besides your name?" 009 asked her. 0021 turned and looked at him with the smile wiped from her face.
"I can remember being downtown with one of my friends when this weird girl walked in, and after that, I don't remember much besides waking up and getting out with the other four girls from my team." 0021 answered. 009 gazed sympathetically back at her. 0021 turned her focus back on the controls.
Perfect. He's totally fallen for it! None of them have any clue who or what we are…or who the four girls with them are for that matter. 0021 thought, seeing the other three girls coming into view. 0042 was standing up, shaking her black hair out.
"That's 0042 who is standing up," 0043 said from behind 0021. "The blonde one is 0016 and the last is 0014."
0042 turned and looked up to see the Dolphin with 0021 piloting. This is all going according to the plan. I wonder what time it is. I hope it's near dinner…I'm starving…or if that's past, I'll settle for reawakening some memories. She waved them down.
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Time had passed and introductions had been made. The five new girls had found places to sleep that night. But little did anyone know what was going to wake up that night as they slept.
"0042? 0042! Are you still awake?" 0016 hissed. She saw a flash of white teeth in response.
"I think it's 0021 you need to worry about," 0042 whispered in reply, rising from her position on the ground.
"I couldn't sleep if my life depended on it!" 0021 whispered. "Shall we wake something up?"
"Not those two, for certain," 0016 said, pointing at 0043 and 0014. "I'll set off 0050. 0042, you take 0034's memory. 0021, deal with 0015 and 0017. Got it?"
0021 smiled at them and ripped the red uniform off. "We aren't going to need them any more. With all the noise that they're going to make, 009 and his gang will be up in no time at all. And by that time, they'll have figured out who it was. Have 0043 and 0014 on standby in case anything goes wrong. Otherwise, have fun!"
0016 and 0042 slowly removed their red uniforms before letting 0016 melt their atoms to bits, then they took off down separate corridors. It wasn't long until 0042 came across 0034's sleeping area. 0042 gently prodded her until she woke up.
"0042…what're you doing here?" 0034 asked, rubbing her sleepy blue-green eyes. "I'm pretty sure that it's late…"
"Can you remember me from anywhere before?" 0042 asked her. I hope I'm doing this the right way!
0034 focused her eyes on 0042. 0042 flashed a smile, then 0034 gasped. 0034 looked at her hands, then screamed like all hell had broken loose.
"You…me…them…" 0034 gasped. 0042 nodded.
"See, you do remember," 0042 said. "Are you still part of the mission?"
0034 shook her head. "Hell no, bitch. They helped me."
0042 shrugged. "Suit yourself. Besides, we are like sisters. We wear the same uniform."
"No we don't!" 0034 shrieked, trying to deal away the truth.
0042 destroyed the red fabric with a slash of her nails. "Yes we do."
0021 found 0015 and 0017 sleeping relatively close to one another. 0015 had her arms locked around her blade, protecting it from everything. 0017 was using her hammer as a pillow.
"0015…0017…can ya hear me?" 0021 whispered. 0017 woke quickly.
"Is something the matter…EEEEEEEEEE!" 0017 screamed, covering her eyes. 0021 jumped back.
That took less than I thought it would. 0021 thought, watching 0017 shove 0015 around until she had woken up. 0015 looked at 0021 for a moment.
"Hey…I can remember where I've seen you before…" 0015 said dazedly. She looked at 0017, whose pupils were like pinpoints; "You're from Black Ghost! I am too! I'm a cyborg from Generation Three! But why the fuck didn't I remember before…"
0015 stood up and tore the red uniforms from her own and 0017's bodies. "Come on, 0017, we have to warn the others."
"Wait a second, you two," 0021 said, completely amazed by how little effort it had taken, "Are you still part of the mission?"
"Screw the effing mission," 0017 grumbled, picking up her hammer. 0021 fled with her accelerator before 0017 got the chance to unleash a missile.
0050 was sitting awake in the control room, watching the Dolphin pilot through the dark blue waters. 0016 slipped in, and 0050 turned around.
"Oh, hello, 0016…" 0050 muttered, returning her focus on the water. "What brings you in here?"
"Look at me, 0050," 0016 said. 0050 turned around and looked into the Lapis-blue eyes, and let loose a murderous scream. "Are you still in on the mission?"
"I most certainly am not part of your fucking mission!" 0050 shouted. 0016 tore her uniform off.
"If you aren't, then why are you wearing the same uniform that I'm wearing?" 0016 asked her slyly. 0050 shook her head and ran from the room. "0021, I know that you're behind me."
0021 made herself visible. "Their memories have returned. 009 just woke up, as did 002 and 008. 0043 is coming, or at least she was when I was passing…"
"I'm right here," 0043 said, changing from a computer into her human shape. "How could I sleep through that racket? Shit, you would have thought that they liked having the gaping void filled. But no, they had to scream."
"Stay right where you are," 002 said, holding his blaster at the three.
"Or what?" 0043 asked, waving him off. "You'll attack us with your nose?"
"We'll stay right here," 0021 said, laughing at him. "But how can you guarantee that we won't do anything?"
With that, 0016's fingertips began to glow with a blue light. 0043 stood watching him, and 0021 called her small suitcase back.
"Well, we're waiting," 0021 said happily, swinging her suitcase around. "Or should I introduce you to the box of DOOM?"
"009!" 002 shouted. 009 ran in and found the four. 0021 started laughing.
"That was a deadly mistake," 0021 said, throwing the boD at them with full force. "You idiot. If you hadn't called for backup, we could have saved a lot of time. But no, you had to make it hard! 0043, would you?"
0043 changed into a white tiger with no effort whatsoever. She pounced at 009, then ran behind him out of the control room. In no time, the girl was pulling them to the surface.
"Are you ready to party?" 0021 asked, jumping through the window out into the indigo night sky. 0043 was standing on the water, snickering at them.
"You fuckers are never going to guess what we have planned," She crooned. "Not even they do. They're as clueless as my family!"
And 0021 sent fire from her palms, laughing as she ran out to join 0043. 0015 entered with 0017.
"Hang on a second, party animal," 0017 shouted, sending a missile from her hammer. 0021 held up her hand and blocked the blow, and then laughed like the maniac she was and sent several hundred bullets at them.
"It wouldn't be fun without us," 0042 said merrily, commanding the water into a whirlpool and sending it around the opposing team. "That's what ya get for messing with 0042!"
0021 smiled and high-fived 0042. The Keyblade from Kingdom Hearts appeared in her hands, and she laughed at it. 0042 waved her hand and the whirlpool dissolved, leaving only bubbly remains floating about. 0016 took her stand.
"Hey 004…do you know what temperature atoms freeze at?" 0016 asked, igniting her blue lights again. She waited a second, then said, "BEEEMP! That's the incorrect answer, sir! Atoms freeze at negative 273.135 degrees Celsius, as you're about to find out!"
The light shot from her fingers, but before it reached 004, a huge strip of metal took the blast and crumpled into nothing. 0017 stood, the mallet swung across her back, and drawing metal objects close.
002 lit his jets and flew out to attack the four girls out on the ocean. Before he got there, the four were gone into thin air.
"GO AFTER 'EM!" 0015 shouted, clicking her accelerator. "They're only at mach four right now! If you hurry you can catch up!"
0021 saw her clone running after her, shooting dark energy balls from her hands. 0021 laughed at 0015 and sped up to mach nine.
She saw him standing there.
But it wasn't soon enough.
002 grabbed her and flew up with her, and 0021 squirmed and writhed and bit and burned and froze and did everything she could to get him to let go. But no matter how hard she tried, he wouldn't let her free. She saw 0043 flying up after them as a 002-clone, with 007 behind her as a crow.
"You bastard!" 0021 screamed, then drove the Keyblade into his leg. She gained control of herself again and got jets to spring from her own feet. "You don't come near me again like that!"
She flew down before 002 began his own fall. 0021 didn't care about him. She called rain and sent it pummeling down on the rebel cyborgs, with 0042's help. 0043 swooped back down, and gave 007 over to 0021.
"Just…don't…!" He squeaked. 0021 laughed.
"Oh, I have a much better idea," 0021 said. "After the bastard attacked me, I have an idea for you…"
0043 caught on fast. "Our hostage. Of course. They'll be too scared to fire on us if they know that we have one of them with us."
0021 got rid of the Keyblade and replaced it with a small pocketknife. 002 right on top of 0050 as 0021 stood watching. A second later, she was cracking up.
"0043, keep this guy under control. I'll go and do something else for a moment," 0021 said, handing 0043 the knife. 0021 walked over to where the others stood. She took a blaster from mid-air and fired it at all but 009, and all fell still into a deep sleep.
"It seems like it will come down to us," 0021 said, stepping over 002. "This is what you get for messing with Generation Three. Are you ready to have some fun?"
0021 held up her hands and a wall of flames shot up. "Any funny moves and you can kiss 007 good-night."
"0021, you're still a human! Why are you doing this?" 003 asked, waking up. 0021 blinked at her.
After a minute of thought, 0021 smiled and whipped out two samurai blades. "Because I'm an American teenager with nothing better to do!"
"Damn it, 002, how much do you weigh?" And agitated 0050 grumbled, throwing 002 off her chest with no effort at all. "0021, these aren't bad people! You know that I'm not a bad person…don't you?"
009 lunged for an attack. 0043 cut off a shred of 007's uniform. "We have a lot more that we can do in a short amount of time. Shall we cut to the chase or wait a little longer?"
0021 slashed with her swords. The five hits she almost made were blocked by a certain blade, which was being weld by 0015. 0015 smiled at 0021. 0021 transformed her swords into the Keyblade once more.
"STOP IT!" 0014 bellowed. Rain began to pour from the skies without a single cloud in sight. Lightning clapped and thunder boomed. 0017 gazed fixedly at it, in total fascination with it. "Why in hell's name are you fighting like this, 0021? You too, 0043 and 0016. There is no need! Do you hear me? NO FUCKING NEED! I KNOW 002 FROM BEFORE!"
0016 froze amid calling a fire-colored light to her fingers. She walked across the churning seas to where 002 lay motionless and turned his face in her hands.
"But…that's…not possible…" 0016 whispered, frightened by it. "Jet left such a long time ago…not that I wasn't happy, of course."
With that, she slapped his across the face until he woke up. When he looked up at her with his garnet eyes, she stared back down with her own harsh Lapis-colored eyes.
"Kim?" 002 asked. She punched him in the face.
"Back and better than ever. Do you know what point atoms melt at?" She demanded, tossing him a few feet away. "Wrong. Four million degrees Celsius was the answer I was looking for. But you'll find it out soon enough for yourself what it feels like!"
And the fire danced at her fingers and flew toward him, but it was blocked yet again.
But this time it that been a missile that had blocked it.
"Uhh…which one of you was that?" 0017 asked, snapping back into reality. "Wasn't me, that's for certain."
"MORE WHERE THAT CAME FROM, BITCH!" 0034 shouted over the tumultuous rain. She was kneeling down with one hand over her left leg, then moved her hand and let another missile loose.
"Okay, I've just fucking had it over here. I said not to pull off any gay shit, and look what you go and do. Well, fuckers, say bye-bye to 007!" 0043 shouted. 0014 clenched her fists and the ocean writhed around, churning so no one could do anything.
0021 had been missing now for five minutes. 009 turned to look for her.
And it proved to be a fatal mistake that no one had noticed her absence before.
"Am I buff or what?" A pleased 0021 asked, lifting the Dolphin with one had and holding the Keyblade locked with the Soul Eater in the other. "And that's not even the start! Watch now how I defeat 0015 and crush the Dolphin at the same time!"
Fire sprang to life beneath the Dolphin and began to melt it. 0021 pulled the Keyblade toward her body, and 0015 saw how much 0021 was focusing on the fire, and took the opportunity.
"You're mine," 0015 hissed, slashing 0021's right arm with the tip of her blade. 0021 gasped and called the fire away, placed the Dolphin back down, then clung to her arm and cried.
"So by this time, you're stupid enough to do stuff like that?" 0021 asked through her tears. White light blazed beneath her palm and she moved her hand away. The blood had stopped flowing and the skin was patched. 0015 looked horrified.
Lightning clapped between the two clones' faces. 0015 and 0021 looked at one another's faces as the eerie blue light illuminated them the blast caused. One attacked the other right as the blast faded.
"Now we're even, aren't we?" 0015 asked. As soon as she began to smile for the first time, 0021 stood up and laughed. "You little bitch, 0021."
"Run, run, run, as fast as you can! You can't catch me, cause you ain't the gingerbread man!" 0021 squealed, darting off with her acceleration switch. 0015 rolled her eyes.
"There won't be any pain, I promise," 0043 said, watching 007 twitch as she admired the knife's silver blade. "I've tried to die ten times and it has never hurt me. The first minute or so has a little bit of pain, but after that, you can't feel anything. Your senses slowly fade into the darkness, and your vision goes last. Once it's gone, you find yourself in your favorite place. You see what it was like. Everything shines around you, and then goes completely dark. If you're luck, it'll stay that way."
"I can't get them to chase me," A dejected 0021 sighed. 009 stopped in front of the two and looked at 0043, who had already cut an inch-long slit across 007's neck. 0043 smiled up at him.
"Ready?" 0043 asked him. 0021 bounced with happiness.
"I'm fast! You can play with me!" 0021 said happily, running at only mach two. "This is soooooo boring. I know! I can THUNDERIZE you!"
Lightning crackled from her fingers, where it targeted 009. 009 was running after the deranged teenager, trying to avoid the volts. 0021 laughed and sped up to mach nine.
"I can't keep up with her any longer," 009 said, pulling out of acceleration mode. 0050 frowned at him.
"I'll chase her." 0050 said, cracking her knuckles and grinning. "Quit acting so down. I just like being outside. I haven't seen the outdoors in…a very long, long time."
And she left him wondering as she went after 0021 in acceleration mode. 0014 stepped over to where the other girl had been.
"Do you mind that I was a bitch?" 0014 asked 004 outright. "Because I know I was. My mistake. But since you have Jet with you, I think it's safe to assume you're on the right side. Let me re-introduce myself. I am 0014."
"And I'm BOP-IT!" 0021 exclaimed, running around behind her. She zipped through the Dolphin, then began to float away in the air. 0050 stood dumbfounded on the ground, wondering what was going on.
"If you're going to kill him, do it fast, 0016," 0042 urged 0016. 0016 held up her hands and called her blue light. "Hey 0043, are you almost done over there?"
"You could say that," 0043 replied. "Shall I mutilate him or completely ruin his life?"
"Where 002 is going, there will be no reprieve," 0016 growled, sending the light at him. "No matter what. Let's see…how shall I destroy you? With one blast or many slow ones, just to make you suffer?"
"Please Kim," 002 pleaded. "I'm sorry. I never meant to do any of it!"
"Sure," 0016 snarled, letting the light freeze 002's unblasted leg. 0014 jumped in front and 0016 recalled the blast.
"0014," 0016 said. "Why in hell are you protecting him?"
"He was my friend," 0014 replied. The storm picked up and the ground rumbled. "My best friend. I loved him. He loved me."
0016 screamed in frustration and burned with her red-yellow-orange light and drew herself together. She turned around and expelled the tongues of fire, which melted everything, including the water.
"Hot stuff!" 0021 exclaimed, hovering again.
"You're defying the laws of physics," 0014 noted.
"Exactly!" 0021 replied, her face becoming very happy and she clapped her hands together. "Wait until you see my next trick!"
And she pulled out a top hat and a magic wand. With the wand, she tapped the hat twice and yanked an invisible entity out of it.
"I'm happy that no one is paying attention to us," 0043 said. "This idiot is half dead and you could all care less. Fine with me."
0015 raised her sword above her head and was illuminated by a blast of purple. She sent the sword crashing down onto the waves, her legs spread apart and her body halfway bent over. The waves raised and split in two, opening a great gap. 0015 walked across the gap to where 0043 stood.
"Fork him over." 0015 commanded. 0043 grinned evilly.
"I never took commands from anyone, and I'm not about to take them from someone that's my age," 0043 said. 0015 gave her a warning glance. 0043 waved it off and became a clone of 001. "You wouldn't hurt a baby, and even if you tried, I've copied everything about him. Or maybe…" She transformed into a copy of 0015, "You can't hurt yourself."
002 raised his blaster and shot at the absentminded 0021. 0021 screamed a few choice words, then pulled a frying pan out of nowhere and zoomed down to 002. She began to pummel him with it until 0014 clobbered her in the head with a blaster. 0021 fell motionless and sunk to the ground, form where she didn't rise again.
"That one is the devil's personification, I tell you," 009 said. "Any move you try and get in on her, she comes up with something better. Should I ask the professor to run a scan to see what Black Ghost did to her?"
0014 looked at him with goggling eyes. "...that sounded really perverted, 009."
0016 used her fire again. This time, the flames licked 0034's hair. 0034 thought it was 0043, so she pounced and attacked. 0043 didn't have any time to react, so she was left hopeless and was knocked out.
0016 was the last left standing. 0015 used the tip of her blade again to slash 0016's right leg, leaving the girl to loose a ton of blood and faint from the loss.
"You forgot someone," 0042 said, grinning with her full mouth of teeth. She rose from beneath the water on a pillar of bubbles. "Have you had your eight glasses of water today? I don't think you have, or at least not 0042-style!"
With that, she freed a tirade of magma from where 0015 had split the ocean. It flew around the bubbles and floated around 0042's midriff in a star shape. 0042 bid it to fly at 009.
0017, on the spur of the moment, held up her hands and a white shield shot up around them. 0017 looked at her hands and smiled. In seconds, the cutlery was zooming out toward them. This time, 0017 urged it on, and 0042 was too busy cheering herself on to notice the knives. She fell from her pillar into the ocean, which had returned to normal now. The storm calmed down to a light drizzle.
"That was fun," 0050 remarked sarcastically. "But after two years being stuck asleep, I guess it qualifies as the best time I've ever had!"
"Should we take them to see the professor? I somehow feel connected and responsible for this mess with the four of them," 0015 added. "But of course, we'll have to strap them down and make sure 0021 can't burn or freeze or do anything to get out." She smiled widely.
"Any way you put it, you're…" 0014 said, poking 002, "…going to need help getting yourself back together."
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"Turn the lights off, mommy…I said seven forty-five!" 0021 said, waking up to a room of white light. She closed her eyes, but the light was still there. "Okay, Bean, that's enough…I need sleeeeeeepppp..."
"She's interesting to listen to," 0017 said. "Well, she'll be the first to wake up. Shall I do it now so we don't run into any troubles?"
"I won't hurt you if you don't hurt me," 0021 said to 0017, sitting up. 0021 was cross-legged, fully awake, and holding a gun at Gilmore. "So here are my questions: how long have I been here, where am I, why am I here, why are you taking care of me, and how long did you listen to my talking?"
"You've been here for three days, you're in the Dolphin's infirmary, you're here because 0014 knocked you out, we're taking care of you because we expect something in return for it, and we listened to you ten minutes." 0017 rattled off. 0021 lowered the gun.
"What are we talking for in return?" 0021 asked. "Anything, basically, is yours."
"What we want," 0017 said, "Is your help."
"Help? I am hardly making my way through Algebra 3-4, doing well in physics, kicking butt in swimming, making progress in my French, and we'll get into the rest later," 0021 replied, flexing her right leg. "Or do you mean something else?"
"That's right. We want your help in our fight against the Black Ghost." 0017 explained.
"Wait just a second," 0021 said, holding up her hands. "You're asking the wrong girl for this. Ask one of them. I'm outfitted to survive my college prep classes, swim fast, and do not much more. Black Ghost gave me the gift to summon anything I wanted at any time, and that's the whole of my skill. I can not fight for my life. Ask 0043. Ask 0016. Ask anyone else, just not me."
"You seem more capable than I am," 0017 said. "I'm fourteen. Live with it. You can help if you wanted to."
"I came from Black Ghost thinking you were out to destroy the world," 0021 said. "But you've helped me. I don't think the others will like it very much, but I will help you. By the way, I know it's off-topic, but did I permanently damage 002? Did 0043 seriously mutilate 007 like she said she would?"
0017 smiled. "You scared 002, but no lasting physical damage. 007's fine. The only thing that's wrong with him is 0043. I can really not understand how he works. All he says is how scary 0043 is, and yet how her ferocity is like a rose. Or it was something like that."
"Aw, I was hoping to seriously hurt the bastard," 0021 sighed. "But oh well, I suppose. I hope you realize that this is only temporary. Am I dismissed?"
"No funny moves." 0017 ordered. 0021 saluted and winked, then stood up.
"Should I keep wearing this or change into something more…original?" 0021 asked, turning her head to look at her uniform. "I guess I'll keep wearing it for now. I can always change back into my regular clothes."
With that, she wandered out. As she did, she hummed a strain of music.
"Notes to self, number three: never try and have a conversation with 0021." 0017 said to herself. "She might kill you in the middle of it."
"I heard that," 0021 called from outside. 0017 rolled her eyes.
0021 sat down out of pure randomness. She pulled her cell phone from mid-air and looked if there was an operating company nearby. But wouldn't you have known, she was roaming. 0021 smiled briefly as she looked at the screen, which was currently displaying her sisters, parents and herself from summer vacation.
"What are you doing here?" 0015 asked, looking down. "I thought I told 0017 to bind and gag you until we knew it was safe."
"It is safe," 0021 replied. "I agreed to your terms of service. You like Kingdom Hearts?"
"Yeah, but they don't have it anywhere around here," 0015 said.
"Say no more," 0021 answered. A second later there was a Gameboy SP with a copy of the game in 0015's hands. 0015 wandered off again, playing the game.
0021 returned to flipping through the pictures on her phone. There was one of her sisters with each other's clothes on, one of her two dogs, one of her and her gang of friends, and numerous others. The last one was a silhouette of her in front of the ocean, the sun blazing behind her.
"Nice picture," 0034 commented. "You or one of your friends?"
This time, 0021 stood up. "That's me, over summer vacation. Why're you askin'?"
"Just wondering," 0034 replied. "Because we might be stuck together for a very long time and I want to know as much as I can."
0021 smiled. "That's good. So…0034…where do you hark from?"
"Later. I still don't know if you're my ally or foe." 0034 said. There was a loud curse shouted and 0034 dashed off.
"I do hope that they're having fun in there," 0021 chuckled. She looked at the picture once more. "And I hope that none of our families miss us as badly as I think they do."
Her smile drooped, and she walked out to the living room. 0015 was camped out on the couch, playing her game, 0014 was poking 002, and 009 was sitting alone. 0014 took notice as 0021 entered.
"So, 0015 was right about that. But was 0017 letting you out to stretch your legs or what?" 0014 asked. 0021 shrugged in response.
"I said that it was fine, and I agreed to help you for the present time. But the other three, I don't think you'll get off as easily." 0021 answered simply. "There's always the snowball's chance in hell that I'm playing you and I might pulverize you any second, but I doubt that I will."
"You're more confusing than 007 on one of his rants," 0015 commented. "And that takes quite a bit of effort."
"Hent, oh well for me," 0021 remarked airily. "I'll see what weird stuff I can stir up. If I can, I'll see if I can expand this thing as to fit all of us in."
"Have fun," 0014 said. 0021 flicked her hair back and laughed.
"People always tell me to do that, and ya know, I usually don't."
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Kind of a weird ending. But I think it suits this chapter! I just found out that my fucked-up high school will start on the fucking sixteenth of August, unless two girls join forces and get their class to petition against it! HELL YEAH!
The chapter's title's meaning – when you take the D.S., you have followed the song until the place before you go back to a marked place in the song. The place will be somewhere after the opening sequence, and you will follow it until you take the Coda. When I say "D.S. al Coda," I mean the last part of the song that you took the Coda to get to. Music people will get this better than you others will.
See ya next time, everyone!