I do not own Medabots and never will.
"She's the devil's child!" a man cried as he jumped back away from a small child his white coat snagging itself on a piece of wire in the process.
"But I'm not," the tiny child started as she began to tear up her amber eyes clouded with hurt and pain.
"You know exactly what you are you freak!" a tall woman shouted at the small child no older than eight years.
"But Mommy," the child whimpered as she backed into a corner subconsciously trying to get away from the vicious words the black haired woman had thrown at her.
The woman's blue eyes flashed with rage as she spat at the tiny figure, "I wish I had never had you, but since I can't change the past I'll just have to change the future. The black haired woman got a mad look in her eyes and lunged at the child ready to strangle her only to be stopped by a bullet going straight through her chest.
"Get rid of the woman," a curt, male voice said and the figure came into view as he scowled disapprovingly at the amber eyed child whimpering over her dead mother's body. He kicked the dead woman's body away from the child who just stared numbly at the space her gaze blank with shock.
Finally, she whispered, "Why does she hate me? What did I do? I... don't understand. Why?" the child began to cry again till the large brown haired man punched her in the face.
"Crying is for the weak," he said coldly to the quivering girl. "But," he said sparing her a look, "we shall soon remedy that particular problem." The child only sat there wordlessly once again in shock, and the black haired and green eyed man motioning for his men to take the girl away.
Chris awoke sweating slightly and sighed softly to herself. "That's the third time this week I've had that dream," she murmured to herself as she looked around her dimly lit bedroom. "Well it's no use trying to go to sleep now." Chris stepped lightly out of bed her brown hair with the barest hint of blonde and red swinging slightly as she walked. Her green eyes were tired and drawn due to lack of sleep she had been having lately. I'm going to become insomniac soon Chriscouldn't help butthinkto herself as she padded down the empty hallway past her foster parents room.
Her foster brother's door creaked slightly as it opened alerting Chris to his presence. "Are you all right big sissy," the child said with innocence only a child could have. "You haven't been sleeping lately." Chris was taken aback by the young child's observational skills. Seeing Chris's befuddled look the child smiled slightly at her his pearly white teeth showing. "It wasn't that hard to figure out. You've seemed so tired lately that anyone would suspect something." His almond eyes were opened innocently as he stared up at Chris his charcoal hair had been slightly messed up by his bed.
Chris sighed and ruffled his charcoal hair messing it up even more ignoring Raven's protests. "I'll be fine kid," she tried to assure the five year old. "I'm just having a couple of nightmares."
"I can help!" Raven said excitedly then clasped his hands over his mouth probably realizing that he could have woken their parents up Chris observed. "I can help," the small child repeated more quietly as he led his sister into his room. His almond eyes searched the room as Chris stared at a chest.
'Am I really that short," she wondered. Even my brother's small dresser is taller than me. I hate being 4'9.' She sighed to herself knowing that she probably wouldn't grow any taller.
"It's all right just go to bed," Chris answered her skin an extremely pale white though she often spent entire days out doors. "I'm just going downstairs to get a pain killer for my killer headache." Giving him a thumbs upside and winking she quickly left before he could protest. "
"Why won't you let anyone help you big sissy?" Raven asked his ceiling as he listened to his adoptive sister's foot steps as she descended down the stairs her lithe, tiny body graceful and almost predatory in movements. 'Why?' was the younger raven haired brothers last thoughts before he fell asleep in the large poster bed with blue covers and green pillows his small body encased in duck pajamas as his feet stuck out the end. Falling into a peaceful sleep he thought he heard the shattering of glass but paid no mind to it thinking it was just his over active imagination.
Chris leaned against the refrigerator drinking a glass of milk as she looked at the sleeping pills undecided as to whether she should take them. Logical reasoning said that she should because she couldn't possibly continue on like this, but some normally quiet side of her screamed at her bad idea bad idea. 'Why am I so afraid of letting my guard down?' Chris thought in wonder her small developing chest straining against her purple tank top she had worn to bed as she felt the coldness of the refrigerator seep through her thin tank top and short ruby red short shorts that she would never wear in public. Taking another sip of milk she let the cold liquid slide down her throat as she contemplated and weighed the pros and cons of her final decision.
Putting the small bottle of Tylenol PM away she was about to head upstairs when she heard a loud shatter of glass breaking and thumping against the carpeted floor upstairs. Dashing upstairs Chris, to her horror, saw the intruders surround her younger brother and something inside of her took over causing her movements to become mechanical. Jumping at one of them, she unbalanced the man long enough to create a small disturbance and opening large enough for her and Raven to escape from. Sprinting to her parent's room with Raven in tow, Chris's senses seemed to heighten and her legs seemed to move faster as she rounded the corner adrenaline coursing through her veins as she hefted Raven onto her back instructing him to hold on. The hairs on the back of her neck prickled and Chris dive rolled to the side, out of instinct, her green, eyes predatory and her brown hair flying in all directions the bed head not helping matters. Sure enough, Tsuno came diving out from behind the chair sending a web of energy at the men who found themselves stuck to the floor for a few seconds. Knowing that the web wouldn't last very long, Chris leapt to her feet heading for her parents door with Tsuno trying to stop her but the medabot was too late and Chris saw the bodies all mangled and torn and twisted up as if someone had killed them slowly after shooting them in the legs hacking and slicing them until nothing but their faces were recognizable.
Chris stumbled back gasping for breath tears burning in her green eyes as Raven gasped his almond eyes widening in horror as his tiny, chubby six-year old hands grabbed at Chris for a sense of reality. Unsure of whether he should cry or not Raven entered a state of shock that would later be extremely hard to get him out of later. Broken out her own shocked state at the sound of heavy footsteps coming from the stairs, Chris knew they had to get out Chris knew that the window was the only possible means of escape, and she ran over to it her eyes desperate as she ripped and clawed at the stubborn, jammed lock and out of sheer desperation drew her hand back and smashed the window with her fist bits of glass cutting into her weathered, yet pale skin her hair flying about her like a madman's. Setting Raven on a tree branch, Chris turned and both Tsuno and her struggled to block the door sealing it off from intruders. The large oak tree shifted slightly under Raven's weight bending and twisting as Raven struggled to keep his hands on it as he climbed down. His hands had small minor scratches where the tree had scratched him with its branches and rough bark and he winced as his tanned hands burned in pain.
Chris leapt out the window moving stealthily along the branches climbing down with the grace of a cat, she knew that they had to find a safe harbor for her and her brother but she was loathe to drag Erika into this.
"Damn, it can't be helped," she whispered to herself feeling guilty, and that was when it happened. If Erika a close neighbor or even the people that lived right next to her had been home then it might not have happed but it did. The bullet ripped through Chris's flesh and she couldn't help but cry out as it tore through her left arm. Falling to the ground, Chris gasped in pain and felt the blood flowing from her wound.
"Chris!" she heard Erika shout and looked up at the brunette. Erika stopped short and gasped at the blonde/brown haired woman lying before her in obvious pain. Chris's green eyes were glazed over in pain and her small body was trembling in pain. Erika's blue eyes widened in shock this couldn't be right this couldn't be Chris; Chris was strong and could withstand anything to see her like this was shocking.
"Ahaha," the laughter came from above as Tsuno, Chris's medabot came flying down to the ground. The yellow, red, and brown body was covered by bruises and dents in the material. Tsuno's blue eyes though showed a look of determination and pain as the Medabot struggled to get up frightened for its master. Raven whimpered in fear his brown eyes widening and he clutched onto Erika's leg who stared at Tsuno in horror. Tsuno's brown metal hair was covered in debris and glass and the red hair tie that accompanied it had come loose. A skin tight short sleeved yellow shirt with a pair of brown pants with several pockets appeared to be painted on the metal part design and white and tan colors covered the areas where there was no exposed skin excluding the ears at the top of Tsuno's head which were a light brown and pink. However there were several scratches along the normally perfect parts, and Tsuno appeared as if she had taken severe damage and yet here she was functioning on her own.
"You shall not hurt Miss Kashu again," Tsuno said in a deadly serious voice as she lunged at the man only to be thrown back by an odd looking Medabot.
"Well, well, what a pleasant surprise," the man stepped out of the shadows his green hair and glasses coming into view. "I only came here for the girl and now I find you, Erika." Erika stepped back her fear gripping her. "Won't Kuweno be pleased to hear that we know where you are?"
"Go home," Erika bit out sharply as she glanced at Chris and knew she had to get the petite brunette to a hospital soon. There was simply too much blood coming from the wound at too fast a rate to be anything but hazardous.
"So sorry, I'm afraid I can't oblige your request," the man answered laughing his blue eyes laughing at her incompetence. The green hair was splayed lazily across his head and his white tank top showed a muscled chest off. "At least not until I do this," he ran towards Erika sidestepping her at the last moment to touch Chris on the forehead with his callused hand. "Now, you will remember your true identity," Erika heard the man murmur as he stepped away from Chris his odd blue eyes looking unworldly in the light. The black pants began to fade into the shadows as he retreated his mission done for now. "If you want the girl back," he said in a low voice as he gazed at her with his blue eyes showing contempt and envy, "then you'll have to fight for her. Just don't expect everything to be exactly," he struggled to find a word before finally saying, "normal. After all, our dear little Wrath is coming home, finally." Then, the man vanished into the night leaving behind a comatose Chris and shocked Erika. Looking down at Chris, Erika saw to her shock that it seemed as if Chris's wounds were… healing!
"Erika!" she heard a surprised neighbor of Chris's, Izumi if Erika remembered correctly run up to her. The blonde haired brown eyed woman stopped her delicate hands coming to cover a cute face with a slightly angular nose as she gasped. "No," Izumi whispered as she stared at the scene in horror taking in a bleeding Chris, shocked looking Erika, and a haggard looking Raven who was too scared to cry. "The hospital," Izumi said slowly trying to recover her wits, "we have to get to the hospital." All Erika and Raven could do is stand there with wide eyes and scared looks. Chris was in an ambulance within four minutes.
Henry's blood ran cold. He dimly registered Rintaro stopping and looking at him in confusion as he stumbled backwards. Henry knew clumsiness wasn't like him these days, but he was scared. The hospital, he had to get to the hospital; these were the only thoughts running through his head as he fled. Why would a group a meda-fighters who only attacked the strongest attack her? Why her? They had all been put on high alert and Dr. Akki had even gone as far as to get several of the top teams flown in to prevent further causalities. He had been going to tell Chris and Erika; he knew that Erika would've been ecstatic. But not now, not now, because it seemed they had set their sites on a new victim. A new victim named Chris and that was why he ran. Why he ran to the hospital two blocks down and one across to the hospital on the corner all the while praying he got there on time. Because if he lost her to then he didn't know what he was going to do.