Aeris1172: lol, nope, sry... that's my NEXT ficcy... i'm onli have a handful of characters in this one... cause i don't know how to incorperate them ALL in here... and sadly, Shion isn't gonna be here. so... no sxc in here...

DISCLAIMER: nope, not mine.

Chapter Two:

Murders at the Foundation

((Gaignun))

"Ugh..." I woke up and looked around. "Albedo!" I suddenly sat up, and saw nothing around me that resembled the battle with Albedo. I winced at the pain that coursed through my body, and lied back down.

"Hey, take it easy Gaignun." Jr.'s head came into view. He was grinning. "Looks like you and Albedo had quite a fight, eh? Got your butt whooped?"

"Oh shut it Jr... you would've gotten beaten faster that I would've. He's got this new move... and I got hit by U-Do... and ugh..."

Jr.'s face suddenly looked serious. "Wait, what about U-Do?"

"He awakened... for a short period of time. Albedo wanted to be more powerful... so he awoke him and got hit... but I got hit first." I winced again. "This pain... it's killing me! How long have I been out?"

"Four days." Jr. grinned again. "Looks like you really did take a beating. Well, at least your ok. You won't be able to do anything for a while. I'll take over here while you're... incapacitated."

I chuckled. "You'd do anything to take over here for a while... well, that's fine, I suppose. Where are the others?"

"The others? Well, they're off on the Elsa. They're escorting Helmer to an important meeting at Fifth Jerusalem. They thought it would be best if I was the one to accompany you. Helmer needs his protecting, you know?"

"No..." I chuckled again. "You want your power..." Jr. play-punched me, and I winced in pain again. "Ah, not so hard!"

"And here I thought you were the tough one." he grinned.

"No matter..." I quickly changed the subject. "So what's been happening while I was out?"

"Well..." Jr. took out some papers.

"Papers? You're making me work while I'm like this? I should've let Albedo hit me more!"

Jr. laughed. "As if... this is something serious." he paused suddenly.

"Yes... well?" I waited.

"Well... there have been some murders in the Foundation while you've been out."

"Murders?" I was shocked. "Have you...?"

"Yeah, I've increased security, and locked down the place. I did a complete check, and no one who shouldn't be here is here. Yet, people still died. It must be someone from the Foundation."

"From the Foundation? This is bad."

"Yeah, I know. And there aren't any links between the suspects, so it's impossible to tell who's going down next."

"Who are the victims?" I asked, as Jr. handed me the papers.

"Well..." he pointed out the top piece of paper. "The first day you were out, this guy was found." It was a young man, a new guy here, if I remembered right. He had short, brown hair, and dark brown eyes to match. "This guy worked on the bridge. Now this girl..." he pointed out the next sheet of paper. This one showed a woman, with blond hair and bright blue eyes. "She worked in our Realian Care department. The next day, I preformed the lock down... and nobody out of the ordinary was found... and no one was murdered again. But on the forth day... last night, no one was killed... but we found these..." he pointed out the last sheet of paper. Shown on it, were many mangled defensive Realians. "They were all found destroyed beyond repair. There were also a few blown out A.G.W.S. units, but they weren't damaged too bad."

"Wow... who could be doing this?" I looked closely at the pictures again. "These marks..." I looked at the pictures of the man and the woman. "They look..."

"We looked into them, and they were burn marks. The murderer must be using some kind of high energy weapon."

I frowned. "I don't see a connection between these people... or the Realians... at all. And who here would have a high energy weapon?"

"Well, I don't know, but don't worry about it Gaignun... I'll keep track of things around here... you just rest."

As soon as Jr. mentioned the word rest, I could feel my fatigue coming back fast. "That's a good idea..." Jr. left me, and I drifted off to sleep.

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A/N: oh boy, who's killing all these people? find out next chapter... and REVIEW! ok? sry, but next chapter will be a tad short... The Dream.