"Do you think that Kenzi will be okay?" Katrina asked as she and Neil were lounging around in their rooms.
"He'll be okay." Neil said rather calmly, "Kenzi's a tough kid…"
"How is that?" Katrina asked as she turned on her labtop.
"I once saw him take a hit to the head with a baseball bat during a fight." Neil said, "Gave him a bloody head, but he literally kicked the crap outta that guy…"
Katrina laughed gently, earning a smile from Neil. Katrina turned back to the computer, that was now connected to the internet, and began surfing the web for music songs. Neil, who didn't have much of an interest in what the other teen was doing, silently read her book.
The room had grown silent for fifteen minutes since they had stopped talking about Kenzi. Katrina was half asleep on the computer, her elbows resting on the keyboard table, after a while she let out a frustrating groan, and switched the computer off. Neil was in the kitchen, cooking some eggs. Katrina walked into the kitchen and sat down in a chair, Neil gave a quick glance at her before turning back to her cooking.
"So when did it happen?" Katrina asked sleepily and softly at the same time.
"When did what happen?" Neil replied as she placed her eggs into the fridge.
"That fight you told me about earlier…"
"Oh that…" Neil mumbled quietly, "That happened when he was eight…"
That smell…
That hospital-like smell…
He hated it…
Kenzi woke up in a hospital bed, it looked as if a paint bomb exploded and covered everything in white. He had some tubes inserted into his arms and legs, he was wearing a hospital gown. There was also a beeping sound coming from a machine that he supposed was monitoring his heartbeat.
"How is our patient doing?" A nurse asked sweetly as she walked in the room.
"Great…" Kenzi moaned, even though he actually felt no pain at all in his body.
"That's very good." The nurse chirped almost surprisingly. "You recovered faster than the medical staff predicted."
Kenzi ignored the nurse and sat up, he noticed his mouth was dry. He swallowed a couple times, restoring some of the moisture. The nurse gave him a bottle of water and left the room. Kenzi took it and drank about half of it. Then he pulled the tubes out of his arms and legs, wincing in pain each time he pulled one out.
"Where the hell are my clothes…" Kenzi muttered to himself. He then began walking around the room looking for his clothing. What he found was a mechanic jumpsuit, a pair of his boxers that he found in a suitcase, and a grey muscle shirt. He quickly put them on and walked outside.
The hallways seemed pretty empty except for some of the maintenance staff workers walking around.
I should probably take the day off, Kenzi thought to himself restlessly as he explored the halls. He was trying to find the pilot quarters, unfortunately he wasn't having much luck though. Then he finally gave up after a while and went to an information computer to search for the student quarters. The computer had a fairly good sized screen. Possibly a touch screen, Kenzi probably figured. He pressed a green button, activating the machine.
"Hmm… I guess I could go to the garages for a while…" Kenzi said quietly to himself. He quickly searched the data banks until he found the garages. Then pressed a button that appeared on the screen. Then a paper slid out of the machine indicating directions. Kenzi grabbed it and walked down the hall, looking at the paper from time to time, also hoping that he wouldn't get into too much trouble…
"I can believe this!" Neil yelled in fury while Katrina tried to calm her down, "Why the hell would Kenzi go wander around in the academy for!"
"Well…" Katrina said softly, "He could've gotten bored and-"
"Well." Neil said angrily, "He could've at least left a note or something…" Then she ran out the door.
"I guess…" Katrina complied quietly and ran after Neil…
Kenzi yawned as he walked along the garage. Earning a few puzzled glances from the maintenance crew. He continued to walk until he reached his AC. The AC that he had used piloted to win his first evaluation. He yawned again, he was more exhausted than he had expected.
"Hey kid!" A man yelled, making him turn his head in that direction. "What are you doing by this AC. It's really unstable.
"How so?" Kenzi asked intently.
"It seems a few of the MG rounds from the evaluation tests a couple of days ago hit the generator matrix system."
"Great…" Kenzi said simply.
"Yeah…" The engineer said sadly, "It's really a shame, we'll have to scrap it…"
"So?"
"So what?" The engineer asked in a puzzled voice.
"When can I start?" Kenzi asked confidently, knowing that the engineer knew what he was talking about…
"That Kenzi is gonna need another surgery when I'm through with him!" Neil said angrily as they walked through the garage doors that were closest to Kenzi's AC. She grabbed the nearest person to her right, a maintenance crew member. Which was the man that Kenzi had been talking to before. "All right! Spill it! Where is he! Where is Kenzi!"
"You mean that kid's a friend of yours…"
"Umm… yes…" Katrina answered for her friend…
"Well you've got one hell of a mechanic for a friend!" The man said cheerily.
I hope so,Neil thought worrily...
End of Chapter 3
Cliffhanger chapter...
And sorry this chapter is so short, I haven't had alot of time to type this story. I'll try to make the next one longer.