Chapter 8: Brother dear.
Tatany groaned as she opened her eyes, only to shut them again as she came face to face with a blinding light. She groaned again as she groggily opened her eyes. "Tatany? Hey guys. She's waking up. Look." She heard someone cry. "See, see, she's awake."
"Gah. Where am I?" She asked as she tried to sit up, but in the end failed miserably. "Why am I so sore?"
"Don't move so much Tatany." Bit said slowly as he helped into a sitting position. "You've been out for over four days. I never thought someone could sleep that much."
"Tell me what happened." She whispered as she looked at the bandages covering her chest and stomach. "Why do I look like a mummy?"
"Because you were shot. That's why." Leena popped up as her and Naomi stepped into the white room, holding hands. "Glad to see you survived. You lost a lot of blood from the bullet wound. Brad refuses to come out of his room, and the guy who shot you wants to talk to you."
"Where is he?"
"Who, the ass who shot you or Brad?" Bit asked awkwardly.
"The supposed ass who shot me. I would like to talk to him right now, I'll talk to Brad tonight."
"I'll go get him." Leena volunteered. "You know what Pearl, he looks a great deal like you."
"Thanks." She replied warily. "Now can you go get him?"
"Yeah. Come on everyone. Might as well give them some privacy eh." She said, tilting her head to one side and smiling. "Let's go. He'll be with you in a minute Tatany."
"Alright." Tatany looked up at a happily smiling Naomi. "Hey Fluegal, can I speak with you for a moment?"
"Sure." She replied as she sat in a nearby chair. "I'll catch up with you in a sec, k Leena?"
"Sure, no problem." Leena and the others left the room.
"So."
"So what?" Naomi asked, completely dumbfounded.
"I see you and Leena are somewhat close." She said, slightly smirking. "Did my near-death experience work a little love magic or what?"
"You could say that. But ever since than Brad won't leave his room. And Bit now won't go near Jaime. And Leon is drooling over this new guy who shot you. He says, and I quote. "He may be the shooter. But he is drop dead gorgeous.""
"Guess I have another hook up on my hands. Hey, he's here."
"I'll leave you two be. Catch yah later."
"Bye." Naomi walked out the door, letting in the tall blonde. "Hello. What do you want to say?"
"Oh don't act so naïve Tat. You know who I am." He boasted as he sat down next to her. "So how are you feeling?"
"Well Toby. I've been shot through the ribs, I find out the person that I thought was dead, is sitting on front of me like a walking ghost. And I was the first to see pops after the scavengers shot your zoid and all the loose parts had just happened to be lodged into his brain. How do you think I feel?" It was more of a statement, not a question.
"Hey! It wasn't me who ran off with our only zoid! My dear little sister!"
"Well. Would you rather the scavengers would have gotten their grubby hands on the diver and turn it into a weapon of mass destruction?"
"No, but you should have stayed with us! Instead of running off and becoming a lightheaded, arrogant, egotistical, pompous, old windbag of a bounty hunter!"
"Least the scavengers weren't always on my tail! I was completely free for those four years! Now you're back and they're after me once more! Now, since you never told me this back then because I was too young, why not tell me now. Why are they after the diver and me? Can you tell me now, since pops isn't here to say, 'She's way too young to understand right now.' And I was fourteen than. I'm eighteen and I still don't know!"
"I guess." He said, running a sullen hand through his hair, Toby leaned back and began his story. "Tatany, you are a very special girl. A klutz yes, but special." She made a sour face at being called a klutz, but it faded quickly, her motioning for him to continue. "Well, you see, Tatany, you aren't one of us. You're an android, built a certain way, you'll be used for destruction if the scavengers get a hold of you and your body."
"I'm a… an android, but how? I look completely human, I have blood and organs just like everyone else."
"When you were two, the scavengers came through our camp and destroyed everything in their path." He paused for a moment to reflect. "They tried to kill you, and almost succeeded if it had not been for pops and the commander of the scavengers. They placed certain machines in your body that will control you if the scavengers get a hold of you. Those machines are in your brain."
"My brain, they are in my head!" She screamed. "You just let them use me as a test subject or something?"
"Well, yes, in a way. But it saved your life, and that's all that mattered to us. But later we found out that they wanted you for mass destruction, so we ran to keep you safe. We found out that they gave you special powers that only you can master if you try. You're a telepath, and telekinetic. Look at that glass on the table. Try to move it."
Tatany glared at her brother for a split moment then moved her gaze to the glass. "I can't believe I'm going to do this." She concentrated for awhile till she saw the glass move she dug deeper in her thoughts till she stuck a nerve and the glass flew into her hand. "Did I just… did I just do that?"
"Yes Tatany."
"Ummm." She put her legs on the floor and wined in pain as she stood up. "I have to go see Brad. This is just to creepy for me to deal with right now."
"But Tatany!"
"No, I'll figure this out later. But I need to talk to Brad. Oh, and that Leon guy likes you."
"What?"
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