Disclaimer: Do I really have to keep writing this? I don't own jack!
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Inside the holding cell.
The four Titans were going about their business as always, mainly because they had no choice. Bumble Bee and the twins were quietly seated on the floor while Aqualad continued to pace back and forth in frustration. Bumble Bee all but ignored Aqualad's pacing and the quite mumblings of the twins that were seated a few feet next to her.
They've completely lost track of time since being captured and restrained inside their holding cell. Bumble Bee knew how to deal with situations like this but Aqualad and the twins were having a harder time coping with the circumstances. She knew that there was nothing they could do right now to help themselves at that moment. All they could do right then and there was to wait. It wasn't a good choice but then again it was the only choice.
She found that she didn't have to wait long as the sudden sound of alarm sirens call Bumble Bee's attention. The rest of the team that was with her in the cell also heard the very obvious alarm. Aqualad, being the only one already on his feet, went to the door to try and assess what exactly was going on. Seeing as there were no windows on the door, he pressed his ear to the door instead.
Behind the door, Aqualad could distinctly identify the hurried and nervous chattering of various wasp soldiers. He was also able to here the tapping of rushing feet as soldiers from all over started running every which way in response to whatever urgency that needed attention. Aqualad could not identify specifically though exactly what all the soldiers were exited about.
"Sounds like a real party out there," he said, "I can't tell what's going on though…"
The twins, Más and Menos, also craned their heads in curiosity.
"Algo es equivocado ahí," they said, "Y seem ser grande. ¿Ésta es una buena cosa mala para nosotros?"
But Bumble Bee, who was smirking knowingly, already had a grasp of the situation. Having spent some time in the HIVE Academy herself and familiarizing herself with their systems, She was knew all too well the meaning of that alarm. It was the HIVE's standard alarm for intruders in the facility. And Bumble Bee knew what that meant for them and Brother Blood at that moment.
"Now is where the fun begins…" she said.
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Somewhere in the hallways.
Speedy sprinted down the wide hexagonal corridors that were typical of any HIVE facility. He was looking for his friends, his main priority at the moment. So far in his run, he has encountered few doors and all them lead to rooms and spaces that Speedy just didn't have time for. He was getting more worried as time progressed while didn't.
Every moment he wasted looking, he knew, was one more moment where the chances he'd find his friends safely would slim. He knew they had to be in some kind of holding cell for prisoners but it would seem like he wasn't in that particular part of the facility.
Apart from worrying about his friends who were captured, he was growing worried about Silicis as well. She told him to go on without her since time was of the essence to them right then. She was right about that and Speedy couldn't argue with what Silicis said about them being pressed for time but he was wondering if leaving her to fend of those three stonecutters back at the hanger all alone was such a good idea.
Speedy's thoughts were interrupted as he rounded a corner and came almost face-to-face with a three-man squad of wasp soldiers about ten or so yards ahead of him in the hallway. All of them stopped moving and turned bug-eyed at the sight of each other and immediately reacted accordingly. Speedy ducked back behind the corner while the soldiers opened fire with their laser rifles.
The rifle blasts from the wasp soldiers pinged and ricocheted off of the wall perpendicular to the one Speedy was hiding behind. Speedy was virtually pinned and could not proceed through the barrage of gunfire. He had to think of something to get rid of the soldiers in his way. One laser blast ricocheted off of the wall. Speedy saw this and got an idea.
He took an arrow from his quiver. He knocked the head on the wall to prematurely pop open the head of the arrow. The tip exploded into a punching glove. Speedy slung the arrow to his hi-tech new bow and stepped away from the wall. He aimed at the far wall of the hallway perpendicular to him and unleashed the punching glove arrow.
The arrow flew at the wall at an angle. As speedy was hoping fro, the arrow bounced off the wall and managed to hit one of the unsuspecting and completely off-guard wasp soldiers right in the face. The other two wasp soldiers stopped firing in reaction to the sudden and unexpected attack from around the corner. Speedy probably noticed this.
The red archer popped out of the corner whilst the last two soldiers were finding their bearings. Speedy was clear to take shots at them with two more glove arrows fired at the same time from his bow. Both arrows easily found their targets' faces and all three of the wasp soldiers were now knocked out. Speedy grinned proudly to himself and continued on.
Speedy ran past the unconscious bodies of the three wasp soldiers and towards the end of the hallway he was in. After half-a-minute of running he comes to another turn that led to another hallway which ended in a door over fifty yards away or so. Speedy ran for it, trying his best to hurry.
Speedy ran past the unconscious bodies of the three wasp soldiers and towards the end of the hallway he was in. He came to another turn in that led into another hallway that ended in a doorway about twenty or so yards ahead of Speedy.
Half-way through this new hallway, Speedy noticed the doors sliding open revealing four wasp soldiers, two walking in a line and two more on either side. The soldiers were surprised to see Speedy just like the last batch of soldiers. But Speedy, instead of ducking back, only increased his speed. He was already two-thirds of the way down this hallway so he could duck behind anything.
The soldiers were too surprised to react to Speedy quickly enough allowing Speedy an opportunity to gain some ground. Upon reaching a desirable distance from the first soldier in front of him, Speedy hopped into the air and did a flying kick nailing the first soldier right in the face, knocking him out as well as knocking him back to the second soldier behind him who caught the first awkwardly.
Speedy dropped onto the ground in a crouch. The third and fourth soldier, now on either side of Speedy were preparing to fire upon Speedy at point blank range. Speedy of course never gave them a chance to do so. Speedy took out his bow by then and held it more or less like a staff.
Speedy spun his body around while stretching out wide his bow. Speedy is able to trip the third soldier on his right. The soldier was caught off-guard and fell right on his butt with a loud thud. Speedy kept on spinning while also springing up back to a standing position, managing to knock out the fourth soldier in the face with his bow.
As the fourth soldier fell to the ground, knocked out by Speedy's blow to his face, the third soldier was just about to get up off of his butt. Speedy saw this coming. The archer then took out an arrow but did not immediately sling it to his bow. Speedy held the arrow in his right hand like a club and swung it down hard on the third soldier's cranium before he had a chance to get back up.
The arrow head impacted with the soldiers head. Immediately after that, the arrow head exploded into a punching glove that was typical of Speedy's use. The force of the arrowhead's explosive transformation was enough to render the third soldier unconscious and he soon fell back on his butt on the floor.
Speedy knew enough to quickly sling the glove-arrow onto his bow. He quickly aimed at the direction of the door, anticipating his last target. The second soldier, who awkwardly caught the first that was already knocked out, was finally recovering and just then readying his weapon. The soldier looked up and saw Speedy aiming the arrow at him less than ten feet from him.
Speedy fired the arrow. At less than ten feet, the red archer didn't have to worry at all about missing his shot. The arrow, with its punching glove head, nailed the poor hapless soldier square in the face and immediately putting him in a world of sleep.
Speedy grinned satisfyingly. "Down and out…"
Speedy relaxed his arms and took a breath. He ran past the fallen wasp soldiers and deeper into the facility.
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Back at the garage.
A stone cutter charged at the Stone Dragon with its drill arm. The Stone Dragon was momentarily distracted but seemed to have noticed the attacking machine just in time. With inches to spare, the Dragon managed to grab at the stonecutter's left arm and stop the drill from touching, much less penetrating, its rocky hide.
The Stone Dragon countered the attack by pushing away the stonecutter. It stumbled backwards in an awkward attempt to regain balance. Just as it did, the Dragon swung around its entire body and whipped the hapless stonecutter with its stony tail. Like a rag doll, the stonecutter went flying through the air then slid a good distance on the floor.
A second stonecutter charged at the Stone Dragon form the side, swinging its drill arm high up to the Dragon's head. But the stonecutter underestimated the agility of the earthen reptile as the Stone Dragon suddenly ducked completely evading the attack.
Countering for the attack, the Dragon reached up with its claws and clamped them around the stonecutter's drill arm. Using massive strength, the Dragon swung the heavy mechanical gorilla like a bat. It let go of the stonecutter at the right time to send it flying halfway across the room then come back down sprawled on the floor.
From behind the Stone Dragon, the last stonecutter was charging at the rocky creature as well, failing to see that this kind of attack doesn't seem to work well. The Dragon noticed early on and prepared a counter-strategy. It's rocky skeleton wings began to glow bright gold. Just as the stonecutter was about to drive its drill into the Dragon's back, the reptilian shot straight up into the air. The stonecutter found itself attack empty space and stumbled awkwardly before regaining its balance.
The stonecutter, which failed in its attempted attack, turned around quickly to see where the Stone Dragon went. The creature in question was hovering a whole forty feet in the air, it's wings glowing bright gold. Without warning, the Stone dragon suddenly swooped down towards the stonecutter. It swiped its massive claws at the hapless machine, cracking the canopy and knocking it down hard.
The Dragon flew back into the air and hovered at a height. It noticed a claw suddenly grabbing its arm at the last second. The Dragon inspected its arm and sure enough there was a metal claw that attached itself onto its rocky wrist. The metal claw was attached to a cable which stretched to one of the other stonecutters. This one had recovered and was now trying a new tactic.
Without warning, the stonecutters cable lost all its slack and began to pull in the Dragon from the air. The Dragon was tugged downward a few feet before it started to resist as best it can. It started to put a lot of effort into flying back up while the stonecutter below the earthen creature did its best to pull down. This tug-of-war battle continued for about half a minute before one of them made a move.
That one happened to be the Dragon as its wings glowed an extra bright hue. It gave out a deafening roar that echoed throughout the entire space of the unfinished garage. With its free claw, Dragon grabbed onto the cable. With all its strength, the Dragon pulled hard on the cord, yanking the stonecutter below it right off of its feet.
The Dragon kept its grip on the cable attached to the stonecutter's claw. Like a gigantic mace on a chain, the stonecutter was swung around in complete circles by its own grappling cable and it couldn't do anything about it. The Stone Dragon kept at this, spinning the hapless machine round and round, until finally the cable snapped under the immense stress.
The stonecutter went flying all the way across the vast space of the garage and ended up crashing hard into a few parked construction vehicles causing some small scale explosions and a small fire to break out. It turned out that the crash was a lot more damaging to the stonecutter. Moments later, the pilot could be seen running away from the flames, a few scorch marks in his uniform. Moments after the pilot emerged, the stone cutter exploded into smithereens.
The Stone Dragon watched the pilot as he escaped into a nearby door. This made it momentarily distracted and oblivious to the two remaining stonecutters that have recovered from their earlier fall. One of the stonecutter activated its jetpack a flew into the air. It came at the hovering Dragon with both arms wide open as if to tackle the stony reptile.
The Dragon noticed the approaching threat only in the nick of time. With lightning fast reflexes, the Stone Dragon reached out both its clawed arms to catch both of the stonecutter's inner arms and stop them from closing in and clamping down on the Dragon. The two large bodies struggled with each other in mid-air with the stonecutter steadily winning.
The Dragon was struggling with every ounce of its strength but appeared to be failing against the massive strength of the giant mechanical ape that was the stonecutter. This caused the pilot of the stonecutter to grin cockily. That grin soon disappeared as the pilot suddenly learned that appearances can be deceiving.
The Dragon's eyes started glowing even brighter than before. It stared the nervous looking pilot in the stonecutter. The Dragon let out a gut-wrenching roar towards the pilot, at the same time pushing outward both its clawed arms and slowly ripping out the stonecutters own arms in the process. Wire by wire, both of the stonecutter's arms were ripped right out of their sockets and tossed aside.
The stonecutter found itself floating in mid-air completely defenseless now that it was missing both of its arms. The Dragon would have probably grinned if it had the facial muscles to do so. Taking advantage of the stonecutter's lack of defense, the Dragon flipped forward in mid-air somersault, sending its long stone tail whipping down at the stonecutter. The impact of the tail sent the stonecutter crashing down onto the floor. It landed quite hard on its back which pretty much put it out of commission.
Inside the canopy, the pilot was in a slight daze. He managed to pull himself together well enough to look strait up at the Stone Dragon that was about to come down on him feet first. The Pilot went bug-eyed immediately and forgot about pulling himself together and concentrated on pulling himself out of his seat.
The pilot managed to unbuckle himself, open the canopy, and exit the stone cutter in a record time of only three seconds flat. Soon after the pilot escaped from his machine, it was the stonecutter that turned flat as the Stone Dragon came down from above with both of its large clawed feet, crushing the defenseless stonecutter completely.
The pilot ran for the nearest exit and escaped but the Stone Dragon paid little attention to the fleeing pilot knowing that he was of little consequence. The Dragon turned full attention to the last remaining stonecutter in the garage. Already the stonecutter in question was already charging at the Dragon it yet another flawed attack.
The Dragon had already predicted the stonecutter's moves and acted accordingly. The stonecutter came at the Dragon with a raised drill arm. As it closed the distance between them, the Dragon swiped a claw at the raised drill arm. The sheer force of the strike ripped the drill part of the arm clear off of its elbow joint. The stonecutter halted in its charge.
The stonecutter then tried to swing its claw arm to somehow try and smack down the large stony reptile in front of it. The stonecutter failed as the Dragon swiped at it with its other claw, ripping almost all of the claw arm away from the main body. The stonecutter found itself defenseless just like its comrade before it. To add insult to injury, the Dragon crossed its arms and swung both of them down on the stonecutter's lags, its only remaining limbs.
The main body of the stonecutter suddenly fell backwards off of its legs which were now stumps. The pilot quickly got out of his seat and opened up the canopy. The pilot immediately found himself being stared down by the Stone Dragon. The Pilot automatically reached for his emergency side arm, a pistol, and aimed it at the Dragon. The earthen reptile let out an earth-shattering roar. The pilot immediately dropped his pistol, turned pale white with fear, and ran off screaming like a little girl.
The Stone Dragon watched as the cowardly pilot made for a nearby exit and disappeared. As soon as the dragon was alone, it soon lost its golden glow. Piece by piece, the Stone Dragon fell apart and disintegrated entirely. A cloud of dust was kicked up by debris which impaired vision.
As the dust cloud cleared, Silicis stood in place of the Stone Dragon that once was. The girl was grinning proudly to herself. She then turned to where she remembered Speedy ran off to. She spotted the particular exit Speedy took and summoned a flat piece of rock to her side. She hopped onto the rock and hurriedly hovered away on it, off to help her friends.
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Further into the Facility.
Speedy ended up in a large audience hall of some kind. The place was just one really bare floor and a staged with a single podium at the end of one side. The walls were like that of a theater, having sliding panels to reduce echo. Near one corner was a stack of foldable chairs. There were doors on each wall leading to different parts of to facility.
Speedy looked at each door. "Man, I could really use a map right now…"
He looked at each door on each wall. Some were clearly marked with lit signs indicating where they lead to. But some of the location names that Speedy read were not familiar to him. It wouldn't have made a difference if the doors weren't labeled at all.
"Can't waste time like this…" he said, raising a hand to point at the doors, "…Let's see now… Eenie, meanie, minie, moe---"
By sheer coincidence, the last door that Speedy was pointing at suddenly opened. Soon after, four mech-rangers made their appearance rushing into the room and standing in formation a few dozen feet in front of Speedy. The four android unsheathed their swords and bared them threateningly at Speedy.
Speedy looked nervous for a few seconds. It was a justified look since the mech-rangers showed no implications of wanting to act friendly. But Speedy soon replaced that look with one of confidence. He reached into his quiver and took a moment or two to pick out a specific arrow. Once he found the right arrow, he immediately slung it onto his bow, aimed, and fired.
The arrow flew true through the air and headed straight to its intended target which was the first mech-soldier standing closest to Speedy. Thought the arrow flew at a twice the speed at which it normally did thanks to Speedy's new hi-tech bow, The first mech-ranger shot its arm up and amazingly caught the arrow by the stem inches from its face.
Speedy raised n eyebrow in astonishment. The Archer relaxed is stance. The mech-ranger who caught the arrow dropped it onto the floor. All four of the mech-rangers stared Speedy right in the eye and readied themselves to attack. Speedy simply stood there…grinning.
As the mech-rangers were about to charge, a strange beeping sound caught the attention of one of them. The one looked down towards the fallen arrow that failed to hit it. It had a small blinking light at the tip. The blinking and beeping steadily grew more rapid. The mech-ranger stared curiously until the arrowhead unexpectedly let out a bright blue flash. The light in the room momentarily flickered right after this.
The flash wasn't bright enough or loud enough for it to be called an explosion by any standard. But for some reason, the mech-rangers were all frozen in place, not moving a single muscle. Three of the mech-rangers were looking like they were in the middle of a charge while the one out front was still staring down at the arrow.
One-by-one, the four mech-rangers started to fall, sprawling all over the floor of the large empty space. Speedy kept on grinning and calmly moved towards the fallen androids just ahead of him. Speedy bent downward and picked-up the arrow then examined it for a bit. Tossing it aside knowing that the arrow was now pretty much useless, he bent down towards the fallen mech-ranger.
"EMP arrow, dude," he said to the mech-ranger as if it could hear him, "disables any electronic device within a fifty-foot radius unless properly protected, which in your case isn't, heh heh…"
"Clever tricks, Archer…"
Speedy sprung up into a standing position, alerted by the eerily position. Looking everywhere for the source of the voice who's identity was not in doubt, Speedy was havi9ng trouble since the voice seemed to come from almost every direction.
"…However, cleverness can only gain you so much." Continued Fallacy, clearly sounding directly behind Speedy.
The Archer turned around suspecting that Fallacy would be standing there. Sure enough, the silver-haired, cat-eyed girl was standing just a few feet from him. But just as Speedy saw her, she disappeared along with everything else within sight. A bright flash suddenly blinded Speedy. He regained his sight a moment later only to see that he has left the GeoHammer facility and somehow ended up in a surreal netherworld.
Looking around, Speedy saw that nothing made sense. The walls were made of some kind of pulsating tissue coated in a slimy liquid that was dripping all over the place. The floor Speedy was standing on was similar to the wall. Spreading all over the floor were several cone-like growths that were protruding of the floor gushing out fowl smelling green gasses. The ceiling had disappeared and in its place was a high, fleshy dome from which several slimy tentacles hung from. Each tentacle had a bioluminescent bulb on it's tip providing the room with a dim light.
Speedy fought the urge to vomit after he got a whiff of the gasses coming out of the cones on the floor. He tried to remind himself that this was all an illusion. According to the briefing he had with the rest of the Team back at the tower, Fallacy took care of her enemies by making them see things that weren't really there. Speedy found that hard to believe with the stench invading his nostrils.
A voice suddenly popped up from behind him. "Let me show you what it really takes to win."
Speedy did a one-eighty, only to have Fallacy's foot nail his face. Speedy stumbled backwards and fell flat on his back. On the flat of his back, Speedy looked up and saw Fallacy charging at him. Fallacy dropped a foot right over Speedy who countered by quickly holding out his bow like a staff. The bow managed to hold off Fallacy's foot.
Speedy used almost all his strength to push off the spellbinding girl off of him. Fallacy flipped backwards then back on her feet. Speedy through his legs up and forward getting himself back up. He quickly slung an arrow onto his bow and aimed it at a grinning Fallacy.
Speedy was caught off-guard as Fallacy quadrupled right in front of his eyes. Four identical forms of Fallacy stood side-by-side. This completely ruined Speedy's aim and left him defenseless. One of the girls charged at him with a fist. Speedy tried to block but the image of the girl went right through him then disappeared.
Another two girls came at him. Speedy blocked but they too went right through him then disappeared. Speedy couldn't react accordingly since he couldn't tell which was real and which was an illusion. The two illusions that tricked him left vulnerable to the last girl which was the real Fallacy. The spellbinder came at Speedy while he was distracted. She swung out her fist and backhanded the hapless archer in the cheek.
Speedy spun and fell forward. He recovered fairly quickly and got back up. The situation didn't improve as he did. He found himself being surround by an entire squad of spellbinding girls. Speed desperately tried to search for the real Fallacy but his efforts were futile. He was caught off-guard when Fallacy put him in a chokehold from behind.
As Fallacy was trying to choke the air out of Speedy, He was trying to pull her hands away from his neck. Speedy pulled Fallacy's arms away from his neck enough to give him some leverage to counter-attack. Speedy was able to then throw her forward. Fallacy flailed through the air before crashing awkwardly back onto the ground.
She stood up as quickly as she could. Speedy was already aiming an arrow at her by then. Still, a cocky grin graced her face. She multiplied again right in front of Speedy ruining his aim. Now there stood over ten dozen spellbinding girls that littered the entire space of the netherworld.
"You can not win, Archer," all the girls said simultaneously, "Surrender, it is your only option now…"
Speedy ignored their warning and instead fired the arrow that was already slung to his bow. As predicted, the arrow simply went through the girls and imbedded itself onto the far wall. All the girls watched as the arrow flew and generally missed its would be target. They all grinned and looked back at Speedy.
"Desperation will not prolong the inevitable, Archer," they all said to him.
Speedy was ignoring them again. All the while after the arrow had impacted against the wall, Speedy had reached into his utility belt and pulled out two identical plug-like thing. He inserted one plug into each of his ears securely. He then pressed both of his palms into his ears as firmly as he can. All the spellbinding girls stared at him curiously.
Behind them all, the arrow that was imbedded to the wall was starting to activate. Its arrowhead popped open exposing some strange gadgetry. A second later, an unbearably loud shrieking sound filled the room. The sound of a hundred shrieking bats amplified twenty times. Fallacy was caught totally off-guard. The pupils in here eyes shrunk to the size of sand grains.
"Aaaaarrrrggghhhh!"
She screamed in agony, feeling as if her head was splitting in two. She clasped both her ears with her palms in a desperate attempt to block out the noise but had little success. All the while Speedy was watching as the number of girls suddenly dwindle and the surreal landscape around him flicker out of existence. Soon they were both back in the audience hall, everything looking normal again.
The shrieking stopped. Fallacy let go of her ears but all she could hear was a constant ringing that was taking its time to fade away. She looked up and didn't have time to react as Speedy launched a glove-tipped arrow which nailed her right at the temple, rendering her unconscious. Speedy relaxed his arms. He didn't like hitting girls but every now and then someone will come along who will leave him no choice. This was one such case.
Fallacy was on the floor on her back, sleeping peacefully. Speedy walked up to her to make sure that she was really out. She was unconscious. Speedy knew that she was pretty much neutralized as long as she can't use her mind to do anything to anyone else.
"I call that my new Shrieker arrow," said Speedy to the unconscious Fallacy, "Three seconds after impact it emits a high-pitched frequency and over two hundred decibels. Not enough to permanently render a person deaf but enough to give anybody a really splitting headache. I knew that I couldn't beat you while I was in your illusion but I knew that if I could just break your concentration, I could take you out."
Fallacy never heard a word of what Speedy said since she was asleep and from the looks of it she will be for a good while. Speedy probably said what he said to her out of self-indulgence. Speedy then moved on to the real business at hand: Rescuing his friends and teammates then together shutting down this entire facility.
After adjusting the straps on his quiver, he casually waved towards Fallacy's sleeping form. "Catch you later then…"
He found the exit where the mech-rangers made their entrance and left the audience hall.
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Back at the holding cell.
The Titans were now at there feet, anxiously listening to the alarms that blaring everywhere around them. Bumble Bee knew what the alarm meant and had a slight sense of security while the others, who were completely lost, could do nothing but continue to worry.
"This is ridiculous!" exclaimed Aqualad, "We have to find away to get out of here and see what's happening out there."
"We can't do anything, Aqualad," said Bumble Bee, "not without our powers."
"Pero tenemos que saber qué estar ocurriendo realmente!" exclaimed the twins, "¡El suspence nos está matando aquí!"
"Calm down guys, please!" exclaimed Bumble Bee, "we have to be patient. We will get out of here but that's not gonna happen if we loose our heads."
"C'mon, Bee," said Aqualad, "Being patient isn't gonna work either. You can't expect someone to just bust through that door and help us."
Moments after Aqualad finished saying that, the door suddenly blew open from a heavy explosion coming from the outside. The Titans in the holding cell ducked and covered themselves from flying debris. They looked out into the mess of dust and debris and saw Speedy standing there.
Speedy greeted them with a proud grin. "Hey guys, what's up?"
Aqualad and the twins looked at the archer dumbly for a few seconds while Bumble Bee looked as if she was expecting this to happen. The twins looked up at Aqualad with a look of unbelieving on their faces.
"Estamos impresionados, Aqualad," they said.
Bumble Bee gave Aqualad a smug look. "That makes three of us."
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Author's note: Well here's Chapter 17. I'm almost done with this story so pleas expect a to get the next update a little longer than usual since I want to put a lot of stuff in it and I expect a whole bunch of other things to get in my way. See you next time and don't forget to send in those reviews!