Chapter Nineteen
Fanny's POV
Sleep can be both good and bad. Bad because you miss out on a lifetime of experiences, but good because you can think about life with no one to bother you. I do it a lot, and I guess now I am too. I'm still in darkness, but everything is clear. Sounds weird, but I can see without opening my eyes. I'm not sure whether I'm alive or not anymore. Everything feels warm and inviting, and yet…
I feel so cold and alone.
It's such an odd feeling, and hard to explain. But if this is how you feel when you die, it isn't so bad.
Wait a minute…I'm not dead, am I?
"Fanny…can you hear me?"
I can't really remember a lot at all. I guess this is what happens when your mind closes itself.
"Fanny? C'mon, you gotta wake up."
Hey, I recognize that voice. It's Kuki. Yeah, my friend Kuki Sanban. I can't be dead then, if I can hear her calling.
"C'mon girl, you gotta wake up."
I slowly open my eyes, and everything is blurry. I see a blur of green and black, and slowly, it all starts to come clearer. It was Kuki talking to me, as she's standing above me right now, looking down in concern.
"Fanny, thank goodness." She said with relief, grabbing my hand. "We thought you weren't…" She looked away for a moment.
"Wh…what happened?" I enquired slowly, noticing my chest and my arm heavily bandaged.
"You saved Hoagie, that's what." Kuki said, flicking a stray strand of hair from my face. "You took a nasty hit to the chest, but you'll be fine soon."
"What's happening?" I looked out the window, and saw everyone fighting. I tried to sit up, but Kuki pushed me back down gently as I yelped in pain.
"You're in no condition to go anywhere." She stated bluntly, checking out the window. "They can handle it from here."
"No, I gotta help…" I sat up once more, the pain surging through my body. Kuki pushed me back down again and frowned.
"Don't be stupid, there's nothing you can do while you're like this." She grabbed a gun from a nearby counter, and stood poised in a position to shoot anything that comes through the door. "I'll hold them off if they come in here. You just stay there and don't move."
I knew I was stubborn, but I could see we were no match for them. Numbuh 5-T was cradling a singed cheek, Numbuh 4-T had his clothes singed to crud, and Numbuh 1-T was holding his stomach. And just when I thought it was all over, a sign came crashing through the roof.
Rachel and Patton leaped out from the large ship, followed by Bartie, Virginia, 10-T, and Sectors C-T, B-T, F-T, E-T and S-T. All were equipped with machinery and weaponry that I've never laid eyes on before. The whole F-T Sector had highly equipped jetpacks for skilled aerial attacks. I felt useless just laying there and watching through the window, but I got excited when they cornered the Interesting Twins. But, something inside me knew that they weren't gonna go down with a fight. And that's when the ground began to move uneasily…
