Evan woke up. He looked at his twin and what he saw scared him. Myles was barely conscious and very pale.
Oh, my God, he thought, I must get him medical attention.
He tried to pick up his brother, but Myles screamed in pain. He looked at Evan with worry in his eyes. Evan decided to see if his twin's injury had gotten any worse. It was. Evan almost vomited when he saw the bone sticking through the maggot covered flesh.
I must get the Burnses, Evan decided. He rebandaged his twin's leg and went to get help. He didn't hear Myles' voice say, "Don't leave me," for Myles could barely speak.
xxx
"Someone watched me and Abby on our trail ride." Jackie said.
"What?" Graham said, after everyone looked in surprise at Jackie.
"Me and Abby were riding when Abby sensed someone watching us. I called out to see if anyone was there and when no one answered we left."
"We should probably investigate later to see if anyone's hiding there." Wheelie said.
"Wow that's the least stupid idea you've had so far." Brains said jokingly.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It was a joke, man."
"Can I go?" Jackie asked, not wanting to be the cause of an argument.
"After you finish your eggs," Dani said, "You haven't touched them."
"Let me see," Wheelie said. He poked the egg yolk with a fork and runny yolk came out. "There's the problem, it's a runny egg."
"So?"
"It's like eating slime." Jackie said, shoving away her plate a little.
"We'll you need protein."
"Okay," Jackie got a sausage out of her pocket and ate it. Wheelie and Brains were cracking up while the others rolled their eyes, facepalmed, and/or chuckled.
"Told ya I didn't eat it," K-9 mumbled under his breath.
"Who puts food in their pocket?" Kade asked.
"Jackie does," Lindsey answered.
xxx
Doc Greene just woke up and made himself some breakfast. While he was eating, it he heard some noise coming from the lab. Doc decided to see what it was. He grabbed his cell phone and a flash light.
CRASH!
"Agh!"
Doc ran to the lab to see what happened. He saw that a shelf had fallen. He gasped when he saw an arm sticking out from under it. He called the Burnses.
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Jackie was clearing the table while everyone else went to check on Blades, who woke up screaming. Again. The phone rang and Jackie answered it.
"Griffin Rock Emergency, Jacqueline Morici speaking." she said.
"Put Chief Burns on the phone, please." the voice on the other line said.
"'Kay, 'kay."
Jackie activated her Transmutate mode and flew to the Burnses. When she caught up to them she handed the phone to Chief.
"We'll be right there," Chief said. "There's a break in at the lab and the crook needs medical attention."
"Got it," First Aid said.
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"Differ, get back here with the toaster!" Frankie yelled.
"Toast. Toast," Differ said holding the toaster.
"Differ, this isn't funny!"
"Toast. Toast," Differ went into the lab. "Toast?"
"Gotcha!" Frankie had the messed-up bot by the tie.
"Frankie!" Doc said.
"What Dad?"
"You can't be here right now."
"Why?"
"Someone broke into the lab and got crushed by a shelf."
"Okay, I'll go see if the Burnses are here." Frankie went to the driveway.
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"I don't see why we have to bring Jackie," Heatwave said.
"No one trusts her by herself," Wheelie said.
"She's a teen, she should be fine by herself."
When they arrived at the lab Frankie was waiting.
"Jackie," Chief said, "stay with Frankie."
"Okay." Jackie said. She sat down and when the Greene's two Dobermans, Edison, and Aristotle, came barking at her she let them sniff her. She petted them.
After Boulder and Chase got the shelf off the crook Dani and Kade got him on the gurney. They were taking him to First Aid, who was in his alt. mode, when Jackie stopped them.
"Jackie," Dani said, "we must take him to the hospital or he might die!"
Jackie put her hand on the young man's forehead. After 15 seconds, she said: "His brother's leg is broken and it's infected and he might die."
"How'd you know about his brother?" Graham asked.
"I don't know," Jackie said, shrugging her shoulders. "We should look for him though."
Chief sighed, a bit unbelieving, "After we take Evan to the hospital."
"Me, Abby, and K-9 will look for the other person."
"Jackie," Chase began, "your horse is at the-" Abby showed up behind the Greene's Jeep. "Never mind."
xxx
Evan woke up in the hospital.
What happened? He turned his head to the side and saw what he thought was a dog's nose. Where am I? Where's Myles? Oh, God! His leg! I must get the Burnses! He tried to get up, but someone pushed him down. It was either a female doctor or nurse.
"Don't worry," she said, "your brother's in surgery right now. I'll let you know when he gets out. Right now, you need some rest."
Evan nodded his head.
xxx
"Hey, Blades!" Jackie said excited. "Guess what I have!"
"What do you have?" Blades asked.
"A jar of maggots!" Jackie showed him the jar.
"Ugh! Gross! Why would you be happy for that?"
"Maggots eat dead flesh and leave healthy flesh alone. I collected them off some crook with a really broken leg."
"Okay, um, ewww!"
"I'm gonna feed them now."
"Yeah, um, you do that," then Blades mumbled, "while I vomit."
"Heard that!"
xxx
"Are you ready for school tomorrow?" Chief asked.
"I'm scared," Jackie said, "people teased me at my old school."
"Well, no one will tease you at school. They're all nice, well, maybe not Bret."
"Who's he?"
"He's a kid in your grade who's into horror movies and stuff like that."
"I like some of those movies."
"He also likes scaring Blades."
"He sounds like a jerk."
"He kinda is," Chief looked at her jacket. She appeared to be hiding something. "What's under your jacket?"
"A maggot jar."
"I'm not even gonna ask."
xxx
Heatwave was taking care of Chase's nightly rounds of the ship for him because Chroma "accidentally" K.O.'d him. As he was passing First Aid's room he heard grunts, moans, mewing, and panting. He opened the door a bit to see what was going on. He saw that First Aid was having a nightmare. He walked into the room and gently tried to wake him up, but when he put a servo on First Aid's shoulder, First Aid stiffened, whimpered, and had an accident. Then he woke up.
"Uh, hi," First Aid said, then he looked to his lower plating, "I'll clean myself."
"Bad dream?" Heatwave asked.
"Something like that."
"I'll get you some clean sheets."