Nina Vale: Good theory. Not going to confirm or deny it until the chapter where I actually talk about it.

D. N. S Akina: I'd be surprised too if I were them.

Disclaimer: I do not own "Huntik."

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Chapter 15: The Mission – Part 2

Renee was tired from bonding with Alicorn and having already invoked Hippocampus once and keeping him invoked for an hour, so it took them twice as long to travel back across the Atlantic to Velos. In an attempt to make up for lost time, Renee sprinted towards the hospital once she was on dry land and had called back Hippocampus. Sophie was having a bit of trouble trying to stay with her.

They were about ten minutes away from the hospital, having been gone for just about five hours, when Sophie's cell phone rang. She picked it up, still running after Renee, and talked to the person on the other end. Her eyes grew wide. As she hung up, she called to her sister, having to shout in order to be heard.

"Renee!" she cried. "We have to hurry! I just got a call from Lok! He overheard two doctors talking about pulling the plug with or without your permission!"

The only reaction she got was Renee putting on a double burst of Nimblefire. Sophie did the same in order to keep up. What would normally be a ten-minute run now only took them three minutes.

Renee ran into the hospital, Sophie right behind her, and headed straight for Wilder's room. One of the nurses, who was in on the plan to pull the plug, shouted out to anyone within hearing range to stop the girls. The girls, however, were able to avoid any arms trying to grab them, legs trying to trip them, and various machines, buckets, and anything else the doctors threw in their way in an unsuccessful effort to slow them down.

They arrived at Wilder's room to see Den, Harrison, and Lok on the ground, having been sedated to prevent them from ruining the plan, and three doctors surrounding Wilder's bed, one with his hand on the plug hooked up to the machines that were the only things keeping that man alive. When they saw them, the other two doctors grabbed Renee and Sophie and held them back. Renee, having expected something like this, already had the amulet in her hand. All she had to do was speak the words.

"Save him, Alicorn!"

Alicorn emerged in a flash of golden light. When the doctors saw her, they gasped and stepped back. Alicorn ignored them. She walked up to Wilder and placed the tip of her horn on the bullet wound. A white light glowed there for a few seconds, then faded. Alicorn stepped back.

The whole room seemed to hold its breath as the occupants stared at the sleeping man. For a while, it seemed as if it hadn't worked. Then, Wilder's eyes flickered and opened. They glanced around the room, coming to rest on his daughter.

"Renee?" the man said in a weak voice.

Renee, who was crying harder than she ever had before, ran to her father and threw her arms around him. Wilder, who'd been thinking that he was a dead man and would never see his daughter again, also started crying.

Sophie slowly backed out of the room, glaring at the doctors and gesturing for them to also leave. The doctors, knowing that they were in enough trouble as it was, picked up the three unconscious boys and followed her out, leaving the father and daughter alone. They would have run away as soon as they were in the hallway, but Grier's men were standing right there and Simplemind-ed them, as they had with all the other doctors and nurses. Sophie smiled.

Mission accomplished.

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Wilder is alive! You can stop pointing your guns at me now. I wasn't gonna let him die after all that.

Short. I know. I'll have more in the next chapter. For now, please review. And if any of you are crying, here's some cyber-tissues.