Elise ran towards the hangar quickly. She had literally dropped everything she was doing the moment she heard the alarm. She hadn't been there long but she knew that the particular alarm that was ringing in her ears means that an Evo or Evos are causing trouble. She groaned. She was running too slowly, the only thing she really hates about being human. While she ran she changed into a centaur. She stumbled a bit because of the addition of 2 legs but she quickly regained herself and tore down through the halls. She burst into the hangar and saw the plane waiting for her. She jumped into the plane which caused an exclamation from Rex. "Ahh!" He yelled. Elise wrapped her hands around the handrails and she spaced out her powerful equine legs to hold her steady. Six commanded the pilot to take off and within moments the plane flew out of the hangar. "You know," Rex started, "you could give a fair warning next time you jump into the plane like that. Almost stepped on my foot." Elise didn't answer but she gave herself a mental note to warn the people before doing that again.

The plane touched ground and the four of them jumped out. Bobo then climbed onto Elise's back who did nothing to stop him. Her bow formed and clicked the small shield of her belt. She held it between 2 fingers and then it grew to its full size and two straps came around her forearm and where her palm is. She gripped the tough leather strap and looked at the others. "What? Since you're all so tense I thought that these guys are dangerous so I'm preparing myself." After receiving a short nod from Six and a shrug from Rex she ran towards the Pack.

Bobo screamed in the sudden movement and held onto Elise's shoulders. "Hey! I'm on your back you know!"

"Yes I know! Shoot!" She yelled back.

"Ah…" Bobo situated himself and with his blasters he started to shoot at the Pack. Rex flew above their heads and went straight for the Pack. Six on the other hand tried his best to catch up with Elise but humans are much slower than horses.

Breech had a portal open and Van Kleiss could see Providence nearing. He noticed Elise first. "Simply marvelous."

Biowulf moved so that he could see Van Kleiss through the portal. "Shall we move?"

Kleiss nodded. "And remember Biowulf, I want her alive."

Biowulf nodded. "Breech, close the portal for now and stay close." She nodded and the portal closed. "Skalamander, why don't you have the first move?"

Skalamander chuckled. "Gladly." The three charged forward, ready to do anything to get what Kleiss wants.

Elise ran galloped over and then skid to a stop. She turned 90 degrees so that Bobo had some great shots and she pulled back a blue arrow, her bow perpendicular to her human torso. "All right Bobo, aim and fire." She released her arrow at the same time Bobo started blasting the Pack as they ran forwards. The arrow hit the ground feet just before the pack and then it erupted in blue electricity as it attacked anything close. The Pack did their best to dodge it. Skalamander used his crystal spikes as a shield as he ran through the raging electricity. Breech just teleported past the arrow completely dodging the danger while Biowulf used his speed and agility to jump through the shooting sparks. The three came out unscratched and continued their attack.

"Well that didn't work." Bobo stated before once again shooting.

Skalamander ran up beside Biowulf. "I'll take care of the target, you two handle the others." Biowulf nodded sharply once before Skalamander ran up to Elise.

"Hold on Bobo." Elise said to him as she lifted up her shield to prevent an attack from Skalamander. She ran backwards a few feet, being careful not to trip over her hooves, before pulling back another arrow, this time a light grey one. Skalamander held up his crystal spiked and once the arrow hit it not only chipped the crystal on his arm but exploded into smoke. Elise ran straight into the smoke and the three disappeared in it.

Rex watched the smoke cumulate as he zoomed by on his hover motorcycle and headed straight for Biowulf. Turning his head so that he looked forward, the Rex Ride then moved up higher from the ground and got replaced by the Big Fat Sword. Yelling out he shot down towards Biowulf who had stopped running and jumped up towards Rex. The two hit in midair and they both threw punches and swiped at each other before falling down to the ground.

Six on the other hand was left with Breech. He had fought her before a few times and every time he either lost or was teleported to someplace else. Releasing an exasperated sigh he charged forward. Breech stopped well before Six could reach her and she looked over to the smoke which was still very thick. She tried to see through the smoke to see if Skalamander has yet weakened Elise enough but then Six swung one of his katanas towards her. She backed up quickly and then shot her shuriken like portals over at Six. He jumped and moved out of the way of the incoming weapons and was about to attack her once more before she disappeared into a portal. Expecting her to appear once again to attack him, Six held his ground and looked around him. She never came again.

Meanwhile Rex changed from the BFS and went onto the Slam Cannon. It reached behind him and pulled out a big chunk from a car. "D'oh!" He mentally slapped himself. "Sorry whoever owns this car…" He mumbled before launching the metal ball towards Biowulf. It hit him straight on and he was sent flying backwards into a building. Biowulf then fell onto his knees to reveal a whole in the building's side. A chunk of asphalt came rushing towards Biowulf again and this time he rolled out of the way but yet another ball of asphalt came flying. Biowulf growled and jumped up and over the series of attacks. He landed on his feet and charged forward, quickly dodging. He reached Rex in no time and he punched him in the face. Rex's Slam Cannon disappeared as he flew into the car he took a chunk of. The car bended around him slightly. "Ah man…" He grumbled. He rubbed his head and looked up and saw Biowulf coming down at him his hands being held together. "Oh shit!" He yelled before rolling backwards and falling on the other side of the car. Biowulf hit the car and it groaned as another major dent appeared in the ceiling. Rex stood and cracked his neck. "All right, you wanna play?" His feet and legs changed into the Punk Busters in a matter of moments. "Then let's play." He kicked the destroyed car like a soccer ball and it flew over to Biowulf who barely escaped the car falling on him.

By this time the smoke was clearing up and it revealed Elise and Skalamander fighting. Bobo had at some point jumped off Elise or was knocked off. Elise had abandoned her bow and it had reverted back into her and was replaced by her sword. The blade crackled with electricity and every time the blade hit Skalamander a large amount of electricity would move onto his body. Skalamander mainly blocked with his crystal shield and it didn't cause as much pain as when Elise hit him somewhere else. Skalamander was pushed back and he sought the opportunity to shoot his crystals out towards Elise. She raised her shield up to protect her head and her upper human torso. Skalamander then aimed down lower and the crystal shards hit her legs and one shard actually became embedded into her left leg where her scales did not reach down to. She screamed out and toppled onto the ground. Her sword clattered beside her and the blade retracted down as did the shield. Ignoring the pain of the many cuts on her legs, the shard in her leg and the fact that the fall hurt, she placed the shield back onto her belt and quickly reached for the handle. Skalamander slammed his crystal covered hand just before her hand reached the handle. She gasped slightly and looked up. "Oh no you don't." He growled at her. His other hand was reaching down to her awkwardly. She smirked slightly before pulling out a dagger. The blade glowed red and she stabbed Skalamander above the crystals and then it exploded. Skalamander stumbled backwards. The dagger which now the blade was just plain white landed right beside the handle of the sword. She reached for both of them and she shoved the dagger back into her pouch and with some difficulty rose back onto her feet. She grimaced as the pain shot up through her front legs. Then like out of nowhere Skalamander tackled her and a portal opened up behind her. Elise and Skalamander fell into the portal which quickly closed.

Breech then came out of another portal that opened beside Biowulf. "Let's go." She hissed. Biowulf jumped into the portal before a street light crashed where he once stood. The portal shut and Rex ran to that spot.

Rex groaned and stretched as Six and Bobo came up. Bobo rubbed the back of his head. "Ugh… Man do I hate Skalamander. He hit me like I was a fricking baseball. I was just on Elise's back and he just whack! Major hit to the head." Bobo looked around. "Hey, where's Elise?"

The other two looked around. Six who still had his katanas out looked over to where Elise had fought Skalamander with Bobo. Rex followed his eyes and looked over there as well. "Do you think…?"

"I don't know Rex." Six said as he put away his swords. "But I know how we can find out." He placed two fingers on his ear piece. "Holiday, Elise is missing, we need a plane and her coordinates."

"A plane's coming." She replied through his ear piece. He heard some keys typing and then Holiday intake air. "She in—"

-*- Abysses -*-

Elise

I groaned as I came too. What the hell happened? My vision was blurred and I felt myself being swung side to side. I closed my eyes and opened them again. Then my vision slowly came too and I saw a huge room, one that looks like a throne room. I shook my head quickly and looked down at myself. Blood dripped down from both of my front legs; more blood fell from my left of course. I also saw the large pool of blood beneath my hooves. I groaned at the sight and then I noticed the huge roots that wrapped around me and my ankles wrists. I tried to spread apart my back legs to see if they too were tied, they were. Knowing that I am in big trouble, I started to rub my wrists together to try to get the roots off but the strangest thing happened; they tightened. "I wouldn't do that if I were you." A voice came out. Startled I looked up and saw a man with black hair with two white highlights. "The roots would cut off your blood circulation." He continued. He walked towards me and stopped feet away from me. Smart move. I felt like kicking someone. "Welcome to Abysses Elise. I am Van Kleiss."

My head pulled back quickly like a horse. "Van Kleiss…" I whispered in shock.

"So I see you've heard of me. No doubt from Providence."

I heard something from around and I turned my head. I saw the three from the fight in the city and one other. A girl, about my age, with black hair with red dyed hair from halfway down. She looked at me with sad and guilty eyes. I felt myself raise an eyebrow in silent conversation. Why the look? The girl sighed and looked away. No answer. I then averted her attention back to Van Kleiss. "Yes. That's where I found out things about you." It wasn't really a lot of info though. Just enough for me to know that Van Kleiss is defiantly not a person you would like to get caught up in. My mind then wandered why that other girl was here. She doesn't seem like the type of person that would be with Kleiss and his Pack. Don't get fooled by deceives Elise. I silently told myself.

Kleiss nodded and turned his back to me and took a few steps forward. I wondered what he could want with me? A member in his Pack? To find out what I'm doing at Providence? Most likely both. What if he already knows? The thought came out panicky. I looked over to the girl who was still looking away from me. No. No who could anyone find out? I looked back at Kleiss who was looking at me, a small smile on his face. "So, have you figured out already why you are here?" When I didn't answer he continued. "We want the cure you are working on Elise." My eyes must have widened when he said that because he chuckled once and his smile grew just a bit. "Oh yes we know Elise. Isn't that so hard to believe?" Actually yes it is but I didn't say it aloud, I couldn't find my voice.

I took a deep breath in. "Why would you want it?" Many possible answers popped into my head.

His face became all serious. "To get rid of it of course. I need nanites to work and live. Without the steady intake of nanites I would wither and die." He smiled again at his pun.

"Well you won't get it. I won't allow it and neither will Providence." I silently added that they would have to destroy us all to get it.

"I thought you would say that." He walked to me again but this time he went right up to me. Roots grew out from the ground under his feet so that he looked straight at me. "I know though that you will give it to us yourself."

"I would never-!"

Roots came out and wrapped around my neck, cutting me off. "I know that you like studying the different types of Evos out there and in the Pack there are one-of-a-kind Evos. You won't be able to control the curiosity you were born with." The roots tightened around my neck and I gasped out. He moved his head to my ear and whispered to me. "Besides, would your father still accept you anyway?" I gasped and then choked on my own saliva. He moved his head away and the roots left my neck. I gasped for air. "Besides you are always a welcomed guest here."

"If this is how… You treat your guests…" I gasped out, "I don't want to be family…"

He chuckled evilly and the roots moved him back a little bit. Without replying back to my statement he shoved his left hand into my stomach. I screamed and felt my nanites being sucked out. My equine legs wanted to burst out of the roots that held them and kick Kleiss and then just run, I wanted to do so but the roots just kept on tightening. I continued screaming and I started to feel myself revert back to human in moments I was human and the extra roots fell to the ground. I thought I was going to be completely drained and die when the ceiling, or what was left of it, crashed down and Kleiss pulled his hand out of me. The roots lost their holding power and I fell to the ground. I saw the pack run towards me but Six came sliding down from a rope. He wrapped his arm around my waist and we were pulled up into the sky by the hover plane. Giant roots shot out and tried to hit the plane but we were too high. The rope then was being pulled into the plane and Six and I sat on the floor of the plane. He stood first and held on to the bar.

"Rex, hold onto her." Six ordered.

My vision started to blur again. I saw and heard was Rex holding onto to me by my shoulders and him say "Hold on Elise!" I groaned in reply and slowly slipped into unconsciousness. My last though was Noah and how sad he was when I left him in the junkyard.

-*- Medical wing -*-

Normal

Holiday had just finished cleaning and wrapping Elise's legs when the boys came in. Noah rushed through the door first and skid to a stop by Elise's bed. "Is she going to be all right Holiday?" His panicked voice shaking slightly.

"She'll be fine. She just needs some rest and no work for a few days. Three days at most."

He sighed in relief. By this time Six, Rex and Bobo reached the bed. Bobo climbed onto a chair that was placed beside her bed. "At least she'll be fine." He mumbled. He felt sort of guilty for what happened to Elise. They all were, even Noah even though he wasn't even there which raised the guilt.

"How's her nanite count Holiday?" Six inquired.

"Well, Van Kleiss took out enough nanites to trigger her to revert back so that means that he certainty helped himself. Even with that large amount of nanites out she seems to have enough control to get her count normal."

Rex blinked. "How's her nanite count?"

Holiday smiled at him. "Almost normal. In about 10 to 15 minutes she's be completely fine with her nanites."

"That's good." Rex said. Rex couldn't believe that she had that much control over them. He had to ask her how she does it so he could learn.

"We need to find out why Van Kleiss took her in the first place." Six said.

Bobo nodded. "Yeah, it seemed that the whole attack was to get Elise."

Elise groaned at the others turned their attention to her. She opened her eyes and looked at the many people around her. She saw Noah and her heart gave a lurch. She quickly looked away and placed her attention on Holiday. "Why do I feel as if as if someone just stabbed me with their hand?"

Holiday chuckled. "Just get some rest Elise." She placed a hand gently on Elise's arm before turning away and walking over to a computer.

Noah stared down at Elise as she stared up at the ceiling. Rex and Bobo looked at each other before looking back at them. Rex shook his head angrily and just yelled. Everyone looked at him; Rex ignored the stares. "What did you two do that would cause this awkwardness? Fix it! This is not fun for anyone! Whatever you did get it cleared up for God's sake!" He turned. "Come everyone, let's get out of here so that they can fix it." When no one moved he grunted in agitation. "Now people!" He scoffed and exited the room.

Bobo laughed. "Well, we'd better go. Don't want Rex to come in here and kick our asses." He jumped off the chair and followed Rex. Holiday chuckled at the outburst and exited with Six right behind her. The door shut and that left Noah and Elise alone.

The awkward silence engulfed them. Noah sighed. "Elise, I'm sorry if I—"

"No I'm sorry. I shouldn't have overreacted."

The two spoke together, telling their pleads.

"You didn't do anything I was the one who went too fast and rushed in. I just want what's…"

"No no it's all right. You're fine you didn't do anything wrong I was just worried. I want only what's…"

"Best for you." They said at the same time. They both looked away embarrassed and then they sighed.

Elise looked over at Noah. "Noah," she said softly, "I would love to give it another try but right now my work is the most important thing to me."

"No no I understand." Noah smiled at her. "Whenever you want to give it another try, just tell me."

She smiled sweetly at him. "Thank you."

"You're welcome." They stared at each other for a while before Noah spoke up again. "So there's not going to be any more awkwardness?"

She laughed out loud. "No. We're fine." She giggled and smiled at him and he returned her smile.

Meanwhile the four watched the two from the glass window. Rex sighed. "Finally we could back to normal."

Holiday chuckled. "Rex, they have you to thank. It would have taken a much longer time if you hadn't insisted that they fix their problem."

"Oh yes…" Bobo said a grin on his face, "He's their hero!" He batted his eyes and laughed.

Rex growled and Six shook his head. "Come on you two. Leave Holiday to her work."

Rex sighed. "Fine with me. I need a soda." He shoved his hands in his pockets and started walking away.

Bobo followed. "I need bananas. Yummy, delicious bananas."

This time Holiday shook her head with a small chuckle. "I'll keep monitoring her and making sure she turns out all right."

"Thank you Holiday."

"It's no problem. It's my job." She smiled at him before going back into the room. Six watched as she greeted the two and told Elise on her status. Six then turned and walked away with his hands also in his pockets.

Well there it is. Sorry it took so damn long. Had a writer's block like you wouldn't believe. Anyways, please review.