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Rex awoke for the third time that day and found himself in a dimly light alleyway. It had to be late in to the night by now. He grabbed his head and winced when he touched a nice bruise that was forming at his temple. The memories of the shoplifting EVO, blue haired girl, pink explosions all came flooding back to him. When his vision cleared he saw the blue haired girl, straddling a rusted cat walk smiling at him.

"Sleeping beauty's up." She called out happily swinging her knee high boot clad legs around and slipping from her perch. She landed with cat-like grace on all fours. She had a pair of bicycle shorts and a white shirt splattered with all sorts of colors Rex wasn't sure he wanted to know where they came from. In the dingy light Rex started to make out the others. The snake-skin boy was leaning against a wall scowling at him. The redheaded girl was crouched by him and had his left foot in her lap. She had removed his shoes and was examining his ankle.

"What the heck?" he cried out as he jerked his foot away from her. She didn't seem to care and released his foot immediately. She grabbed his arm and pulled up his sleeve examining his wrist. "Um, can you let go off me?" He asked snapping his hand back as well. Redhead furrowed her brows.

"He's not from National." She informed the others, sounding very frustrated and confused.

"Did you check everywhere?" Blue hair asked smirking suggestively. "I'll be happy do double check for you." She got up and began to advance towards Rex.

"Whoa, whoa. Who the hell are you guys and where the heck am I?" He asked getting up defensively with his cheeks slightly red. Snakeskin came over to him. His tongue was darting out the corner of his mouth.

"EVO huh? Don't look it. It's Amos." He nonchalantly said focusing on what the redhead was doing. She was fiddling with some bricks that had fallen stray from the abandoned buildings.

"I'm Desdemona. But you-" Blue hair sauntered over and gave his nose a flick, "you can call me Dess." He leaned back a bit from her as she leaned in with a provocative smile.

"Uh-I'm-uh Rex…"

"Rex huh? Short for T-Rex?" She asked with a giggle. Rex rubbed the back of his neck blushing again. The whole situation was very uncomfortable.

"Where are we right now? Why did you knock me out and what-" before he could finish there was an earth shaking boom and he was blown on to the ground. Dess had fallen beside him, her chin smacked against the cold paved ground. Her arms fell in an unnatural way.

The boom had come from Redhead. Her eyes and fingertips were pink once more and the pile of bricks she had created was obliterated. Amos let out a dry laugh.

"Nice going Lena." He said a bit cruelly.

"What the hell is going on?" He got up and morphed into his giant fists. Amos held up his normal sized fists.

"Look pretty boy, I suggest you get out of here. You've over stayed your welcome."

"Listen, amigo, you're the ones that kidnapped me. I'll get going as soon as I find that giant EVO." He depowered his fists but didn't unclench his hands. The two boys snarled at each other as Dess let out a laugh.

"Grendle isn't going to come out anytime soon." Rex looked down at Dess and saw to his horror, Dess's head turned around 180 degrees and looked up at him. The rest of her body followed suit and inhumanly twisted her arms and lower body so she was facing up again. He let out a gasp of shock and disgust.

"I know, I know." She muttered upset. The large slice on her chin healed itself. "Nanites just love me too much. They always help fix me."

"You're not going to hurt Grendle!" Lena cried her fingertips glowing pink once more. He held up his hands.

"Whoa, I'm not here to hurt anybody-"

"Then why did you blast him into a wall huh?" She asked her voice quavering with anger. Rex felt his temper rising a bit.

"He was dangerous ok, he could have hurt somebody. I wasn't going to kill him I was going to cure him. We only attack when we have too." He cried to explain calmly. But Lena's face was scrunched up in fury.

"Grendle wasn't hurting anybody! He was-" but before she could continue she started to cough violently. She was coughing so hard she fell to her knees. Amos, shoving past Rex, went over and began to clap her on the back.

"We. You said we. Did you mean Providence?" Dess whispered, leaning very close, her lips almost touching Rex's ear. He blushed a bit at the sudden contact with her.

"Yea-" She shushed him; Lena's coughing was beginning to subside.

"Don't mention that to them." She said before pulling away.

"Why-" She just shook her head. "Can you at least tell me what we're doing here? Why you knocked me out? Why there's no radio here?" Providence must be going insane looking for him. It had to be past eleven, he'd been missing for nearly fourteen hours. He could picture Dr. Holiday ripping her hair out yelling at the agents to look harder.

Dess smiled a bit.

"Well it's safer at night."

"What?" Rex asked, Lena's coughing had subsided completely and Amos was helping her back up.

"No little kids to start crying for their mum when they see us." Lena said bitterly.

"Not many agents out looking for us either." Amos said. Lena slumped against the catwalks rail and Amos looked down the one way street that leads out of the alley. "Plus we didn't know if we had to kill you are not."

"Ha ha ha ha you are so funny Amos." Dess snapped at him. "We wouldn't kill you." She assured Rex.

"But we're here because it's the only place we can stay without anybody finding us. There's no radio, no wifi, no GPS coordinates. Nobody can find us. Except for you for some reason." Amos narrowed his eyes at Rex. His forked tongue began to flicker in and out once again.

"Nobody? Really?" Rex raised an eyebrow skeptically.

" This entire section of the city was evacuated. You want to find a way out of this labyrinth of allies fine by me. Get lost." Amos said before turning and heading towards an opened window.

"Hey you just wait a second!" Rex called but the window slammed shut. Dess sighed.

"Don't mind Amos, he's got some issues…"

"You can say that again. I need to get out of here. It doesn't matter if I find Gretel or not." It was Lena's turn to get in a huff again. She stormed over to Rex, her giant sweat shirt nearly swinging off her shoulder.

"First of all his name is Grendle. Second, you talked about a cure, what do you mean? Who do you work for? Are you a spy?" She began to badger him but he put his hands on her shoulders and held her steady.

"Easy chica. I'm just an EVO kid like you, I can well, cure EVOs. When they get all hairy and out of control like your friend, I can make them human again." He explained but he noticed her skin getting warmer the longer he held on to her. She was shaking slightly.

"Do. Not. Touch. Me." Rex quickly released her. "Don't try to cure any of us either." She followed after Amos into the building. Rex let out a sigh. These people were crazy! They kidnap him, try to kill him numerous times, all he wanted to do was get back to Base! He looked desperately at Dess.

"I don't suppose you're going to tell me what's up with Lena huh?" Dess rubbed her arms.

"What do you mean? Nothing's up with her, she's just a little testy." She said very quickly. "You won't be getting far through the allies tonight, you should probably come inside." She made her way over to the window and looked back at him expectantly.

'Well its better than staying outside' he thought to himself as he followed her in. The room they entered was divided by sheets hanging from the ceiling. Amos was lying on a pile of cloths that made a makeshift bed. There were various newspaper clippings hanging on the sheet-wall around him.

"Who invited you in here?"

"Who else?" Dess responded she grabbed Rex's arm and showed him to a section out of Amos's sight. It was a lot bigger and had a legitimate bed. There were a few changes of clothing and boots piled in a corner. Besides that it was very empty.

"Uh, nice place you got here." He tried. Dess shook her head, knowing he was lying.

"This is my room, you can stay here if you want. We're kind of nocturnal." She explained as she sat on her bed and began to tug off her boot. She wiggled her toes as they were set free then tossed the boot aside and began to tug on the next one. Rex noticed a sequence of numbers tattooed to Dess's ankle.

"What's that?" he asked brushing the numbers with his finger. She quickly slapped her hand over it.

"Nothing, just a tattoo."She said very quickly. He leaned into her.

"You know Dess, you're a really bad liar." He said softly. She threw off her other boot and stood up.

"I'll show you how to get out in the morning. Good night Rex." She left as quickly as possible. Rex leaned back with his hands behind his head. Something told him he wasn't getting much sleep tonight.

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