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Last time… Bridge decided that he could deal with Syd later. He tried to run after Kayla but had no idea where she went. He cursed under his breath and ran his hand through is hair. This is going to be difficult to explain to Sky.

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The door to Sky's office slid open with a swish. Bridge stood at the door, looking quite remorseful. He trudged in as if there was a boulder on his back.

"Bridge, what happened?" enquired Sky.

Bridge contemplated with himself whether or not he should tell Sky the entire truth or part of it. In the end, he decided with, "Kayla ran away."

"What? When?" Sky surprised to hear that Kayla ran away. For what reason, he'll just have to ask.

"Just now. I tried to follow after her but, she was too quick for me to chase after." He stared at his feet and let out a long sigh. "It's my fault."

"The part where you lost her or something else?" Sky stood up from his seat and walked over to Bridge. "What happened? What made her run away?"

Bridge took a deep breath and braced himself. "She… she heard me and Syd arguing about… something. She ran off even before I get to explain."

Sky gave it a little thought. He put his arms around Bridge and led him to a chair and made him sit down. He leaned on his desk and studied Bridge's face. He looked pretty beaten up. "I suppose, Syd said something that you couldn't come to terms with?"

Bridge nodded his head. "Yeah. And I think she's right."

Sky crossed his arms and scrunched his face. " Syd's right in what sense?"

"I do have feelings for Kayla."

"Ah. I see." Sky stood up and began pacing around a little bit. "Do you think Kayla has the same kind of feelings for you? Come on Bridge. I know you can sense this kind of things."

"I know that she does feel safe around me. But, the feelings she has for me are more towards a brotherly kind of love." Bridge propped his head on one arm. His eyebrows drew closer to each other. "What are you trying to get at Sky?"

"I'm saying that, Kayla can't see that there is a possibility that the both of you can be an item because she knows someone else already likes you a hell lot." Sky punctuated his sentence with a sigh. Just then, the door slid open again. This time, Sherman the scientist was standing at the door with a shock stricken face. "Sherman, what's wrong?" Sky enquired.

"It's about Kayla. I found a foreign body implanted on her." He gushed out the words. "Please come quickly to my lab and I will explain in detail about her current condition and what will become of her if this thing continues."

Sherman's Lab

"What's going on?" demanded Sky.

Sherman switched on the projector and a 3-D image of Kayla's anatomy hovered in the air. Sherman pressed certain buttons on his keyboard and the image zoomed to her brain where there was a foreign object attached to it.

"What's that?" Bridge pointed to the small object.

"That, gentlemen, is a memory scrambler made in the early 21st century." Sherman pressed a few more buttons and the memory scrambler was shown on a screen.

"This little gadget here," he pointed to the screen. "Is causing Kayla to not remember her real past. Instead, it is replaced with those that does not belong to her."

"When did this happen? How could this happen?" Sky was confused. Who could have done such a thing?

"I want to know as well Sherman." Bridge voiced out.

Sherman paced around for a while. Bridge and Sky were getting a little bit edgy already.

"Most likely, that gadget was implanted when she went through the operation." He walked to the 3-D image of Kayla and pointed at the faint outline of her skull and traced the outline of a healed fragment of her skull. "See this here? Its here that the implant was placed and that's how it got there."

"So, there was someone who doesn't want her to remember the real reason she got shot. The memories that came back were fake." Commented Sky.

"Not all. Did she tell any of you about what she worked as?" asked Sherman.

"Yea," Sky answered. "She told me she worked for the government."

Bridge gave Sky a skeptical look. "She worked for the government?"

"That part is true. She did work for the government. I had some of my men run a background check on her. She worked for the government by eliminating the assassins that are killing important people. To put it in layman's term, she's an assassin on the good guys' side."

"So, how about her family?" Sky asked.

"Her family, was never really her family." Sherman answered.

"How can her family, not be her family?" Bridge was clearly confused at Sherman's answer. "It doesn't make any sense."

"Kayla was an orphan. The only reason that she was placed in the Adonis family was because of her superior speed, flexibility and brain power. The orphanage that she went to contacted some government officials. They took her away to be trained as a security personnel. By the time she was ten, she was placed under 'adoption'.

Sky pursed his lips and rubbed his chin. "By saying adoption, you meant that she was stationed at the Adonis residence as a protector. A bodyguard."

"And that memory scrambler blocked her real memories and were replaced by fake ones." Bridge finished off Sky's sentence.

Sherman nodded his head. "If her real memories are being scrambled and replaced, she might just die. I need to remove that thing immediately. She has to go for an operation this instant."

Bridge sighed loudly. He rocked on the heels of his foot. "Now, there's a problem."

Sherman drew his eyebrows together. "What do mean by that?"

"He meant that Kayla ran away." Sky answered for Bridge with his arms crossed.

"Then, find her. Quick!" Sherman ordered.

"I don't know where she is!" Bridge exclaimed.

"I have an idea to where she might be." Sky commented. Bridge looked at him and gave him a 'okay, so where is she' look. "She might be at the mansion where you first found her, Bridge."

"Okay, go! Get her!" instructed Sherman. He may just be a scientist but when it comes to emergencies, not even Sky could measure up to his urgencies.

Sky and Bridge walked out of Sherman's laboratory and headed towards SPD's car park.

"He's scarier than you are Sky." Said Bridge. "He could make a better commander than you are."

"Yeah right." Snorted Sky. Even in the midst of urgency, you could still crack up a joke.

On the way to the car park, they chanced upon Syd. Her face was wet from the tears that fell. She stood in the way of Sky and Bridge. "You're going to get her aren't you? Get that, Kayla back here."

Bridge knew that the question was directed to him. He didn't want to answer her. Not at the moment. However, there was not much time left. The longer it is to take Kayla back, the more danger she is in. "Yes. We're going to get her back."

Bridge marched past Syd without even sparing her a glance. Syd closed her eyes tightly. Seconds later, she felt a strong hand on her shoulder. She knows it belonged to Sky. She felt a little squeeze and then the comforting hand lifted off her shoulder. She heard two pairs of footsteps head into the lift. She heaved a sigh. The only thing she could do right now is wait for the answers to come to her.

Author's Note: Thanks for waiting patiently. I know that I said that the average waiting time is about 3 days. But it's not going to happen very often. I still have a job to take care of. So, bear with the late updates. Anyway, thanks for reading. Review please.