Chapter13
-Rhez-
Knives waved Tia away and took a turn down the hall. He kept walking, looking straight forwards without blinking, he had something in mind. He stopped at a door and tapped a few buttons on the panel. The door slid open and light from the hall spilled into the dark room. "I have a job for you." Knives said with a slight smile. Freak stepped into the light, his robotic spider legs hidden in a hump under his trench coat. His head twitched and even his body shook every few seconds. "The other, Rhez, I want him… I want him now… Bring him to me if you want to keep your second life." Without a word Freak slowly walked out of the room, Knives making way for him with a smile. He watched at the Freak stood in the hall, leaned forwards for a second, than broke into a run and disappeared down the hall. "Good boy." Knives said and resumed his walk.
Rhez lay silently as he listened to the people around him talk. He had regained consciousness a few minutes ago, but didn't want to let it show. His memory was fuzzy, he remembered fighting someone, blowing the guy to hell… but after that he didn't remember much. "How is he doing?" Someone said, a woman. A man replied to her. "He is healing at an incredible rate, just like Vash said he would… His ribs are totally mended, and all of that damage to his face has healed already as well. I can't believe it, but he has even managed to regenerate the teeth that where knocked out…" "What about the eye?" The woman asked. "Vash said it was to far gone… but the replacement has fused in beautifully, you can't even tell by looking at him. We won't know how well it actually is until he wakes up, though I expect it should work just fine." "Does anyone know what happened to the poor kid?" "No, Vash wouldn't say, but I bet it has something to do with that woman locked up in the holding cells." Rhez thought about it for a second, Elle… She knew where Knives was, he remembered now. He shot up out of the bed, leaping to his feet and grabbing the man by the shirt. "Where is she?!" He yelled at the man who was dressed as a doctor. The woman, a nurse gasped in surprised and took a step backwards. "Hey calm down kid…. You've been out for three days, Vash will be back in a minute. Just calm down, I need to check your vision…" Rhez pushed him away and looked around the room. "Where am I?" He screamed at the man. "You're in a safe place, so just calm down ok? This is a medical facility aboard a crashed seed ship, Vash brought you here. We had to replace your eye with a synthetic one." The man said. Rhez brought his hand up to his eye. "My… eye?" Rhez said with surprise. "It may take a little getting used to, how to control it I mean. But you should have far superior vision in your right eye now. A zooming function, and an extremely precise heat vision that can double as a night vision." Rhez shook it off, he didn't care about that now. "Look, I have to know where she is!" "Who?" "The woman damn it ! I have to know where you are keeping Elle!"
Elle sat on the bed in the small holding room they had put her in. She thought about Knives, maybe it was best for her to be in here she thought. He couldn't get her in here… Who was she trying to fool? He could get her anywhere. Then a thought crossed her mind, maybe she could be redeemed, maybe if she killed that kid Knives could forgive her failure the first time around. She looked down at the jumpsuit they had given her to wear and frowned. She only needed once chance, one mistake and she could get out of here. But she had no way to find that kid, for all she knew he was a million iles away. The door opened and a man walked in with a tray of food in one hand, a sub-machine gun in the other. She smiled at him as she saw her chance, a lit cigarette in his mouth.
-Stran-
"Knives… Knives". Stran yells as he search's the compound looking for knives. "Knives…Knives." "Yes Stran in here". Knives answers from in a room down a hall.
As Stran walks down the hall his place begins to slow and he grabs his head with both hands and blurry images of a fight flash threw his head as he drops to knee and his face scrunches up beads of sweat form on his fore head as shrill shrieks of pain escape his mouth "what is going on what are these images who's this person where fighting but he seems happy why would he be happy to be fighting I don't understand". "Stran Stran get off the floor get up and stop being a baby its time to start traing". Knives says as he pulls Stran off the ground by his collar with one hand. " But brother I was having some kind of memory flash". "You where probably just remembering a dream you had you cant go rolling around on the ground every time you have some stupid flash or images now follow me its time to start traing your going to need to get use to that new arm of yours if your going to find the people who did this to you and punish them." But brother I don't want to hurt anyone I'm sure in time I'll forgive them". "That's not the way it works Stran if you don't find these people they'll hurt other innocent people who wont stand near the chance you did." "yes brother I guess your right". "You guess or you know" "I know" "Very good now follow me. Stran and knives continue down the hall till they com to a door leading to a very large room almost a 100 yards long and 50 yards wide ceilings almost 6 story's tall chunks of floor missing concrete ruble fill almost every square foot of the room. What looked like fake buildings ran in two rows almost the entire length of the room. "This is where will be training from now on every day until I think your ready to go find the people who did this to you" "Now lets begin show me what you know". Stran begins to survey the room as he dose several different stretch's finally he jumps up and down a couple times while cracking his neck and stopping in a defensive stance. Looking Knives in the "You ready for this."