(Warning you all now: VERY LONG CHAPTER.
It almost decided not to end before I used my powers of PWN and was like "FINISH, BITCH". And then this chapter ended, because it knows who its boss is.
I should write a documentary about my life. That would RULE. If would be me screaming "PWN" every six or seven words, or every time I mentioned a Kasal(PWN!).
But this is not that documentary!
Let's begin.
Markus, Val, Derek, Angie © Nintendo
Pempti © Nintendo)
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Caught Unaware
Chapter Five- Chaos
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Markus' vitals were hardly stable...
After Derek finished sanitizing the chest and made his incision, the number decided to settle for seventy-five.
"I see the concentration of cells... is it just me, or is it moving faster...?" the brunette murmured. "Angie, I need the serum now..."
"Of course, Derek," Angie nodded, quickly handing her husband the syringe filled with the orange liquid. Waiting patiently for the semi-core to appear, Derek rapidly injected the nanomachines into the hazy blue object. The tissue shuddered, then receded, leaving a few small tumors in its wake.
"I've got them," Valerie announced, quickly grabbing the normal laser and burning away at the neoplasms, then splashing antibiotic gel over the burn marks. They quickly healed, and Markus' vitals stopped falling at sixty-six.
Angie refilled the syringe with the orange serum, handing it back to Derek before grabbing a new hypodermic needle. Filling the tube with stabilizer, the blonde nurse proceeded to inject the life-saving green fluid at the same moment that the brunette surgeon inserted the nanomachine into the foreign tissue.
"Angie, the laser!" Derek ordered as the tissue shrank, and the main core, larger than usual and a vibrant cerulean, surfaced.
The special laser was in his hands not a second after he asked for it. Derek burned away at the main core as Valerie used the traditional laser and antibiotic gel to treat the new tumors that had formed.
"There..."
Val glanced at the core-- just in time to see it dissolve into nothing.
"...is that it?" she muttered. "That can't be it..."
"It's not," Derek responded, readying the laser once more. "It's only just begun... Dr. Blaylock, get ready to suture; there may be a lot of--"
A small magenta core suddenly darted out to the edge of the Pempti tissue.
Derek quickly focused his laser on it...
It dashed across the organ, leaving behind a large laceration before vanishing.
"What the--"
"Derek, there's more!"
More laceration-causing growths appeared-- but before Derek could so much as blink, they shot out, marring the lung with lacerations.
"Damnit... Dr. Blaylock, quickly! Suture the wounds!"
Valerie immediately seized the sutures, sewing the wounds shut before they could bleed out, as Angie rapidly injected stabilizer to bring Markus' vitals out of the thirties...
Five small cores, tanned in color, appeared in the remaining Pempti tissue, hovering near the edge...
Derek barely finished lasering away one of the cores before the tissue expanded across the lung, then contracted. The cores followed, each one leaving four tumors in its wake.
"Vitals went from sixty-four to fifty-one...!"
"Treat the tumors!"
Valerie exchanged the needle and thread for her laser and antibiotic gel. Quickly, she burned away the excrescences, pouring the gel over the wounds to heal them.
"Ah!" Angie cried out suddenly.
"What, Angie?"
"The syringe broke...!"
"Well, his vitals are stable at eighty-eight... quick, grab another one--"
"Dr. Stiles, what are those?"
Derek glanced down at the Pempti core--
"Hurry, Angie!"
Derek's laser focused on the cores that were spinning wildly around the central body. As the cores disintegrated, Markus' vitals plummeted rapidly...
"There!" Derek sighed as the final spinning core vanished.
"...unbelievable," Val gasped in shock. "His vitals went to forty-one in... oh God..."
"Dr. Blaylock, what is Markus' Healing Touch?"
Valerie's dark brown eyes glanced confusedly at Derek, his light brown orbs hidden behind glasses as his piercing gaze never left the Pempti core.
"...you saw it yourself-- didn't you? He moves with inhuman speed..."
"I'm injecting more stabilizer!"
"Damn-- the Pempti's taken his ability and turned it against him!" Derek cursed.
"Derek, the core!"
He growled, swiftly focusing the special laser's intense beam onto the cerulean body, burning away at it as the aquamarine star flashed in front of his eyes...
If it thinks it's going to beat us and kill him, it's got another thing coming! Derek thought as his Healing Touch activated.
As the Pempti core gave out to the incinerating beam, it sent out more neon pink cores, desperate to claim its host's life...
The first one survived long enough to slice the lung; the other five fell to the laser.
Val wasted no time; she grabbed the sutures, quickly closing the wound.
"Vitals are at fifty-seven, Derek..."
"Can he even hear us?"
"Probably not, but does it hurt to-- tumors!"
"Ah!" Val cried, quickly treating the eight small growths that had appeared on Markus' lung, put there by the two remaining tan cores that Derek had failed to destroy.
They quickly encountered the same fate as their counterparts.
The main core surfaced; Derek wasted no time focusing the laser onto it, watching it tremble beneath the beam before it collapsed once again, sliding beneath the Pempti tissue.
"How long does this take?" Val growled, picking up the sutures, anticipating the return of the magenta cores.
"Sometimes it takes more than ten laserings to destroy the Pempti..."
"You have to be kidding--"
Magenta cores flashed across the lung, tearing apart the organ once again.
"Is this--"
"It's moving... much faster..."
Derek's tense voice caught Angie's attention.
"Derek?"
"C'mon... I have to focus!"
His brown eyes narrowed to thin slits; his motions became a blur as his Healing Touch was renewed.
"...oh, this is just--"
Angie fought the urge to curse, instead reaching for a new syringe to replace the broken one.
A ring of cores surrounded the main one; Derek quickly burned them away, but not before the vitals dropped from seventy to forty-four...
"Finally...!"
Angie had found a new syringe; the first thing she did was inject stabilizer into Markus until his vitals climbed to seventy-five.
The main core sent out more small cynosures; only one was able to excrete four tumors...
Derek grimaced.
"Dr. Stiles...?"
Val put the antibiotic gel back down long enough to shoot Derek a concerned look.
"...n-need to... f--"
"Derek, stop!"
His focus shattered; he gasped for breath, air flooding into his lungs...
"Derek, you can't use it anymore!" Angie cried. "Just try destroying the core!"
"R-right...!" Derek murmured, clearing his mind as he scorched the central core with his laser...
He never even saw the magenta nuclei; only the deep lacerations they caused left any sign of their existence.
"Sunuva...!"
Val's hands immediately went to work; the six lacerations were sutured shut...
"Damn, not again--!"
Derek's laser focused on the halo of cores that flew around the focus of the Pempti tissue; eventually they vanished...
"Not again!"
Angie's wail caught Val's attention.
"What is it...?"
"I pulled the plunger out of the syringe!"
"What?!"
Quickly, her dark brown eyes glanced up to check on Markus' vitals...
"No! They can't-- he won't--"
"More mini-cores!"
Val glanced back down; the tissue had begun to expand--
No!
The magenta star flashed before her eyes.
I won't let you take him...!
Markus' lung became littered with tumors...
Even as Val burned away at the excrescences, Markus' vitals remained stable at nine.
"...what...?"
Derek couldn't help but stare in wonder...
...is that her Healing Touch...?
"D-Derek, the core! It's back!"
He snapped out of his daze; Derek attacked the main core, watching it collapse with a grim sense of satisfaction.
"It shouldn't take much more--"
More hot-pink cynosures shot out over the lung.
Focus! Val growled to herself as she sutured the lacerations. It can't be that much longer...!
"It's resurfaced again-- it's almost over--!"
"Wh-what the--!?"
The ring of cores spun wildly, then suddenly shot out across the organ, leaving tumors in their wake...
"This attack is--"
"Dr. Stiles, get it-- my Healing Touch is...!"
"Understood!" Derek nodded, focusing the laser on the swollen core--
Come on... Val's inner voice egged her on. Just a little more... at least until the damage is taken care of...
"Ah...!"
There was a small flash at the core...
The Pempti tissue expanded, flashing sporadically, the lights accompanied by a faint popping sound...
...before the tissue vanished, leaving only a few small tumors as a reminder of the long battle.
"Chiral Reaction is... oh thank God-- Chiral Reaction is negative!"
Derek heaved a sigh of relief.
"Finally... let's treat these tumors and close him up..."
Valerie burned away the small tumors, healing them with the antibiotic gel...
Markus' vitals crept up to thirteen.
"...you're going t-to be... alright now, M-Markus..."
"Dr. Blaylock, are you--"
"Valerie--!"
Val collapsed, crashing to the floor, unconscious.
"Is she alright?!" Angie panicked briefly.
"...I think she just... overworked herself," Derek replied softly. "Let's close him up, and we'll get them both in a room. Do you have a new syringe, Angie?"
"Y-yeah..."
Carefully, the blonde nurse injected more stabilizer into Markus, until his vitals were stable at ninety-four. Derek sutured the initial incision, then doused it with antibiotic gel and bandaged it.
"Two hours and thirty-four minutes... damn. I'll never underestimate GUILT's powers again... c'mon, Angie. Let's get them out of here."
"Yes, Derek."
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(End chapter five.
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