Holy Mother of Goshness! I got so much feedback on the 1st chapter! I'm so happy, thank you all!
A lot of you loved the right & left thing. I came up with that idea from me. Honestly, I think I finally figured out the difference between the two when I was, like, 15. Ahh, the bright children of the future.
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Pain. Dizzy. Things are moving around too fast. Black darkness. Calm down.
She took a slow, deep breath. Still too scared and confused to open her eyes, she just lay there. Of what she could feel, her hair clung to her neck with a wet & sticky substance. On the back of her head, pain. Panic. More pain. Calm Down!
She took another staggering breath. Just try to think slowly. Start at the beginning. Try to piece together what happened.
o0oFlashbacko0o
"What? We just got home. Like, not ten minutes ago," Rex whined.
"It's been over three hours, Rex," Six said, briskly walking to Holiday's lab.
"It doesn't really seem that long," Rex looked around with a stubborn face, then, suddenly, an idea dawned on his him. He narrowed his eyes & slowly shifted them over to the back of Six's head. "You made that up," he said, quietly accusing, "you're just saying that so I don't whine about it."
Six stopped outside of Holiday's door & looked over at the teen with the same blank face. Rex was glaring daggers at Six's shades.
The agent slowly walked through the doors, purposely making more noise when he walked in so she'd know he wasn't alone.
Holiday swiveled her chair around from the computer screen to see Six & (a steaming) Rex walk in.
"What's up?," she asked curiously, thinking that the 'boys' have come to her, because they had another 'spat'. She knew they usually did this, because she was the only person that knew them both so well & probably the only person able to fix it.
She recieved a different answer. "There's a swarm of Evos attacking the city nearby. We're headed out, so keep an eye on his biometrics," Six said, throwing his thumb over his shoulder to point at the obviously angry teen.
She looked around Six at Rex, who was glarring at Six's back. Her eyes shot up to Six's face for an answer. He slightly turned his head to the teen, then back to her. "Also, we seriously need to get him a watch," he said, starting to walk out.
Rex stood dumbstruck. Then knowing spread across his face. Running out, he yelled after Six, "don't try to play dumb! I know your game!"
Holiday stared at the retreating form of Rex. She wasn't quite sure what had happened, but nonetheless. She took a key out of her pocket & bent down to the bottom drawer in her desk to unlock it. It's only contents was a small clipboard with one piece of paper & a few items written on it, some already scratched out. She added 'watch' to Rex's growing Christmas/Birthday present list that her & (ironically) Six came up with a few years back. Once done, she replaced the clipboard, locked the cabinet, & stood up in a stretch.
Her radio was still silently playing music when she walked over to it. Her newest favorite song, playing for the hundredth time that day, was just going off.
"I'm falling to pieces
(Cos when a heart breaks no it don't breakeven)"
For some reason, maybe the tempo, the beat, or the voice (lord knows it wasn't the lyrics) the song reminded her of Six. For another reason, she really liked that song. Holiday clicked it off.
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Bobo opened the hatch to the small air ship that was currently thirty or forty miles above ground level. Rex crouched down & looked around at the city where Noah lived. He wasn't all that worried for his friend. Since Noah worked for Providence, he was bound to be warned. Instead, Rex pushed the worrying thoughts from his mind & looked at the Evos.
"I don't know, Six," Rex said, "they look more like a flock to me."
Six looked over his shoulder. The Evos, at least fifty down in the square where Rex was looking, looked more like griffins. Body of a beast with huge bat-like wings. With the saliva and blood everywhere, they looked less like a 'flock' & more of something from a horror movie.
"Why do you say that?," he asked automatically.
"Well, a swarm is like a ton of them all clustered together. A flock is like, you know, not a whole lot."
Bobo interfected, "doesn't it depend on the type of animal it is?"
"Well, yeah," Rex answered, "technically, but the way Six said swarm made me think that-" Rex stopped to look at Six's outstretched hand. The teen followed the man's finger to a few blocks away from the square, where about two hundred of the same Evos were terrorizing a busniess complex.
Rex stared down at all the Evos. "Oh," was all he managed to get out.
Bobo looked down at the chaos & cracked a smile, "looks like you two have a swarm to take care of." He then started with his heavy laugh.
"Oh ha ha," Rex said, looking over at the chimp, "and what do you mean by, 'you two'? You better be coming with us."
The laughing abruptly stopped. "Do you have any idea how hot it is out there?," he answered, pointing outside.
"Of course, I do! I'm the one sweati-" He was cutoff by a green blur passing his vision. He looked over the edge to see Six, on his hoverboard, diving straight down to the Evos, katanas already out.
Rex let out a weary sigh and slumped his shoulders forward while putting his goggles on. He stood up, walked to the back, all while grumbling, then ran across the narrow ship & dived after his partner.
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"Six! Come in!," Holiday screamed into the reciever while running down the halls. "Rex! Anyone! Someone! Come in!" The only thing responding to her calls was static.
She ran in one of the rooms and locked the door from the inside. Backing away from the door, her back hit a table. Everything was silent. Holiday took a deep, rewarding breath.
Not five minutes earlier, she had gotten many reports of Evos on lower floors. Since then, she had been trying to get in contact with Six or Rex, but she presumed one of the Evos must have knocked out communications. To get into Providence, they had to be pretty smart. When the reports suddenly stopped after a blood curdling scream, she had started worrying and ran away from her lab to try to help. Except, there was no one to help and no Evos around to kick. Which had made her paranoid. Now, Holiday was locked in a 'one way in, one way out' room with nothing, but an empty tranquilizer gun to help her.
Looking around, she tried again, "Six, come in, please." Static.
Along one of the walls was a small door &, in this moment, she did not need telling twice. She took it. On the other side was another lab, not entirely unlike hers. There was a large window with a huge view of the outside. Looking out, everything looked completely normal. On a countertop, across the room from her, lay a real gun, the kind you kill with. Suddenly, she couldn't be more happy, unless Six randomly walked in & said everything was fine & stop running around like an idiot. She would have hugged him.
As she walked over to the gun, the doors leading to the main hall, oppostie the room, slid open with no footsteps.
Six!
She started to twirl around when reality hit her.
But he's not-
Holiday barely had time to duck from the attack, but didn't have any to dodge the second. Skalamander hit her in the chest and threw her across the room. Her back hit the counter with loud thud.
She opened her eyes, highly believing she was living on nothing but adrenaline at the moment. Everything was wavy & wobblly, nothing stood right. Laying on the linoleum floor, she looked up to see the barrel of the gun hanging over the edge. She tried to slide her arm up to grab it, but her head violently protested, making the whole thing a slow process.
Skalamander hit her behind the head again, this time successfully knocking her out.
A giant Evo arm busted in through the window, it's hand landing on the floor and breaking through to the rooms below. It's tentacles raced in through the hole in the wall.
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Six took no shame in running away, or in this case, flying away. Especially, against three hundred plus Evos. Rex was right beside him, also taking no shame in flying away as fast as possible.
The teen's mind was wondering around so fast. He even mildly thought of an old interenet joke, about running away from zombies and tripping your partner. He glanced at Six.
Nah, he'd get free, then I'd never hear the end of it. Wait, what am I thinking?
"I think my nanites are eating my adrenaline or something," Rex said, voicing his thoughts.
"Obviously," Six stated, "you actually tried to cure some of these things."
"I didn't know that they were all just plants!"
"You would think you'd figure that out after the fifth or sixth one!"
"Well!" No, Rex! Calm down. The situation stinks, that's all.
He took a breath, and said, "What I meant was, is the fact that I haven't heard from Holiday about it, yet."
Six glanced over. In these kinds of situations, Holiday seemed to 'overreact' to Rex's well being. Depending on the situation, sometimes even his own. This time, they were flying for the lives, through random streets, away from many very large, very strong, very 'hungry' Evos. Rex had a point.
"Holiday," he said into his reciever, with static as a reply. "Holiday, come in," still nothing.
He was about to start getting worried, when Rex cautiously asked, "What's wrong?"
Six looked over to the kid. He had to be strong, especially in front of Rex. Besides, she was at Providence, most likely the safest place on Earth. It didn't matter anyway, she was expendable as an agent of Providence and a doctor. The doctor was expendable,... but Holiday wasn't.
If something happened to her, our secret weapon would go down the drain.
At least, that's what he kept telling himself. He took care of Rex, because he was the only weapon against the Evos and nanite threat. He took care of and worried about Holiday, because Rex cared about her so much & his job was to keep the weapon stable. That's what he kept telling himself, over and over.
"Communications are jammed," he casually answered, then looked over his shoulder at their pursuers, who were gaining on them, wonderful.
Rex was looking back, too. "There's just too many of them."
Too many of them. Too many...
"That's it!," the agent said, quickly looking over at Rex, "there's a center to all this. Another Evo controlling these."
It hit Rex. "Like in Manhattan! I cured one guy & all the rest were cured. I got ya. Well?"
Six looked over his shoulder again & did a quick count. "Go. I got these."
"Alright," without a second thought on the matter, Rex went into a nose dive up to the sky, to get a better bird's eye view of the situation. Six abruptly turned on a dime, katanas back out, and slammed head on into the Evos.
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"Woah, Six you won't believe this!," Rex said, hurtling toward what he knew to be the 'main' Evo.
"Try me," Six's voice replied through the reciever.
"It's the same one," he said, astounded, "It looks just like the same Evo we fought this morning. The one I cured. It doesn't make sense."
"Sounds like a mystery," said Six's slightly busy voice on the other end. Rex could tell he wasn't really listening, considering he was fighting all those things. He would have left his partner alone so that he could continue to kill as many Evos as possible, except there were a few promblems.
"This one's bigger, Six, and a lot faster. It's actually trying to get away."
"Then catch it. I just finished here. I'm headed to you."
"Alright," Rex replied, but there was something else bugging him. There was no doubt he could catch the Evo, so that wasn't it. As far as it looking like the one from that morning, he could worry about that later. It was something else. Something that he didn't really want to think about.
Stop wondering about everything & get your head in the game, Rex. Stupid nanites. I wish Holiday would just-
He gasped and sped up. He had to get to it, right now. There wasn't much time. He had to check on Holiday. That thing was headed in the opposite direction of Providence.
He caught a flash of white in one of it's tentacles & his heart slipped.
Six could see the Evo now, which, admittedly, was pretty fast. Something in it's direction disturbed him, though. Before he could dwell on it, Rex's panicked voice rang in his ear, "Oh god! Six!"
"What! What is it!," he replied, starting to panic himself. Rex never sounded like this, ever. A portal opened in front of the Evo, that looked suspiciously like one of Breach's.
"Six! It's got her! I can't catch it!"
"Who? Circe?"
"No! Holiday! It's got Holiday! And she's hurt! I can't catch it, Six!"
Something happened to Six, that hadn't happened to him in years. His heart dropped. After a millisecond of hesitation, he sped up.
"Calm down! She's not going anywhere!" There was no way in hell he was going to let her go anywhere.
He quickly caught up to Rex, who was quickly catching up to an unconcious Holiday. Six debated on cutting it's limb off, but at that speed, he was more likely to hit her than the Evo. The hard way, then.
The Evo was already half-way through the portal. Holiday was at arms length away from each them. Rex stretched his arm to the the tentacle wrapped around her. If he could just barely touch it, he could cure the stupid thing. Six, on the other hand, was reaching out to Holiday.
Rex was the first one to start screaming, "Holiday! Wake up!"
She did look horribly white and blood stainded the back of her coat. Her hair was undone, flying through the air, and pieces of her clothes were ripped. She even had a few stratch marks on her face. Six knew you didn't get these wounds from simply being 'knocked out'. She fought back. The thought just worried him more and looking at her still body...
"Holiday!," he started screaming with Rex, "Wake up! Holiday!"
Pain was shooting through her head to the rest of her body and the screaming didn't help much. She opened her eyes to tell them to 'shut the hell up', when she realized the situation.
Their hands were inches away from her and she could feel her body being pulled through a portal. They weren't going to make it.
She let out a scream, honestly believing that was the last time she would see either of them, and then they were gone.
o0oEnd Flashbacko0o
Oh yeah.
Holiday, having wasted plenty of time thinking about the past, rolled her head around to worry about the now. Except, she felt like she was hurt a lot worse than the last time she saw Six and Rex.
Six and Rex. She remembered that they looked hurt and ragid, and extremely worried. Actually, Rex was worried. Six looked... angry. Incredibly angry. Probably at her, for not being prepared for something like that.
Her eyes still refused to work properly. She heard a door open a few feet away from her with heavy footsteps coming closer to her. This time, Holiday knew it wasn't Six & her heart sank even lower.
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Oh, wow, long. This is probably the longest chapter I've ever written in a fanfic, ever. But, I just kept typing so... yeah.
When Rex is talking about Manhattan, he's referring to episode 2, 'String Theory'. I don't remember the man's name, but it doesn't matter now.
The beginning with the Christmas/Birthday list could have made a good one-shot, but *shrug* it's already done.
As for that internet joke, it goes "If zombies were chasing us, I'd trip you" with a cute little smile :) I love that joke.
Oh, and Breach is around in this fic. I thought it up before the episode 'Breach', so she was in it originally. Plus, she's awesome, so we gotta have her.
This story is going to have two parts (the second involving Circe), but I don't think that I'm actually going to divide it up. It'll just have two climax's instead, lol.
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