I'm still in shock from all of the reviews! Lol This chapter probably won't be as long as the last one (which was insanely long for me), but it'll still be enjoyable. :) Thank you all for reading and loving this fic, makes me all warm inside.
Btw, I'm really happy everyone liked my Gummy Bear fic. If you haven't read it, you should. It is absolutely hilarious. I have read it well over 20 times & I wrote it. XD
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The portal closed so suddenly, there was no time to think. Both Six and Rex dived forward and hit the ground. Rex's Boogie Pack was destroyed. He got up in a frinzy. While feeling his nanites going just as crazy as he was, the teen ran over to where the portal had been, panicking and hypervinalating. To calm himself, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
Calm down, you need to calm down. What can you do? What would Six do? Wait, he's-
The panicky teen looked over to his partner. The hoverboard lay a few feet away from him. Six was on his back, looking up at the sky, not moving a muscle.
Oh, god! He's freaking out! Okay, Rex, calmness. Holiday taught you some techniques, rememb- Oh, god! Holiday! What do I do? Shut up! You are no help to anyone if you keep this up!
Since Six was just laying there for the time being, Rex decided to go ahead and take the initiative. Trying to think as clearly as possible, he bent down to the ground & put his hand on it, letting his nanites pour in & dig up any information they could find.
Six was looking at the only cloud in the sky. He knew that damn cloud was plotting against him. It just wanted to put the icing on his 'what a wonderful day Agent Six was having' cake. It absolutely refused to move in front of the sun. Flat out refused. Suddenly, he wanted to skewer that cloud.
He was so pissed right now. At everything. Apparently, Providence was a 'safe place'. Oh yeah, you could smell the safety there. No telling how many people were dead. Not to mention, the Pack & Van Kleiss. What could they possibly want with her? To get to Rex? Which lead him to be angry at the kid. Though, he knew he shouldn't. Rex was in the same water he himself was. But, dammit, he had to be mad at someone.
Oh, and Holiday! She's a highly trained force to be reckoned with. He even fought along side her. Hell, she saved him once. Eventhough, that was going through his mind, and eventhough he really, really wanted to be pissed at her, too, he just couldn't bring himself to be angry with her. He could hardly bring himself to think about her without regret and self-loathing washing through his body.
Instead, he took his frustrations out on the ground, expecially since he couldn't reach that damn cloud. He quickly spun around and dug his katana through the rock-hard Earth, effectively scaring Rex. Six darted his eyes up to the boy, grinding his teeth. Rex looked scared, not of him, but for Holiday. Six was scared, too.
He stood and took his katana out of the ground, trying to stay calm about their current situation. Rex said, in wavering voice, "I tracked them. Abysus."
Figures. What on Earth could Van Kleiss want with her?
He tried to believe that Kleiss wanted her knowledge of nanites. Tried to believe that they didn't meet at that party. That Kleiss wouldn't hurt her.
He was incredibly grateful when a voice rang through his reciever to put a stop to his thoughts, but suddenly wasn't so grateful. "This is Knight. You and Rex get back to Providence."
Lovely, it was everyone's favorite person in the world. Six put a finger to his ear, "What happened?"
"Some Evos managed to infiltrate the lower levels. Minor casualties."
Right, to Knight & Providence, something happening to Holiday was only minor. Obviously, White wanted Rex back, before either found out about the situation & gone looking for her. Except, they already knew. Six reminded himself once again, how much he hated White Knight.
"Six. You and Rex return at once, that's an ord-" He took the reciever out of his ear, threw it in the air, and sliced through it with his blade.
Rex, confused, took his reciever out, too. "What was that?"
Six took the teen's receiver, dropped it on the ground, and smashed it. "Something about orders. I didn't really hear them, because the signal cut out. Abysus, huh?"
Rex looked up at Six, with even more respect for the man than he already had, and said, "Yeah. We should get moving." He closed his eyes and pushed out all thoughts about the situation as possible. His Boogie Pack came back & he started hovering a inch or two above the ground.
Six, already on the hoverboard, headed off, with Rex right behind him.
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She opened one eye, just enough to see the figure of Van Kleiss approaching her. The pain of the light made her quickly close her eye again and she could hear his chuckle beside her. Oddly enough, he then walked out.
After gathering her breath and slowing her heart rate a little, she realized a number of things.
One being that she wasn't laying on her back, in fact she wasn't touching the ground. Opening her eyes with a quick inspection told her that Kleiss had trapped her in his vines. They wound around her legs and arms, to the point where she couldn't move.
From the smell of the air, a scent of death and dust, she quickly guessed she was in Abysus. Especially, since Van Kleiss was there.
The last thing she noticed were her injuries. Her right arm was all bloody and it hurt just laying there. Her stomach felt bruised, almost like internal bleeding. Plus, she knew that blood still drained down her neck from that tango with Skalamander earlier. Holiday didn't know how she got the injuries, but that wasn't what scared her.
The fact that she felt fine, scared her. There was a pool of blood beneath her, no doubt her own, since it was still dripping from her fingers and hair. Being a doctor, or just a mildly educated person for that matter, she knew that she should be dead. Except, she wasn't. Something was keeping her alive and she was scared to find out what.
The door opened and Van Kleiss walked back in. Still breathing heavily, she looked at him with loathing, while he simply smiled.
"Doctor Holiday, was it? It's been a while," he said, looking up at her.
She spat on him in response.
He continued to smile and wiped it away. "You seem a bit edgey."
"What do you want with me? Rex?," she asked fiercely, her voice more scratchy than she thought it'd be.
"Rex is only a part of what I have planned. You are going to be," he said, raising his metallic arm, "my new secret weapon." He stabbed the points into her abdomen and she begin to scream while blue lines ran through her body. As fast as it started, he pulled away.
The lines faded and Holiday gasped for breath. "I have no active nanites," she managed to say in between breaths.
"Yet," he replied as he began to walk out.
She knew exactly what was going to happen. Her brain going into overdrive, she did the first thing she could think of. Beg. "Providence won't come for me, you might as well kill me." It was the truth and it was better than going through that again.
Kleiss stopped and turned to her. "Well, I'm not exactly expecting the calvary."
"Rex won't come. Six won't let him."
He let out a wild laugh and continued walking to the door. "Please," he said, leaving, "Agent Six is the one I'm expecting to kick down the door."
He was gone.
Holiday dipped her head. Providence wasn't coming for her, neither was Rex. She didn't really consider Six an option, not anymore. Van Kleiss was going to kill her. What was he thinking? Not active yet?
Psychopathic bastard.
That language was in order.
Looking down, the pool of blood had only gotten larger and she was starting to get sleepy. Insanely scared of falling asleep in Abysus, she did the only thing that usually kept her awake. She started singing.
"I'm falling to pieces... falling..."
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Rex and Six had both been quiet for the entire trip. Neither wanted to say anything, for fear of the other freaking out.
Rex looked over at Six, trying to stay calm. Whenever he got scared in any situation, he would always look over to his overly unemotional mentor. Usually, that would tell Rex that the situation wasn't that serious, as long as it could be handled.
That didn't work this time. Six looked worried, horrified, and incredibly pissed off. Normally, it was hard to get any reading out of Six, but not this time. Rex knew that his partner did have a heart, no matter how hidden it was, but he didn't expect this kind of reaction.
He must really care about her. I never noticed it, but then again, how could anyone? Six is... well, Six. He's trained for stuff like this, maybe he's slipping on the whole 'emotion control' thing. Doesn't matter. When we get there, I'm sure he'll be more than ready to fight.
He looked over at Six again. For no real reason, the term, 'people who go looking for blood, find it' came to mind.
"Six," he said, starting to be worried again, "I know what the plan is, but-"
Six sharply looked over at him, "But?"
The teen couldn't look at him and keep his nanites in check at the same time, so he looked away. "But, well, it's Circe. I mean, I know she wouldn't do this. Van Kleiss keeps a lot of secrets from her and-"
Rex looked over at the man, who was actually waiting for him to continue, which he did, "just, don't hurt her. Ok?" He knew the agent well enough to know that he wasn't going to Abysus to beat up some Evos and save the princess. He was going to kill someone. Most likely, Van Kleiss.
Six stayed quiet for a second. He knew the girl meant a lot to Rex and, of all the rambles about her he had to sit through, she didn't sound like an evil mastermind. Besides, she was a kid. "I won't touch her," he promised.
Rex let out a massive sigh of relief, believing his mentor's words to the ends of the Earth, then sped up.
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Holiday was never one for that damsel in distress crap. Once recovered from her emo-ness, she had decided that she had, quite frankly, had enough. If no one else was going to save her, then she'd just have to improvise, blood loss or not.
From all her wiggling, the vines had torn into her skin, causing her to bleed more, but it still didn't feel that bad. Keeping those kinds of thoughts in the 'it's a miracle' folder in her head, she kept squirming.
She had managed to knaw off (yes, chew) one around her injured shoulder and was working on loosening one around her left hand, when another had suddenly wrapped itself around her neck and started to squeeze.
Van Kleiss walked back in, watching her wiggling suddenly stop and her gasp for air. He loosened her neck a little, "you really are an agent of Providence. I'm surprised you have such moxy, really."
"Let me free and I'll show you how much moxy I got," she verbally growled at him. She wasn't scared of Van Kleiss. In fact, if she wasn't bound, she knew she could kick his ass.
He chuckled in response. Then, he actually took a good look at her and said, "you don't believe me. You don't think that I will activate your nanites."
"It's impossible," she informed him. Being the lead scientist in the field of nanites working for the lead organization that handled the nanites, Holiday figured she knew what she was talking about.
"I beg to differ," he casually said, "I know what powers lay dorment inside all living creatures." He walked closer to her, "that's why you will become so special to me."
He really is nuts.
She looked away from him.
"Oh, and you don't have to worry about anything," Kleiss continued. "By the time Rex arrives, you power will be in full flourish."
She shot eyes back down to him, "He's not coming and you're insane."
"I hear that a lot," he said, before stabbing her with his hand again. "But the crazy people are the best kind of people, right?"
Holiday screamed until her voice cracked and stopped all together. Instead she just gritted her teeth and tried to drift her thoughts away from the pain, by replaying that song in her head. Over and over.
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Yay! Ok, this one is a little long, but I just kept typing. I'm so glad that I'm really into this story, so that I actually can't wait to get home and work on it. =3
So, this chap wasn't as 'exciting' as the last one, but it was informative. Hope you like it, nonetheless.
Oh, & if you were laughing at Rex panicking in the beginning of this chap, don't feel bad about it. I was in a happy mood. =D
R&R