BTW! I don't think it was clear, so I'm just gonna explain it. I'm sure a few of you were like 'Six was half dead, now he's running around all ninja-like again. What happened?' Well! I'm glad you asked! It was one of Holiday's abilities, she (unconciously) healed him. Neat, I know. I really meant to put that in the story, but it COMPLETELY slipped my mind, so, if there was any confusion, sorry about that.

Mirror's Mirage- those emotes were adorable lol

Shyma- I love being funny. It's so... me. XD

Elidy- I think they will end up together somehow, but in a subtle way. MOA showed in the first ep that there's something between them & has been hinting at it since. They hardly do something like that & not show something to follow it up, so I'm confident something will happen... Something. Like Gwen/Kevin from Ben 10 (although it took 3 seasons for them to officially get together).

MADasHATTER- I know.

1wingedangelX- Bwhahahahahahahaha I love those jokes XD We shall both be equally awesome! (btw, I know people that like the 'sex' pairing, while it makes me cringe. lol I just cannot stomach yaoi, no matter how cute it is.)

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The wind stirred up the dust from their footsteps.

To keep their minds off of all the really good questions they should be asking themselves, Circe and Rex had struck up a conversation.

"Em?," he asked, completely calm, "Who came up with that name?"

"Van Kleiss must have," she answered, rubbing her arms, a bit more worried than he was, "I had no idea who she really was."

"How would you have?," he said, looking over to her.

"Well, I was trying to help her get her memory back, but I don't think I helped at all," she told him, "She had a lot of dreams of her past, though. I should have noticed it was Providence."

"What do you mean?"

"She mentioned you."

"Really?," he asked, wide eyed.

Circe looked over at him. "How many questions are you going to ask?"

"How many does it take for you to finally snap?"

"Rex."

"Alright!," he finally said, "I'm scared, ok! Where are they? What happened? Are they dead? How did she lose her memory? They aren't dead, right?"

"Rex!," she screamed to stop his babbling, "We'll find them. Em's strong, I'm sure they're both alright."

He slouched over a little, and tried to get his mind off of them again. "I can't believe she's an Evo, now. So, what are her powers like, anyway?"

"Did you ever watch X-Men?"

"Yeah."

"Like Jean Grey, but way cooler and more powerful."

"Neat," he replied, looking at the sky. "So, does that mean she can read minds or-" Rex suddenly face planted.

"Rex! Are you ok?," she asked, running to his side.

He leaned up a little, "I think I tripped on something."

They both looked down to his feet, to see something black sticking up out of the ground. Rex reached over and pulled it out, revealing one of Six's katanas.

Circe was about to say something, when Rex cut her off. "Did you see that?," he asked her, "I think I'm King Arthur."

"Rex..."

"I'm King Arthur."

"Rex," she said, pinching the bridge of her nose, "Agent Six might close by, we need to look for him."

"Oh yeah," he said, and quickly got up.

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"Come on, man! Wake up!"

"Do you think he's hurt?"

"Well, he does look pretty banged up."

"He is alive, right?"

"Yeah, he's alive. Six!"

"Rex, would you stop screaming? Please."

"What do you want me to do?"

"I don't know."

"Hey, Six! I'm keeping your sword."

"He's not moving."

"Six!"

"What do we do?"

"I don't know! I don't know! Six, wake up!"

"I don't see, Em."

"Holiday?"

"I don't see her! What if she's-

"Aughhhhh!," Rex started screaming, due to the hand that had suddenly grabbed him by the collar.

Six looked at him and waited until he stopped screaming, to say, "Give me my sword."

"He-Here you go," the teen said a little shaky, as he handed the blade over to him.

The man slowly stood and flicked the katana to fold back up, then took a look at his surroundings. He figured she was going to do something like this, but it was a lot more 'catastrophic' than he expected.

Circe walked up to him, "You ok?"

"I'll live," he told her, then looked around, "Found anyone else, yet?"

Rex stood. "Nope," he said, "just you and one sword, so far."

Wonderful.

"Then, we'll keep looking," he said, with a sigh. Six really wasn't incredibly worried about her. She had promised, after all. That didn't mean he couldn't be mildly worried, though.

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"Here," Circe said, walking up to Six, "found the other sword."

Rex looked at her from around the agent, "Oh no! We must battle for the crown!"

As the man folded up the sword, he looked over to Rex. "What-"

"Don't," the girl said, beside him, "Just don't ask."

He took her advise, knowing that the teen would come with the most random things sometimes. The worse parts were when he'd try to explain his reasoning. Six ignored them and kept walking, the teens lagging behind.

"But, we-"

"No, Rex."

"But, the-"

"I'm not fighting for a nonexistant crown."

"So...," he decided to roll with it, "you're forfeiting?"

"Yes, Rex. I forfeit."

"Yes! I win!," he proclaimed, throwing his arms up.

Six was actually glad Circe was there. If she wasn't, the boy would talk his head off until the man finally snapped, which under these conditions, wouldn't be very long. He was starting to get more and more worried as the seconds passed by.

The girl was the first to see the stark contrast of the different reds. One of those colors was her shirt. "Hey," she yelled, "it's her!"

She took off at a run, Six following close behind. Rex hesitated a second and then, once it clicked in, started running, too.

"Em!," she said, running up to the woman. She wasn't moving. Circe kneeled beside her, "Em!"

Six ran up to her other side and Rex stayed with Circe.

"Hey," Six said, shaking her shoulder with one hand and cradling her cheek with the other, "Holiday? Come on. Wake up."

"What do we do?," Rex said, starting to freak out again, "What do we do?"

"Em?," the girl asked, "Em. Hey."

"Holiday."

"There isn't any water around."

"Em?"

"Slap her!"

A silence passed through the group.

Six looked up, just to see if he heard that right. "What?"

"Slap her! Wake her up! Do something!"

Circe looked at him with an odd expression, "Have you lost it?"

"I'm serious!"

The agent said, "We know you're serious. That's what scares me."

"At least, it'll wake her up!"

"It might wake her up."

"Wait," the girl asked Six, "are you actually considering this?"

"No," he explained, "it just gives Rex a sense that he did something."

Then, they heard a slap.

Six stared daggers at the boy and was about to tackle him, when Rex spoke up. "She didn't move."

He quickly looked down to see that she hadn't moved at all. "Holiday!," he said, even more worried now.

"What do we do now?," the teen said, freaking out again.

"Maybe if you stopped screaming and slapping people," Circe put in.

"Well, what else should I do?," he replied.

The only reason Six didn't tell them both to shut up, was that they were making enough noise to wake the dead. "Holiday," he tried again, "Please, wake up."

Slowly, he eyes fluttered open, and Six let out a breath that he didn't know he was holding.

She looked around to see two teens fighting beside her and Six above her with a smile. She smiled back and was about to say something when, suddenly, he pressed his lips against hers. Not a cute little peck, a real kiss.

That was unexpected.

She hardly cared, though. Before she could pull him closer, he had already let go.

Holiday opened her eyes again, to see him a few inches from her, still with the smile.

"Hey," she said.

Rex stopped in the middle of his sentence and turned to see her awake, Circe doing the same.

"Holiday!," he said, "You're alright!"

"Em!"

Six helped her lean up. She looked over at the teens to see Rex, looking incredibly guilty.

"What's wrong?," she asked him.

"Nothing!," he replied, a little too quick.

Holiday looked over to Six, who said, "It's nothing."

Circe spoke up, "Oh please, Em-"

"He said it was nothing!," Rex interrupted, "So it's nothing."

Holiday and Six stood. She figured he'd tell her, eventually.

The agent looked around. All the people that mattered, in his opinion, were accounted for. Now what?

"I guess we'll need a bird's eye view," he said, looking at the sky.

"Ooohhh!," Rex screamed, shooting up like a bullet, his arm raised like he was in class.

"Rex," Six said, trying to be as least sarcastic as possible and failing, "Would you like to go?"

His face overflowed with joy. "Yes, please," he said, switching to the Boogie Pack.

"Take Circe with you," Holiday added, before he left.

"Alright," he said and grabbed her without a second thought.

"What?," the girl said, then was suddenly over ten feet in the air and ascending, screaming, "Em! You meanie!"

Holiday watched them fly with a smile.

Six looked over to her. "What was that?," he asked.

"A phobia," she answered, "of crazy people."

"Right," he replied, and watched the teens, "He slapped you, by the way."

"What?"

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Circe clung to him for dear life, watching the ground far below.

Rex said, "I didn't know you were scared of-"

"Don't even start!," she cut him off.

"So," he asked instead, trying to make her calm down, "What are you going to do now?"

She looked away from him, "I don't know." Then, she noticed something, "What's that? It's too big to be a bird."

Rex looked over to where she was looking, to see a large and familiar speck in the sky.

"Oh," he said, "I'm not sure if that's a good thing."

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"What if he tries again?," Six asked her.

"They still have my sister, I can't leave her," Holiday replied, not looking at him.

Six was considering taking the kids and just leaving, but then her sister was a problem. Without them at Providence, White would kill her. So, he just kept that thought to himself.

She can't go back, there has to be-

"It's the Keep!," Rex said, touching down.

Holiday looked up, breaking out of her thoughts, "What?"

Six looked over at him, "Already? How?"

"How should I know?," he shrugged, then looked around and spotted Circe a few feet away. Rex walked over to her.

"Well?," he asked her, when he was beside her.

She was watching the sky, waiting for the Keep. "It can't be that bad, right?," she said with a smile, "I mean, you live there. I suppose, I'll join."

Rex's face lit up. "Really? No, wait. You can't change your mind, now. You already said it."

She laughed at him.

Holiday looked over to Circe and knew that the girl would be fine.

Now... What do I do?

"Go," Six said.

She looked over at him, "What?"

"Just go," he said again, looking away from her, "before they find out."

"Six-"

"They'll kill you," he said sharply, turning to look at her, then quickly looked away, "again."

She walked up to him, stopping less than an inch away. "Six, I-"

"Don't," he said, grabbing her hand and refusing to look in her eyes, "Just..."

She slowly closed the distance, kissing his lips again. Then she stopped, but she didn't pull away.

"I'm sorry," she whispered.

"Please, don't be."

Before he realized it, with a seconds hesitation, she had pulled free and flew away.

The Keep floated down through the clouds and Rex turned to Six.

"What?," he said, noticing the missing person, "Wait, where's-"

"We didn't see her," he replied, watching the place where she disappeared, "She was never here."

Then, he turned and started walking to the airship. "Come on."

The teens looked at each other and silently followed, saving their questions for later.

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Ok, longer than expected. This chapter was fun.

Nope, the fic still isn't done. Do you really think I'll end all of this with that kind of ending? Seriously?

& yes, the X-Men rock. I've never been much on Jean, though. (Pheonix is cool) Rogue has always been my fave (& Gambit)... umm... I'll stop babbling now.

R&R lol