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Part IV, Final Stretch (Part III)
Kyle asked Jessi,
"Are you okay?"
"Adam?"
"Yes."
"Carlisle?"
He nodded. Everyone ran onstage.
Kyle
yelled out,
"Kayla, Kayla?"
There was a lot of debris on the stage. Everyone began searching. After fifteen minutes of pulling debris off, Kyle found her.
"Over here!"
Kyle said,
"I think she's dead."
Carlisle went up to Kayla and said,
"She's still breathing and her heart is beating, too."
Jessi agreed.
"I feel it, too. She's still alive."
Immediately, they called the hospital and an ambulance. The hospital's doctor found on cuts and bruises-no major injuries. But he said,
"We'll
run an MRI."
After the MRI was finished, he said,
"Kayla's brain is showing that she is sleeping. Not in a coma-a good sign-but most likely, she'll wake up from amnesia."
Kyle added,
"She
risked that. She's alive-at a cost."
Bella said,
"She probably has come close to death almost daily since her discovery as a pod child. I'm guessing now she's willing to die for someone else."
"What will happen?" Edward asked.
Carlisle replied,
"She lost her memory to protect her kind."
Jessi nodded,
"She did and her heart is pure just like her namesake, Kayla."
Adam said,
"Kyle, you and I will go first to the hospital room. Jessi, stay for a minute. I"ll you if she wakes up."
Carlisle told Adam,
"You should let us all go. We all have a part of Kayla now."
Kayla was still sleeping. Jessi informed everyone,
"When she wakes up, we'll find out. Officially."
"She won't have no memories at all. What's worse we don't know if she has more of Kyle or you."
Then, she woke up.
She looked up, eyes bright, and she was looking around.
Adam said,
"She
looks dazed, confused. Let's find out if she has more of Kyle or
you."
Bella added,
"I'll go to her."
"No, Bella," Edward said, "Let one of them try."
Kyle walked up to Kayla and slowly....gently....touched her shoulder. Their eyes met. Suddenly, she backed away and jerked hard.
Carlisle thought,
How very interesting. Similar that because when a pod-child is created and released, they know nothing. And if they are threatened, they will have the will to fight.
Adam replied,
"A hint of Jessi in her, but Kyle, too. She's a little temperamental, but a lot of Kyle. Her brightness....and she's not speaking....a trait common to both pod children."
At that moment, Ryans-Johnson Taylor, walked in to commemorate his amazing triumph.
"I won. She's no longer the unbreakable, great Kayla XX."
"She spared us at a cost she may not be able to pay. You did this. She protected them," Bella snapped.
"Get out," Jessi agreed.
"You don't understand what I am saying," he said to Kayla, "but you're just an experiment with a failed record."
Kayla sat up from her bed. Then, she began walking toward Ryans.
She was eying. Stalking. Like a tiger for its prey.
"Kayla,"
Bella said, "He's not worth it."
She thought,
"This man. I've seen him before. Enemy. Who is this guy?"
Just then, Kayla's doctor said,
"Good,
she's awake."
"When can she go to Seattle?" Kyle asked.
"Tomorrow. We can't do anything about her amnesia, but how will you be traveling?"
"Driving," Adam said.
"She's be fine. Just let her relax, though."
Kyle said,
"We're all going home, Kayla. We'll all help you out."
"Help?" Kayla replied confusingly.
Everyone reacted in shock.
Kayla could speak, understand, and maybe there was hope for all.
"You'll earn your memory back." Edward said.
"There will be a time when you'll see it." Bella added.
"What....do....you....mean?" Kayla replied.
"Oh, that's hard," Adam responded, "you don't deserve this-you helped us and saved us all."
"Saved us all?" Kayla answered.
"Yes, and you'll learn soon how."
Adam drove Kayla's car and Kyle drove his own. Carlisle rode with Kyle. Bella, Edward and Jessi all rode with Kayla's car. They wanted to."
Jessi was dropped off at the diner, for Sarah would pick her up there. Kyle knew it would be difficult to explain to Nicole what had happened.
Bella said,
"Kayla's
going to get it back. I know she is."
Edward added,
"We have no idea if she'll pull through."
Kyle replied,
"You're
right. Her mentality might not change."
Adam joined the
conversation.
"I believe she'll earn her memory back....when the time is right."
"Yes," Kyle agreed.
Kayla did not relax at this at all.
Kyle said,
"It's
all right. You'll be fine."
Kayla POV
I had no idea where I was. Where was I? All I knew that I was Kayla. Kayla Trager.
A
small hope inside of me. Who was I?
Kyle said,
"Hold
my hands, Kayla. Look into my eyes."
"Good idea, Kyle. See if
that will help her."
Kyle said,
"What do you see?"
"I see....." I said.
Then, I concentrated. I saw two teenage boys-Kyle and Edward. Two teenage girls-Bella and Jessi. Two men-Carlisle and Adam.
"I see all of you," I said.
"That's it?"
I nodded.
Adam said,
"We'll be home soon enough. Well, the home of Kayla and Kyle. As you've seen, I live away from here."
"How are we going to explain this to Nicole?" Kyle asked.
"Tell her what happened." Bella said quickly.
"All right," Kyle began, "but it's not going to be easy."
"But it's the truth," Edward responded.
"Yes, you're right," Kyle agreed, "but it doesn't make it any easier."
At six pm, we arrived in Seattle.
"Kayla,
we're here. At your home."
Kyle led me to a familiar place-my
room and bed, they called it.
Even though Adam was tired, after being up for 24 hours straight, he had to tell Nicole. Alone.
Normal POV
He said,
"Bella. Edward. Carlisle. Go to the other room with Kayla. If you wish to go."
"All right."
Nicole crossed her arms and frowned at Adam.
"She disappeared twice and you never said why. She didn't either." Nicole said.
"As you know, Nicole, Kayla is a different kind of pod child from Kyle and Jessi. That man that shot Kayla's foot was working for Madacorp and he is their leader. He ordered me to be kidnapped. Kayla had a vision of it and his name was Ryans Johnson-Taylor and he plotted to destroy what Kayla was and Latnok."
"And he didn't...." Nicole answered, "Tell me Kayla stopped him for good."
"Ryans
Taylor was Brian Taylor's half-brother and he hated Kayla for what
she did to his family. He created another Cerebral Impulse Relay
called C.I.R. 2.0. It was made to handle Kayla's great power.
Taylor's brother threatened to hut me, Kyle, and Jessi if she did
not sit in the CIR 2.0."
"She chose to risk it, didn't
she?"
"She knew that she would be able to fight it."
"Yes, but at a great cost, her Latnok ring made a ray of light and it made the CIR 2.0 exploded. In that, Kayla was caught in the debris. Her injuries were minor, but the machine wiped her memory away. The ring could not completely save her."
"Can Kayla talk? Does she understand us?"
"She
does, but hardly speaks. She knows who we because we told her. She
knows her name. She doesn't know what she's doing at all. Just
because she has lost memory, for what it's worth, we don't know
what will happen next."
A few days later, Kayla was tested on
everything. Her abilities. Speed. Strength.
Jonathan was still in his coma and now his parents were considering taking him off life-support.
"Who is Jonathan?"
"He is your boyfriend," Bella told her.
Bella explained what was wrong with him. Kayla seemed quite upset.
"Bella,
you did the right thing. She had to know."
Hours later, while
everyone was busy at the Trager house, a loud thud echoed across the
room.
Kayla had fallen down.
Bella asked,
"What happened?"
"I fell."
"What did you trip on?"
"Nothing," Kayla said.
Adam replied,
"She seems fine.. Come on, let's go."
Adam knew what he was seeing, and he hated to see it. He had to everyone. He said,
"Everyone, I wish to speak with you."
