Black Requests

Cho went through the forest at a merry pace, kind of humming to herself. Today it was warm and most of the animals were out. A butterfly with purplish-blue wings flew into her hair and made itself look like it belonged there. "Oh!" Cho giggled, softly brushing it onto her finger. "Cho-chan…" She whispered to it. The butterfly fluttered its wings and lightly floated away, as if carried by the light wind. Himitsu made a slight growling sound, he smelled someone ahead. Cho snapped out of her peaceful state. How many people was she going to meet in this forest? Cho quickly climbed up a tree and peered out. Daiki sat in the middle of the path, staring intently ahead.

There were a few EVOs. These guys might be some fun toys. They were certainly an interesting group. One looked like he (or she?) was a wolf that was made in a robotics lab. Another was some green lizard with crystal sticking out in the most random of places. Another was a girl who would have looked normal…if not for the grotesquely huge extra pair of arms stuck to her sides. The second to last was a normal looking Goth girl, but Cho knew that she MUST be an EVO to hang with this group. The last one was a man who looked like a gothic lord of some country and he had a golden hand.

"Now, Cho, I know you're here. Come out, we mean you no harm." Daiki's eyes began glowing and Cho's eyes paled.

"Nope, I'd much rather stay in my hiding spot, thank you." Daiki's voice sounded like a mixture of his and Cho's. The wolf-like whatever narrowed his eyes at Daiki. "And who might you all be?"

"We are the Pack. I am Van Kleiss, leader of the Pack and ruler of the Kingdom of Abysus." Daiki yawned, signaling that Cho was yawning as well.

"How self conscious. What do you want; I'm trying to be on my way."

"We've been watching you for some time now. The potential you have is remarkable. We think you would be very happy in Abysus."

"Thanks for your concern. No thank you, not unless there's some I want there." Daiki began to evaporate when Van Kleiss called her back.

"And if we did have something you want, perhaps…freedom?" Daiki came straight back and barked. Cho was interested as well. Hey, she could escape is she wanted to, anyway. Cho jumped down from her high branch and landed behind them. They spun around; half of the group was surprised. Van Kleiss didn't seem all that shocked. Aimi materialized along with Himitsu. They walked in step with her, growling in defense.

"I'm listening."

"You know that Providence is hunting you down to bring you back to their base, correct?"

"Hai, that's right."

"They won't stop hunting you even if you get to the United States. They won't stop, you won't really be free." Anger began to show on Cho's face and Himitsu began to growl louder. "Unless you join our group, then they can't touch you."

"Of course, but you think I haven't heard of you?" Cho laughed. "Those scientists made me mute, not deaf…" Cho looked like she was joking. "What do you want me to do, then?" Van Kleiss gave her a triumphant smile and she gave him a sly smirk, he may be fun to play with after all.

Rex was walking through the forest. Dr. Holiday suggested that since Cho actually answered to him, maybe she would be comfortable with him. With a little time alone, she may cooperate with Rex without much resistance. Since then, he had been out from dawn until dusk. Rex put his hands in his pockets and whipped his head at every strange sound he heard. So far, Cho hasn't shown up yet, so either Dr. Holiday is wrong or he isn't trying hard enough.

"Anything, Rex?"

"Nothing, she's not around here. Is there anything on the monitors?"

"If there is, Kid, then we must be- wait a second…something's happening in I-Quitos…"

"Iquitos, Rex, the EVO charts are through the roof. You'd better get over there." Rex nodded and suddenly his boogie pack sprouted from his back and he shot into the sky. Even by air it took awhile and when he finally got to Iquitos, it was a picture of chaos. Giant flowers with pink petals that looked like teeth and swirling yellow tongues were sprouting everywhere in every minute.

"Holy crap…" Rex breathed before diving in to fight these monster flower EVOs and save the people from being eaten. After a few minutes, Rex felt like he would collapse from exhaustion.

"Rex, there's a very strong EVO in the middle of the city. If you get that one, these EVOs may go away." He heard Dr. Holiday say.

"Alright, whatever you say." Rex activated his boogie pack and flew over, looking for the center of the city. What he found there was very upsetting.

Cho was sitting on a rock with her legs swept gracefully to the side of it, touching the ground in a soft point. Next to her was an ivory harp with vines twisting around the interior and soft butterfly purple flowers sprouting down the strings. She played it so gracefully and professionally, making a haunting melody call from the instrument. And as he watched, more of the EVOs erupted from the ground, attacking every moving thing. She didn't seem to care. "Ah, you're here, Rex. It's not polite to keep a girl waiting."

"Cho! W-what are you doing?"

"Aren't they lovely?" She stopped playing momentarily. Cho swung herself around, so she was facing him completely.

"Cho, don't you see what's going on? You could kill someone!" Cho looked thoughtful and then shrugged before she continued to play.

"The minute I stop, the minute Providence gets hold of me. I want my full freedom! And that's what I intend to get." She glared at him. "Do you plan on stopping me?"

"If I have to, Cho, I will."

"Well then." She reached over to the smallest (lowest) string and began to play a deep melody that consisted of terror and power. All the other EVOs froze and turned to her with snapping mouths. "It seems my friend here is not happy with me, protect me from him." They sunk under the ground and it was still. Rex tensed up, something was bound to happen. The ground began to shake violently and a giant flower EVO blasted through the ground, in between Rex and Cho. Her three wolves appeared beside her, growling at Rex. "I'm sorry, Rex! I just can't go back." Why did she say that? Cho confused herself.

"Rex, we're on our way, what's going on?" Rex hesitated in answering. So this was how strong she was. Suddenly, she wasn't in her previous spot, she was sitting behind one of the many man-eating flower petal mouths, watching down at him.

"It's Cho…" Rex traded his hand in for his BFS and charged at the Passion Flower EVO. Cho looked down at him with an amused expression before a monstrous sized root slammed from under the ground and gripped the surface. Then another and another and after that a couple thousand before it was standing on the ground. People ran the other way, screaming their lungs out. They were so afraid that some of them had a bit of blood trickling down their mouths from screaming in terror. Cho watched as a large number of air ships appeared out of the clouds. She smiled, sitting in a throne. It was actually the top of one of the flower petals. She clapped her hands and pointed to them.

"Take those down." The biggest head looked up along with the thousands of smaller ones. Suddenly, the small ones began to shoot out seeds like bullets or missiles.

"It's distracted, Rex! Cure it or kill it!" Six ordered. Rex could see him jump from one of the planes. Six spun around with his Sai out; slicing each seed he almost came in contact with. Rex ran towards the Passion Flower EVO and reached out; he was beginning to cure it.

Cho felt her pet stumble and looked down. Rex was curing it! EH! The EVO monstrosity began to shrink down so fast that Cho was left in the air. She screamed as she fell.

"CHO!" Rex shouted and activated his boogie pack. Before he could get to her, though, a red portal opened up behind her and she was gone. "Cho..." He said quietly before floating further down. She was gone...to the Pack...they had lost her...Bobo ran up to him. The plants left behind had run back to the forest.

"Kid...Kid, what's wrong?"

"...We lost her...Cho's with the Pack..." Six was listening in and repeated it into the communicator. Back at the Angel's Cradle, when Dr. Roscoe heard the news, she gasped. Clutching onto Joseph, she sobbed into his chest.

"Oh, Joseph, our baby! She's out there all alone...Van Kleiss is just going to hurt her!" Agent Fifteen pat her head, he was upset as well. Now, he knew that he had to stop at nothing to bring Cho back.

I guess this is a story about a child that runs away! D: Poor Dr. Roscoe, she's so worried about Cho! How are they gonna get her back! I have the best job ever!