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Sonia stares up in amazement at the large uranium rod as it rises into the air. Jack was murmuring 'careful' as he stared intently at some fancy device. She rolls her eyes at the annoying twitching sound and goes deep into thought(a rare occurence for her).
"I must be insane." She sighs.
Gun shot begins to go off near the front. Caine curses, only having the uranium rod halfway out.
"I told that idiot to wait." He growls under his breath as he yanks the rest of the rod out and all but throws it out the loading dock. "I need more time."
"Sonia, mind making a scene?" Diana smirks softly.
"What do I get?"
"First shot at whatever food we find."
Sonia bolts out the room without another word. A worried look crosses Jack's features as the clicking noise speeds up slightly. He sucks in a hiss of breath softly and plays with the small device. He didn't want to die, especially because of something like radiation.
Perdido Beach. Where the slogan is 'Radiation? What radiation?'.
Caine, Jack, Diana and some of their soilders go out into the parking lot, uranium rod held high above their heads.
"Get me a car with an open top." Caine instructs hurriedly.
Krissy peeks out from behind the car as the gun shot ceases. She watches as Sonia skips into view. Everyone stops to stare as she has a quick, quiet arguement with Drake.
"Sonia, what the hell are you doing?" Krissy shrieks. "Get over here before your hurt AGAIN!"
"I'm not gonna get hurt." Sonia scoffs.
"I bet you will." Drake rolls his eyes.
"Prove it."
"Just wait."
Sonia glares at the taller boy and drops the subject. She speeds towards the Perdido Beach kids and knocks a couple guns out their hands. She pauses on the hood of a car, hopping up and down on one foot, then switching feet. She had forgotten about her shoes being melted off hours ago. With a deep breath, she jumps and lands on Orc's shoulders.
"Hell yeah! I'm the Queen of the... the... ORC!"
Sonia jumps away as fast as she first jumped on, tumbling to a stop at Dekka's feet. She sits up and waves at the girl, before rolling out the way just in case.
"Oh hey Dekka. Fancy meeting you here." Sonia hops to her feet. "Oh look, there's Sam. Hi Sam!"
Sam stares at the younger girl, wondering when she even got here. He steps out the car, Drake long gone. Sonia notices this and frowns.
"He left me..." She stares dumbly. "Bye guys!"
She's gone with a airy laugh and a gust of wind. Along with that, a small boom. Everyone stares dumbfounded. What just happened to Sonia?
Sonia catches up quickly and hops in the car as it drives. She begins to slip and quickly clings to the seat.
"Mission accomplished!" Sonia grins. "I have no idea where Drake went though."
"So, the usual accomplishment?" Diana fishes out a peppermint and hands it to Sonia. "Good job."
She sucks on the peppermint as they drive on. They stop the car near the miners, ghost town and walk the rest of the way. The desert air would've been cold, but there was nothing. No breeze, no heat, or anything. It was rather depressing.
Caine looked stressed, as if he was actually supporting the rod on his back instead of suspending it in the air. Jack cringes as he sees Edillio and Dekka being almost eaten by coyotes. He grabs one by the scruff and throws it away like it was a ball. He accidentlly kicks anothers' head off.
"Why don't I get a gun?" Sonia frowns.
"Because you don't know how to work one." A kid with a gun scoffs.
"Yu-huh." Sonia snatches his gun away and aims it. "You just point. And shoot." She squeezes the trigger and jerks back at the sudden projectile.
"Stop it, you idiot!" A different voice shouts.
Sonia drops the gun and frowns. She'd never fired one off before, but she liked it... In an odd way. She turns on her heel and sticks her tounge out at Drake.
"Your just jealous of my gun shooting skills." Sonia pouts.
"You couldn't even hold it still."
"What happened to your whip hand?" She quickly changes the subject.
They keep walking, the usual happening. Jack being nervous and checking his radiation device;Diana helping Caine out with his carrying the uranium rod;Sonia and Drake... Having a loud 'conversation'.
"You might be cute and all, but your still annoying as fuck!" He snaps.
"Yeah, well you..." Sonia pauses to think. "Did you just call me cute?"
"No." Drake puts his hand on her face and pushes her away.
"Yes you did! I heard you!"
"You must be hearing things."
Sonia crosses her arms and pouts, "I'm not hearing things..." She keeps walking and stops some ways from the mine shift.
"What's wrong now?" Jack asks curiously as the girl falls silent(something thats also very rare).
"This is that mine where that alien thing is." Sonia explains. "The day the grown ups went 'poof' me and my sisters went crashing into this mine shaft... I touched it. Hehe."
"You touched it?"
"Yes. Got a problem?"
"No, it's just that... You touched it?"
Sonia rolls her eyes and keeps walking. She whirls around and stares off to the side. She sees a pale girl with a long curtain of black hair falling messily over her head. She walked like a zombie, slightly resisting.
"Violet!"
"Oh great, it's a family reuinion." Krissy says sarcastically as she pulls up with Duck, Brianna and a beat up Sam. "Sonia, your in so much trouble."
"Oh man..." She pokes her bottom lip out and turns away. "But why?"
"Because it's not good to hang around the bad guy?" Krissy replies sarcastically. "Now come on, we're going home."
"Can I say good bye?" She laughs, not at all taking things seriously. "Bye ever..."
Tremors rock through her body as the whites of her eyes glow green. A deep laugh escapes her mouth and she saunters over to Krissy with an amused smirk.
In a distorted voice, she says, "You think your the boss of her? You think you own her? Well think again, because she is mine. She does as I say, when I say it. Don't ever think different."
Sonia turns around and begins to walk towards the mine, stopping Violet in her steps.
"Your job is done, child. May the blood shed begin."
Sonia's eyes stop glowing and she gets a dazed look. She rubs her head and looks around curiously. She shrugs and waves good bye to Caine and Diana. With a quick, impulsive thought, she runs up to Drake and pulls him down to her height. She plants a quick kiss on his lips, then runs away to rejoin her sisters. Everyone stares with a mix of shock and horror.
"Did you just kiss Drake?" Krissy blinks slowly.
"No, what're you talking about?"
"You... You just kissed him!"
"Huh... Must've blacked out again." She lies.
Drake was the most stunned out of all of the rest. What the HELL was that?
Sonia blinks as things start to move in slow motion. She didn't hear what Diana said, Krissy was scolding her a bit too loud. She just knew that so-called 'witch' just went flying across the desert and hit the rocks. Caine was pissed.
"Don't do it Caine! She was a witch!" Drake shouts. "We can do this without her!"
Caine aims the uranium rod like a spear and throws it at Drake. Both the pshycopath and the rod go crashing into mine shaft. The opening caves in, trapping whatever's in there... Including Lana, the healer.
Sonia stares in horror, unable to form words at the moment. Her mouth falls open, small squeaks the only noises she could make.
"You okay, shorty?" Brianna taps on the smallers' head.
Sonia pulls away, "F-Fuck! No!" She runs out the car and stares at the destroyed entrance. "No! Why? WHHYYYY!"
"What is your problem?" Duck stares down at her.
"LANA IS IN THERE!" Sonia shrieks. But she wasn't sure that's why she freaked out in the first place. "We need her!"
Sam, Caine, Duck, Dekka, Violet and Krissy venture down into the mine shaft. Violet cringes as she fails to fight off another headache. They seemed to get worse as they got deeper into the mine. Jack's radiation toy turns into a loud siren noise, and it wasn't really helping. Dekka had it in her pocket and had no idea what to do with it.
"Dekka? Would you mind turning that off?" Violet says softly, not even being heard by the Latino. "...Dekka?"
"I don't know how."
She wasn't the only one annoyed.
"DEKKA! TURN THAT SHITTY THING OFF, WE'RE AWARE OF THE RADIATION IN THE AREA!" Krissy snaps, snatching the device away. "Caine just fucking destroyed it all over the place!" She manages to turn it off and give it back to the teen.
Sam's light helped lead the way, bouncing off various cave walls. They could see uranium pellets all over the ground. Caine kicks a few aside.
"Better hope The Healer can cure radiation poisoning." He comments. "Or we're all screwed."
"That's... Ouch... Not very encouraging." Violet begins to mentally question why she agreed to come down here.
'For moral support.'
Yeah. Right.
They come to a larger opening of the cave and see a big... thing. It glowed green and seemed to pulsate with every moment. Krissy 'wows' and gets closer.
"Don't touch it." Violet warns. "You'll end up like Sonic... Er... Sonia."
"Right..."
Lana comes into view, looking fairly zombie-fied. And maybe a little depressed. She went in to kill the gaiaphage... But it got to her first.
"So... How do we get rid of it?" Violet whispers.
Sonia sits outside with Diana. She had managed to get her off the rocks, pleased to find the Coates girl was still alive. Barely. Sonia kept Diana responsive by talking, asking questions. Diana wheezes and barely pays attention.
"Don't worry, the others are gonna get Lana. She's gonna heal you right up." Sonia assures as she keeps the blood flow low.
Diana rolls her eyes, but soon closes them. Sonia frowns.
"Don't go to sleep! You gotta stay awake!"
"Yeah..." Diana rasps. "Fine... Shut... Up."
"Sorry."
Sonia ventures over to Edillio and beats off a coyote that dared to try to come close to him. She pulls him closer and tries to figure out what's wrong. She notices a bullet wound and assumes that's the problem.
"I wonder if you can hear me. I hope so. I hope Lana's okay. She's super important. What would we do without her?"
She doesn't recieve a response from Edillio, and didn't expect one. She glances back at the destroyed mine shaft opening and sniffs sadly.
"Who am I gonna bother now?"
Lana heals Diana first(by high demand from Caine), then Edillio because he was next in worst injury. Sam was next because...
"Holy shit, Sam!" Sonia stares at the older boy. "You...! Your missing skin a-"
Dekka clamps her hand over Sonia's mouth and pulls her away from Sam.
"Your not helping, Sonia."
"Sorry."
Sonia waits until everyone's healed completely before confronting Lana. She walks over with hesitant steps and looks up to see Lana's face.
She smiles sheepishly, "Lana, do you mind healing my feet?"
"Depends how bad it is." Lana replies with a blank expression. "What's wrong?"
"I've been running around all night in without shoes." Sonia stands back and lifts her foot up, barely keeping her balance in the process.
Lana sighs, "Alright, I'll heal you. But seriously, find some stronger shoes. Slice up a tire if you have to."
"...Right..."
AFTERMATH
As the triplets hide in their home, only because of Zil and the Human Crew. They tried to hang Hunter, Astrid and Little Pete.
"That stupid Zil." Sonia crosses her arms in a pout. "Hurting Hunter and Petey like that."
"What about Astrid?" Violet reminds her.
"I care for her, but she makes me feel stupid."
There's an awkward silence for a few seconds. With the power out, a Sammy Sun lit up the living room quite nicely. They kept the curtains closed as they talked.
Violet gets a serious look on her face, "Why did you kiss Drake?"
"I keep telling you, the gaiaphage did it." Sonia rolls her eyes.
"The gaiaphage kissed Drake?" Krissy questions.
"Basically, yes."
"So the gaiaphage is gay for Drake?"
"I guess." Sonia snickers.
"You guys, that's not funny!" Violet protests.
"But the pshyco's are made for each other!" Krissy laughs.