When I wrote these upcoming chapters, I had what I called an 'imagination aneurism.' It means I had a flood of ideas. Brace yourself for some intense medical scenes.

Knives advanced towards Vash with pure hate in his eyes. Vash was running towards the black abyss. But Knives kept coming at him. Vash saw Wolfwood dead ahead. "Vash!" cried Wolfwood.

"Wolfwood help me!"cried Vash.

"Vash wake up!"

"Wolfwood help!"

"Vash?"

"Mr. Vash?"

"Hey needle noggin'."

Vash slowly woke up. He first saw his friends looking at him. Then he saw the vibrant blue sky. The snow white puffy clouds and the brilliant sun. He opened his eyes wide and sat up. He was under a brief spell of vertigo then it passed. Wolfwood supported Vash as he sat up. Meryl and Millie sat on either side of him. Vash looked around after his vertigo spell ended. What he saw shocked him. He was sitting in grass. Cool to the touch velvet green grass. He saw trees. Their branches reaching towards the heavens. Vash and the others continued looking around them. They saw very tall buildings and lots of people, young people walking around. The people had on very strange clothes. (The clothes were strange to them because they never saw them before.) Meryl saw someone wearing a shirt that said 'Princeton University'.

"I think we're in a place called 'Princeton'." she said.

"No, I think we're in hell." said Wolfwood.

"It looks like heaven to me." said Millie.

"I think we're on Earth." Vash said coming back to reality.

They look at him as if he was crazy. But he knew he wasn't crazy. He remembered Rem talking about Earth being green and beautiful before the human race destroyed the planet. A warm feeling surged throughout his entire body. He heard Rem's laughter and her voice. "Welcome to Earth Vash." she said. Vash snapped out of his stupor and looked around to make sure he wasn't dreaming. He frantically searched for his long lost friend. But didn't see her anywhere. All he saw was his friends that were always with him. He heard the laughter again and turned to it. He saw three beautiful women who were walking by no more than 30 feet away. They too were wearing strange clothing. Wolfwood sensing Vash's tension tried to calm him down. "Hey needle noggin', try to stay still. You don't want open up that wound. If you do, we'd have to find a hospital in this god forsaken place you call 'Earth'."

Knowing Wolfwood was right, Vash crossed his legs and sat still. The fight they had with Legato was brutal and intense. Both he and Wolfwood were injured badly. They were able to find a doctor who stitched them up, but they didn't think they would hold. Wolfwood stood up and stretched while Millie and Meryl stayed on the ground with Vash. Millie noticed the three women who were close to them. Their group was joined by another woman and man.

"Everything about this place is strange. I mean look at how the people dress." said Millie.

"Yeah, and that's the least of our problems." said Wolfwood as he was picking up his giant cross.

"What do you mean Mr. Wolfwood?" asked Meryl.

"Well for starters, we need to find a doctor. Then a place to stay." he said.

"Then what?" asked Millie.

"I guess find out what year this is."

"Father Nicholas?" a little voice said.

Wolfwood flinched when he heard his official church title. He turned around and when he saw no one in front of him, he looked down. He saw a small girl who couldn't be no more than 5. The girl smiled back at him. "How are you Father Nicholas?"

I'm good...you.?" stuttered Wolfwood.

"Hey, Father Nick!" said someone else.

A man approached him and the girl. "Long time no see. How have you've been?" asked the man.

"Fine. What year is it?" said Wolfwood.

"What have you been in a coma for these last 3 years? It's 2010." the man said. "Oh, gotta go. The wife is calling me. You should come over sometime to catch up. Stacy and I can't thank you enough for this little bundle of joy." said the man while smiling at his daughter.

"Yeah get together." said Wolfwood uneasily. The man picked up his daughter and said good bye to Wolfwood. The little girl was looking over her dad's shoulder back at Wolfwood. "Bye Father Nicholas." she said.

Wolfwood just stood there dumbfounded. He knew he never met that man before in his life. But the little girl, he could have sworn the girl looked so familiar. He stood there, ghost pale. Hearing his clerical title sent a ripple of shivers throughout his body. The rippled shivers made it to his head. The shivers went throughout his body, but a pain came up from the pit of his stomach which caused him to throw up. Vash, whom was just sitting there feeling light-headed threw up too. Meryl screamed Vash's name. The three women who were standing nearby came running to their aide. Meryl and Millie were scared when these strangely dressed women approached them. One of them had black curly hair went to Vash, helping him to lay down. The other two went to Wolfwood to get him to lay down without hurting himself more. "Who are you?" asked Meryl.

"We're doctors. We're here to help." said a blond haired woman. "Veronica, I think he has been shot."

Veronica pulled out a walkie-talkie and paged her friend's walkie-talkie. "Fly-boy this Night-rider I need two rigs and two gurneys stat! I got a gun-shot wound to the abdomen and I believe another gun-shot wound. No word on location of entry."

"Night-rider I did not copy your location. Over."

"Hey Jim, you don't have to say 'over' and we're over at the university courtyard."

"Okay, I'll be there in two. Out."

The dark haired girl who was helping Vash shook her head. Vash coughed up some more fluid. The woman held the man's head as he coughed. A loud noise scared Millie and Meryl. Two big truck looking things pulled up right by them. Four men came out of one of them. Veronica grabbed an orange board with holes in it. She and the blond haired doctor helped Wolfwood onto it and then they placed him in the truck. "Cameron, stay with my sister, I'll ride back with this one." said Veronica.

"Wait we want to come!" said Millie.

"No, we are coming!" said Meryl.

"Alright, Hop in." said Veronica.

The EMTs took Vash and Wolfwood into the emergency room while Cameron takes Millie and Meryl into the waiting room.

'Gasp.' Will Vash and Wolfwood pull through? And how will they adjust to life on Earth and to life in 2010? The next chapters will tell all. The next two or three chapters will have some intense medical scenes. Brace yourselves!!!!!!!!! =)