I'm back! Yes, your crazy, sadistic, anime-loving, HIVE-loving, all-out DERANGED writer, White Replica!
Anyway, PLEASE FORGIVE ME if this chapter is shit, but I wrote this when I was uninspired, so it was more of a liability than an important chapter ^^;
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Pike's lab was utterly chaotic. H.I.V.E. scientists were running wild in the lab. One person, however, was intimidating all of them: Maximilian Nero.
Otto felt like a fish out of water in the flurry of scientists. Only he and his friends were stationary in the room. And only they weren't intimidated by Nero. "We probably should be though." Wing said, as if reading his mind. Otto looked relieved and a little anxious. He was anxious because Wing was trying to edge near him again. Otto eyed him warily, and edged a bit away. The girls noticed nothing. They headed to Pike, who looked even more ruffled than ever.
"Professor." Otto said. The man did not give them any notice. "Professor… Professor… PROFESSOR." Finally, Pike flinched at the closeness of the call, and looked up.
"Oh hello Otto. Max is over there." He said, tilting his head to somewhere to his right.
Otto silently gulped. The man (even with a sleeping mask on) looked very livid. Raven was near him, watching the activity that was taking place in the laboratory. The four of them walked towards (their demise) Nero, who seemed to sense they were there.
"Hello you four. Nice to see that you were able to make it." Nero said. The scenario would have been serious, except for the fact that firstly, the man was wearing a sleeping mask, and that he was facing the wrong way.
"They're here sir." Raven said, turning him around. "Of course." Nero replied, sounding a bit distracted.
"I'll get straight to the point." He said, facing Laura (who, thankfully enough, he spared from giggles because he was able to face her properly).
"Why in the world did you make that aphrodisiac?" He seemed to be very blunt with what he said, but anyone could tell he was pissed.
"W-well, y-you see sir…" Laura's voice faded off. However, by the unseen look on Nero's face, he wanted her to go on.
"It started with Nigel, you see." She said. Nero muttered a silent "Of course." Things always seemed to start with him.
"He gave me a sample of a weak aphrodisiac that came from one of his plants. He said he wanted me to identify it, so…"
"He simply wanted you to identify it. How did it become like this?" Nero asked, gesturing to the lab, which was still flurried and frantic.
"I… I sort of found out that it was a rare type of aphrodisiac, and…" Laura started to blush. "I found out that if given to a living being, with another's DNA infused, said living being would have a strong desire for the owner of the DNA." She said quickly. She could see that Nero's eyebrow cocked behind his eye mask.
"Thing was, I couldn't find a way to do it." She said, blushing even harder. Nero guessed who she was planning to use the potion on.
"Then, while Wing was visiting," Nero attempted to look at wing, but instead, facing completely in the wrong direction. "As you may know, a plant from the hydroponics lab came in and took the aphrodisiac and…" she faltered a little. "And threw it into the vents. Afterwards, while we weren't looking, it got the remaining three bottles of anti-aphrodisiac. Now, it's our only hope of returning the school to normal, fast. The aphrodisiac can wear off, but it would take a few days at least, and that would already be causing a lot of trouble."
Nero sighed. "I'm not in the mood to deal with you properly, Miss Brand, so if you find the plant, I will let you off with a warning and a week's ban from the lab." Laura looked shocked, but she admitted her defeat.
"As for you three…" Nero said. Before he could say anything, however, Raven came up to him, and whispered something in his ear.
"Oh… oh." Nero said quietly, looking amused. Raven faced the four of them, a slight smirk on her face. "I suppose that two of your group are enjoying this." She said, her mischievous look hidden behind her black tinted visor. The four of them looked confused.
"I could smell the aphrodisiac coming off of one of you. The smell is very strong." She said, tapping her nose to accentuate her gesture. "And by the looks Wing has been giving you, Otto, you're the target of today." Otto twitched.
"It'll wear o—"
"How can you be so sure?" she asked him. His eye twitched, and he said nothing. "It would be best," Nero said, cutting into Raven's rare moments of taunting. "If they look for the aphrodisiac through the cameras, so as to not have any more contact with the potion." Nero said. Shelby nodded, seeing, as Laura was too distracted (she was inwardly giggling) watching Wing, said friend was blushing lightly, and Otto looked pissed.
"Yes sir."
Yeah.... you can tell I wasn't too inspired to write this ^^;
R and R please! Like I said in another story of mine, reviews feed the rabid fangirls in my cellar, and they prevent them from taking over the world. Flames will be stuck to the fangirls faces, and that will cause them to go wild and hunt down the flamer ="3
Cheers!
Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARK WALDEN!!!! EVERYONE IN THE FORUM LOVES YOU!