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Chapter 42:
"General Cross is that really-"
"Do I look like someone else?" The General cut Komui off. Suddenly Komui was listening to his ear piece.
"Understood." He turned and began walking down the ramp. "We'll get on it immediately! Just hold out a little longer! You ought to make sure Miranda is under as little strain as possible! Huddle everyone together close, that way, she can decrease the size of her time out. General Cross,"
"What?"
"I'm heading back up. If I leave you, Allen and Lenalee here, can you finish it off?"
"You don't even have t ask me. You go on ahead, supervisor."
"Kanda! Hannah! Is Lavi all right?!"
"I can't move…" Lavi groaned. He was probably worse than me. At least I had diamond hard skin.
"I'm so sorry! Making the two of you fight without your innocence and you still injured."
"I don't remember asking for any apologies. Fighting Akuma is my job."
"Yu, you're so manly…" Once again, I had to agree with Lavi, it was happening a lot lately. Kanda was a man. He'd been a man for a long time now and I just never noticed.
"Brother! There were survivors in the lab?!"
"That's right!" I felt my heart lift and it seemed that Allen's and Lenalee's did too. The Akuma, on the other hand, had had enough of waiting. It pulled Allen's innocence out and flung it at the wall, pinning him with it.
"You fools!" It was definitely mad. "You really thought that this would be enough to destroy me?!" General Cross jumped onto Allen's sword.
"Nah." He said casually. "It's time for you to be destroyed." He ran in front of the Akuma. "You want me to tell you why?" he shot in rapid repetition.
Now, I'd been around guns all my young life, I did live in the Ozarks. So I'd learned to shoot a gun at a young age, and I'd seen plenty of men shooting guns until I'd come to the Order. So I could tell that he'd shot more that one shot. But people who hadn't been introduced to guns at a young age, like I had, probably would not have been able to tell.
"Hah! Looks like you underestimated me! Not a chance!" Looks like the Akuma hadn't grown up around guns. He managed to stop one bullet, and he seemed pretty cocky about it too.
"Did you only see the one shot?" the Akuma froze and suddenly started warping in the places where it had been shot. "Where was I? Ah, the reason." General Cross continued with a calm voice and a faint smile. "Let's overlook everything you did to the members of the Order. I'm not that cruel a man, after all, but then you went and messed up my clothes."
"And I was just about to say he was cool." I sighed sitting up and nearly passing out from the pain. I felt someone grab me and realized I'd been falling forward. Kanda placed me in a sitting position, leaning against the wall and sat next to me, panting. Lavi sat on my other side, panting as well.
"Thanks." I whispered and looked up to see Allen and Lenalee forcing the Akuma down. Overhead, in the speakers, Komui's voice was ordering the cancellation of the evacuation. The Akuma blew up.
"Take that." Lavi panted.
"You said it." Kanda agreed as the Akuma's head fell to the floor next to the General.
"Don't get cocky." It laughed. I really didn't think it was in a position to laugh. "Just because you destroyed someone as weak as me. We can destroy you at any time! We will be the victors!"
"Achoo!" The General sneezed, shooting the Akuma's head. "Oops. I was supposed to keep him as a sample."
Lavi and Kanda got up to go to the infirmary. I tried getting up, but all I could see when I did was white light. Yet again I felt a strong pair of hands stop me, making me realize that I was about to fall on my face. Pain really made you oblivious to the things around you, didn't it?
"Do you need help?" I heard Kanda ask.
"Yes." I groaned, feeling myself blush at the thought of needing help. He picked me up and put me on my feet and slowly let go. My breathing was shallow since it hurt to breath, one of the reasons why I hated broken ribs.
I tried taking a step forward and once again, my vision became white and I felt the strong arms catch me as I almost fell over again.
"Do you want me to carry you?" I blinked a few times as my vision returned and saw that Lavi was standing next to me looking worried. I closed my eyes as a deep breath had caused another wave of pain to pass through me.
"Yes." I hissed angry at my own weakness. I felt the arms pick me up gently, trying to cause me anymore pain.
The three of us walked down toward the infirmary. Okay, they walked, I was being taken. Lavi spotted Bookman and ran to his side.
"Gramps! Are you dead?!"
"Here comes the idiot." I heard Bookman grumble. " I'm fine, more importantly, did my hair get burnt?" I smiled weakly, that was Bookman…
I spotted Reever and Johnny, joined by Lenalee, they were surrounding something. From what I could hear from here, it was Tapp. Kanda had stopped walking. They were all crying and holding Tapp.
I didn't want to see it. I didn't want to see anymore.
I buried my face in Kanda's chest, Kanda's big, wide, safe chest and let unconsciousness take me.