A/N: I know that animals probably don't have the same blood groups as humans but for the sake of this story, please pretend they do.

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"Perry! Perry!"

Someone was calling his name. He was still lying in the exact same position he had fallen in, in the exact same place. Nobody had moved him. His head was throbbing and his eyes didn't want to open, but when he finally managed to see, he saw Pansy knelt next to him. His girlfriend helped him sit up.

"Are you okay?"

"Portia…" was the first thing Perry said. "I mean…yeah, I'm fine."

Pansy's eyes narrowed, and Perry knew she had picked up on the name he had said, even before she asked, "Who's Portia?"

"The platypus who knocked me out," Perry replied. "I used to know her five years ago."

"Oh."

Pansy still didn't look happy but Perry was saved from further interrogation by the hurried arrival of Peter the Panda, who was panting. "Perry, we have a serious problem," he wheezed. "It's Pinky. He's been taken to the hospital but Apollo doesn't know if he'll make it."

Perry stared at Peter in horror for a moment before he pushed past his friend and sprinted all the way to the medical bay, which was surprisingly empty, considering the size of the battle that had taken place earlier. There were only about half a dozen agents in beds, one of whom Apollo was tending to on the opposite side of the room.

Perry quickly headed over to the bed that held his best friend. Pinky's whole body was paler than normal and, since he was lying the top of the covers, the red-soaked bandages around his chest were visible. Perry felt tears prick behind his eyelids as he gently stroked his best friend's shoulder.

Footsteps behind him made him turn. Apollo was standing behind him, a sad look on his face. "Is he going to be okay?" Perry asked fearfully.

"I don't know," Apollo replied solemnly. "The main problem is blood loss. As you can see, our bandages haven't been working very well. That's his third bandage."

Perry took in a sharp breath and looked back down at the blood-soaked bandage. "His third? Can't you operate or something?"

"We can't because there's nothing to operate on," Apollo explained. "We thought about doing a blood transfusion but we'd need to find someone with the exact same blood type and I don't have time to test every agent."

"Well, what blood group is he?" Perry asked desperately.

"AB."

Perry cursed. "I'm O."

"I'm AB," said a voice from behind him.

Perry and Apollo turned to see Pansy standing in the doorway. "You're AB?" repeated Perry dumbly.

Pansy nodded, coming into the room to stand beside the bed. "If it would help, I can give a blood transfusion."

Perry looked hopefully up at Apollo, whose face creased up. "The difference in species might make it a bit hard but seeing as you're both mammals, I don't see any major problem."

Perry breathed out in relief.

"Okay, could you just hop into this chair while I get my stuff?"

Pansy obeyed as Apollo headed quickly into the store room. "You should probably leave for now," Pansy said to Perry, who nodded and kissed Pansy on the cheek.

"Good luck."

He left the hospital bay and immediately bumped into Tallulah, who was waiting outside the hospital bay. She had two black eyes and three claw marks down her arm. "Are you okay?" Perry asked her.

Tallulah nodded. "I'm fine."

"So what happened? Did we win?"

"Most of the animals got back into their little box and flew away," Tallulah told him. "But we managed to capture about ten or twelve of them, including the platypus who knocked you out."

Portia…

"You seemed a bit distracted during the fight," Tallulah said. "Is everything okay?"

Perry nodded quickly. "Yeah, fine. So where's Terry?"

"I think he's talking to Major Monogram about the attack."

At that moment, Major Monogram's voice came over the intercom: "All agents to the main hall immediately."

"Speak of the devil," Tallulah sighed. "We'd better get down there."

When Perry and Tallulah got to the main hall, the latter went off to stand next to her twin brother. They all watched as Major Monogram came onto the stage with Carl standing a little behind him.

"As you all know, that attack was not from LOVEMUFFIN," Major Monogram began, apparently deciding to cut straight to the chase. "It was conducted by a shadow organisation known as ARCHANGEL."

He paused while all the agents digested this. Perry felt like he had had the wind knocked out of him but he took in a deep breath and continued listening.

"They are like a mixture of OWCA and LOVEMUFFIN. They use animal operatives known as Taskers, who go on little missions called tasks. One of those tasks was apparently to attack OWCA. Now, ARCHANGEL is arguably more dangerous than LOVEMUFFIN; the scientists of the latter are easy to defeat. ARCHANGEL's operatives are highly skilled, and trained specifically to become living weapons."

Perry saw Major Monogram's eyes dart quickly in his direction. He pulled his hat over his eyes but luckily it didn't seem like anyone had noticed.

"We don't know what they want or what their goal is but all agents are to be on high alert from now on," Major Monogram finished, before he turned and walked off the stage.

Perry felt a little stuffy in the hall so he moved outside for some fresh air. If Perry hadn't overheard the conversation yesterday, he wouldn't have thought there was anything suspicious about Major Monogram knowing all that about ARCHANGEL; it was all the information Perry had given him when he was five years old.

He couldn't believe Portia had been captured. Now he had the opportunity to see her again, properly, after five years. But at the same time, he didn't know if he wanted to see her. Everything was different now. He didn't know how Portia would react to the fact that Perry was going out with Pansy.

If Portia is here, maybe Georgia and Oliver…?

No, he told himself. You don't know that Georgia and Oliver are here. Just focus on Portia for now.

He wondered briefly if he should tell Pansy about his and Portia's history but he decided against it. It would unnecessarily worry Pansy. Her reaction to Perry just saying her name for the first time ever confirmed to Perry what he had known for a while: that Pansy got jealous easily. She would flip if she knew about Perry and Portia's history…

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WHAT IS PERRY AND PORTIA'S HISTORY?! Find out soon :)