Chapter 9

Generator Rex © to MoA.

As the morning arrived, Rex slowly awaked tossing his blanket to the ground and smearing the pillow over his face. The Hispanic wearily opened his one eye that wasn't glomped in a pillow, to take a halfhearted glance at the clock. It read 10:28 am.

Rex pushed himself out of bed and stumbled over to his closet getting ready to slide open the door. He flung it open, and opened his eyes, to hear a creaking noise and a bounce of wire springs. A net shot out from the closet wrapping around Rex, and the ropes tightened with every little move, flinch, and muscle contraction he made. Then there was a rumbling noise like the sound of a herd of horses barreling forward at full gallop.

"Ohhhhhh no." Rex groaned as thousands of gum balls rolled out of his closet. By this time Noah was slowly awakening to see Rex being buried in the stampede of technicolor candies. The blonde pushed himself up on one elbow.

"What's happening dude?" Noah said through a yawn.

Rex spat at out a yellow gum ball, the little rainbow streaks across his face, "I think Seven decided to get a little vengeance. Help me up."

"Alright. But we're clear that this is between you and her. And I'm not involved, I'm already engaged in a fatal prank-war with Claire."(as I assumed) Noah tried moving over to Rex but tripped and slid over the gum balls, landing next to Rex, the little candies digging into his hands and knees. Noah pulled on the net that had enveloped Rex, but it only tightened.

Rex grunted in pain, and choked out, "Noah. The drawer over there has my knife in it. Can you get it and cut me out?"

"Sure." Noah pushed up against the gum balls and walked over to the cabinets and looked in the drawers. Seeing the blade, he pulled it out and walked over to Rex severing the binds.

"Thanks Noah. I'm gonna get in the shower. Do ya' mind?"Rex pushed himself up and shook off the remaining gum balls.

"Nah. Go ahead." Noah said going over to his overnight bag and pulling out a set of clothes as Rex walked one to the door that led into the bathroom. Noah's jaw dropped in astonishment. His clothes were all a bright Barbie pink.

"Wha- Where's- How?" Noah stuttered over his words.

The tan teen's fists clenched in anger, and he uttered his crush's name, "Seven." He shook his head as the bathroom door slammed behind him.

Rex stripped and then hopped into the shower before turning it on, and the boy quickly turned it to hot. The water shot out of the faucet, as it hit Rex, it initiated a scream from the teen's mouth. The water came out ice cold, and colored green. It quickly stained the boy's tan skin a strange green color. The green splattered halfway across Rex's face, down his shoulder blade, down the side of his torso, feet, hands, and neck.

Rex swore to profanity's end in Spanish, other curses in English. Eventually the green water faded, but the dye, stayed evident on Rex's skin. The Hispanic bore the freezing water and grabbed the bar of soap and rubbed it on his skin. Only to find that it seemed to be a something else. Rex smelled the soap, and recognized the scent. The so-called soap was cheddar. The Hispanic growled and picked up shampoo, and dumped it down his body. The shampoo smelt an intense, kimchi-like smell. Rex swore again and used his hands to slick it off.

A bloodcurdling scream tore through the bathroom, echoing off the steamy walls. It sounded like some was being brutally murdered, or someone had just gone through genocide. Rex slipped on the wet floor and tripped out of the shower, quickly wrapping a towel around his waist. The teen bludgeoned out of the bathroom disoriented, and taking up a fighting position, scanning the room for the attacker. Rex's blonde friend held a tape recorder, that was set as an alarm set for 10:30.

Noah stared at his friend, and then stared at his viridescent coloring, before busting out into laughter. Noah rolled back and forth on the floor clutching his stomach, staying away from the gum balls, "DUUUUUDE! What happened to your face?!" Noah roared with hysterics.

"Haha very funny." Rex crossed his arms, "You're Barbie's new boyfriend." He looked at Noah that now resembled the infamous doll's dearest, Ken. "Have you seen my goggles?"

"No man. I haven't" Noah chuckled.

"Dang it." Rex growled and stomped around his room looking for the accessory.

"Well. You could ask Seven, she probably hid them." Noah said nonchalantly, and shamefully turning away from his EVO friend. When hearing a cry of pain, he whipped around to face Rex.

The poor boy's fingers had been caught by little mouse traps, while he was probing the drawers. Rex shook his hands, flinging them off, "Good idea." Rex spun around with Noah on his heel headed for Seven's room.

"Do you wanna put clothing on first?" The blonde asked raising a quizzical eyebrow.

He nodded his head, and pointed his finger, "Another good idea."

Once Rex was dressed, they quickly arrived and punched in the override code. When the door didn't open, Rex snarled and opened the door using his technopathic skills. The Hispanic stormed into the girl's neat room, and looked around. Seeing it empty, they walked over to the desk, where a note hung on the girl's mirror. It was written in elegant swirling cursive handwriting,

Enjoy the water this morning Rex? If you want the goggles, head over to Cezar's lab. Also, you can have your sidekick back. - 7

Almost if on cue, Bobo, hanging from the ceiling fell down onto Rex. Tied in ropes, with I'm With Stupid was written on Bobo's forehead in a broad tip sharpie. The tips of his fur were singed and gray, curling up at the ends. "Heya chief. Interesting new look."

Rex started grumbling again, thinking about the green dye, "Okay. Don't get me wrong, I'm totally falling for Seven, but she is seriously getting on my nerves."

"Same." Bobo's ropes fell off and he stood placing his fez back atop his head.

"To Cezar's?" Noah asked.

"To Cezar's." Rex nodded.

As Rex, Noah, and Bobo walked down the halls of HQ, several Providence agents, and grunts gave them strange looks, that said, What the heck happened to you? Rex growled at himself for looking so idiotic. At least the monkey looked worse with the thick marker across his forehead and burnt fur. The older Latino's lab was in a desolate part of Providence where many people didn't hang out, the only times people walked by, was when they were headed for the explosive range, or the electrical control room. As the three stooges finally neared Cezar's lab, a familiar green clad man rounded the corner, stoping Rex mid-stride.

"Why weren't you at training?" Six stoically crossed his arms.

"Two reasons. 1) I woke up late. 2) I'm having a prank war with Seven, and I'm on the loosing side." Rex imitated Six crossing his arms.

Six raised and eyebrow, and eyed Bobo's label. "That doesn't explain this." The ninja gestured to the three stooges.

Rex swayed back and forth, and his voice turned high pitched, "Seven made me green, and tormented Bobo. She maybe Noah into Barbie's boyfriend Ken. She hid my goggles in my bro's lab."

"You deserve it. Go fix this mess. Now." Six said threateningly, stepping out of their way, letting them move down the wall.

Noah was shocked at Six's reaction, "Awkwaaard." Noah glanced back at Six who was moving down the halls in the opposite direction.

"I told you, they have each other's backs. Now lets hope Seven doesn't have some elaborate scheme for us." Rex said as the three stooges finally arrived at Cezar's lab.

As the boys walked in, the first thing they say in the large lab-space was a puff of purple smoke floating upwards. Rex slowly walked into the lab, and to Cezar, where the scientist's back was turned towards them, in the background there was some electronic music beating in the background, "Um Bro? Have you seen Seven, I have something I need to take up with her."

Cezar didn't acknowledge the boys, and kept working on his project, "Hola hermano. Barely heard you come in. Eh, Blanca Nieve's flitting around here somewhere, probably trying to find ways to improve her perfect motorcycle."

"Alright. Have you seen my goggles?" Rex asked, Cezar still not looking up.

"I think Seven put them somewhere in the back of the lab. Also mijo, that is an interesting new style, you've definitely gotten in touch with your green thumb. Eh?" Cezar grinned to himself.

"Don't tell me you have something to do with this green mess." Rex groaned rubbing his face with his hands.

"Then I won't tell you how to remove it. I'll let Blanca Nieve do the bidding." Cezar chuckled softly.

Rex growled inside his throat, frustrated at the world. And started looking around the messy lab. There were gizmos, and small machines sitting just about everywhere. Bobo walked around some shelves and gun-like contraptions, Rex and Noah walked in the opposite direction, around a high shelf with finished inventions like the magnetic smoothie maker, and modulator, and several other strange experiments.

Around the wall of gadgets, there were some massive CPUs and data conduits, withe several HP computers, along with one iMac. To the left of the computers, Rex hit a gold mine.

A aerodynamic black motorcycle sat innocently, with tools, sparsely scattered amongst it. There was a holographic screen that was hovering above the engine, with several mathematical sequences, numerical codes, and geometric computerized symbols. Rex smiled staring at the blue glowing circuitry. The digital complexing, was incredible on this machine. A red color caught Rex's eye on a table to the right. The Hispanic slowly turned his body to come to a realization to what he really saw.

Unfortunately, the Hispanic didn't notice his friend being grabbed by the collar and hauled away by the blue eyed, black haired ninja. A hand wrapped around the blonde's mouth and arms, restricting him of calling for help or escaping.

The EVO teen ran over to the lab table and gawked at the sight. Plastered in red, jiggling, jello, sat Rex's infamous goggles. Rex first smirked at the cliche of the prank, but then frowned at the annoyance. Rex spun around waving his arms grandly, "Can you believe her Noah? Jeez." He noticed his blonde buddy was missing.

Rex groaned. "Alright Seven. You can come on out."

The EVO's ears pricked up to the quieter 'whap' of shoes landing on concrete flooring. Rex quickly spun around and faced the grinning girl, "Well. Look who finally decided to show up."

Seven smirked slightly, "Well. Look who's trying out the new look. It's down-to-earth. Wait- I've got another one-"

"Haha. Very funny. Why did you decide to prank me all of a sudden?" Rex asked grumpily.

"It's the Green Latern! Don't get mad Rex, you'll just turn into the Hulk! Anywho, I think you think, I'm thinking of the same thing that you think you want me to say. I think." Seven crossed her arms.

"Okay. I understand. Now get my goggles out of that jello!"

"You're just as capable as I am to get them out, or is that a dare?"

Rex smirked back, "What do you think?"

"Challenge accepted." Without warning, Seven sprung forward, ready to take Rex down using press points. Rex quickly move back a few paces, and concentrated. There was the familiar whirr of nanites, and blue circuitry ran down Rex's arms, as his hands morphed into the massive mechanical fists. Rex then caught Seven off guard, by snatching her in his gauntlets, as she attempted to squirm around. With the usual clink of metal, Rex pinned Seven to the floor, arms behind her back, and face slammed into the floor.

Seven's stoic expression didn't fail to reveal the shock that Rex had just gotten the drop on her. She whipped her hair around, and turned her head to look at the Latino, "Hm. I didn't think you were going to build out."

Rex grinned his thousand way smile that was reserved for the news reporters, as he gloated, "You should definitely stay tuned. I'm just full of surprises. Oh and, by the way, your totally fighting like a girl right now."

"You mind moving before I take you down?" Seven warned.

"Yes. Besides, there's no chance your getting out of this hold." Rex shoved Seven down harder.

"Jak o zakład(How about a bet)? If I can get out of this hold, you start coming to every single de-briefing we have to attend. And you wash my jet every day for the next week?" Seven exhaled.

"Deal." Rex smiled wider and pulled her arms tighter.

WHAM! Seven had hit Rex so hard in the face that he sailed backward through the air. By reflex, the Hispanic, dematerialized his metal fists, and slammed into a wall on the opposite side of the laboratory. A small purple-ish bruise formed around Rex's eye. Seven triumphantly walked over to where Rex had rammed into the wall. The Latino looked up to see Seven smiling in front of him, in one hand holding the gelatinized goggles, and the other held out to Rex for support getting up.

Rex coughed and shook it off, "Forgot you can escape the world's most complex handholds." Rex rubbed his chin and grabbed Seven's hand, hoisting himself up.

"Hey um, face hurts right here." The male EVO pointed to the area of his large black eye. "Not here." Rex pointed his his cheekbone, "Or here." He then pointed at his forehead. "It feels like it's right here. Is there something there?" The boy pointed directly over his bruise.

"Uhhhhh." Seven bit her lip with a slight smirk forming, "No, no. It's- totally fine."

Bobo walked up to the two raven haired teens, "Holy cr*p chief! What happened to your face?!" The primate pointed at Rex's bruise. He gave Seven a disapproving look. The mercenary grinned.

The came a muffled shout from the other side of the room. Noah hopped around the corner, there was a piece of duct tape across his mouth and another piece binding his hands behind his back. There was a tiny dot of blood dripping out of the boy's nose. "MMMmmrrrpHH!?"

Bobo snickered at the boys and turned to look at Seven, "You seriously did some damage girl."

Seven's stoic expression faded to fierce from stoic, as she opened her mouth to yell at Bobo, "That's! That's-!" Seven paused, "One of the least vulgar things you've said to me since exactly four weeks, 21 hours, 12 minutes, and 38 seconds ago."

Bobo just shrugged. Rex walked up to Noah and freed him of the duct tape. "Seriously Seven?" The blonde teen groaned and rubbed his chin.

Rex faced Seven once more, "So we're clear. For like for the pranks? Are you done with them? And how do you plan on getting this green off?"

"I'm done with them. I think you've learned not to mess around in my room, so that's cool. The dye will come off with regular soap." Seven averted back to unemotional.

"Thanks. Do you guys want to get to head out of here? I'm craving a fiesta platter of carne asada." Rex addressed Bobo, Noah, and Seven this time.

"Sounds legit." Noah smiled.

Bobo licked his lips, "As long as beautiful's coming with us?"

"Shut up Bobo."

"So that's a yes?" Rex grinned massively.

She sighed and shook her head, "Eh yeah. See you at the hangar in 5. I'll get my motorcycle. And by the way, I'll do you the favor of telling you not to brush your teeth."

The Latino raised his eyebrow, "Wait why?"

"Rex, dude. That's not toothpaste." Seven winked and walked back through the lab.

The boys smiled at the courtesy of knowing that the toothpaste was probably some disgusting concoction of glue and as they raced down the halls. Soon, all four of them, Bobo, Noah, Seven, and Rex were roaring down the desert. Happy to escape, happy to have the wind screaming behind them, and happy to have their worries behind them.

Days passed and Rex lived up to the wager, Seven purposely flying her jet out in the bombing range, through the dust getting the aircraft especially grimy for Rex to wash. The Latino EVO still feeling remorse and guilt, allowed his ebony haired merc friend to read through his own personal journal(but not before tearing out the pages he wrote on her). Yet, throughout the end, the entire experience helped the two friends learn more about each other, and who they really were.

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