Astro quickly found that he hated the sounds of the hospital.
He found that he hated it even more when something was said about Uran's condition. From what he could hear though, it sounded as if nothing was wrong with her. He also overheard some doctors saying how they wished some man named Kuro'o Hazama was still alive, something about him being the closest thing to Jesus for Uran…. or something. His price for service got rather high apparently- the 'high' amount of money one doctor jokingly suggested to treat Uran seemed to be in Professor O'Shay's budget. Perhaps that had been the joke…
Six incredibly long hours passed before news came around to Astro that Uran was going to be transferred to the Ministry of Science.
"She's absolutely fine biologically." a nurse informed him. "Since a part of her inner workings are robotic, she's going to be transferred to the Ministry of Science so her inorganic parts can be examined. If they find nothing there… then we would have no other hope for Uran."
"I'll take her to the Ministry." Astro instantly offered. "It'll be quicker than calling an ambulance; I know exactly what room Professor O'Shay wants to examine her in."
The nurse raised an eyebrow and turned to the doctor.
"Are we even allowed to do that?" she questioned.
"If he goes too fast she might be in a worse state." the doctor thoughtfully said. "But even at his slowest speed, he could still get there faster than the ambulance ever could. I say he should go for it- what else could it do to the comatose kid?"
"Thank you." Astro beamed, before rushing to Uran's hospital room. The nurse that had been attending to her just received the message of Astro coming and was in the process of taking the cables that tracked Uran's heartbeat out when he came in. The little android waited patiently until the nurse said that it was alright before he inched closer to Uran to pick her up. When Astro started to head toward the opened window, the nurse stopped him.
"Aren't you going to go out the door?" he questioned.
"This way's easier." Astro insisted. "Thank you though."
Not looking back at the confused (and slightly amused) nurse, Astro took off with Uran safely in his arms.
. . .
"Well I hope you're happy." Doctor Minee sneered at Daichi. "The bug meant to destroy Astro is now in his sister Uran."
Daichi didn't say anything, and looked at the doctor as if nothing were wrong. He knew Minee would find out about the bug eventually due to a tracking device, so this revelation did not surprise him.
"Now, thanks to you, the bug is now destroying Uran."
The look Daichi gave Doctor Minee must have been horribly surprised because the mad doc looked back at the teen with snide smile.
"It would appear that Uran's robotic skeleton meshed perfectly into her natural muscles- my bug can travel along her electrical pulses for as long as it wants. In fact, it even found a pathway right up to her brain."
"The bug can't hurt her, not her biological parts at least." argued Daichi, "You said so yourself."
"That I did, but that was before we found out that she was a lot more mechanical than on first inspection." Minee snickered. "The bug has already driven her to comatose, might only be a matter of time before it does something far worse..."
"You're endangering a human life!"
"If she were so human then my bug wouldn't be able to hurt her." Doctor Minee claimed with a shrug of his shoulder. "And if her life costs so much, then someone soon will be sending a distress signal to the greatest scientists to get my bug out. Don't you think?"
"What makes you think that Professor O'Shay couldn't figure out a way to get the bug out?" Daichi questioned irritably.
Doctor Minee's only answer was with an uncomfortable chuckle and a wide smirk. Knowing what kind of position he put Uran in, and how Minee was going to use that to get to Astro, Daichi suddenly felt very, very sick.
. . .
Astro could easily read the active X-ray machine as it scanned over Uran's body. This machine was much more powerful than the X-ray at the hospital, as seeing it was developed for small defects in robots.
"Do you see anything?" the robot asked Professor O'Shay after not seeing anything out of the ordinary himself.
"Not yet." the professor said, his voice in a still calm as he concentrated. "Do you have any idea how Uran got to be this way?"
Astro shook his head. "She was fine yesterday at the party. She only seemed really tired until after… which seemed a bit odd because she didn't do much dancing. Uran didn't seem at all that tired until after we met Daichi..." Then something clicked in Astro's electronic brain. Daichi did something, what he wasn't sure, but it was the reason why she was out cold and unresponsive.
"There!" Professor O'Shay suddenly declared, rudely snapping Astro out of his thoughts. Astro turned his attention to the monitor as the professor had it zoom in a small, quickly moving object. Typing in some commands, he then turned his attention to one of the technicians. "Can you track the bug's route to find a point of entry?"
"I can try." the technician nodded as he started to type feverishly at his station. It wasn't much longer until he came to his conclusion, "The point of entry was the mouth sir." he reported.
"Daichi..." Astro muttered darkly, earning Professor O'Shay to look over at the android questionably.
"What was that Astro?" he asked.
"Nothing Professor." Astro insisted with a shake of his head. "It's not important. How are we going to get that bug out of Uran?"
"I'm not sure." the professor admitted. "No one has created a machine small enough to go and destroy something inside the human body. Even if they had, it might not be compatible with Uran's unique body type- between the electricity coming off of her human heart and the robotic skeleton, there might be enough force to destroy the new object almost instantly."
"But why is this bug still in her?" the android questioned in anger. "And why is it hurting her?"
"Whoever created it must have developed it for larger electrical pulses that mimic human pulses with the added boost for inorganic beings. With the results we're collecting from the bug, it could have had enough power to destroy you from the inside."
"So why is it hurting Uran?" Astro harshly implored.
The only answer the professor had was a shrug and a dismal shake of his head.
"We'll need to call a meeting with the greatest minds in the robotic and biological fields." he then finally said. "Surely someone will know how to get that bug out of Uran."