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Chapter 40: Nano Sickness

Bubbles is floating behind City hall with Ms. Bellum, watching the nanos play two days later. At that moment, Bubbles is giggling as she watches the Nano-puff girls. They are in the middle of a jump roping game.

"They remind me of how you girls used to be when you were little." Ms Bellum says with a smile.

She has a sunhat on, so Bubbles has a hard time seeing her eyes. "

I'm going to make some Bubble tea for the nanos. Ms Bellum do you want any?"

"No thank you Bubbles."

Bubbles lands on the ground and the nano of Bubbles rushes over to her, "Can I help with the tea? Can I? Can I?"

Bubbles smiles, "Sure you can help."

Bubbles goes into the staff room of City Hall and pulls down the pot from the shelve and fills it up with water and turns on the stove. Her nano is flitting around the room gathering up the mini cups that Dexter has created for all of them. The nano, now with its arms full of cups exits the room with a huge smile on its face. Bubbles smiles at seeing the nanos so happy.

The porcine pot then starts to howl, but just as Bubbles picks it up; she hears the sound of falling nano cups on the ground and a mini scream from nano Bubbles. The pot drops to the floor and breaks as Bubbles rushes out of the building. She finds nano Bubbles floating just above the cups with a fearful expression on its face. Nano Boomer is on the ground looking rather pale.

Nano beds are popping out of the Great Machine as three KND nurses are gathering up the nanos and slowly placing them in the beds to make them comfortable.

Bubbles takes out her Nancom franticly and shouts, "DEXTER! COME QUICK! SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH HOLDIE'S NANOS."

Dexter appears with startled expression. "WHAT! I'm not getting any weird readings from the Great Machine, Bubbles. I'll come down there to take a look."

Mandark then appears on the Nancom with an evil grin and replies, "I'll come to help you Dexter. I want to make sure that you get it right. Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha!"

Dexter groans, rubbing his temples, but replies, "Fine Mandark, just stay out of my way!"

Both geniuses hang up, leaving Bubbles with a worried expression. Tears start to form in Bubbles' eyes and then flow down her cheeks. Bubbles then feels a hand on her shoulder and she wheels around to see who it is. Boomer stood there with an expression of worry and then hugs Bubbles tightly to comfort her.

"The nanos will be alright Bubbles. These two will find out what's wrong." He says in a quiet yet strong voice.

"Holdie is going to be upset with me if we don't do something. He trusted me to keep an eye on the nanos when he wasn't here." Bubbles replies as she cries into Boomer's shirt.

Boomer then whispers softly, "Come on, let's go to the mall to get you some Bubble tea while we wait for those two to show up."

Bubbles nods, still with tears in her eyes, as Boomer leads her to the mall for the tea.

Forty minutes later, Dexter and Mandark both arrive at City Hall to inspect the nanos.

"How could this of happened? Someone has to have been tampering with the Great Machine!" Dexter shouts as he checks the machines data, while Bubbles looks on with Boomer beside her and nano Bubbles on her shoulder.

"I can't find anything here that suggests why this is happening. This data must be wrong." Dexter says with a huge sigh and frown.

Mandark pushes Dexter out of the way so he can check the Great Machine's data banks.

"You're obviously looking at the wrong data Dexter. Maybe you should use that brain of yours and check out the deleted data. There! See, someone put in a program to mess with the nano's physical structures and slowly degrade their minds so they would be working for Fuse. Now, I just need to set up a back trace program to find the location of what did this."

After a few moments, Mandark frowns, slams his fist on the console and replies, "Whoever is doing this, knows how to keep one step ahead of us. I know exactly who we can call to make this go faster."

Mandark takes out his com and speaking in an angry tone, "REX! GET YOUR BUTT OVER TO CITY HALL NOW! WE NEED YOUR HELP WITH SOMETHING."

Rex appears on his com, with a tooth brush in his mouth and replies after taking it out, "As long as it gets me away from Six, he's in nanny mode again."

Rex smiles and the com hangs up.

Three minutes later, Rex zooms in using his hover bike and then reverts his lower body back to normal.

Rex looks at Mandark with a frown and replies, "Show me what I need to touch."

Mandark points to the Great Machine and Rex goes over and touches it. His hand glows blue with lines all around it and after a few moments the light subsides.

Rex smiles and says with excitement, "Found'em. Steam Alley. Seems like this is the work of Fusion Numbuh 1 and my own fusion. I did what I could to repair the Great Machine, but the rest is up to you two geeks."

Bubbles then floats into the air to go find the fusions, when Dexter grabs her hand. "You can't be seriously thinking about going off to fight those fusions alone?"

Bubbles looks back at Dexter and gives him a serious look. "I am! Holdie would have already have left by now to help the nanos. He loves them and so do I. Don't try to stop me!"

Dexter sighs, shakes his head and replies, "Holden wouldn't be so reckless Bubbles."

Boomer floats into the air next to Bubbles. "Dex, I'll go with Bubbles to make sure we solve this issue. Rex? You comin?"

Rex smiles and replies, "Something interesting to do besides curing EVOS. This is going to be fun."

Rex's back then spouts engines and wings to form the Boogie Pack and he flies up in front of Boomer and Bubbles. The trio then flies off to the southeast, while Mandark and Dexter try to repair the Great Machine.

Within a few minutes the three mismatched teens fly over Steam Alley and are immediately accosted by flying fusion matter. Bubbles looks down to see a fusion of Rex using some sort of heavy cannon weapon.

Rex frowns and replies with disdain, "Looks like its using the Slam Cannon. There's a ton of fusion matter around, so it's not going to run out of ammo."

The fusion fires again and Boomer materializes his energy baseball bat and sends the fusion's attack back at it with twice the force. The fusion is thrown into the air towards Bubbles. Bubbles uses her energy orb attack, while the nano Bubbles that is still on her shoulder, uses its Laser Vision skill. This causes it to be sent towards Rex. Rex's arm turns into a giant sword and slices the Fusion of himself in two.

A set of goggles falls to the ground along with a Nano of Rex, who promptly lands on Rex's shoulder. Rex lands on the ground and picks up the old pair of goggles and pockets them.

Boomer frowns and replies, "Now to deal with the other one." They look at each other and nod before entering the lair.

Inside, are the remains of a refinery and what appears to be other machines. They hear a squeak and Bubbles grabs Boomer's arm out of fright. Rex snickers at Bubbles reaction, but stops when she gives him a dirty look. Boomer squeeze Bubbles' arm gently to reassure her that she is safe with him. Bubbles relaxes at the light touch and they go deeper into the refinery. They pass by a broken down electrical switch and Rex puts his hand on it and uses his nanites.

A moment later, he smiles and replies with excitement, "It's close. Probably in the main offices above us."

Boomer frowns and replies, "Can you shut off the program that's affecting the other nanos from here?"

Rex shacks his head, frowns and responds, "I have to be there at the source to actually interface wi…"

He is interrupted by a spray of fusion matter that is headed towards Boomer. Rex changes his arm into his Smackhands and blocks the fusion matter. Fusion Numbuh 1 stands atop a machine looking down at them. Rex then turns his feet into the Punk Busters and jumps up and then uses the Smackhands to attack it as he comes back down. The fusion jumps away from Rex's attack and into the air.

The moment the fusion jumped, Boomer rams into it with a burst of sonic speed, sending it to the floor. Bubbles flies at the fusion and then starts to pound away at it in a blind rage, until its nothing more then a small pool of matter.

Rex gives a sigh and says disappointedly, "I was just getting warmed up. Let's find the thing with the program." The three teen climb the stairs and eventually find the device and Rex shuts it down with his nanites. He then smashes it, so it can never be used again.

Bubbles smiles and replies happily, "Let's go check the nanos and see if they are better now." Bubbles zooms to the exit with a smile on her face and is followed by Boomer and Rex.

When they arrive back at City Hall, Dexter is sitting on the back steps with his com out, talking to someone.

"Juniper, good work on dealing with the planetoid and Vilgax. Tell Courage for me that his idea on the UFO magnet was pure genius."

Juniper gives him a warm smile and says, "I will. Mrs. Bagg wants to know if you want to join us for dinner here."

Dexter turns red, smiles and replies, "I would be delighted. Email me the time, and I'll be out there when I can." The com switches off and Dexter puts it away in his pocket.

Mandark looks back from his work on the Great Machine and replies in an arrogant tone, "It's all fixed. Now I'm going back to work. I have much to do." He leaves laughing.

Rex goes over to give the Great Machine one last check. "Everything is good here."

Dexter looks at Bubbles, smiles and states, "Its going to be a full week before some of the nanos recover their strength. Take care of them Bubbles. Holden is counting on you." Dexter leaves and heads back to his lab.

Rex's com then beeps, forcing him to it out of his pocket and finds that he has an email. "Looks like Kevin Levin tried to absorb Fusion Matter and combine it with Imaginary Energy. Fuse took control of Kevin's mind and the energy converter that was collecting energy for us is now sending it the Darklands. The controls are locked and Hoagie thinks we can't turn it off without killing the imaginary friends so I have to go and set it down to the lowest level. Just a normal day for a me." Rex says with a sigh, as he forms the Boogie Pack and disappears into the sky and off towards the northeast.

Bubbles looks over at Boomer with a smile and replies, "Boomer, thanks for help me with the nanos."

Boomer turns red and gives her a cheesy grin, "It was nothing. It gave me an excuse not to have to see Brick's new girlfriend, Tessa. Bye Bubbles!"

He waves to her and flies off. Bubbles smiles as some of the healthier nanos gather around her to hear what had happened.

A slight detour from the arc i was working on but i have most of the Corrupt past arc done. Hope you enjoyed it.