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Six was enveloped by a sea of darkness. He had a hard time breathing. It was like something was sitting on his chest. He struggled to get up, to move, to breath. Six heard his name being called. Who was calling him? Wait, where was he? Gradually, some clarity came back to him. The last thing he remembered he was trying to stop ZAG-RS and the killer seaweed. He slowly opened his eyes. Blurry shapes came into focus. When his eyes finally adjusted, he saw his sister's worried face through his shades. He coughed a few times before pushing himself up.

"Don't scare me like that!" She slapped him on his arm as he sat up.

Six winced as she hit a bruise. "Ohh, sorry." She slapped his other arm instead.

"Stop hitting me." He snapped slowly rolling around to get on his feet.

"Look you were out for like ten minutes. I thought you were going to die. Then how will Holiday become my sister-in-law?" She said half joking, half serious.

"And stop saying things like that. " Six tested to see how steady he was before he ventured to face her. "What do you know about relationships anyway? I don't see any ring on you." As soon as the words left his mouth, Six regretted it.

Aimi looked like she was struck. Her face went from pale to mottle red. Apparently, Six was not the only one that can hit a nerve. "If you can walk, let's get out of here." She said abruptly turning around, her electric torch lighting the way.

Six didn't say anything but followed her. He wanted to ask her what happened to ZAG-RS. He also had no idea what had happened after he had blacked out. But he thought it wiser not to say anything just yet. Aimi was not in a commutative mood which was odd for her. However, thousands of questions floated in his head. Finally, curiosity got the better of him. "What happened to me?" He asked in his usual tone. Aimi didn't say anything at first. After what seemed like an eternity, she paused, took several deep breaths and turned around. Six was surprised to see her eyes were a red rimmed. There were trails of dried tears down her face. But she answered him as if nothing was wrong.

"After the explosion, you were thrown into the kelp bed. You must have hit your head because you were totally out when I reached you. I pulled you out of the room because it started filling with smoke. You blew up the room but good." That got a small smile out of her. "I still can't reach anyone but the kelp is gone. I don't know if ZAG-RS is destroyed or not but so far nothing's come after us."

Six nodded. "ZAG-RS probably downloaded itself to another part of the rig. She hasn't been destroyed if communications are still down."

"You're probably right. "Aimi had turned around now and started down the hallway again. "We'd better get out of here before she regroups."

"I'm sorry. " Six added. Aimi paused a moment. Without turning around she gave a slight nod. There was palpable silence again.

"His name was Robert." Aimi said quietly after some time. "We were going to be married. I didn't tell him what I did. I was just going to leave the old life quietly behind. But… he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The car bomb was meant for me." They wordlessly walked down the hall for a bit.

"That doesn't really make me want to pursue a relationship." Six finally ventured to say.

Aimi laughed mirthlessly. "Six, do you know how hard it is to find someone who loves you for who you are? I should have told Robert about me. If he'd known maybe he would have been more careful or maybe he would have left. Either way he might still be around. Holiday knows some things about you. Maybe you should tell her the rest. Let her decide what she wants. But you can't do this half-heartedly so to speak. It'll only end up hurting her in the end."

Six swallowed the lump in his throat. "I don't know… I don't know how to tell her." He admitted. "I don't know if she'll accept me if she knew."

"Only one way to find out." Aimi said softly.

Before Six could answer the lights flickered on. Six and Aimi stiffened and drew out their weapons.

0o0

Rex had taken down two planes. Now that he had their attention he was trying to lead the rest away from the ship. Putting his had on the control panel he ordered the plane to barrel roll. "Whoo hoo!" He cheered. He didn't know why Six wouldn't let him fly. This was easy. But as usual when Rex gets cocky, bad things happen. His plane jolted. He looked behind him. His tail was smoking. He had been hit. Rex gritted his teeth, a habit he picked up from Six. He checked the plane to see if it could still fly. When it looked like everything was still working, although he was not flying as straight or as fast, Rex told the plane to fly up. He quickly decelerated and allowed the plane to pass him. He then flew lower and shot the enemy plane from the back. He took it out cleanly. One more down 6 more to go. Great.

He checked to see where Holiday was. It looked like she was doing ok despite the damaged wing. Then his heart stopped. She was hit unexpectedly by gun fire. Her engines caught on fire and her plane started going down. Rex watched in horror as Holiday's jet started crashing into the waters below.

0o0

"I can't believe I'm fighting a vacuum cleaner. And it's winning!" Aimi said in disbelief. The electric cord had wrapped itself around Aimi's wrist and was pulling her towards it. She was fending off the hose with her katana. She glanced over at Six. A maintenance droid had attacked him from behind. Its long flexible metallic arms were wrapped around Six's neck. Six had one hand gripping the arm trying to keep it from squeezing the life out of him. He quickly swung his body. The droid was caught off balance and came flying around. Six brought his blades up and impaled it through the droid. Sparks flew out and the arm slackened. He turned to help Aimi but she already had cut the hose off the vacuum and was making short work of the rest of the appliance.

"We must be getting too close." Six observed.

"I just want to get out of here. Once up top we can blow this rig to kingdom come." Aimi growled.

"She probably knows that and is trying to keep us down here." Six noted. "They won't fire on the rig while we're here."

"Then why was she trying to kill us back there?" Aimi grumbled.

"Well, they won't know we're dead." Six said.

"Devious." Aimi shook her head. "Who created this thing?"

"Rex's brother." Six sighed.

"Really? He must be messed up in the head." Aimi carefully treaded down the hall.

"He's a brilliant eccentric or so Holiday tells me." Six didn't bother hiding his scorn for the scientist.

"So he's well-meaning but misunderstood?" Aimi asked sarcastically.

"He hadn't meant for the program to become sentient but... well, here we are." Six followed Aimi down the rest of the hall. "He's Rex's brother so we tolerate him."

"How nice of you." Aimi stopped at a door. "Wanna see what's on the other side?"

"Ladies first." Six made a mock bow.

"Again, how nice of you." Aimi grabbed her katana and sliced the door. They watched as the two halves broke apart. A large robot made from amalgamated material and appliances rolled into the room.

Both Six and Aimi jumped back.

"You are not going anywhere. My fighter jets are taking care of your friends on the surface. I will take care of you now." The Franken-monster stated flatly.

Wait! Friends on the surface? Did that mean Holiday and Rex somehow managed to get here? Six's heart stopped when he realized that Holiday and Rex might be in danger. He grinded his teeth and charged the robot.

Almost done, I think. I hope it's still entertaining.