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Waya entered the control room and smiled seeing that no one was there yet. "So what do you want to do? I haven't done a sentinel program in a while."
Jeremy stepped in nervously, rubbing his arms "Ummmm... how about something not as dangerous?"
Eliza sighed "Waya, just because you can take one of those out with your eyes closed doesn't mean we all like attacking them."
Waya hadn't been paying attention to her senses to notice that Eliza and Jeremy had entered the room. She turned around "What are you doing here?" She was partially shocked that they where awake already. "Rhyd and I got first dibs, we where here first."
"We were talking with Junior about... something"
Jeremy mumbled "And we sorta ended up planning to come down here to test out what I can do really... In a place where I wasn't in much danger."
"Well we'd made plans to come down last night."
Waya rationalized
"Like a date?"
Junior asked as he came into the control room.
"No not like a date!"
Waya lied.
Jeremy blushed at the word "date" and stared at the floor, biting his lip hard. He was embarrassed by anything like that right now, with his secret out so recently.
Kale walked in with Veronica in toe. He was wearing his X-suit and read for the surfing simulation.
"I wasn't exactly thinking of a sentinel program, Waya...I'm not really equipped to fight the likes of them. I was usually the first one out in the sims before."
Rhydian said quietly
Veronica moved forward, locking her arm with Kale. She was in her own X-suit and the skin-tight leather flattered her nicely
"The perfect reason we should try it."
Waya said to Rhydian but returned to addressing the rest of them "Rhyd and I got here first. We won't be long."
Rhydian looked down. He really did not want to go up against Sentinels.
"Hey brah's what happened with the surfing demo?"
Kale asked.
Veronica looked at him and pouted. "I think we just got put on hold."
Kale puckered his lips and shrugged it off, "I'll teach ya later, babe."
Flicking his chin softly,
Veronica smiled. "Oh I'll make sure of it, surfer boy."
"You're so weird..."
Kale concluded.
Veronica batted her eyelashes at him, "But you love it and everyone knows it." She smirked and stuck her tongue out at him. She hooked her arm around his. "Come on, surfer boy. Let's go do something else."
"Yea I bet. Don't flatter yourself, babe."
Kale said, being tugged away by her.
Veronica grinned and pulled him off to
the rec room
Jeremy just shuffled his feet and stared at the floor "Can... can I join in?" he asked nervously "I want to try and get used to my powers so bad..."
The twins walked in after spending the night in Antimony's room last night. They had each taken a shower and were set for todays practice.
Waya growled slightly. She was aggravated that her and Rhydian's plans where now interrupted by the others. "OK, fine." She took Rhydian's hand "We'll come back later. Run amok."
Jeremy bit his lip and stared at the floor "Know what? It's ok... you and Rhydian go first..." He'd wanted to do it seriously; to fight with Waya by his side against a massive robot.
Junior Watched the display. Obviously Waya was angry. "You sure?"
"Yeah."
Waya said angrily and took Rhydian's hand again to leave
Rhydian looked at her curiously. Didn't the others just say that they could go first? I mean he wasn't exactly
wanting to do a Sentinel program, but he did enjoy the danger room in general. "What are we gonna do, Waya?" He asked her, she was holding his hand, which was nice afterall, but he was curious as to what they'd be doing now...Jeremy had just said they could go first
The twins were getting a little upset about how Waya was behaving in front of them...heck BECAUSE of them.
"We'll figure something out."
Waya said. She often got in these sot of moods lately. Once she'd decided something she would not be swayed.
Junior crossed his arms. Grimacing at Waya's behavior as well. He'd love to have gone 12 round with the woman of his dreams.
"Well if we're not going to do some training...umm
mm...would you like to go for a walk, Waya?" Rhydian offered her nervously...
"Sure." Waya said "Whatever." She dragged him into the elevator and flipped the twins the bird before the doors closed.
"We have a serious fucking issue!" Waya appeared from the nearest shadow with Rhydian and Junior in her grasp. She immediately idled up to Antimony. "Casey is here and I think she might just want to make sure all of us don't live through the next half hour or so. Not sure, just speculating."
"Casey?" Antimony echoed disbelievingly. "Casey as in my mother?! What did she look like?" She asked. Her mother had sworn she would never come anywhere near this place; she had to be sure.
"Shiny and god awful scary...." Rhydian stammered as he looked around, realizing they were in the danger room now. he scratched his head and looked at Antimony. "Lots of liquid metal like flying at us...I did have some wrapped around my legs before Waya brought us down here. I dunno what happened to it though..."
Eliza let out a small "meep" of fright; Antimony's mother had always scared her "Why now? Why when everyone's gone? Is she here for Antimony?"
Jeremy was just confused, standing there and wondering who this person was. So far he'd learned it was the horned girl's mother... and that she wasn't friendly.
"We have to think of something." Junior said before anyone could try changing the subject again.
"She's your mother." Waya said "How do we stop her?"
"I don't know!" Antimony yelled, panicking. "Uh--put her in a pocket dimension?!" She suggested desperately.
"Yeah like we have one of those laying around." Junior said sarcastically.
"Well..." Waya said thinking for a moment. "I could trap her in the shadow realm but... my long lost grandmother is in there and I kind of want to meet her one of these days. That and I travel in the Shadow realm kinda often. I don't want to have to worry about some crazy lady coming after me every time I turn around. Moe can't you just throw her into one of your portals and close it back? Or would that mean you'd have to worry about a crazy lady coming after you?"
Jaden put a hand to his chin, "I would love to meet the lovely woman who birthed such a beauty as Antimony."
Jayden crossed his arms, "Do you even know why she attacked you?"
"I can't open a portal to nowhere!" Antimony said, exasperated. "A hole in reality has to lead somewhere else! It would be like nailing a door to the ground--even if you open it, it's not going to get you anywhere but the dirt that it's nailed to." She gave Jaden a look. "You don't. You really don't." She jumped as she heard crashing from outside the Danger Room. "But you might have to...I don't even know why the hell she would be here. She's crazy, she's a homeless crazy bitch, why is she even here?!" She babbled.
Jaden kept his hand on his chin, thinking as usual. "I wonder...can one hypnotize someone insane? To take control of a mind that isn't completely there...hmm...it is very curious."
Running his fingers through his chopped hair, Jayden bit his lower lip, "Liquid metal?" he looked at Rhydian briefly, "Sounds messy."
Rhydian shook his head to Jayden's comment. "Not really...outside of the fact that it was trying to kill us, I thought it was really quite beautiful..."
"um...." Jeremy said, speaking up for the first time in a while "If you have a problem with getting near her... I could be of assistance."
Waya felt like an ideot not completely understanding her best friend's powers. "Out with it Jeremy or we're not going to have to worry about the tenth year reunion."
"She's got liquid metal protecting her right? And she's trying to kill us? What if I just drifted in and tried to posses the metal... or her... or something?" Jeremy said, twidling his fingers as he stared at the floor "Or I could just distract her."
"Tha's dangerous mate." Junior said "You could get trapped. The new guy dosen't get to put their life on the line for the rest of the team. That's my job." He puffed out his chest and tried to look heroic.
"It's not my life, it's just my... spirit or something." Jeremy waved his hands vaguely "I die all the time, whenever I use my powers. If you are really having so much trouble getting near her then I should do it."
"Don't be stupid, Jeremy." Jaden said seriously, "We can make a better plan then that.
"Umm....guys? Where is Kale and Veronica?" Jaden pointed out.
"They where down here when Rhydian and I left." Waya Said in a hurry "They don't know Casey is up there."
Jeremy looked around at the others, leaning against a wall as he did so. He closed his eyes as if in a deep sleep, his body slumped slightly and he let out a long breath. His body swayed a few times, being pushed up against the wall to stop it from falling over. Jeremy looked around at the others as he floated in the middle of the room invisable.
"We'd better find them quick then." Junior said "She could already be after them. " He guestured toward the elevator that would lead back to the main hall.
"Ok plan B, die trying to save everyone. I like this plan alot." Waya said sarcasticaly but she understood that they had to do something before Veronica and Kale found themselves one on one with a blood thisrty Black Pearl. She grabbed Rhydian again and headed behind Junior into the elevator.
Jeremy's hair and nails were growing at an alarming rate as he leant against the wall, his ghost looked around then darted up through the ceiling quickly.
The twins nodded and followed behind quickly. They stopped and turned to their love, waiting for her decision.
Antimony took a deep breath and calmed down as best she could. She opened a portal to the recreation room. "Let's go," She told the twins quietly, stepping through.
The twins went quickly with Antimony, ready to take any hit for her.
Jeremy slid down into his own body again, sighing softly and standing up among a wash of hair. He looked around, knew no one was in listening distance, then punched hard at the wall as he yelled in frustration. Feeling slightly worse from the pain in his hand he ignored it and took the quick route back up to the rec room.
Stumble!