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Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 12:39 pm
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Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 6:37 pm
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Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 6:48 pm
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 5:55 am
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 6:03 am
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 6:12 am
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The Count of Monte Carlo Gidget's reply made Ako pause for a moment, still not used to being called things like that. That, combined with the sound of her voice, made him forget what he was about to say. Their was a pause before he could speak. "Hey, just wondering where you are." He was normally a man of few words, but his mind felt more tired than usual, and he was having trouble finding the point of his call in the fog of his thoughts. He felt the breeze of someone passing by, but didn't bother to look. "I think... I need to talk with you."
Gidget's smile melted. Ako sounded troubled, and that didn't settle well with her. "Is everything okay? Where are you now? Can you meet me at the lab?" she asked in rapid succession. She wanted to fix this like any of her other toys, but this was more important because it was a person. Her favorite person no less.
Her phone buzzed with the alert from Richards. She ignored it, her concern for Ako overriding any sort of curiosity.
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 6:16 am
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 7:29 am
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 11:11 am
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 11:35 am
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Annie followed him into the closet and shut the door behind her and sighed, "I don't like people probing around my brain, even just to hold a private conversation. Besides, there are advantages of having a questionable reputation. I can pull the stunt again, if I want. And this can easily buy both of us a solid hour or two excuse. Or more... it depends."
She leaned against the door and changed the subject to the topics bothering her, "Anyways, we have someone in charge who is getting too big of a head and wants Trinity out of the way. I would assume includes her boy toy, Theonis... which is kind of comical since he is one of the few people who has successfully incapacitated me for any time period. But, I'm also guessing we have something else unrelated going on that you are sensing."
"There's essentially nowhere in this facility I can't reach by turning into liquid," she continued, tapping a finger on her crossed arms, "but I'm wondering what should be my priority. And, in some ways you wouldn't be that much help, either way: you don't have the flexibility and freedom of travel my power grants me."
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 1:47 pm
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 3:20 pm
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"Is your solution to every people problem is just to kill the person? I mean, I suppose that would solve that particular problem but..." She trailed off and narrowed her eyes at him, "No! Just, no." She leaned her head against the door and sighed, "Anyways, an egotistical moron is rarely a huge problem. It is probably something more for Trinity to worry about if she wanted to... though, all things considered, I think she bailed on Valhalla. I can't imagine her putting up with this otherwise." Annie considered briefly bailing herself, though she brushed the thought aside for the moment.
"And, while you may be able to walk around freely, you are limited by size," continued Annie. "If a single water droplet can get through, I can get through. You can't pull that off. I suppose I'll ignore the new head of security for now, who no doubt is the source of one of the problems, and worry about what you sensed earlier."
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 4:43 pm
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 5:19 pm
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Rikki Tikki Travi Gidget's smile melted. Ako sounded troubled, and that didn't settle well with her. "Is everything okay? Where are you now? Can you meet me at the lab?" she asked in rapid succession. She wanted to fix this like any of her other toys, but this was more important because it was a person. Her favorite person no less.
Her phone buzzed with the alert from Richards. She ignored it, her concern for Ako overriding any sort of curiosity.
It took Ako another few seconds to work out what Gidget had said, and to figure out how to answer. "I'm fine, at least I think so. I'm in the gym, training...thing. And, yeah, I'll uh,... I'll see you there." He started walking, unsure of whether or not to hang up.
He felt slower, clumsy, like the synapses firing in his brain and nervous system were slower. The phone felt dead in his hand, where it would normally be alive to his senses, the circuits pulsing with power. Now, it just felt like a lump of plastic, the same way it did before he got his power. Had he overdone it? Had he finally burned himself out, like he'd hoped to do so many years ago, before he lost track of his friends?
The thought that he might have lost even a fraction of his power scared him immensely.
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 5:42 pm
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