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"Takeshi!" Tyche cries, pulling him away from the pod. She keeps a grip around his body to try and keep him from going back to the pod. A few of the lab techs help push him back.

"You will damage her mind if you keep this up!" She yelled, "It doesn't matter how strong you think your bond is with her, you can't be sure and you can't risk staying in her mind!"

Earth nodded. "If you can use telepathy, you can reach her."

Lab technicians raced behind the pod, ignoring Takeshi. Yoko's pod was bubbling and she was starting to move, clutching her chest. The pod beeped and clicked furiously. One scientist plugged a cord into the pod. Yoko's face hardened, then went calm. The bubbles ceased. Yoko released her heart, and all at once was calm. her vital signs returned to normal.

"There was a disturbance in the c1 and c4 power distributor. We had a power outage for five minutes this afternoon, causing the distributors to be disabled." Stated a scientist coldly. "Luckily we have a back up genorator. In three hours the pod will return to normal. After that, the stasus field will increase, so if you want to speak to her mentally, do it now, and be quick about it! Once the stasus field increases, any psychic disruption will cause you to have an adverse reaction."

He pats Takeshi on the shoulder. "You may psychically speak to her now. You have three hours." With that, he leaves.

Earth sighed. "I guess we'll be late to Makoto's."

Tyche watched the two silently. Yoko's face was gently smiling, and Takeshi's face seemed completely at ease. 'They must be sharing something nice,' She thought, sighing slightly. She went to the computer to read the status reports. 'Wish I had something like that. Good for them!'

Takeshi just started wrapping the presents, tape in his mouth and a present in mid-wrap, he jumped up when the door-bell rang. "Ju..Just a minuet!" he screamed. He frantically looked for a hiding place for all the presents. Belle jumped onto the counter. "You really should expect them to come a little earlier! ~nyan!" she told him jumping off the counter into her human form. belle looked like a cute little school girl she wore a short white dress and had a small bow on the back. her hair was long and white in two high pig-tails. "Yeah yeah quit your scolding, i know already." the doorbell rang again. then a few knocks, then some very loud banging. he had just hidden everything perfectly when *sounds of wood splintering* Earth and Tyche had kicked down the door and were both fuming. Belle returned to her cat form and hopped on Tyche's head, and smiled.

"no not at all! in fact i even have some dinner plans for all of us! including the puff-ball!" he stated. Belle glared at him from Tyche's head and stuck her little tounge out. "Oi baka! the four trouble-makers are hiding in your room! ~nyan!" belle says jumping into her human form. She bonks him on the head as he runs to go escort four brightly colored children from his room. "I told you four Yoko is out of town for a while. How did you get in here anyways?" "It's not THAT hard to pick a lock on an apartment Take-nii!" Cerecere explains. "Cere-cere you didn't do anything!" "like you're one to talk ves-ves!" "yeah jun-jun you picked the lock!" "Shut-up palla-palla!" "Enough! *headpalm* My God you four are more argumentative than usual!" "Well?" "Well What?" "What" "Did" "You" "Get" "Us!" belle says chiming in with the quartet. "two words: NOT TELLING!" "You're evil!" "That's reformed evil, Thank you very much!" the arguement carried on for about 20 minuets and then the tea-pot whistled.

"Err....." Tyche said, feeling at a loss of words. "So...what's for dinner?"

Tyche instantly covered her ears. The squealing was a bit painful. When they were done, Tyche couldn't help but laugh.