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"Oh yeah?" Abby said, her face now as red as her hair due to her anger. "Well, I'd say ya also need THIS!"

Without any further ado, Abby brought her foot up and kicked Arell as hard as she possibly could in the nuts; and considering the adrenaline pumping through her at the moment since she was worked up, and the sensitivity of the male nether regions (and not to mention Abby's good luck powers amplifying the attack for her), the kick would hurt. A lot.

"Yer welcome, arsehole!" she said as the kick landed.

((Note for Soulless: Have Tim react the way most guys would react to seeing a 6'4", 250 pound, armed-to-the-teeth man go down (and get knocked out) after being kicked in the groin by a thirteen-year-old, five foot tall, 110 pound girl who has no idea how to fight. xDDD))

Crystal had rolled her eyes when Arell went to leave and stood up, getting out of the boat. He didn't understand, she didn't know that the disease was still active, she hadn't shown any signs of becoming weaker or tired. This was because it was running slower, delayed because of the original alterations.

Artemis' eyes went wide as he looked up at Abby. "Where in the world did that come from?!"

Tygrus gasped and ran over and picked Abby up, pulling her away from Arell. "Calm down small one. There is no need for violence."

She struggled to get back up to the building in her exhausted state. When she finally made it she stopped to catch her breath and saw Arell on the ground. "What the ********?!"

Abby initially struggled in Tygrus' grip, but she stopped when she saw Crystal.

"Wait... what? Who said you were gonna die?" Abby asked the cat-girl, and the redness in her face drained away.

"When I was a small child, my mother fought with a genetic disease that killed her from the inside out and for years she was in and out of hospital after hospital. No one could do anything, there was no cure, they didn't even know how to stop the pain." She looked to her hands that now had that slight coating of peach colored fur.

She looked back up to the others. "After she died, the doctor who's care had been the best and the one she died seeing, insisted to test me for the same thing. His theory what that if she had me after the activation of the disease it was possible that I had it as well."

She watched their faces. "The test came back positive. For the next year, year and a half, my father went mad. At the time I did not realize it was from the fear of loosing me after he had lost his wife. He spent all his time in the cellar, trying to find a cure. Finally, he found it and decided to use it on me. The time this was going on is still a blur to me but I decided to leave his custody and, frankly, ran away."

She looked down at Arell. "I went to the only place I really knew, back to New Orleans... Trust me, crossing the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway was not easy. All of this caused me to become a 'street rat' for the nest couple of years till I decided to adopt myself into a family." She paused only momentarily.

"But that's a story for another day, and can actually be found in my file on the Batwave Computer."

Crystal took a big breath. "Well s**t happens and yesterday... I think... I was nabbed by Dorian's henchman and brought here. He explained to me that the alterations he was performing before were never finished and that it was possible that the disease was still able to activate, which it had, and that he had found another way to actually break that genetic anomaly that made up the disease that would be less stressful on my body and could be performed in one go. I agred to cooperate for a reason. If this goes as he planned I won't have to worry about dieing a most painful death."

She sighed. "I didn't even think that there was even a possibility for it to even be active, much less have to be here."

When Arell spoke Crystal stood up straight and made a full out dash twords him, Tygrus jumping out of the way with Abby and Artemis.

The cat-girl pounced/glomped the big Cajun. "Don't you ever be such a d**k again or I'll be the one making the nut shots next time." She spoke through tears.

Tygrus looked down at Abby in his arms, now thoroughly confused but before he could ask what about the circumstances Dorian walked out of the building. "So this is where everyone was hiding."

He looked down at Crystal. "You'll be fine. The disease has halted as far as I can currently tell. I want you to come and see me within the next year." He looked at her almost as if he was second guessing himself. "I can trust you to do that, can't I?"

Crystal looked up at him, a stunned carp look on her face but still nodded.

"Good." The Doctor looked to Tygrus. "Come along. I'm sure they have more pressing matters to attend to." Dorian looked back to Crystal before walking back inside. "I want you to get some rest."

Artemis swung a claw laden paw at Dorian as he walked by. "a** hat."

Tygrus looked to Abby, setting her down with a soft pat to her head. "You are a sweet girl. I hope you'd visit me again?" Then he looked to Crystal. "Please do come back sister."

"If he made an appointment this time, I wouldn'ta come down here tryin' to blow his brains out." he said with a low growl as they got up. Giving Dorian the bird as he went past.

"Next time you pull dis heah kidnappin' stunt I'll bring more bullets ya nuthless pile a' tick turds!!!" Arell growled.

He was just about to leave, staggering a little bit. "Crystal honey. Do ALL yo' doctor's appointments wind up like dis? Or should I watch out fer de dentist, too?" he asked. Hell I could use a haircut. should I wait for Sabretooth to kidnap me or should I just make an appointment?