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((Oh, dear crubs, NOO!! Not ANEMONE!! Now surely I will die!! O___O razz ))

Rain watched the strange girl walk by and pass into another corridor. "Her eyes..." she whispered, thinking she noticed something strange about them. She wanted to follow the procession to learn what they were talking about, but she wasn't sure that would be a good idea. She stood in the hall, unsure of what to do next.

Rain stared back at her with her blank stare. This time there was a slight difference in it, however. Her eyes were opened a bit wider, not really expecting to have been talked to at all. "Umm..." she said quietly. "I guess..."

((Ohh..... SHEEEEZEE!!! Twitching severely here, I think I'm gonna have a seizure!! That was mean!! crying ))

Rain's eyes were the widest they had ever been. That was the one thing in the world she would never have expected. She stared out down the hall and stood very stiff. She was feeling something she hadn't felt in a long time: fear. What is this girl trying to do to me? she pondered in her mind.

((Okies, g'night. Man... seriously, are you trying to kill the poor Rain?! Trying to give her a heart attack or something?! o__O` razz ))

Rain watched as they left on the elevator. She swallowed slow and hard, still feeling the shock of the kiss. "That was..." she began, not finishing the sentence.

Shaking her head to get a hold of herself, she started walking again. The pat pat pat of her feet on the tile echoed shortly in the halls as she ambled down them. She kept close to the walls to avoid others that came her way. She came across one room that seemed to be familiar to her. She walked towards the door and went in.

((FUN?! O__O You call.... that fun?! I coulda died, there!! O__O Please, Kaya-chan! Avenge me!!))

The door shut quietly behind her, making a little ka-chunk sound. Rain looked around the room. She had been right, this room was familiar. She remembered being in here quiet awhile ago. Most of the people in it were kids. However, they weren't as lively as the others in her room. All they did was sit or lie in their bed and look at these glowing green sticks.

Rain walked slowly down the walkway, looking at each child as they gazed at nothing but the stick. Is it true what they said? she wondered. Did I really stare at one like the Ageha Squad said I did? For some reason, even though she remembers being in this room, she just could not remember staring at one of those.

... him forward.

Nearing the ship the Mercury kicked back and grabbed onto the hull. The rending of metal screamed. The pitch of the ship became erratic. It jerked to the left and right fighting to throw it's attacker off.

With one lethal knife the LFO plunged deep into the bucking metal of the vessel. It sank down to the hilt and, pulling back on the controls, Grey ripped a seem into the thick defensive outer shell.

Inside the transport the pressure control alarms sounded. A high pitched wail it announced the loss of cabin pressure. Only the briefest of seconds later the rush of the wind swept in through the hole and drowned out the alarms. Kayako sat still. Straps had been placed around her before launch. Now they protected her from being thrown from one wall to the other. Debri danced across the currents in the room. spiraling in small tornadoes of air current.

Mercury's other arm gripped one side of the rip and peeled it back like the skin of an orange. Light poured in. Air screamed and there she was. The girl from his visions. Kayako looked up. Mercury looked down. Her wide eyes met those of the LFO.

With his attention fully fixed on his prey the pilot was oblivious to the chains that wrapped around him until it was to late. Two they were, squeezing into the frame of Mercury. Clenching it tight and making it impossible to reach for the other knife.

Over the radio a sweet voice spoke. The inverse drive pulsed with every word. "Well aren't you a persistent thing," it said.

With a massive jolt the hilt of Mercury's blade was ripped from it's hand and the LFO was jerked into the air.

The chains coiled tighter. The screen panned and the mech spun. What it faced was another LFO. Unlike the Mon-suno's this ship was jet black and fast. It dragged the Mercury through the sky back towards the Lonjinus.

(I'm not sure how the Mercury's board attached. whether to it's arms, shoulders, back, back of legs but it's still there)

Kayako watched all of this happen through the hole in the ship. The air was chilled and hard to breath. She gasped for a breath that wouldn't come. With her arms pinned she could only watch as the black LFO dragged her savior away.

Grey heard that voice again. "I like that. Persistent. Fighting oh so hard. It will make it more fun for TheEnd to kill you." Rising higher and higher the mechs drove straight through a cloud and mercury was slung up into the sky above them. A volley of streaming missiles followed.

After wandering around the room a little, the scientists decided they didn't like her presence in there. One came over to her and shooed her out of the room, then closed the door when she was out in the hallway. She stared at the door for a few seconds, then began to walk away. As she wandered down the many long, brightly lit hallways, she began to wonder if there were any windows near to where she was.

((Oh, goody! What a nice christmas gift; I get a playmate. Yaaaay for theEND! xd blaugh ))
"Ah-! no, so close-!! Slagit,who Dares stop me!!"
Gray spat as his head was jerked back by the sudden pull; When theEND paused and the pilot taunted, Gray had slumped foward, his face almost touching the controlls and his silvery hair hanging desheveled in his face.
He almost seemed to have gone limp. As vioce giggled and mocked him, Gray suddenly came back to life, his hand jamming down the "reply" comlink button, while his other moved to Effect apropriate counter-measures to the Constricting bonds.
Gray looked up into the Comlick cam, a maddened, semi-insane look an his face as both eyes fulled much of the transmition, The pupils X's out in red and strands of hair hanging down.
"Pah! If you aid my enemy, witch...."
Gray's other hand flew to the controlls, galvanizing Mercury into action.
"YOU ARE MY ENEMY-!!"
Gray Screamed, cuting the comlink.

As the missiles streamed at the LFO, it did something unexpected:
Nothing.
Mercury shut off, dropping like a rock rather than maintianing hovering status.
Plunging into the cloudbank below, The missiles went harmlessly past, hurling off at the point where he had been, but no longer were he was.
No sooner did this happen-in all of a second's time- than Mercury
re-activated in the eclipsing clouds, attacking the bonds restricting it and resuming normal hover in a flare Green trapar.
With a dull humm, It's back-mounted afterburners flared to life, bathing the cords in superheated gases and flame as the jets flashed to maximum burn.
Twisting about in the cloud-haze, Mercury furthed it's efforts to free itself by manuvering it's REFFboards sharp tip to point up, then jerked it at where the cords streched off into the clouds, conecting to the Black LFO; even as flame ate at the section wrapped around it's torso.
Cut these...then let her come in for the kill...please!
((BTW, Mercury's board is attached to the soles of it's feet right now.))