Day 29

We left the room and walked down the hall

Her gun was still in her hand. There was a slight tear in her eye, but she tried to hold it back, and blinked to wash it away. “You have a serious problem,” I told her. She stopped walking and turned around with the gun in her hand. I didn’t care that she had a gun in her hand; it wasn’t any sort of intimidating, because I knew she wouldn’t shoot me. She would just try and seem like she was the dominant one, which she was, but not now. She wasn’t capable of it. I reached for her hand with the gun and she pulled back. I looked at her and reached again and ripped it out of her hand. “Stop,” I said and I continued to walk to our room. I was hoping she would follow me, which she did, so that was good. I stopped right before my room and pointed my finger for Kay to go in. I watched her walk in front of me into the room. She went in the room and stood in the middle of it and I walked in and leaned against the wall next to the door. I looked at her with her head down, and then she dropped to her knees and started crying. I got a little nervous because I never seen her cry before, and I could only imagine what she was crying about. “I can’t fucking do this. I really can’t do this. Not now. I really don’t need this right now. She was supposed to be there for me,” she said, breaking down. I went over to her and sat down next to her. She was pounding her fist to the ground and saying, “I can’t do this,” over and over again. 

To be continued...

Day 28

Riggs was still lying on the floor

While the rest of us tried and cleaned up the mess. I was back down to floor level now, sitting next to the unconscious Kay. We decided to leave her there incase anything else happened, we would all be right here to help. I sat and thought about how Bentley knew I was a Lieutenant. That information was only in confidential files back at my old place. I just had a profile on file here. I saw CC talking to Leeha and Sato, and the Chief. Then Sato waved for me to come down there. When I got down there, I saw Riggs still lying in the same spot I left her. “I found some interference between Bentley and some other unknown signal. I’m not sure what it is, but I have a hunch. And my hunch is it’s coming from Kay,” she told us. “I’ve never seen this before, but I’ve heard legends of it. It’s when a mobile suit and a human have a very close relationship, that it actually feeds off of the brain waves the human gives off, and they almost kind of sync together. Except this syncing is synced with brain waves, and electrical waves. And we need to figure out where they’re coming from.” I didn’t want to hear anymore at the moment so I walked away to Riggs. “You okay?” She looked at me and said, “So if that was a subconscious order from Kay, does that mean she subconsciously wants to kill me?” I said, “Everything is not very clear right now. We don’t really know what’s going on, so when we do, I’ll let you know. But I wouldn’t be surprised if she wants you dead. After all, you did kill her inside and I quote her,” I told her. She looked at me then said, “Okay but then why did he take the order from you? And not me when I’m in command when Kayvroni is incapable?” Again, I shrugged my shoulders and said, “I have no idea.” She got up, brushed herself off and left. I looked up to see Kay was standing, leaning over the scalpel railing. She had a confused look on her face, and then she went towards the stairs. She walked over to Leeha and Sato, so I made my way over to them.

     “What the hell happened over here?” she asked. We all looked at her blankly and Ringo shouted from behind, “You don’t remember?” She looked at him, then back at us and said, “No…? What did I do?” “Long story short, Bentley took over and almost killed Riggs, he destroyed the place, and said he was taking subconscious commands from you. And he only listened to Allison. Any of this sounds familiar?” Sato asked. All she said was, “That sounds like a problem,” and looked up at Bentley. “I just got over the most awful headache. Thank god,” she stated. “Well I would hope so, you just had a huge fit,” I told her. “Did I?” “You have a lot of explaining to do,” Sato said and walked the other way.

     Riggs was sitting in the corner of the couch, and Takuya was spread out on the other side of it. Leeha was standing over the railing were the ramp was and Ringo and Takashi were playing video games as usual. I was sitting on the other end of the couch watching Sato pour some coffee. CC was sitting on the railing next to Leeha chatting up a storm. Then Kay came through the double doors and everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at her. “Yes?” she said to her audience. No one responded and everyone continued what they were doing. She walked over to Ringo and Takashi and asked if she could get third player on the game. Of course they agreed, so now you have three screaming children fighting over a video game. Takashi had to go to the bathroom, so they paused the game. When he got back, they were just talking smack about who was going to loose. Then Riggs bumped in and said, “Why did Bentley listen Allison and not me? You were incapable of taking control therefore I was next in line. So how the hell did that work?” Everyone turned to her, then looked at Kay for an answer everyone was dying to know. Kay turned around and looked at Riggs. “That was his direct order. If I was incapable, he would take orders from Allison.” We all stared at her then turned our attention to Riggs. “When did that happen?” “I told him directly.” “You fucking told him to switch second commanders and make it Allison instead of me?” “Yes, because I feel you’re not capable of giving him the right orders.” “Are you fucking kidding me Kay?” “You left me to die. Twice. You don’t deserve command over him when I can’t. And Al is my partner now, not you.” Our heads kept going back and forth every time one of them would open their mouths. Riggs sat there and thought of the next thing to say. “Well, how the hell did he know Al was a Lieutenant? None of us knew that. It wasn’t in any records. It wasn’t on the profile. That information wasn’t anywhere to be found.” “That’s for me and Allison to know. That’s none of your concern.” I budded in, “But I don’t know either.” Kay turned to me and said, “You will.” She turned back to Riggs and said, “Is there a problem with this?” Riggs looked baffled and said, “The fuck there is a problem with this! You didn’t even tell me! What if something really wrong would happen and I gave him orders and he didn’t listen then we all die? Huh? What then?” “That wouldn’t happen, because Al has a brain; and she would try to do everything she could so that wouldn’t happen. When you gave him orders and he didn’t listen to you, Al gave him orders not knowing any of this and Bent listened to her. She has common sense. I’m beginning to think you’re lacking in that department. Or maybe you have to much stuff up your ass.” “This is unreal. I almost died. His fist came flying in my direction. Luckily he didn’t hit me-“ “Yeah, because Al pushed you out of the way. Common sense. She doesn’t like you, but she saved you. That’s what team members do. You left me behind twice; what makes you think I would ever let you have control over Bentley ever again? And not someone I trust my life with?” I was kind of flattered and everyone seemed taken back. “You haven’t even known her for a year!” “But the trust is still there Rachel! You don’t fucking get it!” Sato came in and said, “Major, Bentley’s fist purposely went for Rachel. You were subconsciously controlling him.” She looked at Sato, confused and said, “What?” “You have no recollection of anything that happened? You saw none of that felt none of it?” She seemed a little nervous but didn’t really show it, but I felt it. “We think you’re synced-“ he tried to say but Riggs wouldn’t let him have the satisfaction without tearing her apart first. She got up right in her face and said, “Fuck you Kayvroni.” Still focused on what Sato just said, she turned to her and said, “You had your chance.” Riggs looked at her and bit her lip. She turned around and walked to the coffee table and took a pot and threw it at Kay. Kay wasn’t even looking but her hand rose up in the air and caught it. She chucked it right back at her and it hit her shoulder. I heard Sato tell CC to go to the holding area and watch if Bentley does anything. She snuck out of the room and ran down the hall. Riggs got mad and leaped over the railing and tackle Kay. But Kay wouldn’t have any of this anymore, I think she was almost to the breaking point, and took her fist and landed it right in her chin; again. Her head snapped back and she fell to the ground. Kay took out her gun and pointed it right at her. “I’m not playing your games anymore. I don’t care what you think, I don’t care how or what you feel, I do not care anymore. Leave me alone or I’ll have no hesitation to wipe you off the face of the Earth. You brought me to a breaking point, and I’m in no mood for your shit anymore,” she said. I looked closely and it looked like she almost had a tear in her eye. “Kay, common. Put it down,” I said. I think she really stood there and deeply thought about pulling that trigger. Riggs stood up in front of the gun and moved back a tiny bit. I walked over to Kay slowly and stood next to her. “Put it down,” I whispered to her. I saw her finger tugging lightly on the trigger. “Kay…” I saw a flash of red in her eyes and then she put then gun down. I tried to take it out of her hand but she wouldn’t let go of her grip. I put my hand on her back and we went to turn around and walk out of the room to get her away from Riggs. Right when we reached the door, she turned around, pointed her gun and shot it at Riggs all in a matter of two seconds. It whizzed right by her left temple and landed in the wall. She flinched. Kay turned around and left the room.

Day 27

I found Kay sitting on the couch

In our room, rubbing her eyes. “What’s going on with you?” I asked her. “I have no idea Al.” She seemed irritated. “Are you feeling better?” She shook her head and said, “No. Where is everyone?” I debated whether I should tell her or not because I didn’t want to set her off. “They’re floating around,” I decided to tell her. She took her hand off of her eyes and looked at me. “Where is everyone?” she asked again in a serious tone, knowing I was keeping information from her. I looked at her with a blank face and said, “Looking for your deleted file.” She looked at me and turned back putting her hands on her eyes again. An almost smirk came across her face, but she stopped herself. I expected her to say something sarcastic but she didn’t this time. “What’s going on Kay?” I asked her, seeing if I can get an answer out of her. “Until you know, I’ll know. And until I found out, then you won’t know,” she responded in riddles. I don’t even think she comprehended what she was saying anymore. She was completely out of it. I was almost scared we were gunna loose her completely if we didn’t figure it out. Everyone made if seem like it was so much worse. Right now she was tolerable, but I wasn’t sure for how much longer. I saw her get up and walk out of the room. “Where ya goin?” I asked her. She turned around and said, “What are you writing book?” and walked out of the room. I thought to myself about what she said in the beginning; about how she wasn’t going to be nice sometimes when things were rough, but not to take it personally. Maybe she knew this was going to happen. Maybe I caught her at the right time.

     I walked down to see how Ringo and them were doing with the mobile suits. I saw Kay on the opposite side of the room leaning on the scalpel railing looking at Bentley. I walked over to Ringo and asked him where CC was. “She’s trying to interfere with waves on the premises if there is any with WD to see where they’re coming from. Riggs is looking up firewalls to see if there are any disturbances in the area. So far we got nothing.” “You know Kay is over there watching you guys right? Or she’s watching Bentley, either or.” He turned around and looked up. He saw Kay standing there looking back at him. “Hey sport! How ya feelin?” he asked her. She put a thumbs up and jumped down from the scalpel and walked towards us. You could see that something was wrong; how she held herself, but none of us knew what it was. “I’ll live. You guys worry too much,” and she waved her hand like nothing was wrong. She kept eyeballing Bentley. “Where’s Riggs?” she asked. “She’s around. Don’t exactly know where but she’s here somewhere,” Ringo responded. Riggs came out of the blue and walked up to us. “I heard my name?” She looked over at Kay and asked her how she was feeling. She nodded her head and said, “Ok.” “I try to be nice and I get a one word answer,” Riggs mumbled. “Please Rachel. I heard you call me a fucking disaster. So your concern for me does not touch me in any way,” Kay said. We all stood there thinking, how she heard Riggs, she wasn’t even in the room. “Stay away from him. He’ll kill you,” and she pointed to Bentley. “I’m gunna kill you,” Riggs shot back. Kay opened her mouth to say something but shut her eyes like she was in pain. She held her head again and said, “Funny one,” and left. “She doesn’t look too good. You think she’ll be okay?” Ringo asked me. “I have no idea. But from what I’ve learned about her so far, I think she’ll make it. Eventually, she’ll be fine.”

Nothing seemed to change in her state

She seemed the same for the next couple days. The usual headache, the usual attitude, it was all just the usual. Her and Riggs have been getting into fights more frequently, which is probably triggering something inside that brain of hers. But we wouldn’t know until we found out. She seemed to be training as often as she could, when she didn’t have a headache. I happened to walk in on her while she was training. She looked like she stopped for a breather and was kneeling on the ground. But I got up close to her, and it wasn’t what I thought it was. She was gripping the ground with her nailed embedded in the floor. Her back was arched over and her head was leaning on the floor. She tried to get up but fell right back down. I snuck up behind her and was going to attempt to put a needle in before it got any worse. But I guess she sensed me and told me not to do it, she wanted to figure out how much she could take. She was shaking like she was getting electrocuted. I looked closer and her eyes were glowing red. I sat in front of her, watching her, making sure everything would turn out okay. “You can’t do this Kay. Let me help you, please. You’re killing yourself,” I told her. But she wouldn’t have it. “I’m beating this…” she said. She managed to get on her own two feet and stood there for a couple minutes, fighting the violent vibrations. Then she collapsed. Out of nowhere, I heard a huge crash, and then the alarm went off. “Security breach in mobile suit holding area. Security breach in mobile suit holding area.” I couldn’t possibly imagine what it was. Somehow though, Kay managed to get to her feet again. “Common,” she said. She stumbled her way down the hall, and then managed to run. We ran into the holding area to see Bentley struggling to get the holding chains off of him. His eyes were also glowing red. Everyone was yelling orders to get everything back into order, but Bentley was especially stubborn at the moment. Sato came running in and saw what was happening. Riggs spotted Kay and started yelling at her. “Kay! Fucking make this machine stop!” But Kay could barely keep her composure. She fell back with her arms swinging trying to grab onto something. The next thing you know, Bentley’s fist comes crashing into the wall at full speed, and then he fell backwards. “I’m getting huge interference!” shouted CC. Leeha ran over to Kay and knelt down next to her to see if she was okay. “She’s unconscious,” I told her. I lifted up her eyelids to see if her eyes were rolled in the back of her head, but they were still glowing red. I turned around to see Bentley getting up. “Bentley, this is Lieutenant Rachel Riggs. I order you to have your previous commands ceased and to return to standby mode,” Riggs said. I turned to Leeha and asked her why Riggs was ordering Bentley around. “A while back, we came to an agreement if anything happened to Kay, Riggs would take over custody and command of Bentley. We programmed him to listen to her if she was incapable of giving orders.” I turned around to see if Bentley listened, but he wanted no part of it. “I think something is wrong with him,” I said. His fist came crashing into the floor then his foot came smashing into the wall. The alarm was still going off and there was no way of stopping it. “Bentley, that is a direct order!” shouted Riggs. Bentley’s head moved and his eyes seemed to focus on Riggs. I had a feeling something very bad was going to happen. I got up and leaped over the scalpel and ran towards Riggs. “Riggs! Move out of his way!” I yelled to her. She looked at me and at that second, Bentley’s fist came flying in her direction. “Sweet Jesus!” I heard Ringo scream. I got to Riggs right in time to push her away from the impact. “GO!” I told her. While his fist was still in the ground, I jumped up on it and ran up his arm up to his control panel. “CC! Come up here!” I yelled to her. She maneuvered her way up Bentley without getting hit. I was in his eyesight, so he would focus on me. “See if you can intercept what’s going on and make it stop,” I told her. She shook her head and went into the control panel. “Bentley, why are you doing this…” I mumbled under my breath. I guess he heard me somehow and responded, “I am carrying out mere subconscious actions of the Major. I am only following commands Lieutenant Warsfield.” We all stopped what we were doing and looked at him. “Her subconscious is my control. But I will carry out your orders as you please Lieutenant,” he said. His eyes flashed and went blank. He walked back to his usual stance were he would stay and went back into standby mode. CC came up from the cockpit and said, “I didn’t know you were a Lieutenant?” I stared blankly at the opposite wall and said, “I didn’t think anybody would.”

Day 26

When we got back to base

Kay was quite and just went to her room. The Chief met us in the lounge and we all sat down and talked. “Well, what happened?” the Chief asked us. “The doctors told us electrical waves were interfering with her brain waves,” Sato said. “Which means she could possibly have a brain chip still installed in her from previous whatever. We asked her personally in her room at the hospital after she was escorted back, because she escaped, you know how she is, but she said she doesn’t know. So this could be a problem. We have to monitor her closely and I want tests run on everything that is installed in Bentley. That means Ringo and Riggs, get a move on-“ “I can go too if you want. I’m specialized in mobile suit program installations and ballistics, and computers, and all that’s electronical,” CC said. “Good. Well now we know where we could place you later on. So that’s that. Allison, keep a close eye on Kayvroni and the actions she has with Bentley. This is a serious matter,” explained Sato. “Very well. Sato I want you to do a full background check or Kayvroni. Go as far back as you can. Allison, go with him,” the Chief ordered. “Yes Chief,” we said. “Well, how serious is it?” Riggs said, probably pretending to care. “Remember how serious it was last time? Worse. She could die. The doctors wouldn’t even tell us she could die. But we knew, and he agreed,” Leeha said. “Fucking disaster…” she muttered. “This is serious Rachel. Shut the fuck up and go do what you were ordered to do. Because if we don’t figure this out, you’re probably going to be a number one target when she has an outbreak,” shouted Leeha. Riggs already got up and was half way out of the room before Leeha was done speaking. Everyone went about their business and we were going to try and help Kay as much as we could.

     Me and Sato went into the computer room. Sato sat down in front of the wall with a huge screen and I pulled up a chair next to him. We got on and looked up Kay’s files. “Major Captain Kayvroni Washamarou, nineteen, operative for blah blah blah…” He was mumbling everything he was reading and then he attempted to go as far back as he could; but he stopped. “What?” I asked him. I looked on the screen and in big red letters it said file can not be found. “Shit. It’s not here.” He was looking around frantically through the computer files but couldn’t find what he needed. All that was there was the current profile of who she was, and nothing more. Nothing of her past, nothing of where she came from; it was like a huge mystery. “How could this be possible?” he said to himself. “Well, did anyone actually look at her past files when she got here? Or did you guys just put in a current profile and started a new one?” I asked him. “No, we’ve had to have done a background check?” He picked up the phone next to him and called for Leeha. “Leeha, did we do a background check on Kay when she first came here? - Yeah, that’s what I thought, but it’s not here- No- I don’t know, I checked all the files under her and I found nothing. It says file can not be found and then I go down the screen and it’s white- Okay, I’ll let you know.” “Well what did she say?” “She said exactly what I said. And she thinks somehow Kay deleted it. No one has checked that girl’s file for years. It’s normally always there when we need it, so she could’ve deleted it at anytime,” Sato said. He sat back and stared at the screen. We heard footsteps behind us and we turned around to see Kay was standing in the door. “How long have you been there?” I asked her. “Just got here.” “Shit! NO, what the hell is going on?!” I turned around to see Sato yelling at the computer. “It’s crashing!” The screen started blinking red, and on the screen popped up “erasing file.” We both turned around and Kay was gone. “What the hell is going on,” Sato said. “I just lost her whole file. That’s impossible. These computers are impossible to hack in to.” “Unless you know them. Or unless you’re a computer yourself,” I said. He turned to me and I think he got the idea. “I think we have a serious problem,” he said. The computer turned off it self, and by that time, Sato got up and walked through the doors. I sat there and thought for a moment and then followed him. He was in the hall looking in all directions for Kay. “She nowhere to be found.” He started walking and I followed him into the lounge. “Is Kay here?” he asked. Takuya and Leeha looked up and Leeha said, “No, why?” “Because she came into the room while we were looking up her file, and then the whole file was erased, and then the whole computer crashed, and she left right after this happened,” Sato explained. Confusing looks came across her face. “What? How is that possible?” Takuya asked. “I have no idea. But Al brought up a valid point. I said there are security systems like crazy in all of our systems and it should be impossible to get through. Then Al said not unless you’re a computer or something like that. If she has a chip, she could be aware that were looking at her files and erasing all of them. Maybe there’s something she wants to hide from us. Which I don’t understand why, we’re her family pretty much,” Sato said. “Yeah, but she has no idea what’s going on? She doesn’t even remember anything?” Takuya said. He shrugged his shoulders and left the room. “Try and pull up her files on any other computer!” he said while he walked out of the room. Takuya and Leeha left to go check to see if they can find Kay’s files. I got up and went back to my room.

Day 25

When we got to the emergency room

It wasn’t any ordinary one. I believe it was actually a part of R.A.I.S. a special medical facility specially made for operatives. There were already doctors standing in the doors waiting for us. They took Kay on the stretcher and ran through the double doors no one was aloud to go through. Sato and Leeha went up to the desk to fill out paper work, when two people came up to them. I saw them talking but I couldn’t make out what they were saying. I think they were speaking Japanese, but then they started speaking English. The two left and Leeha came towards me. “I told them to speak English so you can be filled in to about what’s going on.” “Thanks but I know Japanese.”

While we sat in the waiting area, it was like we were getting special treatment. All the doctors came up to us and talked to us, they offered us things and it just seemed like special treatment to me. “We’re well known in this hospital because of Kayvroni. Everyone knows who she is, whether they want to or not. They have no choice but to help us.” The more I sat there, the more impatient I got, and the more I thought about Riggs doing what she did. I vent to Sato and Leeha about it and all they had to say was, “That’s Rachel Riggs for you. They have history and I guess it just gets worse and worse for them.” “But she could have died! She just stood there and watched her in pain!” I bugged out. “It’s not the first time she’s done that. And it’s not the first time she’s left her like that. Except this time, I don’t know why she did it,” Leeha said. I was getting so pissed off just thinking about it. We were there for a couple of hours I think; I dozed off a lot of the time. Every time a doctor came to talk to us, Leeha would always wake me up and tell me what happened. “She’s just getting a lot of tests done, so it could take a while.”

          I woke up to the same thing that was happening hours before, nothing. Me and Leeha sat around in the waiting area, and Sato was just walking around. A doctor came through the doors and went over to Sato. I watched them talk for about five seconds and then Sato followed the doctor to where we were sitting. “Well, she came to, so she is now conscious in her room. She’s resting now, so you can see her in a bit. As for what happened, we are not exactly sure, but it was some sort of electrical wave interfering with her brain waves somehow. Which, as you guys should know, is not good. If this is the case, it could be a sign of a chip still installed inside of her. We could run some more tests and see what how it goes but it’s up to her. And we all know how stubborn your Major is,” he explained to us. “What’s a chip?” I asked. I knew what it was, but I knew what it was and what it did in my company. I didn’t know what it was capable of here. “A chip is something put inside of someone, specifically an operative of some sort, to collect the brain waves and replace them with other waves made from the chip. It can erase memory, change a person completely or it could be mobile suit related. In the Major’s case, it could be all three, but we mostly suspect it’s from her past and she never got it taken out or she forgot about it. It’s a big deal. That’s the best way I can describe it as of now, even though it sounds like a childish explanation, but you can go home and look them up on your own time,” the doctor said. “Well is it serious?” I asked him again. He looked at me, and then looked at Leeha and Sato, and walked away. I looked at Leeha for an answer but she wouldn’t say anything. “Sato?” He looked up and said, “She could die.” I looked at him but before I could say anything, the doors came crashing open. I could see through the doors there was a red light flashing and an alarm going off. I look at the doors and saw Kay. “Get me the fuck out of here,” she said directly to me walking towards us. The doctors and security guards started coming after her. Kay looked behind her and started to run. “NO! Go away! I’m fine! I swear!” One of the doctors grabbed her and she started struggling. “NO, NO, NO!” she screamed. “Leeha tell them I’m ok!” But all Leeha did was go up to her and give her a small needle in the arm to calm her down. Kay looked at her, but she loosened up in the grip of the doctor. “Why…” The doctor brought her back to her room and the security guards followed. She managed to look behind her and straight at me. She made a face that said, “Why are you letting them take me? Come help me out,” but there was nothing I could do. One of the doctors told us we could follow them into her room, so that’s exactly what we did.

     When we got to her room, we stood behind glass doors and watched because we couldn’t go in yet. The security guard helped the doctor plant her onto the bed and then strapped her in so she couldn’t move. Then they put some collar around her neck. “The collar is for anytime she tries to get out, it will send a shock through her body. It’s more annoying then anything, but there’s not much she can do if she’s strapped down. We apologize we have to do it this way, but you know, she’s stubborn,” a security guard told us. “It’s okay, she gets this every time she goes in the hospital,” Sato said. I guess I saw another side of her today, I don’t know if she was scared or just wanted to get out of there, but she tried to move, and she got a lot of shocks for it. We were aloud to go in and see her, so we went in and tried to calm her down. “Why the fuck am I in here!?” she was yelling. Leeha went up to her bed, leaned over her and looked her in the eyes. “Why am I here Leeha!?” She kept looking at her, and then smacked her across the face real hard. She shut her mouth and looked at Leeha. “Calm down,” she said. To my surprise, she actually calmed down a bit. “Do you have a chip in you?” she asked her. “What?” “Do you, have a chip, in your body?” Kay looked confused and looked over at me. She looked back at Leeha and said in a quite tone, “No?” Leeha turned around and sat in the chair that was in the room. “Well they think you do. And I think you do too. Do you remember anything that happened?” She stopped and thought for a bit and shook her head no. “You’ve had this problem for how many years Kay? And you still don’t know what’s going on, or you refuse to get checked, well I have news for you. The doctors said electrical waves are interfering with your brain waves. Now tell me you don’t have a chip in your brain.” I looked at Kay and her head was back on the pillow and she was staring at the ceiling. “I don’t know Leeha.” She didn’t say much after that.

Day 24

Where is CC?

Kayvroni asked over and over again where she was. “I have no idea. Why do you keep asking?” Riggs said. “You would be the only one in this room,” Kay said sarcastically. “I’m here to,” I acknowledged. She turned to me and asked me if I knew where CC was. “No, I do not. Sorry.” She stormed out of the room on the search for CC. “Someone’s mad…” Riggs mumbled under her breath. Five minutes later she came on over the loud speaker. “CC, please report to the conference room. I repeat, CC please report to the conference room.” “I wonder what’s going on?” I said to Riggs. “How the fuck am I supposed to know?” she said. “God, it’s like I try to be nice, and you’re just a stuck up ass who doesn’t even want to attempt to be liked right now,” and I got up and left. I heard her mumble god knows what but I didn’t care enough to turn around and say anything. While I was making my way towards the door, CC came flying through, ran past me and almost knocked me down. “Sorry!” she shouted. I walked out of the doors and watched her run down the hallway into the conference room. “She’s fast,” I thought to myself. I saw Sato walking down the hall and I stopped and asked him, “What’s going on?” He shrugged his shoulders and said, “No clue, but I’m sure we’ll find.” “Eh, I suppose…” I decided to sit in the hallway because I didn’t really know where else I felt like staying. Twenty minutes later, CC came out of the conference room, and she looked relieved. She found me sitting on the floor and came over to me. “Mind if I sit?” “No, not all.” She sat down next to me and we stared at the wall together. “So, is everything ok? Cause, you ran pretty fast before,” I asked her. “Oh yeah! Everything is fine. Kay was just helping me out with something.” I felt like there was more to it so I decided to try and nudge it out of her. “She seemed pretty pissed; is she okay?” She looked at me and said, “Oh yeah. She was bugging out. But she’s okay now. We got everything under control. She’s just helping me with some background checks and such that’s all.” “Huh, okay. Sounds good.” Then Kay walked out right in time to bump into Riggs. “How are your injuries?” Kay asked miserably. “Like you care,” and she walked away. Kay looked at her and said, “You’re right, I don’t,” and waked the opposite way. CC leaned over and asked me, “Do they always do this?” “Yeah, it’ll get worse too, watch.” “That’s not healthy,” she said. “I know.”

     We were all playing video games, even Sato joined us. I don’t think I really ever seen him be happy and social before, so it was kind of a surprise. Kay was sitting in the corner of the couch looking kind of uncomfortable with her hoodie and her glasses on. “You still have a headache?” Takuya asked. “Yeah, I don’t know what it is.” Then she got up and left the room. She was gone for a good ten minutes. “I wonder what she’s doing. Should someone go and check on her?” Takuya asked. Then we heard a loud crash. “Yeah, yeah I think we should go check on her,” Leeha said. So Leena, Takuya and I got up and went to go see what the crash was which would probably lead us to Kay. We went down the hallway and didn’t see any sign of her. So we turned back and went down another hallway where we heard rustling.  We heard it coming form the medical room so we turned in there to see what was going on. What we saw made our jaws drop. Kay was running around the room frantically throwing everything on the ground trying to look for something. “Where are they!?” I ran in and tried to grab her but she pushed me away. Her hoodie fell off and she shouted “Where the fuck are they!?” “Where is what Kay!? What are you looking for? What’s the matter?” Leeha said almost in a panic. Kay bent on the floor and messed around everything that fell, looking through all the medical equipment. Her sunglasses fell off her face and she looked up and said, “The needles! Where are the god dam needles?!” Her eyes were glowing red like they did yellow when Bentley’s eyes were glowing. I heard Leeha mutter “shit” under her breath, and Takuya gasping. “Takuya get Sato and your brother,” Leeha ordered. Takuya ran out of the room to go get them. “Al, do not touch her.” “WHERE ARE THEYYYY?!” Kay kept screaming. She attempted to get up, but fell down again. She grabbed onto the countertop and tried to stand up and was holding on for dear life. “Help me out here…” Her voice was getting fainter and fainter. Takuya returned with Takashi and Sato and a few others followed. They all stood, frozen, not knowing what to do. Then Kay lost grip, fell down, and grabbed her head. “Grab her!” I said. Takashi and Sato ran over to her to try and play her down on the floor. “Get Rachel!” Sato yelled. But Rachel was already standing in the doorway. “Rachel, you need to do something,” Sato said. “She’s doing it again Rach.” But she just stood there and watched with a straight face. Kay’s eyes were glowing red and she was struggling to breath. Then she tried to get up but it was almost like gravity wouldn’t let her. “Go see if Bentley’s eyes are red!” Sato commanded to whoever would take it. Ringo came in at the right time and heard it, so he ran back to go check. Blood started coming out of her nose and her whole body started to tense up and her hands started to shake. Riggs just stood there and watched. “DO SOMETHING!” I yelled at her. Ringo came back and pushed Riggs out of the way. “Bad news Sato. His eyes are just as red.” I didn’t even know what that meant but I knew it was bad. Kay started to crawl over to Riggs and looked up at her. She tried to speak but couldn’t. Riggs knelt down in front of her to take a good look, got up, and left the room. We were all shocked, and with what seemed like her last breath she said, “Leave me again Rachel… Good job…” Just then, it clicked in my head that she needed the adrenaline needles. So I ran back into my room and came back with a bunch of them. I knelt down beside her and jammed one in the arm and one in the neck and sat next to her and waited. She was breathing pretty heavy but she seemed to be stabilizing. “We need to get her to the emergency room now,” Sato said. So Takashi lifted up Kay in his arms and ran down the hall with Sato, Leena and I behind. Takuya, Ringo, and CC stayed behind to clean.

         

Day 23

The next day everything seemed ok

I walked passed Riggs’ room to see her lying on her bed holding her head and moving her jaw. I bumped into CC and she had a puzzled look on her face. “You ok?” I asked her. She stood there for a moment in self thought and said, “Yeah, yeah, I’m fine. Thank you though.” I gave her a smile and nodded my head and continued my way down the hall. I heard her shout from down the hall, “When you first came here, everything got better in time right? Everything got cool again?” I turned around and stared at her for a bit trying to figure out what she meant. “Yeah,” I said not really knowing what else to say. She looked down then back up at me. “You better keep an eye on your Major. She’s not doing too hot,” she said. Again, I looked at her trying to figure out what she was talking about. “What are you saying?” “I’m just saying. She needs you,” and she turned the other way and walked down the hall. Confused as anything I went back to direction I was walking. I went into the lounge to find Leeha by herself making a cup of coffee. “What is CC talking about?” I asked her. I figured maybe she knew, since she knew a lot of things first. “I think the question is, what are you talking about?” “Well, I was walking over here and I passed her in the hallway and then she asked me when I got here, if everything got better, and I didn’t know what to say. So I said yeah, and then she told me the Major isn’t doing too hot. What does that even mean?” She looked at me strangely; she looked down and turned her attention to her coffee. “Yeah, well Kay isn’t really doing too hot.” I looked at her and said, “Well is anybody going to explain to me why? Or what’s going on?” She turned back around and looked at me dead in the eye. “Well, in the past, Kay has had some- troubles, I guess you can say; with herself. She’s been through a lot and it takes a toll on you, even for an adult. And to go through those things that young, I can only imagine what it’s like inside of her head. And lately she’s been acting weird with Bentley and we’re not sure why, but we think we’re going to find out really soon. And Riggs isn’t helping either. So there are a lot of factors to what’s going on. But the last time something like this happened, it wasn’t good, and she left. We all guessed the stress was too much but we know there’s more to it. Then she came back-“ “You guys asked her to come back,” I interrupted. She shook her head and said, “No, we suggested it. It was the only safe place for her. We could watch her and make sure nobody gets to her. We could help her out, give her moral support, and maybe eventually figure out what’s wrong with her. She gets explosive Allison. It’s not safe for any of us, or her for that matter, and we need to figure it out fast before something goes horrifically wrong.” I knew it was serious because no one really calls me Allison unless it’s serious. I looked at her and she had a serious look in her eyes. “She could very well kill herself if we don’t find out what’s going on.” I didn’t want to believe what she just told me, but I knew it was very possible. Looking back in my records I had of her, I knew what she’s done, I knew what she was capable of, and I knew the longer she lived and the more she grew, the greater danger she became to herself. But I didn’t know how real that was until know. “We don’t know how, or why she came through to you, but right now you seem to be her only post. Hold her up for us until we figure this out,” Leeha told me. “So what your telling me is she’s mentally unstable?” She nodded her head and said, “Exactly.” I looked at her then stormed out of the room.

     Sitting at the computer, I looked up every possible piece of information I could get on Kay. I wanted to know everything possible about her, everything she’s been through, all the missions, all her health records, everything. And the only way to do that was to go through her file, which was highly illegal unless granted access. I sat staring at the large screen trying to figure out what to do. I knew I couldn’t hack into anything; that would just be wrong. I would do it in my old days, but not now, I was a changed person. So I sat there and came to the conclusion that I would just have to ride it out and see what happens. “Gay…” I muttered to myself. “I know I’m not, but what are you?” I heard a voice behind me and turned around to see it was Takashi. “Can’t bring yourself to hack into it, can you?” I don’t know how he knew what I was trying to do but he was right. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I said. “Don’t play dumb. I know you’re worried, but there’s not much we can do. We just have to wait and be prepared. Leeha told me the conversation you had. I came in right after you left and she told me to go check on you and see if you were okay.” “You guys do know that half of her problems are here right? Half of how she is, is because she’s back here right? You do know that? So why would you suggest she comes back? Why would you-“ “WE, didn’t do anything. We suggested it. She took it upon herself to come back. She wasn’t happy about it, but she did it. She knows better. In the amount of sanity she still has left, she knows better,” he interrupted me this time. “Don’t play that game with us. Don’t play the blame game. Because I guarantee you, everybody here has something to blame on everybody for the way they are. But in the end of the day, if it wasn’t for each other, we wouldn’t be here now, and we wouldn’t be who we are. We help each other. We’re humans, we make mistakes but we fix them. Together. We are a team; we act like a team. And you are a part of it now,” he said. I was almost close to tears, which I haven’t cried in so long I forgot how it feels. I took a breath and said, “I know. I know, I’m just worried, that’s all.” “You, me, and the rest of the team kid. Welcome to our lives,” and he patted my head and left.

Day 22

Everyone went to bed

Except me and Kay. She stayed out on the balcony and I was inside watching TV. She came in from the balcony and sat on one of the chairs in the kitchen. “Why don’t you go to bed, it’s late,” she said. I wasn’t really thinking of what to say because I was kind of tired but I didn’t want to go to bed. “Because I don’t want to leave you up alone in the state your in,” I said. I think I caught her off guard and looked over at her. Her head was facing down and there was a smile across her face, which put a smile across my face. “Thanks for everything today Al. I know I don’t normally thank you for half the shit you do but it really does mean a lot,” I sat there looking at the TV and I couldn’t stop smiling. She didn’t wait for me to say anything back but she did change the subject quickly. “I heard you almost punched Rachel in the face again. What happened?” I turned my attention to her finally and said, “She came storming through the place and said ‘Where is that little fucking fuck’ or whatever she said, and I went over to her and put my fist up and I went to hit her but Leeha caught it in midair and that was that,” “Why though?” I sat there and looked at her. “Are you serious? She was going to come in and do whatever to you while you were sleeping. You don’t sleep to begin with and when you finally do, she’s going to come in and harass you? I don’t think so.” She sat there all mushy looking and just nodded her head. “I get you,” she said. She got up and came over and sat down next to me. She put her hand on my knee and said, “You’re a lot more than I expected.” Whatever that meant. It was like she was opening up to me more and more each day, without trying to show it. And when she did, she spoke her words nice and meaningfully. She was someone I didn’t expect to be comfortable with. At first, I thought we would be how her and Riggs are, but really, were almost like a perfect partnership.  

     The next morning, CC taught us how to do that thing she does on the board. It was so hard. It’s harder then it looks. The only one who actually got it first try was Ringo. Surprising since he’s huge, you would think he’d sink. But no, he stood on top of that board like a champ. The next couple days went smooth. We all had a lot fun, but sadly we had to go home. CC was packing up her stuff and getting ready to go on the road yet again. Everything was packed and we were just relaxing for a bit until we decided to go home. The guys were playing cards on the kitchen table and the girls were watching TV. “So where ya goin now CC?” Takashi asked. “Eh, you know. Around. I’m sure you guys will see me again. I float around a lot,” she said with a chuckle. “Well, CC- if you want, you can stay with us?” Kay said. “You’re always taking in new people. You’re so sweet,” CC said. “Takuya told me how you took in her and her brother a while back.” Kay smiled and said “Yeah, yeah I did. That because I thought they could use some help, or guidance at the time, even though I was 12. But whatever. You can come with us and until we figure out where to place you, you can be a part of our team.” She gave us that look she always gives us when she’s looking for a team answer. And we all gave her the face that shows her yes. “Well CC, welcome aboard,” Kay told her. Tears started flowing out of CC’s eyes but she wasn’t really crying. “Tears of happiness. I’m kind of glad I don’t need to go searching for another home now. It’s really stressful. But what about WD?” “No worries, we already have a transporter on the way. We would let him fly with Bentley but we don’t want to take any chances in case something goes wrong.” An hour later everything was all prepared and we were ready to set out.

On our way back, most of us were asleep

I was sitting in the chair looking out at the water, Kay was sitting on the bar outside on the bottom of the helicopter and Riggs was standing over her watching her. CC looked a little distracted while she was online, but other then that, there was no activity. “Why did you do that…?” I heard Riggs ask Kay. I was really hoping there would be no problems, at least till we got home. “You flat out deserved it.” Riggs kept asking her questions but she just ignored her. I got up and maneuvered my way to the bar on the bottom of the helicopter to sit with her. She saw me coming and she slid over to make room. We sat there and just watched the sky move and all the buildings that were lit up below us. We began to see New York City so we new it was time to get up for we’d be landing soon. Kay walked over to CC and said, “Welcome to New York.”

     Once landed, the two mobile suits got moved to the holding area. WD was taking to a testing facility area so it can be checked and Bentley went to his normal holding spot. Kay got off the copter first and didn’t look at anybody. She went straight to her room for some reason. She came back a couple minutes later, wearing a hoodie. “You look comfy,” Takashi said. She looked up at him and she was wearing sunglasses. “What do you have a hangover or something?” he said. She shook her head and said, “No, just a headache.” Leeha went over to her and put her hand on her forehead. “You don’t feel like you have a fever,” she said. “I know I don’t,” Kay responded. We all scattered to go unpack. Kay stayed with Bentley in the holding area looking like they were just hanging out. I have no idea how one person can have a relationship with a piece of metal and wires, but she does. I went in to see what they were doing and I just saw her standing in front of Bentley on the scalpel. “How do I stop this…?” I heard her ask him. “Stop what Major?” he answered. She took off her glasses, and to my surprise her eyes were glowing red. “This is not normal Bent.” He didn’t answer her. She put them back on and turned around to see me. She walked towards me, and then right passed me, like I wasn’t even there. I was confused as to what was going on between them too, so I went to the computer room to do some research on mobile suit connections with humans. What I found really wasn’t pleasing.

Day 21

We got everything under control

I took Kay upstairs, where me and CC cleaned her up. Sato and Takashi helped Ringo and Rachel out of the water. Leeha and Takuya took Riggs upstairs and sat her down in the bathroom. I took a peak at her and she seemed disoriented. Leeha gave her an examination and said that she would probably have to go to the hospital since we didn’t really bring a station here; it was supposed to be a vacation. Ringo dried off and said, “Man! That girl can pack a punch.” Still breathing heavy, Kay apologized. “It’s okay kiddo. Just calm down.” “Me and Takuya are taking Riggs to the hospital. She’s really beat up. So I’ll keep you updated and see you later,” Leeha said. Kay had her head down on the kitchen table, trying to catch her breath. CC and I were sitting with her, watching her to make sure she was okay. They had to walk past us to get to the door, so when they came into the kitchen, Kay looked up and her head followed Riggs out of the door. Her eyes screamed “fuck you” to Riggs. “I wanna take a shower,” she said. So I helped her up and walked her to the shower. “You should stay in there with her and keep an eye out on her incase she passes out or something,” said Sato. I got a little nervous when he told me I had to stay in the bathroom with her while she showered. So I went into the bathroom with her, but she was already in the shower. The shower doors opened and she stood there soaking wet, but this time she had a towel around her. She stepped out and leaned against the wall. She took one look at me and slid down the wall and sat against it. She put her head in her knees and it almost looked like she was crying because she had little shake here and there. I jut sat on the toilet and watched her, thinking about what I should do. This tough little thing really did have a heart; just nobody knew how to work with it. I moved down from the toilet and leaned against the wall next to her. I sat there for a good couple seconds, which felt like minutes, deciding if I should put my arm around her to try and attempt to comfort her. The second I came to reason with myself, she lifted her head up. “Do you think I broke her jaw?” she asked me. I stared at her trying to read her face; I couldn’t tell if she was crying or not. “I think I heard something being said about her jaw is dislocated? But I’m not sure. You did give her one pack of a punch though. You guys really should calm down.” She gave me a look, one of those looks that say “you should probably take that back,” but I didn’t. “Well- you should.” She sat there and just sighed. She stared into space then got up. “I think I’m going to try and sleep?” I looked at her and said ok. She stopped in the doorway and stood there for a second. She turned around and said to me, “I can’t do this anymore Al. My patience is running thin,” and she walked out into the bedroom.

     I kept walking in the bedroom to check on Kay while she was sleeping. She actually was sleeping, or it seemed like she was anyway. I went back into the kitchen to make myself some food. The guys were lying around watching TV and conversing with CC. The door opened and Leeha, Takuya, and Riggs came walking through. Riggs had a bandage wrapped around her head, her lip was swollen, and her jaw was blown up and she had a slight black eye. The first thing to come out of her mouth of course was “Where the fuck is she?” She walked towards the bedroom and I don’t know why but that made me snap. I rushed towards her and got in front of her and pushed her away from the door. I pointed my finger in her face and said, “NO. I don’t give a fuck if you have a dislocated jaw or a concussion. You go in that room and bother her, I will personally send you back to the hospital.” By this time, Takuya got in between me and Riggs and pushed us away from the door. “Go rest Riggs. Doctor’s orders,” she said. I peaked in Kay’s room to make sure she wasn’t disturbed. “I must say Al, you are the cutest little bitch,” Riggs said. I put my fist up and I went to punch her in the face once again, but Leeha caught it in mid air. Thank god or she would’ve had to go back to the hospital. “Relax,” Leeha said.  I grilled Riggs and my eyes followed her away from the door. “She’s going to get really hurt,” I said to whoever was listening. I went back to the kitchen and made my sandwich. To my surprise it was ten at night. I just wasn’t paying attention to the time today; it went so fast. It was almost like it couldn’t even fit in all the events. Kay walked out of the room looking around. She walked into Riggs’ room took one look at her and walked out. She sat in the chair next to me and mouthed, “is she ok?” I nodded my head and lipped back “concussion and dislocated jaw. Fat lip and black eye. She’s fine,” and she understood what I said. I knew she cared but she didn’t want to show it. It was just how much she cared, and how long it would take until she didn’t anymore.

Day 20

               Shut the fuck up Rachel.

I saw that CC tried to hide her laughing at the demand. It kind of made me smile. Pointing at the Mobile suits, Kay said, “They’re gunna help clean up. In the meantime, come up to the apartment. We’ll talk there.” I watched them go up the stairs and into the door. “Jealous already? I told you, you weren’t a good enough partner for her,” Riggs said. So I told her “You have a camel toe,” and walked away. I caught a glimpse of her looking and heard her say “No I don’t…”

     By time I made it up to the apartment, everyone was already there. CC was wearing dry clothes that I think were Leeha’s and everyone was at the table. Takashi and Ringo were trying to check her out secretly, but they were failing miserably. “Everyone must be a little confused, especially the past couple of hours. Our mission is pretty much complete, for we found out the source of the Mobile Suit activity. Everyone, this is CC- uh… CC. That’s it. And I will let her tell you her story because; I truly do not know. All I know is she was a piece we needed. And here we are. Go ahead CC,” Kay said.

     She went over to the laptop on the kitchen table and opened it. “Do you mind if I use this?” she asked. Kay shook her head and CC continued. “Well I guess I should say thank you- for helping me out back there. Obviously, I knew who the Major Captain was, and obviously somehow, she knew who I was. So she sent out signals and met up one night to talk some things over. It was just a coincidence that we met here. There was no tracking at all. You guys were just here at the right time. That’s mine out there. He’s a White Dark Wing model mobile suit; model number WD-56. I got him back in my days when I was with a small national security association, sort of like yours. I retired early because I didn’t want to deal with the emotional stress; I guess its because I didn’t really have anyone to lean on or help me out. Anyhow, I got out of it and ever since then, I’ve been- I wouldn’t say on the run, but traveling. I never stay in one place and WD always comes with me. He’s kind of rare but I’m sure you guys have seen your share. There’s not really much more I can, or want to say; so feel free to look at that,” she pointed to the operative background file that was up on the laptop. “So you’re like a hippie run away you can say,” Riggs stated. “Not really- no, but-“ “I am going to end your life if you don’t shut up Rachel,” declared Kay. I looked over at Riggs, then CC, and then Kay. “No. Stop,” I mouthed to Her. She gave me a dirty look then turned her attention to CC. “I apologize for her CC. Anyway, if you would like to stay with us till we go back, you are more then welcome. We’ll find you a place to sleep and we’ll get extra food,” Kay told her. “Is that good with you guys?” she added. She always included us in a team decision. We all shook our heads and Takuya said, “I think me and Leeha would love another girl on the team!” “She said stay with us till we leave, not join the team,” Riggs pushed. I could see Kay was getting frustrated so I jumped in. “So, we should all probably rearrange some things and help you settle in for a bit. What do you say CC?” “Thanks, that would be really cool. It’s nice to have some friends once in a while.”

We all helped out with CC

Except Kay and Riggs, because they were nowhere to be found. We looked all around the apartment for them but they were nowhere. I snuck away from the crowd and walked into the living room. I looked out of the window and sure enough I saw Kay and Riggs bickering. I went back inside to get Leeha and told her to follow me. We both looked outside the window with the same expression. “You’ve got to be fucking kidding me,” Leeha said. Takashi snuck up behind us and said, “Shall I get some popcorn this time?” Takuya came in and smacked him across the chest. “Stop ass, this is serious. They can’t be doing this all the time. Kay is gunna snap and something bad is going to happen,” she said. “Good! Riggs deserves to be put in her place by Her.” They started getting louder and louder and soon enough everyone was watching from the window. Sato came over then went out on the balcony. “Can you two lower it down a notch!? We are in a condo that does not appreciate your loud bickering!” He yelled at them something fierce. The both of them looked up then turned their attention towards each other once again.

     “I really don’t understand why every little thing that happens, you have to have a god dam comment for it!” Kay exclaimed. “Well, I don’t really understand why every time someone new comes around, you have to bring them in!” Riggs shot back. “Because I think I’m a pretty nice person! I help people out, unlike you, you selfish bitch. Are you jealous of something? Or someone? Please. If you are let me know so I can laugh in your face.” “I am not jealous of no little girl inside of that god dam fucking room-“ “Then what is your problem Rachel!? Huh?! What?!” Kay interrupted. “YOU! You are my fucking problem Kayvroni! At times, I’m glad I fucking left you there!” Everyone stopped and gasped. Kay’s face dropped then got stern. “You fucking whore… FUCK YOU!” She tackled her into the water and they started fighting. Sato jumped over the railing screaming at them. I removed my attention from the window and ran downstairs to pull them off of each other. Takashi and Ringo followed. We were all screaming at them but they didn’t listen. “If you don’t fucking drown now, I’m going to kill you myself!” Kay screamed. She got on top of Rachel’s head and pushed her under water. She got out and grabbed Kay by the neck and pushed her head under water and held it there. A fist came flying out of the water and into Rachel’s chin, nearly knocking her out. Both of them gasping for air, Ringo grabbed Rachel’s hand and pulled her out, while me and Takashi pulled out Kay. Rachel was almost down for the count, and we were still holding back Kay. “YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE! HOW DARE YOU FUCKING EVEN-“ She tried to catch her breath but it was difficult trying to get out of our grip. Rachel focused her eyes on Kay and laid a big smirk on her face. That only pissed Her off more. She slipped out of our grip and ran over to Rachel so fast that the punch she threw to her jaw, threw Rachel AND Ringo so far back, they both went into the water. Kay went to go dive in but before she could, Takashi, Me, Sato and Leeha tackled her onto the seawall. “STOP THIS RIGHT NOW!” Sato yelled. I could feel Kayvroni’s little heart beating a mile a second. We held her down and I looked into her eyes expecting that I would have to take out a needle and jam her in the neck. I was right, so while they held her down, I got out the needle and poked her in the neck with it. This time I put it in the neck because she was pretty much gone she was so pissed. Between trying to catch her breath from almost drowning, to fighting with Riggs, to the adrenaline pumping, I don’t know how she didn’t pass out.

Day 19

When got back to the condo

We saw nothing but a whole lot of Bentley standing in the water. We ran through the clubhouse that led to the pool and saw that there were boats and helicopters all around. But it wasn’t the police; it looked like some other force. “Bad guys are here,” Ringo said from behind us. I looked up at Bentley and saw that the blonde chick was standing on his shoulder. “Hey, that chick is on Bentley,” I told Leeha. She looked up and before she could say anything, Kayvroni came smashing through the clubhouse, hopped on the gate, and swam to Bentley’s hand that was waiting there. He brought her up and she hopped up to the girl and went around her and pulled a gun to her head. “Is this what you’re looking for?” She screamed down. “Kay! What the fuck is going on!?” Riggs screamed. I got a message on my phone from Bentley again. It was a profile of the blonde girl but I couldn’t understand it so I gave it to Sato. He read it and nodded his head. “Systems are go Kay!” he said. She looked at him and nodded. Takuya went over to Leeha and said, “I just heard those guys over there talking in Japanese. They said something about bringing in the TO-39?” Leeha stood there and thought to herself. “That’s a mobile suit.“ Sure enough, a black Mobile Suit came walking over the bridge, and approached Bentley. The bad guys all got their guns up and were ready to fire as well as the helicopters, boats, and their own Mobile Suit. Bentley just stood there like he was waiting for something.

     Then the ground started to shake and the water began to rise up. Out of nowhere, a white Mobile Suit appeared. It must’ve had its stealth on because it wasn’t there before. Blondie leaped from Bentley, into the hands of the white robot. He brought her up and the cockpit slid open. She hopped in and took control. Bentley backed up and gave the white robot some space. “Her name is CC. No other identification will be released until further notice,” Sato said. “Ringo! I want a full identification on the type of Mobile Suit that is!” commanded Sato. “Yes Sir!” The suit took out a gun from its back and pointed it at the helicopters. It shot a few rounds until the hovering copters were in the water. It stomped on the boats then it tackled the black suit. It grabbed it by the neck and held it in the air. Bentley came over and Kayvroni hopped of his shoulder and onto the black’s shoulder. The white’s cockpit opened and out came CC. She walked down the suit’s arm and across to the black suit where Kayvroni was standing. She went over to the head were the cockpit was and smashed in the glass. She pulled out the guy who was operating it by his neck and showed him to CC. She nodded and Kay took out a gun and shot him. We all stood there stunned even though we shouldn’t have been. They both walked up the white one’s arm and CC got back in the cockpit and Kay made her way back to the pool. With helicopter and boat parts everywhere in the water, CC added to it. She made the suit clench its fist and the black suit’s neck got crushed. The head fell off into the ocean and CC stepped on it and crushed that too. Bentley’s cannon took a round into the remains and blew up the whole suit into pieces. She turned around to the guys who were chasing her, which multiplied and flashed the suit’s operator’s ID. “See this? I’m gunna have all of yours if you don’t go back to your boss man and tell him what happened. Tell him I want to see him. And when you’re done with that? Come back so I can kill you,” Kay said. They all left in a rush and then Kay said, “I want a clean up crew out there.” “Yes, Major,” we responded. I looked over at Kay and saw her waving to CC. CC came out of the cockpit and jumped into the water. She climbed onto a piece of debris and jumped on more to make her way over to us. Kay helped her up over the gate and brushed her off. She looked like a hippie, medium height, skinny and athletic. “Where’s your board?” Riggs came out of nowhere and asked her sarcastically.

Day 18

I went back up to the room for some food

And I saw Takashi, Sato, Leeha, and Riggs staring at the TV. “Great job Kay! Look at that,” Riggs said sarcastically. “We are everywhere. Are you happy now?” She looked over at me and realized I wasn’t Kay. “She does everything for a reason, so obviously she wanted us to be seen,” I defended her. “Yea Riggs, relax. She knows what she’s doing,” Tak said. Kay walked through the door and stopped in the kitchen. “I give it a day,” she said. “A day for what? Till were ambushed? Great!” Riggs said. All Kay had to say to her was, “Mhm…”

     In the middle of the night, when everyone was sleeping, I heard footsteps. So of course, like always, I woke up and what a surprise- it was Kay. She went straight to the balcony and I thought nothing of it because she always goes there when she can’t sleep. But this time, out of the corner of my eye, I saw her jump over the railing down to the first floor. I went over quietly and slid open the doors to see what she was doing. The girl on the board was at the seawall talking to Kay. Then I stepped back so she wouldn’t see me, and bumped into Riggs. She gave me a dirty look, and then leaned against the wall to watch with me. “What’s she doing?” she asked me. “I don’t know.” We couldn’t even hear them whisper. The girl looked up at the balcony and we both ducked so she wouldn’t see us; but we could still see them. Kay got back up from lying on the seawall and we saw her nod her head. The girl got on her board and paddled away. Kay watched her swim away until she was far enough out of sight. “I’ll give you two minutes to get back to bed,” she said, knowing we were watching her. “God dam it. All the fucking time she does that. I don’t know how she does it,” whispered Riggs. 

Next day we decided to go to the beach

Boy, was that a bad idea. She tried to pick the most secluded area on the beach, but common let’s get real, we were in Miami. “Aw, are we feeling a little anti-social today?” Riggs said to Kay. “Shut up.” We ended up picking a regular spot because there were people everywhere. She was extra calm today, something she does when she’s waiting for something. She did give it a day, whatever it was. “Hey! Who wants yum yums!?” Ringo screamed. He always gets excited when it comes to food. “Me and the twins are going to get food. Anyone want?” “Uh I’ll come. I want a burger,” Leeha said. “I’m going to get a towel at the gift shop. I forgot to bring one,” Riggs said. “Common kiddo,” Ringo directed at me. “She’s passed out. She ain’t budging for a while,” meaning Kay. “Eh, alright. Where’s Sato?” “Potty.” So we left Kay sleeping on the beach.

     Another bad idea. We came back to a huge crowd of people. “What’s going on?” Takashi asked someone. “Someone has some kid at gunpoint over there.” I gasped and whispered, “Uh oh…” Takashi over heard me though and shot me a worried look. Then he pushed through the crowd and we all followed. We got to the front and stopped dead in our tracks. Kayvroni was on her knees with her hands in the air. She looked up, saw us, and then smiled. Three people were dressed in some sort of high tech wet suits and another was dressed in a black suit. The one who was pointing a gun at her head was wearing a different colored wet suit then all of them. He bent down next to her ear and whispered something. Kay looked up and him and turned straight again. She shook her head vigorously like a little kid with a huge smile on her face. Sato pushed up front but Ringo put his hand in front of him to block him from going any further. “No. Let her do this. She knows what she’s doing. Isn’t that right Al?” I looked at Ringo then Sato and shook my head, but still secretly worried.

“Give me the girl!” He pointed the gun at the crowd,

then made its way towards us. “What girl?” Sato asked. He was about to reason with them, but then Kay shook her head no. He stopped what he was going to say and just stood there. “What girl is he talking about Kayvroni!?” Sato yelled. She slowly got up from her knees to her feet and turned around so that the gun was pointing at her head. “If you’re going to shoot me, have fun finding her.” Her arms still out in the air, she waited for a response. I got a message from Bentley on my phone. The first time that’s ever happened, saying, “assistance needed back at the condo.” I showed Sato and everyone else to see what we should do. I looked at Kay and she slowly put one hand down behind her back. She signed a G and an O. She knew Bentley sent the message and she needed us to go help him out. So we turned around and went back to the condo. I looked back at her and it looked like she was stalling them until we got back to the condo. When we got back to the cars, we heard a gunshot. “Shit…” I heard Leeha say under her breath. We peeled out of the parking garage and right when Takashi put the car in drive, we saw Kayvroni run super fast trying to get away from the car and guys chasing her. She hopped the on the other cars driving on the road and went the opposite way of us. “She’s stalling them! Go go go!” Leeha said. “Dam she runs fast,” Takuya said.