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.”