Hours passed by and there was no change in Gavin's condition. Due to lack of yellow agents on staff Gavin had been moved into the room next to where Luna was being seen over. Luna herself hadn't had a change in her condition either. It was a bit unnerving, first the eldest Inverse child and then the youngest.
The room was filled with many weary faced yellow agents. Many of then were tired and had been worked to the bone that it almost didn't seem likely that they would even come to work. And many of then even had their doubts, but still they all came. Each one despite what they thought was dedicated to their jobs. But even with all this dedication they weren't getting anywhere. Gavin still wouldn't wake up, they still couldn't think of a way to help Luna and they still couldn't make much sense of Ozer's DNA. But Gavin was perhaps the biggest mystery. From what they could tell he was completely and utterly healthy with no reason to be unconscious like he was. He had most the agents baffled. But what was going on in Gavin's head? He just lay there still and unmoving. Only an occasional slight movement on his face that only lasted a second a time was the only indication that there was some thought or some life in there. Otherwise his face was blank and emotionless.
On a monitor among many other monitors in a large computer room Gavin's unconscious body was displayed. Inside the people dressed in the black suits' dwelling the leader of this nameless group and a few of his cohorts watched the young Inverse. Like they had spied many others a small camera videotaped the STF medical interior. Ever since they had released their little captive they had been keeping a very close eye on him and they intended to keep on doing so until their plans went through.
The leader cackled at the yellow agent's confusion and ignorance. The mere fact that the yellow agent's were being spied on by them without their knowledge was hilarious to him.
"Aren't they stupid? They don't even know what is going to hit them." The leader laughed again. Their little organization had been spying all throughout STF headquarters for many years without anyone at STF even having the slightest bit clue that the black suited men were doing it. But that was do to the STF's once thought invincibility. No one at STF worried about intruders of spies because the security and structure was so safe. Of course it would probably be a matter of time before the black suited men are discovered, but for now they had their bugs all through STF headquarters.
"That is true Sir. But the fact remains that it will be a little while before we are going to see any results." The head scientist told the leader.
"True. But when will our little experiment wake up?"
"I'm not sure. But I'd wager that it will be pretty soon."
The leader smiled evilly. "Excellent."
The head scientist had been correct it was soon. In fact just as Rezo was about to do a new scan on Gavin he started to stir.
"I don't believe it! He's waking up!" Rezo said in astonishment. Everyone gathered around Gavin and he squinted as he opened his eyes.
"Wh-where am I?" Gavin's eyes were still out of focus and he was having trouble seeing clearly. Everything was blurred and fuzzy but quickly the effects started to fade and he was able to make out the forms of Lina, Leviathan, Blitz, Amelia, Xellos, Filia and Rezo looming over him.
"Gavin you're in the room next to Luna's in STF headquarters." Rezo said helping Gavin sit up. Even though Gavin's sight had returned his body didn't seem to be in top order. He felt disoriented, dizzy and his muscles felt a little like jelly.
"STF? How did I get here...? Wasn't I in eastern block...?" Gavin rubbed his head and looked to everyone in the room. Besides the other yellow agents and the previously mentioned people Zangulus, Martina, Gourry, Zelgadis and De Tanga were in the room.
"You mean to tell me that you don't know what happened?" Lina looked at her brother with surprise. What did those guys do to him? "Gavin what do you remember from what happened last to you?"
"I remember patrolling eastern district with Amelia and then we stopped in a section because it was odd because there was no one there. We went looking around and ended up going down an alleyway because we heard a noise. When we got down there we didn't find anything. And then we turned around to head back and... well come to think of it everything goes black there and the next thing I remember is waking up here in this room. Why what happened to me?" Gavin glanced over to Amelia. The confusion was evident in his eyes and he didn't like the worried look he saw in hers.
"Well Gavin when we turned around we were jumped by these guys in black suits. Some of them knocked you out and shoved you into a car and drove off. While the other ones kept me restrained and then they knocked me out."
Gavin now had a bewildered expression on his face. "I was kidnapped?"
"Yes you were."
"But I'm back here. How did you guys get me back?"
"Well we were working on a plan to see if we could get you back only we hadn't received a ransom note and we had no idea of where you were or who your captors were. Only the next thing we knew you were found laying unconscious on the pavement outside STF headquarters only hours after you had been kidnapped."
"And how long have I been laying here unconscious for?"
"A few hours as well."
If Gavin hadn't been confused before he definitely was now. I was kidnapped for a few hours and then returned? What the hell, was I reject hostage or something? "Why would they do that exactly? Has there been anything weird done to me?" Now Gavin looked at himself and around the room with suspicion.
Rezo with his computer scan re-out in hand answered that one. "As far as we can tell there was nothing done to you at all. Nor was there any reason for you to have stayed unconscious for as many hours as you did. But..."
"But you're not sure."
"Exactly."
Gavin started to looked worried again.
"Gavin I wouldn't worry about it too much. You're back that's all that matters okay?" Lina said with a lighthearted pat on his back.
"Yeah I guess so..." Gavin figured it would be best to do what his sister said but he still had his doubts.
With one of the three mysteries resolved the yellow agents went back to their other two tasks at hand.
For the first time since the whole STF security breech happened Lina, Leviathan and Gavin went to see their older sister. She didn't look much better then she had been back when it happen, but at least she didn't look worse.
"Rezo how is Luna anyway? Are you coming up with anything that could help?"
"Since Lina's discovery about Vernas I have been able to figure out a few things about how Vernas works. Meaning I have a better idea on how he went about creating this toxin then I had known before. So far it hasn't help me to figure out a way to cure the effects of the toxin but I'm sure that I will soon." Rezo gestured over to the section were he was doing his research. Like most of the yellow agents in the lab Rezo had put in a lot of hours working. In fact he had put in much more then practically any of them had. His closest rival in hours worked was Xellos and that's only because he's a monster and doesn't really need to sleep. It baffled many on how Rezo was able to work for so long on such little rest, but somehow he did it, and he did it everyday. Some even thought that Rezo himself might be or be part monster.
"But what about Luna in the meantime? It could be a while before you could come up with a cure."
"Well we have managed to keep her medical condition stabilized so far and I'm pretty sure that we can keep her body like that for the time being. Of course I'm being hopeful, I'm not guaranteeing that I will succeed. I merely guaranteeing that I will do everything in my power to help her." Rezo declared, and no one doubted his sincerity. One thing about Rezo was that once you had him started on a problem he wouldn't stop trying till he had a solution.
"Thank you Rezo." Blitz said with a weak smile.
"Think nothing of it Blitz. I am a scientist and this is my duty. But perhaps Gavin should be taken home for some rest. After an ordeal like this one I think he might need some time off."
Blitz nodded to him and they all left the yellow agents, Xellos, Filia and Rezo back to work and went back into the halls of STF headquarters, but unknown to them was the little spy camera that was taping what they were doing.
De Tanga was the only one who said behind in the medical room. He went back to his spot watching over Luna Inverse.
"Is this what you have been doing with your free time De Tanga?" Xellos went over and sat next to his oldest friend.
"And what do you mean by that?"
"Well I have heard of a person watching over Miss Inverse here day and night refusing to leave. That wouldn't have been you now by any chance?" De Tanga said nothing. He just sat there staring at Luna.
"Why stay here? It's not going to make her get better any faster. It's better if you just go somewhere and wait till you hear some news."
Again De Tanga was silent.
"But why would you want to stay here?"
More silence.
"You know sometimes De Tanga you remind me more of a mortal then a monster." Xellos said with a bit of annoyance in his tone.
De Tanga weakly smiled. "Is that one of the reasons why you can't figure out a damned idea on why I do and think what I do?"
"Perhaps. I guess I don't understand you sometimes. Not too surprising you aren't like most monsters. But are you going to answer my question on my you stay here hour after hours?"
"Nope." De Tanga gave him a crooked smile and Xellos just shook his head.
Gavin whom had been escorted home was now in his bed when the instructions to go to sleep. Only there was a little problem, Gavin wasn't in the least bit tired. His thoughts were still jumbled about what had transpired today. He couldn't figure out the meaning on why he had been taken and what had been done to him. And that was a scary thought. What had been done to him? He had been taken away for a few hours, and even though Rezo had confirmed that they couldn't see that anything had been done to him Gavin couldn't shake the feeling that maybe something had been done to him. And that was the question that was keeping him awake. He began to think of all the possibilities on what could have been done. Though none of his scenarios were plausible or made much sense that didn't stop him from thinking them up. But then who's to say that maybe one of his scenarios wasn't true? Another one of his problems. Part of him was scared out of his mind that some weird and twisted thing had been done to him, while the other part was scolding him for being so paranoid. He couldn't relax so therefore he couldn't sleep.
A soft knocking on his door brought Gavin out of his thoughts.
"Come in." He called and his grandmother came in the room with a curious look on her face.
"You know Gavin you're supposed to be sleeping." Gertrude Smarthsan said with a crooked smile.
"I know but I can't stop thinking of what could have been done to me. What if I have some sort of new experimental virus that I've been infected with and they are -- "
"If you had a virus in you then Rezo would have detected it."
"But what if -- "
"Gavin you are making a mountain out of a mole hill. Now Rezo is recognized to be one of the smartest and most brilliant scientist in the nation right?"
"Yes."
"Well then if there was something wrong with you then don't you think that Rezo would have found it?"
Gavin saw her line of reasoning. But still it didn't settle him much. "I know Grandmother, but still I can't stop thinking about it. And as a result I can't sleep."
"Which is why I've come up here. I've got something to help you sleep. Now I want you to take it and try and get some sleep. You aren't completely fine yet and you need your rest." Gertrude said in a no nonsense tone as she handed him the pill and a glass a water. Gavin complied and swallowed the pill. "Okay I'm going to leave now, and when I come back you'd better be asleep."
"Okay Grandmother."
"Sweat dreams."
Gertrude left Gavin alone and sure enough sleep overtook him quickly. Only his dreams were not that sweet. Images of darkness, pain and destruction filled his head.