Rezo's eyes widened in shock. "Dead?! She's dead?!" This can't be happening... Oh god what have I done? What am I going to tell Blitz?
"No she isn't dead."
Rezo whom was starting to get lost in his own thoughts snapped out of it and stared at the yellow agent. "Wait a minute, what do you mean? You just said that according to the machines Luna Inverse is in fact dead."
The yellow agent turned around to look at Rezo in the face, "Yes according to the machines she's dead, but if you check for yourself, you can clearly see that Luna is still alive."
Rezo checked, and he could see that Luna was in fact alive. But both her breathing and pulse were very faint and almost not noticeable. "Is there something wrong the machines?"
"No there isn't. They should be in complete working order. Ever since this whole situation with Luna, all the machines have been routinely checked to make sure that they are in working. And they were just checked recently. But I'll go get some other machines to double check, though I doubt that something would be wrong with them so quickly, they are only less then a year old." The yellow agent got up from his chair and went off to go in search of other machines to use.
Rezo stared at the still form of Luna Inverse with a frown. What is going on? Against Rezo's better judgment he called up Blitz from his office.
"Blitz?"
"Hi Rezo, is there any new news about Luna?"
"Um yes there is..."
There was a slight pause on both sides.
"Is there something wrong with Luna?"
"I think you'd better come down here, I have a feeling that this wouldn't be something I could explain unless you were here for me to show you."
Lina wandered around the halls of STF headquarters without a real destination in mind. Since all the former LPD officers had left to go home a while ago Lina had no real reason to be there. Leviathan had gone off to flirt with a level two agent who had long dark blue hair leaving Lina all by herself.
She sat down at a bench near one of the registration rooms. What am I going to do now? I've got nothing that I want to do at home and I have no idea what I could do here or where I could go. And even if I knew a place I'd want to go I wouldn't want to go by myself. She sighed and rubbed her forehead. One thought that had crossed her mind was to go back and do some more physical training; only her body was quick to disagree with her. She had already put herself through enough physical torture for one day.
Still leaves me back at square one. Hmm... I guess I could work by myself and see what I can find out. But what can I do? And where could I go for information? Lina chewed on her bottom lip in thought. Well the problem is that if I go somewhere I'll probably be going places that all the other agents have gone for information. But then again who says that they are really doing their jobs right? I've found more information staying in STF headquarters then they all have on the field. Hmm... well there is one place I could go. Lina got up and went to the reception area to sign out to go out on the field. On the way over there she was ran into her brother who was just getting rejected by the level two agent that he had been trying to flirt with.
"Stuck out Lev?" Lina grinned mischievously.
"I don't want to speak about it."
Lina laughed and pat her brother on the back. "Hey Lev do you want to come with me?"
"Where are you going?"
"I'm thinking of going to check out the special prison that they had Ozer in before he escaped with Vernas."
Leviathan gave her a weird look. "And why exact would you want to go there for?"
"I was thinking of seeing if I can find information on Ozer and Vernas."
"But Lina STF agents have been there time and time again trying to find info. What could you find that hasn't already been found already?"
Now it was Lina's time to give Leviathan a weird look. "Well just because they found so much information doesn't mean that I can't find out something that might be useful for me. Because you know as well as I do that just because other agents found information before doesn't mean that it's information that I know of. STF is too damned secretive with information."
"Yeah I guess you're right about that."
"So are you going to come with me?"
"Sure."
A few hours later Blitz, Rezo and other yellow agent staff were gathered around Luna Inverse's body. The situation had been completely explained to Blitz and the other yellow agents that had come to see about the problem.
"As you can see the machines are in complete working order as well as the other machines that have been brought out that we tested, but still they all give the same results. They all say that Luna here is no longer among the living, but we know that she is alive." One of the more engineer type yellow agents summed up for everyone.
There was a slight pause among the group.
"So the question is why do the machines all say that Luna is dead when in fact she isn't?"
"It's quite possible that the effects of toxin perhaps may make it appear to the machines that she is dead." Rezo said more to himself then to the group. He was lost in his thoughts on the very natures of this toxin that Vernas created. Why would someone with such a brilliant mind use his talents to make something like this? Why would he want to intentionally want to hurt another? But then it wasn't really Vernas who infected Luna. Vernas probably created the toxin without much thought onto using it. And I doubt not even the greatest minds could make sense of Ozer's twisted mind.
"But what purpose could that have?" Blitz was getting a headache. He was torn between worry and confusion.
"It might be so that it makes monitoring her heath very difficult. So that unless you are watching her constantly and closely, you wouldn't be aware of her condition worsening."
"Well how is her condition now?"
"Now I know it looks like she is in worse shape then she was before, and maybe she is, but the fact remains is that Rezo's plan seems to be working to some degree. Since the formula was injected into Luna's body and when her body had that violent reaction to it making it seem as though she's dead there has been some improvements. It looks like the toxin is finally beginning to be destroyed and rid from her system." Xellos answered for Rezo.
"So you are saying that she is going to be alright? That she's going to be okay?"
"No I'm not exactly saying that. Right now if everything does continue the way it does, then yes she will make it through. But at the same time her body could shut down on her and she could die. If we keep a good eye on her and make sure that we know her condition at all times then perhaps if something like that was ever to happen then we'd be prepared."
Blitz looked over to Rezo with a deadly stare. "Rezo could I speak to you for a few minutes, alone." He put emphasis on the 'alone' and looked around at the other people in the room.
Everyone looked at each other with wide eyes. They knew that just from the tone of voice that Blitz wasn't in the best of moods. And when Blitz is in a bad mood it's best to stay as far away as you can get.
No one followed Blitz and Rezo as they went into the hall, and all of the people in the hall vacated very quickly.
Blitz glared at Rezo, while Rezo timidly met his eye. There was a still deathly silence between the two of them. Blitz didn't know what to say. He was torn between hugging the man that might have possibly saved his eldest daughter's life, or to shove him against the wall for putting Luna into danger without even telling him what he was going to do. He eventually decided for neither. "Rezo..."
Rezo didn't say anything he just stared at the ground.
"Rezo, why didn't you tell me that you were going to do some new procedure to Luna? That you might have found a way to reverse her condition?" Blitz was very careful to keep his voice as very neutral and monotone as he could as if not to show some of the emotions he was feeling.
"The reason why I didn't tell you is because I didn't know that it was going to work and I figured that it would be better not to tell you so as not to get your hopes up."
There was silence between the two men again. Rezo didn't even want to look up to Blitz's face.
"But the fact does remain that you should have told me. What if she was to die instead? What would you have done?"
"I would have told you right away. But you have to believe me Blitz; I had no idea that it was going to jeopardize her condition so much. Otherwise I would have asked you before hand, before doing such a dangerous thing. I truly am sorry for not saying anything to you." Rezo brought his gaze up to Blitz to see that his expression had softened.
"I know your sorry, Rezo. And I guess I really shouldn't blame you, I'd probably would have done the same thing in your position. But thanks to you she might make it through. Anyway I think we've been chatting around here for too long. We both have a lot of work to do." Blitz grinned a ghost of his usual grin.
"Alright. I'll make sure to keep you posted if there are any changes."
"Thanks Rezo."
Blitz walked off to his office while Rezo breathed a sigh of relief. If he hadn't known Blitz for so long and had been such good friends with the bad tempered green agent then chances are he wouldn't have gotten off so lucky. Now time to divert my attentions back to helping Luna.
Lina and Leviathan approached the prison/science research center that Ozer had been held in for a period of time. It looked like a cross between some really classified science test center and a maximum-security prison. It was a massive building with guards and tons of scientists on the scene. From what it looked like, no one could get in, and no one could get out.
"Gee, do ya think they are going to let us in?" Leviathan mused looking at the entrance.
"If we were just two normal teenagers? Nope. Anyway let's go."
Lina and Leviathan went up to the entrance with many people glaring at them. Lina was very tempted to doing something crazy just to bug them but Leviathan nudged her to continue on.
The man at the entrance was a bird faced, sour middle-aged man who looked like he hated the world. He gave the two Inverse twins a very nasty look before talking to them.
"What do you two punks want? Go on scram! This isn't a place for teenaged delinquents." The man growled at them. It was very obvious that he hadn't been having the best of days.
"I don't think so. We've come to go and do some investigation work concerning a former patient/criminal that was being held here." Lina glared back at the man with an evil grin. Being the age that she was she had to deal with people like him a lot.
The man's eyes widened then narrowed. "You think you're really smart don't you? Well I told you to leave! You ain't getting in this building you brat!"
"I would rather you not call me a brat again mister or otherwise you might be sorry." Lina said in a professional voice while she and Leviathan flashed their credentials at the man.
Man stared at them both wide eyed and with his mouth hanging slightly open. He didn't know what to say to the two. Lina and Leviathan took that as a hint to go in.
From inside the center Lina and Leviathan heard the rude man at the door yell at them, "I'm not in trouble am I?" The Inverse twins just chuckled in reply.
"So where are we off to sis?"
"I want to find out exactly who Vernas managed to Ozer out of this place. It doesn't seem very likely that Vernas would have an easy time getting in much less break someone out."
Lina and Leviathan went to the receptionist in the main lobby to ask for information.
"Hello you two must be the two STF agents that Mr. Wallas met at the entrance." A very startled female receptionist spoke timidly.
"Wallas eh? So that's his name huh? Well we're looking to see if we can have a talk with the person charge of security around this place."
"Ms. Redmon is in charge of security. But many STF officers have already talked to her about security. Is it really necessary to have you guys go talk to her as well? Does STF really need to be that thorough?"
"How can we get a hold of Ms. Redmon?"
"I can page her -- "
"Then do it, we don't have much time." Lina cut her off. Lina knew that if they found out that they weren't there under orders then they might not let her and Leviathan stay and get the information they wanted.
"A-alright."
The women paged the person in charged in security while Lev and Lina waited close by.
Vernas was sitting at his chair doing some work when he his phone started to ring. Now who the hell is that?!
Vernas picked up the phone and spoke with a very gruff voice. "What?!"
"Dr. Vernas?"
"Oh Jake, it's you. What's wrong you sound spooked."
"You told me to tell you if any of the Inverse kids came by the center right?"
"Yes, why?"
"Well the Inverse twins are here in the center wanting to talk to the head of security."
"Hmm... Thanks Jake, keep us informed if anything else happens there."
"Alright Dr. Vernas."
Vernas hung up the phone and was about to go call for Ozer only he found out that Ozer was standing right behind him.
"Well they are poking around there huh? I wonder what they are hoping to find." Ozer mused with an evil mischievous grin.