“AHHHH”
Asazi screamed as she was almost sucked out of the ship. She grabbed the wall and hit the keypad. The door closed.
You’ll be mine next time, Alex. After I dispose of that
girl, you’ll be mine.
Alex and Fidget fell down towards earth, She began to slip out of his arm, so he propped her up and held her with both his arms, her head rested on his shoulders. He noticed she had a gash on her neck, probably from when she had flown into that computer console. The ground was getting closer and he could see Big Air come to get them. Alex pulled the rip cord and the wings flew out, her head jerked away as they began to glide horizontally down. Big Air flew under them and when they were about 6 feet above the plane, Alex retracted the wings and they landed on the plane with a ‘thump’. That ‘thump’ told Grinder to open the back of the plane. He did so and Alex swung in. Rikki was there to meet them. As soon as he saw Fidget, he began franticly asking Alex questions.
“Is she all right? What happened? How is she?”
“Rikki, geez , clam down. I think she’s okay”
“You THINK? What does that mean”
Alex rolled his eyes and made his way to the bedroom. Once there, Grinder joined them and he laid Fidget down on Rikki’s bunk.
“Hey, Fidge?”
He touched her cheek.
“Fidget?”
She rolled her head away from his hand and opened her eyes, a little at first then all the way. The three guys leaned in. She looked around at her surroundings.
“Alex?”
“Yeah Fidge, its m-------“
He was interrupted by her lips gently pressing against his. She thrust her body up and wrapped her arms around his neck. His arms found her waist and slid around it. Grinder tried his best not to stare as Rikki looked on in shock.
She likes ALEX? Well, that figures he WAS the one who rescued her, HE’S the hero. If I was’nt such a chicken, if I did the kinda stuff Alex did, she’d like me too.
Almost in tears, Rikki left the room. Soon followed by Grinder. Fidget pulled herself away from Alex and looked into his eyes.
“Thank you”
She looked down at the bed. Alex reached down and put his hand under her jaw and ever so gently lifted her head up.
“Your welcome”
They smiled at each other for a few seconds, followed by an awkward silence.
“YOU LET THEM GET AWAY!?”
Asazi bowed her head
“I’m sorry, X”
She looked over at the boy who was lying on the steel table.
“How is he?”
Both herself and Dr. X were surprised by her words. She looked at X’s expression.
“I mean, he is kinda like my partner”
She surprised herself again.
NO! Asazi! You don’t have PARTNERS. What wrong with me? What do I care about
HIM?
“It just would be a shame if he died and you had to find someone to replace him”
“Mmm, yes, I suppose it would”
X looked over at Tempest.
“But, I believe young Tempest here will in fact live”
Asazi nodded.
“After all, my dear, he only suffered a minimum head injury, nothing serious at all”
“Right”
“Well”
X looked around at the mess his lab was in.
“I suppose I will retire to my quarters and leave you to clean up”
Asazi nodded again.
That’s the drawback to being on the consul of doom, you’ve gotta do X’s actual dirty work, he being the lazy SOB the he is.
Fidget sat at the table, slowly sipping some hot chocolate. She felt something move across her feet, she looked down to see two tiny eyes staring right back up at her.
“Hey there Vincenzo, didja miss me?”
The lizard hissed then crawled up her leg and then up to her shoulders.
“You know what?”
She turned her head to look at the iguana.
“I missed you”
Vinney kinda tilted his head at her, as if he understood and then jumped down to the floor. Fidget smiled as he scurried away.
“Ah, its good to be back”
“Its good to have you back”
She looked across the room at the door way, where Alex stood. He walked over and sat in a chair across from her.
“Did you talk to Rikki?”
Fidget looked down and sighed.
“No, not yet. You know, its funny, stuff like Dr.X and his consul thingy doesn’t scare me, but knowing that I have ta face Rikki does.”
She smirked at him
“You weren’t scared up there?”
“Nah, I didn’t think yo------“
She looked up and glared at him.
“------Don’t ever do that again? Do you hear me?”
“Do what?”
“Put yourself on the line for me, your, your to important to get killed trying to save me. You could’ve DIED today!”
“I couldn’t just leave you up there and I------------“
“Ohmygosh! ALEX! You didn’t give that poison stuff to X, did you?!”
“No, don’t worry Fidge, I still have it, we’re taking it to INTERCEPT tomorrow, um, while we’re there, I wanna have them check you out, to, uh, make sure you okay and all”
“Alex, I’m FINE, X didn’t touch me, except……………..”
“Except?”
“Except for a trilobug, on my neck, it didn’t really do anything though, just put me to sleep.”
“What? Fidget? Where?”
“Oh, I dunno, around here somewhere”
She put her hand on her neck, above here collar bone. Alex stood up and walked over to her to inspect her neck. He looked around and saw nothing unusual. She reached up and ran her figures though her hair, which was all the way down. She gasp in pain and yanked her hand away.
“What is it?”
“Oww, I don’t know”
Alex lifted her hair up and saw the gash he had seen earlier.
“There’s a cut on you neck, um, you got it when I was saving you. Hold on, I’ll get the first aid kit.”
Alex walked over to a cabnit above the fridge and pulled out a white box, he walked back over to fidget at set it down on the table,
“Alex? What exactly happened up there?”
“Well”
He dug though the box and pulled out some gauze, an alcoholic cleansing pad and some first aid bandage tape.
“I got up to the ship and….”
He opened the cleansing pad packet.
“And Dr.X wanted the poison, and I told him I wanted to see you first. So, he took me you and I-------------”
“AHHHHH”
Fidget whined as the alcohol stung her.
“Stopstopstopstopstop!”
“Sorry Fidget, I have to clean this out”
“Don’t we have any hydrogen peroxide?”
Alex shook his head.
“No, I checked, sorry”
She whimpered.
“It’s okay, I guess. Keep going”
“Huh? Oh! Right! So, X took me to you and I picked you up and then X said he was gonna kill you then me. So, I amped up and we escaped.”
Fidget cocked up an eyebrow.
“What are you leaving out?”
“Nothing”
“Well, then how did I get cut?”
“Oh, Asazi tripped me and you flew from my hands and hit a computer console”
“Oh, okay”
“Finished!”
Fidget reached back and felt her the bandage on her neck. She turned and looked at Alex.
“Thanks again”
She smiled
“You welcome again”
He lifted her hand and placed a kiss on it.