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Circe did a forward roll to avoid the first shot. She countered with her sonic blast. Cain sidestepped it and fired again. Circe jumped out of the way and fired her sonic blast. They were slowly destroying the lab. Where was Six?

The lab was slowly crumbling. She looked over to where Knight lay. He wasn't moving still. She was worried that he might be dead. She was also worried about Rex. He was hidden safely from view but she wasn't sure if he was okay.

A piece of the ceiling fell. Circe moved out of the way but Cain's blaster hit her arm. She went down pain shooting up her arm. Cain laughed triumphantly and walked over to the EVO girl holding the blaster.

"One less EVO." He grinned.

Circe closed her eyes. But instead of oblivion she heard metal against metal.

She opened her eyes and was shocked to see Rex with his smack hands. He had knocked the blaster from Cain's hands. But Rex looked different. Blue lines circumvented his body. His eyes glowed white-blue.

"Leave her alone!" His voice sounded different too. He swung his smack hands forcing Cain back. Cain was startled but quickly recovered. He thought Rex would be too injured to fight. Cain jumped and aimed a kick at Rex's head. Rex easily deflected his kick with his smack hands. Cain was thrown back. He flipped backwards and landed on one knee. Rex formed his punk busters and did a low sweep knocking Cain off his feet.

Circe crawled out of the way and watched the fight at a safe distance. The two combatants were not pulling any punches. Rex was fighting like a man possessed. Cain was a man bent on revenge at all costs. After being knocked around by Rex's smack hands Cain slid near where his blaster had landed. Cain tried to grab his blaster but Circe using her sonic scream blew it to bits. Cain glared at her and pulled out a smaller firearm aiming it at Circe. Rex roared with anger forming his BFS. He sliced the gun. Then using the flat side he batted Cain back. Cain hit the wall just as Six burst in through the door. Six looked at the unconscious Cain and then at Rex.

"Rex?" Six asked uncertainly.

Rex's body returned to normal. His BFS fell apart and he wavered on his feet. Before he could fall on the floor Circe grabbed him. Six was next to her in a second. Together they dragged him to a medical bed and put him down. Circe pointed at White Knight.

"I think he's hurt." She told him. Six went to check on his boss.

"He's fine. Just stunned." Six noted.

"Fine, my Great Aunt Fanny" White muttered as he came to.

"Can you restore the base?" Six inquired.

" Now that I know what happened." White nodded over to Cain. "I'll go check the main computers. How's Rex?"

"He'll be fine in a minute." Holiday answered as she walked in with a needle.

She briefly glanced over to Cain's body. "Shouldn't you secure him or something?"

"On it. "Six said as he cuffed the mercenary.

Holiday walked over to Rex. Circe stepped aside as she injected him with the needle in her hand.

At first nothing happened. Then Rex suddenly gasped. His hands shot up and his eyes flew open. He sat up quickly glowing blue all over. Just as quickly he dropped back down on the bed.

"What happened?" Circe asked alarmed.

"Rex's nanites are all coming back on line." Holiday stated. "They're going into over drive repairing his body."

Sure enough all the bruises on his face were fading rapidly. Noah and the three EVOs ran in.

"Is Rex...?" Noah couldn't finish.

Holiday smiled. "He's going to be fine now."

Everyone sighed in relief.

They didn't notice Circe slowly edge her way to the back and leave the room. She knew she couldn't stay. White Knight would most certainly arrest her. And now that Rex was fine she can leave with a clear conscience.

"Where are you going?" Startled she turned and formed her sonic mouth.

It was Six. He didn't look like he was threatening her.

She stood down. "I have to go before…" Six understood.

"Rex's going to miss you."

Her eyes softened. "It's impossible..."

"You don't need to stay with Van Kleiss." Six continued.

"I have no where else to go." She said sadly.

"You can come with us." Cricket said shyly coming into the hallway.

Circe looked at her in surprise. "Thanks, but I need to get back."

"It's an open invitation. Any friend of Rex is a friend of ours." Skwydd added walking in too.

Circe smiled. She walked away and gave a little wave without turning around. The others watched her as she disappeared down the hall.

"So what did I miss?" Bobo walked over rubbing his eyes and yawning.

Everyone glared at him.

"What?" Bobo asked.

0o0

"So what happened to me?" Rex asked.

Holiday sighed. She had explained it to him at least a half dozen times. "Fell made a knife capable of transferring reprogrammed nanites that when they touched active nanites start to deactivate them. It was hard for me to figure it out at first since the deactivated nanites looked the same as the reprogrammed ones. But once I had the knife and was able to analyze the reprogrammed nanites I was able to create and antidote of sorts. It was similar to the ones we were working on in space so it was easy for me to re-reprogram them to reactivate the deactivated ones. " Boy was that a mouthful to say.

"So isn't that a cure then?" Rex frowned.

"No, because this kind of deactivation would kill the EVO, like it almost killed you." Holiday looked kindly as Rex. "Rest now. You're nanite levels are just getting back to normal."

It has been a few days now. Tuck, Cricket, and Skwydd went back to Hong Kong. They had told Rex about their open invitation to Circe. Holiday knew that Rex hoped that someday Circe would take them up on the offer. The base was cleaned up finally. Cain was put in a maximum security prison. All his men had been rounded up including the police chief. Fell was still on the loose but it was just a matter of time. White Knight had not said anything about Circe. Holiday had a distinct feeling that White was ignoring the fact that she was ever there. Maybe White Knight did have a heart after all.

Holiday walked out of Rex's room.

"How is he?"

Holiday jumped. She put her hand to her heart. "Six, stop doing that."

"Sorry." He acquiesced "So how is he?"

"He's getting stronger everyday. He should be back on his feet by the end of the week."

"You found the cure just in time."

" Thanks to the knife you gave me."

"That was Rex's friends." Six noted.

"Either way, it was a team effort." She smiled.

They walked down the hall together. They stopped at the end. Six cleared his throat. Holiday turned to look at him quizzically.

"Would you like to get some coffee?" He asked as emotionlessly as possible.

He watched Holiday's face break into a radiant smile. "I'd love to." The corners of his mouth slightly twitched as they walked to the cafeteria together.

Thank you to poppy and fanaticagenrex for your reviews. Thank you everyone who read. Thank you Asha Carcella for letting me finish this story. Hope you enjoyed it.

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