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Holly's PoV
"CO-C-C-C-CODE BLACK. SYSTEM ER-ER-ER-ERROR. POWER-R-R-R-R CORE MEL-M-M-MELTDOWN IN TW-TW-TW-TWENTY SEC-SEC-SEC-SECONDS."
Groaning, I sat up and put my head in my hands.
"Jesse! Get the manual shutdown on the left there!"
Shaking my head to clear it, I realized my hands were wet. Looking at them, I saw that I had blood on them.
"I've got the core shut down, Adam! Can you get the mainframe shut down?"
"I'm working on it!"
"You okay?" LeRoy asked, kneeling next to me and inspecting the wound on my head.
"What the hell happened?" I asked, flinching a little.
"A gigantic destructive ball of energy decimated a part of the house," LeRoy replied, placing some gauze over my left eye and taping it in place. "You know, you're damned lucky that flying glass didn't remove your eye. It just reopened the scar on your eyelid and the two on your left arm." [+1]
"Joy," I replied as LeRoy taped gauze over those wounds as well. Looking about, I saw Adam and Jesse trying to shut the mainframe to Nerissa Altsoba down; her screen displays and holograms were on the fritz. Shalimar was pulling a bookshelf off of Brennan.
"Where's everyone else?" I asked, feeling adrenline suddenly dump into my system and shove away the shock of the blast.
"Tikki and Ikkit created a sheild to protect themselves, Foxxy, Toshi, and Bubba," LeRoy said. "I don't know where the rest are."
Feeling a spike of pain in my head, I grunted and grasped my forehead with Brennan, Shalimar, and LeRoy following me. Lurching to my feet, I staggered upstairs and outside. Immediately, I saw Nogard lying face down and burnt on the porch. Rolling her over, I felt for a pulse.
"Take her to Adam!" I said. "She's just barely alive!"
Lifting Nogard in his arms, Brennan carried an unconsious Nogard back into the house. Off to the side of the house, I saw the back of Nissa's body--horribly flayed to reveal the android parts below. Hurrying over, I saw Wynn was curled up in her arms with Moochi curled in her kimono.
"Wynn?" I asked.
"She's about to crack my ribcage," Wynn said. "Get me out. Moochi's hurt and Shalimar's in danger."
As the Mutant X Shalimar and LeRoy pried Nissa's arms apart to free Wynn and Moochi, I asked "Where's Shal?"
"No longer in danger," someone said from behind me.
Surprised, I spun around expecting to see Dragon; but instead turned to see a woman with silver hair, a black Organization robe, and small silver framed glasses. "Xangord."
"How do you know who I am?" the woman asked, all but dumping an unconsious Shalimar into my arms.
Although Shalimar was no bigger than a four year old and I should have been able to hold her for a moment or two, I collapsed under her weight--apparently dragons not only age diffrently than humans, but they retain their dragon weight even when in human form.
"Wild...guess," I replied, squirming out from beneath Shalimar's form. "What happened?"
"She got into a fight with a male neko," Xangord said. "I didn't kill him, but I dispatched him for now."
"So now we have all but one," I muttered. "Dragon...where are you?"
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