Sunday February 18, 2007

I woke up and felt disoriented. I was in a hospital bed and wondered what happened before it came to me.

"Shit! They shot my leg off!" I said and immediately lift the covers and saw that both my legs looked fine.

"Sweetie, you are awake."My mom said hugging me tightly. "You had me so worried."

"What happened?"

"You don't remember?"

"I don't remember what happened after I passed out, of course. I thought those guys shot my leg off."

"They did, it was so awful. I was so worried when I saw it."

"But they look fine."

"You were already healing when the paramedics arrived."

"How is Linda? Is she okay?"

"She is fine. She is outside with your dad and the Sparx. What the hell were you thinking going against those guys?"

"I wasn't. They threatened you and I lost it. All I thought about was protecting you."

"Oh sweetie." She said and hugged me again.

"Mom? How long has I been out?"

"It's morning already. You've been asleep the whole night."

"What? No wonder I feel so hungry." I said and my stomach decided to make a gruesome noise to empathize my words.

"We better call the nurse then, don't we?" My mom said and pressed the buzzer to call the nurse.

When the nurse came, dad, my sister and MJ came into my room with her.

"Mel! I am so glad you're okay." Dad said and enveloped me in a bear hug.

"Dad... I... can't... breath."

"Sorry. You scared the shit out of me." Dad said.

"John, watch your language, there are ladies in the room." Mom admonished him.

"Take it easy mom. I almost said that myself." My sister said.

As my father let go of me, I didn't even had the time to breath before MJ wrapped her arms around me saying "Don't you ever scare me like that again."

"I'm sorry, but I had to do something."

"You should have seen her MJ. She was something else. She took out 3 power armored guys before the reminding two started to shoot at her, and even after she got hurt she managed to take out them."

"She was attacked by 5 power armored guys?"

"Six, but one of them run away after saying no one told them they had to fight a pink lantern." My sister said and I rolled my eyes.

"Actually the last 2 was Sue that dealt with them."

"That was Sue? Wow, she looked so feral, and took those two guys in just a few seconds before disappearing."

'Sue? Are you okay?'

'Yes, but I couldn't keep fighting after you were knocked out.'

'Don't worry about it. You did well. Thank you.'

"Mel, are you talking to Sue?" MJ asked.

"How did you know?"

"The look on your face. Do you think you can let her out?"

"I don't know. Maybe, but I am really hungry and don't know if I have the energy to keep her out for long."

"What if you made her small? Maybe a small construct won't take as much energy as a big one." My sister asked.

'What do you think? Want to try it?'

'Only if you give me little wings. If I am to have a fairy height It is only fair I look the part. Not to mention fairies are cute.'

'Do you really want to look like a fairy?'

'Yep, just like the ones that were in the ads all over during Christmas, they were so cute.'

'Do you want to look just like them?'

'No, I want to have my own face and body. I just told you about them because they are cute. Oh, can you make my wings look like dragonfly ones?'

Yep, that's what I did, I also had her dressed in a micro top and a micro shirt. The result was pinking hot. Yes I said pinking, do you have a problem with that.

As soon as she materialized, she started to fly around the room, flapping her wings, before landing on my sister's shoulder and give her a peck on the cheek.

"What was that for?" She asked.

"For your idea. I loved it."

"Oh my gosh! She looks so cute." MJ said excitedly.

At that moment the food arrived and I started to eat while the girls fussed about Sue's look and she looked like she was enjoying the attention. Interestingly enough, it seems that the idea of making her small was working. I could kind of feel that the drain to keep her body at that size was much lower than when she is full sized. Another thing, I just have been really hungry because the food actually tasted almost good. How hungry do you have to be before it does?

I had just finished eating when a doctor came in and examined me. Do they time those things? At least he didn't came while I was eating or I wouldn't be a happy camper.

"Everything seems to have healed well. There isn't even a hint of scar anywhere."

"How long did it take for my leg to heal?"

"I'm not sure. The paramedics said that when they got to you, your leg seemed to be healing already. It took them about 10 minutes to get here and after that it wasn't more than 20 minutes until it healed completely."

"You mean I grew a missing limb in less than a hour?"

"Yes, and that is something very impressive. We do have a mystery you might be able to help us with. We seem unable to draw blood from you as they disappeared not long after they left your body and the paramedics mentioned the lack of blood and couldn't find the missing limb."

"It is just something that happens. The doctor that tested my powers think there is magic involved in that, but was unable to determine the source."

"I guess it is a good thing that it happens. A regen blood can be very dangerous."

"And why is that?"

"There were some studies a while back, trying to use regenerator blood to heal wounds, and some of them ended badly. In some cases, high level regenerator blood samples were used and it resulted in the test subject ending up a copy of the person that supplied the blood and the change also erased all of the subject's memories, ending up in a vegetative state. Since then, studies with regen blood was deemed too dangerous and banned and now all regen genetic material is considered bio-hazard and have strict guidelines for disposal."

"I didn't know that."

"Not many of the general population do."

After the doctor left, Detective Goodman came in. "Hello Melody. I didn't expected see you again so soon. Having problems in staying out of trouble?"

"You have no idea." I told him.

"It is good to see you again, detective. I just wish it was under better circumstances." Dad said greeting him.

"The feeling is mutual, but call me Carl, please."

"Okay Carl. Do you have any news for us?"

"Not much. The men we arrested aren't talking about who hired them, just that they were supposed to grab the girl and they didn't expect her to be as they said 'A Fu***ng Pink Lantern'. Apparently they were expecting an inexperienced recently manifested mutant and thought it was going to be an easy job."

"What about the armors?" I asked.

"It seems they were reported stolen last morning."

"Stolen? From where?"

"It seems that they were stolen from a GoodHealth Pharmaceutical. A research facility in LA. Those armors were for their security detail.

"GoodHealth Pharmaceutical? Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" I asked.

"What do you mean?" The detective asked.

"I mean, I just manifested as a regen and some people come after me with power armors that were supposedly stolen from a pharmaceutical research facility? Doesn't it sound strange to you?" I asked.

"It does, but is GoodHealth behind this or is someone trying to make it look like that? Whoever it was, probably got access to your MID data and knew you were a regen, but didn't know the extent of your other abilities." He said just before Sue decided to fly to me and land on my left shoulder.

"Who is that? Is she one of your magical illusions?"

"Detective, meet Sue, my avatar spirit. And yes she is a construct controlled by Sue."

"Hi detective." She said in the little voice she has in that body.

"You can manifest your avatar spirit physically? I never heard of something like that before." He said impressed.

"Not only that, she took out the last two goons last night after I got shot."

"In that little body?"

"No, I had a more panther like appearance last night."

"A pink panther? Are you kidding me?"

"Not the pink panther silly, that was Mel Friday night pulling a prank on her sister."

"Now you lost me. Does anyone have any idea what the pixie is talking about?" He asked before everyone started to laugh.

We explained everything to the detective and after he left dad said. "I got a call from Whateley earlier today. Somehow they found out what happened last night and the headmistress told me that they think it would be a good idea for you to go there right away."

"Why?"

"Because after you get there you'll be officially a student at Whateley and the accords will protect not only you, but us too."

"How will I go there in such a sort notice? And what about MJ? I thought we were going to go there together." I asked wanting to cry.

"She is going too. Her relationship with you makes her a target too." Dad said and MJ jumped and hugged me. "They are sending the courier that took your application form to teleport you both there."

"What about our clothes?" MJ asked.

"After he takes you there he will come back to pick up your suitcases and deliver them to you."

"Wow, they thought of everything." I said impressed.

"Yay! We're going to Mutant High." Sue said excitedly doing little cartwheels in the air.

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