We raced back to the base. I didn't remember much about the drive as I was too busy floating around and feeling a sense of calm. “Is she OK?”
“Nope. They drugged her” Battery Heart said. Everyone looked at her and I just giggled wildly. They pulled me out of the car and inside the base.
“Ooo” I said to no one in particular. I couldn't walk by myself and looked over to see Mikey and Frank holding me up. It made me laugh some more. “Your so short” I giggled to Frank. He chose to ignore it and carried on walking inside. I felt myself being dumped down on the chairs in the diner and poked and prodded. I tried swatting their hands away but it didn't work and they kept on doing it. I gave up and just slumped against the back of the chair and shut my eyes.
“Is she OK?”
“She'll be fine. The drugs need to come out of her system and then she should get back to normal. Its just a case of waiting for it to happen” Cyanide said. I nodded and stood there, watching what was happening. I watched as she slowly put her head down on the table and fell asleep. I walked out and went on Drac patrol. Just as I started walking off I heard someone walking behind me. I turned around to see Cyanide there. “You alright?”
“Yeah. Hey how about a proper introduction before I disappear for patrol?”
“Sounds good” she grinned. We walked back inside and I rounded everyone up.
“OK. I'm Kobra Kid. The guy with the red hair is Party Poison, the short one is Fun Ghoul, the one with the fro is Jet Star and the girl over there is Atomic Party who has a habit of getting kidnapped.
“Nice to meet you. I'm Cyanide Diamond, the one with the dark brown hair is Electric Gunner and the one sat next to her is Battery Heart but I guess you already know that” she said.
“Nice to meet you” the guys said in unison. I told them I was headed out to patrol and Cyanide decided to join me.
“So, whats the deal with you and Atomic Party?” she asked. I shrugged, sighing and lifting my visor up.
“I don't know. She keeps giving off hints and then she gets all pissy and gets kidnapped by Dracs. I just don't know what to do.”
“Do you like her?”
“Yeah and I'll protect her as long as I'm still breathing” I said. “Sorry I shouldn't be taking it out on you when we don't even know each other that well” I apologized. She grinned at me behind her bandanna.
“Nah it's fine. I'm just really curious when I meet new people and I could see the fear and pain in your eyes when we got her in there” she explained. I nodded and kept an eye out for anything moving. “I'm sorry” she whispered.
“Its OK. You were just wondering you don't need to beat yourself up over it” I smiled at her, realizing how short she was compared to Frank.
About 3 hours had passed and the sun was starting to set, streaking pink and orange streaks across the horizon and we headed off toward the hideout. I pulled my helmet off and pushed my hair back on my head instead of over my face and shut the door behind us. “How is she?”
“Groggy. She went for Poison earlier” Ray said. It was weird hearing him using his Killjoy name but because we had guests we couldn't use our real names.
“Is he OK?”
“Yeah. He's pissed coz she bit him but it wasn't anything serious and we managed to control her before she went off again. She's asking for you” he said, pointing over to the mess of blue hair and bruises. I walked over and sat down next to her.
“Atomic? Can you hear me?”
“I don't feel well” she said, grabbing her head and leaning back down on the table. I smiled slightly and ran my hands through her bright blue hair. She turned her head to look at me and groaned at the lights. “Everything and I wanna puke” she grumbled. I laughed. A real laugh.
“It's the drugs working their way out your system. You'll be OK” Frank said from the other side of the room. “What? I came to see if she was OK because Poison is freaking out and saying that he's gonna get some sort of illness and die slowly” he shrugged. I laughed and even Krista grinned.
“I'm not that sick. He's just a wuss” she said. I watched as he walked out with a bandage around his hand.
“She's evil” he growled. He really was pissed with her.
“Come on man just leave it. There's no point getting annoyed when she doesn't even remember doing it” Ray said. He shot her a death glance and skulked off. I sighed, not bothering to get involved.
No ones POV
Gerard had stormed out the building, with Frank and Electric hot on his heels. He stopped and looked out over the desert, feeling anger, hurt and betrayal. He knew she didn't mean but it didn't mean it wasn't painful at the end of the day. He fought back tears that were building before sighing and feeling the urge to give up and just go back to say sorry for being a jackass. “Poison? You OK?” someone asked from behind him. He turned around to see that Electric was standing there, a look of worry on her face. He nodded and took a deep breath, forcing the tears away. He turned around and sat on the ground, forcing a cloud of red dust appear around him.
“I really overreacted” he whispered. They nodded and sat down next to him. Frank put his arm around his friend to comfort him.
“Yeah you kind of did. It's starting to wear off so she's becoming human again” he explained. Gerard nodded, running his hands through his bright red hair and staring off into the distance. They heard footsteps coming toward them and noticed that Cyanide had joined them.
“You OK?”
“Been worse. How are they doing in there?”
“Kobra and Jet? Oh their having a bunch of fun. She kicked off and is in a serious pissed off mood. I got sent to come find you guys. Ghoul mainly” she explained. They looked at each other with a panicked look and ran toward the building.
“I thought it was wearing off?!”
“So did I but this isn't normal BL/Ind drug effects!” Mikey said, covering his head as something flew towards him. Frank calmly walked over to his sister, grabbed her wrists and kicked her straight in the shins, sending her to the floor.
“Calm the fuck down! Atomic, don't make me do it you know I will” he growled at her. She looked at him with pure fear in her eyes. She stopped and dropped whatever it was in her hand and looked at him. In his eyes, she was just a scared kid. His little sister who shouldn't have been caught up in the mess. He sighed and crouched down next to her. “I'm sorry. You need to stop. What's going on?” he asked her calmly.
“I... Don't know. I'm scared” she whimpered. He wrapped his arms protectively around her, as she shook with fear. The others tried to advance forward.
“Don't. Just go for a bit, I need to get her as calm as possible” he whispered to them. They nodded and walked out of the building and outside.
“Is she OK?”
“She'll be OK in a bit. She just needs big bro at the moment. She truly doesn't know what to do or whats going on and shes genuinely terrified, that's why she only let Fr-- Ghoul near her.”
“I'm worried about her” Ray said, looking into the building, watching the two siblings just sitting there doing nothing. The group just sat there, chatting, getting to know each other, unaware of the advancing Dracs that were approaching.
“Did you guys hear something?” Cyanide said. They shook their heads.
“I di--”
“Kobra?” no response. “Kobra! If this is an elaborate joke then ha ha very funny. Get your skinny blonde ass back here!”
“Guys, he's gone. They took him!”
“Shit.”
