Not Completely Crazy

Chapter 4

Chapter 4: She's what!

It was a somewhat slow day for the Joes. There was not a single sign of trouble anywhere in the world, so the Alpha Team was just hanging around in the rec room trying to find some form of entertainment. Sighing, Highlander put his video game on pause.

"Where is Haywire when you need her? We seriously need some entertainment around here and she's the only one that never seems to be bored," Highlander said while throwing his hands up in defeat.

"Excellent question, Highlander, our little demented toy maker has been awfully quiet lately," Heavy Duty said as he looked up from his weapons magazine.

"More like mysterious in my opinion," Ripcord said from his place spotting Duke on the bench press. Putting the bar back, Duke sat up and grabbed a towel.

"Maybe she's working on something that we're not supposed to know about," Duke said as he wiped off the sweat on his face. Shaking his negatively, Snake Eyes lowered himself from his sword hand stand.

"She has never been told to keep us out of the loop," Snake Eyes signed, "Plus she's never been all that good at keeping secrets," he signed while chuckling a bit.

"Yep; you can get her to release vital info by making her hyper," Breaker laughed, some of the others joining in.

"And that's one of the reasons as to why she's not allowed on missions," Scarlett said from her place on the tread mill. All eyes turned when the door to the rec room opened to admit none other than Haywire. But she wasn't the Haywire everyone was familiar with. This Haywire looked like she was about to drop where she stood and her bright, neon clothing did nothing to make herself seem like the hyper woman the others know.

"Haywire, are you alright?" Snake Eye's asked as he walked over to her. Blinking dazedly at him, Haywire shrugged her neon shoulders and shuffled her way over to the couch. When she reached it, she all but flopped faced first on it. Staring at each other worriedly, the others all moved over to the couch to check on her.

"Hey sweetie, what's wrong?" Scarlett asked as she leaned over the back of the couch to rub Haywire's back.

"I have had a total of 2 hours of sleep and 3 bags of gummy bears over the past 5 days," Haywire mumbled out tiredly.

"Oh sweetie; what were you working that you couldn't leave?" Scarlett asked as she motioned for someone to make her something healthy to eat.

"A way to destroy the annoying little buggers that are swimming through Baroness' blood without killing her," Haywire said as she tried to sit up. Looking at her in shock, Duke walked over and helped her to sit up so he can hug her.

"Thank you Haywire. Anna would be so happy. But how and when did you meet her?" Duke whispered in her ear as he hugged her tightly. Moving away from the hug slightly, Haywire gave him a blinding smile.

"I don't really know her, but I figured that if she makes you happy I should try and get those things taken care of so then you don't have to worry about her. I met her on accident when I was walking to drop off some random medical tech. I asked what was wrong with her and that's when she told me that she had those suckers in her," Haywire said right before she yawned. "Sorry ya'll had to see me like this," she mumbled with a slight blush.

"Don't you worry you're little neon self about it," Heavy Duty said as he placed a plate with a sandwich and chips on it on the coffee table. Smiling at Heavy Duty, Haywire moved to grab the plate.

"Man! Is there anything you can't do Haywire?" Ripcord asked as he processed everything.

"Well clearly I can't function on only 2 hours of sleep and 3 bags of gummy bears. And so far my attempts aren't all that successful," Haywire said as she nibbled on chips like a mouse.

"What's happened so far?" Duke asked, trying to conceal his excitement.

"Um, I'm not sure you want to hear the current results, Duke. They're not all that great," she said while curling in on herself and blushing.

"At least tell me that there's some progress please," he said urgently.

"Oh most definitely, but it's not all that easy. For once, I'm struggling with trying to find the answer to this problem," Haywire said as she looked at her neon purple converses. With her words hanging in the air, the entire Team, minus Duke and Ripcord, looked nervous.

"What do you mean you're struggling?" Breaker asked.

"Just that, Breaker; I can't seem to figure out how to get the nanomites to cease functioning without causing some sort of trauma to the organic material of the body. And it seems like no amount of sugar is going to kick start my brain any time soon," Haywire said with a pout while crossing her arms.

"Hallelujah she's back!" Highlander said when he saw her pout.

"Who's back? I didn't think anyone left," Haywire asked in confusion, causing the others to laugh out loud at her.

"Why don't you go get some sleep and worry about the nanomite problem when you're rested," Scarlett suggested with a warm smile.

"But now I'm wide awake!" Haywire exclaimed as she bounced onto her feet. However, her body decided that she wasn't wide awake, and shut down all of her motor functions, causing her to fall to her knees. "Ok so my body decided to betray me, what else can go weird?" Haywire said while pouting on the floor. Laughing slightly, Snake Eyes moved to pick her up off the floor. Once Snake Eyes had a hold of her, he started to walk off towards her room. "Good bye everyone," Haywire mumbled out as she passed out in Snake Eye's arms. Looking down at her, Snake Eyes shook his head in affection.

Duke turned back around once the two left. Sighing, Duke tried to go back to focusing on his work out. Seeing his shift in attitude, Scarlett went to reassure him.

"Don't worry, Duke, Haywire has never met a problem she couldn't solve. She'll figure out a way to help Anna," Scarlett said as she squeezed his shoulder slightly. Smiling at her in thanks, Duke went back to his work out, knowing that Haywire will take care of things.

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