Every Moment (ZeRoyalMexican)

Part 8 - Sudden Death

~Gassy's POV~

"Where the fuck is he?! I've looked everywhere! Max, don't you have a clue?" Diction asks as he stomps down the halls like a madman. I just yawn and stretch my arms out as I try to follow Diction matching his pace as he continually bursts open the random doors to the poor soldiers of the base.

"I don't know, you know Adam. He's probably in one of his hidey holes," I casually say but Diction isn't buying one bit of it. The next door is burst open, revealing the completely white and wide room I personally have come to enjoy. Diction is about to shut the door when a loud explosion from within the room bursts out flames in a small contained poof while the smoke completely fills up the entire room in the manner of seconds. Both Diction and I go into spurts of coughing and Diction immediately pushes the smoke out of his way as he enters the room. Oh shit, this will not be good for our scientists who somehow manage to cause a ruckus everyday, especially when Diction is so agitated.

"Not again, fucking really? Chilled? Ze?" Diction shouts as the smoke clears out and both Chilled and Ze come into view. Chilled is holding the white countertop behind him as if it's his life while Ze is sitting and coughing from on top a tall ladder with all sorts of weird panels behind him probably science related. Before Diction can ask who did it they both burst out into laughter and both Diction and I can see from the small pouch in Chilled's hand and the large switch behind Ze that they both played a hand in this, like usual. To be expected from partner scientists with similar minds.

"God damn it guys. I'm going to assign you work, as a matter of fact I'll assign you some right now," Diction announces and both of their laughter immediately halts at the word "work" and their faces twist as if the simple word were a disease. "That's right. You're also researchers so figure out where the hell Nanners is," Diction orders and immediately Chilled's entire atmosphere changes into an ultimately "chilled" one as his eyes also grow darker. Ze slides down the ladder, landing in front of me and turns to Diction with a serious face.

"Got it boss. I'll look into any trace I could find online and Chilled will go out and look for any evidence," Ze announces, shocking both Diction and me. Of course I've always known Ze is actually a hard worker and is actually a smart researcher but I've never actually seen a time where he wasn't fooling around. Diction clears his throat and nods, leaving the room and pointing towards Chilled.

"You better get to it." As Diction leaves I glance towards Ze who is staring at Chilled with a worried stare. Always so worried. I smile and pat his head making him glance at me confused but smiles when he sees my confident smile. I ruffle his hair up quite a bit before escaping the lab and hurrying to catch up to Diction who still seems to be keeping up his rampage.

Ever since we've been back at the base it's been job after job, argument after argument, and basically a lot of fucking work. Diction had been very annoyed with everybody the last two days of the trip because of all of the complaints about our scientists and I have to admit I was pissed too. Ze and Chilled on the other hand didn't even notice all of the talk about them and went along with their talking and chatting with their friends. Sp00n and Minx made sure they weren't feeling left out either, having fun with them and introducing them to new people. I'm relieved that they had managed to make friends at base while pissed off at how the base reacted to a couple of accidents. After I've convinced myself Ze and Chilled are fine on their own I'm only now worried about Adam and Diction and this whole mess involving them two now.

Glancing at my phone screen I notice the text from the unknown number and smile, scratching the back of my head. Hey Gassy. Totally did not expect that, it was neat tho. I'll root you on too. Damn it Adam, he can't be so casual about such a serious thing. At the same time I'm relieved he's completely normal and acting just like he always has and always will. I stuff the phone back into my pocket and glance over at Diction who is still shouting through the phone probably towards some dirty politician. All of this talk about the mysterious enemy is finally spreading so we're going through complications when dealing with everyone. Now that I think about it that girl who was with Ze at that time on the trip actually turned out to be completely safe. I was sure it was some sort of journalist trying to get information out of Ze yet nothing has really changed. I also had my worries both the girl and Ze had heard Adam's and my conversation but Ze is also acting the same as before.