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As One Door Closes	By : trudyw000 Category: +G through L > Generator Rex Views: 4178 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Authors Note : Hi, thank you Ozyaoi for your review, it is much appreciated and I'm so glad you're enjoying the story. One more chapter after this one but I'm considering doing a sequel, let me know what you think.
Chapter Six - Waiting
Rex spent the rest of the day clearing up the mess he'd made of his quarters. He was very grateful when Bobo returned and wordlessly began to help him. Between the pair of them they had the worst of the rubble cleared away in time for dinner. As they headed out to eat Rex looked forward to seeing Six in the mess hall. To his surprise he couldn't to see the taciturn man as he settled down with his tray of food but simply attributed it to the late hour, after all it had been a little later than usual by the time he'd finished tidying up.
The next morning after a restless night Rex strode jauntily into the mess hall for breakfast. Looking around he saw a sea of white uniforms but no green suit. Wondering what was going on he sat down to eat his meal in silence while pondering Six's absence. It was then that he remembered the tall man's parting words, 'I'll see you in a week.' He'd not been paying attention, too busy thinking about the task in front of him to make his rooms liveable once more. At the time he'd thought that Six had simply meant that they would carry on as before for his one week, not speaking of their burgeoning relationship until the week was up. Now however he realised that he might have misunderstood and he wracked his brains as to how he could ask where his mentor was without giving anything away.
Thinking about it he came to the conclusion that it would actually be more unnatural for him not to ask about the missing man than to actually ask the question straight out. With that in mind he headed up to the keep after he'd finished eating and tracked down Doctor Holiday in the medical ward. "Hey Doc, have you seen Six today?" he asked, hoping that he was not broadcasting any untoward concern at being unable to find his mentor.
"Not today Rex, but he popped in last night to say goodbye, he said something about taking a team to Purgatory base to make sure everything was in order. He was planning to spend 5-6 days there I think, run a few drills, why is there a problem?" The concern was evident in her voice and Rex hastened to reassure her.
"No, no problem, I just wondered where he'd got to when I didn't see him at breakfast. Guess he's sloped off to top up his tan." He tried to cover his concern at knowing how far away Six had gone and turned to leave.
"Rex, you know Six wouldn't do something like that, although if I thought he'd take any notice I'd be inclined to prescribe a week of R&R in the sun. I don't know how he kept going these last few weeks, I do know he blamed himself when you were captured. He never stopped the whole time you were missing, running missions and trying to figure out where Van Kleiss would have taken you and how to get you back."
Rex ducked his head, understanding how ungrateful he had sounded and hurried away to find something to fill his time for the next week.
Three hours later he felt a guilty pleasure fill him as the klaxon sounded pulling him away from the book he'd been unsuccessfully trying to read. An EVO attack meant that civilians and Providence soldiers might die today, and at least one person was definitely having the worst day of their life, but at least he would have something to do! Only then did he realise that he would be going into battle without Six at his side. It had happened before but this time he knew that the green clad warrior would not be riding to the rescue like the cavalry of old and he felt a little daunted.
Shaking off the dark cloud that settled over his mind at that thought he grabbed up his jacket and rushed out to the muster point, ready to go out and do his job.
Once he was on the cruiser and heading out to the incident site Rex sat and studied the rest of the team, there were a couple of rookies that he had not seen before but most of them were seasoned Providence soldiers. Rex had worked with them numerous times in the past, there was no reason for the lead weight that seemed to have settled itself in his gut, but it was there nonetheless. Rex tried to shrug off the feeling of ominous dread, it was understandable after all, the last time he went on a mission he ended up captured, strapped to a table, drained of the majority of his nanites, taunted, humiliated and hosed down with ice cold water daily for over a week before Circe paid the ultimate price for his freedom.
The dark cloud was trying to return but Rex wrenched his mind away from such thoughts and turned inwards to assess his readiness for the task ahead. Over the years that he had been working in the field and especially since the discovery of the control nanite he had grown much more adept at understanding and assessing his own condition. Now he felt strong, his nanite count was good, fully recovered from the drain that Van Kleiss had had him hooked up to, but not too high that he might risk overload. He knew that Doctor Holiday was not thrilled about him going back into the field so soon after his rescue but he needed to take back control of his life and as Six had supported him the good doctor had backed down gracefully.
Rex pulled out of his musings as he felt the cruiser head down to land, getting up he moved to stand at the door, ready to burst into action. They landed in a rundown warehouse district, Rex exited the vehicle and scanned the area as the Providence soldiers fanned out around him. Captain Callan took point, leading the team to an abandoned building. They waited outside a padlocked side door as he briefed them on the mission.
"We have multiple animal EVO's inside this building, they are relatively small, approximately eighteen inches tall and spider-like, that's all the information that we have at present. Any questions?"
"Kill or cure?" Rex asked in response.
"Primary objective is to kill, there appears to be a large nest of these creatures inside and we need to clear them all out, if we can capture one without risk for the Doc to study then we'll do that, but I cannot stress enough, only if we can do that without jeopardising our primary task.
Looking around Captain Callan met the eyes of each of the members of his team and only saw determination in each gaze. Finally he locked eyes briefly with Rex and saw none of the anxiety that the young EVO had shown on the journey, just eagerness to begin. Nodding once to the young soldier with the bolt cutters he stood back and allowed the padlock to be removed before pushing open the door and leading his team inside.
Judging from the looks of the building Rex felt sure that there would be no civilians inside who would need protection. Given that fact and that it was a kill not a cure mission Rex was happy to stay with the group as they moved quietly through the deserted building. Much of the interior had been stripped when the previous tenants had moved out but there were still several pieces of heavy machinery remaining. Huge, dust covered hulks looming ominously in the dim light reaching them through the dirty skylights. At first it was silent but then Rex began to hear small skittering sounds from up in the rafters and from the shadows beneath the abandoned machinery.
Looking around the team Rex saw that one of the young rookies seemed to be spooked by the noises around them and Rex caught his eye before flashing him a reassuring grin. The young soldier squared his shoulders and ducked his head in a quick nod before returning to his task of scanning the shadows for EVO activity.
As they entered an open space Rex got his first glimpse of the EVO's they were facing, scuttling into hiding amongst a pile of broken down boxes he saw it, bone white with an almost crystalline, faceted sharpness to the lines and angles of it's body and legs. The body was diamond shaped with four legs on each side, the legs were quite wide at the body, narrowing steadily to half their original width at the knee where they angled inwards once again and continued narrowing to a point as they reached the floor. Rex almost thought that it resembled a small occasional table until another of the creatures appeared around a corner and he saw the malevolent red eyes staring at him from what must be the creatures face. Then the whole underside of the body dropped open as if hinged at the rear and a warning hiss issued from the beast as Rex realised that it was nothing but a large mouth on legs.
The hiss appeared to have been some kind of rallying cry and the creatures appeared all around the small group of Providence soldiers and Rex quickly found himself in the thick of battle, fighting for his life as the hoard of spindly, white spiders threatened to overwhelm them with sheer numbers. Summoning the BFS Rex laid into the swarm around him, scything off the legs of the creatures, leaving their helpless bodies to be dealt with once the outbreak had been brought under control. Almost too late Rex realised that while the majority of the creatures occupied the Providence forces at ground level, a number of them were amassing in the rafters above the unsuspecting soldier's heads.
Retracting the BFS Rex called forth the boogie pack and firing up his engines he soared up to face the hoards preparing to drop upon the soldiers from above. Reaching their level he carefully angled his jets so that the exhaust blasted the EVO's from their precarious footing on the rafters causing them to fly several yards before smashing at high speed into the bulk of the rusted machinery below where they lay, broken and lifeless like a child's abandoned game of jack straws.
Lowering himself back down to rejoin the battle below he found the soldiers moping up the last few remaining spider creatures and they were soon on the way back to the keep with one of the beasts safely caged for Doctor Holiday to continue her experiments into the possibility of a long term cure for the nanite problem.
Lying back in his bed that night Rex realised that he had survived one day without Six. One down, Six to go. He chuckled to himself at the play on words, he didn't want Six to go, he wanted him to come back as soon as possible. He drifted off to sleep with visions of his green clad love, dark eyes behind dark glasses swam through his dreams, longed for but always just out of reach.
The next day passed quietly, far too quietly for Rex and by mid-morning he was pacing angrily back and forth across his room. Six might think that he was too young to know his own mind but Rex had no doubt where his future lay. The only thing in his way was his stubborn lover as Six stayed away to give Rex space, space he neither wanted nor needed.
Deciding he needed to find a way to burn off this restless energy before he ended up trashing his room twice in one week Rex headed down to the training levels. Hearing pounding feet and the thud of a ball bouncing regularly he thought he might be in luck and he pushed open the door of the gymnasium. Inside he found the young rookie soldier from the previous day dribbling a basketball up the court before taking the shot from the three-point line.
In the momentary silence as the ball flew through the air the young man heard the footsteps behind him and spun around to see Rex standing by the door, missing the ball as it dropped neatly through the basket. "Nice shot" Rex commented.
"Thank you Sir" the rookie responded, seemingly awestruck at finding himself one on one with half of Providence's leading team in the battle against the EVO menace.
Rex looked around himself before realising that the soldier was calling him 'sir'. "My name is Rex, you really don't need to call me Sir."
"Thank you Sir...Rex" the young man stumbled over the name, "I'm Ivan."
"Hi Ivan, may I join you?" Rex asked, a little one on one basketball might be just what he needed to take his mind off of Six's absence.
"Of course Si...Rex" and he threw the ball to Rex. Ivan was nervous at first, fighting alongside the legendary EVO was nerve-wracking enough, but it was what he'd trained for. But having his hero ask to join him on the basketball court was beyond his wildest dreams. Although he would never admit it out loud Ivan was nurturing a major crush on Rex. He'd spent the last few years watching Rex on news reports as he fought and cured EVO after EVO, keeping the world safe for normal humans.
He'd joined Providence in the hope that he might one day end up fighting side by side with his hero. Along with the other new recruits Ivan had been rushed through an intensive training course. That was one of the measures introduced by the powers that be to meet the demand caused by the sudden increase in the number and intensity of EVO incidents. He'd been delighted in the final week of training to be told that he'd been assigned to the keep. It had seemed inevitable then that he would meet Rex sooner rather than later. Training had ended and Ivan had been in a euphoric haze as he was herded aboard a troop transport with the other rookies for the trip to the keep.
His world had collapsed when they had landed and been ushered into a large meeting room which he later found out was the canteen. All the rookies who'd come in on the transport with Ivan were there along with all the seasoned soldiers who hadn't been involved in the latest EVO mission. They had been addressed by a weary looking man in a green suit, white shirt, black tie and dark glasses. Ivan had seen the man in news reports, where Rex was this man was never far behind, but he'd never paid much attention to him until now. Now he listened in shocked horror as the man, Agent Six, told how Rex had been taken from the site of the last EVO incident. After that a skeleton crew was kept available for incident control, every other available resource was co-opted into the search for Rex.
Rex meanwhile was thinking about his first friend Noah. There friendship had only barely survived the first few weeks. Rex had been so angry when he found out that Noah had actually been recruited by White Knight to befriend him and help keep him under control. Still, they'd gotten past that and been best friends for the last five years. Rex didn't see much of Noah these days, the blonde human was away at University studying a PhD in electrical engineering. He was on a full scholarship from Providence, part of the deal he'd cut with White Knight all those years ago.
So now Rex really needed a friend to talk to, but his best, well really his only, friend was a thousand miles away and this wasn't the sort of conversation he felt confident having by telephone. He couldn't see himself confiding in Ivan the same was he would Noah if he were available, but still, it would be nice to have another friend, someone to shoot hoops with and blow off a little steam.
They played for over an hour, Rex driving himself hard, needing to burn off the surplus energy that threatened to overwhelm him in Six's absence. Eventually Rex noticed that his opponent was dripping with sweat and struggling for breath and catching the ball he walked over to check on the other young man.
"Are you OK?" he asked, concerned that Ivan had pushed himself too hard in an effort to keep up.
"I'm... fine... that... was... fun" Ivan panted "same time... tomorrow?" he asked as he slowly regained his composure.
Rex laughed briefly, "I'm game if you are."
On the third evening after Six had left Ivan managed to time his arrival into the mess hall for the evening meal just right to find Rex sitting alone over a large tray of food. After collecting his own meal he ignored the other rookies waving to him across the room and headed for Rex's table.
"May I join you?" he asked in an unconscious repeat of Rex's words to him on the basketball court on that first day.
Rex, who had appeared to be deep in thought shook off his air of distraction and waved for him to sit down, They enjoyed a friendly meal and ended up spending the rest of the evening together in lively conversation.
That set the pace for the rest of Six's week, Rex went out on missions when required, sometimes kill, sometimes cure and in between he spent his time training, reading in his room or on the basketball court with Ivan. In the evenings they would share a table in the mess hall and then spend the evening chatting and getting to know one another. Rex still missed Six and longed for his return, but he felt happy to be making a new friend and that helped to pass the time until the end of the week.
It was approaching noon on the seventh day and Rex and Ivan were deep in their daily basketball game when Rex heard a familiar voice call out his name. He dropped the ball and spun on his heel to see a beloved figure standing in the doorway. "Six!"
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