Experimentals

"An ice cream van?"
"Do you guys sell chocolate?"
"Just get in the vehicle and lets move."
Half and Gevaudon get into the front seat. Zed and John get into the back.
"Well this is sad, theres no chocolate."
"Why would there be chocolate, in a ice cream van being driven by a wolf and a twisted looking man?"
"I really don't know."

 

"Hello Original"
That was all the woman who looked like me said. No, no if what i think is going on she is me. A cloned version of me but still genetically she is me. My mind is froze at the sight of her, when did they succeed in the cloning program? How many are there? Does she even know what she is doing or is she mindlessly controlled. All these questions swirling in my mind I speak mindlessly
"Who-who are you....."
"Hmmmm?" She turned her head obviously confused
"Original, are you not aware of what's going on? We were informed you knew we existed, perhaps you have suffered memory loss. Very well I am Unit 32 of the Crin project, The project you were created from and run by Dr. Toufin yo-"
"STOP!"
"What's wrong original, did something upset you?"
"Yes.... What are you doing here, Why..... I thought the project failed, why are you here"
"Orders from Father, He sent us out as a security net to catch escaped projects, find Gama, and keep tabs on the projects left out in the city. As for the project We are the first sent out from the labs. Several other batches of clones have been made but sadly they showed no sign of powers. You could say we are the first of your children, no It would be more accurate to be sisters given our appearance."
I feel silent. He was behind this, she even said so, calling him father... That, that man

Frost's face started to fill with rage after hearing the sister say what Frost asking, despite her not meaning it
"I know you are listen you shit so answer me, do you realize what you have done?! What you have made here, what the consequences of this are!! Why, why are you continuing this! I.... I will stop you, I won't let this happen. I won't let you do this!!!!"
As Frost screamed at the sister ice shards started to form mid air and fall to the ground. If we weren't in a secluded area this would attract alot of attention. The clone was silent.

MEANWHILE

"......I won't let you do this!!!!"
In a office at the labs Toufin heard and saw these words from the clone and montior observing the scene without their knowledge
"Ah..... I wish it was just that easy dear, but if I could have stopped this long ago i would have.... Tell her this: There are...."

AT A CERTAIN LOCATION

"There are 2 points of interest you should investigate and soon. Firstly there is a rather large casino that should draw your attention as to whats going on there. The Second is a empty facility now being occupied, the people there will....interest you. This is all i can give. Is what Father said"
The clone spoke words Toufin had apparently said, then she turned to me
"Father says: Keep up the good work boy, your proving more and more at you are no failure"
My mood drops at the sound of those words. She said them in an emotionless voice but i could hear him say them, his tone and smug look appeared as she spoke. After that Frost started walking away, seems she could no longer take it. I follow after her saying nothing, the clone tries to do the same but an ice spike shoot up from the ground in front of her
"Stop.....please just.....just leave" Frost voice went from one of anger to one on the verge of tears.
The clone nodded and walked away, leaving Frost and I alone on our walk back home.

We didn't talk a single word after walking back, i didn't dare ask anything for fear of further opening a scar of Frosts. We make it back into the house and are greeted
"So, whatcca been doing so late Frosty? You got out with that hot head for such along time we can only guess"
"Sis, this is why arguments happen, you tease people about their love life. How would you like it if they teased us about our relation..."
"HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY IT WE DON'T HAVE A RELATIONSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Oh, Sis....."
I was surprised to not see Frost make a cold comeback at Miko for messing with her, what happen must of really shaken her. Echo and Atlas both notice and show some concern
"What happened?"
"That"
"That?"
"What what's what?"
Only Echo and Atlas understood, seems she told them or at least partly. Atlas then speaks up and changes the subject
"You all have a bath or shower around here? I'd like to wash away the sweat of moving all the furniture ALONE"
Atlas's comment was meet with glares about the last part.
"We don't have a bath or shower but..."
"There is a cultural district not too far from here, the have a Japanese bath house Sis and I love to go to"
"Yep, also this will us from having to wait all day for 7 people to bathe"
I think back and remember it has been awhile since I bathed last seeing as the districts water got shut off. With a place picked by Miko and Kuro we all head out, Frost still remaining silent

OOT: NEXT TIME on Ginger writes a post! Fanservice post until then!

 

Throne smiled at her and left the room, locking the door behind her. A few seconds later, all the windows and other doors locked. Then, a strange hissing started from the vents near the top of the room, a green sweet-smelling gas jettisoning into the air.

Half used one hand to drive, the other innocently toying with Zed's severed digit. Shadows danced around it.
Gevaudan opened a nearby freezer and offered Zed and Mr Red a choc ice each. "Have to maintain cover," he winked as he took one for himself and started licking it with a freakishly long tongue. "How'd - slurp - you two - lurrch - meet up?" he asked between licks.

 

Zed and John took the chocolate ice cream out of the freezer. 'They actually have chocolate ice cream' Zed stared at John as he devours his ice cream in an instant.
"How'd - slurp - you two - lurrch - meet up?"
"I really don't kno-"
A rush of pain goes through his head. John stops eating, he puts up his head and stares at Zed.
"You okay?"
"eeeeeee-yeah."
He lifted his head and glared at John. John observes Zed, he shows of a smile.
"Well, I don't really remember, how about you Zed?"
"Uhhh, If I remember properly, I think it was because of a. . . . . woman?"
"A - slurp - woman?"
"Yeah, officer girl."
'What was her name, how come I have forgotten. How did I forget?' John blankly stared at Zed.
"Yeah, I think it was a woman as well."
"And thats - lick - all?"
"Yeah, pretty much."

 

Throne waited about four minutes to make completely sure that the girl was unconscious before having the gas sucked from the room and venturing back in. She lifted Leah over her shoulder. Sadly, Leah would need to be conscious for the transfer to work, otherwise she ran the risk of being trapped in a comatose body. But in this way she ensured that things with Leah's... useful brother would be a relatively smooth operation. And if not... well, a girl always had to have contingencies.

Gevaudan looked sympathetic. "Women, eh? Can't live with them, can't live without 'em. Well, unless you're like me and flexible enough to lick your own d-"
The van went over a pothole and smeared ice cream all over Gevaudan's shirt. "Son-of-a - HALF, I WILL KILL YOU!"
"Sorry!" Half not-very-sincerely apologized in a sing-song voice as they approached a large, industrial facility ahead.

 

As the group moved on, the halls just got even more unsettling. It almost looked like whatever experiment had gone wrong was trying to take over the place. Thankfully not too much plant life was around, it seemed that he had gotten rid of a decent amount of it. As they kept walking, the hallway seemed to widen, meaning that they were getting closer to the main common area, and would be near the central terminal soon. Just as Zach was about to take another step, he noticed a red dot on a wall next to him. His instincts went into overdrive, and he shouted “DUCK”. He heard a huge explosion, and got covered in debris. The wall had a huge hole in it, and splinters of material were everywhere. Zach looked up, and saw a turret right down the hall.

“Oh come on, isn’t there anything in here that isn’t trying to kill us?”

 

We gathered up a clean pair of clothes a small towel and all start for the bath-house. Miko said that there will be soaps and shampoos we can buy there so just bring a bit of Krin and we would be fine.
"Ah sis, it' been sooooo~ long since we had a bath, i can't wait~!" Kuro said while clinging onto Miko and rubbing her head against Miko's arm. This girl..... she does realize we are out in public right? Miko's face showed anger but she surprisingly kept calm
"You are lucky we are in public else you would have been fried by now...."
"Ah but you can't use powers out in public! and besides when we are in the bath you can't either else you could actually hurt me because of the water. Which makes you completely defenseless *drool* huehuehuehue~ AUGH!" Kuro's drooling fantasy was cut short by a swift punch from Miko.
"Don't think i'm so defenseless i would beat you when you get out of hand. Also that nosebleed BETTER be from that punch just now...."
"Heehe sure sis that's what it's from"
"Gesh do you two always have to make such a racket every time we go here?"
"I take it this happens alot Cel?"
"About every time, it seriously get annoying..."
Cel, Echo and Atlas continued to talk while we walked, Kuro was fawning all over miko as well. Frost and I were the only ones quite, she must still be in thought of what happened. I was just listening to everyone and trying to stay out of trouble as a few off handed comments nearly got me killed earlier. We past out of the industrail zone found our-self's in what seemed like a residential area, however it looked vastly different from the rest of the city. In one part you would find something comparable to a 'little Tokyo' in other cities but this was for every nationality: German, French, Chinese, Japanese, it was as if this part of the city was a cultural melting pot. It was too long after we found a large building that was the bath house Miko and Kuro were talking about.


"Welcome!"
We were greeted warmly by the staff as we walked in.
"Ah Miko, Kuro it is good to see you"
"Hey, guys what's up?"
Miko proceded to talk with the staff while Kuro directed us to small store. We bought soap and shampoo here then went to pay for our baths.
"Okay, Ladies your bath is on the left, it's the red room" a female attendnet spoke
"And guys you have the right, blue room. We also have a mixed bath open for the more adventous between the two." Another of the staff spoke
"Given it's so late you shouldn't have to worry about crowding in the bath but we have multiple areas should you each want your own"
"That won't be nessecary..."
"Besides where is the fun in bathing alone? If we wanted to do that we would have stayed home!"
We split off into our respective groups and headed for the baths

Echo, Cel, Atlas and I entered a vary spacious room, it seemed to be the changing room as there lockers and an second set of doors on the opposite side.
"Put your things in the locker then head in,And make sure you wash off before entering the bath! I didn't pay to sit and a pool of your idiots sweat"
"Bah we know the rules, and besides *zip* I'm one step ahead of yea!" Atlas shouted
"Whoa didn't need to see that"
"Atlas at least show some modesty!"
"Hahahaha at my age you known nothing of the sort!"
"YOUR ONLY 35!"
I dared not turn around to see the horror behind but instead quickly undressed and covered my self with a towel. Echo and Cel follow suit while Atlas charges toward the bath
"HEY WAIT YOU BIG BABOON WASH FIRST!"
"HUh? *SPLASH*" Cel proceeded to clutches his forehead as Atlas fell face first into the bath. I proceed to wash up, slicking back my long hair and using the small shower head to wash off. I apparently took longer as Cel and Echo had both entered the bath. I join them in the bath, warm is nice and hot. It's very relaxing.
"So, 3rd string. What was old Frosty going on about before we came here?"

I walked into the changing room with Miko and Kuro.
"Come on sis let's get changed!"
"Hang on Kuro, i have to put my clothes up" Miko puts her clothes in one of the lockers, Kuro in a blick of an eye teleported her clothes off. I take mine off then head in toward one of the shower heads. Ahhhhhhhhh the hot water, it feels so nice. It always has since the experiment, it feels as if my body is melting away. This is good, it helps me take my mind away from the stress of everything
"Hey sis let me wash your back"
"Okay but JUST my back. I swear Kuro....."
"Don't worry sis *squish*" "Kyaaaaaaaaaah!"
"My, my sis what have you been eating? Your butt has gotten bigger than the last time we bathed together. Must be all those sweets.."
"Kuro..."
"*poke poke* And looks like you have the start of a stomach, we can't be having that sis. However it wouldn't be too bad if that were to travel a little north...."
"North!?"
"Oh who am i kidding i love our boobs the way they are sis!!!!!!!" Kuro then tackled Miko
"HEY GET OFF OF ME YOU PERVERT!!!!!!!! OWHOA! *SPLASH*" Those two idiots go falling into bath. I continue washing myself and get to my hair, the moment the water touches it my spikes 'melt' away. I freeze the water in my hair to keep it somewhat in place but this hot water just melts it away. I then start heading to the bath, Kuro and Miko still fighting.
"Why aren't you attacking snow woman over there like you are me huh?!"
"but sis i only have eyes for you. Sure Frost may have flat stomach and sure her boobs are like snowy top mountains compared to your small hills. So what if her butt is prefectly rounded it doesn't matter..."
"........ First you sexually assault me then YOU INSULT ME!!!!!!!!!!!! *WHAM*" Miko lands a punch directly center of Kuros face, good thing too else an ice spike would have been what hit her instead if Miko hadn't done that. I ingore Kuro and take a seat in the bath but when i do....
"BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR" "BBBBBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"
Huh? What's with those faces?
"M-m-m-mik-k-k-o di-di-did it ju-just get cold?"
"Ye-ye-ye-yeah! Wh-wh-wh-what th-t-th-the hell Frosty!?" Confused i reply to them
"I don't know what you are talking about"
"You-ou cooled off the bath!"
"G-g-get out! Before you freeze the water solid!" Before i could respond i found myself floating in mid air then falling onto the hard bathhouse floor. That little......
Without saying anything i walk toward the changing room, but before I leave, i turn and blow them both a kiss, a blizzard of a kiss.
"SOOOOOOOOO COLD, SOOO COLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"So, 3rd string. What was old Frosty going on about before we came here?" Cel asks me. Atlas and Echo both have a look on their faces.
"If she wanted you to know she would have told everyone. besides the only two that really know whats going on are those two, I'm not even sure of what i saw myself today...." I answer Cel but he looks disappointed at what i told him. But suddenly his face starts to redden.
"Hey-hey, who decided to turn up the heat?"
"Hmmm?"
"I was wondering if you would notice with that barrier of yours, been heating up steadily for a while..."
"I guess i should of seen this coming, she does the reverse after all."
"What are you talking about?"
"Lad, your cooking us alive!"
"What?!"
"Yep, since you stepped into the bath the temperature has started to rise rapidly. If i had to guess your body gives off a steady amount of heat which is indirectly heating the bath above what it should be"
"SO GET YOUR ASS OUT OF THE BATH" A now lobster red Cel shouts at me.
"Try the mixed bath, shouldn't be anyone there and you can boil the bath without bothering us"
"Sorry lad"
Kicked out of the men's bath i head to the mixed bath

"Excuse me, is there anyone in the mixed bath?" I ask while covering my self up
"No miss, it's all free. would you like to try it?"
"Yes, and if there is any way could i get a 'Don't Disturb' sign?" Would rather nit have anyone walk in on me....
The attendant got a smile on her face for some reason and laughed.
"ordinarly we can't close off baths as it would limit business but seeing it's nearly midnight i doubt we will have any other customers aside from your group. Here is your sign, and have fun~" I didn't know why she said have fun, she said no one was in there so how would it be fun?

OOT: Part 1 of Fan-service post! note this has taken me 2 days to actually type and i still have more!!!!!!!!! Now to type it out........

 

"This is the place?"
"This place looks odd."
Zed looked out the front window, as the facility came closer, a voice in his head started to whisper. 'Be on you guard, I have a bad feeling about this place.'

 

The entire city exploded in the time of a camera flash. The hundreds of strobes winked into and out of existence before you could count to one. The wry grin light up the young face as the sound of her fingers snapping faded from the windowed room overlooking the now cratered valley. The man with her patted her on the head. Howi was her name; though different handlers had their own nicknames for her. How, Howl, Arti, The name didn't really matter to her. If she was ever pressed, Koil or Howitzer were her two favorites.
"Lets get going Koil." The man said. "You did amazing today. But you must be tired. This was your biggest job to date. I'll get you something to eat then you can go to bed."
"Okay." She said and followed the man in the suit out of the building and into the waiting car.

 

OOT- Away from keyboard for a bit so I couldn't write out a full wall of text that I would have liked (cell phone is restricting)

Tomorrow or the day after I'll continue where Flair left off.

I finally got a vision for some great plot points. Expect an increase of posts from me.

 

So many thoughts shot through Graces' mind.
"They killed him..... They killed him......... hes....... hes....... DEAD!"
What she doing sitting here in a puddle of her own piss she had to run. she bolted put of the labs and in to the street at a break neck pa. As she stumbled through the streets people gasped as she was soaked in blood.
"I have to get out of here."
She looked around frantically and dived into the nearest ally way. From just around the corner she could hear sobs.
As she rounded the corner she found a boy about her age sitting against a wall crying. She walked towards him but accidentally stepped on apiece of rubbish alerting him to her presence. As he saw her appearence he backed away in horror. A steet lamp fell over into the ally almost crushing grace but she stopped it with her power.
"Stop I don't want to hurt you."
"GET AWAY!!!"
As he yelled that a support on the building next to them collapsed and the rubble collapsed them both. Grace power saved her but the boy was crushed sending his blood everywhere. Grace was now soaked from head to toe in blood that was not her own.
Grace dropped to her knees at the sight of more blood. Tears ran down her face.
"Why! Why the fuck did this all happen."

 

The Legion skirted the rooftops with cat like abilities. It paused as it looked don into the blood spattered alley. It watched the girl, tail swishing back and forth with childish amusement on its face.

"Koil, are you ready?" The man asked. He didn't take the binoculars from his eyes.
"I am." She replied. Her hair was tied back into a pony tail and her outfit, a formal dress for her age, fluttered in the wind.
"Remember the coordinates?"
"Yes."
"Get ready." He took one hand from the binoculars and counted down from five with his fingers. When he made a fist she summoned the energy inside of her. The scream of the shell echoed from overhead and then the explosion blossomed in the distance.
"Hit successful." The scratchy voice said over the radio.
"Copy over watch. We're pulling out." With a grin on his face, the man got down off of the rock and led Koil back to the jeep parked under one of the sparse trees in the area.
"That was the first one, right? How many more are there?"
"Ten. We have our work cut out for us today. Then your Auntie gets you for a bit."
"I don't like Auntie." The girl complained and puffed her cheeks out unhappily. The man smiled amusedly at this and put the vehicle into gear.
"You just be a good girl as always. Then we'll be together again before you know it."
"Okay." She said sullenly.

 

Throne walked into the room where Leah was bound, looking distraught. "Oh Leah... I am so so sorry... we, we had no choice... after what you did, I had to stop them from killing you, this was the only way to stop them... just stay calm, I'll help you."

Gevaudan sniffed the air and straightened up.
"Ok. Shadow boy, hands behind your back. You too, guy-I-don't-remember-the-name-of-either."

 

Flair was told she would meet with her "son" today. She hasn't seen him in a few months now. He was the only one she could trust to keep tabs on the labs but to be honest she felt he was a lost cause. Why did she ever pick up that street urchin so many years ago was always a matter of private debate.
I must have been lonely

"Flair? Your son's here, I'll get you a table"
Flair was lead to one of the empty tables in the bar. Thankfully no "shows" were on today
"Here you go, I'll leave you two now. If you want something just ask" Noel left them and went back to his bar duties.
Across the table sat a scrawny figure with a frown on his face. Steven Blight wasn't a handsome man but that may have been due to the permanent standoff demeanor he always gave off.

"What is it mother? I have important business these days and I really can't afford to be away from work. Is it about money? I'll be able to transfer more to your account now with my promotion"
Was he always like this? Yes he probably was. Steven is grateful to the women who raised him from the streets but the boy had the social skills of a brick wall.
"Now, now. Is that anyway to greet the women who raised you for so long? I have missed you for so long dear"

At least he had the dignity to blush. Flair's gift for doing that were impeccable even before her powers.
"I-sor..sorry. It's been very busy at work and we have made great progress. It's all that's been on my mind for some weeks now. How have you been mother?"

Flair waved off his question
"Of course I'm fine. Don't worry about that. I do need need a favor from you. Something very important."
"Then ask and I'll do anything in my power to grant it"
"It's about the labs"
Steven nodded. This was a dangerous subject.
"I know how you used my past to find the location of the lab. You did it to get rid of that coworker of yours. That was very wrong."
Steven only shrugged.
"So? You gonna tell the police?" Steven's mocking tone made Flair want to smack him. She held her hand back though.
"Stop being stupid, we both know we hold each other hostage. I can bring you down in your work and you can turn me in to the labs. We both don't want that"
"Of course..."
"Well what I need is for you to go back to the labs and figure out where Dr.Zenma's last known location is."
"What makes you think they would allow me to?"
"You'll tell them everything about us. How I raised you and how I'm his wife."
"What!?"
"They would believe you. There would be no other way an outsider could know me unless they made contact with me. I don't officially exist"
"Okay but why let the labs know your alive? I thought you were hiding from them?"
"I'm done running. No matter how much I run they keep bumping into me. Earlier this week I met one of those hunters you know. She seemed so focused, so... lifeless. To think people are ending up like that. I need to find my husband. Once I heard he went rogue I realized that I must do my part too."
"Alright but under one condition. After I do this, after I find out what I can about your husband's whereabouts then no more favors. No more debt to you. I don't want anything to do with you anymore. Our "relationship" ends after this mission. I don't want to see you anymore"

So that was it then
"Okay. Deal."

They both got up and shook hands. She would honor her agreement of cutting ties. Flair was everything. She wasn't a liar though. Blunt, straightforward, and strong willed. Steven had no problem admitting that he loved her. She was everything a women should be. She wouldn't lie to your face or make empty promises. When she promised to take care of him he was at first skeptical but she held her word. Took him to expensive schools, made him work hard at the jobs he did. All she ever asked in return was to never reveal her identity to others. It always baffled him why she was so simple like that. He was always willing to do "more" for his benefactor.
Guess she loved her husband that much
Regardless it ends here. She has become a burden now, guess that's why she is so willing to agree to cut ties now.
___________

When Steven left, Flair made preperations to leave town. What Steven didn't know was that there was no way the labs would ever let him leave that place. She basically just wrote his death warrent. It was the only way to signal Zenma that she lived. It was a start at least.
You already showed what kind of man you become Steven when you betrayed your friend. You would fit in quite nicely in that den of clowns.

OOT- Love it when I get hit by a huge spark of inspiration.

 

Zed and John do as they are told, they both put their hands behind their backs. 'This is bad, whats going to happen now.' Zed closes his eyes, 'Don't worry, if anything goes wrong, we can just snap and kill everyone thats in our path.' A cheshire smile appeared on his face, 'Yes kill everyone of them.'

 

OOT: Part two of fan service post and plot advancement will be a book

I walked into the mixed bath area to find the same layout of changing rooms. I quickly chose a locker and head for the large bath as the air was cold on my skin. The inside of the bath was looked like a natural spring despite being in the middle of the city. The walls were painted to look like a mountain view, giving more of a feel of s spring than then white walls of the men's bath. I wonder what the women's bath looked like? I went ahead and took a seat in the bath without rinsing as i already did before entering the other bath. Ah this is nice, a larger warm bath all to myself...

I took the sign from the attendant and walked to the changing room. I throw the clothes I'm carrying into a locker, it was too much of a pain change into them just to change out so i had been covering myself with a towel. I hang the sign on the door leading to the bath so anyone coming in would see it and leave. I open the door...

As i was enjoying the bath to myself i hear the door open, huh who could that be? I turn to look and see a woman entering the room.
"....."
"?....!"
"Blaze..."
"Frost?!" The woman before me was none other than Frost. She came into the mixed bath-house , she came into the mixed bath-house wearing only a towel. The towel barely cover her and a large amount of her skin was visible. Her skin was almost a pearl white in color, it was stunningly beautiful. Her hair wasn't spiky as usual so i didn't recognize her right away, we had now been staring at each other for a few seconds when my mind finially started shifting gears.
"W-w-w-w-what are you doing here!?" I say flustered, i went from being entranced by Frost to wondering about this whole situation and the safety of my own life.
"I came to take a bath, what are you doing here"
"I-i-i-i-t's not what you thinking, I was kicked out by the guys cuz i was cooking the pool"
"Hmmmm, so you too"
"Huh, what do you mean?"
"Kuro and Miko did the same to me, only i was 'freezing the water'. Those to probably wanted the pool so Miko wouldn't have to be embarrassed about her 'fun' with Kuro" Frost put emphasis on fun, just what exactly were they doing before Frost left? I try to calm myself then speak to Frost
"If that's the case, I'll go ahead and get out so you can..." I start to stand up
"I wouldn't do that, you'll end up giving me more than I want to see....." She points to me standing up. I sit right back down a use on hand to cover myself while trying to grab my towel behind me. As I am going so Frost puts one foot into the bath, as she does so a large amount of steam is created. She puts her other foot in, then her legs and finally takes a full seat down while setting her towel behind her.
"Ahhh so warm, you really do heat up the water" My mind has gone blank, I'm bathing with Frost. We are both naked in the same pool of water. And I haven't died yet! Mindlessly I blurt out something
"I'm going to go ahead and get out!"
"No.... stay." I'm left speechless at her words.
"I never really get to enjoy a long bath because i end up cooling off the water after a few minutes, If you stay your heating and my cooling should balance each other out, so stay a bit" I listen to Frost and stay in the bath. My eyes are having trouble finding a place to look, eventually they stop on Frost. Despite there being a steam wall from Frost's entry to the bath I could she her silhouette through it. Frost was a beautiful woman, her face, her body, staring at her through the steam reminded me of just how beautiful she was. She then spoke
"Blaze, i want to thank you..."
"F-for what?"
"For not telling them, for not letting the others know we encountered a clone. It was something personal i didn't want out there unless i said it"
"How did you know I didn't say anything?"
"Just now. If you had you would have panicked, but seeing as you are you that was your response so you didn't. You also didn't say too much on our way here"
"Ah, I just thought since it was your business you should be the one to tell them. Besides you only show so much of your self to others for a reason, you said so your self"
As we had been talking the steam slowly dissipated. It was now to the point of clearly seeing each other, Frost had smile on her face. It wasn't a fake smile or one mixed with emotion but a real smile. She raise one of her arms up to cover her chest, but only it more noticeable by pressing her arm too much. She started to get up while grabbing her towel to cover herself.
"I'll go ahead and get changed, make sure to wait a bit before leaving. So the others don't see us together, that way this didn't happen"
"Okay smiley" Frost blushed at my comment and headed to the other room. As she walked it was made obious that she grabbed too small of a towel.....

It was several minutes later before I left the mixed bath to find everyone outside and dressed. Miko and Kuro had towels covering their hair, Atlas Echo and Cel all had their hair slicked back like mine. Frost was running her hands threw her hair and in an instant it looked like it always does, so she freezes her spikes hmmmmm...... I run my own hands in my hair and sure enough it starts to dry.
"So how was the bath Frosty?"
"Well since you idiots kicked me out I had to use one of the other women's bath"
"oh don't lie now, I sure you went into the mixed bath"
"I didn't"
"Don't act like you didn't have fun"
" Your one to talk, all your fun with Kuro"
"W-w-what!?"
"Kyaaaaaaaah! that was it wasn't it?"
"DAMN YOU, YOU SNOW WOMAN IMMA SHOCK THE...."
"Easy sis we still are in public after all" The attendants stared at Miko, some laughing others with confused looks on their faces
"Grrrrrrr......"
Frost seemed returned to her normal mood.


After the incident at the bath-house between Miko and Frost we all headed home. When we got back we started to talk as a group.
"Okay we managed to come up with a few ideas as to what to do next"
"We can either try and go after some of the runaways from before as to tie up loose ends or we can try pulling a bank job"
"Bank job?"
"Yes, remember how the port was closed? Well they moved all the cash out of that district and stopped paychecks in that time. Seems they aren't returning the missed checks and only depositing a faction of the accounts while forging the numbers. We plan on playing alittle robin hood"
"That's right, it will take all 7 of us working together but i think we can pull it off"
"In order to actually get the money that was the ports is to hit the 5 surrounding districts banks, as all the money flowed to them. However it must be done at the same time or the other banks will simple pour their money into the other surrounding banks like the port did."
"We figured the teams up and we will have 3 stealth teams attacking first while we have 2 loud teams busting the other two once the stealth teams start"
"You and Frost are one stealth team, Miko and Kuro another. Myself as the final stealth and Atlas and Cel busting their way in the other two"
It was a bit to take in, robbing a bank, actually robbing 5 banks at almost the same time. Frost them spoke up,
"I have a bit of news to tell you guys, while on my walk tonight i would a couple interesting things. Firstly we ran into a young girl who was an experiment. She is being raised here by two people who knew a nurse from the labs. They aren't confidante in being able to protect her, and asked if we would take her in. We told them we were also experiments after we found out she was one. The other is one our way back we ran into a hunter, we managed to over power her and got some useful info from her. There is apparently some sort of activity at two locations: A casino and abandoned facility. If we want to make use of this she said we should hurry toward one of the two"
She lied about the clone but replaced it with hunter instead. She also left out the details regarding how we found out Crystal was an experiment
"Hmmmmm"
"The casino mention isn't too far from here, hard to miss. As far as the facility...... It's not uncommon for places to spring up and shut down on a dot, there are at least 2 just in this area"
"Well..... You know our rule. If you want to investigate you are free to, but be careful not to get in over your head. As for the girl you talked about, she'll be your responsibility remember this"
"Aye"
A thought then crossed my mind, the 'do as you want but if your in trouble tough luck' rule was made because of the several rescue attempts made by our group eariler concerning each other.
"Guys.... where is Leah?"
"Was wondering if anyone else noticed"
"My guess, she was picked up by hunters while walking"
"If she isn't back at this hour, then its a good chance"
"Poor girl"
Frost was the only one to not have a dismissive tone
"Maybe she is at the abandoned Facility"
"What makes you think that?"
"We ran into a hunter, the hunter names these two locations and says we should hurry. Casino doesn't seem like a good holding place but maybe a base, so the facility would be a place to have her held"
"Fine come tomorrow after picking up the girl, head out scouting the facilities. We all will take turns scouting our banks, after we have them scouted and you are done are your adventure we will hit the banks.....then we will play at the casino for a bit" Atlas said with a smile. After confirming everything we all headed to our paired bedrooms.

The rooms had our stuff thrown in them and barely arranged but at least the beds weren't covered. After finding a seat on my bed I began to kick off my shoes.
"You going with me tomorrow?" Frost asks me
"Yeah, we both have to get Crystal and also I'm going with you to search the facilities"
"Good, it would be a pain in the ass to get the girl and scout alone"
I nod in agreement to Frosts words, in my nodding something catches my eye. Frost is undressing.
"W-w-what are you doing!"
"Don't stare like a damn pervert, besides you practically saw me naked tonight so how is me getting undressed for bed a problem?"
I am silent at Frosts remarks, but i try not to look as she told me. With recent events she has gone from cold to bossy to this and back, but it does seem she is warming up.... slowly but surely i might get to know the real Frost.