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Chapter 31: Fallen Heroine "Who's blood can we use?" Fiona asked. "Maybe Alexis's, but they'll both be needing a few days of rest later, and we'll be totally defenseless." Mei Ling replied thoughtfully. "Not really. I have an Inner Beast too, ya know." Roy smiled. "But......" Lacus scratched her head. "He's up to the job, I know it." I reassured her. I laid Artemis down gently on our bed and then got in beside her. "Okay, swallow this pill, and you'll fall asleep." Mei Ling handed me a pill. I quickly swallowed it and took a comfortable position, feeling the pill take effect. I fell asleep. When I woke up the next day, there was a throbbing pain in my arm. I looked beside me and saw Artemis back to normal. I smiled. Hold on a second! Her horn, tail and wings were gone! Her hair had also changed back to black and she was wearing the armour again! "What's going on!?" I ran a finger to my forehead and felt around. My horn was gone as well and my tail and wings appeared to have disappeared too. I also found that I was wearing the armour under the same clothes I had escaped with. "Surprised? Seems like your blood forced me out of his body." Jakito's voice sounded from beside me. I jumped. He was standing beside me, in spirit form. "With me out, the armour lost its powers. Not to worry, the Akasha Charm exploded when it happened." he caught my glance at my chest. I jumped to my feet, but collapsed back onto the bed almost immediately. "Don't move, you need to recover. The blood transfusion went...... WHAT THE HECK!?" Lacus had walked in the door with a tray of food and got a shock when she saw Jakito. I managed to sit up on the bed and take off the armour, feeling rather happy that I would be able to go out like normal again. A quick look at Artemis revealed that the joke bra Lacus had planted on her was now stretching over the top of her armour. I grabbed a pair of scissors and snipped the joint apart, then detached the armour from her body. "I forgot where the blowing tube for that was, so I couldn't inflate it." Lacus remarked sadly as I slid the remaining parts of the armour off Artemis. "Mei Ling found this in your pocket by the way. She did some checking." Lacus handed the object I had taken from the Fidelo facility to me. I turned it over in my hand, noting that Mei Ling had removed the rubbery cover. The inside of the object was filled with what appeared to be blue liquid and a button sat on top of it. Probably what I had depressed twice. "She says its something to do with nanotechnology or something. I forgot what she said." Lacus scratched her head. Nanotech? Interesting...... I suddenly realized my waistline was a lot thinner than before. Was it because I had gotten hungry? No, wait, my stomach wasn't grumbling. There appeared to be a faint line running down my stomach too. Something to do with the object? I'd better ask Mei Ling. Turned out she had an answer waiting for me in her lab. "Whoever made that is either a pervert, or someone who's gone crazy over her body." she declared, pointing at the object in my hands. "Why?" I asked. "Didn't Lacus tell you? Oh never mind, she probably forgot." Mei Ling sighed. "The nanobots in that thing were created to shunt body fat from one place to another in your body, and also to change skin texture. They follow a preset program, namely...... that." Mei Ling pointed at her computer monitor. I took a look. "So that's why I'm thinner." I gasped. "Yep. Some girls might want to use it-" I cut her off. "Most girls, to be exact." I pointed out. "I don't think Artemis is going to like this." I bent down to examine the screen again. Some of my trousers wouldn't fit me anymore, they either couldn't slip up past my legs, or they just fell to the ground after I tugged them up to my waist. Even stranger was the voice in my head that kept telling me to walk around naked. I ignored that voice, but apparently Artemis couldn't. The first thing she did when she woke up was throw her clothes off herself. "What am I doing?" she asked herself a minute later, standing naked in our room. "Where am I?" was her next question. A few minutes of explaining passed by. I was right, she did not like the nanobots. "Is there a way to get them out?" she folded her arms grimly. "Mei Ling's working on it." I told her. However, when I got down to the lab to ask Mei Ling about her progress, I saw her trip and fall. When she got up, I saw the object stuck on her chest. She quickly pressed the button and removed it. "I'll just find a way to get that voice out of our heads, it's about time I did some slimming down." Mei Ling shrugged when I told her about the voices. |
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