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(Why Pegasus?)

/Tenma means "heavenly horse" or "Pegasus"/

(Ah yeah, I knew what Tawashi meant, just wondered if there was more of a reason that she nicknamed him.)

(Ok, I get it now )

/i posted that she said it without thinking,another hint for later on/

"Bakuhatsu, can ya hear me?!" Skunk yelled in the general direction of the control panel. "Try and flip over!"

The machine chirped, confused, revving its wheels hopelessly. Kuma found the far wall and begun shoving himself against it. The cockpit began rocking, and the other two men joined in with trying to push the whole thing over. Bakuhatsu chirped in approval.

"Almost there!" Kuma hooted, the whole room rocking side to side. The entire vehicle finally rolled over, throwing its inhabitants around once more, but the lights flashed on brief enough to reveal where the control panel was. Skunk rushed over to it and started pushing all the controls he could remember, sending Bakuhatsu back towards their entry hole.

"Retreating!" He shouted, irritated. "We're going back the other way!"

-O'Shay-
O'Shay was lying on the floor, badly hurt. Gee, I wouldn't be suprised if I have already broken a million bones in my body already, he thought. Skunk and his massive drill machine were going backwards, obviously trying to escape. Where were the police, he thought. Dr. Yumi was attending to Tenma. "Help" O'Shay croaked. Suddenly, he felt a sharp, piercing pain on his back and he lieyed back.

-Epsilon-
The machine was getting away, and as far as Epsilon herself was concerned she has got to stop it. She went behind the machine and pushed. With her 75,000 horsepower she just stopped the machine going further; that, of course, wouldn't happen if Skunk yanked on the power lever

-- Tenma --

Tenma had been rushing through the halls, running down stairs to get something that had just popped into his mind. He was almost on his way to ground floor, when suddenly he heard a familiar voice cry out for help. It was Dr. O'Shay's voice, which could only mean that he didn't got a chance to leave the Ministry before the attack. He hurried after the source of the voice calling, and found Dr. O'Shay laying on the floor.

"Dr. O'Shay!" Tenma cried and ran to his side. "Are you hurt? Can you get up?"

It was obvious to him that Dr. O'Shay couldn't, especially in his old age. Seeing an employee phone on the side of the wall, he quickly grabbed the receiver and spoke into it, a loud intercom (although now slightly static'y since the shaking) had rang out his voice.

"Immediate emergency assistance required on floor 11. Repeat, Immediate emergency assistance required on floor 11.

He returned to Dr. O'Shay's side right afterward. He checked to see if there was any blood, which there didn't seem to be any.

-O'Shay-
Tenma rushed to his side. "I think I have broken a few bones here and there" O'Shay remarked and said he had ran right into the path of the drilling machine. After Tenma called for the emergency services, O'Shay relaxed - slightly. Help was on the way.

Skunk was stunned, still pushing the accelerator as far as it could go. "...We're getting away. We're seriously getting away."

Nooj was feeling around, looking for the robotic brain container that had since rolled away. "We didn't hurt anyone, did we?"

"I don't know, the screen's not working!"

Bakuhatsu, running on his basic AI, was rushing back through the tunnel he'd made earlier. There were all sorts of sounds coming from outside the robot that Skunk couldn't identify without the main screen working. They were approaching the sewers again, and even if the whole machine broke down in there, Skunk knew he at least had a secret walkway deep in there.

Nooj shuffled around on the floor behind him. "I found the brain thing!"