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Michelle had heard about what happened. The Arxis had glitched out and had spontaneously opened up portals in the agency. The crew was quick to close it and bring back whoever was unfortunate to get warped in. She knew they hadn’t gotten everyone back yet, but she wondered just how many did get warped off in the first place. She was snapped out of her thoughts when Micah was quick to brush past her without saying a word. She then was brushed past by Elijah and Judah who were chasing after him, shouting something about staying calm? This only got the girl more worried and she was quick to follow.
”What’s going on?” Michelle asked as she manage to grab Judah by the arm.
Judah sputtered for a second before finding the words. “I don’t know. Micah keeps saying something about finding someone. He won’t say who. He’s been like this ever since the Arxis glitch!”
Michelle and Judah looked up to see Elijah having to hold Micah by the arms and staring him right in the eyes. Micah then shoved the brother in blue away before speed-walking down another hallway. Elijah shook his head as he walked up to the two. “I don’t know who Micah is trying to find!”
Michelle fell silent for a minute before her eyes went wide. “Where’s Jocelyn?”
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It was about four AM when the Arxis glitch was reported. Micah, Josiah, and Mary were the first ones up to start leading the crew to get their missing staff back from whatever Raelo they had warped in. Mary and Josiah had led their team fairly well, though Micah’s team came out empty-handed. In a way that was good. It just showed that there weren’t as many missing staff as the others had thought. Micah wasn’t so sure though. He had counted the amount of alerts that were sent to the control panel about how many people were warped out during the glitch. When he counted how many people had returned, he had counted a few heads too little.
”Wow, we finished that glitch search much faster than I thought!” Mary said happily.
Josiah gave a tired yawn. “Yea… mmmm… I’m going back to bed now.”
Mary nodded in agreement before looking over to Micah. She had a slightly worried look on her face. “Micah? What’s up?”
”I don’t think we have everyone.” Micah said slowly as he mentally recounted everyone again. “We’re missing a couple people still. The numbers don’t match.” He looked back down at the control panel which showed the amount of warping alerts. “I’ll keep working. No need to worry about me.”
Mary tilted her head slightly. “Alright… just don’t freak out alright? I know you have a tendency to do that.”
Micah chuckled as he watched his sister in white walk off. “Don’t worry. I’ll be fine.”
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Micah wasn’t fine anymore. How could he have forgotten about Jocelyn?! She was basically in his hands, anything bad that would happen to her would be blame on him! If she was injured or… worse, he could never forgive himself! She was just a child, heck, she was still in school! Sure, she had been to monster prison and had a fiery spirit, but that didn’t help Micah feel any better! He knew she was older now but with all those different Raelos, who knew what dangerous one she warped in. One of the crew nearly lost an arm if it wasn’t for Micah pulling him back into the Arxis Bay. And the report was filed at four AM! She was probably still half-asleep when she was warped out. It didn’t help with the fact that he didn’t want to show Mary that he was stressed out. He could handle just as much as her! He guessed he wasn’t too good with hiding his panic as after breakfast, Elijah and Judah were quick to ask Micah what was up. Also, what was that weird loud but muffled voice that was shouting at him right now? Was he going deaf or-.
”Micah look at me!”
Micah’s head shot up to see Michelle kneeling in front of him. Micah shook his head before looking around him with wide and teary eyes. He didn’t even realise that he was in the floor with his hands in his hair. Michelle shook her head with a small sigh. “Finally you’re listening.”
”M-Michelle?” Micah stuttered slowly as his hands slowly dropped down to his sides. “What a-are you doing h-here?”
”Calming you down.” She said slowly. “You’re lucky I was following you or you might have gone into full hysteria.”
Micah caught his breath as his eyes darted to look all over the place. He was trying to get his thoughts in line. Michelle could tell and slowly sat by his side, resting her head on his shoulder. He took a few more breaths before going silent, gently resting his head on top of hers. After a while, Michelle lifted her head up and poked him on the arm. “Calmed enough?”
”Y-Yea.” Micah said slowly. He licked his lips before his head hung low. “Man…” Michelle flinched as Micah’s head shoot straight back up, the agent in green throwing his hands up in the air. “JOCELYN!”
”Calm down! She’s alright!” Michelle said sternly, not wanting Micah to freak out again. She grabbed Micah’s hands and stared him down in the eyes. “She’s in the medic bay being checked out, but she’s perfectly fine.”
Micah gasped loudly as he placed a hand on his chest. “Oh thank goodness.” His shoulders went slack as his body completely relaxed like jello. The two remained on the spot for a while, their heads resting on each other. Michelle soon could hear Micah lightly snoring. She couldn’t help but chuckle as she also started to doze off.