"...I mean 'them', L...'them," Ash said, emphasizing the 'th' in 'them', grumbling while Hotaru couldn't help but laugh, covering her hand with her mouth. Ash just sighed. "Alright, so are you going to create a Sound Platform to carry him on or shall I give him a piggy-back ride?" Ash asked.

L Nodded as he did just that. as they reaced the Millitary HQ's Moruge they found no Doctor. Only a Recording Device near a desk. an Autio Diary.

Ash shuddered slightly, noticing how dark the morgue was, now. "Doesn't surprise me; it's well around midnight, now," she said with a nod while Hotaru wandered around, sensing faint spiritual pressure from all over, which greatly confused her senses.

The teen girl spotted the audio player. "Hm? What's this?" she wondered aloud as she walked over and hit 'play'.

"
Ryan and Adam, Adam and Ryan... all those years of study, and was I ever truly a surgeon before I met them? How we plinked away with our scalpels and toy morality. Yes, we could lop a boil here, and shave down a beak there, but... but could we really change anything? No. But Adam gives us the means to do it. And Ryan frees us from the phony ethics that held us back. Change your look, change your sex, change your race. It's yours to change, nobody else's.


Today I had lunch with the Goddess, 'Steinman,' she said... 'I'm here to free you from the tyranny of the commonplace. I'm here to show you a new kind of beauty.' I asked her, 'What do you mean, goddess?' 'Symmetry, dear Steinman. It's time we did something about symmetry..." It played

"Wha..what was that?"

Allen asked shivering. "It doesn't make sense to me."

"Agreed. Anyone care to explain?"

Mat-Mat said looking puzzled at the audio player.

"Mr.Dead man was screaming about some Adam and Ryan before slitting his throat."

Kari said sweat dropping

"He's obviously a surgeon because of the recording...maybe 'Ryan and Adam' were tests he experimented on or cases where something went wrong."

Mat-Mat guessed still puzzled about the recording.

"Possiblelly. Or maybe...Hmm...The means to do it may reffer to a Drug of somekind. That would explain him seeing a 'Goddes.' and this Ryan thing..the man before said A first name so that is obvioully a person- Andrew Ryan I think is what I heard from the market." he said

"Or it could be both," Ash concluded with a shrug. Hotaru, meanwhile, had rewound the tape and played it again, listening to it more thoroughly and memorizing it, word by word. Afterwards, Hotaru stood up and stretched, "Plastic surgeon or something."

"Obviouslly. so now we need to find how these people are connected..." L said

"Probably people he had done surgery on,or they're family related or work related."

Kari said looking around the room looking for anything that would be a 'clue'

"Maybe, but still..."

Allen said as he looked around. Then, he found a silver file cabnet and opened it. There contained files from it looked like every case this person had done.

"Hey L, some and check if this might be your answer."

Kari was already balanced on his shoulder's in a crouched position,she was feather light to him somehow,looking over his shoulder at the files with her tail wagging some as she pulled her glasses on saying under her breath as she was speed reading each one in a second or less

"Hmmmm.......This might actually take more than 5 minutes to read through."

"You look like a vulture."

Allen said as he just gave her the file. "I'm already done with this one. I'm gonna get a few more to read. Mat-Mat, need any?"

"Toss me about five."

Mat-Mat said as she went over to get the files.

"Sorry for being a feline who likes sitting on people's shoulder's.It increases my ability to multi task and balance on L-kun's invisible platforms that I generally would manage to fall off of and kill myself without learning balance."

Kari replied to Allen dryly already done with about 20 of them

"I never said it was a problem. I just said what you looked like. You can stay on my shoulder as long as you like, or until I shake you off, Kitty-Lady."

Allen said as he looked at Kari, smiling.

"You're going to get us all killed if you keep making Kari angry, Allen."

Mat-Mat said anime sighing as she finished the files.

"Or I'll continue sitting on your shoulders until I snap your neck and your permanently immobile Wolf Man."

Kari said with a sweet innocent smile that did not fit the threat at ALL

"Or you could continue sitting on my shoulders until I go outside towards a river and throw you in it."

Allen said growling still looking at the files. Mat-Mat just backed away, shaking her head.

"Or I can just make you loose balance and make you fall in it with me safely on the hard ground."

Kari said rolling her eyes

"Or I could just hold on to you and we both fall in the water, and I mess with you until one of us nearly kills each other."

Allen said smiling. Mat-Mat sighed, looking for her secret weapon in this type of situation.

"I've learned how to swim."

Kari said proudly,which was sort of true.She learned how to do the doggy paddle when she was attacked by a zombie shark in the first Wesker issue.

"all the recent ones have died." L said from another side with files filling half the room. "Stop fighting Please." He said

"It's what we do.You and me do the same thing L-kun."

Kari said with a shrug,they all fought with her some how.And then she got off of Allen's shoulders and crawled onto L's instead,he didn't threaten to chuck her into a river.

"And you don't think I've learned more than how to the do...A BALL!!!"

Allen tried to explain, but saw a colorful bouncy ball and went up to get it.

"It's the only way to calm him down."

Mat-Mat said as she looked through the files.

L however immediatlly plummited to the floor and into the papers causeing them to tumble on him and slowlly crush him under the weight. "Help..Please.." he said from underneath the papers.

"AH!I'M SORRY I'M SORRY I'M SORRY!"

Kari said/yelled in apology several times as she got papers off of him,he really did get weaker since she always used to crawl onto his shoulders like a cat.

"It's ok." L said. "I need a doctor..." L added sighing.

Kari blinked and sat him up pulling out a first aid kit from her backpack and mumbled sighing

"I got Wari-ji ji to teach me the basics when I was bored.What's hurt?"

"L! Let's get him to a hospital."

Mat-Mat said with an anime sweat drop coming down her face. Allen was still in his puppy form chewing on the ball.

Kari twitched at the mention of 'hospitals' and growled

"Let's try not to get too extreme......Now L-kun,what exactly hurts?"

"Everything." L said simplly.

"That's helpful."

Kari said sarcastically rolling her eyes but sighing,he either needed Watari or the hospital.So she turned around and said bluntly turning her head away from him since she was blushing redder than a tomato,she was clearly going to give him a piggy back ride,AGAIN.

"Get on."

"Do you want Allen to give him a ride instead?"

Mat-Mat said staring Allen, chewing on the ball with his head perked up at the mention of his name. "Uh...never mind about that."

"I can't. My arms can't move. even the metal one." he said

((Wait,L has a metal arm?AM I MISSING SOMETHING!?O.O))

"..........That's not good.That usually means either your spine's snapped or your nervous system is shot.Or both."

Kari said bluntly and pulled him onto her back,her tail curling around him to keep him on

((I was wondering the same thing. L, when did you get a metal arm?))

Allen stayed behind Kari, helping support L.

(Like my 3rd RP. It's where I first meet Ash I think. he got in a fight and used his arm to restart a dyeing girl's heart but it got like dead flesh and well..Ta-Da. He got special Automail. You'll see why it's special later.)

"Aren't we in a Hospital?" he asked

ooc| YOU REMEMBERED THE AUTOMAIL!!! XDDDD

BiC| Ash sighed, rolling her eyes, having watched the scene entire scene in silence while they were searching for information. "Guys...I'm a Medical Alchemist. Remember?" she inquired, raising her hand, looking quite irritated, though didn't blame them; even she forgot her own trade at times.

Meanwhile, Hotaru had replayed the tape again and was going through a few other file cabinets, searching for clues and information, still unclear as to what was going on.

(Yeppers )

"You are?" He asked

Ash narrowed her eyes, glaring at L, and twitched, sighing irritably. "Yes, L-kun, yes, I am," she said as she helped him off Kari's back and set him on a chair she'd found. She then pulled off her white gloves that she used to cover her Xingese alchemy tattoos that covered her hands and fingers, then rolled up the sleeves of her shirt to reveal more tattoos of a similar origin. She pressed her hands on his back.

"Alright, be a little more descriptive, please: you can't feel your arms, not even the automail one. What about your legs?" she asked, blinking.

"Nay.." L said. "Why is it i always end up breaking something..?" he asked. "And to paper?" He asked

"Well, you are frail," Ash murmured, her fingers gingerly touching his spine, as though to detect just what exactly was broken and needed healing. "Hmm...numb limbs...at least your mouth works just fine," she scoffed slightly while healing alchemical energy from her hands ran along his back, to fix the nerves and so forth that were in need of repair.

(Rosi..JOIN SANITY'S REQUIEM!!!)

"You don't seemed to thrilled by that part.." L said sighing. then She would notice a severing of his spine hardly being keppt togather by a Smaller rope-like piece of the spine

"I was making a joke, L-kun," Ash said with another eye roll. As she examined his spine again, she stopped and furrowed her brow. "...L..." she began, blinking, "...um, your spine. It seems that...it's almost been snapped in half. Care to explain?" she inquired, voice calm.

"It is?" L asked confused

Ash froze again and just stood there, hands at her sides, staring at L with an incredulous expression on her normally mellow face. Finally, she took a deep breath, looking somewhat worried now. "Okay, not good. Um, yeah, L-kun, it is," she said with a nod, examining his spine again.

"Well i do get shoot alot.." L said.

"'SHOT'?!" Ash yelled, her voice echoing through the morgue. She sighed, twitching again, irritated. "L-kun, I knew you normally got into a lot of trouble, but...WHAT?!" She sighed again and rubbed her forehead stressfully. "...I'm going to guess that this is from that fall because there's no way you could have walked and stood on your own with your spine in this condition," she muttered, pinching the bridge of her nose with her forefinger and thumb again.

"One could guess." L said. then footsteaps were heard outside.

Ash sighed. "I can't fix this without performing life-risking surgery," she muttered, touching his spine gingerly again. Then she stiffened, hearing the footsteps while sensing the stranger's aura.

"...Do you hear that?" she murmured, raising a brow, still frozen as she listened.