Hero's Duty: Code Blue

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Chapter 1: The Wrong Woman

Fix-It Felix, Jr. made his way through Game Central Station, and on seeing his wife, he ran to her. Delightedly he grabbed her around the back of the legs and stuffed his face into the small of her back, a relatively unarmored section of her body compared to the rest in her dressed state. "Mmmm... I've missed you so much! It was a long day in my game."

Sergeant Tamora J. Calhoun froze. "Excuse me?" She turned and looked awkwardly over her shoulder plates at the short man embracing her rather enthusiastically. Her three escorts were staring, taken rather aback, but also finding the moment rather amusing.

His hands clasped together over her stomach. "Oh Tammy. Mmmmmmm..."

She stood for a moment trying to sort out the situation. Her first venture into this Game Central Station and things had turned strange right off the bat.

She reached down, took the man's hands, and unclasped them. "Would you please remove your hands from me, Sir."

The man obliged, looking up at her with a bit of confusion in his expression. And then he grinned rather foolishly. "Oh...I see how it is...We're strangers, meeting for the first time." He winked at her. "You and your games. Well all right then. But...do you really need the boys along?" he said with a nod toward the three soldiers who had accompanied her on their first trip outside of the game.

"Look, I don't know who you are but you seem to have mistaken me for someone else."

"He has mistaken you for someone else," came another voice. All five heads whipped around to see a second Sergeant Tamora J. Calhoun. She stood there appraising the party.

Felix's gaze ping-ponged between the two women. "Jiminy jaminy," he gasped. "Two Tammies?"

"You must be from the new Hero's Duty game. We were wondering if you folks were ever going to come out and introduce yourselves," drawled the new arrival.

"We've only been plugged in for two weeks. You must be from the original. We heard you were here."

Calhoun nodded. "Well welcome to Game Central Station. I presume the Surge Protector explained everything to you?"

"Yep. He did."

Felix was blushing bright red. "Gosh, M'am. I'm really sorry about that. I thought you were Tammy, well I guess you are Tammy, well a different Tammy, not my Tammy, but still the same Tammy..." His confused drivel trailed off in embarrassment.

"Take a look, sweetheart. She's got blue detailing on her armor. Mine's red." Felix did look, and sure enough, the newest Calhoun had blue marks across her armor that glowed slightly. "Oh, I get it...'Hero's Duty: Code Blue.' The name of the new game."

"You catch on quick," smirked Blue Calhoun.

"I apologize for my husband's behavior. I can understand the confusion." She bent down to look to give him a look. "But just don't let it happen again."

Felix hopped to her and kissed her quickly, knowing she had already forgiven him.

"Your husband?" Blue Calhoun gasped. "You married this man? But what about Brad?" She looked horrified at the thought.

"Things change. Some of us move on."

"But Brad...he was the love of your life," she choked. "The love of our life. And you just forgot all about him, just like that?"

Felix retreated to hide behind his wife.

"I haven't forgotten him. I just moved on," Calhoun said defensively.

Blue Calhoun shook her head. "I can't believe it."

"Look. You were plugged in two weeks ago. You might know your game, but there's a lot more to life than what they programmed us to be. C'mon. Let me show you and the men around here a bit."

"All right." nodded the sergeant.

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Later that evening Felix and Calhoun were cuddled up together in the bathtub at Felix's apartment, a favorite way they liked to conclude a long hard day. The handyman was scrubbing the soldier's back with a bar of soap in one hand and a washcloth in the other. "She sure seemed pretty clueless, didn't she?" he remarked.

"Aren't we all at first?"

"You...you didn't see me hugging her, did you?"

"Guilty by your own self-admission," Calhoun laughed. And suddenly she turned around and grabbed Felix, flipping him back in one quick movement and pinning him to the back of the bathtub. "But you know I forgive you, right?"

"She was awfully pretty. High definition and all..."

"Want to keep sticking your foot further into your mouth? Or should I stop you here, soldier?"

He giggled nervously. "I lost the soap."

"Don't say anything more." She kissed him, pushing somewhat to slide him down into the water in her arms. Pausing a moment, she grinned and fumbled around trying to find the lost bar of soap with a free hand.

And then he squeaked. "That's not the soap you're grabbing!" he gasped.

"I said don't say anything more," she whispered, kissing him again.

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"Hero's Duty: Code Blue" continues in Chapter 2: "Meet the Stunt Doubles"

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