(EDIT: I didn't see the above post. Hang on while I alter this a bit.)
"Funny name for a bird." He informed her that it was his real name. As to his last name, he didn't know. "Ah, you noticed. They just give us light and heat the surroundings from the ground." She spoke something about revenge. He made a note to call her Hildergarde from now onw.
Xero was talking to Hex when all of a sudden the scientists appeared near the entrance of the habitat and dropped off Vivi, who like before, ignored everyone's concern and slumped in front of her 'slumping tree'. Boring. Noticing Xero slipping away as Hex and the others went after Vivi, Lionel quietly followed him.
"You don't do a very good job hiding Ziva." That's 18!
He listened to the conversation between Xero and Ziva, the barberry lion mutant. Ziva had arrived a bit late after Lionel, they knew about each other but didn't talk much. As he eavesdropped further, he smiled. Operation Jailbreak. He remembered arguing over the uncool name. So the time was near but for now, he jumped into flight again, and headed towards Vivi, which everyone had left alone by now.
"Oi, where did you go?" he asked, lightly kicking her again. No response. She dozed off. This was getting to be troublesome. Hm, she seemed light enough. Placing one hand beneath her head his forearm under her knees, he took a deep breath.
This is crazy, why am I doing this?
And soon they were in the air. He watched as Vivi's eyes fluttered, not yet open, and burst into speed. Vivi, perhaps instinctively kicked him in the abdomen. Gasping, he descended quickly and put her down in a little bit of open field between some trees. There seemed to be no one around. Letting her go, he saw that one of her feet had claws emerging from the front which she pushed back in by pressing them against the ground. Was that...blood on her toes? didn't they clean her? Lionel looked at himself.
'Shit! my shirt!' he was indeed mortified as red spread through the pure white. "Sorry." Vivi spoke in monotone. Lionel sighed, his fault anyways. The wound wasn't deep, he felt it. But it ruined his goddamned shirt.
"Where did you today?"
"Why ask? I'm going."
"Wait! have I seen you somewhere before?" he asked. She seemed to stop and think.
"No..." she said.
"Hm. Funny thing, I cant imagine you being upbeat and cheery anyway. It seems to defy your nature." What happened next shocked him.
"....Where...did you see me before?"
"Huh? it wasn't a daydream?" He remembered a rare day where he was brought to be experimented, rather samples taken from to be experimented. As he had been leaving the laboratory, his eyes met those of girls', that resembled Vivi. She smiled mischievously and winked at him. There was a man who accompanied her, and quickly let her away as the scientist that had been securing Lionel roughly pushed him forward. Let's see, the area was around the infirmary, where humans who had been experimented on were kept before being sent to the habitat. He told this to Vivi.