Everflame 2 (FINISHED)

[KittKat chunky~]

Annie glanced over at Jaack, then back to Reggie. She sighed, putting the safety back on her pistol and sliding it into her thigh holster. She slipped off the bed, careful not to wake Blaze, and  walked quietly out of the med-bay. Annie stopped beside Reggie, looking up at him "What is it Reg?" She glanced down the corridor beyond him, instinctively checking for David "Dave said I shouldnt be talking to you..."

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

Vix watched in a lot of surprise and a little smirk as Chronin darted up the stairs.
"He doesn't waste time, does he?" She looekd over to JasON who shook his head and sat down next to the old woman. "I do hope she takes care of him though. How long do you think he's been hiding her from us?"
"According to Miss Tabitha Lace," JasON replied. "They only just met this morning." Vix looked at him, and her smile disappeared.
"This morning?"
"Yes."
"Stupid boy," she shook her head, remotely switched off the light and continued watching her movie.

Tabby draped herself on Chronin's bed, looking over at him as he opened the door, putting on her best sultry look. She'd already taken off her black jacket and the legs of her jeans, lying there in a tank top and shorts.
"I like your room."





Kateri sighed through the comms.
"Don't worry, we know why you're here. We don't need cryptic blood messages in the jail cell of some backwater planet to tell us." The crew that swarmed around Nero looked around to eachother and murmured in quiet confusion. "Since you're obviously not going about this in a friendly manner, we'll want to keep you here for a little while, until all peaceful solutions have been used. If by then you have what you want, then we can all go back to our homes and relax. How does that sound to you?"





In the swirling dust of the desert, two large eyes peered through binoculars, watching the gunslinger march through the storm. The binoculars were pulled away and shoved into a bag, as the figure crawled along, hiding in the dustclouds. Her long ears long ears angled to hear his faint footsteps and steady breaths. She pulled mask made of card down over her face, and set off following him.





Reggie grimaced.
"Yeah David's partly what I wanted to talk to you about. What did he say to you?"

[KittKat chunky~]

Annie shrugged nonchalantly "He just said i didnt know what i was getting myself into..." She paused, tail flicking earnestly behind her "I didnt want to... I dunno... Upset anything, or anyone. So I did as he asked..." Her tail fell still, as she rubbed her upper arm tentatively.

[tangletail]

As soon as the transit arived leo entered it takeing his seat just as it began moveing to the next station. Falling asleep along for the ride he was soon awakened by a tone signaling that he's now at his destination. Standing up walking out of the shuttle, comeing into the streets, he noticed a large gathering of officers. He was about to shrug it off and leave till he noticed that there were other scientist within the area and his curiousity got the best of him as he made his way into the group "What's going on here?" he asked tilting his head looking at the person everyone was gathered around.

[Entaru]

Nero yawned and looked around at the crowd around him.  "I suppose I have no choice....I needed a break anyways."  A growl emanated from his host's stomach, slightly surprising him.  "You wouldn't happen to have any food would you?"

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

Reggie gave a little laugh and smiled to the side. "Yeah he's kinda right, but trust me," he said, putting his hand hers to rub her arm, and pull her close to him. "This is the right thing to do." His deep voice travelled through her body. "It's not perfect but I'll sort everything out."



A female ferret scientist turned to him and waved for him to come closer so she could whisper.
"Hey, I've seen you around, you work at the facility round Benton street, right?" She pointed over to some equipment that monitored him, measure different energies that emitted from him. "Basically, this guy there is... well we don't know, he's like an impossibility in a hyena suit. He says his origin is a black hole, and as far as I'm concerened, that might be true."




"Alright," Kateri replied. "Officer, you take care of him. Under no circumstances will you let him out of that cage. Seal off the area and get him his food, within reason. Then let the scientists examine him from a distance.." The officer nodded while she spoke. "Call me if you need anything." The communication ended and he put the communicator into his pocket, before looking back down at Nero.
"So, what do you eat?"




Kateri sat back and rubbed her face out of lethargy. Her desk was finally blank as everyone else had to go through their own maddening procedures. A PDA popped at the corner of her desk, and she took it out and put it into her pocket, just in case she had to quickly assist anything. She grabbed her suit jacket, straightened herself out and looked at her raggedy visage in a pocket mirror. A quick preen later and she headed off for home.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin was actually able to get over his hormonal reaction, and get straight to his actual mentality, which was annoyance and frustration as his hair shot right back up. "You..." he nearly sprinted to the bed, catching Tabby by surprise as he grabbed her hair and held her neck at the end of the bed, with her head at the floor. She was about to elbow him to the crotch, but Chronin grabbed the elbow with his other hand and growled. "How much of what you told me was a lie, who told you to treat me like this?!" he roared while his tail held both of her legs together.

This was not the first time someone sent the opposite gender to kill him, but he didn't tell her since that would cause her to completely change her approach if she was really going to kill him the moment he truly let his guard down.

[tangletail]

"Mhm, burton street and a reasearch station somewhere in space, its constantly moveing you see." He said standing next to the ferret before looking at the accused hyena and began thinking "And I wanted something to do..." he rotated his head slightly letting his eyes rotate to face the ferret crossing his arms in disbelife "Your telling me this is impossible? Someone thinking they could create water by mix water and hydrogen soon learned that water could be turned into a firey bomb that can reach high temperatures, soon developing a welding torch in water that reaches 2500 degrees celcius, first thought impossible now it is possible. Is this any diffrent?" he said gestureing the hyena.

[Entaru]

Nero stood up in the cage and stretched.  "The question isn't what I eat, so much as the state that it's in.  I cannot eat anything dead or inanimate.  It has to be alive otherwise I may lose this body and accidently tear the Sphere apart with my full form.  As grand of a sight as it may be, I doubt you'd want that to happen."  He waved his hand as if to shoo the official away.  "It doesn't matter what, as long as as it's trying to get away.  Even something you consider vermin would do."

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

Tabby winced as Chronin grabbed and held her still, but soon it faded and she let out an almost exaggerated sigh.
"Aw what the flip, not again," she said, letting her old accent. "Look, listen man, just chill, aight?" She strained to look up at him. "Sit down, calm down, and don't go on some next level  killin' stuff, okay?" She tried to relax and settle herself while she grumbled at her own bad luck. Soon she was back to her regular accent but now it was stern, harsh, and far more mature than she looked. "I'm not trying to kill you. Other people are, sure, but I'm expensive, and if I was trying to kill you, you'd never would have known I was there." She grumbled some more, then tried to struggle out of his grip. "And plus, I'm not the kind of assassin that uses her body to kill people. Yeah, i threw myself at you, but that's cus I like you. That's just what I do, alright? So calm down."





The ferret rolled her eyes and put her hands on her hips.
"I'm not saying he is impossible, I said he was like an impossibility; and yes, this is different from burning hydrogen, because he defies the laws of physics!" She rose up with her arms in the air out of sheer exasperation. "That hyena you see there has been broken and dead for quite a while. Most of his bones are gone and his muscles have degenerated. This is partly due to the insane amount of radiation that is constantly spewing out, which then stops for no reason right at the end of his fur. There is also a massive amount anti-matter swirling around his centre, along with negative energy that seems to be keeping some kind of space-time tear open inside his body. His gravitational field is off the charts, almost as though he's a planetoid whose gravity is at the same level as the other forces, which is ofcourse, insane! The electromagnetic field around him is also more extreme than that of some planets, and just like  everything else, something is keeping it all contained and functioning within that form, but we can't find what that thing is. Maybe it's dark matter, or inverted dark energy, and even then, that doesn't take into account the fact that he's talking to us!" The ferret panted hard, and some of the other scientist looked over at her with little smirks and smiles. She settled herself and stood up straight, holding her datapad to her chest. "So tell me, is he like an impossibility inside a hyena suit?"





The official cocked an eyebrow at Nero. "Seriously? Alright then." He waved for one of his assistants to come forward.
"Yes sir?" said a labrador in uniform.
"Go to the pet shop, find the cheapest animal and bring it here alive."
"Yes sir." The dog nodded and rushed away, before returning with a small rodent clasped in his paws. One of the heavily armoured engineers took it, and another went to the control box for the cage. The rat was poised, wriggling over the top, ready to be dropped in. With a turn of some dials, a small gap appeared in the plasma, just big enough for the rat, falling inside. It flailed and lost its tail as it went down, squeeking and scrambling for safety, running around the inside of the plasma fence.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin didn't know if he should believe her or not, but he immedeatly let his hair down and got off of her, not really in any good mood since at that time an assassin would have either told him or tried to kill him through devious means since he actually seemed to be beyond reasoning. "First time that happened, almost had my neck cut, the second time... there was nothing left that could be seen as part of her body. The rest just gave up and then ran off the moment I let go... I was hoping that you would at least have some nervousness at someone that you just met. Sorry for being, suspicious, of your sudden openess..." he said as guilt made his hair droop, but his personal space was still quite large for someone in a room with a person they just dated.

[tangletail]

"Hm... I like his diet, reminds me of home" He joked before watching her panting. Looking over to the ferret "Mam, You have left that information out so, do I find this impossible, Yes, now I do." Looking back to the hyena he then shook his head a bit "So...." he trailed off watching the rat being dropped inside of the cage practicaly curious about what the hyena would look like if what he or it said happened, "Im going to assume that it can metabolize. We could be dealing with a creature, not an object or energy." He then began to scratch his head before adjusting his glasses "But... that wouldn't fully explain the fact that you said he has a gravitational pull, and radiation." he then looked to the datapad she held, and held out a hand "May I see that?"

[Entaru]

Nero looked down at the rat and snatched it up in one hand.  He looked at the rat for a moment, turning it about in his hand.  The rat was shivering...and for good reason.  The parts of the rat that were touching his hand was already developing frostbite.

Switching his grip to its tail, he dangled it in front of him.  The rat looked up at him and stopped moving altogether as he held it to his eyesocket.  Placing the immobile rat on the ground, he sat back as it began to inflate slightly.  The rat seemed as if it was getting bigger by the second.  Its eyes bulged out of its head as it grew triple its size.  Finally it burst open, spraying its innards across the cage.  The methane from the rapid decompositon of the rat's organs hit the plasma and sent a burst of fire around parts of the cage, searing one of the scientists.

"Oh?  Did I do that?"  Nero grinned inside the cage as he pulled a few pieces of the dead rat off of his face and dropped it down his throat.  "I'm sorry, the aftermath of my meals are rather...inconsistant.  Sometimes the body just lays there...sometimes it wanders off...I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner."  Nero was lying of course...he had control of the leftovers after the life force was drained from them.  He just found it entertaining to see what would happen if he made the rat decompose a week in 5 seconds.

[Rasu]

Rasu neared the platue as the sun set off in the distance, what little bit of light shown gleamed off his silver scales. The storm had grown and sand whipped all around him, luckily it bothered him little. He peered around him listening for anything, there was only the wind it seemed. Rasu dug his claws into the stone and began to climb up in silence, he breathed as little as possible keeping the sand from getting in his nostrals, his second eyelids were protecting his eyes though. The climb was long and strenuous, his body ached by the time he reached the top. The wind was calm up here and bellow the sands flew in a flurry. It would kill none scaley creatures if they weren't equiped for it.

Rasu stuck close to the rocks as he moved in towards several ships that sat atop the platue. Mercenaries and smuglers began to load the ships up with explosives. He pulled out a pair of binoculars to get a better look. Everyone was hurrying and busy, not seeming to even notice or think of the fact that they could be spotted. As Rasu but his binoculars down he felt a metal barrel of a gun push itself onto his back. Someone had been very sneeky.

[KittKat chunky~]

Annie sighed, her heart fluttering as Reggie pulled her close to him. She laid a hand on his chest, biting her tongue as some internal struggle fought inside her "I haven't loved... In a long time..." She took in another shuddering breath, clenching her hand around the material of his suit, and then unclenching "I dont... dont know if i should..."

She looked away from him, starting to pull her hand away from him. She paused, the very tips of her fingers brushing his large chest. It was now, in the half-light of the corridor that Reggie could see the ends of her hair where a fine silvery grey, though her eyes still shone with the same gleam of youth they had twenty years ago "You really care for your friend... You really... Care...." She turned back to look at him, one strand of hair falling across her forehead. Inside her a voice screamed that she would regret this, that she knew better. But the voice was merely a single individual, in a huge crowd of voices all shouting their opinions.

She clenched her hand on his chest, tentatively pulling them close together again. Closed her eyes... And kissed him.