Everflame 2 (FINISHED)

[KittKat chunky~]

Blaze clutched at his ear, as he ducked to the side, dodging a second swipe... He ducked again, as four shots slammed home into the creature... He looked up to see the Rabbit holding out a hand, with a smoking pistol in the other...  "Hurry up!" ... he didnt have to be told twice.. grabbing the proffered hand, he stumbled to his feet and ran for the door...

Outside, Annie stood chewing her bottom lip with anxiety... It was true, she couldnt squeeze through the small gap in the door... And so she had to be content with shifting her weight form one foot to the other, occasionally looking back at the fox behind her... "So.... How long you known the Rabbit, and has he always been this crazy?" She smirked, though her tail continued to flick with anxiety...

[Kitt_R_Beesley]

"Ungh, Yeah I can hear you." Kitt's head felt like he had been hit with sledgehammer, and his mouth felt like it was stuffed with cotton.
  "Where am I?" Kitt tried to look around but the movement made his head hurt worse so he lay still. damn that was a dumb impulse to follow he thought to himself. Now why the hell did I do that?

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

The fox huffed,
"Is that how you always deal with stress?" He smirked, but his eyes were anxious. "And yes, he's always been this crazy." Blaze burst through the hole, being from behind by Jaack.
"let's go, let's go!" the rabbit yelled, followed more shots, then a scream, the pistol clattering against the floor, and machinery whirring, spinning and slicing. The fox charged forward, pushing Annie out the of the way. He shover his gun through the hole, aimed and fired wild at the creature. It roared, and yelped, and the bullets tore through the flesh and metal. The fox reached in, grabbed the rabbit and yanked him through into the corridor, with a trail of blood behind him.





In the operating theatre, the faces moved away.
"Stay calm and answer the questions please." On a table to the side, a computer reached out with tendrilous wires, into piece of electronics laid flat. The doctor pressed into it. "Do you feel that?"

[Kitt_R_Beesley]

Kitt was shocked at the question but answered it "Yes," Kitt waited for the next question

[Chrono Blackwyng]

The cat caught Chronin's attention, but he was having mixed feelings about approaching her. Is she praising me, or is she delighted at seeing a credible threat to their current pecking order? he thought as he slowly approached her, his rifle close at hand. "Has this unit actually been sent out on any assignments, or is this just a reserve for the other squads?" Hes only asking because he never heard of Squad D being sent anywhere. Then again, he hasn't heard of Squad A's or Squad B's adventures either. There was a defined autonomity in every squad, never having to say anything except for orders that were squad specific...

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

"Alright, good work," said the doctor. He turned to one of the other people that swanned around, pressing dials, doing something. He nodded to them, and Kitt felt his eyes fall, his consciousness broken. He fell back to sleep.

When he woke up again, he was standing up, but his legs and arms didn't move. One of the doctors, a dog, appeared again, leaning in from the side, and took his hand. The arm was dark and grey with a silver line running down along it. The hand was a chunky collection of metallic components, activating, moving twisting. Someone else, another doctor, a red panda, worked on the computer, activating commands. Kitt's vision zoomed in. "Activating bio-defence net" was displayed on the screen. His hand opened up, showing a small, hollow compartment inside. The first doctor looked into the boy's new eyes.
"Will he always look like this?" he said. Another doctor nodded in reply. "Well, you don't look bad." He reached out, and stroked the boy's head. "How do you feel?"





The cat smiled to Chronin, and shook her head.
"I have no idea. I ain't with these guys. I just heard they were fun." She grinned wider, declaring her sharp and deadly teeth. Her eyes lit up. The other soldiers in Squad D muttered and nodded, while some kept quiet and stood to reluctant attention for the Elite.

[Kitt_R_Beesley]

"Not as sore as I was, and what do you mean 'will he always look like this?' Secondly how are you guys controlling my biorhythms?"

[KittKat chunky~]

Annie instinctively grabbed Blaze by the scruff of the neck, and pulled him as fast as she could away from the doorway... "Just like your bleedin' father, always gettin' in trouble when im not there!"

Blaze tried to pull out of the grip, but found it was simply easier to try and run alongside her, he had a feeling that even if he had wanted to he couldnt break out of her grip.... once a marine, always a marine was Annie's motto... Running alongside the fox, Annie panted "Our guns... Where did you put our guns? ... I'm nto prepared to die here simply because some scavengers wanted the loot all to themselves!"

[Chrono Blackwyng]

"Care to tell me your name and rank, or shall I ask my officer why theres a female cat from another unit in a room full of boys?" He looked back at the men who had lined up, and had a somewhat angry look in his eyes. "So you're telling me you wasted your time lounging about, when you could have gotten better at what you're actually hired to do?" he asked since he told them to continue their break, not line up...

[Entaru]

Nero finished his meal as well as dessert.  Maintaining this insignificant form required a lot of energy.  Normally he would get that energy from passing comets or stars, but he had to keep a low profile...at least his version of a low profile.  The bodies and spirits of these vermin were tasty and provided a fair amount of energy...of course it wasn't nearly as nourishing as a galaxy or as healthy as a star but he didn't care.  The taste of the flesh and souls filled him with an ectasy he had never felt before.

Of course, his own pleasure would have to wait until he found a way off planet.  Nero, now feeling much better, limped his way where he had seen the children come from.  What remained of the children seemed to sink into the ground and disappear like it was never there.

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

"Dont worry," said the doctor. "You'll be in control of your own biorhythms soon enough." He turned to one of his assistants. "Do you think we should bring in Dr. Rehman now, or later?" The woman he asked nodded.
"I think he deserves an answer," she said. The doctor laughed.
"Yeah, I guess he deserves something at least." He walked over to the door, and pressed the intercom that was set into the wall beside it. "Bring in the psych" he said. A few moments later a Blanford's vixen with soft features, and no mask, walked into the room, with a datapad clasped in her hand. Her ears stretched high above her and twitched with attentive energy, while her luxuriously large bushy tail sweapt along the floor. She was wearing a regular suit, with a light and flighty golden scarf  draped over her. She watched the poor boy, before glancing to the doctors.
"It's safe isn't it?" He nodded in reply, and stepped closer, looking straight into the boy's eyes. "Hello there. My name's Seema Rehman. I'm here to help." She smiled at him, softly, and her eyes glimmered, reflecting the lights around them. "This is all probably a lot for you to handle, so if there's anything to ask, just ask me, okay?"





The fox pulled the rabbit along, passing his assault rifle back to him as the beast crawled into the hole, getting its irregular body stuck in the gap. The fox held the bag with his teeth, reaching in and getting the two confiscated pistols. He handed one of them over and kept the other for himself.
"No offense," he said. "But it's not like you don't want to shoot us." The beast scratched at the floor, pulling itself further and further out through the gap. The rabbit being dragged along behind, took aim and fired off a few shots, that tore into the creature's side. He clicked the button on his communicator.
"Hey yo, Davie," he said. His voice was loose, and slurred. "We need to get out of here quick. Where's the closest you can pick us up?"
"There's a big gaping hole in the ship just round the corner if you fancy jumping." The rabbit smirked, which turned to a wince as his injuries clawed at him. He looked back to Blaze and Annie.
"Are your outfits prepped for space walks?" The fox looked over at them then up along the corridor, seeing the turn right at the end. "It's a lot quicker than getting back to your ship." he said.





The cat made a theatrical pout, and stood up next to the dragon, examining the soldiers. Her top hung down behind her, splitting apart for her tail, and draping over the back of a pair of heavy jeans.
"Oh these boys ain't bad, and they do work hard... for me at least." She turned to Chronin, sticking out her hand. "I'm Tabby, and I'm a bounty hunter, you see? These guys help me out when I need to find people down on Sphere." She turned to them, nodding for them all to sit down, which they did, moving with caution. Most of them kept their eyes on the dragon. "But don't let me get in the way. These are your men." She grinned and sat back against the lockers.





Far ahead of Nero, a city stretched up out of the ground, full of tightly packed houses and shops. Seperate from this, in the distance to the right, seperate from everything, unmanned factories stood together like a battery.

[Kitt_R_Beesley]

"Alright where to start? First, why am I not dead? I can clearly remember being shot in the head. Second, why when i woke up in the room with the bright lights did my hearing sound like static then go completely crystal clear? I can Hear better than I ever have in my whole life, And the same goes for my eyes and the vision their feeding me. Third. What did they mean by, 'Will he always look like that?' And 'don't worry you'll be in controll of your own Biorhythms soon.'? Third I would really like to move I am starting to feel like a statue here." Kitt thought for a second then added "I hope you don't mind that I say I think you look absolutely stunning?"

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

She flashed a smile, gave a breath of a giggle, and then pulled out a digipen, writing straight onto the datapad.
"For now, I think the doctors here would like to keep you still for a little while," she said. "This procedure can be unpredictable when it comes to behaviour." One of the doctors chuckled at the comment as he continued testing out different mechanisms while his colleagues did diagnostics. Seema Rehman flicked her tail and glanced at the doctor before continuing. Her smile was gone, and her eyes were serious. "Technically you were dead, for a little while, before we saved you." She stopped writing on her pad, and brushed her rich auburn hair behind her large vulpine ears, though some strands still hung down. "Legally you still are dead. The punishment for what you did was to be shot on sight, and our project supervisors pounced on it as an opportunity to take a promising young fox and turn him into an incredible asset to the armed forces." She looked up and down his body. "They've modified you with the most amazing technology, and now you're more advanced than that plane you wanted to fly." She chanced at a modest smile, and her ears twitched, pointing straight at the boy. "As for your looks; the gunshot was quite damaging and our medical technology had to fix quite a bit, and had to be up to a near perfect standard in order to fully integrate and take advantage of the implants." She paused, pushing her tongue against the roof of her mouth as she pondered before speaking again. " A side effect of that technology is that it leaves a mark." One of the doctors leaned in from the side.
"We are fixing that issue with the tech. We just didn't have time with you. You'd have been dead if we didn't move quick." Seema nodded to her, and patted her on the shoulder, while gesturing for her to return to his job. The doctor obliged, and Dr. Rehman sighed. Looking back up to Kitt, her eyes joined with his. "See? You really are made with the latest and greatest." She smiled again, then looked to her jacket pocket. "To be honest, I think you look good, but maybe you should be the judge of that." She pulled out a pocket mirror and flipped it open in front of him. In the reflection, staring back with light silver eyes, and bloodshot corneas, was Kitt. There was no scar, but instead, a rich blue flame of fur reached over from the back of his head and down over his left eye, ending at a point down along his muzzle. "What do you think?"

[Kitt_R_Beesley]

"That is cool." Kitt practicaly breathed the last part of the sentance. "You know, Its almost fitting in a way. all of my life I have had a way with technology. and now im a walking peice of tech myself."  Kitt thought for a second "Wait if im still technically dead, how am I supposed to go about with anything?"

[Entaru]

"Hm...how quaint."  He scanned the horizon, searching for something that might help him.  The factories looked like a good place to hide should he need to.  The houses and the like were probably brimming with potential energy sources.

IT SeemS I'vE FounD ThE PerfecT StaginG GrounD FoR MY SearcH...ShoulD ThE UnlikelY EvenT OF A 'DetouR' OccuR I CaN JusT ComE BacK HerE...  With a grin, Nero limped towards the apparent residential area.  He had no idea how these vermin travled about, so he would have to ask around for a way to get off the planet when he arrived.