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Oh and I do not own these characters. Well, besides all non-canon lombaxes and little Sog.
"Kori!" A voice called. "Get down here, young lady!"
Kori, a young lombax, looked into her mirror and fixed her hair in a nice fluffy ponytail. She admired herself in the mirror, ignoring her mother. Kori had always loved how her stripes were red instead of the typical dark orange for Lombaxes. Sure the other kids tried to tease her about it when they were young, but such things build character, right?
"Come on Kori!" Her mother called again.
Kori sighed and made sure she looked presentable. How she wished she had gotten face stripes like most other lombaxes, she was told they made young ladies look more mature. But she delighted herself with the blueness of her eyes. Kori's mother called again so Kori quickly put on her teal crop-top, copper skirt, black leggings and hurried down.
Rolin, the middle child, was still at the breakfast table when she got down there. He looked like the typical lombax, normal orange fur, and dark orange stripes. He stood about a head taller than Kori and their mother but he hadn't yet been drafted or taken any intelligence tests to find out where his purpose was in lombax society. So he loafed around most days and helped their mother around the house.
Montay, the eldest out of the three, was already gone but he had the same coloring as Kori. He was a lieutenant for the Society of Lombax Research (aka he tested high on some intelligence tests and the research society drafted him to be one of their big brains) and out of the house most if not the majority of days. Their mother often made Kori visit him, or when she's annoyed with Rolin she'd send him, to make sure he was eating and in general good health.
Their mother, Becca, gave her coloring to Rolin. She smiled at Kori as she finally made it down to have breakfast. "Nice of you to join us." She gave Kori a small breakfast. "On your way out." Becca showed Kori the time.
Kori gasped and nearly choked on her breakfast. "Why didn't you tell me it was so late?"
Becca shook her head. "I tried to get you earlier if you hadn't been so entranced with your own reflection." Rolin laughed from the breakfast table and nearly fell out of his chair.
Kori and Becca looked at Rolin for a moment before mother and daughter shared a look, Kori kissed her mother on the cheek before high tailing it out the door. She ran past her stepfather on his way in.
He made sure he was out of her way. "Bye, Kori." Lifted his drink so she wouldn't hit it.
"Bye Dad!" She called as she jumped into her ship and raced off.
Spade, their step-father, walked into the kitchen to kiss Becca. "Kori needs to wake up earlier or something."
Rolin smiled. "Or quit looking in the mirror."
Becca raised her frying pan to hit Rolin. When he closed his eyes and covered his head she lowered it. "Let's just hope traffic isn't too bad this morning."
Rolin looked at his parents. "Or not."
Kori sped through the city, thankfully not getting pulled over, and she barely had swallowed her breakfast when she got to her station at the Center for Lombax Telecommunications.
"Good morning Kori." Her boss, Sting, said as she passed Kori her assignment sheet for that day. "Let's not have any spills today."
Kori smiled and gulped down the last of her juice from breakfast. "Shouldn't be a problem." Sting raised an eyebrow and swished her plain orange ponytail as she left. Kori slumped and finally took a breath. She took a look at her assignment list, it was a long one (she internally groaned), so Kori put on her headset and got to work.
After several hours of working Kori finally got on her lunch break. Her head felt it was stuffed with cotton but luckily she got to go home to eat. Becca and Spade waited for Kori to get home to eat while Rolin did not and ran off again to do who knows what.
Becca and Spade made sure to keep questions to a minimum with Kori while she was dead but Becca gave Kori a lunch for Montay and orders for her to take Rolin with her when she dropped it off.
The siblings groaned but did as they were told. Rolin drove and the pair went to The Society of Lombax Research to deliver the meal to their final brother. Kori flashed the guard their passes and got in without trouble. They wandered through the facility until they got to Montay's lab, nothing really of interest happening.
Montay, when they found him, was working on a microscopic piece of equipment under a microscope. Kori lifted his lunch onto his desk without squishing anything. "Hey, Montay."
Montay, straight-laced as usual, kept his eyes on his work. "Hello, Kori."
Rolin started looking around the lab. "Hey, bro."
Montay frowned. "Don't touch anything, Rolin."
"Why does Kori get an actual hello but I get 'don't touch anything?'" Rolin complained.
Kori smiled. "Because I know how to keep my hands to myself." She shifted Montay's lunch a little bit. "Mom packed you some real goodies, Montay. Makes me jealous I don't get any of it."
Montay smiled. "Help yourself."
Rolin grinned. "Alright!"
Kori rolled her eyes and wandered around as Montay left his work to try and get some of his lunch before Rolin ate all of it. She came across a small device, she didn't touch it but the thing still caught her curiosity. "Hey, Montay," she called and pointed out the small brown device. "What is this thing?"
Montay's voice carried to Kori. "No one really knows. I was tasked with finding out what it is and what it does." An echo of clanks rang out. "Rolin, I swear."
The small device, as Kori was looking at it, lit up with little blue lights around its perimeter. It started to hum with life. Kori backed away. "Guys…"
Montay gasped. "Kori, get away from it!"
The little device exploded with light and energy, all 3 young lombaxes were knocked down. Alarms started to blare and red lights flashed. Kori laid on the ground until she realized she was slowly being pulled to the machine.
Kori tried to pull herself away but the suction was too strong. "Ro! Tay!" She called her brothers. "Help me!"
Montay and Rolin sprung into action, the brothers linked themselves together and created a small chain to reach their sister. Montay desperately tried to reach for Kori. "Come on Kori!"
Kori crawled and reached for Montay. "I'm trying!"
Rolin tried to give Montay more length to reach Kori but he could only stretch so far.
Montay just about reached her when the suction overtook Kori. She disappeared into the light, her screams echoing in her brothers' ears. The machine shut off and everything went still. The two brothers both slumped and helplessly knelt on the ground.
Montay huffed and grabbed the machine, took it to his station and immediately began running a diagnostic.
Rolin followed him. "What are doing? That thing just…"
Montay didn't turn away, he didn't let the machine out of his sight. "If I can figure out what it is, I can get Kori back."
Rolin scoffed. "We don't even know what it did to her! It could have-"
"Don't say it, Rolin," Montay warned, his jaw locked and he tried to keep his eyes stern. "Don't even think it."
Rolin took a breath and sat next to his brother. "What do you need me to do?"
Meanwhile far away from the Lombax Dimension…
"Hey, what is that?" A young Fongoid commented to his friends. The young creatures closed in on this new life form. It had fur, orange and red, it was big compared to the children but not to their parents and it had very strange clothes on. Plus it has very large ears. The children had seen this kind of creature before but that one had a tail. This one, however, did not.
"Careful Sog." One young Fongoid said to the other. "It could be dangerous."
Sog slowly crept up to the creature and touched its head. Its fur was soft and kept back. "Let's go tell the chief." The children moved the creature a little way into the shade but then took off running back to the village.
The creature opened her stark blue eyes and sat up, her head pounding. She touched her head and gasped in pain. "Ow…" she complained. Her eyes looked out and took in the colorful and bizarre world around her. "Where...where am I?" She looked at her hands. "Who am I?" The young female asked the air around her.
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