Disclaimer: I do not own Cyborg 009! So sue me… on second thought… please don't.

I'm still kind of new at this… and this is the first fic with characters of my own…

New Friends

Ivan - 001

Jet - 002

Francoise - 003

Albert - 004

Geronimo, Junior – 005

Chang - 006

GB (Great Britain) - 007

Pyunma - 008

Joe – 009

"Hi."- talking

'Hi.'- thinking

"Hi." - Ivan's way of speaking

"How's he doing, 003?" Gilmore asked whispering. They had just gotten out of battle and were resting behind a large drop-off, in the forest, which went down a meter, flattened out a meter, and then dropped down another meter to the ground. Seven out of the nine cyborgs, including Dr. Gilmore, were hiding there. Five of them were gathered in a group in the middle of a small triangle made by Geronimo, Albert, and GB. Geronimo and Albert were on either side of the five behind the drop-off and GB was in a tree were he could see the others clearly (meaning that he was on the same side of the drop-off as the others). Gilmore and two out of the five cyborgs in the middle were injured. Gilmore had a grazed right leg and was laying down on the middle part of the drop-off with his leg resting on a rock. Chang, one of the two injured cyborgs, was sitting at the bottom with his left arm wrapped up in his scarf were he had been shot. Joe, worst of all, had been stabbed with a dagger, which was made out of a material that could cut even Geronimo's skin, in his left side and was barely conscious. He was lying down on his right side, back against the drop-off, feet towards Chang, with his right hand clutching his left side so that his arm crossed over his stomach. His wound was still lightly bleeding. Francoise was at his head and Chang was holding Ivan with his good arm. Jet had taken Pyunma to go get the Dolphin.

"No better but no worse either," Francoise replied quietly and whispered to Joe, "Hold on, Joe. Hold on." She looked up into the sky for a minute then looked back down. She put her hand on his right to see how he was doing. He flinched at the unexpected touch but didn't make a sound or pull away and she took her hand off his.

There was silence and little movement for a while. Until a huge panting, tiger ran out of the bushes, coming out of no where, and jumped down the drop-off with a mighty leap and hid behind it! Making their eyes grow wide. It stood there for a second and stopped panting, as if it was holding it's breath, and sniffed in the direction from which it had come with it's ears facing the same way. It just stood there looking in the same way as its ears, until one of its ears faced their way and then its head and eyes quickly followed. Its eyes grew wide and jumped so that its whole body was facing them, leaning backward with its ears flat on its head, and showing it's surprise.

By that time the others' eyes, in that area, had gone back to their normal size and where pointing their guns in her (as they found out that the tiger was a she) direction but didn't' fire. They were supposed to be as quiet as possible so they won't attract any attention. They all stayed that way for a moment until the tiger stood normally but still tensed and sniffed in their direction. After sniffing a couple of times, she, the tiger, relaxed and bowed her head in a sighing manner. Then she looked back the way she had come and sniffed with alert ears, ears facing forward, again.

After a moment she looked in their direction with curious eyes and slowly walked towards them with alert ears and moving as less threatening as possible. When she got three meters away, Albert raised his metal hand higher to get a more accurate shot but still didn't fire. She saw this and quickly rolled onto her back, feet in the air, trying to show that she wasn't a threat. After a few seconds, she rolled back over and started crawling towards them with Albert's hand following her every move.

When she was right in front of him she stood up straight, if he had been standing, she would have been taller than his bottom rib at her shoulders, and began rubbing her head against his hand and started purring! This move surprised him. After a little while, he slowly reached out his other hand towards her. She saw this and when it was close enough she licked it! A small smile played onto his lips. After a moment, she moved forward she that she could rub up against his side. That was when he noticed that she was wearing a black harness. He gently fingered it. It was pretty sturdy. She did this for a little while then looked back at him with questioning eyes, asking to go forward. He gave a small nod, allowing her passage. She gave him happy eyes and what he thought was a smile.

She walked pass him and went to the five behind him but he watched her every move. First, she stopped a meter away from them and looked at each one in turn. Then she slowly walked up to Chang, turned, and jumped so that her front paws were on the middle pat of the drop-off. Long before this, Gilmore had sat up so that he was resting on his elbow and when she did that his eyes grew a little wider. But all she did was lightly place her nose on his wounded leg at the ankle so she wasn't touching his injury. At the same time she had put the tip of her tail on Chang's wrist. After a second, if you looked close enough, the places where her nose and tail was touching them began to glow silvery color! They stayed that way for a few seconds then she broke the stillness. She jumped down and walked over to Joe. She looked at Francoise for a moment with calm eyes, then gently placed her right, front paw on his chest near his heart and also gently placed her head against his. Then where her paw pad and check touched him began to glow! After half a minute, she backed off.

Then all of a sudden she and Francoise jerked their heads in the direction over their hiding place. Everyone either ducked down or followed suit. Two human soldiers were close enough so that they all could hear them. "What are we looking for again?" one of them whined.

"We're looking for a tiger and to bring it back dead or alive but I don't think they really care if we fail or not. Also, be on guard for those 00 cyborgs," the second guard replied, slightly annoyed.

"But what would a tiger be doing here?" guard one asked.

"That's what the boss wants to know… Huh?"

"What is it?"

"I thought I saw movement over by that drop-off," guard two whispered and motioned for the other to be quiet. They walk forward for a few steps when suddenly the tiger they were looking for jumped from behind the drop-off, fangs bared, and growling! They instantly began shooting at it but it dodged them and ran past the two, running away from the drop-off where the others hid.

"After it!"

When the tiger had jumped out from hiding, the others were surprised; it seamed to be protecting them! They stared off into forest were the three had disappeared when suddenly, Chang gave a small, quiet yelp of surprise. All the others turned to look at him and a few gasped. He was leaning on his supposedly injured arm! He slowly sat down into a normal position and began unwinding his scarf. When he was done, they all gasped! His arm was completely healed! Gilmore saw this and took of his bandage, from which he had made from blown off strips of one of their scarves, and he had the same reaction as Chang. He was healed as well! And it just wasn't the graze but all of his little scratches had been healed along with it!

After a moment of stunned silence, Joe began to sit up a little and he shook his head to clear it and didn't even finch! He looked into all of their faces and with the same question in mind, looked down at his side and his eyes grew wide. He was completely healed too!

They didn't have much time to do anything about it because the Dolphin landed in a large field nearby. They all, as quickly and silently as possible, ran to it. When Jet and Pyunma came out, they stopped in their tracks and stared wide eyed at the three who were supposed to be wounded when they had left, especially when they saw Joe running, without limp or fault, towards them! But they quickly got over their surprise and headed back into the ship knowing that the others would explain everything once they were airborne.

Once they were up in the air and a good fifty miles from the landing site, Jet burst out, "Ok, what's going on? Three of you were injured when we left and when we come back, the one who was the most injured, come running when we land and wasn't showing a single sign that he even was hurt in the first place!"

They all just looked at each other and confessed that they really didn't know. So they just told Pyunma and Jet what went on while they were gone. When they were finished, the two joined the club of not knowing went on. Joe almost the whole time had not been listening, except when they talked about him, and was staring out the window, deep in thought.

Flashback

"Please keep this, my friend. You will understand its use later when we meet again and don't worry, I'm not with Black Ghost," a mysterious voice said softly and gently to Joe is his barely conscious state. It had sounded somehow different from a normal human voice. After the voice said this, a small object was gently placed in his free hand and at this he drifted off into darkness…

End of Flashback

Later that night, when he was alone, laying down in the bed of his bedroom in the Dolphin,which the ones it was carrying were taking turns keeping watch, he looked at the object he had been given. It was an inch long hexagon prism crystal that was flat at one end and had a cone point at the other. He had also noticed that it was the same shade of red as his uniform. But what shocked him the most, is that on one side of it, his number was engraved into it. He pandered over it and eventually fell asleep coming up with no answer.

One and a half weeks later…

There you go hikarisailorcat. I got another story out. Yeah!