Chapter two! I had to re write this because I didn't like how it was turning out.

Also I happen to like cliff hangers because I literally did not know how to end this.

This Jungle kept getting weirder.

First they learned that the way that Sensei built the robots (Hikaru was still reeling a bit from that revelation) came from here, that this place was basically one very techno enhanced cyborg freak show, and then the fact that this place even existed. Seriously! How did everyone miss the huge freaking technologically advanced forest at the base of the mountain?!

Now on top of that, APPARENTLY, there were space aliens.

Which was great.

Hikaru knew that the universe was too big for humanity to possibly be alone in it, and that the existence of aliens was one of those things that couldn't really be disproven since they'd barely explored the majority of the GALAXY, much less the universe. But to have proof, in front of him, trussed up like a freaking turkey?

He hated this place sometimes (all the time).

"So, what do we do now?" Ha-ya-to voiced all their thoughts as the stood around the very big creature sprawled out on the ground in front of them.

This close they could see that the flight suit seemed to be like a mix of some weird dark blue mesh and even darker armored panels. The thing seemed to just have two arms and legs, and appeared very bulky compared to them. Hikaru looked at the thing, then the rest of them. That creature was probably taller than all of them by at least a foot. And it had claws.

Takeshi mumbled something about the claws and cracking missile proof glass. Hikaru looked at him. He looked about as green as his hair. I don't wanna know. He decided.

"Well first we got to see if this thing is alive, "Ryo started, poking at it with his foot., "So does this thing got a heartbeat or something…? I mean it looks like its breathing."

They all looked at it again. The creature's chest rose and fell, indicating that thing was alive and breathing.

"Yeah it does." Ha-ya-to retrieved a stick and jabbed it a couple times, "Okay I think it's out cold. Those claws look scary though, I'm not sure I want to be around when this thing wakes up."

"So how do we even get that gunk off our battle machines? That is a lot of goo, it might take a while." Hikaru observed. The goo had rapidly expanded once it exploded out of it container. The stuff looked like bubblegum only much bigger and from what he smelled when he had to climb next to it to get out of his machine, it smelled like burnt plastic and burnt caramel sauce. It also was strong and seemed to be hard to get off since it just stretched. The fact that their battle machines couldn't even move if the gunk had touched it was frightening. Imagine if the robots get a hold of it…

Hikaru shuddered. "I think we should tie this thing up in case it wakes up before we get it off."

"With what? Duct tape and zip ties?" Takeshi snapped, then blinked, "Ryo do you have either of those things?"

Ryo suddenly reminded Hikaru of a deer in the headlights. "Yes….?" He squeaked.

"Think it'll hold this thing?"

"Well duct tape and zip ties was pretty much what held together the Grand Titan during the battle with the Striking Venom. So probably."

"Well go get it then. Ha-ya-to mind helping him out with that?" Hikaru instructed. Takeshi looked fried for the day. "Takeshi help me get this thing up so we can get this thing tied up." That snapped Takeshi out of whatever mental funk he was going into. Nodding, he grabbed the alien's right arm and pulled it over his shoulders, Hikaru following suit on the other side.

The alien turned out to be… surprisingly light.

He really thought it would be heavier considering its bulk. It felt like he was dragging Takeshi honestly. The suit it wore felt sort of like cotton where the mesh was and large flat scales where the panels were.

Takeshi wiggled a bit under the weight of the alien a few paces away from the debris pile. "Is this thing covered in fur?"

"What?" Hikaru reached over and felt around the alien's right side. Sure as shit he felt the mesh end and a large patch of thick fluff on the things side. "Holy cow, let's put this thing down."

The patch of fur turned out to cover almost the entire right side of the alien from its hip (or where the hips would be on a human.) to its armpit. The fur was interrupted by where Hikaru guessed the ribs were by shiny silver metallic strips. A brace maybe? For what?

"It looks like the suit got burnt off there. It's only the mesh that got burnt off though." The mesh seemed burnt off by the edges of the white speckled black fur patch. The burnt spots ended at the edge of the paneling and only seemed to singe it, changing the color from a navy blue to almost black. "What do you think caused it? It doesn't look new."

Hikaru shuddered. "I really don't know and frankly don't care to find out."

Takeshi nodded, "Agreed."

"Hey we got our miracle bindings and Ryo also found what I think is a tow chain-"

"It's not a tow chain!"

"-Whatever it is Ryo found it- Is that fur!?" Ha-ya-to squawked as he bent down to touch the fur. "Holy- it feels like a chinchilla!"

"Ha-ya-to please stop petting the alien, we kind of need to tie it up. So it doesn't you know wake up and kill us." Takeshi grumbled. The relentless irritation seemed to be coming back, Hikaru noticed. He was glad about that; a moody Takeshi was worse than an angry Takeshi.

"Sorry." Ha-ya-to jumped up with a grin.

After that their time was spent hopefully securing their captive. They used almost the entire roll of tape on the thing. And most of the zip ties. The not-tow chain ended up wrapped around the alien's chest and arms.

"There. If that doesn't hold this thing, I don't know what will." Ryo stated then poked at the things helmet, "I wonder if this thing is for breathing or for protection. I don't see any air tanks and it seems like it could come off really easy." He brushed the underside where Hikaru guessed the things chin would be. "I can feel more fur there, I'm positive that if this thing was meant for breathing that a seal would be here and that seal would be closed. I can sort of wiggle my fingers to this thing's face."

They watched as Ryo wiggled his fingers to underneath the clear part of the visor, then all jumped as the helmet decided to pop off then. They all watched the helmet roll off with mounting terror.

"…Oh. So it's not for breathing then." Ryo mumbled.

"YA THINK?!" Takeshi shrieked. "Don't DO that! That thing could've woken up and bitten your fingers off!"

"Well it didn't!" Ryo yelled back and picked up the helmet.

"So that what this thing looks like. It looks like a weird cross of a human and cat." Ha-ya-to commented.

Hikaru looked at the aliens revealed face. The thing looked humanoid for sure. Face was covered in more of the white speckled black fluff, with a large white crescent patch underneath its right eye, and a large white patch on the tip of a flat nose. The fluff seemed to thicken on the top of its head and ended in two large fluffy black ears on top like a large cat. Takeshi's fears about Ryo getting his fingers bitten on seemed to be true. Hikaru mused. The aliens mouth was hanging open a bit as it breathed, showing rows of shark like teeth.

He reached out and touched one of the fluffy ears. Holy Cow that was soft.

Takeshi made a noise and Hikaru snatched his hand away. Takeshi's eye twitched.

"Are you people TRYING to lose your hands?! Stop messing with the things face!"

"Fine. Ryo what's up with that helmet?" Hikaru changed the subject, slowly backing away from the alien.

"I don't know what up with it, it seems to have an inside screen and taking some sort of reading or calculations of something. I don't know I can't read what its projecting." Ryo put the helmet on his head, looking like a little kid putting on their parent's clothes, "It seems to be interested in us. Or warning about us. It's got you guys outlined in red right now."

"Maybe the vehicles got a manual?" Ha-ya-to suggested, "Oh yeah, I should probably get that down."

"Be careful with that thing!" Ryo called after him, tossing the helmet aside and running over, yelling about it being fragile maybe, and that maybe they could use it.

Hikaru looked at Takeshi after Ha-ya-to took off towards the branch the hovercraft landed on.

"…I'm going to sleep. Wake me up if something interesting happens. Actually better yet, don't wake me at all unless this thing wakes up or the robots decide to fuck shit up." He growled the went off to get his sleeping bag, leaving Hikaru alone.

He didn't blame him at all for that.

Well I might as well set up camp. I don't think we're leaving anytime soon. He thought, watching Ha-ya-to try to land without squishing the hover craft.

It took three hours for the hover craft to get out of the tree. Mainly because Ryo insisted that they try not damage it. It might have another of those goo bombs. He said. Who cares? He thought but didn't argue. Ryo gave long winded confusing answers when he got like this. In the meantime, Hikaru had set up a fire, and tried to help Ryo scrape the goop off the Chameleon Hunter with no luck. The goo expanded further while they set up the fire and made camp. The Assault Tigers cockpit was stuck open now from where the gum touched it. Ryo managed to scrape some off only to get the scraper stuck and the crowbar Hikaru used ended up getting absorbed into the gunk.

"Well that's gone. I hope this thing's got a way to get this crap off on its vehicle." Ryo groaned.

Hikaru agreed. They were sitting ducks right now, with 2 and a half battle machines out of commission. Ryo could still use the top half of his Hybrid Tank and Ha-ya-to wasn't hit at all, but that was still half the team out. This place required all of them to take on enemies when they fought.

"Alright I got this thing finally!" Ha-ya-to announced over the comms with a grin, "I'm going to land so don't move. At all. Please."

He watched Ha-ya-to land the thing safely on the ground nearby the alien and grinned. The thing must have something on there. Those cans exploded just being NEAR something, the alien must have like a key or some type of chemical to get the stuff off. Running up to it when Ha-ya-to finally landed and powered down the River Dragon, they all- minus Takeshi who somehow managed to sleep through this- convened on the alien vehicle to explore it…

…Coming up very confused and vaguely annoyed.

"Well, I think we found what made that energy bolt." Ryou lifted up a bit of metal that looked vaguely like a sniper rifle, only with a more curved bottom piece and fatter barrel. It was also a strange shade of dark purple and had strange white-blue glowing lines on it. "I wonder what powers this thing," He continued, holding it up and turning it around, "I don't see any place where ammunition would go in and the bolt seems to be some sort of high power laser. This thing is so tiny. Other than this, I can't make heads or tails of what any of this junk is."

Hikaru looked at the things they had scattered on the ground from a bag made of a leather like material they had found connected to the craft. A strange glowing blue crystal that all of them refused to touch (I think that's radioactive, Ryou had said.), several flat card like sheets of some strange neon green plastic, some of which had bright pink lines etched into the side like a credit card. Also some weird spheres that were brightly colored and kind of squishy. Maybe the alien had a stress ball collection? They also found several can like things that they were pretty sure held more goo, that had small pink and green colored hexagons on them.

Also several, very long, very sharp wicked looking knives. None of them bothered them much after unsheathing the first knife, and having Hikaru almost take the tip of his finger off when the knife slipped. He didn't even feel the cut until about 4 minutes later when they bandaged it up.

They also found several more crystals that weren't glowing as well in the bag, and fragments of circuitry from the jungle. Apparently the creature had an eye for shiny things. And knives.

"Well, I don't think we'll be able to do much until the morning or whenever that thing wakes up." Ha-ya-to gestured to first the almost darkened sky and then to their alien captive, with a strange device from the bag that looked like a gun handle.

"Ha-ya-to's got a point unfortunately. How about we turn in." Hikaru stood up and stretched, "Ryou you coming?"

"Later." Ryou waved him off, still staring at the strange weapon.

"Ok but don't stay up too late, I think we'll need as much time as possible to get that gum off."

Taking one last look at their very large furry captive, he went to bed, hoping that it stayed asleep through the night.

Hikaru woke up the next morning- was it morning? The sun wasn't up yet- to what sounded like Ha-ya-to screaming. He heard Takeshi grumble something along the lines of "Shut the fuck up" and burrow deeper into his sleeping bag across the fire. Not thinking much of Ha-ya-to making loud noises, Hikaru followed suit rolling over to get some more sleep only to freeze as Ha-ya-to screamed again this time accompanied by a loud ominous hiss.

Oh yeah. He and Takeshi bolted up at the same time, remembering the fact that they had a freaking space alien tied up in their camp.

Scrambling out of the bag, Hikaru got knocked over by Ha-ya-to rapidly back tracking from the large alien currently hissing at them all in some weird language. The glowing green eyes seemed very pissed, and the ears were flattened against the things skull. The alien wriggled underneath its bindings and hissed some more. Hikaru caught something that he guessed was an insult, the word Rakashzè, judging from the way the thing was snarling it.

"Oh shut up you over sized Hair ball!" Ha-ya-to yelled from behind Hikaru, "Your surrounded and trapped, so just be quiet!"

The alien seemed absolutely un impressed by this. It quieted but he could feel the judgement radiate from the thing. He supposed the thing would roll its eyes if it could. Could it roll its eyes? Would rolling its eyes be considered sass in their culture?

The thing rolled its eyes with a snort and went back to struggling against the duct tape. Apparently the answer was a yes to both questions.

"Stop it you over grown Kitty cat." Takeshi this time. The green eyes went to him. "You're stuck. So play nice." Takeshi finished with a clear threat in his tone.

The alien looked at him the same way it looked at Ha-ya-to. Like it didn't give a flying fuck about them or their threats.

"Hey guys, I heard screaming what's u- IT'S AWAKE!" Ryo screeched. Hikaru winced.

The alien made some strangled whining noise. He looked over. The kitty cat alien, had its ears practically glued to its skull and its face screwed up in pain. It didn't like screeching another then they did. They stopped moving though, and just started eyeing them warily.

"Well then." Ha-ya-to squeaked, "Hi." He waved at the alien, "Do you speak our language? Or English? Something?"

The alien just blinked at him with a level of doneness that Hikaru could relate too in that moment. Takeshi face palmed.

"Ha-ya-to I don't think it speaks anything we speak." Ryo said, focusing on the alien with curiosity.

"It's a space alien maybe it picked up radio signals up in space and learned SOMETHING. If it can fly from another planet to here I think it can do that at least." Ha-ya-to yelled.

"I don't think it can, judging from the fact that it's just looking at us like it is." The alien was looking at them with a look of utter confusion.

That remark ended up sparking an argument between all of them. Maybe it's got a translator in the helmet- If it can't understand us how'd it know we weren't a threat when we got in the fight with the robot? -Probably because it was here for a bit and knew that those things were bad new- The argument ended abruptly with a sound of snapping zip ties and a loud hiss.

Whipping around they saw the alien rip through the duct tape like it paper and snap the zipties off with its teeth. Yanking the tow chain off, it stood up, and stared at them with it ears folded back and its fur fluffed up.

"Oh shit." Takeshi swore.

YES. So I'm still writing this even though I think no ones reading it because it amuses me. Just be warned more OC's will show up, since there's only 6 to really work with in canon.

I think this is the longest thing I've ever written for a fanfiction.

More head canons:

Hikaru and Takeshi actually joint lead the team. Takeshi is technically the leader but he gets burnt out by it, so Hikaru will lead until Takeshi has the mental strength to deal with it again. They tend to flip flop because sometimes the other will be better for a particular mission or objective or one will have a better plan. They tried letting Ryo and Ha-ya-to lead with varied results. In other words, Ryo's usually involve run into danger and do shit that works but could possibly kill them or get them in trouble, and Ha-ya-to is banned from leadership until he can come up with a plan that has more then a 5% chance of actually succeeding, so Hikaru and Takeshi just kind of rule the position.

Also ages for all these twits since I don't think they ever listed ages for them? Takeshi is 22, Hikaru is 24, Ha-ya-to is 20, and Ryo is about 21. Salis has the physical and mental maturity of a 25 year old.

So basically they're all level 3 adults. Who left them in charge. Help them.