Chapter Twelve: Means to an End

The real evil is the power to kill people. Someone who finds himself with that power is cursed. No matter how you use it, anything obtained by killing people can never bring true happiness.


-=Rhea Lula Pov=-

I really thought I would be able to catch him. I thought I was plenty close enough to pull Elliot from the death of gravity. I was right about the distance to be fair; I just kinda forgot how much he weighed.

If one word could be used to describe my emotions, it would have to be desolation. Why I felt this way over an alien I met today, I haven't the slightest clue. I've killed countless Mammals in my endeavors to make the world a better place, yet this one 'person' as he referred to himself, somehow broke down my walls in a matter of hours. My face was blank, my body language… blank. Everything was numb, and I wished I had done something differently. I wish I had stopped him in the hallway, shot him in the stairwell, anything to reverse the current events… but no one can reverse time, no one can reset the day, fix their mistakes; That's just the world we live in.

If I only knew Elliot for a few hours, the fox and rabbit would be much worse off. Upon turning around at a snail's pace, Judy was on her knees weeping, and… Nick, I think that was his name, was silently crying as he held the smaller rabbit... I wish I was crying, anything to end the darkness in my mind. It was like the whole world shut off, the sound went away, warmth of the sun vanished, complete desolation.

"Maybe he survived, he does have that armor… suit." I thought, quickly realizing all his glowing armor turned to dust seconds before he toppled over the edge. Regardless, I needed to check, just in case. My mind started commanding my body to run as fast as possible, like I had been reinvigorated with the energy of twenty Snarlbucks; My body, however, decided on a stumbling shuffle across the graveled pavement, down the steel stairs, one step at a time. I didn't even process there being an elevator just one flight down.

By the time I arrived, the area was cordoned off by police tape, and his body was gone. I saw the flashing of police lights, but heard no sirens or police chatter as they held back the growing crowd of civilians. That didn't stop me from walking straight for the police tape at my deathly pace.

"Hold up GI Joey." A wolf officer said while stopping me.

"YIA operative Rhea Lula." I mumbled as I extended my trembling arm, which was scanned by the officer.

"My apologies, Ma'am. Poor bastard." The wolf said while nodding his head at the blood stain.

"His *Sniff* His name was Elliot." I mumbled as my brain started to process the gravity of what happened.

"Aww shit." The wolf whispered to himself. "Sorry, I-I didn't know you knew him. I don't recommend you go and see Elliot, it's pretty gruesome... The doctors don't think he'll make it more than an hour."

"He… he's alive?"

"Yes, Ma'am." The wolf replied.

In that moment, all the blank, numb, desolation gave way to focus, pure, uninterrupted focus. Elliot's species was advanced, maybe they could heal him with whatever technology they have. The only problem was everyone left already… "NICK AND JUDY!" I shouted just before sprinting off in the direction of the elevator. Surely they would know something about Elliot if they knew him for awhile. Sure enough, when I pushed open the door to the roof, Judy was still sniffling and Nick was holding her.

"Guy's, Elliot's still alive!" I shouted the moment I laid eyes on them.

"W-what?" Nick mumbled with splayed ears.

"Listen, I need you two to focus. Does Elliot have something that can bring him back from deaths door?"

"Ye-yes. He-he had this thing in the hospital that could've healed a fractured spine. But the humans are gone, an-and no *sniff* no one's here to save him." He said as more tears started rolling forward.

"What about someone else? Did he know anyone that could have it!?" I asked, more and more panicky as my sentence want on. Nick seemed to be in great deliberation as he wiped the tears off his fur. Clearly he knew of someone that could possibly have this magic healing stuff.

"That nurse. Judy, remember that nurse that left with Elliot? I remember him talking to me about it, they were really close at the time."

"Yeah, I don't remember her name though." Judy said through her waning tears.

"Species, anything to go on… COME ON you two. Elliot could be saved, and you're just sitting like a couple of kits."

"Her name is Jacqueline Ferguson. Snow leopard." Nick said with a hoarse voice.

"Okay. Go get a radio, and put a BOLO out. The doctor said Elliot only has an hour."


-=45 minutes later=-

In the time we spent scouring the city, there were several sightings of a Snow leopard wearing a strange camouflage backpack, although all attempts to close in on her were unfruitful. Elliot's condition was only getting worse as the clock ticked down to zero. He had been in surgery the entire time, however the doctors were almost certain he wouldn't make it. We decided to just go back to the hospital and say our goodbyes while we had the chance.

"How could she be so had to catch!?" Nick shouted with frustration.

"Do you think Elliot taught her?" Judy asked with a glance to the fox.

"No, he specifically told me he wasn't going to teach Jacqueline how to fight." He replied.

"Jacqueline… HOW COULD I BE SO STUPID!" I yelled while pulling out my cellphone.

"What!? What is it?" Nick asked frantically.

"I'M JACQUELINE'S DAMN ROOM MATE!" I said while pressing the call button. "Come on. Pick up, pick up, pick up."

"Before you say anything, I wasn't kidnapped or anything. I chose-" Jacqueline started to say.

"SHUT UP!" I squawked.

"Whoa, what's got you're fur ruffled?"

"Elliot's about to die. Do you have anything that can save him!?"

"WHAT! HOW?" Jacqueline shrieked with dismay.

"I'll explain later. DO. YOU-"

"Yes, yes, I have an R.S.K in his wingsuit, but I can't just walk in the open; I'm being followed by the police." She said in a whisper.

"*Sigh* Jacqueline, I'm looking for you with the police."

"Wow, isn't this one big screw up." Jacqueline replied. "What hospital is he at, I'll meet you there."

"Savannah central." I replied, which prompted Jacqueline to hang up. Not fifteen seconds later, a winged individual flew overhead at breakneck speeds.

"Are you sure Elliot didn't teach her stuff?" Judy asked while looking at the proverbial rocket.

"Guess he changed his mind?" Nick said with uncertainty. "Attention all units, Jacqueline Ferguson has been found, call off the search." He added into the dash mounted CB radio.

By the time we made it to the hospital, our hour estimate was well passed, and despite the staff attempting to restrain us, one flick of the safety on my rife caused them to back off. When we opened the doors to the operating room, Jacqueline was injecting something into his neck that resembled black tar. I've seen some pretty nasty stuff in the field, that's probably why I was the only one besides Jacqueline not gagging at the sight of Elliot. The heart rate monitor across the room was slowly beeping at twenty five beats per minute.

"That-that can't be normal?" I said while looking at the green, screen."

"His heart rate is normally forty BPM. This is an expected drop." Jacqueline said with certainty. "You shouldn't be in here, you're not sterilized." She added while pulling out the empty syringe out of his neck. I hadn't noticed it before, but since Jacqueline mentioned it, I noticed she was wearing a surgical mask and gloves.

"I'll go, just answer me this; I know you two were close, and Elliot ended up breaking your nose because you were assaulting him. Are you two okay?"

"First, I wasn't really myself at the time." She started to say while placing the empty syringe back into a compartment on the back of what must've been Elliot's wingsuit. "I still can't believe he didn't smell that I was in heat. Second, He did at least sent me an Rsk for my nose, so I was better by the end of the day."

"That didn't answer the question, Jacqueline." I said with my paws crossed.

Before Jacqueline answered, she started looking at her hind paws while flattening her ears. "*Sigh* I dunno." She mumbled. "I'd like for us to be okay, but Miss Crawford said Elliot told her he doesn't love me anymore."

"Oh, yeah… I forgot about that." I replied just before the heart monitor started slowing.

"Uhh, why'd he just drop to seventeen beats per minute?" I asked while pointing to the monitor.

"Crap. I forgot the blood thinner portion of the R.S.K." Jacqueline said as she darted to the intercom. "Code blue in operating room five."

Not five seconds later, blood soaked doctors of varying species barged through the door, presumably the same ones I just kicked out a few minutes ago. They began talking so fast, and doing things so skillfully I hadn't a chance to keep up. The only thing I was paying real attention to was the heart monitor ticking Elliot's slowing heart rate. I could feel my body going numb once again, and my hearing soon followed it, par for one sound… A flatline on the monitor. There was nothing I could do, I was completely useless when it came to an injury of this magnitude. With that abstract thought, I started shuffling out of the operating room to where Nick and Judy were sitting; The face I was making told the whole story, and sure enough, when I rounded the white linoleum floored hallway, Judy almost immediately started crying again, whereas Nick donned the same bleak expression I had.

"E-*Choke* Elliot just flatlined." I mumbled while plopping myself into a plastic chair butted up to the wall. Most of the other Mammals sitting in the same hallway were staring at the three of us with forlorn eyes. I sat in complete motionless silence for hours, not thinking about if I had done something different, just the same blank, thoughtless regret. The first time I looked outside a nearby window, it was afternoon, the second time I looked outside, which I was sure to only be a few minutes later, It was pitch night, and the street lights were all illuminating the city. It seemed as If the world didn't give a single fuck that one of the most powerful creatures (In Elliot's words) just passed away from something as stupid as gravity.

"Rhea." Jacqueline cooed while bumping her shoulder into mine. "Elliot just got out of surgery, we were able to stem the bleeding long enough for the Recovery Stimulation Kit to fix the majority of his internal organ damage. There's still going to be a long recovery from what Doctor Canis told me. I'm working on him being transferred to Tundra town medical cuz' that's where my insurance covers… You want to see him?" Jacqueline asked as my brain was still processing her words.

"I… He's going to live?"

"That's what I just said, Afráta Alepoú." Jacqueline answered in a friendly joking tone.

"What's that mean?"

"I'll never tell." She replied with a smirk.

Elliot looked much better than the blob of skin and broken bones the first time around. His body still had massive bruising all over it, and he was in a medically induced coma due to the head trauma induced from the fall. All of his broken bones were mended and his organs repaired thanks to the R.S.K thingy; Jacqueline explained the second version, which was the one she injected used a Nanite controlled solution that would target the more fatal wounds first; I still had a hard time fully grasping the virus sized robots part, but regardless if I understood it or not, he was going to live. Nick and Judy left hours ago, and I really should've too because I needed to give my synopsis of being assigned to the YSG (Yepreutan State Guard) first thing in the morning.

When I checked my phone for the time, I realized how blank my mind really was. ' 0543' I had been sitting in that chair all night, and I didn't even know it. Jacqueline offered to walk to the YIA office downtown, but I turned it down considering how exhausted she looked. I even offered to walk home with her just in case, but once she showed me the weapons on Elliot's wingsuit, I realized she was ready for a war.

"See-ya this afternoon, Jackie." I said with a sleepy wave as we parted ways.

"Yep." She replied while walking the other direction.


-=Elliot Pov=-

"I still can't believe you made us fall off that building." I said to my mind. I could tell from the collective experience we shared this was indeed a coma, which would explain the lack of a body.

"I still can't believe we survived." Elliot replied in surprise. "No matter, I'll find a way to kick you out of my body, or kill us both."

"Yeah right." I said with a scoff.

"Would you like to know something about myself Elliot zero-zero-six-five?" Elliot asked.

"I already know everything about you, but please, Indulge me." I replied.

"I've severed all ties with those I loved or cared for in the time you've been in control."

"Your point?" I said with a yawn.

"You still have people you care about and love. I still have people powerful enough to kill those you love."

"Ha-ha-ha-haaaaa. You think I'd fall for something that juvenile? Zofia told me about everyone that could pose a threat."

"Suit yourself… I guess Nick will know where you are after Barry Allen thrusts an arm through his heart." Elliot said in an eerily calm voice. "Oh, I did get to speak with him while I was in your universe. He really does love you."

"Stop. Talking." I replied in an odious tone.

"I even gave him a kiss goodbye." Elliot said with a smile growing on his face. "If you think I can't reach your loved ones, you are sorely mistaken. While I still have Judith and Jacqueline, I can live with their deaths if it means saving the multiverse."

"SHUT UP!" I screamed.

"Oh, do make me Elliot zero-zero-six-five, do make me." Elliot mocked. "I might not be at the level of Zofia, But I'll do whatever it takes to win. Oh, and now that I think about it. Do you really think She'll just stop at my Universe? How many will have to be under her rule before she's satisfied? A-hundred, five-hundred, A-thousand? How many Universes Guardians and Scouts will have to be slaughtered before she returns you to your own body, if ever mind you?"

"She would never do that." I snipped in response.

"OH, GROW UP, SHIT STICKS! My Zofia's a piece of mentally unstable power, not the peaceful, motherly Scout she's supposed to be. I know your people aren't as advanced as mine, pretty close but not quite. So let me ask you this; At what point does one's power become so great that it consumes them with authoritarian thoughts when in the presence of say, the Lunovians?"

"… I-I don't know."

"Bullshit, you know exactly where this is going, and I'm sure you've dealt with the very same thoughts." Elliot said in annoyance.

"FINE!… Okay, I was wrong, and selfish." I said with dejection. "I just want to go love my mate, and Zofia said she would grant me that if I helped her gain access to the Obelisk."

"So you would damn everyone else forever to gain a measly fifty or sixty years with one Fox?" Elliot asked with a pissed voice.

"I get it, okay! I screwed up."

"No, I don't think you do get it. I've lost people, everyone looses people they care about, that's just life. You died, and I didn't, that's all there is to it. You were supposed to stay in the containment thing, and be recycled in a thousand years. But, NOOOOO, you just had to go and take my body."

"You can stop now, You're starting to loose my attention." I replied.

"I'm almost done. First, You're going to give me the controls. Second, you're going to tell me everything there is to know about my powers. I know I've discovered the majority, but I can feel things are still locked within."

"Yeah… you got it." I said with sadness.

"Listen, once this is all over, I can load you into a nanite slurry."

"I've tried that before, it doesn't work." I replied.

"You've tried it, I haven't." Elliot replied. "Now cough up the controls."

"Not yet, and It's not like you can do anything anyway." I replied.

"The moment we wake up, I'm taking my body back whether you like it or not."

"I'll give it to you, but just answer me this. Do you really have that Galactic Tracker sent to kill my Nick?"

"Yes, although he has to go through each and every dimension to get there, so give or take sixty five tries."

"I agreed to give your body back, call him off." I replied with anxiety.

"I'll call Barry off once I have my body back, simple as that."


-=Jacqueline pov=-

The moment I clicked the deadbolt to my shared apartment, my body went into sleep mode, and I found it hard to keep my eyes open. I didn't even bother to take off Elliot's wingsuit when I collapsed on the couch; It had been awhile since I was forced to pull an all-nighter, and boy was it a rude awakening. Just as I felt myself starting to drift into dreamland, a semi-familiar click sounded from the other side of the couch.

"I don't know how you got in here, but you best leave before you end up with acute lead poisoning." A familiar, female voice said in a threatening tone.

"Kate, I will kill you if you don't let me sleep." I mumbled into the pillow.

"Ja-Jacqueline?… Oh my God, you're not dead." Kate awed while de-cocking the hammer on her pistol.

"Noo." I replied sarcastically. "Since when do you have a gun?"

"Ever since that Human broke in and threatened me with giant arm swords. How did you even escape!?"

"Nooooo-ho-ho…. Tomorrow… Sleep." I whined while burying my muzzle further into the pillow.

"You explain everything first thing tomorrow." Kate demanded just before padding down the lightless hallway to her room.

Explaining my adventure to Elliot's home world was very close to the bottom of things I wanted to do with the normally down-to-earth Cheetah. I mean, yeah, I'd want to talk all about the buildings that towered higher than the eye could see, I'd want to show her the technology Humans developed, just not after I went thirty-six hours without sleep.

When night fell, I was more than unhappy to find Kate nudging my shoulder just before the sun was completely gone. "It's night, now explain how you got abducted." Kate ordered while shoving coffee in front of my face.

"I'm almost twenty-eight, Kate. I don't need you waking me up like a kit on Christmas morning." I grumbled while sipping on the black liquid.

"First, we have the night shift. You owe me big for keeping your job by the way." Kate said while smacking me in the face with her spotted tail.

"Thanks, but I really need to call in sick; I'm still all jet-lagged to The Messenger's time." I said while drinking more of the coffee as I started unfastening Elliot's wingsuit straps.

"What's the Messenger?" Kate asked with intrigue while slipping on her shirt.

"It's called THE Messenger, and it's that giant ship that covered the whole city yesterday; Elliot owns it."

"Who?"

"The human you met at the hospital, he was shot by a musket, had his spine shattered."

"Ohhhh… Did you ever kiss him?" She asked while raising and lowering her eyebrows.

"Yes Miss fifth grade, I kissed him… more than once." I answered while my muzzle started forming a smile.

"But serious talk. You weren't abducted by him? And where did you go? And did you get to fly a ship?"

"No, I wasn't abducted. Just after Elliot went into a coma on one of the Empires Majestic interdictors, they gave me an option to go home. I ended up going to Elliot's home world, they call it Earth."

"Aww, that sounds way more mysterious than Daurilia." Kate moped in response due to the Humans better name for their planet.

"Elliot has his own name for everyone's planets for some reason; I never really got around to asking him why."

"Well, what are they?"

"Ours is Raxxla, Earth has several names, Sol, Terra, and… well, Earth. There's also the People of Lunov, and Miacke. The Humans just won a war against the Thargoids. I think they did anyway."

"OOH. What to the Lunov Mammals look like. NO! What do the teriyaki Mammals look like?" Kate demanded with enthusiasm.

"Nooooo… If you want to know, go ask Elliot when he comes out of his coma." I whined while pulling on my ears. Just as Kate resumed her assault of questions, the deadbolt unlocked and Rhea walked in, looking far more exhausted than me. She didn't even make it to the couch just ten feet away from the door, simply falling down and curling into a ball on the brown carpet.

"Was work that bad?" Kate inquired after she hoisted the much smaller fox into her arms. She began to carry the dyed fox off to her room down the hall, and that gave me just enough time to slip on the compression suit Sam made me.

"Dang, she was asleep before I even put… The crap is that!?" Kate Squawked while feeling the taut, green armor covering my entire body save for my paws and head.

"It was a gift. It's this really cool fabric; Go ahead, punch me." I said in a taunting tone as I crossed my arms.

"I'm not going to punch you."

"Come on. You know you want to." I said just before Kate punched me in the stomach.

"AHH! The hell is it made of!?" She shrieked while clutching her right paw in agony.

"A partially Non-newtonian armor." I replied with a smug smile; Sam Decided to give me my own armor suit, which even included a tail covering. It wasn't nearly as protective as Elliot's G-suit, but it could still stop a bunch of different guns. I didn't really know exactly what Sam meant when she said M.M.G, but it could stop up to whatever that was.

"Well, warn me next time!" Kate hissed with splayed ears and partially bared fangs.

"Geez, how hard did you hit me?" I asked with arising worry for the condition of her paw.

"Hard enough for it to hurt." Kate answered while flicking her paw back and forth. She started putting on the rest of her clothing in her room while I decided on what I was going to have for breakfast, or in this case, dinner. Just as I decided on the food, The Cheetah returned wearing a blue sweatsuit. "Hey, we don't have time for that. It's almost Six, and If you forgot, we start at six." Kate said while dragging me out of our apartment.

The drive across the city was unceremonious, mostly consisting of me answering more questions about Elliot and his species. By the time we reached Tundra Town Medical, it was five-fifty, and we ended up getting dressed in out green nurses outfits just in the nick of time. "Jacqueline, how was the missions trip?" One of the doctors asked the moment I stepped outside the changing room.

"Oh… It was-uhh… Interesting." I said with a sheepish smile.

"Not really your thing, eyy. I can't really blame you for not liking the deep forest, I know I wouldn't like to be surrounded by Savage Mammals twenty-four-seven." The Antelope said with a nudge to my shoulder. "But then again, I know Kate was just covering for you going on a trip. A trip in your favorite rocket ship, perhaps shooting through the stars… care to tell me what it was like?" The Doctor asked with a hopeful expression.

"I don't know to what you're referring." I said with a purposefully terrible innocent expression.

"Aww, come on Jackie, tell us." Another one of the nurses teased.

"It's not going to happen." I replied.

"Well, since you don't know very much about the Human's, I suppose I'll just have to put someone else in charge of the Human you checked in last night." The antelope said while nodding to one of the patient rooms.

"FINE, I went to their planet, and went faster than light speed, and all sorts of cool stuff!" I screeched in annoyance. At this point, half the staff on my floor were huddling around me as if I was the all knowing Snow Leopard

. It wasn't like there were tons of things to do at six in the afternoon; all the visitors were gone, and most of the patients were sleeping. the only thing left was cleaning and making sure no one died.

"That's all I needed to know. Now, I'm putting you in explicit charge of any Human patients that come through here until we can instate a full time Human doctor. You will have the final authority when it comes to his well being." The antelope doctor stated, which actually caused my mouth to open just a hair.

"I'm going to be a temporary doctor?"

"That will of course include full pay. Personally, I would suggest you fill the position permanently since you already have an eight month head start… Go on now, I'm not paying you to stare at me."


-=12 hours later=-

That was the easiest first day back I've ever had; With just one patient to take care of, I spent most of my time talking with the other staff about What types of food Elliot can eat, his normal pulse rates, blood pressure, etcetera. Something I thought to be most peculiar during my physical write-up was that Elliot's retinas weren't the cool rainbow colors anymore, only the blue remained. Something else that was beyond abnormal was his had constantly grasping and releasing; It wasn't actually grabbing anything at all, simply opening and closing every few minutes.

By the time I got home, it was just starting to become light outside, and Rhea was stirring around the house, completely nude. "Would you put some clothes on?" I griped while shielding my eyes.

"I can't wear clothing for a few hours while this dye removal stuff is on. Besides, it's not the first time." Rhea replied casually as she cooked breakfast.

"Yeah Jacqueline, she has to wait for the dye removal stuff to work its magic." Kate teased while walking towards her room down the hall.

"Whatever." I replied while plopping myself on the couch to watch TV; Just as I found a good movie to watch, Rhea started talking from behind the couch.

"What kinda clothing is this?" She asked while feeling the Green, compression armor I was wearing.

"It was a gift from Elliot's mom." I replied.

"Whatever you do, don't punch it!" Kate shouted from her room.

"Why not?" Rhea replied as she manipulated the partially stretchy fabric with ease.

"Besides being super comfortable, it's an armor that can stop and M.M.G, whatever that is."

"I find it hard to believe it would stop a three-o-eight." Rhea replied with doubt. "C'mon, stand up, I wanna test this so called armor." The pure white fox said while pulling on my arm.

"I really don't want to. Just punch me from here, and let me watch my movie." I said as Rhea started tugging on me harder.

"NEVERRRR!" She shouted.


-=Elliot U-7825 Pov=-

I was finally back in control of my own body. Elliot U-0065 was more than willing after I convinced him about Zofia's true motives to gaining control of the Obelisk. He explained to me that neither the Guardians, nor the Scouts could gain entrance to the Obelisk's main control station. The chances of me… us getting in weren't much better, although Zofia seemed absolutely positive we could harness its power. I was getting ready to hand the controls, so to speak, back to Elliot U-0065 so he could bring us out of the coma.

"As promised, Gene bearer Zero-zero-zero-one has been called off." I said.

"Thank you, and thank you for helping me overcome my selfishness." Elliot U-0065 replied.

"Are you seriously getting sappy on me?"

"What." Elliot whined. "Is it so bad that I said thanks for not letting me destroy the multiverse?"

"Terrible. Absolutely despicable." I joked in return.

Moments later, my eyes opened and I was met with the beeping of a heart rate monitor, and the dim light provided by the sun shining through the window to my left. To my right was the door to whatever hospital room I was laying in, and further to my immediate right was an arctic wolf looking at me quizzically.

"Nu cred că Tu ar trebui fie în sus." The male wolf said as he picked up a clipboard at the foot of the bed. "Da, tu ar trebui să fie în comă."

"What's he saying?" I asked Elliot U-0065

"You're not supposed to be awake." Elliot replied.

"How do I say 'I need clothes'" I asked while glancing down at the hospital gown covering my body. Before Elliot answered, I began to pull out the IV lines and electric pickups for the heart monitor. "Am nevoie de apă, îmbrăcăminte, și un mijloc de a apela pe cineva." I said out of the blue, completely at a loss of control over my voice.

The wolf quickly nodded before darting out of the room.

"There, you have about two minutes before he comes back. Now let's go." Elliot U-0065 said.

"I really don't appreciate you taking control of things like that." I chastened as I slunk to the closed oak door, cold tiles pressing on my bare feet as I went. "Control my subconscious for a second, how damaged is my body?" I asked while peeking out of the now cracked open door.

"...Damn, Those R.S.K mark two's really pack a punch, We're completely fine." Elliot U-0065 replied.

"Good, cuz' we're going to need to run in a second." I whispered at the sight of an imposing Lion walking toward my room with the arctic wolf in tow.

"I should take control, I still have the powers."

"No. We're doing this the old fashion way." I said seconds before sprinting out of the room in the direction of an exit sign. The moment I left the room, the Lion shouted at me.

"Hey, Stop!"

This gained the attention of a few Yepreutan State guards talking at the end of the hall. The two gray wolves quickly ceased their small talk, and attempted to stop me. Both of them took half of the hallway in an attempt to halt my advance, however with all my built up speed and mass, the wolf on my left side didn't stand a chance against a drop kick to the plate carrier. Once I hit the ground, I performed a scissor sweep on the other wolf's legs, causing him to fall backwards.

"Great start, Elliot. Assaulting state guards, evading capture, all in what? Two minutes of waking up?" Elliot U-0065 satirized while crossing his spiritual arms.

"Shut up. It's not like making dark energy would've been any better." I said while slamming a stairwell door open. Just as I made it down the first flight, one of the YSG's slammed the same door open one flight up.

"STOP!. . . Aceasta este Delta Two-patru, pacientul uman care scapă în casa scării de vest, solicitarea de rezervă; Ținta este extrem de agresivă și extrem de periculos." The wolf yelled into a radio.

"He just called backup, and said we were extremely dangerous." Elliot U-0065 relayed.

"Grand." I muttered just before pushing open the bottom floor door, which put me out into the freezing cold. "Shit!" I shrieked. I was standing out in a blizzard, the dead of night, and I was only wearing a hospital gown. I suppose the light coming in from the window was just light pollution.

"Any Idea's?" I asked at the sound of police sirens closing in.

"First, start running, second, get some clothes from the nearest thrift shop… There's one just a few blocks away if your universe is anything like mine."

In a matter of minutes, the bone chilling wind and snow almost brought us to a complete halt. There were no cars on the road, par for the Police cruisers, and every single shop was closed up. Every now and then, I would stop and let Elliot U-0065 warm up the pavement with a condensed Gamma radiation burst to keep us from freezing; The downside to this was the police quickly caught onto the lack of snow in certain areas being caused by us.

"Oprește, oprește în numele legii!" I heard a voice shout through a police cruiser megaphone.

"Shit." I whispered at the sight of the rapidly closing vehicle being piloted by a rabbit with black stripes on its cheeks. "I don't suppose you can share all that power with me?" I asked skeptically.

"I never really contemplated it before, but I don't think so. Oh, I know, you could just think the thoughts and do the moves, and I'll generate the appropriate abilities."

"Just don't read my mind wrong." I said just before whipping my body around and holding out both hands with my palms facing the cruiser. Besides the quarter second delay, Elliot nailed the power I wanted to use; A light sucking void of dark energy shot from my hands and blew a hole right into the Police vehicle's engine block, completely disabling it. Of course, I was met with equal retaliation seconds later; The driver of the burning wreck jumped out and started firing a pistol at me, which I easily deflected with Elliot U-0065's Psychokinetics. I then lifted the Striped Rabbit off the ground and brought him within reach.

"This is all you, Man." I thought while stepping away from the controls to my body. The moment Elliot U-0065 took primary control, our eyes changed from my Light blue to his Rainbow color, which caused the rabbits fearful eyes to open even further.


-=Elliot U-0065 Pov=-

"If you continue to pursue us, I will be forced to start dropping bodies at an unprecedented rate." I said with emphasis on the Ball of Dark energy in my right hand.

"Gimme a break, I'm just doin' my job." The rabbit replied Just before I threw him a few feet down the snow covered sidewalk.

"Well, call of the hunt, savage." I said just before turning away from the suit dressed rabbit.

"What'd you say?" Elliot U-7825 asked.

"Enough to get them to back off… for a while anyway." I said while darting into an ally. I didn't want to worry Elliot U-7825 about what I really said, and how it would most likely provoke the Raxxlans. For some reason, this planet and this planet alone has this utter feeling of impunity, even in the face of death. It seemed that no matter how much force you showed, and how futile their weapons were, they would think themselves better. I remember it very clearly, just three universes over from mine, the Thargoids threatened to destroy Raxxla if the Raxxlans didn't yield to their rule. Instead of doing the obvious, the Raxxlans declared war on the Thargoids, and two days later Raxxla was a pile of asteroids.

Once we stole a pair of pants, a shirt, and a jacket from the thrift store. I set a course for Savannah central, one building in particular that I knew would be safe for us to reside in. just as I predicted, the Blizzard was caused by a massive thunderstorm bearing down on the rest of the city.

"Where are we going?" Elliot U-7825 asked After about an hour and a half of evading the occasional police patrol.

"To a safehouse. It's just around the corner." I replied. Once I walked into the building, I was met with a brown bear sitting at the front desk, completely entranced with his phone. Seeing the preoccupied animal, I casually walked into the elevator across the lobby, and pressed the button leading to the eighteenth floor. When the door opened, I was met with the face of a Black panther.

"Good afternoon." I said while walking past him, completely disregarding my waterlogged condition. Elliot already asked numerous times why I hadn't shed the water with my P.K., although the only answer I gave him was that it would help sympathize our case. This floor was covered in red carpet, with plants lining the green colored wall. I slowly walked down the hall, resting my hand on each of the doors for a few seconds as I walked. It only took three doors for Elliot U-7825 to figure out what I was doing, but that didn't change my answer about why we were here.

"All you, Elliot Seventy-eight twenty-five." I said while handing the controls back.

"Who lives here?" He asked while pointing to the dark oak door with a brass handle.

"You're going to find out as soon as you knock, Smart one." I replied.


-=Elliot 7825 Pov=-

"Fine" I said just before rapping on the door a few times with my freezing cold knuckles. "Are you sure they're in here and It's not just residual DNA?" I asked in reference to Elliot U-0065 laying his hand on each door to precisely locate whomever he was searching for with his DNA location power.

"I'm sure they're in there, just knock again." He replied.

A few seconds after my second set of knocks, I heard a female voice shouting from the other side. I still wished I was able to learn any language just by hearing it for a few minutes, but alas, that was not the case anymore. Once the quiet footsteps reached the door, I heard a lock clicking, then another lock clicking. Five deadbolts later, and the door opened to reveal a Tan colored Vixen wearing desert camouflage pajamas.

"Uhh, cum ai ieșit din spital deja?" The Vixen asked with an eyebrow raised.

"Oh, sorry... wrong apartment." I said just before turning around.

"Elliot, așteptați!" The vixen shouted from her door.

How could this complete stranger know my name… unless. "Lycalopex Culpaeus?" I asked in an almost timid voice.

"DA, Lycalopex culpaeus. Sunt eu, Rhea. Ce sa întâmplat cu limba?" She asked while opening the door all the way, revealing that she was holding a handgun behind the door.

My response was one of uncertainty and doubt. "Nu... vor-vorbesc... limba ta." I don't speak your language.

"Elliot, you talk to her… ELLIOT!" I screamed mentally, only when I searched for the other Elliot, he was nowhere to be found within my body; The only thing I found was a mental note.

"I've decided that my life has been long enough, and yours is just beginning. I've loved, lived, explored, and roamed the galaxy in peace. You, however, have not done such things; I honestly don't know how you haven't blown your brains out by now. Anyway, during our walk, I contemplated how to give you what power I can, although the only thing I was able to give you was my physical enhancements. I'm sure you've already figured some of it our by now, but just to tell you anyway.

I've merged my soul with something you shouldn't know about, so no names. But know that this...something… Ya-know what, fuck it. I merged my soul with the Obelisk, and I'm probably dead now. That was the way we were going to gain entrance, by sacrificing our lives to gain one wish. It's basically a genie in a bottle, but with more death and stuff. I'm sure you'll know If I succeed or not in a few minutes, because if I failed, Zofia's going to kill you for sure. Good luck with the lady friend.

Yours truly: Jason Abrams."

When I stopped reading the note within my body, I found myself laying on a bed, surrounded in darkness. I tried to look at the note one more time, although I found I was no longer able to enter and exit control of my body.

"Well shit, how's that for being thrown for a loop." I mumbled while sitting up in the darkness.

"Elliot, ești bine?" Rhea asked from within the darkness. "Jacqueline la locul de muncă, chiar acum. . . Ai a trecut afară în hol. . . am tras vă în camera mea, sper că nu te superi." She said while padding closer to me.

I knew attempting any further conversation wasn't going to happen, so I laid back and stared into the pitch darkness, simply waiting to see how my fate would be determined. Rhea Kept talking to me in a gentle and quiet tone, eventually sitting on the bed next to me.

"Mă întreb dacă toate speciile tale sunt această ademenitoare." She mumbled, probably contemplating something. I simply closed my eyes and started think about the creature I cared about most, Ella Lorenza. Even though she wasn't ever real, that was who I wanted to think about if death was possibly around the corner. I remembered her laugh, her smile… Everything I loved about her. I thought about the countless times I told my story to her at night, and how she would always fall asleep on my chest; Some might call it strange, but nether of us would've care if the whole world was watching. I could almost feel her soft fur between my fingers. I could almost feel the slow rise and fall of her chest as she breathed. It felt so real, and I was happy I could still recall memories to the details I could. I knew in my thoughts of Ella, I was falling asleep, but I didn't care, I felt like I was falling asleep with my daughter in my arms, and that was enough to put a smile on my face. It seemed as if Elliot U-0065 had successfully killed, or banished, or whatever it was he planned on doing to Zoifa. That meant I was safe from her agenda.

That got me thinking though, who's to say she wasn't acting on the galaxy's best interests? Sure, she acted like a total ass twenty-four seven, but what if it was for a reason that I, nor Elliot U-0065 could see. What if there really was a race of rampant beings coming from another galaxy? What if the Iwu were real?

I awoke to the sound of rain and the sensation of Ella stirring on my chest. As usual, I absentmindedly started scratching under her chin with a few fingers. "Morning, Ella." I whispered while opening my eyes. When I looked down, something was quit off about Ella's color. She was tan... and a lot older… AND NOT ELLA.

"Bună." Rhea said with a half lidded smile while poking her head out from under the blanket.


A/N: Only the true readers will understand why Elliot U-0065's goodbye note said 'Jason Abrams'. Lemme know why you think that's the case. I'd love to hear your theory.

Reviews appreciated.