I don't own Alien Nine nor any of its characters those belong to Hitoshi Tomizawa.

When I finally woke up my head was hurting like crazy, I wondered if the others were okay and tried to recover from this spliting headache that I had gotten from I guess hitting my head or something. I looked around and noticed something was very wrong, everyone had suddenly disappeared. There was literally nothing no sound, no feeling, not even any smells. There was No , No YellowKnife, No Borg, No Miyu, and No... Yuri. None of this made any sense their was no reasonable or logical explaination for what was going on. How could this be happening, there is no way everyone could just disappear like that or that I couldn't hear,feel,or smell anything.

I began to feel scared,I had no reasoning so how could I do anything if there was no place to start with. There was nothing that I could do, I felt so scared and useless. What about Yuri? She was in danger without me who would take care of her, how would she cope with this if she was going through this to, I bet she had it worse. Atleast thats what I thought before I started to feel some unexplainable saddness and lonliness surge through my body. I couldn't think clearly.

Voices and images raced through my mind, the voices were telling me that I was alone and it told me over and over again each time sounding more and more like a familiar voice, and images of my parents started to flash infront of my eyes like a loop in a film. I tried hard to deny this all, but the voices just got louder till they were screaming "YOUR ALL ALONE!". I could feel something wet, I looked cupping my hands to catch whatever was so wet.

Little droplets fell into my palms,I wondered was it raining, was someone crying, were these Tears? Who was crying then? Were these my coming from me? Were these my tears? Was I crying? Was I the one who was crying? I began to slowly sob, then it got quicker and more tears began to come down my face. I sobbed even louder, crying louder and louder still hoping that someone, anyone would come and tell me that everything was fine. But all that came was a overwhelming wave of lonliness that engulfed me completely, I fell to the ground and cried out for my mother and father, I cried begging them not to leave me all alone, not to leave me behind, not to die and leave me with no one.

I cried as hard as I could muster shivering in a ball on the cold ground all alone with no one to comfort me or to wipe away my tears, then I heard someone call my name and bit by bit it got louder till I felt something wrap around me. It wasn't arms, but my Borg's wings which snaked around me and squeezed me tightly.

"Kumi It Isn't Like You To Cry In Situations Like This, You Aren't Alone You And Me Are Together, And We'll Be Together Till One Of Us Dies, Now Think Kumi Everyone Is Counting On You Please Don't Despair You Need To Figure This Out And Help Your Friends." He Said Assureing me that I wasn't alone in this endeavor.

I got up and wiped my tears away,"Your right Borg I can't sit here and cry I need to figure this out and help Yuri and Kasumi!"

Moving toward the computer tent that had been set up earlier and began to search through the alien encyclopedia for the Yellow Following popped up on screen:

Yellow Knife (Botanical Alien)

Most Amazing Defense Mechanisms.

Best As Food

It can directy access the brain of any species by collecting a sample and then interferes with perception.

1: collect select memory from sample's brain.

2: Broadcast as interference waves to directly interfere with species perception.

So that's what it was! It was interfering with how me and the others' perceive the things around us and now that I knew where to start I could fix this,but first I had to get Yuri. Then we could save Kasumi and get our perception how was I going to find Yuri if I can tell where she is.I pondered this for a good few minutes before my Borg chose to inform me that he could track her Borg, yeah he chose now to tell me this sometimes I wonder if this Borg is any help at all other then defending me or attacking.

Seeing as I needed to find Yuri quickly I chose to let it slide for now and ran off to find took me awhile, but me and my Borg gratefully found the lost pair. Yuri was so happy she started tearing up and clinged to my shirt saying how much she missed me and etc.

"Listen Yuri as much as I hate to break up this little moment we have to stop the Yellow Knife and save Kasumi." I said remebering our priorities at the moment.

"But How,Kumi?" she asked wiping her eyes. That was a good question I had only the slightest idea of what to do, but it was the only way even if got mad at us. We had to get rid of that Yellow Knife for Kasumi, it was for Kasumi, it was for our friend and that meant more than any alien's life no matter how much we're suppose to care about their lives too.

I pulled Yuri right behind me and lead her back up to the school roof which was still as empty as it had been when I woke up on it. I suspected that the Yellow Knife was still here too, just hiding. I felt around the spot where it was this morning, I couldn't feel it but I knew it was there and so was Kasumi. So me and Yuri began to climb what seemed like the side of the Yellow Knife, it was bigger then I thought from how long it took us to reach the top where its head should be.

I aimed two drills at its presently invisible head and shot, both drills going through with tiny drops of blood spurting out. At the exact same moment atleast for a second the Yellow Knife reappeared, "Yuri did ya' see that huh, Help me finish it off so we can see again." I shouted over to her, she hesitantly sent her drills with my own in through the alien's head. Which caused a great wave of blood to spray onto us, I felt sticky and drenched as our normal perception returned to us with that last strike.

I smiled at Yuri and she smiled back at me, "WE CAN SEE, WE CAN SEE,WE DID IT ALRIGHT!" we shouted with the most joy we could both muster after today. Having finished that part of the job we lowered ourselves back to the solid ground, now all that was left was to get Kasumi out of that thing and everything would go back to normal, Right? But like everything else in this twisted story of mine and my friends lives there was no coming back unharmed, there was no simple resolution, and there was no way out of any of this without coming out worse then ever.

Even the little thanks I would give Yuri would be only a second of joy as I headed to cut Kasumi out, again came those blobous imitations of her asking the same `WHY? KUMI?` over and over causing me to freeze in place from fright. A wave of alienous liquid burst from the dying creature's side and with it came Kasumi tumbling out, landing with a blunt `thud` onto the ground.

"Kasumi...?W-Wha..." I tried to ask as she stood up and gave me a glare of pure loathsome hate, but for what reason did she have to stare at me with those eyes that showed no sign of the friend that had only yesterday been smiling with eyes of friendly warmth. Her hair floated annd twisted into one of those transmitter antennaes, my mouth open to try and beg Kasumi but I was so scared no sound came forth. She glared at me once again and then sent soundwaves at me concentrating all of her new powers on me, it was too much the waves came at me shaking me up and scrambling my thoughts around. I fell down as she knocked my Borg off, leaving me a open target for what she did next.

She rush towards me wrapping her hands around my throat and pushing her thumbs down hard to suffocate me, my borg readied his attack toward Kasumi ready to kill her to save me and though that would be the logical thing to do. I begged with little gasps pushing as much air as I could to try and make the Borg understand why he should stop the killing... there was already too much today... too much death already please stop I begged silently as I slowly faded in and out of conciousness. I gave one final look, seeing Yuri stop the Borg and beg Kasumi to stop crying loudly for her to remeber our friendship,I can't remeber her ever being so brave heh. If things continued like this I would be the crybaby, I joked in my head as I finally gave and blacked out from lack of oxygen...

I woke up several hours later and was told by Yuri that somehow the Yellow Knife we killed exploded, and other then a concussion I would be fine tomorrow. I looked and smiled at her, gestering for her to come closer as she did I gave her a kiss. "That's for being my hero." She nearly fainted she was so red, I just laught as she stuttered nervously.

"Hey,Kumi?" She managed to say "Do you think Kasumi is gonna be alright?"

"Yeah I think she will." I said hoping it would be true, but who knows other then Kasumi. I knew worrying right now wouldn't help me or Yuri, so I shrugged it off and messed around with Yuri. From this I knew that I had to enjoy my time with Yuri and just hope that some how we would make it out of here still alright, but as I said earlier this is not a happy story we share it will always be a twisted story where all you can do is hope and try to get out with whatever... Atleast that's what I would figure out as I laid on the floor dying the very next day, with the same question still... Why?