Wheeee! Episode 4. Please R+R.
Tigers tracking sensor is not as good as Luchs's, but in my story, she still has one...
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( Buhhmm, Buhhmm.) Tiger's Maiden Circuit activated. She sat bolt upright. She couldn't feel any more pain in her leg. She grabbed the de-activator off of her forehead, and got off the table.
"Master Faust! Where are you?" she cried out. He couldn't hear her...

The maniacal Doctor Hess held Young Faust in the vice-like grip. He was now gagged with a black cloth and his hands were tied with a quite sturdy piece of rope. The lift shaft was obviously quite long, as they had been going down for a few minutes now.
"Do you know what we're doing... ten?" Hess grimaced. "Well I'll tell you," he droned on about the operation and how memories would be implanted into his mind and how he will be the new ruler of Gartlant.
"Why is all this happening? Why am I being subjected to this? Tiger... please help me!" The young boy wondered as the lift came to a stop.
"C'mon tenth. Lets go." Hess shoved him out of the lift and down a dimly lit passage. Just after they exited the lift, Hess put his thumb on a small section of wall.
(Security measures disengaged.) Hess had deactivated all of the security systems in the passage to allow them access.
There were small lights set at regular intervals along the ceiling. After they had walked for a few minutes, they reached the end of the passage and Hess put his thumb on another section of wall.
(Security system re-engaged.) Came the systems voice.
"We don't want any interruptions, do we?" Hess laughed out loud as they went through a large door. It slid shut behind them and the laughter of Doctor Hess, still echoed through the passage.

Tiger cried out in confusion.
"LORD FAUST! WHERE ARE YOU? MASTER...?!" she activated her tracking sensor. Her vision went blue. She set her sensor to locate any trace of her beloved master. She saw footprints. They glowed red under the gaze of her sensor.
"THERE!" she whispered. She followed the trail of prints to a lift. She pressed the button.
"COME ON!" she shouted as the lift door opened slowly. She stepped in and hit the down button. The doors leisurely closed behind her and the lift began its slow descent to the basement level, where Hess had taken Faust. The decent was too slow for her liking, but if she had jumped down, it would have meant her demise.
As the lift neared the end of its long journey, a lone tear worked its way down her cheek.
"If they hurt a hair on his head... I'll!" she thought.
(CLANK) The lift reached the bottom of the shaft and the doors opened. Tiger stepped out boldly. Unaware that security measures were in place along the corridor. She ran down the first part of the corridor. Spikes shot up from the floor and down from the ceiling. She saw them and neatly dived under and over them. She sped along the corridor as a chasm opened up under her, she pulled out her whip as she fell and cracked it perfectly so it wrapped around an overhead light fitting. She heaved herself up and out of the chasm and into the corridor again. She put away her whip and continued. She ran through the long corridor as the ceiling above her started to descend on her. She ran as far as she could before dropping to her knees and quickly crawling along. She was flat on her chest and out the other side as the ceiling connected with the floor.
"No turning back now... Don't worry Lord Faust, I'm coming." she ran further. She narrowly avoided a blade of light that sprang from the floor like an upside down guillotine. She jumped them in a constant rhythm and found herself at a large door. She stopped to catch her breath for a minute.
"That was like the assault course today... coincidence." her breath came out in raged gasps as she heard a scream.
"HELP ME! TIGER! WHERE ARE YOU?!" came a frightened voice.

Tiger tried the door, locked. She bunched her hand into a fist and punched it right off its hinges. She found herself in a small room. The room was dark apart from a few wall fixtures. The floor was covered with wires and various sockets, and in the centre of the room, was a large machine, which had a chair set into it. Dr Hess was positioned behind a large machine and young Lord Faust. The older Faust stood near the centrepiece and was smiling.
"YOUNG MASTER!" Tiger called out as she ran towards him. Older Faust's arm appeared in front of her. She stopped and looked in horror as the machine started. Dr Hess pressed a few buttons on the machine he was operating. The chair-machine started. Lights flashed on and off around the room as a large magnifier type thing lowered itself in front of young Faust's face.
"TIGER!" he choked. "TIGEEEEERRR! AGHHHH!" he screamed as his body was jolted with electricity. Tiger was horrified by this treatment of her master. She tried to get through again.
"Tiger... stop." the older Faust commanded.
"Fuhrer..." she started. He scowled at her.
"Keep quiet you worthless puppet!" he growled. She then remembered what young Faust had said to her in the flower garden, near the pond.
"NO FUHRER" she said.
"WHAT? YOU DARE TO DISOBAY ME?" he shouted.
"Sorry Lord Faust... but harm must not come to the young master." she almost cried as she said the words, but she forced her way past the furious Fuhrer and to where Dr Hess was furiously twiddling dials. She picked him up by the neck.
"You hurt my master... I CAN NOT FORGIVE YOU!" with that, she hurled him across the room where his neck impacted with a wall and snapped like a twig. She ripped the machine out of the floor and crushed it between her palms. She was like an enraged demon. She destroyed all the equipment in the room as Fuhrer Faust watched in horror as the memory implantation room was totalled. Lastly, she leapt over to the chair machine and gently picked her beloved master out of it. He was bordering on unconsciousness. She turned to leave.
"T...Tiger... you came for me.... thank...you..." he whispered as he lapsed into a dreamless sleep. Tiger cried as she carried him to the exit. She found her way blocked by Fuhrer Faust.
"What do you think your doing?" he said. "Do you know what you've done?"
"Yes Fuhrer." she replied, stroking the boys hair. "I know..." she tried to walk around him. She was blocked again.
"Why are you doing this?" he growled at Tiger.
She closed her eyes and in her mind she saw young Faust's smiling visage. She opened them.
"Because he's my master..." she replied. Faust looked at her with contempt in his dreadful eyes.
"I am your master." he sneered. "Obey me..."
"I cannot. He is my only master now." she hugged the sleeping boy and walked foreword.
The older Faust pulled out a dagger and thrust at her.
"If you will not obey me... YOU WILL DIE!" he screamed as he launched his attack. Tiger dodged the attack and leapt across the room. She put her young master down behind a piece of machinery and faced her former master.
"Don't make me do this..." she breathed. "All I want to do is leave here." The older Faust sneered.
"You have to go through me first..." he cried as he launched another attack. He slashed at her. She attempted to grab his hand, but she misjudged his attack and the dagger caught her across the palm of her hand. She clutched at her hand in pain as he attacked again. This time she was ready, she flipped over his head and landed behind him. Faust swung round and made a small gash on her exposed midriff.
"Hahahaha!" Faust laughed as he slashed again. His laugh fell short as Tiger grabbed his wrist. He swung with his other hand, but she caught that as well.
"I told you to let me leave... are you going to let me go now?" she struggled against his might.
"Never, you'll have to kill me!" he growled. She held his wrists and kicked him with both feet. He fell backwards and onto the floor. The dagger sliding away from him, making small sparks and scraping noises. She drew her whip-sword, and extended the blade to become a dagger.
"You wouldn't dare!" screeched Fuhrer Faust. Tiger advanced on him, tears in her eyes.
"You WERE my master... yet you hurt my master... Forgive me, my Lord." she struck out and the old Faust was no more. His black heart had been pierced by one of his own generals.

Tiger ran back to where she had placed the young boy. He was still unconscious. She picked him up and walked out of the room. She walked through the now deserted corridor and into the lift. The journey seemed shorter this time and the lift finally reached the top. She exited the lift and out of the factory.
As they went out into the fresh air, young Faust began to stir. He awoke and looked at Tiger with tears in his eyes.
"T... Tiger..." he whispered to her. She looked at him. "Thank you..." she stroked his hair lovingly.
"Rest my Lord... you need It." she sighed.
"Tiger... could you please stop for a moment?" he asked.
"Yes master." she put him down and they sat against a tree.
"Tiger, your hurt... here." Faust ripped the bottom of his shirt off.
"Don't concern yourself master..." she started to say as he put a finger to her lips.
"Like I said before... its no trouble." he sighed as he tied it around the gash on her stomach. Then he tore off one of his sleeves and tied it around the cut on her palm. "Lets rest here for a while.."
"Yes... I think it's well needed." Tiger's eyes started to water as she looked at her master.
"Hey now. What's wrong?" he said in a soothing tone. She picked up his hand and held it in her own.
"I... I, I had to k... kill the Fuhrer." she wept. "He forced me to... but, I... did as you instructed and I disobeyed him." she cried as he hugged her. "Why do I feel s... such pain?"
"Its natural. If you cared for him, its only natural that you feel the pain of the loss." Faust comforted her for a while, then got up and offered him his hand.
"I suppose we'd better get back to the palace..." Tiger took his hand and he helped her up. "As the Fuhrer is dead... I guess that makes me Fuhrer."
They slowly walked hand in hand back to the palace, and to destiny.
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Right. Now things have gotten strange. I will continue the story, because I love the alternate future that will happen.
R+R please.
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