The Mighty Corrector. apologized???? Whoa! We just saw a miracle, but.
The criticism I could deal with, but I want you to SPECIFICALLY apologize
for calling me a chimp, and for saying I'm not a Digimon..
AAAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!!!! Damn fireworks. I am writing this update on the
Fourth, and I AM in the U.S. I think I should go back to Japan, but then
where'd I find other bikers to race??? Oh.. by the way. I HATE THE BAMBI
EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chapter 12 - The desert sting.
"I think that guy was referring to Orion."
"Who?" Bit asked.
"Just listen." Brad told him.
"Thank you. Anyway, Orion has been turning people into monstrous hybrids for almost a decade. Rumors are that he started this because he wanted more challenging game to hunt. He's a very skilled hunter, hence his name."
"Orion, the legendary hunter who was placed in the sky as a constellation." Jamie told the few that didn't know.
"Right, anyway.. UGH!"
Bill clutched his stomach in pain. Bit helped him stand up again.
"Thanks. Anyway, Orion's base of operations is inside of a special dome so that the different sectors are climate controlled environments."
"For the hybrids?" Tauros asked.
"Yeah."
Brad noticed that the scientist's mannerisms were starting to change.
"When I was still there, I saw him act odd. he made sure that the hybrids didn't enter sections of the environments marked off with special poles. One day, a hybrid entered a section like that, thinking there was an escape route in there. Later, Orion used his carcass as an example of why not to go there."
"It's like he was warning them." Vega noted.
"I actually found out what it was in the jungle sector he had warned about. I had entered to escape, and came across a hybrid that almost killed me. If it weren't for those poles, I'd be dead now."
"What about the poles?"
"That lone hybrid had a bracelet like item around it's wrist. When it tried to chase me past the poles, it was electrocuted. It's still alive, but I did find an escape route past it while it was unconscious."
"Sounds like he had a few 'test subjects' he wasn't proud of." Jack said.
"Maybe. I know where the base is, but how are we going to get inside?"
"I have an idea." Leena said confidently.
Outside of a large clear dome, several Zoids approached it.
Leena, this is stupid.
I agree. I CAN HARDLY FIT IN THE BERSERK FURY!!!! PLUS MY TAIL IS CRAMPED IN, AND I KEEP HITTING MY HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, if we spook Orion into thinking the Zoid Battle Committee had reason to be after him he might give up.
RAUGH!! RUGH!
Leena, we have a problem. Bill can't talk anymore.
Naomi, be a little paitent. I had to practice to talk with my wolf muzzle.
In Naomi's Gun sniper, Bill had formed an alligator's long snout. He was trying his hardest to say something.
"I. AM. TRYING. TO SAY. THERE ARE. ANTI-ZOID RIFLES. ALL AROUND THE DOME!!!!!!!" Bill yelled as he forced pronunciation.
Shit!
The Anti-Zoid rifles open fire, blasting all the Zoids out of commission. All of the hybrids get out, and begin to walk to the Dome.
"Tauros. Tauros... Come in. Dang it! I KNEW these headset communicators of Jamie's wouldn't work."
"Raugh?" Bill asked, slipping back into garbled words.
"Bill. try again."
"Sorry. Anyway, maybe it's the jamming. Orion keeps certain frequencies jammed here. There are some he doesn't jam though. Try channel 4."
Jack switches to channel four, where Tauros is shouting.
COME IN!!!!! COME IN!!!!!!!! PLEASE BE ALIVE!!!!!!!!!
Needless to say, the hybrids didn't take the shouting well.
"QUIET DOWN!!!! We were just on the wrong channel."
Oh thank God. Leena, are you all right?
Leena sweat dropped.
"Ugh! FINE! Anyway, why do we need these headsets?"
Bill said that there he can help you around security systems inside, but he has to get to the security control room to do it, and you can't all fit in there.
"WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN??????????" Leena shouted.
"HEY!!!!!" Bit yelped.
"The control room is small. Only two people can normally find room in there. Two Hybrids would have a hard time finding breathing room if they are of certain kinds."
Vega and Leena look down at their large dinosaur bodies. They also notice that neither of them have any outward signs of gender anymore. The only ways you can tell them apart are height, color, voice, or their hair.
"Point taken."
"How do we even get into the dome?"
"There are holes with bars covering them that directly link to the outside. They are only shut in case of emergencies. Even if someone's breaking in or out, he won't shut the holes otherwise. Trouble is, although a human can get past the bars easy enough, they were designed to keep the hybrids in, so."
"Only a couple of us can get in right now. Let me guess. the few that can get in will go in and open that giant door to the south." Brad said.
"You got it."
"Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" Jack said worriedly.
"Maybe because Bill can't come along. the spines on his back would get stuck."
They come to a grate. Jack climbs up the damaged wall to the grate, and gets through the bars. Then Brad goes, although he had to turn his head to the side in order to get in. Naomi squeezed through, her tail and slightly bulky frame giving her trouble. Bit and Leon tried, but their muzzles were too wide to get through.
"Looks like it's just the three of us." Naomi said.
"What's it look like in there?" Bill asked.
"A desert."
"Desert sector. Get to a large Titanium door. There should be a password lock on it. The password is Nomad."
"Got it. We'll be. HOLY!!!!!"
The three hybrids inside the dome jumped before a tail speared them. They turned to face the enemy. His skin was replaced with hardened plates of armor. His hands were hard claw-like fingers. A long scorpion tail grew from the base of his spine. He smirked at them, revealing his sharp teeth.
"I never thought I'd see the day hybrids broke IN to the dome." He said.
"What the heck are you?" Naomi wondered.
The scorpion hybrid smirked again. Then he ran his clawed fingers through his sandy black hair. The sand and a few strands of hair fell past his completely black eyes. There were no irises, just large pupils.
"Hungry."
Then the scorpion hybrid leapt twenty feet to try and grab one of them. He missed, plowing face first into a pile of sand. That gave him an idea.
"Geez. This must be one of those dangerous hybrids Bill mentioned."
Then the scorpion hybrid burrowed into the sand. With his scorpion- like body, he had the advantage now.
"Where is he?" Jack wondered.
Brad heard something move under the sand. It was heading toward Naomi. Brad tackled Naomi just as the scorpion hybrid sprang up, lashing its tail.
"What the heck? The puppy can hear me."
Brad braced himself as the scorpion hybrid leapt onto him. He was about to be stung, but there are things scorpions like more than wolves.
"Huh?"
The scorpion had stung the ground to the left of his head. Then Brad saw the hybrid eating a tarantula.
"UGH! That's just sick!!!!" Naomi said to herself.
"It's a delicacy to me." The scorpion hybrid said between bites.
"Could you keep your mouth closed? I'd rather not have spider entrails on me when I'm dead." Brad told him.
"Hmm? I don't eat that much. I was just kidding."
"YOU CALL THAT KIDDING?????" Jack said as he pointed to the wall they were on.
The wall had a large crack in it.
"If I wanted to, all three of you would be dead now. I even let the puppy hear me. You're lucky that I came across scorpion heaven this morning." The scorpion said between bites again.
"HEY!" Brad shouted.
"Scorpion heaven? EWWW!!!!!! You mean that you ate a lot of spiders today?????" Naomi said.
"Why not? Oh yeah. Still. They are tasty."
"Could you get off of me before I get covered in MORE spider guts?"
The scorpion hybrid gets off of Brad.
"I need a shower."
"There's a waterfall that leads from the forest sector into here that way." The scorpion said pointing toward something sparkling in the distance.
"Uh. Thanks?"
The four hybrids head toward the waterfall.
"Why are you following us?" Naomi asked the scorpion.
"You're cute."
Naomi pictured little kids part demi-human dinosaur, and part demi- human scorpion. That didn't go well with her.
"I already have a boyfriend."
Brad also growled at the scorpion.
"Kidding! Kidding. Geez."
They arrived at the waterfall. There were several hybrids there. Mostly desert lizard hybrids, but also a few tarantula and wasp hybrids. The clothes they had when they changed were torn, stretched, and tattered, but still functional. Each hybrid was different in some way from the others. Instance. one Tarantula hybrid had two large fangs jutting out of its mouth, where another one's teeth were sharper. It was obvious Orion was still perfecting his technique when he changed them.
"WHAT THE????"
"WHERE THOSE THREE COME FROM?????"
"AND WHAT THE HECK ARE THEY DOING WITH RYAN??????"
The hybrids were murmuring to each other. Ryan, the scorpion hybrid, immediately was angered.
"ENOUGH!!!!!!"
That shut them up.
"Good. Anyway, these hybrids broke IN to the dome. I don't know why, but I doubt it's to sell cookies."
It was quiet enough to hear the wasp-hybrids buzzing.
"That wasn't funny." Jack told Ryan.
"Anyway, we need to get to the door out of this sector, so." Naomi started.
"No can do. Orion changed the password on it after a dung beetle hybrid found out the password was Nomad. Orion was bowled over by the disgruntled gal. That's when he asked me to punish her."
"What did? Never-mind. Does anyone know the current password?"
Silence again.
"No, but he always has the password relate to the environment. It could take forever to guess, though. You can try the forest or oceanic sector. The forest is up the waterfall and beyond a grate, while the ocean zone is down the river."
"Thanks."
Then the three prepare to make a choice.
YOU CHOOSE WHERE THEY GO THIS TIME!!!!!!!!!! In the reviews, pick either forest or beach. The one with the most by the time I decide to make the update is the one I'll use. What a way to top off a longer than normal chapter.
Chapter 12 - The desert sting.
"I think that guy was referring to Orion."
"Who?" Bit asked.
"Just listen." Brad told him.
"Thank you. Anyway, Orion has been turning people into monstrous hybrids for almost a decade. Rumors are that he started this because he wanted more challenging game to hunt. He's a very skilled hunter, hence his name."
"Orion, the legendary hunter who was placed in the sky as a constellation." Jamie told the few that didn't know.
"Right, anyway.. UGH!"
Bill clutched his stomach in pain. Bit helped him stand up again.
"Thanks. Anyway, Orion's base of operations is inside of a special dome so that the different sectors are climate controlled environments."
"For the hybrids?" Tauros asked.
"Yeah."
Brad noticed that the scientist's mannerisms were starting to change.
"When I was still there, I saw him act odd. he made sure that the hybrids didn't enter sections of the environments marked off with special poles. One day, a hybrid entered a section like that, thinking there was an escape route in there. Later, Orion used his carcass as an example of why not to go there."
"It's like he was warning them." Vega noted.
"I actually found out what it was in the jungle sector he had warned about. I had entered to escape, and came across a hybrid that almost killed me. If it weren't for those poles, I'd be dead now."
"What about the poles?"
"That lone hybrid had a bracelet like item around it's wrist. When it tried to chase me past the poles, it was electrocuted. It's still alive, but I did find an escape route past it while it was unconscious."
"Sounds like he had a few 'test subjects' he wasn't proud of." Jack said.
"Maybe. I know where the base is, but how are we going to get inside?"
"I have an idea." Leena said confidently.
Outside of a large clear dome, several Zoids approached it.
Leena, this is stupid.
I agree. I CAN HARDLY FIT IN THE BERSERK FURY!!!! PLUS MY TAIL IS CRAMPED IN, AND I KEEP HITTING MY HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, if we spook Orion into thinking the Zoid Battle Committee had reason to be after him he might give up.
RAUGH!! RUGH!
Leena, we have a problem. Bill can't talk anymore.
Naomi, be a little paitent. I had to practice to talk with my wolf muzzle.
In Naomi's Gun sniper, Bill had formed an alligator's long snout. He was trying his hardest to say something.
"I. AM. TRYING. TO SAY. THERE ARE. ANTI-ZOID RIFLES. ALL AROUND THE DOME!!!!!!!" Bill yelled as he forced pronunciation.
Shit!
The Anti-Zoid rifles open fire, blasting all the Zoids out of commission. All of the hybrids get out, and begin to walk to the Dome.
"Tauros. Tauros... Come in. Dang it! I KNEW these headset communicators of Jamie's wouldn't work."
"Raugh?" Bill asked, slipping back into garbled words.
"Bill. try again."
"Sorry. Anyway, maybe it's the jamming. Orion keeps certain frequencies jammed here. There are some he doesn't jam though. Try channel 4."
Jack switches to channel four, where Tauros is shouting.
COME IN!!!!! COME IN!!!!!!!! PLEASE BE ALIVE!!!!!!!!!
Needless to say, the hybrids didn't take the shouting well.
"QUIET DOWN!!!! We were just on the wrong channel."
Oh thank God. Leena, are you all right?
Leena sweat dropped.
"Ugh! FINE! Anyway, why do we need these headsets?"
Bill said that there he can help you around security systems inside, but he has to get to the security control room to do it, and you can't all fit in there.
"WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN??????????" Leena shouted.
"HEY!!!!!" Bit yelped.
"The control room is small. Only two people can normally find room in there. Two Hybrids would have a hard time finding breathing room if they are of certain kinds."
Vega and Leena look down at their large dinosaur bodies. They also notice that neither of them have any outward signs of gender anymore. The only ways you can tell them apart are height, color, voice, or their hair.
"Point taken."
"How do we even get into the dome?"
"There are holes with bars covering them that directly link to the outside. They are only shut in case of emergencies. Even if someone's breaking in or out, he won't shut the holes otherwise. Trouble is, although a human can get past the bars easy enough, they were designed to keep the hybrids in, so."
"Only a couple of us can get in right now. Let me guess. the few that can get in will go in and open that giant door to the south." Brad said.
"You got it."
"Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" Jack said worriedly.
"Maybe because Bill can't come along. the spines on his back would get stuck."
They come to a grate. Jack climbs up the damaged wall to the grate, and gets through the bars. Then Brad goes, although he had to turn his head to the side in order to get in. Naomi squeezed through, her tail and slightly bulky frame giving her trouble. Bit and Leon tried, but their muzzles were too wide to get through.
"Looks like it's just the three of us." Naomi said.
"What's it look like in there?" Bill asked.
"A desert."
"Desert sector. Get to a large Titanium door. There should be a password lock on it. The password is Nomad."
"Got it. We'll be. HOLY!!!!!"
The three hybrids inside the dome jumped before a tail speared them. They turned to face the enemy. His skin was replaced with hardened plates of armor. His hands were hard claw-like fingers. A long scorpion tail grew from the base of his spine. He smirked at them, revealing his sharp teeth.
"I never thought I'd see the day hybrids broke IN to the dome." He said.
"What the heck are you?" Naomi wondered.
The scorpion hybrid smirked again. Then he ran his clawed fingers through his sandy black hair. The sand and a few strands of hair fell past his completely black eyes. There were no irises, just large pupils.
"Hungry."
Then the scorpion hybrid leapt twenty feet to try and grab one of them. He missed, plowing face first into a pile of sand. That gave him an idea.
"Geez. This must be one of those dangerous hybrids Bill mentioned."
Then the scorpion hybrid burrowed into the sand. With his scorpion- like body, he had the advantage now.
"Where is he?" Jack wondered.
Brad heard something move under the sand. It was heading toward Naomi. Brad tackled Naomi just as the scorpion hybrid sprang up, lashing its tail.
"What the heck? The puppy can hear me."
Brad braced himself as the scorpion hybrid leapt onto him. He was about to be stung, but there are things scorpions like more than wolves.
"Huh?"
The scorpion had stung the ground to the left of his head. Then Brad saw the hybrid eating a tarantula.
"UGH! That's just sick!!!!" Naomi said to herself.
"It's a delicacy to me." The scorpion hybrid said between bites.
"Could you keep your mouth closed? I'd rather not have spider entrails on me when I'm dead." Brad told him.
"Hmm? I don't eat that much. I was just kidding."
"YOU CALL THAT KIDDING?????" Jack said as he pointed to the wall they were on.
The wall had a large crack in it.
"If I wanted to, all three of you would be dead now. I even let the puppy hear me. You're lucky that I came across scorpion heaven this morning." The scorpion said between bites again.
"HEY!" Brad shouted.
"Scorpion heaven? EWWW!!!!!! You mean that you ate a lot of spiders today?????" Naomi said.
"Why not? Oh yeah. Still. They are tasty."
"Could you get off of me before I get covered in MORE spider guts?"
The scorpion hybrid gets off of Brad.
"I need a shower."
"There's a waterfall that leads from the forest sector into here that way." The scorpion said pointing toward something sparkling in the distance.
"Uh. Thanks?"
The four hybrids head toward the waterfall.
"Why are you following us?" Naomi asked the scorpion.
"You're cute."
Naomi pictured little kids part demi-human dinosaur, and part demi- human scorpion. That didn't go well with her.
"I already have a boyfriend."
Brad also growled at the scorpion.
"Kidding! Kidding. Geez."
They arrived at the waterfall. There were several hybrids there. Mostly desert lizard hybrids, but also a few tarantula and wasp hybrids. The clothes they had when they changed were torn, stretched, and tattered, but still functional. Each hybrid was different in some way from the others. Instance. one Tarantula hybrid had two large fangs jutting out of its mouth, where another one's teeth were sharper. It was obvious Orion was still perfecting his technique when he changed them.
"WHAT THE????"
"WHERE THOSE THREE COME FROM?????"
"AND WHAT THE HECK ARE THEY DOING WITH RYAN??????"
The hybrids were murmuring to each other. Ryan, the scorpion hybrid, immediately was angered.
"ENOUGH!!!!!!"
That shut them up.
"Good. Anyway, these hybrids broke IN to the dome. I don't know why, but I doubt it's to sell cookies."
It was quiet enough to hear the wasp-hybrids buzzing.
"That wasn't funny." Jack told Ryan.
"Anyway, we need to get to the door out of this sector, so." Naomi started.
"No can do. Orion changed the password on it after a dung beetle hybrid found out the password was Nomad. Orion was bowled over by the disgruntled gal. That's when he asked me to punish her."
"What did? Never-mind. Does anyone know the current password?"
Silence again.
"No, but he always has the password relate to the environment. It could take forever to guess, though. You can try the forest or oceanic sector. The forest is up the waterfall and beyond a grate, while the ocean zone is down the river."
"Thanks."
Then the three prepare to make a choice.
YOU CHOOSE WHERE THEY GO THIS TIME!!!!!!!!!! In the reviews, pick either forest or beach. The one with the most by the time I decide to make the update is the one I'll use. What a way to top off a longer than normal chapter.