Disclaimer: Hehe I have James Denton (Lyle) on my desktop. That is the only thing that I have that has anything to do with The Pretender. (I know I am bad for not having my whole room covered in it but the posters cost so much!) So obviously I don't own them. No infringement is intended. (I learn so much from fan fics… like what infringement means!) Please don't so. (It's not worth your time)

A/N Hehe (I am just in a laughing sort of mood tonight) I want to thank everyone who has been reviewing. You help me out a lot with my writing and it just makes my day knowing that someone out there likes my stuff. Haha (there I go again laughing) I am gonna keep this a/n short cause I have three theories for you guys this time.

P.S sorry that this took so long to update guys. You see my puter decided it hated me and after about thirty min. of working on it the screen would go black and I had to turn it off for like two hours until it decided to forgive me. I thought that it was a virus so I downloaded AVG and it found seven viruses and healed them but my puter still got mad at me and would turn off. I don't know what is wrong with it but I figured out that if I do not scream at it, sing to my music, pound on it, or get mad then it will stay on, but it is still teasing me by makin the screen darken and then brighten. So fyi this chapter should have been up a week ago. I am sorry please forgive me.

Theory of the chapter # 1: You can not begin to understand someone until you understand that you don't understand them at all. -me (Pretender Fanatic)

Theory of the chapter # 2: Sometimes adults need to keep child like traits such as humbleness - also by me (Pretender Fanatic)

Theory of the chapter #3 (one more to go) - Truth? What is the truth, eh? Just a pack o' lies made up by otherbeasts so you'll believe 'em. - Written by Brain Jacques (not mine) said by Nimbalo (also not mine) In the book Taggerung (I didn't write it but it is a good book. Brian Jacques wrote it)

A/n now on to the story!! Attack… go for the throats!! Heheh (more laughter) Sorry that I did not get this up sooner but I could not decide on who I wanted captured and when so… but you guys understand! *smiles*

10:00 PM

In Front of Takara's house

George Hill Rd.

Blue Cove, Delaware

Jarod saw Lyle hit Kara over the head. %There was no way that I can get out of here with Kara being unconscious. I can get out of here now and save her later or I could get caught and get us both out of The Center later on. I would have a better chance getting her out with me on the outside because I don't know for sure where they are taking her. % Jarod choose the former and started running. If he took his car than they would try to run him off the road and end up hurting people. This way he had a better chance of getting out of here in on piece. The sweepers sat there looking dumb.

"Don't just stand there! Get him!" Lyle yelled for a few yards away. Some sweepers started running, others got into their cars hoping to cut Jarod off somewhere, still others stayed and fired their weapons. Lyle saw Jarod stumble and a heard a sweeper announce that he had shot him in the thigh. Lyle smiled knowing that Jarod would leave a blood trail and that he could not cover it up that easily.

Jarod stumbled but kept his balance. His face contorted in pain but he continued to run. He knew someone who could keep him safe near by. He just had to get two blocks. Suddenly a black car sped around the corner in front of Jarod. He grunted in pain as he changed directions. He stumbled through an alley and around the back of a building, hoping to throw the sweepers off his trail. He ran into the building and out the other side. %Only one more block to go % He ran down the street in full view. His leg started to cramp on him and he knew that he could not make it very much farther. Just when he thought that he could not go any farther and that The Center just might get him back, he rounded the corner to run slap-bang into his friend.

"Jarod!?"

"Hey long time no see Josh," Jarod joked weakly.

"What happened to you man you look horrible!?"

"Let's just saw that some people are after me. No time to explain. We need to get out of here and somewhere safe," Jarod gasped while trying to regain his breath.

"Ok let's go to my house. Do you think that you could make it that far?" Josh asked seeing the big bloody mess that was now Jarod's leg.

Jarod started to limp rather quickly. "I guess I'm gonna have to."

The two men walked rather oddly (Josh is only a few inches shorter than Jarod) to a house five driveways away. Josh opened the door and Jarod staggered in. Jarod closed the door and locked it. He slid down with his back against the door still breathing heavily. Josh paced in front of Jarod wringing his hands, not sure what to do to help his friend. Finally Jarod caught his breath somewhat and asked Josh if he had some pliers and a bottle of painkillers and some towels. Josh returned moments later with the stuff. Jarod took the bottle of Ibuprofen and swallowed half of the bottle.

"Hey man are you sure you should do that?" Josh asked worriedly while running his fingers through his short spiky brown hair nervously.

"It won't hurt me. It will only feel tingly." Jarod mumbled as he inspected the wound on the side of his lower thigh. Jarod leaned back against the door waiting for the painkillers to do their work. Fifteen minutes later he picked up the pliers and went to work. He put the towel in his mouth and bite down hard. Then he put the pliers into the hole in his leg and fished out the bullet. He pulled it out and quickly took the towel out of his mouth and put it on his wound.

"Do you have something I can use to keep this on?" asked Jarod nodding towards the towel rapped around his leg. Josh got up disappeared. He came back holding a roll of gauze. Jarod rapped his leg and got up to limp over to Josh's couch.

"So who shot you?" Asked Josh wanting to know the whole story behind this. % he deserves to know I should tell him. After all if it were not for him I would be back at The Center right now. %

"Josh my last name is not Kindler and I am not really a cop"

12:00 Midnight

Sim Lab

The Center

Blue Cove Delaware

Takara awoke with the sense that someone was close to her, too close. She opened her eyes, and there was Lyle inches away from her face. She turned away in disgust the greedy look on his face.

Lyle backed away. "Welcome back to the world of the living."

"Kara stared at him. "I know you," she said completely puzzled as to how she had seen him in her dreams. The grin that was on Lyle's face quickly dissipated and was replaced with a look of anger.

"You weren't supposed to remember."

"Remember what exactly?" Kara asked in a tone that said she remembered 'it' but not all of 'it'.

Lyle's grin returned at this statement. "You are a pretender, a genius that can become whatever or whoever you want to be. We kidnapped you one night, and injected you with wolf chromosomes. We wanted to see what would happen. We had to you back seeing as being in an unnatural environment would have ruined the experiment. Now that you are fully transformed we kidnapped you again, for good."

"How can you tell that I am completely mutated?" Lyle handed Kara a mirror. Kara looked at herself in he mirror and to her horror her normal dark brown eyes were now yellow, like a wolf's eye. The teeth beside her three front teeth were also different. They were pointed slightly. They were not any longer than the rest of her teeth, just sharper. While she was asleep they had cut her hair and now she had short spiky hair that would not get in her face. To her surprise her hair also had a hint of red in it, just like the hide of a wolf. She looked at her hands and she now had thick nails that were now longer short.

"So what do you want with me? You must have a reason for doin this." Lyle looked at Kara and his grin widened.

"I don't think that I should tell you that… at least not yet."

"Huh where have I heard that before?"

"First you will do some test for us. If we think for a second that you are not trying your hardest you will be punished… severely." With that Lyle walked out of the room. Kara was lead out shortly after into another room full of exercise equipment.

Four hours later

Sim lab 201 (Set to look like a forest)

The Center

Blue Cove, Delaware

Kara crouched on all fours behind a large oak tree. The crackle dried leaves being crushed under foot reached her ears. She sniffed the air and caught the faint scent of a human. % What? A human!? Since when have I called my own species human? % She had little more time to think as the hairs on the back of her neck rose. She crouched farther down, ready to pounce. An object passed an she leaped onto it's back she sensed another human behind her and she quickly revoked her attack and jumped to the side using the guy in front of her as a push off point. She landed softly on all fours and took stock of her situation two men with guns stood before her. % Can't mess with guns % She ran behind the closest tree and scaled it. With out missing a beat she grabbed one of the men and hit him over the head. She lowered him to the ground and ran a few feet to her right. Just had just reached a clump of bushes when the guys that was still conscious turned around to see her and opened fire. Kara jumped at the sound of the gun but kept her cool. She rolled into a depression. She continued her roll until she got behind another tree undetected. The man walked over to the depression where Kara had disappeared. When he passed the tree Kara's leg shot out and gave him a resounding crack in the ribs. He fell to the floor groaning and Kara relieved him of his gun. Seconds later the lights turned on to blind Kara. She shook her head a few times and her vision cleared. Before her stood Dr. Bo who had put her through all of these tests.

"Very good Takara."

"Huh" Kara looked around not interested in what the doctor was saying about her and her abilities. The whole place was one big simulated forest. % I wouldn't mind if this was where they kept me. Lots of room to run and waste energy. % Of course Kara knew that they would not keep her here. It would be too hard to catch her if she did not want to be caught. The doctor finished his rambling and ordered the dudes in decked out in black to take her to her new room. Before they did thought the doctor had one more test for her.

"Kara I want you to read this file. It is the file of a psychotic killer. I want you to become him and tell me what and how he thinks. I will let you go to your room while you study it but I will have my assistant, Kenya, come and monitor you. Do you think that you can do this?"

Kara gave him a look. "What? Zoning out? Yeah I can do it." Kara liked Dr. Bo. If you saw him on the streets you would not think of a doctor. He had muscles that Kara was sure he had to work hard for. His glasses were small and round. He was about five eleven and had short black hair. % I bet that he was able to smile at one time or another % Kara thought. With that Kara was lead out of the room and down the hall to a small cell like room. She walked in with a young lady about the age of twenty and the sweepers shut the door.

Ten Minutes later

Kara's New Room

The Center

Blue Cove, Delaware



"Concentrate Kara. Become the killer. Imagine him as if he were in your body."

Kara's eyes focussed and she looked up to stare at Kenya. "Shut up."

"Excuse me?"

"Look you want me to do this zoning out thing and I think I know how, but you have to shut up. I can't do anything with you chatterin away."

Kenya walked over to the other side of the room in a huff and sat down. Kara sat in the corner farthest away from the door, her legs Indian style. Once Kenya walked over to the other side of the room Kara's eyes unfocussed again and she stared at a spot just a touch below and to the right of straight in front of her.

Kara let her mind wonder again. She had this killer or who ever he was already figured out. She wanted to make sure that she did it right though so she digged deeper into his personality. She kinda felt sorry for this guy. He knew what he was doing was wrong but he was desperate. Just as Kara was about to let her mind wonder back out of the world that she had created for this man She heard a beep and almost jumped out of her skin, and Lyle walked in to the room.

% haha little does he no that the best way to get me in a bad mood is snapping me out of zoning out like that instead of lettin me come out of it myself. Then to top it off having a door that makes noises like an alarm clock I bound to irritate me as well. % Lyle walked over to Kara.

"Did you try your hardest on the test?" He asked as if scolding a young child.

"Well considering it was a lose lose situation I'd like to think I tried my hardest."

"Well I am going to go get the reports now so we shall see won't we?" Lyle walked out of the room with Kenya following. As soon as they left Kara burst out laughing. She did not know why but Kenya had the oddest look on her face when Kara had told her to shut up and now she was in a huff.

5:00 am

Dr. Bo's office

The Center

Blue Cove, Delaware

Lyle strutted into Dr. Bo's office flanked by four sweepers.

"So Dr. what are your results about Kara?" Bo pulled out a file and handed it to Lyle While Lyle skimmed over it Bo stated more in depth about what was inside the file.

"Kara's bones have gotten lighter as well as stronger. Her muscles can endure more. She has more energy, and agility as well as sharpened senses. Her toes have become longer to enable her to have more balance. Her leg bones have shortened to enable her to stay in a crouch longer with little to no cramping in quads. Her blood vessels have also gone deeper into her body to keep her warmer. Her love for animals has made the transformation easier, because without realizing it she has been siming animals as well as humans all her life. Any time that she wondered what they thought she would go into sim mode. There are some side affects too. Her temper is bound to be short at all times. We are lucky that she is very patient to being with. Her blood has also been messed up. She will get light headed very easily and will feel the pain of gravity starting at the estimate of 100 ft. This well make riding in planes difficult, but we think that if she is able to reach a state of semi consciousness by her on free will while in the plane she will be fine for the most part."

Lyle looked up at the end of the report.

"Is that all"

Dr. Bo nodded

"Yes sir"

"Fine then. Let's go."

Lyle walked out of the room with the sweepers following like do anything for love, ankle biter puppies.

Midnight

Josh's house

Maple Nut Drive

Blue Cove, Delaware

"Ok so you are a genius and when you were young people from a secret organization called The Center kidnapped you and exploited your abilities for profits? When you found out you escaped and now you are on the run from them? Huh huh wow, that is… weird."

Just then Jarod's cell phone rang. Jarod answered to find Argyle on the other line.

"Hey man, It is late where are you?"

"Huh ran into a little trouble, Argyle I need you to bring me my stuff. Don't use my duffel bag. Throw that one out. Check out and come to 463 Maple Nut Drive. Then I want to you to go home."

"Hey J-man if you're in some trouble I can help."

"Just bring me my stuff then you can hear the full story. OH and Argyle, please don't look too conspicuous.

Jarod hung up his phone and turned back to Josh who was pacing once more, his hard muscular body moving smoothly back and forth across the floor.

"So what do you do now?"

"We wait."

A/n ok guys please read and review. (huhhuh duh you already read *smakes her self on the head*) ahhhhh!!! Dang it my screen is turning black!! And I as almost done too! Wah!!!

Two Hours later

OK so back to what I was saying before my puter went and committed suicide. *glares at the puter* I was wondering I wanted to do a Pretender Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle crossover but I was not sure whether I should have Kara involved or not. (Minimal knowledge of TMNT will be needed) I was going to do a crossover with just Jarod and the turtles but now that I have really gotten into this story I was not sure whether or not using Kara in my next fan fic would be over using her or not. So please tell me what you think about it either via e-mail or in your reviews thanx bunches. Chapie Four up soon. (I hope)