Hello again, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for sticking with me for these past few chapters, I promise it's gonna get better from here. I'm very excited about this story, thanks to all of you out there who have reviewed me.  I'm going to take this opportunity, to warn those of you who decide to stick with this until the end that the last chapter *will* be rated R. So, please to be prepared, I'm gonna have a bit of a disclaimer at the beginning of the last chapter anyway, but I just thought I'd let you guys know. I would also like to take this opportunity to plug Daytime11:05's story again, "Trust and Love" It's a good read, kind of the opposite genre of mine, but good nonetheless.   Thanks for listening to me ramble on, and thank you for your patience.  Please Read and Review. 

Chapter 8

Cold, unerring calculations surged throughout Omega's mind as he adjusted his ship to better enter into the Earth's burning atmosphere as he punched a hole through it with his ship.  Flames licked the jet-black hull of his ship as it roared across the Earth's upper-atmosphere. He felt the heat of daylight upon his ship…his skin…and then, quite suddenly, it was gone as his ship crossed hemispheres.  The evil experiment's craft began to descend lower and lower, to the point of nearly skimming over the ocean. The great speed of his craft was causing a huge wake behind him.  Land finally materialized into view, and his mental database confirmed the sight ahead of him as the objective. He strengthened the hull of the ship with his own body and braced himself for the crash.

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            A roaring sound awoke a little creature of the Hawaiian forest. He stretched his hind legs out…yawned a bit…and sighed tiredly as he awoke from his deep, relaxing sleep. He was pretty hungry…what should he go to get some now? That roaring sound was getting louder.  Unfortunately, the baser instincts in this animal outweighed his curiosity, and he was about to go in search of food, when suddenly, the world came crashing down upon his small amphibian body…

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Omega felt trees being ripped out of the ground by his ship as it raced toward the ground. What trees weren't torn from the ground by their roots were immediately set ablaze by his ship's super-heated hull.  He felt the hard impact of his ship slamming into the ground, uprooting even more trees, and sending rocks and dirt everywhere.

After the dust settled, Omega let himself withdraw from his ship to the outside of it, from where he could survey the damage to the surrounding area.  A line of scorched earth led to where his ship was sitting, flaming trees bordered the scorched area with a beautiful wall of fire.  He smiled to himself.  This was the start of a most wonderful night…

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Omega immediately activated his internal scanners and scanned for any experiments in the near area. He realized that his ship dragging along the forest floor had brought him to nearly the other side of the island…and what else would be on an island's edge than a lighthouse?  Experiment 221 was detected immediately by him.  He concentrated hard, and turned into a black feline-like creature. However, it had six legs, three tails, and…no eyes. It was about the size of an Earth cheetah, but twice as fast. He covered the distance between himself and the lighthouse extremely quickly.  He broke the door down with his form's large body and scaled the stairs to the very top, where his scanners indicated 221 was.  Omega shifted into his favored form once more, and called out for 221.

"Experiment 221? I have a message for you…"

            Sparky turned back into a tangible form and approached this strange new experiment. Who was this? And what was he doing in the lighthouse? Suddenly, and without warning, 221 found himself enclosed in a ball of rubber. 221 screamed…He was trapped! Sparky began trying to escape the walls of his rubber prison.  Omega had transformed himself into a ball of rubber to trap 221. Slowly, agonizingly slowly, Omega began reducing the size of the space within, effectively, he was crushing 221 to death.  Omega projected his thoughts into 221's feeble, panicking mind,

"You are imperfect; therefore, you must not be allowed to exist."

There was a sudden thrashing about, within the ever-tightening confines of the prison that Omega had created around 221, followed by a sudden silence…Omega scanned for life-signs…None were found.  Omega turned back into his favored form and surveyed the land around him from the tower.  Omega strode slowly down the stairs of the tower, and of the door. He was going to take his time and savor killing the rest, he thought.  He was in no rush anymore…  Omega took one last look back upon the tower, now dark and lifeless.  Never again would its light guide those in need.  Its darkness, however, signaled a message of a different sort…the beginning of the end.