¡OVERGROWN!

DISCLAIMER: I OWN THE THREE GAMES. I WANT THE REVAMP OF THE FIRST COMING OUT. I HAVE THE ENTIRE SERIES. BUT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES DO I OWN THE RIGHTS TO WA.

A/N: Let's break it down:

psychedelicaya: Thanks for the aplause. Though, he isn't very in character this time, or maybe he is, I'm not sure.

JayJay-Sawada : Let's hope for Todd's sake shampoo exists on Filgaia

kioke678: And you, I have nothing to respond to. I just didn't want you to be left out, so, yeah, I hope Jet gets better to. He would thank you for the concern if he was that nice.

Teefa85: Thorn's flowers? Nothing to do with his condition, but I like that. You were thinking and that makes me happy. I like it when the reader thinks. It is ironic Gallows is not really involved in anything yet that involves the plants. We'll have to fix that if we want to see him and his shotgun kick butt. I wonder what you get sick of on a desert planet anyway?

I'll be mentioning chimera a lot from here on out. Not as in the Greek chimera, but in Chemistry and Biology sense meaning compounded things and a being made of a mix of organs and such. Just a little heads up.

The morning came suddenly the next day. An all too quiet morning for what was known from the previous day. Jet's problem as well as the threats of Ryu to his colleagues. The fact that, Jet had said the theory worked. What Clive did not understand was what the theory was exactly, and whose theory was the one that worked. The scientists theory was that they could use existing plants and whatever was in the ruins to restore vegetation on the planet. Ryu's however had been that botanical beings and humans could be one and the same. Clive needed answers and so he set out just as soon as the sun rose over the mountains on the outskirts.

Virginia rested at the side of Jet's bed. Maya in her own bed. Todd, he was still busy washing his hair. Gallows passed out beside Thorn who simply watched the sun rise. Gallows had mentioned a meal to her, but he fell asleep sooner than later as the two had sat there that early morning. She was disappointed to say the least, but she didn't mind the Baskar priest leaning into her as she did into him.

Ryu Botan, now he, he was nowhere known. It could simply be said that he disappeared from the face of the planet after the argument with his fellow doctors and professors the day before. That was what worried Clive more than anything when he spoke to the man he had gained vast amounts of information from yesterday. That man apparently being the sheriff of the town and was often visiting the ruins to make sure the scientists were fine. The sheriff knew of the wanted status of the four drifters that Clive was a part of. He just did not care. He knew those four weren't trouble, at least not purposely.

One drop. Two drops. Four. Six, and then it became water. With one swift move Jet woke sending sweat flying and his left hand flew to his right shoulder. With one more quick tug he pulled the vine from his arm along with it's root and threw it to the floor. He watched it. Silently watching it. It was small. Yes, it became a bit smaller. Like it was regrouping itself and forming into a ball. It was becoming a ball. Jet moved slowly for his gun that hung by the chair near his bed. At that Virginia woke in a start.

"Jet?" He places his finger on her lips softly. His eyes narrowed.

"Don't move." He advises her. He throws his arm at his gun and directs it to the green ball on the floor. He watches it one more moment.

"What," She recalls his advice and closes her mouth. He was healthier. She was happy about that. She as well turned her attention to the plant on the floor. It still seemed a healthy green.

"Ryu Botan is an idiot." Jet ventures. At that the plant responds and forms into a small sort of plant-like animal equal to a squirrel in chimera plant sense. "Thought so." His grin flashed as did the slight light that came at the sound of his gun being fired.

Nothing. The plant keeled over. Virginia looked closer. "What was that?"

"The thing in my arm." He watches as the chimera twitches. Not the same sort Jet was used to when after death monsters still moved a bit. This was different. "Virginia!" He pulls her arm with a tug as the chimera regenerates itself and throws a vine arm out. Dutifully Jet takes it and tackles the thing to the ground. "Get your tindercrest."

She nods and pulls a card flinging it without hesitation at the beast. Jet let go as the fiery mass squirms and falls to the wood floors in ashes. "Good aim."

"Well, I aimed at your leg figuring I'd miss."

"What is your aim was right?"

"Lets not think about that now." She offers him as smile. She felt it was best to lighten the mood after such events like a plant-animal attacking you and your partner. If they were a group why did she think partner?

"I knew. I felt it. That was, yes, we have to find Clive." Jet was up on his feet at full strength and already placing his upper torso garments on. Finishing with his faithful scarf of course. "What's wrong?"

"You, well, you already want to get going? You just woke up from what I would call a horrible experience and you want to run off without even getting a bite?"

"Yes." A blank stare. "Get ready."

"No!" She settles herself from her embarrassing outburst. "I mean, I just spent the past twelve hours at least being worried about you. I didn't even eat dinner!"

"That's a stupid move on your part now lets get moving." He argues roughly.

"You don't even care just one bit." She silently fumes.

Jet hears her though. He was ready to-ironically-jet out the door and get to Clive wherever that guy was and then find that man, Botan. Instead, he shuts the door and sits back down on his bed. "Listen," he uncomfortably squirms, especially when she sits down beside him. She thought he was telling her to do that, but what did she know about the guy who doesn't emote. "We, don't have time Virginia. If this was an isolated thing, and I knew nothing was at stake, yeah, sure I'd stay here and make sure I was fine and you could be happy about that and we could eat some much deserved breakfast. But, it's not like that."

"I was, just selfish?" she asks.

"Of course." He squirms. "No, I mean, a bit, but it's understandable. You were worried about me. Fine. I don't care. But I'm fine now."

"Who isn't?" She knew he was not telling her why the situation was so dire all the sudden. He did not even bother to say what made him wake and do what he did.

"Botan, he said, he would teach those guys a lesson. What was in me, isn't the only one. I don't know how to explain it, but I heard this voice in my sleep. It told me a lot of things. But, I remember seeing that what was in me, was being grown in Filgaia. That since it was grown in Filgaia, it was also being grown in me, hence that thing." He points out the ashes. "He's going to kill all of the scientists with those thing. They've already matured enough to be set upon them."

"I see, I'm sorry. We have to go. You're right." She frantically gets her stuff ready.

"I'll get you something to eat while I wait for you. Will that make you happy?" He asks as he prepares to leave the room.

She nods and smiles. "Yes, we can eat on the way." Just as Jet was to leave she feels like a brick hit her. "Oh! Wake up Maya and Todd too. Never know what'll happen."

"That's a good leader." He remarks with a grin and leaves. Did Jet just really say that? Virginia was in a bit of disbelief. True, he has become more human since all that went one with Beatrice, but, really, a kind word that almost sounds of sarcastic joke at the same time?

Clive nimbly navigated the ruins. He didn't want to be found, and he didn't want to disturb anything. He was sure that the answer to everything existed in the place it began, and that for him was here. He was sure the problems begin here. He found the secret entrance that eluded him the last time. But, what he found was not what he wanted. Luckily for him, plants don't like certain chemicals, and he knew which ones.

A pile of swarming plant life moved in the center of the large room he found, and he noticed all too well the few that stopped when they noticed him as well. He had a few moments top-He didn't know how fast they could move. They all came for him and he took the chemicals from nearby and dropped them atop the swarming beasts save one who only got the fumes from the chemicals in his system wchich paralyzed it and basically left it living dead.

What Clive was not ready for was what lied in the middle of the floor where the plants had been. Plants not unlike what he thought was in Jet's arm. In the middle of the dimly lit room was a pile of clothing. Bones too in some places. Which meant that all leads on everything were gone except for Botan. But looking back, Clive figures Botan was the one tree he didn't want to bark up. The men who he threatened were dead. Death by a chimera. Botan's theory, was real.

Gallows woke up in a daze. Right in the lap of Thorn. She was enjoying the scenery still after being there about ten hours. He hadn't realized he was asleep and regretted missing out on time with her. But, he really didn't have to try anymore seeing that she decided to travel with him. Of course, how was he going to explain it without anyone thinking he's being a pervert again?

"You could've waken me?" He mumbled.

"You looked at peace. I didn't want to bother you."

"Thorn, are you sure you want to come with me and my friends when we leave here?" Gallows didn't want to take her away from her only home and all.

"I'm not staying where my fath-Ryu is. No way. I'm getting away from here before he," She looks away from him.

"Before he?"

"I don't have to say."

"No, tell me. I can help." He sits up with a determined look.

"He can make hybrid plant people. His first creation was a hybrid female, but, after that, he couldn't make one that he had wanted. He wanted to make a person that would be superior to current man. He could never recreate that one. And then, he was jaded."

"Jaded?"

"His dream changed. For the worst too. He didn't want to help men anymore, no, he wanted to kill them off, but first he needed more time. He can't recreate a humanoid plant, at least a perfect one, and so he can only use monster DNA and plants thusfar."

Gallows stares at her. He believes her somehow. It just sounded so loony and so true. "I see. But, why run?"

"What? What else can I do?"
"You can help me stop them. I know if we team up with

my friends we can do it."

"It's, too risky. They are strong, and he does have those imperfect humanoid ones. They are warriors." A shadow came over them from above as Gallows scoffs.

"I'm not afraid of-okay I am." The object that shadows over them being a humanoid plant. A Venus Fly-trap that was altered with human genes.

"Brother." Thorn cursed as she watched him.

"Brother?" Gallows questions.

"We're not blood related." She assures him. "Venus, please."

The chimera, Venus, moves down gliding along multiple legs of green roots that were unattached to the ground. "Father. He tell me to get sister. Yes, you come." His arms stretches out and snares her own with it's vice like hand that was as the head of the very flower. Venus's humanish face blank. What was the point of being human without having the emotions to show?