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Silver Meta Dragon: you're welcome, thanks again for lending the stuff to me.

Black Phoenix: glad you liked the fight, um; to as what he did with the tank, something went wrong when absorbing it.

Hunter Killer: welcome back, I was wondering where you went. Glad you liked the chapter.

Sorry for being on leave for so long, between battle of the bands working and school work I've had little to no time to write, so thank you for waiting on the update and may you enjoy this chapter.

Chapter 8

Jr. jumped as far and as fast as his new body would allow him to. He was puzzled by what had happened at the club when Zavis had grabbed hold of his mind and then passed out. He shuttered at remembering what had happened. As he continued to flee the scene he decided to wake up the sleeping Zavis.

Human…Human wake up…Wake up…Zavis!

Ughh, Jr.… what happened

I'm not sure human. Something when wrong when you tried to absorb the tank.

So what happened?

How should I know human?

You are an aparoid.

Yes I know but I've never seen or hear of that happening to any other aparoid.

Ok, Jr. I've got a question.

What?

When we grabbed for your mind something happened.

So.

I think I relived one of your memories.

Again I say so.

Did it happen to you?

Yes.

What memory did you relive?

The moment you realized that you were alone.

Oh.

Zavis remembered began to remember that day. The stasis pod that he was stored in had crashed landed on Corneria and he awoke in the middle of a junkyard. He had snuck around in the shadows and located the owner's home. He had then broke in and used the computer to see where and when he was. When he realized that he was the last human he tore the place apart. When he found the owners supply of liquor he drown his sorrow in it. When the owner finally came home he killed him in a drunken rage. He had slept in the fur's blood that night. He shivered slightly at the memory.

You can be quite violent when drunk you know that human.

Shut up.

Out of curiosity what memory of mine did you relive?

The moment you lost contact with the old queen.

Oh. That's in the past and we're nearing the hanger that raccoon told us about.

As the two continued to leap from building to building Wolf closed in behind them.

Finally you caught up to them.

Well if you hadn't shocked the living hell out of me every five minutes then I would have got here sooner.

Don't talk back to me Wolf, or else I will give you another lesson in pain understand.

Yes I understand.

Good know how long before you can attack the human.

He still is a ways ahead of us, but we're faster so I give it a few moments before we can catch him.

Excellent.

Wolf continued to purse the human as his aparoid contacted General Pepper.

General I am nearing the human.

Good now my plans can proceed.

Pardon my asking general but you sound worried.

And why should that concern you aparoid.

It shouldn't my master but if you die I will also die.

And what makes you think I will die.

Nothing you just seem like a fur against the ropes.

Well I've just received word that several ships have entered Sector Y.

And this concerns you.

Of course it concerns me if they are planning to attack before I have the core memory then my plans will fall apart.

Of course general I shall redouble my efforts to capture the human.

Where are you?

I am nearing the street called Fifth Avenue. That is where many smugglers store their ships according to my host's memories.

Very well I shall be there soon to retrieve the humans body intact.

Yes General.

As Pepper finished the conversation and prepared to head to Fifth Avenue one of his scientists came rushing into the room.

"General, General," the out of breath scientist stuttered, "we've discovered something about the nano-tech bomb you had put in the human's body and its ability to absorb things."

"And what is that," Pepper asked?

"Well you see, we um discovered that human bodies aren't meant to absorb great amount of material like fur bodies can, but this problem is solved when coupled with the bomb in its brain."

"And I should care why"?

"Well we received word that the human tried to absorb a landmaster but couldn't, so it turned itself into a siphon and drained some of the power away so it could absorb the rest of the material."

"And I should care why"?

"Well if you hadn't implanted the bomb the human would have died, with this new information we believe that of you allow us to keep the human alive after we remove the core memory inside it then we can some how turn it into a weapon."

"Very well I shall consider it." Pepper said, then add, "How many aparoid eggs do we have left."

"Several thousand General."

"Around how many of our troops could be implanted with an aparoid egg"?

"Around 45 general but why would you want to implant the eggs in our own troops"?

"You have seen what the aparoid inside of Wolf is capable of, imagine what would happen if we had an army of them."

"You mean to protect the system".

"Yes, yes of course. Begin to implant the eggs inside our soldier right away."

"Of course general right away," the scientist replied with a hint of hesitation as he left.

"And now to claim my prize," Pepper muttered as he left his office.

Rosy and Kiba rode in silence in the back of the cab as they entered the star port sector of the city.

"So Kiba do you know what Zavis's contact's real name is"?

"No, Zavis always referred to him as Basket Case."

"Basket Case," Rosy said puzzled.

"Stupid name, I know," Kiba began, "but he's got Zavis some pretty sweet weapons and what not."

"You know for some one who wanted to stay hidden Zavis does seem to know a great deal of people."

"You know you're right Rosy but Zavis seems to trust this guy so I guess that we've got no choice."

"Yea I know. So how much longer till we reach the port he's at"?

"Only a few more." Kiba began as the cab driver said, "he's ya'll stop. Can't imagine why ya'll wanted to come to this scum pit but it's ya'll lives." He pulled the cab over and let Rosy and Kiba out. After he took their money he made a quick getaway. As the two of them started to head toward the low set hanger a sense of dread filled them. When they reached the door to the building a voice called out.

"I'd stop right there if I were you." both of them frozen and looked around for where ever the voice had come from. "You've got around a dozen blasters aimed right for your hearts."

Rosy was petrified for a moment then she found enough courage to shout, "Zavis sent us, he told us to find Basket Case."

"What," the voice sounded surprised, "lower weapons and let them in." the door opened and the two of them scurried through into a dark room. While their eyes attempted to adjust to the darkness they heard the voice again. "So you two know Zavis eh. Lets test that, how long has he been on Corneria"?

"Three years," Kiba replied in a low voice, he knew how things were run with smugglers so he decided to play along for a while. Unfortunately he couldn't tell Rosy, who by now was nearly scared stiff it would be ok.

"Good, know who does Zavis usually work for"?

"Ajax," Kiba replied calmly.

"You seem to know all the answers let the bitch answer one, now what's a hard question, ah I've got one, Zavis won't shut up about a certain panther, who is that."

Rosy was petrified about being asked a question but upon hearing it she gave a small squeak, "Rosy Kurohyou."

"Well I'll be damned. He's only mentioned her to me so I guess you two would know him. One last question," the voice began as the lights in the building flared to life, "What can I do for the two of you."

Rosy and Kiba took a measure of the fur standing before them. A fairly tall white tiger with dark gray stripes, with a flight suite on and a blaster pointed at Rosy.

"So you know his favorite fem, my question is how"?

Rosy replied in a small voice, "I'm her."

"Well I'll be. One last question do you know what Zavis really is"? Kiba and Rosy nodded slightly. "Ok then, why did Zavis send you to me."

"He wants us on Katina and he said that you could help us." Rosy said.

"Well if that's it then no trouble, were shipping out sometime tomorrow. Be ready." The tiger replied as he turned to walk away he shouted, "Head down the hall to the left and stay in that room until I come and get you."

"Why do we have to stay in the room"? Kiba asked.

"Because if you don't then we shoot you."

"Are you Basket Case," Rosy hollered at the retreating tiger.

"Yeah that's me, but you can call me David. Now get to that room before my snipers get impatient." Hearing this the two of them headed for the room.

Zavis and Jr. were nearing the hanger that held their ride off planet when Jr. spoke up.

Human we're being followed.

So you felt them too.

Yes so what should we do with them?

Well did we manage to absorb the entire gun of the tank?

Yes and I see where you are going with this human.

As Zavis made another jump he twisted in mid-air as white light surrounded his right arm and replaced it with a landmaster's main canon. Powering the gun they fired right as Wolf landed where they had just jumped. They smiled as the beam collided with Wolf. They smiled as they watched Wolf fall to the city street below. The two of them paused to observe the results. They recoiled in horror as Wolf climbed slowly to his feet and extended his arm blade.

What the hell, that shot should have killed him.

I know human, I know.

Well what do we do know the only weapon we have that is more powerful than the landmaster's gun is the gas.

Well we could run and get to the ship.

No that won't work; the engines need to warm up before we take off.

So we fight.

Yeah, looks that way.

Can we win?

The thing took a blast from a landmaster do you think we can win.

I don't know.

The Zavis reconfigured some of the armor he had absorbed into a new spike and prepared himself as the figure launched himself up toward them.

Authors notes: Sorry no fight this chapter. Next chapter I will push my skill at writing to the max (what little I have anyway) so bear with me. I will apologize once again for the late update. Will try to have the next chapter up by this weekend, no promises. So thanks for the reviews and I hope this chapter is a decent calm before the beginnings of the storm. Please review, thank you.