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Mark of the Beasts

Netto's telepathic communication 'blah'

Saito's telepathic communication "blah"

Chapter 20

In Beyondard Iris dropped to her knees beginning to cry knowing that the Earth was going to suffer the same fate as her own homeland. "No, Earth will be completely destroyed. The Cyber Beasts won't leave a single person left alive.", she thought. "What's going on?", she asked Barrel when several 'Resistance' vehicles approached their position.

Colonel and Barrel growled seeing what Iris had spotted. "So they really plan to do it.", muttered Barrel. He knew that his navi and Iris had caught it, but right now he really didn't care.

When the trucks stopped near the three a hooded woman stepped out and walked up to them. She turned straight to Barrel and addressed him, "The Council wishes to see you at once. I'm under orders to bring you to them using whatever force necessary."

Iris and Colonel didn't take kindly to this woman threatening their companion in such a manner. Both navis began to move towards her intending to give her a piece of their mind when the third member of their party held out his hands halting both of them. "Don't. Let me deal with this.", he said. With that Barrel followed the woman as did two reluctant navis.

Once seated the woman introduced herself. "I'm sorry about the poor arrangements, but it was necessary in order to bring you to the Council as soon as possible. My name is Gretta by the way." The way the lady talked and carried herself showed little if any emotion despite what she'd just said. Gretta knew that the man she was sent to collect was one of the Resistance best field operatives and had invaluable combat experience, but she didn't like him because she thought that he was far too concerned with morals despite how desperate they all were with Greiga and Falzer running loose.

Twenty minutes later they were in a underground bunker that had been setup to function as a base of operations for the Resistance. Gretta lead the way to a dark room and motioned for Barrel to enter, "The Council is waiting for you. Your navi friends will have to wait out here."

With a quick nod the soldier entered the dark room. He waited for a few second before a light came on over him giving him some vision, but keeping the Council members' faces hidden. "Welcome Barrel. I understand that Greiga and Falzer have taken off to Earth to wreck havoc, is that correct?"

"Indeed it is. What does this Council wish to do now?", responded the raven haired man. Barrel knew that these people were the most dangerous humans on the planet and for good reason. To them this whole war was about cold, unsympathetic numbers and they didn't really care what happened to their soldiers.

A female Council member spoke up, "With them gone, even if it is for only a brief time, we may be able to put an end to this ourselves."

The lead member asked, "What did you have in mind Sarah?"

She smirked and replied, "We can use...'the device'...to bring an end to this. With the Cyber Beasts on Earth now is the perfect time to strike."

Barrel was enraged with her suggestion knowing full well what 'the device' would do. "So you're going to not only condemn the people of Earth to the same fate as us, but you are also going to help the Cyber Beasts kill thousands of innocent people!", he shouted.

Another man spoke up, "It is a necessary sacrifice. It's the needs of our people versus theirs. We've been through too much already, most of Beyondard's populations have decimated by this war. We can't afford to let morals get in our way if our people are to have a chance at survival."

Gritting his teeth Barrel bit out, "In other words we are no better than the Cyber Beasts. You all know that once the device has been activated it will seal the Fossa Ambience connecting our world to theirs, but it will also saturate everything in DenTech city with massive amounts of radiation. Those people will die an extremely painful death and those that survive will wished that they hadn't."

The lead member listened to the objections and replied, "Your objections are dully noted Barrel, but let me remind you that it is this Council that decides what to do in these matters." He turned to the Sarah and said, "Sarah I expect you to carry out this operation as quickly as possible. It would appear that we do not need the Synchronizer after all."

"Of course sir.", replied the cunning woman. She turned back to Barrel and the man could see the darkness in her eyes that almost made him shudder.


In the remains of the battlefield where the two sets of twins had fought the Resistance had sent in a small team to see if the Hikari twins had somehow survived even though they really didn't believe that it was possible.

One soldier named Derek was staring at the ditch still filled with superheated rock and saw something strange. "Colonel over here! I think that I've got something!", he shouted.

Quickly the Colonel and a number of other soldiers gathered to see what was going on. Derek pointed to an area in the ditch where two strange mounds appeared in the material. The mounds were apparently composed of the heated rock, but what was strange was that the area around them seemed to be cooling rapidly almost as though something were sucking the energy out of the area.

They watched in confusion as the ditch completely cooled off in seconds and the mounds themselves seemed to be the source of the strange phenomenon. "Be on your guard men.", said the Colonel as he hopped down into the ditch and carefully made his way to one of the mounds. "This is strange. These things seem to be devouring the heat energy, but for what purpose? What are these things?", he thought watching both cool apparently moving all of the energy deeper inside. He touched the surface and it seemed harder than any metal he'd come across. "Load these...things into the trucks and get them back to the base. The scientists will have a field day with these babies.", he ordered.


On Earth the Cyber Beasts had just appeared as they had last time seemingly shimmering into reality, but this time they weren't fighting each other. This time the beasts were attacking the city itself.

"Is this really necessary?"

'No, but I hate the fact that they failed us and in the process failed everyone else.'

"They gave it their all. We can't fault them for that Net- Greiga."

'What's with the sudden change of heart? Just a few minutes ago you were foaming at the mouth...well beak in your case.'

"It just feels so wrong doing this. They just lost their lives and now we're destroying everything that ever meant anything to them. Maybe all of the bloodshed is just finally getting to me?"

Falzer continued to fly through the city at super sonic speeds leaving behind a trail of destruction. He came to a halt when he reached a building he recognized as Sci-Labs. "So this must be where their papa is.", the giant red bird thought as he felt tears begin to swell up in his eyes. He began charging up a power sonic wave preparing to bring an end to the Hikari's of this world. "Please forgive me Papa...for the monster I've become...no the monsters we've become."

Greiga looked towards Falzer and could feel the regret, the pain flooding through their psychic link. It was enough to halt the giant dog navi in his tracks, but not enough to provoke further actions. He began to wonder what their parents and friends would think of them if they could see just how far they'd fallen.

Falzer unleashed the sonic blast, but it came a moment too late as Sci-Labs was enveloped inside of a Dimensional Area. "What? Oh, those clever little NetSaviors. I'd thought for sure that the Dimensional Area generators were out of action...I guess I forgot about the ones in the trucks.", he thought to himself as he watched several trucks surround him. He knew what was about to happen next as did Greiga. Both Cyber Beasts watched in amusement as the NetSavior Crossfusion members appeared outside. "So they want to play? Alright I'm game."

Yuriko, Princess Pride, Enzan, Laika, Dingo, Meiru, Tesla, Charlie, Nenji, Jasmine, and Dark Miyabi all rushed towards the dome and jumped through entering crossfusion. They divided up into two groups with each group targeting a particular Cyber Beast. Yuriko, Charlie, Tesla, Nenji, and Jasmine started attacking Falzer while Pride, Enzan, Laika, Dingo, Meiru, and Miyabi pounced on Greiga.

"How interesting that the girl I cared for so long ago is coming after me?", thought Greiga as he dodged a Roll Arrow. "I maybe large, but I'm not that slow. Even if you guys did get lucky enough to hit me it wouldn't do you any good. My armor is much to powerful for you to handle.", he thought with amusement before unleashing a steady stream of fire.

CF Blues shouted, "Try a Program Advance! With the power boost from crossfusion maybe it'll break through!" The red NetSavior prepared to unleash his own attack while others did the same.

All of the Program Advances caught Greiga off guard throwing him into a building which promptly collapsed on the giant dog. Falzer's attention was quickly redirected to his fallen brother which gave Yuriko, Charlie, and Tesla the opportunity to punch the giant bird in the face with three Elemental Sword Program Advances. It hurt Falzer, but sadly didn't bring him out of the sky.

"Damn! I can't get this crap out of my eyes.", thought Beyondard's Saito as he furious shook his head trying to remove the source of the irritation and land at the same time.

While Falzer was trying to land the very pissed off Greiga re-emerged from the building in a blinding flash of light. He'd used his ability to manipulate lightening to blow away the rubble. "I love that little trick.", he thought as his mane stopped glowing a bright yellow. "Well let's try that little number again." He powered up another electric attack and blasted all of the NetSaviors attacking him.

Unfortunately the bolts of electricity also brought down his own brother. "Now that's one way to land...painful, but it works.", thought Falzer as he turned to the giant blue dog.

"Watch where you are aiming those!"

'Sorry, jeez. It's not like it's easy to avoid hitting you when you're not flying straight. In fact you were flying like a drunk man.'

"I had crap in my eyes from those PA's. Let's see you try to fly straight when you can't see properly."

The two Cyber Beasts started ignoring the NetSaviors and a vicious battle broke out between the two of them. The NetSaviors quickly hopped out of the way and watched with confusion as to why the two Beast navis had turned on each other again.

"Does this make any sense to anyone? Or am I the only clueless one here?", asked CF Napalmman. Napalmman laughed and said to his NetOp, "Don't know, don't care. Just let them go at it and then we can come in and finish off the winner."

"I have to agree with him. All our Program Advances did was knock them around. Look at their armors...not even a blemish to show for it.", said an irate CF Searchman.

Everyone looked and just as the proud NetSavior had growled neither Beast navi had a single mark on their armors where the Program Advances had hit. They did however have quite a few marks from where the two were currently tearing into each other.

Back with the navis from Beyondard the two charged one another completely oblivious to their former opponents. Falzer latched onto Greiga using his razor sharp talons and pierced the armor drawing fourth a moderate amount of data. Not one to be out done the dog navi used Falzer's momentum to throw both of them over causing them to roll into a ball before coming to a stop right in front of a building.

'Wait a second. Aren't we missing something here?'

"Yeah...THE NETSAVIORS! We forgot all about them."

Greiga raised his head and did something that resembled a smirk to the humans and navis. "So there you are.", he said pouncing off of his brother and towards his late friend's counterparts. CF Knightman lept out in front of the others and charged Greiga really surprising him. "Now what in the world is going through this woman's mind. She can't really think that she can hurt me on her own can she?", he thought to himself trying not to laugh, but he failed. The dog navi erupted into howl's of laughter and running one of his giant paws over his face trying to hide it.

Unfortunately that pissed the Princess off even further. Let it be known that while Pride is usually very polite and civil she DOES NOT like being treated as a harmless woman. "Why you arrogant piece of trash data!", CF Knightman shouted throwing her 'Royal Wrecking Ball' right into Greiga's hanging jaw.

Falzer having just got back on his feet saw his brother get whacked with the spiked ball and had to look away. "Ouch! Beaten like that by a girl. He'll never live that one down."

The dog navi was now furious and trying to crush CF Knightman underneath his claws. It was extremely difficult because Pride and her navi had wormed their way underneath him where he couldn't see them. "Hold still you stupid girl!", he shouted in frustration.

Laika and Enzan left the relative safety of the building and rushed towards the Princess. "Pride get out of there!", shouted Laika seeing Pride almost get herself crushed several times.

The angry Cyber Beast caught sight of the approaching NetSaviors and electrocuted both of them trying to lure Pride out from under him. "That should get her to come running to their rescue.", he thought.

CF Knightman saw the attack and was furious with this over sized mutt. "So you want to play dirty, do you? Fine! Two can play that game!", she shouted throwing her 'Royal Wrecking Ball' again only this time it was at a different target.

The male NetSaviors cringed and looked away while the female NetSaviors all stood with their mouths hanging wide open at the Princess's actions. Falzer followed their line of sight and only felt sympathy for his brother's pain.

'She...she got...me...oooo...o.oooo..oooo'

"I'll say that she did.", thought Falzer. There in front of him was the CF Knightman pulling back the large spiked ball from the underside of Greiga. It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out where she'd hit him and Falzer was sure that he could feel that same pain coming through their link.

Poor Greiga meanwhile had collapsed and was trying desperately to deal with the pain with little success. He kept moaning and knew that he wouldn't be able to fight for a while. "And kids are definitely out of the question now...Oh crap that hurts. I thought she was supposed to be a Princess, not a brutal witch."

Falzer moved over to the large dog navi and offered what little comfort he could while the NetSaviors regrouped on the tops of nearby buildings.


In Beyondard the strange mounds had been transported to the Resistance HQ where greedy scientists were already trying to uncover their secrets. One scientist used a drill to try to break off a piece, but the drill bit snapped like a twig. Not at all discouraged he tried a pick axe next which also broke. "What the hell is this stuff made out of.", he thought placing his hand on the surface of the mounds which resembled eggs or maybe...a cocoon The instant his hand met with the soft surface his entire body locked up.

The other scientists didn't realize what was going on until they saw his eyes roll back and his breathing became difficult. The man had vains popping up all over his body and it seemed as though something was crawling out of his skins and into the cocoons.

One of the female scientists shouted, "GET HIM AWAY FROM IT NOW! BUT BE CAREFUL AND DON'T TOUCH HIM!"

Following her instructions the workers used an assault rifle to pry the incapacitated scientist off of the cocoon's surface. Once he was off the woman quickly ordered the medics to take him to the medical wing and gave them a list of specific tests that she wanted them to run on. The medics quickly went to work knowing that she wanted those results ASAP.

Twenty minutes later Barrel walked into the same room where the hospitalized scientist was being cared for and walked towards the woman responsible for saving the man's life. "What happened Makoto?", he asked.

She looked at Barrel and said, "We'll know in just a minute and I pray that I'm wrong." She accepted the printouts handed to her by one of the medics and read it over thoroughly. She paled slightly and cursed earning a curious look from Colonel's NetOp. "Those eggs...cocoons...whatever they are...they seem to be devouring any kind of energy that gets near them. Several batteries and generators have already gone dead around them as it is."

"So what happened to him? He doesn't have any kind of energy.", said Barrel.

Makoto shook her head. "Yes he does. His body has energy...more to the point life energy. That thing was sucking the life right out of him kinda a vampire or something.", she said correcting him. Suddenly the lights started flickering and she looked back to the NetOp, "It's getting worse. Those things have started feeding on the main generator. We've gotta get them out of here and fast or else 'the device' will be completely useless."

"I can't say that I agree with using that thing, but I can't let the power go out either. Too many civis in this area depend on that generator.", he said walking towards the hanger where the mounds were situated. Just as he'd said the generator was primarily used to power the underground miniature city that had been hidden right under the Cyber Beasts' noses.

On their way one of the soldiers ran up to Barrel and said, "Sir the Council wished for me to inform you that they are going to use the extra plutonium that we recovered a month ago to power the device. It's being brought in through the main hanger now."

"WHAT!", he growled before turning to Makoto.

"Those things will suck all of the energy out of the plutonium and God only knows what'll happen next.", she said urgently. The young scientist turned to the soldier and said, "Try to stop them from bringing the material in through that hanger. Barrel you're with me, we have to stop those cocoons from getting that power."

The soldier rushed off to do as he was told and Barrel followed Makoto hoping to reach the hanger before it open to let the radioactive materials be brought in. Both Resistance members were quite aware that they were unlikely to make it in time, but they still had to try.

Just as they reached the hanger they looked around hoping to find the soldiers with the containers. With a sigh of relief Makoto said, "It looks like we just made it." No sooner than the words left her mouth the main hanger door began to open. "NO YOU FOOLS! STOP!"

But it was too late the men had brought the radioactive material close enough for the cocoons to feed off of them. Some unknown force yanked both bulky containers away from the soldiers and into the cocoons which promptly started to glow brightly. Within the bright light Barrel could make out distinct red glowing lines forming cracks on the cocoons "Here it comes.", he thought expecting them to blow up the entire base.

While an explosion did occur it wasn't as big as was expected. Makoto had gathered a number of heavily armed soldiers and they waited for the dust to clear. When it did they say twin creatures in the fetal position lying on the floor. Both had wings like Falzer, but much smaller and they had the tail and mane from Greiga. The only difference was that one was dark blue while the other was crimson red. "What the hell are they?", she thought.