Out of the Cage

Kenros and the mercenary decide to brawl it out, only to have a Splixson sneak in the compound and steal the crystal from under their noses.

Chapter 2: Loboan vs. Human

"Your move, mercenary! Come on, let's see how bad you humans really are." I said.

The mercenary tried to Roundhouse kick me, but I moved back in the nick of time and clawed him on the face. A huge set of scratches were on his head and he was bleeding.

"You son of a bitch!" yelled the mercenary.

"You infected me with Loboanism...whatever that is."

"No I didn't. Lucky for you, I can't infect you humans with my claws. If I bit you on the other hand..."

I lashed out a the mercenary again, this time trying to bite him on the chest. It has been a while before I've eaten anything, and humans are indeed very tasty...

"Ow!!"

He slit my eye!

The mercenary scoffed. "Who's afraid of the Big, bad wolf? Not me."

I growled gutturally at him and we started fighting again.

While Kenros and the mercenary were fighting each other, a Splixson who looked a lot like Ditto if he were blue, crawled through an air vent and jumped to the ground and walked up to the crystal, whistling to himself and simply looked at the two bite back at each other.

"Oh, this is getting good. I should just stay here and keep watching until they both die! But I guess I should bring this crystal back to Doxen before he realizes I'm slacking off again. Ah, well."

The Splixson swiped the crystal and calmly walked away from the compound.

20 minutes later...

The merc and I are battered and bruised with scratches and many scars on our bodies. I just wished the guy didn't slice my eye! I'm already colorblind as it is!

"Playtime's over pup. Let me finish this the way I should've 20 minutes ago."

The mercenary held out an M16.

"Stop, stop, stop, stop! Wait a minute!"

"Oh, look, the little werewolf is scared of death."

"Shut up. If I wanted to, I could break your gun with my teeth before you even fired one round! How many times do I have to say it: I'M NOT THE BAD GUY!!"

"Yeah?! Well who is then?!"

"Whoever stole the crystal while we were fighting."

The mercenary laughed.

"What're talkin' about werewolf? The crystal's right over th--" He gasped.

Despite the fact I'm pretty much screwed here since I didn't just grab the crystal and split, I still laughed at the mercenaries stupidity.

"Looks like someone beat us both to the prize. I can't tell you who might have the crystal for the sake of...galactic warfare, but if you let me come with you, we can work together to find it."

"Why would I align myself with a Loboan like you?"

"Can you literally smell the creature who stole the crystal? I can, and by the smell of it, I'm pretty sure it's a Splixson."

"Splixson?"

"You humans call it Ditto since they can clone themselves."

"Hmm...so I either join forces with you or we're never gonna find this crystal?"

"No, either you join forces with me or I can see what your liver tastes like with lemon pepper in a taco shell."

"Fine." He muttered. "But don't think this makes us friends!"

"Like I'd become friends with a human!"

Miles away from the compound, we continued to walk down a dirt road, trailing the fugitive Splixson to his destination.

"I don't understand how you Loboan's can smell your way through situations like these!"

"We're related to werewolves and canines."

"That figures."

"...What does that mean?"

"Nothing, nothing. You got his scent yet?"

"...I got a bunch of scents."

"Holy crap!"

Somehow my nose lead us to a field of dead bodies and abandoned military vehicles. Looks like the work of the Remquists.

"One Ditto did this much damage?!"

"I doubt it. He probably had some more friends along to help him."

"What do they even want with this crystal?"

"What do you want with the crystal? You don't work for this military group. I can tell by your uniform."

"You ever heard of eBay wolf? What do you want with it?"

"Let's just say I need it or else this whole universe gets destroyed. Of course, that doesn't mean I won't stop anyone who gets in my way. ...Like you." I whispered.

"What was that?"

"Nothing!"

"No, no. I just heard something in the bushes..."

Hmm...I jumped to the bush where he heard a twig snap and sighed with relief realizing it was just a rabbit. I grabbed it by the ears.

"It's just a rabbit. A tasty...little rabbit." I said, licking my lips.

"Oh, you're not gonna--"

I put the rabbit in my mouth and started chewing and smacking on the meat.

"Aw, man! That's just wrong dude."

"It was just a rabbit. It's not like I ate a deer or a unicorn."

The mercenary sighed. "Are we getting closer yet?"

I glanced up to see a mighty battleship cruiser staring at us straight in the face. It was huge, at least three cruise ships long and about twice as thick.

"How does something like this land a few miles from the base?!"

"Beats me. The important thing is that we found it now so we gotta find the Splixson that did this and get that crystal--"

I immediately hid behind a vehicle when I heard the merc grunt and fall on the ground. One of those Splixson's must've gotten to him. Oh, well.

"There's no one else down here. What should we do with this guy Doxen?"

"Find out what he knows and see if he told anyone. And check to see if anymore intruders are here."

I pinned one of the Splixsons to the ground and broke his neck, hiding his body under a demolished truck. Now all I gotta do is catch Doxen and--"

Kenros grunted when one of Doxen's cronies shocked him in the throat with a stun gun.

"Pathetic. I thought you Loboans where more alert than this. Doxen! You want this creature on the ship too?"

"Yes. Take 'em both."