It's decided. I'm continuing this! ^_^ I'm making this and Silence of the Siren my priority chapter fics. Oh, and Lina...WHERE is this Six-kitty fic? WHERE? I want to read about Six as a fluffy kitty! Gimme the genre! Gimme the title! Gimme! Anywho, here's chapter 2. We're gonna get the beginnings of some flashbacks on how Six became a bear along with more fluff. (Duh!) Enjoy!

"So...let me get this straight..." Holiday muttered as Six gave her a brief explanation of what their mission was. "Paradise base has been rebuilt...so that people can use nanites to turn into animals?"

"Something like that." Six murmured, sharpening his katanas. "It's an operation that hasn't been authorized, but White is reluctant to simply terminate the program. Instead, he wants us to run a quick scan of the place and judge whether the experiments would be beneficial to Providence in the long run. Apparently, these scientists are trying to reprogram nanites so that people can give themselves special Evo abilities without the side effects of becoming a monster." He ran a sharpening stone across the metal. "They're starting off by trying to gain the abilities of different animals by programming them into the nanites."

Holiday sighed and leaned back in her seat. "Where I come from, we have a name for people like that."

Six raised a questioning eyebrow.

"Furries." Holiday murmured, smiling jokingly.

The corner of Six's mouth twitched ever so slightly.

…...

Holiday woke up surrounded by warmth. A smile spread across her face. It was all just a bad dream. With a yawn, she stretched herself. 'The alarm hasn't gone off yet...I'll have some extra time to have my morning coffee...' Her hand touched something bitingly cold and she froze.

Ice.

That warmth...it wasn't from her blankets... It was fur! Thick, warm,-she opened her eyes- white fur! She was in a cave...with a polar bear...one that wasn't eating her... She sighed. 'I guess it wasn't a dream.' She rolled over to see the bear's head right next to hers. 'Six...' She raised a hand and touched his forehead.

At her touch, Six opened his eyes and regarded her calmly. Her breath caught in her throat as she looked into those brown orbs. It was ironic: she had always dreamed of having the chance to gaze into Six's eyes, and here she was doing it.

While he was a freaking polar bear.

Well, she couldn't say that Fate didn't have a sense of humor... Still, there was something wrong with this...other than the fact that Six wasn't human. His eyes were full of gentleness, fierceness, confusion...all emotions she would expect. But there was something missing: recognition.

"Six?" Holiday muttered, taking her hand from his head. "Six, can you understand me?"

Six slowly sat up, groaning slightly in the back of his throat, before looking at Holiday. He tilted his head to the side and blinked.

'Oh boy...' She took a deep breath. "Okay...lift a paw if you understand me." To her immense relief, Six sat back on his haunches and lifted a paw into the air. "Thank goodness..." 'But then...why does he still seem confused?' It took a moment before she realized why. "Keep your paw up if you remember who I am." The paw and her heart fell to the ground with a thump.

'Oh no...' Holiday stood up and looked at Six. 'This is a problem...a major problem...'

…...

The bear, who now knew his name to be "Six", was trying to get a grasp on the situation. 'I used to be a human...the sixth deadliest human in the world...' He had to admit, he liked the sound of that! 'I work with an organization that protects other humans from monsters called Evos... This female is a healer...a doctor... I am in charge of a human child by the name of Rex Salazar... I was turned into what I am by a flaw in some place of human technology...a lab...' His head was beginning to spin, so he forced himself to stop thinking.

He turned his head to look at the female that was walking alongside him across the ice. She said that she was "Doctor Holiday". So, she referred to herself by her title. "Doctor" couldn't be her first name, after all. What was her first name? Why hadn't she mentioned it? She had to have a different name... Six liked the "Holiday" part of her name. For some reason, he associated the word with complete joy and happiness. "Doctor" didn't possess that honor. He thought back to the previous night, when he had watched the rainbow lights dance across the sky. Those lights were named Aurora Borealis. Why he knew this, he had no clue. He had associated those dancing lights with the general aura of the female that had been sleeping in the cave.

'Aurora...' Six let out a growl of confirmation. 'If I'm going to call her anything, that's what it'll be.' Aurora Holiday. It had a nice ring to it.

Holiday glanced at the giant form of Six out of the corner of her eye. He seemed to be deep in thought. 'Well, I can hardly blame him. For a polar bear to realize that he is a human...that must be major...' She stopped walking and looked up at the sun. None of her electronics, GPS included, worked, so she was relying on her own sense of direction to get them back to the base. 'What's left of it, anyway...' She broke out of her thoughts briefly to run and catch up with Six, who was moving at a much faster pace.

Six turned to look at Holiday. She seemed rather tired... Glancing at the sky, he realized that they had been walking for two hours at least. He still felt fine, but his companion's human legs were surely getting sore... He stopped in his tracks and called out to her when she kept walking. She turned and looked at him in confusion. Rumbling softly, Six crouched down and motioned with his head.

Holiday blinked dumbly. Six wanted her to ride on his back? 'He must have amnesia...' She thought as she walked over. Six's big brown eyes followed her as she moved to his side. He lowered himself even more as she reached up to grasp a fistful of fur. With a leap and a tug, she was on. Six stood up and looked up at her over his shoulder. It took a moment for Holiday to realize that he was asking her which direction to go. She pointed a few degrees to the left of the morning sun. "I'm pretty sure that that's the way."

Six's ears flickered when she said that she was "pretty sure". It certainly wouldn't do to go in the completely wrong direction. He snarled quietly and gave her a skeptical look.

Holiday shrugged her shoulders helplessly. "It's the best I've got! Maybe we'll come across someone who we can ask for directions."

Six snorted and tossed his head before starting on his designated course. 'Please...I don't need to ask for help... Once we're within fifty miles of that place, the stench of those human chemicals and smokes will show me the way...'

Holiday held onto Six's fur, a bemused expression on her face. A few days ago, if someone had told her that she would be riding across the Arctic ice on a polar bear, she would have told them that they needed to sit down and get out of the sun. Yet, here she was, on the back of the largest land predator on the planet. That and the fact that this predator was actually Six made Holiday wonder if she was having some long, weird dream.

She looked up at the sky. The sun was painting the cold sky multiple shades of rose, amber, icy blue, and lilac. The rainbow flowed gently through the frigid air until it came to land on the ice, bouncing off of the crystals like the light from a billion tiny prisms. 'It's beautiful...' Holiday absentmindedly stroked the side of Six's neck. She froze as a low growling noise escaped Six's throat. "Sorry." She quickly moved her hand back to grip the fur on his shoulders.

Six let out a whuff of disappointment. He hadn't wanted her to stop... 'Oh well...' He breathed out a puff of smoky air as he lumbered on toward their destination.

This is a lot of fun! Making Six a fluffy bear allows me to do SO many cute things that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise! Review and you get a virtual Six teddy bear! ^_^ Flames burn the Arctic. Flame at the risk of your planet! FLAME AT THE RISK OF YOUR DOOOOM! (Sorry...I've been watching Invader Zim...) Peace out!