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Chapter 10—Fury of Friends—

Wren's P.O.V….

I woke up drowsy and with a slight headache again. I was getting really tired of waking up with a headache all the time.

Groaning I tried to sit up, but couldn't. I started to panic and then remembered where I was and what had happened. I groaned again and dropped my head back to the table with a thunk. Wincing I realized that wasn't the best idea seeing as my head started to pound just a little more.

I tried to lick my lips but only found that my mouth was dry and my lips were chapped. I tried to swallow, but started coughing. 'Great,' I thought, gasping for breath. 'I wake up only to find that I'm worse off than what I was before'.

After the spaz attack I almost had, I was more than ready to get out of this place. Moving my hand I tried to figure out how it was strapped down. I pulled up and found out that my hand could slip out easily. "Wow. Aren't these aliens intelligent," I muttered hoarsely, wincing as my chapped lips cracked and split painfully.

I released the rest of my limbs after freeing my hands fully and noticed one of the worst things that could happen to a girl. I was on the table with only the sheet covering me and my only clothing was my bra and underwear.

"I swear to God if they have done anything to me," I growled and wrapped the sheet around me as I stood up, using the table for support as my head spun. "Stupid aliens. I'll get them back," I muttered as I tried to find a way out of the room I was in. Anything in the room became a support as I tried to gather my wits.

When my head started to clear I took a better look at the area. The walls were solid white and the floor a cold, metallic silver. The only thing that stood out from the room was that there were three black spheres hovering in a triangular formation at one wall. I walked over to the spheres and started to look at them. I could see my reflection in each which freaked me out just a bit. I looked at my reflection more closely then noticed that my hair was braided back into a very tight and precise braid down the back of my neck and back.

"Wow," I said and noticed that I could see perfectly without my glasses. "Maybe they did fix me up, but is this because of them or what happened to me..." I said and noticed that my ears and tail were still there, "If it was something they did, obviously they can't fix everything."

I studied my features further and noticed yet another thing that had changed. Instead of my regular nose I had a cat's nose. "And I hope they stopped any other changes or that all the changes have finally stopped," I muttered with a sighed poking at my nose.

I went back to studying the spheres before me trying not to think of anything else on me that could have changed. I poked one sphere and it moved and giggled. Kind of.

"Huh?" I asked and blinked. It was a solid black ball, yet it had giggled. "How did you do that?" I asked without thinking.

It chirped a few times and the top and bottom turned in two different directions. The other two spheres did the same. They suddenly started to hover around me. Clicking and chirping, they somehow opened a door that they were hovering in front of. All three of them pushed me toward it.

"Whoa! Wait a minute!" I shouted throwing my hands up.

All three stopped and squeaked. I looked out the door and saw no one. I turned to the three spheres and raised an eyebrow. "You can understand me, right?" I asked. They squeaked and all of them twisted their two halves. "I'll take that as a yes then," I said and they made what sounded like really happy chirps. "Great," I muttered running a hand over my hair and twisting my ear slightly. "I'm talking to three alien spheres."

We walked into a bigger room. There was no one in it either. It looked as though it was just deserted. I looked around as if I wanted to find something and then came three questioning squeaks from my companions. "Nothing," I said. "I just want to be able to find something decent to wear that wasn't a sheet."

The leader gave what seemed to be an equivalent to a shrug and hung in the air. I shrugged also and continued to look around. Then there came a huge crash and several bangs from somewhere nearby. A door started to dent that was on one wall. "Uh oh," I muttered and froze unsure what the hell was happening.

Rachel's P.O.V….

I had explained everything to James as we snuck through the ship trying to find Wren. It was everything from our school assembly, to waking up on the ship, to the injections from the scientists/medical teams. I explained how we got into the cells and how exactly we escaped as well with Wren's unexpected help.

James also told us how he had been captured. It seems that the aliens just forced the people at his school onto a transport ship. He had dodged the capture only to be surrounded by guards a little later on. One guard had grabbed James. He had twisted out of his grip and taken him down. Basically in the flurry of punches and kicks three guards lay dead, one of them being a captain. James had escaped easily in the confusion. But he had been caught again a little while later and then brought up here to be tried for murder. The rest as they say, was history.

I was happy that I finally got to be with James. We hadn't seen each other for ever because he'd only been able to visit me a couple times. He had lived so far away it was hard to find time to see each other regularly, especially with school, work, and preparations for college. But I would have been much happier if it wasn't under the circumstances that had occurred.

'Wonder if Wren is all right,' I thought to myself with a frown. I was so distracted that I accidentally ran into a guard. The shock of running into some caused me to trip over my own two feet and landed on my butt. The guard turned around looking about and I looked up at him from the floor. He glanced down and gave a deep guttural growl and I gave a small, nervous wave up at him.

"How did you get out? No… wait…. You are the ones that escaped!" he shouted at us. "Down here! I found them!"

"Oh shit." James and I muttered at the same time as I scrambled off the floor as quickly as I could.

The three of us ran down the corridor to our left. And by now there were a dozen guards hot on our heels from the opposite direction. A door was at the end of the hall and I thought we were trapped for sure. It was a split second that I looked over my shoulder to check to see how far back the guards were. They weren't too far behind us at the moment which was not good. I turned back around only to notice that Zim had disappeared from in front of us. James and I continued to run, him gripping my hand tightly, until two silver legs grabbed us and pulled us into an alcove in the wall. I started to panic before I saw a flash of ruby red eyes and a grin.

I gave a silent sigh and then recoiled at the sound of several loud bangs and one very loud crash. We looked out of the small alcove only to find that all dozen guards were laid out in front of the door. All of them were out cold. Seemed luck was on our side at the moment and I thanked god that it was though I wasn't sure how he pulled this one off.

"Thanks, Zim," giggled Rouk and popped her head out of the opening of the sling that was still hung from my shoulder.

"Whoa, what is that?" James asked distracted from the guards for only a moment.

"I forgot all about Rouk," I answered and pulled her out of the sling. She giggled some more and jumped to my shoulder. She slipped and grabbed both my shoulders firmly with her forepaws. Then she planted her hind paws on the small of my back. She extended her wings fully so that it looked like I had small dragon wings. I shook my head at her antics. "This, James, is Rouk," I said, pointing to her and she gave him one of Wren's Cheshire cat grins. "She's Wren's muse. At least I think she is. We really haven't quite determined what she is to be truthful."

"'Kay…." James replied. "You mean the bio-mech she mentioned in her random rambling?" he added.

"Yep," Rouk replied. She brought up a Siamese hologram and perched herself on my shoulder. "I have a solid hologram projection system that lets me change shapes, retractable blades along my back, fully functional wings, and I can track Wren's every movement."

"You can what!" I exclaimed with a growl.

"I can track Wren. I am her muse you know." She then jumped to Zim's shoulder and changed back.

"Why didn't you tell us that?" I asked, getting angry. GIR hid behind Zim and Zim stood his ground firmly with a scowl planted on his face.

"You never asked," answered Rouk with an indifferent shrug.

"Why you little..." I said and started to go at her.

James put his hand on my shoulder. "Sorry Rachel. You get to kill her later, but now we have to find Wren," he told me. He then leaned over and whispered, "Even though you are adorable when you are angry."

I blushed a deep crimson. Zim looked at me and raised a nonexistent eyebrow. He opened his mouth to say something, but then shut it and shook his head. "I am not asking. Not my business. Let's just find Wren and get out of this stinking pile of raw metal," he said turning to move from the piled unconscious guards.

We all started to turn away and head back down the corridor but stopped all of a sudden when the door behind us started to open. It made shrill scraping sounds and then stopped. We all turned around only to see a shadow in the doorway. "Out of the pan and into the fire," I muttered.

Wren's P.O.V….

After the several bangs and a huge crash, I heard a murmur of voices. My three pals went to the door and squeaked in a questioning tone. I walked over to the door and put my ear against it to hear better. I placed my hand on the wall beside me to balance myself. Unwittingly I triggered the panel to open the door and the door started to move with a shrill screech. My three little pals gave a chirp and hid behind me. "Umm... this might not be good," I muttered, my ears down as I backed away from the door slowly. The door came to a complete stop and three shadows came into view. There were several minutes of silence and no one moved.

Two small shadows started to move, one through the air and one running, both coming toward me. I could see their eyes, one icy blue and the other one a turquoise blue. Suddenly I hit the floor with a thud and something was licking my face and hugging my neck. "Whoa!" I said, giggling trying to get both off.

The one that was licking me stopped. "You're okay!" it said happily.

"Thank god, Wren's okay," the other figured stated.

I cocked my head to the side and finally figured out who the other two shadows were. The third one was a complete mystery. "I'm guessing you found me by dumb luck, Rachel," I called. I stood up and got a closer look at the third person, but before I could ask who it was, Rachel started to laugh.

"Love what you're wearing, Wren. Nice Roman touch," she said.

I saw Zim avert his eyes and I looked down. I blushed beet red. I was still in the sheet. It was wrapped around my chest still but slowly it was creeping down. I adjusted it carefully, kept a hand on it and glared at Rachel. "It's not my fault," I answered. "I'm sorry, but I never planned to be allergic to the stuff. I never planned to change, and I most certainly never frellen planned to be taken away! And who the frell is that person?" I added, getting worked up, tail lashing sharply.

"Wren calm down," Rachel said as she took a step forward holding a tentative hand out towards me.

"Calm down? I am calm Rachel. The only way I'll get calmer is if I fall asleep!" I growled slapping it away.

"Wren, I mean it. Calm down," Rachel soothed again as she raised her hand again and placed a hand on my shoulder.

It didn't work for me. "Rachel, do not start with me," I growled even more and crouched back and down moving away from her touch. "Now is not the time to touch me."

"Why?" she asked, starting to get ticked.

"Everything is bad right now and I am really not in the mood to talk and I have no clothes except for a stinkin' sheet. I have fucking cat ears, tail and paws. Not too long ago I found out I also have a fucking cat nose. I just don't need any of this right now!"

"That doesn't mean you have to bite my head off!" she yelled at me.

"If you would not have laughed at me, I would have not been here like this and we would have been long gone by now!" I yelled back.

"But if we would have left earlier, then we would never have helped James!"

"Well if it fucking helped him fine! But what about helping me! Pushing me away so you can get some tail is fucking pathetic!"

"Excuse me? What the fuck are you talking about? I saw someone who needed help and helped them! I wasn't thinking about anything else but helping them and finding you!"

"Like hell!"

James and Zim were looking warily at us. They were uncertain at how two friends could fight so viciously especially with how worried Rachel was moments before. They also were not sure exactly how to separate the two if they started beating the crap out of each other without getting hurt themselves.

"Should we break it up?" Zim whispered to James.

"Soon, but not now. Both of them need to release some anger," James replied in a whisper. "When the claws come out we'll try to break it up."

"We were helping you! We were coming to find you!" Rachel shouted at me, fists curling at her sides.

"I bet!" I growled back baring my teeth.

"We were! That's what we were doing!"

"And get yourself caught in the process? Aren't you fucking stupid!" I yelled.

Rachel pulled back her fist and let a punch fly. I dodged it by moving to the right and tried to launch myself at her. James grabbed Rachel around her waist to stop her from launching another punch. Zim grabbed my waist and pulled me away from Rachel. Even though he looked weak, he was pretty strong and I struggled my ass off but he kept me detained.

"Let me go!" I snarled and struggled even more in Zim's grip. I strained in his grip and reached out as if to claw at Rachel.

"Let go, James!" Rachel growled trying to get at me.

"Rachel, our first priority is to get out of here. You don't want to die young do you?" James said and Rachel paused, only briefly. "I didn't think so. You and Wren can duel it out on the escape ship if we get there," James said in a calming voice.

"Fine," Rachel answered and relaxed in his grip.

"Grrr." I growled and calmed down enough until Zim let go. My tail continued to twitch with frustration. I turned to Zim and glared at him. He just glared right back at me.

"I'm keeping my part of the truce. If you kill Rachel, technically our truce would end," he said, "And James is right. Our first priority is to escape and not die trying."

I sighed, deflating a little and nodded. "Let's get out of here," I muttered.

"Fine. We'll get out of here and then talk about why we were fighting later," Rachel answered, agreeing.

"Good. Now that that cat fight is cooled for a while, no pun intended," James said looking my way. I waved it off muttering a 'Don't worry about it.' "let's go back to the cargo bay and grab a good ship," James declared.

I never moved an inch. I had other thoughts on my mind. The three spheres had helped me and I didn't want them to get destroyed. "Wait," I called and everyone stopped and looked at me. "We can't go yet."

"Why?" Rachel asked, starting to get angry again.

"Because, we have to take something with us," I replied.

"What is it?" James asked.

"It's more like they."

Zim raised an eyebrow and asked, "They?"

The three spheres hovered in around me. The one gave a small squeak and all three hid behind me. "It could be a trap," cautioned James, eying them warily.

"If they are, then you can blame me," I retorted. "They listen to me and I can somewhat understand them too."

"Wren." Rachel growled.

"But... They helped me!"

"Whatever. If they follow us I really don't care. I just want to get out of here," she turned around and stalked off down the hall.

"Fine," I grumbled under my breath.

James sighed as he ran a hand through his hair. He followed after Rachel without a word.

Zim looked at me a moment longer before following, Rouk on his shoulder. She glanced at me with a small look of worry and I sent a wave of calm thoughts toward her. She shifted but stayed on Zim's shoulder.

I looked at the spheres around me. I laid a hand on one gently and brushed a thumb over its surface. Another bumped my cheek softly. The last hummed softly from above me. A feeling of calm washed over me and I gave a slight smile. The feeling from them was a slight sense of being and knowing things would work out.

Without letting my three companions get too far ahead of me I gave a slight snort but jogged a little to catch them.

I really think I added to this chapter a good bit to be truthful. I really hope that people really like these chapters that I've revamped. I'm more happy with them now after rereading them. I can't believe how much I could add to many sections.

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