Mwaha! So...the plot thickens, but is Kovu, erm, I mean am I alright? You won't find out

soon, but you will find out what's been going

on since the last volume of history, find out

in Chapter 5: Backstory, Part 1.

Laters.





Thanks, all...well chapter 5 isn't finished

yet, but I guess you all must be tired of

waiting. I had two titles but I couldn't decide which I liked better,

so vote and whichever wins will be for the record books. Oh, and the content of the next

chapter may be...disturbing, to some, especially late at night(I know I sure was spooked

when I wrote it ) Nothing to violent or the like, it just involves the afterlife, ghosts,

and demons, amonst other ghastly things. Heed my warning...

Chapter 5: Backstory (I Can't Feel Him)



"Kovu...do you know where you are?" A cold voice said. The aforementioned's eyes

were washed out, but eventually focoused. The room was deathly white...uttlerly white,

with no flaws.

"I said, do you know where you are?" Dispite the fact that he had no idea who this was,

he felt no need to lie to them

"I...I don't know."

"What would you say if I told you that you where dead?" The voice said. Kovu now realised

he was strung out on a rack. Turning to the voice, he saw a figure in a cloak. His face was

disturbing, as it wasn't. Where it's face should've been was a skull. But, like a mask on the

left side of his face, was a mask of Aldan's.

"Whats going on?"

"I told you you're dead."

"Who are you?"

"Don't you recognize me? I'm Aldan."

"Y-you're dead, too?"

"Since when have you accepted that you're dead?"

"I just want to know what's going on here!"

"Welcome to Heaven." Aldan...Aldan's corpse gestured to the wide...white area.

"Not what you expected, hm?" Kovu nodded 'no.' In an instant, the white room transformed

into a tottally dark dungeon, horrible cries could be heard in the background and ethereal

shadows slunked around.

"Does this suit you better." No...filled him with dread. Just then, a burgandy colored

figure swooped in, scythe in tow and slashed at Kovu's throat, time grinding to a errie

hault at the last possible moment. He could feel the icy chill of the corpse's figures on

the back of his head. Colder than death...no, just cold enough...just cold enough.

The corpse spoke into his ear.

"Both Heaven and **** are on Carrotous, you just have to look for them...don't you remember?"

A image of carnage flashed before Kovu for a mere moment, but he sternly replied.

"What?"

"You're insolent, you know that." The corpse turned to look into Kovu's eyes, something he

wished it hadn't.

"Heaven's to good for you, Kovu, you've killed far too many, but **** is to bad for you, you've

saved to far too many. Carrotous is just bad enough I think." Kovu disliked the cold, he hated

it. But he hated this more. Out of sheer dread, hate, terror, disgust, all thease things and more, Kovu said.

"How did I die?" Kovu shook with rage.

"Does 'needle' ring a bell?" The image of a needle sinking into his flesh.

"What was it?" Kovu felt as though he was getting drunk, loosing perception. The corpse

breathed, onto Kovu's eyes, so that they stung.

"Air...you're dead like me...like Xeno, like Kazooie, like Ducky, like Dazz, like Defalcon,"

"Stop it, stop it, STOP IT!"

"like Blaksheep, like...Simba,"

"BE QUIET!"

"like...Kiara..."

"I SAID BE QUIET!"

"Like..." He said the last word to the utmost slowness,"...Kat..."

"SHUT UP!!!" He smacked the demonic thing across the face, trying to dispell his odium.

"Welcome back to the land of the living." It smiled.

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"Aldan had invented a portal to the Other World...the future, the land of humans." Ducky

began.

"That's when it all began...a being named Teross came from the Other World, where the Rabbits

where still weak as a race."

"Harnessing the advance bio and nano technology from our worlds, he created a army of

twisted monsters to do his bidding and eventually lay control to all who inhabited the Other

World by focousing his emmense psyhic power. Tyio and I left for the Other World, but we,"

Ducky was interuppted by Calie.

"Uh, excuse me but...who's Aldan, and who's Tyio?"

"I must admit I have wondered." Blacksheep said.

"You mean you don't know?"

"Nope." Calie returned.

"Y'know, that purple rabbit who lead New Ontranaught...?" Kazooie asked.

"..."

"Who killed Zygot?"

"Ziggie-who?"

"Defeated the humans!?"

"Oh yeah! Him! But who's Ziggeot? Is that anything like a 'idiot'?" It finally rung a bell to Blacksheep.

"Uh...no...he was the dude who caused all those earthquakes and stuff about twenty years ago,

and who sicced all those humans on us?"

"Ohhh! Yeah...well don't blame me, I've been on Medivo."

"What about Tyio?" Calie asked. Suddenly Ducky jumped up zealously.

"Oh, he's the greatest guy ever! He -under



quickly

found ourselves no match for the Legion, that's what Teross called his dark army. Teross said

it would take five years to figure out how to create a nexus back to our world. In that time

we searched for a rabbit with psyhic power that rivaled Teross' a lowly Diamondian named

Kallis. We trained him and had secured a nexus back to our world, so we could prepare for

Teross' arrival there. We got separated when the Legion ambushed us on the way to the nexus."

Ducky's eyes began to well up.

"I made it through, and I know Kallis did but...I..." She broke out in a sob,

"I can't sense Tyio's lifeforce anymore..."

Grath stood up.

"Don't worry Ducky, I'm sure he's alright...but what you see in a demo-" Kazooie made the 'chopping off head' sign.

"Uh...what was I saying?" A moment later, a volley of blaster fire could be heard.

Then, with a 'wsssh' the door fell open.

"Anyone here in need of rescuing?"

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Spooky....just spooky. And Creepy....

and spooky...



mwahahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHH HAAA HAAA HAAAAAAA!!!!!

Uh...sorry.

Chapter 6: Teross' Lies



A beige colored rabbit brandishing a purple energy sword stood in the doorway.

"C'mon!" She shouted over her shoulder into the battle that raged outside.

"Hold on! I'm on a roll!" The beige rabbit turned back to them.

"What are you doing just standing there?" The five rabbits quickly replied and arrived in the hallway just in time to see a brown rabbit chop off a sick, tan colored monster's

head. Then he flipped around and destroyed

a series of robots. That's when they realised

they where in a hallway lined with cells with

a ceiling atleast twenty feet high.

"Lil' help here?" The brown rabbit asked in

a unmistakable voice.

"Kove!But I thought you were-"

"Don't start that again, just help me with thease things!" He returned as he fired through a robots back.

"Kazooie..." The Tanpopo threw Kazooie his sword.

"Blacksheep..." She hurled her the Jello Blaster.

"Calie..." The latter was tossed her sword.

"Ducky..." Was given her staff.

"Grath..." Got his sword back.

"And me..." Tanpopo redrew her energy sword.

Ducky started off the attack by launching a torrent of electricity at a number of the

assualting robots, many loosing limbs.

The one in the center, however, gave a unholy squeal as it's atoms contracted and it polymorphed into toast. Kazooie jumped up in the air and with a sonic boom destroyed several bots. Calie and Grath jumped into the fray at the same time, together X slicing a oncoming bot. Blacksheep drew here Jello Blaster and fired burning balls of rasberry at several robots, there limbs melting.

"Ha! Just like burning armymen, mwaha!" Blacksheep laughed with uncarachteristic malice. Tanpopo used her force power to

knock two of the robots together.

Amid the bodies of his comerades, stood one,

scared robot. After shaking for a few moments, he ran, only to be taken down by

Kovu's blaster a few seconds later.

"Yeah!" Grath said excitedly.

"We did it!" Calie cheered.

"Yeah, yeah, Kovu! What happened! First Dazz comes to save you, then you scream and

all, and now you're here! What's up!?" Kazooie asked. The image of Aldan's corpse flashed across Kovu's mind for a mere instant, but then he said,

"'Dazz' was actually one of Teross' robots. Right now we are in loose Carrotous orbit. This is Teross' ship."

"So what's the plan?" Ducky asked.

"We head back to Carrotous, find Aldan," The image appeared again for a split instant,"we'll explain about you guys and hopefully, he has located or captured Kallis."

"No..." Ducky said.

"Eh?"

"No...he shouldn't have, why does he want to capture Kallis?"

"Because he was the one who gave Teross the nanotechnology..."

"Teross' lies are rooted deeper than I thought, Kallis is actually a psyhic of a

magnitude rivalling Teross. Somehow one of

his agents must have tricked Aldan to do

his dirty work. Kallis is the only thing standing between him, and the Katalym."

Kovu contemplated for a moment.

"Kove, after all this time, do you think I would lie to you?"

"Lies...so many lies, It's not a question of you, but a question of you're information." Kovu paused, then continued,

"We have to get to Carrotous anyway, we'll worry about this later." They took off running torwards the flight deck, and met with no enemies. Finally they arrived at the black colored flight deck.

"That was almost to easy, you suppose this is a trap?"

"If it's a trap, I don't see we have much an option of not falling into it..."



LOL! You all were so entertaining trying to

get me to continue, that I couldn't help

but not interuppt! Ahem, okie, enough tourture, here comes chapter 6!(I think chapter 6)

Chapter 6: Sky Over Diamondus



"You most certaintly are." A white colored rabbit in a red robe stood at the top of a platform several yards away from our heros. With a Cahinck! several of the space-ships there transformed into a array of robots, and several of those

odd monsters succuried into the room.

"Can I call 'em or what?" Kovu asked. Soon the others prepared there weapons.

"No need for that, you have a exit craft right there," Teross pointed to a unguarded vessel, hatch open.

"No need for senseless violence." At the moment, seeing no alternative, they cautiously entered the ship.

"Oh, and one more thing..." Kovu was whisked away by Teross' psychic field.

"What the?" Kazooie reached out to grab him, but to no avail. Teross snatched Kovu by the hair and held a sword to his throat.

"Hey, watch the hair!"

"Silence! Now, get into that shuttle and get off my ship, there is a planet below."

They were hesistant.

"Do it! Or he dies!" Teross pressed the sword. This time, they complied, and the ship iddylically floated out of the dock.

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"Welcome back, Dazz." The halfling entered a poorly lit room.

"Thanks, Aldan."

"I trust you're battle on Medivo was fruitful?"

"We rallies fivehtousand Medivans to our side, and the blessings of Lord Vermies."

"Vermies is a fool, and we will destroy him, in the end." Aldan turned to Dazz.

"Any signs of Kallis."

"No, sir, but, uhm, you have someone to, uhm... see you, sir..."

"Who?"

"*mumble**mumble*mumble*"

"What?"

"Chancellor Iaks of New Ontranaught..."

"WHAT! TAKE ME TO HIM, IMMEDIATLEY!"

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"Ah, Lord Aldan, a pleasure." Iaks, who had been sitting in a bluish chair just outside Aldan's office, rose.

"Cut the formalities, Iaks, tell me why you are here or get OFF my planet!" Aldan drew his sword.

"Calm down, Aldan, as you know a war between New Ontranaught and your, what is the word?"

"Garrison." Aldan said with venom.

"Ah, yes, Garrison, is inevetiable. Thousands will die, but I propose to you now a duel, the loser either dies or is exiled,

and he turns his army, or his next in command, his army over to the victory.

No or very little letting of blood is needed to settle this. Do you accept?"

Aldan smiled,

"I accept."

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"So...were stuck on Diamondus...the Dark side of diamondus..." Ducky said sadly.

"Uh...don't you live of Diamondus, Ducky?" Blacksheep asked.

"True, but not on the Dark side."

"Uh...what's the 'Dark' side? It looks bright enough to me."

"The Dark side is a sparsly populated continent, there are no cities, no electricity unless you

channel it youreself, and the ferry, being wind based, takes months to reach the nearest

land mass."

"Teross trapped us here effectively enough, he only packed the ship with enough fuel to

get here and a EMP shockwave to fry the circuitry." Grath said.

"What about Kaz?" Calie asked. Kazooie quickly ducked behind a nearby boulder.

"You can't make me fly you if you can't catch me!"

"Don't worry Kaz, the sea is too great for you to carry all of us across..." Ducky thought.

"This is great..." Grath hopped on the ship-engine-turned-hunk-of-metal,"were stuck on

a island, Teross is about to conquer the world, and Kovu has been carried off to who

knows where!" They stood there for about twenty minutes, until Tanpopo spoke up.

"Wa-waait, Ducky, isn't Birdland on this island?"

"Well yeah...yeah it is...a whole lot of birds..."

"MWAHAHAHAHA!"

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Aldan clasped the his leather hilted sword.

He had changed into a peculair white vest while Iaks was clothed with a traditional

New Ontranaught black suit.

"Good luck." Iaks said as there two swords touched tip to tip, a sign of honor.

Without so much as a grunt in reply, Aldan slashed down as Iaks' knee, but the latter

blocked. Iaks then thrust inward, but Aldan

slipped to the side, then slashed across to

Iaks' head, the latter again blocking.

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The tiny town of Otomayim. The old groundskeeper sweeping the steps of the rebuilt Fen's Inn.

The manager of the book store quietly counting sums. The wicken, contently sorting potions. A happy place, a happy time, of peace. Well...for a while.

At a precarious cliff stood a lone figure, who was soon joined by a second.

"What have you got for me?"

"Something good Kallis, paperwork is already done, you're name Ala'Ken Juno, age 23, a scupltor."

"Good..." The first figure turned to leave.

"I just can't get who a nice guy like you

would be running from."

"I"m running from the world, I'm running from the world."

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Iaks sword sliced Aldan's in half, with a body slam, he knocked Aldan to the ground

and place his sword near Aldan's throat.

"Duel over." Iaks extended his hand to help

Aldan up. Aldan, in turn, snatched it and

hurled Iaks over him, causing him to land on

a falcon shaped narrow balcony like thing.

The sword splashed into a wade pool twenty

meters below.

"You cheated...and I was a fool..." A green sword materialized in Aldan's hand.

"Yep." Only part of Iaks fell to the bottom.

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...duh duh daaa



Oh, soooo close, but no Carrot.

Fear not, it will be revieled soon enough...

Okay...so a good percent of the chapter is

nonsensical and comedic, with little plot

value, as if it's MY fault that I wrote it

that way

Chapter 6: Sky Over Diamondus, Part 2 v2.0



The five warriors pressed on through the rocky Diamondian terrain. It had been about

six hours since they left the crash site, and dusk was in it's final throes.

"Urgh, how long 'till we reach Birdland?" Calie asked. Grath then looked at a watch-like apparatus that gave a green glow.

"Let's see, six miles an hour, fifty miles, about nine hours."

"Agh!" Calie grumbled, but they all felt the need to grumble.

"Hm, it's already getting dark, why don't we set up camp, I'm sure we'll all feel better tomarrow." Blacksheep suggested, already unpacking.

"Good call." Kazooie replied, doing similairly. In no time at all they had a working camp, and a working fire, though I

don't know how you could have a fire that

doesn't work.*

"Sooooooo, what is this...uhm..." Kaz wondered, pondering at the writhing green slug thing on the end of his stick.

"Ground Worm, indeginous to Diamondus and Fanolint." Ducky, the resident Diamondus expert, awnsered.

"Oh...that's nice." Kaz cautiously poked the worm with another stick.

"It's high in protien and vitamins, and theres a wive's tale that if you soak the

brain in saltwater and drink it, you will

learn what the worm knew."

"*Gulp* Okay...and uh, why is it still

-alive-?"

"Well, if you cook it, all it juices evaporate and it turns into nothing but a crispy rock. If you kill it quickly, a enzym

(sp?) in it's blood causes it to explode in a ball of methane."

"It explodes into a giant fart...okay I think I just lost my appetite." Kaz retreated to the tent. Ducky pulled out two forks.

"Dig in!" She said zealously, chopping up the worm, leaving the others with blank stares.

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"And then the valiant warrior stood to the dragon and said, "Ura, kowu zul tek nosen!"

Which, in rabbit, means "My courage shines deeply and I will destory you!" Then there was the slashing and the bashing and crushing

and mashing and destruction, carnage..." Tanpopo's story drawled into the background.

"Okay, I assume you have a good story?" Grath questioned Kaz.

"Well, okay, so there was this guy, then he woke up,and created a sub space particle

emmiter, and jumped through a tank, and

made a pork, and went back to sleep!"

".................What?" Grath was genuinley confused.

"Bwaha! You should see the look on you're

face, haha!" Kaz chortled.

"................What? I'm still confused..." Grath's face twisted in perplexion.

"Grr, the story was a bunch of nonsensical gibberish to confuse you!" Kaz explained.

"................What? I still don't understand, it was too confusing."

"I understood it." BlackSheep said.

"You would." Kaz returned.

"Hey!" BlackSheep kicked Kaz into the leftoverworm parts.

"Ahhhh! Worm on my face! Worm on my face!"

"I remain victorious!" BlackSheep walked away, striding.

"Oh no you don't!" Kaz jumped up and tackled BlackSheep, his body covered in worm organs.

"I'm leaving..." Ducky pulled a book out of her pack and walked away.

"I'll go check on the radar." Calie suggested, and walked torward a strange, spinning device that served as a portable

radar.

"...And the jabbing and the kicking and the throwing and Glavin!" Tanpopo continued her discription of the battle.

"Lets see..." Calie pressed in a series of keys and a holographic radar image appeared.

"What the? Starship, on the Dark Side? It's approaching directly and fast, I have to

warn someone!" She returned to the camp...

"And the slapping and the wedgies and the slamming, and the..."

"Not her..."Calie decided.

"Ahh! Stop this, I've got worm feet in my hair!"

"Not them..."

"..........What? I really don't get it!"

"Arg! Don't you understand?"

"Definetly not them..." Then she saw the

dark figure of Ducky inside the tent.

"Ducky!" Calie broke off running.

Ducky sat in the tent, her eyes wide, reading a book clearly marked 'Scary Stories.' Calie came running in and shook her to get her attention

"AHHHHHH! Calie! Don't shake me like that, if you want my attention, just tap me on the shoulder.

"Okay, sorry." As Calie was walking away, she got a celver idea. A devilish idea. A devilishly clever idea.

Doning a grotesque monster mask, she walked up to Ducky and tapped her on her shoulder.

"Yes, wha-AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Five minutes and lots of rope later:

"C'mon, please untie me, blood rushing to my head gives me a bad hair day!" Calie pleaded, totally tied up and dangling unside down from a branch.

"I'll untie you in the marrow, until then, g'night, mwahaha!" Ducky laughed and returned

to the camp.

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It was late into the night. The fire was embers, and the Diamondain moons hung

perilously large in the sky. Suddenly, from

the tent, came a series of muffled screams,

and Calie awoke just in time to witness a

dark figure scurry off with a squirming bag.

"Hey, you! Stop!" Calie swung around, to no avail.

"Grr, he got away, but don't worry my friends," She then mustered her best Dudley

Doright, "I'll save you...as soon as I get

down from here..."

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Duh duhh daa daaa!





*Kaz: Have you lit the fire?

Tanpopo: I'm trying...

Kaz:You did use a plasm lighter, right?

Tanpopo: I'm not a idiot.

Kaz:...well, did you put it close enough to the wood?

Tanpopo: Yes...

Kaz: Is the wood wet?

Tanpopo: No.

Kaz: Did you...put dried leaves near the wood?

Tanpop: Yes, but it still doesn't work!

Kaz: How can a fire not work!

(Ten minutes later)

Ducky: Hey Tanpopo, you got the fire ready?

Kaz: I'm doing it.

Ducky: Oh, why isn't ready?

Kaz: 'Cause the fire doesn't work!

(Ten more minutes later)

BlkSheep: Hey Tanpopo, why isn't the fire ready?

Tanpopo: IT'S NOT MY FAULT OK!

BlkSheep: Sheesh...

Ducky: I'm doing it, Black.

BlkSheep: Why isn't the fire ready, then?

Ducky: It doesn't work!*sob*

(Ten MORE minutes later)

BlkSheep: That log is cursed!

Okay, so maybe that was a pointless section merely for my bemusment, but hey...free laugh.



Darkness...

Chapter 7: Castle Alzarem



BlackSheep woke slowly, due to light streaming in through a strange window.

"Huh, wha? Where am I?" As her vision cleared, she found herself in a heavily decorated Victorian room. She tried to stand, but found that she was tied down to a bed.

"What the?" As if summoned, a strange orb-shaped robot with a single red eye hovered over her.

"Unit Specimen #103 Equals Condition Concious, Preparing Sedative..."

"What's going on?!" BlackSheep struggled, but the robot injected her wiht a bluish liquid.

"I'll get you, you stuppiiid..."

"Specimen Sedated."

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Tanpopo woke to the scent of tea.

"Huh? What's going on?" She was in a ornatley decorated room, similair to the

one BlackSheep found herself in.

"Wierd, the last thing I remember...was going to Nemmihs... where am I?" As she moved to get out of the bed she was lying on,

several manicals slivered off her ankles and

wrists just as she noticed them.

"Must be my eyes..." As she exited the room, she entered a long hallway, paved with a red rug. On each side of a door, (of which

there were many) there were busts of the likes of Shakespeare, Plato, Einstein, Newton, Dethman, et cetera. At one end of the hall was a window, from which a warm light cascaded. And from the other end was

a staircase, and the source of the scent of

tea. As she walked torward the smell, she

couldn't help but feel as though a presence

haunted her, dodging out of the way just when she turned around to look at it.

At the end of the hall, she found a large dining room, Victorian in design, with a

mahogony table in the center. Around it

was Ducky, Kazooie, and Grath, and another unknown rabbit, all drinking tea.

"Ah, the Empress, how good of you to join us." The unfamiliar told her.

"She says she saved us, that we were all badly injured and have been unconsious for three days." Grath said, his eyes like daggers on the unfamiliar rabbit.

"Please sit down, have some tea." The rabbit had yellow fur, and was probably in her mid to late fifties.

"She won't tell us who she is." Ducky said.

"Now, to tell you that would spoil all the fun." The yellow rabbit giggled.

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BlackSheep awoke again.

"Ugh...what's going on? Where is this place?" She reached for her blaster and found that it was gone.

"My Jello-Blaster!" She rummaged through the various chest and drawers in the absurdly

prestine room, and the best she came up with

was a old eighteenth century flint-lock gun.

"Who keeps a gun that's over a thousand years, old? Oh well, when in Zenshar." She fired at the wall, opening up a passage way.

"I'm not sticking around to find out what's here..." She creeped into the hole and then

painfully manevered through the crevices and

ducts throught the house.

"Once I get out of this mess, I'm going on a diet." Then it occured to her the last thing that she remembered.

She remembered embarking to Katalym with Calie, on a mission for the Senate.

"Calie, I wonder if she was captured too?" As she creeped deeper into the maze she found a strange, large cap. Picking up the

dish sized hunk of steel, she examined the

hunk of steel.

"Hmm, cap to a compressed fusion cell, vintage 2750, hmm, whats a antiquane house

like this doing with a fusion cell?"

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Calie spent most of the morning escaping from the branch, but she cut a deal with

a chipmunk to gnaw her loose.

"Yup, this is the place, all of there energy signatures are in that castle!" And

what a castle it was, atleast two acres in length, with towers and courtyards. As she got closer, she noticed something odd,

the grass in a concentric ring around the

castle was much older than the grass near it,

infact the change in the dead grass was to a fraction.

"I've heard of people not caring for there yards, but un-caring for it? That's strange..."

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Ducky looked out one of the few windows in the castle.

"What the...hey that's Calie! She's come to save us!" The yellow rabbit looked out the window.

"Oh dear Lord, don't!"

"What, afraid your door anti-opening device has been tharted, mwaha!" Kazooie chortled.

"Oh no!" The yellow rabbit opened the door

hastily, and ran out to Calie, the others coming with her.

"What's going on?" Grath asked. Then, just as Calie crossed the line where the grass

deteriorated, she fell smack down into the dirt.

"Calie!" The others shouted in unison and ran to her.

"Calie! What's up?!" Kazooie asked as she got within speaking distance of Calie. Calie raised her head to look at him. But it wasn't

the Calie they knew. Here eyes where dull, her hair scraggly and white, and her face craved with wrinkles.

"What's happened to me?" She asked...

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Duh duhh daaa! I'm sure most of you have solved a good percent of the mystery, but

for those who haven't, oh well...



thanks all , and Calie, you were stuck in a tree because you scared the heck out of

Ducky with that mask. As to the gragly stuff, it will be explained...now.

Chapter 8: Teross Nike Awakens*



"Quickly, get her inside the house, Grath, fetch me some salt water." The yellow rabbit commanded. They hauled the fainted Calie onto the couch in the main room and Grath quickly returned with the salt water.

"Excellent, use a sponge and knead her face and hands with it."

"Righto."

"What happened?" Ducky asked.

"In order for you to know that, I must tell you who I am." The yellow rabbit said solemnly.

"THEN WHO ARE YOU!?"

"My name is Kayle." Silence.

"W-what?" Ducky, Grath and Kazooie where in shock, the others didn't know who this Kayle was."

"Kayle? What happened to you?" Ducky asked.

"We all are in a dome of energy that accelerates time by a enormus ratio. It was created by the Zygot during the Terra War.**

However, Teross currently controls it."

"But...howcome that," Kazooie pointed to Calie,"Didn't happen to us?"

"Due to the frequency of the time disruptor, it's affects can be negated by

shavings of Sparif crystal."

"Wait, hold on, who are you?" Tanpopo asked.

"About twenty years ago, a terrible rabbit by the name of Zygot gained control of the holy clan Ontranaught, and sought a crystal called Sparif, which not only granted emmense power, but we now learn also gives extraodinary health and long life to anyone

in it's proximity. A mighty warrior named Aldan, trained by Dethman, captured Sparif

and defeated Zygot, but he only returned a month later. Using a dimensional vortex created by the spirit that inhabited the Sparif, he gained a army of Terrans, which,

too, where defeated by Aldan's army. I was alongside Aldan throught all of this."

Kayle explained.

"But if this place is controled by Zygot..." Grath lead off.

"See this?" Kayle pointed to a absurd object attached to her temple."

"I am under Teross' control, if I disobey him, I am killed by this."

"But...why does Teross need a time field?" Ducky asked.

"Kallis, the warrior from the other world, is indeed stronger than Teross, so before

Kallis passed through the mini-vortex created by Aldan, Teross got a sample of his cells, combined them with his own to grow

a super-psyhic, capable of defeating Kallis. The only drawback is that it would take fifty years to grow the beast, so..."

"So he used something that would speed up time for him, he's evil, but he's also clever." Kazooie pondered.

"But wait a second, that means this thing must almost be complete!" Ducky concluded.

"I should know, as caretaker of this place, that the cells of Kallis and Teross aren't exactly compatable, most of the fetal creatures died, some made it to larger sized, but all are dead, we only have one

subject remaining. I'm afraid that, once it completes soon, this one may be healthy enough to extend it's psyhic powers and become

the terrible thing Teross invisoned."

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BlackSheep walked up to a large metal door.

"Ha! Jackpot! This should explain things.

She pushed to open the door, but it did not buge.

"Gah! This thing is huge!" She tried again, and this time it finally opened enough for

her to get inside.

"Brr! This whole room is freezing!" She looked around and saw a series of fusion cells.

"I feel like I just followed the human down the elevator*." Turning to the right, she noticed a large terminal with three large cylindars underneath.

"Kallis Cells. Teross Cells. Frozen Embryos." She read the lables on the cylindars. Then she looked up at the terminal.

"Combining production halted, improper amounts of bio-matter, Frozen embryos will

deteriorate in minus 32 days. Total: 136 failures." This begged more questions than it awnsered.

"What is this? A cloning lab?" She walked deeper down the corridor, and to her right

found a room marked 'Inhabitation Area.' This door opened much more easily, infact

it was automatic. What she saw in there both horrified and intrigued.

Littered across the floor where bodies of insect like creatures, all aparently dead.

"A hundred and thirty six failures." Now that made sense.

"Kuuur." She heard a low, strange purr from a large metal box directly beside her.

Turning quickly, she saw a very small version of one of thease beings, it's limbs

thing and wet, it's step unsure. It had two,

large(for it's total size) hind legs, and a fat, medium length tail. It's arms where short and thin, with long, surgeon like fingers, with a thick, long neck, it's

slightly translucent eyes were closed, and it had a jagged mouth.

"Kuuur." It purred again.

"Oh no." She thought and picked up the fragile thing, petting it lightly on it's head. Why, the creature fit in her hand.

"Kraow." The insect had the mannerisms of a kitten, and let out something similair to a 'meow.'

"It's so small." Blacksheep smiled, "Maybe I'll take you home with me..." The creature

reached out to her with it's tiny forearms, obviously sensing by sound since it's eyes

were closed tightly. It's fingers suddenly collapsed, and it abruptly fell over.

"W-what?!"

"One Hundred And Thirty Seven Failures." The computer called.

"It...it's dead." A single tear slid down her face, then froze due to the temperature.

She gently lay the insect in a curled up position on the metal box.

"...life isn't something to experiment with." Disrupting her prayer, a loud crash

could be heard from the room across her.

"Growth room?" She cautiously left the first room and went to the other across the

hall. There where several clear cylinders, but most of them where shattered, and the ground was moist.

But one of the remaining tubes was cracked, and from it fell a stream of a blue-green liquid with golden specks swimming around in it.

Then came the crash again, and she could see a brownish fist crash into the dent in the tube.

"What in the world?" Then the crash came again, louder than ever, and the threshold of

glass shattered, and out stepped a much larger version of the being that just died.

All along it's body where tubes. And this creature did not seem happy. BlackSheep

fumbled about with the flintlock gun she had stolen and fired it at the creature, but the

bullet hole, mearly healed a moment later.

"KKKKRAAAAAAOOOOOOOWWWW!" The creature screamed and ripped the tubes off it's body.

"One Hundred and Thirty Seven Failures, One Sucess." The computer spoke.

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"Teross designated me caretaker of this place, we have never had a sucess."

"What are thease things called, anyway?" Kazooie asked.

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"I AM..." The creature screamed.

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"Teross Nike."

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"AND I WILL LAY WASTE TO THIS UNIVERSE!" The creature flew straight at BlackSheep, kicking her into unconciousness.



Well, the reason it took so many tries is because they were trying to fuse the cells

of two seperate beings, not simply incubate one. Kayle isn't a servant of Zygot, she's under the power of Teross, Zygot is dead,

remember?

And Nike Teross thingy isn't a cat, it's a bug-like thing, but you already

know that, right? Anywho...

Chapter 8: Nike Teross Awakens, Part 2



"What was that?" Kazooie asked, after hearing a loud crash.

"Oh no, that's Nike Teross...it survived!" Kayle got up and pointed down a dark corridor right of the intial hall.

"Go down that hall and use the elevator to get to level B5, the Growth Area is there, I'll be no good in a fight, so I'll stay

with Calie." With a silent nod Ducky, Kazooie, Grath and Tanpopo ran down the hall.

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Aldan, hero of the battle at Skops, sat on a regal platform hovering precariously over

the gardens of his clans estate, the New Cathrine clan.

"My, my, I have been in many a clan, first Ontranaught, then Cathrine, then New Ontranaught, now New Cathrine, the pattern

dictates I'll be going somewhere new soon enough." He walked to the edge of the platform.

"Erecu, what's the status of our force?" Aldan spoke into a comm. placed on his wrist.

"We have ten thousand troops and fivethousand ships positoned on and around Carrotous, three thousand ships in orbit,

seven mineral bases on Matak and a airbase housing ten thousand ships on Muar. On Tubereic we have one thousand ships and five thousand troops, on Medivo we have fiveteen thousand ships and ten thousand troops, on

Diamondus we have five thousand ships and one thousand troops, is there anything else

you need, my Kiryie??"

"Yes, prepare my shuttle to leave for Medivo, I want to depart in three hours."

"Yes, my Kiryie."

"Oh, and Erecu?"

"Yes, my Kiryie?"

"What is of the status of our...acquiring, of clan New Ontranaught?"

"Process nearly complete, my Kiryie, many of our forces are in there bases and Eo2 treatments nearly complete."

"Excellent."

Aldan turned and sat in the lofty, floating throne.

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Okay, so it's a short update...