HAHAHA!!!!11 I'm not continuing!



Just kidding.



Anyway,



Coppertop opened the cockpit door to find that her suspicions were not in vain. She watched a turtle, blaster pointed right at her. She raised an eyebrow as he spoke.

"Cummon, mercenary. I dont got no money, but I got a job for you. I'll letcher live if you comply, but if you dont, you will die!"

"Oh yeah, nice rhyme, turtle! I dont work for free." She spat in return. Steel looked bewildered.

"I don't got anything." Copper's sword came out, and with a breathtaking leap, she landed directly infront of him, sword expertly poised a whisker's breadth from his chest.

"Then what business do you have wasting my time on silly threats! Now either you pay or flee, I told you that I dont work for free!"

Ducky appeared behind her. "Who's this?" She asked Coppertop.

Coppertop snorted. "Nothing but a pesky turtle, Ducky."

"Oh. Okay. Who is he?"

Steel looked from one to the other. "Um-um-"

Ducky grinned.

"Hello, Um-um. How do you do?"

Coppertop smothered a laugh as Steel replied helplessly.

"I'm, ah, well. . .um, I-er, um, I'm, well. . . I'm, er, Steel, ah. . . Tyar."

Ducky feigned surprise. "Oh! Rather long name, dont you think. Well, hello, I'm, ah, well. . .um, I-er, um, I'm, well. . . I'm, er, Steel, ah. . . Tyar. How do you do?"

Coppertop grinned. "He won't be fine, after I'm done with him-"

Her words were cut off as Wild Angel stepped foreward.

"Who's that, Copper?" She asked, having not heard any of the conversation.

"This is Steel Tyar, a dimwitted turtle devoted to taking up other rabbit's time on idle threats, prefferably mine."

Steel spluttered indignantly. "I-oh-jeez, you-I'm not-you-rabbit!"

"Heheh. Quit spluttering, you stutterer." Ducky looked at Coppertop in surprise.

"I didn't know you could make such comments! Good f'you! Anyway, you never did tell me why he's here."

"He wanted me to do a job for free."

"Oh. Well, I'm sure he'd let you have his cloak as payment."

"Wha. . ." Steel Tyar brightened. He slid out of his cloak and handed it to Coppertop, not seeing the crafty gleam in Ducky's eye.

He thought that his plan was working perfectly. First, he would let Coppertop kill Lliath, then he would kill Coppertop. He would get two dangerous enemies in one blow, and he would rise to power!



Once Coppertop went back to the ship, she turned angrily on Ducky.

"What did you mean by taking his cloak as payment?!" Ducky grinned mischeviously. "You saw his cloak had a red and gold and silver trim, right?"

"Yeah. . .so?"

"You haven't heard about the Cloak Of Red Gold Silver?" Ducky looked aghast as Coppertop replied. "No. . . but what does it matter?"

"It carries the Crystal Key."

"Crystal Key? What Crystal Key?"

"The Crystal Key can open any lock."

"Oh. Why should that help me?"

"Let Wildie tell you."

Wild Angel stepped foreward, relating the story.

"The cloak itself has powers."

"Like what?"

"Like, it can make the wearer be able to fly."

"I dont have a use to fly-"

"-And the wearer can be invisible-"

"-I can already be invisible for a short time-"

"-And the wearer can be able to climb, like, up straight cliffs, over overhangs, and whatnot."

"Oh. Well, I'd rather money."

Then Ducky came up with an idea.

"Why don't you take it to the Slate Sale?"

Everyone agreed to it very happily. The Slate Sale was a place on the planet Lahi, and it was where everyone went to trade items, or sell items. She could trade or sell the Cloak for what she wanted, it was a brilliant idea. . .









Wheee. . .



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In the dead of night, in black

Hear a twig crack

Stealth is my game, never going back

To kill under cover of night. . .



"I see, I see," Said the blind man to his deaf wife in a dark alley.