Echo couldn't catch up to the big man's strength, but he didn't fight back when he was throttled into the wall. "What the hells going on here, you know more than your letting on." Echo just smiled at the question. "Were you sent to kill us once this is over with?" Once again Echo just smiled at the question. "How are you getting home, sir? Is this a one way trip for you too?" Echo smiled at this questions as well, this was becoming fun this game. "Wouldn't you just like to know?" Echo said. "if he really is here to kill us at the end of the mission, do you think it's wise to give him a reason to do it now? Let him go, man. You're only hastening the inevitable." Echo just giggled at this a bit. What funny an odd things to say? Echo stared back at the big man, his eyes were cold and glassy. He wasn't afraid of this situation, the "handling" him investigation didn't really bother him. He just smiled at him. "What makes you so certain its me? What if its Blaine over there?" Echo said, "For the longest time he was selfish and he continues to be by taking over where we go and when we go...don't mind the fact that he just let Joshua die...what if it isn't me, but him? You never know when you have a spy, but please put me down I have sensitive skin and you're making me a bit itchy." Blaine stared at the situation. "I say punch him in the face and knock some teeth out," Blaine said.
She listened to Echo's explanation. His laughing, which had at first unnerved her, was annoying now. "Throw the blame around," said Sam. "Make us all suspicious of each other. We already did that ourselves, so what's the point? Reverse psychology? Make us all band together against you?" She lowered her eyebrows at her last question. 'What if that's it,' she thought. 'He's here to practice... against us.' "I say punch him in the face and knock some teeth out," Blaine said. Whatever. "I'd have to agree with Cat Man on this one," she said.
He was clever. There's no denying that. Picking out the traitor -- if there even is a traitor -- wouldn't be easy. They'd tear themselves apart; that's exactly what he'd want. "Pointing fingers is pretty useless at this point. Everyone here has screwed up at least once. Everyone here has done something counterproductive to our survival," Seifer said. He adjusted his glasses and looked at the door with the Outlaws mark. "I'm sure there will be more deaths before this is over. I can wait it out. When the grass is cut, the snakes will show."
Echo just smiled and laughed a little. "I say go ahead smack me a few times...you'll get payment back ten times worse then that," Echo said. Echo smiled at the door and then at them. It really did come to that, that was Echo's shot. That was Echo's chance to impress.
"Seifer we're be used for as long as they need us and then thrown to the wolves." He paused for a moment considering his appearance and that of Seifer's. "Probably the wrong metaphor when discussing us. As for preventing the inevitable I'd rather die at the hands of the enemy than that of our own." A series of violent suggestions broke out clearly the others supported him. His first popular move as leader, assaulting the second in command. "I could punch him or I could cut him but luckily i made some arrangements before I came here. He reached into one of his pockets and produced what looked like a dog collar. He let the man drop to the floor and moved his hands out of the way as he tried to hold his own throat. He clamped the collar round Echo and laughed. "This is an explosive device. If you piss me off I'll detonate it." He pulled open his shirt and showed a large scar that looked roughly like he’d had an operation to install a pacemaker. If I die it will detonate. "Oh and that reminds me if anyone see's me get killed you might want to run." He motioned at his own neck. "The joys of having a complete disregard for your body, I took the liberty of dealing with some illegal surgeons. I'll be taking out what ever the hell takes me down and these chokers might even act like a small nail bomb if I'm lucky." He laughed sadistically. "So Echo lets hope I'm wrong about you. Your people really should have done their research I despise the government I'm not just gonna lay down my life without question for them."
Echo stared at him and rubbed his neck with the color on. How could he? He was threatening him. Though it wouldn't work, he had ways of getting it off. Sadly, the whole entire plan would be derailed. Echo stood up and smiled at him. "You'll pay," he whispered. Echo just stared at him. "Help me...someone help me," he said sounding almost helpless and weak, "They've tried to hurt me and they are threatening to hurt me....help me please." Echo fell to the ground with a good thud. Suddenly the strange marked door opened and two people came out. A woman in a jean jacket with short brown hair. She had purple eyes and looked almost like a rough tomboy. She had two guns at the side of her holster. The next person was a guy with platinum blond hair that streaked with lightning. His skin was illuminated and he looked as if he were floating off the ground. Electricity jumped at his fingertips. They both stared at the color and then at Damien. The woman picked up her guns and pointed them at him. "State your purpose," she said sound rough and dirty.
He leant in to Echo who was slumped on the floor now. "Now now if you make me pay your suffer the price as well. And please just try tampering with it your give us quite the display of gore if you do." The sound of doors sliding open caused him to brake out of his conversation. "So the cyberstones do happily house humans then?" he glanced down at Echo. "I wonder if someone already knew that though." No one else had decided to step up and state their purpose straight away and since he'd been stuck with this role of leader he figured he might as well take the responsibility. Since his transformation he'd given up with formalities. It didn't have quite the same effect offering his hand to anyone anymore. "We're sorry we don't have any intention to be here. If you have a ship we will be happy to remove ourself from here straight away."
"We're sorry we don't have any intention to be here. If you have a ship we will be happy to remove ourself from here straight away." The man and the girl stared at him. The woman was the one who stepped up even closer. "That's not possible," she said her voice belted like if she were a commander in charge. The man with electric running around his whole body glided over to Echo. Echo got up and showed him the collar. "Easy," the man said his voice nothing more then an attractive whisper like his body. Electricity jumped through the collar and the collar was deactivated. The man took of the collar. "Thank you Silver," Echo said. Silver just nodded his head. "Kimmy," Echo said to the woman, "Do whatever you want with them...go all out if you have to." "Yes sir," Kimmy replied. Silver and Echo both moved swiftly back into the strange marked door. Suddenly as they walked in the doors mark disappeared and it was another average wall. Kimmy had guns still pointed at them. "I have been given permission to go all out...phase 3 begins," she said. She began to shoot of her guns pretty flashes of lasers danced around. The lasers melted the ground a bit leaving burnt marks, but not holes.
The electric man was the one Seifer couldn't stop looking at. The last thing he needed was to get shocked right now. Too many innocent people he might hurt if the lightning wolf came out again. Just don't touch me, man, he thought. "I have been given permission to go all out...phase 3 begins," she said, before opening fire on them. Lasers danced across the room. "I have a strict rule against hurting women," Seifer said, dodging the gunfire. "But I've also got one against being shot at. Can't we talk this over?"
"Kimmy," Echo said to the woman, "Do whatever you want with them...go all out if you have to." Her heart sped up, pounding in her chest. They were here just to be killed. She knew she would die, just not like this. She'd had an inkling of hope she might survive, but now... Sam's instinct said to run. Always ready to flee, but what good would it do? Foreign ship, powerful foes, but could she fight? She'd surely lose, but she'd at least do a little damage... She began to shoot of her guns pretty flashes of lasers danced around. The lasers melted the ground a bit leaving burnt marks, but not holes. Sam put her right foot back, stablizing her stance. She concentrated and put out both hands. She ripped one of the laser guns from the woman, caught it and turned it on her. She aimed and fired at the woman.
Kimmy dodged the lasers quite well and quickly. "Now my babies rise," Kimmy said. Suddenly the wires that they had never noticed crawling on the walls came alive. They began to dance around and whip and hiss at them. Kimmy let out a loud shriek that would make any sane person's ears bleed or maybe for the weaker ones...there heads exploding. "But I've also got one against being shot at. Can't we talk this over?" "I have my job to do...you do yours," Kimmy said.
Slithering, crawling wires, took life with the woman's scream. It hurt to hear. She used the gun and shot those closest wires to her, then turned her aim once again on the woman. She raised the laser, held her in place and continued shooting.
"I have my job to do...you do yours," Kimmy said. "Your people lied about my job," Seifer said, beginning to grow fur, fangs, and claws. I'll start off with my basic wolf form, he thought, and see what happens from there. Hopefully I won't have to take this to the next level. Sam and the new girl were trading shots. Running between them would mean going through a hail of laser fire. On all fours, Seifer bounded to the left, so he could circle arond her. Dodging and weaving through the twisting wires, he flanked Kimmy and sprang up, claws ready. He pounced on her from behind, tackling her to the ground and pinning her limbs. Even if she could manage to somehow wound him, that would only provoke the lightning wolf to come out, then she'd really be screwed. "Drop the gun. It's over," he snarled.
Kimmy grabbed the wolf and flipped him over. She was good down at the ground. She pointed the gun at him and then stared into his eyes. Her hand suddenly began to shake. "Seifer..." she said.
"Seifer..." she said. "If you wanna talk, I suggest you do it without a gun pointed to my head." With one strong kick, he knocked her off, sending the gun flying from her hand. It went off, leaving a scorching mark an inch from where his head had been. She got to her feet quickly, but he was twice as fast, and placed himself between her and the gun. "Now, we can talk," he said, maintaining a powerful stance. "You don't know me, but I'd like to hear you try to explain yourself."
"Its you Seifer....the one that I saw that day," Kimmy said, "The day my brother bit you." Kimmy stared at him her eyes quivered a little. She couldn't break the plan, but he was right in front of her eyes. Kimmy stared at him. "Seifer...its you," Kimmy said, "And its me...even though you were turned you...you saved me that day when I fell off the cliff....Seifer." She didn't know what to say. She just stared at him. She couldn't believe it. Her hero from childhood was here. "Seifer," she said those were the only words that could slip out of her mouth. Blaine stared at the situation and couldn't believe Seifer was getting entranced by a girl. Well he couldn't blame him, she had a nice rack and if her hair wasn't cut short like a boy she'd be pretty attractive. "Don't let the girl fool you," Blaine said.
"I've saved a few people in my lifetime, but I've never jumped off any f**king cliffs to do it. Besides, I was born a werewolf. You think I'd let some filthy animal bite me?" He came down on all fours, ready to pounce on her if she f**ked up again. They could find a way to torture her for answers if necessary, so he really wanted to keep her alive, if only to get some questions answered. "Pointing a gun at me was strike one," he said, "and lying to me was strike two. You've got one more chance to tell the truth." He was giving her one more chance, but he couldn't speak for everyone. Sam had a good trigger finger and the other gun was still lying on the ground in case someone else wanted to rise to the challenge as well. This chick was as good as dead. She might as well die in an honest manner.
Kimmy started crying tears were rolling down her face. "No....my brother he bit you when you were fighting in the pit," Kimmy said, "The werewolf pit...when you got kicked out of the clan...you have to believe I understand you may have a hard time remember when you just transformed you weren't an Outlaw back then....then one day when you were a werewolf[turned] you saved me from a cliff I remember your fur so distinctively." Kimmy stared at him, her eyes sparkled. How could he forget her? How could he forget the girl who brought him berries now and then? The girl who talked to him when he was in werewolf form, the only person he had never bitten. Kimmy began to cry harder.
She must have me confused with someone else, he thought. He'd never met another wolf in his life, though he'd tried. He'd searched to the ends of the earth and back and never found any. Was she delusional or was there a hidden wolf pack somewhere he'd never heard of? If he ever made it back to Earth, he'd love to know where to find them. But that's a pretty big "if." "Yeah, the pit... I must've forgotten," he lied. "The Outlaws project can do some strange things to a person... maybe they took my memories of all that away... my memories of you." Still in wolf form, he clutched at his crescent moon necklace. He couldn't believe he was lying to this poor girl. This mission was bringing out the worst in all of them. "It doesn't matter now. I don't remember you. And I'm not the same person you knew then. If that makes you angry, or sad, or whatever, you should take that out on the people who brought us here and made us fight like this.... You should join us."
Kimmy stared at him. How could he forget? But he asked her to join and that made her happy. She stuck her hand in her pocket and took out a similar necklace as Seifer's necklace. "I have one too...we split the full moon together and used it as lucky charms...your promised me," she said. She grabbed Seifer's necklace and placed her piece into his piece and sure enough it made the full moon. "Together we sit under this tree to make a promise of friendship. Together we will split the moon up and become each other's soul links," Kimmy sang, "Together we are one of the moon and one of the friends. Together we shall be here forever." She split the moon pieces again and then got up. She walked over to Sam and took her gun from the sky. She walked behind Seifer and grabbed her other gun. "I'll join,"
the woman entranced the wolf boy. His lover, perhaps? That didn't make any sense. She walked over to Sam and took her gun from the sky. Sam knew this was a bad idea, felt it in her gut, but she let it happen all the same. Where was that man with the electricity? "Who are you two?" she asked. "What's phase 3?"
Blah, blah, blah, friendship, blah, blah, blah, soulmates, blah, blah, blah, split the moon.... The only words that caught his attention were "I'll join." That sentimental crap doesn't sound like me at all, he thought. He was almost sure she was lying. Making a phony necklace wasn't hard. He didn't particularly like her having those guns again, but whatever... it's over now. He'd watch her closely and see what happens next. "Welcome to the team," he mumbled, unenthusiastically, as she spoke to Sam. They'd gotten rid of Echo and picked up another weirdo to take his place.
Kimmy giggled a little and grabbed Seifer's arm and hooked it in with her arm. She smiled at him. Blaine whistled a little. "Looks like you got yourself a girlfriend in the first few minutes," Blaine said, "Wow, lucky you." Betsy opened an eye. "Meow," "Yes Betsy I still love you and always will,"
Kimmy giggled a little and grabbed Seifer's arm and hooked it in with her arm. She smiled at him. "I think someone asked you a question. Don't be rude," Seifer said, gently pulling himself free. He returned to his human form, the one he hoped she wasn't familiar with. If she actually knew him from his pre-Outlaw days, she wouldn't know the lightning wolf either. She also wouldn't know his name was Seifer... he'd just made that name up today.
"Phase 3 was the phase of the plan...to kill all the failed experiments, we are newer Outlaws, we don't need injections to use our powers, but our powers are always online," Kimmy paused, "The debt is a lie and they had purposely crashed the ship into this mothership...the government owns all Outlaws and sadly us newer versions have to listen to whatever they say...most of the Outlaws on this ship aren't bad people, they are just trying to survive." Kimmy's eyes glowed as she looked at the man who had come from the wolf form. She ran over and hugged him. "I knew it was you...I knew it you've grown up so manly," Kimmy paused, "And I'm not lying I know you, but I only remember your looks and the days we spent together...I cannot remember your name, but its real close on the top of my head...please don't think I'm lying." Kimmy paused. "I'm Kimberly call me Kimmy, Outlaw of mechanics," Blaine stared at the girl she was weird all right, but Blaine said nothing. "Take us to the map room of this ship," Blaine said.
