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| [Introduction]
This is where we complete the trilogy and finally defeat Ultratech once and for all. We all know who everbody is so I don't need to go into explations |
 Twiga  A year and a day passed for Paydran and the rest of the Universe. Nochi and Vodku never found Alice, the Scientis Lord Femistox had hidden her too well, so Alice was forced to spend her nights as Girlygirl, tending to important men and their petty needs.One night, she had no work to do so she was free to do she wished (Provided she did not do anything that was forbiddan to Manimals) Alice decided she would Visit the Basement, a fighting club where humans and Manimals trained for the anual fighting tourniment the Killer Instinct Tourniment. Killer Instinct was the only sport left on Paydran, it was a Fighting compitition where the contestants killed each other one by one until only one was left and if that one happend to be a Manimal than legend has it that he or she would declared a free citizen. But no Manimal had ever won (Some say Ultratech rigs the fights) Alice took a six-pack of beer with her and went down to the Basement. She saw the Fight Club both humans and Manimal were training as equals, a robot was at a bar. MS (I don't want to sound frank, but leaving Alice seemed kinda bad. Even if they never found him and kinda cold to make her the worse victim. :( )The robot beeped up and sensed Alice with beer. "Excuse me miss. You are in violation of underage drinking. Limits exceed to 21 years of age." it said in a monotone. Alice ignored it and threw a bit on his face. "Piss off..." she said as she walked towards the seats. She sighed heavily and looked down at her can. She missed all her friends. That weirdo pervy Vodku and that enthusiastic older minded Nochi, her father and Ichabod. She wished she would be free. Vodku. unsuspectedly, came to watch the Killer Instinct fights. He always betted on those he thinks deserves to win and be free. Even weak ones. Though his Manimal Girlfriend dissaprove of it, she just lets him by as she takes Nochi to meet the underground team. Luckly, they would accept him into their ranks. He is a pretty neat hacker at times almost succeseeding Vodku. Tetch, Alice's father, still tries anxiously and never stopping to search for his dauther. Rumors heard that he was making deals for them to find her. No one got close to finding her. And not a single person dared to rat him out to Ultratech. Twiga (It's not as bad as it seems I plan that Alice begins a plan that starts a plot that slowly undos Ultratech, you see Alice is the the one who starts the whole cycle)The Robot beeped at the cat girl, as she seeped her beer. "Just what excatly are you anyway?" The Robot asked "A model?" "Girlygirl." She replied The Robot almost bust a circut when it heard it! "Cat Madame!" The Robot exclamed "How can I be of servace to you?" "You need not servace me at all." Alice said "I just want to watch the world go by." She saw a an interesting fish-man he was a fish from the waste-down and human from the waste-up like a merman. The thing is he looked excactly like Barack Obama, the last president before Ultratech took over. The Merman walked on his fins up to the bar, Alice offered him a beer but he declined, insted took out a pack of cigarettes. "You look exactly like the last president." Alice said "That figures." The Merman said "I am his great grandson." "So...When Ultratech took over, they turned the president and his family into fish people?" "That's pretty much it." The Merman said "I'm Combo, TJ Combo." "I'm Alice." She said "How would you like me to sponser you for the Killer Instinct fights?" MS (Ahh I see. And LAWL! Barack Obama the fishman! :D)TJ looked down and Alice and smiled gladly. "You'd do that for me Alice? That's nice... I think its a great idea." he said smiling. Alice chuckled and smiled back. "So kid, how did you get here?" he asked. Alice sighed but explained her whole situation to him. How she was captured and how she spend her life. "Damn Alice... Looks like you were in the worse position then I was... Ultratech has been taking over for far too long and breaking everything that our old world had made. The laws, their acts and concpirecy everything." Twiga "I wonder." Alice said "Ever since six manimals escaped the laboritories with three aliens, Ultratech has been more agressive in the creation of Manimals."She sighed and sipped her beer "They're not just breeding children from crimmanal stock or stealing poor children off the streets...They're...kidnapping people out of their homes, and I mean everyone! They can't seem to tell the rich from the poor!" "Seems the only people whose futures are secure." TJ said thoughtfully "Are the Manimals." "People are yerning for the past." Alice said tapping her little claw against the can "They have come to hate ultratech but don't dare say a word against out of here of being turned into slaves but..." "But What?" TJ asked "What if a popular Manimal gained politacal power the more fights he won in the torniment?" Her green kitty eyes were blazing with thought "If Killer Instinct were the new elections and if a Manimal becomes a free citizen upon winning the Battle Royale...And if the Manimal were popular enough with the people to give them the coarage..." Steve Ellen "It's a nice dream," TJ said."Is that why you are sponsoring me? You want me to make that dream come true?" Alice took a long drink of beer. "Maybe." She winked to let him know she was joking. "But first let's see how you do in a fight. What do you need?" Twiga Meanwhile on Planet Black Beauty, Matoaka and Zander were enjoying a quiet momont in the forest. They were having a picnic.Matoaka plucked a grape off a vine and offered it to her lover. Zander neatly wrapped his prehenshile tougue around the fruit, and slowly drew it into his mouth, it seemed highly erotic. Matoaka yawned and thought, an idea struck her but she wasen't sure about it.. "Zander." She began "I have really silly request to ask of you." "Yes?" Zander asked "it's just even though we've been together a long time, I've never felt such a desire to ever..." "Out with it!" Zander exclaimed "I..just want to lay my head in your lap." She said "I never realized until now." Zander smiled gently and chuckled "That not silly at all!" He said "If you so desire, my lap is your throne." Matoaka lay her head his lap she quickly fell asleep MS Zander smiled and chuckled as he rubbed Matoaka's head gently. "Rest well Matoaka." he said. Back at Paydron, Vodka took every dollar and coin he's got and betted on TJ. As you know, TJ is Vodku's idol and he always likes to see his fights. He know's he'd beat everyone around. "I can't wait till the next fight." he said to the robot receptionist. "Thank you for your bet. Be sure to get a good spot to watch the fight." it said. Steve Ellen TJ was fighting Squall, a squid-human hybrid. It would be a tough fight because of Squall's four arms, all equipped with suckers. And also because squids and fish were traditional enemies in the ocean since squids ate fish. The crowd came to it's feet with a roar when TJ entered the arena. He was wearing his black robe with "HOPE" emblazoned on it in silver letters. Squall was wearing a red robe with a green squid pictured on it. Squall himself was not green. He had purplish grey skin, although his arm suckers were a pale whitish color. The bell sounded to begin fighting and it was immediately obvious that Squall had an advantage. TJ was finding it difficult to land any blows because Squall had those extra arms to defend himself. Besides the thousands of people in the arena, there were millions more watching the fight on video and internet broadcasts. Squall tried to get TJ in a death hug, but TJ used his fish abilitity to make his skin slippery. The broadcast announcers were polite and talked about TJ's slippery sweat. That sounded better than saying he was exuding slime. There was no doubt that most people wanted TJ to win. But there was also no doubt that it was Squall who seemed to be winning! Twiga TJ, had a special trick up his sleeve, in additian to being super intelligent naturauly, he also had s special cybernetic implant in his brain.His cyber implant gave him special telepathic powers that let him tire out his oppenents with mind attacks. When Ultratech found out about this they disscussed it with each other and decided that brain implants were legal in Killer Instinct fights. TJ thought powerful mind weakening attacks at Squall, the squid seemed to be loosing his grip on reality! Steve Ellen Squall shook his head as if trying to shake something out of it. TJ projected his thoughts as hard as he could: You are growing weaker. You are tired. Give up. Go home. Squall staggered toward TJ with his four arms up for a brutal attack. Then he stopped. His arms fell. He staggered forward a short way, then stopped again. Many in the crowd began to boo loudly. Vodku pumped his arms in the air because he sensed a TJ victory coming. If TJ won then Vodku would become a rich man. He had bet all his money on TJ. Nochi was there with TJ. Nochi was too young to bet, but he cheered loudly for Vodku. Vodku had promised to buy Nochi something if he won. Twiga Suddenly Squall collapsed onto the ground, he seemed to be having trouble breathing.TJ waited a few seconds, than the Robot Referee declared him the winner of the fight. Meanwhile on Planet Black Beauty Matoaka was walking with Zander, she stroked her swollen pregnant belly "Penny for your thoughts?" Zander asked "I was just thinking." Matoaka said "We have liberated many Manimals and stopped many of Ultratech's plans, the trouble is...We haven't gotten to the root of the problom." "What do you mean?" Zander asked "I mean no matter how many Manimals we liberate, Ultratech can just make more of them, weather by breeding them from crimanals, or harvesting urchians or stealing children out of their beds they can always make more" MS Zander tapped his beak a bit thinking."Well I heard there was a resistance group back on Paydron. Maybe there's by chance, I can assist them." he said. Matoaka grabbed his arm and gasped a bit. "No! No you musn't Zander! I don't want to lose you!" she said. Zander sighed and looked at her. "I know love.. But we can't just let Ultratech keep making lives more miserable! Humans didn't deserve being treated as barbarians by others as Ultratech took over. Its all their fault. Everything. Even from making criminal manimals and kidnapping children to slaves of their own!" Twiga Matoaka sighed and rubbed her forehead. "I just don't want to lose you...before our child has been born."Meanwhile a young Manimal Wrangler named Sammantha Star, and reached Black Beauty! She was on a special mission, find the six Manimals that escaped Paydran with the Aliens and bring them back. She spied Bill Brandy the Bull-Boy, bathing in a stream. Sammantha gasped in shock! Never in her young life of wrangling Manimals had she ever seen such a handsome creature! Bill rested in the cool water, He had no idea he was being watched by a wrangler. Sammantha tried to get closer but she cracked a twig... Steve Ellen Bill was instantly alert, but he made no outward sign of it. He kept casually splashing water on himself and humming a happy song, but his ears were listening and his eyes were looking. Finally he spied the source of the twig crack, a good-looking young woman hiding in the undergrowth near the stream. He watched as she crept closer. When he spotted the Ultratech tatoo on her bare shoulder he knew why she was there. She was a Wrangler. She must want him alive or he would already be dead. What would it be? Tranquilizer dart? Net? Hypnotism? Paralyzer ray? Maybe he could dive down and swim underwater, then come up in a different place and surprise her, but the stream wasn't very deep. Twiga Bill was pondering his situation when the girl began creeping out further Bill decided he best just leave, Sammantha got up."I didn't mean you any harm!" She said "I was just having a look around!" "Like Hell you were!" Bill said covering his nethers with a leaf "You're a wrangler!" "Oh! Do you mean this tatoo?" She asked covering her shoulder "Now, now there is no need to get upset..." "If you come near me I'll charge you!" Bill said lowering his horns "Would I hurt anything so handsome?" She asked Bill found this remark quite disarming MS Meanwhile, back at Paydron, Nochi was crawling around the streets searching for Tetch. Ever since the dissapearence of his daughter he's been on a rage. Nochi tried to find him so he could try and calm him down but the streets were large and teeming with life. He decided to find his wolf friend again to try and track him down before he bcomes a more hardened criminal then he once was. It was till the night after that day, he learned about the wolf's name. Carther, spy of the underground resistance. "And you sure the park is safest for us there?" he said on the telephone. "Of course. we'll meet there and search around downtown and sniff him out. Tetch would probably be in the city." said the wolf on the telephone. Twiga Jervis Tetch knew what had happend to his dear little Alice, they had turned her into a cat and forced her to work as a Girlygirl.Jervis went to his old laboritory and searched through his things to find his old secret weapon. His mind controll chips! He found them burried under a pile of old machenery, Jervis smiled his old Mad Hatter grin with theser chips he could finally get information he needed! MS And he knows JUST the scientist to do it. The one who brought Alice to that acadamy.Jervis pocketed the chips in his pocket jeans and set off into Ultratech headquarters. Unaware that the Underground began to follow him. They plan to get him to help the underground in Ultratech's fall. Steve Ellen Bill found himself talking to Samantha like they were old friends. He knew she was a wrangler but there was something so likeable about her. "Why do you do it?" he asked. "Do what?" she said. "Wrangle Manimals. Work for Ultratech. Why did you sell your soul to them?" She was silent for a moment. "It's not like that. I didn't want to become a wrangler. They made me into one. When I was a child I was caught in one of the sweeps but instead of making me into a Manimal, they made me into a Wrangler. It wasn't my choice." "Do you regret it?" "Sometimes," she said and put her arms around his neck. "Like now, when I meet someone like you." Part of Bill's mind was screaming: It's a trick, you fool! She's just relaxing you before she grabs you for Ultratech! But another part of his mind liked her smile and the smell of her hair and the feeling of her arms around his neck. Twiga (OK I'm feeling weird as I keep getting creepy emails on my WDC account by weird people claiming they want to be my pen pal O_O)Bill felt himself relaxing agaisnt his will, Sammantha's gentle youch was soothing his bovine side so deeply he was begenning to succumb to sleep MS (Wow.. That... O_o That is creepy!)A few seconds later, Ichabod and Marzipan showed up and spotted the Manimal Wrangler who was trying to capture Bill. "Oh crap! Bill!!" Marzi yelled as she ran over towards them. Sammantha jumped up and spotted Ichabod and Marzipan. She lost her concentration and released BIll from his sleep. Twiga Sammantha was frightened and ran away.Ichabod touched Bill's head lightly he awoke slowly "Oh geez..." He grumbled "That was a close call wasen't it." "Sure was." Ichabod said Meanwhile on Paydran Jervis Tetch felt he was being followed by someone but he coulden't tell who. He entered a dark alley the Shadows followed him Steve Ellen Jervis stopped walking. He heard the footsteps behind him stop. Jervis took a few steps forward. The footsteps behind him took a few steps forward. "What do you want?" Jervis shouted. "I know you are back there behind me following me! Who are you?"The footsteps behind him started again and slowly walked up to him. Even though he heard them walk up right beside them he could see nothing. "Don't be alarmed," came a voice next to him. "I am cloaked. I can not make myself visible at this time for a reason that I will reveal to you later. I think you are going to Ultratech Headquarters and I prefer that you do not do that." "Who are you? Why should I listen to you?" "For now you may call me Shadow. The reason you should listen to me is because I know about Alice and I can help you." Jervis cocked his head when he heard his daughter's name mentioned. His eyes narrowed. "All right," he said. "I'm listening." Twiga Jervis felt a peculiar scent pick up, and wondered ifhe talking to was a talking to a Manimal of some sort, after talking to the guy and brething in his scent a bit more he figured he was talking to a Wolf Manimal"So...You have mind controll chips in your pocket?" The shadow asked "Yes how did you know?" Tetch asked "We know excatly what you were famous for in your old days." The Wolfish man sniggered "Turning people into mindless zombies." Jervis licked his lips could he be trusted? Steve Ellen "Alright," Jervis said. "It's obvious you know a lot about ME, but I know nothing about YOU. Tell me about yourself and your connection withAlice." "I can tell you I'm in the Underground. Naturally, I can't tell you much. But we have a mutual friend... Nochi." "Nochi!" "Yes. Nochi was worried about you and asked me to find you. My name is Carther. We're just as much interested in saving Alice as you are, but there is more at stake here than just Alice. Ultratech has thousands of Manimals doing the girlygirl thing. We want to save all of them." Jervis scratched his chin. "Is that even possible?" "It will be less possible if you go barging in with your chips and upsetting them so they become more alert. All I'm asking is that you calm down, come with me, listen to our plans, and talk to Nochi. Can you do that?" Twiga Jervis stroked his chin, "All right." He said "I'll go out on a limb and trust you."Meanwhile on Black Beauty Bill was fuming that he let a wrangler get so close to him, yey also in some way, he coulden't stop thinking about her for anouther reason "She was beatiful." He would say "So beatiful." He would always than slap himself and say "She's put a spell on me! This isn't the real me talking!" And yet he wondered if he had jumped to conclustions, had she really tried to capure him, or did she really mean the kind things she said? Steve Ellen Samantha sat under a tree crying. What was happening to her? Why these strange feelings? She thought of all the manimals she had wrangled before she had come up against the bull boy. He was magnificent! Why had she never seen how beautiful manimals were before? She didn't want to wrangle him, she wanted to hug him and kiss him. She shuddered. How could it be? She put her head down and wept. Twiga That night on Paydran, Jervis Tetch and the Wolf-Man crept into a science lab underneith a cloak of invisabilty MS Carther walked Jervis through the small lab hall and down to a dead end with Nochi under a cloak as well. Nochi smiled as he saw Jervis."Mr. Tetch! Its nice to see you again!" he said. Jervis smiled and walked over. "Nice to see you too. Its a good thing Ultratech didn't find you after you betrayed them... And Carther? I thought you said this was the enterance?" he said. Carther walked towards the wall and knocked a few times in a rythem. Morse code. After a few seconds the wall opened up. Steve Ellen "No talking," Carther whispered. "This section contains sound sensors." They entered a narrow corridor and followed it to its end where there was a door with a security lock. Cather tapped in a security code and an indicator light changed from red to green. Carther gave the thumbs up sign. Then he punched in a second code. The door slid open. "Okay, we can talk now," Carther said. "The sensors are turned off." Twiga They found the Scientist, Lord Femistox asleep in his bed. Jervis Tetch grinned his old Mad Hatter grin, at last he would find out what the Lord Scientist did with his daughter! He ssneaked a mind controll chip behind the ear, at once the snoreing stopped "OK now awake!" Jervis said The eyes opened as if mechanichly, Jervis giggled "Now...where is Alice Tetch?" "She is at Earthport." The Lord said as if he were a robot MS Jervis frowned a bit as he listened to the Robot. Earthport... This robot was an older version AI robotnic before Ultratech took over. "...State yourself." said Jervis. The Lord twitched an eye and stated his name. "I am Lord Femistox. Lord scientist..." Jervis growled under his breath. Nochi tugged on his sleeve and whispered to him. "This droid is an older version or robots. Ultratech altered its functions and well, we have no idea how to reprogramed a droid already done by Ultratech.. And we believe this droid was designed to lie to unauthorized Ultratech personal. But it can be reprogramed by specific voice command.. I think you know it more than I. It might not know where Alice is, but it could tell where the Lord Scientist is." he said. Jervis rubbed his chin and thought for a minute. The chip he sneaked behind his ear seemed to have no effect on droids. He took the chip from the bots ear and coughed. "Droid. Activate protocal 288A7." The robotnic lord twitched again and spoke. "Program reset. Please insert owner name here. Steve Ellen "Wait!" Nochi said. "You're about to make a big mistake!" "What?" Jervis said, anxious to reprogram the Lord Femistox droid and locate Alice or at least the real Lord Femistox. "You were going to use your own name as the owner name, weren't you?" "No, I was going to invent a name. What is your point?" Nochi shook his head. "My point is that Protocol 288A7 will wipe the droid brain completely clean if the original owner's name is not used. That means all the memory will be cleared and we will learn nothing." "You're right. But what is the original owner's name? It might not be Lord Femistox." Nochi frowned. "It could be any name. We can't take the chance." "What about a memory dump? It was standard on all those old droids, wasn't it, to permit debugging them?" "It might take a long time to listen to everything it has to say. Who knows when the memory we actually want to hear would turn up?" Carther said, "May I make a suggestion? Let's just get out of here and take the Lord Femistox droid with us. We can go to a safe place and listen to its memory dump. We can take turns sleeping. Within 48 hours we can have the information." "What about Protocol 288A7?" Jervis said. "We've already activated it." "We can deactivate it later," Nochi said. "I don't think it will change anything until then. And in the meantime the droid is in a zombie state that will make it easy for us to move it." "Right!" Jervis said. "Droid! Follow us!" They retraced their steps to the outside. "I know a good place to hide out for a while," Carther said. "It's an old warehouse near here." A half hour later they had deactivated Protocol 288A7 and initiated a total memory dump. They sat on old boxes while the droid recited it's memory. They didn't pay much attention as it talked of it's early programming and how it was taught to think logically. The hours dragged by... "Wake up!" Nochi said, shaking Jervis. Jervis raised up from his nap. "What? Do you have something?" "Shhh! Listen!" The droid was telling of its meeting with the real Lord Femistox... And then Lord Femistox said, 'Nice job, Wilson. The damned thing looks just like me. But what if someone talks to it? Will it still convince them?' Wilson said, 'Not as it is now, sir, but it's going to follow you around for the next few days and learn all your mannerisms. I guarantee after a week you'll be like twins.' Lord Femistox said, 'Haha! My shadow. What if it malfunctions?' Wilson said, 'No problem, sir. Just use Protocol 288A7 to stop it. The owner name is Ultratech Advanced Lab 19.' Lord Femistox said... But Nochi had already stopped the memory dump. "That's it! The owner name! Now we can use Protocol 2887A ourselves!" "Excellent!" Jervis said. "Droid! Activate Protocol 288A7." The robot twitched. "Program reset. Please insert owner name here." "Ultratech Advanced Lab 19" The robot clicked twice. "You have authorization. Proceed." Twiga "Where is Lord Femistox?" Jervis Tetch asked "He is is in New Japan, disigning new Manimal prototypes." The Robot said "New Japan eh?" Nochi said "I heard about that place, that's where they do a lot of expermenting on Manimals...Ewww I don't like to think about it..." Meanwhile Alice was busy brushing her hair preparing for the next killer instint fight Sadly not with TJ but with a Black Knight and a werewolf... But she was ready for anything come Hell or High Water MS TJ accidentally walked in as he tried to find his own room. "Oh. Sorry Alice! Didn't know this way around. After every fight I usually get tired and forget where I go." he said. Alice chuckled and smiled. "Its ok. I wasn't really dressing anyways. I was brushing my hair for someone else's match." she replied. Tj walked over and sat down. "And who's that?" "Actually two. A Black Night and a Werewolf." Steve Ellen TJ smiled. "Black Knight is a good friend of mine, but which werewolf? The Werewolf from London or the Werewolf from Transylvania?" "His name is Winston." "Oh. That's the one from London. Jolly good chap. But he won't win." Twiga That night at the fight, the Black Knight came to the ring in full armor with a lance and sheild.Than the Werewolf (Who went by the name of Sabre Wulf) Came) Came into the ring wearing only rags and tatters. Sabre Wulf wasen't a manimal (Though many people mistook him for one0 insted he e genuine sufferer of the werewolf curse Steve Ellen Because of the curse, Sabre Wulf could only fight for the three days each month when the moon was full, or almost full, and then only at night. It limited his career quite a bit, but he didn't mind because his regular job was being an accountant and he made good money at it. He was glad to have the fights because it kept him from roaming the city and randomly biting people when the curse was upon him. He already knew by experience that that never ended well. He had been shot at several times and had once been captured and put in jail. But now he was a Fight Club hero instead of a midnight monster. He adjusted his rags and tatters costume and snarled at the Black Knight, who was wearing gleaming polished armor all black as night. It would be a tough fight, the Werewolf's teeth and claws against the Black Knight's steel, but the prize was a big one and Sabre Wulf was hopeful. Twiga Before the fight, as The Black Knight was preparing for the fight against Sabre Wulf, he was on his headset phone talking to his agent as his shoes were shined"Ah, that puppy doesen't scare me." He said dismissivly "I've had plenty of guys come after me and I've burried them all! Manimals, Robots, the Great Grandson of Sarah Palin!" "Don't forget the Alien Challengers." His agent said on the other side "Oh yeah.." The Black Night said "I sluaghtered the alien compediters..." So the two competitors stood in one corner "In the blue corner at a weight of 100 pounds, last year's reterning champion, The Hometown Favorite THE BLACK KNIGHT!" The Black Kight waved to the audiance "And in the Red Corner hailing from parts unknown, the rambling reck of Hell and Heck! SABRE WULF!" Sabre Wulf jumped into the ring and howled "All right you two." Said the Referee touch fists and come out flapping! Twe two touched fists MS The Referee waved his hands signeling to take their positions back at the stools. "Alright! When the match starts, I don't want no mess on these new floors. I don't care how terrible or brutal you fight, keep the floors clean! Ready.......... FIGHT!" he yelled. The bells rung and the two competators rammed into each other fist to fist and head to head. Alice watched as they fought in the ring. Twiga Meanwhile high above the city High Elder was watching the fight."These new Manimal compeditors are getting very good at fighting." He said "It will be harder to cheat our way out of a straight fight this time." "Um Sir..." Said Mr Quirrel "Neither of those fighters are Manimals the Wolfish one just suffers from the werewolf curse." "Oh." High Elder said "Than I guess it doesn't matter who wins this round." The Black Knight and the Werewolf grapled with each other for a few seconds, testing each others streangh Than Sabre Wulf, tried to stab Black Knight with an elongated claw, but unfortuetly the armor was stronger than his claw "OWWWWW!" Howled the Wulf Steve Ellen "Ha!" yelled the Black Knight and swung his sword in a mighty arc designed to slice off the Werewolf's head. But Sabre Wulf ducked just in time. The crowd cheered. Sabre jumped on the Black Knight's back. The Black Knight couldn't get at him with his sword so he ran backwards towards the arena wall hoping to crush the werewolf against the wall. The crowd threw paper cups at them. At the last possible moment, Sabre Wulf jumped free and the Black Knight crashed into the wall, almost knocking himself out. He was groggy for a moment and Sabre Wulf yanked off his helmet. The crowd gasped. The Black Knight was a woman! She shook out her long hair and glared defiantly at the crowd. Sabre Wulf was surprised, but he didn't pause in his attack. He hurled himself at her exposed throat, but she was as quick as he was and had her sword up in time. Sabre Wulf slung himself to the side to avoid her blade, but she still managed to cut him slightly. The crowd was on its feet yelling at the sight of first blood. Twiga Quickly someone had to end the fight, So the Black Knight got out her lance and waited for Sabre Wulf to attack.When the Werewolf finally did charge she was ready for him she waited with her lance in the corner and prepared herself Finally the moment of truth, as Sabre Wulf charged she stuck out her Lance and impaled him! There was nothing Sabre Wulf could do, He died instantly "Umm...."The Referee said "What's you're name?" "Tanya." Said the woman "Tanya the Black Knight Everybody!" Steve Ellen The crowd was on its feet stamping and cheering. "Tanya! Tanya! Tanya!" They had found a new fight hero. From his viewpoint far above the High Elder smiled. He turned to his aide. "Bring me that one. I want to talk to this new Black Knight." In the stadium Alice made her way toward the locker rooms. On the way she met TJ and yelled at him. "Why didn't you tell me the Black Knight was a woman?" TJ grinned. "I thought you might get jealous." "Don't be silly, TJ. I'm just sponsoring you, not sleeping with you." TJ grinned again. "Yeah, but who knows what the future might bring?" "Stop it, TJ. I want to talk to your friend, Tanya. I think she has a good future in the fight business." Twiga Meanwhile on Planet Black Beauty Sammantha was hopelessly lost and confused, inside her own emotions that is...A storm was on the horizon, Sam knew she would have to find shelter but thet was somewhat impossible because she was a wrangler on a Planet of intelligent animals. On Planet Black Beauty, since it was supposed to be like the origanal Black Beauty ranch of Old Earth was more like and animal sanctuary than a place for people to live. Eight to ten people lived in large buldings called 'barns' that looked very much like the barns of Old Earth farms... Each Barn had an upper and a lower level, Manimals who lived in barns lived in 'stables' which were really just bedrooms that looked like stables... Jim and Jordan shared one stable, Zander and Matoaka shared anouther, Ichabod and Marzipan, who lived in the same Barn as the Six Manimals, had a stable upstairs that was called the loft. Sammantha saw Bill and hs friends entering their barn for the night. Thinking quickly Sammantha threw a large cardbord box over herself and ran inside before the door shut. "Well anouther day has come and gone." Bill yawned and stretched MS Back in the same lab, Jervis and a few other Underground resistance prepared one of the shuttles to launch for New Japan. Nochi hacked the Console's frame and controls thus letting them control the ship. Jervis pocketed his mind control chips and zipped them up so he wouldn't cause trouble. All he had to do was follow Carther's orders and figure how to handle the droid."Ok droid. We need you to disguise your voice as an Ultratech employee so we can gain authorization by passing checkpoint towers." he said. The droid, still in its Ultratech Lord's skin, whizzed and nodded in affirmination. "As you wish master. I am fluent in over 9,000,000 voice disguises that I was programmed with for any orders made by my old masters." it said. Steve Ellen Nochi nodded. "I don't want you to use some oddball voice. I want a normal voice like a typical Ultratech employee. Don't start speaking Chinese or Klingon or anything, okay? Let me hear you say: I am on an urgent mission." "I am on an urgent mission." "Excellent. Now search your memory for occasions of passing checkpoint towers. We'll need to use the ones that work the best. Assemble them into a list that you can call upon as needed." "It is done." Jervis was watching the procedure. "Are you finished with the droid? Let's get moving." After the shuttle entered the atmosphere above New Japan another problem occured to Jervis. "Suppose they've changed some of the codes? This droid won't know the new ones because he's been with us." Nochi waved it off. "Let's worry about that when it happens. That's why we are carrying big guns - for unexpected situations." Twiga (New Japan is a planet? I thought it was just a country on Paydran...ah whatever who cares...)Meanwhile Alice was getting ready for bed there was a knock on her door it was TJ "Sorry if I'm bothering you." He said "I just wanted to talk "About what?" Alice asked "I found this in an online auction." TJ said holding up what looked like a little green skined alien doll. "Commander Wubsy!" Alice exclaimed as she got the doll "Thank You TJ," She said "I was wondering where I lost this." MS (Its a region Steve. Lol. Using a ship is faster then the airplane. :P) Twiga Meanwhile Vodku got a call..."Who could be calling me at this hour?" Vodku asked "Yeah this is me..." "Vodku," It was Hikari "I need you now." "Hikari," Vodku said "Me and the boys are kind of busy here..." "I don't need Nochi or Mr Tetch or whoever else is with you, I need you!" "What in Zorc's name why?" Vodku asked "My contractions started an hour ago." She said "I'm going to give birth." Vodku fell flat on his face, Than he got right back up "@%&#!" He said "How am I supposed to get to you all the way from New Japan?!" "Take a teleport machine." Hikari said "They look like ordanariy phone booths but are bright green they are all over New Japan." (I thought we have a lot of pregnancy but no giving birth so I decieded to fix that) MS (lol ok. XD) Vodku looked around the club and ran around asking anyone for a teleporter machine. No one knew any and most don't even know what they are. Until a robot came up and offered him assistance. "Quick! Robot! I need you to take me to the nearest Teleporter to New Japan and make it fast!" he yelled. The robot nodded a bit shaking hearing his yell. "Yes master right away master!" it said as it ran out the door with Vodku with him. Steve Ellen [I know New Japan is a region but the higher you go in a shuttle the faster you can fly because of reduced air friction. With a shuttle you would fly above the atmosphere for the shortest possible trip.]Vodku teleported to Hikari. "Thank you for coming," Hikari said. "It was a false labor." "What!" Vodku said. "No, don't get excited. I'm still going to have the baby very soon. Within 24 hours the doctor says." "Uh, okay then. Can I get you something? Flowers? Candy? Anything?" Twiga Hikari was silent for a second, unsure of what to say"Could you get me some raw meat?" "Well sure I'd love to....RAW MEAT?!" "Not for this instant but for when after the baby is born." She said "Since I'm hybrid to a dragon fresh meat is something we need to restore ourselves after giving birth." "But where am I supposed to find raw meat?" Vodku asked "On Paydran the goverment has a momoply on organic food!" "Find some urchians." She said "They know where the food is hidden." Steve Ellen Vodku headed straight for the local mall. There were sure to be some urchins there. As soon as he walked in the entrance he was accosted by one. "Hey, mister!" the kid said. "Got any spare change?" Vodku grinned. "I might have a lot of spare change if you can tell me where I can get some raw meat. Real meat, not the synthetic stuff." The kid rubbed his nose with the sleeve of his dirty shirt. "Sure! I know a place!" "Take me there and I'll give you your money." Twiga The kid took Vodku, by the hand and began to lead him through the grisly dark alleyways to where the Urchins kept there stolan food."So...um... What do you kids do down here most of the time?" Vodku asked "We mostly spend our days digging in the trash looking for anything of value." The Kid said "Than we trade it to the rich for food." "I suppose..." Vodku said he was a little uneasy with all the darkness and filth around him MS The kid came up to a celler and knocked on the bottom door in a rythem."Open up! Its me Charlie!" the kid called out. The basement celler opened and a few more urchans came out. "Charlie this isn't any rich person or any other guy! He looks like he came from Ultratech! Kinda nasty looking one too." said the leader urchan. Vodku had a vein grown on his head and sighed. "Ok I WAS Ultratech. This is just a disguise for New Japan since I see a lot around here. This dirt came from an underground wresteling arena." Steve Ellen "Oh, so you're a wrestler," the leader urchin said. "Then you can wrestle with Big Billy. If you win then we'll sell you some food." "Now wait a minute," Vodku said. "I didn't say I was a wrestler." "Then you really are an Ultratech spy?" "No! I'm- Oh, alright, I'll wrestle Big Billy." "That's the way to go, mister!" Charlie said. The other urchins started yelling "Fight! Fight!" and soon there was a ring of dozens of urchins with Vodku in the middle. "So where is Big Billy?" Vodku said. "He's coming. There he is!" Big Billy was a huge Japanese boy in a sumo loincloth. Even though he looked about 12 years old, he was bigger and heavier than Vodku. He assumed a wrestling stance opposite Vodku. "What are the rules?" Vodku said. "Rules? You fight until one of you wins. Ready? Go!" The sumo boy charged into Vodku and knocked him down, then jumped on him. "Oof!" Vodku said and realized he better do something fast. Twiga Vodku didn't know what to do, the twelve year old was bigger and stronger than him.Vodku saw a feather on the ground, he grabbed it and lifted it to Big Billy's armpit "Tickle tickle!" Vodku said Big Billy fell to the ground laughing his head off! Vodku kept tickling him with the feather hoping he could tire him out with it... Meanwhile on Black Beauty Samantha was not sure where to sleep, she saw Bill go into his stable so she sneaked in there was wasn't looking and hid in the closit Bill had no idea where she was as he prepared for bed. Sammantha sighed and gazed at him loveingly. Twiga Meanwhile on Paydran, Tanya the Black Knight was being questioned by High Elder."So...Madame..." High Elder said "What is your stance on the Manimal issue?" "My stance on the issue..." Tanya seemed to luagh for a moment than she turned deadly serious... "I hate Manimals." She said "I believe that they are danger to society." "Go on..." High Elder said "They ate my baby sister..." She said "I'll never forgive them..." "Your in luck" High Elder said "You're next fight is against a five-headed Dragon Manimal named Tiamat, She is a wild creature, she was once a secretary for ultratech but now she fights for Ultratech." Steve Ellen "Five heads?" Tanya said. "Then I will have to kill her five times. It will be a tough fight." "Couldn't you just go for her heart and get it over with quickly?" the High Elder asked. "No. Dragons have small hearts hidden deep in their chest. With her five heads snapping at me, I could never reach her heart in time before my arm was bitten off. I must defeat each head." "Can you do it?" "I think so," Tanya said. "I haven't trained for that specific creature, but I once defeated a three-headed turtle." "Dragons are a lot quicker on their feet than turtles." "That's what worries me," Tanya said. Twiga Tanya had no idea that their converstation was being recorded, if she did know she most likely would not have said thh onee things she said for even though she claimed she hated all Manimals she was friends with one, TJ Combo,Meanwhile Vodku had succesfully managed to defeat Big Billy by tickling him into submission. "Well, I guess you won fair and square." Charlie said "Here's your raw meat." So they gave him a big box of raw meat, Vodku was onlly too glad to take it, somewhat annoyed with the hurdles he had to jump through in order to get it. Meanwhile on Paydran, High Elder broadcast the recording of the conversation with Tanya on national TV everywhere they heard that Tanya thought Manimals were 'a danger to society' and that 'they ate my baby sister' All the Manimal compeditors in tornament were thougholy ticked off...But no more so than TJ Combo himself. He decided he would give her a call on her cell phone and tell her what he thought of her know that he learned she was anti-manimal.... Tanya's cell phone ringed, she answered it, what she heard was a mysterious message saying that 'She should come to the corner of Eastman and Laird' if 'she knew what was good for her' Steve Ellen "Who were you calling?" Alice asked as TJ put his cellphone back in his pocket. "None of your business," TJ said. "Since when did you become so nosey?" "I just wondered why you changed your voice. Usually when a person disguises his voice to make a call, then he is up to no good." "I was just playing a joke on a friend." Alice didn't pry any further into TJ's affairs, but when she saw him sneak off a few minutes later, she decided to follow him. Tanya kept her appointment at "the corner of Eastman and Laird." She wasn't afraid because she was wearing her full armor and had her blade ready. She never ran away from a fight but she wasn't sure the mysterious caller wanted to fight. Maybe he had some useful information for her. Nevertheless, Tanya believed in being ready for anything. "No surprises!" was her motto. She looked around the intersection. It was in a warehouse district and the streets were empty. Maybe he meant Westman and Laird.... Twiga Alice had used her cat skills to climb up to a window ledge, she watched from above as she saw Tanya the Black Knight begin to pace."Hi there." Came a friendly voice TJ Combo walked out of the shadows "Oh TJ it's you." Tanya said with a sigh "Listen maybe you can help he here...you see I got a phone call from sombody..." "I know ."TJ said "I'm the one who called you." "What?" Tany said "I vuagely recall somebody saying they thought Manimals were 'a danger to society.'" Tanya suddenly realyzed what he meant "OH Gods TJ I'm sorry!" She said "I didn't mean you!" MS Meanwhile, back at the hideout, Vodku had just started finishing off Big Billy. Surprisingly he laughed so hard he fell and rolled out of the ring. Every urchin was shocked. Big Billy was the toughest of all! Yet he was defeated by a simple tickle."Now that settles it. You are no Ultratech spy. Yet, some strange tactic you use to tickle him." said Charlie. Vodku chuckled and rubbed the back of his head. "The bigger they are, the harder they laugh. Now how about some raw meat?" he said. The Urchains nodded and worked around their storage. Vodku pulled out a bag with a huge amount of money in it. As the Urchians came back, he dropped it in Charlie's hands. "Better to give thanks for something I recieved." Twiga Vodku took the meat back to Hikari...She was laying on her back, "Vodku..." She said "It's for real this time...I'm going to give birth... get that red dragon midwife who goes by name of Mooninite..she lives right next door..."Vodku quickly rushed out of the room to fetch Mooninite Meanwhile out at the corner of Eastman and Laird, TJ Combo was grilling Tanya the Black Knight. "So out of all the Manimals why do you trust me?" Combo asked crossly "Is it because I'm human from the waste up or is it because I am the great grandson of the last president." "Combo, please try to understand that I had no idea the High Elder recorded that conversation I would never have said it I knew what he was planning!" "Well I suppose we can't change anything now." As TJ turned to leave "Don't expect me to go easy on you when comes our turn to fight each other." Alice had seen everything from her perch "I suppose TJ Combo was right to say what he said if that woman is as biased as she said." Meanwhile on Planet Black Beauty Bill had fallen asleep as it had gotten late and the sound of the rain storm was very soothing to animalistic ears. Samantha was finding the sound of the rain very soothing as well, as she saw Bill slumbering in his bed and heard him snore she felt a great urge to lay down beside him. Even though he did not trust her and he could possibly kill her if he found her sleeping in his bed she decieded to risk it and lay down beside him. Bill had strange dream in the night mostly about strange aliens and things that creep around yor bed at night, he awoke before his eyes opened he felt an emptiness in his stomach and decided he need a midnight snack...but as he got out of his bed he felt his tail was stuck as if something was laying on it, he saw the girl and knew who she was But somehow Bill was not afraid this time of her.. MS Bill chocked silently a bit then subsided letting the Wrangler sleep beside him. Without anyother option, Bill leapt back into his rest again. If the others found out about this, what would he say? No one would want her here and worst they could kill her.Back at the underground club, a hybrid human an alien leaned back against the wall easedropping on the two. The hybrid was a human, triclops hybrid. Triclops were humanoid species found in the Traverse. There's not much of them left, most say they are soothsayers. Or those who see the past. In specific forms, they are called Triclopular Sepian. His name's Kave. And unfortuneatly he was part in Ultratech experiments as well and servent of the High Elder. The only way to get closer to gaining his trust and killing him is to win those matches. Tanya walked passed around the other room and pass Kave. His third eye on the back of his head opened. He turned and faced his eye at her and read her past. Born with that specific power anyways. "So you been used by the High Elder too eh?" he said aloud for her to hear. Steve Ellen Tanya whirled around. She had been lost in thought and never even noticed the Triclops. Now she saw him. "What? Are you talking to me?" Kave grinned. "The Black Knight," he said. Then he reeled off her last five victories, describing them perfectly, but quickly. "You were at all my fights?" Tanya said. "I was at none of them. I am a Triclops. My name is Kave." Tanya stared at him as she recalled what she had heard about his species. She felt suddenly naked having all her past exposed to him, but she wasn't ashamed of anything she had done. "My name is Tanya, but I guess you already know that," she said. MS Kave chuckled and smiled. "You bet. Though I saw it through billboards most of the time. " he said. Tanya sighed and turned around. She felt kinda embaressed that he easedropped like that. "Why are you here?" she asked. "Well... to make matters sort I sorted out a deal on the High Elder. Im competting in the underground. Though I can't never see the future since I wasn't born like that, but I can read and anticipate movements." Twiga Meanwile as Alice reterned to her apartment to get a long nights sleep she saw that there was a message on her answering machine."Alice." The Message said "This is your boss R.L. Tommorow night you got an important job greeting the alien vistor Klatu from planet Rigel 1." The Message continued "We have a shaky relationship with Rigel 1 The natives of the planet want our resorces but don't want to pay for them, They are rumored to have extreme firepower so this meeting with the alien ambassador could make or break the alliance! So I'm afraid you won't be able to go to tommorow night's fight I know you must be dissapointed but you're the only Girlygirl we trust enough." Meanwhile at the Basement fight club Tiamat, the 5-headed dragoness was recieving a message from her superiors Tiamat was secretly working for the Human Underground of Gallia (What used to be called France) The leader of the undergroud was called Reg Shoe, a passonate young man in a frilly shirt who believed in human liberation and rights for the manimals. "Remember Tiamat." Reg said through a two-way radio that Tiamat wore disgused as an earing "You're the underdog in the tornimant but you can win with the magic light swords we gave you." "Yeah about those swords..." Tiamat said "Where excantly did you det them?" "Um...we found them in trash heap." Reg Shoe said nervously "Along with some alien corpes But remember you must defeat the Black Knight!" MS Tiamat nodded and looked voer at the Black Night who was talking to the Triclops now."What about that alien? The Triclops. No doubt he's just watching the show from the back of his head." she said. The leader gurked a bit hearing the word. "You mean a TRICLOPS? Which third eye is it located at on his head?" he asked. Tiamat moved around behind him to see a closed eye behind him in his hair. "Behind him." she said. "Triclops are able to read past events but only so little much time. Though they are intelligent. In case you get to fight him, be on your guard. Though I doubt he work's for Ulltratech." Tiamat looked at the triclops again. His third eye opened up and peered left and right then closing back again. "You got it boss. But I'll try and learn more about him." Steve Ellen But there was no way Tiamat could learn as much about Kave the Triclops as he was learning about her just by studying her with his third eye. He whispered to Tanya: "Listen closely. Since you and I are both currently in the service of the High Elder, he wants me to give you whatever information will help you. This Tiamat that you will be fighting is a five-headed dragon that can ONLY be killed by killing every one of her five heads. Don't waste time trying to cut off an arm or a leg because she can regenerate those within seconds. But her heads take her many days to regenerate. So if you can get all five of them, then you have killed her. Tiamat is working for HUG, the Human Underground of Gallia. Their leader, Reg Shoe, has equipped her with magic light swords and installed a two-way radio in her ear so he can give her instructions." "That's cheating!" Tanya said. "Perhaps," Kave said, "but you know what happens if you protest now. She would simply deny it and probably get rid of the radio by swallowing it before anyone could find it." "Five heads? Magic light swords?" Tanya shook her head slowly. "I don't know. I've never been worried about a fight before, but I am about this one." "Please don't be worried," Kave said. "I'm not trying to spook you. The High Elder has taken action to counter HUG's moves. YOU will have a radio in your ear as well, and a friend will be talking to you on it. We have him positioned near Tiamat's corner where her handlers will be talking. He can hear what they are planning." "Who will be my handler?" Tanya said. Twiga "I don't know" Kave said "Like I said I can't see into the future that wellTiamat decided it wasen't safe to be near the Triclops and moved away, she spread her wings and took to the sky she loved to fly more than anything... Morning had come to Black Beauty... Bill had slept uneasily, both from the knowadge that that he was sleeping with a wrangler and because he had not been able to satiate his hunger in the middle of the night. Samantha rolled over and realised his tail, Bill rubbed his tail as it had falled asleep while the Wrangler lay on it. Bill looked at the clock, it was only just dawn, too soon before breakfast... Bill was almost too tired to think but he sat up and trided to think of a way to hide Samantha or disguse her so she didn't look like a wragler...or both... Meanwhile in the Master Bedroom Zander and Matoaka slept blissfully together. Than for a second the morning birdsong ceased, a strange light entered through the windows, small silver rivulets of light flowed into the rooom, the birdsong resumed. Zander felt there was a magical presence in the room, while Matoaka could not... Zander opened one eye sleepfully and sat up, he saw that flowing silver light was collecting in one place beside the bed.. Zander knew what this meant, he would be visted by a ghost A ghost did appear, his late father, who did not look pleased "Er...Hi Father..." Zander said meekly "Oh don't try to play innocent..." His Father said "I know excatly what you did!" "Did what?" Zander asked knowing only too well "Marrying a woman not of our Planet!" Zander quickly realized what this was about, He was going to be scolded by his father from beyond the grave something he had no stomach for after he had been whipped for his transgresstion so he burried his head under the pillow and tried to pretend the ghost of his his late father wasen't there. "It isn't so much what you did with the Unicorn-woman that disgusts me so much." The Ghost of Former King Atal said "It's that you chose that son of a rapist Revel to take your place as Prince!" "Revel was my best friend." Zander said from under the pillow "What else could I do?" "You let that son of a pervert marry your sister!" Atal snarled "And by doing that defiled the royal blood forever!" He took a book from the end table and smacked it against his son's rear end "My son the pervert!" "Papa please I've been punished enough!" Zander pleaded MS (Nuu! Me no want Tiamat to die! I like her. ^^ Lol)He continued to smack him again. And it was at this point Zander couldn't take it anymore. He screamed a bloddy rage and rammed his fist at his father's head. He stopped and staggered back. "THIS IS MY LIFE!!! I AM NOT A SLAVE TO PERFECTION!!! YOU WERE NEVER PERFECT FATHER! I DON'T CARE IF I MARRIED SOMEONE NOT FROM MY PLANET! ITS MY CHOICE! THAT'S WHY MOM LEFT YOU BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T WANT TO BEAR HER LIFE LIKE THIS! ARRANGED MARRIAGE IS NOT WHAT SHE WANTED!" he yelled. Atal, the ghost stood almost scared to see his son enraged. But angry that he hit him back. "You have shamed our family and honor." he said lowly. Zander snarled and spatted. "I don't care! Im no longer your family! I don't want you to haunt me never again!" It was a long time where they stood. That was until Atal faded away. Even though Zander felt more at peace for standing up for himself, he couldn't bear the feeling of what he meant about Revel is true. He didn't know what to think. Twiga (Don't worry I'm not planning for Tiamat to die,I've got a plot twist up my sleeve!)Zander sighed as the silver light flowed out of the room Matoaka stirred slightly "Zander?" She asked "Is something the matter? I heard voices..." Zander brushed a lock of hair out of her face "I just had a bad dream is all." Bill's stomach could not stand it any longer he got out of bed to find something to eat. He found half a jug of milk in the fridge he opened it it up and drank straight from the jug... "You know that's a filthy habit.." A voice came from the hall Bill turned to the side and saw Zander "Zander?" Bill asked "You look terrible!" "I...had bad dreams." Zander said trying to say it in a way Bill would understand Meanwhile Tiamat had flown to the top of a skyscraper, she breathed the smogy Paydran air She sighed she had no family, ever since she could remember she had been a dragon she had only one hint of having a human life She had two bracelets one that said 'Together' and 'in Gallia' "Whoever gave me this bracelets must have loved me." She said to herself MS (lol coolio. And sorry for the last post that might not make sense since the aliens have a tradition. :P I was a bit angry today. ANd it wasn't from the barber's shop.)The Triclops chuckled a bit as he watches Tiamat. He wondered how she lived her past. But he didn't want to read her past. Tanya walked besides him as she looks at her as well. "The underground fight doesn't allow killing does it Kave?" she asked. Kave shrugged a bit as he turned around. "Well to tell the truth... Its allowed. Kinda. No one bothers because they either work for Ultratech or the High Elder... Why do you ask?" he said. Steve Ellen "Because this is what I read in the MC: Killer Instinct is the only sport left on Paydran, it is a Fighting competition where the contestants kill each other one by one until only one is left and if that one happens to be a Manimal than legend has it that he or she will be declared a free citizen." "What's the MC?" Kave said. "The Master Encyclopedia." Kave laughed. "I wouldn't trust that. It's not always accurate. Obviously KIller Instinct isn't the only sport on Paydran, right?" Tanya frowned. "Are the underground fights part of Killer Instinct or not?" Twiga "Most of them are the warm up for KI" Kave said "It's where the crimmals, manimals and others weed out the fit from the unfit before the battle royale."Meanwhile on Black Beauty the Manimals and their companions were begining to enter the dining hall for breakfast... "Hey Bill!" A voice called "Save some milk for the rest of us!" Jim and Jordan walked out with sleepy but happy faces "Morning." Bob said "Did you two stay up all night having a tickle fight or something?" Jordan giggled and got out a brush for her hair and sighed "No, no" She said "But I did have the strangest dreams in the night!" "Oh really?" Matoaka inquired as she entered "Zander had strange dreams in the night too." "Where are Marzipan and Ichabod?" Jim asked "They're normaly the first ones up!" "Oh..They're probaly just having an extended cuddle sesstion upstairs." Bod said disgustly as he reached for a teapot to make himself some herbal tea. Jordan just giggled as she brushed her hair, she got out a bottle of Simply Apple and poured herself some. But as she began to sip from her cup she noticed there was a peculiar smell in the room. "Something smells funny." She said "Oh..." Bill said "Sorry that was me..." "No it isn't you Bill." Jordan said "I smell something that doesen't smell like any of us, something that smells smogy and greasy like someone who works with automobles.." Bill noticed much to his horror that Samantha was out of his room and looking around and Jordan was smelling her scent! If Jordan found her who knows what she would do! MS To make sure they didn't find her, Bill jumped up and ran out the room while excusing."Sorry guys! I forgot...I..Uhh... I forgot something in the stable!" he said as he ran out. He had to make sure Samantha was nowhere near the others. Twiga (Now For something different ( Edit: Accidently put this in the wrong story oops)"Welcome back to the sports channal!" Said the Sportscastor "We show competive killing and that's about it..." He turned to the fighting area, which was...On the top of a giant skyscraper...FOR THE RATINGS! "For this deaf-defiying fight the young upcomer Tiamat is fighting Tanya the Black Knight, she looks slightly nervous and who could blame her? Tanya is a seasoned competeter with a long list of victories, she was the winner of last years tornament." Tanya turned to her handiler, who happened to be a mouse/snake hybrid named Cooprate Cooperate was an extremly dangerous crimmanal who was mutated into a slave just to keep him under control, the intended to make him a mouse but the machine screwed up and made him part snake.. "All right." Coorprate said "Focus! Focus Cut off all of her heads at once!" Steve Ellen The fighting platform on top of the giant slyscraper had been constructed without railings. This added a new element of danger to the fight. If a fighter got too near the edge and fell off, then there were a dozen cameras ready to record his long fall down to certain death. "Stay near the center of the platform," Cooperate said. Tanya shook her shoulders. "Yes, yes, I know all that. What kind of useless handler are you? Tell me something I don't know." "I don't know what you don't know. What do you want to know?" "Argh!" Tanya said and rolled her eyes. A little voice in her ear said, "This is Charlie. Can you hear me? Nod your head if you can hear me." Tanya nodded. "OK," Charlie said. "I just heard Tiamat tell her handler that she's gonna play with you for a little while before she kills you. She wants to give the crowd a good show." Tanya wondered how that information was supposed to help her. Thank you, Charlie. But then Tanya considered the possibilities. It would give her a little breathing room to try some strategy if Tiamat was deliberately trying to stretch out the fight. A plan began to form in Tanya's mind. Twiga Tiamat began to spread her wings, in order to stretch them, she began furling and unfurling her wings, this was to give a fair warning to Tanya that simply trying to knock her off the edge would be useless as she has wings and everything...Tanya almost wanted to give up hope but she swallowed her fear and began the fight anyway. Meanwhile at Earthport, far above the city, Alice could only wonder how the fight was going as she was busy entertaing the alien Klatu. Klatu ran his and around her furry ankle Alice quietly shivered at the feeling, Klatu siged happily "You know it's funny Alice." He said "You're not even human and yet you're the smartest person here... Did you know it made my planet poor to send me here? And what will we get from it? Nothing, nothing a thousand times nothing!" He huffed irritably "I come to Earth seeking intelligent life but the most intelligent person on it is a cat!" Meanwhile at the fight Tiamat and Tanya began to grapple with each other testing which one was stronger. MS Alice looked down a bit sadly."Im not a cat... They made me this way...." she whispered. Klatu coughed and narrowed his eyes. "That's it? What does Ultratech take me for?! I A cat actually a human? I seeked better for a human! Yet they send me a freak." he said. Alice tried not to say anything to anger Klatu or anger Ultratech. So she gritted her teeth under her lips and clenched her fists. "I am human. Im not here by my will." Meanwhile back at new Japan, Nochi Jervis, Carther and the droid finally got into an Ultratech HQ. Lord Faminex was without a doubt here. All they had to do was wear disguises, (except Carter) use the droid as a superior as Faminex and find where he is. Jervis almost shivered excitedly from the thought of seeing him and making him suffer. But he had to calm down and just do this not for revenge for Alice, but to get her back as well. Twiga Jervis and Nochi put on their cloak of invisability and made their way through the labs...Jervis heard the distinct sound of Lord Femistox's voice... "I suppose Alice will not plan to marry me very soon,But I don't care, she's only got her hopes up because of the Killer Instinct tournament..No matter, when the one she sponsers dies at the end she will have no choice but to marry me." Jervis could barley contain his anger He gave THe Lord a vulcan neck pinch, The Lord Fainted dead away... Meanwhile during the battle between Tiamat and Tanya things were getting fierce! Tanya's sword clashed with Tiamat's twin light swords "Those are some pretty toys..." Tanya said "Who gave them to you?" "Yo, Mama..." Tiamat snarled Tanya delivered a spinning uppercut to Tiamat's main jaw "I ain't playing reptile!" The Knight sneered "Only one of us can come out of this alive!" Than she noticed twin bands of gold on the dragon's wrists... "Where did you get those?!" She demaned "I've had these ever since I was an infant." "You lie!" Tanya said "Those bracelets belong to my..." She hesitated "Dead sister..." Suddenly Tanya dropped her sword, what if Tiamat was her lost baby sister? MS Tiamat still held onto her sword and looked at Tanya blankly."Your sister? There's no way they could be your sister's!" she said. Yet, Tiamat lowered her sword and looked at her closely. "Remove your helmet. "Black Knight" or whoever you are..." Tanya wasn't moving though.. She was almost scared to do so. But she did anyways revealing her face. "Tanya?" Twiga "I thought you were dead!" Tanya exclaimed"I thought you were dead!" Tiamat said timidly "They told me the Manimals ate you!" Tanya said dropping her helmit to the ground "No, I've BEEN a Manimal for as long as I can remember!" The Dragoness looked at her bracelets "The only hints I had that I once had a human life was these bracelets and the image of your face in my mind..." "So this is what it's like when doves cry..." Tanya said as she laid her arms over her sister's shoulders weeping... "Excuse me." The Sports Castor said "There is still a fight to be won!" The two sisters looked at each other and went over to the sportscastor. "We've decied that since we are both related by blood we can not fight each other...We will not complete this fight." The male sportscaster looked to his female co-worker "Are they allowed to do that?" The Woman got out the Book of Rules and skimmed "I don't see any rule against it..." "So there you have it!" The Man said "This round ends in the first draw ever in Killer Instinct history!" "You know." The woman said wiping tears from her eyes "This is the greatest example of sportsmanship and sisterhood I've seen since The last first lady let Barbara Bush when the golf tornament..." MS (Twiga's edit OJ? Did you mean TJ?)Kave who watched the whole event chuckled and walked right up. "Yeah... too bad Gearld Ford was gone otherwise she would had competed against him." he said jokingly but smiling. Tanya and Tiamat hugged each other tightly as they began to cry. Especially all of Tiamat's five heads. TJ walked across the arena and spotted the two hugging. "What in the world...?" he said to himself. Steve Ellen The High Elder turned off his viewing machine in disgust. "Dagnabbit! I bet 3 million credits on that fight! A draw? Z3PP! Get in here fast!" The bot Z3PP scurried into the room, beeping. The High Elder silenced it with a raised hand. "Who researched this fight? He screwed up! I want his head!" Z3PP zoomed out of the room. Fifteen minutes later a maidbot dusting outside the Research Room heard a loud scream. It entered the room and changed its dustrag for a mop. Z3PP entered the Command Room and held up a grisly trophy for the High Elder to see. "Good work, Z3PP. I remember hiring that guy. Toss it down the garbage chute." Twiga High Elder sighed and stroked his beard, this was going to be more difficult than he thoughtMeanwhile on Black Beauty, Bill had got Sam back to his Stable without much trouble... "What were you thinking?" Bill asked Samantha harshly "Geez calm down!" The Girl said "I thought you were going to prtect me since you're the strongest one here..." "Absolutley not the case." Bill said "I can't protect you from all of them!" Meanwhile after Bill's hasty retreat from the table Zander took the time to give a little TLC to Matoaka. He laid his beak on her shoulder and stroked her pregnant belly, "Zander..." Matoaka nickered in Unicorn accent, You're feeling awfully frisky this morning." Zander thought about what the ghost of his father had said to him, he kissed her cheek gently "I just thought you needed a little jump-start." Zander "I was thinking the spark was fading." Zander noticed Bill was exiting his stable he wondered if Bill was hiding something... Meanwhile at Earthport, Alice was talking to Klatu. "I'm not sure what Ultratech has told you but we Manimals are not animals in the shape of humans we are humans in the shape of animals." Klatu looked somewhat distressed "If this is what Humanity does do it's own people?" He asked "What would they do to aliens like me?" "I don't know." Alice could only say "I think I will tell my planet to stop trading with Paydran." Klatu said firmly "We can't trust Paydran." "I think that will be wise." Alice said MS "If Ultratech were to do this to all of their people then I'd say we will not alliance those who are Ultratech employees." he said.Alice thought a bit and thought of Nochi, his brother, her father and others who were ONCE employees. "What about fired employees?" she asked. Klatu was typing on his technological armband. "They are no bother unless they get in my way." he responded. Back in New Japan, Vodku finally found and retrieved Moonlite and went back to Hikari to help deliver the new arrivals. "Ok im here! Hikari right? Calm down and get settle then we'll begin." she said. Vodku walked over and held onto her paw or hand stroking it. "You ok love?" he asked. Twiga "I think I will be fine in a few minutes..." Hikari saidMoonlite gently pressed on the silver dragon's swollen belly, easing her discomfort. "Vodku." Moonlite said "Can you keep watch to see no Robot Police walk by? Hikari is a fugitive and if Ultratech discovers her here..." "Oh Don't worry!" Vodku said "I'll keep watch!" He went outside the apartment and watched for the robot police... None walked by, but several Manimals walked by often times turning to look away from Vodku or sometimes crossing to the other side to avoid him... Even though Vodku smiled and tried to look friendly to the frightend ones, he came to realize that these poor slaves must be broken in to far for them to avoid all humans. "I bet those poor souls are the ones who work deep underground." Vodku said to himself "Working on the machines that power all of Paydran." One Manimal girl was differnt, she gave him a look that surprised him saucy beyond all limits of flirtation, Vodku was taken aback He looked again at the Manimal Girl, she was Cat, a Scottish Fold, he didn't know who she was but she reminded him a bit of what Hikari was like when they first met. Vodku heard the sounds of an infant crying and he ran back to see Moonlite holding a small Dragon-Child "It's a girl!" The older Red Dragon said gladly "What do you want to call her?" Hikari asked "How about...Tenten?" Vodku asked MS ( I may be mixed up with a few names. XD Sorry bout that. And Tenten? Like from Naruto? Cute~! ^^)Hikari looked down and smiled warmly. She liked the name. "I'd say we keep her name. I like it." she said. The little dragon girl was well, actually dragon. But a bit less talons and scales. She has a tail but no wings. "So cute~! I love her already~!" Vodku said watching her. Twiga Vodku, took Tenten and placed her in Hikari's arms"How is the serch for Alice going?" She asked "I think we've made real progress." Vodku said "We found Lord Femistox." Meanwhile High Elder was watching as the Killer Instinct Half-Time unfolded, High Elder called his servant Mr. Quirrel "Yes My Lord?" Aasked the Timid Manservant "How are the genetic tests in New Japan going?" High Elder asked "Have we suceeded in creating Dinosaur Clones that will serve and obey us?" "Yes My Lord." "Good." High Elder sneered "Get one that's particuly violent and enter it in the Killer Intinct tornament as an Ultratech test subject, I want to see if it as good a killing machine as you say." Steve Ellen Quirrel went down to the Clone Labs to make his selection. He narrowed it down to three dinos that had already developed a reputation for violence. One had nearly wrecked the lab, but he had been damaged when the lab workers finally subdued him by breaking his legs with a Sonic Rammer. Quirrel looked at the other two. One was a bright copper color and snarled at him. The other one was a dusty gray. It had half-closed eyes and ignored him. Would the copper one be the better fighter? Or was he all snarl and no punch? Quirrel collared one of the lab workers. "If these two dinos fought each other, which one do you think would win?" The lab worker didn't hesitate. "That gray one is a natural-born killer. He was cloned as a group of three. His two brother clones are dead now, their throats ripped out by that one. The copper wouldn't stand a chance against him." "Thanks," Quirrel said. "Crate up the gray one and ship him to the Killer Instinct arena area, property of the High Elder. By the way, what's his name?" "Jack the Ripper," said the lab worker, quickly making up a name. As far as the lab workers were concerned, the gray dino was named Clone #C-38-R, but he knew Quirrel wanted to hear something dramatic. Twiga "Thanks" Quirrel said as he had 'Jack the Ripper' Airlifted to High Elder's lab.The Dinosaur Clone was pure Velociraptor, High Elder specificly wanted the creation of carnivourus dinosaurs because he wanted to see if they would eat the competitors. Meanwhile Hikari and Vodku were busy with their little Tenten, Hikari was nursing their daughter, Vodku suddenly got a call on his cell phone and he answered "Yeah this is me" Vodku said "Vodku, this is Nochi." Said Nochi "I have news! Alice is sponsoring TJ in the Killer Instinct Torniment!" Meanwhile on Black Beauty...Bill had hidden Samantha in his room after carfully explaining that if she went outside the others would kill her. Samantha stated she was hungry so Bill went back to the dining hall to get food for her. He went to the fruit bowl and plucked out some nice exta-terrestrial fruits for her, He heard Bob speaking out loud to rest of the group "You know what I miss about Paydran?" He asked "The Killer Insticnt fights, they were so lively, so much fun." Back on Paydran, Alice had finished her meeting with Klatu, she hoped Klatu would keep his promise and not reveal what said at their meeting to anyone. Alice collapsed on her bed and squezzzed her Commander Wubsy alien doll. She wept into its plush fuzz, she heard a knock on the door, it was TJ. "Alice?" He asked "May I come in?" "Sure why not?" She sighed "I could use some company." "How did the meeting with the Alien Ambassador go?" TJ asked "I'd rather not say." Alice said "Fair enough." MS Alice laid her head on the pillow sobbing quietly now. TJ walked over and sat next to her. "Is something wrong Alice?" he asked. She held the pillow close to her looking downwards. "Its just... Everything... I miss my friends... My father... Everyone.... Nochi, my dad Jervis, Vodku, 3 other Ultratech employees who were my age.. Back then there were my great friends who looked out for me. Now im stuck as a damn girly girl shit and forced to work for Lord Faminex..." she explained. TJ patted Alice's shoulder to comfert her. "Don't worry Alice... You'll see em again." he said. Alice smiled and looked up at TJ. "So... What did you think of anyone special in mind for you?" Alice blushed and meeped. At first she thought of Nochi but she didn't rather say it to him. "Umm... No one really... a little." TJ blushes a bit as he turned away. "Well... Before, I use to have a crush on Tanya." "Wait she's biased on manimmals! Why would you like her?" TJ sighed a bit and looked down. He wondered if he was a bit hard on her. "Well... I saw her and Tiamat literally hugging each other." Twiga TJ thought for a moment, he wasen't quite sure what to say to Alice to ease her discomfort..."Have you ever heard the story of Mum Bett?" He asked "Who?" Alice was baffled "I suppose you woulden't have heard of her..." TJ sighed "Back in the Early days of the Revolutionary War Mum Bett, otherwise known as Elizabeth Freeman sought the counsel of lawyer Theodore Sedgwick in order to sue for her civel rights." He continued "Mum Bett was the first African American woman to be set free in the untited states." "What are you suggesting?" Alice asked "What I'm saying is that you could pontentialy find a loophole in Ultratech justace to prove they used underhanded tactics to convert you into a Manimal, that you weren't fair game." Alice looked doubtful "You don't quite understand, you see I was always fair game...I was the child of a crimanal and the Paydarn law says that all children of convicts and the homeless are property of Ultratech..." "Ah I see." TJ said "But what do you think of Tiamat?" he asked "I origanly thought that she was an ordanary Manimal, child of a convict or child of the homelss, but if she is indeed Tanya's full-blooded sister, than we could reveal that Ultratech has been stealing the children of the Aristocrocy and the Middle Class, for years the reports of missing children has been skyrockting and many believe that there is a black market for the children of the wealthy as slaves if we can prove that Ultratech has been breaking its own rules to make more slaves than we can shake the foundations of Ultratech to its core!" "But who would take a Manimal's case?" Alice asked "Manimals, regradless of where they came from have no rights, and humans are terrified to speak out against Ultratech's laws out of fear that they will be turned into Manimals to scilence them!" "Too true." TJ said stroking his chin "Perhaps we need a lawyer not bound to Ultratech's laws... we need an Alien Lawyer!" (Author's note Mum Bett was indeed a real person and the first black woman to be set free in the US, Just goes to show it pays to pay attion in History Class!) MS (lol. I get shit history. :P SOMETIMES. lol.)Meanwhile, Jervis and the others were Underground of New Japan. With Lord Faminex tied up to a chair. "This is gonna be swell indeed." said Jervis flipping his brainwash chip. Faminex gasped as his eyes narrowed down towards the chip. "N-no way. You wouldn't DARE!" he yelled. Jervis smirked and took out his controller. "Oh I dare alright." Faminex growled under his breath and wiggled in the chair. "You! You! I'll have your head for this! Do this to me and I'll have all of Paydran Ultratech HQs after you!" he yelled. Jervis grabbed the back of his head and pulled his hair. "I don't think so if your not around. Or maybe, you won't remember this at all." Jervis shoved the chip under Faminex's ear clipping it. Steve Ellen Lord Faminex's eyes glazed over and his jaw went slack. "Can you hear me?" Jervis said. "Yes," Faminex responded in a flat voice. "He's under control now," Jervis said and winked at Nochi. "Where is Alice?" "She is at the Underground Fight Area." "What the-?!" Jervis said and looked at Nochi. "I'm going there right now. Can you get some more information from Faminex and then follow me?" Nochi frowned. "Can't you wait a few minutes so we can all stay together? A few more minutes isn't going to matter, is it?" Twiga Jervis sighed, "Oh Very well."Nochi asked the robot "Why is Alice at the underground fight area?" "She is sposoring TJ Combo for his fights." Lord Femistox answered Jervis stroked his chin, "Interesting very interesting." He said Meanwhile Bill Brandy brought Samantha's breakfast to her, She was grateful She nibbled lightly at a golden fruit, Bill watched her through sleepy eyes "Who were those two people who chased me away from the stream?" Samantha asked between nibbles "That was Ichabod and Marzipan." Bill said "They used to be from Moonport, they don't like Wranglers." MS "Ahh... I remember seeing that kid. Ichabod was it? Saw him a couple of times." she said.Bill kneeled down next to her as she eats her fruit. "Sam... I may not protect you so much on this planet... I think we should find another planet..." he said. Twiga Samantha looked skeptical "Find anouther Planet?" She asked "Bill this planet is the only safe haven for creatures like you in the universe, where would you go to?"Bill realized she was right, Black Beauty was the only planet hospitable to Manimals, if he and Samantha went searching for anouther planet to live on they would find nothing. Besides despite his feelings for Samantha Bill didn't want to leave his friends who were esstentuly the only family he had left in the universe. Meanwhile Ichabod and Marzipan had finally come down to the breakfast table. "You look awful!" Bob exclamed "What's the matter?" "I suffered horrible nightmares all night long." Ichabod sighed "I woke up in a cold sweat frequently throughout the night." He poured himself some ice water as he still looked very sweaty "It took a lot of soothing from Marzi untill I felt ready to face the world." Meanwhile Jervis looked online to the Killer Instinct website to TJ Combo's website "Well I'll be.." Jervis said to himself "It seems that Alice really wants this guy to win she's poured a lot of money into sponsering him." Carther stroked his furry chin "I often thought of particpating in the Killer Instinct fights." He said "Often when my life is going badly and I wanted to go out in a blaze of glory, but I never did sign up because Fearless Leader doesn't approve of the tourniment..." The Wolf sighed "Our Fearless Laeder says the the tourniment is a trap designed to ensnare the desperate and the gullible He says there a lot of better things to die for than bread and circuses." "Ah The Fearless Leader." Jervis said "The So-Called Lord and Savior of the Manimals, I've heard of him, what disgruntled rebel hasn't? But I never found out what sort of a creature he's supposed to be, is a wolf like you?" "I'm certainly not going to tell you!" Carther said "If Ultratech caught you and scanned your brain for forbidden knowladge, if they knew what sort of creature the Fearless Leader was than it would be the end of all hope for all of us!" MS Nochi stood up between them."Guys guys take it easy. Remember were here for Alice, not to see or hear the leader. Jervis, you and I will go to the Arena and find Alice. Carther, can you stay and watch over Faminox? And be sure to call us if Vodku arrives." he said. Carther nodded.and looked at the tied up Ultratech Lord. "I can do that. But Nochi be careful, there's no doubt everyone will be searching for him." he replied. Jervis hummed a bit turning around looking at the droid. "Well they won't look for long." Twiga ( OK I think I have to add a forth story in Order to complete the Ultratech Saga this thing is already going into the 103 additions so a think I have to divide this story in half)Jervis and Nochi headed for the fight arena in the former New York... Meanwhile on Black Beauty Bill sighed as he reterned to the dining hall for the third time. "Is something the matter Bill?" Jim asked "You look rather depressed." "I'm fine." Bill said "I just...didn't get enough sleep last night." He turned to Bob "You say you miss the Killer Instinct fights huh?" The Ox asked the Catfish "Yeah..." Bob sighed "I wish we had some means of watching them here..." The End! © Copyright 2009 Twiga, MS, Steve Ellen, (known as GROUP). All rights reserved. GROUP has granted Writing.Com, its affiliates and its syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work. |
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