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[Myitt]

"Such a sad story," Myitt says dreamily.  "Hm.  An Andalite captured by the Empire, and you are just lucky enough to morph back to human form, and receive a Yeerk who is conveniently willing to aid in the fight against the Empire."

Myitt knew some of what Serid had told her, and although it was a disappointing surprise that Tora had left her compatriot to be captured...doubt and years of friendship with Tora clouded her assessment of the Andalite's sob story. 

What was even more shocking, however, was that Serid was an Andalite himself. 

"How do you explain all of that away, Serid?" she continues.

<This oughta be good,> Tara says, watching with interest.

[KitsuneMarie]

"You do not believe me?" Serid growls, and then shakes his head in irritation. "Of course. She is your friend."

He folds his arms across his chest, his hands still visible. "I morphed immediately after my capture, although I was under guard. I doubted that those reporting to the current Visser Three would risk killing a potential Andalite host. It seemed preferable to become a nothlit in a reasonably useful and familiar body than to become a second Abomination. And, besides, I still hoped Ertoran would find a way to rescue me within two hours."

He purses his lips. "As for Illim, I have been his host for three and a half Earth years. Before this, I was host to a variety of Imperial Yeerks, several of whom were anthropologists of a sort, assigned to me in order to study my memories of the Andalite military. After my usefulness for such information wore out, I was given to Illim, who I was surprised to find was an undercover member of the Peace Movement."

[Shenmue654]

Mar groans, crossing his arms and standing beside Elayne. "Great, another stray. I'm as curious about who comes and who goes in this place as you are, granted. But it's like I said to you before: getting involved in other people's problems is only going to hurt you. Those people whom I know, I know because of outside influences or because we were forced to work together. Although..."

Mar strokes Elayne's cheek lightly and purrs oddly. "...I suppose boredom and the stray's beauty might be a kind of excuse. In this body, anyway. Might there be any way I can help you, pet?"

[Chad32]

Fredrick smiled as the process was completed. Now that he had her soul, she would never be able to disobey him. He sensed John coming, but unfortunately was unable to finish in time to have Artemis-no, Silver deal with him outside. No matter. His energy was refueled, and he put up an energy wall to protect them against blaster fire.

"Come in, Human. Come in and be enlightened as your friend is." He said.

Suddenly he was interrupted by something hitting the cave! It was like dracon fire, but much bigger. Did they bring a spaceship to hammer at his sanctuary? The symbols that covered the walls glowed threateningly. He thought of escaping out the back, but the sanctuary was really the safest place.

"Rise, my dearest Silver." he said, and withdrew his whip. "You have been enlightened, and may now serve The One. John here may come inside, or risk being blasted outside."

[Myitt]

"Until two days ago," Myitt adds.  She considers all of this information, wrestling with the idea that it could all be an elaborate trap, brought on by her initial contact.

Slowly, hesitantly, she removes the Dracon from its position under the table and sets it on the warped wooden surface.  

She very carefully clasps her hands in front of her.

"So," she says dully, "what are you going to do, now?"

<You actually believe that load of bull?> Tara exclaims.  <Get the Dracon back...it's not even...we're totally exposed!>

<So is he,> Myitt says calmly.  <I will give him the benefit of the doubt.  For now.>

<You're not ****ing Quick Draw over here,> Tara fumes.  <At least keep it in my hands!>

[RAFrukh]

"Captain, the Pulse is operational" came the voice from Engineering.

"Understood. Nefenok, beam that human out of there."

"Aye sir."

On the screen, Artemis appeared to be trapped in a tall blue-ish cylinder. Then she hovered above the ground. The cylinder became conical, and as she went up she shrunk, and then disappeared. I knew she was safe in a Decon-containment field in sickbay.

"Fire the pulse into the cave. Destroy it. Then, we go after Anathema. NOW!"

A red-violet beam came from Vogefac's ship' deflector. It went into the cave, deep and dark, lighting it...then the cave was flattened, as the gravity inside was fluctuating.

"Now, we go for Anathema."

The ship turned.

[Midnight_Huntress]

Silver raised her gaze to her master but before she could do anything she was surrounded by an odd blue light. The next thing she knew she was in a sick bay. She'd been captured! No! She had to help her Master. Was he still in the cave? Our sanctuary to The One? She looked around frantically. Then she heard the cave collapse. "No!"

[RAFrukh]

With the Bridge crew busy with refinding Anathema, Vogefac decided to visit sickbay.

"Doctor Hirojan. How is the patient?", He asked.

"She's restless. She's exhausted. But her physical, and mental health are almost perfect. What happened to her?"

"Nevermind that," Vogefac snapped, "May I see her?"

Hirojan rolled his eyes, "Of course. The door is open."

Vogefac walked in the Critical Care unit. He saw Artemis there, pacing in the 3 foot diameter, visible force-field.

"Artemis? Silver?" He said, walking closer, "Are you alright?"

[Midnight_Huntress]

She felt like she was caged. She paced the room until she heard her name. She turned and seen Vogefac standing there he looked worried. She had to get out of here. Her eyes held anger. "I'm fine."

[Chad32]

Fredrick had just enough time to consider retreating when the cave lit up, but not enough time to inact his plan. Something had taken his new servant! How dare they!? But now the cave collapsed on him. Crushing him. He lost consciousness, but was awakened by the energy within the cave. It would not let him die. It expanded a hole in the ground for his body to begin reforming. It would be quite the process, but he would grow back. He would get out of this grave. He would find his servant, if she was still alive. After all, if they wanted to rescue her, they would need her soul, which he had.

[RAFrukh]

"Sir, tracking his life-signs again. Turning back. He's in the cave's remains." said Nefenok over the intercom.

"Very good. Apprise me when we find him.", He said.

He looked Artemis over, "No your not. You're under Anathema's control. Think. You are Artemis. I am your friend. John is your friend. We are rescuing you from Anathema. Do you understand?"

"Colonel, we're picking up another set of life-signs. Terran male."

John?

"I'll be there in a while."

[KitsuneMarie]

Elayne flushes and looks away. "You have Ossanlin and Myitt to keep up with, I thought," she murmurs, her voice low, but most likely still loud enough for Trey to hear in the small space. She had been trying to give him space, to help him remember who is is without the distraction that she had apparently been causing him. The whole conundrum was enough to make her momentarily forget about the girl in the Skrit Na vessel.


Illim lets out a sigh of relief as Myitt sets down the Dracon. He hesitates, waiting to see if Serid says anything more, but his host's energy seems to be more or less spent, so he resumes control.

"Not sure. Our immediate and overwhelming concern has been finding a more reliable source of Kandrona and human food than the supplies on the ship." He blinks and offers another smile, an expression that looks odd after all the snarling he has been doing over the past few minutes. "Oh, it's Illim again. Reckon you figured that out for yourself, though."

[Chad32]

Temrash withdrew the tractor beam once the Skrit na ship was landed. He landed beside it, and commenced boarding procedure. A device hooked onto the door of the ship, and pried it open. "Kevlin, you're in charge. I'm going in for the Human girl. There's a force field preventing any Skrit Na from rushing inside." Temrash said.

He entered the ship, looking around with a dracon in his hand.

[Myitt]

Corliss leans back on the table next to Terenia's, relieved to be back on the ground.

<I never realized just how powerful Ossanlin could be,> he says thoughtfully. 

<You think all that rot Myitt was going on about earlier was true, then?>

Corliss barks an internal laugh.  <No, of course not.  Don't see how there can be any way it is.  There's no such thing as bringing someone back from the dead, not when their bleeding flesh is disintegrated into nothing.>

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"Yeah," Myitt says flatly.  "I sort of guessed.  Your host is quite the feisty one, isn't he?  I'd love to help you both out, but see, we're both pretty much in the same situation.  You think Kandrona and human food are easy to come by out here?  Well...besides this place, and he doesn't give out any handouts."  
She nods in the general direction of the bar counter, and then seems to notice the coffee sitting there for the first time.  

"Besides, even if I believe that you were a member of the Peace Movement, I hardly think your host would enjoy living with someone he so despises," she continues.  "Ertoran is an esteemed member of the civil rebellion, as I'm sure you've gathered.  The only Andalite I've ever known who will not only help us, but literally join us."  

Cautiously, she slides the coffee over, but she doesn't drink it--she merely glances down at it, the aroma of something so rare making Tara's mouth water.  

"What did you do to get that load of hippies to kick you out?" Myitt asks, some of her anger replaced with blithe amusement.  

[KitsuneMarie]

<<Hear that?>> Illim remarks to Serid. <<Myitt brought it up first -- joining the rebellion, I mean.>>

Serid's response is immediate and curt. <<No. Not with her there.>>

<<So what, you wanna starve?>> the Yeerk demands, but he receives no answer besides wordless fuming.

Realizing that Myitt is waiting, he speaks up. "My cover job is at a metal detector manufacturer. I'm in engineering. When the local Pool put in an order for advanced Gleet Bio Filters..." He hesitates, looking uncomfortable, but pushes on, "I reversed one of them, and I maxed its power. While it was being installed, quite a line built up. When the first Controller passed through, it killed him... and several other bystanders. Casualty reports were hushed up, of course, but the last estimate I heard was nineteen Yeerks and twenty humans. And that's why you'll find both our names on the Empire's list of known criminals."

He takes a sip from his beer and says, "I knew it'd blow my cover sooner or later, but the Peace Movement is widespread enough these days that I thought I could just relocate." With a smirk, he adds, "I should've known they'd dismiss me, but I was so damned sick of not doing anything."