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[Chad32]

<What is this...no...it can't be real...it can't be real! Nooooo!!!> Claxter yelled as he was mentally taken back to that first battle. All the bloodshed. Andalites being cut down all around him. Explosions. Running. Screaming. He ran off, trying to get away. Desperately trying to escape.

Fredrick got up as he recovered from the attack. "Good work Silver. The cavern is reformed. Help me bring this one to the Circle of sacrifice."

[RAFrukh]

"Artemis, I was once a servent of Frederick's," Vogefac started, using the name he found in his memory.

But he stopped. Nothing was there. Blackness.

Had he been knocked out again? No, he was conscious. He could see himself. His body.

He suddenly felt the presence of evil. Not an evil...just evil. He turned around. And turned. And turned.

Suddenly, a spot-light hit him. No! He could not be seen by the evil!

He jumped, summersaulted away from the light. It followed. He kept moving, but the light was on him always.

The presence was closer and closer, squeezing in on him. Walls, to be forced back so as not to crush those in their path.

"Emperor Zetylon help me..." He said, giving up running from the light. Suddenly...

10 Kqorrians! No, not kqorrians...they looked like them, but they were 11 feet tall, and each of their four arms could aim telekinetic energy at more than one object each. Each of four hands on all 10 Kqorrians waved 4 laser-lances in infinite circles. If he lunged at any of them, he would be cut into a million pieces before you could say "Kes'ofij". Their thighs all had twice as many quills as normal. Lethal, launchable quills.

And, coming from above, was Supreme Admiral Vekk and Prime Sovereign Kikulon. They 'landed', each to one side of me.

"We have to fight our way out!" said Kikulon.

I reached for my Epar-pistol...

I didn't have one.

[Midnight_Huntress]

Being sure to keep her focus on them she moved to help her Master move the next one to become enlightened. He struggled but it was because of the Abyss of Fears that caused it.

[Chad32]

Fredrick took one side, and Silver took another, as they hauled him towards the circle. when they were almost there, he began the process. He chanted the words as Silver would drag him to the circle.


Claxter finally started calming down. He wasn't on that planet anymore. He was at the bar. These illusions, however real they felt, were not real. Silver could not transport him into the past. He tried to stop shaking, and turn back. He had to save vogefac. He had to help him save Silve.r

[Midnight_Huntress]

She looked shocked. She was losing him! He was calming down! No! She tried to move him faster to the circle before it was too late.

[RAFrukh]

Vogefac heard Vekk chuckle slightly mentally.

"Yes Kikulon.We will die fighting! It will be glorious! Will you do the honors for us?"

"I most certainly will," said the old warrior. He braced his legs to jump for the closest Kqorrian.

But something was off...not just the fact that these Kqorrians were mutants, or that it was still black except for the chilly breeze that carried one or two snow crystals now and then, cooling down my ectothermic circulatory systems, starting to numb my arms and legs.

Vekk wasnt Vekk. He emanated with a sickly evil. Wait...

"Kikulon, NO!!!"

Too late. He jumped, and was cut into a jigsaw of pieces before my eyes.

Vekk chuckled. Then he laughed. Louder, and louder. Faster and faster...crueler and crueler.

"You saw my scheme a little late young Cadet." He said.

Cadet!?

"Yes, I am working in league with the Kqorrians now. Genetic mutations...all the things of the like. You can be afraid," He chuckled, "I will allow it."

Cadet???

So what if I wasn't getting out of this alive? So what if I would never be saved?

Neither would Vekk.

I was about to leap at him. To feel my claws pierce his hide, cut his Main heart, when one of the Kqorrians purposely launched their laser-lance at Vekk. He was instantly cut in half.

NOOO! Trapped by a traitor, after failing my superior officer, and I didn't even get a chance at retribution!? What kind of nightmare was this!?

Oh. Logical, Vogefac, he thought to himself, A nightmare. It must be...nothing else explains why I was at the bar, and now sudenly I am here, fighting mutant Kqorrians that are impossible to fight, and all my worst fears are coming true. Obvious.

I reached for my Epar-pistol. I felt the satisfying cold of the metal surface, and pulled it out of it's sheath.

THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW!

I took out two of them. Behind them, just as I had hoped...no, knew, was Admiral Vekk. He gasped slightly as I squinted in anger at him. I swung my Epar at him, and set it to maximum burn. He went up in plasma fire, and melted to the ground, at my leisure.

THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW! THSEEEW!

I ridded myself of the final Kqorrians. I predicted...I KNEW, that the veil would lift...

He had to get back and save my friends. And my enemy...come on, come ON!!

[Midnight_Huntress]

Silver gave a hiss as the other broke through her Abyss. "No!" She had all but had them!

[RAFrukh]

My eyes blinked open. Hazy...but better and better...

As soon as I realized whre I was, I snapped awake immediately. I was on my stomach. I jumped up, and got my arms untangled. I put up a telepathic shield. It would not allow me to attack anyone telepathically, or predict what they would do next, but at least no I was safe from that dark place of horrors, and Frederick's hypnosis.

Claxter was still out...

[Chad32]

Fredrick was in the middle of his chant. Vogefac was within the circle. Just a little more. But then Claxter came rushing in, blasting all the way. Claxter knew he had to ignore anything silver might throw at him, and just push onward! He jumped into the circle to save Vogefac.

The chant was incomplete. The portal was opening, but the phantoms had not been called. Without the phantoms, there was nothing to separate the victims from their bodies. The portal surrounded them, and they could see into the expansive field.

<What is that?> Claxter asked. Was this where Silver's soul had gone? he stepped forward into it, mostly out of curiosity. Fredrick howled from outside. The telepathis shield had him cut off.

[RAFrukh]

Claxter jumped in the rift...

I jumped in after him...there was nothing else to do, and that was probably where Artemis and Frederick's souls were.

[KitsuneMarie]

Illim grins. "Yeah, nice cover." Then he waves it off unconcernedly. "Come on, you know that it wouldn't strike a fellow Yeerk as odd if you talked to yourself. We're the only race that actually aspires to have another voice in our heads; the ones who don't are among the unlucky masses."

At Serid's urging, he glances out the Bar window to see if Ertoran is approaching from the same direction Myitt had come. At seeing no movement, he says to Myitt, "So tell me about your host. What's her name?"


Tora has been in a state of mixed shock and anger since Myitt has suggested she meet with Serid. The more she hears Illim use Serid's voice to laugh and joke with Myitt, the sharper her emotions become. Can he have such disregard for his host that he can flirt with Myitt while Serid rages in the background?

Exhaling sharply through her nostrils with disgust, she kills the audio feed and begins reverting back to her human morph. As pale skin replaces blue fur, she wishes she had something more substantial to wear than her morphing suit. This is a meeting for which she does not wish to feel exposed.

[Midnight_Huntress]

Silver hissed when they got away but when they stepped into the rift she felt something in her spasm nd she dropped to her knees with a cry of pain. What was that? Was she being punished for screwing up and letting them get where they should not be?

[Chad32]

Claxter moved through the field, though the whole place made him very nervous. He could see poles in the field with people strapped to them, and the first they came to was Fredrick.

<It must be his soul.> Claxter said, looking at Fredrick's form, with his eyes closed.

From outside, Fredrick didn't know what to do. "That wasn't exactly how it was supposed to happen, but I suppose the phantoms will finish the job. Silver! Come back! You need not enter there!"

[RAFrukh]

There were people strapped to poles in this...netherworld?

One of them looked like Frederick. I assumed it was the actual him. This was the place beyond the mist he had seen in Frederick's memory...

"Claxter, if we can get these bodies out, it would stand to reason they would be alive, and take the place of, or be infused with the 'possessed' ones outside, do you agree?"

[Kitulean]

Another of the monsters was right behind the first one. Vanessa's eyes darted from one of them to the other briefly. She was obviously still frightened, but trying to contain it.

"I... I don't know... where the... the... Scritnaw? Those... those were the alien things?" She shook her head quickly. "They just disappeared." Vanessa glanced both ways as though still afraid that they'd reappear suddenly, then quickly focused on the first one. Belatedly she realized that he had introduced himself. "Tem... Temrash? And... Kevlin? I..." She swallowed, feeling completely overwhelmed. "I'm Vanessa. I.. I'm really not supposed to be here."

Hopefully, she peered up at the first one while picking herself off the floor, standing a little shakily. "You... can get me home?"