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"It is..." She answered Shun distantly.

Atelius and Zutnic both hopped out of the way as Kagi's jets flared open and he lept toward the group. Nick had not time to react before she was nearly knocked off her feet by the Organoid's landing. Kagi stuck his nose against Nick's chest affectionately, all the while side glancing the rest of the group with his greedy eyes. A low rumble echoed within his mechanical throat.

Saying she wasn't happy to see him would only partially be true. It had been so long and she missed him dearly, however, he was supposed to be with Titus and Nick, by contract, was not allowed to see her again. That would void the contract. Nick pressed her mechanical hand against the side of Kagi's face. And as she did that she, by some very strange means, received the answer she was thinking of; Tidus was not present or near their location. She was with Blaze.

The reunion had nearly caused her to completely forget of her company. And it wasn't until than that she realized that the secret had been revealed. It was inevitable with how close they were traveling. Especially with the fact the cuddlers had removed her Judge's cloak because of the great amount of black fog on it. That had been for the better....

Before she could assure Ranee in Talon's warning Zutnic let out a hiss from below and it was promptly answered with a growl from Kagi.
"You will not... Behave yourself." She scolded the organoid.

The two glowing hallways brightened followed by a loud metallic-crashing noise that echoed through the massive room. Some loose bits of the armor on the zabers crumbled and fell from the ZOID's body.

The lone cuddler made a bubbling sniffling noise before it climbed up to the offered arm. It seemed fearful of Kagi and tried to keep as flat as possible against Talon. When he crash sounded it let out a soft squeaking noise.

Talon was quite sure that Ranee wasn't the type to blow things like this. Not when she witnessed the power of the great arm Nick had. Moe squeaked in surprise and concern as a roar, a squawk of some alarm and the appearance of a red bipedial draconic organoid appeared. It looked to be attached to Nick... He raised an eyebrow and gently patted his pocket with the non-flaming spider and the distraught cuddler.

Rumbling also caught Talon's attention. Frowning, he patted Ranee on the shoulders and made it quite clear he wasn't interested in either Nick or Kagi. "Then lets keep moving. Reunions come later. I'd like to survive this instance if you all don't mind. " He nodded to himself and carefully started down the stairs towards Zut and Atelius. Honestly! Adventure awaits.

Nick had to push Kagis nose away to get him to back up a little. She side glanced the doors. They were awake, and that only confirmed her earlier suspicion. That made it dangerous for everyone in the room.

Nick looked up at the hole Kagi more than likely created to enter this part of the temple. It would be dangerous still to have him fly everyone out. Only because of who he was. The essence of greed...

The only other option was to go forward and hope that there would be no encounter. Kagi would provide some security, but Nick could only assume that would mean very little to the rest of the group if he refused to help them as well.

"Don't look at him directly in the eyes..." Nick warned as she walked around them and begun to descend the long stairway. Kagi closely in tow. The warning was not only for his need to be dominant, but also that nasty affect he had on others where he caused them to become very greedy toward one thing or another.

"Oh... and what they say is true, tell any one of this secret and I will make sure you suffer greatly." Nick smiled a very eerie smile not bothering to look back at Ranee, hopefully the point was made.

Kagi snorted as he gave the group one last look over than whirled about, letting his tail fly carelessly behind him, and went after Nick. His focus lingered most on the other organoid in the room. A very odd kind he had never encountered before. Perhaps it was a fighter?

Atelius and Zutnic both waited in the middle of the room patiently for the rest of the group to come down. Zutnic watched Kagi intensely in case she should strike at his family. His spikes all stood on end like hackles being raised. His eyes locked and every joint tense. Atelius Didn't have quite the same stance, but he was ready as well should his master become endangered by the dim witted organoid.

Deep mechanical bellows echoed from either side of the glowing doors. The noise caused more armor to fall from the Zaber's bodies. They looked ready to collapse at any moment.

Already pretty much where Atelius and Zut were waiting, Talon stopped in his tracks when large chunks fell from the old Feline Zoids. That's a real shame, he thought. Though, it was only a brief thought. There were more important things to worry about such as when the source of the lights of crimson would appear. He had doubts that they would wait patiently for everyone to get into a circle, come up with a game plan and go along with whatever plan that was.

Moe squeaked and tried to hide itself in Talon's hair, unsuccessfully. It didn't like what was going on. Neither did the Squidlingthing from the vice grip on Talon's left arm. And as for the spider? It was still sulking from what Talon could tell.

" Remember to stop, drop, and roll. They spit fire. " Talon paused. . . recalling that horrible fight involving the nasty flame throwers with legs. "Though, on second thought, you'd probably be already ashes by the time it registers that you're on fire. " He shrugged, grinned and continued on, happily.

Talon was gazing at the declining sentinels, the grip on his staff straining his knuckles to almost white in the skin. He could almost hear the yell 'Its a trap' echo from the falling armor. And oddly, this was when he was the most calm. Which was why he waited for the Posessive Dragon, and its pet...oh and the others. Seriously, he would flip a coin to determine which path they'd take and no one liked leaving these things to chance. Always had to say something, they did. "Moe? . . . Don't pull out my hair. " Talon muttered to the scared little metal menace perched on his head.

"Master, greedy one say nasty things. It not nice. Shouldn't be near greedy one, he make you like him. Greedy greedy and stupid." Zutnic hissed at the group approached them. He quickly trotted toward Shun to put something between his master and the greedy beast. His spiky hackles rose and his tail pincers remained set for strike. "Mother's organoid can see now is just like greedy. Chose you nasty nasty..." He mumbled to himself earning a side glance from Nick, but no words.

Atelius's steel feathers were bristled, but unlike his dim witted friend he choose to remain silent on his opinion. Kagi was one of the four and it would be unwise to insult him. Though, he didn't seem quick enough to catch on. So perhaps Zutnic was safe? Atelius gave a deep metallic sigh than hopped over to the traveling circus that was Talon.

Kagi shoot Zutnic a glare. A deep and threatening growl rattled his throat. He took no notice to the little striker's threatening posture and was quite confident that his size would be able to easily over take this foe. Before anything could 'go down' a loud crackling noise echoed within the room. Kagi looked up and around.


"Of course it was." Nick only smiled and continued forward. Once they passed the middle Saber the noises in the other rooms increased. Nick placed a hand on Kagi's side, another aid to cool his temper.

Fire spewed fourth from the glowing hallways on either side of the ancient hanger room. Not even before the fire cleared the Obliterators came crawling into the room, their bodies aflame with a blue and white fire.Thirteen of both sides, these were only the first to enter From the groaning and roaring there were more awakening behind them.

Nick's focus turned to them than the hanger door as the stone 'door' begun to drop sealing their only possible exit should they not make it through.

There was a metalic clunk that sounded like something hopping. Talon observed the bird hop over, his head tilting to the side seeming to mimic Moe. the Cuddler on his arm seemed to wrap its tentacles around tighter, unsure and still in shock. And, thankfully, that spider was still grumpy and sticking to his pocket. That accounted for everyone. . .

Taking note of the greedy nature and aura that ushered from the green eyed , red raptor, Talon quirked a brow at the talkative spiny pincushion. Rolling his eyes, he decided to ignore Zut. The dent in his head is showing, but he kept that comment to himself. He didn't want to end up on the end of any of those claws, even if it would have been funny to mention and provoke the wraith of the dimwitted walking cusineart. However, he did get a kick out of the larger organoid's reaction. Talon was about ready to lean over to Ranee and Shun and strike up a bet. . . But the temple seemed to have other plans.

The loud crack was only worth a small mention. What was the focus was the bubbling blue flames that seemed to roar from the Obliterator's bodies. There were coming. Talon observed them carefully, and frowned at this new development. The twenty six monsters loomed in and closer. . .Talons attention was diverted to the more pressing matter by the rather pointed and fantastic development ; the door had to start to fall. He tensed and just stared at the door starting to fall. This was unacceptable! Predictable! This script is terrible! How did it pass the test screenings? Obviously this wasn't a movie, but Talon wasn't amused.

"No kidding, " he barked in reply. Instinct taking over, Talon grabbed the bristling Atelius and held him under arm and started running for the door. Silver spiked football, GO! There quite a bit of floor to cover, but at least he was quite fit from carting around Moe and all other MRZ's that liked to climb on him. . . Like Cuddles...who wasn't a light weight at all, but that was just details.

The Obliterators were now crawling around the poor old ZOIDs and some even over them. Causing more of the ZOID to fall apart in their wake. Atalius fell back so he would have enough room to get himself aloft. He than darted back toward the closest cluster of Obliterators on the right side in hopes to distract them for a little so the group could get through safely. Zutnic stuck close to Shun feeling it was unnecessary to rush himself for anyone but his master and he could do far better by sticking close. Especially since the door was coming down. He did not wish to be separated.

Nick did not look back as she darted toward the exit. She could hear Kagi keeping pace purposely behind her for some silly reason no doubt. Luckily the door was closing at a very slow rate. It would seem as though everyone would make it.

An oblitorator, whom had run around the Zabers along the wall, was nearly to the exit himself in an attempt to cut the group off. Kagi looked over his shoulder at another bunch that was coming up behind them hissing something in their ancient tongue. Obviously it was a good enough of an insult for him to wheel around and charge toward them with an intimidating roar.

Nick turned around at the sound, just as she passed through the door herself, to see the red dragon bolt off in the opposite direction. Mindless of Talon who was in his path. "KAGI!"

The soul survivor cuddler squeaked, hissed, and inevitably inked a silvery ink as he saw the red organoid approach. He latched himself tighter to Talon and tried to tug him in another direction. The spider lifted its front legs and hissed something of a lazy hiss in a lazy attempt to detour the red dragon himself.