The Essence of Hatred (Completed)

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Well maybe you will get your chance, just maybe.

[Guest Julius Quasar]

Awesome!  :yes:

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Thanks julius. :)

[Guest Julius Quasar]

Thanks julius.

you're welcome  :D

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Essence of Hatred

Chapter Seven:

Welcome Home?

***

Reece managed to stand to his feet; the pain in his stomach grew due to the punctures made by the defeated ‘god’. Reece loaded the shotgun,

“How will it be easier?” Jason asked, Reece smiled and chuckled, he walked over to the granite bars, he took aim and fired the shotgun at Point Blanc range, the bars crumbled from the shot,

“That’s how.” Reece replied with a smirk, he passed his blaster to Marcus; Jason expected the shotgun but Reece kept it to himself. The old mole opened her eyes, she saw the group emerging from the lair of her god, she frowned and bared her teeth,

“Kails’sk likopa!” she yelled, Reece was startled by her yelling, she continued yelling in the unknown language, Reece pulled out the tranquilizer pistol and fired three darts into her neck, enough to put her to sleep for a day,

“Please just stay down” Reece grumbled, they continued walking into the cave. They took a few steps into the cave, much to Reece’s fright their auras begun to fade,

“That’s not good.” He stated, the view they had in front of them was dying; it kept fading until it was gone. The cave was completely dark, nothing in sight, it was so dark Reece could not even see his hand in front of your face and it freaked him out, he wished he had hung onto his night vision, instead of throwing it inside the stomach of the ‘god’. Jason flicked a switch on his blaster, a beam of light was activated, Reece looked over, he saw that Jason had LED lights attached to his blaster, Reece grumbled annoyed at himself for not thinking of doing that. The group continued walking through the now dark cave.

***

They walked for about half an hour into the cave, Jason was leading the way with his flashlight. The group stopped at the sound of foreign footsteps, Jason moved the light around the area, the sound of quick running and scrapping against rocks were heard, Jason moved the light to the direction of the noise, nothing, Reece loaded his shotgun and took aim while moving the gun around the room, several more footsteps were heard,

“Screw this.” Marcus grumbled, he activated the only flare he had attached to his belt, the red flame lit up the cave, there were several raccoons dressed in tribal clothing, they froze at the sight of the red flame, they were wielding spears while some were equipped with archery gear,

“Wow… intimidating.” Reece stated sarcastically, one of the Raccoons threw a spear at Reece; he managed to dodge the spear only because there was a good distance between him and the group of raccoons,

“What is it with these guys and attacking me?” Reece yelled, he aimed his shotgun at the floor and fired in an attempt to frighten the group, they flinched but did not run,

“Plan B?” Reece asked looking over at Marcus, Marcus nodded, the group of raccoons took aim with their respective weapons and attacked Reece, Marcus, Jessica and Jason, they resorted to plan B, Reece, Marcus, Jessica and Jason all activated their reflectors, the incoming projectiles were reflected back to their attackers, the attackers were all hit in random parts of the body with their own projectiles, they were left on the floor bleeding and crying (much to Jessica’s dislike).

***

Eventually Reece, Marcus, Jessica and Jason exited the cave,

“That seemed longer getting out.” Reece grumbled, they made their way to their Arwings, much to Reece’s annoyance he saw children climbing on it and sliding down the cockpit, Reece bared his teeth he had enough of this planet he grabbed his shot gun and fired it in the air, the kids ran off into the forest fearing for their lives, Reece calmed down, he immediately felt regret for what he had done.

“Let’s get out of here before I blow a nerve.” Reece growled as he entered his cockpit, the rest of the group entered their own respective Arwings. The group started the engines and flew to the hanger of the Great Fox.

***

Reece laid on his bed, blankly staring at the roof, the Journey to Corneria was going to be a while so Reece decided to wrap his stomach in bandages. Reece could not get those hallucinations out of his head, it troubled him. Marcus entered his room, Reece moved his head to look at him,

“Yes?” he ashed,

“I was wondering where you ran off to since you didn’t come to the bridge with us.” He told Reece,

“I patched up my gut and came here to think.”

“It wouldn’t be something to do with the caves would it?”

“Kind of.”

“Well if that mole was telling the truth you would have seen visions of your past, things that hurt you.” As Marcus said that Reece froze,

“It… it wasn’t that.” Reece lied,

“Okay well just be ready to go when we land.” Marcus told Reece before leaving for the bridge; Reece stared blankly at the roof,

‘If what Marcus said is true… then my mother isn’t the bitch I thought she was, she dumped me for my own good… and a sister?’ Reece thought to himself, he was way in over his head.

***

Reece entered the hanger as directed by Marcus; the rest of the team was waiting,

“Don’t take your time at all.” Jason told Reece, Reece didn’t notice, he was too distracted by the whole idea of him having possible family still alive. Reece entered his Arwing again as the others did also. Reece activated the computers and engines, the Arwing begun to hover off of the ground, Reece flew out first ignoring Marcus’s authority.

Marcus flew in front of Reece to take the lead, Marcus wondered what was going on with Reece, he never acted like this, he assumed something was up. Marcus opened a communication channel,

“Okay,” he started, “we will fly to the Cornerian Barracks and give them our report.” Marcus told them as they entered the atmosphere of Corneria, they were making great time,

“Why can’t we do it from the ship?” Jessica asked,

“We cannot make a connection, I think our signal is faulty.” Jason thought for a moment,

“Our signal isn’t…” Jason was interrupted as a beam of laser scraped the front of his ship, “Son of a…” he swore,

“Evasive action!” Marcus ordered, everyone obeyed, Reece was a little slow, he was not paying attention to the situation at hand, “Reece!” snapped Marcus, “Focus!” Reece bared his teeth and gripped onto the plight stick harder, suppressing his rage, now was not a time to give him orders especially with what he just discovered, Reece rolled to avoid the incoming laser,

“Take out that turret!” Marcus commanded,

“I swear to god…” Reece angrily mumbled not liking receiving another command, his rage grew to a point where he just stopped caring, he flew down straight to the control center located at the base of the turret,

“What are you…”

“Shut up!” Reece yelled interrupting Marcus, Reece got even more distracted, this was his down fall, before he could make it past the top of the turret a single beam of laser hit his engine, he lost all power to his ship, there was nothing he could do to stop it plummeting to the ground, Marcus cried out to Reece to see if he was okay… no response, Marcus noticed several portable turrets arriving on the back of military vehicles, he knew there was no way they could possibly defeat all of them without losing a few more of his team.,

“Back to the ship!” Marcus ordered,

“What about Reece?” Jessica asked,

“We cannot risk ourselves, besides Reece is a strong guy, he can look after himself.” Marcus hated the decision what had to be made, but he was responsible for the other members of his team, the remainder of the group quickly flew back to the hanger of the Great Fox.

***

Reece kicked the cockpit of his burning Arwing open, he slowly crawled out, he had a few cuts and bruises but no major injuries, he swore loudly in anger and punched the ground, he heard the sound of several blasters charge, he looked up, many different species all in the same uniform had blasters pointed at him,

“This is the least amount of guns ever pointed at me.” Reece stated,

“Shut your … mouth!” one of them yelled as they kicked him in the side of the head, Reece fell to the ground, Reece coughed before asking,

“Since when did Corneria become full of jerks?” a Gorilla chuckled, he got on his knee and grabbed Reece’s mussel tightly,

“This planter is no longer Corneria,” he told him, “You are now on New Venom.” Reece did not appreciate the gorilla holding his mussel, Reece clenched a fist and landed a fierce blow to his nose, the gorilla let go of his mussel and stumbled backwards, a leopard quickly landed a quick but powerful blow to the bottom of Reece’s mussel, Reece fell to the floor and closed his eyes, he wanted them to think he was knocked out, a hawk who appeared to be the leader of the small group chuckled,

“Take him to the stockades,” she ordered, “I am sure he will enjoy the company of some close friends.”

“Miss, in all due respect I think that is a bad idea, he needs to be with some he does not know.” A toad added, the hawk smiled, she took aim at the toad and fired, the toad dropped dead,

“Any more questions?” she asked looking at her group, none of them said anything, “Good. You know the drill, lock him up.” With that Reece was lifted up by the gorilla and thrown into the back of a vehicle to be taken to the stockades.

***

A/N: Remember me? I write this. So the plan is revealed… but is that all? Not even I know. More information about Reece’s past is revealed, well it was done last chapter… but… well… *hides*.

[Kursed]

Hmm interesting

Kadie:grr REECE NO!

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Trust me, it gets more interesting from here.

Reece: I am in trouble aren't I?

[Kursed]

Trust me, it gets more interesting from here.

Reece: I am in trouble aren't I?

Kadie:No but the people who  have you capture SURE ARE!! *ripeas 10 pages of paper.

[Guest Julius Quasar]

Awesome story!!!

[evilwaffles]

Thanks Julius. Your stories are awesome as well.

[Guest Julius Quasar]

Thanks Julius. Your stories are awesome as well.

you're welcome, and thank you!

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Essence of Hatred

Chapter Eight:

Captives and Revelations

***

Reece had kept his eyes closed for a while now, he knew he was in the back of a cruiser being driven towards the ‘Stockades’, he knew he had hand and leg cuffs on so if he even made it out the back of the cruiser he would not be able to get very far. He peeked an eye open to observe his surroundings, he was on the back seat, the driver was right in front of him, unprotected, Reece stretched his arms out as far as the handcuffs would allow him he put his arms in front of the driver and used the chain of the handcuffs to strangle the driver, the car begun to swerve off the road. A fat hog quickly looked up, he was searching for something underneath his seat and did not see Reece’s assault,

“Hey!” he grunted, he pulled out a blaster and fired it at Reece, luckily for him it was only on stun, Reece jolted around as the mass amounts of electricity ran through his body stunning him, the hog quickly released Reece’s strangle hold on the driver, he then furiously delivered several blows to the side of Reece’s head, “Go… to… sleep!” he yelled in between blows, Reece closed his eyes and slipped into unconsciousness, for real this time.

***

Marcus, Jessica and Jason landed their Arwings in the hanger; they were still in shock by what had happened, his first mission and Marcus had already lost a team member, Marcus had no knowledge on his condition since he lost radio contact, he could not help but feel worried. Marcus exited his cockpit and made his way to the bridge to try making some sense of the situation, Jason and Jessica wanted to say something but decided against it. Marcus turned on the TV and started flicking through channels to try gain some information… there was no reception, all of the Cornerian channels were not working, he went to a Zoness channel, but there was something on about how Andross ruined their good water and their journey to fix it. Marcus threw the remote on the floor in frustration, breaking it, he needed some information on just what was going on. Jessica entered the room,

“Uh… Marcus.” She hesitantly called, Marcus looked over at her calmly,

“Yes?” he asked trying to keep his emotions in tact,

“We have a… uh… person on the communication channel who wants to speak with you.” Marcus nodded and followed her to the bridge.

Marcus entered the bridge, the projection of the female hawk was on the screen,

“Ah the son of Fox McCloud.” She stated,

“Yes, and who are you?” he demanded,

“My name is not important but the message I have for you is deadly important.”

“Information like your name.”

“My superiors request that respect their wish for you and your friends to stay out of New Venom.”

“New Venom?”

“Yes, New Venom has that ring to it that ‘Corneria’ lacked, don’t you think?” Marcus bared his teeth in anger,

“Oh don’t worry,” Marcus replied, “we will come down their defeat you!” The hawk chuckled,

“Is that so?” she asked, “Let us start a test of your values,” a two separate videos appeared on the side of her hologram, they were of Fox and Krystal tied together and locked in a cell, the other was of a hurt Reece who was being taken to the ‘Stockades’ in the back of a vehicle,

“Mum, Dad!” Marcus cried out in shock,

“Do you value the life of your parents and your friend more than this system, or would you end their lives trying to save it?”

“You won’t get away with this!” he angrily yelled,

“Well we already have, but that is the past, what happens in the future is up to you.” She told him before ending the communication, Marcus’s eyes begun to tear up, his parents were in danger, his friend was being taken to prison complex, his home had been taken over and he couldn’t do a thing about it, the mix of emotions began to boil over in Marcus. Jessica walked over and put his hand on Marcus’s shoulder,

“What do we do?” she asked, Marcus looked at her,

“…Nothing.” he replied, Jessica was shocked by his response,

“What?” she asked in disbelief, “Our homes have been taken over, mass numbers of people may have died or enslaved and we sit back and do nothing?”

“…That’s the plan.” He mumbled, Jason leaned back against the wall,

“What was that thing your Grandfather told your father in times like this…” he thought, “it was… uh… Trust your instincts, that’s it. Trust your instincts, you will know what to do.” Marcus frowned, he didn’t want to listen to his instincts, they told him to go down and fight, but the thought of losing his parents made him stay on the Great Fox.

***

Reece slowly lifted one of his heavy eyelids, everything was blurred. He was being dragged through a dimly lit corridor, there were doors that appeared to lead into solitary confinement cells, he noticed a rather bulky raptor was dragging him through the halls,

“Here you go lad.” He told to Reece who appeared to still be knocked out, he opened one of the cell doors, “Hey you two!” he yelled to a pair of prisoners, “You got yourselves a new cell mate.” He told them as he threw Reece onto the cold, hard cement floor, “Enjoy your stay chaps.” He told them, laughing as he locked the door and walked off. Reece did not move, his body did not allow him to, he heard two female voices talking,

“Is he okay?” one of them asked,

“I don’t know, maybe we should check?” the other suggested, Reece heard two sets of footsteps walk up to him, he was rolled onto his back, his head limply fell to the floor,

“Where have I seen that face before?” one of them asked,

“He was that new guy to that mercenary team, Star Fox, no one knows much about him.” The other answered,

“I wonder why he is in here?” the first voice asked, Reece then felt his head being moved around, he assumed they were checking the cuts and bruises on his face,

“He must have put up quite a fight.” The first voice observed, “Just look at all of these cuts and marks.”

“If you look past the cuts and stuff he actually looks rather cute.” The other voice told the first voice,

“You are saying that in here? Of all the places?”

“What? I am just saying.”

“Do you think we should wake him up?”

“I say we put him on the mattress, he is going to be in some shock when he realizes where he is.” Reece felt himself being lifted up,

“He is quite heavy.” One of them stated,

“Well he surely isn’t fat, he is slightly muscular actually.”

“You never stop do you?”

“What? I observed this when I was checking out that bandage on his belly, and that gash on his bicep.” Reece was dropped on a mattress that was on the floor. Reece kept still for another ten minutes before opening his eyes again, he slowly lifted his head up, he groaned as the pain from the blows to the head re-ignited,

“Hey he is awake.” One of the voices stated, Reece looked up, he saw two females standing over him, studying him, it crept him out a little, one of them was an orange vixen and the other was a persian cat,

“Who are you two?” he asked while rubbing the side of his head,

“I am Kadie.” The orange vixen replied,

“And I am Akasha.” The Persian cat replied,

“Reece.” He added,

“So what are you doing in here?” Kadie asked,

“Well I was captured while on a mission with my new team.” Reece briefly explained, “So where are we?” he asked,

“We are in a prison named the stockade, none of us know where we are exactly.” Akasha explained,

“So I haven’t learned anything new then.” Reece mumbled. The door swung open, the raptor stood in the doorway,

“Ah, you are awake,” he stated with an evil grin on his face, “the warden wishes to speak with you.” Reece slowly got up, the pain increased to the upper parts of his body, there was no point resisting or fighting he simply could not take any more punishment, he made his way to the door, he felt one of the girl’s hands on his shoulder, he saw it was Kadie out the corner of his eye,

“Be strong.” She whispered, Reece did not like those words, it meant that something bad is going to happen, the raptor whacked Reece with his rifle to get him moving faster.

Reece was taken to a room where there was nothing but a chair; he was forcefully placed on it, steel bars locked his legs, arms and neck in place making it impossible to move, the doors opened and the warden entered, Reece’s eyes widened at who walked through,

“You?!”

***

A/N: Introducing Kadie and Akasha, Kadie is Kursed’s fan charcter and Akasha is Julius’s fan character. Get to know them, you will be seeing a lot of them from here on in.

[Kursed]

AKASHA! THAT POOR RUNT!

Kadie:Do well to remember that Runt kicked your butt last night.

It was a game kadie oh and before I forget sorry Akasha.

Akasha:it's alright I'm over it.

(I kinda half or fourth own akasha.)

[Guest Julius Quasar]

Oh, awesome!  Wow!  Thanks for using Akasha!

I hope the warden of the stockades isn't the Warden from that adult swim TV show "Superjail"    :P

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AKASHA! THAT POOR RUNT!

Kadie:Do well to remember that Runt kicked your butt last night.

It was a game kadie oh and before I forget sorry Akasha.

Akasha:it's alright I'm over it.

(I kinda half or fourth own akasha.)

O rly?

Oh, awesome!  Wow!  Thanks for using Akasha!

I hope the warden of the stockades isn't the Warden from that adult swim TV show "Superjail"   

Thanks! And thanks for letting me use her. I haven't watched 'Superjail' so we may never know. :P

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Essence of Hatred

Chapter Nine:

The Warden and The Veteran

***

Marcus sat back in his chair; the threat of his parents being killed and knowing they were not bluffing haunted him, he wanted to help but that threat stopped him. Jason was fed up of standing around doing nothing,

“Are you going to lead us into this situation or are you going to sit around like a spare screw?” he growled, Marcus did not reply, “Fine, well I am going to find someone who will, they will lead us through this.” Marcus got up and angrily yelled,

“Well what do you want me to do?” he demanded, “You want me to go down there, blow the living hell out of any enemy unit and have my parents killed. In case you have forgotten Jason they are the only family I have got, I don’t have a grandparents like you, I don’t have brothers or sisters like you, so if they die I am responsible for killing the last of my family. I don’t want to be like my dad, going through life with no one, no one for advice, no one to love and no one who cares about me as much as they already do! So excuse me if I don’t want to lose that!” he yelled very angrily, Jason was stunned, never before in his life had he seen Marcus like this, and it scared him slightly,

“I understand that but I want them out of there as much as you do, but sitting around here doing nothing is not going to get them out of there.” He calmly explained, “So I am going to make a few calls to some people I know who can help us through this.” With that said Jason exited the bridge, Marcus stared out the bridge window, he knew it was inevitable that he would have to intervene, but he wanted to hold off for as long as he could.

***

“Why so surprised?” Emma the white furred wolf entered the interrogation room,

“I knew you were a bitch, but that is too light of a stereotype now seeing you here.” Reece snapped back, not being able to move due to the metal around various parts of his body,

“Now that is no way to greet a women.” She told him, she looked over at the four guards in the room, “You won’t be necessary, I can take care of him alone.” She told them, the guards nodded and exited the room, locking it behind them. Emma smiled slyly as she turned to face Reece,

“Well I am supposed to torture you into giving me answers,” she started, “but I think we can make a little deal.” She walked over directly in front of him, Reece wanted to kick her but he simply could not move, “If you give me the answers I want then I will make your time in this place,” she leaned in and placed her mussel next to his ear, “a pleasurable experience.” She whispered seductively, she sat on his lap, Reece wanted nothing more than to push her off of him, “So what will it be?” she asked staring into his eyes,

“I think you will want to get off of my lap, walk out that door and warn your guards that they about to be killed because I am going to rip this place apart.” He growled,

“You won’t be the first who has tried and failed.” She laughed, “It is not like you have any choice either way.” She told him as she placed her hand on his cheek, Reece tried to bite her hand but once again the metal bars restricted his movement, “Or I can make this a living hell for you, it is your choice.”

“It already is a living hell, I have a fat thing on my lap, I mean seriously, your pinkie alone takes up half the room in fat.” Emma frowned; she got up off of his lap and walked to a table,

“That was not very wise.” She told him as she opened a box on the table, she pulled out a blade and a cattle prod,

“One last chance, pleasure or pain.” She told him, Reece kept silent, “Fine.” She placed the cattle prod on the small tray hovering against the chair Reece was strapped to,

“Where is Falco and Slippy located?” she asked, Reece didn’t respond, Emma made a small cut on Reece’s forearm with the blade, Reece swore in pain, “I won’t ask again.” Reece didn’t respond, she this time zapped him with the cattle prod. This continued for a while.

***

Reece was unconscious, the pain of the cattle prod and the blade torture eventually grew to much for him and his body shut down on him. A boar carried him back to his cell, he opened the door,

“Here,” he grunted at Kadie and Akasha as he threw Reece onto the floor, “consider this a birthday gift.” With that said he slammed the door shut and locked it, Akasha saw the cuts left on Reece,

“Uh… Kadie.” She called, “You may want to get the rag, he is bleeding quite a bit.” Kadie quickly rushed over to the wire hanging from wall to wall and grabbed the rag hanging from it, she then rushed to Reece, she cringed at the cuts,

“That bitch!” Kadie growled, “I swear if I get my hands on her.”

“Is there something you want to tell me?” Akasha asked as she studies the wounds,

“No, why?” Kadie asked,

“You seem rather interested in his well being.”

“That is the kind of person I am.” Kadie replied as she helped wipe up some of the blood from Reece’s arms, his shirt was now tattered.

Reece woke up a few minutes later, he noticed that his wounds were slightly cleaned up, his head hurt and he was on a mattress under a thin cloth blanket, he looked up Kadie and Akasha were just standing around,

“I told you he would wake up soon.” Kadie told Akasha without even looking at Reece she just knew that he was awake, Akasha turned to face him. Reece raised an eyebrow,

“How did you know I was awake?” he mumbled holding his arm,

“I am telepathic, I don’t usually read people’s minds, I just read yours so I can tell if you were okay in that state of unconsciousness and when you were going to wake up.” She replied, Reece was both surprised and shocked by this, ‘Better filter my thoughts then.’ He thought to himself,

“I told you why I am here earlier on,” he started, “but I never asked why you two were here,” Kadie turned to face him,

“Well,” she started explaining, “I lived on a farm a while away from here, I worked with my Mother and Father, nothing was bad… until they showed up. They came and requested that we leave our home with our things, we refused, that is when they got violent, they took me here and my parents… well I don’t know what has become of them.” She explained,

“I never knew my parents.” Reece mumbled in response,

“Really? That’s so sad.” Akasha responded in a comforting way,

“What about you?” Reece asked Akasha, Akasha sighed,

“I was out with some friends when I saw some men walking down the street with rifles, they asked me for my money, me being me I hid, they found me, I resorted to fighting them off but one of them hit me on the head with the end of their rifles, I woke up in here with Kadie.” She explained, Reece nodded,

“Well you guys went into more detail then I did.” Reece stated, “We need to get out of here.” Reece told them,

“Yeah but how?” Akasha asked,

“That is what we need to do from now.” Reece replied

“One thing I forgot, if you are one of their enemies, they usually blow up your home.” Kadie told Reece, Reece blinked a couple of times in surprise, “Mine wasn’t though, they are using it as some sort of residency for their troops, so if we escape we will probably have to stay there.” Reece sighed,

“Great, and I had just paid off the mortgage too.”

***

Marcus sat on the chair, he was trying to think of ways to save Corneria, but not having his parents killed in the process, Marcus had no ideas and it frustrated him. Jason entered the bridge,

“Well I made a few calls and I managed to get someone who can help us.” He told Marcus,

“Who?” Marcus added,

“Only the greatest pilot in the whole universe?” a male voice spoke as he entered the room, Marcus smiled in approval at who walked through the bridge doors, the legendary blue bird Falco stood at the entrance of the bridge,

“I believe you need someone awesome?” he asked.

***

A/N: I am a little slow on ideas at the moment so the next chapter may be a while. :oops:

[Guest Julius Quasar]

Awesome!!! :yes:

[Kursed]

Awesome!!!

Kadie:For the record Falco KRystal and I had it covered.

[evilwaffles]

Thanks Julius,

Reece: yes but we are in a bit of trouble at the moment aren't we?

[Kursed]

Thanks Julius,

Reece: yes but we are in a bit of trouble at the moment aren't we?

Kadie:patience!*turns to whack  reece with wooden cane ,but hits Falco instead.

[evilwaffles]

Lol. :D

[Guest Julius Quasar]

Lola: "Who the hell does Emma think she is...ME!!!  I'll scratch her eyes out!"

Akasha: "Leave that to me..." *un-sheaths titanium claw weapons*

[Kursed]

Lola: "Who the hell does Emma think she is...ME!!!  I'll scratch her eyes out!"

Akasha: "Leave that to me..." *un-sheaths titanium claw weapons*

Kylie:aksha what did I tell you about using those old things?" "Use the new ones." *points to Plasma claws*

(Yeah this is great Waffles)

[evilwaffles]

Wait... Lola is like Emma?

Reece: Don't worry, we will get her, i hope...

Thanks Kursed. :D

[Kursed]

Wait... Lola is like Emma?

Reece: Don't worry, we will get her, i hope...

Thanks Kursed.

(She's seductive like that.)