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<turning to Furball>

Hope you didn't think that was too rough. Felt like it was the quickest solution less the two of us had to get really rough.

"Thanks. I really didn't want to fight him. We do need to keep moving...even if it's just random."

Furball ran slightly behind the rest and stopped, looking around. He starts up again, catching up to Cobie.

"We headed anywhere in particular?"

Furball kept pace with the others. things were not going as he had thought they would, but they weren't that bad yet either to be honest.
Furball motioned to a building to the right and they all entered.

"We'll be okay here for a while."

Furball sat back in the shadows watching the doors while the others got a little rest in one of the back rooms.

He felt bad about what he had done to Dev and Lardy, but that too was necessary if what Cobie thought was happening was.

It wouldn't be the first time he had gone against his brother, and it probably wouldn't be the last. Hell, he had told Cobie about his actual nature years before Dev...and telling Dev was only because he had run across him in human form at his quarters. He hadn't really known how to tell Dev that he was him...with a twist. He had never had a childhood to speak of...just a lot of tests after coming to consciousness in the lab. His "mother" was not exactly very nutering...but she hadn't counted on him retaining Devs memories up until the point she took the samples. That kept him grounded no matter what she had done to him.

Dev seeing him was just one of those things that was really hard to explain..."hey, I'm you...only younger, with hair and a slightly different power set." His shape changing ability was limited to his larger furrier form and a human form that retained some bizarre wolfen like appearances. A set of teeth with fangs, ears that were smaller than Devs' but with a more distinct point to them.

Telling Cobie about it was something that he felt he had to do. He had grown weary of being the mascot to the group, and since Des was Security Chief at the time, he figured an unknown agent would be benifical...and boy was it. It had been shortly after the establichment of Legiuon World that they began their missions. Furballs absence amongst the group was just attributed to his seemingly beastial nature...nobody thought twice about it if he was gone for a month at a time. Sure, Dev worried once and a while, but that was usually negated by something else that happened soon afterwards. More than likely the fallout of whatever assignment he had been on that Cobie would send Dev to clean up.

Furball was the closest friend that nobody knew Des had. That aspect of it was gone now, but they had both decided that this one was too big to keep certian charades going. Besides, people were starting to notice things. Candice, bless her heart, had apparently known for a while and never said a word to anyone. Lardy suspected something...but could never seem to stay focused long enough to prove it. Then there were Devs' kids. They both knew...but kids are observant in ways that adults aren't. It was part of why he loved his niece and nephew so much...they treated it like a game, and they were good at it.

There were others that suspected something was going on, and he had to avoid Shark Lad during one assignment...and that nearly caused the destruction of a planet that eshall remain nameless as to not upset anyone on Legion World.

He wondered, as they rounded another corner, how things would shake out after this assignment. His Legion World cover was blown at this point, but that was something that they had anticipated for...I mean they were actually surprised that they had gotten away with it for this long.

Power Boy steps over the threshold .... leather boots making a crunching noise on the dust.

"I hope this isn't going to get ugly, even my sense of humor dosn't want to see a full scale civil war"

"ahhhh ow"

< Power Boy grabs his ear as a shrill sound comes from it. He rips out an ear plug and throws it across the floor >

"What the ... I think I've been cut off from my satellite head quarters."

<Power Boy has a base of operations orbiting LW. A collection of small asteroids, where he's installed a natural atmosphere acts as his home and headquarters>

"In fact it seems like all communication off world has been cut off. The noose is tightening folks."

That's very alarming. It's either Lardy, going a step further than I ever though possible, or something far more sinister.

Our next stop is still a few blocks away so we need to pick up the pace. It's up the hill here...

<hands Ex a water bottle>

Even though we're on Legion World, everyone stay hydrated and be aware of things like that. Who knows when out next proper meal will be?

<aside to Furball>

Couldn't be worse than those three weeks in Bismoll, eh?

<continues up the hilly street>

<Resists urge to use Super Speed up the hill. Instead uses his enhanced senses and telepathy to constantly scan for trouble. Mega Rod out and ready.>

Muttering to Cobie..."three weeks in hell is more like it, I hated that place."

Takes a swig of water and walks up to Power Boy, "You watch the front, I'll scan behind and above."

To Cobie as he falls to the rear of the group.

"You realize that even if it is Lardy...it's worse than we thought...even worse than when you promised we'd deliver the Virgin Twin Daughters of Winath to the Coronation Ceremony."

OCC: Orange is for Question Kid, Red Arrow is normal, and if need be Soul Gem Spirit is Green. )

Red Arrow diligently read the files Dev and the others already had. These streets were as untame as Dev said they were. And Red Arrow felt at home somehow. Too bad the signs weren't up to date, she reach for her compass but it just spun around. Residue Magnetism, she infered. Red Arrow decided to climb up to get a better view. She took out a pair of binoculars and pointed towards the hills. The advantage of high ground.Red Arrow decided to make her way over there.

Oh no. Not again. Question Kid, do you ever learn? She thought when she saw them. Then a blast of energy barely missed her. Red Arrow then begin launching two arrows for every 30 seconds.

Furball looked around.

"Who the hell shot at her? Stop now and get a move on. Des, take the others and move. I'll take care of her."

Arrows start hitting the ground close to them...extremely close. He swats several away and grabs a manhole cover from the street.

"Alrighty then Cobester...Furball Special if you will."

Cobalt Kid smiles and with a not so gentle magnetisc push sends Furball towards Red Arrows position.

As he sailed through the air swatting the arrows away as they started intensifying in regularity, he mentally noted that he was going to get Cobie back for that launch.

Follow me; we're almost there now. It's critical we reach this rendezvous and get the needed information.

PB, speed up ahead if you need to.

Ex, try not to get woozy here...

These were clearly not street-levelers. Red Arrow had only three arrows left in her quiver. One of them was poison-tipped, one was electric, and one was a net. She decided to launch the electric one first, but it did not seem to make any damage. She then frantically fired the net arrow and prayed she would not be killed.

OCC <the probelem of posting with twocharacters.>

Furball sliced through the net as it came at him, and then landed on the roof behind Red Arrow.

"Look Arrow. You got one left and I can guarantee that the poison I smell on it is not going to work the way you think it will. We can do this one of two ways. You can go back and tell the Chief that we got away...or they can find you here when they finally get around to looking for you."

He could see her nervousness.,,smell it, but there was something else that was throwing his senses off.

"I'm not gonna hurt you, you're a nice kid and I think you have a lot of potential...but I can;t have you following us either."

Furball moved toward her. She stood still, not knowing what was going to happen.

He reached past her face in a heartbeat and snapped the last arrow in half, and then destroyed her communicator.

"We need to talk again after this whole messy business is over...there's something...that I can;t put my finger on."

Furball moved to the edge of the building and stepped off. "Be seeing you cutie."

PB races ahead at super speed ... to the approximate rendezvous point. He quickly puts up a telekinetic shield around the area ... using super vision, super hearing, and telepathy to scan the darkness.

Furball hit the ground and looked back up the building and sighed.

"What the hell is Taylor thinking sending a kid like that after us?"

He turns and starts toward the rendevous point.

<Up ahead, a very large structure begins to stick out above the trees; the road has no become almost desolate with forest on either side and no on insight. They have moved to the very outskirts of Legionopolis, the Capital City of Legion World and to where the lush countryside begins>

We're just about here. Power Boy is ahead and tells me we're clear. Furball is about to rejoin us. I'd love for the master of this residence to be home so some of you could meet one of Legion World's greatest citizens. But more likely, he has far more grandiose matters to attend to.

Space Ranger will meet us here and he should have one of the final pieces of the puzzle. This meeting is of the utmost importance. I couldnt risk us to go to Grand Central Space Station to look for clues ourselves.

Ex, I hope you brought some herbs for us to relax with.

Gentlemen, before you is Vee's Variable Villa.

<as they come to the top of the last hill, they see the most grand structure on all of Legion World>

*The fellowship entered Varalent\'s Variable Villa...*

Dev landed in a dark alley.

"My God, what the hell did I just do?"

If anyone was around to see, they would have noticed that his face went blank for a second.

"Thanks honey, I understand." He said softly.

He grabbed his personal com-link and dialed. "Tell him to meet me at his place in about 5 minutes."

Dev has just left the Rookery and is flying at top speed through the city. Vehicles are being pulled from the sides of the street in his wake.

"No, no, no, no, no..."

He promptly arrives at his home...

Dev is on his way back to the Rookery when Lardy\'s call goes out.

He lifts up for a higher vantage point and sees trouble near the security office, he arcs that way, a grim look on his face and his eyes glowing red.

Dev is flying past every danger spot he can find and flash frying bees as fast as he can.

"This is going to get us nowhere. There's too many of them and too few of us."