* i wake up and shake my head looking around till everything gets back in focus *

" that was very eerie i feel much better now "

I'll hold you to that if I have to hobble you myself.

*Grace said with a warm smile, as she helped Kit with the task at hand

~Doe watched quietly while the thing was taken out, wrinkling up her nose at what she saw, not really sure at what was happening. She'd felt happy being able to help, then when she felt Kitt checking her neck, then Grace's and Docs, having found that thing, she'd gotten nervous, feeling the back of her neck while watching.~

"Did that hurt..how did it get there, why is it there?"

~She started asking a lot of questions, but being young she had never seen anything like it, but then even if she wasn't she still wouldn't know what it was. She looked over at Kitt, then to Link, hoping he'd be okay.~

"What are we going to do, is there any way we can get rid of it, or use it to get away...could those things be anywhere else on our bodies? or on something else we have with us?"

~Doe looks down at the packs they'd carried all this way, setting hers down and taking everything out of it just to make sure.~

Link had passed out from the two blows he recieved to the head. He didn't even feel Doc land next to him. He layed there quitely, unaware of whats was going on as the others were doing things important in the real world. Link was having a dream, but it was different. He had woken up in this cold dark room, His hands, legs,and neck were strapped to a table of some kind. Except this time he was in his present form, Things were hazy at moment this memory had recorded in his mind, He remembered that his eyes felt extremely heavy like they were about to close at any moment, and he couldn't pick up his head at all. With his eyes he looked over and he saw Kitt,a human, and other males who weren't human and like him and kitt all strapped to a table like he was. His eyes then gave out and shut on him.


Despite the strange dream Link remained a sleep, everything now blank and calm in his mind.

Kitt, with the skill of a surgon removed the small square device and layed it down with the other ine removed from Doc, and after bandaging the wound up layed Link back on his back..

"there" Kitt said "now all we have to do is check my neck, but with Doc out I'll have to ask you Grace to look and see if I have one and take it out.."

he explains to her what to look for and how to remove it then turns his neck so she could look..

*Grace glances at the sleeping forms of Link and Doc. Both seemed peaceful in their slumber. Even despite his blood matted fur, and his jagged wounds Link still looked much the strong wolf that he was. She wasn’t sure what the things were that Kit had removed from them, or what possible purpose they might have. To her there were many questions about them already spoken by Doe.

I wish you’d had Doc remove yours first, I’m not a surgeon, I’m a butcher

*Grace said softly as she carefully checked Kit’s neck for the mysterious device. Her doubt about doing such a task evident in her voice. She had no desire to harm Kit or any of the others. Such a task of this being out of her element, She was after all a killer, not a healer.

I can almost feel it there

*She said as she pressed down around it to be sure. There was definitely something there

I don’t know if I can...

*She said honestly, though it pained her to say it

" we don't have time to ponder things, Grace if the beings responsable for these things being in us and they know we found them then all they have to do is destroy them and us as well, now take this knife and take it out before they do something right now your my only hope in doing this .."

Kitt says sternly but gently to Grace as he hands her the knife..

( in the control room )


" sir I think they found the tracking devices/ mind control chips, two are off line and the third one is shifting in frequency should I destroy then now???

"yes Tech, it's time to dispose of them once and for all.."

and the hand of the tech reaches for the destruct button..

*Grace sighed

Alright, if you think it's evil then I guess.

*Grace says as she takes the knife.

I still don't like it.

Alright. Here goes.

*With the final word spoken, Grace cuts crudely into Kits flesh and excises the strange device

~Sneaking a peek at what Grace was doing with the knife, Doe's nose wrinkles up actually feeling sick to her stomach. Looking away quickly she tries to not do anything that will make her look weak, knowing she had to be strong, then setting her pack down she digs through it pulling out the cloth and tearing it into strips, standing and carrying them over to Grace and Kitt.~

"Will you need these, bandages at all?"

~She whispers, trying to be helpful, though she doesn't know if she is or not, then deciding she doesn't want to bother them, she looks back over to where the other two are asleep, she sets the bandages down, walking back to the pack and pulling out the blankets, covering them up before watching around for any movement around the area.~

Well there it is

*Grace said as she held the small thing in her hands.

I'm afraid your going to have a nasty scar though Kit.

*She said softly.

Kitt turns around to look at the thing in Graces hand just as it starts to smoke.

" look out!!" Kitt shouts as he knocks it out of her hand.. it hits the ground and pops and bursts into flame, they turn to find the other ones were doing the same thing.
"boy that was close" Kitt says in a shaky voice. Looking down at the others laying there oblivious to the current events unfolding in front of them..

" must have been a tracking device set to explode when messed with, but why don't you two have them??" Kitt says as he sits down taking out the files he managed to get from the cabin before it exploded
" HHUUUUMMM!!! alot of things blowing up as of late, what did we run into to make them act so irrational as of late?? and why didn't you two have implants?? " Kitt ponders as he starts going through the papers..

Link is awakened by the sound of the chips discharging, with out a bit of speed taken out of his movement link sits up and reaches for the gun in its holster with his left hand and aims it directly and the flaming leftovers. Seeing that everything was ok, he drops his left arm still feeling very weak and looks at kitt.

"What on earth was that...?"

*Grace looks at the smoldering remains with a worried look.

Are you sure Doe and I don't have those things in us somewhere.

*She asks with concern, before ducking for cover as Link awakens and aims his gun

That My dear wolf was your head not exploding.

*She says mildly as she gets herself back up

It's a good thing Kit found out about whatever those things were

Link turned his head towards grace as she answered his question, He also noticed that his neck, kitts, and docs were now all bandaged. He tried to figure it out on his own why the small explosions would have taken his head off, but despite feeling weak he had a strange sense of freedom. His mind was clear and even though he didn't share it he always felt that he was being watched even when he couldn't sense those freaking things around.


"...yes...my head not exploding is pretty damn great, but why would it have done that? I assume it has to do with what ever is burning?"