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Reunion: Chapter 12

The guard flew back and slammed against the wall. His neck, back and twelve other spots across his body broke at once from the force that was too much for the body and would have killed him if the initial g-force from being accelerated from a standstill to the speed of a mag train in an instance didn't kill him in the first place. The body, no more than a sack of skin holding together his ruined inside fell back down to the ground where it slumped in an unnatural position on the ground, his face still contorted in the look of shock at having gone around a corner on his patrol and walking into the Canis that killed him.

"You killed him." Adrian said as he helplessly watched the body go by as his own body walked by it. Dog still had control and easily batted away any of Adrian's attempts to take it back. Being a passenger in his own body was a new thing to him, suddenly everything was like a slippery eel. He tried to grab onto his limbs with his mind, but Dog pulled through his grasp with ease. He couldn't even use his own mouth. He spoke with his thoughts.

Dog stopped for a second to regard the body. "At least I didn't over do it." He snickered. The last time I was in control, all those years ago when you were just a pup, one of them exploded.

The image, blurry, but still discernable flooded into Adrian's mind. He saw the man fly back against the brick wall, much faster than the guard they were standing over. He watched in excruciating detail the man did exactly what Dog said he did, pop. Adrian felt sick and Dog felt the small effect it had on the body.

Dog lurched over, holding onto the wall. "Steady there." He burped a foul cloud, the result of his attempt to choke down the bile that almost came up. "We share this body and we both affect it so don't get all queasy or you'll make us both puke." He pushed off the wall and wiped a little bit of saliva off his muzzle and began going back down the hall they were initially going down.

They were in some sort of facility that was built to house psionic Canis. They had passed many cells with other Canis. Adrian had tried to convince Dog to stop and let them out. They were often strapped down with that horrid device that stripped them of their abilities on their heads. They stared blankly at the walls of their cell, unaware that Dog and he were just outside, their only hope of escape.

"We need to focus on ourselves." Dog had replied. "They'll only hold us back and I can't babysit both you and them at the same time." And that had been that despite Adrian's complaints. They moved through the facility at Dog's whim who never once stopped to figure out where to go. He always seemed to know where they were going.

Dog seemed to be able to read Adrian's mind. Whenever he thought of something, something that he didn't intend for Dog to hear, he always made a comment about it. The opposite didn't seem true though. Small things slipped through whatever defenses Dog had set up on what Adrian assumed to be his side of the brain, but for the most part, Adrian was left in the dark about what Dog was thinking. However, Dog didn't mind sharing.

"I was here during this facility's construction." Dog answered as soon as the unspoken question crossed their shared minds and then the next one as well. "Yes, I'm that old." He rolled his eyes. "Back when this place wasn't meant to imprison Canis, but to educate them and allow them to properly control their powers."

"Such a time existed?" Adrian asked as they slid up against a wall where they could hear some people talking on the other side. Word had gotten out about their escape, the guards were preparing to begin a sweep and were talking about how a special unit was coming in and they needed to watch all of the exits.

Not wanting to alert them to their presence, Dog didn't speak out loud. "It was a long time ago, several decades after we lost Earth." Dog was able to maintain the conversation even as he went around the corner into what appeared to be an armory filled with security guards who looked up in surprise. Dog could have used Adrian's ability to sense people without seeing them, but he enjoyed seeing them panic in person.

The first to draw his weapon was slammed up into the ceiling.

"It was a better time." He held onto Adrian's attention, who was unable to split his attention in his state. He was too focused on the conversation to see the bloodbath that was happening directly in front of him. "When humans and Canis worked together like siblings they were, not against each other." A second guard was turned as he fired, shooting one of his comrades directly in the chest. They weren't armored, they were never expected to deal with a class 5 specialist such as Adrian. The rest were dispatched less than a second later, thrown into wall, objects thrown into them, Dog moved through the room moments later, trying to make sure he didn't stick around long enough for Adrian to actually see what he did.

While he knew that the Canis had killed, seen death and the sort, he knew what extended exposure did to people. He had seen it in previous generations, how they became secluded, ignoring his guidance that he tried to pass down from his many years of experience. Adrian seemed bright, but the beginnings of that seclusion slowly ebbing in. He could feel it. He kept talking, keeping Adrian occupied with the conversation as he threw several more guards to the side.

"The mistrust that exists towards Canis wasn't always there." He explained and ducked around a corner. They were getting close to the exit which would be heavily guarded and even with Adrian's abilities, Dog wasn't confident that he could take them on in a fight. "We were once ordinary citizens, just different. Life was normal."

"So how did you end up with me, because this seems like ancient history." Adrian asked. Dog was much more knowledgable about history. Adrian wasn't even aware that there was a time where Canis and humans cooperated. His old school didn't have much of a history class. It just began when the Sol Dominion came to power, everything before that wasn't even mentioned.

"I'm kind of like an old sweater. A hand-me-down of sorts." Dog chuckled to himself. The more he thought about it, the more true it sounded to him. "All Canis have some sort of psionic ability, even if to most it's negligible. With this, I pass myself down to the next generation."

"Why?" Adrian was intrigued to think that this being, person, or whatever he was has been in his family for so long and there was never any mention of him from any of his family members. His mother never spoke of him, his father didn't, or his grandparents."

"I made a promise to an old friend that I would watch over his family." Dog grew silent and Adrian gained awareness of their surroundings.

"Where are we?" He asked, seeing that they were still in the iron halls of the facility. He could sense a large amount of people not too far away and their intentions were boiling with fear, anger, a mixture, all towards him. "How did we get here?"

Dog didn't lie to those he was with, because after time, Adrian would learn how to control his thoughts and dig into the mind of Dog, which was just part of his mind. He just needed to learn how to access that part of his brain. "You're not used to me being here, taking up space in your head like this. For years, I had just been in the shadows, blocked by you psionic's natural barriers. When they put that thing on your head, blocked it off, I was able to come through permanently. You haven't adapted to this, so it's difficult for you to concentrate on me and the world around you. I was getting us out of here as we were talking."

"Seems dangerous." Adrian was a little mad that he could be blinded whenever Dog talked to him. What would Dog do when he wasn't looking?

"Don't worry about that." Dog assured Adrian of his intentions. "I only act in your favor and right now, that's to get us out. Plus..." Adrian, again, without his knowledge had been lured into a conversation while Dog got busy.

The main doors to the facility, massive iron slabs on hydraulics, opened up to let in a new squad of guards. They brought news that the Dog Catchers were almost there, but it also gave Dog new information. They had arrived in a ship from an orbital facility, he got this information by quietly rooting through their heads. This much power was beyond what Dog had ever experienced and it made the job a hell of alot easier for him.

Not wanting to let the ship, their ticket out, escape before he could get to it, Dog sprang from his cover. He popped a pipe filled with water under pressure. It sprayed water into the faces of several guards and distracted several others. The guards on the other side of the room opened fire and Dog rolled behind a desk where a guard would have sat and watched the entrance from. It didn't stop the bullets, but it broke line of sight for the guard, but not for Dog.

The man screamed as he was sent spiraling sideways, knocking down two others like bowling pins.

He was halfway to the door that was slowly closing. Someone on the outside heard the commotion and had hit the emergency close switch. Dog held the door open, straining himself against the mechanical might of the door's mechanism. He was holding it open, but barely and he began to taste iron in his mouth.

The guards, dripping wet from the spraying pipe that was now dribbling scrambled to orientate themselves only to have their feet ripped out from under them and spending them sprawling to the ground. It was the best Dog could do while he ran to the door that he had managed to keep open. Now it was slowly shutting again, the machine winning against him. It didn't matter, he slipped through just as it slammed shut.

"Plus..." He continued, dripping with sweat and hurting from the few bullets that had hit their marks. He winced as he patted a bloody spot on his waist. "I doubt you would have been able to get out." He shut himself away from Adrian to let him see the sun shining down on them.

"Wh..."

"Doesn't matter." He limped up the ramp. The rest of the people up top, not guards, but workers, had run for their lives, leaving the ship right where it was. It wasn't impressive, but it was what Dog wanted. "We're out."

The ship was still running when Dog slumped into the leather seat, still warm from it previous occupant. He looked over the controls for a moment. He hadn't flown anything, or watched anyone fly anything in a very long time, but it seemed familiar enough. He flipped a switch and smiled when the thrusters that were connected to the stubby wings on the side swivelled downward and the ship slowly began to rise for takeoff.

"Where do you plan on taking us?" Adrian was now anxious to get use of his body back. He hated that he was riding bitch in his own body. He appreciated that Dog had gotten them out, but it still felt as if a stranger had just come in and taken control of his life.

"The always start ungrateful." Dog sighed and tilted the ship upwards to take them into space. The ship was Dominion military and they had unlimited airspace, eliminating the possibility of being intercepted any time soon. The ship didn't have any weapons, being a transporter and Dog had no experience in a dogfight in the air, he was fully capable of fighting literal dogs though. "We're going to Earth."

"Earth?" Adrian became excited, enough so that the feeling bled into Dog a bit and their tail began to wag behind them, battling lightly against the seat. "I've heard of it, but never thought that I would go there."

"Well, it's your lucky day, kiddo." The sky turned darker as they began to exit the atmosphere and the g-forces were making him lightheaded when put on top of the blood that he had lost. Once he got the coordinates in, he would need to take care of that.

"What's on Earth?"

"Oh... One of your ancestors discovered something there and it's time to go get it." Dog wasn't sure how much he should tell Adrian right away. He wasn't going to lie to him, but withholding information wasn't lying. It wasn't that he was afraid that letting Adrian was dangerous, he just didn't feel like answering more questions. Luckily that seemed to be enough for Adrian who did the equivalent of twiddle his thumbs.

Finding Earth in the nav computer was easy and Dog set the ship to auto pilot. It would be a few hours so Dog got up and headed to the back to grab a medkit he saw on the way into the ship. He opened it up and lifted up the shirt he was wearing. He had kept much of the pain on his side, but the sight made Adrian wince.

"I'm not going to die, am I?" Adrian asked as a pair of tweezers was dug into one of the holes. He heard Dog suck in a quick breath before removing a single bullet. This was repeated until all of the bullets were pulled out.

"From this?" Dog snorted. "No, not even close, just painful." He poured some water onto his side to wash the blood off and then wrapped his entire side with gauze, medigel and bandages. He stripped down, put on a spare uniform that was in a locker and then handed back control to Adrian. His job was done and he was exhausted. "Don't touch anything." He said before fading off.

Adrian wasn't about to touch anything important because as soon as Dog went away to some corner of his mind, the pain he had been holding back flooded in. Adrian's legs buckled under him from the pain. He crawled over to the lockers where the uniform was and pulled down the remaining clothes to make a bed. He slumped onto it, very tired and let the hum of the ship sing him to sleep.