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Chapter 88: This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours (You Needed Me Part Four)

Day 300 (continued)

" Aw nuts! I was going to use the laser and missile launcher next!" The mongoose boy huffed.

"That would have been overkill- literally." I said as six junior knights converged on the reclamation center. "But you did good little brother."

"What about momma bear?"

"She is in bad shape. If not for our intervention, she would be dead. Springer!" I called out to a familiar knight.

"Alex! What is going on here?" The buck asked me.

"Springer you and the others apprehend those four before the dissolve completely. I will take care of things here." I heard a familiar voice say.

"Chemar!" I called out to the cheetah.

"Sanda, we are securing the site now. Inform Lord Tiger." The cheetah said to the image of the caracal in his communicator.

The junior knight took a good look around at the scene before him:

A gaping hole had been blown inside of an abandoned building near the center. Before him were four beastials who seemed to be drowning in some form of green goo that was oozing out of a large circular vat that had been perforated by so many bullets. No wait, they were melting!

At the rear of the building was a white llama the instigator of all this out cold on the floor and above him a brown bear hanging from crane also out cold.

"You did this?" The junior knight asked me.

"No, Corbin here."

"Good job. But you might want to power down the weapons and retract the side-pods." The nervous cheetah said to the little mongoose. "The prototype's existence is supposed to be a well you know, a secret."

"We are going to need your assistance getting that back to Castle Wundagore. I don't know the foggiest about operating it in hover mode." I said to the junior knight.

"Springer! Those four! We better mop them up before they dissolve completely." Chemar said to the buck. "And no one touch that green stuff! We don't know what it is!"

"Alright you four paws up!" The buck ordered the melting camel, ostrich, rhea and platypus.

"Please you have to save us!" The ostrich screamed.

"I will think about it." Springer yelled back.

Chemar backed out the prototype from the third building and then parked it while Corbin and I watched the knights carefully remove my mistress' assailants. After the site had been secured, Corbin and I reentered building three.

By that time Lady Ursa had been lowered from the crane and was seated on a chair at the far side of the room. She was so quiet and still. I had never seen her like this before.

Corbin and I quickly ran to her side.

"Her heartbeat is faint." The little boy observed.

"I have seen this once before." Springer said walking up to us.

Corbin, Chemar and I looked at the buck.

"She was hit by a shock box." He said looking at the burnt fur on her arm. "No multiple shock-boxes. She needs a healer NOW."

"We better get her to Lea." Chemar said.

Chemar had my she beast transported back to the castle to be examined before he drove us back.

"So you drove the prototype all the way over here?" He asked me as we made our way back toward castle Wundagore.

"Yeah, it is not hard driving it on the ground, but flying it is another thing entirely." I said to him.

"Well if you are going to continue to help us hapless knights- perhaps you should learn how to fly." The cheetah said turning my direction. Corbin just laughed.

Upon our return to the castle, Chemar parked the prototype while Corbin and I ran over to Lea's lab to check on our ursine warrior.

"Wow you are a pretty lady!" The little mongoose boy commented as we watched the sexy lioness in the white lab coat run back and forth over Lady Ursa with several black stones treating her injuries.

Corbin and I noted that her patient the brown bear was completely naked and also very beautiful despite being worked over by the five assailants Corbin and I had taken care of. Well, she was beautiful to me anyway.

We watched Lea work on my warrior bear- first on her head, then neck, then chest, arms, stomach, legs and paws then on her back, bottom and tail.

"Lea, how is she?"

"Too early to know. Her attackers dropped her heart rate to just about nothing. It was like she had had a heart attack." The lioness said to us grimly.

"Anything we can do?" Corbin asked.

"You two can get out of here and let me work. I will let you know, as soon as I know." The lioness said to us.

"Come on you two let's grab a bite at the cafeteria." Chemar said catching up to us.

So we left Lea's lab and decided to have another shot at lunch. But after what we had been through who could think about eating?

Chemar stayed with us for awhile before he had to return to duty, leaving us to stare at our meals. Corbin and I were very disturbed by what we had seen at the reclamation center.

"You ok little buddy?" I asked the little mongoose.

"Ya, I am ok. Bursting in to building three and seeing momma bear like that, it is just...."

"It reminded you of what you had seen that day at the Space Museum." I said to him.

He nodded. "That hatred. They wanted to kill her Alex."

"I know Corbin. I know."

"I heard the news. How is Lady Ursa doing?" A familiar dragon said walking over.

"Sorren?! I guess news travels fast in these parts." I said staring at my meal.

"You know him big brother?" The little mongoose asked.

"Yes, I do. Corbin this is Sorren. He is a very good friend of mine. He lives with Lurie."

"You mean the pretty coyote lady from this morning?" The little mongoose boy asked.

"Sorren this is Corbin." I said nodding. "Lea is working on her right now." I said to the concerned dragon.

"Nice to meet you Corbin. Don't worry about Lady Ursa, she is in good paws, Lea is a very good healer."

"I keep reminding her of that all the time. She is not just pretty, but she is also very smart." I said.

"And Lady Ursa is very strong and very tough. She will be back on her paws in no time."

"So Sorren what have you heard?" I asked the dragon.

"That what happened was related to the explosion this morning." The he beast said.

"It goes a bit deeper than that Sorren." The little mongoose boy said.

Sorren pulled up a chair and sat down at our table.

"She was being targeted by some escapees from the reclamation center." I said to him.

"Didn't those places close fifteen years ago?" He gasped.

"We found out that she used to work there." The mongoose boy added. "No she was in charge there."

"In what capacity, we don't know. As for her assailants- one of them was supposed to have been um, recycled there many years ago."

"But he wasn't. He along with some others decided to hunt momma bear down." The mongoose boy said.

"Probably as some type of revenge for what they tried to do to him there. Fortunately the empire has become more enlightened since those days." The dragon concluded.

"I guess but there is a possibility that someone I love is responsible for doing something horrific. If it is true, I can understand why what happened, happened. If it is true how can I even stare at her after this?" I said to my big buddy and little buddy.

Sorren put his paw on my shoulder. "I heard she has changed her name since then. Is that right?"

"She was going by the name Lady Ursula back then." The little mongoose said to the dragon. "She is Lady Ursa now."

"Sounds like someone regretted something from those times or wanted to put something behind her. The answer to your question Alex is by seeing who she is now." Sorren said to Corbin and myself.

"You are right, remember the day of my accident?"

"You mean the day you were on the other side and saw your parents?" The dragon asked me.

"You went to the other side?" Corbin asked.

"Yeah it was earlier this year after a training accident- anyway, I saw my parents and sister. While on the other side, they gave me some insight about my mistress."

"What did they say?"

"That she was in transition. At one time she was close to becoming like Sir Ram, but was slowly starting to see the error of her ways as well as the dictator for what he truly is despite being honor-bound to him."

(So that is why she swore professor Dawn Stern to secrecy when she discovered that underground city.)

"I now understand what mom, dad and sis were saying." I said as we noticed a certain beastial walk into the cafeteria.

"Lord Tiger?"

"Alex, Corbin, Sorren." The commander of the knights said joining us at the table. "I would like to speak with you two- privately." The tiger said looking at the goofy dragon.

"Can't Sorren stay commander?" Corbin pleaded.

"Very well. What I am about to say does not leave the cafeteria." The tiger said to us.

"Fortunately- we are the only ones here commander." I said.

"First off what you two did this afternoon was dangerous, reckless and foolhardy." The tiger warrior said sternly. "It was also very heroic."

"Someone I love and who is very precious to me was in extreme danger." I said to the commander of the Knights of Wundagore. I would do it again without question."

"Commander, is that why you came to see us?" The little mongoose asked.

"No. I wanted to say that you two arrived just in time."

"Really?" I asked.

"The vat of green go- we found remains inside." The tiger knight said.

"Oh my gosh!" Sorren said gasping.

"How many?" Corbin asked.

"Two others." The tiger said.

*GASP*

"Previous administrators of the reclamation centers." The he beast said. "This was a targeted rampage."

*GASP* Sorren said again.

"Mr. Music and his accomplices were labeled imperfects by the master many years ago and were sent to the centers to be 'recycled'. They escaped, hid underground for years before seeking revenge."

*GASP* The goofy dragon exclaimed.

"But why now?" Corbin asked the tiger knight.

"We are unsure." The commander said. "But you two stopped him before he could finish his list of targets and complete his rampage."

*GASP* Sorren said again.

It was at this time that the commander gave the goofy dragon such a look.

"Oh, I have to do uh, something uh, somewhere." Sorren said standing up from our table and heading back toward the kitchen of the cafeteria.

"I trust Sir Ram and Mara's invention was of some use?" Lord Tiger said resuming the conversation.

(He knows about that?)

"It was sir." I responded as the warrior's communicator sounded off.

He answered it. "Lea wants to see you back at the lair."

That comment concluded our meal. So Corbin and I headed back to the lair. Lady Ursa was on her bed in her chambers. Lea had placed a cube on the night stand where she could monitor my she beast in case she developed any complications from the treatment.

"So how is momma bear?" Corbin asked as Lea left my mistress' inner chambers.

"She is going to be off her paws for the next three days." The beautiful lioness said. "She is suffering from multiple external and internal burns from her assault."

"Springer said it was from shock-boxes."

"Multiple, modified shock-boxes." The lioness said correcting me. "The five brought her down quite quickly, before she had a chance to defend herself. I healed her wounds, and restored her heart rhythm, but she is still going to be very sore and very irritable for the next few days."

"Irritable because she can't work or irritable because she is in traction?" I asked Lea.

"Both."

"What about her assailants?" Corbin asked.

"Yes the camel, ostrich, llama, rhea and platypus wanted to drop her into that vat of nasty green goo."

"What was that stuff?" I asked the sexy lioness.

"The concoction was originally used to deconstruct beastials to their component elements which would be then used to in the creation of other beastials."

"Oh my." Corbin and I said in unison.

"Instead four of the five assailants got a nasty dosage of the stuff and were partially melted. Sir Ram is going to try to reconstitute them. If he is successful, then they will be judged and punished." The she beast said to us.

"What if he is not?" Corbin asked.

"Then that will be their punishment." The lion girl winked. "Anyway, you may go and see her now."

"Thank you gorgeous." I said hugging the lioness.

"You are more than welcome. Just keep her off her paws." Lea said hugging me back.

"I think we can do that." I replied.

(My beloved has some explaining to do and this time I won't take no for an answer.)

As Lea left, I made a wardrobe change per my mistress' rules and then entered her chambers where the mongoose boy and I found her on her bed resting.

"Momma bear do you know where you are?" Corbin asked as she woke up and looked around.

"My chambers."

"What is the last thing you remember?" I asked as Corbin and I sat down next to her.

"I went outside the Wild's restaurant to answer my communicator. But there was no one on it. As I started to head back in I was confronted."

"Was it the llama from this morning?" The little mongoose asked.

"Yes. He and four others. I was hit with something that went right through my uniform and everything went black."

"They used modified shock-boxes. You were out before you even knew it." I said crossing my arms. "He and his accomplices took you back to their hideout for some payback."

"Alex and I had to rescue you." Corbin said.

"I see. Where was their hideout?" My bear knight asked.

"The old reclamation facility at the north end of the city."

As I said that, her jaw dropped wide open. Corbin had to close it.

"Ah, I see that you are familiar with that place. You forbade Corbin and myself from getting involved in this. It is a good thing that we did otherwise you would be dead right now." I said in accusatory tone.

"Momma bear why were those five after you? Why did they try repeatedly to kill you?" Corbin asked growing concerned.

"Before you try to deflect and evade the question- I wanted you to know that we learned some interesting things this afternoon while we were trying to track down those who attempted to take you from us mistress. Or is it Lady Ursula?"

My fierce ursine warrior looked at me and Corbin as she sensed that I was quite cross with her.

"Mistress please, no more half-truths, misdirections or omissions. What is this all about? Why were those five after you? And why did you change your name?" I asked her as Corbin looked on.

"Fine pet." My mistress said pulling Corbin to her. "This story took place about thirty years ago just after the High Evolutionary came to power and I was transformed into a beastial."

(Now we are getting somewhere)

"At the time the master decided that he wanted his new empire populated by his new creations whom he deemed were far superior to the indigenous humans who populated this world and had caused so much pain, misery and destruction to themselves and the planet; beastials would be the counterbalance. They would keep humanity in check- to insure that humans didn't destroy themselves or the planet ever again."

"Ok." Corbin said nodding his head.

"And so he started production of his beastial populace. He found and rescued me transforming me from a circus bear to the beastial I am today. He did the same for Sir Ram, Lord Tiger, Sir Wolf and others. He then did the same to other fauna on this world turning them from quadrupeds to bipeds- making them stronger, smarter and quicker. His production output was in waves. The first wave was about a 100 beastials. Then came the second wave of another hundred. Then a third wave, then a fourth and then a fifth. In time his creations would mate and produce offspring enough to out populate humans three to one."

"Mistress, I know that already." I said growing inpatient. "What has that got to do with what happened today?"

My she beast gave me one of those stares as she raised her eyebrow as if to say I am getting to that.

"Ok I will be quiet now." I said humbly as I sat back down on the bed.

"For every hundred beastials that were faster, better, stronger there were several that were deemed deficient or defective; beneath the master's standards for quality. Since his efforts were wholly focused on output, the master didn't have time for much quality analysis or quality control- that came later. So he established reclamation centers for deficients and inferiors. It would be here were they would be studied to try to fix what was wrong with them. Or so that was what I believed. His creations that were unfortunate enough to find their way here it was the end of the line for them. They were imprisoned with the promise that their deficiencies would be studied, analyzed and then fixed. But that was not the case."

"WOW." Corbin and I said in unison.

"My first duties upon becoming a Knight of Wudagore was to manage the reclamation center here in World One. Officially it was a research facility, but I learned unofficially it was a prison where deficients were housed until it was determined that they couldn't be 'fixed'."

"What happened then?" The little mongoose boy asked.

"They would be deconstructed into organic component elements and those elements would then be used in the creation of other beastials."

(OMG!)

"The day I found out about this was particularly horrifying." My warrior bear said continuing. "I had moved two prisoners a miniature horse and alpaca to one of the labs in preparation for the High Evolutionary's visit. The two were wailing and crying uncontrollably when they were placed in the lab. At the time I thought it was quite odd behavior for a simple examination as I greeted the master and departed to continue my duties. I later returned to the same lab after the master had departed only to discover the prisoners tattered clothing and test-tubes of green- brown goo. Their remains.

"I can't even begin to comprehend that." Corbin said.

"Imagine that you weren't conceived by your parents, but concocted in a lab. Upon the day of your creation your creator deemed you 'defective'. You would then be sent to one of these centers and um, unconcocted. Your remains used to create other beastials. My she beast said to her cub.

"Oh my." The little mongoose boy said.

"That was what was going on there."

"Momma bear what did you do when you found out?"

"I carefully observed some of these other 'studies' and I learned the truth of what was happening. I begged the master to please reconsider his treatment of the defects. Initially, my pleas fell on deaf ears. But I begged him and pleaded with him at the risk of being named a deficient myself."

"What happened then?" I asked.

"It took a considerable amount of time, but he did change his mind years later after he developed some new procedures. This was after he completed production of his newest creations and let them produce and reproduce on their own."

"What were these new procedures?" Corbin asked.

"Devolution. Deficients instead of being deconstructed were devolved to their native state and returned back to the wild. By that time I had moved on to another position in the knight core. But the experience left me so scarred, so ashamed, I decided to change my name with the hope that I could put that experience behind me and that no one outside the knight core would have known I worked there."

"What about the five that tried to kill you today?" I asked.

"I don't know pet." My fierce ursine warrior said.

"Mistress?"

"It is the truth Alex." My lady bear said reaching for her spare communicator.

My she beast pulled up some type of database that the knights used to catalog bad beastials and crossed referenced it with the information Sir Ram had entered while examining the five.

"That is him right there!" Corbin said pointing to a picture of the white llama.

"That is Harrison Music. He became a beastial on YOE 2, was deemed horrifically imperfect and supposedly deconstructed a year later."

"Apparently not mistress." I said to her.

Together we read the four remaining names in the database. Pulta Platypus, Cain Camel, Ollie Ostrich, Randy rhea.

(I guess last names for beastials were quite simple during the first years of the empire.)

All had the same story they became beastials during the first few years of the empire and were deemed defective and were deconstructed and reconstituted a year or several years later per the records.

"Some how they weren't." Corbin added.

"They escaped and decided to come after all who worked at those centers?"

"Those centers closed down a little after I had left." My warrior bear announced.

"How many of them were there?" I asked.

"One in each of the cities." She responded.

So now we knew the truth. That only left two more mysteries to solve what exactly happened to her and the other knights on the Bandit Trio mission and her embarrassing secret oh, and those strange markings in her armpits and paw pads. Make that three mysteries.

I supposed I could have asked her to answer those questions there as well. But my parents told me that I would find out those answers around the same time, besides she had bared her soul enough for one day.

"That is a remarkable story." I said to my bear knight.

"A part of my history that I am not particularly proud of pet."

"For obvious reasons." The mongoose boy said. "But we forgive you."

"You weren't the one reconstituting the defective beastials." I said to her.

My she beast then contacted Sir Ram.

"Ah Lady Ursa, I see that you are up and about." The evil ram said appearing on her communicator."

"In a matter of speaking." She said. "What is the status of the five?"

"I was able to undo the effects of the green goo and make them whole again. They will be judged and punished for their actions. Most likely being de-evolved and returned back to the wild or receive the living death. Get back on your paws soon." The big horned sheep said ending the transmission.

So my mistress per her healer's orders was supposed to be off of her paws for the next three days. As you guessed it, she was irritable and grouchy because she couldn't do what she loved. She only made it a day and a half. But during that day and a half, she had her foster cub and favorite pet to keep her company. We talked, played games, watched movies on the hub and read stories. You know, some good quality family time.

After that my warrior bear returned to knight work but it was light duty while she waited to be cleared much to her frustration.

Day 302

"So this is what my career in the knight core has become?" My she beast said solemnly.

"I don't know mistress, this seems like a nice enough assignment." I said.

"Providing security at younglings' superhero convention?! This is something for Chemar, Springer or other junior knights to do."

"I don't know cubs can get really rowdy at times." I teased the now under appreciated brown bear.

"Oh come on momma bear, it isn't that bad." The little mongoose said. "There are a lot of neat costumes to see, panels to attend and exhibitors to buy from!"

"Precisely, it is like a nerd bomb went of in here!" My she beast huffed.

"Don't think about it in those terms mistress. Consider it as a gradual transition back into the field."

"Look! There she is!" A little human boy said running up to stand in front of my warrior bear. He was accompanied by two gorilla children.

"This is the one you based your costume on?" The gorilla female asked.

"Uh huh!" The little boy said as Corbin and I looked on.

"Why?" The male gorilla asked. "I thought humans were scared of knights."

"Because she is my personal hero!" The ten year old said.

(A knight a human's hero?)

It was at this point that he had garnered Lady Ursa's attention.

"Child, do I know you?" My she beast asked as she studied the boy's costume.

"It is a good reproduction, right miss animal lady? I based it off of yours!"

Corbin and I looked at it, the thing was pretty close to my lady bear's uniform right down to the padding and red cape.

"It is a good reproduction." Lady Ursa said to her surprise admirer. "But why would you come to this convention dressed as a knight?!"

"We asked that too!" The gorilla children said in unison.

"Because you saved my mommy, daddy and me when the planet was trying to kill us!"

"Trying to kill you? You do look kind of familiar." Lady Ursa said trying to see past the costume.

"Oh my gosh! Mistress do you know who that is?!" I said as a smile widened on my face.

Corbin looked at the boy and the two gorillas then back at me.

"That is Cubby Legend!"

"Who is Cubby Legend?" Corbin asked.

"He is the ten year old son of Theresa and Adam Legend. A family Lady Ursa saved from two direct tornado strikes earlier this year on the prairie."

"It is you!" My bear knight said kneeling in front of the human boy.

"How are your parents?"

"They are doing fine. Daddy is working as a maintenance man for Bobby and Lucy's parents. Mommy is also helping them with their garden." Cubby said.

"Yeah, the three of them kinda live with us." The boy gorilla said. "It's cool, it is like I have a little brother."

"Yeah we even go to the same school and are in the same class." The girl gorilla said.

"Thank you for saving us miss animal lady. You are my hero." The little boy said as he hugged my mistress.

"You're welcome." My lady bear responded hugging the boy back.

"Cubby, we better get going or we are going to be late for the panel." The boy gorilla said.

"What panel is that?" Corbin asked.

"On why Cosmic Cat is more awesomer than Maximum Mandril!" The girl gorilla responded.

"Hey that sounds interesting. Can we go Alex?" The mongoose boy asked.

I was still staring at my bear knight who was in shock that she had a fan or was it that a human (besides me) actually appreciated someone from the knight core?

"Sure we can check it out. I think the security will let us."

"You two have fun." My warrior bear said.

With that Corbin lead me away to some narrow corridor of the Diamond Hotel where the event was taking place. The panel we attended was quite juvenile. There was a woodchuck moderator on a stage with three cubs of various species on either side of him- team Cosmic Cat and team Maximum Mandrill and each side gave arguments for and against as to which super hero was the better. I noticed the meeting room was quite crowded with younglings and cubs all over the place. Some were dressed as Cosmic Cat, others as Maximum Mandrill. Still others as whatever superhero of their choosing.

Corbin made me sit through the entire panel- all 59 minutes of it.

"So what did you think big brother?" The little mongoose boy asked me as the panel was letting out.

"I think Maximum Mandrill is the better superhero."

"Alex, how could you?!"

"Come on Corbin, he doesn't have any super powers at all- he is just a wrestler who can take down the bad guys with wrestling moves. Kind of reminds me of a certain mongoose who uses a certain attack in a Furry Fury."

"I can see you point, with out his laser eyes, missile launcher muscles, Cosmic Cat would have a tough time." The little mongoose said to me. "I still think in a fair fight Cosmic Cat would win though." Corbin teased.

"Exactly what do you consider a fair fight?"

As we were walking back to the security desk where Lady Ursa was stationed, we happened across another familiar face.

"Lord Tiger?! What are you doing here?" I said greeting the Commander of the Knights of Wundagore.

"Hi Alex, Corbin."

"Oh I was checking up on my subordinate."

"Oh she is a bit bewildered about this assignment and anxious to get back into the field." I said to the tiger warrior.

"That will come in time." He said to me.

"I seem to recall a time when you were also tired of being in traction at one point and anxious to get back into the field commander."

"Yes. I was." He said simply. "So are you two enjoying yourselves?"

(Nice deflection.)

"Yes this is the best convention I have ever been to." The mongoose boy said beaming.

"This is the only convention you have ever been to!" I countered.

"That is why it is the best!"

"Say Corbin do you like arena football?" The tiger warrior said asking the little mongoose.

"Do I!"

"Who do you like- the World One Warriors? The he beast asked.

"They are ok, but the Extreme Rage from World Five rule!"

"Wasn't that the team the Warriors lost to in the championship game commander?"

"They did Alex. Don't remind me. Anyway both teams are playing each other again this weekend. Would you like to come along? I have seats in the sky deck." The tiger said innocently.

"Really?!" Corbin said lighting up.

"Ah we better ask Lady Ursa first to make sure that it is ok."

"Great where is she?"

We found my she beast at the security desk chastising two adolescent raccoons.

"You two are in big trouble!"

"I told you we shouldn't have robbed that guy right in front of her!" One said to the other.

"But I thought the knight uniform was a costume!"

"I assure you it is quite real. You two are going to apologize to the vendor you stole from!" Lady Ursa said staring down at the two teenage bandits.

"And then?" One cowered afraid to know the answer.

"You will be judged and punished by the master." She cackled at the two.

"What is the punishment for theft?"

"I believed being labeled as thieves." Lord Tiger said walking up on the two.

"That ain't so bad." One of the raccoons said.

"Then being stripped naked and paddled in front of your friends, family and the public until you are very sore, very embarrassed and extremely humiliated." Lady Ursa said as she set her service weapon to the paralysis setting and fired.

The two would be bandits were frozen in a seated position awaiting to be picked up and taken back to Castle Wundagore.

"How goes it?" The tiger warrior asked his subordinate.

"I am here commander." My warrior bear said.

"And it looks like your are getting back into the swing of things rather nicely too."

"Somewhat." My bear knight replied modestly.

"I think you have recovered just enough to resume your duties full time."

My she beast gasped as her superior started to say what she had long waited for.

"Starting later this week."

"Um, thank you commander." Lady Ursa said underwhelmed.

"There is also something else...."

"I have a mission for Alex and Corbin." The tiger warrior said.

"Really what is that?" Lady Ursa said raising and eyebrow.

"Lord Tiger wants to take Alex and me to a sporting event!!! Can we go please momma bear?!" The little mongoose asked.

"There is an arena football game near World Five this weekend and Lord Tiger wanted to know if we could accompany him." I asked my she beast.

"I don't know pet, the commander can get quite rowdy at sporting events." Lady Ursa replied.

"I will assure that I will be on my best behavior." The tiger warrior said innocently.

"I don't have a problem with it, as long as they are back at a respectable time." My lady bear replied.

"Great!" Corbin shouted.

So that weekend Corbin and I hung out with Lord Tiger at the Capital Stadium between World Four and World Five. As I recall the experience was quite educational; the three of us learned that the empire we had come to know was not comprised of just five cities, there was also a secret colony, a hidden sixth city that no one knew about.

To Be Continued....