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They were currently heading down the dimly lit elevator that rocked and creaked with every floor it made Ain head swim. He blinked his eyes and tried to refocus, he looked at Glare, she had a laser focus look her hand was tight around her weapon but not a death grip.

"Remember we don't know long we have till they catch wind of the video loop so get out of here as fast as we can." Glare spoke sternly.

They spent most of the morning planning their escape and looking at all possible escape routes and only one put them out the door before anyone could raise alarm. Then Ain was reminded of his meeting with Raine, the black and white sergal told him to avoid a orange and white wolf or all would be lost. Ain didn't know how to process the fact that he would be running into Dylan again

Like a flip of the switch the lights went out and the elevator stopped and the emergency stop light cascaded the room in a blood red. Ain mind began to race and so did his heart. He began to tap the smooth buttons trying to get the elevator to move. He began to breathe hard, how could any one be comfortable in these airless coffin.

"What's the matter hatchling afraid of the dark?" Derrick grabbed Ain's shoulder which made him flinch.

"N...no." Ain muttered lowly. He stop pressing the floor buttons a stepped back.

Derek placed his paws on the door and started to peel it back revealing one of the lower floors. As they squeezed through the door. Ain realized that the whole floor was dark and not even the emergency lights where on, he played around with the settings on his armor and found the settings for lights two beams of LED lights came shooting out of his chest to the floor below. People were running out of there rooms.

"Everyone stay calm and stay in your rooms." Glare shouted. "We are military personnel and we will find out what's happening. But in order for us to do that we need you to be out of our way." The few people that paused what they were doing and slowly retreated back into their respective rooms.

Ain tried to get into contact with Zach but with no luck. He pulled out his cell phone and there was a red x where there would normally be bars signifying service, he showed Glare. "This is an attack." Glare said as she slowly pulled her gun off of her magnetic holster. "Looks like I have to take the training wheels off of you but you have to listen to me. Do I make myself clear cadet."

Ain felt of fiber of his being explode in happiness. He stood up straighter and saluted at Glare. He couldn't fight the smile that slowly etched it's self on to his face. "Ma'am yes ma'am you have made yourself clear."

"Okay, now we have to find Ryan and the rest then figure out what's going on. Glare started moving forward. Ain gripped his gun tight following in close formation with her. His heart was pounding." "You okay hatching?" Derrick laughed again.

Glare stared at him. "Shut up Derrick or I'll make you." She growled in canine.

"Yeah shut up." Ain responded in canine felt his heart slow down.

Derrick and Glare both turned to him to him. With a shocked expression. "Where did you learn that boy?" Glare asked.

_Shit. "_Erm...I picked it up in Hozon."Ain quickly responded, he saw a door sign that had a picture of stairs on it. A light bulb went off in The dragon's head. "We should take the stairs."

Glare nodded her head "good plan. We will figure out how you can speak canine later."

He was glad they weren't pushing him to figure out how he learned canine because he wasn't ready to explain his sexuality. he pushed through the door semi distracted. As the door opened he almost fell, Glare pulled on his waist.

"What do you think your doing cadet." She shouted at him as his heart began to race. he looked out and seen a whole section of stairs had been missing. His heart lurched as he looked all the way down and seen that bits and pieces of the stairs were missing and that most of the stairway had been rusted.

"I can fly." Ain huffed, just to prove himself he took a couple of steps back and ran through the door across the gap. As felt himself start to fall he allowed his body to take over, he wings opened and he started to drift down.

He hummed on his way down, as he kept descending he realized how far down it was to the ground floor he had a chance to hum out one of his favorite songs as he lazily fell. He couldn't believe that Glare would forget something silly.

When arrived to the ground it was completely different from the other floors, it was cold and deadly silent. He noticed claw marks as he began to push the door open to the first floor, he took a hesitant step back. something was out there and he didn't want to face it alone. He took off his gold helmet and took a whiff of the air and the only thing he could smell was human.

He felt a chill run down his back as he waited for Glare and Derrick, he pulled out his sword and held out in front of him as he pressed his back against the wall waiting for anything to come out. the stillness in the air shook him to the core he knew that something would come through that door at any time.

He heard four foot steps bounding down the last pair of stairs. Ain remind still. as they arrived at the foot of the stair, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"I told you to follow me." Glare growled at him, then her expression softened when she noticed his facial expression. "What's wrong?"

He pointed to the long claw mark ingrainedya in the wall. He watched as Glare inspected the wall. She motioned to Derrick who was still in his street clothes. Ain watched through silted eyes.

"Hey kid we are about to move but I'm not getting a read on anything so stay beyond the door." Derrick called to after opening the door."

Ain slowly approached the door placing helmet back on. As he walked through the door he noticed that the air was still nothing moved and it was dead quiet. Glare signaled for them to move forward. The farther they moved into the room the harder Ain started to breathe he just wanted to jet out the hotel but he forced himself to stay settled.

He glanced around the lobby looking for the nearest exit. And his eyes locked on to a dead body. He took a step back and slipped he felt chills going down his back, he tried to speak but only whimpering came out. He was panting, on his back slowly scooting back. Nothing was popping up on his radar that was to the right on his visor. So he looked around wildly.

"Ain get up and get your ass over here." Glare called to him turning her back on the door towards the exit. "We have to get out of here now. "

Ain ignored her and heard a faint _whirr. _He cocked his head to the side. Then the room exploded into excitement. Three lizards popped over the service desk. They were green with jet black bulky armor that covered everything except their faces they were raptor like in appearance.

Ain was confused why they didn't show up on the radar but he would have to worry about that later. They approached them with their weapons drawn, their guns were as long as their forearms. Ain looked at the exit that was slightly to the left of the lizards. they would have to kill them. Ain fumbled his gun as pulled it out, he felt sweat drip down his brow making it hard to see. He began to back away.His chest began to hurt as he kept breathing hard. He didn't want to die here.

Ain watched as Glare quickly fired off shots with her rifle making them dodge out of the way. Ain wanted to do something but he wasn't sure what to do hu e just stood their with his gun pointed out but not sure of what to do. if he made the wrong move he would get scolded by Glare but doing nothing he would get scolded by Glare.

He watched on as Derrick jumped on one heading back towards the service desk. Ain was ready to see blood but he saw something inky and black started to leak out. He just stared at it the ink pooling out. He was tempted to move closer but his legs wouldn't allow him to so he just stood there.

"get behind the service counter if you're not going to do anything." Glare shouted as she ducked behind lounge chair. Ain snapped out his thoughts and quickly jumped over the counter and hid.

he heard a metallic roar, that's when it clicked. He peeked his head from around the corner and seen that a part of its face had been melted off from Glare's weapon and showed exposed metal and wiring. Robots? This was wrong it was still firing at her.

Even with missing parts it was still fighting not showing any signs of giving up. He brought up his pistol, and took aim at it. His heart beat was going crazy, he took a couple of shaky breaths and squeezed the trigger. A red orb shard came shooting out and nailed the lizard between the eyes making them fall over. "Don't kill the last one I need them." Ain called as he pulled his sword off his back. He jumped over the desk.

Derrick pinned the last one down. "What are planning on doing kid?" Derrick asked as he backed away from the bot.

Ain bent down next to it. He inspected it, it had amazing detail it could fool anyone into thinking it was the real deal. "Can you talk?" Ain asked softly, a part of him wanted it to talk.

"Yes." A metallic voice responded that made take a step away. "Ain I have important message from my master. He wants you to m know no matter what you do that you'll never beat him.

Ain sank his sword through the lizard's head powering it down. It was without a doubt Dylan who was "Their master" he was always into role playing. He sheathed his sword. "I know _who _is attacking." Ain raised up to one knee. "It's Hozen, seems like they're trying to get revenge." He messed around with the settings on his wrist finding a x-ray mode he scanned the body finding these strangely shaped crystals located in it back. it sparked his curiosity

"Why would they do that? Derrick asked squatting next to Ain.

"I have two theories," Ain flipped the body over, which was surprisingly light compared to the metals it looked like it was made of. took a switch blade to access it's back panel. "Either they found a way to defeat the human in war which everyone knows would be literally impossible. Or they are taking something back."

"Yeah they are definitely here for something or they would have declared war." Glare interjected.

Ain pulled out its power source it was small but washed the room in a deep blue. Ain stared in awe he had never seen anything so powerful in his life. It was almost humming to him, it seemed to react to him. No that couldn't be the case. He peeled off his glove and to his surprise his gold scales had started to turn blue. His knees went weak as he quickly placed his glove back on. "What have I done?" He muttered to himself.

"Yeah I should hold on to this." Ain cleared his throat placed it in his tail bag.

They walked out into what looked like a scene out of a disaster movie. The sky was grey almost black and it looked as if it wasn't coming from the clouds. fires had been started some buildings had been engulfed in flames. But other than the clacking of flames nothing else was moving car where frozen in place. They were humans every where and just as many lizard people chasing them. Ain sank to his knees. They were planning to wipe this city out.

"Ain looked across the street and didn't see anything his heart started racing. Where was the rest of their group? Then three white blips came on to his radar on the right of his visor. He opened his wings and the vents opened on the bottom part of the wing covers opened. Ain was gentled hovered into the air.

"Can I go scouting ahead?" Ain asked as he pulled his assault energy rifle off his back. He couldn't just sit around he needed to do something. the small white rectangular weapon expanded into a long rifle that fit into the groove of his gloves perfectly, it hummed to life as soon as he put his hand on the grip.

"Yes, but do not engage if it's not them." Glare sighed as she tried to fix her communication device. Ain took off flying his weapon was pointed at the ground he wasn't going to get caught off guard. He watched as the dots get closer. He kept tight with the building he didn't want to be caught in the open. He looked down and his heart sank it wasn't them it was Sally and she was being attacked by four lizards. Ain brought his rifle up as placed his finger on the trigger he felt it power up. He aimed and fired hitting the one furthest from him. He slowly landed on the sidewalk. Sally stared at him as the other lizards hid behind a car. She was still in her civilian clothes. "So you haven't left yet?" She asked still visibly upset.

He handed her his pistol. "I see you're in trouble." He changed his setting to X-ray he noticed that they were hiding towards the front of the car. "Why don't you have any gear on?" Ain asked.

"We are out of commission at the moment. Sally squinted her eyes as she continued. "We rely on a stone that is basically like a open source code. We can bend to do whatever we want and whoever is attacking us knows that."

Before Ain got a chance to respond he realized it was too silent. He looked behind and saw that a lizard tried to sneak up on him with a large hunting knife. He opened his wings all the way letting the blow get absorbed by the heavily armor that covered his wings. Ain winced has the blow bounced off his wings. He spun around facing his attacker, they came at him fast , faster then any being could. Ain threw up his palms and grabbed the lizards paws which felt like actual scales, he got pressed against the car. The knife was scary looking it was jagged and black. Chills ran down his back as he got an up close a personal look at it has he came inches away from his muzzle. He couldn't think what do as he felt the knife get closer to his face.

He tried to push them away but he felt the powerful motor pushing back. His heart rate quickened as he watched the knife being placed on his helmet. He realized he wasn't going to be able to out strength his attacker. He bent his knees and took off to into the air, his wings strained at the extra weight once he got a high enough into the air released the lizard and watched them fall to the ground. Ain sighed as he heard the crunch of it hitting the ground.

He bent over panting after landed back next to Sally who had finished her own fight with the last lizard. Fighting was hard and using his wings was tiring he was looking forward to sleeping.

"You should come with me we are going to need all the help we can get." She tried to cover her mouth with her hands but the words slipped out. She pinched her the bridge of her nose and sighed.

Ain bit back laughter that was threatening to come out of him. He gave a look at how she was standing figuring it would be inappropriate if he laughed. He cleared his throat. "Why would you say that?" A hint a laughter came as he talked.

She sighed. "Your party trick has caused what ever it was made with to bond with my cells now it hard for me to lie."

Now it was Ain turn to just stare in silence. Gave her a once over she looked fine besides her body being covered in dirt and seeming a bit tired.

"But anyway, we do need your help I'm guessing everything you guys use is still working."

Ain sucked his teeth. Dealing with Dylan was difficult on one hand he was dealing with his ex on the other hand he was dealing with a criminal. "Ain?" Sally called to him he was slightly confused. Then he realized that she had been talking to him.

"Sorry didn't hear you." Ain admitted.

"I said we have a hangout and Zach and Ryan are there."

Ain broke into a smile. "Take me to them I have an idea." He might actually have a use for the crystals that where in his bag.