Star Fox: ELPH - Chapter 10

Story by Shin Kerron on SoFurry

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#10 of Star Fox: ELPH

ELPH chapter 10


Wolf folded her arms, feeling entirely uncomfortable under the combined gaze of the two vulpines and their odd hardlight AI companion. She wasn't used to feeling like prey, which Krystal's gaze in particular caused, and she hated it. "Yeah so I've got tits. Big whoop." She growled when she caught Fox staring. They had stripped her down to ensure she didn't have anything she was hiding from them. Not that she blamed them, she would do the same. Hell, her own curves had distracted her before she realized she was staring at her own reflection. Damnit, judging by the grin on McCloud's smug handsome face- Fucking hormones and drugs and shit- he knew exactly what she was thinking. The little tingle in the back of her head that she knew to associate with telepathy hadn't gone away since she had taken the helmet off. Not that it would do her much good to put it back on with the damage the scuffle with the split AI had caused to it.

"So, Wolf..." Fox started, forcing his eyes back to her face. Damn, even when she scowled she looked hot. Kinda cute too. Krystal playfully swatted his rear with her tail at those thoughts, though he could tell she agreed. "What are you doing here?"

"A job." The nude wolfess huffed. "Can I have my clothes back now pup?"

"You can have them back when you address my mate and myself properly." Krystal teased with a grin as she currently held her jumpsuit captive in one hand, giving it a little wave that earned a deeper scowl and a blush from their captive. "You're the one who decided to act on your lust without including me or showing either of us the proper respect. History of rivalry between you two or no, you want our physical affection you ask nicely next time my dangerfloof.~"

"Tch, it was just a result of whatever the hell drugs this place put in me when they made me like this." Wolf grunted as she hid the slight wag of her tail at the pet name. "...Bullshit." Fox spoke up, putting a hand to his chin. "You're a lot of things Wolf, but you've a shit poker face like this. Hell even before," Fox paused and lifted up one arm, running a finger over the faded purple that was overtaking the orange-brown that his fur coat had been before. "All of this, I could read your intents in a dogfight. Now though?"

Fox locked eyes with Wolf. "I won't lie and say you're like an open book. Whatever's happening to my brain with this whole Cerinian genetic modification stuff, I'm not that good with it yet. But I know one thing very clearly." Fox stepped forward, and while he had to look upwards to match her height, something about the look in his eyes and the slow grin spreading across his face made Wolf feel very small. "You enjoyed it."

"Don't kid yourself pup," Wolf shot back quickly, huffing and poking the fluff on his chest with a finger. Fuck shouldn't have done that, why the hell did he have to remain shirtless? Fox had put on pants, more to get his own newly overdriven urges under control, but from the waste up he was still fully undressed. And a growing part of her wanted to force him to a bed and commit every fuzzy inch of his lean muscle to memory. "I may have enjoyed having you under my control but that doesn't mean-"

Fox reached up and grabbed the underside of her muzzle, pulling her to his face and shoving his tongue down her throat. Her eyes widened and her clawed hands reached to shove him off and punch him, but the thought quickly went by the wayside. She wanted to shove him down and make him beg for her. She wanted him to collar her and make her his pet. When Fox withdrew, a thin trail of their mixed saliva breaking off and wetting her bottom lip, he and the blue top-bitch had matching smug as hell expressions. "That," Fox said while Krystal moved behind Wolf and ran a single nail slowly up her spine, making her involuntarily shudder in delight. "Is what I meant."

Wolf clenched a fist and let out a sound halfway between a growl and a whimper. Fucking hell, he was right. "...What of it? Not like women were lining up before this place's mad science took away my dick." Krystal let out a soft giggle next to her ear, making it twitch as she felt the vixen's breath. A hand had reached below her buttocks and made her yipe in surprise as it rubbed against her entrance, already wet judging by the sticky fingers Krystal pulled up to her eyesight. "Sounds like our new pet dangerfloof is just as pent up as us love." The needy soaked digits were shoved in Wolf's maw, making her grunt in irritation and yet... damn was that what she tasted like?

"She can stay pent up for a bit," Fox scratched under her chin for a moment. "I want her to show some trust before we give her ours in return." Wolf's brow lowered to glare at him, but he returned it right back. "Fact of the matter is, we're still equally prisoners here on this station. Much as I want to give her exactly what she's wanting, survival comes before establishing what exactly is going on between us and her."

"Sorry pet. You are, I believe the expression is 'blue balled', until you learn to play nice." Krystal gave Wolf's right buttcheck a light slap. "That means from me too." Wolf turned her head to protest, but Krystal's voice in her head as the vixen sashayed over to wrap her arm around Fox's shoulders stopped her. "I'm better at reading thoughts than he is so far, and if you're a good girl, I might just get you a leash at some point." Wolf blushed and closed her mouth. She was getting buttons she didn't even know she had pushed doubletime by this pair.

"This is most unusual." Cai had finally chimed in. "Genetically she is indeed a near match for records of one 'Mercenary Commander O'Donnell, but," The AI paused as they parsed some information. "The split AI has left such paranoid redundancies in their own record keeping. This may take some time to go through. Not only is the data firewalled and encrypted, the language used for their files is, for lack of a better explanation, full of 'jargon'. Terms and coding that means something other than it does traditionally. The structure that the rest of the station's coding uses but the results are illogical. It almost-"

Cai cut themselves off there, the expression on their hardlight form difficult to read as it flickered between a few familiar presets that it had developed before returning to a neutral one. "Nevermind that. Not enough data to reach a conclusion. For now, I should update you on what I have managed to learn upon being granted administrative access for this area."

Cai brought up a map of the station again, highlighting the route that they had planned beforehand. "This is the path I originally charted for you to take. But as you can see," a new segment highlighted, blinking softly as the hologram zoomed in on it. "We find ourselves far off course, and in an area that is now presents far more physical dangers to account for. The good news is however, this does mean we should be able to reach an admin zone that will allow us to send and receive messages, we may be able to contact your team on the outside provided they are still flying in nearby space."

"Wait, more physical dangers? What do you mean? More of those robots?"

"Yes but also no."

The segment finally stopped zooming in, as the highlight faded. "This area is where you currently are, the genetic research and testing lab. It used to be larger but from what I can tell, this area was the last to be worked on before the station was left with a skeleton crew and abandoned. Much of the labs were converted into a new enclosure," The hologram separated into a number of rooms, the area the dots representing their current location proving to be far smaller in comparison to the series of winding hallways and large domed rooms separated off. "Unfortunately, this means containment for the lifeforms in their enclosures was one of the 'cut corners' as I mentioned before. As a result, not only will the fastest route to get to our original target require you going through the enclosure area itself, but even the areas meant to be for the crew alone are no longer safe."

"I'm guessing by your wording that going a longer way around isn't an option?" Fox asked. Cai's hologram frowned. "It's possible, but far from ideal. You see, due to how the former administrative AI operated this area, the Core Caretaker AI received regular updates from the 'online' half. Likely falsified as much as any of the other reports sent to them by structures in desperate need of maintenance. I can attempt to duplicate these to buy us time, but eventually the Core AI will realize the reports are different, and that a vital part of the ELPH's regular operation is no longer operating under the control of what they believed to be a loyal sub-AI. We are effectively on an unknown time limit due to the necessities of our situation. The fastest route is our best chance at success, and the best chance of your survival. If the Core AI learns of what has happened and recaptures you... your free will will be seen as unnecessary, and 'removed'. And I shall be deleted as an error for assisting you thus far."

"So tackling our way through rough and unfriendly aliens it is. Fun." Fox commented. "What lifeforms were even kept here?" Wolf asked, earning a surprised glance from Fox and Krystal. She huffed at them and folded her arms over her chest again. "You said I had to play nice. This is as nice as you're gonna get for now."

"That is where the danger comes in. The species kept in this enclosure are mostly large of structure, and have tough scaled hides. Many of them have sharp fangs or claws, boney plates of natural armor, or are of grand enough size that simply being stepped on would be lethal." Cai brought up a series of images, failing to see how Krystal's eyes widened. "The majority of them are from a planet called 'Sauria'. The same planet who's language you were registered as speaking when you first arrived Miss Krystal."

"Sauria. But," Krystal felt Fox put a hand on her shoulder in concern at her reaction. "But I was there not that long ago!"

"Some of these specimen were taken several cycles ago Miss Krystal." Cai calmly replied, but then went quiet for a moment. "Surprising. It seems that there was indeed a specimen that was taken less than a cycle ago. However the data on it's habitat location is missing. Strange. There's artifacts of that information however, meaning it was here at some point, but has been deleted. I shall attempt to learn whom deleted this information. It could prove relevant to our current efforts if there is someone else aboard the ELPH who is working against the core AI's default processes."

"More secrets, great." Fox sighed, looking down at his own fur. Krystal could feel he was trying to surpress something, focusing on trying to be there for her even if he didn't understand why she reacted to Saurians being aboard this station. She was about to reach out to his mind, to explain everything and try to help him sort his own thoughts as well. Wolf however, chose to take the quiet moment to speak up again. "Can I put on some clothes already?!"

"Perhaps it best that Fox watch over our new friend for a moment while I perform some simple medical tests."

"I am not your friend damned machine."

"I took the term Friend as a more acceptable alternative to Pet or sexual relief receptacle."

"...Did you just call me a-"

"I am programmed to reflect the mentality of the species specimen that I was designed to oversee. As such I am learning 'snark' as it is called. Miss Krystal, if you would please, I need to perform medical evaluations on both you and Mr McCloud. Normally I would perform these simultaneously, but as you have yet to decide what you wish to do with our friend, it best that someone not attached to electrical appliances keep watch on her. Fox, while you have undergone some unexpected treatment, confirming Krystal and any potential offspring within her takes precedence at the moment."

Krystal started to protest, but Fox took her hand and gave it a soft squeeze. "That'll be fine Cai. Take good care of her for me okay? I'm trusting you with her safety." Krystal looked to him, her mind quickly diving into his own, only to find his thoughts an entangled mess, each thought moving quickly and roughly clashing with more primal urges that seemed to be pushing against his will to hold back. ("It'll be okay Krystal.") He finally forced himself to think clearly, feeling her mental presence. ("I just... I think I need a moment to try and figure some things out. And right now, my uhh... desires, are making it hard to concentrate on that.")

Realization hit her as a glimpse of her own nude form from his perspective slipped by, chased by another primal need to breed with her. She flushed, but grinned realization of just how badly her mate still wanted her even when they had made love not so long ago. "Alright my love... just reach out to me though if you need."

The concept of needing to be alone with one's own thoughts was foreign to a Cerinian, but Krystal could understand how the needs of sex could make it difficult to think clearly. She resolved herself that even if they were to be physically in separate rooms she would never truly be far from her mate with their mental bond. His mind was easier than ever for her to step into, even in it's current chaotic state she was met with no resistance to her presence there, drawn in even as if she were a precious treasure the more instinctual side of her todd wished to horde for itself. She quite liked that idea.

Cai lead Krystal to one of the more clean lab rooms, while Fox took up a position by the only door into the secret lab he had been poked and experimented on. He folded his arms under the guise of standing guard, but his gaze was to the floor.

"Hmph, and here I thought she had you wrapped around her fingers," Wolf chided as she finally was allowed to grab her attire. She scowled to hide the blush on her face as she felt Fox's eyes on her as she pulled on the tightly fitting security suit she wore up over her muscled thighs and quickly shrugged it on over her shoulders. The magnetic zipper automatically began to seal together as her hands slid into the gloved ends of the sleeves, holes having been stabbed through the tips by her claws. That part she was thankful for, as it allowed her to hide the small bite of her lower lip as the suit's seals made her breasts push together in a way that aroused her from the foreign physical stimulus. Even if Fox could tell with the newfound bullshit psychic powers he got she still didn't want to show that sort of face to him yet.

"Don't make me pin you again." Fox huffed. Truthfully this all was overwhelming him... He stared at his darkening fur and his expression soured. Part of his fears had happened. He was being made less himself, and more what this damn place wanted of him. Hell he could still feel his manhood struggling to push out of his sheath with how he had belted his pants on, leaving him greatly uncomfortable. He was becoming a stranger in his own fur, and feared his own mind would soon join that as he fought back a raw and primal feeling within him telling him to keep fucking Krystal and damn the consequences of what happened or who saw.

Not just Krystal, was part of the problem as well, he reminded himself as his own words reminded him. He had had sex with Wolf. The... former man, that had been his rival and had a target on his back as long as he had known him, perhaps longer from reputation alone by the time they had first exchanged laserfire. What's more his urges were telling him to do it again. To bloat her womb with his seed and ensure she was pupped by him, and keep doing it until his scent was unmistakably imprinted onto her own. And he had fucked her right in front of Krystal, pulled her into a threesome even! The woman he'd very quickly come to decide was an irreplaceable fixture in his future from here on out, not to mention potentially the mother of his child.

Gods, a child. That was a whole additional level of tangled thoughts to sort out. He wouldn't regret it, and he'd known for some time he wanted to eventually become a father. But the relationship, the fact that he had gone full into trying to knock her up, it was all just so sudden... he didn't even know how long he'd been aboard the ELPH at this point with how many times he'd been knocked unconscious. Could he even handle raising a kid?Several kids as this place seemed intent on making sure he gave her. A mercenary captain of a small team was hardly a stable job for a dad, and he hadn't made any plans to give up flying anytime soon. Though that decision could be ripped away from him too if he was being made into something like his nightmare-

"McCloud!" Wolf's bark brought him out of his thoughts. "I don't know what kind of freaky mad science happened to you, or if you're just busy thinking about chasing that blue tail, but snap out of it." She huffed, thumping an open hand on the wall next to his head. "I'm ashamed to have considered you a rival if you're just going to sit in this place stuck in your own head. You're a captain damnit, so get it together or none of us are getting out of here. Stop hesitating and act."

Fox blinked, staring into Wolf's eyes as she glared back at him, her muzzle inches from his own. She had acknowledged him as a captain. Hell, in her own way had even admitted to be relying on him to act like one in order to get herself out of all of this. "Stop hesistating and act huh?" He repeated to himself, closing his eyes. Krystal's presence in the back of his mind seemed to wrap around him as if she were hugging him, encouraging the newly sparked confidence that was being renewed in him.

Wolf was startled as Fox suddenly clapped his hands on her shoulders. "You're right. Thank you for that... They can pump whatever the hell they want into me, but I'm still me." He grinned, the fire in his emerald eyes returned. "...I don't have any idea what the hell you're-" Wolf was silenced as Fox tugged her to him, mashing his lips onto hers and swirling his tongue around her mouth. When he pulled back she blinked, slightly dazed by the action. "What the heck are you doing McCloud?"

"I'm no longer hesitating." He grinned, cupping a hand under her chin. "Krystal just sent over a few... suggestions. Seems she and I agree." His other hand roamed down to her waist, tugging her to him so that she could feel the growing bulge in his pants grind against her. "Be a good pet and I'll reward you."

Wolf wanted to snarl and claw across his face for how arrogant he sounded... but damnit being called their pet, being grinded against like this, hell knowing that both pair of vulpines wanted to fuck her brains out and make her theirs. She was loving it. Something about it all awoke something in her, and it was NOT about to be silenced by her pride.

"...Then prove you'll be a good owner, or this 'pet' might bite." She growled, trying to maintain her facade of being tough and in control, but her tone coming out softer and more submissive still. Fox grinned and his hand under her chin went to the neck of her suit. "Good girl," He added as with one finger he began to part the magnetic seals again, his hand at her waist kneading her firm ass through the suit as he reclaimed dominance over her lips.

Krystal meanwhile in the other room, allowed her mind to drift and connect to Fox's. She knew exactly what the two of them were up to, and true to Fox's word, she was encouraging it. While Cai busied itself performing scans and having her give small blood samples for analysis, she was busy sitting shotgun to Fox's perspective. The further alterations that had been done had somehow made him even more akin to her own people, and the feedback through their link was the stuff she had only heard from her mother as a young kit giving her 'the talk'.

Through this connection, Krystal could see as if she was in Fox's own body, feeling the physical sensations as he ran his hands through Wolf's rough fur, feel the weight of her breasts as he pulled them free of the suit. "She's gorgeous isn't she?" she sent to Fox, earning a growl of agreement from the vulpine in reality as his mouth latched onto one of the freed nipples. Krystal could feel the hardening bud of flesh and the taste the growing musk and sexual pheromones from the woman on her own tongue. Wolf's voice was low and had a roughness to it, that only made every little gasp and whimper a sound musical to their ears. Fox's fingertips began to pump at her entrance still covered the waist down by her tightly fitting suit, eager to make her song continue.

Krystal could feel Fox's growing shaft press against his pants, trying so hard to break free of the fabric prison. Her hand unconsciously went to her own hips, stopping herself as she remembered these sensations were not her own. Fox however made quick work of the button holding the garment up, his cock springing to attention now that his waistband could no longer hold it back. Krystal audibly gasped. "So that's what it's like, to feel desire as a man." She hadn't meant to send the thought, but the sensation of her Mate's desire in physical form, the NEED and throbbing, as if it were her own, was so foreign that her legs twitched and rubbed against one another, her body trying to make sense of the feelings and seek relief.

Fox pushed Wolf against a wall, tongues battling for dominance while her eyes started to roll back as he finally yanked her suit down far enough to free one leg. That leg was soon enough tugged up and into the air as she yelped and braced an arm against the wall in shock. "What the heck are- oh!" Krystal bit her lip, feeling Wolf's pussy as her, his, cock, grinded against it. She was wet, needy, and the smell was driving Fox, and by extension Krystal, mad with lust and need. Fox's dick was growing coated with Wolf's juices, and his tip would occasionally catch at her vaginal walls, only to fail to penetrate and graze past its mark. "McCloud, you stick that in or I'll knock you over and stick it in myse-AHHHH!" Wolf's ire was cut off as Fox shoved into her down to the top of his forming knot with a cocksure grin before forcibly locking Wolf in another passionate snog.

"Miss Krystal, my sensors are telling me you are very worked up." Cai's voice drew Krystal's attention away, but it proved difficult to concentrate as each thrust of her Mate's hips into their new pet nearly had her humping the air herself. "I- Sorry I'm just," Krystal struggled to speak coheriently. "I understand, you are in need of 'relief'. As it so happens I would like to perform an, internal, examination, with your permission." Cai's hardlight form shifted before her, taking on more masculine features. Their shoulders broadened, their legs grew more taunt with muscle and their chest more firm. In many ways they came to resemble Fox, albeit as blue as herself and semi-transparent.

"W-Well I," Krystal bit her lip to hold out a groan as she felt the sensation of Wolf's cunt clamping down around Fox's cock as his tip hit a spot inside of her. Goddesses she practically could feel Fox's balls churning with the urge to pump a kit inside of her, and honestly the idea, as unlikely as it sounded, was one that had Krystal urging Fox to pound Wolf's tight pussy harder.

"Do it," Fox's thoughts urged her. "I can feel your need too," he assured her. With that Krystal let out a soft moan and nodded, laying back on the exam bed she had been sitting on. Her own clothing was quickly pulled away gently by Cai's hardlight form, the mechanical tendril from the medical equipment the AI was commanding moved through their holographic body before settling at crotch level, a perfect recreation of her mate's own tool forming around it. Krystal parted her legs for Cai, the fur around her thighs damp and matted already as her vaginal lips twitched and flexed.

Cai moved slowly, gently moving to lay atop Krystal. She rapped her arms around them, sighing as she closed her eyes, surrendering herself to the pleasures both her mate and their caretaker would subject her with. Cai penetrated her with the same slow, caring movements, thrusting just a little before pulling away, each pump going slightly deeper so not to discomfort her. Krystal moaned and her legs lifted up to clench around Cai's middle, urging him deeper into her hot, wet, and pulsing tunnel. It felt so familiar, yet different at the same time as her walls parted for the cool to the touch intrusion. It wasn't cold, but somehow the slight chill to it felt soothing paired with the hot and heated pounding Fox was giving Wolf that she felt simultaneously. Cai's thrusts were smooth, methodical, yet hit all the right spots. She was being treated gently while also treating Wolf roughly, and already she felt that delightful tightening coiled feeling in her stomach. She would climax soon, as would Fox as she shared everything with him as he was with her. "G-Get that knot in there..." She softly whispered, both to Fox and to Cai as she felt her cervix tickled by the ghosts of touches from the metal phallus inside of her.

Cai seemed to have an idea in mind, as when Fox's knot popped into Wolf's cunt and the pair's howls at cumming could be heard through the walls, so too did Krystal's join them when the psuedo-cock's knot not only entered her, but began to buzz and vibrate. Cai was making up for the lack of Fox's warm cum and beating heart with the rapid pulsating shake of their 'tool' inside of Krystal.

She didn't know when she had wrapped her body fully around Cai, or how long she had been leaking her own juices down her ass crack to wet her tail and the table beneath herself. She could feel Fox's cock already struggling to go down enough to pull out of Wolf's vaginal deathgrip, his mind already on sharing his next load with Krystal herself. Cai had pulled the mechanical tendril out, and was simply laying in her grip, gently rubbing her back. Krystal came to the conclusion that while no cock would ever beat Fox's, Cai certainly had been taking pointers from him.

"Welcome back Miss Krystal," Cai spoke in a whispered tone as she relaxed her legs enough that he could safely disengage. While Cai could simply blink their hardlight form off and back on in another space, Krystal might come to harm at the sudden lack of physical object for her body to hold onto as her whole body road out the spasms of her climax.

"I've wonderful news for you. I've confirmed your first kit is healthy and will soon be ready for incubated birth." Krystal blinked as her mind was currently already rediscovering which way was up, not at all prepared for that series of bombshells dropped on her. While she was certain she was likely pregnant, hearing Cai confirm it had thrown her for a bit of a loop, as she hadn't even sensed the start of their child's thought patterns starting to form yet. Granted her mind had been preoccupied on rescuing Fox at the time.

"What was that about, incubated birth?" Krystal asked, subconsciously putting a hand to her stomach, beginning to search mentally for the life inside of her. "I thought I had explained back during your first internal examination. I deployed an incubation platform inside of your womb. This has formed a synthetic shell around the embryo and grown a copy of your placenta to continue supporting your offspring, but allow them to be 'born' while still within the shell. That way you do not have to progress through the latter trimesters of carrying a child, and you and Fox may begin producing the next offspring earlier." Cai explained to her, bringing up diagrams of the shell in question. "...So I'm going to lay an egg?" She frowned, suddenly feeling very protective of her kit. "It is not an entirely accurate analogy, but close enough. Forgive me Miss Krystal, I had thought you were informed of this already. Normally I would beg permission before this, but considering the desperate measures we find ourselves in, for the safety of yourself and the unborn Cerinian, I must insist."

Cai's hologram moved and kneeled before her, a gesture that surprised Krystal. "I assure you, no harm shall come to your child, and they shall be given the ideal conditions to develop. I intend to connect a communicator to their shell as well, so your words may still be heard by them as they grow." Krystal frowned and looked down in thought, rubbing her stomach. So her child wouldn't be carried to full term inside of her... she wouldn't lose the child, but part of her mourned the idea of not physically carrying the little life inside of her as her mother had her. "I... I understand. It's just. It's just a lot to handle."

"I understand," Krystal was surprised by Cai laying a hand on her own. "Please, speak with Fox, both of you are going through so much, and for the sake of survival I am forced to ask much more of you still. I know it is not easy, but please, speak freely with one another, and myself. Your mental health is as important as your physical health." The AI paused for a moment. "Not just because I am programmed to. I think perhaps your love for one another has made me come to see you both as important to me beyond my program."

Krystal stared at the hardlight hand on hers. "This is heavy stuff," Fox thought to her. He wanted to go to her, hold her in his arms and never let go, but while waiting for his knot to go down he remained with Wolf, the sassy rival meanwhile begrudgingly being the recipient of his cuddling and attempting not to enjoy the physical affection after being bedded. "I never thought, well, any of this,"_Krystal thought back to him, her tail wrapping around her legs. _"Me neither Krys." A warm feeling at the loving abbreviation of her name. "...I've decided, Fox."

Krystal took her hand off her stomach and laid it atop of Cai's, giving them a nod and a smile through watery eyes. "If our child must be born this way... then let us give our child as many brothers and sisters as we can, so they are not alone."

"We're gonna have to think of a lot of names then," he teased, earning a mental giggle from her. "Speaking of, what about our first? Boy? Girl? Both? Neither? I dunno." Krystal forced herself not to laugh aloud at how adorably doting Fox was becoming when he was brought out of his awkward guard and doubt.

"I believe," She smiled and pulled her mental awareness to her lower body, showing him the whisp of a newborn thought she had found there. "He's going to be a little boy. A little boy... Marcus."

"_He'll be as brilliant as his mother."

"And as strong as his father."

"Let's just hope not as grumpy as his aunt,"_ they shared a chuckle at Wolf's softly wagging tail.