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Byron was at the bar, the Electric Cowboy to be exact. Not a bad bar to be at, especially since Sebastian was a dry county. He downed the shot of vodka in his paw, feeling the burn sear through the tissue of his throat. He wasn't here to get smashed, not tonight, but one of his friends wanted him to be a wingman; that's how he thought the night was supposed to play out at least.

Byron looked over at his friend, a Border collie with a long, and cynical list of ex's. The Border collie wasn't a dick, or a player, but he chose women worse than Nicholas Cage chose movie roles.

The Collie was talking to some cat, maybe a Maine Coon. She was a pretty little thing in Byron's opinion anyway.

Byron himself was a snow leopard he was larger and somewhat muscled. He stood tall, like all the other males in his family, about one hundred eighty five centimeters last time he was measured.

Byron's attention snapped back to reality as he saw his friend give a hand motion that said, 'I'm fine you can do whatever.' Byron took the chance then to piss, having been casually drinking beer most of the night.

Byron sighed from the feeling of relief you only get when taking a really long piss. An otter came over to the other urinal while he was urinating, he thought that odd, since he hadn't seen an otter at the bar all night. He shrugged off the thought quickly though, it wasn't his business what the otter did and didn't do. He was washing his paws in the sink when the otter finished and came over near the sinks. He didn't stop at the sinks, but continued and brushed a paw down Byron's back.

Byron turned then, in disgust at the strange otter, for not washing his hands, and for touching him in a personal way.

"The hell you doing!? I'm not a queer."

The otter responded oddly "Well neither am I."

"Then what the hell are you doing?"

"My job."

"You're wha-"

It was then that Byron felt a needle enter his neck, just above the top of his clavicle. The strange otter withdrew the needle and watched Byron. For Byron the room started to spin, distances changed, and proportions went out of line. He slumped over to the floor but the otter caught him, and he vaguely recalled hearing the otter speak before blacking out.

"Just take it easy; we don't want to hurt you I promise."

A few hours later

Percy stiffed a coughing fit as he took his first hit from the joint in his paw. It was a nice half a gram of Gran Daddy Perp, one of his favorite strains of the plant. He was lying on his favorite rug, it was one of his great grandmothers, and it was so soft. Clicking a button on his I-Pod made the ear buds in his ears came on, starting to play Astronomy Domine as The Piper at the Gates of Dawn started.

Percy laid the joint down on the green and tan ashtray beside him, it used to be the lid to a ceramic jar before someone had knocked the jar of a table and it shattered into little tiny pieces.

The room became more lucid as time went on, as did everything in it, including Percy. Percy was a snow leopard, very tall but very thin. The last time he had been measured he was one hundred eighty five centimeters tall and weighed fifty five kilograms. While he wasn't anorexic he rarely ate more than once a day, the exception being if he got the munchies.

He had the munchies, so he slowly got up from the rug, and went into the kitchen. The tiles in the kitchen were cold against his footpaws, they being naked like the rest of him. He turned on his little toaster oven to two hundred and thirty degrees Fahrenheit before going to get the ingredients to make his favorite snack. He went to the freezer and got two chocolate chip ego waffles. He put them in the toaster oven as he went to a cabinet to grab some peanut butter and some ruffles. He had just put the peanut butter and ruffles on the counter and was turning around to check on the waffles when he saw an otter there standing in the entry way to his little kitchen. The otter was dressed in some blue jeans, and some kind of t-shirt with a vague design that was popular these days.

Percy's first thought was that Jeff had laced his weed with some hallucinogenic. That thought quickly faded though when the otter came forward and gently pushed a needle into Percy's left arm.

Percy started to stumble and fall; he was caught though by the careful hands of his otter attacker.

"Those are some good muscle relaxers." He said as he blacked out in the otters arms.

A few hours later

Byron awoke in a thick mental haze. He felt like he had a hangover, and all of his muscles felt disused. Trying to get up he realized he was restrained somehow. He looked at his arms to see them in what looked like arm braces locked into place at the sides of the bed. He looked around the room, afraid that he was in a hospital, or something, he quickly realized he wasn't though. The room looked to be a mix, of an office and classroom, or at least that was the feel that Byron got from the room. He strained his neck to look around the room, seeing it was painted standard beige with the lowered celling. There was a white curtain separating him from the rest of the room, so he couldn't be entirely sure how big the room was, but he assumed it wasn't very large.

Knowing that something was definitely wrong with his situation he did what anyone would do.

"Hello, is anyone here? Hello, I need some help? IS ANYONE HERE!?"

Suddenly a series of noises came from behind the white curtain in the room, sounding as if someone was waking from a very long and deep slumber.

"Hello, what's going on?" The fur that had just awoken asked. His voice was instantly recognized by Byron, though he was shocked by it.

"Percy, is that you?"

"What, Byron, yeah it's me, what's going on?"

"I don't know, I just woke up. Fuck what happened? The last thing I remember was being at the bar with Rev, then nothing."

"The last thing I remember was getting baked in my apartment. Damn it! What the fuck happened?"

It was then that Byron heard the door at the end of the room unlock then open. He turned to see a wolf and a dragon enter. The wolf was Gray with a darker stripe going down his back, fading as it radiated out; and was dressed in the usual white lab coat of a scientist. The Dragon was blue with some lighter green scales around his appendages, he looked to be of oriental descent; He was wearing blue dress pants, and a white collar shirt.

The wolf spoke first "Good to see that you are awake gentleman. Now, I know that you must have questions, but I ask you to be calm so that we may answer them in an efficient manner."

Percy quickly asked "Who, are you, and what do you want from us?"

"I am Dr. Jekyll, and the dragon next to me, is my head of security Mr. Kohaku. As for what we want that is simple, we want to monitor and record you reaction to the MacGuffin operation."

Byron launched with his own questions next "Who do you work for, and why were we kidnapped and what is the MacGuffin operation?!"

"Please calm down sir, and I will answer everything. We work for the United States Government as a part of Project MK-ULTRA II, you were kidnapped based on a factor of things, such as genetic profile, and probability of being noticed missing. Since you two twins are the only ones left in your family the only one who would notice you gone is here with you. As for the MacGuffin operation, well you will be receiving that in about half an hour so I'll explain when you get out of the O.R."

Byron started to scream and thrash about, while Percy just calmly lied back down, tired of having to strain his back to see the two in front of him.

"I can see there will not be any more questions so Mr. Kohaku, if you would please."

Kohaku picked up a small phone from his belt and pressed a button, before returning the phone to his belt. Almost immediately a group of vixens dressed as nurses entered the room half going to Percy, the other half going to Byron. They put masks over the snow leopards faces so that they could safely give each of them Nitrous Oxide.

Percy looked over to one of the vixens "Hey beautiful want to meet up sometime and do something?"

"Percy how the HELL do you have time to flirt right now, they're going to kill us or something!"

"Byron, cat, relax, they're not going to kill us, the doctor just said that, and seeing as how we're not going to escape right now, I want my stay here to be, somewhat pleasurable."

"Percy you're a fucking man whore, you know that? I bet you would.. fuc..an...ov...."

The gas took effect then making the twins blackout like a busted light bulb.

When they awoke they were in plain beds in a similar room to the one before, however they were unrestrained. Byron looked up to the Dr. Jekyll and Kohaku standing in front of the door, waiting for them to awake.

Without thinking Byron jumped up from the bed and charged straight at Dr. Jekyll wanting to kill the wolf with his bare paws. Suddenly an intense pain made itself known to Byron. It felt like someone had poured scalding water over him, and he fell to the ground in pain. Looking around from the floor he realized he was indeed wet, and that somehow he had had water poured all over him.

Kohaku walked towards the snow leopard. Byron felt all the water evaporate almost instantly, giving him a welcome cooling sensation.

"I can manipulate the energy in water molecules, whether they're in the air, frozen, or otherwise. You can do something spectacular too, but only because Dr. Jekyll was kind enough to pick you as a test subject." Kohaku paused, and then calmly walked back to Dr. Jekyll's side.

"That sir is the MacGuffin operation. Trying to create an army of super soldiers, that is the point of Project MK-ULTRA II." Said Kohaku.

Three months later

"Percy, Percy wake up, Percy come on."

Percy was lifted out of his sleep carefully by the voice of his twin brother Byron.

"Huh, what's going on?"

"Percy be quite, it's time."

Percy shook the sleep out of his body, remembering what they were about to do. They had gained abilities they both thought to be pure Sci-Fi. Percy was able to slow down time around himself, while Byron was able to speed himself up making time appear slow to him. They realized that they were inverses of an experiment, but there was a cost. Percy could only use his power when he was very calm and relaxed, whereas Byron could only use his power if he was energized and pumped up.

"Percy, you ready?"

Percy nodded slowly trying to stay calm and relaxed, that would be the only way their plan would work. Byron got off of Percy's bed and went over to the door; he gave one final look at Percy before starting.

Byron's paws collided with the door loudly; his voice rang out along with it.

"Guards, please help, Percy's sick, and he isn't waking up!"

The sound of the unlocking door was heard by the twins and then the guards burst into the room, guns already drawn. Percy saw that there were three of them, and then he went to work.

Percy slowed down the time in the room, it took a special state of mind to do and to Percy the sensation was almost like sinking calmly in a pool of water. He got off the bed and went to the nearest guard, taking the pistol out of his paw and then preceding to move to the left side of the room near his twin. He calmed himself even further; he only had one shot at this. He stopped just in front of his brother and to the side of the guards ensuring he wouldn't accidently hit Byron, and then he started time again. The split moment in which he let time slip again he pulled the trigger of the pistol three quick times. The three guards dropped like stones making no noise out of the new holes in their throats.

Percy stared down at the corpses lying in the room. They were still twitching and bleeding, but they were corpses all the same. Percy felt sick to his stomach.

Byron grabbed Percy's paw and led them out of the room. Percy's mind was replaying the last event; he had just killed three people he hadn't even known. It bothered him greatly, seeing them still staring at him as they slowly died.

They ran down a maze of halls, and corridors not knowing where to go, but knowing they had to go somewhere. Right, Left, Left, Left, Right, Right, Left, and then they arrived at a red door marked Fire Exit. They quickly burst through the convenient door and were greeted with the sight of a dense deciduous forest, green with the warmth of late spring. They ran out to the forest but were soon stopped by the typical chain length fence. They ran near it, looking for a hole or some part they could cross through, not wanting to travel over it and be cut to shreds by the razor wire. They were running in to the left of it when they saw him, Kohaku was standing there in front of them arms folded across his chest like he was amused.

"Didn't think you had it in you, killing those guards like you did. Too bad I have to cut your escape plan short though."

The moment was perfect for Byron, he was pumped up and ready for it. Byron sped up every part of his being. While Percy's power made him feel like he was sinking Byron's power was more of the feeling of adrenaline you get when you're doing something delicate and fragile and someone comes up behind you and makes a loud noise. Byron ran to Kohaku though that wasn't necessary as Kohaku seemed to not be moving. He opened with a hay-maker followed through with a full body tackle. He screamed at Percy to run before remembering why that wouldn't work.

That was his mistake though, in yelling at Percy he broke his concentration and his body slowed down to the normal speed. Kohaku stood up grinning wickedly and Byron felt the air around him become humid and hot. Byron yelled for Percy to run thinking there was no reason both of them should die. Suddenly Kohaku turned to the side and blood shot out of his left arm. He yelled and fell to the ground.

Then a figure appeared from behind Kohaku as if out of nowhere. It was a plain white mouse, who was completely nude aside from a purple amethyst earing in his right ear and the pistol he was holding in his right hand.

He spoke with a baritone voice

"Smart, using the water in the air to change the air pressure, making the bullet curve left."

He turned to look at Byron and Percy

"You two come on before he recovers from the shock."

He turned and ran; Percy and Byron looked at each other questioningly before running to where the mouse was. They caught up to him rather quickly and he soon stopped at a part in the fence that had been cut open by wire cutters. The nude mouse, which was male, went through the fence and grabbed a small satchel on the other side before going into the woods. Byron and Percy followed him going quickly through the fence and into the forest. They ran a little ways before finding the mouse, which was changing into some blue jeans and a white t-shirt from the satchel. Byron, still trying to catch his breath, was the first to go up and talk to the mouse.

"Who the hell are you, and why did you save us, and where the fuck are we?"

The mouse just sat down on the satchel and calmly looked at him before beginning.

"I am Alexander Smith, and I saved you because we can't let them have more soldiers."

Percy jumped into the conversation

"Who are 'we' and who the hell are 'they' the MK-ULTRA II people?"

"Yes, that's who they are, as for 'we' well, 'we' are furs like you who got experimented on but escaped their torture. We call are self's the Shade and we try to help our own kind, which you are. Each of us has different abilities, but we all try to help bring down MK-ULTRA II."

Byron looked at him somewhat skeptical

"So what's your ability?"

"It will be easier if I just show you, but I'm not getting naked again."

Suddenly Alexander disappeared leaving just some floating cloths in the air.

"So that's how you were able to sneak up on Kohaku." Percy said.

Alexander reappeared,

"Exactly, now come on we have to get moving if we want to reach the safe house before sunrise."

Byron stopped him momentarily "So where are we, and where are we going exactly?"

Alexander looked at him

"You guys ask way too many damn questions, we're about seven Kilometers outside of Gilbert, it's a little whole in the wall town just off the buffalo river. Our safe house is a cabin there." They traveled the night away trekking through the forest in the hot and humid conditions that were normal during the summers in Arkansas. They were about one kilometer away from the safe house when Alexander stopped them.

Byron asked him.

"What is it?"

He looked at Percy and Byron very seriously.

"If I say run, run straight to where we have been going, and don't stop till you get to the cabin there will be someone there to help you okay."

They both nodded their heads as Alexander walked off towards the noise. He was starting to take off his cloths when suddenly a puma appeared out from behind a tree.

"Alexander, it's just me mouse, don't get naked."

Alexander looked at him relived.

"Daniel thank gods it's you I thought it might have been one of ULTRA's people."

"No it's just me friend, Nausicaea is with me at the cabin, she's in the kitchen getting a drink right now, we're waiting for you."

Then he suddenly just disappeared. Percy asked Alexander.

"Is he like you, can he disappear?"

"No his power is much safer, we call it Fading, he concentrates so much on one place he can be in both his physical place, and metal place momentarily. Now come on we're not far from the safe house."

They arrived at the cabin quickly after that, Alexander carefully knocking on the door. A female voice suddenly sounded through the door

"Hocus Pocus."

Alexander responded.

"See the nigger fly the airplane!"

Percy and Byron let out a small chuckle from the unexpected absurdity of the sentence. A number of locks where heard moving before the door opened quickly, a gray and sliver Female wolf was there ushering them in. The inside of the cabin was small but comforting, two ugly green couches that looked to have been left over from the 70's were the main seats in the cabins front room. "Please sit down." The female wolf asked them. Alexander sat down next to the Puma from earlier who was leaned over the side of one of the couches sleeping. Percy and Byron sat down on the other couch, while the female wolf sat in an old wicker chair that was off to the side. Percy looked at the sleeping Puma to see if he was alright.

"Don't worry about him" the female wolf said, "He's just Fading again. He's checking to see where ULTRA's forces are."

Byron turned to the female wolf

"I don't mean to sound rude here, and thank you for saving my brother and I, but who the hell are you?"

She smiled before talking.

"I'm Nausicaea, and I help run the Shade."

Alexander laughed a little.

"Help run it indeed, she's the second in command of our whole organization!"

Nausicaea smiled a little and Percy noticed that one of here fangs had a purple amethyst filling on it.

Byron began talking again.

"So what do you want from us, to join your group or what?"

She smiled again.

"Not if you don't want to but I do have some things to say to both of you. Now that you're like us they're going to try to get you back, we can help protect you if you join us, but we won't force you to join us. You don't have to make up you're minds now, we'll take you down to Little Rock, to the airport, before you need to decide, but you do need to decide, because once we're there you either get on a plane with us, or get on a plane to go home."

They both took in what she was saying when Daniel bolted up right.

"Nausicaea we have to leave now, Elton's dead and they'll know where we are soon."

Nausicaea got up from the wicker chair

"Shit, how long do you think?"

"Not long, a few minutes maybe if that owl bastard is slow today."

"Fuck, Alexander get the jeep ready to go, Daniel you and the twins get all the stuff we need to take with us. I'm going to do a perimeter check to make sure they aren't already here. If things go bad we regroup at the Clinton Library in Little Rock got it?"

Daniel got up and went into another room of the cabin, bringing out various bags.

"You two take these and go help Alexander put them in the jeep."

Percy and Byron obeyed, knowing something serious was going down. When they took the bags out to Alexander, Percy asked him what was happening.

"Well Elton died, and he's are one of our main Dampers, they're furs who dampen or temporarily disable other furs abilities, he was following and owl named Nick, who is ULTRA's main remote viewer, now that Nick can see us we have to get to where there are other furs, somewhere they can't make as big a scene in."

They had just finished loading the jeep when Nausicaea came back.

"I think someone might be here but if they are they're trying to hide. We need to get moving now." She said.

Percy and Byron got in the back of the jeep with Daniel while Nausicaea rode in the passenger seat and Alexander drove. Just as they were backing out of the dirt driveway a figure came out of the woods.

It was a ginger feline dressed in a brown duster and blue jeans. His hands were in his pockets.

"Shit its Ray." Alexander muttered.

"I'll handle this." Nausicaea said before getting out of the jeep.

Ray's paws were in his pockets and he casually sauntered over to Nausicaea.

"Ray this is your only warning, I'll kill you if you don't leave now." Nausicaea said to him

"I'm not afraid of the big bad wolf. Now I'm here for those twins, if you just hand them over everyone can leave peacefully." He said back to her.

Percy leaned over to Daniel

"What are Ray's and Nausicaea's abilities?"

"Ray can heat up anything to 451 Celsius for a little less than a second. And Nausicaea, well you've met Kohaku right?"

"Yeah why?"

"Well she does the same thing except with oxygen."

Then the fight began. Ray took his hands out of his pockets to reveal two stacks of index cards while Nausicaea took up a defensive pose. Ray flicked two cards out to Nausicaea and suddenly they burst into flames the flames expanding into a huge fireball. Nausicaea dodged, but Ray had already started throwing more cards.

Nausicaea was running now, trying to not get hit by a fireball while Ray was slowly chasing her. Several Trees around the area were smoldering due to Ray's cards of fire.

Nausicaea ran behind a tree, and quickly circled around it making a one eighty, then started to run straight towards Ray. Ray just made a large swinging motion with both his arms and a large number of cards were thrown to where Nausicaea was approaching from. They didn't ignite though as Nausicaea removed the oxygen around the cards, so that all Nausicaea was hit with were some harmless index cards.

Ray started to back away but it was too late. Suddenly he fell to the ground blood pouring out of his ruptured lungs as Nausicaea created a small vacuum around him, rupturing his oxygen filled lungs. He coughed and made a horrible retching gurgle sound for a while before falling silent.

"Too easy." Nausicaea mumbled then got back in the jeep with the others.

She turned to Alexander.

"Come on, let's go, we have to get all the way to Little Rock by evening."