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The Blackstar entered into orbit around the large metal planet of the assembly home world. Lauren stood on the bridge overseeing the docking procedures with one of the orbiting stations. She then called to Kitt and Alec's quarters. "Colonel, we've docked at the Assembly station zero two."

"Aye Captain thank you, we will be on the bridge momentarily."

Kitt and Alec marched out onto the octagonal shaped bridge seeing Lauren already talking to the representative.

"Sir, Colonel Alistair just arrived." Lauren said to the alligator looking alien.

"Thank you Captain." Kitt said. "Member Ragoul my crew extends their thanks for your aid in the celebration on Tangra VII."

"You are very welcome Colonel, I trust you enjoyed yourselves." He said quite jovial.

"Yes indeed. Have you any news on the analysis of the virus?" Kitt inquired.

"Actually we have, it is an adaptation of the Quix bio engineered plague that was used several times during a conflict in universe 426 about four years ago, however we never developed an antidote to it." The alligator explained causing Kitt slump down in his command chair.

"I see." Kitt quietly responded.

"But, all is not lost. There is someone who may be able to help you more. He's a xenobiologist named Killien Draken the assembly has contracted him several times for various projects."

Kitt's muzzle developed a wide smile. "That's great, where can we find him?"

"That's the only catch, he's not exactly the easiest being to get a hold of, however we may be able to arrange a meeting if you would provide a service for the assembly."

Kitt looked curiously to Alec and Lauren and got the same look back. "And what service might that be?"

"We recently had some delicate information stolen from one of our research facilities by a group of mercenaries working for a rival inter-dimensional government. We would like this information back, we know where it is being kept but any agents we would send would be spotted."

"May I inquire as to what this information is?" Kitt asked.

"It is schematics for a defense system soon to be implemented on our military bases."

"Alright, where is the information being kept?"

The alligator presses some buttons on his desk control panel. "The data I'm sending you will detail the whole mission. You won't be able to take your ship because it would be easily recognized, since you are quickly becoming a famous race here so we will provide commercial transport along with any equipment you will need. Contact me when you have made you decision."

The view screen changed back to the panoramic view of the planet. Kitt looked to Lauren and Alec. "Let's take a look.

An hour later Kitt held a meeting of the senior staff in the situation room. "Okay this is what it looked like. The Assembly wants us to attain information lost by this group of mercenaries, apparently the leader of this group isn't too shy about his status, and the data is being held currently in his mansion on this planet..." Kitt brought up an image of a green planet. "...it's designated as Herm Kao; I guess we're lucky as well the assembly has arranged myself and one other to attend one of the parties this Armin Grand Nom hosts. Unfortunately, Alec you'll have to sit this one out the invitation is made out to me and a female guest, so I guess, Captain we're going to a black tie event." Kitt said smiling at Lauren. "As for the rest of you, try and keep busy."

Kitt and Lauren board the transport, looking like a gigantic sailboat built for space, obviously a cruise liner, the two were escorted by a crewmember to their cabin, which was lavish and amazing decorated with a huge bay window looking out over space.

"Well at least the Assembly doesn't spare any expense." Lauren said putting her bags down on the bed.

"I guess not."

The ship casts off into the blackness of space, Lauren sat on the edge of the bed disassembling her pistol and cleaning it.

"I'll assume this is yours." Kitt said opening up the closet and pulling out an elegant black slim dress.

"Well it could be yours I mean, if your into that type of thing Colonel." Lauren joked with a smirk.

"Ha ha funny, don't do that stuff." Kitt returned looking at the other extravagancies of the room.

Arriving a day later Kitt and Lauren got dressed in their party wear, Kitt in a black tuxedo and Lauren in the slim form defining dress. "Well I guess I'm not carrying many weapons tonight now am I?" Lauren said looking at herself in the mirror, as she brushed her long blonde hair.

"Nope, remember we're not trying to turn this into a blood bath here." Kitt said as he locked the ammunition clip into a smaller typed pistol and placed it into his shoulder holster.

"You remember that too eh."

The hovering limo car zoomed down the highway of the planet, it was dark and the thick layer of snow covered the ground as the twin moons hung low in the sky. The car approached the main gate, set out in the middle of nowhere surrounded by lush snow covered evergreen trees, and the road led up a hill where the massive house sat, the only source of artificial light for miles around, other limos came and went dropping off various other guests. Guards marched along the sides of the building and out on the grounds.

Kitt exited the car at the main entrance way made of pale ivory marble with two tall frosted glass doors at the center. Kitt held the door open for Lauren offering her his paw.

Lauren smiled and took it stepping out and putting her arm under Kitt's making it look like they were a couple.

"Invitation please" A black suited, dark sunglass wearing human looking alien said waiting right at the door to the house.

Kitt reached into his pocket and pulled out an envelope and hands it to him.

"Thank you Mr. Nail, enjoy the party." The guard said opening the door for them.

Kitt and Lauren strode out into the main reception hall, made near completely out of the black marble and furnished with all red oak furniture; roughly a hundred other guests lingered around sipping at the bubbling champagne looking liquid, talking and mingling with each other.

"Do you see him yet?" Lauren whispered as Kitt passed her a glass of the liquid.

"Not yet..." Kitt responded looking about.

Suddenly a hush fell over the crowd as a gryphon looking creature in a deep maroon suit walks to the railing of the second floor of the hall with a smile on his face, his light gray feathered wings tucked behind him. "Welcome my friends, thank you all for coming. I have been fortunate enough to be blessed with wealth and I hope you don't mind me sharing it with all of you. Enjoy the food and the drinks."

The crowd clapped and cheered for him as he made his way down the winding staircase into the crowd.

"The file said he was a little bit pompous." Lauren sneered.

"Remember our cover captain." Kitt reaffirmed to the female wolf. "Shall we dance?"

Lauren stared at Kitt like a deer in the headlights. "Huh? I don't think so, I don't...!" she yelped as Kitt pulled her out onto the floor, the softer orchestral music flowing through the hall as Kitt put his paw around Lauren's waist, leading her around.

"C'mon Lauren, I saw you on Tangra, you got some rhythm." Kitt smirked as they move around the floor.

"Yeah but I was hammered that night remember?" Lauren answered back uncomfortably.

Kitt laughed a bit. "True, but we have to keep up the appearance that we're a couple and not let people think I just hired some hooker to come with me."

"Hey, I don't look that bad do I?" Lauren barked back.

"Not at all, you look absolutely to die for." Kitt said twirling Lauren around softly.

The pair danced around for several minutes, Lauren really getting into the swing of things resting her head on Kitt's shoulder. Kitt smiled a bit thinking, she'd probably hadn't been this close to anyone in a long while. He was about to say something when he accidentally bumped into someone.

Kitt turned. "Oh, I'm sorry..." he said seeing the roughly six foot five inch tall red suited gryphon.

"It's quite alright...I don't think I quite remember your name..." he questioned.

Kitt and Lauren broke their dance form. "We've actually never met, my name is Lythanial Nails and this is my wife Zion." Kitt said putting his paw out getting it shook by the gryphon.

"How did you get invited to this party?" He questioned again getting right to the point.

"Oh, I am apart of an independent investors group from universe 117. My partners arranged this meeting. We are interested in investing some money into your company." Kitt explained.

"Ah yes, I remember now. I hope you will find it will be a worthwhile venture for you. Shall I give you a tour?" the gryphon asked.

Kitt nodded. "Yes absolutely, I'd love one Mr. Grand Nom."

The gryphon smiled and chuckled. "Please call me Armin."

The gryphon led Kitt and Lauren through his home showing them the various art collections eventually taking them to a small sitting room, with long green couches and tall book shelves stacked with various texts. He offered both of them a seat and a glass of liquor.

Kitt crossed his leg over his knee as he sat, Lauren doing the same leaning against Kitt.

"You have a very beautiful wife...but I must ask, I've never seen a race like yours before." Armin bluntly said.

"Our system was recently added into the assembly archives, hopefully we will be a member by next year. But as for my partners, we believe in getting a head start over the competition." Kitt said with a grin.

"All too true. So why exactly do you wish to invest in GrandNom Inc?" Armin asked.

"Well too be honest, in our research in to the major companies in the assembly, while yours is by far not the largest you seem to offer the best product, the data you provide to your customer about different universes and the guides you provide seem to be the best of the best...but we can't help but wonder." Kitt said

Armin sat down in the large puffy armchair looking curiously at Kitt and Lauren, sizing the both of them up. "Wonder what Lythanial?"

Kitt cleared his throat, putting the glass down on the table pulling out a metal cigarette container. "May I smoke?" getting a nod from Armin, Kitt pulled one of the thin white sticks out and lit it. "We wonder how you come to have all this information and these personnel."

Smirking at Kitt he leaned back in his chair, putting his paws together in front of his beak. "Well it's just good business to have your sources and keep them well guarded, don't you agree?"

Kitt exhaled the smoke from his cigarette into the air and nodded. "Completely, but if I were to invest and if say you had ties to certain how should I say, undesirable elements it may sway a new company to rethink it's investment."

"You have done your home work haven't you..."

"I like to be thorough...that's not to say my partners nor I would be all opposed to a little underground backing." Kitt said.

"I'm glad to hear it, I think we may be able to do business after all Mr. Nails, come with me and we'll hammer out the details more specifically." Armin said standing up, Kitt and Lauren follow.

Lauren looked around seeing no one around she drops back a little bit. "Excuse me but where is the lady's room?" she asked, Armin turned and points her in the direction.

Lauren walked down the hall right past the washroom, making sure there wasn't anyone else around she moved back into the library room, she locked the door behind her and pulled out a small rectangular computer pad from her purse, running it up and down along the books until it pinged and she grabbed the book opening it up seeing a section cut out of it holding a circular disc with some sort of serial number written on it. She quickly removed it and slid it into her pad seeing the data they needed.

Smiling to herself she downloaded the information and then erased the disc, replacing it in the book. Just as she put the book up on the shelf the door unlocks and someone came in, startling her.

"Hey what are you doing in here?" A humanoid guard said.

"Oh I'm sorry, I was looking for the bathroom and got lost." Lauren said walking towards the door.

"You're a little off, you're coming with me." He said.

"I don't think that's necessary please." Lauren said as the humanoid grabs her arm only to have the female wolf twist his own arm around and getting a fist across the side of the face knocking him clean out. Lauren quickly hid the body and locked up the library.

She moved down the hall seeing Kitt and Armin again shaking hands as they conclude the business deal. "Did you find the washroom alright sweetie?" Kitt asked seeing Lauren waltzing up.

"Yes dear I did." She said.

"Good, then the both of you please go back to the party and enjoy yourselves." Armin said with a smile.

Kitt and Lauren stepped down the staircase back into the crowd of people. "You got it?" Kitt asked.

"Oh yeah, lets blow this place." Lauren responded.

They nearly made it to the exit when suddenly Armin called out and the guards at the door blocked their path. "You almost pulled it off didn't ya!" he growled.

Kitt and Lauren slowly turned around seeing the gryphon marching up with six heavily armed mercenaries.

"I have to admit you both are good, really good. I'd guess both of you, Special Forces, intelligence, black ops." Armin said as his men surrounded the two wolves.

Kitt just glared at Armin.

"Well I guess it doesn't really matter, too bad we could have made great business partners. Now give me the disc."

Lauren looked to Kitt only getting a slight nod as she reached into her purse gripping the handle of her pistol. Then in a split second she drew taking two lightning quick shot at Armin which he dodged behind one of the pillars. Kitt turned and shoved his shoe into the gut of one of the door guards, wrapping himself around him and using his own gun against the other guard, the force of the shotgun blast sending the human looking alien flying against the wall.

Lauren dove behind a table flipping it up as bullets gouged out holes in the highly polished surface.

Kitt pivoted, twirling the shotgun out of the guard's hand and clubbed him across the side of the face with the butt as he took aim and unleashed its buckshot load onto the group who all ran and ducked out of the path of the incoming fire. Kitt rushed up while firing off the shotgun rounds and grabbed Lauren twirling her around like he did to her on the dance floor and braced her behind a pillar. Kitt tossed the empty shotgun out of the way and drew the pistol he had in his jacket and looked at Lauren. "Ready?"

Lauren nodded and they both spin out from the pillar putting expert aimed shots into guard after guard moving forward behind the next pillar. "I'm out" Lauren said tossing her gun away.

Kitt sighed and handed her his pistol. "Cover me." He said rushing out into the path of the bullets his mind processing all the visual and audio data as if it were in slow motion, he saw the path of each bullet and the slow moving bodies of each of the guards. Kitt ran up the side of a pillar, cart wheeling over his back.

Time resumed to normal with the loud cracks of the bullets shaving off shards of the wood and marble. Kitt landed behind the guard and punched him in the back of the head, shoving the tip of his spine into his brain. Kitt caught him before he collapsed and uses him as a shield as he gripped the handle of the submachine gun and riddled two more guards with the high powered ammunition.

Kitt and Lauren backed out of the mansion slamming the doors shut and turned about seeing about twenty guards all standing there pointing their weapons at them.

Kitt sighed and dropped his gun as did Lauren.

Armin rushed out the door and cracked Kitt and then Lauren over the back of the head with the butt of his pistol. "Do you know how much the shit you just destroyed is worth! I could kill you for that but that would be too simple, I have a better way."

The last thing Kitt remembered before he passed out was Armin laughing evilly above him.

TO BE CONTINUED....