Of Sentience and Predator

D6: Into Hell

"I wasn't aware there were nature preserves on this planet," Psychobos commented as EightEight put on an ID mask and disguised as Dealla.

"Earth is probably considered a coral-type planet, so," Dealla shrugged.

Gwen looked at Kevin and said, "You haven't used the Damana identity very much."

Kevin shrugged, putting on the ID mask. "We haven't really been to any places that's easily visited by humans at all."

"Yea, Yellowstone can be considered popular," Ben nodded.

"Yellowstone? Curious," Psychobos hummed.

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The giant rat mount continued to scurry and flop as it dashed down the tunnel, Animo grinned as he rode it.

Eventually, the rat slowed and stopped as Animo looked the way he came. He flicked on his goggles and the night vision kicked in. Nothing. Animo let out a small laugh before saying, "Well, let's surface."

He got off the rat, which prompted it to turn towards the wall and start digging. The mad scientist lifted up the device around his neck and strapped it around his nose and mouth. His cloak shifted slightly, the entire setup looking somewhat like a moth.

Animo stayed near the rat as it dug to the surface, the setup's antennas drooping around his head the entire time. As they ascended, he absentmindedly kept a hand on the mask. The rat itself was mutated with the same formula as the crow, but luckily this rat didn't show the same signs of annoyance as that crow. Speaking of that crow, where the hell was it? Doesn't matter in the end, but it would be nice to see how the weird grey genes changed the thing.

The rat broke the ground and scurried out, followed by Animo. The mad scientist grinned, standing up and unstrapping the mask.

Suddenly, the rat screeched and a teal crystal smashed through its skull from the ground. Animo froze, face morphing to due confusion as he stared at the strange scene. A moving, crystalline statue appeared, one of its arms morphed into a blade and it stabbed the arm into the rat's head again.

Animo raised a brow at the creature- imagine the genetics on this thing- as it took its arm out and the strange crystal that came from the ground began to shrink. The crystalline looked at him and said something in some weird language. When the scientist didn't answer, the crystalline repeated it in a different tongue- probably, it just sounded different, he still wasn't sure what was said.

Finally, the crystalline landed on the right language and asked, "What are you doing here, brown Necrofriggian?"

Animo perked. "Nercofriggian? I haven't heard of that before. But there haven't been any moving statues either," Animo commented.

The crystalline muttered, "Fragment." It turned to where it came from and, in some other language, yelled something.

After a few moments, a frankenstein-eske creature appeared and looked at him. Animo stared at the newcomer, as did it, before the creature looked at the crystalline and said something.

The crystalline muttered, "I'm not being a translator-" It then yelled something else, again in a different language.

After a few moments, a humanoid-ish crab came into view and up to the crystalline and frankenstein-eske. The crystalline began to talk in the other language and the crab looked at it. As it spoke, a werewolf came up to them as well, ears flicking.

The crystalline stopped speaking and the crab looked at Animo. "Who are you?" the crab demanded.

Animo raised a brow, but answered, "Why should I tell you?"