"Umm yeah in that air vent about two hours ago" you say, "no no we met before that don't you remember?" Kikio says. You shake your head, "no I don't" you say, Kikio reaches over and touches your right temple...........
(Three months ago)
.....You pant heavily as you run down the road towards where you dismounted the Humvees and Strykers, the bulky chemical protection gear and gas mask you wore made it difficult to run. You look to your left and see your closet friend Nick Rivers following you, Nick had lost his mask when the situation turned south and his face was filled with pure fear as the two of you ran from the strange anthro creatures that seemed to have appeared out of thin air and overwhelmed your company. You round the corner just as a Stryker transport goes flying down the road in front of you, you spot an unoccupied Humvee so you and Nick climb in and take off after the Stryker. "This is Rhino 6-3 is anyone out there?" the radio squawked, "roger Rhino 6-3 this is Corporal Rivers, was that you in the Stryker that we saw hauling ass?" Nick says into the radio. "Yeah, how many of you are there?" was the response, "just us two" Nick responds, "we got eight in here plus two crew" said the radio, "add another four to that count" said a different voice on the radio. You look in the side mirror and see another Humvee behind you, "ok Rhino 6-3 we're going to follow you to extraction point uuuhhh.....hang on......Point delta" said the unknown voice, "roger" was Rhino's response. It amazed you that there were back up extraction points for everything, for half an hour your small convoy quickly navigated the abandoned streets of Chicago with your Humvee in the rear and the Stryker in lead, the whole time you were driving you were trying to wrap your head around the fact that out of about 200+ men in your company, only 16 were accounted for. Suddenly the Humvee in front of you had it's rear tire explode, "crap we just lost a tire, we can continue like this, but its going to slow us down and its going to take too long to replace it with the spare.....How much room do you have in the Stryker?" the driver of the Humvee asked over the radio, "we can make room" responded Rhino, the convoy pulled over and the four men in the Humvee got out and moved into the Stryker, all you could do was sit in the driver's seat and pray not to get ambushed, because your Humvee had no gun attached to it, in less than five minutes the convoy had resumed its drive without further incident.
Soon you find yourself in some type of warehouse and factory section of the city, just then, without warning a large smoke stack from one of the factories came crashing down, blocking your route and again causing the even smaller convoy to halt. "Ok.........hang on and try to stay close behind us" said Rhino 6-3 from the radio, the Stryker made a hard right and was perpendicular to an office building of sorts, just then the Stryker took off straight at the building and crashed through the front wall and showed no sign of slowing, you had no choice but to follow it through the large hole it was creating in the building. As the Stryker finished its path of destruction it turned left and was back on the main road with you behind it, but the eight wheeled APC came to a halt for the third time, from your angle you saw one of those animal creatures standing in the middle of the intersection, but this one seemed different, it was a male fox with glowing yellow eyes and it wore some type of tunic, but the strange part was it had three tails behind it instead of the normal one tail. "What the--" Rhino started to say on the radio, but a voice in the background cut him off, "KEEP GOING JUST PUSH THROUGH!", the Stryker accelerated so fast that it left black streaks on the pavement, you stayed put and observed, "holy crap he's toast" said Nick. As the speeding Stryker neared the strange fox he didn't flinch, he just raised his left hand and to your shock so did the Stryker, it floated there with all eight wheels spinning in place, with a flick of his wrist the APC went flying into the nearby factory, smashing through the reinforced wall. You couldn't believe your eyes, a mere fox, just sent a 17 ton APC flying through a wall without breaking a sweat, just then the fox glared at you, at that point you threw the shifter in reverse and had the Humvee squealing backwards down the road.
In one quick motion you spun the Humvee around and had it flying down the road at about 70 MPH, "holy shit man what do we do now?!?!" panicked Nick. You stayed silent while you tried to think of a new plan, "hey I said what do we do--" Nick started again, but you cut him off, "I don't know I'm working on it ok, you need to calm down!" you yelled through your mask, since there was no 'chemical spill' you don't know why you still had it on. "Sarge watch out!" Nick shouted pointing out the windshield, standing in the road was another one of those multi-tailed foxes, you knew what they could do so you tried to make a hard left, but the Humvee was moving too fast to take the turn and you must have hit the curb or a fire hydrant, because the Humvee started to roll over,and it continued to roll, through a chain link fence and the side of a warehouse, before coming to a stop on it's roof. You lay on the roof of the upturned Humvee dazed and stunned, you look over and see the crash had knocked Nick unconscious, just then your door was ripped off its hinges and a clawed hand dragged you out, through the cracked lenses of the gas mask you saw a large female tigress grinning evilly at you, "well well well look at what the kitty caught" she said to herself. You mustered up your remaining energy and landed a solid punch on the tiger's nose, you knew you probably signed your life away, but you wanted to go out fighting even if it was a single punch. The tigress dropped you and clutched her now bleeding nose and let out a painful cry, when she dropped you you looked over and saw Nick being dragged out of the Humvee, "why you little worm!" she growled as she grabbed you again and swiped across your face, ripping off your mask and leaving three deep claw marks on your left cheek. Now it was your turn to grab your face and shout in pain, "HE'S MINE" another female voice bellowed, you turn and see it was the fox that caused you to crash, as she neared you could see she was wearing a brightly colored kimono with nine bushy tails coming out the back, she had emerald green eyes that burned with a fire behind them. Her and the tiger butted heads and proceeded to have a stare down, after what felt like forever the tiger backed down and dropped you at the fox's feet, "fine you can have him, not really my type anyway" she said as she turned to leave. The fox picked you up with one of her furry tails and lifted you to her face, "you're not going to punch me too are you?' she asked in a surprisingly calm voice, "please just don't eat me" was all you could say in a tired voice, the fox let out a small giggle and touched a paw to your forehead, "rest now" she said as your world started to fade to black.......
......You open your eyes and find yourself back in the rear of the Stryker with Kikio removing her hand from your temple, "what did you just do?" you ask, "I merely dug through your memories" she said. "So you did meet me before the whole ventilation duct incident" you say, Kikio nods, "I'm sorry about the crash, I wasn't strong enough at the time to catch your vehicle" she says, you reach over and set a hand on her shoulder, " well a 5000 lbs truck going about 70 MPH wasn't meant to make tight turns at that speed so I guess technically it was mostly my fault for thinking I could take that turn" you say as you take a sip of your coffee. "do you remember what happened after?" Kikio asks, you shake your head no, "would you like to know?" she asks again.............
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