Encounter

The rest of the event was a blur....

Miranda got so excited she offered to buy what was left of the Bio beast from me, turns out part of it was still alive.... only 2 of it's brains got destroyed so Miranda was willing to pay a hey price about 750,000 Dashies, with the help of Pedro's expert haggling she bumped it up to 850,000.... however

"You're gonna pay for damages BugBreeder! I'm taking 20%!" Sammie demanded, reluctantly I forked over her the money to her.

The guys also took a cut, turns out we share our loot at the end of each hunt, each member had to split it evenly..... Amongst the 7 of us I got the highest value when it came to the loot we gathered, we had 2.2mil Dashies in loot!

I ultimately got 314,285k, not bad.... that's not even counting on the reward Grazer's gonna get us for bringing in Gambit, Sammie talked to Grazer over a transmission, they seemed to have agreed on a lighter sentencing for Gambit.

The trek back to Site 3 was.... Awkward, Gambit was unusually complacent, Barney didn't wanna look me in the face cuz of my Roachers, that's what I'll be calling my little buddy, after the undead Colonel Fauzer was supposed to face In book 7.

"They're not gonna bit you Barney..."

"I don't care kid, keep those disgusting things under control! at least hide them! You can do that can't you?"

"Barnabas watch your mouth!" Sir George spoke.

".....I can't believe you're not afraid of monsters but Roaches are your Kryptonite...."

"Kryptonite? what's that?"

".....weakness,"

"Bah! At least monsters don't crawl into your mouth when you sleep,"

"Pretty sure Tongue snatchers do that...." Pedro inputted.

"Well tongue snatchers are as big asmu Arm! I can see them coming!" Barndy went on and on about how disgusting roaches are and diseased and what not, I shook my head in disbelief.

The rest were chatting up a storm, Vince kept asking me vague questions about my height and training pattern, Said he was gonna make a man outta me.... whatever that means, they didn't seem the mind the eerie quiet of the swamp.... say, now that I think about it, why are some areas here really swampy and others like a rain forest? it's like two different ecologies have merged together.... well I don't care all that much, not that it's gonna be useful in my escape attempt.

My useless thoughts are interrupted when we finally reached the teleporting circle.

"Okay Gentlemen.... without further ordo let's go!" Bradley roared and we all stepped foot in the circle.

The.... experience was as unpleasant as usual, at least the urge to vomit was less this time, when we got back to Site 3, Bradley briefed Grazer on everything, he paid him collected Gambit and sent us on our way, everything went with a breeze.

"400,000k huh... the penny pinching bully was feeling generous today eh, Georgie!" Barnabas bellowed, "Shouldn't you worry about your arm Barnabas? The registration booth for Red Razor is right there," Sir George said pointing towards the booth with a red Saber sign.

"I'm going, I'm going geez.... it's almost like you want me to suffer.."

"Hurry up already man!" Bradley boomed, with that Barney left.

The rest of us split up, Pedro and Vince went on to a Chiropractor, Vince was suffering from some stress in his joints, Bradley and Sir George went to get some supplies for the group.

Arthur and myself went to pick up new parts for his Automaton, we passed through some alleyways in the city, he said he knew a guy that sold parts for the cheap somewhere in the backalley market, the corners we took were dark and foreboding, eeach corner greeted us with rundown stalls, cracked walls and sketchy looking characters that wouldn't look outta place in a gangster flick.

yet..... the Lizardman seemed.... chill, especially for someone who got his tongue ripped off, He also seemed more tolerant of me for some reason.

"Arthur...."

"Yes Cas Jnr?" his Automaton creaked, it's lifeless dark eyes peered into my very soul.

"You seem.... different, more...."

"Easygoing?"

"Well.... yeah, it's almost unsettling...."

He turned his neck to look at me, he stayed silent for a while before sighing.

"You know.... George's powers and mine are similar,"

".....how? I don't see it...."

"It comes down to emotion...."

"....?"

"If You are hostile towards George, his powerful light becomes like acid to you, it burns you unforgivingly and if you're friendly, it acts as a buff to you.... I learnt the former the hard way once...."

"You and him fought before?"

"Yeah.... I was more of a little shit back then than I am now!" he chuckled, "Anyways, the more of my life force I pour into an object, the less negative emotions I feel.... in exchange well my body becomes....." His Automaton was saying until it was interrupted by some people arguing.

Their voices seemed distant at first but it got louder and louder, eventually something came flying over and knocked me into the ground!

"oohhhh.... what?" I groaned, I tried to get up, I moved my hand to get a stance but it ended up touching something..... soft?

"Keep your hands to yourself buddy," a quiet voice said, so quiet I'd think it was muffled, I looked below my neck to find.....

"A rooster?" No.... it had the comb of a Rooster except it was green instead of red, amd hair instead of flesh, it's.... no her face was squashed and she has a blackeye on her right eye, her small beady eyes regarded me coldly as I studied the rest of her body, she was wearing a tight faded blue jean jacket and short leather black skirt with black boots to match.

"The name's Jamie... and if you don't get your hands off me, I'll rip your fingers off one stick at a time!" She whispered fiercely.