What the Slag's a Pokémon? P.2
By: Festus3 festus3@netins.net
Scene opens in the depths of the slimy sewers, it is morning, Striker, still in robot, mode lifts his head from the sludge.
STRIKER: Dang, those things pack a punch. (He gets up and is faced by himself.) Ahh! (Standing in front of him is an exact copy of himself, down to the burns and dents from the attack of the Venomoths.) What? What the slag? (The clone looks at him curiously and speaks.)
DITTO: Ditto?
STRIKER: What?
DITTO: Ditto, Ditto. (Striker stares at it in amazement, it suddenly glows and returns to its original form, a small blob of pink.) Ditto!
STRIKER: I get it! (He laughs to himself.) Ha! For a second I thought I was going crazy! (He stops and looks at it.) If you can transform into me, then... (He smiles and takes the small red and white ball out of his wrist compartment.)
Scene goes to the forest, a round and furry monkey type of creature is eating fruit from a bush, a Primeape. B'boom is in a tree in beast mode.
B'BOOM: Okay, you just throw the ball, it's not that difficult. (He jumps down out of the tree.) Maximize! (He transforms and the Primeape stares out of the corners of its eyes.) Here monkey, monkey. (The Primeape takes a piece of fruit and turns around.)
PRIMEAPE: Primeape! (He chucks it at B'boom, it squashes on B'boom's chest.)
B'BOOM: Oh, you wanna' throw things huh? (He takes the ball in his hand and heaves it at the Pokémon, the ball rocks it in the head and he falls back onto the ground, unconscious, he is then sucked in.) Not so tough now huh?
Scene goes to the strange haunted house, Luna is hiding under a flight of stairs, the purple ghost comes up out of the floor and looks around, his body is suddenly wracked by magnetic electricity, Luna jumps out and throws the poke'ball, Gengar is sucked in, he struggles for a second and then is caught. Luna picks up an almost invisible net, rolls it up, and sticks it in one of her jacket's pockets.)
LUNA: Ha ha, magnetic field, I knew you weren't all spirit. You're living tissue technically. (She picks up the ball.) And now you're caught. (Instantly the house disappears around her as the morning reaches it.) Whoa! And not a second too soon! (She sets off running for the town.)
Scene goes to later that day at the edge of the forest, the place where they were scheduled to rondevous, Striker, Luna and B'boom are there, they are looking over each other's Pokémon.
LUNA: What's that little pile of bubble-gum?
STRIKER: That's what I thought at first to. But watch this. (He points to Gengar.) Ditto, transform! (The Ditto glows and turns into an identical Gengar.)
B'BOOM: Where's Inferno? He should have been back by now. (At the cue of the inevitable Inferno steps out of the trees, badly burned and damaged, he holds up his poke'ball containing the powerful Moltres.) Regular or extra crispy? (Inferno coughs up some smoke and falls forward.)
INFERNO: Ouch. (B'boom props him up.)
LUNA: You look like slag buddy.
INFERNO: How much time is left? (Luna recalls Gengar. and looks at the sun.)
LUNA: I'd say about four hours. (B'boom and Striker call back Ditto and Primeape.)
B'BOOM: Let's get them recharged or whatever in town. (They start to walk out of the forest.)
Scene goes to inside the Voyager, they are all sitting around in the galley bored stiff, Silverbolt, Anarchy and Matrix are clustered together looking over Crynoth's shoulder as he works on a lap-top computer that is sitting on the table.
CRYNOTH: The fuel's been recycled and the landing gear area has been isolated, but I want to show you something else I noticed when I was cleaning out the database, you remember that empty dimension?
ANARCHY: How could I forget? (Crynoth lets out a dry laugh in agreement.)
MATRIX: Huh?
SILVERBOLT: That was the dimension we jumped to before we met you.
CRYNOTH: Yeah yeah yeah. (He brings up a log of data.) This is all of the memory stored when we were on the desert planet Tatooine up to when we left. (He clicks the next file.) And bam, we're up to the alter Cybertron. (Silverbolt pushes in more.)
SILVERBOLT: What!? You never noticed the missing data?
CRYNOTH: I never checked the database records until now, but that's the thing, the memory wasn't erased or something. I've checked every memory and data-track, and the whole ship simply indicates we never visited that dimension, it never existed. (Anarchy steps up.)
ANARCHY: No way, we were there! I saw visions!
CRYNOTH: We all saw visions, but every bit of machinery on this ship says right after we picked up Scale we landed on Cybertron.
SILVERBOLT: The time loss could explain that.
CRYNOTH: That would have been recorded as well. Every little action, even a particle of dust or one of the crew blinking is scanned.
MATRIX: I'm glad you met us afterwards. (They sit there for a moment, no one knowing what to say.)
SILVERBOLT: Come on, let's get our minds off this. Where's that karaoke machine? (Crynoth and Anarchy give him exasperated looks, Matrix looks confused. At another table across the galley Pun and Scale are watching them.)
PUN: What do you think they're talking about.
SCALE: A missing section of data from the empty dimension, as well as the possibility of the infernal karaoke machine.
PUN: What? How?
SCALE: I can read lips stripes.
PUN: Which reminds me, what did you see? (She looks puzzled at him, her beautiful reptilian face shows a blank.) In the dark dimension.
SCALE: Oh! Uh, nothing. (She looks away and pretends to be interested in watching Demonique and Tigatron play chess.)
PUN: I know you saw something, we all did, I'll tell you what I saw if it will matter.
SCALE: I already know! You saw me dying at the hands of some demon or something. (He is shocked by that part.)
PUN: How did you...?
SCALE: I can read minds as well, at least, certain parts, mostly parts parts that you yourself remember and dwell on, not the deep secrets forgotten over time.
PUN: You will never cease to amaze me. Well now it's only fair that you tell me what you saw. (Scale closes her eyes and remembers the vision of death and destruction as Vader reaches his hand out to her.)
SCALE: I don't need to tell you.
PUN: You don't need to tell me. (She feels sorry for using a mind trick on him.)
SCALE: Let's play a game of pool, it'll help you get your mind off this. (She stands up and walks over to the pool table, she picks up a six inch stub and pushes a button on it, the end shoots out and it becomes a pool stick. Pun smiles and gets up.)
PUN: Okay, but no making the balls move with your mind or whatever you use.
(Back at Crynoth's lap-top.)
CRYNOTH: That's all there is on this thing. (Anarchy leaves to sit by Cheyenne, as he goes he mumbles over his shoulder.)
ANARCHY: Should have never joined these guys in the first place, I'm going to lose my head sooner or later.
MATRIX: I'll go see how Demonique's doing in that game. (Silverbolt starts to walk away, Crynoth grabs elbow, once everyone is out of hearing range he folds his lap-top down and stands up.)
CRYNOTH: Come with me, there is one more sensitive matter. (They leave the mess hall. Outside in the hallway Crynoth takes Silverbolt to the rear cargo area, he opens to door, they step in and pass several crates and sealed containers, Silverbolt stops.)
SILVERBOLT: Oh slag, is that what I think it is? (The camera goes behind them to show a large piece of machinery hooked up to the refuse tube.)
CRYNOTH: Yes, Catrone's cyber-virus.
SILVERBOLT: I can't believe I forgot he put that in.
CRYNOTH: I forgot too, until I did that check. (Silverbolt walks up to it, careful not to touch it, the plasma chamber of the virus gives off an orange glow.) Wha-what should we do with it? (Silverbolt turns back to him.)
SILVERBOLT: Can it be destroyed?
CRYNOTH: No, it is extremely tamper-proofed, the only command it will take without demolishing this ship is to launch and disperse on atmospheric entry.
SILVERBOLT: We could fire it into space, or into a sun.
CRYNOTH: He thought of that too, unless it reads an inhabited planet in line of sight it will self-destruct.
SILVERBOLT: Can you disconnect it? (Crynoth shakes his head, Silverbolt thinks a while.) Oh I hate these decisions! (He flashes back to his conversation with Triex, deciding what to do with the planet killer, then he sees the Pirate's planet erupting into flames and fragmenting into space.) How well can you lock down this cargo hold?
CRYNOTH: Are you kidding? My species made this ship, I can make it so this cargo hold doesn't exist.
SILVERBOLT: But you can't defuse that? (He points in confusion at the doomsday virus.)
CRYNOTH: Well, I-uh, it's different technology, I'm sorry! (Silverbolt pats the four-armed-bird-man on the shoulder.)
SILVERBOLT: That's okay, just erase this cargo hold. (Silverbolt walks out of the door, his once long ago courageous and heroic image somewhat dimmed by the pressures of leadership. Crynoth turns to his work.)
CRYNOTH: Poor guy, this isn't his thing.
Scene goes back to the planet, inside the large town, Inferno's group is sneaking through the alleys, the transformers are all in beast mode, they are in a somewhat deserted and shady part of the city, mostly factories and warehouses. Luna looks at the sun.
LUNA: We're about on time. (Inferno turns his huge transmetal ant head toward her.)
INFERNO: What's the address? (Luna takes the sheet of paper out of her pocket, she reads it and looks at the buildings.)
LUNA: That one. (She points to a huge warehouse in the center of a row of old rundown buildings.)
INFERNO: Be ready. (He transforms into tank mode and positions himself in front of the building.)
B'BOOM: Should we take the subtle approach?
INFERNO: Slag no! (He fires a burning ball of flames at the building that explodes on impact, blowing the wall in.) Maximize! (He transforms and pulls out his flamethrowers.) Move in! (B'boom runs next to him with Luna and Striker right behind, they clear the rubble and arrive in the warehouse, in front of them in a huge room is the pod used by Razorclamp and Scavenger, and nothing else, complete silence.)
STRIKER: Oh, this ain't good. (They look around, B'boom walks around to the door of the pod, he flattens against the left side, Inferno goes around and takes the right, B'boom hits the button for the door to open, it slides open and mist pours out, Inferno and B'boom steps to the sides shoulder to shoulder with both their guns leveled in the door, in an instant two feet swing out and connect with both their faces, Scavenger, Inferno and B'boom fall backwards, Scavenger rolls as Luna and Shocker fire at where he was. Razorclamp comes flying out of the door next, he comes out sideways, his shield claw guarding his chest while he fires with the other one, he takes the same path as Scavenger and travels through a door. In an instant Inferno and B'boom are up and dive to the sides as Scavenger and Razorclamp fire from the dark exit.)
RAZORCLAMP: You're slag bots! (One of Inferno's fireballs travel through the door between him and Scavenger.)
SCAVENGER: Hoooo! That's a hot one! (He fires his wrist-guns out of the door. Luna is firing when she notices the shots from the dark doorway have stopped, up on the second floor balcony Razorclamp and Scavenger step out.)
RAZORCLAMP: You boys need more practice!
INFERNO: It's four to two, the odds are in our favor! (Razorclamp chuckles.)
SCAVENGER: You expected us to play fair!? Look at the door you made for yourself. (All the time they were trading fire dozens of men in suits with red R's on them have gathered around the opening, they are all holding poke'balls and some are holding various guns.)
INFERNO: And you expected us to underestimate scum like you!? (He takes out his poke'ball and throws it to the ground, in a flash of light the brilliant fire-bird Moltres flies into the air, Luna, B'boom and Striker unleash theirs as well.)
RAZORCLAMP: You lowered yourself to actually catching one of those? You must be desperate! (In the doorway the Team Rocket agents throw their poke'balls, in an eruption of light almost any Pokémon imaginable materializes.)
SCAVENGER: Hey, Inferno! Why don't me and Razorclamp have a little mano-e-mano with you and your buddy Tarzan? (Inferno turns to Luna and Striker.)
INFERNO: Luna! Get the pod out of here! Striker! Command our creatures! (B'boom and Inferno draw their weapons, Inferno powers his turbines and he flies up through the sun roof, Scavenger flies up after him. Razorclamp looks down at B'boom.)
RAZORCLAMP: Let's tango Cheeta!
B'BOOM: Okay, the monkey jokes are getting old! (He jumps and grabs onto a chain, he easily climbs up and lands on the balcony a few feet away from Razorclamp.) Shall I lead? (Razorclamp fires, B'boom jumps and grabs onto two chains, he flips between them, clamps onto one with his feet and fires both of his guns while suspended upside down, Razorclamp does a backwards bend and the shots travel over him. Down on the ground floor, Striker's Ditto creeps up to a huge rock snake, the Onix roars at the puny glob.)
DITTO: Ditto! (Ditto glows and turns into a replica of the Onix. They strike and grapple with each other, they wind around each other and fall to the side, a few members of team rocket scattering to the sides.)
STRIKER: Cool. (He is wracked with electricity and turns around to see a floating robotic orb, a Magnemite, it charges for another attack, Striker instantly draws his two mandible blasters and bends backwards to the ground, the electric bolt slices the air above him and takes out a Golduck, then two of striker's shots connect dead center of the Magnemite and it blows apart.) Still a perfect shot. (Behind him B'boom's Primeape is getting over powered by a walking palm tree-like Pokémon, a bug with long swords for arms, and a pile of slime.)
PRIMEAPE: Prime-Prime. (It looks behind the three in front of it and sees Moltres diving in, he jumps and grabs a chain, Moltres lets out a screech of attack and fires a pillar of flame onto the three. On the other side of the pod in the warehouse Gengar spits a pillar of black that puts several Pokémon to sleep. Up on the roof Scavenger and Inferno are circling each other.)
INFERNO: I toasted you back on Cybertron and I'll do it again. (Scavenger starts off with a kick that Inferno catches, flipping Scavenger in the air, Scavenger kicks with the other foot and catches Inferno under the chin, the hit spins Inferno around, Scavenger lands behind him.)
SCAVENGER: What were you saying? (He fires his wrist-launchers, in an instant Inferno crouches, whirls around, and fires a fire-ball into Scavenger's face, he is taken back off his feet and lands on his back.)
INFERNO: I said, I'm going to burn you to a crisp! (He fires his flame-throwers but Scavenger takes off into the sky, he flies around behind Inferno and powers toward him, fists-first. Inferno stands ready, Scavenger prepares his wrist-guns and fires, Inferno dodges the shots, one over his left shoulder, the other over his right, he grabs both of Scavenger's fists and swings him around himself then over his head and powers the other robot flat onto the roof.)
SCAVENGER: Bite me! (He kicks his feet up and locks them around Inferno's neck, then flips Inferno over himself, Inferno goes face-first into the asphalt of the roof. Inferno transforms to beast mode.)
INFERNO: Gladly! (The transmetal ant dives and locks his mandibles around Scavenger's waist. On the balcony Razorclamp and B'boom are trading hits, B'boom punches, Razorclamp blocks it with his shield-claw and brings up his gun-claw, B'boom pushes the hand to the side, Razorclamp blows a hole in the wall, both of their hands are busy, B'boom rams forward, head-butting Razorclamp. They break away from each other.)
RAZORCLAMP: You'll pay for that! (He starts firing, B'boom jumps over the side of the balcony and catches a chain that swings him over the pod and the Pokémon brawl to the other side, when he lands he turns around to see the bottom of Razorclamp's feet right after him, the kick send him back against the wall, Razorclamp clamps his large shield-claw over B'boom's throat and pushes him against the wall, and pushes his gun-claw in his face, B'boom draws his two blasters and fires into Razorclamp's gut, the shots send him back against the railing, while Razorclamp teeters against the railing B'boom punches him in the face and sends him over, as he goes down Razorclamp fires, blowing the balcony out from underneath B'boom, who falls as well, they land hard next to each other on the floor below.)
B'BOOM: I'm gonna' cook you alive with butter. (He stomps but Razorclamp moves his head, spins on the floor and trips B'boom, Razorclamp then spins to his feet and aims at B'boom's head.)
RAZORCLAMP: You're slag! (He fires and B'boom slides back over the floor and into the wall.)
B'BOOM: That hurt! (He transforms to vehicle mode and revs his engine, he peels out and heads straight for Razorclamp he ramps a chunk of debris and transforms back in mid-air, he grabs Razorclamp's shoulders, lands behind him and uses the inertia to flip Razorclamp over himself and into the side of the pod. Razorclamp proceeds to fire some more at B'boom who rolls to the side. Striker is standing in the center of the poke'war, dodging attack after attack, he looks to one side, Moltres is chasing around a few mole-like Pokémon, to his other side Ditto, still transformed into Onix, is striking at a small but quick Jolteon, Gengar keeps disappearing and reappearing, Primeape has gotten a hold of two assault rifles from the Team Rocketeers and is shooting at any Pokémon near him, first he takes down a Pidgeot, then a big blue bat.)
STRIKER: This is one screwed up planet. (A fireball barely misses him as he dives under it, he transforms to beast mode and shoots a web to the top of the warehouse.) I'm outta' here! (He starts climbing up the web when he hears a rumbling. Inside the pod Luna has gotten the engines started.)
LUNA: How do I get out of here? (Outside Striker swings in the door, he sits down next to Luna.)
STRIKER: Pull us out of here! Get this pod to safety!
LUNA: Where do I go!? (She looks up.) Hold on! (On top of the roof Inferno delivers a kick to Scavenger's gut and follows through with a power-stroke of his fists down on Scavenger's shoulders, sending him to his knees. He draws his flamethrower and puts the muzzle up to Scavenger's face.)
INFERNO: Burn! Ah-hahahahahahaha! (The roof explodes up from underneath them and sends them both to the side as the pod shoots out of the roof.)
STRIKER: Whoo-hoo-hoo! (Inferno hovers over the collapsed roof and speaks into his communicator.)
INFERNO: Luna! Keep the pod in range! (Luna takes the pod into a low hover over the collapsed building. Scavenger rams headlong into Inferno's back and they spiral into the rubble. At ground level most of the Rocketeers are fleeing into buildings and down alleys, their Pokémon right behind them. An Onix's head bursts out of the rubble, it flashes and turns back into Ditto, a pillar of flame blasts Moltres from its trap, Primeape climbs up out of the rubble along with Gengar. Down in the sewers B'boom has escaped the destruction, he is walking down one tunnel when a huge claw comes out of a dark opening and lifts him off his feet, Razorclamp scuttles out in beast mode.)
RAZORCLAMP: This is where it ends! (He tightens his grip on B'boom's neck and pushes him down to the ground, B'boom brings his foot up and hits the crab right in the face and the vulnerable stalk eyes.) Ahhhh-ahhhhh! (He transforms and rubs his eyes, B'boom still in his shield-claw.) You're going to pay for that! (He charges his claw-gun and fires, just as he is firing B'boom grabs the claw and turns it to the side, the blast enihalates Razorclamp's shield-claw and he falls back in pain.) Ahhh! Slaggit! (B'boom gives him two rights and a left then a kick to the chest that sends him back against the wall, he is following through on another kick when Razorclamp catches it in his gun-claw and fires, taking the foot off, B'boom staggers back.)
B'BOOM: Ahhhhhh! (He transforms to vehicle mode and drives out just as Razorclamp begins firing again, he spirals around the tunnel and the shots follow him, when he is almost upside down he transforms and fires back five shots as he flies out of the tunnel, the first four shots miss but the last takes Razorclamp's already damaged arm the rest of the way off, B'boom skids and crawls into a tunnel.) That thing won't quit. (He sees light above him, on road level a sewer lid flies off with one shot from his blaster, he slowly crawls out and lays on the ground. Among the rubble Inferno is stalking cautiously, Scavenger dives out at him firing his wrist-guns, Inferno takes the shots on his left arm and fires his right wrist flame-thrower, scorching Scavenger before he dives behind a pillar, Inferno activates his other flame-thrower on the other side of the pillar. Scavenger stands with his back to the pillar, a wall of flame on both sides of him.)
SCAVENGER: Whoa, hot. (He looks up, the pillar ends about twelve feet up, he transforms to beast mode and flies up, the flames following him up and connecting at the top, following Scavenger in an arc until the vulture flies through a window and ends up on the street outside of what's left of the warehouse.) Oh, slag! (A blaster comes up to his bald head and the camera pans to show B'boom, hobbling on his missing foot, using a twisted metal bar as a crutch.)
B'BOOM: You put up quite a fight, but you lose. (Scavenger hits the blaster away with his head and transforms, bringing his wrist-guns up just as B'boom shoots a hole in his chest with his other gun, he travels back and slams into the wall, he slumps to the ground, finally in stasis lock. A web line drops down, B'boom looks up to see Striker slide down, he fastens the web around Scavenger's waist, Inferno lands next to them and turns off his turbines.)
INFERNO: Where's the crab? (B'boom notices the sun is low over the horizon.)
B'BOOM: Whoa! Whoa! Slag! We don't have much time left! (Inferno turns on his comlink.)
INFERNO: Luna, bring the pod down, one of them is sufficient, we will have to get the other pod ready. (Moltres glides down and lands next to Inferno, Inferno holds up the red and white ball, the fire-bird is sucked in. Luna brings the pod down and lands in the street, as Inferno is walking to it he steps over a man-hole, Razorclamp's claw-gun shoots up and grabs him by the foot, Inferno trips, looks back, Razorclamp's head comes up out of the hole, Inferno gives him a hard kick to the face, there is a snapping sound and Razorclamp goes into stasis lock, Inferno dives and grabs him before he falls back into the sewer.) Now we have both of them. (The others recall their Pokémon, then get into the pod.)
LUNA: Striker'n me will keep the vulture with us, when we get to the other pod you can drag that crab to it.
B'BOOM: Oh thanks. (The pod takes off and heads for the forest.)
Scene goes to the Voyager on route for the planet, Silverbolt, Blackarachnia, Opal, Scale and Crynoth are the only ones on the bridge.
SILVERBOLT: We're going to be cutting it close, how much time left?
CRYNOTH: We got about three hours.
BLACKARACHNIA: They must have run into trouble, the scanners show that they haven't left atmosphere yet.
MATRIX: I told you these two were more than you expected! (Silverbolt cringes at the thought of sentencing his crew members to death.) Those four could easily be-
BLACKARACHNIA: Back off! (On the planet Inferno and B'boom quickly toss Razorclamp into the second pod and take off after Luna's.) Wait! I got them, both of them.
Scene goes to later when the pods have re-docked with the Voyager, Yuna walks off with B'boom and Silverbolt and Crynoth are talking to Inferno while the others drag Scavenger and Razorclamp off to the brig.
SILVERBOLT: Well done my good man.
INFERNO: They gave up quite a fight, it was exhilarating.
CRYNOTH: How much of a, oh shall we say, insurance bill did you build up down there? (Inferno grins.)
INFERNO: Just one building. (Silverbolt walks out, Inferno and Crynoth follow him down the hall.) What will happen to them? We should finish them off. (Silverbolt whirls around.)
SILVERBOLT: No, it would be a disgrace to slaughter a defenseless enemy. They will be hooked up to CR's in their cells and will accompany us back to Cybertron.
CRYNOTH: Whoa! That could take forever, we may never- (He stops in the middle of the sentence, Silverbolt's ears droop and he closes his eyes, he then opens them and starts off for the bridge.)
SILVERBOLT: That may be the case, you didn't have to come if you thought this was a sinking ship. (Crynoth pushes Silverbolt against the wall with his four arms.)
CRYNOTH: What are you talking about!? I chose to come! And you couldn't have come this far without me. (Silverbolt easily pushes Crynoth away, in fact too hard, his back slams against the wall, Inferno looks at Silverbolt in amazement. Silverbolt himself is shocked at his crude reaction, he runs to the bridge. Inferno helps up Crynoth.)
INFERNO: It's not like him.
CRYNOTH: It's not him, the pressures of leadership are weighing down his shoulders. Just give him some space for a while.
INFERNO: No, this must be dealt with now. Talk to him, I am not much of a speaker.
CRYNOTH: I'll talk to him, but I'm not going to give any hugs or pats on the shoulders. (He finds Silverbolt sitting in his seat on the bridge.) I understand what you're going through. (He thinks for a moment and decides to start over.) I think there's something more you want to find than Cybertron, or something you want to prove. (Silverbolt doesn't move, he just remains quietly in his seat.) I had another reason for coming. (Silverbolt looks up.) Yeah, this was our second ship with trans-dimensional technology, I wanted to go on the first one so bad, but my brother was higher ranking than me and he thought it was too dangerous, so he, and ten more of my friends, left and I never saw them again. What I said earlier, you may not have made it this far without me, but we wouldn't have even started this mission if you hadn't transported me off the Pirate's planet and saved me from enhialation. (Opal walks in.)
CRYNOTH: There you are Hawkeye! I've been looking for you. (She feels the thick tension in the room and her sapphire blue eyes look from one to the other.) Maybe I should go. (Crynoth walks to her.) No, I'm done in here, let's get a meal before we jump. (The bird-man and cat-woman walk out, leaving Silverbolt with his thoughts. Blackarachnia walks in.)
BLACKARACHNIA: I got those two hooked up to their CR's- (She sees the sullen looks on his face.) What's wrong? (Silverbolt brings her close.)
SILVERBOLT: Nothing, just thinking.
Scene goes into the galley where everyone except the two in the bridge are killing time before the jump. Inferno and B'boom are playing pool while Yuna, Mako and Airrazor watch.
MAKO: How was the hunt? (Inferno sends the cue-ball into the six and it curves right into the corner pocket.)
B'BOOM: Slag. (He turns to Mako.) It was strange, the planet was rather disturbing. (He bends over for his shot.)
INFERNO: There were creatures there that only spoke their names, and the humans were strange. (B'boom sends the cue-ball over the side and stands up.) That would be a scratch. (Inferno chases after the ball.)
B'BOOM: Especially these three kids that kept bugging us to tag along, I tell you, I could live without coming back here again- (He thinks for a second.) Oh slag. (He opens the compartment in his side and takes out the poke'ball.) We forget to release them!
MAKO: Ha! Now you get to carry a little piece of the planet around with you.
B'BOOM: No, we're taking them back. (Silverbolt's voice chimes over the speaker.)
SILVERBOLT: All crew please report to the bridge, we jump in twenty minutes.
(B'boom rolls the red and white ball over the pool table and rushes out. When everyone leaves the lights go out and the door closes, then a form materializes briefly, it is a tall, dark-cloaked form with a hood on, inside the hood is darkness, then two glowing yellow snake eyes open in it, then, it's gone.)