518 waved his hands and sighed. "I don't know what to do now. I think you pissed her off, Malbess." Malbess walked back over to Kryff, and nodded. "I meant to. Her little act of being a spirit with angel wings and ALL that spooky crap just pissed me off. We ARE NOT superstitious peasants, cowering by firelight against the mysterious universe of gods and demons! Tyyee, before she went back to the council of Nada-Haltuu, didn't really want to talk to me at all, much less about Chalchilaloq. I had to get Measure to ask questions. The whole 'found in space just before her planet is over-run by Jongwe' sounds like a set-up to me! I mean, come ON!" Chalchilaloq shouted from the sky-cycle's speakers, "The Jongwe KILLED MY PARENTS, THEY over-ran our planet! It's not my fault! I didn't want to catch the Blight and be killed by the love of my life and spend eternity as a fucking SKY-CYCLE EITHER!" The sky-cycle lifted off the ground. Neon lowered her rifle and aimed at it. She shouted, "Stop or be shot!" The Sky-cycle surged forward toward Neon. Neon didn't hesitate. She opened fire on full auto with explosive rounds at the closing sky-cycle. She was stuck as the sky-cycle crashed into her and the floor. She pushed back and dropped her rifle down to the next floor past the railing. She swayed to the side and kicked the now burning sky-cycle. "Stupid BITCH! FINE, I killed ya, now! If we ever bring Toxic back, I'll have to tell her, I killed her mom again! Bitch! BITCH! GET OFF MY FOOT!" 518 ran over to help her get the ruined sky-cycle off of her foot. After they pushed it off of her foot, she stood there with her hands on the Sky-cycle's panels. She walked away, looking at her hands. 518 put a hand on her shoulder and said, "It wasn't your fault. She did charge you. I don't know what she wanted..." Neon shrugged off the hand. "She wanted to die. It was attempted suicide. She failed, it seems" 518 didn't like the sound of Neon's voice. She ran her hands over her body and then put her hair up into a ponytail, like Chalchilaloq's. He asked, "What do you mean 'failed'?" She shrugged and turned with a smile. Her eyes looked like Toxic's and her skin colors were identical to Chalchilaloq's now. She said,"I'm in THIS vessel now. Perfect as it turns out. Her 'spirit' is completely unwritten on, though her brain is full of thoughts. She's rebelling against my sudden take over, but her very body was designed to ridden by one like me. Aldus must have built her for me, though I don't know how! I didn't even know I could do this! He's very smart, you know." 518 said, "That is NEON'S BODY! GET OUT OF IT!" Chalchilaloq shrugged as Kryff and Malbess ran over. "Can't. Sorry. Don't know how. There ...might be a way. Maybe. There is an interface console in the Cathedral of the Winds, in the ancient forerunner fortress of Shalmiraine. It's called the Abba-Dingo. It might allow me to interface and determine the safest way to separate me from Neon." Malbess narrowed her eyes and asked softly, "Don't you want to see Aldus again?" Malbess watched Chalchilaloq's reaction most carefully. She twisted up and after a long moment, she said, "No. He already thinks I'm dead. I don't want him to hurt any more than he has. I HAVE to do THIS. I HAVE to. I see what I have to do, now. I have to put things right." Malbess frowned and said, "We have to go back to Elevator City and confer with our friends before just traipsing onto Kruag's territory. Kruag's Scavs are allies, but..." Chalchilaloq nodded, "I understand." One of the capacitors exploded with a gunshot noise in the burning sky-cycle. They all jumped. Malbess said, "I'm sure you know more than we do." Chalchilaloq looked into Malbess' eyes with hatred. Malbess just smiled. --TO BE CONTINUED!--