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"Rogue generals, dios mío, this is all sorts of awful." Aguijon muttered as John walked towards the stadium.

"Whelp, it sure as hell ain't gonna fun, I'll tell you that. Y'know, it's not too late to turn back."

"NO! We need to help this time! These people gave us a home, a place to live! We owe it to them to-."

"I WAS JOKING. Yeesh, try to make a joke and a immediately get an earful. What a cruel world we live in..."

John put his hands behind his head. His eyepieces glowed in the night. All things considered, it seemed to be a nice night. John was in an underground base, so he had no way of knowing what the weather was like, but he decided that it was relatively good all things considered.

"So, what's the plan for when we get to the stadium?" John asked.

"Que?"

"Well, we're going up against a general. Generals are probably some of the strongest members of the group, so they're going to be tough. Plus, we might even be fighting more than one! Heck, we might be fighting ALL of them at the same time."

"Um, you see, I..." Aguijon stammered. John stopped for a second.

"Wait... are you telling me we DON'T have a plan? We're just going to rush in?"

"Why are you complaining? We usually do that anyways when we fight!"

"Yeah, but that's because we do small stuff! Base raids, general tomfoolery! This is us getting into a fight with the biggest baddies of our own group! Let's face it, we're kind of outclassed here!"

"John, we can't just do... nothing! At least try and get somebody to come with us, at least."

"Well who in the hell is gonna want to help us?" John asked.

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Nina wasn't having a good time either. She was scared out of her wits, but she had to do SOMETHING about the rogue generals; and to top it all off, a certain ten-year-old wouldn't stop pestering her. It took her hours before she finally got her to go to her room. Nina didn't like raising her voice at her, but she didn't have a choice. She couldn't Little One fight, it would be even more dangerous for her than for Nina.

"What to do? What to do? What help would I even be? But then again I should help... " Nina paced back and forth speaking to herself, She can hear Emila's bleats urging her not to go.

"I know it's a suicide mission, but they let me join the Harmony; they put a roof over my head even though I was a Tamed member! I should help..."

She put her hands on her head in frustration.

But then again, how can I help if I'm dead?" she sighed as she thought about it more, what help can she really be? If she dies then Little One will be on her own... Nina sighs again as she made her decision. She turned around to go back to her room, only to find herself ramming into a funny-looking masked man in old military dress.

"Hey there! Are you going to the stadium too?"

Nina nearly jumped five feet, not at all expecting there to be another person, she turned to look at the mask man as she struggled to find her words.

"I-I don't kn... That is I d-do... I m-mean"

"Hey, how about we go together as a team?" The masked man put an arm around her with the other outstretched as if to show her something. "

It'll be great! We can fight together, talk together; it'll be like a picnic, except with more gratuitous violence and a low survival rate!" Nina could hear Emila's bleats pleading her to refuse the bizarre man's invitation, and she agreed with her. However, when she opened her mouth, all she said was-

"O-ok"

"Sounds great, we better start heading out then! The name's John, by the way, nice to meet you!" He strutted towards the stadium as Nina sheepishly walked behind him.

Emila bleated in distress as Nina cursed herself for not refusing.

"Oh! Are you good with a medkit?" John asked. "I got a feeling that we're going to need it when we're done."

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John walked with an eager strut with Nina having some trouble keeping up.

"So! How'd you decide to join the harmony? I was kinda forced into joining by some old snapping-turtle guy." John chuckled. "Bastard saved my skin more times than I could count. HOWEVER! I know all about me, tell me something about YOU!" John said, getting uncomfortably close to Nina. She backed away nervously, putting a bit of distance between her and the strange wasp man

"I w-was... well actu..."

She stopped for a moment and thought. When she continued, her voice was steadier than usual, but there was a twinge of nervousness in her voice that gave her a touch of suspicion

"Well, I bumped into a Harmony member one day. A-after talking to them I decided to join..."

It may have been a truth, but it was a half-truth. Seeing what the Tamed had done to their home and family recently, it probably wasn't a good idea to blurb about her history with them.

"Bumped into a Harmony member? That's how a LOT of us got dragged into this circus we call home." John chuckled.

John sensed she was hiding something. Whatever it was, it was a juicy tidbit of info. He could harass her for information, but that might scare her off, and he needed all the help he could get. The prying would have to wait until this mission was over.

"So, you know what we're up against, right?" He asked. "Gotta take down a general. Can't kill or brutally injure, just K-O the bastard. You up for the challenge?"

Nina couldn't help but just smile nervously at the question. She was most definitely not up for the challange but wasn't sure if no would be the right answer. She just shrugged again feeling like that was the best answer she could offer.

"Ah, the old 'shrug of ambivalence'. Gotta love those gestures and vague answers." John said with an annoyed sigh.

"Alright, I got a plan that's simple." He said, approaching the foot of the stadium. He shifted into his symbiotic form.
"ZZZZZZZSSTAY IN SYMBIOTIC FORM, AND ZZZZSSSTAY OUT OF SIGHT! USE THE ZZZZSSSHADOWS TO YOUR ADVANTAGE!"

"Shadows? Bu-But my symbiotic for-"

"NO TIME TO EXPLAIN IT! LET'S GO!" John then charged into the base, leaving Nina in the dust. The wasp infected failed to realize that the flaw in his plan was Nina herself.

Nina wasn't sure what to do but she couldn't just stand out here doing nothing, so reluctantly she transform into Symbiotic and entered in the Stadium nervously. Sure enough her wool started to glow a light blue....

John snapped around and looked at the glowing sheep infected.

"WAIT, YOU GLOW?" John buzzed.

Nina had no time to reply before another a sinister and familiar-sounding voice chuckled.

"Apparently she does."

John suddenly felt a sharp kick in his chest that made him fell to the floor. The sound of boots stepped towards John as Nina couldn't help but to backed up slowly. Kiera stepped into the light with a vicious grin on her face.

Emilia could be heard bleating in the back of her mind for them to run and the tug of the parasite wanting to take control, but Nina wanted to run but knew she shouldn't and resisted Emilia form taking control.

"Really? This is the best Lavvy could muster against me? A frightened little sheep and a wasp with more exoskeleton than brain? It's like she's trying to piss me off."

"OH PLEASE, DON'T GIVE LAVVY ALL THE CREDIT" John said, weakly getting up.

"PISSING PEOPLE OFF IZZZZ WHAT I DO BEST!"

John grunted and gave Kiera a swift blow to the face using two of his four fists, the force of the double punch made her fly backwards a few feet before shifting into her symbiotic form and planting her ground. Keira rubbed the blood away from her nose and glared at the wasp, if looks could kill...

"W-what do we do?" Nina whisper to the wasp symbiotic.

John wiped his mandibles, his cartilaginous shell clicked with each movement.

"I FIGHT HER. YOU BE ON ZZZZSSSSTANDBY IN CASE I NEED YOU. TRY NOT TO GET KILLED. GOT IT? GOOD! NOW LET'S DO IT!"

Nina just nodded and backed off from john, she was trembling.

"I'm sick of people like you!" Kiera's glare darkened as she ran full speed toward John. Her claws were out and her teeth were bared.

"Thinking that they're SO much better than me because they're older!" Keria was too quick for the wasp, digging her claws into the joints of his legs. John howled in pain, desperately trying to land any sort of attack on his captor. All he could do was make a not-so-witty retort and try to stay conscious.

"OH, I'M REALLY GONNA GIVE YOU WHAT-FOR NOW! I NEED THOSE LEGS FOR STUFF!" John swung wildly at the wolf again as she dodged every blow.

"You think you're SO superior!" She growled, her claws sinking deeper into his leg with each strike. "Well you're NOT! I'M one of the generals! I call the shots, and who the fuck are you? You're just some PATHETIC!"

She punched John straight in the face.

"INSIGNIFIGANT!"

She clawed at his chest.

"INSECT!"

She then sunk her teeth into his neck. His thick exoskeleton may have absorbed most of the damage, but John knew that if he didn't do something, his head would be nothing more than a paperweight.

"OH COME ON, LET'SZZZZZ LEAVE RACE OUT OF THIS! KEEP IT CLEAN!" the wasp symbiote wheezed.

John's wings vibrated loudly, their humming grew greater and greater, and Kiera's ears flattened. He then shot up into the air, once high enough the buzzing of his wings stopped.

"HEY GIRLY, I HOPE YOU ENJOY THE TASTE OF PAVEMENT!"

They plummeted toward the ground with Kiera's back to the floor. She unlocked her jaw from John's neck and maneuvered herself toward his back. Kiera grabbed John by the wings, rotating her wrists and tearing into their thin membrane. John roared in pain as Kiera flipped him over.

"You tell me how it tastes first, you fucking waste of space!" Kiera growled.

Kiera manage to jump off John's back as he came crashing down face-first onto the pavement. The impact blew Nina backwards and a massive cloud dust emerged. When it settled; John was unconscious, battered and bruised. He lay motionless in the center of the impact crater as Kiera grinned at her handiwork. She sniffed the air and licked her teeth.

"Now where did the little lamb go?" Her head turned towards Nina and she slowly stalked towards her.

"I think I'm getting warmer..."

"Oh no, oh no no no no no!" Nina muttered unsure what to do; John was unconscious and Kiera was coming towards her. Emilia continue to bleat in the back of her mind, telling them to run, but she couldn't leave John...

Nina found that she couldn't really leave either. Fear had rocked her to the core, keeping her frozen in place.

"What, not going to run?" Kiera laughed, "Did they send you in as some sacrifice? It would be one less thing for the Harmony to deal with, after all..." Kiera then lunged at Nina with great speed. With the possibility of death imminent Nina's senses kicked into overdrive, she found her ability to move again and rolled out of the way. The claws grazed her wool coat, missing her only by a few inches.

Kiera was closer to her than she had ever been before, so Nina took this as an opportunity to land a good, solid blow...

and the kick was so pathetic that Keira easily caught it. She hurled Nina into wall, but thankfully Nina's wool absorbed most of the impact. It left her with bruises all over, but she was still able to move.

Emilia's panicked bleats grew stronger and stronger still, begging for her to get them out of there. Kiera stalked towards the sheep, laughing softly

"Well, no wonder the Tamed abandoned you. God, all you can do is whimper and get hit. At least tall, yellow and stupid over there managed to leave some scratches here and there..."

Keria drew near the frightened sheep again, her claws bared and ready to strike...

"Maybe that's why they sent you, to mock me for not having the 'guts' to kill tamed members." Her face twisted into a scowl of pure avarice. Her teeth shone in the darkness, causing Nina's heart to pound with the strength of a jackhammer.

"WELL, LOOK WHO'S WEAK NOW!" She lunged at the symbiotic sheep with all her strength, only to find herself ramming into the wall. The impact jarred her, causing her to see double. Keria shook her head rapidly and took a look around. The only thing she could see were two hooves disappearing around a corner.

"Damn; her fucking parasite took over. Well, at least I can have some fun with the wa-" She looked around, only to find the crater in the pavement empty; John was nowhere in sight. She clenched her teeth and her fists. Blood started to ooze from her hands due to the pressure.

"GOD. FUCKING. DAMNIT!" She roared, shaking the arena around her.

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"Rogue generals, dios mío, this is all sorts of awful." Aguijon muttered as John walked towards the stadium.

"Whelp, it sure as hell ain't gonna fun, I'll tell you that. Y'know, it's not too late to turn back."

"NO! We need to help this time! These people gave us a home, a place to live! We owe it to them to-."

"I WAS JOKING. Yeesh, try to make a joke and a immediately get an earful. What a cruel world we live in..."

John put his hands behind his head. His eyepieces glowed in the night. All things considered, it seemed to be a nice night. John was in an underground base, so he had no way of knowing what the weather was like, but he decided that it was relatively good all things considered.

"So, what's the plan for when we get to the stadium?" John asked.

"Que?"

"Well, we're going up against a general. Generals are probably some of the strongest members of the group, so they're going to be tough. Plus, we might even be fighting more than one! Heck, we might be fighting ALL of them at the same time."

"Um, you see, I..." Aguijon stammered. John stopped for a second.

"Wait... are you telling me we DON'T have a plan? We're just going to rush in?"

"Why are you complaining? We usually do that anyways when we fight!"

"Yeah, but that's because we do small stuff! Base raids, general tomfoolery! This is us getting into a fight with the biggest baddies of our own group! Let's face it, we're kind of outclassed here!"

"John, we can't just do... nothing! At least try and get somebody to come with us, at least."

"Well who in the hell is gonna want to help us?" John asked.

----

Nina wasn't having a good time either. She was scared out of her wits, but she had to do SOMETHING about the rogue generals; and to top it all off, a certain ten-year-old wouldn't stop pestering her. It took her hours before she finally got her to go to her room. Nina didn't like raising her voice at her, but she didn't have a choice. She couldn't Little One fight, it would be even more dangerous for her than for Nina.

"What to do? What to do? What help would I even be? But then again I should help... " Nina paced back and forth speaking to herself, She can hear Emila's bleats urging her not to go.

"I know it's a suicide mission, but they let me join the Harmony; they put a roof over my head even though I was a Tamed member! I should help..."

She put her hands on her head in frustration.

But then again, how can I help if I'm dead?" she sighed as she thought about it more, what help can she really be? If she dies then Little One will be on her own... Nina sighs again as she made her decision. She turned around to go back to her room, only to find herself ramming into a funny-looking masked man in old military dress.

"Hey there! Are you going to the stadium too?"

Nina nearly jumped five feet, not at all expecting there to be another person, she turned to look at the mask man as she struggled to find her words.

"I-I don't kn... That is I d-do... I m-mean"

"Hey, how about we go together as a team?" The masked man put an arm around her with the other outstretched as if to show her something. "

It'll be great! We can fight together, talk together; it'll be like a picnic, except with more gratuitous violence and a low survival rate!" Nina could hear Emila's bleats pleading her to refuse the bizarre man's invitation, and she agreed with her. However, when she opened her mouth, all she said was-

"O-ok"

"Sounds great, we better start heading out then! The name's John, by the way, nice to meet you!" He strutted towards the stadium as Nina sheepishly walked behind him.

Emila bleated in distress as Nina cursed herself for not refusing.

"Oh! Are you good with a medkit?" John asked. "I got a feeling that we're going to need it when we're done."

-----

John walked with an eager strut with Nina having some trouble keeping up.

"So! How'd you decide to join the harmony? I was kinda forced into joining by some old snapping-turtle guy." John chuckled. "Bastard saved my skin more times than I could count. HOWEVER! I know all about me, tell me something about YOU!" John said, getting uncomfortably close to Nina. She backed away nervously, putting a bit of distance between her and the strange wasp man

"I w-was... well actu..."

She stopped for a moment and thought. When she continued, her voice was steadier than usual, but there was a twinge of nervousness in her voice that gave her a touch of suspicion

"Well, I bumped into a Harmony member one day. A-after talking to them I decided to join..."

It may have been a truth, but it was a half-truth. Seeing what the Tamed had done to their home and family recently, it probably wasn't a good idea to blurb about her history with them.

"Bumped into a Harmony member? That's how a LOT of us got dragged into this circus we call home." John chuckled.

John sensed she was hiding something. Whatever it was, it was a juicy tidbit of info. He could harass her for information, but that might scare her off, and he needed all the help he could get. The prying would have to wait until this mission was over.

"So, you know what we're up against, right?" He asked. "Gotta take down a general. Can't kill or brutally injure, just K-O the bastard. You up for the challenge?"

Nina couldn't help but just smile nervously at the question. She was most definitely not up for the challange but wasn't sure if no would be the right answer. She just shrugged again feeling like that was the best answer she could offer.

"Ah, the old 'shrug of ambivalence'. Gotta love those gestures and vague answers." John said with an annoyed sigh.

"Alright, I got a plan that's simple." He said, approaching the foot of the stadium. He shifted into his symbiotic form.
"ZZZZZZZSSTAY IN SYMBIOTIC FORM, AND ZZZZSSSTAY OUT OF SIGHT! USE THE ZZZZSSSHADOWS TO YOUR ADVANTAGE!"

"Shadows? Bu-But my symbiotic for-"

"NO TIME TO EXPLAIN IT! LET'S GO!" John then charged into the base, leaving Nina in the dust. The wasp infected failed to realize that the flaw in his plan was Nina herself.

Nina wasn't sure what to do but she couldn't just stand out here doing nothing, so reluctantly she transform into Symbiotic and entered in the Stadium nervously. Sure enough her wool started to glow a light blue....

John snapped around and looked at the glowing sheep infected.

"WAIT, YOU GLOW?" John buzzed.

Nina had no time to reply before another a sinister and familiar-sounding voice chuckled.

"Apparently she does."

John suddenly felt a sharp kick in his chest that made him fell to the floor. The sound of boots stepped towards John as Nina couldn't help but to backed up slowly. Kiera stepped into the light with a vicious grin on her face.

Emilia could be heard bleating in the back of her mind for them to run and the tug of the parasite wanting to take control, but Nina wanted to run but knew she shouldn't and resisted Emilia form taking control.

"Really? This is the best Lavvy could muster against me? A frightened little sheep and a wasp with more exoskeleton than brain? It's like she's trying to piss me off."

"OH PLEASE, DON'T GIVE LAVVY ALL THE CREDIT" John said, weakly getting up.

"PISSING PEOPLE OFF IZZZZ WHAT I DO BEST!"

John grunted and gave Kiera a swift blow to the face using two of his four fists, the force of the double punch made her fly backwards a few feet before shifting into her symbiotic form and planting her ground. Keira rubbed the blood away from her nose and glared at the wasp, if looks could kill...

"W-what do we do?" Nina whisper to the wasp symbiotic.

John wiped his mandibles, his cartilaginous shell clicked with each movement.

"I FIGHT HER. YOU BE ON ZZZZSSSSTANDBY IN CASE I NEED YOU. TRY NOT TO GET KILLED. GOT IT? GOOD! NOW LET'S DO IT!"

Nina just nodded and backed off from john, she was trembling.

"I'm sick of people like you!" Kiera's glare darkened as she ran full speed toward John. Her claws were out and her teeth were bared.

"Thinking that they're SO much better than me because they're older!" Keria was too quick for the wasp, digging her claws into the joints of his legs. John howled in pain, desperately trying to land any sort of attack on his captor. All he could do was make a not-so-witty retort and try to stay conscious.

"OH, I'M REALLY GONNA GIVE YOU WHAT-FOR NOW! I NEED THOSE LEGS FOR STUFF!" John swung wildly at the wolf again as she dodged every blow.

"You think you're SO superior!" She growled, her claws sinking deeper into his leg with each strike. "Well you're NOT! I'M one of the generals! I call the shots, and who the fuck are you? You're just some PATHETIC!"

She punched John straight in the face.

"INSIGNIFIGANT!"

She clawed at his chest.

"INSECT!"

She then sunk her teeth into his neck. His thick exoskeleton may have absorbed most of the damage, but John knew that if he didn't do something, his head would be nothing more than a paperweight.

"OH COME ON, LET'SZZZZZ LEAVE RACE OUT OF THIS! KEEP IT CLEAN!" the wasp symbiote wheezed.

John's wings vibrated loudly, their humming grew greater and greater, and Kiera's ears flattened. He then shot up into the air, once high enough the buzzing of his wings stopped.

"HEY GIRLY, I HOPE YOU ENJOY THE TASTE OF PAVEMENT!"

They plummeted toward the ground with Kiera's back to the floor. She unlocked her jaw from John's neck and maneuvered herself toward his back. Kiera grabbed John by the wings, rotating her wrists and tearing into their thin membrane. John roared in pain as Kiera flipped him over.

"You tell me how it tastes first, you fucking waste of space!" Kiera growled.

Kiera manage to jump off John's back as he came crashing down face-first onto the pavement. The impact blew Nina backwards and a massive cloud dust emerged. When it settled; John was unconscious, battered and bruised. He lay motionless in the center of the impact crater as Kiera grinned at her handiwork. She sniffed the air and licked her teeth.

"Now where did the little lamb go?" Her head turned towards Nina and she slowly stalked towards her.

"I think I'm getting warmer..."

"Oh no, oh no no no no no!" Nina muttered unsure what to do; John was unconscious and Kiera was coming towards her. Emilia continue to bleat in the back of her mind, telling them to run, but she couldn't leave John...

Nina found that she couldn't really leave either. Fear had rocked her to the core, keeping her frozen in place.

"What, not going to run?" Kiera laughed, "Did they send you in as some sacrifice? It would be one less thing for the Harmony to deal with, after all..." Kiera then lunged at Nina with great speed. With the possibility of death imminent Nina's senses kicked into overdrive, she found her ability to move again and rolled out of the way. The claws grazed her wool coat, missing her only by a few inches.

Kiera was closer to her than she had ever been before, so Nina took this as an opportunity to land a good, solid blow...

and the kick was so pathetic that Keira easily caught it. She hurled Nina into wall, but thankfully Nina's wool absorbed most of the impact. It left her with bruises all over, but she was still able to move.

Emilia's panicked bleats grew stronger and stronger still, begging for her to get them out of there. Kiera stalked towards the sheep, laughing softly

"Well, no wonder the Tamed abandoned you. God, all you can do is whimper and get hit. At least tall, yellow and stupid over there managed to leave some scratches here and there..."

Keria drew near the frightened sheep again, her claws bared and ready to strike...

"Maybe that's why they sent you, to mock me for not having the 'guts' to kill tamed members." Her face twisted into a scowl of pure avarice. Her teeth shone in the darkness, causing Nina's heart to pound with the strength of a jackhammer.

"WELL, LOOK WHO'S WEAK NOW!" She lunged at the symbiotic sheep with all her strength, only to find herself ramming into the wall. The impact jarred her, causing her to see double. Keria shook her head rapidly and took a look around. The only thing she could see were two hooves disappearing around a corner.

"Damn; her fucking parasite took over. Well, at least I can have some fun with the wa-" She looked around, only to find the crater in the pavement empty; John was nowhere in sight. She clenched her teeth and her fists. Blood started to ooze from her hands due to the pressure.

"GOD. FUCKING. DAMNIT!" She roared, shaking the arena around her.

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TO BE CONTINUED