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Ren used his screen to find out where she was, knowing he had that class to teach but he ignored his schedule. As he walked he found his resolve fading and in the end stopped walking all together. How could he assume the role of her lover when he had no idea about her? How could he think this was alright? Ren turned deep in thought heading down to the restricted area.

After scanning his card he entered the lab where he spent three months of his life becoming like he is today. He spent a while reading his file, mostly factual things about his life, but nothing really told him who he was.

Something caught his eye in a drawer across the room with a transparent front. He pulled it open and took out an arm device, it's surface one large screen. Near the wrist was a card reader with a card still inside.

Bringing it back to the terminal, he removed the card and put it in to be scanned. To his suprise, registration information appeared on the screen which should be loaded on an implant everyone else had. Ren found himself looking at his own picture, with Donta's name and last known address.

"This is mine?" he wondered out loud. He tried on the arm device which fit perfectly, automatically adjusting to fit his more toned arm. It felt comfortable and familiar to him so he left hit on. As for the ID chip, he pulled out his security card, eyed it for a moment, then plugged it into the terminal to copy the information from it to the ID chip, eliminating the need to carry the card any more. He put the chip back in the arm device and turned it on.

He was surprised as to how fast it turned on. A standard OS for most retail screens was preloaded on it, yet there was an extra icon on the screen which he hesitated before tapping. Once he did, the arm device suddenly connected to the internet, and used a tunneling protocol to an unknown address. Second's later, a blue mermaid appeared on the screen that resembled the cyborg that always followed Kate around.
"Eh, this terminal hasn't been used in a while.." Osiph muttered, raising her hand over her eyes as if to peer outside the screen, "Oh, hey Donta! You found your old device! Now it can be like old times again! Well not exactly, It will be a remote connection this time though, but I have loads of extra CPU capacity to do all kinds of things for you!"
"Um, okay." Ren said uncertainly.
"Just let me know if you need anything." she said with a smile.
"Well, I guess you're pretty close to Kate, right?" he asked.
"Yes, she's standing right beside me." Osiph said.
"No i mean.....Do you know what she thinks of me?" he asked, turning slightly red.
"Well you two were close in the past, but she does like you a lot." she said excitedly.
"I know. I saw the website. We were engaged, right?" he asked. Osiph's smile faded and she looked away uncertainly.
"Yes, and she's desperately yearning for those days to return. I can tell it's hurting her to have you back, yet you are so far away."
"What can I do?" he asked, "I would like to try and make it the way it was, but it feels weird on my end because I know nothing about her."
"Maybe you should just get to know her again. Maybe you still unconsciously remember some things." Ren nodded and left the lab, heading straight towards the command deck.

The training command deck was a large room encircled by screens and command chairs surrounded by dozens of holographic keyboards and touchscreens where students frantically jabbed the air to issue commands to virtual TAM units on the main display. Most of the students were having trouble commanding a squad of four around an asteroid field. Ren watched as one rose above the rest, not only commanding a squad of eight, but also a dozen fighters and a support cruiser through a enemy infested system, taking no casualties and neutralizing every target. When the exercise was over and the holographic screens and keyboards around the student vanished, Ren wasn't surprised to see Kate sitting there.

"Ren!" she greeted him with a smile, "What brings you here?"
"I wanted to talk to you." he said, then his eyes went to the floor. He saw her eyes drift to his arm device, recognizing it immediately. Osiph had even displayed the fan website and in particular, her post where he had learned they were engaged, "I want to talk about us."

A briefing room off the command deck was chosen for the discussion. Kate chose to sit down for this, and Ren took a place next to the window.
"I know we were engaged and I'm sorry for the way I've been acting." he said, "I had no idea and I understand you must be hurting not being around me. I should have been more supporting. I want things to go back to the way they were, even if I don't know how that was."
"It's not your fault, Donta. You didn't know." she said quietly.
"Kate, I'm right here. I want to be here for you." he said, "Let me know what I can do to fix things. Let it out." Kate slowly stood up and crossed the room, slowly putting her arms around his waist.
"I don't want to force anything on you, Donta." she said, "I want to start over for you. I know you are the same person, but your also someone different. It's not fair to you to have my love forced on you."
"It's not fair to you not to have mine. With the circumstances like they are, you deserve to have me returned to you as I was."
"I know I can't have that for the sake of everyone affected by that virus." she said, "I can't be selfish. I'm satisfied with trying again. Maybe we will make a bond stronger than before." Ren sighed.
"Ever since I can remember, there's been this feeling of emptiness. Like something was missing, like a hole in my heart. I realize now that you fill that empty place and I feel whole again. You won't have to wait long for me to return your feelings, Kate. They aren't forced on me if i accept them."
"What are you saying."
"Either its instincts or remnants of my old memory, but I can't help how I feel." he said, "Maybe it's love at second sight?" Kate's tears swelled as she pulled him closer and cried tears of relief on his shoulder. It felt right to Ren, having her warmth against him. There may have been a feeling of awkwardness in the back of his mind, but every other part of him was screaming to him that this was right.

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Kisa didn't seem to notice his wayward look, mainly because she was asking some bizarre question or other about justification. Something she didn't really care about, but it was so incredibly off the wall that she couldn't resist. She smiled pretty at the instructor and his odd look and sat back to enjoy him trying to answer it while she scribbled a drawing of a kitten's head complete with whiskers. She smiled a bit to herself and scrawled 'good' next to it and passed it back to Chuck. She tapped her screen for the time and smiled even more that this class was ending soon.

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Cypher laid on a park bench, his cloak hanging on the ground and he kept his long blonde ponytail from getting dirty by having it tucked under his arm. A few children ran past, eying the ridges on his helmet and his metal armored arms and boots, but kept going. He was surfing the internet with his eyes closed when the warm sunlight on the back of his eyelids suddenly vanished and he picked up someone small standing next to him on his bio scanner. He opened his eyes to see a small girl standing over him, her finger to her mouth in curiosity. She stood in silence until her mother ran up to her to pick her up.
"Terribly sorry, um, sir." she said, "Did my daughter wake you?"
"She's curious." he said, "Do you have something to ask?" he directed his question to the girl. He sat up, letting his cloak drape around him, his ponytail flicked behind him.
"What kind of helmet is that?" she asked.
"It's my head." Cypher said.
"What's wrong with your head?" she asked, "Why is it shaped that way?" Her mother gasped and was about to scold her when Cypher held up a hand to stop her.
"There's nothing wrong with it." he said in a soft tone. "I am a Cyborg. Like a robot." Her mother now stepped forward and pulled her daughter away, trying to get away from him.
"Come, Nancy. We should get going. Stay away from him." she said. Cypher stood confused.
"I am no threat, Ma'am." he said. He expected her to turn and at least look at her, but she seemed frozen in place, then suddenly pushed her daughter behind her, between her and Cypher while still faced away from him. Cypher leaned over to see what she was so afraid of and he saw a rather large, black Panther, standing on the path in front of the woman. The Panther lunged at them, but Cypher appeared in front of them and batted the cat away with the back of his hand. As the Panther fell, he noticed what seemed to be a belt, and scraps of cloth around it's mid section. A quick bio scan revealed what he was surprised to find, an ID chip in it's paw.

The woman screamed as the cat lunged again, but this time Cypher caught it, wrapping his small arms around the Panther's neck, then somehow flipped it onto it's back, hitting it on the head and knocking it out.
"Are you two alright?" he asked. The woman and her daughter slowly picked themselves from the ground.
"Y-Yes, thank you." she said. After his fight, his cloak was now draped behind him, and Cypher's badge could be seen on his belt, "Thank you, Officer." As the two ran off, Cypher scanned the chip in the paw of the Panther, his eyes going wide in surprise.

The Panther's name was Eryial.

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"Ummm... I have another class, but I think you're free." She was a little reluctant to admit that she .. sort of .. wasn't completely truthful when she said they only had this class together. Though she couldn't really remember if she'd said that aloud, so.. Anyway. She picked up her stuff and followed along behind him out to the hall, and then stopped. "So. Um. See ya next class." Kisa smiled a little and went on her way. Self defense class. Ugh. For someone who didn't like to be touched as a general rule by people she didn't know, classes like this were hell. She trudged to the room and situated herself in the back, nearly huddled into herself and praying for a 'hello everyone, this is orientation day,' class.

Chuck gave a small wave and a nod, and watched Kisa walk away. Smiling he turned after she passed out of view, and head for the dorm. He had a hunch that kern would be there, so at a brisk pace he figured he could stop by there first, and if he was wrong the Kern wasn’t there he would still have time to peek into the Cafeteria.
Walking down the hall he felt kind of lonely, without someone to talk to, and by that he meant Kisa, but he was glad to have some time to roll over what he was going to say in his mind. He guessed the best way to start would be sorry, or maybe I’ve been thinking.
Pulling out his pass key, Chuck slid it into the reader, the faint click letting him know it was opening. The door slid open with a hiss, and the dark air-conditioned room looked empty. Sighing he walked in to the dark room, he guessed he would just have to go check out the Café and see if Kern was there.
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Kern watched Chuck enter silently, and stood up. Not saying anything he behind Chuck while he was opening his dresser, and with both hands delivered a blindingly painful attack to the base of his skull. Catching him, he pulled him over to the bed and bound his hands and feet.
“Lets talk” he said with a lop sided grin on his face.

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With a slight bounce in his step, Donta raced back to his class, and found it odd that the place was still empty. He double checked his schedule, which was now changed on his arm device to show something different. Osiph had changed it to keep him straight. Before he was still looking at the previous day's schedule. In a slight panic, he raced down the hall and rushed into another classroom, being a sort of a dojo.

"Hello class, sorry I'm slightly late." Donta said. A gentle beep made him look down to his arm device to see Osiph holding a last minute email from the instructor for this class, of which he was supposed to be an assistant instructor. The email told him to take charge, because he woke up with a cold and wouldn't be available. Donta sighed and continued, "Unfortunately, your regular instructor has become sick so I will be taking over the class. Welcome to Self Defense." He saw the cadets take a seat on the mat, the humans seemingly nervous to be fighting ferals. In the back, Donta spotted Kisa.

"Today won't be too harsh." he said, "I'm not really one for fighting hand to hand. But the instructor emailed me his lesson plan so bear with me while I try to follow it." He read the lesson plan over on his arm device then locked it so any accidental screen touches during combat would so anything.
"So to start, I'll need a volunteer." he said. Donta looked around the room and saw most of the students look away. He heard someone whisper that no one would want to go up against a member of STALKER, and other whisperings about the rumor going around about him being Donta. "No one?"

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Ulric was glad when he got the message from Angela saying that she had made up with Farkas and now was going to be staying there with him. When she got a moment she would come over to his place and get her bag of clothes. Smiling Ulric had respond for her to take her time and not worry about her things, that if she really needed him to he could drop it off on his way out later. Speaking of later he checked his internal clock and realized he was going to be late meeting Cypher at the peer for that big tag team match they had scheduled this evening. Shutting everything down he grabbed up his cloak wrapping it around his huge form he left his home, engaging the security system as he left. Taking to the alley ways and back streets he began to make his way to the peer, taking yet another different way from when he last went to the fight; making it harder for people to track him.

Getting to the meeting spot he realized that Cypher was no were to be seen nor was he anywhere within range of his scanners. This was odd because Cypher had the always been on time, even early most of the times and now here he was late and with no sign of having been here recently. Ulric waited around for about 20 minutes before he decided he would go onto the fight without him, figuring that he could just catch up later. Getting to the appropriate building he passes by the guards and entered looking around at the crowd, noticing a lot of new faces. "So glad you could make it. Where's your partner?" the small Asian man asked as he peered around looking for him. "He is running a bit late so I came on ahead and figured I could do some small matches before he gets here." he replies with a shrug. The man nodded looking about a bit nervously, "My my my Ulric, longtime no see huh? old friend." If Ulric had any fur on his neck still it would have been standing on end when he turned around and came eye to eye with Cody, a very different Cody. "Looks like I'll have to test my new powers on just you and not your friend. All well beggars can't be choosers." he smirks as he pulls his fist back and Ulric feels himself go flying back and impacting with the steel wall.

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Born under the Full Moon...
... Born to kill.

You are the true warrior of Gaia,
and nothing will withstand your rage.

Kisa squirmed. Surprised as she was to see Ren there, she so did not want to get up in front of the class. Then again, she didn't want to leave him hanging either. She seemed to have a thing about that, come to think about it. She looked around and squirmed again and started to scoot forward to get up when a brown haired boy stood and made his way to the front. Kisa settled back down on the mat in relief. She liked Ren and all but if she didn't have to call attention to herself...

Drake grinned confidently and stopped in front of Ren, dark blue eyes meeting the feral's through unruly cut hair, quietly spoken enough to identify himself as being calm, but not timid. "Ren, isn't it?" He cocked his head slightly at a couple whispers that he was about to get his butt kicked and grinned again. Most of the students here didn't know he was enhanced and he preferred to keep it that way.

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