This omake comes not from me, but from a fellow fan of 'Hazredous' Interruptions, Eleutherius. In fact, it served as the inspiration for my own, earlier omake, and Eleutherius has given permission to have it included among my own offerings.

It, too, is set in an indeterminate future for the story, and therefore is not canon.

JAIL'S RESEARCH LOG

Progress on the new base camp was more than satisfactory. While most of his followers were still completing other work and not yet able to join him on this particular expedition, Jail had brought enough automated resources to keep things moving even with just Uno and Tre. Rather, their long practice in such matters had actually left them ahead of schedule. Jail had promptly dumped responsi- delegated co-ordination of the drones to Uno and began prepping his lab. While researching the planetary interference field was ostensibly the priority, the preliminary reports on the unusual lifeforms rampant on this world had piqued his interest. As such, Tre had departed an hour ago with orders to seek one or two of them for dissection. With any luck-

"Doctor, I have returned." Tre entered the room dragging a hovering freezer unit of a size that gave it a perhaps unfortunate resemblance to a coffin.

An easy grin came to Jail's face. "Ah, excellent work. Please move the subject directly to the operating table, I'd like to begin immediately." After an uncharacteristic moment of hesitation, Tre opened the freezer. What she withdrew was a much smaller container (A small part Jail's mind noted the emblem on the side. Was that an actual shoebox?) rather than the bestial corpse the doctor was expecting. Upending it over the table, a pile of black material resembling ash plopped unceremoniously down. Improbably, (even more so, given the freezer it made the trip in) it appeared to still be steaming.

Silence reigned for a very long moment as Jail considered the matter at hand and Tre studiously failed to meet his eyes.

"...Did this specimen manage to offend you somehow, Tre? Even with my knowledge of your capabilities, I'm drawing a blank as to how you could have possibly reduced your target to such a state. Rather, I'm quite impressed by the creativity you must have shown to get this kind of result! I'd love to hear this story!"

Tre shook her head once as she regained composure, then explained. "I didn't overdo it like that. The creatures in question all began disintegrating upon death. The first I killed by crushing its chest. I tried again by aiming for the head on the second and using general blunt force trauma on the third, but the result was always the same. I recovered what remains I could and returned. These three were originally of the lupine variety, so I'll try a different type on my next trip."

Jail nodded and responded absently as his mind turned its attention to the new puzzle before him. "Yes, hopefully this is a response specific to this species, but if not we'll need to take measures for live capture instead. This could become a bit more complicated than I'd anticipated, but that just makes it all the more interesting, yes? Try your luck with two more species, but if they crumble in the same way we'll have to rethink our approach." Tre nodded acknowledgment and excused herself even as the doctor began his work on the samples she'd managed to retrieve.

Native Life Research Log

Entry One

It seems this will be a longer term project than initially expected. Analysis of the subjects is heavily hampered by a natural(?) self-destruct process that leaves nothing but a largely inert black ash. Even those remains are temporary, as persistent evaporation even at low temperatures eventually saw to its loss. It is likely that live study will be necessary to make further progress. More when Tre returns.

Entry Two

My earlier concerns were well founded. Tre was able to kill a set of both avian and ursine specimens, but they too fell apart immediately. Sample acquisition is on hold until Uno and I can remodel our facilities for our new needs. How disappointing. I suppose I'll switch my efforts to the interference field while I wait.

Entry Six

Finally, we can move forward! Tre succeeded in subduing a few of the lupine creatures, and all the restraints in the lab are holding with no sign of strain. I'll begin the dissections at once.

Entry Seven

That was equal parts frustrating and intriguing. It seems the bulk of the creatures are made of the inert ash from before, even while they are still alive and mobile. This, naturally, makes no sense at all. There are nearly no internal organs to speak of, aside from something at the locations where the heart and brain would be on more mundane creatures. Any damage to either and they disintegrate immediately, with the creature following suit. Analysis has been slow do to these unfortunate factors, but already the data is pulling in contradictory directions. The internal design of these creatures seems far more like that of a mana construct than a biological being, but for their clearly material nature. Their observed behavior is also baffling. Their internal structure suggests they subsist off of ambient mana, which this planet has no shortage of. Instead, they have been seen hunting and eating despite having no digestive tract at all. Were they once more mundane beasts, still showing vestiges of their previous existences? Are they artificial beings with odd emulation patterns? All my speculation at this point is both wild and unsupported, but I'm enjoying it all the same. What a stubborn mystery indeed! I can hardly wait until I know more!

Entry Thirteen

Progress on this project has stalled. Try as I might, I cannot wrest any more secrets from the core organs of the beasts with the equipment available to me. Even the slightest intrusion and they fall apart. My theories are leaning towards these creatures being artificial, as this reeks of security measures. I suppose I'll just table the matter for now. Once my resources are wider, I'll re-open the file.

Archive Name Changed:

Grimm Research Log

Entry Fourteen

Wonderful news! Due has made it away from her previous assignment and re-grouped with us here on site. She's already been inserted into the general populace of this planet and sent back important basic information on "Remnant". I was concerned about what sort of resources would be available on this planet, but it seems I overlooked something unexpected. The mana infused dust that comes together in this interference field is used by the locals in all sorts of codified and esoteric ways. I'm quite hopeful looking into this will provide me with my needed workaround for advancing my investigation of the Grimm.

Entry Seventeen

Success! While the machine might be a horrible kludge, I've managed to rig up something to modify local temporal conditions. With any luck, I'll be able to slow the self-destruct progress of the cores long enough to get some real data out of my next dissection. Uno has pointed out that this also has a chance to disjoint the Beowolf's sense of time and increase its suffering by about three orders of magnitude, but I'm at least eighty percent sure they don't feel pain anyway. I'll know better after this next test.

Entry Eighteen

Partial Success! The latest operation provided an enormous amount of data, but I still can't make sense of most of it. I still don't really understand the data on how the heart and brain operate, nor have I broken the encryption on the brain's output. However, even if I can't make sense of where it's coming from, I -can- understand what the heart unit is producing. As such, a mechanical analogue can be constructed. I will begin at once!

Entry Twenty One

Haha, now we're getting somewhere! Using the Grimm Heart I constructed, I've been able to prevent decomposition on severed Grimm extremities. Furthermore, continued analysis on the brain has reached the point where I can issue basic commands to various body parts. With the two together, I was able to remote pilot a Beowulf paw from one side of the lab to the other. Next, practical application!

Entry Twenty Six

My first proof of concept tool built on the Grimm research is based on the Grimm's well documented attraction to negative emotions. With that knowledge I've built what I suppose could be described as a bad-day detector. It's still very rudimentary, but when building from something so basic as triangulation it hardly needs to be complex. It simply uses three points of detection to highlight the direction and approximate range to the nearest source of negative emotion. Uno has raised the point that it is alarmingly morbid, but I hardly see how that could matter.

Entry Twenty Seven

It seems Uno's concerns were quite relevant. One of Due's contacts, a man in a very nice white suit, was overseeing a delivery today when he saw me testing my new creation. The mere sight of it made him highly disconcerted, which naturally made the unit react to him. Seeing the reaction only made his nerves worse, and in no time the detector was useless for anything but finding him. Some refinement is clearly necessary before I can call this invention complete. Perhaps if I cover the Beowulf heads?