Sorry to keep you all waiting. With time moving like it does I thought this one was recently updated, turns out it's now four years. I made a promise to myself to finish these stories. Without further ado, let's continue.

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The leader steps out of the hut, satchel clutched in his grip. His smile stretches far at the thought of the new mission he is about to enter with his crew. After an hour of planning and preparing, they were ready to set forward on Orillus in search for 'the undocumented insect' and the 'mysterious sound'.

Dex was to take the hovercraft with Jane along the surface of Orillus, keeping a close eye on fauna and vegetation that may have been disrupted from this new insect. The remainder of the crew were to take to the skies in a large scale birds-eye-view, with everyone heading in the direction of the plume of smoke still visible on the horizon.

"Ready to hit the road?" Jane steps out behind the Entomologist, a bag of supplies ready at her waist. He shares her smile, jumping eagerly into the awaiting yellow vehicle.

"How do you feel about being a tourist on your home planet?" he asks, watching as she jumps into the drivers seat next to him. Their seat belts click together.

"I think I've searched every inch of this planet. We won't be going anywhere I haven't set foot."

Dex slouches in his seat, placing his arms behind his head as they speed past trees. Several of Jane's crickets join in on their drive, bounding in heart-thumping echoes next to their craft. "Well I'm sorry it took us so long for you to take us on a tour; apparently you've been waiting for us to return for a while now, or really, you've just been waiting for me."

Her snort of laughter comes out stronger than intended, covering it with a light cough.

"And where exactly did you get that idea?"

"Oh didn't I mention?" his chuckle plucks at her nerve as she grips the steering wheel. "Yeah Jenny Four's power is telepathy and telekinesis. She can read minds."

Her mouth and eyes widen together. "You could have given me a heads up."

"But that would've taken all the fun out of it."

She pokes him on the arm playfully, enjoying his laugh. "Well, I guess she wasn't wrong."

The car races down the dirt path. Dex places his arm behind the headrest of the driver's chair.

From above, Zap presses multiple buttons on the dash.

"So we have no leads and no idea what we're heading into?" Tung questions rhetorically, voicing his concerns. Jenny points a yellow finger lazily forward.

"You do see that smoke cloud, right?" she shares a bored look with Zap. "We're following it, that's why it's called a lead."

"But he has a point," Four speaks up from behind the pilot, surprising everyone in the helm.

"Really?"

"Yes Tung, you do," she points back to the mountains. "What could this bug have done to cause that? Maybe it breathes fire and we're heading towards something really dangerous?"

"Ok, first of all, we don't know if the unidentified bug and this plume of smoke are related," Jenny begins to state her facts. "Second, saying it's something really dangerous is only going to encourage Dex further. We've dealt with fire-related bugs and that's why I have a few extinguishers packed on the ship."

The pilot remains silent as he carefully steers the ship, his sight catching something before the others could.

"Do you think it's another ship?"

"Huh?" he turns sharply at the question, seeing everyone's eyes on Four. She looks directly at Zap.

"You can see something over there."

"How did you know that?" he asks, turning back to steering. "Don't tell me you can get into my brain and see through my eyes too." He rubs a fist to his tired eye.

"No," she answers, almost bored. "Again, it's just mind reading."

Zap chuckles. "You say that so casually," from the corner of his eye, he notices Jenny cross her arms again. He clears his throat. "But, yeah, I think I can see a black ship just to the right of that tall mountain. Looks like they're trying to get away from the source of the smoke."

"Do they look like a threat or a federal ship?" Dex speaks up from his communicator, having joined in on the conversation.

"Can't tell from here, we'll have to get closer."

Dex slams his wristcom shut, turning to the driver.

"Well, I guess we can cross out the Timber tribe," her blue eyes glance in his direction at Dex's words. "They were entirely on foot with primitive vehicles. These sound like new guests."

Her fingers squeak against the steering wheel rubber. "They better stay away from my crickets."

The yellow hovercraft stops at the base of the mountain, the ship carrying the rest of the crew having already parked in the largest clearing they could find. Everyone exits and forms a gathering on the soft grass.

"The ship's gone," Zap explains to the new arrivals. "Or whatever it was. No trace of it anywhere."

"Do you think maybe it caused that?" the leader points skyward, everyone following to the plume of smoke coming out from the side of the mountain. Jenny pulls out a device from her backpack, pressing in a red button and watching it spin in activity.

"The heat tracker suggests it's not too hot for humans to walk into," she turns the device off, turning to the tracker. "But maybe you shouldn't go in Tung. You don't do so well in the heat."

"I'll want a team out here in case that ship comes back anyway," Dex instructs, holding a finger to his chin. "Tung and Four?"

Jenny begins to pull ropes and levers from her bag in anticipation to climb the mountain. Zap scoffs behind her, watching as she carefully lays everything out on the grass.

"You know, it'll be easier if I just fly you up there."

A light blush spreads on her cheeks.

"I'm following procedures," she stands, gesturing to the equipment. "This is what our workplace outline suggests we do to safely escalate the mountain."

The two watch as Dex, standing next to Jane, activates his glider and picks up the woman beside him, lifting her to the mouth of the cave. The leader looks down the hill with a grin.

"Fine," Jenny says exasperatedly, scooping the ropes up into her hold. Carefully, Zap spreads his wings and lifts his passenger skywards, landing next to Dex and Jane. Tung and Four watch from the ground.

"There's absolutely something going on with them, isn't there," Tung looks to the new member of the team in question.

"Oh, no doubt."

Flashlights at the ready, Jenny hands over a pair of goggles to Jane.

"What are these?" she asks, seeing everyone in front of her smiling as they all pull on their own pairs.

"Try them on," Dex encourages behind shiny eyes. He bashfully strokes the back of his neck. "Your pair may have been in the works for a while."

Jane pulls on her pair of goggles, instantly removing the sting of the dissipating smoke. Her vision becomes clear, and a digital image of Dex spreads into view.

"This way we can communicate through impaired vision," he explains. The leader begins down the cave with everyone in tow.

"These are incredible," Jane muses, scrolling through her menu selections. She selects the greyed out image of the unidentified insect, seeing nothing in its information dialogue box.

"Wow, we really don't know anything about this bug, do we?" she asks no one in particular.

"Do you recognize the outline?" Zap asks, hoping to get some information. She shakes her head.

"Sorry, it doesn't look familiar."

The cave stretches further down, unsettling Dex as the team spies a golden glow in the distance. He stands still, holding up his arm to instruct his team to stop.

"Careful everyone, this is unfamiliar territory."

A low grumbling is heard, little rocks falling loose around them. Dex narrows his enhanced vision.

"Jane," Dex asks nervously. "This mountain isn't part of a volcano, is it?"

Zap and Jenny exchange worried glances.

"No," Jane answers confidently, hearing the pilot and the engineer breathe sighs of relief. Dex still stands frozen.

"Well, that's one less worry," he gulps, seeing a large shadow come into view, chasing them down. Dex turns on his heel and begins herding his team out hurridly. "Go, go, run!"

The group race together back towards the entrance of the cave, panting heavily as the loud roars continue to echo behind them. Jenny flips her wristcom open in an attempt to communicate with her sister, but the electronic device sparks in defeat. She glances around, noticing the same problem with everyone else's wristcoms.

"They're not working," Zap shouts to her, slamming his com shut. "How do we warn them?"

"Can you fly out and get to them?"

The pilot looks down, noticing gradually larger rocks falling onto them from the cave. "I could get hit. Is there nothing else?"

The clone closes her eyes, concentrating as hard as she can.

'Come on, come on.'

"Do you have any fives?" Four asks Tung as they continue their game of go fish. She studies the deck carefully as he hands over a card. "Why do you have a deck of cards on a mission anyway?"

"You never know when you're going to need them. Do you have any eights?"

"No, and can you give me that two," she holds out her hand, Tung almost startled at how well she's playing.

"You're really good at this," he mumbles, completely oblivious to her smirk.

'It helps if you don't play against a mind reader,' Tung looks up in surprise, hearing her voice clear in his mind, but her lips not moving. His smile grows.

"I forgot about that."

Jenny's laugh stops abruptly, holding her hand to her head and wincing in pain as though a sudden headache had taken over. Tung furrows his brow in worry.

"Are you ok?" he asks, helpless to her cries. She looks up at him with worried eyes.

"I think Jenny is in trouble," they look towards the mouth of the cave, a faint cry carrying on the air. From behind Tung and Four, a sleek black ship hovers at the entrance, ready and waiting. With a tingle in his nose, Tung turns his head slowly at the smell of polish and titanium, frozen at the sight of the ship.

"Four," he whispers, catching her attention.

"What-?" she whispers back, but her words catch in her mouth. In the cave, Dex and his crew skid to a halt at the sight of daylight, everyone's eyes locked onto the ship. The bug continues to roar in pursuit.

"Everyone duck!"

At Dex's instruction, everyone jumps away from the opening, missing the wire net released to ensnare the creature. It becomes tangled, howling in protest in its prison. Dex pulls Jane to safety, hiding behind a bush. Jenny grabs onto the wrist of her sister, running towards the tree line.

"Can anyone get to the bug?" Dex asks, noticing the ship still stationary in flight. Tung wobbles forward, pulling at the rope with Zap.

The net slacks, and the large red insect bounds out towards the trees to freedom. Dex stands from his place, making eye contact with Jenny.

"Follow that bug!"

The clones, hand in hand, race down the path of the insect, following every broken twig and snapped branch.

The ship pops in release, lowering its ramp to the ground. At the net, Zap struggles to pull Tung free from the knotted web around his ankle. A tall figure descends the ramp, walking up to Zap and Tung casually. From behind the bush, Dex and Jane watch on cautiously.

"Where's the bug?" the man asks in a slightly disappointed tone. He rolls his eyes, quickly drawing his weapon. "I guess you'll have to do."

A web flies from the gun, trapping the pilot with the tracker as they are plunged into darkness.

"Why are all the coms busted?" Four asks her sister as their chase slows, watching as Jenny slaps the device on her wrist.

"I don't know," she responds. "They've never knocked out all at once before."

"Do you hear that?" her sister asks, standing and listening out for the noise. A low growl catches 10's attention. "It's coming from over there."

Parting the leaves of a bush, Jenny and her sister emerge to a clearing, where the large red insect trembles on the ground, trapped amongst a thick of ivy. Jenny 10 leans closer, trying to calm the bug.

"It's ok," she pulls a knife out from her boot. "We're not going to hurt you. We're trying to help you."

As Jenny begins tugging on the organic ropes, Four steps closer to the insect's face, staring quizzically at its eye. The bug spies the human, it's breathing becoming rapid and it's pupil constricting. The clone stumbles backwards.

"Ten, be careful. It looks-" before she can finish her sentence, the bug's eyes close, a pulse of blue mist releasing from it and spreading in its surroundings. Four grips her head as a throbbing headache takes place, bringing her to her knees. Her clone races to her, ignoring her sparking wristcom and holding onto her sister's shoulders in comfort as the bug disappears into the forest again.

"Four, Four are you ok?" she pleads as her sister continues to cry in pain, holding onto her head. She stands her up, pulling a scanner from her bag and slowly moving it over Four's head.

Four pants, squinting in the sunlight towards her sister. Her hand moves away from her head, placing them onto Jenny 10's shoulder.

"Think something."

She asks with such determination that Jenny 10 doesn't question it.

'Four, what's wrong?'

Her clone's face contorts in pain and worry, sobbing at the revelation. White noise fills her head.

"I can't hear your thoughts!"

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