Of Sentience and Predator

A5: Hunted

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"Yea, I'm not doing it with that thing," Kevin said, looking at the bright orange furred dog-like. The dog-like whined, the gills on its neck expanding a bit. The bright blue feathered vulture-tiger thing squawked at him, but it wasn't like they could understand its reply.

EightEight observed them before gurgling, "Vulpimancers and Radioscavigers are not known for their ability to speak. Ben, if you can hear me, are you able to write down what you two call these forms?"

The Radioscaviger nodded before the satellite disk-shaped back feather and the two antenna-like feathers twitched, as if looking around. He walked over to a flat piece of dirt before dragging his beak in it. EightEight walked over to him as he squawked and finished.

"You are Radiowave?" EightEight asked. There was a squawk in confirmation. Radiowave went back to scratching the ground with his beak, writing out something else. "Artemis... your cousin's Vulpimancer form is called Artemis?"

Another squawk in agreement.

"Who is who?" Kevin asked, looking at the two names. EightEight pointed at Radiowave's name, then as the bird, doing the same with Artemis.

The Vulpimancer's gills moved before she growled at Radiowave. Radiowave tilted his head at Artemis, but there wasn't a reply.

"Radiowave, can you write down what I want the three of you to do for the next... eight minutes?" EightEight asked. Radiowave squawked before jumping (not flying) over to a new spot. "Kevin will attack with non-lethal bolts with Artemis and Radiowave dodging. It ends when one of you timeout." Radiowave scratched at the dirt.

When he was finished, he pecked Kevin's cloak. The electricity manipulator stepped back before Radiowave motioned towards what he wrote. Kevin glared at the tiger-vulture thing before going over.

After a few seconds, Kevin asked, "Can Gwen read this?" The three of them turned towards Artemis, whose gills were flapping between open and closed. She trotted up to it, but ended up shaking her head after a few seconds. Kevin smiled. "You dodge, I shoot."

Artemis suddenly leapt back as Kevin released a bolt onto the ground. Radiowave took into the air as Kevin launched another one at Artemis. The Vulpimancer bolted to the side, Radiowave beginning to circle above them.

Kevin looked at the Radioscaviger and threw a bolt towards him, but Radiowave stopped his flight path to let the bolt fly by. From there, the electricity manipulator alternated between shooting at Artemis and Radiowave.

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"Ben, transform into your Stonebreak Batcracker form," EightEight stated before turning to Gwen and signing, 'Cobra, transform into your teal goddess form.' There wasn't a sign word for Petrosapien or the name of said transformation, so they just used a general description mixed between appearance and name.

"Got it!" Ben nodded as Gwen nodded. They both activated their watches. After a few turns, the silhouette was of Kleodora and the hologram was of the bat with buff legs. They both pressed down.

In a red light, rocky purple fur formed on his body, face distorting to look like one of a bat. His arms mutated to appear like those of a bat, the wing skin forming between the long supports.

"Batcrazy!" the transformed Ben screeched.

"Selket? Why did I transform into Selket?" a bug the size of an average human asked in an icky, lispy voice. Her wings flickered in annoyance.

Batcrazy looked at Selket and suggested, "Mistransformation?"

Kevin touched one of her legs as Selket replied, "Maybe? I'm not too sure." Kevin absorbed some of the energy from the Omnitrix, mutating his body. His cloak turned the same white color that was on Selket, some of it moving to create a makeshift stinger. His hands turned to the same claws she had and his skin turned an odd navy blue color. Sea blue wings flickered into existence from his back, seemingly going through the tightened cloak.