The double doors silently slide open and a blast of cold air from the convention center hit Ain, a very faint but pungent smell wafted over his nose as he walked through the door and was met by a bunch of colorful colored two legged creatures. Ain tapped Zach on the shoulder. 
"Do they think that we look like that?"
Ain was bewildered as he stared at the wanna be aliens walking past them. Ain had came to the conclusion that humans were weird. And to think that only few knew the existence of aliens. 
Ain seen a purple and white dragon approaching him, he was mildly intrigued because they looked exactly like him. He used a form of dragonic greetings which was a series of tongue clicks and a hisses. 
The dragon jumped away from his greeting, . 
"Did you just hiss at me?" The purple dragon asked, as they narrowed their eyes at him.

Ain swallowed, he couldn't believe that they weren't a dragon he was so sure of it. Then again he did Just meet Sally who was a "furry" whatever that was.

"Well..." He adjusted his wings. i'm making my own version of Dragon langue, and I thought it would be cool to try it out on another dragon." he put on his best fake smile.

Sarah tugged on his wrist, he kept his eyes locked on the purple dragon. "They are not a real dragon." Sally whispered in his ear. " They had to get their genes changed, to look like that." 
Ain softly growled at the "dragon" something seemed wrong about the process. He allowed himself to be dragged away. 

"Welcome to the Safari, and I will be your tour guide." Sasha said after they finished created their badges so they could enter the main part of the con, Ain fixated on his badge as he watched miniature version of himself danced on it. it was roughly the same size as his phone. He looked up when Sasha grabbed his hands as they walked through security. It was amazing, it seemed as if the building was alive. Ain guessed that Sasha wanted to give them the most adventurous tour possible. It began by riding the elevator. They entered it and glass door hissed shut and opaqued. Then Sasha pressed two on the elevator pad, He heard a ding overhead. "Now we wait for the all clear," she told them, he shifted his wings excitedly, heart thumping in excitement. almost instantaneously he felt the cabin pressure change.

Ain guessed that he moved to fast as he tried to get off the elevator and his vision blurred a bit. Sasha took a firm grip his arm. "That's an easy way to pass out on your first flash step." The other humans where supporting the rest of Loinians except for Derek.

"Let me take you to my favorite Burger joint." Sasha said as finished checking out everything on the second floor Ain never wanted to leave this place. She them down hotel's walkway, the walkway was packed with "furries" watching them go about their lives started to change his perception on them. Their weird gene change and costumes started to become mundane to Ain.

As they where munching on their burger, Ain watched in amazement as the humans did not care about their manners. They were getting food every where and laughing really hard. He started to laugh with them but one look at Ryan and Glare face let him know it was not ok.
"You guys ready to have more fun?" Sally asked after they finished their food, she wiped ketchup off her chin.

"No I think we are ready to go to our hotel room" Ryan answered, taking that as cue to get up.

"Oh, I thought we would be able to hang out longer on your first day" Eric spoke in a low voice, he leaned forward in his seat. His voice echoed what Ain was thinking.

"You haven't been traveling through space. " Ryan growled, Ain scooted back from Ryan he sensed the anger radiating from the rhino's body. Ain eyes darted around the tiny diner and was relieved that no one was paying attention.
"We can meet up later after we get settled." Ain quickly interjected, the tension in the room was beginning to reach a critical mass. 
"That sounds like a wonderful idea." Sally awkwardly laughed. Ain breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that a man of Ryan stature wouldn't back down.

Zach and Ain waved good bye to the humans as they stood outside the diner. He was already missed hanging out with Sally. He sighed as they walked in a different direction from the humans. "Ain, Glare and I want to check the gun shop. We can't be weaponless in a place like this." Ryan spoke to him on the way to the elevator. Ain was Muddled when Ryan said "a place like this." From what Ain gathered it seemed like a normal place.

Ain was still getting his bearings down walked down a long hallway. They were only a few humans walking the hall and weren't paying much attention to them. "What do you mean a place like this?" Ain asked making his voice low enough so that no one could ear hustle.
"Guess they didn't teach you about the history of Earth." Ryan sighed. "Well it all started with their American president, Donald Trump. He was scared of anything foreign so he decided to flex Earth's power and went to war with a bunch of different planets. The end result was putting once flourishing planets on the endangered list. Luna di-" Glare shot him a look. He just nodded to her. 

"What he was going say was that luna hasn't always been good." Everyone's head whipped toward Derrick as he spoke cooly."What you weren't going to tell them that Luna used to help the humans simply because they hired them to help." Ain looked between Glare and Ryan questioningly while Derrick was speaking. "Why do you think that I was genetically modified." 

"We created you?" Ain spoke slowly the conversation ended once they arrived to a kid oddly smiling at them. 
"So you guys must be the ones that Steve was talking about. The kid looked Ain around age, he had braces so it forced him to speak with a lisp. He looked to pristine for Ain's liking. His uniform was way too clean like he just got it from the dry cleaners. "Follow me ." He continued to smile while speaking. 

Must be a cadet and looks as if he's a teacher's pet, the ones that make me look bad. "All we sell here is prop weapons, citizens aren't allowed to own energy guns." Ain rolled his eyes while tuning the cadet continued to talk.They strolled past mountains of fake weapons, while the cadet continued to ramble on about how they don't usually get visitors from different planets and from what Ain had learned he wasn't surprised."This 

is were I'll be parting ways with you." He vigorously shook Ryan's hand as they stood in front a black door, the cadet left as it silently glided open. Revealing a sterile white room no bigger than a bed room. Ryan had Derrick and Rocko stand outside not wanting them to have a weapon. A military personnel greeted them and explained how this room was used in emergencies and they could take anything as long as they brought it back after their stay. 

"Aren't you glad we played hooky?" Ain smiled at Zack as they were looking through the pistols. 
"Yeah it is nice to leave Luna every once and while. But I wonder what we are going to do about Derrick and Rocko?" And this was the reason why Ain liked having Zach around he was one of those smart people that knew how to enjoy life but at the same time doesn't change his personality. 
"We are going to get them off this planet tomorrow." Ryan had butted himself into the conversation. "Earth is not safe, if they find out who Derrick is before we leave they get their weapon back." 

"But he's a serial killer, why would they want him back?" Ain asked as he picked up an energy pistol and sword. 
"Just for that reason, they want him to become an assassin. If they kill the leader or leaders and put who they want in charge, it's same effect as taking over." This time Glare butted in.

As she holstered her dual batons and pistols. Ain realized that they were planning to go to war with the humans. "So are we going to-"
"We'll finish this conversation in the room." Ryan cut Ain off. Ain was about to finish what he was going to say but the look in the rhino's eyes made him drop what he was going to say. He finished placing his sword in its sheath behind his back, the hilt facing his left paw. As they got in the elevator the elevator opaqued before they hit a button. Everyone grabbed their pistol. 

"There's Sergal on the other side."  Derrick announced coolly. 

"No it can't be." Ryan unholstered his pistol. "This has to be a human changing their genes." Ryan sounded so sure that Ain gripped his gun with authority. He wasn't going to allow them to take Derrick. 

"You don't want to do that." A deep voice growled from the other side of the elevator. That only made them grip their weapons tighter. Ain started to feel claustrophobic, his heart started to beat faster. The feeling of the walls closing start to make the middle of his left shoulder itch. He just needed to get out.

"I'm not opening that door until you put your weapons away." Ain head looked to the far right corner of the elevator a seen the camera. the red light on the camera stared back at him menacingly. Ryan signaled them to put away their weapon. Finally the doors opened, Ain rushed out first gulping fresh air. He knew that everyone was going to stare at him but he just needed to breath. He stood erect as everyone joined him. They where in another corridor Ain sighed someone needed to talk about these passageways to humans.

"Pull yourself together soldier don't act like a babe in the woods."  Ryan called out. Ain held back a smart retort and just glared back at Ryan. Glare patted Ain on the back that got him breathing normally. He knew he would have to get over his fear of small spaces but he would never forget being packed on escape pod to escape the war ships from Earth and not knowing if they were going to get shot out the air. Ain shook his head clearing the memory from his mind. He stared at the Sergal who was slightly taller then him. From what Ain could tell they had a heathy back and white coat. Ain always found it interesting that Sergals where a combination of a shark raptor and wolf, and their heads reminded him of cheese wedges. 

"This is no place to talk." The sergal began to walk down the passageway. Ain looked around and it was empty then took whiff of the air and got the faintest smell of human around a month old. Follow me." The sergal quickened his pace.

"There's no one here." Ryan called out. "The last human where was a few weeks ago." Confirming what Ain already knew. The sergal ignored them and continued his speedy escape, Ain felt for the sergal he was just paranoid it reminded Ain when he first got to Liona. They entered the Sergal room.but Ain wouldn't call it a room it was more like a control center there where at least 20 computer monitors running a constant feed of the lobby and a few of the other main rooms, and there was a fine layer of filth covering the ground of food wrappers and such, there was only one piece of furniture; It was a green saggy couch, Ain had never seen an inanimate object show so much emotion.

"Sorry bout that, the name is Raine." Raine rubbed the black fur on top of his head sheepishly. "I know I kidnapped you, but I had to they were going to play you into a trap."

Ain turned Zach and mouth the word trap. Zach shrugged his shoulder in response. 
"What trap?" Glare asked as she stared at the sergal. "We would have picked up on something." She said mainly speaking to Ryan. 
"Those weren't kids you were talking to, and that fight you had was staged."

The sergal sat at the desk and rolled the film back on the center monitor. Ain gritted his teeth as he watched the humans that they had lunch with talk to some military personnels outside of the burger joint they ate at. Ain unholstered his energy pistol it fit comfortably into his paw, he pulled the tigger nothing happened. "They gave us props." Ain growled as everyone besides Raine stared at him. They had fooled them. Payback is a female dog. 

"Don't worry I thought something like this would happen." Raine got up and walked into a room and closed the door. Ain couldn't get a read from the sergal he was so scatter brained. 

Ain eyes opened when Zach sat in the sergal's chair. "What do think you-" Zach cut Ryan off before he could scold the wolf. 
"What's our room number?" Zach asked as he typed a series of commands on the computer. 

"1267, why?" Glare recovered the quickest. Ain still couldn't get over what his best friend did it was out of character. He walked behind the chair, he watched as their room came up on the monitor. There were more than 20 people shuffling around the room, moving furniture and placing down microphones and various other observation tools. 

"We can't stay there we won't make it through the night." Ain said as watched them take their privacy. 
"It's actually quite simple." Raine spoke as he rolled out a rack with grey one piece suits that reminded him of a wet suit Ain's eyes lit up when he saw one of them had wing covers. "You guys are going to stay in my spare room, at least until you figure out how to leave." Ain only counted four suits guessing Rocko and Derek wouldn't get one. "I made you some armor and modified some weapons." 

"What about me and Rocko?" Derrick asked as he stepped up to the sergal, they were standing nose tip to nose tip. This was what Ain was worried about. 

"I don't know murderer what about you."

Ain heard a faint growl coming from Derrick. 
"I was under the control of two governments cheesecake." Derrick spit the insult back at the sergal. 
"Doesn't change the fact that sergals are on the brink of extinction because of what you did you monster." Ain watched as Derrick's claws began to change color and elongate. He waved to  Ryan who was directly across from Ain. 

Ryan grabbed the wolf and slammed him into a wall away from them. Ain turned back to Raine. "You are you alright?" Ain asked as he placed his scaled paw on the the sergals shoulder.  

"Yeah, I just had to get that off my chest." Sergal adjusted his glasses on his face. "You sure you want to be part of military it seems you better with the peacekeepers, you have a level of humanity that I haven't seen in a long time." 

"Yeah I know but I have to prove to my late mother that the military can do good." Ain turned his head to Zach. "Isn't that right?" 
""Yeah we are going change the universe one planet at a time." Zach responded. 

"Well I want you two to think about something. The sergal adjusted his glasses again. "What will it cost you? Everything has a price no matter how small you think it is." 
Ain was about to respond but Raine cut him off. "Don't say anything just think." They handed them a room cards and the rack with the armor on them.