Name: A.K# 14 : I Am Scully, Hear Me Roar by Will "Smoothfox" Turner Type: Alternate universes, one of a 25 strong series. Note: To get the full series, go to either www.geocities.com/willfanfic or www.geocities.com/agentemilysim. If you liked this story, I'll gurantee you'll love the others. Disclaimer: All copyrights of The X-Files are owned by Chris Carter, his production company and Fox Distributions. The A.K characters, and any new characters are mine, and may only be used by others with my permission and a preview of their work. Contact me: will2000uk@yahoo.com or smoothfox@dangerous-minds.com if you have any questions or comments. I am also available through the Fox-Revelation Mailing List (See the websites.) Dear Reader/s, Imagine the embarassment if you started braying like a donkey in the middle of a meeting. Consider Scully's embarassment, then consider The Curse's problems.... ~Will A.K#14: I Am Scully, Hear Me Roar! "I'm like a headtrip to listen to, 'cos I'm only giving you things you joke about with your friends inside your living room. The only differencce is I've got the b..." Rob glowered at Ren. "Ren, you've rapped through three Eminem albums today. Enough is enough. Chloe's got a movie and pizza ready..." Ren was off like a shot. It was an unusually quiet day in Gold Hill. Bunny and Johnny were shopping in Pinball City, while Sally was catching up on file work. Rob would interrupt her in a minute, but he then contemplated the quietness... Something had to be wrong. Maybe it was just that he couldn't relax. Except it wasn't. Because in Baltimore, Mulder and Scully were chasing a lion (supposedly escaped from the zoo, despite the fact that nobody had declared one missing.) They chased the lion into an alley. Without warning, the lion stood up, and hurled something at Scully. The talismen swung around her neck like a hoop caught on a bottle. What was this, Narnia Goes To Maryland? She then felt herself transform.... A second ago, Mulder had a partner. Now he had a dog. However, the dog had Scully's hair, and the talisman on her neck. This was just a tiny bit too weird... Hunter watched The Curse come out of his house. Anty had set him up nicely. However, Hunter was programmed to capture, or, if necessary, kill. He preferred the latter necessity. He picked up his mini belt bazooka, and took fire... "Three people, all with their heads blown off. All near this alley. Scully, I want you to...Scully, what are you doing?" "Just scratching, Sir." Skinner looked at her closely. "Why are you scratching your ear with your foot?" "I...don't know." "Just do the damn autopsy." Skinner was bored of this. He needed coffee, and quickly. Scully looked at the three bodies. No evidence of head at all, with the exception of tiny pieces of chin. "Only something like a Magnum could take out a person's head, but three people in the same place? They'd have to have a bazooka or something, and even then you wouldn't get a clean..." Scully would've finished her sentence, except she'd just turned into a cat. "Well, Fluffy Scully, I'll have to call our other furry friends..." Sally looked at her screen. Amazingly, she'd cracked a top secret Metalfox encryption. It told of a complex operation involving Animatron and Hunter. "Animatron will keep those meddling FBIs away, and Hunter will bring The Curse back to me...." "Careful, you're beginning to sound like him" Rob japed, as he flipped his way next to Sally. Sally wasn't laughing. "You mean this is an actual Metalfox operation." "Nothing gets past you, Rob. We've got to find Anty. This is serious..." "I know." began Anty. "We have to find Scully, Animatron, Hunter and The Curse. We have to destroy Animatron, stop Hunter, cure Scully and save The Curse from Hunter. If we're lucky, we might just do it." "Personally, I make my own luck." Sally shook her head. Rob was a sucker for cliches... Mulder was getting irritated by Scully's constant purring. "It's crazy." Scully told her partner, while simultaneously pawing a yarn ball. "I turn into these animals, turn back, and then still have residual animal thoughts and actions." Mulder looked at the talisman on her neck, and would've begun looking below, when he realised he had to be proffesional about this. "Why don't you just take it off?" Mulder stated the obvious. Scully scratched at him. "I've tried that, Mulder. It's wedged on my neck, like the albatross in The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner." Mulder felt The Curse bump into him. "Where are you off to?" he asked. Surely nothing was that important. "He's coming for me!" Scully looked at him. What a nutbar. She then turned into a red squirrel. She saw him grabbed by an electronic net. She would have done something, but the A.K crew finally showed up. "Stay back." Noodles aimed the laser directly at Hunter. He dived aside, before shooting twin guns at him. Noodles whipped out his digging blades, allowing the lasers to ping right back, before landing a fly kick at Hunter's head. Rob spotted the octopus out of the corner of his eye... Rob went for his hook gun, but was grabbed before he time to react. Animatron shuffled around in The Explorer like a kid in a Lucky Dip. His tentacle was electrocuted by Sally. "This one's for Scully." She announced, pulling out an A.K chain gun... The octopus riddled with lasers fell to the floor, stumbled, then promptly exploded. Hunter, meanhile was making off with The Curse on his back. Mulder picked up his gun, and took careful aim. Hunter fell to the floor. Playing possum. Acting dead. The oldest survival trick in the book. Hunter flipped up, and zapped Mulder, Scully and the A.Ks with a teleport blimping spray. "HAPPY TRAILS!" He teleported The Curse back to Flying Castle, but didn't notice that Rota had set The Explorer to auto-pilot...and it was heading straight for him.... TO BE CONTINUED IN: THE UNIVERSAL CURSE