A few days passed since the conversation with Jacks and Rez was eager to get back to training. In his room he worked out through the morning doing push-ups, sit-ups and squats. Sweat dripped from his toned body as he exhaled shakily, pushing himself forward as he felt the burn and pain of his muscles screaming at him to stop.

Eventually he had to stop, as he fell forward onto his stomach and panted due to his overexertion. He was wearing only a pair of loose shorts to work out in, so the cool floor was a blessing on his sweating body. His tail laid limp on the ground and his ears could barely move, but he forced himself up off of the floor and sat cross legged. He was about to do some meditation as Coco suggested when his ears perked up at the sound of the door sliding open. He looked over and was surprised to see Krowe.

Krowe waved at him as he carried a bag over his shoulder, it looked like it was full of a few cheeky treats that they could indulge themselves in.

"Hey there wolfy" he said in his trademark Irish accent.

Rez waved back

"Snakeskin" he retorted

Krowe faked a wince and pouted, but chuckled

"That's just rude" he said as he placed the bag down and rubbed his face, which of course had his subtle snake skin texture and pattern. But he sat down in front of Rez with a grin.

Taking a look at the contents of the bag, he was correct in assuming that it was a less than healthy goody bag. Big sandwiches, some sugary candies and some chocolate.

Rez smiled slightly "This is a surprise. But, I can't eat chocolate." Ever since the transformations he underwent in laboratory, his diet had to go a drastic change. Like his instincts, his diet became more canine like. He could still eat plenty of things that dogs and wolves couldn't eat, but chocolate was one that would make him very sick. And he wouldn't even chance it with raisins. Not that he was overly fussed about losing the ability to eat them.

Krowe nodded "I know, it's for me" he said, as he pointed to the packets of gummy sweets.

Looking to them, Rez took them out of the bag and put them on his bed before looking back at Krowe, who was already eating a chocolate bar.

He raised an eyebrow "That's a lot of chocolate to eat in one night" Rez stated.

Shrugging, Krowe nodded "Yeah but, I've been dieting for ages. One night of chocolate can't hurt... Well, it could hurt you" he chuckled.

Rolling his eyes, Rez looked over to the window and watched Jupiter in the distance. It's orange and yellow glow contrasted against the pitch black void that surrounded them.

"You ever wonder what's beneath those clouds?" Krowe asked as he stood up and walked over to the window, still chowing down on his chocolate.

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"Even with all the technology we have today we can only go around, what. One hundred and fifty miles give or take." he added.

Rez nodded as he stood up and walked over "Yeah, it's kinda scary. It seems so quiet and tranquil from here. But when you go down there it's constant storms that would rip buildings from their foundations on Earth."

Krowe nodded in agreement, then chuckled "I'm pretty sure Jacks could walk through that on her way to the shops"

Rez couldn't help but laugh and nod "Yeah, she walked through that on her way to school"

Krowe chuckled and smiled as he ate his chocolate, and his eyes were drawn back to the window.

For a few quiet moments the two shared a moment and looked out at the void, and the smaller Ironclad ships that were floating out there.

But the peace wouldn't last long as the lights began to flicker in the room, but with a quick glance it was across the whole fleet. The lights on the outside of the smaller ships were flickering as well.

Unsure of what was going on, the two looked at one another and rushed to the door to find out. But the door wouldn't open, it seemed like everything was malfunctioning as the lights shut off and a dim red light replaced it. They were on emergency power as everything flickered and malfunctioned.

Feeling a strange electricity flow through their bodies that felt similar to static, their eyes were drawn back to the window as the whole room was lit up by a blue light that came from outside.

Far in the distance, a blue explosion went off, and what looked like streaks of lightning were shooting off of it constantly.

It looked like in the center of it all was a giant ship, but it was hard to make out details. It looked like it was painted in the black and red colours of Theodore's military.

The strange thing was however was that the ship wasn't being damaged or destroyed by the strange energy radiating off of the explosion, in fact it seemed to be absorbing it. The explosion was being pulled back into the ship and the electricity shooting off of it was speeding up.

Rez and Krowe watched in confusion and fear as it reached a singularity and caused a gigantic shockwave. The explosion was blinding as it sent out a visible shockwave that shot through the vacuum at an extreme speed.

It was quick to hit the Ironclad fleet and it looked like it completely disabled all of the ships in the fleet.

The ships all began to drift out of formation, and the artificial gravity was even turned off. Everything in Rez's room began to float.

Krowe and Rez looked back out the window, and they saw that the ship was gone, but it left a blue streak of the electrical energy in the direction it seemingly went. But it dissipated after a few minutes.

Floating in the air, still in his boxers, Rez pushed himself off of the ceiling towards his wardrobe "Okay, what the fuck was that?!"