“Hi, I’m Bug. If anyone would like to drop their weapons and surrender, I would really appreciate it if you did. I can even help teach you how to be a good guy. Have you ever considered that? We could all fight the Gryalth together instead of you being foot soldiers for the terrible people at the top,” she yelled the moment she entered her raid target.

Several of the people in the lobby looked like they had seen a ghost as they witnessed Bug, the pedigree paladin, a very nice dog, speak, even if it had been to give them a chance at redemption. Some of them, though, seemed to listen. They reached inside their jackets and pulled their weapons out. They then dropped their guns to the ground and sat down, nodding to Bug.

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“Thank you, now please wait here for me. I need to talk to everyone,” she said as she barked at the closed door in front of her, blowing it off its hinges. Like Cal, she went floor by floor. Unlike Cal, she made the same offer to every single person she met. She killed no one and took no prisoners, only those willing to leave their weapons behind and follow her back through the portal.

Once she finished she had about fifty men and women gathered outside the building. She had every intention of taking them all home with her. The first step to becoming a better person was understanding you had done something wrong, and humans always needed a dog to show them the way.