Teddy makes his way to the locker room, having just finished a very long day of paperwork concerning the end of the job that he had been performing here for seven years. He enters the room pausing when he sees two fellow guards inside, they tend to several fresh wounds they had received. Teddy shaking his head and ignoring them as he approaches his locker, opening it and grabbing his clothes so that he could change out of his uniform and go home for the day, this action stops when an announcement plays on the loud speakers.

“All available security personal please make your way to the north-east hallway on the fifth floor.”

Teddy sighs as he throws his clothes back into his locker. “With Yula gone I guess that would be me too.”

The two security guards that were in the locker room dressing their wounds get panicked looks on their faces. “Not again.” They quickly get up to leave running out of the door as fast as they could.

Teddy watches them leave curiously. “Again…?” He runs after them, following them to the destination the announcement had called them to. Now that he thought about it, announcements like this had been going off on the loud speakers all day, but he had never responded to them because he wasn’t allowed to leave Yula unattended, but now that Yula was gone he made up one of the ‘available security personal’ that was supposed to response to these messages.

He reaches the elevator, several members of security already crowding into it, Teddy quickly squeezes his way inside before the doors shut and the elevator begins to move up to the fifth floor. Teddy looks around at the security officers around him, each one readying their weapons. Teddy, although confused by the action at first, does the same, the elevator doors open and all of them running out onto the fifth floor beginning to rush towards the north-east hall.

They reach the north-east hall where general Mort is waiting for them, he barks his orders to them as soon as he sees them. “Subdue her! Use whatever force you feel is necessary but DO NOT kill her!”

One of the guards speaks up. “Where is she?”

Mort frowns as he looks down the hall. “She escaped, we tracked her down to this hallway, my men on the other side said she hasn’t come past them. So she’s hiding in one of the rooms in the hall.”

The guard that had questioned General Mort looks back to the group counting the heads he had available. “Alright then that’s one to each room. Everyone take a room and search it, if you find her do not engage, radio everyone your position and wait for backup.”

The security guards all nod their heads in understanding, Teddy and the rest of the group split up, each one taking a room as they had been ordered to and beginning to search through it for the test subject that had escaped.

Teddy searches through the room with his weapon drawn and ready, not entirely sure of what he was looking for or what to expect. He knew that it was a woman, and Mort had used the word escaped so she had to be one of the test subjects as no criminals or prisoners were kept in this building. The caution being used in regards to her meant that this test subject was violent and capable of hurting someone if they were to confront her alone.

He comes to a stop when he hears a threatening growl, Teddy turns in the direction it had come from and catches a slight glance of movement. Someone was definitely here. He points his weapon towards the area while bringing his left hand to his radio, holding the button down and beginning to speak in it. “This is Teddy Conner, I’m in room number five-twenty-three and I think that I may have found-”

Teddy doesn’t get a chance to finish as the shadow he had his weapon pointed toward leaps out, quickly dashing to his right side and attacking him, Teddy reacts quickly to meet the advance blocking her attack and throwing her back, her body hitting a table and sending her and the object both toppling to the ground, a threatening snarl filling the air as the woman gets back to her feet leaping over the table to attack him again.

Teddy drops his weapon freeing both of his hands, his right hand grabbing onto her neck while his left pushes back against her body to keep her back and hold her in place, a surprised look filling Teddy’s face when he sees her. “A white wolf…”

The door to the room opens and several security guards rush into the room, the white wolf pulls away from Teddy and preparing to attack the new threats, Teddy grabs onto her arm and twists it behind her back, latching one of his legs around hers and bringing her to the ground pinning her down and keeping her in place.

The female wolf lets out an angered scream as she struggles to get free from the lock Teddy had her in. “Get off of me!!” Her struggling immediately comes to a stop when she sees just how many security guards are in the room with their weapons pointed at her.

General Mort enters the room, staring at Teddy and the white wolf he had pinned against the ground. “… you took her down on your own?”

Teddy nods his head well aware that his orders had specifically asked him not to do that. “She attacked me when I was calling for back up, I had to react as the situation called for it to keep from becoming a casualty sir.”

General Mort stares at him. “That’s fine then.” He looks back to several other security guards. “Return the subject to her quarters, and don’t let her escape again!”

Teddy lets go of the white wolf when the others have her restrained, watching as they lead her out, General Mort approaching him and speaking up to get his attention. “You said your name was Conner right?”

Teddy looks back to him with a nod of his head. “Yes sir, Teddy Conner.”

“You wouldn’t happen to be related to a Dolly Conner would you?”

Teddy nods his head, actually not surprised that General Mort would know about his sister, she was someone that was highly talked about among the military for various reasons. “Yes sir. She’s my older sister by four minutes.”

The general nods his head. “Interesting.” He turns around leaving the room, speaking lowly to one of the staff near him. “Get me the files on a Teddy Conner will you?”

Teddy lets out a relived sigh, having thought that he was going to get in trouble, he looks over to one of the security guards standing near him. “I was just waiting for someone to tell me that I had jumped the wrong person and make me look like an idiot.”

The security guard next to him laughs. “No you got the right girl all right. Test subject #2800356. She was brought in last night and has been causing us trouble ever since. The head of security is going crazy trying to keep her under control. They can’t seem to find anyone capable of handling her.”

Teddy sighs at the information. “And I just took her down with my bare hands in front of everyone… great… there goes my slim chance of getting back out on the field.” He slouches his shoulders and he begins to take his leave, heading home as he had first been intending to. “I should have ignored the announcement and just went home like I was going to…”

*******

Teddy arrives at home with a tired look on his face, kicking the mail that had been placed through the mail slit in his door and was now littering his doorway, making a note to himself to get to checking the mail later.

He lies down on the sofa staring up at his ceiling, a detail regarding his encounter with the woman bothers him. “She attacked me from the right…” He lifts his hand up holding it over his right eye, seven years ago he had been wounded and ended up losing his vision in his right eye, as well as his ability to work on the field as a soldier, but that had been years ago and after a surgery and much recuperation he had gotten his vision back. Sure from time to time it would be a little fuzzy, more so in the dark, but that wasn’t much of a handicap at all he had thought.

The white wolf though, she had somehow figured out that his eye had been wounded, and had tried to attack him where she had thought a blind spot to be, unaware that the problem had been fixed and that the blind spot was no longer there.

Teddy lifts his hand from his face, perhaps he was thinking too deeply into this, maybe it was a coincidence that she decided to attack him in the manner that she did. He closes his eyes trying not to think about it as he begins to drift off to sleep, today had been a long day and he’ss more than ready for it to end and for tomorrow to come.

*******

As soon as Teddy arrives at work the next day he is called to meet with the head of security, and just as he had predicted that night before heading home, Teddy was given the task of keeping test subject #2800356 under control.

Teddy leaves the head security office, his head down and shoulders slouched, he had really hoped that he could have been put back out on the field instead of continuing to work within the confines of this building, but apparently not only had he demonstrated how capable he was, a lot of higher up figures whom he had hardly heard of had many very positives things to say about him, so much that it would be foolish to hand this job to anyone else in the security division.

A voice calls out to Teddy getting his attention. “Hey Conner, it looks like the two of us are going to be working together, how about that?”

Teddy brings his head up as he looks ahead of him spotting a skunk leaning against the wall in wait for him to come out of the room, Teddy recognizes him almost instantly. “Magellan, what are you doing here?”

Zack Magellan was a newer member of the military that Teddy had seen before, he always observes the sidelines from General Mort’s side and is never on the field, unlike Teddy though he’s still regarded as a soldier and not as a guard. When Teddy had last seen Magellan the two didn’t exactly get along, but they didn’t really fight either, for the most part they were indifferent to one another.

Zack looks back at Teddy with a grin. “General Mort thought that he would bring in one of his more trusted soldiers to help keep the white wolf under control. She’s been causing a lot of trouble I hear. He doesn’t want to take chances, so he wants two dependable soldiers on her at all times.”

Teddy nods his head, although he was honoured to be thought as comparable to a soldier, he had still been stuck with the task of guard duty. “Yeah, apparently she keeps attacking her guards and trying to escape.”

Zack smiles at the idea. “This is my second assignment where I’ll be active on the field, well... so to speak anyway. Save a few exceptions here and there everything up until now has just been observation, that’s partly why you were brought in, the military does not want me working alone just yet. General Mort has set it up so that I’m only allowed assignments if I have a partner.”

Zack crosses his arms looking at Teddy with an impressed grin. “I heard you were able to take her down all on your own. That’s pretty impressive for a security officer, I know how difficult she is to keep under control so I’m aware of how hard that is to do.”

Teddy and Zack begin to walk down the hall, Teddy questioning Zack as they both started heading towards their destination. “You know her?”

Zack nods his head. “Of course I do, even though it wasn’t technically a part of my orders I was one of the men that caught her and brought her in. Trust me it wasn’t easy, everything about the assignment that night was hectic, and she put up a tough fight, then if dealing with her wasn’t bad enough trying not to get killed by her father as he tried to get her back made things almost impossible.”

Teddy stares at Zack disturbed by the information. “You kidnapped her?”

Zack shakes his head no, not believing that to be the case at all. “It’s only kidnapping if it’s a registered domestic, wild’s like her that refuse to become a part of society obviously don’t fall under the same rules as us domestics.”

Teddy looks to the side, that not sounding right at all, wild or domestic they were still people with lives and families all the same. “My parents were wild’s you know, so does that mean that if someone were to kidnap me or my sister that it would be just fine and no one would get into trouble.”

Zack turns back to Teddy. “How many times do I have to tell you? Don’t go openly admitting stuff like that to people. Not only does it creep people out but it’s gotta be embarrassing to you doesn’t it?” He stops in front of the room the subject they were supposed to look after was waiting in. “Not to mention, the keyword in that sentence of yours is ‘were’, they cleaned up their act and became domestics right? So you and you sister are safe from kidnappers.” He laughs at the thought. “Though I don’t see how either of you would have to worry, it’s hard for me to picture either you or your sister allowing something like that to happen.”

Teddy frowns at the response. “It was more a question of morality than one of concern about myself.”