Zen was only able to groan hard as his stomach argued with him for food and what it was allowed to have at the immedent moment, Zen ignored all the candy for it would only make the hunger worse as the candy would basicly evaporite when it entered his stomach, even WITH the wrappers still on, and he never really had much of a sweet-tooth. Zen was then startled and distracted by the Doctor as he had moved over to him and placed a hand on his muzzle, stroking it softly in a way that Zen had never felt before; Zen had never REALLY had ANY stroking to his muzzle before, in fact NO-ONE<span style="font-style: italic"> ever</span>was not afraid of him long enough for anything of the sort to happen.<br/><br/>Zen was distracted from the hunger for the moment by the stroking and then heard the Doctor ask about an 'upgrade'. "What will be.....will be!" Then Zen tore at the metal of the flooring with one hand as he ripped up a massive line as he suddenly sprinted across the room, collecting it in one hand and then wrapping it would the thickest lock-bolt that he could find before he bit into it hard to keep his jaws busy from doing something 'else' that would be much less then acceptable at the moment; the nano's stayed with him as he 'told' them what he had just meant with what he had said last, the machines working quickly as they spelled out letters as Zen 'wrote' them with his eyes. <In other words, 'Yes, please'.><br/><br/>Zen then looked back at the Doc, hoping that he and Tantomahl understood the reasoning of why Zen did what he just did; knowing that Rubar would be rather grateful for NOT eating the Doctor when he had a perfect chance many times but restraining himself, forcing his body to fight the hunger but why was it so strong? Zen suddenly remembered the dart and bit into the metal harder, cursing himself for not understanding sooner but there was nothing that he could do at the moment without access to a REAL lab; back on the other side of the building.