Special Mission 11.5: The Buddyroid from Nowhere

Above the city the turbine powered Megazord unleashed a blast of eccentricity on the Enetron tower, and then started to draw up the green smoky energy into it's systems.

"It's absorbing the Tank's Enetron from above," Toru warned from the command center as Commander Kuroki weighted their options.

"Hiromu."

The Red Buster nodded at the control of Buster Ace, his personal megazord, as he adjusted the control and stared up at his enemy, lighting raining down around him.

"It's no use I can't get close!"

"Leave it to me!" came a female voice over the coms, the voice of the Yellow Buster, Yoko Usami as she flew onto the scene in her Buster Machine, the Rabbit Copter.

"An eye for an eye!" Her console added irritably.

"And flying for flying," she nodded as they pushed closer, evading the lighting strike of the enemy Megazord, "Her I go!"

But as they closed the distance the Megazord stopped absorbing Enetron and turned it's turbines toward Yoko, hammering the small yellow coptor with intense winds, that made the Machine hard to control.

"What is this wind?!" her console/buddyroid protested.

"Eh?!" Yoko howled as they were blasted into the stratosphere, tumbling out of control, and taking them out of the rest of the fight, "No waaaaaaay!"

RH-03 soon crashes hard at the edge of the city, near a second damaged Enetron Tower, helmet cracked Yoko tumbles out of her vehicle while as the small yellow rabbit buddyroid soon join her, both collapsing in exhaustion as they catch their breath.

"Ah moe," Yoko stamps her foot as she looks back to her damaged copter and rises her Morphin' Brace to her mouth, "We need a repair crew out here, stat!"

"One is on the way," the other agent in command, Miho Nakamura responds, "But our sensors are picking up strange readings in your immediate area, can you investigate?"

"Roger, rabbit!"

"Okay!"

Demorphing Yoko takes a moment to refuel with a piece of candy from one of her pouches just as Usada speaks up, "Yoko! Over there!"

Picking up their pace the duo gasp, leaning by what appears to be a pillbug themed buddyroid, humanoid, and most curiously of all, female.

"En...e..tron," the buddyroid groans, 'P-Please."

"Just who are you," Yoko narrows her eyes suspiciously.

The Buddyroid groans, sitting up but still clearly dizzy, that is if Buddyroids could be dizzy, and repeats her plea, "En...e...tron...please."

Yoko holds her ground, pouting, "I'm not giving you anything until I know who you are."

"Exactly," Usada adds, "how do you know you're not working with Enter."

"E-Enter? Where?" Suddenly the robot was on her feet, terror in her voice, in fact it was almost as if she had two voices for a moment, but her damage and weakness quickly took her back to the ground.

That was enough for Yoko who just nodded to Usada as he wheeled past the stranger and into the tower, whith a chipper "Roger, rabbit!"

"Careful now," Yoko says softly as she helped prop up the buddyroid, her eye lights starting to flicker, "I'm Yoko. Yoko Usami, Yellow Buster. Usada will get you some Enetron but first what is you name?"

"Our name?" Again there was that strange duel voice, or just an echo as both sounded quite similar. "H-Hanna. Ladybug."

Usada soon returned with a couple cans of Enetron in his hands and set them down next to Hanna, still weak Yoko helped pop the tab and hold a straw to her mouth-plate.

"Okay Hanna," Yoko smiled, "Where did you come from?"

"N-No," She shook her head as she thumped on her chest gently, "I'm Ladybug, Hanna is my precious cargo."

"Cargo?"

Ladybug nodded, her strength returning with each sip, as a panel flipped open on her chest, which display a series of pulses, like a heart monitor, which were weak, but steady, "I'm a medical Buddyroid, a Mediroid, created by the brilliant Jin Masato in sub space. To preserve the life of my precious cargo, H-Hanna."

"P-Pleased to meet you," said the other voice weakly.

"You have a person inside of you?" Yoko gasped, "H-How? W-When."

"T-Thirteen years," Hanna whispers, "I-I think, it's hard to tell time in sub space."

Yoko just sat there in shock, tears starting to build up in the corners of her eyes, "You've been alive all this time in subspace...maybe..."

"Yoko," Usada cautioned gently.

"Right, Right, one thing at a time," She nodded, drying her tears as she put on a smile and helped Hana Ladybug to her feet.

"So this is E-Earth?" Hanna asks softly, looking around, "It's so bright."

Yoko smiles, she wasn't sure why but she smiled. Around this time as well a staff of vehicles rolled up to drag RH-03 way for repairs, and Yoko introduced Hanna and Ladybug to the staff.

"You've been to sub space?" Hiromu leaned in close to Hanna, eyes wide, "What was it like, are their other survivors? Tell us about your creator Jim Masato!"

"Hiro-mu!" Yoko scowled as she pulled Hanna's chair back and put herself between them, "You're being too nosy, Hanna and Ladybug just arrived and were pretty badly hurt."

"S-Sorry, you're right..." Hiromu hung his head, "Sorry Hanna, Ladybug."

"It's alright," they said together as they wove a hand dismissively.

Now it was Ryuji's turn to get uncomfortably close, though to his credit he did keep a more control tone, "A Mediroid eh? So you are functioning something like an Iron Lung for Ms. Hanna."

"Miss isn't nessic-" Hanna started to protest but was cut off by Ladybug, "Very good! Yes a lot like an Iron Lung! You see Subspace isn't like Earth, the gravity is strange, the air toxic, and of course no food, a very inhospitable place! My brilliant creator Jin Masato saw these issues and how they would effect Master Hanna and built me to function as a mobile care unit until he could find a way to get us back to earth."

"I helped!" Hanna huffed, "It wasn't all Jin-Sempai!"

"Of course, of course Master, but it was the great Jim who came up with my design!"

Yoko chuckled, with how similar their voices were it was almost like watching Ladybug argue with herself.

"You haven't been out of that suit in 13 years?"

"You haven't eaten?"

"How do you...you know."

Ladybug puffed out her chest in pride, "My systems were designed to care for every single one of Master Hanna's needs."

"You haven't eaten in 13 years," Yoko gasps as she pulled a candy bar from one of her pouches and put it in Ladybug's hand. "That's horrible."

"T-Thanks," Hanna's voice cracked s she held the bar, then Ladybug's mouth plate folded forward and she feed the bar in from above as Hanna gave a soft murmur of delight, "I honestly cant even remember what food tastes like, this is the best day of my life."

The Buster chuckled, interrupted only as the Commander stepped over, "Ladybug, seeing as you are now safe here on Earth I think it's time to let your chge free to take in the fresh air and so we can officially meet your other half."

"Oh I can't do that, not yet," Ladybug shook her head.

"I'm afraid my partner is correct," Hanna adds.

"Muscle atrophy and vitamin deficiency, correct?" Ryuji surmises.

Hana nods, "13 years without food, water, sunlight, or exercise, I'm little more then skin and bones. Cut loose of Ladybug I wouldn't be able to stand, let alone walk out into the sun."

Ryuji nods, "We need to reintroduce you're body slowly to those things, build it back up. Tell me is Ladybug going to experience any issues as you gain mass?"

She shook her head and her around metal plates expanded out until she looked cartoonishly obese before returning to her normal proportions, "The Great Jin Masato designed me with expanding plates so I could adjust to Master Hanna's dwindling body, and then back again as Master Hanna recovers."

"How did you survive this long without food and water," Ryuji once more cuts in.

Ladybug laughs, "Again the Great Jin Masato is to thank, with virtually nothing to work with he designed my interior chamber to convert Enetron into nutrients to sustain my charge."

"The problem is," Hanna explains, "is, and I'm sure this comes as no surprise to you, Enetron is in short supply in Messiah's subspace. And the system is the most efficient, I've survived, but I've done anything but thrive. Which is why we needed to take the first opportunity that presented itself to get back to Earth, the truth is..."

"The truth is..." Hanna gave a long sigh, "I'm not exactly sure how much longer I would have lasted in subspace, even with Ladybug's eternal vigilence...s-so..."

Suddenly Ladybug's hands opened up, revealing a pair of pale, shriveled, bony fingers while her visor opened up to show similar haggard brown, puffy, tear filled, partial hidden in shadows, eyes. And as little as was visible they spokes volumes for the poor creature trapped within the Mediroid. And with those shriveled hands Hanna clasped each of the Busters, and the command crew in turn, her hands practically ready to turn to dust even in Yoko's tender grip.

"W-Words can not express how h-happy I am to be here, with all of you, things could have gone so much worse, but instead I've been saved, and even welcome. S-So….thank you."

The sincerity of the words cut everyone deep even as Ladybug seal the exposed body back off, and while the arrival of a survivor of subspace filled everyone present with questions those questions could wait for another day. Hanna had already suffered enough for one lifetime after all.