Chapter 1: "Arrivals"
The sun was shinning brightly, announcing the first days of spring in Mars. Early in the morning, in a huge, travelling ship, a group of people is gathered, making the last preparations for an important day.
"Hey, are we all set? We don't want to keep 'em waiting, do we?", Semyl's voice resounded onboard the Shaoshyant.
"Hey, don't shout like that. We have already heard you, and we know that we must be on time", Yukito replied her, in a mood that could only be explained due to a headache, product of a hard night.
"Ok, ok, but we are only two here: you and me. Where's everybody else?"
"Mebius must be with Lia, Warren must be checking everything like fuel, etc. Robin and Twede... checking the deck and things like that..."
"And what 'bout the Idiot?"
"Razma? Maybe he overslept..."
"Don't take me so badly, here I am", Razma's voice came from the now opened door.
"He was just helping me with Lia, Sem. He seems he's practicing his paternal instinct", Mebius said from behind, carrying little, pretty Lia in her arms.
"Sis, why do you say something like that!?!", Razma exclaimed, a bit ashamed of that statement made in front of Semyl.
"Uh? You were helping her?", Semyl couldn't ask more, with her cheeks as red as an earthling tomato.
"Seems that the old BIS skirt-chaser wants to settle down...", Yukito noticed, with a mischievous tone of voice.
"Hey, why are you all looking at me like that?", Razma asked annoyed. "I was just helping Sis, what's so weird about that?!?"
"Um... nothing", Semyl said. "Nothing if it was done by any other person", she added immediately.
"Oh, God, give me a break...", he concluded puzzled.
"What's the matter here?", Warren asked from the door, watching everything through his sunglasses. Despite the sudden "fatherhood", nothing seemed to change, externally. Only he knew if there had been any changes within himself or not since the day Mebius and him, helped by the rest of the crew, took care of that little orphan baby who was handed over to Razma, and that almost caused his decease in hands of a furious Semyl.
"Uh... nothing, bro", Razma said quickly, so nobody could go on making fun of him.
Little Lia, who was being held in Mebius arms, started moving and pointing towards Warren. He just when to Mebius side and picked her.
If there was something that that little, cute child who became "BIS' daughter", would never miss, it had to be love and a caring family, as she was being raised by a normal parental image, including a good amount of aunts and uncles as a bonus.
"Where are Robin and Twede? We should get going", Warren said, still holding Lia, who was now quietly resting in his arms.
"Let's get going. They'll follow us for sure", Semyl suggested. She was far too anxious to get to the spaceport. She, as everyone there, had her reasons.
"Alright, there we go", Razma said, but they couldn't walk too much.
"Not so fast", Robin said, coming into the room. "We got a signal from the radar. It seems that some LEVs are attacking a civil facility in the outskirts of the city. It seems to be some kind of laboratory, and whoever it's attacking it, it has some good knowledge about strategies. We should go and find out what's happening", she said, concluding her layout of the current situation.
"What?!? But there hadn't been any serious encounters in the last months!", Semy exclaimed angrily. "Why it had to be today?!?"
"Calm down, Sem"; Mebius whispered.
"I know what kind of day it's today, but if we don't hurry, there could be a great disaster. We don't know if there are any kind of materials in that lab that can blow up the entire sphere", Robin explained calmly.
"There aren't too many enemy LEVs in the 'battlefield'", Twede said, appearing from nowhere. After doing that for such a long time, his "appearances from nowhere" surprised no one, unless someone was off-guard.
"Maybe we should divide into groups", she said thoughtfully, after analyzing it for a few seconds. "Yes, that could work... Sem, Razma, Warren and Yukito, you go to the battlefield. Mebius and I will go to the spaceport. Twede, you stay here"
"But Robin, I want to go to the spaceport!", Semy objected.
"We are all in the same situation. What's more, we need your anger there, so you can finish them off quickly", Robin told her.
"Very funny", Sem replied ironically, yet angrily.
"It can't be helped, so get ready", Robin said.
Semyl, Razma, Yukito and Warren to the garage, while Mebius and Robin left for the spaceport.
A year and a half has passed since the day Cage Midwell and Myona Alderan left Deimos Spaceport, in the search for their own identities and a brighter future for themselves. Mars has been quite peaceful, but it doesn't mean that the there hadn't been any anti-Earth manifestations. There hadn't been any attack from the most important anti-Earth group, BAHRAM, although there was something strange in the air, like everyone knew or had the certainty that someday those turmoil days would return to Hellespontos Sphere. That situation in Hellespontos was what the other spheres could call "peaceful". One by one, several spheres started being controlled by "Vacilia's demon", and only a few remained, and from those few, some were about to surrender. It was the most well prepared sphere, and BAHRAM knew that they couldn't break into it so easily, especially with those troublemakers of BIS in between.
BIS continued with its activities. They knew that someday Mars would be driven into important trouble, so they had to be prepared.
Among BIS members, some things changed. Lia's arrival was like a new beginning for them. A new period in the group's life without its founder and soul, Deckson Geyse, and without Phil. It was hard to get used to that, but they had to go on. Otherwise, Deckson's efforts and Phil's actions, as well as theirs, would have no meaning at all if BIS were to stop working.
Robin became the Captain of the group. That position that she covered in a hurry was given to her after a long chat. Twede is still with the group, following Robin's orders, and not reporting anything to NUT. That company still supplies BIS, as they can still use them as "beta-testers" and, if things went wrong and BAHRAM wanted to leave NUT behind, they had a possible "client".
Razma and Semyl noticed a kind of attraction towards each other, but they still go through separate ways. They almost were together after Cage and Myona left, but both of them denied that supposed attraction. Surprisingly, both of them thought that the other couldn't take something seriously, and there they are, quarreling and wondering if they could have been a good couple.
Yukito's still single. He hasn't changed at all. His relationship with his family has improved a bit, now that his father understands him , and sometimes he provides him some useful data.
Mebius and Warren became parents quite soon, in a figurative way. Mebius is more than delighted with this new aspect of her life. Deep down herself, she takes it as a new chance after losing her baby, Tia. She has become more caring and motherly, and would do anything to prevent Lia of being hurt.
Warren accepted this new "status" as a burden at first, as he was "socially obliged" to do it, but he really loves Lia, although he doesn't show it. He changed little in this time...apparently. Deep down himself, he's proud of his father-ship, and will do anything to protect both Lia and Mebius in any case. Talking about that, about their relationship, Warren hasn't proposed anything to Mebius, and she seems fine in her current position, single with a child but with a "partner" to raise "her child" and with more people supporting them.
And today, the gang was going to have a great day, until the radar caught that emergency...
"Are we already there?", asked Semyl, still furious.
"We are almost there. Get ready to get into", Twede reply, driving the Shaoshyant and checking into the map.
"Why it had to be today? Couldn't they have waited some hours?", she went on, far too depressed this time.
"Never plan things with anticipation", Yukito stated, getting from his seat and dropping the magazine he was reading until that moment.
"Yeah, yeah, but I don't want to be here. Couldn't have come Mebius instead? An OF is better than a LEV, I think", she added.
"Could you stop complaining!?! You are far too repetitive!", Razma yelled.
"Oh, you! Don't tell me you don't want to see them!?"
"Of course I want! But I have to be here, and I can't change that fact"
"Oh, please! How can you be so relaxed if you really want to see 'em, eh?", she asked him.
"Hey, you too, stop fighting. We are already there. Get into your LEVs and stop quarreling", Warren said, talking by microphone from the deck. He could hear everything from there through the speakers placed there.
"See? Go and shut your mouth", Razma said, concluding the discussion.
"Ok, I'm going, I'm going", Semyl replied, getting from her seat and being the last in arriving to the deck.
"Poor Semyl. She wanted so much to be here"; Mebius said, while walking through Deimos Spaceport corridors alongside Robin.
"Yes, I know. But if I told her to come, the others would have wanted to come too, although they wouldn't have complained. I know that now Sem is furious at me, but well, things went like this. I thought that two persons here at the airport were enough, especially with that emergency", Robin replied.
"Sounds right. Talking about that, what kind of place it is?".
"I'm not sure. From what we get with Twede, it seems some kind of laboratory, but we ren't certain. Whatever it is, an attack is no good, in any place".
"I agree with that. But it was strange that only few attacks were taking place in this sphere. I hope that, whoever it is, either Earth or BAHRAM, isn't ready to make things go wrong.", Mebius said thoughtfully, remembering the events from a short time ago.
"Well, we'll only know it when we return to the Shaoshyant, so don't worry until then. We can't do anything from here"
"Yes, I know", Mebius replied, and added immediately, "That's what makes me worry".
"Oh, great", Robin smiled.
"Passengers from the flight 07B2 will arrive to Gate 02. The flight arrives in some minutes, please stay calm while they arrive. Passengers from flight 07B2..."
"That's their flight!", Mebius exclaimed happily, after listening to the speaker. "Oh, I'm so anxious! I really wonder how they are, if they have changed or not..."
"I'm also anxious! Come, let's go! It will only take some minutes to see them again", Robin said, also happily, walking to the deck mentioned before.
"I wonder if I was right about not coming with Lia... she has grown up so much since...", Mebius started saying, but she got interrupted by Robin,
"Sorry, but hurry up, I found the way to the deck"
"Everyone ready?", Twede asked them from the control room, back at Shaoshyant.
"Yes, everyone set", Warren replied through the microphone, from the garage.
"Ok, I'm opening the hatch. Good luck!", Twede replied.
Soon the three LEVs, Caliburnus, Justeen and Dreizhen, and the OF, Durandal II, were out from the Shaoshyant, analizing the area. Some metres away from them, there were some LEVs parked, waiting for an order to open fire. They weren't LEVs from the UNSF forces, and obviously, they weren't the Mars Angels, those gals should be busy with another activity, not with an attack to an unknown facility.
"So, we came here to see some parked LEVs? Is this a joke or what?", Semyl asked ironically, noticing the parked LEVs and no one around in the area.
"Those LEVs... they aren't quite common, aren't they?", Razma analized, looking carefully at the LEVs.
"Well, they seem normal to me", Semyl replied, not paying too much attention.
"They don't look like the UNSF ones. I wonder who they are...", Yukito added.
"Hey, wait, take a look there"; Warren said, pointing a gate, a few meters away from where the unknown LEVs were parked.
Some people were coming out of the facility through that gate, but some, who looked like normal civilians, although some were wearing some overalls and others were wearing white laboratory coats, were being carried into one of the LEVs –the biggest one. It looked like they would be taken to another place, as hostages. When all the civilians were out of the factory, a young, blonde woman appeared. She seemed to be in charge, as she was the one commanding everything.
"What's this?", Semyl asked surprised.
"They are taking all the people of the laboratory into the LEVs, they could take them as hostages or, worse, they are kidnapping them", Yukito replied angrily at the sight of the people being taken into the LEVs without choice.
"I think we should act right now!", Razma suggested, getting ready to open fire, but Warren interrupted him, saying,
"If you move, they'll notice us, and
there are innocent people in between, we can't at so carefree. They could get
killed"
"Yeah, yeah, you're right, but what'll we do now? Just keep watching the
show?", Razma asked.
"Stop discussing about that, they had already seen us", Yukito interrupted, talking coldly.
"What?!?!?", Semyl asked more than surprised, as they weren't quite visible from where the other LEVs were. "How do you know that?"
"Look forward, and you'll see the LEVs moving in our direction. Plus, that blondie is looking in this direction, and she seems quite pissed off", Yukito continued, while starting Justine's engine and checking its status.
"Oh, great!", Razma added ironically. "Let's smash them!"
"They'll regret it for ruining this day!", Semyl said, getting ready to shot her W Beam Cannon in case she was hit.
"Hehe, you sound like some heroine from a late twentieth century girl-show, Semyl", Yukito said, laughing for himself.
"What? What are you talking about, pal?", she asked him, sort of confused.
"Nah... forget it", he just replied. After all, he was the only who understood what he was talking about.
"Ok, everyone ready?", Warren asked, checking his Durandal II status. "Let's see how tough they are".
And so, the three LEVs and the OF went forward to a new battle.
"Robin, I'm too nervous", Mebius said, in front of Gate 02. It was the scheduled time, and no one has appeared through that gate.
"Stay calm, Meb, they should be coming in any moment", Robin tried to calm her down, but she was quite nervous herself. The flight has been announced to land at 3:20 PM, and some minutes had passed, without any sight of the spacecraft. They were quite anxious, and this wasn't helping much, the fact that they couldn't see the spacecraft from where the two women were waiting, standing.
"I wish I could stay calmer, but I can't help it, Robin. It's not such a huge delay, but I can't help it", Mebius said, feeling strange, as she normally was a patient person. "I guess I'm starting acting like Semyl", she added cheerfully.
"Too much time with her", Robin replied, following the joke.
"Maybe. Her company...", she started saying, but she interrupted herself. "Look, some people's coming from there!", she resumed, anxiously, looking at the gate. Some people were coming through the gate, carrying their handbags and things like that.
"Mebius, come, they are coming, over there!", Robin exclaimed, walking to the gate.
"They aren't as tough as we thought, don't you think, guys?"; Razma asked, after finishing off another LEV. With this one, they had defeated 7 LEVs, and they hadn't suffered any major loss. There were only two LEVs left, the ones that were carrying the civilians.
"Ok, now, let's plan the big strategy", Warren said, not paying attention to Razma's commentary. "We can't crush that LEVs, or we'll kill all the civilians there. We should try to make them surrender, or to damage their LEVs without harming the people inside. We don't know who we are dealing with, so we don't know if they'll try to perform any suicidal action or something like that. Just try to damage them, ok?"
"Better done than said", Yukito replied.
Yukito shot Justeen's handgun, and Semyl used "Cali"'s Lasser Blade. Amazingly, that was enough to make the enemy LEV surrender and to rescue all the civilians, but the last LEV left, where the blonde woman/commander was, managed to escape right after the other LEV was defeated.
"Hey, she's escaping! Should I go after her?", Razma asked, angry for that kind of reaction.
"You'll never learn, you...", Semyl replied, also angrily, but this time by Razma's reaction. He'll never stop being a skirtchaser, it seemed.
"Hey, I didn't mean that!", Razma told her, "I'm not that monster you think I'm!"
"Stop, you two", Yukito interrupted, "She's already gone. That LEV's quite fast. Let's see what can we do with the one here."
They got off from their LEVs and went to the enemy LEV, just to find that all the civilians had already left, as soon as the door of the LEV was opened. There wasn't any sign of the pilot, either. So, they had no clue about the attack.
"Oh, great!", Yukito exclaimed angrily, "We save them their life and they all run away like chickens, without even giving us the thanks! Not that I expect that reaction, of course".
"What's worse, we don't have a clue about this attack and this facility", Warren said, checking the LEV for any kind of data, but he couldn't find any.
"Why don't we check inside. There should be something there", Razma suggested, having a look to the gray, old fashioned structure that the facility was.
"Do you think that could work?", Semyl
asked, "What if there's some kind of trap in there?"
"What? Are you afraid?", Razma replied mischievously, almost inside the
building. "Come on, you'll never know if you don't try".
"He's right. I'm going in", Yukito said, joining Razma.
And so, the group went into the facility.
"Myona, Cage! Welcome back!", Mebius exclaimed happily, hugging the returning couple.
"I can't believe that you are here again!", Robin said happily, when greeting them back.
"Thanks for being here", Myona thanked, with tears in her eyes.
"Yes, thanks for coming", Cage replied, picking both his things and Myona's.
"Hey, where's everybody?", Myona asked, surprised.
"What? Aren't you glad of seeing us?", Robin asked her ironically.
"No, it's not that!", she replied, blushing. "The thing is that I don't see Semy and the others anywhere, and she said that everyone would come to the spaceport", she added, innocently. Her innocent nature hasn't vanished, even after passing through those negative events back in the past. Although she was nearly twenty now, she seemed the same Myona from two years ago. Physically, she hasn't changed much: she still wears those long plates, although her hair is longer than the last time she was in Mars.
"Maybe they had an inconvenient", Cage suggested. Unlike Myona, Cage seemed to have changed: his eyes showed a feeling of maturity, and he had that typical beard that appears after some days without a shaving, and that made him look more mature.
"Well, something like that happened", Robin said, talking seriously now.
"We'll tell you on our way to the Saoshyant. Don't worry, it didn't seem like something very difficult", Mebius added, helping Cage with their suitcases and equipment.
"Meb, I can carry all that myself, don't worry", Cage protested, trying to catch the suitcases that Mebius had picked.
"Hey, you've been travelling for too long. It's time you relax", she replied, leading the way to the spaceports' exit.
"There's nobody here", Semyl stated, after having a short look to the facility. "Guys, let's get out of here, this place gives me the creeps", she admitted, examining the walls.
It was a very dark place, old and untidy. There were lots of papers dropped everywhere, and some locations seemed to have been cleaned some long years ago. It seemed more than a closed factory than a laboratory.
"Hey, wait a bit more. We've just entered here and you want to leave", Yukito replied, having a look at some of the papers. There wasn't anything important or relevant in them: they were just some shop ads or old newspapers.
"I'm going further", Razma said, leaving the room and going into another.
"Hey, Razma, stay here! Don't leave me... er... us here, idiot!", she said, correcting herself.
She had no answer –he was already gone.
"Hey, Idiot, what if something happens to you!?! Don't expect me to go in your rescue!", she continued, getting angry.
"Let him do his own way. He's big enough to take care of himself", Warren replied, checking a computer that was left on, but unable to do anything. "Great. I can't access to any file. Yukito, come and try your luck", he said, getting from his chair and picking a bunch of papers.
"Let me see... I can't access, either", he said, after trying for some minutes. "I don't think I can do anything with this, but I'll try".
"Come on, let's go. There's nothing here!", Semyl insisted, after revising some of the papers, but her head was elsewhere, and she wanted to run back to the Saoshyant. Anyway, the papers she had weren't important: just more ads and newspapers.
"Maybe you are right", Warren said, but he was interrupted by Razma's voice, who came running through one of the doors. Breathing heavily, he said, "Come with me, there's somebody left here!".
"What?!?!?", the others asked in an echo, dropping the things they had in their hands.
Razma guided the others to another room, where an almost unconscious person was laying on the ground. It was a young light blue-haired woman, wearing casual clothes. She was in a bad shape, and the fact that she would faint wasn't too far from the reality.
"Hey, are you ok?", Razma asked her, grabbing her from her shoulders to prevent her from fainting.
"Hel...p me", the girl said, in a very tired tone of voice.
"We are here to help you. Hold on", Semyl added gently, placing her hands around her head.
"What's your name?", Warren asked her, distant as always.
"Hazel... Drajner", the girl whispered. Then, her head fall into Semyl's hands. She had fainted.
"Oh, just great!", Semyl exclaimed. "Please tell me that she's not dead, is she?", she asked, worried.
"Well, I think she isn't... but maybe we should check", Razma said, getting nearer the girl, ready to perform CPR.
"Hey, don't dare to do that, you...!", Semyl yelled to him, grabbing his arm tightly and violently.
"I wasn't going to make something rude! Ouch! This hurts, lemme go!", he replied, trying to get rid of her.
"I think that if she doesn't react with your shouts, she's already dead", Yukito said, taking her pulse. "Well, she's just unconscious. But we can't let her here alone. She needs some medical assistance", he said, thoughtfully. "We must take her with us", he added.
"I don't think it's a good idea", Warren said, looking at her carefully. "She seems normal, but we don't know anything about her or this place. It's a big risk".
"But if we take her we can learn more about this place, don't you think so?", Yukito replied, excited.
"I agree with him. We should take her", Razma said, trying to escape from Semyl.
"Ah... I wonder what you would like to do with her. You'll now see!!!!!", she yelled, grabbing his arm tighter than before.
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH, leave me alone!!", he yelled.
"C´mon, Pops", Yukito said, "Reconsider it. She may need some medical assistance after all", he said, staring at the fainted gal. "We ask her some questions and then we take her to a hospital. What do you think?"
Warren looked at the young woman. Maybe taking her with them would be the only way to know what that place was. Moreover, she could really need medical attention. Finally, he said, "Alright, we'll take her"
"Mmh, really?", Semy asked, releasing Razma's arm.
"Oh, finally", Razma said, looking at his poor, hurt arm.
"But if you try to do anything with her...", she said, staring Razma, "you'll remember it for the rest of your life", she added, menacingly.
"What would you do? You'll stay with my arm?", Razma replied ironically, while helping Yukito to carry the fainted gal.
"You bet", was Semyl's simple answer. Although they were few words, she could swear that she saw Razma shuddering.
"Hey, stop with this... quarrel. It's like a torture. I'm quite fed up", Warren said, leading the group to their respective OF and LEVs.
"Always the same fun-loving guy", Yukito said, with his usual irony.
"Why, you...", was Warren's answer.
Soon, the whole group was outside the facility, ready to return to the Saoshyant and to meet Myona and Cage again.
"Well, we are almost there", Robin said, after calling Twede to tell him to open the hatch so they could enter.
"I wonder how's everybody doing...", Myona said, as if she were in a dream.
"Well, we are doing quite well. The situation is not as bad as two years ago, at least here. However, you can't be so trusty and you still have to be prepared...", Mebius said.
"After all, BIS is forever!", Robin exclaimed, interrupting Mebius.
"I think I have heard that phrase before...", Cage said, smiling.
"It has become like our slogan", Robin added, giggling.
"About us... I won't say anything. Just see for yourself!", Mebius said, returning to the previous issue.
"Hey, it's not fair!", Myona exclaimed, happily. "You are going to kill me with this suspense!"
"That's the point", Robin said, turning to the left. "But don't cry, you don't have to wait anymore. We have arrived", she added, proudly.
Right in front of them, the big vehicle known as Saoshyant was parked there, with its hatch opened, waiting for the old newcomers.
"Well, now yes, welcome back", Robin said to Cage and Myona, after getting out from the car.
"Finally, we are here", Myona said.
"Yes, it seemed like an eternity", Cage replied thoughtfully.
"Well, YOU wanted to go and to know different places and to meet new people. Nobody pushed you to do that", Mebius replied calmly.
"And we aren't complaining about that. We are proud of what we have done. Aren't we, Myona?", Cage defended himself.
"We needed that kind of journey, you know...", Myona said, and everybody understood what she meant with those words.
"We aren't blaming you, you know", Mebius said, as if she were apologizing for something. "Well, you know that way, don't you?"
"Of course we do", Cage said, holding Myona's hand while going through the door that lead to the control room.
"Hello, Mr. Twede!", Myona exclaimed from behind, making him drop the papers he had in his hands.
"Hey, oh, hi", he said, a bit annoyed because of that kind of appearance.
"You'll learn to make a good entrance with this", Cage said, "You made us feel like you are feeling now when you showed up of a sudden".
"That's what I call a "drink of one's own medicine", Mebius said, giggling.
"Very funny", Twede replied more annoyed than before, as he never enjoyed being the blank of jokes.
"What's more, you are the same emotional person", Robin said ironically. "Show a bit more your feelings! Don't you have anything more to tell them? What will you do when we get married?"
Twede cheeks turned into a bright red.
"Ehh?!?", Myona exclaimed puzzled.
"So you were hiding it well, Robin", Mebius said naughtily. "And I thought we were friends, that we would tell us sooner", she added, playing the offended part.
"It's not like that", Twede start saying shyly, but he got interrupted by Robin, who said,
"Ah!?! You don't want to admit it? You've just broken my heart!"; but seeing how the situation was developing, and recognizing a little of hate in his expression, she decided to kill the joke.
"Alright, alright. It's not true. It's just something I said to make him speak more. Now, don't make fun of him", she said, in an apologizing tone of voice. However, it was too late.
"Mmhh... maybe. But can you explain why he turned red if it was only a joke?", Mebius said, holding Lia, who was sleeping in one of the sofas in the control room. "I think it's time that you two start practicing...", she went on, walking towards Robin with the little girl in her arms.
"Err.... why? It's not the time, yet", Robin just whispered, nervously.
"She got nervous, has she, Cage?", Myona said, taking part in the new joke.
"Yeah, she seems nervous", he added, laughing after that.
"Mebius...", Robin whispered, angrily now, while watching her coming nearer with Lia.
"Let me introduce you to Lia", Mebius said, turning to Cage and Myona, instead of advancing towards Robin, thing that relieved her.
"This is the little girl that brought Razma the day we left?", Myona asked, quite surprised. "Oh, it's obvious! She grew up since the day we left! And I still thought of her as a tiny little being...", she said sadly.
"Come on, Myona, don't feel bad. It's nothing to worry about", Cage told her, embracing her. The couple seemed prettier than when they were standing side to side. That made the few BIS members that were there quite proud of that young couple.
"Thanks, Cage", Myona whispered, smiling. Then, holding Lia, she said, "She's really cute. Can we play with her?"
"Of course!", Mebius exclaimed, "You don't need to ask that sort of things".
"They have arrived", Twede interrupted, looking at the radar. "I'm opening the hatch now"
"I'm so nervous, Cage", Myona whispered, while playing with the little girl.
"Don't worry, everything will be OK", he answered, but he wasn't feeling very confident, either.
"Oh, c'mon, move out!", Semyl shouted from the hangar, and hurried to the central room, where the others would be gathered.
"Hey, be careful!", Razma replied, also shouting, forgetting about the girl they have found at the supposed labs.
"Oh, youth", Yukito stated, ironically, before Warren asked him his help to carry the unconscious girl (thankfully for them, she wasn't so heavy).
"Ahhh! Myona!!!!! Cage!!!", Semyl exclaimed, as soon as she saw the young couple standing in the room. In matter of seconds, she was hugging Myona so much that it was a wonder that the purple-like haired girl could breath. "I missed you so much!", she said, still hugging her.
"Semy! I missed you too!", Myona replied, happily.
"Ha, hi Mr. Problem!", Razma greeted Cage. "Oh, hi Myona", he added, sort of "analizing" her.
"Hey, what are looking at?!?!", Semyl exclaimed, getting angrily. "She's our friend, not any girl!"
"Talking about 'any girl'...", he said, thoughtfully.
"You don't need to worry...", Yukito said, carrying with Warren the forgotten girl. Both of them carried her to one of the chairs and left her there.
"Hi, Cage, hi Myona", Yukito greeted them, "You seem... like fine young people"
"Haha, thanks Yukito", Cage replied, laughing.
"That's for you. And especially for you, Myona, you have turned into a beautiful young lady", he said, praising her.
"You'll never change, will you?", she replied giggling.
"Hey, won't you say anything to him, Semyl?", Razma asked her, annoyed by her attitude.
"He's different!", was her only answer.
"Welcome back, people", was Warren's simple greeting.
"Hi, Mr. Warren", Myona replied.
"Sorry to interrupt this nice moment", Robin said, quite worried, "but who's that girl that you brought here? You know that this is no hospital..."
"Oh, we found her in that place that was being attacked", Yukito said, while going to the chair where they had left her. "We entered the building, hoping that we would find something useful, or at least to know where we were, but we found nothing but this girl, almost unconscious. We just couldn't leave her there".
"Of course not!", Mebius said, "but she needs medical treatment urgently! Come on, take her to the First Aid room!", she ordered, visibly annoyed by her male companion's lack of sense.
"I'll go with her!", Razma exclaimed, but he was soon stopped by Semyl,
"You are going nowhere! You forgot about her back there, hadn't you? You are no one to trust, so come here right away!"
"And who'll take care of her?", he replied.
"Somebody else, but not you"
"Hey, can you stop fighting and help with this?", Mebius exclaimed angrily, "We have to prepare the room! Open the door, switch on the lights, prepare the bed, that may be undone, and things like that, so let's get going!"
And so, Meb went to the first aid room, while Yukito and Warren carried the girl there. Razma and Semyl went with Mebius, still quarreling about who should look after her and all that.
"Oh, God, we'll never have a quiet day, after all", Robin said, tired. "And who knows who's that girl, and in what problems would we be dragged into?!?"
"I'll look in the network for any kind of information that may help us", Twede said, leaving the room.
"Alright. Maybe the others know something more", she said, walking to the door. There, she turned back to Cage and Myona and said,
"What a welcoming, isn't it? Sorry children, we'll talk a bit later", and then she was gone.
The young couple found itself alone in the central room. It was like a reminder of old times. Smiling, Cage said,
"Well, we are back"
"Yes, nothing has changed", Myona sighed, also smiling.Back
To Fanfiction
Back To Main
