More Human Than Human

"Talking"

'thoughts'

"Recordings, talking on the phone or singing"

"Speaking another language besides Japanese"

:Talking through the comm.s:

Rated T for language, suggestive material and anything else I might have missed.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but my O.C.s, Starts after the events in "The Masked Brave, Dumpson" and goes from there with a few twists.

During the ten hour flight back to Japan—none of them werethrilled about being stuck on a plane for that long, even if it was the homestretch—Yuuta looked over his copy of the forms they had him sign in California.

Ayako tried reading over his shoulder. "What'cha got there, Yuuta?"

Yuuta looked up at her. "A copy of the papers they gave me when they let us take the other two robots home with us. I thought I'd look them over since we have a while,"

Ayako stretched with a sigh. "Shouldn't you have read that before you signed them?" she smiled as she looked at him through the corner of one eye and shut the other one in a wink. "For all you know you could have been signing your soul over to Satan,"

Yuuta looked nervous at the last part and then looked a fronted. "I did too read them before I signed them!" he held up the file he was reading. "This is the one they wanted me to bring back for Mr. Toudou and the Commissioner. It's got stuff about the two robots in it,"

He returned his attention to the papers again with a huff and Ayako lowered her arms and looked at him curiously. "Oh, what does it say?"

Yuuta hummed and skimmed the papers for an example. "Says here that the girl one turns into a Search and Rescue ambulance and the other one turns into an F-22 stealth fighter jet,"

"Oh, that's cool. What else does it say?"

Yuuta frowned. "A lot of it is mechanic stuff that Mr. Toudou would know more about. I'll have to ask him when we get back,"

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Meanwhile in the cargo hold

The Brave Police sat in an awkward silence, the reason for that was no real secret to any of them. It was also no secret that they were all staring at said reason through their scanners.

"Should we… I dunno, introduce ourselves or something?" Dumpson suggested awkwardly and everyone made noises of agreement but no one knew where to start; the awkward silence was grating but they didn't even know if the femme could hear them and weren't really sure what to say if she could.

Drill Boy was the one to take the plunge as he transformed so that he was sitting cross-legged with the cargo net draped over him and waved. "Hi, I'm Drill Boy, what's your name?"

No response.

"Try it in English, she was made in America, after all," McCrane suggested.

Drill Boy did so but still got nothing.

"Maybe she doesn't have a name yet," Deckard offered when Drill Boy looked crestfallen. "You guys didn't all have names right away when you were created,"

Sometime later, Yuuta came back into the cargo hold with the others holding a manila folder under his arm.

Deckard flashed his lights at him in greeting. "Hey, Yuuta, what's that?"

Yuuta sat on the floor next to Deckard and opened the file. "Something Captain Wilde wanted me to take back to Mr. Toudou,"

Drill Boy looked over at him, still in robot mode under his net. "If it's for the Chief, why are you reading it?"

Power Joe gasped dramatically and waved his scoop shovel at Yuuta like he was shaking a finger at him. "Naughty Boss, reading other people's mail is a capital offense. Police officers shouldn't break laws,"

Yuuta pouted at him. "It's information on the new robots so Mr. Toudou and his crew know how to fix them if they get hurt," he looked at the file in his hands. "If we're going to be working with them we need to know more about them and we can't just ask them yet,"

After several minutes of looking through the files for something—anything—that might help them unlock the American Braves' Super A.I.s, Yuuta found nothing except how to boot up their systems and how to control them manually; basically how to wake them up to be used as puppets but not to make them sentient.

Yuuta finally closed the file and let it fall to the floor as he threw up his arms and fell back against Deckard's side. "This is hopeless!"

Dumpson shifted his scanners to "look" at the boy and turned his front tires towards him to show he had done so. "Come on, Boss, don't give up now,"

Yuuta just groaned like he was being forced to wake up early to go to school for a test he didn't study for.

Deckard transformed so that he was crouched under his cargo net and held out a servo to catch Yuuta when the action made the boy fall back. "Yuuta, look at me,"

Yuuta did as asked so Deckard said. "Remember when we first met?"

Yuuta nodded and smiled. "Yeah, at first I was scared but then I thought you were really cool," he looked around the cargo hold. "All of you guys are really cool,"

Yuuta's badge beeped and then they heard Shadowmaru's voice. :Aww, you're going to make us blush, Little Boss.:

Yuuta jumped and took out his badge. "Shadowmaru, how long have you been listening in?"

:Since about ten minutes after we lifted off. I got bored and felt left out.:

Yuuta and Deckard exchanged a glance and rolled their eyes—or rather, Deckard shifted the light in his optics to mimic an eye roll—and the police mech continued. "My point is, you saw me and figured I needed a friend, being all alone in that warehouse basement like I was. That is how I got my heart,"

Deckard lifted Yuuta to a seated position. "Now look at her," he nodded towards the femme. "Doesn't she look like she could use a friend right about now?"

Yuuta looked at the femme and thought for a moment before picking up the folder he had dropped and looking through it. He looked at the femme determinedly and checked the file one last time and tucked it under his arm before going over to the femme and climbing up onto the cart she was on.

"Boss, what are you doing?"

Yuuta didn't look up when he answered McCrane's question. "I'm going to start her up and try to get her talking like I did with Deckard,"

Power Joe scoffed. "We've been trying to talk to her. How do we even know she understands us?"

Yuuta held up the file for him to see a page that showed information on the femme. "It says in the file that they downloaded a few different languages into her databanks and gave her a translator for the ones they didn't. She should be able to understand us just fine…" he set the folder down on the femme's chest plate. "If I can just start her up,"

Yuuta read the directions. "Says here she should be able to start up like a car even if she's in robot mode but…" he realized the instructions said that to get to her ignition system to start her he would have to open her chest plates.

Yuuta blushed at the thought and stuttered. "Uh, m-maybe not,"

Deckard transformed and crawled out from under his cargo net to crouch next to the femme and Yuuta. "What's wrong, Yuuta?"

Yuuta looked up at him and stuttered. "Wh-when she's a robot her ig-ignition goes into her…" he tried to get the words out but somehow couldn't so he waved his hands in front of him and mouthed the word "chest", hoping the others caught the drift.

Luckily they did; Dumpson grumbled awkwardly, Drill Boy—poor innocent and naïve Drill Boy—didn't see what was wrong and asked, McCrane simply said "Tell you later" but was otherwise quiet.

Deckard blushed and reset his vocalizer, which sounded like a human clearing their throat, before saying nervously. "Well, um, perhaps we should wait for Chief Toudou to power her up rather than starting her manually then,"

Power Joe shifted on his treads impatiently. "I say we just man up and get it over with,"

Deckard looked at him with a condescending look. "Power Joe!"

Shadowmaru's voice came through the comm.s again. :And they say I'm an animal.:

Yuuta climbed off of the femme and straightened his clothes after they had been messed up when he slid down. "We're waiting until we get back and that's it. Guys aren't supposed to touch girls' chests, it's wrong!"

Drill Boy looked at him and tilted his helm curiously. "Can girls touch other girls' chests?"

"Drill Boy!"

Dumpson cut in. "No wait, I think he's onto something. Boss, go get Ayako, ask if she can help,"

Yuuta nodded and ran up to the front of the plane. He came back a few minutes later with Ayako in tow.

The red headed woman seemed confused but was humoring the boy. "Okay, okay, calm down Yuuta. What did you guys need my help with?"

Deckard quickly explained the situation and their options on how to deal with it and Ayako smiled. "Okay, let me see the directions,"

Yuuta handed Ayako the file and she tucked it under her arm to crawl up onto the femme's abdomen.

Drill Boy scratched his helm. "I still don't see why we're not supposed to touch girls' chests. Do they hurt when people touch them?"

Ayako smiled at the mech's innocence as she opened the file and flipped through it to find what she was looking for. "Only if you squeeze really hard. You're not supposed to touch girls there without permission because not only is it rude but it counts as sexual assault,"

Naivety completely unfazed, Drill Boy nodded. "Oh, okay,"

Ayako started feeling for the hidden latches to open the femme's chest plates and Deckard covered Yuuta's eyes as he looked back at the others. "Guys, turn off your scanners for a moment.

"Already did," McCrane answered flatly.

"Okay" Power Joe did the same.

Dumpson transformed and covered Drill Boy's optics, leaving his own dark and offline. "Close her up as soon as you're done, Ayako,"

"Okay," Ayako finally got the femme's chest plates open and found the steering column for her alt. mode and then her ignition. "Found it. Let's see if she'll start for us," she turned the key and after a few tries the engine turned over and the femme's systems powered up.

Ayako glanced over her shoulder at the others as she closed the femme's chest plates. "Hey, guys, she's waking up,"

"Cover her up, we want to see,"

"Already did," they all looked and saw Ayako sitting on the femme's chest plates with her arms crossed smugly over her own chest. "I don't see why you guys are freaking out, there's nothing under there but car parts,"

They all looked embarrassed and Deckard said. "Well, it's the thought that counts right?"

Yuuta saw that the femme was waking up and went to climb back up so she could see him when she turned her optics on.

Deckard helped him up and was at the ready in case the femme moved suddenly and he would have to catch the humans. Everyone else crawled out from under their nets and moved to where they could see and waited.

The femme's optics lit up suddenly and everyone gasped from surprise; while Deckard's optics were orange and Gunmax hid his behind a visor, all of the Brave police had green optics but the femme's were the color of a cloudless sky on a summer day.

"Blue optics?"

"That's new,"

They all noticed said optics were staring straight up at the ceiling so Yuuta climbed up so that he was in the femme's field of vision and smiled. "Hi, I'm Yuuta, Yuuta Tomonaga. I'm with the Brave Police,"

At first the femme didn't move but Yuuta felt like he was being watched and after a few moments her audio finials flicked towards him, like she was trying to listen more closely. "Whoa, I think her ears just moved,"

The others crawled forward for a closer look but the shift in weight caused the plane to tilt slightly. Yuuta lost his balance and cried out as he tipped to the side.

"Yuuta!" Deckard lunged forward to catch him but another blue servo beat him to it.

Yuuta blinked his eyes and looked around, wondering what just happened.

He saw McCrane pushing the rest of the Build Team back and trying to get them to spread out so the plane wouldn't tip anymore and then he saw Deckard reaching for him. "Yuuta, are you alright?"

Yuuta nodded. "Yeah, I think so," then he realized that Deckard wasn't the one that caught him. He looked around and saw that he was cradled in the femme's servo and smiled triumphantly. "Hey, she moved!"

Everyone looked to see if the femme was awake now but she was just lying there with her optics fixated on the ceiling and her servo held up stiffly.

McCrane frowned. "I think it was just a reflex, she doesn't even seem to realize she moved her own servo,"

Yuuta looked up at him. "But she moved, without anyone telling her to! That's got to count for something, doesn't it?"

Deckard smiled down at the boy. "Yeah, it does, doesn't it?"

They could hear Shadowmaru laughing through the comm.s :Well, what do you know? Not even back in Japan yet and the Little Boss is already making progress with the newbies.:

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Unbeknownst to the Brave Police, Private Joey Baker could hear every word from the cockpit of the jet-mech he was piloting. He looked at the control board almost forlornly.

"Progress, right…"

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Yuuta climbed back up onto the femme's shoulder and leaned down so he could look her in the optics. "Are you awake now?"

The femme just stared up at the ceiling for a moment before her optics dimmed and eventually shut off, her servo falling at her side again.

Yuuta promptly freaked out, looking around himself like he might have sat on something important. "What did I do? Why did she shut off like that?"

Deckard scanned the femme and put a servo on Yuuta's shoulder to calm the boy. "Yuuta, calm down. She just powered down to recharge because her energy was low,"

Yuuta looked up at Deckard, still unsure, so Power Joe added. "She's just taking a nap,"

Shadowmaru cut in in a dry tone. :She probably didn't have that much energy to begin with. They might have fueled up the mech so he could fly back but they probably wouldn't have done the same for her.:

Yuuta frowned at that and put a hand on the femme's cheek strut, smiling down at her gently. "Don't worry, we'll take good care of you,"

Yuuta grabbed the papers and put them back into their file before he and Ayako climbed down.

Ayako stretched and waved to everyone as she went back to the front of the plane. "I'll go have a quick nap myself. The Dramamine is starting to kick in,"

"Dramamine, what's that?"

Deckard looked at McCrane. "Some kind of medicine that humans take… I'm not sure what for though,"

"Medicine?!" Dumpson immediately started looking over Ayako worriedly. "Are you sick, Ayako? Why didn't you say anything?"

Ayako laughed at the big tough mech that was currently "mother henning" her. "Dumpson, I'm fine. Dramamine is used for motion sickness, I took some earlier so I wouldn't get sick on the plane but now it's making me sleepy,"

Power Joe perked up. "There's medicine for that? More importantly, you didn't share?" he narrowed his optics at her. "You suck,"

He went back under his cargo net and, after fastening it back down, transformed to sulk in his alt. mode.

Ayako stared at him and leaned closer to Dumpson to ask out of the corner of her mouth. "What's his problem?"

Yuuta, who was standing between the two of them, stretched up to whisper in her ear. "Turns out Power Joe gets sick on planes. Shadowmaru said he puked on the way to Domingo Republic,"

The Ninja Detective himself piped up :And on the way to California too. You just missed it. Speaking of which, you still owe me a drum of oil, Dumpson.: he added the last part smugly.

Dumpson growled and brought a digit to the side of his helm to speak into his comm. :I'll give it to you after we get back.:

McCrane glanced at Power Joe and leaned down to whisper to Yuuta. "He almost purged again when we left the military base but he was able to keep it down that time," he started to straighten up but then he leaned back down to add. "Barely,"

Yuuta looked concerned and went over to Power Joe. "Power Joe?" the power shovel was silent so Yuuta reached through the net to grab the scoop of his shovel to get his attention. "Power Joe, you okay? You threw up a lot,"

Power Joe huffed in embarrassment. "I only did twice and it was only a little bit," he went quiet again and hoped Yuuta would take the hint and leave him alone.

Yuuta sat down next to his friend to show him he wasn't going anywhere. "I know but why did you puke at all? You don't have any problems when we're on a boat because you didn't get sick when we were on that military ship… and it can't be because we're flying because you guys fly when you're Build Tiger or Super Build Tiger…"

"Just drop it, okay?!" Power Joe snapped but froze when Yuuta bit his lip and looked ready to cry. The Kung Fu Detective immediately felt terrible. "Sorry, Boss, I didn't mean to snap at you. I just…"

Yuuta smiled. "It's okay, I know you didn't mean it," he got up and dusted himself off. "I'm still having Mr. Toudou look you over when we get back," he said cheerfully as he walked back to the others.

Everyone else went back to their spots but sat on top of their cargo nets rather than crawling back under them.

Yuuta sat next to Deckard on his cargo net and leaned against his leg. "Whoa, longest day ever,"

Deckard nodded. "And it's not even over yet. At this rate we'll have you home just in time for you to go to school,"

Yuuta groaned and slumped back. "Don't wanna go to school just yet,"

Deckard was about to chide him but stopped when he heard a gurgling sound and Yuuta grabbed his stomach. "Hungry?"

Yuuta gave an embarrassed laugh and smiled apologetically. "Sorry,"

Dumpson looked at him. "Don't be, you haven't had a chance to eat anything aside from that quick meal you and Ayako grabbed before the big match in Domingo Republic,"

Shadowmaru cut in again. :We've got another nine hours before we're back in Japan. Unless you brought yourself some munchies for the ride you're going to have to sleep it off until then.:

"Oh, that's right… Oof!" Yuuta got up and tripped when his feet got tangled in the cargo net. He twisted around to try to untangle himself. "I still have some of that bread that the bread stand guy gave me in my bag,"

Deckard laughed when Yuuta just ended up tangling himself in the net further and helped him free himself. "Go eat, it's not like we're going anywhere anytime soon,"

Yuuta smiled and trotted to the door leading out of the cargo hold. "Okay,"

Deckard paused for a moment before adding. "And get some sleep while you're at it. It's almost the middle of the night back home and you are going to school in the morning even if I have to bring you there myself,"

Yuuta stopped at the door to roll his eyes teasingly. "Yes, mother,"

Everyone laughed at the gob smacked look on Deckard's face plates as he tried to come up with a decent comeback but Yuuta was already gone so he just laughed along with everyone else and curled up on his cargo net.

After a while everyone, except for Shadowmaru and Joey who were flying alongside with the new mech, decided to catch a few minutes recharge before they got back since they wouldn't be getting back until dark o'clock in the morning.

There really wasn't anything else for them to do anyway; although Power Joe had downloaded an episode for one of his soap operas off the internet to watch on his HUD and McCrane had snuck a magazine to read with him.

However, Power Joe had already watched the episode twice in the duration of their trip and McCrane didn't want anyone to see him read a girlie magazine that he had Yuuta secretly buy for him so he could understand human women better—he had wanted to do something for Seia but didn't know what so he was doing some "research"—so he left in the compartment where he kept his spare ammo clips.

So everyone that didn't need to stay awake in order to make the trip crawled under their cargo nets and recharged.

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Meanwhile

When Yuuta came up to the front of the plane to rummage in his bag for food, the pilot looked over his shoulder. "What is going on back there? The whole plane just tipped a moment ago!"

Yuuta smiled apologetically. "Sorry, the guys got a little worked up and forgot for a minute they shouldn't all move to one side of the plane,"

The pilot and co-pilot sighed looked at each other with a "kids these days" look on their faces. "Just make sure they're a little more careful from now on. We don't want to end up at the bottom of the ocean because the giant robots are rough housing, now do we?"

Yuuta nodded as he pulled the paper bag out of his bag. "Ok," he sat in his seat and ate his food. The bread was somewhat squished but still edible, however there wasn't much left and he sighed when he was finished. "Should have grabbed something else to eat before we left,"

The pilot overheard him and said. "They had grab-and-go lunch bags for sale at the mess hall at the base for visitors,"

After a moment the co-pilot added. "Speaking of which, I got one of those bags while I was waiting for you guys but it came with a chocolate muffin and I'm allergic to chocolate, you want it?"

Yuuta smiled "Ok, thank you," Yuuta crawled up to the cockpit and retrieved the white paper bag that the co-pilot pointed out behind his seat and sat in his own seat to eat the muffin inside.

There was some other trash in the bag—wrappers from the other items that had been part of the bagged lunch—so Yuuta threw the whole bag into the trash bag hung by his and Ayako's seats.

After he had finished eating, he tried to find a comfortable position to get some sleep; he learned a long time ago that Deckard's threats were not to be taken lightly and if he said he was going to bring him to school tomorrow by force if necessary… he did not want to repeat the time Power Joe brought him to school that one time.

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Sometime later

Deckard was roused from recharge by a familiar presence at his side and brought his sensors fully online to see Yuuta next to him. "Yuuta, is everything alright?"

Yuuta hesitated and said. "Yeah, um… is it alright if I sleep back here with you? Ayako talks in her sleep and well…"

Deckard partially transformed to lift the net again and opened his door. "Come on in,"

Yuuta climbed into the front seat again and draped his jacket over himself like a blanket as he curled up to go to sleep. "G'night, Deckard,"

"Good night, Yuuta," Deckard waited until Yuuta and the others were asleep before going into recharge himself since he had patrol as soon as they got back but wanted to make sure his friends were alright first.

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As predicted, as soon as they landed in Japan it was around the time Yuuta normally would have woken up back when he was sneaking out to see Deckard before school.

Deckard drove off the plane and, intent on making sure everyone else on his team got off the plane alright before leaving, let Yuuta out so he could transform and oversee the unloading procedure.

McCrane, on the other hand, transformed halfway down the ramp and waved him off. "Go on ahead. We'll be fine while you take the Boss home so he can get to class on time,"

Deckard waved his thanks and transformed so Yuuta could climb back into his vehicle mode and drive away from the airport.

Yuuta stretched and let his arms fall behind his head. "It's good to be home,"

Deckard hummed in agreement as he drove into the suburban part of Nanamagari City where Yuuta lived.

He saw their neighbor, Mudra, waving at them as he unlocked his restaurant for the day and flashed his lights at him in greeting while Yuuta waved back.

When they finally got back to the Tomonaga residence, Deckard backed into the driveway so he could drive out again at a moment's notice and let Yuuta out. "Grab your school bag and some breakfast, Yuuta. I'll give you a lift so you're not late again,"

Yuuta patted his hood on his way inside. "I'll be right back,"

Deckard settled down on his axels and waited for his friend to come out.

He had actually been giving Yuuta rides to school on his way to the precinct every morning ever since that close call with the assassination attempts against the boy at his school.

They still haven't caught the person that hired Monsieur Monde and there was always a chance someone else might make an attempt of their own.

The only time Deckard didn't give Yuuta a ride to school anymore was if he was on duty and couldn't, although he had his suspicions that the others were escorting Yuuta when he could not.

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Yuuta's sisters, Azuki and Kurumi, were sitting down for breakfast when Yuuta came in the door and shouted. "Morning!"

Both girls looked up as he pulled off his shoes and Kurumi asked "Yuuta, are you just now getting back from whatever you were doing with Deckard and the others?"

Yuuta ran upstairs to go to his room. "Yeah, and now their making me go to school after being gone for a couple days,"

Azuki went to the bottom of the stairs to call up after him. "Well, school is important, even if you already have a job,"

Yuuta slumped against the wall with an exasperated sigh. "You sound like the guys, they said if I don't go willingly they're going to carry me to school and toss me into the classroom window,"

Deckard somehow heard him and transformed to go to the open kitchen window and say "No, I said I would bring you to school to make sure you went. I would never throw you, Yuuta,"

Yuuta ran back down the steps to shout. "Yeah, but Power Joe said he'd toss me through the classroom window to make sure I got to class on time and Gunmax said he'd throw me in 'just for the hell of it'," he changed his voice to mimic the Motorcycle Detective mockingly.

Azuki gasped. "Yuuta language,"

Deckard nodded from his spot by the window. "My thoughts exactly, and I'm going to have to have a few words with those two when I get to the precinct,"

Worried he had gotten his friends in trouble, Yuuta added nervously. "They were only kidding,"

Deckard sighed, he knew the boy was trying to cover for his team mates… and stall for time so he wouldn't have to go to school right away. "Just go get ready for school, okay?"

"Okay" Yuuta ran up to his room and came down a few minutes later, clothes changed and his school bag in hand, and sat at the table with his sisters.

Kurumi looked up at him and leaned forward "So, Yuuta how was your trip?"

Yuuta quickly chewed and swallowed the piece of toast he had just bitten off before answering. "Well, we caught the guy we were after. Turns out he had been kidnapping pro-wrestlers from around the world and forcing them to fight in robot suits to make money for 'robot fighting',"

Azuki gasped "That's horrible,"

Kurumi nodded "Yeah, I'm glad you caught him, he deserves to go to prison for what he did,"

Azuki gave her sister a look. "Kurumi, that wasn't very nice. Even if he was a bad man we shouldn't want bad things to happen to people,"

Kurumi looked away sheepishly. "Sorry,"

Azuki's face softened as she looked at Yuuta. "Well, at least everyone got back safely. Are they going to give you guys a little break for a while or do you already have another case to take care of?"

Yuuta swallowed his eggs, wishing his sisters would save the questions for later and let him eat his breakfast. "Actually, the Commissioner called us when we were on our way back. Turns out the American military wants our help with something,"

Kurumi gawked at him "The MILITARY?"

Azuki put a hand over her mouth. "Sounds dangerous,

Yuuta put his hands up. "No, No, it's not like that, it's just…" Yuuta smiled "They're trying to get their own Brave Police in the U.S. They already have two bots built but they can't seem to give them hearts like Deckard and the others so they want us to work with them until they have hearts too,"

"Oh, now I get it," Kurumi nodded her understanding and Azuki let out a sigh of relief that her little brother wasn't in danger and smiled.

"Well, it looks like Deckard and the others have two new team mates for a while,"

Kurumi then smiled excitedly. "So when can we meet the new guys?"

Yuuta looked unsure. "I don't know…"

Deckard leaned back down by the window. "I'm sure you'll see them around eventually. Oh, and only one of them is a 'guy',"

Both girls stared at Deckard, trying to make sense of what he had just said.

"Only one…"

"But how…"

Then it hit them and Azuki asked. "Wait, one of them is a girl?"

Deckard and Yuuta both nodded and Kurumi shouted. "Holy crap, a girl robot, FINALLY!" she threw her arms up triumphantly and then brought them down to look at Yuuta pleadingly. "Can we see? Please?"

Yuuta sighed and hung his head. "Why bother asking? Even if I say 'no' you'll just sneak in like that time you packed a fake lunch for me and told the guys at the precinct I forgot mine so they'd let you in,"

Deckard laughed at the memory; Kurumi had really been going to see the Shadowmaru when he had first joined them because wanted to thank him for saving Azuki from his brother, Kagero…. And because she was curious didn't think it was fair that Azuki got to meet the mysterious new mech and she didn't.

The girl herself blushed and waved him off. "What? I never… Oh fine, one of these days you really will forget your lunch, see if I bring it in to you then!" she crossed her arms and looked away with a huffy pout.

Deckard smiled to himself; he really didn't want to interrupt the Tomonagas' little family moment but… "Yuuta, school,"

Yuuta jumped when Deckard reminded him he was going to be late and wolfed down his breakfast before running to grab his school bag on his way to the door. "See you later,"

Deckard looked at Yuuta's sisters. "If you really want to meet the new Braves I can see if we can bring you to the precinct to meet them, or bring them here for a visit once we get them mobile,"

Both girls smiled. "Thanks, Deckard,"

Yuuta ran out into the driveway and saw Deckard was still at the window. "Come on, Deckard, or we'll both be late,"

Deckard straightened up. "Coming, coming, See you later, Azuki, Kurumi,"

They heard Kurumi yell "Later!" when Azuki waved out the window and called out "Drive safely!"

Both girls sat down to quickly finish their own breakfast before running off to school and Kurumi looked at Yuuta's forgotten plate and saw there was still food on it. "Huh, Yuuta didn't finish his breakfast,"

Right as she said that their cat, Urunyan, jumped up onto the table and started nibbling the last big of eggs off of Yuuta's plate and ran off with the crust left from his toast.

"Never mind,"

A.N.: Quick shout out to the people that reviewed and/or added; CyberAngelAlexis,

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