Bright and early the next morning, Helena was waking her three blades up- a surprise to Iwa and Dean… she had been so much more gloom these past several days, and now she was up and at 'em! It was certainly a brain jogger for the day, as the three blades woke up, and got ready to go for the day.

"Why are we getting up soooo early," Miho asked with a groan, as she had Iwa brush out any knots in her long black hair.
"I am not entirely sure why Lady Helena has suddenly become chipper and full of life again, Miho… but it's for the best, I would say," Iwa responded, getting the last knot out.
"Now, let's hurry along and go with her, shall we?"

The three blades joined their driver's side, as the three headed out to meet up with Rex and his friends. Of course, though, an Ardainian Soldier spotted Dean, and ran over to him.
"Dean, we could really use your help today, one of the pipes broke in the castle," the soldier said- it was Captain Padraig; close friend to Dean.
"Ah, Padraig, nice to see you too... " Dean said, trailing off a moment, before adding, "I was headed out with my friends to accompany them on their journey for the day, but if it's really that important…"
For once, Dean's guilt-tripping flew over Padraig's head- or maybe it was really a dire soldier shook his head, and said, "Dean, we cannot turn off the water! You seem to be good with water, for a human." Iwa and Miho looked surprised, but Helena was already wandering off to meet up with Rex and his friends. The two girls said goodbye to Dean, before quickly following their driver.

Helena by now was already chatting away with Rex, Nia, and Tora- Mythra on the other hand, stared at Iwa coldly- upset her friend no longer remembered her. No matter, it wasn't very important.

"Lady Helena, it's these guys again? I thought you did not want to engage with them," Iwa was somewhat confused as she looked at her driver.
"Well, I saw them last night, and-"
"My lady! You… went outside in your jammies?" Iwa gave her driver a stern look of disapproval.
"...yes," Helena said with a shrug, not caring about the cold glare. Miho snickered a little bit, until told to stop.

"Annnnyways, we need to help Rex and his friends find out where this 'artificial blade' named Lila is, it's important to their nopon friend, Tora," Helena said, as she guided her head towards Tora. Tora flapped his wings and wiggled his body, saying, "There not much time to waste, hurry now!" Nia made a 'pfft' sound, and said, "Alright, well, lead the way Helena."

Helena took the group all over Mor Ardain- first, they had to find the yellow barrels, then they had to find the Abandoned factory entrance.

Nia looked at the girl's attire today, noticing that today she wore an orange skirt that was not as flowey as yesterday's, and a different shirt with longer sleeves- even the heels and socks were different. She walked ahead of Rex, Tora, and the others to be side by side with Helena.
"So, Helena was it? What's with the new outfit?" she asked curiously. Helena looked over to the gormotti with a smile, and said, "Oh, yesterday I was training- I assume we will not be fighting anything today, yes? So I chose to wear my casual clothes today."
NIa looked her up and down again… these didn't look casual to her, but whatever floats her boat, Nia guessed.

By then, they arrived at the Old Factory, and needed to find the key to get in. Poppi found it in a barrel quickly, and announced that she found it.
"Meh meh! Tora proud, Poppi," Tora cheered. Poppi smiled, and said, "Thank you, Masterpon. Poppi happy to hear."
With the key, they unlocked the motor allowing the ladder to come down from the side, which would grant them access to the window above to sneak into the factory. Helena helped them through, and then hesitated to follow… she figured that she helped them enough now, and didn't need to help anymore. Rex was the only one who seemed to notice her hesitation, and when everyone went on ahead, Rex turned to her, and said, "why are you standin' around? C'mon!"

"I… I should probably go home now, I've helped you with what you needed, no?"
Rex looked at the insecure girl. He didn't know what was going on now, but he knew that she was feeling… sad. He walked over to her, and smiled at her.
"No way, you can stick around, I'd love it if you did."
Hope was in her eyes as he said this. Maybe following Rex on his journeys would help her find her love… So she smiled, and nodded, before following Rex into the now, he saw Tora hop down to confront the nopon below, so Nia and Rex quickly followed, Helena hopping down the hole last.

"Daddapon," Tora called out in a questioned tone, surprised if it was his father. The nopon turned to Tora, and opened his mouth.
"Tora? Is that you?"
The two embraced one another as Tora cried tears of shock and joy. Oh how he missed his father so much, he thought he was dead! This brought a tear to Helena's eye, as she soon turned away so she wouldn't think about it any more than she already was. She wished she could reunite with her father, or mother… but she couldn't.

The moment was ruined by a large, green nopon and a smaller nopon; their names were Bana and MuiMui. Helena recognized MuiMui- she had seen him around Mor Ardain before! The evil nopons summoned for Lila to attack, and kill them, to which Poppi had a great battle against, theoretically, her sister. The two battled as Rex, Helena and the others fought off some average Tirkin, defeating them easily. It wouldn't be long, before Poppi won the battle, and Lyla went against Bana's orders.

When Tora and Poppi stayed alongside Tatazo and Lila, Helena and her two blades also remained by their side, wanting to help in any way they could- though, it seemed like the family of nopon just needed time alone, so Helena merely stood in a corner and watched. She was not prepared to go with Rex and Nia, so it was for the best that she stay with Tora and Tatazo.
Lila gave Poppi the rest of her ether furnace, allowing Poppi to use her second form now, and that was when Tora and Helena made way to find Rex and Nia.

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The fight against Bana and MuiMui in their newest Artificial Blade, Rosa was nearly easy with Poppi's new form, Poppi QT, being active, and the two hurried to capture Bana at last, and put him where he would belong- jail.

"Meh meh meh, what more could you want from me, you foolish children," Bana asked tiredly, seemingly out of breath.
"You gotta put a stop to this," Rex demanded. Helena looked around while Rex and the gang were demanding for Bana to end his schemes, spotting two sinister looking people.
"R-Rex, Rex, look, uh, some people are um-"

Bana finally agreed to stop production of artificial blades, but then the female of the new duo spoke.
"That nopon is still of use to us. Do you really have to interfere?"
The group looked over to them, now, having not heard Helena's warning from just seconds ago.
Nia gave the two sharp glares, as she said their names, "Patroka. Mikhail."
Patroka looked over to Nia, boredly.
"Oh..! If it isn't Nia. Akhos did say you became that of a traitor," Patroka responded.

"Nia know these people?" Tora asked with fright. Nia responded by explaining who they were, and how Bana was a lowlife to be making a deal with these people.
Patroka threatened that Nia should watch her words, but Mikhail told her, "don't mind her, when the Aegis is standing before us," and going onto a somewhat serenade; hard to tell if it was sarcastic or not.

Helena watched Patroka soon smack Mikhail in the face, hearing Patroka say, "Mik… please, shut up," and his response, "'kay…"
Patroka then declared what their mission was, and the blades behind the two passed their weapons along to their drivers. Helena hadn't noticed the blades when trying to get the attention of Rex from earlier, and for some reason, felt bad about that. Soon, Rex's group readied their fighting, before battling.

It was nearly impossible to beat them, and soon, Mythra stopped giving the affinity to scan the area. Nia hissed, before stating the reason it was hard to beat the duo was because one was a master defense, the other was weapons galore.
"I'm ready," Mythra spoke, catching the ear of Rex, who turned to look at her.
"Are you sure it's safe?" Rex asked, concerned about this power. Helena's brows went up, and she asked, "What do you mean 'are you sure it's safe'? Are we going to possibly die here?!"
Mythra explained her analyzation, saying it could survive one blow only if they did it under the furrowed her brows, and said, "Lady Helena, I think that's too risky. We should-"
Helena ignored her blade, as she agreed with Rex and Nia that the plan seemed solid. Though, the plan didn't seem to work well, until a wall of flames came between the two groups.

"Wha-?! Blue flames?!" Patroka growled, as Helena quickly looked over to them.
"S-Special Inquisitor Morag-!" Helena quickly said, as she and her two blades gracefully bowed to Lady Morag and Brighid as they walked out. Morag simply nodded to them in both a 'hello' and acknowledging their respects- when the three wouldn't stop bowing, Morag told them, "Now isn't the time to bow," before glancing over to Rex.

"Did you not say you wouldn't be reckless?" She asked, as Patroka growled, "the flamebringer…" Rex was embarrassed, so Morag asked another question.
"So, do you have a plan?"
Rex looked at Morag, and said, "Well, y-yeah, we need to get 'em under the crane."
"Very well," Morag said, as the now team of five attacked the two members of Torna.

It took some time, but soon Mythra was able to activate her power, shooting a beam down, targeting the blades' core crystals, killing them. Iwa's eyes widened in slight fear, as she backed away a few steps and stopped giving her driver affinity. Helena too, was in awe, and somewhat in fear. She was surprised by the power, and soon watched Patroka have her emotional fit of rage.

"Patroka! You can't use that power here," Mikhail sternly said, before picking up the girl. She put up a struggle, but in her condition, she was unable to break free from Mikhail's grasp. He chuckled slightly and hopped back onto the ship that arrived to pick them up. He turned to the group and simply waved his index fingers from his forehead as a 'goodbye', and they were gone.

"Just who is that girl," Morag mumbled to herself, as she turned to Helena.
"Helena," she turned to the driver before saying, "I cannot allow you to continue this journey. It may be too dangerous for you."

"W-What?!" Both Helena and Rex asked in shock, but for different reasons.
"W-Wh- … as you wish, Lady Morag," Helena said with a sigh, as she really wanted to find her boyfriend, and thought this would be the best opportunity.

"Well, I guess this is goodbye, yeah, Helena," Rex asked, as he approached her with a somewhat weak smile, sad that she would be departing from them. Helena gave him a weak but sincere smile in return, and said, "Of course no, Rex. This isn't 'goodbye', but 'see you later'."