Eve now explains the situation to Aldous. Read on to see if Aldous accepts it.

Aldous: I'll still hate the Resistance.

Me: Up to you. You are still my character.

Aldous: Sigh.

"Ah ha.. ah ha. So, if I am getting this correct, basically Simeon is the one hunting down the Needless. And they intend to create a God."

"Right, Blade and I had fought with their leader more than once. He intends to absorb all fragments to reach a god-like state."

"And he is?"

"Adam Arclight."

"Arclight…..And an Adam. So he is Blade's clone. Or rather brother. If what you're telling about the Adam Project is correct." Aldous thought back to the tall one. The right mechanical eye. The mechanical heart. The whiter hair. That definitely fit the description of this Arclight given by Eve.

"So your basic mission is to kill him. Then just put a bullet in his head."

"You think it's that easy. Hell, we have tried everything. Absorb his powers. Shoot him with bullets. Drill through him. Why, even an old friend of mine killed him. But that bastard just keep coming back."

"Old friend? Who?"

"Urm…Urm…." Eve seemed to wracking her brains. "It shouldn't be that hard." Aldous thought as he watched the girl struggle to remember.

"Well I forgot."

Face-slam to the ground, anime-style. "Urgh, are you an idiot?" Aldous teased the embarrassed Needless. "Nah, I just can't really remember names." Another face-slam.

"So that's your whole story, huh?" Aldous sat back on the bed. It was a lot to take in. Assuming Eve was telling the truth, Simeon is really the real culprit. If she is telling the truth.

A layer of ice began to coat the bed. Eve hurriedly got up, a drill forming in her hands. "I told you the whole story and you still don't believe me!"

Aldous glanced at his fist. It was glowing with the energy he had absorbed. Then he turned back to Eve, who remained in a fighting stance. Her eyes didn't betray any hidden motives or malice. His years of experience in such deduction has been crucial during his life. Now his experience tells him to stop. And the fear of the monster he became on his first fight returned to him.

"Alright." Aldous relaxed and his fist returned to its normal colour. "I'm just cooling the room. Your base, seriously needs an air-conditioner. I'm melting in here." Eve, surprised, reformed her hand and inquired the black-haired boy.

"You're not fighting us?"

"No matter who you belong to, you're still my friend for 2 months. That's the longest anyone has been a friend with me, even if it's on purpose. And I can read eyes. Yours tell me you are not evil."

"Evil? You seriously think there is just good and evil in this world?"

"I like to see it that way. White and black, I know how to deal with them. But grey….. I don't know how to react to that. So I ignore it and view the world as such."

"Wow, you're screwed up pretty tight. That's kinda….."

"Unique? Nope, it's a very common way of life of us city-folks. When something in-between appears, we ignore it, just to avoid trouble. Our life in the city is more hellish than you think. Do you know how I sometimes hope people can just lighten up, instead of being afraid and all cowardly to do anything? We are educated to mind our own business. But you know me. I'm a delinquent with anger management issues. So let's just say I not as screwed as them." They both laughed, remembering how Aldous would be widely considered as the worst student in school, despite his top-notch grades. His report card would be choked full of "Don't mind other people's business." Or "Stay out of adult affairs." He never gave a damn.

"SO you're a needless huh? So your fragment is…."

"Doppelganger. It allows me to convert calories into organic or inorganic materials, to a lesser degree for the latter. So the branch and the drill and the disguise are all parts of my fragment."

"Cool." Aldous notes the friendliness between Eve and him. Just like how they interacted as Kaysin and him.

"I see you are getting acquainted." Aldous turned to the new voice, and entering the room was a large muscular grey-haired man decked out in a black trench coat and a matching jeans. A pair of shades covered his eyes, which Aldous knew were a blood-red.

"Adam Blade….." Aldous suddenly felt his mood fall. He is fine with talking with Eve but the man he hates the most? Unlikely. "What are doing here?"

"Checking up on you. You got guts to take on Simeon head-on to protect someone. Even I wouldn't do that…."

"Unless it's for a loli girl…." Eve muttered under her breath. Blade heard her.

"Shut up, you're ruining my first impression on the new guy!"

"Erm, I already have a bad impression of you a long time ago." Aldous stated.

"Oh." Adam seemed to have a face of dumbfoundedness and a few moments of silence passed. "I have failed…." Adam suddenly crouched in a corner, whining like a baby, dejected by his failure.

"IDIOT!" Aldous, pissed off, did a classic falcon punch right smack in Adam's face. "I don't freaking care about first impressions, just get on with the story! You are making me tired."

After tidying himself up from the assault, Blade extended his hand to Aldous. " I'm just here to thank you for helping us. It's nice to see a new guy join the Resistance."

"I didn't join the Resistance." Silence and a draft of wind blew by.

"I've failed again…." Blade is back in the corner, sulking. "Aldous PUNCH!" Blade, sent flying by the massive blow, hit the wall of the medical room before bouncing off into the floor and then smashing into the ceiling like a energized pinball. Finally, he landed on the bed, which Aldous had got off, muttering something about panties and Paradise.

"Is he this stupid?" Aldous asked Eve who was sighing away.

"Yep, he is. Some sort of inferiority complex he developed."

A few minutes later…..

"So you are not gonna help us?"

"Nope, but at least I don't see you guys as my enemy. Now can I go home?"

Eve snapped at Aldous. "Are you nuts? Simeon knows who you are. They will hunt you down just like how they hunt down the rest of us."

"Then what do you suggest?"

Adam Blade answered. "Help us out as a member of the Resistance. If we beat Simeon out of the country, then they won't bother us anymore."

"Now you are sounding nuts, Simeon is an international organization. One country won't make a difference. Unless your goal is to….."

"Yes, we plan to kill Arclight. We don't know how but our old friend showed us that he wasn't invulnerable. If we can kill him, Simeon will be crippled severely."

"So this whole Resistance is created to kill one man? Well, seeing how strong he was, I guess I can't blame you guys for being desperate." Aldous slouched back onto the wall, giving it some deep thought.

"I don't have any relatives left in the city anyway and Simeon is probably watching my house. So I guess I'll join you guys. But only till we defeat Simeon." Aldous emphasized to Eve and Blade the last part. Blade grinned and with Aldous shook hands, both now temporary allies. Eve beamed, her job a success. However, she wondered how long this will last. If Aldous knew the whole truth.

So something seems to be kept secret by Adam and Eve? But what? And this old friend, being mentioned twice? Watch the anime. I lied about something. Try to figure it out. Please review.