Chapter 8: Heartbreaking Past

Were we last left Geo before she went to sleep, she had finally decided to tell Sonia everything about her in the morning. We now see her in the shower deep in thought.

'My God could life get any more complicated?' she mentally screamed 'First I meet an alien who's being vague with my father's whereabouts, I am secretly MegaGirl and I'm falling for a girl; man all of this is happening to quickly.'

While she was finishing up a still tired Sonia was sluggishly walking to the bathroom rubbing her eye. Assuming no one was in there being that she didn't hear anything she opened the door. Just as she was about to brush her teeth with one of the spare toothbrush Hope had given her Geo was about to step out of the shower when she saw Sonia in front of her.

"OH CRAP SONIA!"

Said girl turned her to see a bright red Geo hiding behind the shower curtains, it took a few second to click in before she started blushing as well.

"GEO!" she screamed as she covered her eyes "Sorry I thought it was empty I should've knocked."

"No I should have locked the door when I came in here." She apologized as she grabbed a towel

"Uh let me leave so you can finish I'm in the guest bedroom."

Sonia raced out of the room in a heartbeat. Geo sighed 'That was close and embarrassing she nearly found me out in a way I never would have wanted.' She thought as she dried herself off.

When she exited the bathroom Hope came up the stairs with a concerned look on her face "I heard noise is everything alright?"

"Oh everything is fine except for the fact Sonia almost saw me naked." Geo expressed the last part through gritted teeth

"Oh that's all?" Hope asked oblivious to her daughter's embarrassment

"That's all?" Geo repeated "Mom I'm pretty sure I just said that Sonia nearly saw my rack to which may point out?"

She grabbed a firm handful of her huge *ahem* 'assets' "Are inhumanely large for a girl my age."

"1) be proud of that gene the woman in my side of the family are known for these." Hope said gesturing to her breast "2) you brought it on yourself because you never lock the door."

"Touché"

"So what's on the agenda today?"

Geo started heading towards her room with her mom following her "I'm going to take Sonia to AMAKEN to meet Aaron."

"I see what else?" Hope pressed

"Well I'm going to tell her everything once I'm there."

"Are you don't you think it's a little early to do that?" Hope implied

"I know but at this point I know how I feel it's how Sonia will react and think when I tell her that's got me worried." Geo answered putting on her clothes

"Well no matter what happens I'll be there for you all the way." Hope assured

Geo smiled as she went to Sonia's room and knocked on her door

"Yes?" a voice called out

"It's Geo I came to tell you that you can use the bathroom now." Geo called back

"Okay thanks"

Sonia headed towards the bathroom face still a little red from what happened but she relaxed as soon as she got in the shower. As the water started hitting her she sighed in relaxation and even though it wasn't a high class spa or something taking a warm shower without the worry of being rushed sure felt like it.

"This is what I needed I need to thank Geo again for letting me stay here need to do something for him, and I think I got it."

She finished her daily routine as she headed to her room. As she finished putting on her usual attire she headed downstairs seeing Geo inhaling a huge stack of pancakes.

"You always eats this much?" Sonia asked surprising Geo who started choking

Hope who saw that ran to help her and started giving the Heimlich maneuver, after a while of not getting anywhere she made a desperate attempt by wrapping her right leg around her daughter's stomach and positioned her head towards the garbage disposal.

"Fire in the hole." She called

She squeezed Geo's stomach tightly which caused the said girl to spit out the chewed food launching it into the disposal. Sonia could only clap in amazement at what just happened. Geo coughed a little bit before receiving a slap to the back of the head.

"OW what was that for?" She cried

"I keep telling you not to jam food in your mouth look at what happened!" Hope snapped back

"You saved me from choking and you reprimand me for it?"

"Well maybe if you at your food slowly you wouldn't choke and I wouldn't have to yell at you for it."

Sonia who was watching the argument continue on went to the table helped herself to her share. After she finished her food she saw that they were still arguing. She turned to the clock which read 9:15.

'They've been at this for an hour.' She thought

She tried intervening but had no luck after trying multiple attempts to stop them she nearly gave up before thinking of something. She went through her mini bag that she kept on her waist as she found an air horn. She shook it vigorously and pointed it at Geo and Hope she covered one of her ears and closed her eyes

"Sorry" she said then pressed down hard letting out a huge eardrum bursting noise.

Both girls clutched their now ringing ears and faced Sonia with a pissed look and shouted "WHAT THE HELL SONIA?"

"Sorry but you were going at it for about an hour." Sonia defended

"My Bad" Geo said then turned to her mom "I'm sorry"

"It's okay; better finish your cold breakfast you got a big day ahead of you." Hope stated

Geo inhaled the last of her food in a heartbeat and left the house with Sonia in tow as they were heading for AMAKEN via bus Sonia leaned her head again on Geo's head who this time gladly accepted it.

"Geo thanks again for letting me stay with you."

"Like I said it's no problem I knew if it was me you'd help me in a heartbeat."

Sonia gave a beaming smile as she nodded. A few minutes had gone by and they had already reached their destination. While walking inside they were heading for Aaron's lab. Once there they saw Boreal working on some schematics for an invention until he saw the two girls.

"Ah Geo it's nice to see you again." The man greeted then he notices Sonia "And Sonia Strumm here as well this is a nice surprise"

"Hey Boreal" Geo greeted with a hug "Sonia this Aaron Boreal an old family friend of my dad."

"Nice to meet you" he said offering a handshake which Sonia accepted

"What brings you two here?" the man asked sitting down

"Well Sonia is staying with me for a little bit while getting to know me better, so I figured I bring her to the place I usually come to for peace and quiet." Geo explained

"So this is like some kind of-" Aaron didn't finish due to the sound a fist hitting the table making a small crater with a sickening cracking sound. He looked up slowly to see a dark aura around her while her face was shrouded only showing demonic red eyes.

"Go ahead say it; say what I think you're going to say. Don't think I won't your fat self across the room" Geo warned

"Uh some … kind of . . . tour about your life?" Boreal saved himself but just barely still a slight scared of Geo

She went from angry to happy "Yeah something like that" then she turned to face Sonia "Sonia could you meet me on the roof in a few minutes I need to talk to you about something important."

Sonia was wondering what Geo wanted to asked her but nodded in agreement. Geo then ran towards the back door leaving to the two people alone. Sonia looked at Boreal shaking her head in disappointment the said man noticed this.

"What?"

"You have no sense of backbone do you?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"How could you let yourself get intimidated by Geo?" Sonia asked teasingly

Boreal blushed bashfully as he laughed sheepishly "Yeah you see when it Geo's family their known for the aggressive anger. So whenever there pissed I do whatever I can to keep them sane to say the least."

"Wow something else I learned about Geo he's so full of mysterious things isn't he?" Sonia beamed

"Yeah he is kind of ironic really"

Sonia looked at the man quizzically "What do you mean?"

"Before, Geo used to be so closed up to himself and away from other people because of his past." Boreal explained

"What happened to him?"

"It happened a few years ago; Geo's father Kelvin Stelar was an astronaut who led a group of people on a space station known as PEACE. Originally we had found a mysterious EM-wave broadcast from a distant planet Kelvin had gone to explore and as well form a BrotherBand with it."

"BrotherBand?" Sonia inquired

"It's this special link between people who have a great relationship with each other." Aaron explained "I'm surprised you haven't heard of it."

"Well thanks to my manager I never got around to finding out." Sonia sighed "Anyway please continue"

"Anyway" Boreal trailed on "When we came across the broadcast we were hoping for the best outcome unfortunately we were wrong; an explosion had occurred in the space station that took it and everyone out along with it. No bodies were found but we assumed the worst when we couldn't anything for a few days. Out of all the families that were torn from Geo's was destroyed by it."

"What happened to him?" Sonia asked grieve-stricken for Geo

"He slowly but surely stopped going to school to a point where he didn't care about it anymore. Then Geo rarely left the house. The only time he does is to look at the sky or come here." Aaron finished leaning back in his chair

Sonia just sat back in her chair in disbelief she couldn't believe all this happened in Geo's past "I . . . just . . . don't know what to say. I mean Geo is always carefree and act like nothing is ever wrong with him I never knew he held this from me."

"When it comes to things like this Geo tends keeps it to himself; either because he doesn't want to worry anyone or because he's still in denial." Boreal explained

"What do you mean denial?"

"Geo keeps thinking that Kelvin isn't dead he believes that he's still out there somewhere in space. He becomes very sensitive when people say he's dead."

"Geo" Sonia whispered

"But Geo isn't alone about that feeling because personally I don't believe he's dead either." Aaron said bluntly surprising Sonia "It's feels like it's kind of my fault that he disappeared so until I see solid proof that he really is gone I keep working hard to find him myself."

"You sound dedicated to this." Sonia implied

"Yeah I guess I mean if there was the slightest chance that someone close to you was alive wouldn't you do anything to see them again?"

Sonia looked down at her lap sad expression all over her face "Yeah . . . I guess I would." She got up and went through the back door in silence. Aaron looked at her as she left and gave a worried look.

"I hope it wasn't anything I said."

Sonia opened the door to see Geo leaning on the bar fence looking up at the sky. Geo noticed her and turned around to say something but Sonia cut her off by hugging her surprisingly.

"Uh thanks but what was that for?" she asked a little confused

"I just wanted to hug you Geo that's all." She said sticking her tongue out playfully then stared at the sky "The sky looks beautiful huh?"

"Yeah you could just forget all your problems here."

"Yeah" Sonia then looked at Sonia "Hey Geo who was your dad?"

Geo was taken aback by the question "Why do you want to know?"

"Well I still want to get to know you better anyway I can."

Geo sighed and stared upward "Well where can I start; my dad was as good as he could be. He always put other people first, always knew how to brighten the mood anywhere. And he knew how to make me laugh. He was basically the best dad I could ever ask for."

"Wow" Sonia said in awe

"What about you what about your life and how did you get into singing?" Geo asked sitting down

Sonia sat down next to her bringing her knees to her chin and wrapping her arms around them "Uh well my life isn't as great as you think." Sonia started

"I doubt it could beat my past." Geo implied

'Oh I think it could.' She thought "Before my life as a singer I used to live with my mother who was constantly weak and sick we never had a lot but we always got by. Mainly because of mom going to the hospital a lot. It really tore me apart to see my mom in bed each day with no sign of change to her condition."

Geo was surprised no shocked to hear that. She couldn't find the words to describe it as Sonia continued on.

"It was really frustrating not being able to do much to help her so I came up with many things to help pass the time. And that's when singing came into the fray. I sang about many things you name it from the summer to flowers in the end it made my mom happy. Together we wrote many songs and sang everyday you could literally forget about her illness that she was so happy."

"Sonia…" Geo whispered

"Then one day there was an audition went out that was sponsored by T.V. station. My mom said I had a natural born talent and that I should give it a try; that when she bought me this guitar." She said holding her said instrument close to her "Wanting to make her happy I went and sang my heart out and out of all of them they chose me boy was my mom excited for me. Before I knew it I made my first debut and my career took off. With each song I made sure to sing my hardest so I can make my mom proud."

"Wow" Geo uttered speechless "And your mom now?"

Sonia gave a solemn smile as she pointed to the sky; Geo caught what she was meaning and gave a condolence look towards her "Two months after my debut." Sonia mused

"I'm sorry"

"Don't be because even though she's passed on she'll always be with me." She said putting her right hand over her heart "Always remember this Geo no matter who's gone or passed on as long as you keep them in your heart they'll always be with you."

Geo gave a small smile as she pulled Sonia into a hug this time who which gladly accepted it. They stayed like that until Geo's transer started ringing. She answered to see Aaron on the line

"Hey Aaron what's up?" she greeted

"Hey Geo do you by chance know a Chris Golds?" Boreal asked, Sonia froze when he said that name

"Uh no?" She lied nervously "Why?"

"Because he's going around the courtyard asking for you and Sonia." He replied

"COURTYARD?" the nearly screamed loudly in unison

They scrambled to the other side of the fence to see the said man asking a person who assumingly knew where the two girls are. They duck back away from the fence before they were spotted.

"How did he find us?" Sonia asked frantically

"Calm down he's could be just passing by, it's not like he really knows where we are right?" She questioned as she looked back. She wide eyed when Chris started walking towards the building. She turned back and faced Sonia

"Okay now you can panic." She said with a sweatdrop

"Great what are we going to do?" Sonia said worriedly

"Sonia are you okay you're making the man look like a sadist."

"Because sometimes he acts like one." Sonia stated "One minute he acts like a greedy dictator something I can handle the next he'll act like a crazed man who'll do whatever he want if he doesn't get his way."

"Oh FAN-tastic" Geo breath before walking to the mini flower bed "Okay Sonia I got an idea but it's going to be a little cold and a little dirty."

"Anything"

"Alright first help me move this" She said gesturing to the flower bed. As they moved them there revealed to be an air vent entrance. Geo opened it and smiled "Yes it's big enough."

Sonia looked at her confusedly "What's big enough?"

"The vent you can climb inside and take it all the way to the first floor." She instructed "Don't worry there all slanted so you don't have to worry about falling."

Sonia nodded in understanding as she climbed inside but before that she looked back at Geo "What about you."

"I'm going to have a little talk with your 'manager' keep him distracted long enough for you to get out and grab a bus." Geo replied

"Okay good luck . . . wait one more thing: How do you know where the vents connect?" Sonia implied

"Uh best save for next time now come on." Geo said pushing her in a shutting it. She stayed there as the thumping grew fainter.

Inside the building storming around was a royally pissed Golds. He was searching high and low for Sonia and to say he wasn't happy about it was an understatement. He climbed the stairs and reached Aaron's office where he saw Geo sitting on a chair feet crossed and on the desk looking at a book pretending to read it. Geo gazed at the man eyes lowered mischievously grinning innocently. She closed the book dramatically and threw it on the desk.

"Hello Golds" Geo said smoothly "What a surprise to see you here."

"Cut the crap kid you know why I'm here." Chris gritted

"No actually I don't know I'm really surprised to see you here. And up and moving at that." Geo said as she scanned him up and down "I thought that boot to the jewels would leave incapacitated for like a few days."

"Well when it comes to my early retirement package I'll basically just about anything." Chris stated

Geo gave a weird look "Early Retirement Package?"

With Sonia she was crawling through the vent slightly wincing at the cold as she rubbed her arms from time to time "Man Geo wasn't kidding when he said it would be cold it seem like the A.C. could run to run on non-stop."

She kept crawling until she heard Geo's voice

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN RETIREMENT PACKAGE?"

Curious as to what was going on she crawled towards Geo's voice to see her face to face with Golds. She made should to keep herself quiet so she wouldn't expose herself as she listened to the conversation.

"Just like I said ERP." He enunciated the initials "You see when I started working with Sonia I wasn't always this good looking. I lived in the slums struggling to survive, I owed money to a lot of people you wouldn't even dared look at wrong. Basically I was desperate before Sonia came into the picture."

Geo and Sonia kept quiet throughout the story as she got up and stood face to face across Golds.

"When she debut her first song I made over 10 million in profit at first I thought I couldn't believe it but then I knew it could work into my favor."

"What do you mean?" Geo inquired

"With her talents let's just say Sonia made a charitable donation." Chris smirked "Thanks to her I paid off everyone I owed and started living the suite life. And the best part she doesn't know."

"Wait you lost me how could she make a donation yet not know about it?" Geo questioned

"I said she made a donation I never said that she gave it to me willingly."

Geo looked at the floor confused by what he meant until she went wide eyed and gasp in shock while Chris chuckled "That's right Geo: Embezzlement"

"You took money from her why?" She asked shocked

"Let me ask you this: If someone handed you the goose who laid the golden eggs wouldn't you take advantage of this?" Chris mused "To me Sonia is my Golden Goose who I plan to keep locked up until I'm satisfied."

"It's like you don't even care about her."

"No fucking shit I don't care about Sonia. She's just my personal bank to me." Golds replied bluntly "To which I'm going keep embezzling money until I withdraw my substantial amount."

"And Sonia what are you going to do to her after you've finished." Geo snarled slightly

"I'll just toss her aside like an old toy."

Sonia felt like crying she couldn't believe what she was hearing this whole time Chris was stealing the money from under her nose and she didn't even know. She started to crawl away tears streaming until she found the exit. Once there she bashed it open with her legs and dropped to the floor running out the door. Outside she was on the bench crying to her heart's content

"Something the matter dear?" a voice called out

Sonia jerked her head up to see Lyra floating in front of her "Who're you?"

"Someone who has been called by the sadness in your heart and came to comfort you." Lyra answered "There is something troubling you is there not?"

Back with Geo and company Mega had felt an uneasy presence one that he knew all too well 'Kid I hate to bother you right now but we got a problem here.'

'As in?'

'The FM-ian type'

'Here?'

'Yes'

Geo sighed exasperated as he looked at Golds then started walking towards the roof. Chris looked at her bewildered "Where do you think you're going?"

"To the roof I need some air." Geo answered simply

"Okay well then I hope you don't mind if I follow you." Chris stated skeptically

"Fine by me I'm not hiding anything from you."

They went upstairs while Golds was walking around searching for anything Geo was using her visualizers to scan for the mysterious being. While looking she had noticed Sonia at the courtyard looking at the roof eyes shrouded with a small frown. Geo was worried that she could be spotted by Golds and wondering why she wasn't going anywhere. Chris was wondering what Geo was looking at then went wide eyed.

"SONIA!" he screamed then started running downstairs. Geo started to run after him but was stopped by Mega

"What are you doing Mega?"

"Kid something's not right with Sonia." Mega stated

"What do you mean?" She inquired

"Now call me crazy but is she smirking?"

Geo looked towards Sonia and true to his word Sonia was smirking as Chris was approaching her. Chris had a royally pissed off look on his face there was going to be hell to pay starting with Sonia.

"Young lady you got a lot of explaining to do!" He shouted receiving no response from Sonia "Well I'm waiting."

". . ."

"ANSWER ME!"

-X-

Sonia was face to face with Lyra who seemed somewhat comforting to her.

"What bothering you child?" Lyra asked

"My manager he's been taking advantage of me since I started my career and I never knew." She replied boiling in anger

"Do you wish to get back at him?"

"More than anything I'm tired of his constant demands."

Lyra smirked "Then join with me and I'll solve all of your problems. Do we have a deal?"

Sonia looked down then smiled "Deal"

-X-

"I'm done. . ." Sonia muttered

". . . What?"

"I said I'm done." She repeated louder "I'm through with you and know I'm going to do something about it."

"Oh yeah and how do you plan on doing that?"

"This" She raised her transer in the air "Denpa Henkan Sonia Strumm On Air!"

She was engulfed in pink and white light surprising Chris and shocking Geo.

"No" Geo mused "Not her anyone but her."

When the light cleared it showed Sonia vaguely similar to Geo's style. She had a white skin tight body suit. She had a two piece clothing armor training bra like Geo's but instead of a star it was a heart. She wore a short with and attachable and detachable skirt on it with white line running on the edges. Her hair went from pink to blond as she got a pink headband that had light blue visor with a mini microphone attached to it hanging next to her mouth. She had knee high low heeled pink boots that were whit tipped. And to top it off she had a blue guitar with a little face on it. She faced a now trembling Chris Golds

"W-what is this?" he stuttered

"REVENGE!" Sonia screamed as she ran her pick through the guitar strings

End of Chapter

Wow I'm late sorry it took so long to update damn midterms keeping me busy. Anyways chapter 8 to all my faithful readers. In this one we learn about Sonia's sad past and we see Chris for the monster he truly is. I was previously going to add the battle to it but I figured this would be a good place to stop. Also not a lot of tension between our main characters but a lot of sympathy between them.

So as usual I hoped you enjoyed the chapter.

Until next time