Jordan stood by the door of the lab, waiting to get his IS back, when Cecilia walks up to him. "What you up to?" She asks, leaning slightly on his arm.

"Nothing much, Einstein in there is upgrading my IS. Making it a bit more efficient." Jordan answers, intertwining her fingers and his.

"Ooo, what's he doing?" Cecilia smiles.

"Making it have stronger, but lighter armor. No different aesthetics, so it still looks the same, but it's just a different material. He's also making my weapons slightly more accurate. But you should see what he's done with my brothers IS after." He grins.

"I'm much more interested in you." She puts her open hand on his chest, staring into his eyes.

"Oh, I know that fully well." Jordan smiles, putting his forehead on hers.

"So, who was that girl you recruited?" Cecilia asked.

"Serena Grace, I have a feeling that I knew her, but I don't know where from." Jordan scratched his head. Cecilia had remembered her once the announcer said her name. She was the girl that she had thought would take Jordan away from her. She wanted nothing but to keep her away from him, but he had brought her onto the team, unknowingly. She was happy that he had no intention of leaving her, but it still didn't make her happy that Serena was back in his life now. Cecilia decided that she might give a show of her affection to her, she is the elitest of the elite, she wasn't going to allow a lesser girl to take away the one she loves.

"She was the girl who you talked to about making that song for me. The girl I thought you liked instead of me." Cecilia explained.

"Oh really? That would explain why she broke up with her boyfriend to try and get with me." Jordan put his hands on Cecilia's waist. "Too bad for her, I only have eyes for you, you are everything that keeps me alive."

Cecilia kisses him gently. "I'm glad. I love you."

"I love you more." Jordan pokes her nose after kissing her back.

"No, I am the elitest of the elite, especially when it comes to loving you." Cecilia grins.

Jordan laughs slightly and holds her close, then lifts her up slightly. "Our love is infinite, so it cannot be measured nor compared, I just like messing with you a little."

"Alright, please tell me that you have all that cheese out of your system now." Dylan rolls his eyes, walking towards them with Laura beside him.

"Oh, come on, you know that you want to do all that with Laura." Jordan looks at him, mischievously.

"Once again, my relationship with Dylan is strictly professional." Laura says, but this time, instead of crossing her arms, she holds one arm, tries to hide her face, and blushes.

"Is everything okay, Laura?" Dylan puts his hand on her shoulder.

"Y-Yes! E-everything is just f-fine!" She blushes more, smiling. Dylan looks into her eyes, then blushes just as intensely as her.

"O-oh." Dylan realizes what's going on, right before Jordan starts singing a particular disney song from a particular movie about a particular mermaid. Cecilia provides the background music.

"S-shut up!" Dylan yells.

"Keep singing…" Laura whispers.

"... keep singing…" Dylan blushes. Jordan and cecilia do as they are told, for once.

"Okay, now that all of you are done with all this romantic stuff that is completely unnecessary for the moment, why don't you two go recalibrate your IS's. As for you two ladies, I believe it's time for you to get some upgrades. Give me your activation modules." Luke comes out of the door, staring at the four of them, annoyed.

"Yes, sir." Jordan puts two fingers against his head, saluting him, and walks away with his necklace. Dylan walks with Jordan, touching the screen on his arm, checking the updates.

"Alright, hand 'em over. I'll be done soon. Updating the stealth on these ones should be easy. Any other requests? I can't do anything too complex, like fourth generation things, that would probably cause the units to overload their own circuits, causing an explosion, killing the pilot." Luke says.

"My IS is already perfect, but it could be a little bit more accurate than before. Also, the rockets could do better with a speed upgrade." Cecilia suggests.

"Also, I could have my armor be more resistant to the recoil of my railgun." Laura adds.

"Got it." Luke writes those down on his paper, along with how to do it, going into complete detail, and then retreats back into his lab.

"So, did you tell him how you feel?" Cecilia asks.

"Yes, in a way." Laura says. "I told him in german…"

"He doesn't know those words in german, he only knows the words that have to do with orders." Cecilia looks at her, slightly worried.

"Yeah…" Laura looks down.

"But he seemed to guess your feelings towards him a while ago, while we were singing to you two." Cecilia perked up. "You'll be able to make him your bride soon enough."

"Husband." Laura said, plainly.

"And she finally gets it." Cecilia laughs, slightly tapping Laura's shoulder. Laura smiles and returns the gesture, harder than she meant to, causing Cecilia to touch her shoulder, but she was still laughing.

"You think he'll ask me soon?" Laura says.

"I know he will, he's probably thinking about it right now." Cecilia leans back on the wall.

-at the small stadium, where Jordan and Dylan were testing out their modified IS's-

He was thinking about it, he was thinking about it quite a lot. Even if he wasn't thinking it, his brother wouldn't have allowed him to not think about it. "Sooooooooooooooo, when are you going to ask her out, dude? You should know by now that she likes you."

"I'll do it later, when I'm not so nervous to do so." Dylan says, his face completely red.

"Then it's never going to happen. Look, we have one day before we go back to the base and attack, the competition will continue in 5 days, since they gave us a week to do any necessary maintenance." He puts his 'hand' on my 'shoulder'. "I can take Cecilia out some place, and you can tell her how you feel again, ask her out, maybe also spend some time with mom."

"So, you want to split up even though we're on a very important mission?" Dylan asks.

"Enough with this mission stuff, what's more important right now is that you know how she feels about you. Plus, I want to spend time with Cecilia while we're here." Jordan rolls his eyes.

"I do not think that that's a good idea…" Dylan frowns.

"Then look at it this way, we're going up against really strong enemies. Maybe we might stand a chance if they were separate as well." Jordan rolls his eyes.

"Fine, fine. If you're going to be so persistent on this subject." Dylan crosses his arms.

"Thank you." Jordan finally shuts up, and they recalibrate and finish testing the modifications. What was he going to do? How was he going to ask her out? First off, he needs to know if she truly loves him back. Secondly, if she does, then he probably should just be calm about it. He didn't want to be too much, or too little. He just has to remain calm, and be natural about it. He knows that she likes him, he just has to be more courageous. He already told her how he feels, and now he just wants to confirm her feelings, and then make it official. Heh, maybe he could kiss her… n-no! W-way t-too bold! … But it'd be w-worth it...