Chapter 8
Ouk'om's and Xylites part 1: The arrival of Mimicker
Roman could feel every fiber of his being shaking in anger as his eyes bore into the Malachite twins, his cigar laying forgotten in the ashtray. When they first came back after being out for a few hours, he had hoped that they would be followed by the twin creations of Light-Warrior. But instead all they managed to bring back was a disembodied head and a charred metal corpse. The fact that they failed in a simple mission aggravated Roman to no end.
"Would you two care to tell me why the targets that you two were supposed to bring back ALIVE were brought to me dead?" Roman hissed as he tightly gripped his cane, showing the twins that they had better give him a good explanation for this.
It was Militia that came forward.
"Well...we hit a snag in our...peaceful talk and one thing lead to another so...I had to chop Shinshi's head off." Militia nervously explained.
Roman threw her a dirty look. "And what, pray tell, happened that caused you to have to kill him?" Roman demanded.
"He attacked us and knocked out Melanie!" Militia told him, deciding to leave out information regarding Carzon just in case Roman decides to go after him.
The top hat wearing criminal groaned and rubbed his face. "Then knock him out and drag him here! It's not that difficult!" Roman scolded. "I swear, if it weren't for the fact that you two are Junior's stooges, then I would fire you...with real fire."
"Hey, don't blame us! He was the one that attacked us!" Melanie defended herself and Militia. "Besides, at least we didn't kill the other one too."
"That's not the point!" The orange haired man growled, at the end of his patience. "The point is that now our only lead that we had on Light-Warrior is gone!"
Seeing as he was about to blow his top, Militia decided that this would be the best time to tell him her idea before he kills them.
"We could always try hacking into Shinshi's head and figure out what he knows about Light-Warrior." Militia quickly said. "I mean, he is a machine and all."
At that moment Roman Torchwick paused as he considered the red dress wearing Malachite twin, a vicious grin splitting his face as his anger dissipates.
"By Oum's teachings, I do believe your onto something." Roman said as he gave Militia a quick glance. "At least one of you have the brains to pick up the slack."
Melanie sneered, knowing that he was poking fun at her. "Screw you Roman!" Melanie yelled. Before the crime boss could retort with a taunt, there was a knock on the door and Junior poked his head through the slightly opened door.
"What is it Junior? Don't you see that we're in the middle of something at the moment?" Roman said rudely, irritated that he was being interrupted.
"You have a visitor, someone that wants to talk to you about a partnership." Junior said as he opened the door fully and walked into the room.
Roman rolled his eyes. "Let me guess, yet another costumed freak that thinks that their hot stuff but will end up failing miserably anyway." Roman said, starting to get fed up with the villains of this world and how they end up failing him.
Then out of nowhere, a second Hei 'Junior' Xiong walks into the room, looking distracted. "Hey Roman, have you seen my Bazooka anyw-" Junior stops when he realized that there was one more person in the room then there should have been and looks over to see someone that looks exactly like him. The bartender looks at his doppelganger with wide eyes and a slowly opening mouth as he slowly drinks in the appearance of the other man.
"What the hell is going on!?" Junior finally said as he backed away from the clone.
"That is what I want to know." Roman said, sounding subdued because of his confusion.
The first Junior closed and let out a low chuckle. "It looks like it's time to drop the charade." The fake Junior said before his face and hands turned into a yellow, goo like substance and started to move like a wave.
Within moment, four yellow goo tentacles sprung out from where the mouth once was while of its head while the rest of the head became a more spherical and bulbous shape. Green circles appeared and dotted the entire head and limp limbs. On the bulbous head, two, beady eyes opened as glared in amusement at the shocked criminals. The clothing fused together and turned into a silver suit with a almost metallic texture to it. The last part of the transformation was the hands, which turned the same tone of yellow as the creatures head.
The four just stared in a combination of amazement, fear, wariness, and sickness as they continued to watch the being that had a head that resembles a Blue-ringed octopus in front of them.
"What...are you?!" Roman asked the strange being, already deducing that it wasn't something that existence naturally on this world.
"I am Mimicker, Roman Torchwick." The now named Mimicker answered Roman, his tentacles moving as he talked.
Junior could only stare in horror at Mimicker, feeling sick to his stomach to watch his handsome face (in his opinion) turn into something so ugly in such a sickening manner, swallowing some bile that threatened to go up his throat and out his mouth.
"Oh Oum." Militia said, holding her hand over her mouth to stop herself from throwing up.
"I think I'm going to be sick!" Melanie stated as she quickly went over to a trashcan and promptly threw up everything that was in her stomach.
"I know that my transformation isn't the most pleasing to your species, but that is the way of the Ouk'om." The Alien Octopus explained.
"Alright Ouk'om...thing, would you enlighten us on why you're here?" Roman asked carefully.
"It's simple Roman Torchwick, I'm here to help you with your 'pest' problem." Mimicker explained, alluding to the team that has been inconveniencing him at every turn. The orange haired criminal nodded before gave the octopus like alien a hard look.
"You see that's the thing, the few people that we recruited in hopes of making things go smoothly end up botching up their jobs and failing miserably." Roman told him, feeling residue anger at all the times he's been let down. "So why should I even bother trusting you? What can you bring to our little group?"
The yellow alien raised its eye before it's body turned into yellow goo again and started to morph again. The Malachite twins and Junior decided to look that other way so they don't get grossed out again. The tentacles sank into the head as the head shrank and a outline of a human face formed. Seconds went by as the outlines became more prevalent until Roman was looking at a yellow version of his own face. Mimicker's silvery clothing morphed until it looked like the clothes Roman wore except silver. Finally, both Mimicker's body and clothes changed colors until every single thread of clothing, strand of hair, and skin cell was the same colors as the real Roman.
"What can I bring to your group?" The Mimic asked in Roman's voice. "I can do this."
The alien life-form watched as the gears inside Roman's head began to spin and a sinister smirk appeared on his face.
"I think that I can find a use for you." Roman stated. "But there's more to it is there?" There was no shortage of suspension in his voice that the galactic octopus easily picked up on.
"What are you getting at?" The disguised alien asked, narrowing his eyes.
"I think I can say without any doubt that you're an alien right?" Mimicker nodded at Roman's question. "So why would one with such a interesting power come here of all places and say that they want to help us of all people?" Roman said before he gave Mimicker a knowing smirk. "Unless you had another reason for joining us that you're not telling us."
Mimicker was silent for a moment, staring right into Roman's eyes with a blank look on his face. Then he smirked and slowly chuckled until he was outright laughing.
"You are good Roman Torchwick, you've caught me red handed." The Ouk'om admitted. "You were right to point out that I had a different reason to join your group. It just so happens that two of my current targets are somewhere in this human settlement which you call a city."
"And you want to catch them, am I right? Junior finally shook over his disgust and asked. "What does that have to do with us?" Mimicker smirk widened.
"More then you know Hei Xiong." Mimicker called Junior by his given name. "It just so happens that my targets are accompanying the targets you want dead."
Roman's eyes flashed in interest. "Oh I see, so that's why you want to work with us. You help us kill the kids and-"
"You help me capture the two Xylite's." Mimicker finished. Militia's heart stopped and her body stiffens when he mentioned the species he was after, knowing that one of his targets was most likely Carzon.
"And what are the names of your quarry?" Roman asked, completely ignorant of Militia's change of posture.
"Their names are Akiero and Carzon, part of an endangered species known as the Xylites." Mimicker explained, reaffirming Militia's fear.
"I see, and why are they so special?" Roman inquired.
"The answer of that is in their metallic skin. Something within the Xylite's DNA allows them to shape shift into anything when certain external and internal requirements are met. And when I say anything, I mean anything; from weapons that can change from one type to another to a space craft that can change shape and repair itself."
Roman nodded in amazement. "I bet they would make perfect warriors to add to our side." Roman said before Mimicker frown and shook his head.
"Unfortunately, the two that I mentioned before are the only ones left after most of them were killed off by their Wolf-like enemies, the Wybred." Mimicker smiled greedily. "But that makes them both more valuable to any self respected poacher like me who want to make good money."
"THEY'RE NOT ANIMALS YOU SICKO!" Militia burst without thinking.
"Militia! What are you doing?!" Melanie hissed between grated teeth, only to be ignored by her sister.
"If they're endangered, then they should be left alone!" Militia argued with the shape-shifting alien poacher.
Mimicker stared her straight in her eyes without blinking. "Perhaps for small minded individuals like you and the Galactic Department of Endangered Life-forms, but people such as myself know that the universe runs on money, so we hunt done endangered species and sell them dead or alive for the highest bidder." Mimicker chuckled darkly. "I bet that the Wybreds would pay handsomely for anyone to deliver the last two Xylites in the entire galaxy, I might even get a bonus if I deliver Carzon alive." Militia stared in shock.
"What do you mean?!" Militia demanded.
"That's the most interesting part of this hunt. Carzon has a rare color for the Xylite race. Normally they are red with large blue eyes, but Carzon is unique in the fact that his colors are reversed. Not only that, but he also has the ability to copy characteristics of animals he comes intact with. Most impressive I'd say." Mimicker finished explaining.
'So he's a rarity of his species?' Militia asked herself.
"So what you're saying is that he's abnormal even among his own kind?" Roman asked.
"That's one way of putting it, but yes." Mimicker answered.
Militia, who had enough of the conversation between the two, let out a annoyed groan and storms out of the room.
"What's eating her?" Junior asked as he watched her retreating form with a raised eye.
"I have no idea, and I don't really care." Roman told him, taking out a cigar from his pocket and biting the end off before lighting it.
"I'll go check on her." Melanie offered, walking out of the room in a slow pace, making sure she was out of sight before breaking out into a run to find her sister.
"Okay then, now that that's all settle and over with." Roman walks around his desk and sits down, inhaling from his cigar before puffing out smoke, soothing his nerves. "Are you going to do everything that we ask of you?" Roman cuts to the chase.
Mimicker walks over to the deck, morphing into his regular form by the time he reaches it. Junior wordlessly lets himself out so he didn't have to see it "I will, but only if your allies do not interfere with my hunt." The now bipedal yellow octopus alien told him.
Roman smirks and hold his hand out, which Mimicker took without hesitation. "Deal."
In their rooms at the Internal Green Hotel, Ren was giving Jaune and Pyrrha a skeptical look.
"So what you're telling us is that you two managed to meet honest to Oum aliens during the date between Ed and Sydney?" Ren asked, not sure whether or not they're pulling his leg.
"It's the truth, we got to meet real aliens!" Pyrrha argued exasperatedly. While Ren responded with skepticism, Nora had a different reaction to the news.
"THEY'RE GOING TO CONQUER THE PLANET AND TAKE ALL OF OUR COWS!" Nora screamed hysterically, any hint of her previous drowsiness gone as she started babbling on about defensive tactics as she zoomed around the living room.
"NORA!" The trio yelled at once, causing the panicking girl to stop in her tracks and stare at them.
"Okay, now that we have your attention. They are not here to conquer the world or steal the cows, they've came in peace...sort of." Jaune said the last part with uncertainty. "And besides, the cows are not even our, it's Earth's cows. Our cows are save at Remnant." This seemed to appease the girl who calmly walked over and sat next to Ren.
"Either way, we should probably check up on them." Ren offered, mostly because he wants to meet the so called 'Aliens' for himself.
"Yeah, and we already told them before we separated from them that we would go over to meet with them later." Pyrrha told him and Nora. "I believe that Sydney told us that they were on this floor on the other side of the hallway."
"Awesome, let's go!" Jaune said as they got up and left their room, walking through the hall of doors until they found the door that they thought was right.
"Room 700, I think this is the right room." Jaune said as he extended his arm to knock on the door, only for the door to swing open and smack Jaune right in the face. As Jaune fell backwards towards the floor, a blue blur ran through the door and down the hallway, followed by a red blur that was going to same speed.
"CARZON! I'M GOING TO TEAR OFF YOU DAMN LIMBS!" Akeiro yelled angrily from the top of his lungs as he pushed his legs harder to catch his brother.
"FOR PETE'S SAKE AKEIRO! I SAID I WAS SORRY!" Carzon frantically yelled as he also pushed himself to outrun his brother.
"I"LL SHOW YOU SORRY!" Akeiro roared started to close the gap between them with a anger fueled burst of speed. Carzon screamed in horror and doubled his efforts to get away from his fellow Xylite.
"Were those the so-called aliens?" Ren asked as he and Nora watched the cat and mouse chase, the latter laughing hysterically as she urged them to go faster. "Because they seem like normal, everyday siblings to me."
His question fell on deaf ears because Pyrrha was helping Jaune up while Jaune was covering his bleeding nose.
Sydney dashed out the room, looking distressed and hassled. "You two get back here!" Sydney yelled at the duo. "Your going to cause a scene!"
"They already did." Jaune told her blankly, his voice sounding nasally from holding his nose to keep the blood from leaking out onto his clothes. The brunette jumped in surprise and quickly turned to face the four teens with her hand on her chest to ease her racing heart.
"Jesus wept! You surprised me." Sydney told them, easily recognizing Pyrrha and Jaune.
"Sorry about that, we came over to check up on you three. Is this a bad time?" Pyrrha asked the older women.
"No no, it's good. We just...what happened to you?" Sydney suddenly stopped when she noticed Jaune's blood stained face.
"I got hit by the door and now my nose is bleeding." Jaune told her.
"Oh...I'm guessing it's when they came running out?" Sydney guessed. She got her answer when all four of them nodded their heads. "Right, sorry about that. How about we get a wet rage for you." Sydney was about to go inside.
"Wait, what's all the fuss about? Why is the red one chasing the blue one?" Ren stopped her with his question. Sydney eyes shifted uncomfortably.
"It's Carson...he told someone about their secret." Sydney grimly explained. Pyrrha's and Jaune's widened while Nora and Ren looked at her in confusion.
"What's so bad about that?" Nora asked. Sydney's shifted nervously before moving and beckoning them inside the room.
"I'll explain inside." Sydney told them.
"What about those two?" Jaune questioned her, only for her to shake her head and give him a weak smile.
"They'll be fine. They'll probably be back in a few minutes." Sydney said as she urged them inside. "Please get in." Deciding to follow her orders, the four members of Team JNPR walked inside.
Sydney led them to the small living room, which looked exactly like the one in their room. Team JNPR sat on the couch in front of the coffee table while Sydney went to get a wash cloth for Jaune, returning a minute later and gave it to Jaune before sitting in the chair to their side.
"Before we begin, I think that introductions are in order." Sydney said with a smile and placing her hand on her chest. "My name is Sydney Reeves."
"Greetings, my name is Lie Ren." Ren was the first to introduce himself in a calm manner.
"And I'm Nora Valkyrie! The most awesome person in the world!" Nora chimed .
Sydney giggled softly. "It's nice to meet you two." Sydney cheerfully told them.
"Great, we all know who each other are. So what's exactly is going on? Who did Carzon talk too?" Pyrrha asked, getting to the point.
Sydney's cheerful smile twisted into a serious frown.
"He revealed his and Akeiro's existence to some girl he met and told her about his species." The brunette grimly explained. The team's expression became concerned.
"That's not good." Jaune said, knowing that if the person the blue Xylite told his secret to leak the information to the government, then it could be curtain time for Carzon and Akeiro, as well as, Sydney because of her attempts to hide them.
"Did he happen to describe what she looks like or her name?" Ren inquired. Sydney looked thoughtful.
"Well he didn't tell us her name, but he did say that she had short, black hair, pale green eyes, wears red makeup and a red strapless dress with black lining." The female friend of Carzon and Akeiro recited before remembering something else. "Also, she apparently uses a pair of red and black claws with two blades each."
Her description of the girl set off red flags in the team's heads. "Hold up, don't we know someone who looks like that?" Pyrrha asked, feeling that she met someone like that before, but where?
"He also said something about him being her boyfriend or something." Sydney explained further, surprising the four by that tidbit of information. "But from the way he told us that, I don't think that he really knows what that means."
"Hmm, interesting." Ren chuckled good-naturedly as Jaune took the now slightly bloody rag off his face and turned towards Sydney, shooting her a thoughtful expression.
"While on the subject of Carzon and Akeiro, how long have they been on this world?" Jaune questioned their host.
"They haven't been here too long, about six months give or take a few days." Sydney answered his question honestly.
"Are you three close to one another?" Pyrrha asked next.
Sydney couldn't help but smile. "Even though we only known each other for only a little bit, we've actually became really close to one another." Sydney told them. I was a only child growing up so have those two around makes me feel like I have two little brothers that I look after."
"So you're like their big sister? Awwww!" Nora cooed, finding it adorable. The older girl chuckled.
"Yeah, I guess you could say that. Ever since they became part of my life, my life became nothing short of a blast." Sydney said fondly.
"I bet that having them around makes everything seem so much better." Jaune told her with a smile. "I can't imagine what it would be like if I didn't have my seven sisters in my life."
Sydney stared at Jaune in shock, mouthing "7?!" under her breath.
"Would you mind telling us how you met them?" Pyrrha asked, shaking the brunette out of her trance.
"Oh yes!" Sydney quickly said as she organized her mind. "I guess it's about time I told the story to someone."
"Oh boy! Storytime!" Nora exclaimed excitedly, grinning ear to ear as she practically vibrated in her seat. Ren rolled his eyes and placed his hand on her shoulder to keep her still.
"Calm down Nora, let's hear her out before you get to excited." Ren told her, getting a nod from the orange haired Valkyrie.
"This is going to be great!" Jaune said as he leaned forward in anticipation.
Seeing that she had their attention, Sydney began her story on how she met the two Xylites.
"All right, it all started six months ago-" Sydney began.
~6 months ago~
Sydney was sitting at a bus stop bench with two suitcases sitting on the ground beside her. She had recently graduated Medical School and wanted to pursue her dream of traveling the world while she still can.
Sydney giggled with giddy excitement as she kicked her feet back and forth. "I can't believe that I'm finally going to do this! I'm finally going to see the world!" Sydney said with glee. "Just like I always dreamed off for so long, I hope that I can meet interesting people on the way." An idea popped into the brunette's head, she reached into her pocket and took out her cell phone then held it at arm's length.
"I should take a selfie so I can look back on this day and remember when my dreams became true." Sydney told herself as she centered her phone. As she was about to take the picture, she heard something coming her way but ignored it for a moment in favor of taking the picture, assuming that the bus had finally arrived. When she finally took the picture, she heard a sound that sounded like a rocket flying behind her.
"What the heck?!" Sydney exclaimed, turning around to see what the sound was. To her confusion, she didn't spot the source of the strange sound and shrugged as she turned her attention to her phone and decided to look at her newest photo.
"I wonder how it turned o-" Sydney paused when she examined the selfie and noticed something strange in the photo. In the foreground of the picture was her, smiling at the camera. That wasn't what she found strange, but what caught her attention was a silver blur that was positioned behind her when she took the picture.
'That's strange...' Sydney thought as she turned around again to see if the silver thing was there, only to see that it wasn't.
"What could that be?" Sydney wondered to herself until the sound of a explosion rippled through the air, scaring the bejesus out of her and made her drop her phone in fright.
"What the hell was that!?" Sydney yelled as she shot up from her seat snapped her head towards the direction of the explosion. She watched the area, hoping that whatever caused the explosion would make itself known. After a few minutes, however, nothing came along. She bent down and picked up her phone then turned it on to look at the time.
"Looks like I have some time left before the bus comes for me." Sydney mumbled to herself. "I might as well go see what made that explosion."
Sydney slipped her phone into her pocket and took a deep breath before taking tentative steps towards the explosion zone. Within a short minute of walking, Sydney began to notice a few trees that looked like they were recently pushed down and a long and wide line dug through the ground with flames surrounding the edges. It looked as if something made a crash landing.
"Just follow the broken dirt road Sydney." The brunette told herself as she followed the furrow in the ground, making sure to stay away from the small fires as she slowly made her way to the end of the line. As she neared the path of destruction's end, she finally found the source of the explosion and the destruction. It was an oddly shaped, silver colored jet-like vehicle that looked like something straight from an old Science Fiction movie. Sydney stopped twenty feet away from it as she examined it more thoroughly.
"Golly..." The med school graduate said in awe as she walked closer to it. She glances to upper part of the side and notices that there was a circular hatch was open, showing the darkness inside it. She narrows her eyes at the opening to focus her vision before her eyes widen in shock when she sees something human shaped inside it. The strange being had a silver, metallic-like head, neck, hands, shoulders, knees, and feet while its torso, arms, legs, and waist was red. Its silver hands has three fingers on each and it has a large red eye that took up most of its face. But what grabbed her attention the most was the fact that the robotic alien arms were clutching its chest as cyan blood leaked out from some gashes.
Despite the fact that she had no worldly knowledge of what that life form was, Sydney's concern for an injured individual overrode her concern for herself if the alien was hostile or not.
"Hold on! I'm going to help you!" Sydney called out towards the red eye alien, unaware of the alien standing behind her. This one had a similar body structure as the injured one in the ship, except that this one's had grey hands, shoulders, knees, feet, neck, and head; red arms, torso, legs, and waist and its eye was blue. The gray alien wrapped its right arm over her next and pulled her to its body.
"Fru yna oui?!" (Who are you?!) The alien interrogated her aggressively, strengthen his hold threateningly.
"W-what?!" Sydney asked, starting to panic.
"Damm sa fru oui yna un E femm gemm oui!" (Tell me who you are or I will kill you!) The red and grey alien growled at her, narrowing its blue eye as its patience becoming thin.
"P-Pnudran?...Ec dryd oui?" (B-Brother?...Is that you?) The silver and blue weakly called out from his spot in the ship. The robot alien holding Sydney captive immediately drops her like a sack of potatoes and rushed towards its brother.
"Carzon! Yna oui ymm famm?" (Carzon! Are you well?) The red and grey alien asked, sounding very concerned.
The blue and silver alien robot reaches his hand out towards his brother, shaking weakly as the aggressive alien quickly grasped the outstretched hand and holds it tightly as he whispers comforting words towards his injured sibling.
Sydney felt a sympathetic ache in her heart as she watched the two siblings interact.
'They must be siblings.' Sydney rationalized their behavior. 'I have to do something.' With minimal hesitation, Sydney approached the duo, making sure to appear non threateningly so the alien that was aggressively holding her not even five minutes ago wouldn't attack her. Once she was behind him, Sydney tentatively placed her hand on his shoulder, causing the red and gray robot to spin around glared at her.
"I can help." Sydney told him, trying hard to hide her discomfort at being arms length of the aggressive alien. In response, the alien made a noise that sounded like a scoff.
"Mega E fuimt dnicd cusa pewynna, vmacro lnaydina mega oui!" The red alien snapped at her. (Like I would trust some bizarre, fleshy creature like you even come near my brother!)
Just then, the blue alien spoke up. "Please, brother...I think she can help us." The blue alien told his brother in perfect English, shocking Sydney immensely.
"Y-you can speak English?!" Sydney said shocked that an alien was able to speak English so fluently like he is now.
The blue alien nodded. "Certainly, I tried to learn every language that I could from many different regions of the galaxy." The alien explained weakly. "My brother over there can speak your language too, though I had to force him to do so."
Sydney turned to look at the other alien, who gave her a dry look. "Are you sure that we can trust this thing?" The red alien asked warily, speaking English as well as his brother. The brunette pouted at being called a thing.
"First off; I'm not a thing, I'm a women and will be referred to as her or she." Sydney told him, making him roll his eye and cross his arms as he mumbled "Whatever." "Secondly, I'm going to try to help him, but I'll need your help to get him out of the ship so I can examine him better."
"Fine, but don't try anything." The red alien warned her before turning around and wrapping his arms around his brother carefully and took him out of the ship, gently laying him down on the ground. After saying a quick thanks to him, Sydney crouches down to look at the injuries and notices the three gashes on his chest...as if something to rip his entire torso off.
"Can you tell me how this happened?" Sydney gently asked him.
The second she asked that, both the aliens adopted haunted looks.
"We were attacked...by the Wybreds." The blue alien told her. Sydney could pick up the sad undertone of his answer.
"Wybreds?" Sydney asked, not familiar with the word or the species.
The more aggressive alien growled at the mention of that name. "They're a bunch lowlife mutts that'll kill anything or anyone for a price." He hissed with pure hatred. "Damn bastards deserve to be eradicated by a supernova!" Sydney flinched at his tone as her patient continued the explanation.
"They took everything from us. Our home, our friends, our...family. They slaughtered our entire race, we're the only ones that managed to survive the carnage. One of them injured me when we made our way to our escape pod." The blue alien explained, pointing towards the ship behind them.
"I...see." was Sydney's reply, not knowing what to say to that so decided to change the subject. "I'm going to need some bandaged to wrap your injury with and something to wipe away the...blood? Is this blood?" Sydney asked, not sure what the blue substance leaking out of the alien was.
"I'm not really sure what blood is, but it sounds like it is your equivalent to this, so I guess that would be it." The red eyes alien answered.
Sydney nodded, happy to know what she was working with. "Alright, I have a medical kit in my luggage, but I left it at the bus stop. I'll go fetch it real quick." Sydney started to get up, only to be pushed, not so gently back down by the red and gray alien.
"Oh no, the only thing you're going to be doing is staying here with my brother." The metal alien told her. "I don't trust you on your own so I'll get it." The alien turned and headed towards where Sydney came from. "...Once I find out what the fracking hell a bus is." The blue eyed alien mumbled to himself as he walked through some bushes to find her bag, leaving Sydney and his brother behind.
"He does know that leaving you with me is not that safe as well right?" Sydney asked the alien, flabbergasted by the departed one's logic.
The blue alien chuckled. "Yeah, sometimes he's not the brightest star in the sky." The Alien told her, making her chuckle. "I'm Carzon by the way." Carzon greeted her.
Sydney smiled and held out her hand. "I'm Sydney." Carzon stared at her hand for a moment before realizing that this was probably the way that humans greeted each other. So he held out his arm at her face.
"Nice to meet you Sydney." Carzon greeted her.
Sydney looked at his three fingered hand that was inches from her face and chuckled good-naturedly. "Um...that's not how you shake someone's hand." Sydney corrected him, making him tilt his head in confusion.
"Really? Then how does this 'handshake' works?" Carzon asked her.
"Alright, first you hold out your hand like this." The college graduate instructed him, holding her right hand out like she had moments before. "Then you take your hand and grab my outstretched one, and gently grab my outstretch hand then gently squeeze it.
"Alright..." Carzon said in understanding and gingerly grab her hand with his right hand and gently squeezed it. Sydney smiled at his progress and shakes his hand.
"And then we shake hands." Sydney finished his lecture. "And that's how you greet someone with a handshake."
Carzon's eye sparkled in glee as he enthusiastically shook her hand, and arm...and body.
"Th-that's enough!" Sydney told him, not finding the sensation of being shaken up like a milkshake all the pleasant. Doing as she asked, Carzon quickly released her hand and looked at her apologetically.
"S-Sorry about that." Carzon apologized.
"It's fine." Sydney assured him, happy that her stomach was empty because she was sure that she would throw up if she had eaten anything. "It's still a work in progress I guess."
Just then, Akeiro rushed through some bushes at high speeds with Sydney's two suitcases held underneath his arms and skidded to a stop, kicking up a dirt cloud that engulfed Sydney and Carzon, making Sydney start coughing up a storm.
"What...the...heck!" Sydney exclaimed in between coughs.
"Don't worry about it." Akeiro sharply told her with a glare.
Though it was hard to tell, Carzon noticed that the way that Akeiro held himsle seemed a bit…off. It didn't help that he looked a bit scuffed up. "Akerio? Is something wrong?" Carzon asked his brother.
"Nothing realy." Akeiro said, briefly facing his brother before returning his gaze towards Sydney. "I found your junk." Akeiro told her as he dropped the two large suitcases in front of her.
While the young women felt miffed at her things being called junk, Sydney felt relieved. "Great!" Sydney said happily. "Now I can get Carzon fixed up."
"Yeah...about that." Akeiro drawled out, his eye shifting to look away from them. "We might need to find another place to do this."
Both Sydney and Carzon stared at Akeiro with suspension. "Why?/What did you do?" Sydney and Carzon asked respectively.
"Weeeeeell...I might have been spotted by these guys with black and blue outfits and I may have punched one of them in the face when they approached me." Akeiro told them. "And they were chasing me."
Sydney felt her stomach drop. "Well...crabapples." Sydney said with dread, getting Carzon's attention.
"What's wrong Sydney?" Carzon asked worriedly.
"It's the cops! They saw Akeiro and are trying to find him. If they find you two and the ship, then the both of you will be taken by the government and be experimented on!" Sydney was close to hyperventilating at the thought of the two aliens being experimented on.
Akeiro scoffed. "I would like to see them try." The red and grey alien walked over to the ship and taps a random panel, causing it to open up. Akeiro reaches in and pulls out a short staff before pressing a symbol, making the staff extend to its full length with electricity crackling on both ends.
"So long as I have this staff and the burning hatred of my people flaming within my chest, I will take down everyone and everything in my way. For I am Akeiro, the Crimson Champion of the Xylites of Planet Zilo will fight until I have avenged my people." Akeiro declared very loudly.
"Shh! Keep it down Akeiro or they'll hear you!" Carzon told him, looking around nervously as if the local police were about to come charging in out of nowhere. He sighed in relieve when no one came. "Seriously Akeiro, we can't go and fight them like that. We're technically invaders of their world and fighting them will send out the wrong message." Carzon told him.
"He's right." Sydney agreed with Carzon. "We need to get out of here before they spot us." Carzon nodded eagerly at the suggestion.
The look the red and grey alien gave them told the duo that he was not in favor of what they just told them. "As if I'd ever do that!" Akeiro declared, raising his right arm and pounded his chest once. "I never run from any confrontation or fight!"
Sydney stared at the robotic alien in front of her, completely speechless. 'Doesn't he realize that his brother is in no condition to be even near a fight?' Sydney wondered, glaring at the standing alien.
"If we stay here and wait for them to come, your brother is going to be hurt more then he already is!" Sydney told him. "Don't you care about your brother at all?!"
Surprisingly, to Sydney, Akeiro reared back at question as if she just sucker punched with every ounce of strength she had in her body. Akeiro averted his gaze from the brunette and looked at his brother, examining his injury closely before looking at his pleading face.
After a few moments, the aggressive alien's shoulders slumped and he let out a irritated sigh. "Fine...you win." Akeiro told them, making Sydney smile.
"Thank you." Sydney thanked him before standing up, realizing for the first time that she was slightly taller than him and decided to have some fun at Akeiro's expense. "I'll take my cases while you carry your brother...Shorty."
Akeiro sputtered at the nickname she gave him. "Shorty?!" Akeiro exclaimed, only to be ignored by Sydney as she bent over and lifted up the suitcases with only sight difficulty.
"Hurry up; they could be here any second!" Sydney told him, who grumbled while scooping his brother up in a bridle style. They choose a direction and started running, hoping to avoid the police. Mere moments after they disappeared into the trees, six police officers came running in and gawked at the Xylite ship before one of them took out their communicators and called in back-up.
~Present Day~
"-And we've been on the run ever since." Sydney finished telling her story for the four teens.
"Wow." Jaune said in astonishment, amazed at Sydney's first encounter with the brothers. Unlike him, the other members of Team JNPR had forlorn and sad expressions on their faces.
"I have to say, it's horrible that their entire species was wiped out like that." Ren said with his eyes looking down at his hands.
"Yeah, I can't even imagine how this effected them." Pyrrha added. Nora nodded her head slowly in agreement and sniffed before swiping a few tears that she shed. She promised herself that she was going to give them both a big Nora hug when they get back.
"I know, even since then they've been trying their hardest to adapt to how things are here on Earth and they've been doing a great job so far, but Akeiro's rage seems to get worse and worse." Sydney told them.
"It can't be that bad...right?" Despite being the one to asked that, Jaune didn't sound that sure.
Sydney sighed and rubbed her face. "I truly wish I could answer that with a yes, but the hatred within him has too much of a strong grip on him." Sydney rolled up her shirt's right sleeve, revealing an ugly burn mark that was in the shape of a Xylite's hand.
"Not that long ago, Akeiro lost himself to his anger and I tried to calm him down by grapping his shoulder. He quickly turned around and grabbed my arm and accidentally burned it." Sydney told them before quickly rolled down her sleeves, hiding the scar.
The team couldn't help but hiss in sympathy at her wound.
"Is his temper really that bad?!" Pyrrha asked.
"Pretty much." Sydney answered with a shrug. "Whenever something like this happens, he starts acting like a feral animal, destroying anything and everything in sight."
The memory of Akeiro tearing through Kasai and walking towards him and Carzon with malicious intent flashed through Jaune's mind.
"Maybe we should sign him up for anger management, he really needs it." Jaune suggested.
"I'm...not sure that would help." Ren told him, imagining Akeiro in a anger management class and him ending up destroying the place. Just then, Nora's eyes light up.
"OH OH, I HAVE AN IDEA!" Nora exclaimed, bouncing up and down with her arm raised. Everyone else in the room turned their attention towards the pancake lover, waiting for her to reveal her plan.
"What if we...take them to a theme park?" Nora asked them. "Akeiro would have so much fun, that he'll lighten up."
The group stared at her.
"Um...Nora." Ren said as softly as possible. "I'm not sure that would work ei-"
"That might be a good idea." Sydney finally answered, interrupting Ren.
Ren, completely blindsided by her response, stares at her. "Really?" The violet eyes Hunter-in-Training asked her, his eye raised upwards.
"Yeah, I haven't had a chance to take either of them to an amusement park before and it just might do the trick." Sydney explained with a hopeful smile.
"Your right!" Jaune excitedly said, sparkles in his eyes. "There is no better way to alleviate stress and anger then riding on fun rides or winning prizes from the game booths!"
Pyrrha smiled and clapped her hands together. "Then it's settled, were taking Akeiro and Carzon to an amusement park" Pyrrha declared. Nora stood up and pumped both her fists into the air, cheering happily while Jaune, Pyrrha, and Sydney chuckled at her enthusiasm. Ren, however, had a thoughtful expression on his face.
"Do any of us even know where any amusement parks are around here?" Ren asked them, causing all happiness and merriment in the room to come to a screeching halt as they realized a glaring flaw in that idea of theirs. The teens from Remnant barely know their way around the city while Sydney, who just arrived at the city just yesterday with Akeiro and Carzon, didn't know the city layout that well either. While the four teens sighed in defeat, Sydney smirked as an idea came to mind.
"Don't worry; I can just get the directions to one of the theme parks on my laptop." Team JNPR watched as Sydney got up and walked to the other room before returning moments later with her laptop bag held triumphantly in her hand.
"This will be a piece of cake." Sydney stated before sitting back down in her seat and taking her laptop out of her bag and starting it up. She cracks her fingers dramatically before she started typing, her fingers striking the keys as fast as lightning. The team couldn't help but be amazed by her typing speed.
Within a span of two minutes, Sydney stopped her search, smiling in victory.
"Here we are!" Sydney declared as she turned the laptop around to show the teens her find. "I found one not that far from here that opened three years ago, it looks like they have fun games, rides, good food, and even a aquarium."
"That's wonderful!" Pyrrha chimed as she looked through the aquarium tab. "I bet they would love to see all these different sea creatures."
"I know I will!" Nora said, fantasizing about swimming with dolphins while eating a funnel cake.
"Let's just hope that Akeiro doesn't attack any of them, the last thing we need to be thrown out because Akeiro picked a fight with a seas turtle or something." Sydney said, ignoring the drool that was dripping out of Nora's mouth, whom was still fantasizing about the funnel cakes.
Ren shook his head. "While I think that taking them to an amusement park is a bad idea, I guess it wouldn't hurt to try...let's just hope that nothing goes wrong." Ren said, still having some doubts about all this.
A few minutes later, the four teens of Remnant left the room after saying goodnight to the friendly brunette and promising to met them early tomorrow so they could make their way to the park. As they walked back to their room, they briefly waved to Akeiro, who was passing by while dragging a tired and grumbling Carzon by his hood. Once they made it to their room, they immediately went to bed, excited for a fun filled and relaxing day at the park.
What could possibly go wrong?
