They couldn't concentrate as Ian rummaged through a box, they had seated themselves on a pure white bed, a bunk bed. It was the only bed in the room and they guessed it was for them.

"I want the top" Kai spoke for the first time in what must have been ten minutes; effectively breaking the silence that had enveloped them.

"No chance, I'm getting it. I have the weird hair here apparently. It's only fair I get the top" Tala retorted, not looking at his brother and Kai didn't look at him either. Both of them were focused on Ian.

"Don't whine, besides I said I wanted it first" before Tala could counter Ian stepped in.

"Shut up neither are getting either bed, we're not in here for that much longer. Just sit and stay quiet." He looked at a strange shaped watch on his wrist. Kai lent around trying to see what the time was. But all he could see were a few flashing lights.

"What the hell is that?" He questioned himself out loud.

"This is a watch we use to tell the time in space. We can't use real watches like the ones on your planet which, just for the record, I bought two of them. I love them they're so amazing. I brought one that's called a pocket watch and the other that goes around your wrist. Anyway, this just blinks at you. The amount of blinks in a ten second period tells you how long we've been in here. It says about half an hour to forty-five minutes"

The two nodded and Kai couldn't help but think that Ian sounded more excited about the pocket watch than the fact that they were travelling through space. He assumed that this must have been a normal thing for the purple haired boy, travelling through space was an everyday occurrence. That made Kai curious about what his life consisted of. It sounded a lot more interesting than his and his brothers.

Then again every life out there was more interesting than theirs. Counting up to this morning, after that they felt like the most important and interesting people alive. In all worlds, in ones that he didn't even know the name of. Tala leant against one of his palms and tried to think through what he might see when there. His mind immediately pictured flying cars and robot pets but he shook that from his mind. He doubted they'd have been sent away if that was what good.

That caused a question to come to him, why were they sent away? He didn't know.

"Here guys, I've found some for you" the purple haired boy stood back up moving towards them. He held out the shoes towards them and placed them on the floor. I placed his hands on his hips as he looked at them and smiled. "I think these are your sizes but I'm not too sure. Try them; we should be nearing the end of our flight soon. I'd prepare myself for what I will see; it's quite a bit different from Earth. And by that I mean it looks nothing like Earth. Anymore." The last word was muttered under his breath and the two could barely hear it. As they were about to question the boy he left the room, leaving them to try on the new shoes.

It was rather strange; they looked just like trainers from Earth. They even had a tick on the side.

"Kai, do you think these are from Earth?" Tala asked his brother looking at him slightly confused. He hadn't expected Ian to have money.

"They look like it" he answered staring at them before leaning down and lifting them from the ground, handing Tala his pair he started to pull them on. He hadn't thought that the small boy had any money on him. At school he had heard he had been taking other children's dinners. If he had money why didn't he just buy his own food?

"I say we ask him why he has trainers." Tala told his brother standing from the bed and moving to the door. "You coming? Hurry up will you. I wanna look around a bit more." Kai nodded.

"Yea, just give me a minute. I always knew I'd hate new shoes. They're so uncomfortable." He complained standing from the soft bed. He had never had a real bed, it was always the floor and the softness that was the bed's mattress was a much welcome change. He scowled slightly to the floor when the shoes squeaked softly but followed after the only slightly older redhead.

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"This place is huge" Tala gasped as he wandered down a hall lines with doors. They too had Roman numerals drawn onto them and one even had a sign on it but he couldn't read it. Kai presumed that it was because he didn't know what language they had back there and he wouldn't understand their symbols.

"Yea, I know, it's kind of expected though isn't it. The place is a growing ship. I wouldn't be surprised that it's roomy." Kai received a glare from Tala at his comment as well as a soft punch on his shoulder. The redhead knew there was a fading bruise on his shoulder and didn't want to aggravate it and risk it reforming.

Kai rubbed at his arm slightly the punch didn't really hurt he had done it in a more joking fashion. Kai tapped him on the top of his arm and led him down a hall that was to their left.

"Come on Tal, I wanna see what's down here." Kai told him as he guided him through the corridors.

"Kai, what if we get lost." Tala piped up and quickened his pace to walk in step with his brother. He looked across at him a small glint of worry in his eye.

"Don't worry about it Tal, you'll be fine. I'm sure we can make our way around this place and make it back to Ian. Besides if we do get lost it can waste a bit of time before we arrive at a different planet. Our birth planet apparently." Kai answered and he patted Tala's shoulder and guided him down the hall.

"You're still a little sceptical?" Tala asked him with a slight hint of confusion. How could he be the one who was sceptical? Wasn't it the redhead who had been doubting the small boy.

"I wouldn't say that, it's just that I don't want to call a place our birth planet when I have no memory of it. For all we know Ian might be lying about something. And stop with the look will you? I know it's a little weird me being the one to doubt while you trust him." Tala laughed and stopped by a door they passed.

"Hey, Kai, let's see what's in here." Tala called him turning the handle on a door marked. XXV. The bluenette nodded and moved closer looking around the dark room. He placed a hand on the wall inside the door feeling for the light switch. Once he found it the room was flooded with bright light, removing all traces of darkness. They stared around the room and looked slightly disappointed. It was just a storage room.

"Aw." Tala whined, he had hoped that he could find something alien and perhaps take it with him.

"Don't whine." Kai laughed slightly stepping into the room and opening the first box he came too.

"What're you doing?"

"Seeing if Ian has anything in here that'll be funny." Kai answered, smirking as he looked through the boxes, he didn't know what to expect but what he found stunned him. Guns? They looked like guns. He stared at the box, not knowing what to say. Why were guns in there?

"Kai what's wrong with you? You look shocked." Tala asked him stepping towards his brother and looking into the same box. The icy blue eyes widened themselves as he stared down at the pure white guns.

"Tal, tell me those are what I think they are." Kai told his brother his voice sounding stunned.

"That depends on what you think they are." He answered and reached out to touch the white metal.

"I was wondering where I had placed those boxes." The voice made them both jump and spin in the air, stood behind the two was Ian. He was grinning up at them and seemed to be berating himself in his mind. "I've been looking for them all morning. I was beginning to think I'd lost them in the woods back on that primitive planet."

"Ian, what are they?" Kai asked him looking from the guns to the boy who only reached his ribs.

"They're guns, you can probably tell. They do hold a similar shape to those from your planet. I've been looking like mad for them and you two just stumble across them." He laughed to himself and pushed the two out of the way. "Oh good the safety is on. I was worried I'd forgotten to set it."

"What about a safety?" Tala asked, looking over the side of the box and looked over the guns.

"You two don't know what gun's safeties are? Oh well, guess I can't expect you both to be soldiers coming from that home. I swear I hate abusers. They always pick on those they know they can get away with it on. Anyway, it's the thing to stop it shooting by accident at someone." He explained simply and lifted the gun out pointing to a small solid green light that was barely noticeable even if you knew where it was. "Believe it or not kids but you two are going to learn how to use weapons like this. The rest that are in these boxes I made as I came over to the planet and had some time to kill at nights."

"Why'd you make them?" Kai asked, too stunned by the knowledge that they'd learn how to use guns to ask about that.

"We were running low in supply I figured that while I was over here finding you two I'd spend my time wisely." He answered as he examined the gun. "I must say even I'm impressed on how good they turned out"

"How the hell did you learn how to make that?" The blue haired boy asked as he looked at the weapon.

"Oh, that's easy, I learned it in training. I'm kind of the mechanic of the group, I think you called it that back on Earth. I excelled at maintenance back home and was elected as the group mechanic; whenever we weren't in the middle of a fight I'd be repairing all their stuff. As well as creating new things. We were seriously running out of weapons thanks to that bastard and his sneak attack."

"Who? Who's the bastard?" They asked in unison their curiosity peaked.

"The guy who took over the planet; the one who killed your mum" he paused as soon as the words left his mouth. "Damn" he whispered to himself realising his slip up.

"Our m-mum's dead?" They asked, their voices shaking ever so slightly. They had just found out so much in just a few hours. They found out that they didn't come from that planet the people who had raised them weren't their parents and to top it off. Their mother was dead. Their birth mother had died and they couldn't remember a day they had met her.

They stared wide eyed at the small boy who was cursing to himself in some foreign language.

"What happened to her?" The crimson haired boy asked as he stared at the boy who was cursing himself all the more at his stupid slip up.

"As I said the guy who took over the planet killed her. He had never liked her, didn't think she was good enough. Always called her a, I believe it's called, tramp on your planet. He believed only those with noble blood deserved to live and she, unfortunately didn't have it. So he killed her." He answered stopping his string of curses for a second to tell the twins. As soon as the brief explanation was finished the small boy went back to cursing himself. Muttering something along the lines of, 'Bryan's going to kill me' and 'Spencer will not find out about this.'

The two smirked at the curses, trying not to think of their deceased parent. Hopefully they still had a dad.

"W-what about our dad?" Kai asked the small boy feeling nervous and not knowing why.

"He was captured, held hostage. We don't know if he's still alive. But he was the last time I saw him" the apprehension that the bluenette felt didn't go away and from the look the redhead had it seemed he was just as anxious.

"Well, that's something, right?" Tala asked, trying to sound positive.

"You have strange definitions of what's good kid, if by 'that's something' you mean something bad then I'll agree with you." Placing the gun back into the box he closed the lid and led the two out of the room switching off the light before they left. The two noticed that he was standing on his tiptoes to reach the switch. "Come on you two, by the time we reach the entrance to the ship we should almost be there." Ian told them his tone changing from remorse to something bordering on positive, though it was obviously forced.

"Alright." They agreed, allowing the small boy to guide them through the maze like halls back to the navigation room.

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