As soon as they were in deep enough space, Aurora started to get her gear checked. She had refused to wear armor with the others, as she expected it would only slow herself down. She did however go over to her little box with the music lock on it. She first checked to see that none of the others were near enough to hear her and then she started to sing,
If Everyone Cared
From underneath the trees, we watch the sky
Confusing stars for satellites
I never dreamed that you'd be mine
But here we are, we're here tonight
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
[Chorus:]
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died
And I'm singing
Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive
Amen I, Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive
And in the air the fireflies
Our only light in paradise
We'll show the world they were wrong
And teach them all to sing along
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
(I'm alive)
[Chorus x2]
And as we lie beneath the stars
We realize how small we are
If they could love like you and me
Imagine what the world could be
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died
When nobody died...
[Chorus]
We'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
We'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
We'd see the day when nobody died
When she had finished singing, the box popped open. Inside it was an TT3 that had a small crack in it with a set of music note headphones attached to it still, a pouch of dust for smoke, some energy bars, an old juice bottle filled with a glowing creamy liquid that was still cold, and a small ID card with her younger picture of herself from the KND. She grabbed the items in the box and stuffed them into her pockets.
"Well that wasn't what they wanted from you, or they would've taken yo' vocal cords, huh?" Aurora turned towards Abbey startled, she had sang the song low enough that she thought she couldn't have been heard. "You're good… why hide it?"
Aurora looked at her TT3 and remembered how dangerous something like sound really was and what it had been used for. What they had made her use it for. "It's dangerous… I can sing for the choir, but if I actually put my soul into the songs then I can use them as a weapon if I pay attention…"
"You've got more skills than most people I know, and yet you still hide them… why? Why do you have all these skills if you have to hide them all? Why do you have to hide them at all? Why … why don't you have a team that you could call for backup on stuff like this…?" Numbuh 5 had finally asked a question that had been bothering her from the very beginning. Why was this operative so alone if she didn't want to be? "Don't you have a team that can support you when someone's being a jerk to you or interrogating you?"
Aurora glared at her through her goggles for a few seconds before reminding herself that the one at fault wasn't in front of her. She took a deep breath and said as calmly as she could, "I… I don't know why I wasn't put on a team. I guess I just wasn't good enough." Aurora closed up the box before answering the other questions. "I trained at the KND Artic base just like any other operative, but after I had finished I started training myself on my other natural abilities. I can't do everything like inventing or building. I have to have help for that. I normally called some of the members of Sector Junk, but one by one they all left that desolate place. I couldn't even fit in at Sector Junk… I'm a joke…" She looked up at the window and noticed a bookshelf that had some journals on it. She grabbed one as well as a pencil and wrote in the log for today, as though she had always done so. She then set the journal back on the shelf and placed the pencil behind her left ear, the usual sign for someone who wrote a lot of notes, or just wrote a lot in general. She looked back at Numbuh 5 as she headed downstairs of the bus, "You should get some rest, we'll be out here for a while before we make it to the GKND base."