10 - I'm Going With You
It had been about a month since Cainto's last battle, which was extremely strange to him, seeing as his first two battles were only a few days away from each other. However, Cainto wasn't complaining, because even though he loved to fight, when he wasn't fighting he had time to relax and make sure he was ready for the enemy at any time. The month he hadn't battled wasn't exactly relaxing as you would call it; he was training almost every day, and he was hardly able to get much time to himself to do the things he regularly did. It wasn't all the same as it had been before; with Larean training beside him. Captain Kaidou and Captain Mamoru had been them together more and more so that they could learn more about each other because, after all, they would be fighting alongside each other soon enough.
"Your eyes," Larean startled Cainto, handing him a blindfold over his shoulder.
"Huh?.." Cainto asked, slowly accepting her offer.
"You tend to keep your eyes open when you sleep," She looked to the ground when he turned around, "and it's not good for all of the stuff floating around in the air to get in your eyes while you're asleep.." She looked back up at him, right into his eyes. That was the only real time he had seen her eyes, a dark-shaded gold, which was somehow very brightening. He smiled, slipping the blindfold into his pocket.
"Yeah, thanks..I'd never thought of that." He turned back around, heading back towards the hanger. He was going to check on Leogan, because he hadn't seen him since the last time that they had formed GaoCeoGar. Kaidou had said that it was unnecessary for him to visit him, since the maintenance staff did a perfect job of maintaining Leogan's performance, but Cainto wanted to go down there just to see how he was feeling. Some would say it was weird, talking to a machine, but it wasn't so weird when the certain machine had intelligence of its own. Before Cainto had taken even five steps, the siren he had heard last time, before he had went into battle, began blaring again, a voice booming over it.
"Emergency Deployment, Emergency Deployment. Both 'pilots' quickly report to the hanger for briefing and launch. I repeat, Emergency..." Cainto was already running towards the hanger, closely followed by Larean. They were luckily somewhat near the hanger area, so in less than a minute they were surrounded by support members, quickly being suited up. Cainto was dressed in the same golden armor as before, weird antennae and all. Larean's armor wasn't exactly the same, though it had the same concept; the armor was almost identical, though it was yellow-green, and she had on a helmet instead of antennae. The helmet was the same yellow-green as the armor, and it was pointed slightly up at the back. Her hair, which was now out of the ponytail, was hanging freely from the back of the strange helmet. She pressed an unseen button on the side, and a red visor popped down over her eyes, information beginning to flash before her eyes.
Suddenly, Cainto's vision became green, and he looked up to see Mamoru standing over him. He guessed that he had pressed the same button on the side of his antennae-helmet. There wasn't enough time to speak, so Mamoru just ruffled up Cainto's black hair like he always did, smiling and walking off. Cainto and Larean were escorted to their respective animal-machines, now standing square in front of them. Leogan was gleaming in the light, looking as good as he had when Cainto had first seen him. He looked over to the side, in front of where Larean was standing, and his mouth slowly slacked open.
Cainto had heard Captain Mamoru and Captain Kaidou talking about her partner, and all he had been able to pick up was the word 'big', which made him think that it would be bigger than Leogan; however, the robot was roughly the same size as Leogan, but its head was almost two times bigger than his. It was a steely black color, and its head had green stripe markings on it also. Before he could get a complete look at it, someone behind him patted his shoulder, signaling for him to perform Fusion with Leogan and head out. Having performed Fusion two other times already, all Cainto had to do was face away from Leogan, put his arms out, and all at once they had formed CeoGar. Cainto quickly lept out of the hanger and as soon as he was outside, the StealGaoIII had latched onto CeoGar's back and he was off and flying.
Larean looked up at her partner with a blank expression, turning around and extending her arms to her side, as though she had done this hundreds of times before. "Let's go, Kigrcan..." She whispered, closing her eyes and jumping up. "FUSION!!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, Kigrcan jumping forward and swallowing her whole. It's transformed almost exactly the way that CeoGar did, though it kept its clawed feet and hands instead of them changing into a human-like form. Its human head popped up from above its animal head, painted the same black as most of the rest of the robot, an enlarged replica of the J-Jewel fixed onto its forehead.
"KraGar!" She shouted, immediately rushing out of the hanger after the Fusion was complete. From behind KraGar another StealthGao, not unlike the StealthGao III, latched onto its back, Larean flying up and easily catching up to the hesitating CeoGar. "What's wrong, Cainto?" Larean asked, trying to slow down and keep pace with him.
"Nothing..." Cainto was smiling, and he leaned forward, the StealthGao III's jets firing up to their maximum output. "Just waiting for you, so we can go together!!"