It's been five years since I activated him. And, although it doesn't seem that long, it certainly seems as though he has done well so far. No one suspects him as a Biomatch, and his business is one of the most preferred in and out of the city. Our Girouette has a rather small group he communicates with semi freely about his whereabouts; an illegal Reploid named Sho and a young human girl named Juno. He trusts them, and I'm proud of him in doing so, but I fear that he may give away too much information to them one day. I know for a fact that he refused to let Sho know of Model Z, but that Juno girl…

I'm confident that all I embedded in Giro was a portion of Zero's appearance and nothing else. But I'm constantly given reminders, little hints at Zero's personality and what I heard of him before, that makes me uncertain of how much of Zero's personality went into Giro. I swear it wasn't of my design, intentionally.

But no more of that, it's time for them to wake. Fifty years of work went into them and now it is almost time to release them into the world. Aile and Vent; that's what he decided to call them. However, I did not tell him everything about the time when they were to be born. Giro, our innocent Girouette, will need to choose one to be raised by him and leave the other behind. Although I helped Ren develop her daughter Ashe, the thought of hybrids even more perfect than hers would cause serious attention. They must be separated to keep them safe. Even I don't know what will happen to them after this…

-Ciel Roch-Roru, taken from a note dated July 6th

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THERE'S BEEN A SECURITY BREACH! THEY KNOW! SOMEONE KNEW ABOUT THEM! WE NEED HELP ASAP! PLEASE HURRY GIROUETTE, THE TWINS…. YOU NEED TO HELP SAVE THE TWINS! [Prairie: July 7, 2170 18:41:18]

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Giro was really starting to dislike Mavericks. The lab he was built and activated in not so long ago, all reduced to rubble and becoming more structurally unsound by the second. It used to be a grand place, but with all this destruction, he wasn't even sure if any of the building could be salvaged. Using Model Z to help navigate him through the disaster, they made it through to the secure lab where Giro was sure the twins were still being kept. Inside looked worse than the building at hole, making Girouette believe for certain that this room was the target of the attack. Standing where the capsules for twins used to be, Ciel was preparing two bundles- one covered in a red blanket and the other covered in a blue blanket.

It didn't take the Reploid a second to guess what those bundles were, and seeing them for the first time out of the capsules made his artificial heart leap into his throat.

"We only have time to take one." Ciel told him, her voice so quiet and low that he almost didn't hear her.

"What?" he questioned with the hope he heard her wrong. Ciel looked at him and stood her ground- meanwhile, the earth shook as some bomb went off somewhere else near the laboratory.

"Take one, or let them both die." said Ciel darkly. Girouette stared at her before anger started to rear its head.

"I'm not leaving without the other!" he shouted at her. Ciel's face did not change leading Girouette to believe that she was not joking, nor had the intent of saving both. How could she, after all this time, lead him to this choice when she had arms that worked just as well as his?

"Giro," Ciel's cold voice then demanded, "This place is falling apart; take a child or we will all die here!"

"I'm not…!" he started to argue, but another explosion sounded off -this one was closer- and a part of the ceiling collapsed in front of them, just barely missing the little bundles by centimeters. Ciel's face was unwavering as Girouette's anger slowly grew at her. This wasn't right. This shouldn't be a choice right now. There had to be some other way. There had to be some way to insure that both of them could make it out alive…

'Girouette, I have an estimated five minutes before this room completely collapses- just take one!'

Closing his eyes with anguish, Girouette picked up the red bundle to crook it in one arm, and he roughly took hold of Ciel's wrist with the other. Seething with anger and the beginnings of what was sure to be depression, Girouette grudgingly led them out of the building just in time. Once they were in a safe place, Girouette let go of Ciel's wrist, allowed Model Z to take them out of the MegaMerge, and looked back at the lab that was now nothing more than wreckage. Away from the madness, the Reploid started to feel sick. He killed someone. Through inaction, he killed a newborn.

As if to remind him to half of his failed duty, the red bundle started to cry. Giro gave it a blank stare before Ciel gently took the bundle from him and started to sooth it.

"This one… the boy..." Ciel then softly said, "His name is Vent, right?"

The rest of his body as still as stone, Giro nodded his head slowly.

"And the girl, her name was Aile?"

Again, Giro nodded his head.

"You need to give a story, a cover up, to explain to Vent why he doesn't have any blood relatives." Ciel then told the Reploid. "I do not count."

His vision and clarity of thought slowly returning to him, Giro gave a stiff nod. By the time he realized he should have asked why she could not act as some bridge toward lies and truth, Ciel was long gone from anyone's communication link. At any rate, in this point of time, he was too desensitized to even articulate the inquisition.

Ciel handed Vent back to him and gave the Reploid a sorrowful kiss on the forehead.

"I have to find Prairie." she told him. "Good luck my love."

Giro said nothing as Ciel took her leave. It took him awhile, but he was able to start the walk back to Giro Express. How was he going to explain randomly bringing home a baby to everyone at the transport company? He wasn't going to lie to Juno about it- that was decided without a second's thought. But what about everyone else like Sho? What was he going to tell Vent when he was older…? Dwelling on the inevitable started to make him sick; at this point he was almost at Giro Express any way. In the distance he could hear the anticipated shouts of Juno, welcoming him back. Admittedly, it made him feel better, but then he looked down at Vent.

The memory of losing Aile was going to kill him every time he looked at Vent, and he was not ready for it.