Hi again!

I was supposed to get this out yesterday, but I was being lazy. I don't actually have much to say this time, so...to the reviews!

Once again, Thank you to Omega for editing this for me! You're really awesome!

Lonewolf685: Yes, little Stella is quite adorable~
It came to my attention that one of your questions I have neglected to answer. SILLY ME! Anyway, concerning Mii and Lirio's first daughter, Alejandra was BORN six years ago, but the two had to give her up. She DIED when she was four, and it had been two-going on-three years since she died. For the second question, if their race aged faster, they would all be dead by now. If anything, they must age slower than us, but as we see in the game, Stella grows at a normal pace through her childhood, so my theory is they don't start aging slowly until they turn 18 or 19 or somewhere around there.

BRSFangirl108: Aw, thank you! Tell your sis good luck on exams (We all know how horrible they can be) and you guys have fun on your trip! Yes, packing is a real bitch sometimes. To tell you the truth, I always thought my chapters were degenerating as time went on, but it makes me happy to know that they are indeed serving their purpose.

HARZ X: Why hello there! Good to finally hear from you! For your question...yours actually does contain spoilers. (But we all know that woman was White and yes she is a psycho.) Anyway, hope you keep enjoying the story!

Now, I have to say this must be my most popular Black Rock Shooter story so far. Over 32 reviews! No one has ever been so kind before! Thank you for respecting my telepathic impairment.

Now, ALLON ZE!

October 9, 2044

Location: Mother Ship

8:15 A.M.

"You're sure you'll be alright while we're gone?" Mii asked, putting on her witch's hat.

Nafhe nodded and smirked. "You won't have to worry about a thing, Mii-chan! Stella and I will be good girls while you're gone." She looked down at the little black haired girl beside her. "Right, kiddo?"

"Yes Big-sis~" Stella sang.

Mii smiled. "Bueno."

Lirio pulled on his gloves and buckled his ammunition to his belt. "We won't be too far away, so if there's an emergency call us, alright?"

"I will!" Nafhe said. "But don't worry; nothing will go wrong!"

Mii nodded. "Alright..." She looked to Lirio. "Well Mi amor, shall we?"

Lirio nodded and looped his arm in hers, and the two teleported out.

Nafhe and Stella looked at each other and nodded. "Let's go." The two made a dash for Mazuma's room.

Nafhe approached it first and tried the door. "Locked."

"Big sis..." Stella muttered, looking up. She looked back and saw Nafhe fiddling with the lock. "Big sis..."

"Not now kiddo, I'm trying to pick the lock." She replied.

Stella turned around again.

"Damn..." Nafhe murmured, jiggling the door handle. "Just hang on kiddo, I've almost got it." She tried the handle again. "SHIT!"

Suddenly the handle turned and the door began to open.

Nafhe's eyes widened. "Shit! Run kid run!" She dove behind a corner. "Damn…I thought he was out on a mission!"

"Big sis, it's me!"

Nafhe looked up and saw Stella starring out at her from behind the door. The little girl ran out and knelt down in front of her. "I opened the door."

"How did you get in there?!" Nafhe asked her. Stella, in response, pointed up at the wall, where the grate had been pulled off the air duct.

Nafhe looked at her and smirked. "Well all right, kiddo!" She stood up, an evil grin on her face. "Now, lets go fishing~"

The two rushed into Mazuma's room and closed the door, and Nafhe began rummaging around under the bed. "Damn, he changed hiding places again."

"Dónde están, Big sis?" Stella asked. "You can find 'em, right?"

"Ha! You bet I can, kiddo!" Nafhe replied with a smirk. "Believe me, I've done this a thousand times, and I think this time has something to do with this loose floorboard under here!" There was a creaking noise, and Nafhe pulled herself out again, this time dragging a huge plastic box with her.

"Is that it?!" Stella cried excitedly as Nafhe opened it up.

"Yes, kiddo, this is it!" Nafhe replied. She threw the top aside. "Here are simply a few of some of the greatest movies ever made in human history…" She smirked at Stella. "And we have them right at our fingertips."

"What movie are we gonna watch?" Stella asked.

"Well, I have given that question a lot of thought, and there are several movies to choose from, but the one I found most appealing is-"

Suddenly there were footsteps from the hall, and the muttering of a very familiar voice.

Nafhe and Stella whirled around. "Shit…" Nafhe muttered before jumping to her feet and shoving the box back under the bed. "It's Mazuma! Hide kid!"

By the time Mazuma entered his room, the two were nowhere to be found. But if one looked close enough, they would have noticed the few pink hairs sticking out from under the bed, or the tiny black shadow behind the wardrobe.

Mazuma, humming a strange tune, walked over to his bed and plunked down on it, turning on his iPod and putting his headphones in.

Nafhe sighed. It would take quite a bit more to get out of here with a DVD than she thought. She wondered if she could squeeze out the back…

Suddenly she saw Stella peak out from behind the wardrobe.

"Shit!" She thought. She waved her hand in a "Shoo shoo" motion. "No kid, go back inside!"

Stella crept all the way out and got down on her hands and knees, crawling across the floor.

"The hell? What's she…"

When she reached the bed, Stella gave Nafhe a thumbs up. Before she could question it, she grabbed the blankets and yanked them up…

Flipping Mazuma off the bed.

Nafhe heard a thump and an "OW!" followed by several curse words, before she felt Stella pulling on her sleeve.

"Run Big sis! Correr!" The little girl called on her way out the door.

"Right behind you, kiddo!" Nafhe called back, wiggling out from under the bed.

She heard Mazuma call out "NAFHE!" from behind her, but she didn't stop, even when she heard the thumping of his boots as he chased them down the hall.

Soon the two girls came to a fork in the road, and Nafhe pushed Stella off to the right. "Split up! He can't chase us both!"

"But Big sis…"

"Ha! There you are!" The two turned and saw Mazuma at the end of the hallway, running towards them.

Nafhe shoved Stella to the right and ran to the left. "GO KID! RUN!"

Thankfully, Stella complied.

She ran as fast as her tiny legs would carry her, ducking in and out of corners and secret passageways, until she finally looked around and found herself thoroughly lost. She had forgotten how the Mother Ship could be a real tricky maze.

She whirled around as she heard a sound, but it turned out it was just a few armaments strolling by, not even paying attention to her. One of the eaters came up and sniffed her with its mechanical nose, but then it just ignored her and passed on by.

Stella wandered through the halls, trying to retrace her steps, but each hallway looked the same to her, and she dared not call out and reveal her location to Mazuma.

She had an idea. Her parents had told her to call if she had an emergency. This was definitely an emergency. Sure, she would get in trouble for breaking into Mazuma's room, but that was better than being lost!

She looked around. Just one problem; she didn't have a phone.

Discouraged, Stella sat down in a corner and sighed. She was seriously running out of options and almost wished Mazuma would find her if it meant she wouldn't be lost anymore.

Suddenly a slight breeze blew her hair. She looked up and saw, right above her, an open window leading to the outside of the Mother Ship.

Stella jumped up in joy. This could be her way out! She stood on her tiptoes and looked out.

She was on the third floor, so the ground was a long way down, but she could easily see several crevices and holds that she could use to climb her way across. She smiled. It was perfect.

Using what little arm strength she had, she hauled herself up and out the window.

…

October 8, 2044

Location: Muir Woods, San Francisco, C.A.

4:15 P.M.

"Relax, will you?!" Ekishou called back to Rothcol. "This is fun!"

"Yeah, yeah, fun~" Rothcol replied sarcastically, clutching his gun. "I'm sorry, Eki. I just don't like the forest!"

"Then why did you volunteer to come on this mission with me?" She asked him, skipping backwards through the vines.

"Because I wanted to be close to you." Rothcol thought but didn't say. It didn't matter, because Ekishou was already 20 feet away from him, looking at leaves.

"Eki, are you sure this is where we were supposed to patrol?!" He called after her. "It seems rather…" He looked around at the overgrown vines and winding tree branches and unkempt bushes. "Spooky."

Ekishou looked at the map. "Yep. This is the route Phobos gave me." She bounded back to him and took his hand. "Don't be scared. If we're together, nothing can harm us~"

Rothcol blushed slightly. "R-Really?"

Ekishou nodded. "Yeah. If we travel in groups, we're more intimidating!"

Rothcol tried to hide his disappointment. "Oh…right."

Ekishou held her grip on his hand and began pulling him through the forest. "Here, just take it like this; one, two, one, two…" She was counting their steps.

Suddenly a flock of birds flew out from the trees. Rothcol cried out and whirled around, firing his gun into the air, before he fell back on his rear.

Ekishou knelt down beside him. "Rothcol, are you okay?"

He startled, then calmed down when he saw it was her. "Yeah, yeah. I-I'm fine, Eki, I'm fine."

She put her hand on his arm. "You're shaking though." She sat down beside him. "You want to sit and rest for a moment."

"N-NO!" He cried. "I-If we stay still, he'll catch up with us!"

Ekishou cocked her head. "Who's he?"

Rothcol opened his mouth to reply, but instead just shook his head. "Nothing, sorry. You'll think it's stupid."

Ekishou scooted closer to him, her eyes wide.

He chuckled. "Well, when I was a kid, my parents always used to tell me about the legend of Slenderman."

Ekishou's eyes widened. "Really? What was it?"

"I'm getting to that." He replied. "So Slenderman is…actually I'm not quite sure what he is." He added. "He's a really tall pale man, in a black suit. He doesn't have any hair…or a face…and he has really long arms and tentacles."

Ekishou's face lit up. "He sounds so cool!" She cried.

"I thought that, too." He replied. "Then my mom told me that every time a child enters the forest alone at night, he takes them away to the land of the dead forever, and they can never go back home." He sighed. "I was a pretty wimpy kid, and my biggest fear was of getting lost, so the thought of not being able to go home really scared me." He shook his head. "So I just got into this habit, and I don't think I've broken it yet."

"That's okay." Ekishou replied. "There's nothing wrong with being scared." She hung her head. "I get scared sometimes, too."

Rothcol looked at her. "But you're always the one comforting us. You're…you know, the peacekeeper. What are you afraid of?"

She looked up at him. "I'm afraid of letting people down."

Rothcol cocked his head. "Letting people…well sure, some people at the camp are dicks, but you do your job really well, Eki. What are you afraid of?"

She rubbed her hands over her legs. "Do you remember the war that broke out in Asia before the aliens came here?"

Rothcol nodded. "I was pretty young, but I heard about it on the news."

"My family was involved in that." She murmured. "My mother was a soldier from Vietnam. She moved to America to finish schooling, and then she moved to China, where she met my father." She looked up. "She could honestly pass for American, though. Her hair was such a light blonde. I learned later that it was white like mine, and her eyes were blue. People thought she was from America."

Rothcol nodded slowly.

"One day…" Ekishou continued "I was home sick, because I had an ear infection, and m mom was home taking care of me, and some thugs broke into our house." She looked away. "They said they wanted money, all that we had, and my mother told me to go get the silver." She looked up at him. "That was a code, you see. She was actually telling me to go get her gun. But since I was sick…" She shook her head. "I couldn't hear well. And I couldn't move that fast, so by the time I figured out what she said and went to go get it…" Two tears dripped down her cheeks. "All I heard was a gunshot."

"I-I'm sorry, Eki." Rothcol said. "I had no idea."

"I knew I let her down." She continued. "And the aliens. When they needed help, we had the power to help them…I had the power, and I didn't." She held her head up. "That's why I try so hard. Because I don't want to let anyone else down again."

…

October 9, 2044

Location: Mother Ship

1:30 P.M.

Later, as soon as Mii and Lirio returned to the Mother ship, they knew something was up.

Maybe it was the fact that Mazuma was carrying Nafhe over his shoulder, gagged and tied up, with the latter screaming and thrashing around.

"Yeah, yeah, we'll see how funny your little prank is when you get the boot!" Mazuma said. He looked up and raised a hand to them. "Hey guys."

"What's going on?" Lirio asked.

"Oh, this little imp and her little accomplice tried to steal my DVD's again." He scowled. "What exactly have you been teaching that girl to make her so quiet?"

"Maybe she just picked it up naturally." Mii replied with a smirk. "Hablando de eso, where is she?"

"I told her…" Nafhe replied, struggling out of her bindings "To split up. I haven't seen her since…" Then, she looked out the window and screamed. "HOLY SHIT SHE'S OUT THE WINDOW!"

Mii's eyes widened. "What?" She ran to the window and covered her mouth with her hand. "Por los dioses …"

Stella was hanging from the side of the ship, obviously clutching it for dear life. She didn't move, but Mii could see her looking around, as if trying to find a way out.

Mii whirled around and glared at Mazuma. "Qué has hecho?!"

"Wha-ME?!" he cried. "She broke into my room! I chased her out! How am I in trouble?"

"It must have been bad if she felt she had to go out a window!" Mii replied. She turned to see Lirio opening the window.

"I'm gonna go out and get her." He said. "She won't be able to hang on for long."

"Tenga cuidado." Mii said worriedly.

He nodded. "I will." He slipped out the window and balanced on the ledge.

Slowly, Lirio looked around until he caught sight of Stella. He was tempted to call out to her, but was afraid the surprise would make her lose her grip. Instead, he hugged the wall and inched slowly across the outside.

Very slowly, but surely, he made his way over to Stella, until finally he called out to her. She looked up and smiled, and he could see a few tears running down her face. "Daddy!"

He bit his lip and held his hand out. "Stella, I need you to make your way over to me. Can you do that?"

She nodded, and started inching her way across the ledge towards him.

"That's it…" He assured her. "That's it. Keep going."

All of a sudden her foot slipped, and she slipped off the ledge with a scream. Luckily she managed to catch hold of the ledge, and as Lirio's heart raced, he watched her pull herself back up and crawl towards him.

Finally, she got within reaching distance of him, and he grabbed hold of her and pulled her up, hugging her against his chest. He could still feel his heart racing but not as much now that she was safe. He whispered comforting words to her as she clutched his jacket and shook with fear.

Slowly, Lirio began to inch his way back across the ledge, with Stella clinging to him all the way. Eventually, he reached the window and handed Stella to Mii, who was waiting inside, before he climbed back in himself.

Stella held onto her mother's shirt and cried "Lo siento, lo siento!" over and over, shaking and sobbing. Mii whispered comforting words to her as she stroked her hair gently, before she turned on Mazuma with an angry look in her eyes.

"Yo me encargaré de ti más tarde." She whispered to him, before she and Lirio took Stella down the hall to her room.

…

October 8, 2044

Location: Muir Woods, San Francisco, C.A.

9:30 P.M.

"Eki, I think we're lost." Rothcol groaned.

"We are not lost! I know exactly where we're going!" Ekishou replied, tromping along.

"Well, where are we going?" Rothcol asked her. "Because it feels like we're walking in circles!"

"We're…um…" Ekishou looked around. "Well, we could ask someone where we are!"

"Oh yeah, that's a great idea." Rothcol said sarcastically. "Who do you wanna ask; tree number one or tree number two?" He spread his arms wide. "There's no one here, Eki! We're in the middle of nowhere."

"Well we're not the only humans left on Earth. If we keep walking, we'll find someone." She replied.

Rothcol sighed. "God or Buddha or whoever is doing this to me, I'm sorry for whatever I did to deserve it." Suddenly the two heard crashing through the trees and stopped.

"What's that?" Ekishou asked, whirling around.

"P-Probably just an animal…" Rothcol said, his teeth chattering. He looked behind him. "It's not Slenderman…Slenderman's not real…" He shut his eyes. "He's not real…" He opened them again, and his heart leapt into his throat.

It wasn't Slenderman. It was one of the aliens.

This alien was probably the largest he'd ever seen. It towered over him, encased in a giant suit of yellow armor, with muscles that could easily be seen through the metal. He began hyperventilating, and the alien just starred down at him.

Suddenly it roared, and Rothcol began to feel dizzy until he heard a female voice.

"He wants to know why you're doing that." Slowly, a pretty blonde woman in armor that looked like a Victorian style dress stepped forward.

Then Rothcol hit the ground and everything went black.

…

"Is he okay?"

Rothcol groaned and tried to open his eyes, but all he saw were three blurry shapes above him.

"He'll be fine." Another said. "I think he just needs some water."

He heard a brutish grunt, and suddenly a canteen full of water splashed him in the face. He sat up, coughing and blinking.

"Nii-san! That's not what I meant!" The voice from before said.

Rothcol looked up at the two blonde aliens and screamed, shuffling away from them.

The woman looked at Ekishou. "Is he always this jumpy?"

"He doesn't like the forest." She replied.

The woman nodded. "You two look a bit lost…"

Ekishou shook her head. "No we're not! I know exactly where we're going!"

The woman smiled. "Lying won't help you, you know. She stood. "It's better to admit your faults and accept them, in order to strive for a better future." She pointed south. "But if you're looking for civilization, I believe your settlement is back that way."

Rothcol was shaking again. "A-Are you going to hurt us?"

The woman smiled. "Well, we were ordered to dispose of any enemies that seemed a threat…" She looked back at the brute. "Nii-san?"

With little to no effort, the burly man picked up Rothcol's gun and broke it over his knee.

"And now you're not a threat." The woman added. "Well, we best be going now."

"Thank you, Miss Alien!" Ekishou called.

The woman looked back and smiled. "Please, my name is Shizu."

…

October 9, 2044

Location: Mother Ship

4:34 P.M.

Lirio walked into Stella's room to find her sitting on the bed. She looked up when she saw him, and he noticed her eyes were still watery. Before she could say anything, he walked over to her and took her hands in his.

"Stella-" He barely had a chance to say before she started crying.

"Lo siento, Daddy. I won't do it again, I promise! Prometo…" She wiped her eyes.

He sighed and sat next to her on the bed. "Stella, I was going to tell you never to do it again, but not because I'm mad at you."

She looked up at him. "You're not?"

"No…" He pulled her into his lap. "It's because I was worried about you." He kissed her head. "What you did today was very dangerous. Your mother and I wouldn't know what to do if we lost you."

"I'm sorry…" Stella cried into his chest.

Lirio chuckled. "Next time, when you decide to steal Mazuma's DVD's, don't hide out the window." He smiled down at her. "And yes, I know there will be a next time."

Stella sniffed and giggled, right as Mii entered the room.

Her mother smiled and crossed her arms. "Pues?"

Lirio smiled at the little girl in his lap. "I gave her a good scolding…"

"Yeah right~" Mii walked over and sat next to them, and Stella stretched out so she was on both Mii and Lirio's laps. Mii chuckled and ran her fingers though her daughter's hair, just as they heard a knock at the door and Zaha walked in.

Stella jumped up. "Hi Grandpa Zaha!" She said.

He chuckled. "Quite the stunt you pulled today, Stella." He pulled up a chair and sat down in front of them. "You were very brave."

"But Daddy was still braver." She replied, looking up at Lirio.

"Pero eso no significa que usted no está." Mii pitched in.

"Stella," Zaha began "You know about your parents' job, right?"

Stella nodded. "They go out on missions and patrols and they fight and do all sorts of cool stuff!"

"That's right…" Zaha continued "Well then, I just had a very interesting idea." He leaned forward. "Stella, would you like to be an Apostle?"

Stella's face lit up and she nodded. "When?"

"Well, you have to train for a very long time first…" He looked up at her parents. "Which brings me to my point. I want to begin Stella's training. Immediately."

And there we go! Stella will start training to be a real Apostle.

Once again, thanks for the massive in-flux of reviews I've been getting, and keep it up! I will not be so lazy with future chapters; in fact I'll get started on the next one right now!

BYE!