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Samus's eyes slowly flicked open.
Black. That was all she could see, so she blinked, but it continued to be black.
She then realized it was her visor which was dark. Then at the moment the impact dealt to the back of her head by Ridley throbbed as she just noticed it. That, and the memories from the past few eventful hours came to mind and she sat bolt upright. Her arms and legs were sore, almost as bad as her head. The HUD came alive and started to put out stats as visuals of her surroundings flickered into view. She was in her quarters on the gun ship.
"..."
She looked at the stats again. 12 energy and shielding. Her computer in the HUD basically was turned towards regaining energy, and was doing so slowly. She swung her legs to the side and set them down on deck and stood up. She got up too fast and nearly fell over from a head rush, but caught herself as she moved towards the door and out of it when if slid to the side as she stepped into the main deck area.
"Status report."
Xion jumped as Samus spoke, quickly turning around and using his body to hide the screen
"Er ah... report? Well... let's see... Jaith dragged your unconscious body back to the ship...I was... um... reviewing some of the data files on the ship... I have NO idea what happened to those girls or where they at... and... Jaith left to get his equipment and bring it back to the ship... you want to know anything else?" he said with a smile.
Samus just stood there looking at Xion, and slowly crossed her arms.
"Now Xion. What possible reports could you be reviewing? I have not uploaded any of the current info into the ship's computer yet. So you can make this easier on yourself and tell me what you are up... To?"
She hesitated as the ship's radar began to 'bing' and she walked over to the flashing counsel where status where typing itself out on the screen.
"... Somebody seems to be heading on a direct course with the ship. Somebody with technology. But from the computer is saying, not a Pirate..."
Xion exhailed
'Whew...' he quickly closed the game he was playing on the computer and walked over to Samus "...Well... who do you think it is?"
The Legend of Zelda – The Metroid's Shadow
Mission 12 – Moving on again
Back in the massive Gerudo Valley, the princess had just made a treaty with the Hero's Shadow.
As she started to stand up, she encountered with Dark Link's hand.
It felt as cold as ice, yet there was strange dark warmth coming off it as well, he smiled slightly
"...Try not to get lost..." he said leading her into the desert, trying to refrain from pulling her
Zelda shielded her eyes from the desert sands with her other arm while shivering at the texture of Dark Link's hand. Link had always been warm and gentle, where Dark Link was cold and… well… evil.
She didn't trust him, but tightened her grip on his hand.
"Don't leave me..." she thought, feeling stupid for relying on Dark Link. And why was he being so gentle with her? "Usually he'd be dragging me!" She thought in awe.
Dark Link continued to lead Zelda through the desert, he ignored the guides intended to help, as if he knew his own way across the desert, which he obviously did as they soon wound up at the river of sand, he stopped and looked down at it
"...Hmph... this means we're close..." he said, in sort of an annoyed tone, he stood there trying to think of a way to get across
"Almost where?" she asked timidly behind the shadow man. Her hair was rumpled and sand stuck to it, along with her face. Her eyelashes and brows had sand in them, as much as she had tried to protect her face. Zelda's dress had blown and half of it was stuck to her backside, sand spilling all over.
"...If I can figure out how to cross this river of sand then we'll basically be out of the desert..." Dark Link stated as he continued to scan the river "...Hmph... I should be able to jump across..." He turned his head, barely looking at her with the corner of his eye, "...You willing to be carried across by a shadow?" he asked, as if she had any choice
Zelda looked across the river of sand pouring and tumbling like a sea. With a glance at Dark Link she shook her head
"I don't mind." she said. After taking a step towards him, she stopped, wondering how he was going to carry her.
Dark Link smiled slightly and dashed behind Zelda, picking her up in much the same way someone would catch a falling person, he took a step back from the river and then ran forwards and jumped, clearing the entire pit, he landing on the other side crouched and still carrying Zelda, he put her down gently and then stood up
All the while, Zelda had clung to him. Again she felt the shame of having to rely on the shadow man.
"...Well that was slightly entertaining"
"Entertaining?" she asked with a skeptical look. Jumping over a dangerous river of sand didn't seem like fun to her. And what's more, she didn't trust the shadow. "Now where?" she asked, brushing herself off.
"...Follow me... we're almost out..." Dark Link said calmly as he walked towards the Gerudo's Fortress...
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"Those girls, after Kazuko, I believe I'm the most mature of them all..."
Minako was in a sort of bedroom. She was looking on the mirror.
Her armor was off, arranged and ready over the bed.
She had a towel wrapped around her body, proof that she had taken a shower earlier.
Brushing her hair with small effort and turning her head occasionally to check, she was doing her "daily ritual"
"They should do this... much healthier, less mess... girls... I'm no girl, I'm already a freaking teen..."
She left her brush on the dresser... or thing which seemed like it. The T3 Riddleyship wasn't exactly their home... netherless to say Akihabara.
"They can be so idiots some times..."
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Darithee had made his way into Encarathee's quarters, having been sent there to retrieve the physical disk containing the games for the orange acrobat. He walks briskly into the room, his footsteps making a soft 'clank' on the bulkhead, and looks about for the item.
Wait…
The room is occupied.
The one occupying the room is female.
The female is not Encarathee.
The female has just taken a shower.
The female in question is currently very obviously wearing only a towel.
The newcomer females have never been assigned rooms of their own.
Long pause.
"I am currently in Encarathee's room with the newcomer who is reportedly the one with the hot temper and who is currently indecent. Best course of action? Leave. Probable course of action? Try to leave and get caught within three steps and end up getting boiled alive inside armor. Well, let's get cracking...". the commando thinks, turning and slinking slowly and quietly toward the door escape the woman's wrath Old Terran poets seemed so in love with writing about.
Minako heard a thud sound at her now proclaimed room.
"If you two stupid heads are there I'll make my promise and use both of you as my bath brushes!!!"
She wasn't in the mood to be playing around.
Though she can be kind, she can change radically to her hot tempered one... which was her current state.
Yet, this had some good stats: for an instance, as the Cyber Girls explosive and bomb expert her super changing moods helped her to develop incredible different and efficient explosives, that like her, depended the time and way of blow up.
This time, she could be compared to a nuclear bomb being thrown, or already thrown to a small city... So it wasn't good to piss her more.
The "thudding" kept going. She stood up, making sure her only "cloth" couldn't fall, grabbed one of her creations and started to walk towards it, with that pissed face.
"You filthy things!!!"
Minako kept on walking; the sounds came from the window actually, not from the hidden Pirate.
When she opened the curtain, it revealed some of Hyrule's scrubs.
"Ack... now my day's complete... OUT!!! I TELL YOU OUT!!!!!"
Just in case, she threw some stunning bombs, which made the others ran in fear.
"What where THOSE things thinking!!! ACK!!!"
She slammed the window shut and the curtains and returned back to the mirror
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Yoko was still on her small adventure of hers, exploring every inch of the space pirates ship.
Stretching up a bit, she stopped for a moment to rest. Being jolly and walking all the way in the ship can be quite energy taking.
"Mmmm, and still, no games..." she tilted her head. Maybe it would take a while for her to get some… maybe the delay was caused by something explosive…. Or maybe they 'died'
She pressed her back to the wall, which pushed the button Kazuko used earlier to open the window.
She got surprised and immediately entered.
It was getting hot outside; the sun was like on its highest point.
She gazed upon it, putting her hands on her face to not get all of the lights.
Then, something glimmered.
She walked to it to discover it was Kazuko's book.
She looked down then, there where some markings on the floor. She had jumped.
Yoko's amber eyes widened.
"Oh no... Kazuko..."
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Samus stared at the monitor then began to type on the key pad with her free left hand and sent a COM link message to Jaith.
"I would suggest you get back to the ship, I think one of those girls is headed this way. I'm going to put up the cloaking system."
"Roger that Ms. Aran..." Jaith replied, a few moments before the hatch on the ship opened up and Jaith jumped inside, holding two cases of Light Beam ammo
Xion looked at Jaith, before turning back to Samus
"...When you say another one of those girls... what are you talking about?"
Samus frowned behind her visor. Before turning around and walking to a chair against the wall, she turned and fell into it, then over her HUD activated the missile reloaded/energy system. She swiveled in the chair and stuck the barrel of the cannon into the side of the ship's wall where the port had opened, and began to recharge.
"Well, we won't turn on the ship's external defense system. I want to see what this person does. But if 'she' I'm guessing is with the pirates, and is bent on heading back with knowledge of the ship's location. We will be forced to terminate her."
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"My radars show me I must be close... yet... it also indicates me low infrared structure... damm... a cloaking device...a really advanced one"
She pressed some buttons in her earphones look-alikes, they changed the color of her visor to a slightly teal color.
"I'll be difficult to find it... the device itself is much more updated than my scanners can get... yet, I can't give up... not when I'm so close..."
A large shadow was portrayed in front of her. It took some minutes to her to react, as she as busy checking her scanners.
When she did turn back, a huge plant like monster was floating above her.
Her green eyes widened from behind her visor. It was battle time
"Crud... not now... yet..."
Unit CG003 special abilities are about to engage...
"I can protect myself... in a while..."
The enormous plant-like creature tried to slam itself to her.
Yet, when it tried, it bounced off from a crystal clear wall. Kazuko's Psy barrier.
She twitched her eyes a bit when she received the first impact to her created wall.
"I wouldn't like to harm you... but if you insist in attacking, I can't be so nice..."
Seeming mindless, the monster prepared another charge to her. A small aura lifted from both hands.
"I warned you..."
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Energy-100 Missles-15, sheilding-100 etc.
The Hud displayed all systems green after the charger had finished and shut down for recharge. Samus stood up and stretched, feeling much better as she stretched her arms up and out. She then walked back over to the radar where it took on another window within it. Displaying energy.
"A new blip? And energy signatures. Seems whoever is out there is in some sort of conflict."
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Kazuko's eyes widened, as her green eyes started to emanate a cyan glow.
The barrier was no more, yet the creature couldn't not move.
"Center core is located at 45º..."
With the same aura color, the monster was twirling around itself, trying to get out of the Green Cyber Girl's pull
"Got ya..."
The aura disappeared, the creature fell down, not before exploding from the inside out.
Somehow, she managed to create a chemical reaction within it, making it expand too much, and resulting the blast.
She sighed, some of her foe's bits where still raining.
Surrounding herself in a small bubble barrier, she continued her way... only at less than 250 mts from the Gunship.
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"...Well, that's neutralized. Hm. I have no desire of the ship's absolute location being found, since our mysterious 'visitor' seems bent on getting here. Wait here; if I need back up I'll call you guies."
Samus turned from the monitor and over to the hatch. She did not bother with the elevator pad as the hatch layered over itself and opened revealing natural light as she jump through and onto the tope ship. She had her radar cloaking on, which was much more powerful than the ships, then jumped off the orange craft. Running away from it at an angle to where it could not be crossed, and dropped the cloak. This would stick out like a sore thumb on any radar. She walked over to a tree stump and turned sitting down on it.
"Huh... this is strange..."
A smaller dot in Kazuko's visor detected another lifeform, it seemed that who ever it was, it got out of the ship and ready to intercept her.
"Nice strategy... still, I wasn't aiming for the ship anyways, this will make my research mission easier, I think..."
She stopped running, as the visor detected the new dot getting closer to her.
Instead, she started to walk calmly.
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"WTF!!!!"
It had passed some minutes since the news spread out to the rest of the girls.
Yoko was still crying, yet not outloud as she was some time ago.
Keiko held her to prevent any rash and non planned movements from her.
Minako was standing in front of them, all ready armored and hands on hips.
"And you tell me this almost hours after she got away!"
"Well... excuse me... but you could blow us up if we came strolling you hot head"
"Not in THIS kind of situation you dumbass!"
"IDIOT!"
"BAKA!"
"Stop it you two..." Keiko intercepted both girls, extending her hands so their faces could be away. "Yoshiko... snap it out... this is an emergency situation..."
"And she normally tells ME not to work alone..."
"Well, check out your wounds and tell me why" Minako taunted
Though she was still angry, Yoshiko did as told.
She tapered some of her wounded parts, barely any scratch was left, yet she could feel it.
Her anger turned into sadness and her expressions turned bluish.
"I... I think I know why..." She muttered slowly.
The other girls changed too.
Keiko put her hands down, as she walked towards a still weeping Yoko.
Minako haven't lowered her guard, yet, there was some concern and gloominess in her eyes.
"Yet, she could have consulted us..."
"Probably she had to do something, like that spying" Keiko said in a small cheerful mood, trying to lift up the cloud of sadness.
"So we are needed no more?" Yoko sobbed
"Nop... we are a team... I mean" Yoshiko grabbed some courage to talk "I make these wacky missions, you juggle many attacks, Minako eats guys for breakfast and Keiko... well... Keiko does something..."
"Hey"
"Anyways" She continued "Kazuko's the Hacker... and partly spy/tactical force/add thing here of the team... so she needs to do that without us klutzing around... heh"
"Yeah..." Keiko caught up with Yoshiko's mood "When she needs up, she now CAN call us"
"Ok..."
"In the mean time..." Yoshiko approached them with an eerie air "I have a plan..."
"They're planning something. One of their number appears to have left, which the sensor logs back up, and they are going to do something about it. Darithee, I want you to shadow them. Strip down. Minimum armor, minimum weaponry. I don't want you with anything more than a quantum blade and a wrist cannon. If you can be detected, then you're too heavy" Horathee says, the group of them going about their normal tasks while speaking over the secure comlink.
"What about my lack of sound dampener?"
"That's why you have to go light. Light and very, very carefully."
"And my Pack?"
"Take it, but remove all unnecessary modifications and reduce phazon loadout to ten minutes full burn."
"Done. Ready to move out."
"The rest of you, lighten your load. Half armor plating, half ballistic loadout. We need to travel lighter. We're going to be following at maximum sensor range for support. Make sure to pack your biotic underlayer, boys and girls, because I expect we're going to be in this for the long haul."
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The wind and blur of sand wasn't as bad across from the river, so Zelda felt no need to hold his hand. She walked behind him, wondering what his plan was, and why he was helping her.
"You know people at Grudo Fortress?" she asked conversationally. She had always thought that being a Gerudo was honorable, but the women there didn't like her, or so she had always heard. She was too rich and goody-goody, stuff like that.
Dark Link however, just ignored her question, running up to the gate leading into the fortess
"...Closed as always... Hmph..."
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There was a bleeping on the HUD of Jack's helmet. There was a source of Phazon heading straight for them...
"Aw crap... there's a source of Phazon on it's way here... It might be Dark Samus again... Get your warriors out off here... Their weapons are inadequate against Phazon. This is the only thing capable to damaging a Phazon being..."
Jack raised his arm cannon before his face and cocked it like a shotgun of old, loading anew missile into the cannon.
And just as he had finished loading Dark Link smashed through the gate with his sword with a yell.
"...There we go princess..."
Ganondorf's head quickly turned as he heard the crash, he walked over to the edge of the cliff to see Dark Link walking through the gate
"...Hmm... It's Link's shadow..." his eyes glanced over to Zelda who was behind him, "...And he brought the girl..." he snarled as his eyes locked onto another figure approaching the Shadow and Princess...
Dark Link looked up, his eyes shrank a little
"...What in the Triforce's name are YOU doing here..." he yelled.
"Whoah... it's him!" Jack pointed at Dark Link with his arm cannon, but lowered it at the sight of a hostage... A girl with pointy ears? Nice dress though...
"He's got a hostage... no body try anything silly."
He turned to one side and muttered to himself.
"Great... a hostage situation... Come on Jack... remember your training." He raised his arm cannon again and pointed it Dark Link again.
"You... Err, phazon being. Release the girl. The amount of phazon emitting from you isn't good for her!" He began a slow appraoch to Dark Link, catchin sight of the green clad newcomer.
"Drop the sword man! You wanna get someone killed!?"
Link was actually few meters away from Dark Link and Zelda, watching the scene while his hand gripped the Master Sword tightly. How many times….
"...I'm here... to destroy you and save Zelda!" he yelled.
"Does this look like a face that cares!?"
Dark Link's eye twitched as he turned to Jack, "...The girl is with me on her own free will! Bugger off!" he yelled as his shadow sword appeared in his hand...
Link's eyes widened, "Free will!" he turned to Zelda, "...Is...Is this true?!?"
Zelda glanced at the man with the interesting armor and intimidating weapon. Then, she noticed Link and took a few large steps before looking at Dark Link, wondering what he would do if she took off for Link. Tears welled up in her eyes. She had come of her own free will, but how could she explain that to Link right now?
"You shouldn't be here!" was all she replied as she flicked away her train of tears.
Dark Link turned to Zelda, then looked up to Link
"...Hmph... figures you would leave me the first chance you got... whatever... go... but remember... you still owe me a favor... And I will return to obtain it..."
Link's eyes widened as he heard Dark Link basically told Zelda to escape; he just stood there, not knowing what to do
"...Favor?" he muttered under his breath.
"Hey!" Jack called again "You're going to kill here with that Phazon... Hey... would you like some Phazon? I hae some... in my ship..." He was in fact referring to the empty canisters that still had Phazon residue in them, making it look like Phazon was still in them.
"...Phazon you say..." Dark Link smirked
However, analyzing the situation while Jack looked back and forth to the girl and guy in green he noticed this wasn't much a hostage situation? Good News finally..
"This isn't a hostage situation, eh? Ah good then. No Phazon for you mate." he lowered his cannon and sat down, seeing if whatever ever was going between them would sort itself out.
Dark Link's eyes narrowed as he stared at the offworlder, his shadow sword appeared in his hand
"Listen... it's simple... either you GIVE me the Phazon this instant... or I TAKE it from you by force!"
"Okay fine... I'll be right back. However, you're getting it only if you get away from the girl. The amount of radiation coming off your body will kill her." Jack turned on his heel and headed for his ship. That hold full of Phazon was causing him a load of trouble. First the clone of Samus... now this apparent clone of the guy in green...
He stepped into the hold and grabbed one of the near empty containers of phazon. One of the ones he hadn't blown up and grabbed a fuller one. Holding them under his arm he headed back out to the darker entity.
"Okay, here we are." He placed the near empty container on the floor and placed his foot against it, rolling it gently back and forth. Untill he pushed it, rolling it towards Dark Link.
"You'll get the other if you get away from the girl. Ka'pheesh?" Although one couldn't see it, he raised an eyebrow under his helmet.
Dark Link drove his blade into the container and smiled, drainning the little bit of Phazon out of the container, his entire body glowed a weak light blue before fading. He removed his blade and kicked the container aside then glared at the offworlder
"There was hardly anything in there..." Dark Link said hovering off the ground slightly, he slowly moved towards Jack, hovering so his head was level with Jack's as he stared at the second container in Jack's arms
"...What the... he could never float before..." Link muttered to himself as he moved his hand and gripped the hilt of the Master Sword sheathed on his back, he then turned to Zelda "Zelda! Get away from him!"
Zelda ran to Link, not even thinking of the 'favor' as she hugged him close to her before kissing him lightly.
"I was so scared..." she whispered close to him. Indeed, it looked like he was in no mood for words and reunions, and she was slightly stung. Trying to shake it off, she regarded Gannon, Dark Link and this strange man.
Ganondorf raised an eyebrow when Dark Link started to hover off the ground
"...So... what is that substance the offworlder gave to Link's shadow..." he said to himself as he continued to watch from the cliff above.
Link blushed and gave Zelda a reassuring smile. He then turned to Dark Link who was now hovering in front of the strange offworlder. Link quickly moved so that he was standing in between Zelda and Dark Link; he closed his eyes as he spoke
"So gained a few new powers since we last met shadow..."
Link's double twitched upon being called a shadow and he turned his attention towards Link, his red eyes locked onto Link and he floated away from the man
"Why of course... I've finally found something that will give me an edge against you..." his hand clenched "and that fool..." he muttered as he turned his head and looked directly up at Ganondorf, he then turned back to Link a short while after "No longer will I just be a shadow of a hero..." he said under his breath
Jack decided to get some distance away from the two look a likes and sat down next to the blonde girl that definitely seemed to have something going with the guy in green.
His translator was going to have to compensate for the new language barriers from these two... Something worth noticing was the pointy ears. There were humanoid most definitely
The battle was about to start as Link drew his blade and removed the shield from his back, never breaking eye contact with his shadow.
Dark Link held his blade out in front of him, though he had no shield of his own
Link eyes narrowed
'He's my shadow... so why hasn't he taken the same stance as me?' Link thought, slightly confused 'Isn't he supposed to copy me in everyway...'
Dark Link landed on the ground and smiled. The blade on his sword extending to the length of the Biggoron's Sword and he gripped the hilt with both hands.
Unclipping his helmet from the suit, Jack removed it placed it next to the Phazon container and without turning his head spoke to the girl next to him.
"Tell me... what's the possibility he'll be able to win? The green guy I mean..."
Zelda hadn't noticed the man, or what he had said. All she had seen were the taking of the stances.
"Oh no..." she breathed, sitting down next to the man. "Shadow Link, em, the darker version, hasn't taken the same form of his real form..." she glanced at the man, realizing he didn't have his helmet off. Seeing the puzzled look on his face, she explained. "Link is a good man; a very good person. Dark Link is very wicked and bad. Link, my friend, is the good part of Dark Link, just as Dark Link is the bad side of the real Link. Shadow following its master. Ying and Yang; however you want to see it." she finished and looked hopefully at Link. She hoped he would win. He need to. He could, she reasoned. "He may not win" she told this strange man, and it tore at her heart
There was a long pause in which Link and his shadow just stared at each other, neither of them moving an inch. Ganondorf wondered if that's all they were going to do. Suddenly both charged at each other, Dark Link smashed down at Link with his shadow sword and Link leapt to the right and lunged at his copy. Dark Link moved his blade to block the attack, he did so with enough force to send Link's sword out of his hands. Link gasped as he witnessed his sword imbed itself in the ground a few meters away and managed to backflip as Dark Link swung horizontally towards him, his eyes widened when he saw a few strands of his hair fell off as the blade narrowly missed him. Before Link had landed he had already taken out his hookshot. As soon as his feet touched the ground his hookshot was aimed at his own blade, a split second later fired. The hook narrowly missed the hilt of the blade and with a click, extended all it could and started to return. Link lowered his arm slightly so that the hilt of the Master Sword would be caught on the return. Link caught the blade returning to him just in time to block Dark Link's next slash.
He managed to push Dark Link's blade away and bashed him in the chest with his sheild. His shadow quickly regained his balance and pointed his sword he smiled as the blade glowed light blue and fired several shots that gave off a huge Phazon reading. Link's eyes widened and he leapt to the right.
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Xion sighed and slumpped back in his chair...
Jaith also sighed leaning against the wall of the ship "...I hope she'll be ok..."
"You obviously don't know Samus that well... she might seem a bit hot headed at times, but she... generaly knows what she's doing..." Xion said.
Jaith paced around the inside of the ship
"Screw it... I'm going out there..." he said turning to the hatch.
Xion looked up at him "...But Samus said to wait here..."
Jaith laughed slightly
"Well it's pretty apparent that there is no true chain of command on his ship... and plus, I'm not technically part of this team..." He said as he opened the hatch and jumped out of the ship...
Xion blinked a few time
"...Meh... whatever..." he said turning around in his chair and reopened the game he was playing earlier.
Mission 12 – End
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And so we leave Xion with his games. What's the reason Kazuko left the team? Will Link be able to defeat his shadow now that it has Phazon all around him? And what about the Pirates' journey to stalk the girls who will actually be stalking Kazuko… man… isn't this what's called a chain of events? And…. I really thank you all for your lovely R&R, apparently people do take the time to read my long Fanfics… and don't worry, they won't get short at all! Actually they will grow more and more and maybe get longer!!! Dang, actually a special surprise will be revealed soon, but you'll be the ones matching the dots so stay tuned.
As for now, see you next Mission!